DeSantis Has A Tougher Border Security Record Than Trump. Here Are The ReceiptsWhen DeSantis was in Congress voting for strong border security bills, President Trump was pressuring conservatives to support mass amnesty.BY: CHIP ROY
JUNE 30, 2023
I was proud to be the first member of Congress to endorse Gov. Ron DeSantis for president of the United States. He is a bold conservative leader, a proven winner, and most importantly, a good man. He is the person we need — at the time we need him — to restore sanity and lead the great American comeback.
Nowhere is this more apparent than along our southern border. This week, I joined DeSantis in Eagle Pass, Texas, where he outlined a plan to secure the border once and for all. After visiting with a packed house of South Texans tired of words and desperate for leadership to end the chaos, secure their homes, and restore the rule of law against dangerous cartels, the governor was specific and clear. He will build the wall, fully enforce the law, stop the invasion, and take out the cartels — “No Excuses.”
DeSantis’ plan to finally secure the border and empower states like Texas to step into the breach shouldn’t surprise anyone. DeSantis has an unassailable record of supporting border security policies to protect Americans while opposing policies such as amnesty that would only make illegal immigration to America worse by rewarding those who violate our laws.
Indeed, in the only — and last — major legislative border security battle during his time in Congress, DeSantis did the right thing by our border states; he voted against mass amnesty and voted with conservatives for a bill commonly known as “Goodlatte 1.” In the summer of 2018, conservatives put forward “Goodlatte 1” which was a relatively strong immigration and border bill that appropriated $30 billion in wall funding, ended the diversity visa lottery program, closed the “loopholes” in our laws, and included no pathway to citizenship for recipients of President Obama’s unconstitutional DACA order.
However, Goodlatte 1 was being blocked by Speaker Paul Ryan and the Republican establishment in favor of a second so-called compromise bill known as “Goodlatte 2,” which included $5 billion less in wall funding, merely shifted the visas in the visa lottery program to the merit-based program, and most disturbingly, included actual amnesty — a path to citizenship for potentially 2 million people.
In response to the “leadership” push to replace “Goodlatte 1” with the amnesty of “Goodlatte 2,” Ron DeSantis and other members of the House Freedom Caucus held up “must pass” legislation to demand a vote on Goodlatte 1. Thus, leadership was forced to put both bills on the floor. And what did DeSantis do? He voted for the strong bill with 192 other members of the House. That legislation only failed because 30 mostly establishment Republicans joined hand-in-hand with Nancy Pelosi and open-border Democrats to defeat it.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/30/desantis-has-a-stronger-border-security-track-record-than-trump-here-are-the-receipts/
