Explaining the Right: Why the GOP loves lying about an 'open border'

Following the terrorist attack in New Orleans, Donald Trump is once again fearmongering about “open borders.” Referencing a false Fox News report that the network later retracted, Trump alleged that lax border policies under the Biden administration are to blame for the attack.

The rhetoric was a return to form for Trump and other Republicans, like Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who have used immigration as a convenient talking point to attack Democrats.

But the right’s claim that the U.S.-Mexico border is somehow “open” is completely untrue.

President Joe Biden hasn’t opened the border, nor have any prominent Democrats—even those significantly more left than Biden—suggested that the border be “open.” What Biden has done, however, is rescind or rein in many of the harshest border-related policies that Trump implemented during his first term.

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