April 04, 2021
2:02 PM ET
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Republican Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso said Sunday that an open southern border has made illegal entry the easiest way to get into the United States.
“The easiest way to get into the United States today is to do illegally,” Barrasso told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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“You don’t have to show proof of anything and they will allow you into the country. That is the [President Joe] Biden policy,” he said.
Barrasso said that he recently went on a midnight patrol with U.S. Border Patrol agents who told him that their job “got a lot harder” after Biden assumed office. He claimed that only one-third of the agents are “actually on the ground trying to enforce the laws” while the rest are providing “daycare” to migrant children.
March 14, 2021
2:26 PM ET
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Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Sunday that Mexican cartels are making huge profits from human smuggling during the current border crisis.
“What people need to understand is these are criminal organizations,” Cornyn told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” adding that “they trade in things that make them money, whether it’s trafficking and sex, women and children for sex, whether it’s drugs, illegal drugs … which killed 70,000 Americans just in the last couple of years on an annual basis.”
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“These criminal organizations have networks all around the world and it’s just a matter of price. If you want to come from Mexico, it’s one price, about three to $4,000,” the senator said.
March 06, 2021
11:44 AM ET
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Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan said Saturday that border detention centers have been turned into “welcoming centers” through President Joe Biden’s open border polices accepting illegal immigrants.
“They are changing these detention centers to what they call ‘reception centers, ” Homan said on “Fox & Friends” Saturday.
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“They are actually welcoming centers because they get them in there quickly, they don’t test them, they release them and when they release them, they release them on an NTA, Notice to Appear … which means as they get to their destination they qualify for work authorization,” Homan continued. “So not only are they pushing back against our public health crisis by having COVID being released, they are competing for the same scarce jobs that many Americans are competing for right now with the unemployment crisis.”