WILMINGTON, Del. – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) sat for an interview on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream yesterday, where he highlighted President Biden’s attempts to create a fair and effective immigration system using executive orders in the absence of congressional action. After Senate Republicans flip-flopped on an immigration compromise negotiated by several senators, including Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), President Biden introduced two executive orders to reform the asylum process and provide stability to undocumented spouses of American citizens who have lived here for more than a decade. Border encounters have fallen by as much as 25% since President Biden’s asylum order was enacted.

Senator Coons also highlighted the decline in crime that has occurred nationwide under President Biden. After peaking in 2020, violent crime has declined every year during the Biden administration, thanks in part to increases in funding for law enforcement that were included in the American Rescue Plan.

Senator Coons: The other executive order President Biden signed strengthens border enforcement and makes it harder for those coming to our southern border to seek asylum. On balance, we’ve already seen the number of encounters at the border go down as a result. But the stronger, more effective action to address border security and our broken immigration system would be real legislation passed by Congress. It’d be more permanent; it would bring more resources that would actually solve the problem. My friend, conservative Republican Senator James Lankford, and several others – Senators [Chris] Murphy and Kyrsten Sinema – put forward a bipartisan deal that would have done that a few months ago. It wasn’t signed into law only because former President Trump campaigned heavily against it the day before we took it up.

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I hope folks will pay attention to what the former president has said and done on law enforcement. He called for defunding the FBI. It’s the FBI that is enforcing federal laws and is helping make our country safer. We also have seen a significant drop in crime under President Biden, who has invested in law enforcement nationally. The American Rescue Plan funded federal, state, and local law enforcement at record levels.

Watch the full interview here.