{"id":334488,"date":"2021-03-28T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=334488"},"modified":"2021-03-28T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T14:03:29","slug":"trump-says-he-will-probably-visit-us-mexico-border-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-will-probably-visit-us-mexico-border-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Will \u2018Probably\u2019 Visit US-Mexico Border Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-says-he-will-probably-visit-us-mexico-border-soon%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=334488&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>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is leaning towards taking a trip to the U.S.-Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border\">border<\/a> soon, as federal officials struggle to deal with a surge in illegal border crossings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people want me to,\u201d including Border Patrol personnel, Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want me there, they\u2019ve asked me to go, and I really sort of feel I owe it to them. They\u2019re great people, they\u2019re doing an incredible job. It\u2019s impossible now with what [the Biden administration has] done,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden rolled back a number of key measures the Trump administration had implemented to enforce border security, such as ending the so-called \u201ccatch and release\u201d program, which allows illegal immigrants claiming asylum to be released into the United States as they await court hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Less than one in five asylum claims are ultimately granted.<\/p>\n<p>The policies have led to a sharp increase in illegal crossings at the border, with over 100,000 recorded in February alone, experts have told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>The influx of unaccompanied children, in particular, has prompted federal officials to open or convert at least eight facilities to hold them, including three convention centers.<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials continue to defend the policy changes, arguing the system under Trump was too restrictive and cruel.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Saturday said that in his view, the situation will get worse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3740170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-334491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4035.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3740170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4034.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Border Patrol agents apprehend about two dozen illegal immigrants in Penitas, Texas, on March 11. 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson\/The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThousands and thousands of people are coming up right now as we speak. And you\u2019re gonna have millions of people pouring into our country, and it\u2019s going to destroy our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, and they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. It\u2019s a very, very dangerous situation. I\u2019d love not to be involved. Somebody else is supposed to be doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The visit to the border will likely come in the next couple of weeks, though Trump said he\u2019s in no rush to go.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u201cis supposed to go,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cI\u2019m not looking to have a race, I\u2019m looking to get a problem solved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure that I really should do it, other than the fact that I have such respect for the Border Patrol and for ICE,\u201d\u00a0he also said, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has said that there are no plans at present for Biden to visit the border.<\/p>\n<p>Biden recently tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with handling the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Harris during an interview with CBS last week said she\u2019ll travel to the border in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point, absolutely we will go down to the border,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve been down to the border and our secretary of the Homeland Security, Alex Mayorkas, has been down there twice. Senior administration officials have been down there and yes, we will go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the reality also is that in addition to the border, we also need to deal with the root causes. We need to deal with what\u2019s happening in the Northern Triangle and address it in a way that is about not only diplomacy but bringing our allies together,\u201d she added. \u201cDealing with what we need to do around aid in a way that is about developing those countries so that we also deal with the cause of why people are coming into our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump is leaning towards taking a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border soon, as federal officials struggle to deal with a surge in illegal border crossings. \u201cA lot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4035.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump Says He Will \u2018Probably\u2019 Visit US-Mexico Border Soon","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4035.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Trump Says He Will \u2018Probably\u2019 Visit US-Mexico Border Soon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334488","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}