{"id":13081,"date":"2024-03-25T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=13081"},"modified":"2024-03-28T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:38:40","slug":"britts-words-on-border-security-highlight-republican-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2024\/03\/25\/britts-words-on-border-security-highlight-republican-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Britt\u2019s Words on Border Security Highlight Republican Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Andrea Hebel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-gettyimages ose-uid-bd2e69bb480642b6b181d778d2222a64 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:723px; height:623px; max-height:623px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"GettyImages\"><a id=\"bkxtGd-JR_9zYAcumglHQA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1704579906\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:\"bkxtGd-JR_9zYAcumglHQA\",sig:\"RxZksZdDX_3Pl1oxOu9NUXYiA9b4brxzcopISUsy7BA=\",w:\"594px\",h:\"396px\",items:\"1704579906\",caption: false ,tld:\"com\",is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof gie === 'function') {\n\t\t\t\t\tgie(function(){\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar iframe = document.querySelector('.ose-embedpress-responsive iframe');\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif(iframe && !iframe.getAttribute('title')){\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiframe.setAttribute('title', '')\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 7, U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) issued the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/state-of-union-republican-katie-britt-b68be66d421f716fb74dce8cc61dac74\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republican Party\u2019s response<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union Address. Britt gave the speech from the middle of her beige kitchen, spending 16 minutes criticizing Biden\u2019s policies as ineffective and out-of-touch in a stilted manner that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cCfLpuLdF8Q&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> barely had to change to parody.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Britt\u2019s most controversial talking points, however, came in the form of a tragic story about a woman who she met in Texas on a visit to the border in her first hundred days in office. The woman was brutally assaulted by drug cartels for numerous years, starting at age 12. Britt admonished Biden for allowing something like this to happen in America, when it would not be acceptable in most \u201cthird-world countries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story is, undeniably, tragic. But here\u2019s the problem. As Jonathan Katz, an independent journalist, revealed on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@katzonearth\/video\/7344090454985624862\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TikTok<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shortly after the speech, this story did not happen under President Biden\u2019s leadership. It didn\u2019t even occur in the United States. It took place in Mexico, between 2004 and 2008 \u2013 under the leadership of George Bush, a Republican president. Britt\u2019s publicist confirmed to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/katie-britt-mexico-border-sex-trafficking-f74c95d1f7e3e5b9a660d9efc51ab214\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that this was the story Britt was referring to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Britt has defended her use of this story, revealing in an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6348481258112\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fox News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that she did not mean to give the impression that it occurred under Biden\u2019s presidency. She justified this through her use of the word \u201cwoman\u201d to describe the victim, contrasted by the fact that the abuse started when she was 12. However, without a degree of critical thinking, this is not immediately clear to the listener. It also does not negate the fact that she very blatantly implied that it occurred on the U.S. side of the southern border, when it did not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Britt\u2019s speech highlights something that has been true of the Republican party throughout Biden\u2019s term. Party elites are so concerned about regaining the presidency that they have failed to consider that they are not voiceless \u2013 they hold a majority in congress and are perfectly capable of creating and passing legislature, if they are willing to at least glance at a compromise with Democrats. Instead, as Britt\u2019s speech shows, they aim to make the average American feel powerless and scared \u2013 about their ability to buy groceries and stay safe from scary powers abroad that threaten to invade at every corner \u2013 in the hopes that they will be seen as the saviors and their own failures will be ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration is perhaps the clearest example of that. It is no secret that there is a crisis on the southern border. Migrants are arriving at a pace that immigration systems and agencies simply cannot keep up with, as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/blog\/u.s.-immigration-courts-see-significant-and-growing-backlog\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Government Accountability Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports. But that could have started to change last month. As <\/span><a href=\"blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports, Republicans and Democrats spent 4 months negotiating the most stringent immigration reform since Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidency. It would have designated $118 billion to enact sweeping changes to asylum, increase funding for asylum officers and border services, and increase the path to legal immigration for some migrants. It was not perfect \u2013 it was criticized by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/immigrants-rights\/senate-rejects-deal-threatening-protections-for-asylum-seekers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACLU<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/research\/analysis-senate-border-bill\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Immigration Council<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 but it was a step in the right direction, a sign that at least a bipartisan compromise could be made. Neither side was happy, which sometimes is good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, it soon proved dead-on-arrival in the Senate, as The Washington Post continues, not for its content \u2013 but because it was criticized by former President Trump, who implored Republicans to kill the bill so that he could turn it into a campaign issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let that sink in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former U.S. President, and his legions of supporters, killed a bill that had a chance to solve real problems, but because of their arrogance and lust for power it didn\u2019t come to fruition. Katie Britt can criticize Biden from her kitchen all she wants, but her party is what stands in the way of the U.S. and solid immigration reform. She is the one who voted \u201cnay\u201d on a bill that would have given her what she wants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A major reason why the border is insecure is because agencies are stretched so thin. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2024\/02\/14\/immigration-customs-enforcement-budget-deficit-republicans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that the bill\u2019s failure means that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now has a $700 million budget gap \u2013 which they plan to solve by the mass release of detainees from custody. If Britt and her fellow Republicans are so worried about continued incidents of immigrant terror, like the murder of college student Laken Riley by an illegal immigrant in February, another of her immigration talking points, then they should be most concerned with increasing funding to the organizations that can actually stop these incidents. Instead, they will inevitably continue to focus on scaring the American people instead of helping them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of <em>Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7, U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) issued the Republican Party\u2019s response to President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union Address. 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