A leading Republican senator Sunday slammed the Biden administration for “having its head completely buried in the sand” over the US border crisis — and creating a “massive national security issue” as a result.
“One-point-seven million ‘gotaways.’ We don’t know who these people are,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin told host John Catsimatidis on the “Cat’s Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM radio, referring to the reported number of illegal migrants who have streamed across the US southern border and evaded apprehension since President Biden took office in 2021.
“We just know that we detect them coming across the border and now they’re in our country,” Johnson said.
“You think there might the a terrorist or two in that 1.7 million people?” he asked. “This is a massive national security threat that President Biden is completely turning a blind eye toward.
“This administration has its head completely buried in the sand,” Johnson added. “They won’t even admit it’s a problem, John. They call it a challenge.”
4 US Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) says the Biden administration has created a major national security issue by failing to stem the flow of migrants across the US border, saying the White House “has its head completely buried in the sand.” Getty Images
4 Nearly 270,000 migrants were encountered crossing the US border with Mexico in September. James Keivom
Johnson also targeted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, calling his testimony before Congress last week “maddening.
“I asked him point-blank, ‘Mr. Secretary, how many people have you let in during your administration?’ ” Johnson said. “He just hemmed and hawed. He never answered the question at all. This is a guy who completely blames the explosion on the border on our broken asylum system.
“I had to point out to him, ‘Mr. Secretary, under Donald Trump, the exact same broken asylum system, we pretty well secured the border. We, in one month, had only 17,000 people coming into this country illegally,” he said. “Last month, we had over 270,00.”
4 The crisis at the US border has created a serious national security issue, Sen. Johnson said Sunday, noting that thousands of “gotaways” are on the loose. csuarez
4 FBI Director Christopher Wray was grilled on Capitol Hill last week. REUTERS
The senior senator also lambasted FBI Director Christopher Wray, saying Wray “utterly failed” to “restore the credibility and integrity of the FBI” and accusing him of attempting to derail the corruption probe into troubled first son Hunter Biden.
He accused Wray and other federal agencies of trying “to throw us off the trail.
“This is corruption at some of the highest levels of the FBI,” Johnson said. “We know how corrupt the investigation has been of Hunter Biden — the Department of Justice frustrating investigators’ ability, the IRS, the whistleblowers who’ve talked about this.
“As troubling as the corruption of the Biden crime family is, what may be even more troubling is the corruption within federal law enforcement, the FBI, Department of Justice, [the] intelligence community.”
‘Blind eye’ Biden creates ‘massive national security threat’ by ignoring migrant crisis: top senator
