As Democrat President Joe Biden’s border crisis continues, Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz (R), who emigrated from Ukraine, discussed the various crises that the United States has faced under Biden, saying that the most threatening crisis is at the border which “poses a risk to our sovereignty as nation.”
“I know that we have talk a lot about different crises. And we do have a lot of crises,” Spartz stated. “We have economic crisis; we have inflation crisis; we have energy cost crisis; we have supply chain crisis; we have education crisis; we have crime crisis; we have Covid response crisis; we have health care crisis; we have foreign relations and security crisis; we have freedom of speech crisis, we have centralized government and infringement on our rights crisis.”
“But I think there is one crisis that is very disturbing and concerning to me as a naturalized American who immigrated to this great country,” she continued. “I went to the border three times. And what I saw it’s lawlessness, it’s issue of national security, it’s anarchy and it is a crisis that poses a risk to our sovereignty as nation. And we can see what’s happening in the country. Drug cartels are controlling the border. They control drug trafficking and making billions on that. We have the highest deaths from overdoses in our country that ever existed. Our kids are dying and they are making a lot of money. The border is open. No one can control it. It poses risk to our national security.”
“I hope we all, as Americans who care about our country, and our president, at least are dealing with one of the crises, because it’s a serious issue and we cannot disregard it: the national security of this greatest country that ever existed on earth and put our people at risk,” she added. “It is our responsibility as representatives in this republic to stand up, regardless of political affiliation, and raise this issue as our duty to the American people.”
Spartz’s comments come shortly after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released the December numbers for illegal border crossings which surged to the highest total for December on record.
“The number of unique individuals encountered in December 2021 was 135,040, a 5 percent increase in the number of unique individuals encountered the prior month,” CBP said in a statement. “In total, there were 178,840 encounters along the Southwest land border in December, a 2 percent increase compared to November.”
The 178,840 illegal border crossings that occurred in December 2021 were thousands higher than the December totals from 2020, 2019, and 2018 combined.
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CBP FINALLY released December 2021 numbers for illegal crossings along the southern border: 178,840.
That's more than Decembers 2018, 2019, & 2020 COMBINED. pic.twitter.com/NVRH2rZoqr
— Mark Bednar (@MarkBednar) January 24, 2022
