President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to blame congressional Republicans for not acting to resolve a border crisis that has led to more than 8 million illegal crossings.

The GOP has made immigration central to their critique of the president as polls show he is vulnerable on the issue heading into the November election. However, Biden cited Republicans’ rejection of a border deal that he crafted with a bipartisan working group in the Senate to claim that the party is playing politics with the crisis.

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