{"id":1708986,"date":"2022-10-24T07:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708986"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:35:16","slug":"border-democrat-the-border-is-not-secure-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-democrat-the-border-is-not-secure-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Democrat: The Border Is Not Secure Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fborder-democrat-the-border-is-not-secure-under-biden%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=1708986&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/HC-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whose district is on the U.S.-Mexico border, responded to the latest numbers released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the crisis at the border by acknowledging that the border under the current Democratic administration is not secure.<\/p>\n<p>DHS released the numbers from September late on Friday night. The numbers showed the highest number of illegal aliens ever encountered by DHS (227,547) during the month of September.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal Year 2022 ended with the most illegal alien encounters on the southern border in DHS history (2,378,944), more known or suspected terrorists arrested on the southern border (98) than the previous five years combined (26), and more migrants dying at the southern border (856) than any other year on record.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar was asked on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d to respond to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 recent remarks that the border was \u201csecure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, no, the border is not secure,\u201d Cuellar said. \u201cWhen you have 1.7 million individuals last year, and now another 2.7, that\u2019s over 4.5 million individuals encounter at the border, plus the \u2014 if you add the getaways, that\u2019s going to be over 5 million individuals in just two years. No, the border is secure \u2014 it\u2019s not secured and we\u2019ve got to make sure that we have repercussions there.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS HOST: Joining us now from San Antonio, Democratic Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, whose district includes Laredo, along the border.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Congressman, welcome back to FOX NEWS SUNDAY.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REP. HENRY CUELLAR (D-TX): Thank you. And good morning to you, Shannon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: OK, so you heard the numbers there. They came after 11 p.m. here in Washington on a Friday night. They are record breaking. I know you\u2019ve talked with this administration repeatedly about the issue at the border, trying to get some help.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here\u2019s what the vice president said last month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours, and our administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(END VIDEO CLIP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: Congressman, based on your conversations with the administration, first, do you think the secure \u2013 the border is secure? And, secondly, do you think it is a priority for this White House?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: You know, first of all, no, the border is not secure. When you have 1.7 million individuals last year, and now another 2.7, that\u2019s over 4.5 million individuals encounter at the border, plus the \u2013 if you add the getaways, that\u2019s going to be over 5 million individuals in just two years. No, the border is secure \u2013 it\u2019s not secured and we\u2019ve got to make sure that we have repercussions there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Look, I \u2013 I\u2019ve talked to the administration a week before the December \u2013 this was in December of 2020 and I started telling the transition team in December of 2020, this is what\u2019s going to be happening. You all have to be ready. And if we don\u2019t have repercussion \u2013 we can be compassionate at the border, but you\u2019ve got to enforce the law. And if you don\u2019t return people, then this is what you\u2019re going to have.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I saw the numbers from the Venezuelans that have dropped out. I \u2013 I actually want them to do that to every country. If we do that to every country, the numbers will go down. We will be able to control our borders. And that\u2019s important to us that live along the border.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: Well, there\u2019s been a lot of attention play \u2014 paid to El Paso. You heard Bill\u2019s reporting there. They have been bussing migrants to other places, like New York, which has since declared an emergency because of the influx they\u2019ve gotten.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>El Paso reportedly not going to continue the bussing because there\u2019s reporting out there that the feds are not going to send migrants to El Paso anymore, at least not in the numbers that they were.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Instead it appears they\u2019re using something that they had criticized from the Trump administration as cruel and it\u2019s actually a policy they\u2019re currently fighting in court, Title 42. AP says this, with the increasing number of Venezuelans arriving at the U.S.\/Mexico border as the November 8th election nears, Biden has turned to an unlikely source for a solution, his predecessor\u2019s playbook.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, is it your impression that this administration is saying one thing publicly but doing things differently when it comes to actually handling the reality of what they\u2019re seeing at the border?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: I think so. You know, with all due respect to the administration, you know, they said they want to get rid of Title 42, but Title 42 is used more than Title 8 to return people back. And if you look at what they\u2019re doing with the Venezuelans, doesn\u2019t that sound familiar, like the MPP, that is you wait outside before you come in, or you go through a port of entry. And notice that it\u2019s the same thing in many ways, it\u2019s the same concept. And I\u2019ve always said that, look, we can spend all the defense on the one yard line called the U.S.\/Mexico border, but if we don\u2019t go to their 20- yard line, work with Guatemala, work with Mexico and \u2013 and get them engaged so they can stop those folks from coming in, then they\u2019re just going to be at our door steps and we\u2019ve got to make sure that we understand the importance of securing our border.