Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Immigration

	Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Immigration

FactCheck: Biden continued Trump's border funding & policies

[On increasing border security]: "President Biden inherited ...the most secure border in history. Yet the Biden administration refuses to secure the border and save American lives. President Biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies, and defend our people."

FactCheck by PolitiFact, 2/8/23Border security funding under Biden is comparable to funding under Trump's administration. Border Patrol staffing has remained fairly consistent despite long-term hiring and retention challenges. Immigration border laws and policies continue to be enforced under Biden's presidency. Despite halting the building of additional miles of barriers, Biden's administration has used previously appropriated funds to repair barriers and close gaps.

Source: PolitiFact FactCheck on 2023 State of the Union speech , Feb 8, 2023

Worst border crisis in history: drugs pouring in

Despite Democrats' trillions in reckless spending and mountains of debt, we now have the worst border crisis in American history. As a mom, my heart breaks for every parent who has lost a son or daughter to addiction. 100,000 Americans a year are now killed from drug overdoses, largely from fentanyl pouring in across our southern border. Yet the Biden administration refuses to secure the border and save American lives. Source: GOP response to 2023 State of the Union speech , Feb 7, 2023

Some immigrants are worse than animals

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' political ambitions for the candidacy for governor of Arkansas have been obvious ever since she departed as former President Donald Trump's press secretary, telling The New York Times in a 2019 interview that she felt "called" to serve as senator or governor.

She was known for her blunt answers ("frankly I don't think ['animals'] was strong enough," she told the press when asked about Trump's use of the dehumanizing word to describe "some immigrants"), her defenses of the indefensible (calling it "very Biblical" to separate migrant families at the border).

Source: The Week newsmagazine on 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial race , Jan 26, 2021

Pledges to defund sanctuary cities, already done in 2019

Sanders came under attack from [Lt. Gov. Tim] Griffin, who criticized her campaign video pledge to "prohibit sanctuary cities and cut off funding for cities that deliberately violate immigration laws." Griffin noted that [Gov. Asa] Hutchinson in 2019 had already signed into law a measure cutting off state funding to so-called "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement authorities. Source: Politico.com e-zine on 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial race , Jan 25, 2021

Defends sending immigrants to Democrat-led sanctuary cities

Q: Trump said he wants to bus migrants to sanctuary cities run by Democrats.

SANDERS: Certainly this wouldn't be our first choice. Democrats have stated time and time again they support open borders, they support sanctuary cities. So, let's spread out some of that burden and let's put it in some of those other locations if that's what they want to see happen and are refusing to actually help fix the problem.

Source: ABC This Week on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race , Apr 14, 2019

Defended family separation: very Biblical to enforce the law

[On immigrant family separation]: "On the children who are being separated from their families as they come across the border, the attorney general said there is justification for this in the Bible," said CNN's Jim Acosta. "Where does it say in the Bible that it's moral to take children away from their mothers?" Sanders said that "it is very Biblical to enforce the law," before blaming Democrats for refusing to close the "legal loopholes" that enabled the administration's new policy. Source: Rolling Stone magazine on 2022 Arkansas Gubernatorial race , Jun 14, 2018

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