Dave McCormick calls out border deal, as he gets support from Central PA sheriffs

GRANTVILLE, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick received an endorsement from 47 sheriffs on Saturday.

That includes the sheriffs from Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Perry, and York Counties.

They say they liked his stances on police funding and the southern border.

McCormick used his time at a press conference on Saturday to talk about a border deal that was killed in the Senate this past week.

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He called the bill a "good faith effort," but said that President Biden needed to do more with his executive authorities.

The deal would have supplied the Department of Homeland Security $20 billion in border funding, and it would have ended the practice of "catch and release" for illegal immigrants.

"It sort of set in place a minimum of 4,000 illegal immigrants a day before any of the executive authorities went into place, even if the president would actually use them if they went into place, which is a whole separate question and that essentially codifies the idea that we’re; going to have millions illegal immigrants coming across our border every year and that’s the cost of doing business,” said McCormick.

McCormick is running against Sen. Bob Casey, he released this statement after the deal failed to pass the Senate:

Today we had the opportunity to pass the strongest border security bill in decades and Senate Republicans walked away. After insisting that border security was such an emergency that it needed to be addressed immediately, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are now brazenly admitting that this issue can wait until after the November elections.