'Biden has failed': Dems sound off after handling of border crisis fractures their own party

Democrats are pointing their fingers astatine President Biden for "the worst borderline information situation successful the nation’s history," teaming up with Republicans successful the latest bipartisan effort to combat the ongoing migrant crisis. 

Thirteen House Democrats joined Republicans successful voting for H. RES. 1112, a solution "denouncing the Biden administration’s migration policies" and calling for stronger borderline information measures. Several of the Democrats shared with Fox News Digital the reasoning down their determination to telephone retired the administration's handling of the crisis.

"President Biden has failed to extremity the situation astatine our confederate border, truthful I voted for H.R. 3602 to bash what helium won’t: unafraid our borderline and halt the convulsive cause cartels pumping fentanyl into our country," Rep. Maria Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wa., 1 of the Democrats who voted successful favour of the resolution, told Fox News Digital.

The solution states that "President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas person created the worst borderline information situation successful the Nation’s history."

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A radical of implicit 100 migrants attempting to participate the U.S. illegally unreserved a borderline partition connected Thursday, March 21, 2024. In the process, the migrants sound down Texas National Guardsmen earlier they are halted by the borderline wall. (James Breeden for New York Post / Mega)

Gluesenkamp Perez added that Biden should reinstate "Remain successful Mexico," a argumentation that requires migrants seeking asylum successful America to hold successful Mexico portion their exertion is waiting approval.

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"We don’t request much governmental grandstanding," Gluesenkamp Perez said. "The Administration needs to bash its job, and Congress needs to walk borderline information authorities that reflects our values and keeps america safe."

Another Democrat backing the GOP-led resolution, Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Ill., agreed that "securing our borderline and addressing migration challenges is simply a precedence for maine arsenic good arsenic for my constituents successful Central and Northwestern Illinois" and that "we request to beryllium doing a batch much to hole our breached migration system, which is wherefore I went to the confederate borderline to spot firsthand the enactment we person successful beforehand of us."

The solution besides charges that President Biden, "beginning connected time 1 of his administration, systematically dismantled effectual borderline information measures and interior migration enforcement." (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., said determination is simply a "political wedge" connected the contented that needs to beryllium enactment to an end.

"I hold with Republicans that we person a nationalist information contented astatine the borderline – but we person to halt utilizing the borderline arsenic a governmental wedge contented and enactment unneurotic to code it," Craig told Fox successful a statement. "It’s clip for the House of Representatives to statement the Bipartisan Border Agreement enactment distant by the Senate earlier this year."

A spokesperson for Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, told Fox News Digital that the congressman is acrophobic astir "deadly" fentanyl being brought crossed the confederate borderline and making its mode to his territory successful Maine.

"Congressman Golden believes that borderline information is nationalist security. He is simply a subordinate of the Bipartisan Drug Cartel Task Force and is acrophobic astir the travel of deadly fentanyl crossed the borderline and into American communities, including successful Maine. He has consistently called connected Congress and the Biden medication to meaningfully code the situation astatine the border," Goldman's squad told Fox successful a statement, adding that "the Congressman volition proceed pushing the medication to act."

Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn. (Anna Moneymaker)

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for remark astatine the clip of this publication.

The Democrats who signed onto the solution see Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wa., Jared Golden, D-Maine, Angie Craig, D-Minn., Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo., Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., Sharice Davids, D-Kan., Don Davis, D-N.C., Josh Harder D- Calif., Steven Horsford, D-Nev., Eric Sorensen, D-Ill., and Susie Lee, D-Nev.

The Biden medication has said that it is dealing with a hemisphere-wide situation that needs further backing and cardinal reforms by Congress to what it says is simply a "broken" migration system. It claims to person combined consequences for amerciable introduction with broader pathways for ineligible migration and that those policies person shown results.

The medication has rejected claims by Republicans that it has pushed "open border" policies and has pointed to implicit 500,000 removals oregon returns since past May. President Biden, arsenic good arsenic different medication officials, person called for the transition of a bipartisan Senate bundle unveiled earlier this year.

Immigrants effort to walk implicit razor ligament aft crossing the borderline into El Paso, Texas, connected Jan. 31. Those who managed to get done the ligament were past allowed to proceed for further processing by U.S. Border Patrol agents. (John Moore)

Biden has accused Republicans of making the situation worse by refusing to walk a bipartisan Senate borderline package, which combines further backing with a mechanics to bounds entries erstwhile a definite fig of encounters has been reached. Conservatives person said that bundle would not hole the crisis, and person urged alternatively the transition of a House GOP measure that passed the enclosure past year."

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"The U.S. Senate request to reconsider this measure and those senators who reason it request to acceptable authorities speech and walk it connected the merits, not connected whether it's going to payment 1 enactment oregon different party," Biden said successful February.