Former President Donald Trump hammered President Joe Biden over the topic of illegal immigration during Thursday night’s presidential debate, arguably the issue that Biden is weakest on following the border crisis that developed when he came into office. CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked Biden why voters should trust him to solve the problems stemming from 10 million illegal aliens that have entered the U.S. under his administration......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
Biden claimed he had a “bipartisan agreement” that would have fixed the crisis.
“Significantly – by the way, the Border Patrol men endorsed me, endorsed my position,” Biden then claimed.
The Border Patrol Union took to social media to refute Biden’s claim, posting: “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”
Biden claimed that he “changed the law” in “a way that now you’re in a situation where there are 40 percent fewer people coming across the border illegally”.
“And I’m going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the – the total initiative relative to what we’re going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers,” Biden rambled.
When asked to respond to Biden’s remarks, Trump said: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
Trump proceeded to hit Biden for undoing his border policies after he took office.
“All he had to do was leave it. All he had to do was leave it,” Trump said. “He decided to open up our border, open up our country to people that are from prisons, people that are from mental institutions, insane asylum, terrorists.”
“We have the largest number of terrorists coming into our country right now,” Trump continued. “All terrorists all over the world, not just in South America, all over the world. They come from the Middle East, everywhere, all over the world. They’re pouring in. And this guy just left it open.”
Biden responded by again making incoherent statements, including: “The only terrorist who has done anything crossing the border is one who came along and killed three under his administration, killed – an al-Qaeda person in his administration, killed three American soldiers – killed three American soldiers. That’s the only terrorist that’s there.”
It was unclear what Biden was referring to with his statement.
Just this week, NBC News reported that federal law enforcement officials uncovered a massive ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network that has smuggled more than 400 illegal aliens into the U.S.
Earlier this month, eight foreign nationals with suspected ties to ISIS were arrested in multiple U.S. cities after they illegally entered the country.
This is far from the first time that terrorists from around the world have entered the southern border under Biden’s watch. Examples include an ISIS terrorist from Uzbekistan, a Hezb-e-Islami (HIG) terrorist, and an Al-Shabaab terrorist.
The terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland has worsened as a direct result of Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Since then, Islamic terrorists from around have gathered in Afghanistan and started rebuilding their organizations, and the U.S. has very limited options to surveil and disrupt their networks