Trump & Republicans are responsible for Open Borders because TRUMP demanded they block Border Security Legislation so he can use “Open Borders” as a campaign issue. Trump demanded Republican do nothing which Biden can get credit for doing which might help hem get re-elected.

Also, since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017 to January 3, 2019, when Trump & Republicans had the Presidency, the House of Representatives and Senate… they did NOTHING about the border when they had absolute control of all 3 branches of Government.

Trump and Republicans now trying to blame Democrats for “Open Borders” are LYING, and refusing to accept responsibility for the Border problems they refused to solve. Once again, Republicans are literately putting Politics above doing what’s best for our country and the American people.

Romney accuses Trump of trying to stop bill to blame Biden

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) says that President Trump has told Republican lawmakers to not negotiate a compromise bill with President Biden that could help alleviate some of the immigration issues at the US-Mexico border.

 

Trump and Republicans EXPOSED for Blocking Border Security Legislation

 

Trump wants ‘blame’ for blocking border bill while insisting border crossings kill 300,000

Trump told Republicans to block a bipartisan border security bill after falsely claiming 300,000 people are killed because of weak border security.

 

Dan Crenshaw Blasts His Fellow Republicans For Being The Party Of Stupidity

Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw blasted members of his own Party this week, effectively calling their actions “stupid.” As Republicans in the House prepare to destroy a bipartisan immigration deal so that President Biden can’t win, Crenshaw attacked his fellow Republicans for acting at “the height of stupidity” for tanking a piece of legislation that is not only sorely needed, but that Republicans themselves had demanded.

 

Republicans OPENLY ADMIT Their ‘INVASION’ Claims Were Only FEAR TACTICS!

Jesse talks about a rare moment of clarity coming from Fox News’s Laura Ingraham show where she and her guest, Newt Gingrich, both essentially admit that the hyperbolic lies about immigration and the border only served to gin up fear and outrage in their audience.

 

MAGA Republicans have vowed to block the latest immigration reform bill, while also saying immigration is a crisis and immediate threat.

 

Trump’s recent statements on wanting the economy to crash and keeping the border open have ignited a political firestorm. Critics argue that these positions could have far-reaching consequences, while supporters claim they are part of a strategic plan.

 

McConnell admits Trump doesn’t want this border security deal

House Republicans find themselves in a rift over a pivotal border security deal while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s position takes a surprising turn, now suggesting separating the Ukraine funding from the border security deal.

 

Republicans siding with fentanyl and illegal immigrants instead of border security

Negotiations for a bipartisan bill addressing the southern border and foreign aid are ongoing, but former President Trump’s stance on the issue and the potential impact on the economy are causing division within the party. Morning Joe take a look at the Senate Republicans pushing for the party support the bill as GOP infighting intensifies.

 

Trump urging Speaker Mike Johnson not to compromise on border negotiations

Rep. Jim Hines, Democratic Congressman from Connecticut joins Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss how MAGA Republicans in Congress are threatening to halt all legislation to put the good of their preferred candidate in the 2024 election (Donald Trump) over the good of the country and doing their job and governing.

 

‘Stop lying’: House member blasts GOP for blocking border bill

During a House Oversight meeting on border security, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., blasted Republicans for playing cynical politics with the border.

 

House Dem blasts Speaker Johnson for worrying about angering Trump on border bill

Leading Senate Republicans are warning their House colleagues not to play political games with the current immigration negotiations because they won’t get a better deal down the road under a potential second Donald Trump presidency. House Intel Committee member, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., joins Morning Joe to discuss the negotiations.

 

Jeffries hammers MAGA GOP’s ‘political games’ undermining U.S. national security

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held his weekly presser and discussed the meeting with President Biden and congressional leaders. Jeffries applauded Biden for calling for this meeting and slammed House Republicans for “politicizing” the challenges at the border, as opposed to addressing it.

 

Trump DOES NOT Want You to See THIS VIDEO!

Despite being on camera contradicting this, Trump is currently claiming that Congress has no role in addressing issues at the southern border.

 

Five Biggest Border Lies Debunked

 

Texas Paul calls out Republicans for they’re failure to secure the southern borders while blaming Democrats to score political points

 

Republicans have a history of blocking important legislation so Democrats will be blamed

On January 20, 2009, the day of President Obama’s Inauguration,  Republican Leaders in Congress plotted to obstruct everything President Obama proposed to make his presidency a failure (know as the ‘Caucus Room Conspiracy‘), so he and Democrats would be blamed, so Republicans could re-take Congress and the White House in 2012, with no regard to the damage it would cause to the American people.

 

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Per the above article: “Border security has been a winning issue for Republicans for decades. They use the same fearmongering tactics—saying Democrats want “open borders” and to let violent criminals into our country. Their latest attacks accuse undocumented immigrants of trafficking fentanyl across the border. And these lines of attack seem to be working with voters. A 2022 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 40% of registered voters trust Republicans more on immigration, an 8 point lead over Democrats.

If Republicans are so strong on border security, why did they just pass a bill that would cut Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding by 22%?

Republican Debt Limit Bill Defunds the Border

House Republicans have passed debt limit legislation that would freeze Fiscal Year 2024 federal spending at FY 2022 levels. This would mean a 22% cut to non-defense discretionary spending, including a 22% cut to border security funding.

Customs and Border Protection is responsible for monitoring our borders and ports of entry. For years, Republicans have been calling for more money and officers to secure our southern border, but their bill does the exact opposite—it would cut CBP’s budget by $4 billion, resulting in the loss of 2,400 officers. Cuts would also mean over $640 million in border security technology would no longer be operational. This loss of resources would have serious consequences for CBP’s capacity to process migrants at the border and to stop fentanyl and illicit drug trafficking. Republicans claim that we have a border crisis, but their bill would only make things worse.

Biden’s Budget Strengthens Border Security & Cracks Down on Fentanyl

President Biden’s proposed budget includes nearly $25 billion for CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an $800 million increase from the previous year. His budget includes:

Funds for CBP to hire an additional 350 Border Patrol Agents;

• $535 million for border security technology at and between ports of entry; and,
• $40 million to combat fentanyl trafficking and disrupt transnational criminal organizations.

In addition to border security measures, President Biden’s budget strengthens our immigration system. Addressing the backlog of asylum and immigration applications would help immensely in ameliorating the situation at the border. That’s why the President’s proposal includes:

• $865 million for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to process the backlog of asylum caseloads;
• $1.5 billion to hire new immigration judges and staff to surge to the border and manage the backlog of cases; and,
• $4.7 billion to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) respond to migration swells along the southwest border.

While Republicans are abdicating on border security and immigration, President Biden and Democrats are putting their money where their mouth is. They’re strengthening border security, combatting fentanyl trafficking, and improving the functioning of our immigration system. The next time a Republican Congressman cries “open borders,” ask them why they voted to defund border security.

 

 

Myth vs. Truth: Dissecting the Republican narrative about the border

Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security. If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it.

Per the above article: “Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security”.

“If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

 

Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception

Republicans Must Lie to Survive: They have No Other Choice

Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.

Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.

But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”

“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”

The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.