Former President Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address Tuesday night, focusing on the mass illegal immigration taking place at the southern border, crime, drops in real wages, and “corruption.”
“Here’s the real State of the Union: Over the past two years under Biden, millions and millions of illegal aliens from 160 different countries have stormed across our southern border,”Trump is the sole Republican candidate for the 2024 primary.
Biden took office January 20, 2021. Since then, Border Patrol agents have apprehended 4.2 million migrants along the southern border. This is a new record, according to Breitbart News. reported. Trump attended his inaugural official South Carolina campaign trail event on January 28th. assertedHis administration would quickly deport people if he is reelected.
Trump’s Tuesday response to Biden highlighted another border concern: the epidemic of fentanyl. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported71.238 U.S. deaths “synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl)”All alone in 2021. That’s a big jump from the 2020 figure of 57.834, which was a staggering 59,834.
“Drug cartels are now raking in billions of dollars from smuggling poison to kill our people and to kill our children,”Trump.
In December 2022, more than 1000 migrants crossed the border between Mexico and El Paso. (Video Screenshot/El Paso Matters)
Fentanyl production usually starts in China. There are precursor chemicals that are produced. Then, Mexican cartels make the drugs and transport them across the border. New York Post Has reported.
Trump turned then his attention towards crime and stated that “[s]avage killers, rapists, and violent criminals are being released from jail to continue their crime wave.”
“Biden and the radical Democrats have wasted trillions of dollars and caused the worst inflation in half a century,” Trump continued.
“Real wages are down 21 months in a row, gas prices have soared and are now going much higher than even before, and the typical American family is paying $2,200 in increased energy and food costs each year,”He concluded.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data ShowReal wages (both average hourly earnings as well as average weekly earnings) have declined every month since March 2021.
Mar-a-Lago was the residence of the 45th president. Raid in August as part of a classified documents probe, then called out Biden’s “weaponized Justice Department”Please see the following: “persecuting his political opponents,”He asserted that “administration is waging war on free speech.”
Trump actually PlaceA comprehensive policy platform was released in December “shatter the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.”
“They’re trying to indoctrinate and mutilate our children,”Trump stated Tuesday. “[Biden is] leading us to the brink of World War III, and on top of all of that, he’s the most corrupt President in American history, and it’s not even close.”
Trump pledged that he would “reverse every single crisis, calamity, and disaster that Joe Biden has created”Voting he would be president if elected “complete the unfinished business of Making America Great Again.”
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