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Despite threats of impeachment, President Donald Trump traveled to Texas to celebrate his border wall. The data shows that he failed to deliver on his promise.
It all started on June 16, 2015 with a speech at Trump Tower attacking undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico to the United States. Donald Trump, then recognized as a New York businessman and television figure, promised to build a wall of more than 1,600 kilometers that would separate the two countries to prevent the arrival of more Mexicans if they elected him as president.
Now, after four years in office, the Republican could not say goodbye without visiting his longed-for structure and taking a photo with it for posterity and to convince his followers that this had been “a promise kept.” But what you see in the photo is far from the reality that Trump wants to sell. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the Trump administration completed just 729 kilometers of its wall. And much of the construction was just the replacement of barriers that previous governments had put in place.
In total, Trump only erected barriers in 128 kilometers where there was no structure before. In addition, the Republican promised that Mexico would pay for the construction, but according to the CBP report, the resources for the work come from United States funds. Unfulfilled promise.
During his visit to Alamo, Texas to make a speech next to a section of the wall, Trump also took the opportunity to thank his counterpart from Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for his “friendship” and support in controlling the common border.
“I want to thank the great president of Mexico. He is a great gentleman, a friend of mine. President (López) Obrador is a man who really knows what is going on. He loves his country and he also loves the United States, ”he said.
Trump highlighted the deployment by Mexico of 27,000 troops to patrol its borders in the last two years, which, according to him, made it possible to curb irregular immigration, mostly from Central America.
In addition, it celebrated the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) sealed with Mexico during the López Obrador government, an agreement that it described as “pioneering” and by which foreigners who arrive at the United States border requesting asylum must await the resolution of their cases in Mexican territory.
“This measure alone ended a humanitarian crisis and saved countless lives,” Trump said.
Trump, outgoing president, asked President-elect Joe Biden to continue with his immigration policies and with the construction of the wall. Otherwise, says the Republican, Biden could lead to “utter calamity.”
“If our measures at the border are reversed, it will unleash a tidal wave of illegal immigration, a wave like the one we have never seen, and I can tell you that waves are already starting to come from a distance of 2,000 and 1,000 and 500 miles, we see that They are coming, ”Trump said from the border town of Alamo (Texas).
“That will be an absolute calamity for national security, public safety and public health. It will destroy millions and millions of jobs and take thousands of innocent lives, “added Trump, in hyperbolic terms.
With this, Trump recovered his usual message that equates all undocumented migrants with criminals, without nuances, and his argument that his policies to restrict asylum have allowed to contain the expansion of the coronavirus, despite the fact that his country is the one with the most contagions and deaths in the world.
“We have areas of the border that are in very good shape, but on the other side, in Mexico, they are suffering a lot from the virus,” said the outgoing president.
For this reason, Trump asked to keep in place an order on the border that was issued this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States (CDC) due to the pandemic, and on which immigration agents are now based. country to send to Mexico more than 90% of those who cross the border illegally.
He also urged Biden to keep in place the “safe third country” agreements, which Trump has signed with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador and which allow the US to deport refugees who arrive in its territory and have not requested asylum. in the first country they stepped on when leaving their home nation.
“How disastrous it would be if they were eliminated, I heard you are thinking about it. I hope they don’t, it would be an absolute nonsense for our country, ”Trump stressed.
But Biden’s transition team has made clear that the Democrat is committed to stopping construction of the wall and focusing on adopting technological measures to secure the border. In addition, two advisers to Biden said that the president-elect will work to “quickly annul” the agreements that Trump made with the countries of the northern triangle of Central America and the asylum restrictions created by the previous administration, although they warned that this task will take months.
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