The Biden administration is lying about the border crisis

 Rep. French Hill:

This month, I visited the southwest border for the seventh time in six years, and the conditions I saw in the Rio Grande Valley were the worst I have seen in any of my previous visits.

Despite what the Biden administration says, the administration’s policies, words, and actions have created the current public health, humanitarian, and security crisis at the border, and its refusal to take the crisis seriously is having a negative impact on our country. Since President Joe Biden took office, he has rolled back the Trump-era border policies and replaced them with absolutely nothing.

During my recent trip, I received a detailed briefing at the Donna Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, a facility overwhelmed with families and unaccompanied children. On average, 2,200 apprehensions occur per day in the Rio Grande Valley sector, and typically 500 of those processed are unaccompanied children. In my previous visit to the same facility in April 2019, I was told that 1,000 apprehensions per day was considered a disaster. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the facility should only hold 716 migrants. Yet, it is actively holding 3,500, and only migrants exhibiting symptoms are tested for COVID-19.

I saw firsthand why these border numbers are out of control. During a night patrol with Customs and Border Protection officials, I watched migrants, families, and minors being trafficked across the border into our country and then turning themselves in to Border Patrol. I even joined a river patrol with the Texas state troopers along the Rio Grande River and witnessed their patrol procedures unique to that terrain and region.

The White House, avoiding reality, continues to refer to this expanding crisis as a “challenge” and downplays its severity at every opportunity. On the border, national reporters were prohibited from seeing what we saw, making it impossible for all the facts to be revealed to the public. It has been nearly a month since Biden named Vice President Kamala Harris “border czar,” and she has yet to visit the border, come up with a plan, or even hold a press conference.

Instead, the vice president has chosen to visit a bakery in Illinois, a water facility in California, and a yarn factory in Virginia. Biden’s own White House border coordinator has announced plans to resign, and, shockingly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that “we’re on a good path at the border under the leadership of President Joe Biden.”

While the Biden administration refuses to address the crisis, let alone admit that there is one, House Republicans have been gathering a firsthand account of conditions at the border and urging the administration to address this crisis.

Former President Donald Trump took action at the border, and any efforts to address the crisis should include restoring some of the Trump-era border protection measures such as congressionally authorized border wall construction, the “remain in Mexico” policy for asylum-seekers, and the Northern Triangle agreements.

The Rio Grande sector is one of the busiest, most troubled sectors along the southern border, and Biden is willfully turning a blind eye while thousands of people are pouring across the border. Biden halted wall construction, jeopardizing security, increasing human trafficking, disrupting agricultural irrigation inside the levee, and allowing the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into our country.

This had made it possible for cartels to rake in $14 million per day in February 2021 alone, as I learned from Border Patrol estimates. Congress appropriated money for more than 100 miles of border wall along the Rio Grande Valley, and only 21 miles were completed. Even Biden’s own Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has floated the idea of restarting wall construction to “fill in the gaps.” One of the first things Biden should do is resume construction of the border wall.
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Biden seems too mentally challenged to comprehend how screwed up his policies are and incapable of taking responsibility for the effects of his policy.  He has turned the border over to the cartels and they are getting rich off of his screw ups.