House Republicans slam Biden admin border policy in press conference

judiciary committee the gentleman from uh california mr mcclintock well thank you jim thank you for organizing this thank you all for being here i must tell you in all of my years in the congress this has been the most disturbing field tour that i've ever taken uh yesterday we watched literally hundreds of illegal migrants crossing the border and turning themselves into the border patrol groups in the company of children who were under seven had their basic biometric information taken down and then dispatched to bus stations to continue into the united states unaccompanied minors or those who claim to be under 18 are taken into custody by border patrol they're warehoused in cbp holding facilities those are the covet incubators that you've been seeing in the pictures that have been smuggled out from these facilities until they can be transferred to hhs hhs then makes travel arrangements for them to be sent to their final destination often a family member who's already an illegal alien all are being waived in only single adults and groups with older youth that are being turned away but that's only because of title 42 which is effective only during the covet pandemic border patrol warns that when 42 goes away our border is completely gone and this is getting worse by the day 100 family units illegally crossed the border the week of the election by the week of the inauguration the number increased to eleven hundred family units it reached fifteen thousand the week ending march twenty fourth there were one hundred thousand total encounters with the border patrol in february folks that is the population of the entire city of south bend indiana in march that number grew to 170 000 that's the entire population of salem oregon and that doesn't include the one hundred and thirty thousand estimated got aways that's the entire population of cedar rapids iowa hhs just issued a memo we're told calling for sixty thousand beds and facilities for unaccompanied minors the average state for a minor we're told is 24 days that means they're expecting nearly 1 million unaccompanied meyers to enter illegally this year we are feeding the mexican crime cartels the crime cartels are taking in roughly a half a billion dollars a month through this human trafficking made possible by the president's policies illegal immigrants often arrive here deeply in their debt and in effect become indentured servants the debts are enforced by threats against family members who remain and the mass importation of young migrants gives these crime cartels a steady stream of new human resources for the gangs most chilling words that i have heard in this entire trip it was spoken by a border patrol agent who reminded us our border is your border these illegal immigrants don't stay in congregate and border towns they're on their way to communities all across the country they're guaranteed by the biden administration not to be deported even if they commit crimes in fact under his executive orders our entire country is now a sanctuary nation the terrible impact this will have on public safety local schools local resources housing supply public schools hospital emergency rooms and the ability of working class americans to earn a living will be keenly felt in every community in our country unless these policies change among his first acts of his president joe biden abandoned construction of the border wall he announced illegal immigrants would not be deported and he ended the remain in mexico policy for asylum seekers this sent a powerful message across the third world gallup estimates there are 42 million people in latin america and the caribbean who want to come to united states and now they can and now they are thank you tom uh congresswoman sparks from indiana thank you thank you for being here uh i can tell this is my second trip to the boredom in the last few weeks and i can tell perverse incentive and lack of leadership from this administration create a real serious crisis at the border and it's really escalated it and there is a lot of discussion is it crisis or not so let's just talk about some numbers 40 of our body patrol agents are busy processing people and changing diapers it means that they cannot do their job protecting the borders what does it mean it means that mexican control cartels are controlling the border it means that we have thousand people just at this location per day crossing the border that they see them on the video but they cannot act to that it means that they're so overwhelmed that they had to release 12 000 families 10 000 people in the country without going to processes that has to happen is that not a crisis we saw terrorists trying to cross the border recently this is a national security and humanitarian crisis let's look at some other numbers we have cartels making almost half a billion in a month on human trafficking and making these people into slaves we have a situation where six times increase in drugs smuggling across the border that is not a crisis we have a situation where parents send six and eight-year-olds kids to cross the border these kids are crying because we created perverse incentives if i would be sending my two teenage daughters in through the water and also let them to sit in pots they have instead of 33 people have over 500 people i would be in jail as an american mother so that is not a crisis and this is crisis not a texas crisis this crisis is coming to indiana and all other states because we don't have a border from texas and right now we don't have a thousand water and it's a huge problem we also it's a financial expenditure for us you know we cannot take