Harry Reid claims 'border is secure'; Apparently he said this with a straight face

Yes, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, thinks the U.S.-Mexico border is secure:

The border is secure,” [Reid]  told reporters after the Senate Democrats’ weekly policy lunch. “[Sen.] Martin Heinrich [(D-N.M.)] talked to the caucus today.  He’s a border state senator. He said he can say without any equivocation the border is secure.”

Reid said lawmakers need to worry less about border security and focus instead on President Obama’s $3.7 billion request to help process the tens of thousands of children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador who have been apprehended on the border.

Oh, good grief.

Sen. Harry Reid assures Americans that the border is secure: http://t.co/3EoqjXmEt8 The man has descended into self-parody

— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) July 15, 2014

A group of illegal immigrants the size of Newark has walked across our border. You call that secure? #IDontThinkSo http://t.co/Cvvb6u24bh

— Rep. Scott Rigell (@RepScottRigell) July 15, 2014

https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/489146728726405120

Harry Reid as the new Baghdad Bob "The border is secure"

— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) July 15, 2014