"Accountability is coming" with the crisis at the U.S. southern border, Rep. Barry Moore, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Friday on Newsmax, after the committee started hearing testimony this week from border officials and families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl overdoses.
"It's the tragedies that are playing out way too often among our young people here in the U.S.," the Alabama Republican said on Newsmax's "National Report." "Richard Nixon 50 years ago declared a war on drugs with just 6,700 deaths in this country. Last year, we had 107,000 deaths."
While the narrative was that immigrants and drugs were coming in through the nation's ports of entry, "we're finding out now that it's all along the U.S. southern border," said Moore. "It's pretty porous and the drug cartels control that area."
Accountability started months ago when the House Freedom Caucus visited the border, said Moore.
"We went, we visited the border," he said. "We invited other members of the conference. We had [Arizona Rep.] Andy Biggs and members who live along and have borders in their district, and we started bringing attention and doing press conferences from the triangle there in front of the Capital, talking about this issue."
President Joe Biden, Moore added, stopped the border wall construction, did away with the remain-in-Mexico policy, and "continued to tie the hands of the border agents."
"People are pouring in, and what's happened now is the payments are being made to the cartel by these folks who are becoming indentured servants or slaves to the drug cartels," said Moore. "One of the things that concerns me most, and I brought it up in the hearing, is they're allowing people to backpack heroin, cocaine, or fentanyl to pay their passage."
That means the Biden administration is "creating indigenous servants or slaves, who make installment payments to the cartel," Moore said. "They're basically drug mules, and that's the process that we started bringing attention to months ago."
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