THE Donald Trump retaliated with extremely aggressive rhetoric against her immigration in his first campaign speech after the his conviction at his criminal trial in New Yorkrailing against the “invasion” policy he says his successor in the presidency, Joe Biden, is pursuing – despite the Democrat’s recent border closures decided by executive order – and threatening to impose devastating tariffs on the countries from which immigrants are leaving trying to illegally enter the US, including China, if he prevails in November.

Mr. Trump spoke of a policy of “opening” the borders that Mr. Biden is practicing, as he claimed, during his appearance in Arizona, a state that is among those that may decide the outcome. In 2020, the Democrat won there by just 10,000 votes.

On Tuesday, the US president announced that he had signed an executive order that would deny asylum to immigrants who enter the US illegally when the number exceeds 2,500 a day for seven consecutive days, as is currently the case.

“On my first day in office, I’m going to rescind the scandalous ‘Honey Joe’ executive order,” the Republican blasted the cheering crowd, speaking of a “pro-invasion,” “pro-child-trafficking,” “pro-drug” measure. .

“I will put an end to all the open border policies” of the Biden administration, he added, addressing his supporters in the southwestern state through which many of the immigrants, mainly from Central and Latin America, who enter the US illegally pass through.

He also reiterated the threat that he would impose retaliatory measures, especially exterminating tariffs, on the countries from which the migrants are leaving if they do not take measures to stop their flows.

“We have tremendous economic power,” Donald Trump said, and in case some country, like China in the example he chose to cite, doesn’t help stem the flow of immigration, “we have this thing called tariffs.” He said he would “slam on tariffs” any country that does not prevent immigration if re-elected.

Border security and immigration have now become top issues ahead of the US election in five months, in which Mr. Biden and Trump, just like in 2020. As the showdown looms on the horizon, Republicans keep accusing President Biden of being responsible for what they call an “invasion.”

Mr Trump’s appearance in Arizona yesterday was the first since he was found guilty in late May by a New York jury of falsifying accounting documents to conceal payments he made to a porn star to buy her silence about an alleged encounter. of the 2016 election, which he won.

The text Mr. Biden signed on Tuesday also eases the deportation of migrants to Mexico with few exceptions and provides that asylum seekers will be allowed to re-enter after their numbers are reduced to the level of 1,500 a day, according to the US presidency. Critics of the decision commented that the Democratic president is copying his Republican predecessor on the issue.

Polls suggest that the immigration issue may decide Joe Biden’s chances of re-election in November.