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Senator Katie Britt’s Lie: ‘The Cartels’ Did It
They didn’t. Nor did Biden administration policies cause crimes in Mexico 20 years ago.
On March 7, following President Biden’s State of the Union address, U.S. Senator Katie Boyd Britt — elected in 2022 to represent Alabama — gave the Republican response. In her speech, she shared an anecdote that included one sentence that graphically describes sexual violence. She began:
“We know that President Biden didn’t just create this border crisis. He invited it with 94 executive actions in his first 100 days. When I took office, I took a different approach.”
Senator Britt describes her conversation with a Mexican woman who had been sex trafficked in Mexico. This happened 20 years ago, when the woman was still a young teenager. Kidnapped in 2004, she was held for four years. (For geopolitical context, we might note that George W. Bush was then in his second term as President of the United States; however, the crime against this teenage girl had nothing to do with the United States.) The teen was rescued in 2008.
Britt continued:
“We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a Third World country. This is the United States of America, and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it. President…
