Texas congressman decries Biden Admin. mishandling of border crisis

May 17, 2021 Carley Shaffer US 0

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) questions Attorney General William Barr who appears before the House Oversight Committee on July 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. In his first congressional testimony in more than a year, Barr is expected to face questions from the committee about his deployment of federal law enforcement agents to Portland, Oregon, and other cities in response to Black Lives Matter protests; his role in using federal agents to violently clear protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House last month before a photo opportunity for President Donald Trump in front of a church; his intervention in court cases involving Trump’s allies Roger Stone and Michael Flynn; and other issues. (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 28: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) seen before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. (Photo by Matt McClain-Pool/Getty Images)

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In a congressional session on Friday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) criticized the Biden Administration over the border crisis, calling it a national problem beneficial to drug cartels in Mexico.

He reports when drug cartels make a trade-off agreement with immigrants, they essentially are helping them to get into the country with the promise that these same immigrants will then move drugs through the states, such as fentanyl, which is killing U.S. citizens at an alarming rate.

Gohmert said the administration plans on adding only 13 miles to the border wall, which would leave more than 1,000 miles still unprotected.

Gohmert addressed the administration’s approach to the border crisis stating, “the answer has not been to secure the border, the answer from this administration has been to say the border is secure…when anybody with eyes to see or ears to hear knows that’s not true.”

YUMA, AZ – MAY 13: A family of asylum seekers from Colombia walk through an opening in the wall at the US Mexico border to turn themselves in to US Border Patrol agents on May 13, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

The representative’s remarks come as Kamala Harris faces mounting criticism for not having visited the border since being appointed as the administration’s border czar. She has continued to justify her decision to avoid the border by claiming the administration needs to focus on the so-called root causes of immigration instead.

Harris will be making an official visit to Mexico and Guatemala in June, but many Republicans argue she has already failed by not visiting the border.