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Here’s Why Republicans Keep Insisting the “Border is Open” (Even Though It Isn’t)
If you were paying attention to the election rhetoric being bandied about last month, you might have caught the talking point about “open borders” emanating from seemingly every republican’s mouth.
Here are just some highlights:
Ted Cruz: “Biden Open Border Policy [is] A Very Craven Political Decision.”
Rick Scott: “Americans Don’t Want [Biden’s] Open Borders”
Marco Rubio: “Nothing Compassionate About Biden’s Open Border Policies” (then Rand Paul accused Rubio of being “the one for an open border”).
Josh Hawley: “Biden’s Open Border Policy Has Created a Moral Crisis.”
Tom Cotton “Insists the Border is Wide Open.”
Ron Johnson: “Our National Security is at Risk Because Democrats have Turned Border Security into a Partisan Issue”
Marjorie Taylor Greene “BLASTS Open Border Hypocrites”
Mo Brooks: “Socialist Democrats’ Open Border Policies for Helping Kill Americans.”
Lauren Boebert: the “Root Cause” of the open border crisis “is in the White House.”
Matt Gaetz “revealed Joe Biden’s Democrat administration’s complex and deceitful agenda by to evade our Southern…
