At least one of CNN's hosts is challenging the narrative that the White House has the southern border under control.
On Monday morning, CNN anchor Poppy Harlow acknowledged the unprecedented nature of the border crisis and, as she has in recent months, rightly blamed the current president.
Harlow called the porous border and migrant waves a “crisis” far worse than anything seen under previous administrations. In November, the Daily Mail reported that socialist Venezuela is one of the largest sources of illegal migrants with hundreds of thousands – including former communist security forces and career criminals – overwhelming America's largest metropolitan areas. (RELATED: Biden Considers Forcing Illegal Immigrants With Asylum Claims To Remain In Texas)
Harlow's comments followed remarks from CNN's Jamal Simmons who lambasted a recent speech by former President Donald Trump as “racist” and “fascist.” Simmons then claimed Canadians had inundated the northern border but no one ever complained about them.
That's when Harlow chimed in.
As noted by The Daily Caller, she asked: “How does the White House appropriately or most effectively thread the needle while … also acknowledging what is a crisis at the southern border; you cannot deny the numbers that are far beyond any point in the Trump administration and say, ‘here's what we're gonna do about it?'”
Simmons argued Democrats have been pushing for bipartisan immigration reform and said more technology was needed to secure the border.
The Biden administration has signaled that it is open to bringing back several Trump-era migrant expulsion policies to get Republican support for Ukraine aid, CBS News reported. The plans would include expelling migrants without screening them for asylum and increasing deportations and detentions. Several Democrats have spoken out against the plan, while Speaker of the House Mike Johnson reiterated Republicans' stance that they will only support Ukraine aid if there is funding for border security.
Meanwhile, a recently leaked memo from U.S. Customs and Border Protection instructs Border Patrol to address illegal immigrants by their preferred pronouns.
“I guess it wasn't enough for the Biden administration to betray the Border Patrol by purposefully unleashing chaos on the southern border,” the Heritage Foundation's Mike Howell told Fox News.
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