When Republican House Homeland Security Committee Members Amplified White Nationalist Conspiracy Theories

Most of the Republican Members of the House Homeland Security Committee have amplified white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories over the last few years. Their rhetoric is inexorably tied to the “Great Replacement Theory” and multiple domestic terrorist attacks that have claimed the lives of dozens of Americans over the last several years.

• • Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), promoted the white nationalist conspiracy after July 2022 press conference, tweeting: “There’s an invasion at our southern border—there’s no other word that encompasses the heartbreak that is young girls being raped and fentanyl killing Americans.” 
  • Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), in one of the many, many times she amplified the deadly conspiracy Greene tweeted in July 2022, “It’s absolutely an invasion at our southern border and violation of the role of the federal government to the states, and it’s intentional. Impeach Mayorkas! Impeach Biden!
  • Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ),  echoed the white nationalist “invasion” conspiracy in a Twitter post with an endorsement for the Border Patrol union, he wrote “Proud to be endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council. We must secure the border and stop the invasion.”
  • Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX),  wrote: “The President has a Constitutional duty to protect states from an invasion—yet @POTUS is inviting record numbers of illegal immigrants, drug traffickers, criminals, and suspected terrorists across our border. Follow the Constitution. Secure the border.”
  • Michael McCaul (R-TX), promoted the white nationalist conspiracy to the massive Fox News audience in April of 2022 falsely claiming “we have an invasion in my home state right on the border every day”.

Why this matters:  

This invasion and replacement conspiracy has repeatedly been the motivating inspiration for repeated acts of political violence and domestic terrorism. It was chanted in the streets of Charlottesville in 2017, posted online before a man murdered 11 in Pittsburgh in 2018, shared in racist screeds before the murder in Poway and the murder of 23 in El Paso in 2019, believed by those who attacked the Capitol in 2021, and copied by the gunman who killed ten people in Buffalo in May of this year. 

While many of the Republicans, including those in the House Homeland Security Committee, have adopted rhetoric and versions of the “Great Replacement Theory” that are slightly less explicitly racist and anti-Semitic, their rhetoric furthers the same sort of dehumanization that paints non-white migrants as an existential threat.

Dr. Heidi Beirich, Co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, an expert on extremism, provided context on the messaging adopted by GOP leaders: “The ‘Great Replacement’ is one of the most dangerous white supremacist conspiracy theories that exists today. This lie has inspired mass murders around the world, including last year’s shooting in Buffalo, and also influences discriminatory and inhumane immigration policies. It’s incredibly irresponsible and dangerous for politicians and right-wing media to give a platform to these racist and anti-immigrant ideas that have propelled disastrous immigration policies.”

Two years ago, then GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy removed then Rep. Steve King (R-IA) from his committee assignments because of his use of white nationalist language. Now, it’s routine messaging for GOP members of key committees.

Outlined below is a running list of examples of Republican House Homeland Security Committee Members engaging in this dangerous rhetoric. 

GOP House Homeland Security Committee 

• Official Twitter

• • • 2/21/23 – Twitter: “Under Biden there have been over 4.7 million migrant encounters at the southwest border. That is more than the entire population of half the states in the United States.”

• Mark E. Green (R-TN-07), Chair

• • • 7/15/22 – Twitter: “I participated in a press conference with @RepArrington and many of our colleagues. There’s an invasion at our southern border—there’s no other word that encompasses the heartbreak that is young girls being raped and fentanyl killing Americans.”
    • 1/24/23 – Twitter: “1.2 million have evaded apprehension at the southern border. That’s more than the population of South Dakota. Let that sink in.”
    • 12/8/22 – Twitter: “Southern border crossings since President Biden took office equal the entire population of Los Angeles. How is that secure, Secretary Mayorkas?”
    • 7/18/22 – Twitter: “Texans are getting fed up. If they decide to declare an “invasion”, I will 100% support them. Clearly Biden, Mayorkas and Co. are refusing to act.”
    • 1/20/23 – Press Release: “Rep. Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the below statement on the release of the December monthly Southwest border encounter numbers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In December 2022, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had 251,487 migrant encounters at the Southwest border, which is greater than the population of Scottsdale, Arizona.”

