{"id":1886776,"date":"2023-03-14T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-democrats-to-boycott-biden-border-crisis-congressional-hearing-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T16:17:40","slug":"all-democrats-to-boycott-biden-border-crisis-congressional-hearing-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-democrats-to-boycott-biden-border-crisis-congressional-hearing-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"All Democrats to boycott Biden border crisis congressional hearing in Texas"},"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%2Fall-democrats-to-boycott-biden-border-crisis-congressional-hearing-in-texas%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=1886776&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-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78406996\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: Doctor explains how Xylazine laced fentanyl causes rotting skin, Narcan won't save you\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this Washington Examiner exclusive interview, we speak with Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health about the dangers of a horse tranquilizer now being laced with fentanyl. 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Bennie Thompson (D\u2013MS) made the statement in support of the legislation. <i>Washington Examiner.<\/i> &#8220;Unfortunately, it has become clear that Republicans planned to politicize this event from the start, breaking with the committee&#8217;s proud history of bipartisanship. Instead of a fact-finding mission to develop better border security and immigration policies, Republicans are traveling to the border to attack the administration and try to score political points with their extreme rhetoric &#8211; despite having voted against the resources border personnel need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Mark Green (R\u2013TN) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/border-patrol-chief-raul-ortiz-testify-homeland-security-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Announcement<\/a> Last week, the committee announced that it would hold a hearing at the Rio Grande Valley to hear from top U.S. Border Patrol officials and other witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Green criticised Democrats for inviting a witness they chose, and then refusing to attend the hearing. The hearing will still be attended by the official from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s deeply disappointing that the minority members of the committee have chosen to bail on this week&#8217;s full committee field hearing in Texas, only after they invited and confirmed a minority witness for one of the panels,&#8221; Green stated this in a statement that was provided to the <i>Washington Examiner. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>This boycott follows in the footsteps of Democrats on House Judiciary Committee who also voted to boycott the House. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/democrats-boycott-house-judiciary-hearing-arizona-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Refused<\/a> You can travel to the southern border to attend a hearing in late Februar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only message their absence sends is that they are uninterested in coming to the table to have a conversation about the devastation that this border crisis is having on Americans and their communities across the country,&#8221; Green stated. &#8220;We will continue to encourage our Democrat colleagues to get out of the D.C. echo chamber and meet Americans where they are to discuss the biggest issues facing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Thompson also defended Democrats, claiming that members of his party regularly visited the border and were fully up-to-date on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Other experts who will testify are the Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw, Kinney County sheriff Brad Coe and Chris Cabrera, Vice President of National Border Patrol Council, as well as Chief Raul Ortiz, U.S. Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/democrats-boycott-biden-border-crisis-hearing-texas\">All Democrats boycott the Texas congressional hearing on Biden&#8217;s border crisis<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats will boycott a congressional trip to the U.S.-Mexico border this week on the basis that it was a political move by Republicans to overstate the border issue. 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