{"id":1887634,"date":"2023-03-15T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-boycott-congressional-trip-to-texas-border\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T17:49:19","slug":"democrats-boycott-congressional-trip-to-texas-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-boycott-congressional-trip-to-texas-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Boycott Congressional Trip to Texas 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\">14<\/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%2Fdemocrats-boycott-congressional-trip-to-texas-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=1887634&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--><br \/>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Democrats Boycott Congressional Trip to Texas Border\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/iran-cashed-in-during-bidens-first-year-in-office\" data-post-url id=\"print-1702656\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> Rio Grande crossing by immigrants \/ Reuters\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>All 15 Democratic members of the\u00a0House Homeland Security Committee are boycotting a Wednesday field hearing in South Texas intended to address the border crisis.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/claim-yours-ots-fbeacon-ads-30?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbeaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023marchots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mark Green, a Republican from Tenn., chaired the committee and held a hearing in Rio Grande Valley to hear top U.S Border Patrol officers and other witnesses. <em>Washington Examiner\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/democrats-boycott-biden-border-crisis-hearing-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Even though they had chosen their own witness to be on the panel, all minority party members chose to skip the hearing. Republicans claimed that they planned to. &#8220;politicize&#8221; The event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After careful consideration, committee Democrats have decided not to participate in the Republicans&#8217; field hearing this week,&#8221; Rep. Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.) In a statement to the\u00a0<i>Examiner<\/i>. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the majority of Americans see the border crisis as &#8220;a serious problem&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/a-majority-of-americans-say-the-border-crisis-is-an-invasion-poll-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An invasion<\/a>Democrats insist that the crisis does not merit attention in person. President <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-ducks-border-visit-says-more-important-things-going-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-avoid-us-mexico-border-thursday-visit-arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a>Both the president and the chief of border security operations, travelled to Arizona in December\/January, respectively, but did not visit the southern border. Last month, Democrats from the House Judiciary Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/democrats-boycott-house-judiciary-hearing-arizona-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bossip<\/a> a field hearing in Arizona meant to address\u00a0the fentanyl epidemic and\u00a0humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Since Biden became president, more than 5 million migrants have crossed the border to the south. Officials often attribute the country\u2019s fentanyl crisis to the border. From October 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023 Customs and Border Protection, 12,500 pounds of fentanyl were seized at the southern border. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/fact-check-bidens-press-sec-says-fentanyl-at-the-southern-border-is-at-historic-lows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/tik-tok-beacon-ads?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=fbads&#038;utm_campaign=bantiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t<\/a> \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The only message [the Democrats&#8217;] 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 said. &#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><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-boycott-congressional-trip-to-texas-border\/\">Democrats Boycott Congressional Trip to Texas Border<\/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>Immigrants cross the Rio Grande \/ Reuters All 15 Democratic members of the\u00a0House Homeland Security Committee are boycotting a Wednesday field hearing in South Texas intended to address the border crisis. Committee chairman Mark Green (R., Tenn.) organized a hearing in the Rio Grande Valley to hear from top U.S. Border Patrol officials and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1891676,"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":[544],"tags":[3811,6812,4490,3685,3694,5601],"class_list":["post-1887634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-border","tag-boycott","tag-congressional","tag-democrats","tag-texas","tag-trip"],"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\/1887634","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}