• Michael McCaul (R-TX-10)

• • • 4/24/22 – Fox News Clip: “we have an invasion in my home state right on the border every day 2.5 million”
    • 4/24/22 – Dallas Morning News: “Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin, a former chair of the Homeland Security Committee, predicted a flood of 500,000 migrants crossing the border illegally in five weeks once Title 42 is lifted. That’s on top of 2.5 million people who have crossed illegally since Biden took office, a record-setting pace that McCaul characterized as an invasion.”

• Clay Higgins (R-LA-03)

• • • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border.
    • 3/6/19 – Hearing Clip: “73,000 American troops landed in the D-Day invasion. We have 76,103 – according to my numbers – apprehensions along our southern border last month. We have D-Day every month on our southern border.” 
    • 3/15/21 – Facebook: “Border crisis. Let’s call it what it is… an accommodated invasion. Violation of our sovereignty. A threat to our Republic. The Democrats own this. Some of us will push back. We’ll see. We shall see.”
    • 11/19/22 – Facebook: “Mexican border at the Pacific. If all Americans really knew how bad things are down here, I’m telling you every Democrat and RINO would be quickly removed from office. They’re rigging the system for a whole generation. We’re losing our country down here.”

• Michael Guest (R- MS-03)

• • • 10/25/22 – Twitter: “Fiscal year 2022 ended with almost 3 million encounters and gotaways at our southern border. That’s more than the population of 17 states including Mississippi. The Biden Administration has opened our border to the cartels and has completely failed to address the ongoing crisis.”
    • 10/26/21 – Twitter: “The total number of encounters on our SW border has surpassed more than 1.7 million illegal migrants. That number surpasses the population of over 10 individual states. Soon, @CBP will encounter more people crossing our southern border than live in the state of West Virginia.”
    • 5/20/22 – Press Release: “Total encounters under this [Biden] Administration, taking numbers since February of 2021, are 2,735,000 encounters — a number greater than the population of thirteen states — a number greater than the population of Vermont, Alaska, North and South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, West Virginia, Idaho, Nebraska, and New Mexico. At the current rate, next month it will eclipse three additional states, including my home state of Mississippi.”

• Dan Bishop (R-NC-09)

• • • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
    • 9/19/22 – Twitter: “That’s more than twice the population of Charlotte, NC. In less than one year.”
    • 10/25/22 – Twitter: “The invasion at our southern border is no accident. The Biden administration wants our border wide open.”
    • 12/19/22 – Twitter: “El Paso has declared a state of emergency – 84,000 illegal aliens have entered the city in less than 4 months. Not one place in the US has the resources to handle this invasion. With Title 42 expiring, it’s about to get much worse.”
    • 7/14/22 – Twitter: “We’re facing an invasion at the southern border, and ICE is running out of money – all while we’re funneling billions of dollars to Ukraine. Insane.”
    • 10/3/22 – Twitter: “More than the entire population of Charlotte, NC. And those are just the ones we know about. #Invasion”
    • 4/27/19 – Facebook Ad: “Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and the rest of “Wrong Dan” McCready’s crazy friends in Washington want open borders, sanctuary cities, amnesty and voting rights for illegal aliens.”
    • 9/30/22 – Press Release: “I cannot support any bill that kicks the can down the road to a lame-duck Democrat Congress. Biden and the Democrats have refused any and all opportunities to address the invasion at our southern border, and have continued spending at a breakneck pace despite the disastrous impacts on our economy.” 
    • 4/9/22 – Donald Trump Rally: attended the Save America-sponsored rally by Trump with Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn, Bo Hines, Marjorie Taylor Greene where it featured replacement theory in speeches. 

