ICYMI: Videos show what Mondaire Jones thought about border security before

ICYMI: Videos show what Mondaire Jones thought about border security before

In case you missed it… a new bombshell video shows Mondaire Jones championing "defunding" ICE when he ran for office in 2020

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Videos show what Mondaire Jones thought about border security before now claiming he wants it tightened
New York Post
October 28, 2024

Dem ex-New York Rep. Mondaire Jones claims he's for tougher border security as he seeks a political comeback - but he championed "defunding" ICE when he ran for office in 2020, recently unearthed videos show.

Jones - who is facing off against freshman GOP Rep. Mike Lawler at the polls in November - was asked by a leader with the New York Immigration Coalition in a Zoom call in 2020 whether he supported defunding the federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency and the US Customers and Border Protection Border Patrol agency.

"I'm in support of that," Jones said at the time.

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Outgoing New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the hard-left "Squad" member who lost his Democratic primary in June to Westchester County Executive George Latimer, also participated in the remote meeting.

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Jones slammed the increase in ICE funding again during another taped forum with the immigrant community in Peekskill - only he went much further that time.

He said he would fight to give the 11 million undocumented immigrants who came here illegally a "pathway to citizenship," which opponents slam as mass amnesty.

"I will fight to give a pathway to citizenship for all of the 11 million undocumented people in this country," Jones said.

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The political action committee for House Democrats is also running ads saying Jones is "working to secure the border."

The Lawler campaign said Jones can't be trusted on bolstering border security given his previous mantra to "defund" the agencies entrusted to do so.

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