Remark | Remarks | THE NEWSROOM | Republican LeaderSkip to primary navigation Skip to content×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER McCONNELL×Close THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER McCONNELLxxsearchxMENUFacebookTwitterInstagramFacebookTwitterInstagramVisit Senator McConnell's site here THE NEWSROOMRemarks Press Releases The Leader Board Op-Eds Videos SENATE RESOURCESRepublican Senators Committees Congressional Record Congress.gov Senate Floor Webcast ABOUT LEADER McCONNELLxxsearchxMENUHomeTHE NEWSROOMRemarks10.24.23Admin. Response To Border Crisis Failing To ‘Historic And Catastrophic Degree’‘Democrats’ border crisis isn’t new. What is new is their supposed desire to finally do something about it… Apparently, the preferred response to a border crisis is a blue-state bailout.’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the southern border crisis:“Over the weekend, the southern border crisis set a sobering new record. In the past year, CBP conducted more border apprehensions than in any year on record.“Officials reported more than 2.4 million apprehensions since last October. And this number doesn’t even count the illegal entries that actually evaded authorities.“Most alarmingly, this news isn’t actually new. Last year was the third straight year to set an all-time record for border apprehensions.“In other words, every year that President Biden has been in charge of border security, his Administration hasn’t simply failed.“It has failed to an historic and catastrophic degree. “America has had functionally open borders for years.“Along with millions of illegal aliens, we’ve allowed Chinese fentanyl and other lethal drugs to literally pour into our country and kill tens of thousands of Americans every year.“So, Democrats’ border crisis isn’t new. What is new is their supposed desire to finally do something about it. Now that blue state mayors and governors are starting to feel the consequences of this catastrophic policy, the Biden Administration says it wants to take action.“Of course, the Administration mostly just wants to throw money at the problem… and at its friends in local government. Apparently, the preferred response to a border crisis is a blue-state bailout.“Meanwhile, a particularly dangerous consequence of the President’s border crisis is making history of its own. In the past year, southern border apprehensions of individuals on the terror watch list broke an all-time record – a record that was just set just the year before.“Even President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has admitted in its 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment that, ‘record encounters of migrants arriving from a growing number of countries have complicated border and immigration security.’“The American people have watched the Biden Administration spend their way into plenty of problems. But they haven’t managed to spend their way out of a single one yet.“Our country deserves real law enforcement and real borders. Border Security is national security.“And on that front, the Senate has a lot of work to do.”###Related Issues: Fentanyl, ImmigrationPrintEmailTweetPreviousTHE NEWSROOMSENATE RESOURCESABOUT LEADER McCONNELLFacebookTwitterInstagram
