A plaque honoring President Trump hangs on the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Calexico, California, U.S., Dec. 1, 2020.
Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Director Mark Morgan warned Tuesday (Jan. 12) of President-elect Joe Biden’s “turnaround” approach to immigration policy, saying it will cost the United States dearly.
In an interview with Fox Business News ahead of President Trump’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, Border Patrol chief Morgan said that if Biden stops building the border wall, “it’s going to be a dangerous policy and our country is going to be unsafe because of it.”
“If you take away the ideological, exaggerated false narrative that’s out there, that infrastructure will work. As technology and people succeed in raising the bar on each of these measurements, our borders will be stronger and our country will be safer.” He explained that in addition to the border wall, the new administration also needs to develop effective policies and authorities, “We need to secure not only this country, but economic security, both, and they absolutely go hand in hand.”
According to a report released by the Immigration Center, deporting illegal immigrants costs $10,000 per person, compared to costing the average American about $65,000 in lifetime fiscal (average lifetime fiscal).
The CBP chief noted that Biden has discussed returning immigration policy to capture and release, ending nearly four months of deportations, granting amnesty to millions of people and providing health care to illegal immigrants. Morgan said, “President-elect Biden has said he will undo everything this administration has done to address the crisis.”
“It’s not an immigration strategy, it’s an open border strategy, and the cartels (cartels, Mexican drug cartels) and human smugglers are already taking advantage of that, and those numbers are already increasing because immigrants are being told the border will be open again on Jan. 20.”
Morgan believes that Biden’s stopping the construction of the border wall may be related to political stances. Commenting on Biden’s presidency, Morgan noted, “If he (Biden) had done on his first day in office what he promised to do during the campaign, there would have been two million (foreign) people rushing to the border. I agree with him on that. But we’re going to see a crisis that’s really small compared to what we’re going to see in 2019.”
On Feb. 27, 2020, Morgan had told the House Appropriations Committee that illegal entries and escapes were reduced by more than 80 percent after a new 20-mile section of the border wall was built in Texas.
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