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Sen. John Kennedy R-La., says re-implementing Trump era immigration policies would solve migrant surge.<\/p>\n
Forty GOP senators, including Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., wrote a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office to determine whether President Biden\u2019s executive order unlawfully halted a fund of $1 billion voted on by Congress to construct the border wall.<\/p>\n
Kennedy, during an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” claimed that Democrats would likely attempt to redirect the funds towards other budgetary concerns of the Biden administration. <\/p>\n
“The money is there, President Biden refuses to use it, at least on the border wall,” Kennedy said. “We have sent him a letter demanding that he use it. I have every expectation that he will ignore us.”<\/p>\n
The coalition surrounding the letter, led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., referenced Biden’s immediate suspension of border wall construction on Inauguration Day. In the weeks after Biden’s inauguration, “operational control of our southern border was compromised and a humanitarian and national security crisis has ensued,” the senators wrote.<\/p>\n
“The President’s actions directly contributed to this unfortunate, yet entirely avoidable, scenario,” the letter states. “They are also a blatant violation of federal law and infringe on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.”<\/p>\n
The senators said they believe Biden’s actions “violated the Impoundment Control Act (ICA), as interpreted by your office,” and are requesting the GAO’s legal opinion.<\/p>\n
Kennedy slammed Biden as a believer in open borders and for “signaling to the world,” that if he won he would let anyone who made it to the U.S.-Mexico border into the country.<\/p>\n
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Kennedy went on to criticize the administration for refusing to acknowledge the border crisis, with over 100,000 border crossings in the month of February.<\/p>\n
In order to fix the influx of migrants into the country, Kennedy recommended that Biden reinstitute Trump-era immigration practices, including the Remain in Mexico policy, which Biden repealed with a flurry of executive orders in the early days of his presidency.<\/p>\n
“If they want to stop this, just re-implement the Trump administration policies. It\u2019s not a mystery,” Kennedy said.<\/p>\n