Border Politics: Trump, Biden, and the Bipartisan Senate Deal

Former President Donald Trump is falsely claiming to have stopped all movement between the US and Mexico in an attempt to derail a bipartisan proposal aimed at increasing President Joe Biden’s authority to curb illegal crossings. Trump is using his platform to push for scuttling the bill, which would potentially prevent him from using the entry of non-white migrants into the US as an election-year issue against Biden. The GOP's flip-flop on the need for presidential authority to stem migration along the US-Mexico border has drawn criticism from the White House, which pointed out previous statements from Republican leaders and Trump himself supporting the need for congressional action on immigration.