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.
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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
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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.