Former President of the United States Donald Trump, candidate for the White House, celebrated the failure of a bill to address the immigration crisis on Saturday at the border with Mexico and promised to carry out a massive “deportation operation” on his first day in office if elected.
The abandonment of the bipartisan project in the US Senate this week highlighted Trump’s tight control over the Republican Party Deny Biden a victory on the thorny issue of immigration.
Let’s not forget that we also had another big victory this week that every conservative should celebrate. “We defeated corrupt Joe Biden’s disastrous open borders law,” Trump said at a rally in South Carolina.
“The whole group did a great job in Congress. We smashed it,” he added.
Under pressure from Trump, who wants to exploit immigration, which is perceived as Biden’s weakness, Republican lawmakers appear determined to stop any border reform until the November elections.
Trump said on Saturday that deporting migrants would be one of his first tasks.
On day one, I will end all open border policies of the Biden administration and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history. “We have no choice,” he said.
The project of The border bill in the Senate also included aid for Ukraine and Israelbut Republicans rejected the proposal on Wednesday.
The upper house is now considering a foreign aid package that excludes the border issue.
He Aid package worth 95 billion dollars At issue is, among other things, help for Israel in the war against Hamas and for its strategic ally Taiwan. Most of it, however, would help Ukraine replenish its depleted weapons arsenal.
With information from AFP.
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