• August Pfluger, (R-TX-11)

• • • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50: Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
    • 6/8/22 – Twitter: “The Constitution clearly states that the U.S. Gov MUST protect states from an invasion—yet this admin is presiding over 2.5 million illegal encounters, increased cartel violence, and an influx of dangerous drugs into the U.S. @POTUS: follow the Constitution & secure the border.”
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “The President has a Constitutional duty to protect states from an invasion—yet @POTUS is inviting record numbers of illegal immigrants, drug traffickers, criminals, and suspected terrorists across our border. Follow the Constitution. Secure the border.”
    • 8/15/22 – Twitter: “4.2 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since President Biden took office. That is 13% of the population size of the state of Texas.”
    • 7/27/21 – Twitter: “50,000 WITHOUT a courtdate … that’s 50% of the entire population of my hometown of San Angelo, TX.”
    • 5/16/22 – Twitter: “Completely unacceptable. This is nearly 1/3 the entire population of my entire Congressional District in ONE month.”
    • 6/21/21 – Twitter: “There were over 180,000 illegal migrant encounters at the southern border in May alone. This is nearly one and a half times the population of Midland, TX—the largest city in my district. @POTUS and @VP must bring order to our border.”
    • 6/3/22 – Press Release: “Pushing President Biden to Protect States from Border Invasion. This week, I joined my fellow Republican lawmakers in urging the President to uphold his Constitutional duty to protect states—starting with Texas—from an invasion at our southern border.”
    • 2021 – Town Hall/MRT: Congressman Pfluger Warns Texans About Illegal Alien Invasion. “He also said the Biden administration was failing to carry out their constitutional duty under Article 4 of the constitution to protect the states against invasion.”
    • 8/19/22 – Newsletter: “This brings the total number of illegal crossings since President Biden took office up to over 4.2 million, including 800,000 illegal immigrants who escaped into the country undetected. To put that in perspective, that is the size of more than 13% the population of Texas.”
    • 9/9/22 – Newsletter: “Texas and other border states have suffered through over 4.2 MILLION illegal border crossings since President Biden took office, but elites in Washington, DC want it to remain a Texas problem. As a reminder, over 4.2 million migrants (13% of the population of the state of Texas) have illegally crossed the border.” 

• Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14)

