{"id":199205,"date":"2021-03-08T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=199205"},"modified":"2021-03-08T08:15:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T13:15:14","slug":"democrat-lawmaker-biden-admin-purposely-withholding-number-of-migrants-being-released-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-lawmaker-biden-admin-purposely-withholding-number-of-migrants-being-released-into-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Lawmaker: Biden Admin \u2018Purposely Withholding\u2019 Number Of Migrants \u2018Being Released\u2019 Into U.S."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrat-lawmaker-biden-admin-purposely-withholding-number-of-migrants-being-released-into-u-s%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=199205&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HC-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) slammed the Biden administration for how it is handling the unfolding border crisis and alleged that it is \u201cpurposely withholding\u201d information on the number of migrants being released into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>When asked during the interview to react to numbers showing the border is being overwhelmed, Cuellar, whose congressional district is on the border, said the administration was not releasing the full numbers of how many migrants are being released into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, look, we can play with words. Is that a challenge? Or is it a crisis? Let\u2019s look at the numbers, since August of last year, the numbers have been increasing,\u201d he said. \u201cIn especially October, November, and December, we were hitting 70,000. In January, we had 78,000. This is again, under the Trump administration, now moving into the Biden administration. Biden might have started under Trump, but when you\u2019re the president, you own the situation, whether it\u2019s a success or not a success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think in February we\u2019re going to get about 100,000. And again, I don\u2019t care what we call it, but I can tell you this, those numbers of people that are being released, they\u2019re purposely withholding that information,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey\u2019ve been told not to withhold that information. I now know that they\u2019re bringing people from McAllen over to Laredo, processing them in Laredo, and they\u2019re going to release them in my community. I represent the both areas, the valley and of course, part of the valley in Laredo, and I\u2019ve seen this before. Don\u2019t let the local community know what you\u2019re doing, where they\u2019re striving to bring people in from the valley, process them and Laredo, release them at a bus station. And again, I\u2019ve seen this this before in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Texas Democrat on migrant surge at border: Biden owns this now\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPK3MjTXAZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>FOX NEWS HOST: A Democratic Texas Congressman and member of the Blue Dog coalition, Henry Cuellar. He represents a southwest border district that is seeing a surge in migrants. Thank you so much, Congressman, for being here. I want to begin with getting your reaction to something Tom Homan said in that interview, he just said that the Biden administration is facilitating illegal entry, not detaining people and not testing for COVID. Your reaction?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>HENRY CUELLAR: \u2026 [these] are things that I\u2019ve been talking about for a while. Is Border Patrol checking the the folks coming in? No. It\u2019s all dependent on the local communities to do that, and we need to test them because otherwise, if we don\u2019t, look what happened in 2019. This is where Greyhound dropped people off all over the place. This is under the Trump administration, when we had that particular crisis. Now, what makes it different is people are gonna be dropped all over the United States, with not being tested as they get on those Greyhound buses or airplanes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX NEWS HOST: Congressman, the White House has announced that it is sending a team to the border to assess the situation there and determine what needs to happen next. Have you been in contact with them? Have they been in contact with you? And what is it that they need to know?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR: Well, you know, first of all, I\u2019ve been asking them to come down, they have come down. They have not called too many people down here. So I\u2019ve I learned from local folks that they are in Donna, Texas, and then they\u2019re going to come to Laredo, my hometown, and then they got to go to Carrizo Springs to go see the facilities. We haven\u2019t had an opportunity to talk to them. But I can tell you, I\u2019m gonna have a lot of tough questions to the (DHS) secretary when he comes before Homeland Appropriations, I will get my time to ask them questions, if they\u2019re not taking the time to talk to local folks. The problem is they\u2019re listening to immigration activists, which is okay. But they got to listen to the local communities. And they got to listen to those men and women in green, you know, because first of all, our border patrol agents have not been vaccinated, not all of them. We have to get them vaccinated, we got to get our NGOs vaccinated, as we\u2019re letting 1000s of people coming in. I think this February, we\u2019re gonna get to 100,000 individuals for the month of March, I mean of February, the high point was in May of 2019. Under the Trump administration, where we hit 144,000, we\u2019re getting to a part where it\u2019s going to be very difficult, like it was in 2014, 2015, and 2019, except we have COVID-19 as a situation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FOX NEWS HOST: Well, let\u2019s take a look at some of the numbers here. This is from the border patrol reporting in the just the Rio Grande sector, unaccompanied children in that sector, and this is in comparison from fiscal year 2020 from January to fiscal year 2021. You can see that 73% increase. And right now there is this debate between critics of the Biden administration and the Biden administration over whether or not this is a crisis versus a challenge. My question to you and I asked this of a Republican Congressman, in the last hour, does matter what we call it, and where is the line between challenge and crisis?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CUELLAR:&nbsp; Yeah, look, we can play with words. Is that a challenge? Or is it a crisis? Let\u2019s look at the numbers, since August of last year, the numbers have been increasing. In especially October, November, and December, we were hitting 70,000. In January, we had 78,000. This is again, under the Trump administration, not moving into the Biden administration. Biden might have started under Trump, but when you\u2019re the president, you own the situation, whether it\u2019s a success or not \u2026 I think in February we\u2019re going to get about 100,000. And again, I don\u2019t care what we call it, but I can tell you this, those numbers of people that are being released, they\u2019re purposely withholding that information. They\u2019ve been told not to withhold that information. I now know that they\u2019re bringing people from McAllen over to Laredo, processing them in Laredo, and they\u2019re going to release them in my community. I represent the both areas, the valley and of course, part of the valley in Laredo, and I\u2019ve seen this before. Don\u2019t let the local community know what you\u2019re doing, where they\u2019re striving to bring people in from the valley, process them and Laredo, release them at a bus station. And again, I\u2019ve seen this this before in the past.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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