By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph
WASHINGTON, DC — Calling it a matter of national security, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., wants border security issues to be included in an appropriations bill for Israel, Ukraine and Tawain.
Capito, who has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s immigration policies, said securing the southern border is a matter of national security. And she wants border funding and immigration policy changes to be included in a final appropriations bill.
“With 2.4 million (migrants) coming across the border last year and with the highest October ever, and the highest month ever in September — I mean these numbers are just exceedingly way, way over what could have ever been predicting coming across the southern border,” Capito said during her weekly virtual media briefing. “And we don’t know who they are. We know some of them are on the terror watch list. We know some of them are from countries that have terrorists.”
Despite the real threat of terrorists and drug traffickers crossing the border, Capito said President Joe Biden just keeps allowing more and more migrants to enter the country illegally.
“So in order for our national security interests to be served, we must have a four-prong approach here,” Capito said. “Israel, the border, Ukraine and Tawain.”
While some Republicans have soured on the idea of the United States continuing to finance Ukraine’s war with Russia, Capito said she still supports American funding for Ukraine — along with funding to support Israel’s war with Hamas.