The brutal terror attack that Hamas launched against Israel last week is intensifying Republican concerns about what they see as an unsecured border and a historic migrant crisis that has left Border Patrol agents overwhelmed.
“We are vulnerable when we have all these military-age men coming in. Do you think that our enemies have not been looking at that weakness?” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on CNN this week.
DeSantis pointed to border encounters of migrants from Iran, Russia, China and the Middle East: “That is not good for the security of this country.”