{"id":1952467,"date":"2023-06-20T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T01:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biggs-leads-oversight-on-northern-border-amid-staffing-shortages-in-ports\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T21:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T01:53:06","slug":"biggs-leads-oversight-on-northern-border-amid-staffing-shortages-in-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biggs-leads-oversight-on-northern-border-amid-staffing-shortages-in-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggs takes charge of northern border oversight amidst port staffing shortages."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbiggs-leads-oversight-on-northern-border-amid-staffing-shortages-in-ports%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=1952467&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--><h2>Rep. Andy Biggs Raises Concerns Over Unattended Ports of Entry at Northern Border<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), co-chairman of the House Border Security caucus, has sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas expressing his concerns about reports of &#8220;unattended&#8221; ports of entry at the northern border with Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs, along with Reps. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) and Tom Tiffany (R-WI), questioned Mayorkas and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Senior Official Troy Miller regarding reports that CBP officials are being instructed to extend the operating hours of northern ports of entry to up to 24 hours, even without sufficient agents to guard them.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are concerned with recent reports from concerned citizens and members of the public that ports of entry (POEs) along the United States\u2019 border with Canada are being left open and unattended for extended periods of time,&#8221; Biggs stated in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This information accompanies publicly available reporting on increases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/\" title=\"Democrats Recruiting GOP Senators for Amnesty Deal\">illegal border crossings<\/a> along the Northern border, including by foreign nationals from countries in Asia and the Middle East,&#8221; the letter added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter was sent on Tuesday, the same day CBP published its latest report on illegal border crossings. While the report revealed that 170,284 people were arrested for entering illegally in May, only 140 were arrested on the Canadian border. However, there have been over 98,000 migrant encounters at the northern border in fiscal 2023, an increase from the 27,000 encountered in fiscal 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Biggs expressed his concerns about the lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">border security<\/a>, stating, &#8220;Americans deserve to know why their borders are not being secured. Now that the Biden administration has dismantled our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-media-now-admitting-i-was-right-about-everything-they-lied-about\/\" title=\"Trump: Media \u2018Now Admitting I Was Right About Everything They Lied About\u2019\">southern border security<\/a>, they have moved to dismantle our northern border security. It\u2019s unconscionable to hear that the Biden administration would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biggs-leads-oversight-on-northern-border-amid-staffing-shortages-in-ports\/\" title=\"Biggs takes charge of northern border oversight amidst port staffing shortages.\">authorize inadequately supervised<\/a> or even completely unmanned ports of entries. The American people deserve to understand the extent of this problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biggs also requested information on the hours of operation, staffing levels, and documents related to the opening hours of ports of entry at the northern border. Secretary Mayorkas has until July 10 to respond to the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), co-chair of the House Border Security caucus, wrote to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about unattended ports of entry at the US-Canada border. Biggs raised concerns and questioned Mayorkas and CBP Commissioner Troy Miller about the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[3808,3811,4170,6484,5618,21414,7601,24552,4259],"class_list":["post-1952467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biggs","tag-border","tag-charge","tag-northern","tag-oversight","tag-port","tag-shortages","tag-staffing","tag-takes"],"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\/1952467","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=1952467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}