Representative Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, criticized the way the Biden government dealt with the border crisis on Friday, telling “Your World” that a White House delegation neglected to speak to anyone when it visited the region this week.
CUELLAR: Any president must come down [and] really spends time with border communities. You know, the president sent a delegation and a group of people from the White House. They didn’t speak to anyone, not even the members of Congress down here.
We are still using Title 42 for adult males. For example, in Laredo, Texas, 73% of the people arriving are adult Mexicans, and all have returned to Mexico. So, people are being returned. Again, what is the law in the United States? Unless they become citizens, which we have 11 or 12 million who have been in the shadows for so many years, they will never be able to vote unless we change and carry out comprehensive immigration reform.
There are about four different categories. Category one, children who have family members, mother and father. Category two, they can have a cousin or someone close. Category three, a distant relative. Category four, they have no relatives, and that category of children is returned or they want to return voluntarily. It just depends on the different categories. Again, the average number of people who spent a year under the Obama administration was about 513,000 a year. We had a high in 2014. The average number of people under President Trump was around 493,000. So, only 20,000 differences so far. Therefore, the numbers were almost the same under a Democratic or Republican president.
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