Former President Donald Trump hammered President Biden over the worsening migrant crisis Saturday, saying the US-Mexico border “has become a weapon of mass destruction — our destruction.”
“Our borders are open and gushing, it’s a big gushing wound,” Trump told supporters at a rally in Las Vegas, Nev., as he turned his attention away from the Republican primary contest and toward November’s presidential election in the wake of his New Hampshire victory on Tuesday.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to our country before … this is an invasion,” Trump said, pointing to the record 302,000 migrants who crossed into the US in December.
“And who does it hurt the worst?” he asked.
“African Americans and Hispanics,” he said — two demographic groups whose traditional support for Democrats appears to be wavering, according to recent polls.
Biden and the Democrats “want open borders,” Trump declared, with the former president calling it “a betrayal of our country and it’s an atrocity against the Constitution.”
“Yet unbelievably Crooked Joe Biden is fighting to tear down those beautiful border barriers,” Trump said — referring to the ongoing legal battle between the state of Texas, which has erected its own border security measures, and the Biden administration, which sued to remove them.
“Instead of sending Texas a restraining order, I will send them reinforcements,” the former president vowed.
He also denounced Democrat “disinformation” on the contentious Senate border deal that is facing stiff opposition from some Republicans.
“Now Biden is trying to gaslight the American people into saying the border is the Republicans’ fault,” Trump griped.
“This so-called border security deal that Biden is pushing out is designed to continue the invasion of America while sending millions to Ukraine,” he charged.
“He doesn’t need a bill,” Trump said.
“It’s not that complicated. All Biden needs to do is reimpose every single border policy of the former president, Donald J. Trump.”
Trump’s appearance in the Silver State was meant to stoke enthusiasm for the Republican Party’s Feb. 8 caucuses — even though the former president is the only active candidate on the ballot.
Nikki Haley, Trump’s sole remaining GOP rival, has already ceded Nevada’s 26 delegates to him by opting to participate in the state’s Feb. 6 primary, which local Republican officials do not accept as legitimate — and will not use to award its delegates.