The border crisis is a national security crisis.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents the largest district geographically on the U.S.-Mexico border, joined RNC Chairman Ronna McDaniel on her podcast “Real America” to discuss the border crisis Biden created.
We have all seen the pictures, but what he revealed was astounding – Panama alone has apprehended 52 people associated with al-Qaeda as thousands of migrants pass through the country on their way to the United States. For context, 9/11 was carried out by 19 hijackers.
“So I just met … actually this week with the foreign minister of Panama… I asked her one specific question, ‘Have you caught anybody on the terrorist watch list?’ And she goes, ‘Funny, you ask that Tony, because in Panama, we do biometrics and we have apprehended 52 people that have been associated – that are associated with al-Qaeda’… And then I go, ‘Does the administration know about this?’ She goes, ‘There, there's no one home, like I'm here talking to you because the administration is just absent.’”
And the Biden administration is doing nothing. It is a sentiment echoed by recently-retired Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who warned of terrorist threats from the border crisis as over 400,000 illegal immigrants have escaped into the U.S. this year.
Former Biden Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott says there are "terrorist threats" at our southern border.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 5, 2021
"They're real. They exist. And they want to come across that border." pic.twitter.com/eM7GnTfUbn
With Afghanistan, Biden showed he can’t defend Americans abroad. With his border crisis, he is proving that he can’t keep Americans safe here at home. Biden is either unwilling or unable to perform his most fundamental duty as president – protect the American people.
