(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Tex., called out the Biden administration, saying they need to enforce the border in order to mitigate the immigration crisis.
According to The Daily Wire, Cuellar did not agree with the tactic of shipping migrants to Democrat run “sanctuary cities,” but he did call for more resources for law enforcement along the border.
“First of all, we need solutions and not theater,” Cuellar said. “By sending folks off to New York and Chicago, it does bring attention, but we want to focus more on solutions on the border.”
“We got to give Border Patrol, we got to give ICE, Homeland Security the equipment—you know, making sure they have everything where they can enforce the law, because if we don’t have repercussions at the border, we’re going to continue getting 8,000 people a day,” he said.
Cuellar also mentioned that in his hometown of Laredo, they were sending out 21 to 26 buses of migrants every day.
The representative continued, insisting that immigrants must be treated with dignity and not used as political pawns.
He then went on to say that drug cartels are exploiting migrants for personal financial gain.
“[T]he cartels are using people because they make let’s say $8,000 a person,” he said. “In two years with all the people that have come in, that get away included, that’s about 4 million individuals.”
“You multiply that by $8,000 and that shows you how much these bad guys [are] being enriched at the sake of these human beings.”
He went on, pointing out that cartels control every migrant that crosses the border in some way and explaining how sophisticated the trafficking networks are.
Cuellar’s comments closely follow comments from El Paso’s Democratic Mayor Oscar Leeser, who had to defend himself for busing migrants from his city to New York City.
Leeser said migrants were treated humanely, and the city is simply helping them get to where they want to end up.
“The people are not coming to El Paso, they’re coming to America,” Leeser said in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. “We don’t send anyone where they don’t want to go. We make sure we help them.”
“We put them on buses with food and make sure they get to their destination and make sure that we always continue to greet and treat people like human beings,” he added.
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