U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents painted a dire picture of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border in testimony Tuesday before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told Newsmax the Biden administration is to blame.
Gloria Chavez, chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, and John Modlin, chief patrol agent for the Tucson sector in Arizona, gave grim assessments in their testimony of the how their sectors are constantly targeted by cartels for drugs, human smuggling, and sex trafficking.
"I think every American watching knows it is the policies of this administration that have produced this debacle at the border," said Biggs, a member of the Oversight Committee, said on "American Agenda." "I think you saw a dichotomy today where my friends across the aisle, the Democrats, they don't want to really acknowledge the crisis that's going on, and I think that's what you get from the Biden administration."
Although Chavez and Modlin, who work for the Biden administration, stayed away from politics during the testimony, Biggs said they didn't hide their concerns about the situation at the border.
"These chiefs who work for the Biden administration, they are telling us there is a massive problem on the border, and it's everything from fentanyl to human trafficking to human smuggling to sex trafficking, and the associated crime that comes with it, with criminal gangs coming in, and terrorists coming in," Biggs said.
"It's a real problem, and the other side didn't really want to acknowledge that, but the sector chiefs they were quite candid, yet guarded because they work for this administration, but they did present a very dire circumstance in the border."
Biggs said the border crisis is adding to a general sense of insecurity among Americans heading into President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech Tuesday night, along with the state of the economy and the incident involving the alleged Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the U.S. last week before being shot down Saturday.
"I think the vast majority of people feel like they their life is not any better, in fact, that it's worse now in the last two years, specifically economically, but they can also point to crime if you live in a big city run by Democrats, the border issue, and I think that Chinese surveillance balloon literally floating across our country," Biggs said.
"I think that also adds to this sense of insecurity that we feel in America today, and it's really attributable to Joe Biden and his policies."
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