Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala., delivered the Democratic response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address from her home tables in Montgomery, Alabama. During her 17- second response, Britt criticized Biden on immigration, the market and violence.  ,
” What we saw was the effectiveness of a permanent lawmaker who has truly been in business for longer than I’ve been alive,” said Britt, 42.  ,
” Our people are hurting. Our nation can perform better. And you do n’t need to look any further than the southern border crisis to see it,” Britt said. The most safe borders of all time was inherited by President Biden. But hours after taking office, he suspended all arrests, he halted structure of the boundary wall and he announced a plan to give asylum to millions”.
” We know that President Biden did n’t just create this border crisis”, Britt continued. ” He invited it with 94 professional steps in his first 100 time”.
Which particular 94 professional deeds did Britt mention? It’s not clear which one. A few months into Biden’s leadership, the democratic Migration Policy Institute released a record detailing 94 emigration- related Trump senior activities. However, not all the steps were immediately related to the frontier.  ,
Here’s the environment behind Britt’s statements.
Biden” suspended all deportations” . ,
The Department of Homeland Security issued a letter preventing the removal of some folks who had been living illegally in the United States for 100 times on Biden’s first day in office. Federal courts put an abrupt end to the delay.
Removal should be prioritized for people who pose a threat to national security or public health or who entered the U.S. after Nov. 1, 2020, according to the letter. Because of resource constraints and increased illegal borders bridges.
Nothing in this letter forbids the arrest or detention of individuals who are never identified as priorities in the United States, the letter continued.” While tools should be allocated to the interests enumerated above,
In a second memo outlining related instructions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in September 2021, DHS released a second letter outlining the need to emphasize the removal of people who have crossed the border in recent years or who threaten public health. In addition, those recommendations were suspended by authorities in 2021, but they were reinstated in 2023 as a result of a Supreme Court decision.  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
There have been more than 3.6 million removal, results and evictions from February 2021, Biden’s second month in office, to September 2023, based on Department of Homeland Security quotes.
Biden “halted construction of the border wall” . ,
Former President Donald Trump used the funding from the Defense Department to create more border barriers in his first time in office by declaring a national emergency in Biden’s proclamation terminating it. But, in October 2023, the Biden administration resumed challenge design using money Congress had formerly appropriated. Additionally, the administration has spent thousands on repairing barriers.
Immigration authorities have questioned whether restrictions are effective in reducing improper immigration.
In July 2023, David Bier, director of immigration studies at the liberal Cato Institute, told PolitiFact that restrictions have primarily prompted people to try crossing the border at various locations.  ,
Biden “announced a plan to give parole to tens”.
A broad definition of “amnesty” can be used to describe any plan that favors people living in the United States illegally, or to just define it as giving them citizenship.
In his first time in office, Biden proposed the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 to give laborers and refugees who immigrated to the United States fraudulently as children and those who are eligible for Temporary Protected Status a path to citizenship. The bill was introduced by House Democrats in February 2021, but it fell short.
More recently, Biden said he would mark the Senate’s republican immigration bill into law if it reached his table. That bill, which failed a ballot in the Senate, did not include a route to citizenship for people living in the U. S. improperly.
Biden” chose to release” to the U. S. the person accused of killing Laken Riley
Britt also mentioned the shooting of 22- year aged University of Georgia medical student, Laken Riley.
” This beautiful 22- year- old nursing student went out on a jog one morning, but she never got the opportunity to return home”, Britt said. One of the millions of illegal border crossings that President Biden chose to release into our country brutally murdered her.
Jose Ibarra, the man charged with Riley’s killing, illegally crossed the U. S. Mexico border in September 2022. Ibarra was paroled in, allowing him to be released into the U. S. to await further immigration proceedings, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Biden is not in charge of the releaseees into the country. Because border officials lack the resources to detain everyone who illegally enters the country, they decide who to release into the country.
Samantha Putterman, a staff writer for PolitiFact, contributed to this article.
