{"id":1748169,"date":"2022-11-22T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748169"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:17:55","slug":"sen-mark-kelly-warns-democrats-absolutely-do-not-understand-border-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-mark-kelly-warns-democrats-absolutely-do-not-understand-border-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Mark Kelly Warns Democrats \u2018Absolutely\u2019 Do Not Understand Border Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-mark-kelly-warns-democrats-absolutely-do-not-understand-border-issues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748169&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mark-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly<\/a> (D-AZ) said during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/11\/21\/mark-kelly-interview-border-bipartisanship-strong-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with the Washington Post that members of his party are \u201cnot even close\u201d to understanding the problems on the U.S. southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/southern-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not. Not even close,\u201d the incumbent senator said when asked if members of his party understood \u201cthe complexity of the issue and the frustrations that people have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first got to Washington, it didn\u2019t take me long to realize that there are a lot of Democrats who don\u2019t understand our southern border and a lot of Republicans who just want to talk about it. Don\u2019t necessarily want to do anything about it, just want to use it politically. So my approach has been \u2014 to the extent that we could and can \u2014 to make progress on securing it, but also doing it in a way that\u2019s in accordance with our ethics and our values, not to demonize people,\u201d Kelly added.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview published Monday, Kelly advocated a middle-of-the-road approach to border issues, saying he wants to secure the border but not in a way that would \u201cdemonize people.\u201d He did not elaborate much further on how he would secure the border beyond, \u201cWe have to do more in border security. We have to do more in comprehensive immigration reform, especially \u2018dreamers,\u2019 but also these visa programs. If you\u2019re a farmer, especially in Southern Arizona, despite having a ready supply of eager workers, you don\u2019t have the visas available and it\u2019s a problem for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/gov-greg-abbott-invokes-invasion-clauses-in-border-security-push\">reported<\/a> that nearly 2.4 million immigrants had been detained on the U.S. southern border during the fiscal year ending in September. That number represented a 37% increase from the previous fiscal year. Additionally, Customs and Border Protection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">announced<\/a> over 230,000 encounters with migrants at the southern border during October alone.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/federal-judge-blocks-use-of-title-42-to-expel-migrants-at-border\">blocked<\/a> the further use of Title 42, which allows the government to deport migrants from the border in the interest of public health. Title 42 had been activated during the Trump administration to expel migrants entering the country during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly first entered the Senate after defeating Republican candidate Martha McSally in the race for the open Arizona seat previously held by the late John McCain. The senator is <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-democrat-incumbent-mark-kelly-defeats-republican-blake-masters-in-arizona-senate-race-projection\">projected<\/a> to win his first full term after defeating Republican candidate Blake Masters by almost five points in the recent midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to many others in the Democratic Party, Kelly has taken a relatively moderate stance on the border. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelly.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/sen-kelly-and-colleagues-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-raise-border-patrol-pay-create-border-patrol-reserve\/\">teamed<\/a> up with retiring Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, fellow Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford back in August to introduce a bill that would raise Border Patrol agents\u2019 pay as well as create a 2,500-agent border reserve force.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly has also expressed his support for a pathway to citizenship for those protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as \u201cDreamers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDACA needs to be protected. But it doesn\u2019t change the fact that Congress must act to provide Dreamers with the certainty of a clear pathway to citizenship,\u201d Kelly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/senmarkkelly\/status\/1442561227008393224\">tweeted<\/a> in September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said during an interview with the Washington Post that members of his party are \u201cnot even close\u201d to understanding the problems on the U.S. southern border. \u201cAbsolutely not. Not even close,\u201d the incumbent senator said when asked if members of his party understood \u201cthe complexity of the issue and the frustrations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":1748172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}