{"id":2356077,"date":"2024-10-17T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/casey-mccormick-challenge-border-security-policies-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:46:33","slug":"casey-mccormick-challenge-border-security-policies-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/casey-mccormick-challenge-border-security-policies-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey, McCormick challenge border security policies &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fcasey-mccormick-challenge-border-security-policies-washington-examiner%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=2356077&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>In a recent\u200b debate, U.S. \u200bSenator Bob \u200bCasey Jr. (D-Pa.)\u200d and his Republican \u200dchallenger Dave McCormick focused heavily on border security and immigration reform, issues\u200c that resonate with voters in Pennsylvania and nationwide. McCormick described the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-says-americans-only-think-theres-a-border-crisis-because-of-the-media\/\" title=\"Jen Psaki Says Americans Only Think There\u2019s A Border Crisis Because Of The Media\">current immigration situation<\/a> as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/immigration-expert-blasts-biden-admin-over-claims-on-border-crisis-an-offense-to-human-intelligence\/\" title=\"Immigration Expert Blasts Biden Admin Over Claims On Border Crisis: \u2018An Offense To Human Intelligence\u2019\">national security crisis<\/a>, citing incidents of individuals \u200dcrossing the\u2063 border from\u200b countries like China\u200d and Syria. He stressed that inadequate policies enable criminals and drug traffickers to threaten community safety and exacerbate the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Casey criticized McCormick for opposing \u200ba congressional bill aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-trip-to-south-america-suffers-early-missteps\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris\u2019 Trip To South America Suffers Early Missteps\">increasing border security<\/a> through hiring more agents, reforming asylum rules,\u200b and enhancing checkpoints to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-orders-texas-authorities-to-arrest-illegal-migrants-return-them-to-border\/\" title=\"Abbott Orders Texas Authorities To Arrest Illegal Migrants, Return Them To Border\">combat drug smuggling<\/a>. Casey questioned\u200b McCormick&#8217;s rationale for \u2064not supporting these measures,\u200d suggesting \u2062that they could \u2064effectively improve border security based on insights from border patrol experts.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, McCormick argued that\u200d the\u2062 proposed legislation falls short, as\u2063 it does not adequately address the completion of the border\u2064 wall and could lead to the influx of over\u2064 2 million migrants due to lenient asylum policies. \u2064He\u200d proposed treating drug cartels as\u2064 terrorist threats and advocated for selective military action against them, accusing \u2062Casey of ineffective\u200c management over his years in office.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Casey, McCormick challenge border security policies<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1837608\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; Border security and immigration reform aren&rsquo;t far from the minds of voters in Pennsylvania and across the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., and the Republican candidate challenging him, Dave McCormick, too. So much so that both men spent a quarter of their final debate attacking each other&rsquo;s solutions to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This has become a national security crisis of epic proportion,&rdquo; McCormick said as he detailed one of his visits to the southern border in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents caught five people from China and five &ldquo;military age&rdquo; Syrian men crossing in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorists, convicted criminals, and drug traffickers also take advantage of the nation&rsquo;s lackadaisical policies, he said, leaving communities at risk and worsening the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Casey, however, said that McCormick opposes a bill stalled in Congress to hire more agents, reform rules for asylum seekers and boost security at checkpoints to catch drug smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know why he wouldn&rsquo;t support that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t make any sense when he knows that we could advance the ball based upon the expertise of the border patrol.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>McCormick, like other Republican critics who include former President Donald Trump, argues the legislation didn&rsquo;t address the unfinished border wall and would allow more than 2 million migrants into the country under weak asylum policies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need to go after these cartels, treat them as the terrorist threat that they are, use our military selectively,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This has been like a frog in boiling water. Senator Casey has done that. He says he&rsquo;s been working on it for years. How effective has that work been? We&rsquo;ve got a crisis that&rsquo;s destroying our country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/polls\/\">a recent Voter&rsquo;s Voice Poll<\/a><\/strong>, 40% of respondents say &ldquo;illegal immigration&rdquo; is one of the top three issues facing the country. The numbers are more pronounced for Republican voters, 62% of whom consider it the most pressing concern. Forty-three percent of Democrats cite abortion as a leading issue, while half of independents think inflation is the country&rsquo;s biggest problem.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Migration Policy Institute, 160,000 undocumented immigrants lived in Pennsylvania as of 2018. Roughly 94,000 were employed and paid $135 million in state and local taxes in 2017, according to the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say these contributions don&rsquo;t offset the social safety net costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Immigration Studies said during a January congressional hearing that although most undocumented households nationwide have at least one worker, nearly 60% use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stimulus-check-update-deadline-to-claim-montana-property-tax-rebate-worth-up-to-675-in-nine-days\/\" title=\"Montana property tax rebate worth up to 5 must be claimed within nine days.\">public assistance programs<\/a>. Their use of welfare, medical services, and the public education system outstrips economic gains by $68,000 per person, according to the center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1837608\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1837608\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey and McCormick debate border security issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2356078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24125636538603-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33709,13443,21644],"class_list":["post-2356077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-border-security","tag-casey","tag-mccormick"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24125636538603-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356077","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=2356077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}