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Donald Trump wants to visit the US southern border

2021-06-19T06:03:17.218Z


US President Joe Biden has stopped the construction of the wall on the southern border. His predecessor Donald Trump thinks this is a mistake - and has now announced a visit to Texas. The governor wants to continue building there.


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As president, Donald Trump repeatedly visited the southern border: In June 2020, he looked at the border wall in Arizona

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One of the central promises of former US President Donald Trump before his election in 2016 was the building of the wall on the border with Mexico.

Now Trump is no longer president, but he is still preoccupied with the wall.

He has announced a visit to the United States' southern border for the end of June.

Trump said he had accepted an invitation from Texas Governor Greg Abbott for June 30.

As president, Trump had visited the wall several times.

It is the first official trip to the border since his election defeat.

Abbot wants to continue building the wall

Trump's successor, Joe Biden, suspended funding for the construction of massive border fences in January as one of his first acts.

Abbott announced last week that it would continue building the Wall in his state independently of the Washington government.

How the Texan wants to realize this is open.

The governor is among a number of Republicans who accuse Biden of sparking a crisis on the border with his migration policies, which are more liberal than the Trump era.

Trump described the border region in his communication as a "disaster area".

Because of the large number of migrants who cross the border without papers and are picked up by the authorities, the new government of Biden has been under pressure for weeks.

From March to May alone, according to the border protection authorities, more than 530,000 immigrants without valid papers were stopped at the border and sent back to Mexico.

The government again referred to "four years of chaos and mismanagement" under Trump and promised to reform the US immigration system and combat the causes of flight in the countries of origin.

"100 percent legal to ask for asylum"

On her first trip abroad at the beginning of June, Vice President Kamala Harris warned potential migrants in Guatemala with a clear message about the dangerous journey to the USA: "Don't come here."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a congresswoman from New York City, wrote on Twitter that she was "disappointed to see this".

“First, it's 100 percent legal to seek asylum at the US border.

Second, the US has been driving regime change and instability in Latin America for decades.

We cannot help set someone's house on fire and then judge them for fleeing, ”she wrote.

Trump announced in 2016 that he would build a “beautiful wall” on the 3200-kilometer southern border to keep undocumented immigrants and criminals away.

At the time, he used insulting and racist comments about Mexican and Central American immigrants to justify his decision.

Trump's daughter-in-law calls for weapons

Recently, Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump also spread fear of migrants.

During an appearance on Fox News television, she said that people on the southern border "had better arm themselves with guns quickly and be ready."

For this statement, Lara Trump was criticized on social networks.

For example, Democratic Congressional candidate Russell Foster accused her of hate crime being a direct result.

The US Department of Homeland Security announced in early January that the border installations over a length of 450 miles (around 720 kilometers) were ready.

Most of the time, however, Trump's border wall only replaced existing and outdated border installations.

Originally, Trump had set much larger goals when building the wall and spoke of a significantly longer distance of around 1,100 to 1,450 kilometers.

lau / dpa / AFP

Source: spiegel

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