The California Republican hosted a press conference from the southern border to call for greater border security to end the flow of powerful drugs like fentanyl which he said kills a planes-worth o…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday slammed President Biden for allowing deadly drugs like fentanyl to come across the border and kill hundreds of Americans every day.
“But I promise you this, the new majority in Congress — we’re going to fight to fix this problem,” he added.Speaker Kevin McCarthy/YouTubewith US Customs and Border Protection. The trip was his first visit to the southern border as speaker of the House. “When you look at the gaps in the [border] wall, why are they there? … Because we got a new president that said to stop it,” he said referring to former President Trump’s infamous border wall.SpeakerMcCarthy/Twitter
“As an immigrant myself — my family immigrated to this country as well — we know about the fight of the American dream, and this fentanyl crisis is directly impacting and literally killing that American dream for hundreds of thousands of Americans in this country,” he said. “And we need to stop that.”RepCiscomani/Twitter
Kiggans, who came down from Virginia, also doubted the Biden administration’s ability to secure the southern border.“We’re seeing a border right now that is weak, that is inviting illegal immigrants to come across and it’s putting our families at risk,” she said.”
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