Democratic senators are reportedly admitting that their party's failures on border security were part of the reason President-elect Donald Trump (R) won the 2024 election.
At a recent meeting, senators discussed why their party lost the election. hill reported Friday.
The paper claimed that many Democrats feel President Joe Biden's (D) administration has failed to fully address the massive wave of migrants pouring across the southern border.
“We destroyed ourselves on immigration in a completely predictable and completely manageable way,” one Democratic senator said. We have totally mismanaged this issue, including the Democratic caucus here. ”
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Meanwhile, President Trump has taken a hard line on border issues plaguing the country. Breitbart News reported on Nov. 7 that the president-elect recently said that once he takes office again, there is nothing to stop him from implementing a plan to mass deport illegal immigrants.
“It's not about price. It's not. Really, we have no choice. When people go on a killing spree, when drug lords destroy countries, and now they're not going to stay here.” When you're trying to go back to those countries because of that. There's no price tag,” he said.
It is also important to note that children are also suffering as a result of problems at the border. Such was the case with a 2-year-old girl who recently immigrated from El Salvador. Found According to Breitbart News, only one of the group of 211 illegal immigrants was at the U.S. southern border.
The child claimed to be looking for his parents in America.
According to hillDemocrats say they lost many votes because of their party's handling of the border issue, and explain why Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump, was unable to secure seven battleground states. I want to.
“We need to look at exactly what happened. We know we've lost men, we've lost Hispanics, we've lost women. We're not connecting with people, but it's also the right A third Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to comment on Senate Democrats, said it was part of a pendulum swinging the other way and was “a way for Trump to reach people” that Harris couldn't. said the caucus discussed what went wrong.
The congressman said social media platforms such as X (formerly known as Twitter) and TikTok have spread President Trump's message more effectively than Biden's or Harris's.
Biden claimed in July that there were fewer border crossings than when Trump left office. However, a Breitbart News fact check found his claims to be false.
“NBC News” reported In June 2024, 84,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border. “In January 2021, the year President Trump left office, we encountered 75,000 migrants along the Southwest border,” the report said.