• • • 6/8/21 – H.J.Res.50 – Recognizing that Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution explicitly reserves to the States the sovereign power to repel an invasion and defend their citizenry from the overwhelming and “imminent danger” posed by paramilitary, narco-terrorist cartels who have seized control of our southern border. 
    • 2/1/23 – NTD Impeachment articles against Mayorkas: “border is overrun, we are invaded every single day.”
    • 5/31/22 – Rep. Nehls’ letter to Biden: “Today, Congressman Troy E. Nehls (R-TX-22)—along with 32 Republican lawmakers—sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging he uphold Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution, known as the Guarantee Clause, which requires the Executive Branch to protect the states from an invasion.” – co-signer of this letter
    • 2/1/22 – Twitter: “There’s an invasion at our Southern border. It’s a national security crisis that puts America’s safety at risk. Today, the House Freedom Caucus will expose Joe Biden’s illegal actions and violations of our country’s immigration laws. WATCH NOW!”
    • 3/25/22 – Twitter: “These same “experts” and talking heads on tv, all claim they care about Ukraine’s democracy, Ukraine’s borders, and Ukrainian’s right to defend themselves. Yet none of them care about the daily deadly invasion happening every day on our border and the devastating consequences.”
    • 4/4/22 – Twitter: “It is the responsibility and duty of the federal government to protect every state of the union from invasion. Our Constitution demands & requires a secure border. Congress must impeach Joe Biden. By failing to do so, are we post-constitution and our laws no longer matter?”
    • 4/18/22 – Twitter: “Since Jan 2021, the Biden admin has released 750,000+ illegals into the US. Plus an est 500,000 who entered w/o being caught & 123,000 resettled unaccompanied alien children. More than the population of these states. But next month the real invasion begins when Title 42 ends.”
    • 4/20/22 – Twitter: “Instead of bussing illegal aliens into our country, @GovAbbott should send the National Guard of the great state of Texas to defend our Southern border. He could stop the illegal invasion that the Biden administration is fueling. Why won’t he?”
    • 4/20/22 – Twitter: “9. How about we just bring our troops home and place them at our southern border to stop the illegal invasion that you Democrats are fueling? Bc the drain on American taxpayers paying for illegals being let in our country is outrageous! Just a few ideas to start.”
    • 4/24/22 – Twitter: “This must be investigated & every single person must be held to full accountability. All who swore an oath must uphold our laws & PROTECT our nation’s border. Those ENABLING and ALLOWING this ongoing invasion & attack on our agents & breaking our laws are breaking their oath.”
    • 4/27/22 – Twitter: “The bishops are also busy destroying our nation using taxpayer money to advocate for the illegal invasion across our borders. They dare to dress up Democrat vandalism and lawlessness as somehow “religious,” which perhaps explains their distaste for me. 13/”
    • 5/10/22 – Twitter: “”Biden & Democrat’s America: Record high crime. Baby formula supply crisis. Daily border invasion of illegals & deadly drugs. Skyrocketing unaffordable inflation & fuel prices. No longer energy independent. Politically targeted federal law enforcement. Ministry of Truth.”
    • 5/12/22 – Twitter: “The @washingtonpost and the rest of the media are obsessed with another country while America faces crisis after crisis created by Joe Biden and the Democrats. Why don’t they care about the invasion at our border, skyrocketing inflation, and a shortage of baby formula?”
    • 5/25/22 – Twitter: “5. Democrats & our mentally incompetent POTUS Joe Biden are the same people refusing to protect our border from the dangerous all time high daily illegal invasion & are enabling record high human & drug trafficking endangering every American. They don’t care about your safety.”
    • 5/31/22 – Twitter: “3. Canada has an incredibly weak military & now with Trudeau’s gun grab, his people are left defenseless not only by a criminal attacker, but also defenseless against another country’s military invasion. This is a terrible violation of rights to innocent Canadians by their Gov.”
    • 6/20/22 – Twitter: “You are America Last if you legislate/vote to: Fund a proxy war with Russia to defend Ukraine’s borders while our own border is out of control and under siege from a massive daily invasion of human trafficking, deadly drug trade, & we have a border national security crisis. 1/7”
    • 7/3/22 – Twitter: “The Biden admin believes the most important border to protect is Ukraine’s border. They’re arming Ukraine with missiles that can strike up to 100 miles away and have moved NATO to high alert status committing 300,000 troops. Our daily border invasion.🦗🦗🦗And you pay for it.”
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “It’s absolutely an invasion at our southern border and violation of the role of the federal government to the states, and it’s intentional. Impeach Mayorkas! Impeach Biden!”
    • 7/5/22 – Twitter: “Hell yes it’s an invasion!! And it’s affecting our entire country! We need to impeach the very people enabling it to happen. #EndTheInvasion 
    • 7/7/22 – Twitter: “The NDAA gives $1 billion to Ukraine and ZERO DOLLARS to secure our own deadly border invasion. The US spent over $2 trillion fighting goat herders and mountain clans in Afghanistan over 20 years costing thousands of our military lives, and Biden pulled us out with nothing” 
