Democratic strategist Maria Cardona said Thursday on CNN's “This Morning” that President-elect Donald Trump is trying to take credit for the Biden-Harris administration's success in stopping illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. He claimed that there was.
Host Jim Acosta said: “Donald Trump is currently having a public interaction with the President of Mexico across the border. On Wednesday, the president-elect spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. Regarding recent talks to stop immigration into the United States through Mexico, effectively closing the border. The Mexican president, however, appeared to disagree with that characterization, seeming to undermine her own statements about the call, saying in part: “I reiterate that Mexico's position is not to close the border, but to build bridges between governments and between governments.” People. ”
“I think you're going to see something that you're probably going to see, and I think we're going to see something that you're probably going to see, and that's that Donald Trump is going to do something on his own that he's never done,” Cardona said. What that means is, you know, Jim, the number of border crossings we're making now is more than when Donald Trump was in office four years ago. That's because of the diplomacy of the Biden-Harris administration, because of the negotiations that they've conducted, and because of two executive orders that they issued over the summer, one of which is: One was tightening asylum requirements and the other was expanding legal tools. We all know that's the way forward for fixing the immigration system. Masu.”
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