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: Want to put up some polling that shows where voters think Republicans have the advantage in handling issues. They give a 21-point advantage to them on border security. So, your opponent, Cassy Garcia, says that you say the right thing when it comes to the border, but she says you can\u2019t point to anything concrete you\u2019ve done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your response?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: Well, you know, she\u2019s not from my district, so she probably doesn\u2019t understand what I\u2019ve been doing in my district. I sit as the vice chair of Homeland Security. I\u2019ll be moving up. In the Appropriates, I \u2013 I have money there for more border patrol agents, money for their mental health, money \u2013 money for child care, a pay raise for Border Patrol. I work very well with her husband, Mr. Owens (ph), which is a Border Patrol chief in Del Rio. He\u2019s a friend of mine. He invited me to be the speaker when we had a graduation of the Border Patrol agents in New Mexico, in Articia (ph). So people know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In fact, tomorrow, I\u2019m announcing a $165 million Border Patrol checkpoint in Laredo. And so I can go on and on and on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, she\u2019s not from the district. So she probably doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019ve been doing. But I can tell you, I\u2019ve been supporting the men and women in green, and the men and women in blue, which are the ones at the ports of entry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And, by the way, Shannon, if you want to stop drugs, drugs are coming in \u2014 over 90 percent of their drugs come in through ports of entry. So, we\u2019ve got to support the men and women in green and the men and women in blue also.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: Yes, they\u2019ve got very difficult jobs. That \u2014 that poll, I want to put that up gain. It also, on the issue of the economy, it gives, on inflation, Republicans a 13-point advantage on how they\u2019re handling that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, this week, Democratic Senator Mark Warner said that there was too much spending in the American Rescue Plan. One of the top Democrats over on the House side with you, James Clyburn, said this week that of the trillions in new spending, quote, all of us knew that it would drive up prices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Does he speak for you in that, do you have any regrets on voting for those trillions in new spending?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: Well, look, you know, I \u2013 I want to make sure that people understand, if you look at the deficit spending under the prior administration compared to the one now, there actually was more spending on the prior administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I would say this, to help reduce the prices that we have right now, we got to focus on one of the biggest driver, and that\u2019s oil and gas. I support the oil and gas industry because, in \u2013 in \u2013 in my place, my district, there is 40,000 jobs. We lower the prices of \u2013 of oil and gas. I was the one that passed \u2014 helped pass the ban on oil exports. So, we created more jobs here. We want to see domestic drilling here in the United States. You lower the price of petroleum, it lowers the price of fertilizer, it lowers the price of so many things that has an impact on our goods.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been focused on, what I can control. And that is having domestic drilling here in the state of Texas or in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: So many of the positions that you take, Republicans would say you should come join them and their party because so many of them are more aligned with them. You\u2019re often described as only pro-life Democrat in the House. David Wasserman, a top election forecaster over at Cook Political Report says this about you. He is now pretty much alone as a conservative Democrat in the House.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you worry that people who hold your positions are being squeezed out of the Democratic Party? Is there a place for you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: You know \u2013 you know, surely I\u2019m a Democrat. I\u2019m a conservative Democrat. I work in a very bipartisan way. I work with Senator John Cornyn on so many issues, on the border issues. We work together. And I think every party has the extreme. We have the extreme left. We have the extreme right. But some of us are not sent up to Washington to go make political statements. We\u2019re sent to Washington to do the hard job, and that is govern. And you\u2019ve got to work with Democrats and Republicans like my friend Tony Gonzales (ph). We sit on Appropriations and we work together. Michael McCall is another person that we work together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, there\u2019s ways of working together and I think there is definitely room for a conservative, moderate Democrat like myself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: Congressman, you are in a close race there. We\u2019re all watching these House districts along the border. Your opponent, Cassy Garcia, we mentioned, she\u2019s brought up the FBI raid at your home back in January. Is there anything you can say to clarify or explain that investigation or what\u2019s going on there?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: Yes. You know, definitely there is \u2014 I\u2019m not the target of the investigation. That is what my attorney has told me. And we \u2013 we\u2019re going to go ahead and just move and focus on the election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What I want to know is what she wants to do? You know, she\u2019s focusing on negative attacks. And I think people are sick and tired of the negative attacks. What they want to see is, this is a market of ideas. This is what I want to do. This is what she wants to do. Let the people decide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I will tell you one thing, if you look at the numbers in the past, I usually do about 10 percent better than most state and national Democrats that run in my district. I\u2019ll tell you why, because I get independent voters that come and support me and I get a lot of the moderate Republicans. And that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do. I\u2019m going to get independent voters. I\u2019m going to get moderate Republicans. A lot of cross over, along with the Democrats, and we\u2019re going to win this race.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BREAM: All right, Congressman, just a little more than two weeks to go. Yours is one to watch. We thank you for making time for us this morning. Great to speak with you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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