{"id":2285107,"date":"2024-06-28T02:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-invokes-biden-migrant-crime-in-debate-border-clash-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T02:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:14:47","slug":"trump-invokes-biden-migrant-crime-in-debate-border-clash-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-invokes-biden-migrant-crime-in-debate-border-clash-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump invokes &#8216;Biden migrant crime&#8217; in debate border clash- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-invokes-biden-migrant-crime-in-debate-border-clash-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2285107&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the first debate against President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump \u200bstrongly criticized the current administration&#8217;s \u2063immigration policies, linking them to an increase in \u200ccrime by illegal immigrants.\u200b Trump argued\u2064 that the lack \u200dof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-poisoned-the-world-why-is-chinese-covid-propaganda-allowed-on-twitter\/\" title=\"\u2018U.S. Poisoned The World\u2019: Why Is Chinese COVID Propaganda Allowed On Twitter?\">effective border control<\/a> has \u2064led every state to face issues typically associated with \u200dborder states, citing violent crimes committed by immigrants as evidence of policy failure. He specifically referenced the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alex-murdaugh-pleads-guilty-to-federal-financial-crimes\/\" title=\"Alex Murdaugh admits guilt in federal financial offenses.\">high-profile\u2062 murder<\/a> of Laken Riley in \u200bGeorgia and the killing of Rachel Morin in Maryland, both\u2062 linked to illegal immigrants, to emphasize his point. Trump described the situation as rendering the\u2063 U.S. &#8220;uncivilized&#8221;\u200d and proposed\u200c rapid deportation \u200cof certain immigrants. Meanwhile,\u2062 Biden referenced\u200b a failed Senate border deal when questioned about the\u200b effectiveness of\u2063 his immigration policies \u2063amidst record numbers of illegal crossings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> went on the offensive in his first debate with President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> and attempted to connect the Democratic administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\" title>border<\/a> policies directly to a wave of headlines on crime committed by illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are living right now in a rat\u2019s nest. They\u2019re killing our people in New York, in California, and every state in the union because we don\u2019t have borders anymore. Every state is now a border,\u201d Trump said during the CNN presidential debate Thursday night in Atlanta. \u201cBecause of his ridiculous, insane, and very stupid policies, people are coming in and they\u2019re killing our citizens at a level that we\u2019ve never seen. We call it migrant crime. I call it Biden migrant crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2963260\/wray-fbi-tracking-venezuelan-migrant-gang-following-laken-riley-murder\/\">murder <\/a>of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley earlier this year became so politically explosive that Biden mentioned her at his State of the Union, while last week, Oklahoma police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3053568\/rachel-morin-mother-murder-deeply-touched-trump-phone-call\/\">arrested<\/a> a Venezuelan illegal immigrant believed to have brutally killed Rachel Morin, a mother of five in Maryland, last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Other incidents, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/04\/us\/undocumented-migrant-nypd-shooting-ice\/index.html\">attacks<\/a> on New York police plus sexual assaults and murders against preteen girls and single women in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/24\/us-news\/jocelyn-nungaray-murder-suspect-gets-10m-bond\/\">Texas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3051196\/illegal-immigrant-iowa-pleads-guilty-sexually-assaulting-12-girl\/\">Iowa<\/a>, have also attracted media coverage this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re literally an uncivilized country now,\u201d said Trump. \u201cWe have to get a lot of these people out, and we have to get them out fast because they\u2019re going to destroy our country. Just take a look at where they\u2019re living. They\u2019re living in luxury hotels in New York City and other places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden leaned on a Senate border deal that fell apart earlier this year when asked why voters should \u201ctrust\u201d him in a second term given the \u201crecord\u201d number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-house-democrats-budget-slashes-border-enforcement-funding-by-a-billion-dollars\/\" title=\"Report: House Democrats\u2019 Budget Slashes Border Enforcement Funding By A Billion Dollars\">illegal immigrants encountered<\/a> during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The number of arrests at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-sec-mayorkas-following-deadliest-human-trafficking-incident-in-american-history-everything-is-a-ok\/\" title=\"DHS Sec. Mayorkas Following Deadliest Human Trafficking Incident in American History: Everything Is A-OK\">southern border reached<\/a> a new all-time high in December with 250,000 apprehensions that month, but has since come down to 120,000 in May \u2014 still far above the norm of 50,000 arrests per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe worked very hard to get a bipartisan agreement that not only changed all that, but made sure that we enter a situation where you had no circumstance where they could come across the border with the number of border police there are now,\u201d said Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate bipartisan border deal that the Biden administration helped negotiate last fall into early 2024 failed after being blocked by House Republicans, allegedly at Trump\u2019s order not to give Democrats a win ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 illegal immigrants continue to be apprehended by Border Patrol agents each week, according to Department of Homeland Security data released this week, though the figures have declined since Biden took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-touts-40-drop-in-migrant-arrests-since-biden-executive-order-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mayorkas touts 40% drop in migrant arrests since Biden executive order - Washington Examiner\">executive action earlier<\/a> this month to bar asylum seekers from seeking refuge at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump echoed claims he has previously made on the campaign trail, including that people from \u201cinsane asylums\u201d and prisons had been sent from other countries into the United States. Democrats have generally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3056948\/migrant-crime-grows-as-campaign-issue-but-is-there-an-actual-spike\/\" title>sought<\/a> to frame the \u201cmigrant crime\u201d issue as Republican fear-mongering.<\/p>\n<p>The border crisis has surged past all other voter concerns, including foreign policy, the economy, and abortion, to become the greatest concern, according to primary and caucus exit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polling<\/a> in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his initial debate with President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump criticized the Democratic administration&#8217;s border policies, linking them to crime by illegal immigrants. He claimed, &#8220;We are living in a rat&#8217;s nest. They\u2019re killing our people in New York, in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2285108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/donald-trump-debate-joe-biden.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,33156,3896,32780,3634],"class_list":["post-2285107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-border-clash","tag-debate","tag-migrant-crime","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/donald-trump-debate-joe-biden.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}