Fourteen Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to pass a GOP-led resolution condemning President Biden’s immigration policies.
The resolution was introduced by Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, a Republican who represents a border district and who was chosen to give the Spanish-language rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union last week.
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The House of Representatives voted to formally condemn President Joe Biden over his border policies (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Her legislative text targeted both Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing them of having “created the worst border security crisis in the Nation’s history.”
The resolution also accused the Biden administration of pushing asylum policies that critics argue helped fuel the border crisis, and that the administration “has purposely violated United States immigration law by refusing to detain inadmissible aliens arriving at the border.”
The vote comes hours after House Democrats’ newly-created task force on border security held their first press conference calling for bipartisan solutions to the crisis.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was also criticized in the resolution (Getty Images)
In particular, they are pushing for consideration of the Senate’s bipartisan $118 billion border security and…
