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WASHINGTON – Majority Whip Tom Emmer today slammed Joe Biden’s visit to the border as “another cleaned-up photo op,” following a disturbing wave of violent crimes due to the Biden administration’s open-border policies.

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Whip Emmer: “Today, as Representative Van Duyne just reminded us, President Biden is heading to the border for what I am confident will be another cleaned-up photo op. While Joe Biden is busy making empty promises at our border, the rest of the country is being forced to deal with the consequences of his neglect. At this point, we all know the numbers. There have been 8.7 million illegal crossings nationwide. That doesn’t even include the known gotaways since Joe Biden took office. This is what we know of. The president also knows the numbers and still does nothing to protect innocent Americans from this invasion. So now we need to talk about the people. We need to talk about the real-life victims of Biden’s border failures. We need to talk about the 2-year-old who was fatally shot earlier this month. We need to talk about the 14-year-old girl in Louisiana who was raped. And we need to talk about Laken Hope Riley who went for a run on her college campus and never came home. The alleged perpetrators in each of these attacks? Illegal immigrants. These are just a few of the innocent Americans who’ve been victimized because of Joe Biden’s open-border policies. I know I’ve said it before, but enough is enough. I’ve had enough. Our majority has had enough. The American people have had enough. The question remains: How many innocent people have to suffer for it to be enough for Joe Biden to say it’s enough and take action? The time for photo ops is over. The time for action is now.”

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