House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican colleagues held a press conference Monday, after a visit to the holding facility on the Texas border in El Paso.
McCarthy led the Congressional delegation to discuss what he calls “President Biden’s border crisis”‘ as thousands of Central American, Middle Eastern, and Haitian migrants have rushed to the southern border since Biden’s inauguration.
This rush of migrants has overwhelmed border security and created a log-jam that includes thousands of unaccompanied children kept for days in cramped, jail-like facilities while awaiting transfer to federal shelters.
McCarthy said on Monday, that the largest population of migrants are Haitians and that they are being “released into the country.”
McCarthy described the cramped conditions in the caged areas and said that social distancing can’t be accomplished in the holding areas. With a 10% COVID positivity rate and the fact that the migrants are being released into the US, the spread of COVID in the U.S. from the migrants is real.
He added that the children’s holding facility has a capacity of 1.040, and that they are now at capacity with more coming.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA., on Sunday said that the influx of unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border was a “humanitarian crisis” and then blamed Trump.
Pelosi’s comments came a day after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the FEMA will begin sheltering and transferring children who arrive at the southern border.
Pelosi obviously forgot that on his first day in office, Biden terminated, by executive order, Trump’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border, which Trump had used as a legal mechanism to divert extra funds toward the construction of a wall, and the cartel is charging for entry into the US, complete with t-shirts, with paid admission.
Cochise County Arizona Sheriff Mark Dannels said on Monday that the cartel is charging $6,000 a person to cross the southern border in Arizona.
On Friday, Rep. Tom McClintock, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, wrote to subcommittee Chair Zoe Lofgren re-issuing calls for a hearing “to examine the Biden administration’s crisis on the southern U.S. border stemming from the sharp increase of unaccompanied children (UAC) arriving at the border.”
“As I await your response, the Biden border crisis is becoming increasingly worse,” McClintock wrote. “The Subcommittee must immediately address this crisis.”
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Let the illegal aliens set up camp inside the fence at the capital. Then let’s see how many he lets in to live there.