Mexican Border

Biden criticized Donald Trump’s call for a southern border wall. In 2006, Biden was one of 26 Senate Democrats who voted in favor of the Secure Fence Act to fund construction of 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Biden supported the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007. As vice president, Biden championed the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which protects immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. Biden has called Trump’s decision to rescind the program, which remains tied up in a legal battle, “cruel,” “inhumane” and “not America.” While Biden did not release a detailed immigration policy proposal, he wrote that the United States is “a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants,” signaling he may take a more moderate stance on the issue than some of his more than 20 competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden says it’s imperative that we secure our borders, but ‘build the wall’ is a slogan divorced from reality. It won’t stop the flow of illegal narcotics or human trafficking, both of which come primarily through legal ports of entry. Nor will it stop asylum seekers fleeing the most desperate conditions imaginable and who have the right to have their cases heard. Nor will it stem the numbers of undocumented, most of whom overstay legal visas. We need to focus instead on improving screening procedures at our legal ports of entry and making smart investments in border technology. These are sensible policies that will do more for our security than a wall ever could.
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