House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blasted US President Joe Biden amid the border and fentanyl crises, putting the American communities at risk.
On Thursday, McCarthy slammed Biden for allowing the deadly drugs such as fentanyl to get smuggled across the US border, killing hundreds of Americans every day.
McCarthy spoke during the press conference from the southern border, calling for the President to provide greater security that would end the flow of powerful narcotics along the border.
In the statement, McCarthy said that “Today more than 300 Americans will be poisoned and die from fentanyl. You’re looking at a place that much of it comes through. Tomorrow, there will be 300 more. That’s the equivalent of an airline [sic] crashing. If an airline [sic] crashed in America every single day, by the third day the entire nation would wake up and say we need to fix the problem.”
“But I promise you this, the new majority in Congress — we’re going to fight to fix this problem,” he claimed.
Kevin McCarthy blasts Biden for allowing deadly flood of fentanyl to come across border https://t.co/t90WbpzUKd pic.twitter.com/VKkZKyaLbt— New York Post (@nypost) February 17, 2023
In an exclusive report published by the New York Post, it was revealed that “McCarthy and a delegation of freshman House Republicans took an aerial tour of the Tucson, Arizona, section of the border with US Customs and Border Protection,” earlier that day, adding that “the trip was his first visit to the southern border as speaker of the House.”
“He was joined by four freshman members of the House: Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.), Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) and Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.),” the report added.
According to McCarthy, Republicans will take concrete actions in securing the border unlike the Biden administration.
“When you look at the gaps in the [border] wall, why are they there? … Because we got a new president that said to stop it,” McCarthy lamented as he referred to former US President Donald Trump’s border wall.
“Why are they having border patrol agents becoming processing agents?… So more drugs come into America that kill Americans — that has got to stop,” he exclaimed.
The House speaker also argued that drug cartels are seeing the Biden administration’s lax policies, taking taken advantage of them.
“They know exactly who’s coming across and who’s entering,” McCarthy said.
Meanwhile, Ciscomani, who is reportedly representing Arizona’s border communities, explained how the smuggling of fentanyl into the country is destroying the American dream.
“As an immigrant myself — my family immigrated to this country as well — we know about the fight of the American dream, and this fentanyl crisis is directly impacting and literally killing that American dream for hundreds of thousands of Americans in this country. And we need to stop that,” he lamented.
