{"id":602535,"date":"2021-07-26T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602535"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:50:46","slug":"sen-john-kennedy-rips-biden-after-news-of-2-billion-halt-to-border-wall-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-john-kennedy-rips-biden-after-news-of-2-billion-halt-to-border-wall-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Kennedy Rips Biden After News Of $2 Billion Halt To Border Wall Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-john-kennedy-rips-biden-after-news-of-2-billion-halt-to-border-wall-construction%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=602535&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>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said Monday that President Joe Biden\u2019s reported decision to pay a contractor not to build the border wall is \u201ca crime against nature and intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read the article about President Biden, Biden\u2019s decision to pay the contractors $2 billion not to build the wall, not to finish the wall, and here\u2019s my conclusion about that,\u201d Kennedy told \u201cFox &amp; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you call a genius in President Biden\u2019s Homeland Security Department? A visitor,\u201d Kennedy quipped. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/05\/john-kennedy-kamala-harris-immigration-czar-el-chapo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Like Making El Chapo The Drug Czar\u2019: Sen. John Kennedy Questions Choice Of Kamala Harris As Illegal Immigration Head)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat he\u2019s doing is a crime against nature and intelligence, for two reasons,\u201d Kennedy continued, arguing the decision is \u201can obscene waste of taxpayer money\u201d and that building a border wall should not be contentious, given that countries as varied as Saudi Arabia, Israel, France and Morocco have all built them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorder walls work and we\u2019ve had a border wall for 30 years in America,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cEvery president since then has supported it including President [Barack] Obama and President [Bill] Clinton, except President Biden. I think the conclusion is almost inescapable, folks, that President Biden believes in open borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator said Biden did not \u201ctell the American people the truth\u201d when he ran for the presidency in 2020. \u201cHe believes the border is a nuisance, he believes that vetting people at the border is racist, he thinks that anybody ought to be able to come into America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the evidence for his claim was the 1 million people who \u201chave come into America from the southern border and [we] don\u2019t have the slightest idea who they are.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/22\/texas-mayor-don-mclaughlin-predicts-2-million-illegal-immigrants-cross-border-tucker-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Giving Up Our Rights At Citizens\u2019: Texas Mayor Predicts 2 Million Illegal Immigrants Will Cross The Border In 2021)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7220376\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7220376\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7220376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"YUMA, AZ - MAY 13: A family of asylum seekers from Colombia walk through an opening in the wall at the US Mexico border to turn themselves in to US Border Patrol agents on May 13, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. The Biden administration is trying to develop a plan to safely handle the surge of immigrants coming across the Southern border. (Photo by Apu Gomes\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232872592-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7220376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants from Colombia walk through an opening in the wall at the US Mexico border to turn themselves in to US Border Patrol agents on May 13, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. The Biden administration is trying to develop a plan to safely handle the surge of immigrants coming across the Southern border. (Photo by Apu Gomes\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed Biden\u2019s border security czar. She has said prospective immigrants to the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/disappointing-ocasio-cortez-kamala-harris-warning-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">should not enter illegally<\/a>, but did not say whether Border Patrol would begin turning more migrants back.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/joe-biden-alejandro-mayorkas-immigration-and-customs-enforemcement-customs-and-border-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suggested in April<\/a> that it was considering building more of the wall to fill in \u201cthe gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s eight-year path to citizenship&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/19\/biden-citizenship-plan-illegal-immigrants\/\">plan<\/a> would allow all illegal immigrants living in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, 2021, to achieve temporary legal status in five years and to apply for citizenship after an additional three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said Monday that President Joe Biden\u2019s reported decision to pay a contractor not to build the border wall is \u201ca crime against nature and intelligence.\u201dWATCH: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602535","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=602535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}