2 House Republicans push back against claims that a president can easily fix the border: Why didn't Trump

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Source: Business Insider

Feb 7, 2024, 10:46 AM EST


As House Republicans failed Tuesday evening in a vote to impeach Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, two staunch conservative representatives from Texas pushed back against former President Donald Trump's claims that reforming the US-Mexico border is easy.

Following the unsuccessful 214-216 impeachment vote, Rep. Chip Roy railed against the GOP and Trump for likely putting an end to the Senate's recently introduced bipartisan immigration bill, which Trump has personally asked to be blamed for killing.

"We're not going to just pass the buck and say that, 'Oh, any president could walk in and secure the border,'" Roy said. "I saw former President Trump make that allegation earlier today on one of his social media posts. 'All the president has to do is declare the borders closed and it's closed.' Well, with all due respect, that didn't happen in 2017, 18, 19, and 20. There were millions of people who came into the United States during those four years."

As the conservative think tank Cato Institute estimated in 2021, Trump's administration largely cut down on the number of legal immigrants during his time in office. But his attempts to halt illegal immigration via a border wall and other means didn't work.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/2-house-republicans-say-closing-border-isnt-easy-trump-says-2024-2

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Full headline: 2 House Republicans push back against claims that a president can easily fix the border: 'Why didn't Trump just shut down the border? He couldn't.'

[BootinUp]

1. Sacrilege to Q!

[GreenWave]

2. I hear tell Steve Bannon has millions of dollars ear-marked for the wall.

[SouthernDem4ever]

11. Hopefully it will all go to the victims families in Sandy Hook.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. Chip Roy & "One Good Eye" Dan Crenshaw?? Who woulda thunk it!?

I guess every clock is right twice a day

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I posted in another thread

about my shock and never thinking I'd see the day when someone would threaten to go after James Lankford (R-OK).

[GB_RN]

6. Seriously!

I never thought I’d be on the same side of any issue as CowChip Roy. Hell, I never expected to ever hear a sane, rational intellectually honest statement from that asshole.

I’m truly shocked.

[republianmushroom]

5. Smiling, I like it.

[Harker]

7. "With all due respect..."

is often best directed towards those who are due no respect.

[Hope22]

8. Americans would go hungry with a closed border

And don’t even mention food prices. They should be careful what they ask for!

[OhioTim]

9. At One Point

Biden was reported to being negotiating with Mexico to build an immigration portal at Mexico's southern border that would allow people to apply for entrance at that point. This would keep people from making the dangerous trek across Mexico, cut down on gang trafficking and allow an orderly number of people, already processed, to enter the United States. Never saw a follow-up.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. There were to be "processing centers" opened in several Central & South American countries

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-us-processing-centers-migrants-guatemala-colombia-rcna81751

I believe some are already operational and run by 3rd parties at the moment. What has happened though, is that many in those countries get suckered into traffickers who take their money and make all kinds of bizarre promises and it's a matter of those countries cracking down on those traffickers.