The Biden administration has opened a “clandestine operation” to process illegal immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, a setup that is leading to waves of migrants being released into the United States.
In a new video put out by Senate Republicans who visited the border late last week, a border agent said that the operation is off-limits to news cameras, though some of the 18 senators on the trip took videos, including one posted by Secrets Saturday from Indiana Sen. Mike Braun.
What’s new today is the agent describing it as an “underground operation,” likely due to the overwhelming surge of Central American migrants triggered by President Joe Biden’s new open-door policy and end of Trump-era rules requiring illegal immigrants to stay in Mexico while they wait to win approval for their asylum applications.
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In the new video, as their van moved to the bridge providing cover to families and children, the border official told some of the senators: “This right here is a clandestine operation, an underground operation that the federal government is conducting here. The journalists are not allowed here. This bridge goes all the way to Mexico, maybe about a mile at the most. So, the process is so jacked up that people just cross the border illegally. As long as they make it through all these gauntlets, they make it back here, they’re going to get released.”
Earlier, he told the senators that Mexican cartel traffickers know the system and deliver the illegal immigrants for thousands of dollars. Braun told Secrets that the range is $4,000-$20,000.
The agent said that, for many, a chance to live illegally in the U.S. is worth it.
“For them, it’s worth paying their life’s savings to a smuggler because it’s a guaranteed ticket to the United States,” he said.
The agent and others told the senators that the quickest way to stop the historic flows of illegal immigrants is to continue building the border wall and win back Mexico’s promise to hold migrants.
“We have got to change our policies,” said Maine Sen. Susan Collins.
And Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said that migrants are coming because of Biden’s policy changes. “A green light was flipped when President Biden came into office, and things have just gotten worse and worse and worse.”
