Trump hammers Biden on border security

(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump exchanged biting, bitter words over the state of the southern border in their CNN debate Thursday night.

“It was bedlam when he left office,” Biden said about the border situation in 2021.

“He allowed millions of people of people to come here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and to destroy our country,” Trump said.

The former president brought up the deaths of three young girls in the last few weeks, including 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray. Two illegal migrants from Venezuela are charged with killing the girl.

“I just spoke to the mother,” Trump said. “This is horrible what’s taken place. We are literally an uncivilized country right now.”

Biden tried to focus on the bipartisan Senate immigration bill that was defeated after Trump told Republican senators, some of whom ...