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Echoing Trump’s sentiment, Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt, via her X account, stated: “Joe Biden’s Executive Order is for amnesty, not border security. After importing more than 15 million illegal aliens into our country and releasing countless criminal migrants who have brutally raped and murdered our citizens, this new order will facilitate the release of more illegals as quickly as possible with a smartphone app.”
The campaign’s statement aggressively concluded, stating, “The border invasion and migrant crime will not stop until Crooked Joe Biden is deported from the White House.”
Despite the strong language from the Trump camp, the executive order does include several exceptions. Migrants who have appointments for their asylum claims through the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s smartphone app can still enter through designated ports. According to Politico, the administration is processing about 1,500 such claims daily.
Other exceptions are for “unaccompanied children, some victims of trafficking, migrants facing acute medical emergencies or imminent threats to their safety.”
Theoretically, Biden’s directive could still allow over 912,000 migrants per year to enter the U.S. illegally between ports of entry before any action to close the border is mandated. This figure starkly contrasts with the illegal border crossings during Trump’s presidency, with a peak of about 852,000 in 2019, while other years saw significantly lower numbers.
In fiscal year 2023, CBP reported a record 2.48 million total encounters at the southern border, a dramatic increase from previous years. In total, over 8.1 million border encounters have occurred, not including an estimated 1.6 million so-called “gotaways” that evaded apprehension.
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A Gallup poll from April underscores the public’s concern, showing immigration as the most significant issue facing the U.S. for three consecutive months, the longest such stretch in 24 years. Furthermore, a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed that 56% of Americans believe “most or all immigrants in the U.S. illegally should be deported.”
In January, Biden expressed frustration over his limited authority to address the crisis, stating, “I’ve done all I can do. Just give me the power I asked for the very day I got in office. Give me the Border Patrol. Give me the people that judge [asylum claims]. Give me the people who can stop this and make it work rationally.” His call for more Congressional support for border security was met with skepticism by Republicans, who argued that Biden was seeking increased resources to process even more migrants into the country.
House Speaker Mike Johnson recently referred back to Biden’s plea from January, remarking, “It was 126 days ago, today, that Joe Biden said, ‘I’ve done all I can do.'” Johnson labeled the recent executive order as mere “window dressing,” urging Biden to reinstate Trump’s “remain in Mexico” policy and end the catch-and-release of migrants into the country.
