Top Republican Calls for Troops at Border as Illegal Immigrant Surge Goes Global; Top House GOP investigator says Biden must send active-duty troops to border

Top Republican calls for troops at border as illegal immigrant surge goes global:

Rep. James Comer, the House Republicans’ lead investigator, says it’s time to send active-duty military troops to the U.S. border with Mexico to shut down drug routes and curtail the reach of smuggling cartels, which control the boundary with startling effectiveness.

The lawmaker from Kentucky led a delegation from the House Oversight and Reform Committee to the border in California and Arizona last week. He said the level of chaos was noticeably higher than a similar trip to the border in Texas and New Mexico last year.

He said cartels dictate border operations, sending groups of migrants to tie up Border Patrol agents and then sneaking drugs into the U.S. The cartels have eyes on everything, and the brazenness of their defiance is stunning, he said.

“We were seeing buses and Ubers pull up and letting people out. They were waiting until we left, and they were going to walk across,” Mr. Comer said.

The lawmakers watched one group of 45 people from Cuba and Uzbekistan make their way into the U.S., Mr. Comer recounted. Agents said they are also getting Syrians and Afghans and even nabbed some people from Poland.

“I don’t think that’s something the average person knows: These people are coming from all over the world,” Mr. Comer said.

Department of Homeland Security numbers released this week bear that out.

Of the 221,303 unauthorized border crossers nabbed at the U.S.-Mexico line in March, nearly 90,000 came from beyond the traditional sending countries of Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. —>READ MORE HERE

Top House GOP investigator says Biden must send active-duty troops to border:

Comer says U.S. ‘isn’t putting up a fight’ against cartels

Rep. James Comer, House Republicans’ lead investigator, says it’s time to send active-duty military troops to the U.S. border with Mexico to shut down drug routes and curtail the reach of smuggling cartels, who control the boundary with startling effectiveness.

The Kentucky lawmaker led a delegation from the House Oversight and Reform Committee to the border in California and Arizona last week, and said the level of chaos was noticeably higher than a similar trip to the border in Texas and New Mexico last year.

He said cartels dictate border operations, sending groups of migrants over to tie up Border Patrol agents, then sneaking drugs across. And the cartels have eyes on everything happening on the U.S. side.

And the brazenness of their defiance was stunning, he said.

“We were seeing buses and Ubers pull up and letting people out. They were waiting until we left and they were going to walk across,” Mr. Comer said.

When the migrants did cross, they were taking selfies to commemorate their easy arrival.

Mr. Comer said agents shepherding them around the border pointed to a house on the Mexican side where the cartel had eyes on the congressional delegation. Agents also pointed to a hilltop on the U.S. side where cartel scouts were believed to be messaging Border Patrol movements back to the Mexican side.

“This is an issue of national security, these spotters that are over here, they’re a national security threat,” Mr. Comer said. “Not only are they complicit in allowing the illegal drugs to cross the border … they’re also involved in crime, just horrific crimes.” —>READ MORE HERE

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