Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) claimed Monday that President Joe Biden (D) and his administration have issued nearly 300 executive orders calling for an open border in his and Vice President Kamala Harris' (D) first year in office.
Kennedy said in a social media post: Remind Ask voters about the actions the Biden Administration has taken regarding the disastrous border policies that are hurting our people.
“Note: The Biden-Harris Administration has issued nearly 300 open border executive orders just one year into office,” he wrote.
What is noteworthy is that Harris has chosen far-left Governor Tim Walz (Democrat, Minnesota) as her running mate, and is campaigning against former President Donald Trump (Republican) and his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (Republican, Ohio), with the November presidential election rapidly approaching.
According to a January 2022 press release from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), Biden will appoint about 300 top officials. action He spoke out about immigration in his first year as president.
A statement from the institute said:
Biden has taken 296 executive actions on immigration in his first 364 days in office, significantly more than Trump's 86 actions in his first full year in office and 472 during his entire term, analysts Muzaffar Chishti and Jessica Bolter wrote in MPI's online journal. Migration SourcesOf Biden's 296 immigration measures, 89 reverse or begin to undo Trump administration policies, making it clear the administration is doing more than just dismantling the policies of its predecessor.
The Biden administration's actions cover a wide range of issues, including significantly reducing the number of undocumented immigrants at risk of arrest, detention and deportation, removing some barriers to entering the U.S. and receiving immigration benefits, and raising the refugee resettlement cap to 125,000.
MPI in 2022 said Many immigrant rights activists have criticized the Biden administration for moving too slowly to “uncover the actions of the Trump administration,” while conservatives have criticized it for “indifference to the increasing influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Social media users were quick to respond to Kennedy's post, write“They knew there would be a need for illegal votes in 2024.”
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“The Democrats are destroying our country!” another user said. Commented.
Breitbart News reported on June 4 that “President Biden will issue an executive order on Tuesday allowing an average of about 2,500 migrants per day at the U.S.-Mexico border, but only between ports of entry, until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can regain control of the border.”
The outlet reported later that month that, according to data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), more than 170,000 illegal immigrants attempted to cross the US-Mexico border in May.
