Biggs is asking the Biden administration to admit there is a ‘crisis’ at the border.
A video from Republican Congressman Andy Biggs’ home state of Arizona shows illegal immigrants, most camouflage and backpacks, streaming across the border fearless.
Biggs says that the video, given only to Fox News, was given to him by an Arizona rancher and was shot over the period of a few weeks showing what he believes are illegal immigrants smuggling drugs across the border.
“In this particular incidence, what you’re looking at is men typically ages 16-25, military-type age, who are working for the cartels,” Biggs told Fox News, also saying that the Border Patrol numbers show that there were 90,000 “got aways,” migrants who were seen crossing the border but not captured, in the Tucson border sector this fiscal year alone.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary “Mayorkas deceives Americans claiming that the border is closed, but preliminary calculations show 190,000 illegal aliens were encountered at our Southern Border in June alone,” Biggs said. “In the meantime, we’re seeing some of the lowest numbers of deportations in decades. The record number entering the country and the record low in deportations show both ends of the Biden administration’s efforts to drive up the number of people in the country illegally.”
Biggs, who represents Arizona’s 5th congressional district, is now in the border town of McAllen, Texas seeing for himself the damages of the illegal immigration increase that has brought in nstionwide attention over the past few months.
Biggs gave a few pictures to Fox News showing migrant children being rounded up and showing the congressman touring a border patrol site.
Biggs also gave pictures that were taken during a night tour across the border that showed massive groups of illegal immigrants being detained.
When asked by Fox News what he wants to achieve by touring the border and what he wants the Biden Administration will take away from the visit, Biggs listed around ten changes that he wants to be made to crush the crisis.
First and foremost, Biggs, who has been to the border a few times this year, says he wants that President Biden will finally admit that a crisis is taking place.
“First, I’d like the Biden administration to acknowledge this is a crisis,” Biggs said.
Also, Biggs asked the Biden administration to not only confirm there is a crisis going on but to admit that the crisis is humanitarian in nature.
Biggs also said that the citizens and law enforcement officials he has spoken with at the border are very worried about reports that Biden will rescind Title 42, a CDC public health rule that permits border agents to remove illegal immigrants from the country within hours of detention, in the next few weeks.
“It’s going to exacerbate the problem,” Biggs said.
In May, the number of people that were captured trying to cross the border illegally topped 180,034, the largest number in almost two decades.
On Friday, the number raised even higher. The Border Patrol reported 188,829 encounters with illegal immigrants at the border in June.
Many of those crossings were kids, and the DHS warned in March that a record number of migrant children, at least 117,000, are anticipated to cross the border this year.