Marine-turned congressman predicts Biden's handling of southern border to cost him 2024 election

As the 2024 presidential election nears, Republicans are sharpening their attacks lines on the chaotic and insecure U.S. southern border, seeing it as one of President Joe Biden's biggest vulnerabilities.

Many in the GOP have been urging the Democrat-controlled Senate and President Biden to pass legislation titled H.R.2, also known as the "Secure the Border Act."

This bill would immediately resume construction of the wall on the southern border, supply border patrol agents with resources and invest in technology for border security. 

"The Senate has literally sat on it," Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., said on the Just the News, No Noise TV show. "The president has sat on it. The president has no intention of making this into law. As a matter of fact, to the point where they say 'we're not even going to combine it with other things that we want, because we don't want any compromise in securing our border.'"

"This comes at a great political cost to him, and he is going to lose the election on this single issue, if nothing else," said McCormick, a Marine combat veteran and emergency room doctor before he joined Congress. 

According to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in October, there have been a total of 736 terrorist suspects stopped at the border in fiscal year 2023, part of the 3.2 million people who have attempted to enter the country illegally.

A poll earlier this month found a whopping 79% of Americans believe the situation at  southern border is either an "emergency" or a "major problem."  According to a poll conducted by Monmouth University last week, 69% of those surveyed said they disapproved of Biden's job when it comes to immigration.

Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said that GOP members of Congress have never been in a stronger position for border security and they cannot compromise now. 

"Right now we have our own war that we're fighting," Morgan said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "I use that word intentionally: war. We're fighting it on our own borders, and the cartels are our enemy."

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., recently announced he would be bringing articles of impeachment against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for his response to the southern border crisis.

Rep. Eli Crane, R-Az., told the John Solomon Reports podcast he thinks that Speaker Mike Johnson should hold out and get all of H.R. 2 in the budget deal.

"I'm the type of guy that believes that we could get a lot more than we normally get if we actually were willing to stand and fight," Crane said. "I don't usually see that from the Republican Party. It's one of my many, many frustrations. "It's not that there's not plenty of good people in the party. I think that there's just this attitude that we have to continually capitulate and kick the can down the road."

Morgan also slammed Senate Republicans who signal they want to compromise on border security.