(Headline USA) Republican lawmakers revealed this week that they have footage of migrants taking selfies to celebrate having illegally crossed the southern border.
The group of lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee said that, while on a tour of the border in Yuma, Arizona, they encountered two migrants taking a selfie while waiting for buses to arrive.
“[Human traffickers] use [the pictures] to show everybody, ‘See? Look. Look how easy it was,’” National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd told Fox News. “‘These people are happy. Pay me $1,000 and you can be happy as well.’”
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said the migrants were showing a total “lack of fear” – even after breaking the law.
“They’re breaking the law, they’re here illegally,” he said. “But yet they’re taking selfies on their Apple phones with their Louis Vuitton purses and Nike shoes, and they’re ready to be escorted to their next visit.”
The incident demonstrates how emboldened illegal immigrants have become under the Biden administration, Comer added.
“There are no consequences with the Biden administration, and that’s only going to lead to more illegals coming into the United States, which leads to more drugs and more crime and more human trafficking,” he said.
The Biden administration announced this month that it plans to repeal Title 42, a public health order that allowed border officials to immediately turn away migrants detained after illegally entering the country, at the end of May. Republicans, and even several Democrats, have warned that repealing this policy will usher in another massive flood of migration that the southern border is ill-equipped to handle.
“This administration and the Democrats, it is their agenda to allow open borders, and it will be done to harm American children and American cities,” Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said.
