Brandon Judd: Sec. Mayorkas ‘Is Using Political Talking Points to Try to Deflect’ from Biden Admin.’s Failures on the Border

JENKINS: “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says there is no crisis on our southern border and that the numbers are misleading because some migrants are making more than one illegal crossing; 172,000 migrants crossed the border in April and May, four months prior to President Biden taking office the average number was 70,000 a month. Let’s bring in Brandon Judd, National Border Patrol Council President. Brandon, we were just together last week when Governor Abbott and former President Trump were in the RGV. And that sector alone every day last week, when I was there, they saw more than 2,000 apprehensions. In just the last 24 hours, over the 4th of July, it was 1,965 apprehensions. That’s up 558 percent. How is it that the secretary says there is no crisis?”
JUDD: “I can’t be — I couldn’t be more disappointed in his words. He is absolutely incorrect, and worse off, he knows he is incorrect. He is using political talking points to try to deflect from this administration’s failures. He knows that recidivism has existed since I’ve been in the Border Patrol. It’s been a condition that existed under President Trump, now continues into President Biden’s term. But the difference under Trump’s term is we didn’t have the same number of crossings that we’re currently seeing right now. There was never 180, 170, 160,000 crossings under President Trump’s administration. This is failures by this administration to come up with actual policies or actual programs that are going to work to help us secure the border.”
JENKINS: “Talking about programs that are keeping those numbers which are at a 20-year high from going higher, is Title 42, the health rule that is expelling mostly single adults because of the fear of Covid. For example, in May of the 180,000 encounters, 112,000 were sent back. What happens if Title 42 lifts?”
JUDD: “If Title 42 goes away we are going to see even more people being released into the United States. So right now of 170,000 people that are crossing the border illegally we’re releasing into the United States approximately 65,000 of those people. So once Title 42 goes away and we can’t directly expel them to Mexico we’re going to have to start releasing those individuals as well. So, we’re going to be releasing up to 80 — upwards of 80 percent of the people that are crossing the border illegally, and — and that’s where president — that’s where Secretary Mayorkas is absolutely incorrect. He is setting the stage for this issue to become even worse, for this crisis to become a bigger crisis than it currently is. What he needs to be doing is he needs to be looking at policies and programs such as the policies that President Trump put in place in order for us to control the border.”