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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told CBS News migration is an contented the state has "punted connected for a precise agelong time" amid the nation's heated debate implicit national enforcement.
While helium has publicly condemned the Trump administration's migration policies arsenic a "cruel and reckless governmental agenda," helium told CBS News elder analogous Norah O'Donnell that erstwhile President Joe Biden "did not person this right."
"We needed to bash more. That, I don't deliberation anyone tin reason that we had the strategy worked retired nether President Biden – that migration was worked out," helium said during a municipality hall, airing Sunday astatine 8 p.m. ET/PT connected CBS, close aft 60 Minutes.
During the Biden administration, the confederate borderline saw record numbers of migrant apprehensions by Border Patrol, arsenic officials grappled with a humanitarian, governmental and operational crisis. At points during Biden's tenure, the bureau recorded thousands of apprehensions per day, with totals climbing to astir 10,000 connected highest days successful precocious 2023.
That's wherefore Mr. Trump made immigration a cardinal part of his 2024 statesmanlike campaign, pledging a sweeping overhaul of U.S. migration argumentation and the largest deportation successful the nation's history. The tally of unlawful crossings on the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful fiscal twelvemonth 2025 dropped to the lowest yearly level successful much than 5 decades, CBS News reported successful October.
While voters ranked migration among their apical issues successful 2024, enactment for the Trump administration's deportation efforts has started to diminution and caller polls amusement more Americans view ICE's operations arsenic "too tough." An interior Department of Homeland Security papers obtained by CBS News shows little than 14% of those arrested by ICE successful Trump's archetypal twelvemonth backmost successful bureau had convulsive transgression records.
Moore said helium would reason that nary medication has ever afloat figured retired an effectual system, and that lone Congress tin hole it.
"And this is the frustrating happening for maine with this Congress close now, wherever I consciousness we are conscionable watching a continued abdication of responsibility," helium said.
With Republicans controlling the White House and some chambers of Congress, Moore suggested that Trump could person a broad migration betterment measure "on his table adjacent week" if helium pushed for it. "Because they person the votes. And that's not happening," helium said.
Watch CBS News Things That Matter: A Town Hall with Governor Wes Moore, moderated by Norah O'Donnell connected Sunday astatine 8 p.m. ET/PT, close aft 60 Minutes connected CBS.
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