Dem senator's claim downplaying border crisis resurfaces after staffer killed by illegal immigrant
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto told MSNBC that "there's no open border," just days before a migrant arrested in connection with the death of her senior adviser illegally entered the U.S.
"There's no open border," the Democrat Senator claimed. "As someone who was attorney general for eight years, my state worked very closely on the border with Mexico. There are no open borders." Aubrie Spady is a Production Assistant for Fox News Digital.
Just two days later, on March 12, 2021, an illegal immigrant by the name of Elmer Rueda-Linares reportedly entered at or near the Rio Grande City, Texas, Port of Entry without inspection by an immigration official, ICE confirmed to Fox News Digital. That same migrant would go on to be arrested in connection with the death of one of Cortez Masto's own senior advisers.
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