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The president blamed Donald Trump and Republicans for the failure of an earlier immigration plan. Trump’s new action is too small and too late.
By Reid J. Epstein and Michael Gold
At the start of his remarks from the White House on Tuesday barring immigrants from seeking asylum at the U. S. -Mexico border, President Biden sought to explain who to blame if he took action through an executive order.
The White House, Biden said, had reached an agreement with congressional Republicans earlier this year on what he called “the most powerful border security agreement in decades. “
It didn’t take off. Republicans have given up on the deal.
“Why? Because Donald Trump told him so,” Biden said. I didn’t need to solve the problem. He sought to use it to attack me. That’s what I was looking to do.
On this point, Biden agreed.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee who will face Biden in the general election, attacked the president a few hours before the border was announced. Trump, who has put hardline immigration policies at the center of his political identity since he arrived at the start of his 2016 campaign, ridiculed Trump’s executive order. Biden called it too little action and too late, arguing that it was convenient to gain political advantage for the president.
“After nearly four years of failing his weak leadership, pathetic leadership, the twisted Joe Biden pretends, after all, to do anything for the border,” Trump said in a video posted on his social media site. “It’s mostly a matter of spectacle, because he knows that in three weeks’ time we’ll have a debate. “
The former president’s rhetoric largely echoes the reaction of Republican allies. The Republican National Committee has followed the alliterative word “Biden’s border bloodbath. “Richard Hudson of North Carolina, chairman of the House Republican crusade, predicted that the electorate would be so angry at the border that “in November, House Democrats will be kicked out of their seats for allowing this crisis. “
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