ABC Information reporter Martha Raddatz known as out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and two different distinguished Republicans for sending a “message” to migrants at the safety of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Raddatz talked to the GOP governor for a document on Wednesday’s expiration of a Donald Trump immigration coverage that allowed the “fast expulsion” of migrants. The coverage, imposed in March 2020 because of COVID-19 pandemic-related considerations, barred over 2 million migrants on the border, ABC reported.
Raddatz grilled Abbott for his earlier claims of an “open border” that she stated despatched a message that “reverberates in Mexico.”
“I don’t suppose I’ve ever heard President Joe Biden say ‘We now have an open border, come on over,’” Raddatz stated.
“However other folks I’ve heard say it are you, are former President Trump, Ron DeSantis. That message reverberates in Mexico and past. In order that they do get the message that it’s an open border and smugglers use all the ones sorts of statements.”
Abbott later stated “it used to be identified from the time that Joe Biden were given elected that Joe Biden supported open borders.” He stated smugglers know whether or not Biden will implement immigration regulations.
Raddatz pressed additional: “How do you play into that? What are you able to do higher?”
Using the time period “open border” to explain Biden’s coverage, PolitiFact discovered, has been “inconsistent” together with his immigration stance, as he’s “nonetheless supported security features on the border.”
“We don’t have an open border. That’s absurd,” Terence Garrett, political science professor on the College of Texas Rio Grande Valley, instructed the e-newsletter.
Watch extra from Raddatz’s interview with Abbott underneath.