President Joe Biden had strong words for “MAGA” Republicans, condemning their handling of the border crisis and going as far as falsely claiming they wanted to ‘slash border funding’ in a now-viral Twitter post. The Tweet comes from a president who has been almost silent about the horrific border crisis that has seen millions of illegals and thousands of pounds of fentanyl flood over the border.
“MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country. We need more resources to secure the border. Not less.”
The tweet, featuring a photograph of Biden shaking a border patrol agent’s hand, comes after Biden’s first visit to the border since his January 2021 inauguration.
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Some of the president’s supporters even took the opportunity to say it was a good thing – claiming that leaving the border open is more “welcoming” and arguing that illegal foreigners have the right to enjoy the abundant beauty and wealth that Americans spent generations creating.
We need to welcome everyone who wants to live in our beautiful country of America. Leave it open!!
— Johnathan (@theprism89) March 26, 2023
Western Journal Senior Staff Writer Rand DeSoto called out what he perceived as hypocrisy from the tweet, referencing the border-security battle between Democrats and Republicans and calling attention to the latter’s attempts at halting illegal immigration.
“I must have missed the switch of Republicans being for open borders and Democrats wanting to secure it. As long as it gets secured after what we’ve experienced the last two years that would be great!”
Supportive replies were few and far between. The Saturday night tweet immediately received backlash from dozens of conservative politicians, commentators, and citizens, with many users replying, “is this a joke?”. Many of Biden’s border policies have been blatantly supportive of open borders, with the cancellation of Trump’s border wall being among the first policies of the Biden administration. Commenters were quick to point this fact out.
"Come on man"!!
Do you really think that America beleives this? Who shut down the building of the wall?
Who's allowed a border run like we've never seen before?
Please.
— James Arthur Ray (@JamesARay) March 26, 2023
This is deranged.
Pathological dishonesty.
No President in history has opened our border with such lawless abandon.
5.5 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS under Biden.#BidenBorderCrisis https://t.co/FCiQKsHqak
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 27, 2023
Which White House staffer was unethical and depraved enough to write this monstrous lie of a tweet? Biden eradicated our border, surrendered our sovereignty to murderous terrorist cartels, smuggled millions of aliens into the US, and unleashed a nightmare of suffering and death. https://t.co/9g7dbjotGc
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) March 27, 2023
You have no shame Biden.
None.
110,000 Americans killed on your watch in the last year by Fentanyl.
And you have the audacity to blame us who closed the border.
You are worse than immoral.
You are amoral. https://t.co/fyFjXWIaF0
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) March 26, 2023
Joe Biden keeps saying that MAGA Republicans are trying to cut funding for border security.
How dumb does he think we are?
We have been the only people pushing for more border security…
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) March 27, 2023
How many idiots read Joke Biden’s bullshit & believe it? We know for a fact that the owners of the Democratic party are behind the flood of fentanyl to the US otherwise, they would have supported the effort to close the damn border. They are sharing the billions with the cartels https://t.co/jDhGThXzWc
— ULTRA MAGA KEVIN WITH STOLEN NUCLEAR CODES (@kevinhaddad08) March 26, 2023
I honestly thought this was a parody from the @TheBabylonBee then realized Biden really is oblivious to what he has done to wreck our border and destroy morale at CBP. If any media people buy this 💩 from Joe, they ARE the enemy of the ppl & reality! https://t.co/4twGuH4D3Z
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) March 26, 2023
RNC Research Rapid Response Director Timmy Pigott pointed out not only is Biden’s claim not true – but that the president directly ignored calls to hire more border security agents, instead opting to continue the persecution of middle America through the IRS.
“Biden and Democrats blocked Republican efforts to hire 18,000 Border Patrol agents. They hired 87,000 IRS agents instead.”
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The claim that Republicans want to slash border funding is another entry in a series of rhetorical gaffes that would give former President Bush a run for his money. During his state of the union speech in early February, Biden also falsely claimed that MAGA Republicans sought to defund social security. Biden’s lie received thunderous boos from Republican politicians and commentators.
Despite Biden pinning the ongoing border crisis on his political adversaries, the illegal immigration data speaks for itself. Biden’s presidency has overseen an unprecedented wide-open border with little rhetoric or policy actions suggesting an intent to act on it. The above Statista data shows border apprehensions and expulsions dating back to 1990. The massive spike following the inauguration of President Biden pales the illegal immigration crisis of the 1990s under President Clinton.
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