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Katie Britt used a decades-old example of rapes in Mexico in GOP response to Biden

In the Republican response to the State of the Union, Britt used a harrowing account of sexual abuse to attack Biden's border policies, but the rapes happened in Mexico before Biden became president.

The Republican senator who gave the party's response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration.

First-term Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama in the GOP response criticized current immigration policies, describing how she

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