GOP senator claims Biden's COVID relief checks were used to 'lure' immigrants to US

[turbinetree]

By Amy Lieu -May 17, 2021 5:00 PM

Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty said cartels were marketing Biden's relief efforts and push for a higher federal minimum wage to recruit immigrants to make the trek to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty (TN) claimed recently that President Joe Biden's efforts to help everyday Americans survive the pandemic and economic crisis are emboldening cartels and smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border, even as his administration works to target their efforts.

Hagerty, who along with a congressional delegation took a trip to Mexico and Guatemala earlier in May, claimed in an interview with Fox News on May 13 that cartels were marketing the Biden administration's push for a higher federal minimum wage and COVID relief checks to "lure" immigrants to help them, in exchange for getting them into the country.

"They use that to lure people to risk their lives. More than half of the people are victims of crimes, [have been] robbed, or get into drug smuggling, sex trafficking," Hagerty claimed. "It's a dangerous, treacherous trip."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/gop-senator-tennessee-bill-hagerty-fox-news-claim-biden-covid-relief-checks-minimum-wage-used-to-lure-immigrants-to-us-border-cartels/

So my question is how did he get out of the US to fly down there to both countries when both of them had restrictions into the countries...did he get is covid shots and show them the card...and by some chance which right wing groups did he meet with...

[gohuskies]

1. Total rubbish - The Insurrectionist GQP is running out of bullets

Pres. Biden has bulletproof armor and support from the vast majority of Americans, yet all they can do is fling garbage to disparage the effort to get the nation back on to solid and normal ground. The GQP is a malignant Trumpist fascist party.

[Champp]

2. The GQP? Nobody listens to them because they lie all the time

So just chuck this bumwad republiQon lie into the toilet with the rest of the unending cascade of republiQon lies.

[royable]

3. The Party of NO-to-Anything-That-Will-Improve-Our-Country-Because-It-Will-Attract-immigrants

God forbid we should have a country that people want to live in.