Former President Donald Trump labeled the situation at the southern border “a Joe Biden invasion” while speaking to the media in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday.
“I call him ‘Crooked Joe’ because he’s crooked. He’s a terrible president. The worst president our country has ever had, and probably the most incompetent president we’ve ever had,” Trump said.
"But this is a Joe Biden invasion," Trump says standing at the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas. pic.twitter.com/HRhN0jafHk
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Standing just yards away from the Rio Grande, Trump said there is a “new form of vicious violation to our country” called “Biden migrant crime.”
“Biden is allowing thousands and thousands and millions and millions of people to come. It could be 15 million, could be 18 million by the time he gets out of office,” Trump said.
Trump went so far as to say, “If you take the ten worst presidents in the history of our country, you added them all up, all of the problems, all of the lousy jobs they’ve done, you can add them all up, it’s not as bad as this one man has done for our country.”
The former president criticized “Crooked Joe Biden,” explaining he “took the name away from Hillary Clinton because she’s no longer relevant” while discussing the February 22 death in Athens, Georgia, of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, reportedly at the hands of an illegal alien.
Since Biden took office in January 2021, Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 8 million illegal aliens on America’s borders and at ports of entry. CBP also has seized more than 56,000 pounds of fentanyl since Biden took office and has encountered about 1,500 individuals on America’s terrorist watch list.
Trump complimented Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for his efforts to secure the border, calling it a military operation and adding that Texas is very secure.
Through Operation Lone Star, Abbott has taken strategic steps to stop illegal border crossing through the use of razor wire, National Guard troops, and other resources.
Trump delivered his remarks at Shelby Park, a site that has become a flashpoint between the Biden administration and Abbott. In January, Abbott and Texas National Guard troops took control of the park that the Border Patrol had formerly used as a staging area for illegal aliens after they crossed the Rio Grande. Since the Texas National Guard took over the park, illegal crossings into Eagle Pass have declined substantially.
