More than 200 retired Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials recently supported former President Donald Trump in a “letter to America.” The letter praises Trump for his strong border policy and accuses the Biden-Harris administration of increasing illegal immigration and creating the crisis at the southern border.

In the letterformer DHS officials stressed the importance of border security, saying: “The most important factor when evaluating candidates should be ensuring the safety and security of the United States…National security has many facets, but it does not exist without an enforceable international agreement. borders. » The officials also compared the “distinctly different backgrounds” between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The Biden/Harris administration adopted policies that systematically dismantled a 27-year-old, proven bipartisan border security strategy that prevented crime, both at the border and in cities across America, through deterrence and consequences,” officials said. “The appalling results were immediate and will have lasting consequences. »

According to After the millennium, the Biden-Harris administration ended construction of the southern border wall and Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy that prevented illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border from being released to the states. -United. Retired DHS officials warned that Border Patrol agents encountered an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration” and that “record illegal immigration” had “overwhelmed every aspect of the border security”.

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“Under the leadership of Vice President Harris, idealistic political figures with no experience in border security have been empowered to implement a border security policy that is disastrous and deadly to the United States,” the officials said . “The devastating results handed total control of our border to the cartels, provided them with record astronomical profits, ballooned legal immigration backlogs, and left millions of illegal aliens in the country. »

Unlike both administrations, former DHS officials said Trump “respected” and “listened” to the advice and experience of border security professionals. The former officials said Trump acted when border security experts told him that illegal immigration helped “empower” the cartels.

“The Trump Administration supported policies and programs that reduced illegal immigration, established the integrity of our legal immigration system, and ensured that the U.S. government did everything it could to control who and what was entering our country,” the former officials wrote. “America’s borders have never been more secure than they were under the Trump administration. »

In closing, the group of former officials said the president’s choice was “clear” in 2024 and argued that Trump is the “only candidate” the American people can “trust to secure our country’s borders.”