FACT CHECK: Moreno Opposed Border Security Bill Backed By Border Patrol Agents
February 19, 2024
Moreno opposed “the most conservative border bill in decades”
Columbus, OH – Bernie Moreno opposed the bipartisan border bill that was described as “the most conservative border bill in decades” – despite the bill being backed by border patrol agents.
In response to Moreno’s “blanket dismissal” of the legislation, the Ironton Tribune Editorial Board told Moreno to “demonstrate a more serious approach” instead of “nonstop opposition” and “a lack of workable solutions” that would only “worsen [the] problem.”
What they were saying about “the most conservative border bill in decades:”
- Border Patrol Agents: “[The bill would] drop illegal border crossings nationwide and will allow our agents to get back to detecting and apprehending those who want to cross our border illegally and evade apprehension… This is why the National Border Patrol Council endorses this bill and hopes for its quick passage.”
- Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens on Fox News: “There are aspects of this bill that would have added additional hundreds of border patrol agents to our rank and file. It would have given us more technology. It would have given us more equipment, infrastructure. Of course I’m going to be supportive of that.”
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pleased to see desperately needed border security, asylum, and immigration reforms included in the emergency supplemental funding proposal before the U.S. Senate… We look forward to working with Members of Congress to pass these common sense measures that will improve America’s security by addressing our southern border and supporting Ukraine and Israel.”
- Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:“By any honest reckoning, this is the most restrictive migrant legislation in decades.”
- Fox News: Bipartisan border package would “overhaul” the immigration system “with tougher and quicker enforcement measures”
- CBS: “If enacted into law, the emerging deal would mark the first major bipartisan overhaul of the nation’s immigration system since the 1990s.”
- Politico: Bipartisan border package was “the most stringent immigration bill endorsed by a democratic president in recent memory”
- NBC News: Bipartisan border package would “impose tougher immigration and asylum laws”
- CNN: Bipartisan border package “would implement strict limits along the US southern border that have not been previously enshrined into law”
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