New Digital Ad Highlights Moreno’s Opposition to Border Security Bill
February 8, 2024
Ad Targeting Independent Voters Shows Moreno Against “Most Conservative Border Bill In Decades” Backed By Border Patrol Agents
Columbus, OH – A new digital ad running today highlights Bernie Moreno’s opposition to the bipartisan immigration bill – which has been called “the most conservative border bill in decades” and is backed by border patrol agents. The digital ad will target independent voters across Ohio.
“Bernie Moreno likes to talk tough, but when it comes to strengthening the border and standing up for the people of Ohio, he’s nowhere to be found,” said ODP spokesperson Katie Smith.
Read more from Punchbowl. See the ad, running on Facebook and Instagram, below:
Read what they’re saying about the bill that would have “mark[ed] the first major bipartisan overhaul of the nation’s immigration system since the 1990s”:
- National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd: “There’s a lot of things in there, there’s a lot of mechanisms that are good…This [bill] transcends administrations. This will go beyond Biden, it will go beyond Trump. It will go beyond the next president…. We need bills that are going to last…”
- 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.”
- 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”
- Republican Senator James Lankford:“It will be, by far, the most conservative border security bill in four decades.”
- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham: “So to my Republican colleagues, this is a historic moment to reform the border.”
- 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”
- CBS News’ Camilo Montoya-Galvez:Bipartisan border package “would be one of the toughest border and immigration laws in modern history”
- Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell: Bipartisan border package “the most conservative border bill in decades”
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