House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said over the weekend that President Joe Biden’s administration “intentionally” created the illegal immigration crisis at the southern border.
“We have a humanitarian catastrophe here, and, of course, huge national security concerns,” Johnson said during an interview on CBS News’s “Face The Nation”.
“What we saw is in some ways difficult to describe, just the magnitude of the chaos here, of the number of lives that are adversely affected, the minor children that are being trafficked into the country, and fentanyl overdoses and poisoning that has been a scourge on the country.”
“These are transnational, dangerous criminal organizations,” Johnson continued. “And the maddening thing about it is that the White House is allowing all this. These are policy choices that created this chaos. And it is thus policy choices that could change it.”
Johnson said that the issue at the border began when Biden took office and started changing policies through executive orders.
“We’ve been asking Secretary Mayorkas since he took office to enforce the law, to do his job, and he’s done exactly the opposite,” he said. “He’s testified untruthfully before Congress repeatedly.”
