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‘You Just Said We Need More Money’: John Roberts Grills Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna On The Border



BRIANNA LYMAN NEWS AND COMMENTARY WRITER
December 12, 20223:48 PM ET

Fox News’ John Roberts grilled California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna Monday about solutions to the border crisis after Khanna stepped on a rake.

Khanna was discussing the border crisis amid reports that a migrant caravan of more than 1,000 crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas on Sunday and said President Joe Biden “does want to do something” about the border crisis.

“We want to see secure borders and an orderly immigration process but we need funding to do that, we need funding for border patrol agents,” Khanna said. “More importantly, we need more asylum processing, refugee resettlement in the countries they are coming from so they don’t end up on the border. I think there are bipartisan solutions here.”

“You can throw as much money as you want at what we are looking at on the right-hand side of the screen but how is that going to fix what we saw over the weekend?” Roberts pushed back.

“I don’t think it’s just about money,” Khanna said. “It’s about a systematic solution. One of the things President Obama started-”
“You just said we need more money,” Roberts interjected.

“That’s one part of it,” Khanna responded. “Asylum officers would help process the cases, if they are not supposed to be here, adjudicated, and more resettlement, process the cases in the countries before people make the treacherous journey to the border.”

U.S. Customs and Border protection sources told Fox News Monday that the El Paso sector has seen 2,397 migrant encounters in the past 24 hours. Border agents from Big Bend and CBP agents from the El Paso field office have been called into assist the overflow of migrants.

‘You Just Said We Need More Money’: John Roberts Grills Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna On The Border | The Daily Caller

We do not need more money!

We do not need or want immigration reform.

We need to bus them back to Mexico under OUR police escort like they are doing to us!