Warnings in a letter to congressional leaders from 10 retired FBI directors and counterintelligence officials last week that border policies have created the danger of a "soft invasion" must be taken seriously, former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said on Newsmax Sunday.
"What's going on along the border is incomprehensible, but it's also very specifically a national security issue," Wolf told Newsmax's "Wake Up America" on Saturday. "I think that's what a lot of people perhaps lose sight of over time.
"We throw out a lot of numbers, and you see 300,000 or 250,000 illegal apprehensions. But what you're not seeing there is the number of national security threats, the number of known and suspected terrorists coming across that border."
Still, the Biden administration "continues to go down the wrong path," when it comes to the border, Wolf said. "We saw it just with numbers that they finally released at the end of January for December; another 19 known or suspected terrorists coming across that border under the Biden administration."
Wolf said the administration can take action now to prevent the dangers that could happen with the border.
"There's a whole host of actual decisions that President Biden and Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas can take today," he said. "They don't need Congress to act. They don't need a big negotiated bill that will take months to get over the finish line. They can act.
"They've been able to act for the last three years. They just simply refuse to do it."
Wolf also referred to the ongoing negotiations in the Senate for a Ukraine funding bill that adds border security measures as "a little bit of a farce."
"The administration keeps saying they needed a negotiated bill to solve what's going on along that border," said Wolf. "Congress did not cause this crisis. Joe Biden's administration's policies did. They can change those policies to stop the crisis."
He also pointed out that while the White House is trying to negotiate a bill, it's also suing the state of Texas and removing razor wire that Gov. Greg Abbott ordered to be placed.
"They're doing everything that they can to not have strong border security there in Texas, but yet they're on Capitol Hill saying, Well, we need these additional authorities to close the border down," said Wolf. "It is a complete lie to the American people, and I hope Congress does not fall for it."
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Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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