    • 7/7/22 – Twitter: “of defending Europe, which Putin has said he’s not going to invade. This states the American taxpayer has to pay for and send our American military to defend Europe that is not under attack from Russia. While our own border is under invasion and Biden’s admin doesn’t care.”
    • 8/1/22 – Twitter: “It’s so pathetic that Democrat policies have led to out of control inflation, an out of control border invasion, & out of control crime sprees across America, but they have to roll Joe out on TV tonight while he’s Covid positive again so he can talk big without blinking.”
    • 8/2/22 – Twitter: “And with Ukraine barely registering in polls with voters, even angering most bc of the $54 billion Congress voted to spend while our country tanks in a recession, record high crime, & a national crisis from a Democrat approved daily border invasion, Pelosi is stepping in.”
    • 8/13/22 – Twitter: “in Congress to stop the daily border invasion, we do not want illegals bussed and dumped in Georgia. No state, city, or small town should be unnecessarily forced to provide the money and resources to care for migrants who most have been trained to abuse the asylum system.”
    • 8/13/22 – Twitter: “illegal invasion, I do not agree with any transporting of illegals and spreading them across the country. They need to be deported! But the Biden admin is not enforcing our immigration laws.”
    • 8/14/22 – Twitter: “There is no country on Earth that allows a daily invasion. There aren’t major wars happening and NO “climate change” isn’t causing this. We should cut off ALL FOREIGN AID to countries who won’t take care of their people. Biden’s entire administration SHOULD BE IMPEACHED. https://t.co/fwNNQmhPMR”
    • 8/18/22 – Twitter: “Thank you @TuckerCarlson for having our Sheriff Ray Cross from Dade County on your show to tell about the illegals getting off Gov Abbott’s buses in NW GA on their way to DC. No town is safe from Biden’s border invasion.”
    • 8/19/22 – Twitter: “Thousands of illegal aliens cross our border daily in Eagle Pass, TX. Picture taken yesterday morning. I wouldn’t have believed how bad the invasion into our country is if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes with @RepTonyGonzales.The towns, businesses, & people are overwhelmed.”
    • 8/19/22 – Twitter: “No other country on Earth allows a daily invasion of unknown people, deadly poisonous drugs, terrorists, human traffickers, and only God knows who and what else. We must return dignity and respect for our people and our laws by securing our border and enforcing our laws.”
    • 8/26/22 – Twitter: “I don’t respect you for leaving our border wide open allowing an invasion & deadly drugs in daily, arming the Taliban, wrecking our economy, killing our energy independence, & supporting killing the unborn & genital mutilation of children. Go to hell Joe.”
    • 9/1/22 – Twitter: “Killing babies up to day of birth. Mastectomies, hysterectomies, castration, puberty blockers for kids. Rogue weaponized DOJ & FBI attacking their political enemies. Wide open borders allowing a daily invasion of thousands of unknown aliens and drugs like deadly Chinese fentanyl.”
    • 9/2/22 – Twitter: “opened our border to a daily foreign invasion of aliens & deadly Chinese fentanyl, leveled our once great Trump led American energy independence, and your rogue federal forces in the DOJ & FBI that you’ve weaponized against President Trump and those of us who have his back.”
    • 9/9/22 – Twitter: “In a new Rasmussen Reports survey, voters by a margin of 52%-42% support impeachment. That includes 77% of Republicans, 50% of independents, & 32% of Democrats.” 10% for the big guy Border Invasion Arming the Taliban Most Americans want Biden impeached!”
    • 9/12/22 – Twitter: “Democrats:Wide open borders allowing a daily invasion of people, drugs, and anything pouring into our country. Republicans: Tightly controlled border security & ports, border wall, enforcement of immigration laws, stopping the flow of human trafficking and deadly drugs.”
    • 9/17/22 – Twitter: “Governors should have the same right as Martha’s Vineyard. They should be able to deport illegal migrants out of their states and out of the country. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Mayorkis are enabling a massive daily invasion endangering all Americans. Impeach!”
    • 9/17/22 – Twitter: “Texas must declare an invasion. Once elected, @KariLake is going to declare an invasion & the entire country will cheer for her. States should be able to deport illegals out of the country, not send them around the country as the only way to expose Democrat’s hypocrisy. 1/6”
    • 9/17/22 – Twitter: “by ending Trump policies that protected Americans & migrants by forcing them to remain in Mexico while awaiting asylum claims. The invasion into our country is also allowed by tying the hands of Border Patrol & ICE agents with policies that destroy their ability to enforce laws.”
    • 9/17/22 – Twitter: “Republicans must grow the courage to hold Biden & Kamala both accountable for their refusal to honor their oath of office and creating a national security & humanitarian crisis by willfully allowing this daily invasion into our country. They should be impeached.”
    • 9/17/22 – Twitter: “Texas @GovAbbott must declare an invasion. When Republicans take back power, we have to empower state governors to deport illegal migrants out of the country. No other country on Earth allows this. Texas could end much of the invasion almost on it’s own. Also, impeach Biden. https://t.co/I77ytIQYIY”
