enough fentanyl to kill the entire population of new jersey. every state is a border state. joe biden incentivized and decriminalized people breaking the law. it shouldn t be up to ken paxton and myself to file lawsuits to try to force the biden administration to not rescind title 42, to try to deport people with deportation orders and force them to build the wall. those are things the federal government should be doing. they have primarily responsibility. every state, every community now has become a border state and cued ing they get mad when half a dozen or two dozen people cross the border or come into their sanctuary city. harris: we asked for a fresh statement from governor abbott s office this morning and they sent one. president biden s reckless open
migrant has been rapidly expelled from the country, sent away under the pandemic era policy known as title 42. even people who authorities encounter but are not rapidly expelled, still face court proceedings that often result in eventually deportation. of course, some migrants do evade detection and sneak into the country. some others manage to stay despite deportation orders. nonetheless, open border is inaccurate. republicans keep citing the large quantities of fentanyl being seized at the border. fentanyl being seized is more proof the border is not actually open. here s a critical point almost never mentioned in gop talking points. the vast majority of these seizures happen at the legal ports of entry where cars and buses and trucks line up to enter. the vast majority of the time it is being brought in by u.s. citizens or legal residents. 85% has been seized at legal
that they care about the border? no. us because of political pressure, leak to a l.a. times reporter, then when you leak beyond the headline 150 people have actually been deported. what i m saying by the punter, they let them all into the country. they gave them a paper says please report. when we check in the 60,000 in the docket. 60,000 is joke of a number when you look at wave of people, 11,000 actually received deportation orders and we got rid of 150? it s a joke. it is window-dressing. rachel: 150 is what happens when you re standing at the rio grande for about 30 minutes. pete: great point. rachel: again this idea that we need to speak to just how insane it is and hypocrisy of it, you don t have to deport people if you don t let them in. you could do remain in mexico. they don t come in. we don t i think overload our court systems or even do this