2024-03-01 08:56:48
U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are seen attending the final presidential debate held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee in October 2020. 2020.10.22. © AFP=News1 © News1 Reporter Kim Seong-sik
Ahead of Super Tuesday in the United States, illegal immigration and border issues are becoming more prominent than economic issues.
Five days ahead of Super Tuesday (March 5), when primary elections are held simultaneously in 15 states, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who are running for the November presidential election, both visited different border towns in Texas.
The two people criticized each other, blaming each other for illegal immigration and border problems.
On the 29th (local time), President Biden visited Brownsville, Texas, met with border patrol agents, law enforcement officers, and local leaders, and urged passage of legislation related to border security.
On the 4th, the Democratic and Republican parties in the Senate concluded negotiations on a budget package that included strengthening border and immigration policies and released a 370-page agreement, but it fell through due to opposition from lawmakers close to former President Trump.
The agreement includes funding to deploy additional security guards at the border and increase the number of immigration judges.
Biden said, “Republicans say they were told, ‘Don’t do that because it will help the incumbent,'” and urged former President Trump to “come together and get this done. Please remember who we work for.” did.
On the same day, former President Trump warned at Eagle Pass, 500 kilometers away from Brownsville, where Biden visited, that “millions” of people might cross the border between the presidential election and the inauguration ceremony in January next year.
Trump said that because of Biden, “countless victims have shed blood for immigration crimes” and described it as “Biden’s invasion.”
With the recent incident in Georgia in which a Venezuelan immigrant is believed to have killed a female college student, a new atmosphere is forming in the Republican Party, criticizing Biden’s border policy.
A Gallup poll released this week found that 28% of Americans think immigration is America’s biggest problem, up from 20% in January. A Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted on January 31 found that 36% of Republican respondents said immigration was their biggest concern, more so than the economy (29%).
According to the Financial Times (FT), Eagle Pass and Brownsville have long been Democratic strongholds, but Republicans are gaining significant support in both areas as voter dissatisfaction grows with the surge in undocumented immigrants and the redeployment of border agents to deal with it.
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