Newsom claims Biden has border plan, blames Republicans for standing in the way

Posted 94 days ago

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed that President Biden is trying to act on the southern border, but Republicans are failing to act on the crisis to influence the upcoming presidential election.

"The president put out a comprehensive strategy, a pathway to citizenship along the lines of their former hero, Ronald Reagan, to address the reality on the ground," Newsom said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos.

Newsom, a Democrat, said immigration reform is just as much of an issue as border security, outlining a $14 billion plan to get more judges to process illegal immigrants more efficiently and provide security at the border with 2,300 new border agents.

"And they refuse to act," Newsom says of Republicans in Congress. "They're just promoting an agenda to disrupt and find a crowbar, to put in the spokes in the wheels of the Biden administration to disrupt any progress on this, because they don't want progress. Period."... (Read more)