The House of Representatives voted to formally condemn President Joe Biden over his border policies (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Her legislative text targeted both Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, accusing them of having "created the worst border security crisis in the Nation’s history."
The resolution also accused the Biden administration of pushing asylum policies that critics argue helped fuel the border crisis, and that the administration "has purposely violated United States immigration law by refusing to detain inadmissible aliens arriving at the border."
The vote comes hours after House Democrats’ newly-created task force on border security held their first press conference calling for bipartisan solutions to the crisis.
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Volunteers provide migrants with dry firewood at a makeshift camp near the Jacumba Hot Springs on February 23, 2024, in San Diego, California. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has made the border crisis and immigration a central focus of his since taking the helm of the House GOP Conference in October.
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Earlier this year he led a delegation of more than 60 Republicans to the U.S.-Mexico border to call attention to the issue.
He also led the House through a historic vote to impeach Mayorkas in February. Prior to that a Cabinet secretary had not been impeached by the U.S. Congress since 1876.
Almost 7.3 million migrants have illegally crossed the southwest border since BIden took office, a number greater than the population of 36 individual states, a Fox News analysis found.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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