Fox News Calls Out Donald Trump Over Border Failures

Fox News analyst Juan Williams has called out Donald Trump for the lack of action at the southern border.

In a recent segment, Williams questioned why Trump had scuttled the $118 billion bipartisan border security and foreign aid bill earlier this year.

If Trump “really cared about this issue, why did he block legislation that would have provided more border agents, more asylum judges, allowed the president the power to shut down the border when there was chaos or a surge?” Williams said.

“That’s what, you know, was there on a bipartisan basis.”

Newsweek has contacted President Joe Biden and Trump’s campaigns for comment via email.

Immigration has emerged as a central issue in November’s presidential election. Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, has blamed Biden for a surge in illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border and vowed to launch the biggest domestic deportation program in history if he wins a second term.

Biden, for his part, has repeatedly blasted Republicans for the Trump-backed collapse of the border deal.

The bill would have overhauled the asylum system to provide faster and tougher immigration enforcement, and grant Homeland Security authority to prohibit entry for most individuals if an average of more than 4,000 people per day tried to enter the country unlawfully over the course of a week. Biden had said he would use the authority to “shut down” the border.

The bill included $20 billion for improvements in border security as well as $60 billion in aid for Ukraine and $14 billion in aid for Israel.

Congressional Republicans killed the bill after Trump attacked it and urged them to reject it.

Trump has taken credit for tanking the legislation.

And Biden has been clear he will use it against Trump in the 2024 campaign. “Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends,” Biden said in February.

His campaign shared a clip of Williams’ comments on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.

It was soon shared by an X account with the handle @BidensWins, which wrote: “Even Fox News hosts are blaming Donald Trump for inaction on border security. Retweet this so all Americans know Trump is responsible for any border related incidents.”

The popular @TeaPainUSA account shared the clip, writing: “Holy sh*t. When Trump loses Fox News, you know it’s a big deal. Spread this far and wide.”

However, Trump supporters disputed this, saying that Williams is a Democrat.

“Juan williams is a Democrat so of course he is against Trump. Nothing to see here,” one wrote.

Another added: “It’s Juan Williams, the man who parroting the party line and will never see or hear any other point of view.”

However, others at Fox News have also criticized Republicans for rejecting the border bill.

Brit Hume, Fox’s chief political analyst, said in February that it was “the strongest border protection bill that I’ve seen in my time in Washington” and put Republicans in danger of looking like “a do-nothing Congress.”