Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, crossed party lines Monday and blasted President Joe Biden for his lacking border policy.
“Right now, when you talk to men and women in green and in blue, they feel demoralized,” Cuellar told Fox and Friends, referencing patrol agents and law enforcement agents along the border. “They don’t feel that Washington has their back. We have to do more than give them a pat on the back.”
When co-host Brian Kilmeade noted that more Democrats are joining Republicans in criticizing the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis, Cuellar pointed to their unity over calling out a double standard of repealing Title 42 and extending the federal mask mandate.
“You can’t say we have a pandemic or a public health issue here but then say everything is fine at the border and then lift the Title 42, which is a health order,” Cuellar said. “You just can’t have both.”
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The Democrat also stressed that less than half of the Border Patrol agents are doing work connected to border security.
“This is very important,” Cuellar said, adding that 60% of the Border Patrol agents in the Laredo and Rio Grande Valley sectors “are changing diapers, are making food for the migrants — important work, but they don’t belong there. They should be out there. So we are only working with 40% of our personnel, Border Patrol. … You can bet that the bad guys know this.”
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Cuellar’s comments come as the sixth bus of illegal migrants arrived in Washington, D.C., from Texas late Sunday night. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the buses are part of his strategy to address “Biden’s ongoing failure to secure the border.”
