This week, I joined my Republican colleagues on the Homeland Security Committee in sending a letter to President Biden excoriating his administration for misleading the American people and failing to acknowledge the border crisis or secure the southern border.
Not only have there been over 1.5 million illegal crossings along the southwest border so far this fiscal year, but the numbers are even more disturbing when we look closer at the details.
9,728 individuals with criminal convictions have been arrested in FY2021 attempting to illegally cross the border, compared with just 2,438 in FY2020. Recently-departed Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has publicly said that the US Border Patrol is seeing known or suspected terrorists cross the borders “at a level we have never seen before.”
On top of this, his administration has repeatedly misled the American people. Secretary Mayorkas has repeatedly told me and my colleagues on the Homeland Security Committee that our borders are closed and “the border is secure.” The facts don’t lie. The border is neither closed nor is it secure.
Why is the Biden Administration refusing to be transparent with the American public about the number of known or suspected terrorists that have crossed the border this year?
I encourage you to read the whole letter and get the true and startling facts about what is happening on the ground at our southern border.
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