Rep. Jim Jordan: Border crisis is 'intentional'

Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan told Fox Business on Thursday that the border crisis is “exactly where the Biden administration wants it to be,” as second bus full of undocumented migrants sent from Texas arrived in D.C.

“The governors are at their wits end because their citizens in their respective states have said ‘we just can’t take it anymore,’” said Representative Jordan. 

“This is intentional… there is no other conclusion a rational, common sense person can reach when month after month after month the numbers keep going up. So much so that in 14 months, it has been 2 million illegal immigrants entering the country,” added Jordan.

“It is driven by a fundamental principle. President Trump’s administration, they were detain and return. The Biden administration is catch and release. And so the governors say, if you’re going to do that we are going to make this problem part of your problem too and send them to D.C.,” he continued. 

To protests against federal immigration policies, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he would transport migrants released from federal custody in Texas to Washington, D.C. The first of such busses arrived on Wednesday, On Thursday, the second bus carrying migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Colombia arrived in the nation’s capital. 

"Texans demand and deserve an aggressive, comprehensive strategy to secure our border—not President Biden's lackluster leadership," Abbott said in a statement. "As the federal government continues to roll back commonsense policies that once kept our communities safe, our local law enforcement has stepped up to protect Texans from dangerous criminals, deadly drugs, and illegal contraband flooding into the Lone Star State."

“God bless Governor Abbott for doing it. I understand the frustration they face,” said Jordan.

Abbott’s measures come as the U.S. prepares for a surge of migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border with the repeal of Title 42 on May 23. The measure, implemented by the Trump administration in 2020, allows border agents to turn away asylum-seeking migrants at the border to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

So far in the Fiscal Year 2022, Border Patrol agents have intercepted almost one million undocumented immigrants, compared to 1.7 million for the entire FY 2021.

“This is going to have to come to some kind of resolution because it just can’t keep going this way,” the congressman concluded.