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Congressmen Higgins, Biggs travel to border to probe 'legal mechanisms' used to process, disperse migrants

2021-09-26 | 🔗
Rep. Clay Higgins and Rep. Andy Biggs traveled to the border to begin a 'congressional investigation' after thousands of migrants were cleared near a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
It for us, which is great and hes doing a fantastic job and were going to keep checking in with him will for now lets go back to the southern border Del Rio, Texas, where fifteen thousand haitian migrants have been dispersed to various places. Meanwhile, another fifteen thousand are on their way or more, possibly on their way up through Mexico, headed for our southern border. At the same time, authorities in Juarez Mexico saying theyre dealing with a mounting migrant crisis: there, thats taxing homeless, shelters and other social services in Mexico. Former President Donald Trump held a rally last night in Perry, Georgia, and he talked about the cost of the Democrats. Border policies watch were living through the worst border crisis in the history, probably of civilization, theres no border. Nobody has a border like this. We dont do anything. You know other countries, even if theyre not well equipped,
they put up a fight, they dont let people come in were just letting people walk right in and your own senator Raphael Warnock background sounds has not uttered a single solitary word of criticism because hes a marxist controlled by the radical left Democrats who dont believe in borders, PETE and hes right. They dont. If you believed in them at all, you would be doing something they dont, especially the far left of their base. So they do nothing. They dont visit. They dont care, they throw border patrol agents under the bus. They lie about it and create these false racist narratives to try to turn up something to talk about other than the fact that theyre dumping illegals into our country Rachel. It is truly remarkable that Joe Biden has never been to the boarder that Kamala Harris whos. The border czar refuses to actually go to the border
and you brought up Mexico. Mexico is missing the Trump days. They actually thought. These policies were working. It was discouraging people from other countries from Central America and Beyond to come through Mexico and in addition, the people and many of them Democrats, longtime Democrat voters live along. The border are pining for the Trump days because those policies were working, our border had never been better controlled and now what weve done is not only create this humanitarian crisis that youre seeing right here. Not only have we potentially spread covid throughout the country because of the way this administration deals with this just to remove them from that site and put them on taxpayer funded buses and airplanes and spread them out throughout the country, but also you know, this is weve handed over our border to the cartels. Cartels are many charge. We are just, as you said, on your show this week, PETE were just letting the federal
government, the federal governments just completing the last leg for the cartel. This is a business, is, were enriching them and were making the root causes worse will and its showing up in Joe Bidens poll numbers lets bring in Arizona, GOP, congressman, Andy, Biggs and Louisiana. Congressman clay Higgins live at the border. Good morning to both of you, fifteen thousand migrants were in that camp can possibly as high as thirty thousand migrants made their a way in your understanding. Where have they all gone? Weve heard some back to Mexico. You know two thousand or so back to Haiti, and many are processing here in the United States. So where are they go ahead? Clay thats exactly what were here to find out. Amongst other things, where are the fifteen thousand? How were they processed? Were legal mechanisms used in that processing effort? You know to move fifteen thousand illegal
immigrants out of a makeshift camp. In a matter of days, I dont believe we have legal mechanisms that will allow for that. So were hearing that a couple thousand have been sent back to Haiti. We want to make sure the legal mechanisms used in that were hearing that others were moved to Tucson El Paso. Some are at the county correction center here some have been moved to a Houston facility. We understand that has been stood up were going to find out because its our job to make sure that this executive branch, which has shown that it does not intend to follow the law of the land and secure the sovereignty of our nation at the southern border, that its willing to cede american territory to criminal cartel that control the northern
hex can border mexican border were here to begin our congressional investigation to find out exactly what happened here. Pete they bulldozed the site. They want us to forget what was there? Do you have the sense that anything has changed, meaning future caravans, as will talked about theres talk of tens of thousands more illegal immigrants heading towards the border? Has anything changed to prevent situations like this happening again? No theres been absolutely no change in policy, because this is a policy and leadership issue. Its a failure so whats going to happen is weve heard testimony this week in Congress that theres two more groups coming totaling between 60 70000 Haitians. We need to know why all of a sudden, the Haitians are coming up from Brazil and other countries in South America. Thats not even counting the almost ten thousand a day that are coming across through the rest of the border, so nothing has changed.
Weve got to be ready for that, and we want to see whats happening in preparation for this next wave of folks that are coming up, and if this administrations going to do anything different, they want to hide this thats why they moved all these folks. They took them where you can see them with drones and they just spread them throughout the country, so maybe the optics wont be as bad as there were Rachel im speaking to Congressman Higgins, when Senator Johnson had Alejandro Mayorkas in a hearing he said I want to see the numbers I dont have them now. Well, I want them now. Are you guys in the house asking for the numbers? Is anyone its not just in Del Rio? We want to know whats been going on since the Biden administration opened our border. How many people have entered were asking the exact same question and getting no answers, although legally the Secretarys required to give us those answers Rachel, yeah, even in a confidential setting, no problem,
we get confidential briefings all the time FBI director Wray would not would not identify for us how many known or suspected terrorists have been intercepted. This is a number. We absolutely have to right to know its our sworn oath in service to the people of our nation and yet were finding it very difficult just to get a straight answer out of this administration, so Congressman Biggs and I were very serious about performing our job and and were going to get to the truth whether the Biden administration likes it or not, were going to get to the truth and were going to report to the american people exactly what we find out will Congressman Biggs. You brought with up an interesting point, an answer to this question as well. Why now? This is an acute problem when it comes to haitian migrants and people. I dont think fully understand these haitian migrants had
refugee status and had been living for a long period of time this if countries like Chile, so why now in a mass wave did they make their way to the american southern border? I dont know if youve had a chance to ask any of those migrants that question or border patrol authorities, but thats something we need to find out what message went out. Thats exactly right were talking with some national policy structure change in those countries that caught this were the cartels recruiting by the way the cartels and Ngos recruit all over central and South America. Is that why this happened, if you bring fifteen thousand Haitians into the country or somewhere near that many that word is going to go back out to the folks that are coming up and thatll be with a further draw and incentive to come PETE well congressmen. If, thanks for being here, please do give our best to the border patrol down there and
relay how grateful Americans are.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-08.