With expectations low for his performance at Thursday night's State of the Union address, Joe Biden's apologists have had an easy job of managing those expectations, informing voters that Biden's rare ability to string together two coherent sentences at a time and to woodenly lean into the Dark Brandon memes are evidence that the President, at 81, is fit to lead the country.
Hot on the minds of many Americans will be what Biden does and does not say during the SOTU about the worsening border crisis, especially in the aftermath of the tragic death of 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, allegedly at the hands of 26-year-old illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra.
Riley's murder has sparked a national outcry and fresh debate over the Biden border crisis, with his critics pointing to her case as just one of all too many examples where illegal immigrants take advantage of Biden's lax policies as well as those in Democrat-run sanctuary cities, and end up victimizing people in the process.
Biden has yet to say Riley's name, and the Biden White House is refusing to say whether he'll reference her Thursday night during his speech, even in the aftermath of the GOP-led House passing an illegal immigration bill - the Laken Riley Act - in her honor, with 170 House Democrats voting against it.
Understandably, this has not sat well at all with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who posted a video on Twitter showing how the Biden White House was able to get a fence put up "in the dead of night" surrounding the Capitol building in advance of his address to the nation, but yet still won't secure our borders:
When the government wants security, they’re able to provide it in the middle of the night, but they REFUSE to provide it for the American people.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 7, 2024
If Joe Biden secured our Southern border, Laken Riley would still be alive.
The State of the Union is Laken Riley. #SOTU pic.twitter.com/AH8LlHwPzJ
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) was another who pointed out the hypocrisy:
Joe Biden has a fence up to protect him during the #SOTU tonight.
— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) March 7, 2024
But won’t finish the wall at our southern border to protect Americans.
Protection for him, not for us. pic.twitter.com/1dx85hWigM
It's amazing, isn't it? I mean it's like pulling teeth to get them to even acknowledge there's a crisis, and yet when they do it's always to say "It's because of Republicans." Meanwhile, in a matter of hours, the perimeter of the Capitol building can be secured for members of Congress, the President, and his administration
Security for me but not for thee is the message sent here, and it's a terrible look, made all the more terrible by the Democrats' savagely cruel indifference to the plight of Laken Riley and others like her who may still be alive today if Democrats cared more about keeping Americans safe than pandering for the Latino/Hispanic vote.
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