WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, today, as Congress continues to debate border security, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for The Hill slamming the Senate’s reported border bill which shows that Washington has totally lost touch with Republican voters, who are rejecting the failed deal. During a recent press conference, Senator Scott warned against allowing President Joe Biden’s lawless, open-border policies to become law, which would make it much harder for the next president to actually secure the border and stop illegal immigration.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott wrote, “Last week’s reporting from The Hill is a perfect example of how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is preserving a Republican Party in Washington that has completely lost touch with our voters and the real world.

Nobody has done more for border security and is more equipped to say what works on the border than President Trump. Look at his record. Even as Democrats led an all-out war against him for four years, Trump secured the border by enforcing America’s laws and giving our brave border patrol agents the tools they needed to do their jobs. He didn’t sign new legislation to do this. He simply enforced our laws.

So why would anyone in Washington believe that Trump, the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and Senate conservatives should be totally cast out of the conversation about the alleged border bill?

The answer is simple. Trump and House and Senate conservatives represent the views and beliefs of Republican voters. Mitch McConnell and the Washington establishment don’t.

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Yesterday’s Republicans have cut enough self-serving deals with today’s Democrats. It’s time to move ahead without them.

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Republicans want a secure border. When I talk to Floridians, they want the border to get fixed today because they see how dangerous it is. More than 8 million people have illegally entered the United States since President Biden took office. Among them are hundreds of terrorists. It’s a catastrophic failure that is a real and present danger to American families, businesses and our national security.

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Securing the border requires forcing Biden to enforce the law. 

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That’s why McConnell’s plan to give Biden and Democrats a win that they can campaign on and claim they’re working to solve the border crisis is a joke.

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If you want someone to blame for a failure to get something done to secure the border, or provide lethal aid to Ukraine, Israel or Taiwan, blame Washington’s Senate Republican leader, who is totally disconnected with our voters and who would rather pass anything for Ukraine than actually secure our border.”

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