As the number of illegal immigrants attempting to cross the southern border surges, the Biden administration is decreasing the number of troops deployed to the area, Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Jennie Taer said in an interview Thursday on Sky News Australia.
Taer said that while U.S.-Mexico border crossings are spiking, the Department of Defense(DOD) decided to move forward with a plan to withdraw soldiers in the region. The Pentagon will withdraw 1,100 active duty troops that were sent to the border in May to assist Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel ahead of a predicted surge in migration following the end of the Trump-era Title 42 rule on May 11.(RELATED: Biden Admin Spends Millions On Program That Helps Illegal Immigrants Access Social Services, Avoid Electronic Tracking)
“And now apparently the government is removing a lot of the troops that were on the southern border. Tell us about that. And the Biden administration has been claiming a win in saying border crossing numbers have gone down, but is this correct and what’s actually happening,” Sky News Australia anchor James Morrow asked Taer.
“The Defense Department has drawn down over a thousand troops they sent on a 90-day deployment from the Department of Defense, so those troops will be leaving and few will remain,” Taer said. “After a month of victory from the Biden administration, a number that we hadn’t seen a dip before, which was illegal migrant encounters, you know we saw it dip in the month of June to 99,000. Well it’s back up at 130,000 in the month of July and so they’re seeing a surge again. They’re seeing large groups just in Arizona this week; they saw a group of over 500 people from over a dozen countries.”
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Border Patrol agents recorded more than 130,000 encounters of illegal migrants at the southern border in July, up from roughly 100,000 encounters in June.
Vice President Kamala Harris was delegated the responsibility of addressing the root causes of migration by President Joe Biden. After conversations with migrants traveling through Central America, Taer says that Harris is “absolutely not” solving any of the problems causing the surge in illegal migration.
In the wake of this surge, Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott plans to visit the southern border on Friday. GOP presidential hopefuls, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, have also visited the border.
Some presidential candidates expressed interest in classifying Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorists,” Taer said.
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