said Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake. Breitbart News Saturday President Joe Biden has the authority to crack down on the border without new legislation and said he and Democrats “intentionally” “created” the border crisis.
Lake appeared on a weekend show with host and Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle to argue that the immigration crisis is “a man-made disaster caused by one man: Joe Biden.”
“And Matt, as you and your listeners remember, it was the first day that Joe Biden came on the scene and reversed President Trump’s incredible border policies that were working here in Arizona.” said Lake. . “I’ve never seen that border as secure as it is in Arizona under President Trump. It was so tight. It was pretty much shut down as best we could. We were working on building a wall, and Joe Biden reversed all those policies and opened up the wall, but did nothing to make it safe again. In fact, what they did All this only made the problem worse.”
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Mr. Boyle and Mr. Lake also discussed the Senate negotiations that resulted in the pro-immigration border bill announced Sunday night. Boyle quoted Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) as saying that Biden has taken more than 60 executive actions to “open the border,” and if he feels like it, he can strengthen the border. He emphasized that it is also possible to redirect all of these actions to Even without new legislation from Congress.
Lake agreed, noting that Biden could enact “laws that already exist.”
“Go back to the executive orders, the laws that already exist, to secure our borders,” Lake said. “President Trump could have done this in a week, but this is a problem that … Joe Biden and the Democrats created by design. And I always do things like that and say, ‘Oh, that’s Joe Biden. I hate to say, ‘It’s Biden’s fault,’ but it’s true.”
But Lake found that Democrats “love” issues and spend money without ameliorating the “symptoms” of specific problems.
“They like to have a problem, and then they go back to Washington, D.C., and raise billions of dollars to cure the symptoms of the problem, but they never try to solve the problem,” Lake said. insisted. “And I think that’s one of the reasons they hate President Trump, because he said, ‘Look at all these problems we have.'” There’s no need to hold it. You can fix it now. ” And he showed us how to do it on that border. And they opened the borders and put $100 million here, $50 million there, and another million here into all these different programs to process the people and deal with the disaster that they caused. I want to be able to do that. ”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said the bill is “worse than expected” and would be “killed on arrival” even if it passes the House. As Breitbart News reported, reportthis bill would allow 8,500 immigrants to enter the United States each day without triggering a state of emergency.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), then a candidate for Speaker of the House, outside the House Republican Conference campaign meeting at the Longworth Building on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty) image).
Breitbart News’ Bradley Jay wrote that the bill “also sets a finish line and countdown clock for illegal aliens to achieve amnesty.” In other words:
[A]Illegal aliens who are more than 100 miles from the border or who have evaded capture for 14 days do not count toward triggering the state of emergency, which is subject to additional enforcement mechanisms that may be activated if Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas chooses. Not even a target. when you reach that limit.
Now, Senate Republicans are beginning to voice their opposition and concerns about the bill, for which Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) was the lead Republican negotiator.
According to Breitbart News, Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), became the first Senate Republican to voice opposition to the bill. I got it..
Flashback — Sen Daines: We stopped building walls.We are currently putting up signs to tell illegal immigrants where to go.
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“I cannot support a bill that does not secure our borders, provides taxpayer-funded lawyers to illegal immigrants, and provides billions of dollars to radical open border groups,” Daines wrote on X early Monday morning. did.
“Now that I have seen the text, I have questions and serious concerns,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement.
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