U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a newly announced presidential candidate, recently appeared on Fox News and discussed his solution to the border crisis, which includes legislation that will drastically ramp up border security and reduce the entry of fentanyl into the U.S.
In speaking of the border crisis, Scott criticized the Biden administration for failing to provide safety to Americans.
"Time after time, this president has failed to keep Americans safe. I‘m taking a stand for commonsense solutions to end this border crisis and protect our communities," Scott tweeted May 18.
In his appearance on Fox News, Scott provided his solution for future legislation regarding the border crisis. This includes legislation for $10 billion that will go toward the border wall and another $5 billion that will provide surveillance of the entire southern border. This plan, he said, is aimed at stopping fentanyl from entering the U.S.
“We don’t have a president who wants to, not negotiate, just do his job,” Scott said, criticizing President Joe Biden’s response to the crisis at the border.
In an appearance on Fox News, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the Biden administration is “willing to turn a blind eye to the more than 100,000 people who died last year” due to drug overdoses, with two-thirds of the deadly drugs from “Chinese fentanyl coming across our southern border.” Cruz tweeted on May 19 that Biden “is directly responsible for the crisis taking place."
Another Republican presidential candidate,Vivek Ramaswamy, said in a May 24 tweet: “One hundred thousand Americans are dying each year due to the fentanyl crisis. If we can use $100 billion to secure somebody else’s border in God knows where, halfway around the world, we can take a small fraction of that and use our own military to secure our own border.”
He also criticized the president, saying, “Biden sits in the White House and watches the fentanyl crisis like he’s a bystander” instead of using our military for its primary purpose, which is to protect the U.S.
According to a Fox News poll, approximately 51% of voters in America currently think that border security has worsened in the last two years, while 11% think it has improved. In 2018, 17% of voters thought the border security was getting worse while 28% believed it was improving. Thirty-seven percent now believe that border security is the same, as compared to 50% in 2018.
