Former President Trump spoke with Judge Jeanine Pirro for an exclusive interview that will air on Fox News ‘Justice with Judge Jeanine’ on Saturday at 9 pm
“Many people want me” to visit the border, Trump told Pirro.
In the interview, Trump says he will likely visit the southern border in the coming weeks.
Trump called Biden’s cancellation of the “Stay in Mexico” policy, or the Migrant Protection Protocol, a “very bad decision”.
The Trump administration set up and expanded the MPP during the 2019 migration crisis as part of a broader deal with Mexico, and hailed it as a key platform in its efforts to end “catch and release” – by which migrants were released to the interior of the USA
Instead, the MPP keeps migrants in Mexico pending their asylum hearings. Proponents say the policy ended up with a key attraction factor that brought migrants to the north, while critics say it is cruel and puts migrants in danger by leaving them in Mexico.
“Thousands and thousands of people are popping up right now as we speak. And you will have millions of people entering our country. And that will destroy our country, ”Trump told Pirro.
Trump said the first thing Biden should do is to resume the “Stay in Mexico” policy and complete the border wall.
Trump said Mexico is now “very angry with us”. “We are no longer getting along with Mexico. You have a great president of Mexico who was fantastic for me, ”said Trump.
President Biden said that Mexico refuses to accommodate all the families that the United States tries to expel after trying to cross the southern border. Biden said his government is in talks with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the matter.
“Some families are not going to come back because Mexico refuses to take them back. Some, not all, ”said the president at his first press conference on Thursday.
“We are in negotiations with Mexico. This is gonna change. They should all be coming back, ”he continued.
Last week, Trump accused Biden of causing “human death and tragedy” by undoing some of his border policies, which Biden considered inhumane.
“We proudly handed over to the Biden government the safest border in history,” says the statement. “All they needed to do was keep this system running smoothly on autopilot. Instead, in the space of just a few weeks, the Biden government turned a national triumph into a national disaster. They are losing their heads and getting water quickly. “
Republicans have been asking President Biden to visit the border to experience first-hand the overloaded facilities amid the widening border. After visiting the border, Senator Mike Braun, R-Ind., Wrote a letter to the president begging him to take a trip south.
“The crisis around this wave makes it a moral imperative that you see firsthand what is going on – not the clean version of the border tour by some of my colleagues in Congress,” wrote Braun. “Having gone personally this week, I can testify that this is an inhumane, unsustainable and dangerous situation.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities have operated far beyond capacity amid a worrying increase in people crossing the border. The agency announced that it found more than 100,000 migrants at the border in February, while the number of migrant children in custody has also increased dramatically.