‘Cheap politics as usual:’ Biden campaign bashes Trump plans for mass deportations, detention camps 

President Biden’s re-election campaign is weighing in on its plan to handle the influx of migrants at the US southern border, following reports that President Trump is planning militarized mass deportations and concentration camps if re-elected. He criticizes former President Trump.

The Washington Post reported On Wednesday, likely Republican nominee Trump said he wanted to detain migrants on military bases and transport them on military planes during his first term, completing that unfinished business if he is granted a second term. It was announced that there will be.

“Call this ‘plan’ whatever you want. It’s racist, un-American, and ineffective. At a time when Americans are demanding action from their elected officials, It’s cheap politics,” Maca Casado, the Biden campaign’s Hispanic media director, said in a statement.

Casado said the plan “is not about border security,” noting that President Trump “singularly blocked” Republican legislation aimed at strengthening border security.

Earlier this month, a group of senators from both parties unveiled a border bill that included aid to Ukraine and Israel, but Republicans, who had called for a combination of aid to Ukraine and border action, said the policy did not go far enough. insisted.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Mr. Biden was dead on arrival in the House, given Mr. Trump’s desire to run near the border as a political challenge against Mr. Biden. Many lawmakers from both parties say the move involves political calculations. autumn.

“His friends in Congress who claim to care deeply about border security are now once again following President Trump’s lead, doing nothing to address the problem and spending the holidays grilling themselves at Mar-a-Lago. I spend my time eating fresh steaks,” Casado said.

Johnson visited Trump’s Palm Beach property, Mar-a-Lago, earlier this week while the House was in recess.

The Biden campaign also called President Trump’s reported border issues “more extreme and more inhumane.” [and] It was more violent than the immigration policies of the first period.

“Donald Trump promised on his first day in office that he would rule as a dictator, and now we are seeing what that means. They are rounding up people, separating families again, and creating national chaos,” Casado said. .

The border is a top issue in the 2024 election, with Republicans attacking Biden for months over the influx of migrants into the U.S., but the president criticized Republicans for failing to pass legislation to improve the situation. I objected.

Instead of taking up the border bill, the House focused on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which he successfully impeached last week. However, the article is not expected to pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate.