Global Courant 2023-05-14 21:23:32
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., blasted President Biden’s “reckless” policies on the US border on Sunday, telling “Fox News Sunday” that Democrats have caused the ongoing immigration crisis.
Donalds appeared with host Shannon Bream to discuss developments on the US-Mexico border after the Biden administration ended Title 42 on Thursday. The young lawmaker accused Biden of turning over “operational control” of the border to drug cartels and traffickers.
“What is happening now is because of the recklessness of Joe Biden — his desire when he became president to tear up all the Trump-era policies that secured our border, and now they are trying to resolve the crisis that Joe Biden has caused. ‘ said Donald.
“What the Democrats have always wanted is this massive surge of power to the border without any controls,” he claimed.
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Rep. Byron Donalds says President Biden caused the ongoing immigration crisis, accusing him of turning over control of the border to cartels. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Donalds’ action comes just one day after the Biden administration attempted to mass release illegal immigrants across the US with no court dates or any means of monitoring them. A federal judge blocked that policy and the Biden administration’s subsequent appeal was dismissed Saturday.
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U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II denied the government’s request in a filing this weekend, citing its motion for an emergency stay of a ruling barring it from releasing migrants without a court date after the expiration of Title 42 “borderline”. frivolous”.
Rep. Byron Donalds blames President Biden for the ongoing crisis at the US-Mexico border. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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“DHS’s Chicken Little arguments about the impact of not being able to (abuse) ‘parole’ under both policies as a coping tool for the wave of aliens arriving at the border are hard to reconcile with the recent comments from the DHS secretary that only “a fraction of the people we encounter” would be released into the country and that “the vast majority will be addressed in our border patrol facilities and our ICE detention facilities,” wrote Wetherell, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent talks to asylum seekers waiting between the double fence along the U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, May 8, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
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Crossings increased in the days leading up to the end of Title 42 on Thursday, but numbers fell over the weekend. According to reports from migrants, a whisper campaign suggested to many that the best time to come to the US was before the end of Title 42, despite the fact that the law actually served as a tool for deportations, according to NBC.
Fox News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter at Fox News Digital covering national politics and major news events. Send tips to [email protected], or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
