During a recent address at the National Rifle Association’s yearly convention, Donald Trump, the previous President, expressed a grave and unsettling forecast. Trump, who seems to be steadily advancing towards securing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, asserted that he firmly believes there is an absolute certainty of a terrorist attack occurring on American soil. He attributed this potential threat to President Joe Biden’s handling of the border situation, which he referred to as a crisis of his own making.
“Under Biden, millions of illegals are now pouring into our country, and these include terrorists,” Trump said, as reported by Resist The Mainstream. “You have a 100% chance of a major terror attack in the not-too-distant future. It’s a terrible thing to say. … Remember the travel ban? We didn’t take people from countries with the massive terrorism attacks. We don’t want our shopping centers blown up. We don’t want our people destroyed. We don’t want dead children where a family will never be the same.”
President Trump expressed his disapproval of the increase in violent crime in American cities during President Joe Biden’s administration. He specifically pointed out the rise in carjackings, shootings, and muggings. Furthermore, he described U.S. cities as being plagued by crime and unclean, emphasizing his concerns regarding the possibility of a terrorist attack.
“You take a look at your cities. Your cities are going to hell. You take a look at what’s going on,” Trump said. “They’re filthy dirty. They’re crime-ridden. People walk down the street, they get shot, they get mugged. We’re really likely to face a 100% chance of a terrorist attack.”
President Trump strongly criticized the alarming increase in violent crime in cities across the United States during President Biden’s administration. He specifically highlighted the surge in carjackings, shootings, and muggings, describing U.S. cities as plagued by filth and crime. Additionally, Trump emphasized the potential impact of the border crisis on Democratic voting demographics, particularly within black, Latino, and Asian-American communities. The influx of immigrants through the southern border, particularly in Texas, Arizona, and California, has led to a significant number of asylum-seekers being resettled in sanctuary cities like New York. Since the spring of 2022, New York has welcomed over 150,000 asylum-seekers.
Republicans consistently attribute the current migrant crisis to President Biden, pointing out that he swiftly reversed many of Trump’s effective immigration and border security policies, such as the “Remain in Mexico” and Title 42 protocols. There are also concerns about the potential for a terrorist attack.
“Last week, in a weak attempt to shift blame for a crisis their own policies created, the White House clumsily tried to claim that House Republicans had an ‘anti-border security record’ by voting to ‘eliminate over 2,000 border patrol agents and erode our capacity to seize fentanyl,’” the House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) noted on his official website.
“These claims were demonstrably untrue, previously disproven, and underscored the Biden Administration’s failure to secure our southern border, marked by record high crossings in December and widespread national recognition that the situation at our border is a crisis,” he said.
“Since his first day in office, President Biden and his administration have worked to systematically undermine America’s border security,” the Speaker said. “On more than 60 occasions, he has manipulated the federal bureaucracy to open our borders to illegal immigrants, human trafficking, fentanyl, and potential terrorists. The result is a humanitarian and national security catastrophe. The President must use his executive authority to repair what he has broken. I am calling on him to do so.”
He then provided a detailed list of Biden’s total failures surrounding the U.S. Border:
Jan 20, 2021: President Biden terminated the National Emergency at the Southwest border (Proclamation 9844), thereby halting emergency construction of a border wall.
Jan 20, 2021: President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) further entrenching the unlawful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. With his action, President Biden directed the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, “to preserve and fortify DACA”, signaling to illegal aliens that his Administration supports amnesty and that illegal aliens need not fear coming to the U.S. or worry about immigration enforcement.
Jan 20, 2021: President Biden unveiled the U.S. Citizenship Act, which would provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., demonstrating intent to reward illegal border crossers with a path to citizenship.
Jan 20, 2021: President Biden revoked Trump-era Executive Order that was designed to ensure there was meaningful enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
Jan 20, 2021: The Administration issued an Executive action ending limitations and restrictions against immigration from certain countries associated with terrorism.
Jan 20, 2021: The Biden Administration announced a 100-day moratorium on deportations and immigration enforcement, effectively providing amnesty to criminal and other removable aliens and sending the signal the Biden Administration would not enforce the law. The Administration also announced interim immigration enforcement guidelines that signaled to illegal aliens that they do not have to worry about the possibility of deportation.