{"id":1670589,"date":"2022-10-03T17:25:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670589"},"modified":"2022-10-03T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:25:55","slug":"fox-news-reporter-bill-melugin-grills-democrats-biden-officials-over-the-border-many-of-them-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-reporter-bill-melugin-grills-democrats-biden-officials-over-the-border-many-of-them-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Reporter Bill Melugin Grills Democrats, Biden Officials Over The Border. Many Of Them Run."},"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\">32<\/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%2Ffox-news-reporter-bill-melugin-grills-democrats-biden-officials-over-the-border-many-of-them-run%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=1670589&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--><p>Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin grilled several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden officials<\/a> on camera for a Fox News segment that aired Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Democrats that Melugin questioned either ignored him altogether or refused to answer his questions.<\/p>\n<p>The segment comes as the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ex-clinton-adviser-hillary-clinton-setting-up-2024-presidential-run-after-latest-shot-at-biden\">policies<\/a> on the southern border have led to national security and humanitarian catastrophe with more than 2.3 million illegal border crossings over the last 11 months, an all-time record, and more than 4 million total since Biden was inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c250,000 unaccompanied migrant children arrived at the border since President Biden\u2019s took office. Some of them trafficked, some of them drowning in the river. Any issue with that?\u201d Melugin asked Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA).<\/p>\n<p>Pressley completely ignored Melugin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast question, ma\u2019am. Is the border secure?\u201d Melugin pressed. \u201cDo you agree with the administration that the border is secure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressley refused to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Melugin then asked Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, \u201cChairman, one question, in your opinion, is the border secure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to go give a speech,\u201d Thompson responded. \u201cDid you hear me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard you,\u201d Melugin said. \u201cIt\u2019s a quick question, is the border secure?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson refused to answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>Melugin then pressed President Joe Biden\u2019s (D) secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, about his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Bill Melugin with Fox News. Do you have a few moments to talk about the border real quick?\u201d Melugin asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t,\u201d Mayorkas snapped back.<\/p>\n<p>Melugin showed an email that Fox News sent to Homeland Security last week requesting an interview because Melugin and his team were going to be in town.\u00a0Melugin received no response from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few moments of your time is all we\u2019re asking for and we\u2019ll let you go,\u201d Melugin said. \u201cWe reached out to your office, asked to talk to you last week. They blew us off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate it,\u201d Mayorkas chided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs 900,000 got-a-ways a secure border?\u201d Melugin asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave a good day,\u201d Mayorkas said. \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Melugin said that the only Democrats who would talk about the border were Democrats from the state of Texas, the state that has been hit the hardest by the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unsustainable,\u201d Rep. Veronica Escobar said. \u201cIt has been unsustainable for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is\u00a0our administration. I\u2019m a Democrat. And you know, they need to understand they own it now,\u201d Rep. Henry Cuellar told Melugin. \u201cThey own it now. And they have to take the steps to correct this otherwise, you know, when are we going to see an end to this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: We\u2019ve been in D.C. for the last week, questioning politicians on Capitol Hill face to face about the border crisis. Several refused to talk to us, including DHS Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliMayorkas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AliMayorkas<\/a>, who we tracked down in person after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DHSgov<\/a> never responded to our interview request. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfwePkDlkJ\">pic.twitter.com\/RfwePkDlkJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1576972271121747968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin grilled several Democrats and Biden officials on camera for a Fox News segment that aired Monday afternoon. Many of the Democrats that Melugin questioned either ignored him altogether or refused to answer his questions. 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