N.M. Gov. Lujan Grisham Tries to Blame Republicans for Biden’s Border Crisis

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LUJAN GRISHAM: "So, I'm not disappointed. I‘m frustrated and I think he is incredibly frustrated as well. And I was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus when I was in Congress for three terms. We had a border bill that was the same kind of aspect here: more security, more personnel, and changes to the system to ask for a visa on the front end and to deal with asylum on the back end. This is a country of immigrants. So, here are my conversations. I trust that I have a president that is clear that we don‘t hate immigrants in this country, that we are a country built on immigration, that he‘s clear about this security risks and the threats at the border, and he‘s also clear that it‘s more than this country. I need help from the other countries, including Mexico. But he is hamstrung. And if you‘re not going to fund the personnel, you‘re not going to give us the security aspects, that it hamstrings states like mine. So having my National Guard, for example, they‘re involved in all the drug interdiction, so all the investigative work but they can‘t be anywhere at the border. There's nothing for them to do. Two, there‘s real innovation in New Mexico. We’re working on fentanyl detection in the air so that we can do airborne detection. You know what chills innovation and the ability to deploy that at the border? Having Republicans march to the orders of the candidate of chaos and say, 'Don‘t pass the border bill.' Now I‘m not going to get that kind of innovation and support, and we desperately need it."