During a Fox News interview on Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) discussed the border crisis and the COVID-19 cases among illegal immigrants, saying that the Biden administration was trying to shift the blame onto Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Gregg Abbott.
“I don’t want to hear anything about COVID cases in Florida, mask mandates in New York, vaccine passports — I don’t want to hear anything about that until the Biden administration deals with the crisis they created on our southern border,” Jordan said. “There is no other conclusion any rational person can reach other than this is intentional, this is deliberate.”
“They are deliberately trying to harm our country because March was the highest level on record for illegal crossings until April. April was the highest month until May. May was the highest month until June. June was the highest month until two days ago when we got the July numbers,” he continued.
“That is a bad trend. That is intentional. They are doing what Hillary Clinton said five years ago. They have created a borderless hemisphere,” Jordan added. “And the American people need to understand it’s deliberate. This is what they’re doing and they’re trying to shift blame and shift everything else to where it doesn’t belong, trying to attack governors who are actually trying to do the right thing for their — for their constituent, Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott.”
The record-breaking illegal immigration levels have led to the spread of COVID-19 from illegal immigrants infected with the virus. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data, there are currently almost 1,400 migrants in custody who have tested positive for COVID-19. In mid-February, the month before illegal immigration hit record levels, Biden placed restrictions on ICE which severely hampered its ability to carry out deportations.
The Washington Post reported in May, “Under new Biden administration rules curtailing immigration enforcement, ICE carried out fewer than 3,000 deportations last month, the lowest level on record. The agency’s 6,000 officers currently average one arrest every two months.”
“ICE under President Biden is an agency on probation,” the Washington Post continued. “The new administration has rejected calls from some Democrats to eliminate the agency entirely, but Biden has placed ICE deportation officers on a leash so tight that some say their work is being functionally abolished.”
