Biden tries to blame Trump, GOP for border crisis — but Fox News reporter pulls out the facts to rain on his parade

President Joe Biden tried on Tuesday to blame Donald Trump and the Republican Party for the border crisis — but the attempt quickly failed.

For years, the Biden administration denied there is a crisis at the border and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly claimed the border is "secure." The White House has stood on these claims despite overseeing record-setting illegal immigration.

But Biden is now trying to blame Trump and the GOP for the crisis that unfolded under his watch.

In a speech about the so-called border bill — which gives three times as much taxpayer money to Ukraine than to the border crisis — Biden asserted that if the bill fails to become law, Trump and Republicans are responsible for the chaos at the border.

Biden said:

If the bill fails, I want to be absolutely clear about something: The American people are going to know why it failed. I will be taking this issue to the country. And the voters are going to know... Trump and the MAGA Republicans said 'no' because they're afraid of Donald Trump, afraid of Donald Trump.

Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends.

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Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, who has covered the border crisis for years, quickly fact-checked Biden's "obviously false statement," listing actions Biden took that directly exacerbated the migrant crisis.

"Biden ended the national emergency declaration at the border," Melugin explained, "ended wall construction, ended remain in MX & safe third agreements, announced he wouldn’t deport anyone in his first 100 days, changed ICE priorities on who they can remove, said during campaign we should 'surge the border with asylum seekers — they should come!'"

"His DHS Secretary has taken the position that just being in the U.S. illegally is not grounds for removal," he continued. "Mass catch and release on a scale the country has never seen, [m]iniscule amounts of deportations, not following current Title 8 laws on the books. Little to no consequences for illegally crossing."

But if recent polls are to be believed, there is no chance that voters — who have witnessed three years of Biden's mismanagement of the border — will believe Biden's new narrative.

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) confirmed on Tuesday the bill's quick and decisive death.

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