‘Hypocrisy On All Sides’: Fox Correspondent Slams GOP and Democrats Over Border Crisis Flip-Flops
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Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich torched the “hypocrisy on all sides” of the political spectrum related to the ongoing border crisis this week.
On Thursday, Heinrich shared a statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blasting President Joe Biden, saying he “suddenly seems interested in trying to make a change using the legal authority that he claimed until recently didn’t exist.”
Heinrich reacted to the statement and wrote:
Hypocrisy on all sides with this issue.
-Johnson called for Biden to take executive action, now casting it as an election year gimmick
-Biden claimed he had already done everything he could unilaterally and is suddenly acknowledging he can do more
-Dems railing against the proposed action are the same ones chastising GOP for not passing the Senate bill, which has the same language on entry numbers
Heinrich was referring to blowback from Congressional Democrats over reports that President Biden is looking to issue an executive action ahead of the State of the Union that would limit the number of migrants allowed to enter the U.S. – potentially including asylum applicants. She also noted those same Democrats slammed Republicans for scuttling a bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate, at the behest of Trump, that would have largely done the same thing.
Johnson’s statement also dithered on whether or not he wants Biden to take action and if it can be meaningful.
“House Republicans have been sounding the alarm about the catastrophic effects of President Biden’s open border policies since he began his term. Last year, I sent a letter to the President to demand he take immediate executive action. He has thus far ignored my demands, and the pleas from big city mayors, border state governors, and the American people,” Johnson wrote, adding:
Americans have lost faith in this President and won’t be fooled by election year gimmicks that don’t actually secure the border. Nor will they forget that the President created this catastrophe and, until now, has refused to use his executive power to fix it.
“If these reports are true and the President intends to take action, he can show he’s serious by changing more than asylum policy. He should begin by reinstituting the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy and ending his administration’s abuse of the parole system, along with other critical reforms,” he concluded. Notably, many of Trump’s unilateral border security actions were stuck down by the courts.
