Considering that
President Joe Biden
has caught and released 1.25 million illegal immigrants into the United States since he was sworn into office, a population roughly the size of Dallas, Congress absolutely should be conducting field hearings at the southern border.
House Democrats finally did hold a hearing at the border this month — almost.
The hearing took place in
McAllen, Texas,
the city limits of which do touch the Mexican border. But the hearing did not take place on the border, and the Democrats who traveled to Texas for the hearing refused to tour the border with federal or state officials.
Instead, the House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth heard testimony about “colonias,” which are unincorporated communities that lack the tax base to support basic services such as roads and running water.
Community leaders asked the committee for $600 million in infrastructure spending to prevent their homes from flooding. Republicans on the committee didn’t see why more infrastructure money was needed after Congress just passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last year. They also wanted to know why Democrats refused to hear any testimony from witnesses about security and sanitation problems being caused by
Biden’s border crisis.
“We’re here at the behest of the Democrats, they chose a select hearing in the field at the border, but they don’t want to talk about the border,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) told
the
Daily Mail
on a Republican-led trip to the border. “To our colleagues on the Left, if you care about the kids the way that you claim that you care about the kids, you would be here. That is why I cannot call Biden commander-in-chief. He’s the trafficker-in-chief. He is doing the job for the cartels and it has to stop.”
While the Republicans were touring the border, a group of 15 migrants, including 12 children and three adults, turned themselves in to Border Patrol. One of the children from El Salvador spoke English and told the Republicans she had been traveling with her cousin, but they were separated on the journey.
She wasn’t concerned, though. She knew that the Biden administration policy was to transport migrant children found illegally crossing the border to their intended final destination. She was confident that she and her cousin would soon be reunited at their aunt’s house in Tennessee. Hopefully, the other child survived the trip.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez also said that his agency estimates the cartels are making $100 million per week smuggling migrants like this Salvadoran girl to the border.
Given that McAllen is about halfway between Tennessee and El Salvador, maybe the Biden administration should be asking the cartels for half of their smuggling profits.
