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Will the Border Be a Factor in the 2024 Election?
Signs point to yes.
“For years, too many Democrats have been in denial about the national security risks at our southern border,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told his Congressional colleagues earlier this year. “And I have been critical of fellow Democrats who have failed to acknowledge these risks, who have failed to recognize that knowing and controlling who enters our territory is fundamental to our sovereignty and our national security.”
“But now, Madam President, the situation has changed,” Ossoff urged. “There are more than enough Democratic Senators ready and willing to pass a strong bipartisan border security bill — a border security bill co-authored by a conservative Republican Senator, Senator Lankford of Oklahoma, who has done extraordinary work crafting this legislation.”
“A bill that would surge enforcement resources to the southern border, that would tighten asylum standards, that would expedite the removal of those who abuse asylum to enter our country unlawfully, that would hire urgently needed border patrol officers and take the fight to drug cartels flooding our communities with fentanyl,” Osshoff added. “This is a bipartisan bill to help defend the nation against terrorists, who would exploit weakness at our southern border to enter our country and kill Americans.”