Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision to declare the border situation an emergency and send the National Guard there shows a great deal about the divide between border states and the federal government, Rep. Darrell Issa said Thursday.
“When you see a governor use their constitutional power to declare that their National Guard is at the border because they’ve been invaded by a foreign force, that’s the constitutional authority he’s using, that tells you a great deal about the divide between border states and their governors and this president who is ignoring it, and of course, our vice president,” the California Republican said on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria.”
Issa’s comments come after Vice President Kamala Harris’s announcement about a planned trip to the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador in June.
“Just like her I talked to representatives of each of those governments including Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and so on,” said Issa, and he said he was told that he doesn’t need to visit those countries now.
“They tell me yes, they have economic problems and yes, they have outmigration, and yes, they want to have a guest worker program that works with the United States because they (need) economic help,” said Issa.
However, he said the countries are telling him and other U.S. officials that there is “nothing helpful at all about people packing up and coming to the United States on an uncontrolled basis without a prospect for real jobs.
“(This is) a time when our economy can absorb some workers, but not all of the people that are showing up at our door,” said Issa.
Meanwhile, there is “no good news at the border,” said Issa, and the Border Patrol and others are free to talk and tell Harris that the Biden administration’s actions at the border are wrong.
“ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) will say what’s the point of even having a border if, in fact, what they are really doing is serving as an Uber service,” said Issa. “The vast majority of people that are showing up at our borders, exclusive of Mexicans, are by definition being escorted in to the country.”
Harris, he added, doesn’t want to have the policy mistakes that have been made spotlighted, or to recognize that the migrants entering the country are simply people looking for economic opportunity and are not asylum seekers or refugees.
“If you are, in fact, an American resident or even undocumented but you’re already here, the additional million that will come in the next year, year and a half represent a real threat to your ability to see rising rates of wages and some kind of reasonability to improve your life,” said Issa.
The Democrats’ policies are also going to hurt the people at the bottom of the economic ladder, “something that the last administration actually did a good job on, in spite of it not being considered the party of the poor.”
He also discussed the Democrats’ push to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, calling it an “overreach” that has been around for years.
“Our founding fathers took a piece of Virginia and a piece of Maryland and made the District of Columbia, made it clear that it was not to be a state,” said Issa. “Virginia took back its piece, but Maryland has never been willing to take back its piece … I’m really concerned about the distortion of having two senators and a House member who have no interest in the greater good of America but every interest in that sort of bringing it to Washington mentality. They will do that if they make a state and it will divide us in a way that, I think, the rest of the country will for years be resentful.”
Source: Newmax
