BURSTPresident Trump lashed out a former President Biden early Wednesday, invoking the previous administration's border policies while touting his own.
“Sleepy Joe Biden, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, has allowed millions and millions of Criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers, and people released from prisons and mental institutions from all around the world, to enter our Country through it’s very dangerous and ill conceived Open Border,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“Sorry, but it’s my job to get these killers and thugs out of here,” he continued. “THAT’S WHAT I GOT ELECTED TO DO.”
His comments come as the president's sweeping immigration agenda has been under the microscope. The Trump administration is currently locked in a fiery legal battle over the mistaken deportation of a man from Maryland to an infamous prison in El Salvador.
The Supreme Court earlier this month ruled that the administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The White House has pushed back on the notion, suggesting the authority to make the return rests on El Salvador.
While the administration has previously admitted Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported, top officials have seemingly walked that back in recent days.
Trump's latest defense of his immigration moves follows Biden's first speech since leaving the White House in January.
In his remarks, Biden criticized his successor and said it has been “breathtaking” to see how much damage and destruction has been done since Trump returned in January.
Since returning to the Oval Office, Trump has issued a bevy of border security actions, including signing executive orders to seal the border and ramp up enforcement against illegal immigration. In doing so, he has also targeted longstanding legal pathways including birthright citizenship, Deferred Action from Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the asylum process.
Vice President Vance also recently invoked Biden in a post online. He criticized the former president for allowing “approximately 20 million illegal aliens” into the U.S. and said there were “extraordinary burdens” on the country because of it.