- Trump has cracked Biden’s newly installed immigration agenda, saying there is now an increase in migration at the border.
- In response to Trump’s criticism, Psaki fired back, saying the Biden government “does not take advice” from him.
- From his first day in office, Biden has signed a number of executive orders to stop the Trump-era immigration policy.
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki upheld the Biden administration’s immigration policy on Friday in response to criticism from former President Donald Trump.
The former president in a statement on Friday ridiculed Biden’s newly introduced immigration agenda, which includes measures to reverse the controversial Trump-era policy.
Trump said the reversal of his own policies has led to an increase in migration to the southern border.
“The winding tsunami at the border is taking over local communities, destroying budgets, squeezing hospitals and taking jobs from legitimate American workers,” Trump said in a statement. “When I left office, we had reached the safest frontier in our country’s history. Under Biden, it would soon be worse, more dangerous and out of control than ever before. He violated his oath of office to uphold our Constitution. laws. ‘
Under Biden, a migrant facility in Texas has reopened to accommodate underage minors between the ages of 13 and 17.
One reporter asked Psaki during her Friday press briefing about Trump’s criticism.
“We do not take our advice or the advice of former President Trump on immigration policy, which for the past four years has not only been inhuman but not effective,” Psaki said, according to a White House transcript.
Stephen Miller, an official appointed by Trump who is responsible for the policies that led to the separation of children from their families at the border, also criticized Biden’s government.
“What we see here is the cruelty and inhumanity of Joe Biden’s immigration policy,” Miller said in an interview with a Fox News program last month.
“He came into office and announced that there is an open door and that young people who come to this country illegally will be relocated instead of returning. He is forcing thousands of young children into the arms of smugglers, in the arms of traders, in the arms of coyotes, ” he said, referring to a nickname for border smugglers.
“We are going to draw our own path forward, and that includes treating children with humanity and respect, and ensuring they are safe when they cross our borders,” Psaki added.
Other Biden-appointed administrators also defend the White House immigration policy.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, for example, said the boom was not tantamount to a crisis at the border and that the government was planning potential ways to curb it. This could, for example, take the form of the opening of more facilities near the southern border.
On his first day in office, Biden signed executive orders to end the ban on travel from mostly Muslim countries, halt construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, and expand the Obama-era program to deport young immigrants against deportation protect.
Insider’s Ashley Collman contributed to this report.