EXCLUSIVE: An influential Republican caucus is urging the party to zero in on the escalating crisis at the southern border, and link it directly to President Biden’s “radical” immigration and border policies he has implemented since being inaugurated.
“Over the next few months, Americans will watch the crisis on our border worsen. They will see the consequences of the radical left’s recklessness in real time,” the memo distributed by the Republican Study Committee, and obtained by Fox News, says.
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“And every one of those consequences can be traced back to Joe Biden because every major change in our immigration policy since Inauguration Day was made unilaterally through the executive branch,” it says.
The administration has been scrambling to cope with an influx of migrants, particularly unaccompanied children (UACs) and families, at the border. It is opening a number of shelters and processing centers, while allowing facilities to expand to 100% capacity.
Meanwhile it is considering using a Virginia military base for “potential use as a temporary influx care facility for [unaccompanied children] at some point in the future.”
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Republicans have pointed to the array of dramatic changes Biden made to immigration policy since entering the White House in January. Biden has ended the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which kept migrants in Mexico, narrowed enforcement priorities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and proposed an immigration bill to grant millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
Additional factors, such as Mexico’s refusal to accept families back from the U.S., have exacerbated the situation, which has seen migrants being released into the U.S. – a practice ended by the Trump administration.
The RSC memo urges members to highlight the…
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