Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and candidate for the Republican primaries, warned that the country is at "significant risk" of a terrorist attack due to the management of the border crisis.
"I don’t think we have any clue because of Biden’s failures exactly what the extent of the risk is, but there’s clearly been significant risk imposed on the American people because of the open border," DeSantis said during an interview with The Daily Wire following the attacks by the terrorist group Hamas in Israel.
"And so the question is, are you trying to tell me that people that want to do us harm — whether nation states or terrorist groups — are not going to take advantage of that and try to exploit it? And I’ve said publicly before this thing had even happened with the tragedy in Israel, there will be unfortunately, if I had to bet, there’d be a terrorist attack that occurs in the United States at some point in the future that we’ll be able to tie back to the open southern border," DeSantis added.
The Republican candidate counted "7 million" illegal immigrants who have entered the country since Biden became president. "We don’t know who these people are," he said, but what is known is that "they are coming from all over the world," such as "Russia, China, Iran and other places in the Middle East."
DeSantis targeted Biden for the attack on Israel
Regarding the attacks perpetrated by Hamas against Israel, the Republican candidate assured that the Biden administration's "easy on Iran" policies have only benefitted Tehran, which has "helped fund this war":
Israel is now under attack by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists. Iran has helped fund this war against Israel and Joe Biden's policies that have gone easy on Iran have helped fill their coffers.
We are going to stand with Israel as they root out Hamas and we need to stand up to… pic.twitter.com/FENQtAxiDE
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) October 7, 2023
The terrorist attacks have already left more than 700 Israelis killed and more than 2,200 injured since they began on Saturday.