    • 9/26/22 – Twitter: “Biden is willfully allowing the daily invasion of our southern border and Chinese fentanyl is killing an average of 300 Americans per day. Fentanyl kills every identity and does not discriminate. Mayorkis is also willfully allowing the murder of Americans. Impeach them both!”
    • 9/27/22 – Twitter: “@KamalaHarris will travel anywhere in the world but our US southern border that is under invasion every day by thousands of unknown people & deadly poisonous fentanyl. Here she goes to South Korea & Japan, 2 countries that would never allow the same.”
    • 10/5/22 – Twitter: “Since Biden took office, approximately 5 MILLION illegal aliens have crossed our borders according to @FAIRImmigration. My Protect America First Act would lock the doors to our home and keep us all safe from the Biden-led illegal invasion. Save America!”
    • 10/5/22 – Twitter: “he is serving China and securing their economic power by forcing the US into complete dependence on the China controlled EV battery industry. All while funding a proxy war with nuclear Russia and purposely allowing a world invasion across our borders.”
    • 10/9/22 – Twitter: “I say it all the time. Joe Biden is the greatest business partner the Mexican cartels have ever had and the worst president we have ever had. We must end this invasion and restore stronger border security than before. Impeach Biden!”
    • 10/22/22 – Twitter: “”Democrats have created a complete open border national security crisis at our southern border. We must put the military at the border and stop the cartel’s daily invasion of human trafficking & deadly drugs. No other country in the world allows this. Impeach Biden & Mayorkis!”
    • 10/26/22 – Twitter: “Unless the US returns our military to its rightful role, which is the defense of the United States of America and puts our military at our border (not others), and takes the necessary actions to stop the daily invasion and fentanyl murders of 300 Americans/day, and..”
    • 11/3/22 – Twitter: “You have a Ukraine flag before your American flag and claim people should vote Democrat so American tax dollars can keep defending a foreign country’s border while our border is completely under invasion. Ok, Mr. former national security “expert” you go to the 🇺🇦 front lines.”
    • 12/6/22 – Twitter: “.@RepScottPerry calls out Connolly and points out the invasion at our southern border and how Americans can hardly pay bills but Connolly says transparency for Ukraine comes later. The American people can face an IRS audit but Democrats say Zelensky can’t. ”
    • 12/12/22 – Twitter: “and swiftly move our military to the southern border to protect our states and our people from the cartel terrorists. And I would warn Mexico. Stop assisting the cartel terrorists with the daily invasion into our states and poisoning of Americans for profit. But Biden is weak.”
    • 12/12/22 – Twitter: “America is fed up & disgusted with nonstop drama from Washington. $31 T in debt, daily border invasion by the 1,000’s & deadly drug’s poisoning our people, laws enforced on the people while elites always get off, & 24-7 nauseating politics. 222 Republicans better get it right.”
    • 12/14/22 – Twitter: “14,000 a day?!! This is an upcoming INVASION! And we are already being invaded every single day. The Biden admin completely created it. Impeach Biden!!!”
    • 12/17/22 – Twitter: “Mayorkas showed up in El Paso to address suicide awareness bc of the shockingly high suicides in Border Patrol, but he didn’t even go to the actual border to see the literal invasion, humanitarian crisis, and Biden policy failures causing them to be suicidal. Impeach Mayorkas!”
    • 12/17/22 – Twitter: “.@LeaderMcConnell you are the only Republican with any power right now. You must force the Democrats and the Biden admin to stop this impending invasion at the border and stop giving them everything they want in the Omnibus. Secure the border!”
    • 12/19/22 – Twitter: “It’s obvious that the entire Biden admin is dedicated to the global invasion of migrants into the US. They don’t care about US citizens and the fact that they pay taxes that fund the US government and their jobs. They don’t care about US citizens rights & safety.”
    • 12/19/22 – Twitter: “And you are a hateful racist if you dare speak out against the planned and intentional global invasion of America. You must pay for the migrants. House them. Clothe them. Feed them. Educate their children. Give them free healthcare. And of course, if the Democrats get their way”
    • 12/19/22 – Twitter: “the daily invasion at our border and the tremendous problems that it’s bringing. But in just a little while longer, everyone will know and will care. You can’t hide millions of migrants and the problems that come with them. How does it go? We’re all in it together.”
    • 1/31/22 – J.D. Vance campaign clip: Greene was with J.D. Vance on his campaign run while he spewed “invasion” rhetoric. 
    • 10/20/21 – Twitter: “The solution to the invasion at the Southern border, rapid inflation, empty grocery shelves, and tyrannical COVID mandates: #ImpeachBiden”
    • 9/21/21 – Twitter: “Joe Biden is responsible for the invasion at our southern border. My articles of impeachment will hold Biden accountable!”
    • 10/11/22 – MAGA campaign: “Joe Biden’s 5 million illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you, replacing your jobs, and replacing your kids in school and coming from all over the world. They’re also replacing your culture and that’s not great.”

