Former President Trump sat down with Judge Jeanine Pirro for an exclusive interview scheduled to air Saturday at 9pm on Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”
“A lot of 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 reversal of the ‘Stay in Mexico’ policy, or the Migrant Protection Protocol, a ‘very bad decision’.
The Trump administration set up and expanded MPP during the 2019 migrant crisis as part of a broader agreement with Mexico, calling it a key role in its efforts to end catch-and-release – turning migrants into released inland. from the USA.
Instead, MPP is holding migrants in Mexico await their asylum hearings. Proponents say the policy ended a major pull that brought migrants north, while critics say it is cruel and endangers migrants by leaving them in Mexico.
“At the moment, thousands and thousands of people are coming. And millions of people will flow into our country. And it will destroy our country, ”Trump told Pirro.
Trump said the first thing Biden should do is pursue the “Stay in Mexico” policy and complete the border wall.
Trump said Mexico is now “very angry with us.” ‘We can no longer get along with Mexico. You have a great president of Mexico who was fantastic to me, ”Trump said.
President Biden has said that Mexico is refusing to accept any families who are trying to expel the US after trying to cross the southern border. Biden said his government is negotiating this with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“Some families don’t go back because Mexico refuses to take them back. Some, not all, ”the president said at his first press conference on Thursday.
“We are negotiating with Mexico. That is about to change. They should all go back, ”he continued.
Last week, Trump accused Biden of causing “death and human tragedy” by undoing some of his border policies that Biden had deemed inhumane.
“We are proud to present the Biden administration with the safest border in history,” the statement read. “All they had to do was keep this smoothly running system on autopilot. Instead, the Biden government has turned a national triumph into a national disaster in just weeks. They are well above their heads and absorb water quickly. “
Republicans have urged President Biden to visit the border to experience firsthand the overwhelmed facilities amid a border rise. After a visit to 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 necessity for you to see firsthand what is happening – and not the sanitized version of the frontier journey taken by some of my convention colleagues,” wrote Braun. “As I personally left this week, I can testify that this is an inhuman, untenable and dangerous situation.
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities are operating well above capacity amid a disturbing increase in border crossings. The agency announced that it had met more than 100,000 migrants at the border by February, while the number of child migrants in custody has also increased dramatically.