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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and a member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, spoke at the weekly Senate Republican Leadership press conference about President Biden’s recently announced executive order to address the southern border crisis. During her remarks, Senator Capito highlighted effective actions to deter illegal immigration that she witnessed during a recent Congressional Delegation (CODEL) trip overseas.

HIGHLIGHTS:

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: “As we saw just a short time ago today, that President Biden has just finally tried to, at least, put a face on that he is trying to meet the challenges at the border. And you know, instead of talking about what we're doing here in the Senate, we should have been talking about seriously addressing this issue, and the president should have been doing what he's doing today several years ago to stop the flow.”

INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLE: “We went with congressional members over to do a national security congressional trip. Our first stop was Finland. Finland has an 800 mile border with Russia. And guess what they did? They shut down their border in Finland because Russia was sending plants and scurrilous individuals across the border into Finland, to get into Finland, and into Europe and then into wherever they want to stir up trouble. Finland finally decided they'd had enough. So we went out to see the wall they built. It's a metal wall. It's about 15 feet high. It's got wire on the top. It's got all kinds of security cameras...they shut down the entry points, and guess what? Nobody's entering Finland on that border. Nobody.”

LESSON FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN: “So you can have policies, if you have the will and you believe in the danger that unchecked immigration into your country can really – what the challenge of that is and the security of that. So I think President Biden maybe ought to take a trip over to Finland and see exactly how they're doing it, and how effective it is, and how it could be used here in the United States to move forward with our legal immigration and make sure that the flow stops.”

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