Lauren Boebert calls for alligators to be deployed at southern border
The Colorado Republican joked about supporting a new border policy which would include an alligator moat, an electric fence and sharpened spikes.
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And they're still pressing on the impeachment of Mayorkas.
Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert fired back at California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia's claims over Donald Trump's border policy, saying she would happily sign legislation that included "alligator moats" to secure the southern border.
During a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday to discuss the recent migrant surge at the southern border, House Republicans pushed forward their initiative to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, whom they have accused of failing to enforce U.S. immigration policies at the border. Mayorkas, who did not attend the hearing, rejected the accusation, while Democrats objected to the impeachment proceedings.
"The Donald Trump and MAGA plan is alligator moats, bombing northern Mexico, shooting migrants in the legs, and electrifying the fence, and putting spikes on them," Garcia said on Tuesday. "That is the Donald Trump border plan."
Mocking Garcia's intervention, Boebert, a MAGA Republican and longtime Trump ally, told the far-right, pro-Trump news network One America News on Wednesday that she would co-sponsor legislation like the one recapped by the Democratic representative on Tuesday.
"I do believe that Robert Garcia did present to the nation our newest border bill with the gators, an electric fence and spikes," she told One America News' Dan Ball, laughing. "Sign me up, just don't take any more taxes, but I'm for it," responded Ball.
"Sign me up, I will co-sponsor that legislation, I'm happy to," she said. "Also, I do think that the originator, the original man who claimed that we need gators and a moat at the border, was comedian Ron White, so I think we need to give some credit to him there. All jokes aside, this is a serious matter and we do need to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable."
Over the years of living near the border, I've heard some people come up with all kinds of inventive ways of keeping people out. It's beyond ludicrous, though I don't consider them serious proposals. But they do seem to provide a glimpse as to the kind of thinking that goes on when they actually do make policies and proposals.
We need to seek out more diplomatic and humane solutions. We do have to fix some serious problems at the border. I mean, we don't have these kinds of problems at the Canadian border, so maybe we ought to compare what we've been doing up there to what we've been doing down below. That might help give us better insight as to what the solution is.
Thoughts?