This had nothing to do with Trump. He is not in office. Ukraine Joe has been the president for over two years. According to Ukraine Joe's own administration, there has been a record flood of illegal crossings of the border since he became president. Nothing comparable in American history. He owns this disaster. An open border is his policy. A record number of drug deaths have occurred while Old Joe has been president due to his open border policy. Those drugs are coming across the open border. Those are demonstrable facts as supported by the data of the Biden administration. Even if the problem was bad under Trump (it wasn't), it is an absolute fact that it has gotten much worse under the incompetence and open border policies of Old Joe.
"This had nothing to do with Trump. He is not in office"...you say.
It has
EVERYTHING to do with Trump. For 4 years, Trump created this border and fentanyl disaster that he handed off to Biden. Trump was President in 2019 and 2020 when this disaster was happening. Trump owns this disaster because HE created it.
Historic fentanyl deaths, illegal drugs and immigrants were pouring in over the border on Trump's watch. It was an absolute disaster.
Biden has only been in office for a little over two years and a border disaster like this doesn't get fixed overnight. Biden also had to fix Trump's economic and covid disaster that Trump handed to him as well. So, multiple disasters Trump handed Biden when he took over in January 2021.
The fact is, the southern border was never secured under Donald Trump with all these illegal immigrants and drugs pouring in. But the right wing media and politicians want to lie, falsely accusing President Biden of an "open border" when he is trying to fix the full blown Trump border disaster that was already happening when Biden took over.
Donald Trump boasted that he would "end all illegal immigration" and "illegal drugs" coming in to the United States. Well, you can read below from documented government statistics that wasn't the case. Trump was a miserable failure and created this disaster for President Biden to deal with.
Illegal drugs and illegal immigration was not "ended" under Trump. Illegal immigrants were coming in and we had historic overdose deaths from illegal drugs. But right wingers want to pathetically pretend that never happened on Trump's watch and want to blame President Biden instead. What a poor attempt at trying erase history, but that's why documented government statistics exist to debunk the right wing propaganda.
On Trump's watch in 2020, a few months BEFORE Biden took office, we had historic fentanyl overdose deaths along with illegal immigrants sneaking in. That's not Biden's fault because he wasn't even in office yet. That's Trump's fault and Trump's failure. He owns it because it was happening on his watch and he gave this disaster to Biden. So yes, this has everything to do with Trump. Own it.
Republicans need to accept responsibility for Trump's failures of his border disaster that he gave to President Biden, instead of falsely attacking Biden for trying to fix the mess he was handed from Trump.
Below are Trump's 4 years of failed disastrous border and immigration policies that President Biden inherited:Yes, There’s a Crisis on the Border. And It’s Trump’s Fault.April 5, 2019https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/05/border-crisis-donald-trump-226573/Trump administration struggles to confront fentanyl crisisMay 22, 2019https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/fentanyl-epidemic-trump-administration/Opioid Crisis: Critics Say Trump Fumbled Response To Another Deadly EpidemicOctober 29, 2020https://www.npr.org/2020/10/29/927859091/opioid-crisis-critics-say-trump-fumbled-response-to-another-deadly-epidemicModify message
Overdose deaths hit a historic high in 2020. Frustrated experts say these strategies could save liveshttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/overdose-deaths-hit-a-historic-high-in-2020-frustrated-experts-say-these-strategies-could-save-livesDriven by fentanyl, rates of fatal teen overdoses doubled in 2020https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/12/driven-by-fentanyl-rates-of-fatal-teen-overdoses-doubled-in-2020/Trump’s Border Policies Let More Immigrants Sneak Inhttps://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-border-policies-let-more-immigrants-sneak