Former Biden official makes stunning claim about president's border policy

we are going to talk now more about the border situation in depth with the former head of border patrol rodney scott rodney thanks for being here you retired in august of this year that is correct thank you for having me brett appreciate it this makes you the highest ranking ex biden official to speak out but you also worked in the trump administration that's correct i started as chief in february of 2020 and then through the transition for the first seven months of the bite administration you've been at this for a long time though i started in san diego in may 1992. it's kind of an important part of my career though that's when uh the whole mass migration issue is going on nationally and then in 1994 is when the operation gatekeeper got kicked off and i had a front row seat to that as a young agent that was the forming years of my career if you will yeah so i'm 30 years as a civil servant dealing with border issues primarily obviously you've briefed both parties but you're not a political guy correct i've done my best to stay uh nonpartisan i've obviously have not hesitated to advocate for border security but i just lay out the facts without without politics well let's talk about the facts and what has changed from the trump administration border policies to the biden administrations now the real thing that's changed is the focus on border security in general and acknowledging that border security is critical to homeland security and actually trying to control the border the messaging has changed i personally participated in some of the transition meetings my staff participated in all of the transition meetings uh we made it very clear that if we dropped all of the initiatives that had been put in place over the last several years that we would get an influx of mass migration that we would not be able to control the current secretary my orcas he was part of dhs before he was ran cis he he clearly understands and knows how to control the border and what needs to take place so if that's all true then then what's the motivation do you think that's where you get into the politics i'm not going to speculate on what anyone's motivation is but i do know that they were briefed i was very clear there are people involved in this process that have been involved before and they're choosing not to take simple common sense common sense steps to secure the border can you for the average viewer at home articulate kind of the difference about what would happen if an illegal immigrant came when you were border patrol chief before january 20th 2021 and what happened after with title 42 and that was a health and human services regulation for covet you got to carve that that part of it out if you will they would be met at the border immediately fingerprinted photograph for records checks quickly and then expelled back to the country they came through it so during that time the vast majority of people were quickly expelled back to back to mexico or back to canada or other countries even where we had flights taking place to quickly get them out of the country and then keep america safe that was slowly chiseled away so right after the administration changed um there was some messages that went out if you will that we were no longer going to expel anyone under 18 unaccompanied minors so as soon as there's any vulnerability that we that we show or any certain class of people that we carve out to be processed under different uh different processes that are going to allow them to come into the u.s that will be exploited we saw that immediately with the unaccompanied children a couple of other decisions later there started expanding out vulnerable populations family groups coming through mexico that's increasingly were getting released into the u.s and processed under title eight instead of 42. that's families pregnant women and suddenly it was expanding beyond anybody under 18. and then that just continued to expand correct and what's the result of that the result of that is the message goes out and then instead of having a couple of hundred encounters a day we quickly went up to about six thousand encounters a day a little bit of misleading messaging in the in the public today too is they think this is just mexico or south america border patrol caught over caught people from 150 different countries coming through mexico into the united states this last year before i retired 150 different countries different countries coming through the border correct it's basically just think like football basically they fake a play over here and the real play is going to the left so when we get distracted with 15 to 20 000 haitians under a bridge that resulted in several hundred miles of border having no board virtual agents on it at all that's where the cartels push the narcotics through the criminal aliens people that will not give up we have over 400 000 documented got aways people or incidents where people cross the border and got away this last year and hundreds of miles of border where we have no idea what took place that's what mass migration creates you're talking about the cartels and moving all kinds of material but specifically drugs correct through the border so this look at the shiny thing over here happens every day it happens every day and it happens increasingly the more that they can distract the more that they can overwhelm our resources so for example in del rio the 100 of the border patrol agents for a couple of days were focused on that bridge but we also keep forgetting that's a big wide border mcallen is still out of control yuma is getting overrun by administration has claimed that the thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants that that they have released into the country over the last several months are being quote tracked and that they have implied that there'll be consequences if they don't show up for their court hearings is that true again it's a spin so i can't say that it's not true but i can say they're not all being tracked if they you're just by manpower just by manpower issues and if every single one of them are being tracked currently then that has to mean a hundred percent of fugitive operations got shut down and if they skip court i mean they're not even really allowed to just go after them for that correct that is accurate and ninety percent uh don't don't ever get deported how big a national security threat is it that that border i think it's a real real big issue so knowing that we have 400 000 documented got aways when we have less situational awareness than we've ever had before what we know about every single one of those is they did not want to meet a law enforcement officer they were not surrendering they were not claiming asylum they were doing everything they could they probably paid extra to be able to go through one of those gaps the cartel controlled so when you hear secretary mayorka say the border is as secure now as it was before what do you say that's just not true he knows what's going on and he knows that border is not as secure today as it was on january 19th talk about the border wall what were the instructions after the transition of administrations when it came to the wall so presidential proclamation came out and now it was a 60-day pause that publicly available we're supposed to do an in-depth study and then come up with a plan going forward as border patrol did its part everything that was done within about two weeks several briefings later there really hadn't not been any decisions made it went well beyond the 60 days many of those projects today are just still on hold so we're paying contractors uh for a while it was almost five million a day between dod and dhs just to not to not build the border wall there's five million a day to not build the wall to not build even though they have all the stuff they have there are stacks and stacks of border wall panels there's hundreds of miles of fiber optic cabling uh there's hundreds of of cameras that were being installed with that that are just sitting there's no action being taken so what do they say when the briefing is well this really helps us if we could just plug this in if we could just finish this thing what did they say we're not building more well there's no conversation there's not there's no adult dialogue if you will it's just it's just a black and white decision administration said we're not doing it so we're not doing it that money is just trickling away to those contractors for not doing work each day what is the border patrol morale it's struggling right now it really is struggling right now obviously this administration doesn't really support border security the current leadership within border patrol is doing everything they can to keep the guys focused that the mission matters when you heard president biden say this it was horrible what to see as you saw to see people treat it like they did horses barely running over people being strapped it's outrageous i promise you those people will pay they will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences there will be consequences what'd you think i was dumbfounded to take a word from somebody else i was it was i was outraged that all of a sudden due process goes out the window border security protects legal immigration and those guys know it that's what they've been doing and all of a sudden now due process applies to everybody else but not them and then all of a sudden our horse patrol doing what they're supposed to do which is prevent people from illegally entering our home are now the villains so it's frustrating it's very frustrating and do you hear that from guys i've taken quite a few phone calls it's very frustrating uh the the early retirements are going through the roof uh within border patrol it worries me tremendously we're losing a lot of experience rodney thanks we're going to have part two of this interview with rodney scott about the border border security tomorrow shannon we'll toss it back to you hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 05 2021

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