Ten GOP governors gather at U.S.-Mexico border and call for building of Trump's wall [View all]
Source: AP
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts joined eight other Republican governors Wednesday at the U.S.-Mexico border to criticize Democratic President Biden’s handling of immigration issues.
The governors who gathered in Texas called on Biden to take a number of actions, including building a border wall supported by former Republican President Trump, requiring those seeking asylum to remain in Mexico instead of being allowed into the United States and prohibiting the entry of anyone who potentially poses a health risk.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn said in a statement that Reynolds’ trip to the border was nothing more “than a political stunt and a distraction from her failed leadership.”
Reynolds bristled when asked whether the trip was more about politics than confronting immigration issues.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-10-06/gop-governors-u-s-mexico-border
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