care of our homeless veterans but spending over eight hundred dollars per day housing some of these families in hotels and with this administration says that you know you know this is not a change of policy they either naive or incompetent because there has been change in policy so i just tell you what about the solutions right the long-term solutions that we have to have good legal immigration system and legal infrastructure but there are also some short-term solution that need to happen this administration has to deal with asylum seekers and set up operations here to deal with them quickly and this administration have to fix you know some of the borders walls that started to be built because it created hazards it's a flood hazard and also safety hazards and this administration need to think what kind of policy we're going to have to let our border patrol to do their job partaking the border and they need to set hhs to help them and have a proper tools and finances for them because after section 42 goes away we're really in trouble so hopefully you can have this conversation and we're going to talk to our democrat and republican colleagues into this administration because it is not acceptable thank you about the gentleman from the great state of utah congressman owens thank you uh first of all i'd like to thank in a big way uh our innocent heroes the men and women on the borders that we're going to america we find out who truly has been saving our country and our culture here i have 15 grandchildren from 13 to 6 months as i talk about this i want you guys to think think deep but your kids your grandkids it's interesting we have these young bee people walking hundreds and thousands of miles to get to a place their parents think it's safe we sat in a we went through the process yesterday and i saw this uh six seven-year-old girl artistic um couldn't tell who couldn't tell them who their parents were and i sat there as we were talking with these great men and women and i was glanced over every few minutes and she had tears in her eyes just wouldn't stop crying she's been there for 17 days by the way she still can't stop crying we saw we saw a video of a nine-year-old young boy that was left abandoned in the desert heard about a young lady who now cannot talk because of trauma being gang-raped these are children my friends whether american or mexican or guatemala it doesn't matter these are our children and we have an administration that does not have the backbone to come down here and give encouragement to these great men and women are doing the job they're being overwhelmed right now they're gonna have the backbone to come see the misery that their policy is giving to these boys and girls babies men and women who take that that trip many will never make it there are people you and i will never ever meet their parents will never ever see again because they're gonna die alone somewhere on this travel and this this trek as we talk about everything else but the issues here i don't care with democrats or republicans we're people who love our nation we people love our culture and this has been on purpose to amass a mass invasion of cultures is not ours that we don't give these young boys and girls a chance to assimilate then grow up and vote against every single thing we believe in it's on purpose so i'm going to say to uh president biden and vice president harris get some backbone get some compassion come down to the border and see what mess you made down here that we're trying to fight to save our nation and by the way i don't want to ever hear the word reparation again from these democrats reparation is for slavery 200 years ago we're seeing slavery today human trafficking my friends sex trafficking my friends today and they turn their eyes away close their eyes as if there's nothing happening let's get let's get on as a country let's make sure this message goes out strong and i don't care what side hour on we love our kids we love our nation we love our culture and we now let the hard left destroy it by bringing misery to our nation thank you congressman biggs from arizona thank you congressman jordan i'm so pleased to be with my colleagues today to be down on the border with uh with him visiting this this part of the border i'm pleased with the the round table we just had and appreciate the the the ranchers the law enforcement the policy advisors the border patrol agents representatives that were participating in that roundtable give us some advice let me tell you i've been down to the border many many times i've been down to this this border when it's been under control operational control i would say and then coming back here over the last day or so and uh seeing something that's that's horrific to see it's not humane the policies of this administration are inhumane this president must own the catastrophe he has created this human suffering and misery that he has created two weeks ago he pointed kamela harris to be his point person on this issue she's crisscrossed the country taken holidays can't be bothered to come visit the border to see what her administration's policies have wrought let me tell you tell you a story two quick stories and i'll tell you how you get out of this number one small community in my state gila bend which is the number two overruns uh uh number two right now for for immigrants through that tucson sector small small community no social services whatsoever they get a phone call they're going to bring 16 people into that community that doesn't sound like a lot to you but here's a community that has no hospital no social service safety net whatsoever they can't even rent vans to transport them into phoenix so they