Republicans also seize on the issue, seeing immigration as a renewed vulnerability for the president.
A group of Venezuelan migrants negotiate razor wire last month as they cross into the United States from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Democratic Mayor Eric Adams of New York City traveled to Mexico in a high-profile move to discourage illegal immigration. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has written President Biden a sharply worded letter demanding more help.
Republicans are hitting Biden even harder. Some are threatening to hold up aid to Ukraine unless it is accompanied by funds to protect the U.S.-Mexico border. Republican presidential candidates are promising, if they are elected, to send troops into Mexico to battle drug cartels. And Republican governors played a key role in the new dynamic by busing thousands of migrants into cities and states run by Democrats.
And the politics of immigration have only become more fraught. Biden campaigned in 2020 pledging to undo many of the strict migration policies enacted by Trump, but has found himself embracing a growing number of those policies in the face of the persistently high border crossings.Since then, the Biden administration has sought to pair new legal opportunities for migrants with harsher penalties for illegal entry.
Sen. Tim Scott used his answer to the very first question of the debate, about the United Auto Workers strike, to pivot abruptly to the migration issue. Less than 1 in 4 Americans approve of Biden’s handling of the immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border, according toshowed voters preferred Trump over Biden on the issue of immigration by a 23-point margin, with only 27 percent choosing the current president. Unusually high disapproval among Democrats is one factor driving the president’s poll numbers on immigration.
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