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Reps. Malliotakis, Wagner on their border visit

2021-04-11 | 🔗
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., and Rep. Ann Wagner, (R-MO), react on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to the surge of migrants overwhelming the border facilities.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Jedediah, while Vice President Harris remains silent on the border crisis, some in the media are even questioning what her role actually is. Aides say her focus has been quote behind the scenes, but her public schedule speaking every day last week tells a different story: Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis from New York and Ann Wagner from Missouri just returned from the border. They join us with what they saw well, get back to Kamala Harris in just a second. Thank you both for being with us. This morning, representative youve been there. Others say this is humanitarian crisis. Are they right, theyre? Absolutely right what we saw? The president turned over our borders to the cartels who are making a billion dollars. This is a robust criminal operation of smugglers and cartels that are taking advantage, exploiting individuals and distracting by the way, the customs and border
protection as they are dealing with one hundred and seventy thousand migrants per month. There is all sorts of nefarious activities taking place, gun trafficking, drug trafficking and sex trafficking as well. This is what the border profession told us. Quite frankly, the president, and vice president, can stop it right now by just reverse the executive orders they put in place on January 20th that have led to this surge. Jedediah representative Wagner weve, seen a lot of photos. Images have emerged with the crowding, particularly during a pandemic. We hear a lot of new processing. Centers will have to be opened up, given what youve, seen being there front and center in person. Is it shocking to you that Vice President Harris may be, if it is involved with immigration at all, hasnt made the trip face to face herself completely ignoring the entire humanitarian and crisis they have created at border?
This should be laid at the feet. The fault of President Joe Biden. I was down at the border in two thousand and nineteen when I saw the kind of influx ever illegal migrants coming across the border. You know what President Trump acted. He put. Three policies in place remain in Mexico policy, which was apply for asylum in the: U Dot S but stay in Mexico. The cooperative asylum program that he had with the Central south american countries with Nicaragua, El Salvador Guatemala dont, make the journey stay in Central America before you come third, was the public health cooperative order put in place title forty, two making sure during a pandemic in particular that people were not flooding across our border? As a result of these failed and open border policies, catch and release policies we witnessed in the Rio Grande Valley were seeing crime come to the interior to the states. My home state of Missouri
were seeing crime, come were seeing covid and disease coming were also seeing costs long term costs Jedediah to the american public and taxpayer in terms of social services in terms of public health and safety and in terms of education long term. This is a crisis that was created by Joe Biden sustained by he and Kamala Harris, and they Congresswoman Wagner cited those congresswoman Wagner cited. Those policies remain in Mexico was cited. The most is this political is in unwillingness on part of administration. We made a mistake. This is not sustainable. We need to look back at some policies. Give it a second look, but politically they just cant do it. They need to go visit the border and speak with the customs and border protection we spoke with. They will tell them the policies President Trump had in place were working. This is not. I dont know how any leader can turn over our borders to cartels to a criminal organization.
Cpb is completely overrun. They dont have the manpower they are diverted. They have to sit in the facilities they need to process individuals, they are supervising unaccompanied minors. The migrants are being exploited, of course, the american citizens. This is coming at a tremendous cost. This is not fair for anybody involved if the vice president would just go there. I know that she will say the same thing that we are saying today, because no one can deny this is a crisis 15 year high completely unsustainable, it needs to be reversed, admit theyre, wrong, reverse the policies Jedediah. We want to. Thank you both for not only being here today. Yes, go ahead. Briefly, only ten seconds go right ahead. I will tell you that forty percent of the field agents by the border patrol are being brought back in to process children and be caregivers not going after cartels and crime that needs to be done. They broke it. President Biden broke this. He needs to fix it.
Jedediah. Thank you both for being here, more importantly, for going down to the border and taking a close look to what is going on being.
Transcript generated on 2021-04-11.