Marsha Blackburn Chastizes Dems’ Border Bill: It’s An ‘Election Year Political Stunt’

7 months ago

During a GOP Senate Press Briefing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed Democrat-supported border security legislation.

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00:00 I want to say thank you to each of you for being here today.

00:07 And as you all know, we are here to talk about this border bill that is not a border bill.

00:15 And it is not a border security bill.

00:19 This is an election year political stunt designed to give our Democratic colleagues the appearance

00:27 of doing something about the problem without doing anything at all.

00:33 Why would Senator Schumer choose to bring forward legislation that has already failed

00:39 once and he knows has no chance in the House?

00:44 Well, Senator Schatz actually gave us the answer.

00:49 And I'm quoting him.

00:51 "We are tired of being on defense about this."

00:57 So there you've got it.

00:59 That is the Democrats' reason.

01:02 Not we can't allow another American to die at the hands of an illegal immigrant or we're

01:10 finally ready to uphold the rule of law.

01:14 The truth is the Democrats are the party of open borders and they intend to keep it that

01:22 way.

01:23 We are a nation of law and order and yet the Biden administration has allowed over 10 million

01:30 illegal aliens to flood our border.

01:34 That's higher than the populations of seven major U.S. cities, Boston, Chicago, Dallas,

01:41 L.A., Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville combined.

01:47 Under this administration, every town is a border town.

01:50 We saw it firsthand last week in Nashville where an illegal alien was arrested for allegedly

01:57 attempting to sexually assault and kidnap a woman at an ice cream shop.

02:03 There is a distinct difference between Republicans and Democrats when we're talking about border

02:09 security.

02:10 The left means release and resettle.

02:15 When Republicans talk about border security, we mean deny and deport.

02:22 Chuck Schumer's bill has some supposed limits on how many illegal immigrants can break the

02:29 law and illegally enter this country every day.

02:35 But even those limits aren't clear.

02:37 In reality, what this bill does do is give Joe Biden the license to make permanent his

02:45 open border agenda.

02:47 There is a solution to this catastrophe, the one that takes border security seriously,

02:53 the Secure the Border Act on H.R. 2.

02:56 On May 15th last year, H.R. 2 was received by the U.S. Senate from the House.

03:04 That is 373 days.

03:07 A border security bill has sat here in this chamber and they will not take it up.

03:15 If Democrats were serious about this issue, they would have started on H.R. 2 last year

03:24 and have done something about it.

03:26 What they're doing right now is a political stunt.

03:30 We know it.

Marsha Blackburn Chastizes Dems’ Border Bill: It’s An ‘Election Year Political Stunt’

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