{"id":828027,"date":"2021-09-29T14:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=828027"},"modified":"2021-09-29T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:43:37","slug":"rep-sheila-jackson-lee-says-the-southern-border-is-currently-sovereign-and-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-sheila-jackson-lee-says-the-southern-border-is-currently-sovereign-and-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Says The Southern Border Is Currently \u2018Sovereign And Secure\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\">26<\/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%2Frep-sheila-jackson-lee-says-the-southern-border-is-currently-sovereign-and-secure%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=828027&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"35.346534653465\">\n<p>Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said Wednesday that the southern border is currently \u201csovereign and secure\u201d despite the ongoing border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>During the House Judiciary Committee Markup, Jackson thanked President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for \u201csecuring\u201d the border, saying the border crisis is \u201cobjected to biased and unfair narratives for political purposes.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/20\/republican-governors-joe-biden-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republican Governors Demand Meeting With Biden To Discuss Border Crisis)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goodness that I want to express is thank goodness for the goodness of the Biden Administration combined with an effective law enforcement structure for securing our border. Thank goodness for the border patrol agents who have consistently worked, many of whom I have known for years and worked with as a resident of Houston and an active member of Judiciary and Homeland Security, having led border security committees, transportation security committees, been to the border any number of times,\u201d Jackson Lee said. \u201cLet me pronounce to my friends that the border is both sovereign and secure. It is obviously objected to biased and unfair narratives for political purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.8186274509804\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">YOU CAN\u2019T MAKE THIS UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacksonLeeTX18?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JacksonLeeTX18<\/a> just said the southern border is both \u201csovereign and secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laughable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YnhifqgFzW\">pic.twitter.com\/YnhifqgFzW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1443245180379926529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris has not yet made public plans to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/08\/kevin-mccarthy-kamala-harris-joe-biden-southern-border-fbi-cia-briefing-terrorists\/\">southern border<\/a>, despite the influx of Haitian migrants, who set up camp under the Del Rio International Bridge before they were cleared away by authorities. President Joe Biden put her <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/24\/joe-biden-picks-vice-president-kamala-harris-border-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in charge<\/a> to lead the administration\u2019s response to the border crisis. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/maxine-waters-accusations-border-patrol-whipping-haitian-migrants-worse-witnessed-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Maxine Waters Says Accusations Of Border Patrol \u2018Whipping\u2019 Haitian Migrants Are \u2018Worse Than What We Witnessed In Slavery\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/kamala-harris-trip-border-texas-mexico-trump-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visited<\/a> the U.S.-Mexico border in June after declining to go for months. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/20\/msnbc-anchor-stephanie-ruhle-slams-border-czar-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018She Was Supposed To Be In Charge\u2019: MSNBC Anchor Tears Into \u2018Border Czar\u2019 Kamala Harris)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/chip-roy-kamala-harris-border-crisis-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued to hammer<\/a>&nbsp;Harris and the Biden administration for not handling the crisis \u2014 and more specifically, for not going to see it with their own eyes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said Wednesday that the southern border is currently \u201csovereign and secure\u201d despite the ongoing border crisis.During the House Judiciary Committee Markup, Jackson &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828027","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\/828027","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=828027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828027\/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=828027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}