Immigration
House Homeland Security Committee shares footage of how cartels are controlling the border'
"What we're seeing here is that the cartel, especially those in Mexico, are the ones that are really controlling the border"
February 28, 2023 8:06am
Updated: February 28, 2023 8:06am
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y. shared with Fox News Digital a video showing how cartels “are controlling the border” during his latest trip to El Paso, Texas.
D’Esposito, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee recorded the video during a helicopter ride on his latest trip to the border city, showing a small group of migrants running from the wall into a stretch of the desert that isn't controlled.
"What we're seeing here is that the cartel, especially those in Mexico, are the ones that are really controlling the border," D’Esposito told Fox News Digital Monday.
“They are playing a tactical game of moving people from different points of entry so that they are able to illegally have people enter this country at different points while all of our Customs and Border Patrol agents are tied up dealing with a large group of migrants."
D’Esposito added that the cartels are using “certain points of entry” along the border, in which they send large groups of up to 40 people and drugs across the border.
Along with the video, the congressman also shared a picture of a hole cut into a section of the border wall, which allows migrants to cross from Mexico into the U.S.
"Since Joe Biden has been president of the United States, over 1.2 million people have entered into this country illegally," D’Esposito said. "Those are 1.2 million people that we don't know where they are. We don't know what they're doing. We don't know who they're with. They have the ability to carry illegal narcotics into this country, which is a plague on many of the communities that we live in."
"This is not about denying people the American dream," the congressman added. "It's about having people reach the American dream the right way and do it so that we know who they are. We know where they're going, we know what they're about. And we know that they want to be here because they want to love this country, and they want everything that it has to offer."
