Tom Cotton says Biden “opened our borders” and allowed drugs

Sen. Tom Cotton criticized President Biden for his immigration policies, saying they “opened our borders completely,” brought deadly drugs into the country, and immigrants took jobs away from Americans.​

Cotton (R-Ark.) pointed out that 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses over a 12-month period between April 2020 and April 2021, with “the majority of the drugs coming from Mexico.”

Deaths from opioids, including the potent fentanyl, accounted for more than 75 percent of deaths during the one-year span, the data showed.

“Every state is a border state. And every town is a border town. Joe Biden’s immigration policy has completely opened our borders. We had more than 2 million people entering a country as illegal migrants in the first year of the Biden presidency. That’s like adding the entire state of Nebraska,” Cotton John Catsimatidis said on his radio show WABC 770 AM in an interview that aired Sunday.

“They bring drugs with them. In many cases they are gang members or criminals,” the senator said.

He also said that immigrants “take jobs away from Americans and lower wages for Americans.”

Cotton said Democrats used to believe border policy enforcement was “racist, nativist and xenophobic.”

But now “they seem to think borders are racist and xenophobic. That if you exclude someone from the country you are a racist and a xenophobe,” he told Catsimatidis.

He said when immigrants arrived on Ellis Island a century ago, they had to prove they didn’t carry communicable diseases and were able to fend for themselves.

“These are two of the most fundamental and longest-standing tenets of immigration law and policy in this country. That would be a pretty good standard for our southern border today,” Cotton said.

He said the Biden administration will not even meet that standard.

“One [Department of Homeland Security] The official said, “We want to help them reach their ultimate goal.” Their ultimate goal, if they have no right to be here, should be to return to their country of origin,” he said.​