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Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, discusses border security and immigration policy on \u2018America\u2019s Newsroom.\u2019<\/p>\n
Rep. Henry Cuellar, , D-Texas, whose district borders Mexico, says he believes the situation at the border will “become a crisis” if President Joe Biden\u2019s administration does not take a stronger stance against illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
“Is it a crisis? No. Is it getting there? Yes,” Cuellar told “America\u2019s Newsroom” on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“The numbers have been increasing \u2026 The number of unaccompanied kids, the number of families that are coming in are just increasing every day,” he said. “In my district, just a couple of days ago, 166 people [crossed the border], and it just goes on and just different numbers are going up. So it\u2019s not a crisis yet, but it\u2019s going to get there very soon.”<\/p>\n
The president has ordered a pause on funding for the border wall and revoked Trump\u2019s pause on green card applicants entering the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden also ended the previous administration\u2019s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which allowed immigration enforcement officials to send non-Mexican asylum seekers to Mexico as they waited for their cases to be arbitrated in the U.S. court system.<\/p>\n
BIDEN SAYS MEXICO AN ‘EQUAL’ AS HE DISMANTLES TRUMP IMMIGRATION POLICIES<\/strong><\/p>\n Cuellar told co-hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino he believes the administration needs to take action to curb illegal immigration. <\/p>\n “The words that are spoken are not going to stop them,” he said. “You got organizations, criminal organizations that make billions of dollars, and every time they bring somebody over here, they make a lot of money. So the organizations are going to move around, and you’ve got to have certain processes in place. Otherwise people are going to start continuing.”<\/p>\n
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