Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) said Tuesday that the Biden administration’s border agents are “working as travel agents.”
In an appearance on Fox News, Lee bashed Biden’s immigration policy, arguing that Border Patrol agents want to secure the border, but the administration is forcing them to stand down.
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“We’ve watched for three years while President Biden sat back and talked about things like root causes while allowing the drug cartels to take operational control of our border,” Lee said. “The situation that this has created across America and in our communities is tragic, and it’s dangerous. We know that it’s not just people coming across. We’ve seen the consequences of fentanyl trafficking, human trafficking, and there’s just no reason at this point to have any confidence that Joe Biden actually wants to secure the border.
“We have brave men and women of Border Patrol who are down there ready, willing and able, who want to enforce our laws, who want to fight for our country,” she continued. “And instead, as you point out, they’re being assigned tasks like passing out blankets and working as travel agents to just bring people into this country. We don’t know who they are. We don’t know where they’re going. We do know that quite a number of these people, some are even on the terror watch list and they’re getting spread out throughout America with these notices to appear that many of them simply ignore. So this is a crisis that is a true danger to our country and something that House Republicans are committed to putting a stop to.”
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Biden has faced criticism for his immigration policy from both sides of the political spectrum, with conservatives in Congress being some of his harshest critics. House Republicans including Lee have sought a return to former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Biden’s lax approach to the border has seen record numbers of illegal crossings. Last week, a record 14,509 migrants were encountered at the border — the most in a single day.
