{"id":1839359,"date":"2023-02-08T07:35:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839359"},"modified":"2023-02-08T07:40:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:40:48","slug":"house-dems-snub-chance-at-bipartisan-border-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dems-snub-chance-at-bipartisan-border-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"House Dems Snub Chance At Bipartisan Border Oversight"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fhouse-dems-snub-chance-at-bipartisan-border-oversight%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=1839359&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-->\n<p>Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/hearing\/on-the-front-lines-of-the-border-crisis-a-hearing-with-chief-patrol-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convoked<\/a> Tuesday&#8217;s evaluation of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform was conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. \u201cfront lines of the border crisis\u201d but Democrats were less than cooperative in the GOP\u2019s efforts to hear from two chief patrol agents. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden and his administration have created the worst border crisis in American history,\u201d James Comer, Republican Rep. chairman of the committee made these remarks in his opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Comer and other GOP members of the committee pointed out President Joe Biden as the reason. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/migrant-border-crossings-fiscal-year-2022-topped-276-million-breaking-rcna53517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Millions of migrants<\/a>People, including suspected terrorists, illegally cross border. Witnesses \u2014 CBP Chief Patrol Agent of the Tucson sector John Modlin and Chief Patrol Agent of the Rio Grande Valley sector Gloria Chavez \u2014 confirmed this in their testimonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 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,\u201d Modlin stated.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy), which Biden eliminated at the start of his term with a single stroke of a pen. \u201ceffective\u201d at stopping the soaring number of illegal immigrants flooding the border. <\/p>\n<p>These numbers are staggering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went from what I would describe as unprecedented to a point where I don\u2019t have the correct adjective to describe what\u2019s going on,\u201d Modlin stated.<\/p>\n<h2>Democrats choose to make smears rather than take responsibility<\/h2>\n<p>House Democrats, who had two years to give Biden\u2019s 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\u2019 lax border policies are responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/23\/corporate-media-cover-for-biden-amid-worst-illegal-immigration-influx-in-u-s-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This is the largest migrant influx U.S. history.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the hearing, the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Homeland Security tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/27\/dhs-blocks-border-patrol-chiefs-testifying-congres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans try to obstruct oversight<\/a> CBP officials were prevented from testifying. Democrats joined in their attempts to taint the GOP\u2019s investigation into the border crisis with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OversightDems\/status\/1622948948263555073?s=20&#038;t=8-0N5iB5uaMj2UPhzOrqNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Smears<\/a> The Republicans wanted \u201cto amplify white nationalist conspiracy theories instead of a comprehensive solution to protect our borders and strengthen our immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signal-2023-02-07-092357_002-1024x869-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signal-2023-02-07-092357_002-1024x869-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signal-2023-02-07-092357_002-300x255-1.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signal-2023-02-07-092357_002-768x652-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/signal-2023-02-07-092357_002.jpeg 1190w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cQAnon caucus\u201d  \u201canti-immigrant\u201d After Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat Representative, launched another round politically motivated attacks in his opening remarks, the name-calling continued at the hearing. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>These were the same Democrats that promoted and bought into the ACA. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/mayorkas-knew-the-migrant-whipping-story-was-a-ruse-but-he-peddled-it-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Whipping lies from the border patrol<\/a> Republicans claimed they were \u201cdemonize migrants\u201d and refuse to fund the border through Democrats\u2019 omnibus wish list. Washington D.C. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a delegate to the GOP, even blamed El Paso Walmart for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Democrats\u2019 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\u2019s never been in the past. <\/p>\n<h2>Cartels \u2018Leveraging Chaos\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>A large part of the Republicans\u2019 border inquiry centered on the Biden administration\u2019s failure to secure the border against cartels, which Chavez said have become \u201cmore active\u201d In trafficking drugs and people into the U.S. \u201crecent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCartels 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,\u201d Comer, he said. \u201cThey 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one crosses the border in Tucson sector without going through the cartels,\u201d Modlin supported his testimony. Chavez also testified about her district. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Migrants are] pretty much confined to whatever those cartels require to be able to see their family member again,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats claimed that the border problems are not a problem. \u201chumanitarian crisis, not a criminal one.\u201d Yet, none of them mentioned the connection between cartels\u2019 illegal activities and migrants, including the criminals\u2019 lack of care for the men, women, and children who have to bribe them for passage to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat 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,\u201d Kelly Armstrong, Republican Representative \u201cI think one of the mistakes we make quite often is we talk about [cartels] like they\u2019re drug cartels. They\u2019re in the business of making money and whatever the path of least resistance is, is how they make money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cartels\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/11\/thanks-to-bidens-border-crisis-the-million-dollar-migrant-smuggling-industry-is-now-worth-billions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Business of migrant smuggling worth billions<\/a>Modlin 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere 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,\u201d Chavez said. <\/p>\n<p>Such rescue operations can be dangerous and have become increasingly common in recent years. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/22\/bidens-open-border-policies-are-deadly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American agents lost their lives because of this.<\/a> Migrants and locals alike. <\/p>\n<h2>A Fentanyl Pipeline<\/h2>\n<p>Both Republicans and Democrats agree the U.S.&#8217;s fentanyl epidemic is a serious problem that must be addressed. What the representatives did not agree on is that it\u2019s Biden\u2019s policies that embolden the cartels to manufacture and smuggle fentanyl into the states. <\/p>\n<p>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. \u201csuccess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of who\u2019s 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,\u201d Armstrong pointed this out.  <\/p>\n<p>Both Modlin as well as Chavez said their agents were overwhelmed by the crisis and are overworked. Unless there\u2019s a national policy shift on the border, the historic crisis is only going to get worse. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happens on the border affects the entirety of the country,\u201d Modlin stated.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans convoked Tuesday&#8217;s evaluation of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform was conducted by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. \u201cfront lines of the border crisis\u201d but Democrats were less than cooperative in the GOP\u2019s efforts to hear from two chief patrol agents. \u201cPresident Biden and his administration have created the worst border &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[547],"tags":[3667,3811,3846,3933,3653,5618,13905],"class_list":["post-1839359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bipartisan","tag-border","tag-chance","tag-dems","tag-house","tag-oversight","tag-snub"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839359","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}