Border Patrol
Sen. Lankford said that a “popular commentator” threatened to “destroy” him if any border legislation was passed during a presidential election year.
Fox News’ Steve Doocy pressed the House Majority Whip on whether the opinions of Border Patrol agents on the Senate bipartisan deal mattered.
Among those in attendance were Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Idaho Gov. Brad Little.
Republicans are yelling about a crisis at the border. But they’re also unwilling to do anything to address it for fear that it’d give Joe Biden a political win.
The decision is the latest blow to Texas’ aggressive anti-immigration policy, a recent source of tension between the state and the federal government.
Migrants aren’t the problem and the country is not “overwhelmed.” Nativists politicians and impossible barriers to legal entry caused (and maintain) the chaos.
Facial ID is being used to detain and ban sex workers from entering the country—and it’s a harbinger of a rapidly encroaching surveillance state fueled by artificial intelligence.