House Dems Snub Chance At Bipartisan Border Oversight
Republicans convoked Tuesday’s evaluation of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform was conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. “front lines of the border crisis” but Democrats were less than cooperative in the GOP’s efforts to hear from two chief patrol agents.
“President Biden and his administration have created the worst border crisis in American history,” James Comer, Republican Rep. chairman of the committee made these remarks in his opening remarks.
Comer and other GOP members of the committee pointed out President Joe Biden as the reason. Millions of migrantsPeople, including suspected terrorists, illegally cross border. Witnesses — CBP Chief Patrol Agent of the Tucson sector John Modlin and Chief Patrol Agent of the Rio Grande Valley sector Gloria Chavez — confirmed this in their testimonies.
“In the Tucson sector, interviewing people post-arrest, what became the most common response [from migrants] was that they believed that when the administration changed that the law changed and policy changed and that there was an open border,” Modlin stated.
Chiefs of staff agreed that border security measures such as the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, often referred to simply as the, would be effective. “Remain in Mexico” policy), which Biden eliminated at the start of his term with a single stroke of a pen. “effective” at stopping the soaring number of illegal immigrants flooding the border.
These numbers are staggering.
“We went from what I would describe as unprecedented to a point where I don’t have the correct adjective to describe what’s going on,” Modlin stated.
Democrats choose to make smears rather than take responsibility
House Democrats, who had two years to give Biden’s disastrous border the oversight it required but failed to do so, were less interested in asking the CBP officials questions and far more interested in criticizing Republicans for suggesting that Democrats’ lax border policies are responsible for This is the largest migrant influx U.S. history.
Before the hearing, the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security tried to Republicans try to obstruct oversight CBP officials were prevented from testifying. Democrats joined in their attempts to taint the GOP’s investigation into the border crisis with Smears The Republicans wanted “to amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories instead of a comprehensive solution to protect our borders and strengthen our immigration system.”
The “QAnon caucus” “anti-immigrant” After Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat Representative, launched another round politically motivated attacks in his opening remarks, the name-calling continued at the hearing.
These were the same Democrats that promoted and bought into the ACA. Whipping lies from the border patrol Republicans claimed they were “demonize migrants” and refuse to fund the border through Democrats’ omnibus wish list. Washington D.C. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a delegate to the GOP, even blamed El Paso Walmart for the shooting.
Despite Democrats’ attempts to turn the hearing into a political circus painting the border crisis as a funding problem, instead of a policy problem, the witnesses confirmed that the U.S. southern border is comprised in a way it’s never been in the past.
Cartels ‘Leveraging Chaos’
A large part of the Republicans’ border inquiry centered on the Biden administration’s failure to secure the border against cartels, which Chavez said have become “more active” In trafficking drugs and people into the U.S. “recent years.”
“Cartels are leveraging chaos at the border. They are using their human smuggling operations to overwhelm U.S. Border Patrol agents with large migrant groups, often placing migrants in peril,” Comer, he said. “They create these diversions at the expense of human life to traffic dangerous narcotics like fentanyl, across our southern border. These deadly drugs then make their way into communities across the United States and poison our neighbors and our children.”
“No one crosses the border in Tucson sector without going through the cartels,” Modlin supported his testimony. Chavez also testified about her district.
“[Migrants are] pretty much confined to whatever those cartels require to be able to see their family member again,” She spoke.
Democrats claimed that the border problems are not a problem. “humanitarian crisis, not a criminal one.” Yet, none of them mentioned the connection between cartels’ illegal activities and migrants, including the criminals’ lack of care for the men, women, and children who have to bribe them for passage to the U.S.
“What my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are failing to recognize is in order to get here, [migrants] have to deal with a group of people that is not interested in human rights. They place no value on humanity. If they can make money on it, they will exploit it,” Kelly Armstrong, Republican Representative “I think one of the mistakes we make quite often is we talk about [cartels] like they’re drug cartels. They’re in the business of making money and whatever the path of least resistance is, is how they make money.”
Cartels’ Business of migrant smuggling worth billionsModlin and Chavez claimed that illegal border crossers are deliberately put at risk so Border Patrol agents can leave their posts to carry out rescue missions.
“There are a lot of migrants out there that are out there requiring rescue. So a lot of times, our agents are out there rescuing people, being task-saturated in rescues, abetting frontline operations, so therefore cartels take advantage of that,” Chavez said.
Such rescue operations can be dangerous and have become increasingly common in recent years. American agents lost their lives because of this. Migrants and locals alike.
A Fentanyl Pipeline
Both Republicans and Democrats agree the U.S.’s fentanyl epidemic is a serious problem that must be addressed. What the representatives did not agree on is that it’s Biden’s policies that embolden the cartels to manufacture and smuggle fentanyl into the states.
Numerous Democrats tried to put the blame for the proliferation of fentanyl upon U.S. citizens, who are often chosen to bring the drug to the United States. Rep. Katie Porter even suggested that CBP has seized more fentanyl since 2020 than before, arguing that the border security program under Biden is inadequate. “success.”
“Regardless of who’s bringing it across the border, U.S. citizens, ports of entry, between ports of entry, not ports of entry, the drugs that are killing people in my communities are being made by the cartels,” Armstrong pointed this out.
Both Modlin as well as Chavez said their agents were overwhelmed by the crisis and are overworked. Unless there’s a national policy shift on the border, the historic crisis is only going to get worse.
“What happens on the border affects the entirety of the country,” Modlin stated.
Jordan Boyd, a staff writer at The Federalist, is also the co-producer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has been featured in Fox News and The Daily Wire. Jordan graduated from Baylor University, where she studied journalism and political science. Follow Jordan Boydtx on Twitter.
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