The migrant caravan heading north through Mexico is a symbol of "broken promises and failed policies by the Democrats," presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway said Wednesday.
"Every single Democratic senator has signed onto the (Dianne) Feinstein idea for open borders," Conway told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
"You have President (Barack) Obama fecklessly and recklessly trying to take credit for the Trump economy. He ought to take credit or blame for what we are seeing at our southern border. They did absolutely nothing to curb the influx of illegal immigrants coming over this border."
She admitted that she fears that many of the Honduran nationals traveling north were promised things that won't be delivered.
"You see the new statistics show that over half a million people try to cross the border illegally last year, and we have this increase in families trying to cross over," said Conway.
"We don't always know that they are family units. You can have one male grabbing someone else's kid and pretending to go ahead, they are a family unit. I'm very concerned even one of those happens. You know well it's happening."
Americans have a right to know who is entering the country, she added, but "Democrats don't act. They are completely radio silent on this."
Further, not only people are entering illegally, said Conway, as drugs are pouring in, with 90 percent of the heroin coming into the United States through the nation's southern border.
"The president, my boss, last January in the cabinet room for one hour on live TV said he would do a deal on the dreamers," she added.
"He wanted to end chain migration, end the visa, which is a lottery system. Get that wall built and he would do a deal on the dreamers. The Democrats never thought he would make good on that. He called their bluff yet again."
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