Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday blasted President Biden for the immigration crisis, saying it’s clear the White House has no intention of closing the border.
Migrants sleep near an alleyway between the grounds of an overnight shelter at Sacred Heart Church.James KeivomA welder fixes a malfunctioning gate on the US-Mexico border wall.“We tried to fix this during [the Trump administration]. We weren’t able to convince China to change its behavior. [But] we were able to stop this at our border to a significant degree. Their motivation is really very simple: They see demand in the United States.
He dismissed Vice President Kamala Harris’s argument that the drug trafficking is tied to the “root causes” of immigration from Central and South American countries. “We know how to fix this. … When you hear Vice President Harris, say, ‘Well, we have to go to root causes’ — that is just junk. We know how to address this. We simply need leadership that’s prepared to do it,” Pompeo said.
President Biden speaks with US Customs and Border Protection officers as he visits the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas on January 8.said it seized more than 50.6 million fentanyl-lacked pills and 10,000 tons of fentanyl powder across the country in 2022. It said the seizures represent more than 379 million potentially fatal doses of the illicit drug — enough doses to kill every American.
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