You can call it 'Remain in Mexico.' You can call it a Safe Third Country. Migrants responded by flooding in.Īsked later what specific policy the federal government could enact to restore order, Ortiz said, “You can call it Migrant Protection Protocols. On his first day in office, he ordered the Border Patrol to do that. Biden promised as a candidate to release immigrants into the country who were arrested after illegally crossing the border. That sums up what has happened under Biden. And anytime you don’t have consequences, you are certainly going to see some increases.” You have to have capacity, and you have to have consequences. Dan Bishop (R-NC) if the switch from “detain and remove” to “release” was the cause of the crisis, Ortiz responded, “Law enforcement’s pretty simple, sir. Ortiz’s written testimony, which was no doubt composed by the Biden White House, blamed the crisis on “evolving global and regional events.” But in person, Ortiz testified that the “driving force” of the calamity was Biden’s policies. “The migration flow represents challenges and, in some areas, a crisis situation.” “Does DHS have operational control of our entire border?” Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) asked. Any doubt that President Joe Biden is to blame for the crisis at the southern border was erased by Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz's testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee in McAllen, Texas.Īsked if he was willing to contradict Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who is the chief's boss and who previously testified under oath that the Biden administration has operational control of the border, Ortiz did so, loud and clear.ĬONGRESS MUST PROTECT FAITH-BASED SERVICE PROVIDERS

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