Arizona sheriff Mark Lamb discusses border crisis as DHS expects migrant surge to hit 20 year high.
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Expecting the biggest border
surge in decades,
they are saying this Secretary
Mayorkas says this: we are on
pace to encounter more
individuals on the south was
border than we have in the last
twenty years, but the situation we
are currently facing is a
difficult one.
You think. So
what do the border communities
seen on the ground
lets begin sheriff, Mark Lam
from Arizona for it first
sheriff when people say this is
as bad as its been. You been
doing this job five years. Could
you put it in perspective?
Oh yeah, this is as bad as it
bad and worse then, the Obama
days
its like the wild west of there
in the desert on the south end
of our county.
We are back to that again where
we can go out almost every time
we go out. We are finding twenty
people
last night and think with forty nine
apprehensions in my county.
This is just like. It was back in
the Obama days, probably worse
and on target to be worse,
Brian, think about this sheriff.
We are worried about coming into
the mall and getting
encountering someone within
six feet of us and not wearing a
mask.
Are these illegal immigrants
driving with rapid tests?
No? No, they are not being
tested.
Now. Weve got some five page
e mail telling us how its not a
crisis and how they will do a
better job of trying to get
these people tested. But look
they are not being tested in
coming in here with who knows
what and then we are having to
deal with them in our counties
and its unfair
at the same time were telling
businesses and kids they cant
go back to school and cant open
their businesses, but we are
opened our borders and letting
people come in unchecked.
Its ridiculous to me,
Brian, by the way lets have
the numbers back up your words
right now. Look in February
over one hundred thousand four hundred and forty one and two hundred and twenty one thats up
twenty percent from the previous month.
One hundred and thirty four percent compared to February two thousand and twenty
and the President of the United
States, said there was a surge
before him in past years,
putting it in perspective. How
bad is that?
What they want to do is
continue to do the blame game.
They want to blame President
Trump
President Trump, never denied. We
had an issue at a crisis on the
southern border.
We were trying to fix it and
building the wall in doing these
things. But now we sent a message
to the world that we have open
borders and we are not stopping
people and not. We are paying the
price for it.
Theyre sending unaccompanied
minors and the cartel knows what
our policies are and thats why
we are coming together as
sheriff Spirit. I started an
organization to protect american
now and you can check it out,
protect America now com. We are
fighting to protect our borders
in our communities.
Brian. You are look at these
numbers into songbird of forty five percent
with unaccompanied minors
in Yuma up one of four percent single
adult encounters of two hundred and sixty percent in
Yuma people. Come down and look
or dont show up, like President
Biden has no plans to go down
and you have to limit live it
every day and living it every
day and having it ignored has
got to make everything worse.
It drives us crazy,
ive extended the offer, and I
will do it again to any
congressman or woman or senator
who wants to come down to see
the problem firsthand.
Please come down and see it, so
you can vote with actual
knowledge of what is going on
because truly they are voting
and talking about this issue and
they dont know what they are
talking about.
Brian sheriff. What bothers me
so much is to see some of that
barrier, the fence, the wall
built in the huge gaps as if
everyone was told drop, your
hammer dropped the tractor and
go home
we paid for this already and
just for pure political
purposes, because Senator Joe
Biden voted for the secure fence
act. It is not completed.
They literally just told the
crews to go home.
Ive talked to a lot of the
workers
from one day to the next. They
lost their jobs and those
families were put out of work
and they stopped it in. You know
what the cartel knew that and
they started busting people and
left and right
hundred thousand people is an
extreme amount of people, and
there is no way think about
that. Then handling that amount
of people on the border,
especially unaccompanied minors,
in the cartel, is making so much
money off of this
lets not forget the drugs.
Last week we had a 12 pound
heroin seizure and its going
Brian Sheriff keep fighting.
We will keep the sirens on and.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-17.