{"id":188460,"date":"2021-03-03T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=188460"},"modified":"2021-03-03T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:16:01","slug":"cotton-bidens-border-crisis-is-a-superspreader-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cotton-bidens-border-crisis-is-a-superspreader-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton: \u2018Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Is A Superspreader Event\u2019"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fcotton-bidens-border-crisis-is-a-superspreader-event%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=188460&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\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1214038693.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Tuesday evening, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/after-border-patrol-release-asylum-seekers-test-positive-covid-brownsville-n1259282\">news report<\/a> from NBC News delineated a number of illegal immigrants released by the U.S. Border Patrol who then tested positive for COVID-19 and subsequently said they planned to visit other cities and states, Arkansas GOP senator Tom Cotton fired, \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s border crisis is a superspreader event.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden&#8217;s border crisis is a superspreader event. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IwphAnqrzn\">https:\/\/t.co\/IwphAnqrzn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1366928805235949570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The NBC News report retweeted by Cotton cited one immigrant who tested positive and stated she was headed for Houston. The report added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Other migrant families who also said they had tested positive were waiting to go to other destinations: North Carolina, Maryland and New Jersey. The city of Brownsville administers these rapid tests at the bus station, after migrant families are released by the Border Patrol. A spokesperson for Brownsville confirmed that, since they began doing these tests Jan. 25, 108 migrants have tested positive for Covid-19, which is 6.3 percent of those who took the test.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cotton has not been reticent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tom-cotton-crushes-biden-joe-biden-is-chinas-choice-for-president\/\">criticize Biden<\/a> even before he became president. In April 2020, writing in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/03\/joe-biden-is-chinas-choice-for-president\/\">National Review<\/a>, Cotton blasted Biden for his consistent support for Communist China. \u201cJoe Biden Is China\u2019s Choice for President,\u201d declared the title.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton began by noting, \u201cThe\u00a0Democratic Party has always been weak on national security when it comes to China. But some credit is due when it comes to China\u2019s atrocious human-rights record and its theft of American jobs. For a generation, prominent Democrats loudly criticized Beijing on these fronts \u2026 Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have been longstanding China trade hawks, for instance. Even a socialist like Bernie Sanders has been a reliable critic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Cotton turned his sights on Biden: \u201cDespite the occasional box-checking, wishy-washy comment slapping Beijing on the wrist for the worst of its abuses, the reality is that the former vice president\u2019s support of the People\u2019s Republic of China is deep and longstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cotton listed Biden\u2019s actions that buttressed his attack: When Biden served as the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1990s, he shot down opposition to granting China most-favored-nation trade status and World Trade Organization membership. As Chinese President Xi Jinping seized absolute power, Biden \u201ccontinued to push for closer ties and even more trade,\u201d while millions of American jobs were being lost. Cotton also cited circumstances surrounding Hunter Biden and China.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2018, Cotton, speaking of a GOP immigration proposal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-sen-tom-cotton-explains-why-gop-immigration-frank-camp\/\">explained<\/a> why some changes were needed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I know there are a lot of half-measures floating around the Senate right now saying that we should give legal status to these 1.8 million people in return for a small pittance at the southern border, but it simply will not do. It is not responsible because if we give those people legal status, we\u2019ll have two negative side effects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>First, we\u2019ll create more incentives, perverse incentives, to encourage illegal immigration with minor children to this country. That is dangerous. It is immoral \u2014 not to mention unwise from our national interests. Second, if we give legal status to these 1.8 million people, we\u2019ll create a whole new pool of legal permanent residents, and ultimately citizens, who can naturalize their extended family to include their parents \u2014 the very people who created the problem to begin with, undermining the rationale for the program to begin with. Remember, that rationale is that children ought not pay for the sins of the parents, but surely parents can pay for the sins of the parents. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>So, if we do those things \u2014 provide legal status for the 1.8 million people who find themselves in this situation through no fault of their own, but control those negative side effects by securing our southern border and ending the practice of extended family chain migration, we will have a bill that can become a law. At the same time though, we\u2019ll also grandfather in every person who\u2019s currently in the backlog waiting to come to this country, who has applied to get a green card because they have a parent or child or sibling in this country \u2014 some of whom have been waiting up to twenty years. So no one will be cut out of that waiting line<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday evening, after a news report from NBC News delineated a number of illegal immigrants released by the U.S. Border Patrol who then tested positive for COVID-19 and subsequently said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274679,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1214038693.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Cotton: \u2018Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Is A Superspreader Event\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1214038693.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Cotton: \u2018Biden\u2019s Border Crisis Is A Superspreader Event\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188460","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=188460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}