can get help they have to use personal vehicles and get volunteers to drive these 16 peoples who were which were all six there were six family units five from venezuela one from chile there's no guarantee that's not going to happen again and if you think if you live in an interior community it won't happen to you it will happen people don't stay on the border they're being released by the thousands every day into the united states interior about about a week and a half two weeks ago i was down in in uh arizona border a place called three points near san miguel we saw there was there were 16 people on the other side of the border uh the border patrol was trying to keep him on there because these are runners these are drug these are drug runners we didn't see anything else that day but that night a group of 112 was apprehended surrendered in that group the oldest person was 94 years old 94. the youngest four years old no parents no guardians no siblings no aunt and uncle no cousins no grandparents somebody put that four-year-old into the hands of the ruthless sex drug and human traffickers that we call the cartels the cartels are controlling our borders no person crosses this river without the cartels knowing about it and approving of it and the same is said on the nearly 2300 miles of this border there are some things that need to happen to bring this under control and and get our get our nation back quite frankly the first one is this president has got to stand up and say no you you cannot come into our country we will send you back you must come legally it is his voice that said during the campaign he wanted to see a quote surge on the border close quote you must take that stand then the second thing he must do he must reinstitute the mpp program he needs to get back to mexico that's why the president of mexico says this is biden's mess it is biden's mess he needs to re-engage with the northern triangle states of guatemala honduras and el salvador and he needs to make sure that they're engaged just like they were in the pace program he needs to rescind the 1400 per illegal alien incentive from the covid package and quite frankly what he could do that would be incredibly effective is to not has to instruct the asylum or the immigration judges to not worry about the asylum backlog there are hundreds of thousands of those people already in the country that are waiting for a court hearing guess what they're not coming back to court but we have people on the border today who coming across because of the promise of asylum that this administration has given you can establish those courts they can grant due process and remove people who have fraudulent claims which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 of people who make an asylum claim you do those things and you can do them quickly this prop this problem this crisis this catastrophe begins to go away in short order very quickly because people respond to incentives cartel is a maybe a crime organization but it is a business organization and they respond to those incentives and you take them away and people will stay home and we can restore order on the border thank you thank you andy i want to let sheriff louder back from jackson county safety bridge thank you congressman thank you to the men and women of the u.s border patrol thank you to the men and women of ice immigration customs enforcement thank you to the texas troopers that are here thank you to the texas game wardens that are down here on the border thank you to the all of the sheriff's deputies and law enforcement in the state of texas that are here facing a catastrophic crisis that we have in our counties on the border and in the interior of texas that are spreading out through the united states thank you again for the services you all provide us here in this nation the urgency of a administration to bring as many people as they can without a with no infrastructure in this country is unheard of and it's unamerican that we have to face such an issue here that was so preventable i appreciate every one of y'all here today but listen take this message out here on something that was very preventable for us to do we did not have to endure this kind of issue here and let's get it stopped thank you thank you uh the head of the custom border patrol uh council brandon todd come right up good afternoon i'm grateful to be here to speak on behalf of the men and women the rank and foul men and women of the united states border patrol it's my honor to represent them and to be their voice i want to talk about legal i'm sorry this is an issue of illegal immigration not legal immigration we have to have an open and honest conversation if we're going to solve the problem and that's what we want we want to solve the problem we understand that as long as the catch and release what has been dubbed as the catch and release program continues to go on people are going to cross our borders illegally if they know that they can cross our borders and that they're going to be released into the united states they are going to continue to come we have to stop that magnet we have to remove that magnet from the pool had the opportunity to listen to real emotion today from congressman burgess talking about children and how inhumane it is to put these to incentivize putting children into the hands of criminal cartels he just talked about children walking hundreds maybe even a thousand miles to get to this country that is inhumane and that is policy driven and we can in fact and those policies to ensure that we have a legal system a legal immigration system i'm grateful to be a citizen of the greatest country in the world we are the most compassionate