‘Full-blown invasion at our southern border’

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Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle weighed in on the migrant rush in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, with one asking in “what world” does a rush like it “not catch” the eye of the president.

Sunday saw a group of at least 1,000 mainly Venezuelan illegal migrants rush the Paso Del Norte bridge connecting El Paso, Texas, and Mexico in an attempt to enter the United States.

Crowd control measures were used when the group of mainly Venezuelan migrants continued to press forward, though according to sources at the border, the efforts were thwarted.
Texas lawmakers shared their thoughts on the surge, with Republican Rep. August Pfluger blasting President Biden for not viewing the rush as a national security threat in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“In what world do 1,000 foreign nationals rushing the sovereign border not catch the eye of the President of the United States as a national security threat?” Pfluger said.

“Republicans are pleading with Biden and Mayorkas to work with us to secure the border,” he continued, referencing the Homeland Security secretary.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told “Fox and Friends” on Monday that the rush “is exactly [what] President Biden’s open border policies are inviting.”

“The attorney general, Merrick Garland, acknowledged this as part of a plan of the cartels – transnational organization – to get richer who was funneling because they overwhelmed the border and Border Patrol and here comes the drug that took 108,000 American lives alone,” Cornyn said.

“This is part of the plan and President Biden is not prepared. Unfortunately, he insists on not working with Congress to solve that problem,” Cornyn continued. “I’m ready and able to work with him but it seems like he wants to go at it alone. So far, it’s not working.”