RNC releases video series zeroing in on border crisis, calls Biden the ‘root cause’

FIRST ON FOX: The Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) is launching the primary in a video collection that zeroes in on the continuing disaster on the southern border, and the Biden administration’s dealing with of it — simply as numbers are rising forward of one other anticipated surge this summer season.

The primary video within the collection, known as “Unchecked; 2 Million” refers back to the variety of migrant encounters within the 2021 calendar 12 months — and pins the blame for the large numbers encountered final 12 months, which overwhelmed Border Patrol agent, on the insurance policies of the brand new administration.

“Plain and easy: Joe Biden is the basis reason behind the ache and struggling on the border. Biden and ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris’ failures have put our legislation enforcement officers in hurt’s means, leaving them to defend an open border with medication, human trafficking, and crime surging,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel mentioned in an announcement. “Each neighborhood is a border neighborhood underneath Biden, as medication and crime transfer throughout the nation.”

The Biden administration has blamed the surge, which noticed a number of months of greater than 200,000 encounters final 12 months, on root causes in Central America like poverty, violence and local weather change. It has additionally blamed the Trump administration’s ending of authorized asylum pathways. However officers have warned that the basis trigger technique will take time to achieve success.

“However none of that is going to be simply turning on a change,” Harris mentioned in February. “It requires focus, it requires intention, it requires an funding over a time frame, which suggests, within the quick level, is that you simply’re not going to see the good thing about it in a single day – as a result of the issues didn’t happen in a single day.”

Republicans, nevertheless, have linked the surge to the administration’s insurance policies, together with the ending of border wall building, makes an attempt to finish the “Stay-in-Mexico coverage” and restricted inside immigration enforcement.

The video contains interviews with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, former performing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ron Vitiello and Townhall journalist Julio Rosas, who’ve all hung out on the border, as they talk about the affect of the sky-high numbers that had been seen in 2021. 

“We’re seeing a human rights disaster, we’re seeing a public well being disaster, we’re seeing a criminal offense and nationwide safety disaster,” Cruz mentioned.

“Each a part of America has been impacted, you’ve received migrants going to each nook of the nation,” Gonzales mentioned.

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“We’ve by no means seen two million encounters inside a 12 months’s time, it’s simply by no means occurred,” Vitiello says within the video.

The video focuses particularly on the Biden administration’s dealing with of the disaster, who they accuse of mismanaging and downplaying the disaster. Cruz dismisses the Democratic declare that the immigration insurance policies are humane: “They will solely say that in the event that they don’t truly look firsthand.”

The video comes simply as a looming resolution to resume the Title 42 public well being order — which has been utilized by each the Trump and Biden administration’s to deport a majority of migrants because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Facilities for Illness Management will resolve within the coming days whether or not to resume the order or finish it. That’s elevating fears, throughout the administration and from each Republican and Democratic lawmakers, that ending the coverage will result in an excellent greater spike in numbers.

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz on Tuesday mentioned that the U.S. is presently on observe to hit a million migrant encounters thus far in Fiscal Yr 2022 – and mentioned that “each sector is busier than they had been again in ‘21.”

He additionally mentioned that brokers have encountered migrants from 157 completely different international locations.