Trump waves at migrants via barbed wire fence at Mexican border

Former President Donald Trump gave a wave to migrants via a barbed wire fence on the US-Mexico border throughout a go to with Texas Governor Greg Abbott the place he slammed President Biden’s dealing with of the border. 

The ex-commander in chief, who has persistently criticized his successor over the disaster, was on the fence in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday. 

Trump stated Biden had the ‘blood of numerous harmless victims’ on his arms, including: ‘He’s transported columns of preventing males. They appear to be warriors to me.’

The former president was proven barbed wire alongside the river by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and spoke to frame guards who’ve been coping with the surge in crossers – whereas Biden visited one other border web site 324 miles away.

‘You’re in a struggle,’ the 77-year-old Republican frontrunner instructed frontline brokers in Eagle Pass, who’ve vented their fury at Biden. ‘This is a army operation.’

‘We have languages coming into our nation that no person speaks these languages.’

Trump additionally revealed he had spoken to the mother and father of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old pupil jogger murdered in Georgia. An unlawful immigrant has been charged with killing her. Trump stated her mom and father will ‘by no means be the identical’ and that Biden will ‘by no means say her title.’

In a bit for DailyMail.com forward of the journey, Trump wrote how Biden ‘created the unlawful migrant invasion’ and said that he was the one candidate who may cease it. 

In Eagle Pass a number of hundred yards alongside the Rio Grande, on the alternative aspect, round a dozen Mexicans stood watching the previous president.

They stood on a raised highway above a brightly coloured mural, and leaning over a railing to see.

Trump then arrived on the spot – Shelby Park, a 47–acre grassy space alongside the river.

The scene that greeted him included 4 Humvees and a army helicopter in entrance of dozens of transport containers used to dam migrants from crossing.

Some of the transport containers had been stacked on prime of one another with razor wire on prime of that.

Trump was briefed by Abbott and members of the Texas National Guard. Guardsmen we’re ready for him when he arrived close to a ship ramp that legislation enforcement makes use of to entry the river.

At the boat ramp the physique of a drowned migrant was introduced ashore yesterday.

Trump spent ten minutes on the ramp and was seen shaking his head as he was briefed.

Abbott stated Biden had ‘lied to America’ in regards to the border, and accused the president of “aiding and abetting illegal entry” and eager to ‘tear down’ defenses put up by Texas.

‘The United States is being invaded. Joe Biden is not doing his job,’ Abbott said.

Since park taken over by Texas in January the number of migrants crossing has fallen from thousands a day to ‘six or seven’ Abbott stated, as a result of he put up stronger limitations.

‘This a part of the border is sealed,’ he stated.

Meanwhile, Biden toured the border metropolis of Brownsville, Texas, 324 miles alongside the frontier.

At the Trump occasion Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, stated: ‘I would like you (Trump) to know, your brokers, my brokers, they’re mad as hell.

‘Absolutely mad that President Biden went to Brownsville, Texas, somewhat than going to Arizona somewhat than going to San Diego, California, somewhat than coming to Eagle Pass, Texas, which has been the epicenter.’

He added: ‘Your brokers, they’re p****d.’

Biden, 81, met with Border Patrol brokers alongside his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the banks of the Rio Grande at Brownsville.

He has been accused of utilizing the journey as a ‘picture op’ for his marketing campaign and is visiting an space the place migrant crossings have dropped considerably. 

DailyMail.com visited the world Biden will tour, and located piles of trash being patrolled by bored border guards.

The border visits got here as immigration explodes to grow to be the most important problem within the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

A Gallup ballot discovered 28 p.c of Americans now imagine immigration is the most important drawback dealing with America, greater than cite the financial system or inflation..

The determine was a document excessive since Gallup started polling voters on their views about immigration in 1981.

Earlier, Trump accused Biden of permitting a ‘horrible invasion’ of the United States and stated ‘migrant crime is taking on America’.

He additionally vowed to hold out the ‘largest home deportation operation in American historical past’ if re-elected.

Public concern about unlawful immigration is greater below Biden’s presidency than it was below the final two administrations.

In the newest Gallup ballot the share of Americans citing immigration as the most important drawback was up eight factors from final month. 

Other main points had been the ‘authorities’ on 20 p.c, the financial system on 12 p.c and inflation on 11 p.c.

The 28 p.c of voters citing immigration surpassed the earlier document of 27 p.c in a Gallup ballot in July 2019 when there was a surge on the border.

She was discovered lifeless final week after she did not return from a morning run in a wooded space.

Jose Ibarra, 26, an unlawful immigrant from Venezuela, who crossed into the United States in 2022, has been charged with homicide.

On the eve of his border go to Trump stated: ‘This monster ought to by no means have been allowed into our nation.

‘He was launched at Crooked Joe’s orders and set free into our nation.

‘How many extra harmless victims should be harmed? How way more harmless blood should be spilled till we cease this horrible, horrible invasion and take away these unlawful alien criminals from our nation?’

A majority of Americans now help a border wall of the type Trump proposed in 2016 and began constructing throughout his presidency, in line with a brand new survey by Monmouth University.

The Del Rio sector of the border, which incorporates Eagle Pass, was the busiest space for unlawful crossings in 2022 and 2023.

Across the entire border U.S. Border Patrol had almost 250,000 encounters with migrants in December 2023.

That was the very best month-to-month complete ever by a ways.

In the Del Rio sector there have been greater than 71,000 arrests in December.

Maverick County, which incorporates Eagle Pass, a metropolis of 30,000 folks, is a Democratic stronghold, however Republicans are gaining.

In the 2020 election Trump narrowed the hole to lower than 10 factors.

In January, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott took army management of a 47-acre space of Eagle Pass known as Shelby Park.

He put in razor wire and transport container limitations within the park which runs alongside the Rio Grande.

Biden in flip sued Texas, insisting that border management has all the time fallen below federal jurisdiction.

Abbott additionally intends to spend almost $200 million constructing an 80-acre “base camp” in Eagle Pass for National Guard troops.

It will home as much as 2,300 members of the Texas National Guard and be near each Shelby Park and the Eagle Pass National Bridge which connects to Mexico.

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