Trump DHS leaders say Biden ‘facilitating’ border crisis rather than stopping it

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Top homeland security officials from the Trump administration said that their successors in the Biden administration will see the border crisis worsen because they are only responding to the surge in illegal migration without stopping it.

“The current administration is not doing anything to prevent this,” said Mark Morgan, the former acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner, during a virtual briefing hosted by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank Tuesday morning. “They’re actually actively participating in encouraging it, incentivizing and facilitating. They’re not trying to stop the crisis. They’re just trying to get better at facilitating [it].”

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