GOP congressmen invites Republican candidates to see border problems

 Karen Townsend:

Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican, represents Texas’s 23rd congressional district in the House. His district includes El Paso. He is bringing a delegation of Republican candidates running in battleground districts to El Paso this week. The purpose of their trip is to take a tour of the border and see the effects of Biden’s border crisis first-hand. They will also talk to law enforcement officials about immigration and border security.

On Friday, the delegation led by Gonzales will participate in a ride-along at the border. They will also receive a briefing by Border Patrol agents on the technology being used along the border. The candidates can meet with local residents and discuss the Biden economic downturn and the additional financial burdens that illegal migrants place on border communities.

The delegation includes an Air Force veteran running for Congress in Nevada, a battleground state, and two house candidates from New York. The inclusion of candidates from New York is clever. The decision by Governor Abbott to bus illegal migrants from the overcrowded and overwhelmed Texas border with Mexico to New York City has Democrat officials in that city angered, even though Mayor Adams said that NYC is a sanctuary city. However, the Biden administration and DHS has been flying illegal migrants from the border to the state of New York since 2020. Where’s the outrage from Democrats over that?

But long before Abbott started busing migrants to the Empire State, the Biden administration was flying them free of charge to the Westchester and Stewart airports there, according to Colin Schmitt, candidate for New York’s 18th Congressional District. The flights began in 2020, were suspended, and resumed last April coming from border cities like El Paso, according to the New York Post. The migrants being flown there include minors and adults appearing to be in their 20s, the Post reported.

“The Hudson Valley’s representatives in Congress turned a blind eye to the Biden administration’s policy of transporting people who illegally crossed the southern border to the Hudson Valley,” Schmitt alleges on his campaign website, vowing to “put an end to Joe Biden’s open border policies.”

Another candidate from New York, Anthony D’Esposito, is former New York City police detective. He supports legal immigration but also law and order. D’Esposito wants to stop Democrats from giving amnesty to illegal migrants. According to his website, he also wants to secure the border to stop drugs, gangs and human trafficking from “invading our communities.”

The Republican candidate in Nevada, Sam Peters, is running against Rep. Steven Horsford, the Democrat who currently holds the seat. He supports legal immigration and has an 11-point plan to confront immigration reform. His plan includes finishing the border wall, making employment eligibility verification mandatory, and increasing penalties on businesses that hire illegal migrants.

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The delegation is coming at a time when all field operations by Border Patrol agents within the Del Rio Sector were suspended Sunday due to overcrowding at processing facilities. Let that sink in. The facilities are so overcrowded that there is nowhere to send the migrants when the Border Patrol processes them upon apprehension. According to a story published by Breitbart Texas, the Border Patrol was told not to patrol the border and the migrants are being released into the United States.

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There is more.

This captures some of the insanity of the Biden immigration policy.  It is a policy worthy of impeachment of both Biden and Mayorkas. 

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