Sen. Britt, If You're So Concerned About the Border, Tell Your House Colleagues to Past the Border Security Bill Now.
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@sunsporter1649 [b]This just in:[/b] During her kitchen-side rebuttal, Britt recounted a trip to the Del Rio sector of the Texas border where she paints a picture of a conversation had with a person believed to be Karla Jacinto Romero, who was sex trafficked in Mexico — not the United States, as the senator suggested — from 2004 to 2008, twenty years before Biden became president, per CNBC's coverage of journalist Jonathan Katz's sleuthing.
[quote][quote] As a rhetorical device, it would be hard conjure up a more powerful and resonant example. But the story was highly misleading and improperly contextualized.
The woman referenced by Ms. Britt was, in fact, never trafficked across the border, nor has she sought asylum in this country. And her harrowing experience took place between 2004 and 2008, while a Republican, George W. Bush, was in the White House and President Biden was still a senator.
In other words, it had nothing at all to do with the current administration’s border policy. But that didn’t stop Ms. Britt from inflaming public fears about immigration and placing blame at Mr. Biden’s feet. [/quote][/quote]
[quote][quote] As a rhetorical device, it would be hard conjure up a more powerful and resonant example. But the story was highly misleading and improperly contextualized.
The woman referenced by Ms. Britt was, in fact, never trafficked across the border, nor has she sought asylum in this country. And her harrowing experience took place between 2004 and 2008, while a Republican, George W. Bush, was in the White House and President Biden was still a senator.
In other words, it had nothing at all to do with the current administration’s border policy. But that didn’t stop Ms. Britt from inflaming public fears about immigration and placing blame at Mr. Biden’s feet. [/quote][/quote]