Former President Trump spoke with Judge Jeanine Pirro for an exclusive interview that will air on Fox News ‘Justice with the Judge’ 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 annulment 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 the catch and release – by which migrants were released into the interior of the USA
Instead, the MPP keeps migrants in Mexico pending their immigration 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.
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 had to do was keep this system running smoothly on autopilot. Instead, in just a few weeks, the Biden government turned a national triumph into a national disaster. They are losing their heads and facing water. fast. “
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 surrounding this wave makes it a moral imperative for you to see firsthand what is happening – 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.
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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.