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The Senate’s border security farce

By Washington Examiner

Published December 3, 2023 1:44pm ET

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The Senate’s border security farce — Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to the media about national security as Sen. Thom Tillis listens. | (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

More than 9,000 immigrants were arrested for illegally crossing the southern border this past Thursday. To put that number in perspective, President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson once testified that any more than 1,000 arrests a day was a crisis.

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