• Nick LaLota,(R-NY-01)

• • • 2/4/23 – Twitter: “Aggressors who violate national borders without being confronted will continue to do so. The Biden Administration applies this rationale to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. It must also do so to America’s own southern border, territorial seas, and airspace. #NY01

• Anthony D’Esposito, (R-NY-04)

• • • Campaign Website: “By securing our borders, we will also help stop the drug trade, gang violence and human trafficking from invading our communities.”

• Josh Brecheen, (R-OK-02)

• • • 1/11/23 – Twitter: There is a failure of leadership from the Biden Administration to abide by Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution to protect our states against invasion. 2/2
    • 1/25/23 – Twitter: “Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution guarantees every state protection from invasion. This section of our Constitution is violated every day that the Biden Admin willfully refuses to stop the invasion at our border. Ready to get to work @HomelandGOP 💪”

• Eli Crane, (R-AZ-02)

• • Campaign Website: “There is an invasion on our southern border. Eli believes it’s time we gained operational control of our borders and empower border patrol agents.”
  • Endorsement from Sheriff Mark Lamb: “I am excited to endorse Eli Crane for Congress. Eli is the leader we need to stand up for Law Enforcement and secure the Southern Border. We’ve seen an invasion at the border with unprecedented human trafficking and drug trafficking flowing into Arizona that is crippling our communities and destroying American lives.”
  • 5/26/22 – Twitter: “Proud to be endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council. We must secure the border and stop the invasion. @BPUnion”
  • 10/4/21 – Twitter: “Absolutely despicable to see the invasion continuing on our southern border and our agents who are just doing their jobs falsely accused and threatened by Biden. Border Patrol Union’s Judd: ‘I’ve Never Seen the Morale Any Lower than It Is Right Now”
  • 8/10/21 – Twitter: “Good!!! Hold leadership accountable for their collective failure to keep Americans safe. #openborder #invasion ⁦@andybiggs4az ⁩ Rep. Biggs introduces articles of impeachment against DHS chief Mayorkas over border crisis | Fox News”
  • 5/9/22 – Interview w/ Steve Bannon: “He has referenced “an invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border. In a May 9 interview with Steve Bannon, Crane said money meant for Ukraine aid would be better used to halt illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.”