Former Republican New Mexico governor Susana Martinez warned on Tuesday that it is “very wrong” for the Biden government to halt construction of the southern border wall, calling the fence “a piece of the security of our nation”.
“We will certainly have the same problems that we had at the beginning of President Trump’s administration,” Martinez told America’s Newsroom. “There was not enough wall, there were not enough tools to ensure that our borders were protected.”
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President Biden last week signed an executive order that ends the construction of the wall on the southern border and issued a 100-day “pause” in the deportations of illegal immigrants.
“We have no idea who these people are,” said Martinez. “And they will not be arrested. They will be released into our communities in the same way that they were released into my community when I was a girl.”
Martinez also rebuked Congress for its absence from US immigration policy. “We had a lot of time to get together and reform immigration laws. They don’t want to because they want the division.”
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SUSANA MARTINEZ: We will have the same problems that we had at the beginning of President Trump’s administration, where there was not enough wall, there were not enough tools to ensure that our borders were protected. The fence was a part of our nation’s security. We are not a nation without borders. I think it is very wrong to stop building that border because of the thousands and thousands of people who are being invited to come to the United States to become citizens of the United States …
I know these problems daily. I know people who are already charging people from Honduras, El Salvador, charging to bring them to the border of the United States. It is a humanitarian issue, but also a security for our nation …
That is why we have three powers of government and there are court orders that say they deport these people who are criminals. Send them back to their home countries. With a stroke of the pen, the president now said no, we are not going to send them back. What’s the use of the three government powers if you can’t comply with court orders?