Donald Trump claims he has already solved the border crisis nearly two months before taking office, but a former Republican congressman called him out for "lying."
The president-elect declared a win on halting the flow of undocumented migrants from Mexico after speaking to that nation's president Claudia Sheinbaum, whom he said agreed to close the border in the face of his proposed 25 percent tariffs, but she disputed that claim and said her country was already "taking care of" migrant caravans.
"He's lying," former GOP lawmaker Joe Walsh told CNN. "I mean, let's just say it. This is what he does, and he's lying, and I don't want to go through four years of this."
Mexico has already been conducting its largest-ever crackdown on migrants by transporting foreign nationals to the country's south, far away from the U.S. border, and fewer undocumented migrants are being detained at the southern border than at any time since Joe Biden became president.
"America still has to grasp with the fact that we just re-elected somebody who lies every time he opens his mouth," Walsh said. "I mean, period, this is the game. This is the game he plays. He threatens to do something unless he gets his way. He doesn't get his way, but he lies and says he got his way, and now, 'Looky here, Mexico is going to do something brand new.'"
"Bullcrap," Walsh added, catching himself before saying a stronger swear word. "This is Thanksgiving, I caught my tongue. He's lying, plain and simple."