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2022-12-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Republicans accuse Biden of 'intentional' border crisis: 'I mean, nobody is this incompetent'
[FoxNews] Senate Republicans accused President Biden of creating an "intentional" crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, citing the administration's inaction on the issue despite record-breaking levels of illegal immigration.

Republican Senators led by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., highlighted the immigration crisis in a Wednesday press conference and urged the Biden administration to further extend its use of Title 42. Lankford noted that immigration surges in the 2010s amounted to roughly half a million illegal border crossings each year. Today, the U.S. sees more than half a million border crossings every two months, Lankford said.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., soon took the podium and questioned Biden's intentions.

"It is becoming harder and harder not to conclude that the border crisis is intentional. I mean, nobody is this incompetent, right?" Kennedy said. "The Biden administration's position on Title 42, on the Remain in Mexico program … none of the president's positions on this make any sense to me unless I view it from the perspective of, well, maybe he wants this to happen."

"I confess it is a mystery to me. Nobody is this incompetent. It has to be intentional," he added.

Title 42 is a Trump-era public health order allowing border officials to deny asylum requests to the vast majority of those crossing the border, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Biden administration has sought repeatedly to end the policy, but border officials have warned that doing so would exacerbate the already-unprecedented immigration crisis.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

#1 
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-21 14:49||   2022-12-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Bidet is that incontinent.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-21 15:34||   2022-12-21 15:34|| Front Page Top

#3 I think he is, but his handlers are not.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-22 05:36||   2022-12-22 05:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Ignore the Marxists behind the curtain.
Posted by Whusoger Shavish7113 2022-12-22 05:46||   2022-12-22 05:46|| Front Page Top

#5 There are no unintended consequences in politics.
Posted by Neville Snore8990 2022-12-22 10:22||   2022-12-22 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 'How did we get here?' America's migrant debacle EXPLAINED: push-and-pull economics, path dependency, and political gridlock have led to today's scenes on the southern border ... but broken immigration systems are hard to fix
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-22 10:28||   2022-12-22 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Careful with them words Republican Senators.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-22 11:54||   2022-12-22 11:54|| Front Page Top

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