President Biden’s campaign manager has insisted that the president is not talking about “closing the border,” even though the president has made overtures to Republicans about closing the border in the past.
julie chavez rodriguez told the Washington Post A profile published this week says “the president has not talked about closing borders” and “has not advocated closing them.”
But earlier this year, while trying to get Republicans to support a bipartisan Senate supplemental spending bill that included funding for border security, the 81-year-old Biden signaled he would crack down on migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. did.
Biden: “As president, I will also have emergency powers to close the border until we get it back under control.” I said that in January About the proposal. “If that bill were the law today, I would close the borders right now and fix it right away.”
The Post reached out to the Biden campaign to clarify the apparent contradiction between Biden and Chavez Rodriguez.
In the end, the additional bill died in the Senate, with Democrats accusing Republicans of wanting to preserve the border issue ahead of the November election.
Republicans have long criticized the record levels of immigration into the United States under the Biden administration. Polls show that Biden is unsupported by a majority of Americans on border security and illegal immigration.
“Under crooked Joe Biden, every state is now a border state. Every town is now a border town,” former President Donald Trump, 77, said Tuesday during a campaign speech in Michigan. shouted.
Back in March, in his State of the Union address, Biden called the suspect in the murder of 22-year-old Georgia medical student Laken Riley “an illegal offender,” a sudden rebuttal that caused controversy among progressives. Brewed.
The president later suggested he regretted using the word, but a press secretary later said Biden “never apologized” for that.
Chavez Rodriguez is the first Latina woman to lead a sitting president’s re-election campaign and the daughter of prominent labor leader Cesar Chavez.
“What people want to see is order and humanity in the immigration system,” she told The Washington Post.
Early in his inauguration as president, Biden I made a fuss trying to tear it apart. and rescind a series of President Trump’s previous executive orders on immigration.
Recently, his government reportedly considering Important administrative actions at the border as the crisis continues.
So far in fiscal year 2024, there have been 1.15 million encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the latest data This is more than at this time last year, when a record-breaking 2.48 million encounters were recorded.
