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Former President Donald Trump, who appears to be on a glide path to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, made a stark and chilling prediction this week during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual gathering.
Trump told attendees at the event, which took place in Harrisburg, Pa., that he believes there is a “100 percent chance” there will be a terrorist attack on U.S. soil stemming from President Joe Biden’s self-inflicted border crisis.
“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.”
Trump condemned the surge in violent crime across cities in the United States under President Joe Biden’s administration, highlighting a rise in carjackings, shootings, and muggings. He characterized U.S. cities as “filthy dirty” and “crime-ridden,” underlining concerns about the potential for 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.”
Moreover, Trump underscored the potential repercussions of the border crisis on Democratic voting demographics, including black, Latino, and Asian-American communities. The influx of immigrants through the southern border, particularly into Texas, Arizona, and California, has resulted in a substantial number of asylum-seekers being resettled in sanctuary cities such as New York. Since the spring of 2022, New York has received over 150,000 asylum-seekers.
Republicans have consistently blamed Biden for the current migrant crisis, noting that on his first day in office, he reversed most of Trump’s effective immigration and border security policies such as “Remain in Mexico” and Title 42.
“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 went on to list dozens of instances where Biden shifted policy to create and then exacerbate the border crisis, including many of his first-day-in-office actions:
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.
