Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) invited President Joe Biden to a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border; it would be his first as president.
Blackburn said the purpose of the trip is to assess “the damage caused by this administration’s immigration policies.”
The backhanded nature of the invitation means it is unlikely the president will accept.
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“I am glad to hear you are thinking about making a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border— your first as President,” she wrote. “I would like to formally invite you to join Senator Hyde-Smith, Senator Britt, and me in Del Rio, Texas this Monday, January 9. We will be assessing the damage caused by this administration’s immigration policies and meeting with some of the victims of those policies.”
“For the sake of the women, children, and American families suffering from a lack of leadership, we urge you to join us,” she concluded.
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— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 4, 2023
Blackburn has been highly critical of the Biden administration’s border policies. She claimed that he has opened the border and offloaded the problem to states such as Tennessee.
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“Since the Biden administration has broken the border and now we have an open border, and now they’re seeing this surge, they have to move them away from the border. So, this is their plan: Send them to other states, send them to other cities, and let the taxpayers in those cities and in those states foot the bill. … This administration has shown their disrespect and disregard for the states,” she said in an appearance on Fox News’s Hannity in December.
“They feel like that keeping the power at the federal level and having the states who do their bidding, that’s the way to handle the mess that they have made,” she added. “Let’s let the states mop this up for us.”
