Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services office, on Sunday decried the “pipeline” for illegal immigrants to enter America, calling Congress’ complaints about the migrant surge “the height of hypocrisy.”
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Cuccinelli said a congressional fix of immigration is the only way to stem the surge.
“This is a pipeline. Border patrol is at the front of the pipeline,” he said of illegal entry across the southern border. “[I]f the next stage of the pipeline is full… [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is the next stage of the pipeline and their detention beds are not only full, they're overfull.”
Cuccinelli said at one detention facility in El Paso, Texas, 950 people were in a facility built for 800, and “it was being run well, run safely and so forth, but once you're over those capacity points you encounter problems.”
“If they keep coming, people in the House come down and complain about them keep coming while not helping fix the problem. It's the height of hypocrisy,” he said.
Cuccinelli said federal deportation orders are the most flaunted in the nation.
“Approximately a million people in this country who already have removal orders,” he said. “They've been all the way through an extremely generous due process pipeline, have removal orders, they don't leave… It is the most violated federal court order in America.”
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