Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts say the border crisis is “out of control,” and that the Republican-led House can fix it.
In an op-ed published by Fox News, the pair calls attention to how the crisis is affecting Arizona.
“The news from Arizona makes it clear that Biden’s border crisis is out of control. And the administration’s unwillingness to change course after nearly three years shows us the crisis is intentional,” they wrote in the piece.
The article notes that U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Lukeville, Arizona recently reduced its processing of vehicles at entry points to deal with the increase in illegal immigrants. Days later, it was closed.
Border Patrol in Tucson paused its social media activity because it needed all hands on deck to deal with the surge of those entering the country.
The two criticized the Senate for failing to get enough votes to pass the White House supplemental bill because border-security funds didn’t include the “real border security policy changes needed and found in H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.”
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“Arizonans know that another dollar given to this administration without policy change accelerates more border insecurity,” they wrote. “As Senate Democrats attempt to give Biden billions of taxpayer dollars to keep the border open, Americans ought to remember conservatives in the House presented a real solution to the crisis at the southern border seven months ago.”
The Secure the Border Act would resume the construction of the border wall, provide funds for a surveillance system along the border and more immigration parole, and end asylum fraud and unaccompanied minor loopholes. The bill has passed the House but not the Senate.
They wrote that President Biden’s border policies allow drug cartels to come into the country and bring fentanyl, and leave Americans vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
H.R. 2 is the “only path to resolution,” they wrote, and called on conservatives to “take action.”
“Conservatives cannot squander an opportunity to truly secure the border and should not settle for a few bones the left agrees to throw their way,” they wrote. “This is a crisis created by the Biden administration, and one we can end.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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