Missouri Senator Roy Blunt Blasts Biden’s Border Crisis Blunders
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt took the Biden administration to task for enacting policies that have fueled the crisis at the border, driven inflation to a 40-year high of 8.5%, and created confusion on where the nation stands with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Blunt stated, ““First of all, the border. We’ve had a number of people come to the floor and talk about the border, the problems at the border. Many of these problems are really self-inflicted on day one. You know, the president on the first day of his presidency—and I chaired the inauguration on January the 20th—and hours after that, the president decided to stop building the wall.”
Senator Blunt then went on to note that Biden’s policy for asylum seekers from Mexico is muddled. Blunt said that Trump along with the senate and Mexico had made arrangements for asylum seekers to wait for their court date on the Mexican side of the border but that’s not how the Biden administration sees it.
Blunt said that, “It was my view at the time that we should do anything we could to help the Mexican government make that work because the alternative was people would come into the United States and not show up for an asylum date later.” Another concern Blunt raised was of those who, “successfully had entered our country even though you weren’t eligible to.”