'Election Year Political Gimmick': Marsha Blackburn Rips Biden's Executive Order On Border Security

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At yesterday's Senate Republican press briefing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) lambasted President Biden's border policy.

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00:00 Thank you, Senator Cornyn. Thank you for your leadership on this issue.

00:04 The American people are living the results of this open border. Every town is a border town.

00:13 Every state is a border state. And it is all because Joe Biden's border policy is an open

00:21 border. And we have seen that from day one. Just look at the 94 executive actions that he took in

00:32 his first 100 days. 94 that opened up the border and made legal immigration more difficult and

00:45 opened the way for illegal immigration. Indeed, you could say that one of the focuses of this

00:51 administration has been to make illegal legal. Think about it. We have an American president

01:00 who is choosing to find ways to help people circumvent the rule of law. That is what this

01:09 administration is doing. And you need look no further than Biden's border policy by the numbers.

01:17 The 94 executive actions, the 10 million illegal aliens that have crossed into this country,

01:29 the over 350 known terrorists, 350 that have come to that southern border.

01:39 Then you have the 350 aliens who entered and were trying to get asylum and their cases are dismissed.

01:50 They are free to stay. 350,000. Start to add up these numbers. Look at what it gives you.

01:59 It gives you the number one issue with the American people, which is the open southern border.

02:09 It is the 108,000 drug deaths from last year, people that are dying of fentanyl. It is

02:18 the gangs that are in our communities that have never seen a gang. The crime that is in our

02:25 streets, the human trafficking, the sex trafficking. The numbers are adding up. And here you go with an

02:33 election year political gimmick to try to push this issue aside so that he can go to a debate

02:41 and say, well, I did something. You're right. He did do something. He did it on day one by dismantling

02:50 a secure border that President Trump had handed over to him and turning it into an open border

02:59 where we do not know who is coming into the country or the reason that they are coming

03:05 into the country.

'Election Year Political Gimmick': Marsha Blackburn Rips Biden's Executive Order On Border Security

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