The unfinished sections of former president Donald Trump’s border wall are being easily breached by illegal immigrants, according to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who visited one of these areas in San Diego recently.
“It’s like someone built a wall with an open gate that never closes,” Issa told the Washington Examiner. “People can still walk right in.”
The area he visited overlooks Tijuana and is accessible by driving a four-wheel-drive vehicle along a dirt road. Mexican homes are clearly visible on the other side of the fence, Issa said.
In the first hour he was there, Issa said he encountered two illegal immigrants who had crossed the border. U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped the two men and questioned them.
The first man said he was from Sudan, a country that was on America’s terrorism watch-list just last year. And the second man was from Eritrea, which is also in Africa and has a long history of human-rights abuses.
Later that day, more than a dozen Mexicans crossed the border in the same place. They were also detained, Issa said.
“Every American should be concerned about the national security implications of the Biden administration’s belief in open borders and their refusal to show the truth of the damage their policies have done in only a few short weeks,” Issa said.
The Biden administration temporarily halted construction of Trump’s border wall on his first day in office. However, the project has not officially ended, so money is still flowing to it from the federal government.
In fact, the Biden administration is spending nearly $6 million a day to stop the border wall from being finished.
Thousands of illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since Biden took office. Immigration officials expect crossings to reach an all-time high after Biden rolled back many of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
