President Biden has accused Republican governors of being “un-American” and “enjoying politics with human beings” by relocating border-crossers to Democrat-run sanctuary hotspots.
Talking to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala late Thursday, Biden insisted that his administration was “dedicated to fixing the immigration system.”
However “as an alternative of working with us on options, Republicans are enjoying politics with human beings, utilizing them as props,” the president stated, hours after dozens of migrants arrived in Martha’s Winery and others have been dropped off exterior Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC.
“What they’re doing is just incorrect. It’s un-American, it’s reckless,” Biden raged of the governors’ dramatic protest of his immigration insurance policies.
Regardless of the new arrivals insisting America’s southern land border is totally open, Biden maintained that his administration has an efficient “course of in place to handle migrants on the border.”
“We’re working to ensure it’s protected and orderly and humane. Republican officers shouldn't intrude with that course of by waging these political stunts,” Biden insisted.
He additionally stated that it was “lengthy overdue for Senate Republicans to come back to the desk and supply a pathway for citizenship for Dreamers, these in non permanent standing, farmworkers and important staff.
“We have to modernize our legal guidelines so companies get staff they want, and households don’t have to attend many years to be introduced again collectively. It’s time to get it accomplished,” he stated.
Since April, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused about 7,900 migrants to Washington — with the newest group arriving exterior Harris’ residence Thursday morning — and despatched round 11,000 to New York and one other 300 to Chicago.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has additionally bused greater than 1,800 migrants to the nation’s capital since Might.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the technique to a brand new stage this week by flying migrants to Martha’s Winery, the idyllic trip spot favored by left-leaning celebrities and Democratic pols like former President Barack Obama.
DeSantis stated the flights have been a part of an effort to “transport unlawful immigrants to sanctuary locations,” with $12 million earmarked to move “unauthorized aliens” out of state.
Earlier than her boss spoke Thursday evening, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre known as the governors’ actions a “merciless, premeditated political stunt.”
“We’re speaking about kids, we’re speaking about households who have been promised a house, promised a job, placed on a bus and pushed to a spot that they have no idea,” she stated, complaining that federal officers weren't given advance warning of the relocations.
Extra reporting by Steven Nelson
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