National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd accused the White House of continuing to “deflect and lie” about the situation at the southern border on Saturday.
Judd accused the Biden administration of “trying to set a new normal” regarding illegal crossings and the smuggling of illegal drugs into the United States. Judd also claimed to Fox News that the media are covering for the White House by not investigating the administration’s handling of the border.
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“They don’t have to make changes if the American public isn’t upset about what’s going on,” Judd said. “But let me be clear: What we’re seeing on the border is nothing more than chaos, and it’s allowing these cartels to bring in the fentanyl. All illegal immigration is doing is facilitating the trafficking of higher value products such as drugs, criminals from special interest countries, or criminal aliens from countries, and that’s dangerous to the American people.”
Judd also addressed recent data from Fox News regarding the Del Rio Sector of the border, which had 10,343 illegal crossings, 5,903 known gotaways, and six sex offenders arrested in a span of seven days. The National Border Patrol Council president claimed the U.S. is “seeing this everywhere” across all nine borders and that, historically, only 30,000 to 40,000 should be seized at the border per month. It’s up to 200,000 people being seized at the border every month.
NEW: Border Patrol in Del Rio sector report that in a single 7 day stretch last week, they had:
– 10,343 illegal crossings
– 5,903 known gotaways
– 6 sex offenders arrestedCBP sources tell me the Del Rio sector alone has already had 34,000 gotaways since 10/1. @FoxNews
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) November 23, 2022
To address these problems at the border, Judd recommended bringing more judges to the border and reinstating the “Remain in Mexico” program, which he claimed allowed the U.S. to drop illegal immigration to “45-year lows.” He also suggested that the Biden administration “take the handcuffs off of Border Patrol agents” to start prosecuting people for crossing the border illegally because the council is “not prosecuting anybody” right now.
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On Tuesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called for President Joe Biden’s secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to resign or face impeachment proceedings in the new year, when the GOP will take control of the House. McCarthy said that if Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas does not leave his post by Jan. 3, House Republicans “will investigate every order, every action, and every failure and determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry.”
McCarthy added that he will have members of Congress travel to the southern border for committee hearings.
