Former President Donald Trump blasted his successor’s “inhumane” immigration policies and predicted the worst is yet to come at the southern border.
Trump pointed to President Joe Biden’s failure to finish the border wall and Democrats’ dismantling of the tough rules Trump enacted in the region as the impetus for the explosion of illegal immigrants just two months into Biden’s tenure.
“As I said before, you have some very bad hombres coming up and we’re taking them into our country, and it’s insane,” Trump said on Monday’s iHeartRadio “The Truth with Lisa Boothe” podcast. “They’re destroying our country, Lisa, they’re destroying our country.”
Trump specifically linked the immigration surge to Biden’s abandonment of several Trump administration policies, such as the Remain in Mexico program, which forced those who wanted to apply for asylum in the U.S. to stay on the other side of the border.
“The Remain in Mexico – right now they’re remaining in the United States and they’re never going to leave,” Trump said. “And we have no idea who these people are, but I can tell you, when countries send people up, and they do send them up, when they send them up they’re not sending up their finest.”
“… You have some very good people coming up, but you have some really bad one’s coming too. Really dangerous criminals coming up. And we’re allowing them to come into our country. It’s insane. And it’s nothing compared to what it’s going to be in the coming months.”
Illegal immigration has long been a central issue for Trump. He spoke out against it before finally jumping into politics and then, starting in 2015, made it a key plank of his campaign en route to winning the White House. His four years in Washington, D.C. saw a constant battle between his administration and Democrats who sought to prevent him from building or completing the border wall he’d vowed to build and who decried his policies at the border.
Now with Biden’s team seemingly flailing as it’s forced to reckon with a flood of immigrants, Trump is able to look back and describe his own administration’s border policy as working like “an absolute science” — before Biden rolled back the rules Trump put in place.
And as the crisis continues, with little being done on the federal level to stem the tide of illegal immigrants streaming into the U.S., Trump said the current mess is only the beginning.
“When you see it now, enjoy it,” Trump said. “Because it’s much better now. When you see it in two or three months — because they’re just starting to come — they’ll be coming up in the millions.”
He added: “As bad as it is now, it’s really good compared to what it will be in a few months.”
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