Yesterday, Democratic hacks masquerading as journalists in the form of ABC’s Martha Raddatz debuted a new ridiculous explanation for the wide-open border welcoming a flood of gangs, drugs, criminals and even terrorists — it’s the GOP’s fault for pointing out the problem!

Watch Martha Raddatz try to falsely blame Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, and Donald Trump for the border crisis that Joe Biden created. pic.twitter.com/TGF7czB1mL

— MRCTV (@mrctv) December 19, 2022

Now, the White House has picked up this counter-factual angle.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: “It would be wrong to think that the border is open. It is not open.”

THE BORDER:

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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 19, 2022

All this is unfolding as Title 42 is on the chopping block.

“There’s estimates of 50,000 migrants in Mexico waiting to cross if Title 42 ends…”

KJP: “Smuggers will try to spread misinformation…the removal of Title 42 does not mean that the border is open. Anyone who suggests otherwise is simply doing the work of these smugglers.” pic.twitter.com/w749voXXV5

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 19, 2022

The governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, is still joining ihs fellow GOP governors to call out the problem — and note that the Old Dominion is a thousand miles from the border, but Joe Biden has made every state a border state by spreading the damage nationwide.

VIDEO – Gov. Youngkin: ‘We Have a Catastrophic Situation at Our Border…We Have Got To Extend Title 42’ https://t.co/tUd69fNLqO

— Grabien (@GrabienMedia) December 19, 2022

NEW: Video provided to @FoxNews by TX Congressman @RepTonyGonzales shows extreme overcrowding at the Border Patrol Central Processing Center in El Paso, TX. Congressman Gonzales says he took the video on Friday, when 4,600 migrants were in federal custody. Capacity is only 1,040. pic.twitter.com/dpvH0NNseJ

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 18, 2022

NEW: Our @FoxNews thermal drone over part of another group of several hundred migrants that crossed illegally into Eagle Pass, TX early this morning. The consistency here has been almost nonstop going back to the spring. Large groups almost every day, sometimes multiple per day. pic.twitter.com/mwpnW7dSHH

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 19, 2022

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