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Jason Smith

Jason Smith (R-MO) represents the eighth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Another preventable crisis

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Pure chaos. That’s the best way to describe the situation on our southern border. President Joe Biden has spent his entire presidency taking a sledgehammer to the Trump administration’s effective border policies. Biden inherited a border that was the most secure it had ever been, but within his first 100 days in office, he issued 94 executive actions impacting immigration — including ending construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall — something which had received bipartisan funding approval in Congress. As time would tell, Biden was only getting started — creating a border crisis that was entirely preventable.

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