• 6 months ago
At today's Senate Republican press briefing, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) lambasted President Biden's border policy.

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00:00 Senator Cornyn for putting together this press conference.
00:03 And as my colleagues have stated,
00:06 we have seen a real crisis in the United States.
00:09 And why?
00:11 It didn't have to happen.
00:13 On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden
00:16 rolled into the White House.
00:17 He got into the Oval.
00:19 And he dismantled everything that President Trump
00:24 had in place that kept a lid on these illegal border
00:28 crossings.
00:29 So now here we are years later, and it
00:33 has taken 10 million illegal border crossings for President
00:38 Biden to step up and acknowledge that there
00:41 is a crisis at the border.
00:44 And you know what, folks?
00:45 It's his own making.
00:47 He really could have used his authority all along.
00:50 We all know that.
00:52 And yet he chose to do absolutely nothing about it.
00:57 So why is he doing it now?
00:58 Well, folks, you don't have to be that intelligent
01:02 to see what's going on.
01:04 We have an election just a few months away.
01:06 And this is the number one issue across the United States.
01:11 In Iowa, it's gone back and forth
01:13 between the border and inflation,
01:16 both caused by President Joe Biden.
01:19 But right now, you ask Iowans, what's
01:22 the major issue on the horizon?
01:24 And they will tell you it is our southern border.
01:28 So Biden halted border wall construction
01:32 that was underway.
01:33 Build the border.
01:34 That's what we saw in the Trump administration.
01:36 He reinstated catch and release.
01:38 He's just dumping illegal border crossers
01:41 into the United States.
01:43 He has been selling off the materials purchased
01:47 to build the wall for pennies on the dollar.
01:52 Pennies on the dollar, taxpayer dollars.
01:55 And the Democrats have blocked Sarah's law,
01:58 which is really important to me.
02:01 Sarah Root was killed by an illegal alien years and years
02:05 ago.
02:06 And we have been trying to do something about this.
02:09 And yet we see Democrats in cahoots with Joe Biden,
02:13 saying no way.
02:14 Just let these violent illegals go free.
02:18 And you know what?
02:19 Again, this is all a stunt.
02:21 It's a political stunt.
02:23 You know, there's double speak in the White House.
02:25 We hear it all the time.
02:27 You know, I'll give you some examples.
02:29 I have an ironclad commitment to Israel.
02:32 Oh, but let's support Hamas and the Palestinians
02:35 in their protests.
02:36 Let's block weapons from going to Israel.
02:40 Let's put sanctions on Iran.
02:43 Oh, but let's not enforce them.
02:46 Well, here we have it again.
02:47 Yet once again, another stunt, another stunt.
02:52 Oh, let's do an executive order on the border.
02:55 But you know, let's make it so it really
02:58 doesn't do a darn thing.
02:59 It just helps us get through to November.
03:02 This is such a ridiculous point in time,
03:05 so much so that over the weekend,
03:07 I had a family gathering.
03:08 And my mother said, you know, one of our family members
03:12 that she was talking with, she's a lifelong Democrat.
03:17 She is a lifelong Democrat, folks.
03:20 Her husband had to write me a campaign check
03:22 because she didn't want her name associated with a Republican.
03:26 That's how Democrat she is.
03:28 And she told my mother, I'm thinking
03:30 of voting for President Trump.
03:32 I will not cast my vote for President Biden.
03:35 That's how bad things are, folks.
03:37 People are seeing through it.
03:39 Iowans are seeing through it.
03:40 This is just a joke.
03:42 Let's do something about the border.
03:45 And you know what?
03:45 I think we're going to have to wait until January when
03:48 President Trump comes back into office to actually see
03:51 something done about it.

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