A Florida lawmaker suggested on Tuesday that President Joe Biden has rolled out the welcome wagon instead of the paddy wagon to deal with the tidal wave of illegal immigration.
Tampa-area Republican Rep. Laurel Lee, during an appearance on Fox News, called for tougher measures to protect American sovereignty since Biden has opted to turn law enforcement authorities into “travel agents,” by handcuffing their response to the border crisis.
“We’ve watched for three years while President Biden sat back and talked about things like root causes while allowing the drug cartels to take operational control of our border,” Lee said. “The situation that this has created across America and in our communities is tragic, and it’s dangerous.”
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“We know that it’s not just people coming across. We’ve seen the consequences of fentanyl trafficking, human trafficking, and there’s just no reason at this point to have any confidence that Joe Biden actually wants to secure the border.”
Lee added, “We have brave men and women of Border Patrol who are down there ready, willing and able, who want to enforce our laws, who want to fight for our country. And instead, as you point out, they’re being assigned tasks like passing out blankets and working as travel agents to just bring people into this country.”
“We don’t know who they are. We don’t know where they’re going. We do know that quite a number of these people, some are even on the terror watch list and they’re getting spread out throughout America with these notices to appear that many of them simply ignore,” Lee added.
“So this is a crisis that is a true danger to our country and something that House Republicans are committed to putting a stop to.”
According to The Hill, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the latest data on border encounters with illegals on Friday. It showed that U.S. agents continue to stop more than 8,000 illegals a day.
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But they are not sent back. They are issued notices to appear in court to have their cases adjudicated, and many just disappear.
In recent comments about the data, CBP spokesman Troy Miller said, “CBP continues to execute its important mission to protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic prosperity by implementing operational plans, surging personnel and decompressing areas along the southwest border while processing and vetting migrants who are encountered humanely, safely, and efficiently, consistent with our laws.”
“The encounter levels we are currently seeing across the southwest border are presenting a serious challenge to the men and women” of his agency.
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