‘Absolute Catastrophe’: Speaker Johnson Tours US–Mexico Border in San Diego

Published on July 27, 2024

Amid partisan squabbling over Vice President Kamala Harris’s unofficial moniker of ”border czar” on the national political stage, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) toured the U.S.–Mexico border July 25 in San Diego County to draw attention to the border crisis. “We have an absolute catastrophe on the border, and it was engineered by the Biden-Harris administration,” Mr. Johnson said at a press conference after a whirlwind tour to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Imperial Beach and a known illegal crossing site also in San Ysidro, south of San Diego. A few illegal immigrants who had crossed over the primary border wall and were waiting for Border Patrol agents to bus them to a processing facility watched as Mr. Johnson delivered his remarks....

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