Southern border crisis puts Democrats in trouble

 

 President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats have been forced to play defense amid the current border crisis as Republicans pressure them to visit the besieged region and push them into a political corner in project votes. immigration law, reports The Hill.

 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, told the Senate floor Thursday that Democrats have "prioritized" amnesty over the United States, Newsmax notes.

 

"The border crisis ... continues to escalate," McConnell said. "And what about the Democrats here in Congress? Do the House Democrats rise to the occasion with solutions? Not exactly. They prioritized passing another amnesty bill. They bent in the wrong direction and the wrong incentives. "

 

Biden said Thursday at his first White House press conference that he planned to make sure children in custody are not held for more than 72 hours, even though some have reportedly been held for days longer than the legally allowed period, and will coordinate with the Pentagon to make beds available at Fort Bliss, which is located on the Texas-Mexico border. Biden also said that most of the illegal immigrants are being sent back.