country that there is we allow on average more immigration legal immigration into this country than any other country but we have to be aware of the detrimental effects of illegal immigration and for that reason i'm grateful that these congressmen and congresswoman came to the border to shine a spotlight on this issue that can in fact be solved and with their help it will be solved thank you thank you brandon thank you and thank you to as burgess said your entire your entire team all the border patrol agents and the great work they do scott frazier is uh here with us today works for the texas farm bureau i'm going to let him talk and then susan kibby who uh represents the property rights association we're going to let her come up as well so come on up scott and uh let me say thank you all for the opportunity to be here today and work with you guys thank you to all our our public servants first responders that are they're having to deal with this situation on daily basis uh thank you to our members of congress that are gathered here and others that have come down over the past few weeks to take a look at this issue uh the biggest thing i probably want to share with the rest of the folks out there in the countryside is that that these folks crossing right now that are being released vast majority aren't going to stay in these neighborhoods locally along the border they're going to spread out to virtually every city in this country and most of our public services are stretched pretty pretty thin right now uh and a lot of these folks uh you know coming across most of them are highly highly skilled highly educated you know gonna have a they're not gonna be brain surgeons or something in the next few days in our hospitals most of them are going to require social services of some kind as they spread out they're going to test the folks and take away from folks in your neighborhoods and you know test your food banks they're going to going to try your hospitals going to try your education systems your schools and that's all something that we just really don't need and there's no cost to have to do this right now i really believe that that we're going to see this is going to hurt all of our our social services our social needs that we've been working on had people in our areas and especially larger urban areas that that have these needs and they're going to go unmet we're not meeting them now and then we add a whole bunch more people that have all the same needs it's just going to magnify that problem again thank you so much for the opportunity going down i don't think this was uh in any way a accident i think it was planned uh and uh and we're seeing that the plan work forward so thank you thank you scott susan come right out good afternoon my name is susan kibby i'm the executive director of south texas property rights association that was formed back in 2006 because of border security and immigration reform issues that affect landowners here on the border and north in the checkpoint counties i'd like to ask president biden and his administration to take back control of the border take it back from criminal cartels let border patrol get back to the work that they were hired to do catching criminal aliens that are currently traversing private property as we speak thank you for being here today i appreciate the opportunity from this delegation to allow me time to speak and share the landowner experience thank you thank you susan all right we can take a few questions if you like first hand up we invited him we invited the democrats uh to come with us but they chose uh for whatever reason chose not to but it seems to be a pattern frankly as you know the president has not been down and the vice president who president biden i guess has delegated to to look into this issue has not been down either so no we asked him to come well as you know the judiciary committee that's what that's why we came uh judiciary committee has primary jurisdiction over immigration law we thought it was important to be here i was here two years ago same same area we thought it was important to come back down again and see it firsthand and we learned a great deal over the last couple days i mean the agents with without a doubt the agent said this has been caused by policy changes that this new administration undertook specifically uh getting rid of the mpp the remaining mexico policy while people are being processed assessed and evaluated um that's been that's been the cause of it so let's hope we can work together because this is for the good of the country as i think every every speaker who was up here talked about just wanted to add i actually just went with seven democrat members to el paso i was the only republican who went and i asked them to come as republican next time we'll make another officer hopefully they can join us next time because we have to work yes sir as far as land many of you mentioned this organized plan what do you think that the end game is for this planet i don't know but you know just step back and evaluate the situation right right now as we all stand here um you can't get into your capital to exercise your first amendment liberties and and petition your government um you can't get into your capital but anybody and everybody can get into your country i don't think that's a good i don't think that's good policy and we heard from the people who live it every day that that is a particularly bad policy not only for them trying to do their job but for the people and all the the turmoil and trouble and and terrible things that happened to particularly kids as burgess talked about on this journey here so it is a it is just chaos as sheriff indicated in our