{"id":1782955,"date":"2022-12-21T13:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782955"},"modified":"2022-12-21T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:48:57","slug":"sen-sinema-says-its-a-no-brainer-that-biden-should-visit-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-sinema-says-its-a-no-brainer-that-biden-should-visit-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Sinema Says It&#8217;s a &#8220;No Brainer&#8221; That Biden Should Visit Border"},"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\">24<\/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-sinema-says-its-a-no-brainer-that-biden-should-visit-border%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=1782955&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6813b3e6-327a-4d52-84a1-2513f7283853.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Maybe she missed the mendacious White House memo that Biden has, in fact, visited the border &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/karine-jean-pierre-ripped-categorically-false-claim-biden-visited-border-caught-lies-daily\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">since he took office<\/a>,&#8221; which is what Karine Jean Pierre claimed a few weeks ago. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t true, of course. \u00a0Biden has never visited the US-Mexico border throughout his Vice Presidential and Presidential tenures &#8212; combined. \u00a0As I&#8217;ve noted before, the best spin Jean-Pierre&#8217;s predecessor could concoct was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/22\/president-biden-did-drive-through-of-border-in-2008-says-psaki\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to point out<\/a> that Biden had once driven near the border as a candidate in 2008, nearly a decade-and-a-half ago. \u00a0Arizona&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/12\/09\/why-sinemas-defection-just-made-2024-more-interesting-n2616968\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">newly-minted<\/a> &#8216;independent&#8217; US Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichEdsonDC\/status\/1605288439339012114\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told Fox&#8217;s Rich Edson<\/a> that she and some Republican colleagues are planning to head down there early next year, urging the president to do the same:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I absolutely think the president should visit the border. In fact, I think anyone who is responsible for setting or making policy on the border should visit the border. I mean, that&#8217;s that&#8217;s a no brainer, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Edson (@RichEdsonDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichEdsonDC\/status\/1605288440756584449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The asylum system right now allows individuals to present themselves not just at ports of entry, which is the proper way to do it, but even to come in between ports of entry like in the desert or in a river &#8230; we shouldn&#8217;t allow that to occur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rich Edson (@RichEdsonDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichEdsonDC\/status\/1605288445731020800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to argue with any of that, although Sinema added that while Biden has shirked his duty on border security, neither Barack Obama nor Donald Trump did their jobs on that front either. \u00a0Obama was bad on immigration, but not nearly this bad. \u00a0Trump had struggles and missteps on the immigration issue, but his administration took security and enforcement <em>much<\/em> more seriously than either Democratic administration, ultimately crafting and implementing a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/03\/how-trump-got-control-of-the-border\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">successful policies<\/a>. \u00a0But Biden has been, by far, the worst. \u00a0There&#8217;s no comparing his failure&#8217;s to anyone else&#8217;s. \u00a0Sinema is right that the border has never been fully secure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/1605283511648374801\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in her lifetime<\/a>, but her current proposed bipartisan solution is not the right answer. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t &#8220;meet the moment,&#8221; as politicos are so fond of saying these days, for reasons <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/12\/07\/enforcement-first-hard-no-to-any-immigration-compromise-until-bidens-border-crisis-is-controlled-n2616803\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve discussed<\/a> at some length. \u00a0The editors of <em>National Review<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/12\/tillis-sinema-wont-solve-the-border-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">expand on the subject<\/a> here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the GOP cavalry did not arrive in the numbers many had hoped for last month, the party did retake the House. Congressional Republicans will be running the lower chamber in less than a month; it makes no sense to negotiate now, when they have less power and leverage, rather than later&#8230;<span>Put aside for the moment that a rational government shouldn\u2019t need to rely on a CDC edict and the falsehood that the coronavirus is still a major public-health emergency to exclude illegal migrants from its borders.\u00a0<\/span><span>Of course, <strong>history says that deals like Tillis-Sinema \u2014 trading some form of amnesty for the promise of more enforcement and border security \u2014 don\u2019t work as advertised.<\/strong> The Reagan-era Immigration Reform and Control Act, for example, \u201cconferred amnesty upon some 3 million illegals in exchange for promises of stepped-up enforcement at the border and in the back office,\u201d as we\u00a0<\/span>wrote in 2012<span>. The amnesty side of that equation went off without a hitch, while the enhanced enforcement never arrived&#8230;<strong>More fundamentally, there\u2019s no reason to believe that additional funding and authorities would make any difference to the Biden administration<\/strong>, which is ignoring the law now to allow a historic flow of illegal immigrants into the country&#8230;If Tillis and Sinema could promise an end to Biden administration lawlessness \u2014 driven by its apparent belief that any bogus asylum-seeker should be permitted into the country and never deported \u2014 their handiwork might be worth considering; since they can\u2019t, <strong>it deserves to be ripped up and thrown away forthwith.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One can appreciate the intentions behind trying to do something to mitigate this Biden-caused catastrophe, but Tillis-Sinema is <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/12\/07\/enforcement-first-hard-no-to-any-immigration-compromise-until-bidens-border-crisis-is-controlled-n2616803\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">not the right move<\/a>. To the extent that they can help draw any serious attention to the problem, which the White House tends to dismiss as &#8216;stunt&#8217; work by Republicans, then more power to them. If they can convince the president to go down there to survey the historic, embarrassing, lethal mess he&#8217;s created, that would be fine. But I fear that any presidential excursion to the southern boundary would end up being a photo-op-minded exercise in useless box-checking. If Biden is willing to <em>really<\/em> witness what&#8217;s going on, without an advance team sanitizing reality and steering him clear of the true damage &#8212; while listening to frontline agents with genuine curiosity an interest &#8212; then a trip might be worth it. Given this crew&#8217;s track record, I fear the chances of that really happening are slim to none. \u00a0As things go from historically bad <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/12\/20\/border-crisis-title-42-is-scheduled-to-end-this-week-and-the-rampant-chaos-is-escalating-n2617307\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to even worse<\/a> down there, I&#8217;ll leave you with the state of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1605323685807751168\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">doing what it can<\/a> to stave off the total chaos that the federal government has actively invited:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">NEW: The state of Texas has been bringing in more shipping containers to create a lengthy makeshift wall at a popular crossing area in Eagle Pass. Razor wire deployed in front of it, with flood lights set up behind it. Crews have been bringing in more &#038; filling any gaps. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FoxNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6kvTnm0wez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/6kvTnm0wez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1605323685807751168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1604868905381597187\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one more statistic<\/a>, for context:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Keep this in mind when you see much bigger cities like New York or Chicago whining about the crisis created by a few hundred migrants being sent their way&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zwjkvViLX7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/zwjkvViLX7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1604868905381597187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe she missed the mendacious White House memo that Biden has, in fact, visited the border &#8220;since he took office,&#8221; which is what Karine Jean Pierre claimed a few weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782958,"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":[547],"tags":[8303,6962,3620,5458,3811,10960,6550,3819,4005,7025,3818,7027,3693,7241],"class_list":["post-1782955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-no","tag-the","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-border","tag-brainer","tag-its","tag-report","tag-says","tag-sen","tag-should","tag-sinema","tag-that","tag-visit"],"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\/1782955","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}