Stephen Miller attacked President Biden’s immigration policies, warning they are “morally monstrous” and “indefensible” as the crisis on the U.S.– Mexico border continues to grow.
“What humanitarian principle is served by rewarding and encouraging the brutal monstrous trafficking of minors? What value or humanitarian principle is served by making it easier for criminal organizations to savagely assault innocent men, women, and children, for-profit, because that is what is happening right now,” Miller told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s assertion that Biden’s immigration plan was “values-based.”
The former special adviser to former President Donald Trump also took issue with comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who asserted that the border was “closed,” accusing Mayorkas of “blatantly lying.”
“We have a crisis, a spiraling, massive, growing, surging crisis for one very simple reason: The Biden administration terminated all of [Trump’s policies] to adopt a policy of catch and release. And so when Mayorkas says, as he did today, that the border is closed, he is lying,” Miller said.
SMUGGLERS EMBEDDING CRIMINALS WITH FAMILIES TO CROSS BORDER, TEXAS TROOPERS SAY
Miller also took aim at Susan Rice, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, arguing her vow to “humanely” deal with the border crisis was “incentivizing” the trafficking of children across the border and “long-term family separation,” and signaling that the administration was telling “every family on planet earth” to “split off your own children, and put them into the hands of coyotes and cartels, if you want them to get entry to this country.”
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered state Department of Public Safety officers and Texas National Guard troops to the border in an effort to “combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.”
A White House domestic policy council document forecasted 117,000 children will arrive at the border without their parents in 2021 alone. The Biden administration has built or reopened multiple facilities to house unaccompanied minors, including opening a facility in Pecos, Texas, with a capacity of up to 2,000 children.
The Biden administration is reportedly set to release migrants who entered the United States illegally free without court dates, putting the responsibility on the migrants themselves to schedule a hearing.
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The Border Patrol “has no choice but to release people nearly immediately after apprehension because there is no space to hold people even to do necessary NTA paperwork,” a senior administration official told Fox News.
While single people who arrive at the border and are caught by U.S. officials are immediately turned away, family units face a different fate. Mayorkas said that “most” were being returned to their countries of origin, but February data show only 8,000 of the 18,000 family units were returned.
