Former President Donald Trump, speaking in a Commit to Caucus rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, promised that he will support Texas in its battle to secure the border, not push back against the state like the Biden administration is doing.
"When I'm president, instead of trying to send Texas a restraining order, I will send them reinforcements," Trump told the large crowd gathered at Big League Dreams sports park in Las Vegas.
"Instead of fighting border states, I will use every resource tool and authority of the U.S. president to defend the United States of America from this horrible invasion that is taking place right now," Trump said during the rally, which aired live on Newsmax and simulcast on the Newsmax2 online streaming platform.
He further vowed that he will "deploy all necessary military and law enforcement resources to seal up the final section of the border."
"We built over 500 miles of wall," he said. "Usually you like to know the other side, and you like to know where the other side's coming from. Nobody to this day can explain why this open wound is good for our country."
Trump added that the influx of potential Hispanic votes is also not good for President Joe Biden and Democrats.
"With the Hispanic vote, we're doing better now than the Democrat Party," he said. "We're going to repeal the invasion."
He pointed out that when he campaigned in 2016, "we had a very bad border," but that when he was elected, he solved the problems.
But when 2020 rolled around, "I didn't have the border to run on because I did such a good job with the border that the border wasn't an issue," Trump said. "I did such a good job, I took it out of play. And now I'm saying the border is in play like it's never been in play before, because what they've done is they've taken all of the things that I did to make it so good. Literally, we couldn't put it in a speech. Nobody wanted to hear about the border. We had no border problem."
But, Trump said, "Crooked Joe Biden is fighting Texas to tear our beautiful border security down there," by ordering the razor wire that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered to be put up cut down.
As a result of Biden's policies, Trump said the border situation is a "catastrophe waiting to happen."
"There has never been a country where millions and millions of people are able to flow in with no vetting, no checking, no nothing," he said. "We don't know who they are. We don't know where they come from ... and we have no idea what we're doing with our country. Our country's going to hell because of incompetent or bad people."
Trump further thanked Abbott and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, as well as the state of Texas, "for rightly invoking the invasion clause of the U.S. Constitution. It's an invasion."
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