meeting earlier uh it has to change the answer is pretty simple you got to go back to the policies that were working just a few months ago just jump in we're going to debate on what the end game is can i ask everyone out there just to think about this these are children we're talking about they're taking this trick it's going to be very difficult for many of them to survive it's going to be difficult for me to come this country not knowing the language to assimilate we're talking about generation of children they're at risk my friends so let's focus on that how can we make sure our kids their kids stay in a safe environment and then when we come here we're doing a way that they can remain in a safe environment and grow and assimilate and be proud americans at this point is chaos and we cannot let any party bring chaos to our nation think about our kids i think that's one thing we come together on and find a solution to this issue the two names um i think there were yemeni individuals the names matched names on the terrorist watch list that's that's all we know so i can't i can't kind of create new concerns for you i mean it's always been a concern but uh does that kind of solidify a concern for you yes because i mean as the agents told us when you're when 40 of your manpower is being spent processing individuals that means less border patrol agents out there to safeguard the border and protect the border from potential terrorists that that it appears to be uh was the case in the folks in california thank you congressman jordan i would just add so there were back when secretary mayorkas spoke before the the committee on homeland security on march 13 just the day before that there were four names on the terrorist watch that list that had been apprehended and then these two and today i understand customs and border patrol has announced that they have apprehended a confirmed member of ms-13 in the san diego sector uh so this is uh you're going to see it not as one anecdote but as a recurring one and of course the concern at all points in time is who are we not apprehending if they as we know and we've heard from border patrol as we've been down here that um every day you see uh swells of people coming in to surrender to border patrol and they know that at the same time those are decoy operations because others are coming in in another location so if we've apprehended if we've been fortunate enough to apprehend now six by my count persons whose names were on the terrorist watch list how many have we not apprehended particularly if that's where they're devoting their effort those would be the high value people they want to get in can you share your thoughts on bind administration announcing they're going to consider uh finishing patches opens in the wall let's hope it's more than consider because we know it works um you know again that's another another message we got loud and clear from the agents they say walls work um because walls force the people who were coming to come to ports of entry where you can actually process and look at things in a legal way in a way consistent with with the rule of law so let's let's hope that that is not just talk yesterday or the day before when they mentioned it that they're actually going to put that policy back in place we can take a couple more can i just add real quick on that the administration said that they were going to temporarily suspend construction of the border wall for 60 days while they re-evaluate the the wall it's been far more than 60 days are they now just getting around to considering it well said we'll go one two and then maybe we'll stop here what do you expect to realistically be able to do when the executive branch is setting the policy on this what we can do is come down here and talk about it and talk about the real solutions to meet with the guys who are living it every day who were you know right on the front lines um we can talk about it and we can try to persuade our democrat colleagues in the united states congress to to exercise some common sense and go back to policies that actually work so we'll continue to do that let's let's hope the byte administration follows up on the announcement a couple days ago that they're considering going back to and finishing the wall and rebuilding the wall um let's just hope but all we can do is talk about it and we're gonna continue to do that but the american people can speak up you know look this is how our great system works you you talk to your member of congress you're a united states senator and you tell them this is not what we buy i mean you think about it you can't get into your capital anybody and everybody can get into your country and when they come into your country your tax dollars are used to to facilitate all this that's going on and in this case the san diego schools illegal migrant children are getting uh in person education where where kids in the san diego school system are not i think a lot of americans are gonna say wait this is not what we bargained for particularly when we know what happens to these people on the journey as congressman owens has pointed out now a couple times last one no but we were told that they started constructing the facility to rapidly move families with young children they started that construction on january 23rd so three days into the administration so um look everyone knows this is driven by the policies that this new administration has embraced uh we gotta we gotta change those policies back to the ones that actually worked thank you all sorry i had to stand out in the sun there was warm but thank you all very much

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Published: Wed Apr 07 2021