{"id":68649,"date":"2021-06-11T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=68649"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:27:52","slug":"even-democrats-are-slamming-biden-harris-for-greatly-exacerbating-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=68649","title":{"rendered":"Even Democrats are slamming Biden-Harris for greatly exacerbating border crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Texas Democrat slams Biden-Harris response to illegal immigration crisis<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Emily Jacobs<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Congressman Henry Cuellar Addresses Border Crossings | MSNBC\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpJxd4vEcNw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A House Democrat is blasting President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the havoc the illegal immigration crisis is causing in his Texas border district, slamming the administration for shying away from \u201cuncomfortable\u201d but effective policies.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) made his remarks during an appearance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kpJxd4vEcNw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Thursday, where he slammed the Biden administration for creating \u201cincentives\u201d for illegal migration to the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely the incentives are there for the smugglers to keep trying to get people over here, they make $6,000 to $8,000 per person,\u201d Cuellar said, explaining how the crisis was worsening with time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s drugs or people. [Smugglers] make over the years billions of dollars, and we have to understand that if we don\u2019t take this incentive away and address both the push factors and the pull factors, we\u2019re going to keep talking about this year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/10\/henry-cuellar-slams-biden-harris-over-illegal-immigration\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/10\/henry-cuellar-slams-biden-harris-over-illegal-immigration\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Democrat slams Biden-Harris response to illegal immigration crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}