Graham also broadcast the myth that the southern border is a likely point of entry for terrorists
Graham speaking about the migrant crisis in May 2019. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images On Friday, Vice-President Mike Pence and Republican Senators Linsdey Graham, John Cornyn, and Mike Lee visited two migrant detention centers near the border in Texas. According to their posture in a widely-shared photo, the two were not filled with sympathy at the sight of detained migrants living in conditions that a recent Department of Homeland Security report called a “ticking time bomb.
On Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Graham gave voice to his body language, saying: “I don’t care if they have to stay in these facilities for 400 days. We’re not going to let those men go that I saw.” The South Carolina senator framed detained migrants in a criminal light, saying it “would be dangerous” to release migrants “who have been here before” and “broke the law before.
Graham, who said that “this was not a concentration camp that I saw,” also repeated an unsubstantiated myth broadcast by the president and DHS during the shutdown: the idea that the southern border represents a point of entry for terrorists. “A terrorist could easily get in this group,” Graham said in a call similar to the president’s language from January: “We have terrorists coming through the southern border because they find that’s probably the easiest place to come through.
In another widely shared moment from the visits, a video shows Mike Pence looking without expression over the faces of a room of detained men who are separated by a chain-link fence, for which Pence was lambasted for appearing “callous” and “fake Christian.” “And while we hear some Democrats in Washington, D.C., referring to U.S. Customs and Border facilities as ‘concentration camps,’ what we saw today was a facility that is providing care that every American would be proud of,” Pence said at the McAllen detention center. On Twitter, he added that “we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.
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