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(The Guardian) Biden administration accuses Republicans of 'anti-border security record'
With their visit to Texas’s border with Mexico today, House Republicans and their leader Mike Johnson are trying to draw attention to the large numbers of migrants making their way into the United States. But in a statement released this morning, White House spokesman Andrew Bates argues it is the GOP, not the Democrats, who are harming security at the US frontier.
“Right now, instead of joining the Biden Administration and members of both parties in the Senate to find common ground, Speaker Johnson is continuing to block President Biden’s proposed funding to hire thousands of new Border Patrol agents, hire more asylum officers and immigration judges, provide local communities hosting migrants additional grant funding, and invest in cutting edge technology that is critical to stopping deadly fentanyl from entering our country,” Bates said.
Biden in October proposed wide-ranging legislation to assist the militaries of Israel and Ukraine, as well as pay for more border security. In the months since, many House Republicans came out against further aid to Ukraine, while Johnson demanded budget cuts to the IRS tax authority in exchange for approving aid to Israel. The package’s fate now seems linked to Democrats agreeing to immigration policy changes intended to keep migrants out.
Bates argued that Biden has “proposed a comprehensive immigration reform plan and followed up by delivering record border security funding every single year of his term,” and attacked Republicans for not considering the legislation he proposed in October. “House Republicans’ anti-border security record is defined by attempting to cut Customs and Border Protection personnel, opposing President Biden’s record-breaking border security funding, and refusing to take up the President’s supplemental funding request,” he said.
With their visit to Texas’s border with Mexico today, House Republicans and their leader Mike Johnson are trying to draw attention to the large numbers of migrants making their way into the United States. But in a statement released this morning, White House spokesman Andrew Bates argues it is the GOP, not the Democrats, who are harming security at the US frontier.
“Right now, instead of joining the Biden Administration and members of both parties in the Senate to find common ground, Speaker Johnson is continuing to block President Biden’s proposed funding to hire thousands of new Border Patrol agents, hire more asylum officers and immigration judges, provide local communities hosting migrants additional grant funding, and invest in cutting edge technology that is critical to stopping deadly fentanyl from entering our country,” Bates said.
Biden in October proposed wide-ranging legislation to assist the militaries of Israel and Ukraine, as well as pay for more border security. In the months since, many House Republicans came out against further aid to Ukraine, while Johnson demanded budget cuts to the IRS tax authority in exchange for approving aid to Israel. The package’s fate now seems linked to Democrats agreeing to immigration policy changes intended to keep migrants out.
Bates argued that Biden has “proposed a comprehensive immigration reform plan and followed up by delivering record border security funding every single year of his term,” and attacked Republicans for not considering the legislation he proposed in October. “House Republicans’ anti-border security record is defined by attempting to cut Customs and Border Protection personnel, opposing President Biden’s record-breaking border security funding, and refusing to take up the President’s supplemental funding request,” he said.
