ICYMI: Ex-Rep. Mondaire Jones backed radical border policies before changing tune

ICYMI: Ex-Rep. Mondaire Jones backed radical border policies before changing tune

In case you missed it…the New York Postrecently reported on Mondaire Jones' changing tune once again, this time about border security.

During his previous time in Congress, Jones backed "lax borders and criminal-migrant amnesty" but now that he is running in a purple district, he is trying to rewrite history once again.

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Ex-Rep. Mondaire Jones backed radical border policies before changing tune for NY comeback bid, GOP foe says
New York Post
September 29, 2024

The border crisis is emerging as a hot issue for the House seat in the Hudson Valley's 17th District, and Dem ex-Congressman Mondaire Jones' prior extreme lefty positions on it could come back to haunt him.

Jones backed lax borders and criminal-migrant amnesty during his previous stint in Congress before calling for tougher border security measures during his comeback bid to topple first-term Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in the district, which includes parts of Westchester and Rockland counties, records show.

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He voted against Republican-sponsored amendments to stop gang members and sex offenders from obtaining a path to citizenship, too - including migrants from the Tren de Aragua gang that is currently terrorizing residents of New York.

Jones also previously blasted funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and called the border-control agency a "racist institution" whose agents commit "unimaginable cruelty" along the border.

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But Lawyer's campaign claimed Jones is changing his stripes to hide his pro-open borders, pro-amnesty record.

"Mondaire Jones was ranked as one of the most radical politicians in the entire 117th Congress because of his extreme record. Mondaire supports Sanctuary Cities and amnesty for sex offenders and gang members while opposing border wall funding," said Lawler campaign spokesman Chris Russell.

"He also called for defunding ICE and attacked federal immigration officers as racists. Mondaire's votes and rhetoric created the current mess at our border, and he'd make it even worse should he get back to Congress," the Lawler rep added.

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