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Border Crisis

McCARTHY AT THE BORDER: 'We're Going to Fight to Stop the Fentanyl' [VIDEO]

posted by Hannity Staff - 2.17.23

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was in Arizona on Thursday, surveying the border and speaking to Border Patrol officials; he says the new Congress will “fight to fix this problem.”

“I promise you this: the new majority in Congress is going to fight to fix this problem. No longer will the Democrats be able to ignore the issue and act like it’s not happening. We will have hearings on the border,” McCarthy said at a press conference at the border wall located within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Tucson Sector in Cochise County, Arizona.

From NTD:

The congressional delegation included representatives Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), Jen Kiggans (R-Va.), and Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.).

All four freshmen legislators represent districts impacted by the fentanyl crisis.

“I’ve been saying for some time now that this is no longer a border or state issue. Every state has become a border state with the fentanyl crisis. It’s impacting in different ways,” Ciscomani said.

McCarthy said Biden’s failed border policy enables the Sinaloa drug cartel to grow and prosper, sending thousands dressed in camouflage across the border hauling backpacks filled with lethal fentanyl.

The cartel is arguably the county’s largest employer of United States citizens hired to smuggle drugs and people across the border, he said.

“Why has this region gone from 66,000 people coming across to 250,000? Why does everybody wear camouflage outfits and rugs on their feet [to avoid detection]? Why are we catching so much fentanyl? The only thing that’s changed was the administration and the administration policies,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy spoke with local officials after the press event and toured the border.

“No-one believes our border is secure, not the border agents, not America,” he said. “Mayorkas has no integrity to continue to say that.”

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