Rep. Colin Allred: ‘I Am a Democrat Who Says We Have a Crisis at the Border’

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ALLRED: “And I'm really sick and tired of folks going down there and treating it like they are on some kind of safari, they put on their outdoor clothing and they go and point out migrants in the weeds. What we need them to do is pass legislation to help us try to address this. And I heard y’all talking about it on the last segment, but the legislation that we were trying to consider in the Congress, no state would have benefited from that more than Texas because of the CBP agents they would have hired, because of the immigration judges they would have hired, because of the changes to the asylum system. We had 300,000 crossings in December alone, 10,000 a day. That’s a crisis. I am a Democrat who says we have a crisis of the border. We have to respond to it in a way that’s consistent with our values, though, and that, I think, is one of the big differences between me and Cruz. Also the fact that he wants to use it as a political issue instead of solve it. So, to me, that’s just untenable in Texas."