On Tuesday, 14 Democrats joined Republicans in voting in favor of passing a Republican-led resolution condemning President Biden’s immigration policies.
The resolution was introduced by Rep. Monica de la Cruz (R-Texas), who represents a border district and was chosen to deliver a Spanish-language rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union address last week.
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The House of Representatives has voted to formally censure President Joe Biden over his border policies. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
His legislative text targets both Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing them of “creating the worst border security crisis in our nation’s history.”
The resolution also advances asylum policies that critics say have helped fuel the border crisis, with the Biden administration refusing to detain inadmissible aliens arriving at the border. “By doing so, he is intentionally violating U.S. immigration law.”
The vote came hours after House Democrats’ newly created task force on border security held its first press conference, calling for bipartisan solutions to the crisis.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was also criticized in the resolution. (Getty Images)
In particular, it calls for the Senate to consider a bipartisan $118 billion border security and foreign aid package, which Republicans in both chambers have criticized.
“Solving this problem requires action by the United States Congress. And this group has come together to say, listen, this bipartisan bill is being introduced in the Senate. It’s not going to accomplish everything we want, but it’s going to get resolved.” “We’re going to solve this problem, so let’s do it. Let’s move forward,” said Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y.
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Volunteers provide dry firewood to migrants at a makeshift camp near Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego, California, on February 23, 2024. (Qian Weizhong/VCG, via Getty Images)
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has made the border crisis and immigration a central focus since taking control of the House Republican Conference in October.
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Earlier this year, he led a delegation of more than 60 Republicans to the U.S.-Mexico border to call attention to the issue.
He also led the House in a historic vote to impeach Mayorkas in February. Prior to that, a Cabinet secretary had not been impeached by the U.S. Congress since 1876.
Approximately 7.3 million immigrants crossed the southwest border illegally A Fox News analysis found that since the Biden administration took office, that number is greater than the population of 36 individual states.
