january 5th committee hearing. chip roy of texas is joining us now. welcome back, congressman. how are you, shannon? shannon: doing good tonight. several big topics if we can get to them with you. let s talk about this meeting today between our president, the president of mexico. certainly the border was up for discussion. there was a tweet from the president s staff or white house staff and assistant press secretary who said that trump in his four years couldn t finish a border wall let alone get mexico to pay for it president biden got mexico agree to paying $1.5 billion to approved border processing and security through smart border management solutions. what do you make of their meeting today? that statement is completely absurd and classic for this administration. what i have to say about the mexican president is he was attacking my governor, governor greg abbott because greg abbott is daring to say texas needs to do the job of the federal government to step in to breach and
suddenly the drug of choice for the cartels to drag across the border? gillian, first of all the cartels are in the business to maximize profits and make as much money as they can. business is booming now with the migrants smuggling, taking total advantage of the wide open border, as the border security is doing, border patrol is doing border processing of migrants instead of border security and they have a steady flow of chemicals coming from china. and china is also involved with the money laundering services for the cartels. correct one thing. these are not fentanyl overdoses, these are fentanyl poisonings, because the kids taking the drugs have no idea they are taking deadly poison. numbers are escalating, families are devastated, and the mexican cartels are winning. the chinese trans national criminals are winning. corrupt officials in mexico and central america are winning.
threat. killing our kids at record levels. orange county, california, dana, the sheriff released the number, 1700% increase in fentanyl deaths from 2016 to 2021. this is unbelievable. parents don t understand. dana: a huge amount of heartbreak. i want to pull up for everyone the border patrol drug seizures of fentanyl are way up. you can see right here going from 1200, 1300 and now already in 2022 we re just april 19th, 5300 pounds. pretty much you are looking for a tripling of that number from 2021, derek. what do you think the biden administration is failing to do here? well, first of all, our brave border patrol is inundated with border processing of migrants and babysitting. they aren t able to do border security. i was down in the rio grande valley with some department of homeland security officials, former officials, and it was a
President Biden’s annual budget proposal would substantially increase funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while further taking the agency away from the enforcement-heavy policies imbued into it by the Trump administration.
President Biden's new budget would take $2 billion in unspent border wall money and allow it to be spent instead on building roads or cutting down brush along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.