Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee told Fox Business on Thursday that President Donald Trump's immediate actions at the U.S. southern border showed how “inaction” by former President Joe Biden “will not be tolerated.” said.
Shortly after Trump's inauguration on Monday, the president announced the closure of the U.S. southern border as he campaigned to close it and carry out mass deportations due to record encounters of illegal immigrants under the Biden-Harris administration. I took action. On “Kudlow,” host Larry Kudlow asked Lee about his thoughts on deportation. This comes after Fox News' Bill Melgin documented a Haitian immigrant being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston, Massachusetts. (Related: Tom Homan says illegal immigrants he said aren't going back to Haiti are actually going back there)
“Look, what I'm making of this is that Donald Trump is showing he's willing to follow through on his campaign promises. Americans are counting on him to deliver really long overdue promises. I promise you that I'm committed to being there,” Lee said. “This shows how inexcusable the Biden administration's inaction was. They argued over and over and over again, 'Oh, we're doing this for this reason, that reason, or any other reason. You can't do that with.''
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“This was a deliberate subversion of America's border security, a deliberate undermining of our national security. He left this thing wide open for four years. Moreover, he We did that, but after the next president received the most secure border we've had in modern history, he ruined it,” Lee added.
As criticism of the border continued, Biden later introduced a new immigration executive order in June 2024, despite his earlier claims that he could do nothing. however, joint report Released by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and Homeland Security, more than 8 million migrants have been encountered across the country, with an estimated 6.7 million at the southern border.
Lee went on to say that once Trump took office, the new administration was forced to “go back to the drawing board” to find solutions to the problem.
“Now Donald Trump has almost had to go back to the drawing board and start from square one, and he's already made great strides. I commend him for that and look forward to what comes after this.” You can't survive unless you have defensible borders, and America is no different,” Lee said.
Trump's reversal of Biden's previous program allows ICE agents to arrest “criminal aliens,” including rapists and murderers. The new administration will also use the Pentagon to transport an estimated 5,000 illegal immigrants from Texas and California for deportation.
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