A rancher from New Mexico expressed his thoughts that none of the Republican presidential candidates had a “concrete plan” in order to secure the border.
Russell Johnson broke down each of the candidates’ responses regarding the ongoing border crisis in the United States during an interview on Fox News with host Carley Shimkus on Thursday, noting that you will “hear a lot of campaign promises” that candidates hardly follow through with.
“There was no candidate really that stuck out to me,” Johnson said. “Everybody said basically the same thing, ‘Let’s secure the border,’ but there was never any concrete plan of how they were going to do that.”
Johnson explained that it would “take more than just finishing the wall.”
“There’s a lot of other aspects of this issue that are going to need some house cleaning done,” Johnson said citing immigration and labor reform. “It’s going to take a lot more than just this wall.”
Each of the Republican presidential candidates had a different response on how to deal with the border crisis. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said he would “close the southern border” while other candidates such as South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R) suggested firing “the 87,000 IRS agents” and instead doubling the amount of Border Patrol agents.
When asked by Shimkus about how Johnson felt about Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promising to send special forces across the border to deal with the cartels, Johnson expressed that it was a “slippery slope.”
“I don’t really know what to think about that,” Johnson said. “That’s a slippery slope in my opinion, it hits kinda close to home.”