Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and 25 other Republican governors Monday demanded a meeting with President Biden about the southern border crisis.
“A crisis that began at our southern border now extends beyond to every state and requires immediate action before the situation worsens,” the group wrote, which includes Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R).
Migrants housed under an overpass in Texas.
“While governors are doing what we can, our Constitution requires that the President must faithfully execute the immigration laws passed by Congress,” the letter continues. “Not only has the federal government created a crisis, it has left our states to deal with challenges that only the federal government has a duty to solve.”
Haitian migrants use a dam to cross to and from the United States from Mexico, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas.
Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled under and around a bridge in Del Rio presenting the Biden administration with a fresh and immediate challenge as it tries to manage large numbers of asylum-seekers who have been reaching U.S. soil. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
“As president, you have the ability to take action to protect America, restore security, and end the crisis now,” they added before requesting an “open and constructive dialogue regarding border enforcement on behalf of U.S. citizens in our states and all those hoping to become U.S. citizens.”
The letter from the governors noted border apprehensions have increased nearly 500 percent from last year with about 9,700 illegal migrant apprehensions have previous criminal records. The Governors also said the highly addictive drug called fentanyl has been recovered more by law enforcement this year than in the combined past three years.
Migrant men bathe in the Rio Grande near the Del Rio-Acuna Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas, on September 18, 2021. (PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images).
The massive increase since last year comes as leaked audio recordings suggest Biden-Kamala administration’s border polices are “unsustainable.”
Haitian migrants, part of a group of over 10,000 people staying in an encampment on the US side of the border, cross the Rio Grande river. (PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images).
“A couple of days ago I was down in Mexico, and I said look, you know, if, if our borders are the first line of defense, we’re going to lose and this is unsustainable,” Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas reportedly said. “We can’t continue like this, our people in the field cant continue and our system isn’t built for it.”
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback uses the reins as he tries to stop Haitian migrants from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas. (PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images).
Meanwhile, federal judge recently smacked down the Biden-Harris administration on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, ordering the administration to terminate the DACA program by “blocking the federal government from allowing new applicants, illegal aliens who have not previously been enrolled, onto the program’s rolls.” The program gave quasi-amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants since 2012.
Joe Biden leaves. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images).
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview in August that the case was “rightly decided.”
“The president cannot simply say he is not gonna enforce an entire category of our laws, so the case was rightly decided,” Cotton said. “There should be no more DACA permits issued period. And what Congress should do is address these problems in a targeted way.”
“But what the Democrats won’t do, it’s just that: They want to use the people who have received the DACA program’s benefits as leverage to get a massive amnesty,” Cotton explained. “So even when President Trump proposed a step that would give those recipients legal status in return for things like eliminating chain migration, finishing the wall, eliminating the diversity lottery, the Democrats said no, because they want a massive amnesty.”