{"id":1445149,"date":"2022-04-19T07:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445149"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:15:58","slug":"former-border-chief-biden-handed-operational-control-to-drug-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-chief-biden-handed-operational-control-to-drug-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Border Chief: Biden Handed Operational Control to Drug Cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-border-chief-biden-handed-operational-control-to-drug-cartels%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-09\/GettyImages-1235346139.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=HudhcPdP\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan is accusing President Joe Biden of &#8220;intentionally&#8221; creating a border crisis, but said the administration was unable to properly execute the open borders strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan also told the <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/podcasts\/john-solomon-reports\/border-agents-feel-demoralized-part-largest-federal-smuggling\">&#8220;John Solomon Reports&#8221; podcast<\/a>\u00a0on Monday that his former agents feel &#8220;demoralized&#8221; while the &#8220;borders are wide open&#8221; and &#8220;every aspect of our public health, safety, national security is being jeopardized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Biden ends Title 42, the Trump-era migration mitigation measure, his administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/border-arrests-encounters-biden-record-221000-march-while-80000\">expecting<\/a> as many as 18,000 illegal migrants to come to the southern border every day. Currently, between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants come to the border every day, and Morgan said America is &#8220;already in the crisis&#8221; from this.<\/p>\n<p>The former commissioner said one 26-year veteran Border Patrol agent recently realized he was &#8220;actually part of the largest federal smuggling organization in the world&#8221; and he&#8217;s &#8220;no longer&#8221; proud of his work at the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They know, because of this administration, our borders are wide open,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;We literally handed over operational control to the cartels. It&#8217;s way beyond the millions that have been smuggled in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan&#8217;s comments echo National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, who told <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/national-border-patrol-council-president-says-agents-feel-defeated\">&#8220;Just the News \u2013 Not Noise&#8221;<\/a> last week that agents &#8220;feel defeated&#8221; and he has &#8220;never seen morale any lower&#8221; during his 25 years with the Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan accused the Biden administration of purposely creating a border crisis that it failed to control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They opened our borders and intentionally created and facilitated a catastrophic crisis on the southwest border that we&#8217;ve never seen in our lifetime,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrations and Customs Enforcement spent about $17 million on expensive hotels for illegal migrants that largely went unused, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/watchdogs\/biden-administration-bungled-covid-testing-wasted-hotel-rooms-during-early\">Just the News<\/a> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said that some of the unused hotel rooms went for more than $300 a night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many American families, when they travel, have stayed [in a] $300 a night hotel?&#8221; Morgan asked.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan accused Democrats of wanting illegal immigration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their priorities [are] to get as many illegal aliens in this country because\u00a0 \u2013 it&#8217;s disgusting \u2013 but because they see a perceived political benefit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/congress\/rep-claudia-tenney-says-removing-title-24-enriching-cartels\">Claudia Tenney<\/a> (R-N.Y.) told &#8220;Just the News \u2013 Not Noise&#8221; on Monday that Democrats &#8220;just want to bring people in and they want to have more voters&#8221; through immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan is accusing President Joe Biden of &#8220;intentionally&#8221; creating a border crisis, but said the administration was unable to properly execute the open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1895927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/former-border-commissioner-we-literally-handed-over-operational-control-cartels","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}