WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Republicans worked overnight to fully fund Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following Democrats’ outright refusal to do so.
“Senate Republicans voted to protect Americans from criminal illegals while Democrats openly voted to defund law enforcement and end deportations of violent criminals. Senate Democrats like Jon Ossoff want to return to Joe Biden’s dangerous open-border policies that led to the murder of innocent Americans like Laken Riley,” said Bernadette Breslin, NRSC national press secretary.
All Democrats voted against legislation requiring an ID to vote and final passage of the critical border security legislation that would deport criminal illegals.
*REMINDER* that during the Biden administration, there were:
- More than 11 million encounters with illegal immigrants, including 8.3 million at the southern border.
- More than 4 million illegals released into the country.
- 1.7 million encounters with “special-interest aliens,” people from countries that DHS has determined pose the greatest national security and counterintelligence threats to America—including Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, and Turkey.
- 703 encounters with illegal aliens on the terror watchlist, and at least 99 who were released into the U.S.
- More than 1.7 million gotaways, illegal aliens that are known to have entered the country without ever being encountered or apprehended by law enforcement.
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