Long-shot Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) slammed President Joe Biden over his approach to immigration.
Phillips slammed Biden during an appearance in New Hampshire on Friday, where he alleged that the president’s administration had failed to manage the southern border properly and that the issue was not being handled appropriately by Democrats as a whole.
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“Right now, having been to the southern border twice, it is not secure,” Phillips said, according to Fox News. “It is inhumane. It is not fair to those who are seeking refuge.”
“It is not fair to our border patrol agents who have shown extraordinary mercy and humanity in ways that I wish more Americans saw. And they’ve been demeaned by Democrats,” Phillips added.
The three-term House member fixated on international aid, which he argued is being wasted. “It fuels corruption in a lot of places. Why do we not invest in the very countries from which migrants are coming because they’re persecuted, feel unsafe, or have no opportunity,” Phillips argued.
“Why don’t we use American resources upstream to invest in those countries, so people have a safe place, they have opportunity, they have shelter, and do not need to pour across our border?”
The House Democrat also earned the ire of several black congress members. Biden made a motion of good faith toward black voters by having South Carolina be the first state to vote in the Democratic primary this term. Phillips appears to have skipped it and is focusing on New Hampshire instead.
“Any serious Democratic candidate would understand that Black voters are the backbone of the Democratic Party,” Rep. Benny Thompson (D-MS) told the Hill. Thompson went on to call the gesture “disrespectful.”
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Other Democratic analysts argue that Phillips’s focus on New Hampshire may create a distraction and allow Republicans to divide the Democratic Party.
Philips is considered to have little chance of ousting Biden from his role as the leading presidential candidate due to a lack of name recognition. He launched his run for president on Friday in an attempt to offer an alternative to the significantly older president.
