#shorts On 1/10/2023, Joe Biden delivered remarks with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City. Biden said, “The first question, now I forgot. (Laughter.) Your first question related to —”

Q I — yes, I asked if we — I asked if the —

BIDEN: I’m only joking.

Q Oh. (Laughs.)

BIDEN: The answer is — the answer is: You’ve got both — both the extremes are wrong. It’s a basic middle proposition.

Now, look, as was mentioned by all of us in one way or another, this has been the greatest migration in human history around the world, as well as in this hemisphere. And when I got elected, the first thing I — the first major piece of legislation I introduced was to reform the immigration process”

Biden did not make border security part of his 2020 campaign. In fact, the then-candidate was adamant he was against the physical barriers on the country’s border with Mexico. Biden presided over a record-smashing nearly 2.4 million border-crossing arrests in fiscal 2022, which ended Sept. 30. The figures from October and November show illegal border-crossings are up 40% and 34%, respectively, over the same months in 2021. Biden made his first visit to the US-Mexico border as president on Sunday but drew criticism because he didn’t interact with migrants after El Paso officials cleaned up.

Repeated: first major piece of legislation I introduced was to reform the immigration