Migrant Encounters Hit Record Number in 2021
Migrant Encounters – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich joined ‘Fox News Live’ to discuss the latest on the border crisis and the nationwide implications
Fox News Host Griff: Custom and Border protection says Fiscal Year 2021 was a record-breaking year for migrant encounters along River Southwest Border and the Crisis is showing no signs of slowing down.
The next guest says our cities are more dangerous because the Biden’s policy. Let’s bring an Arizona Attorney General Mark Burbage. Thank you for taking time.
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas; we vow to get right to the border. Ages of longer Arizona border. We’re working on Christmas and you’ve had an explosion coming across your area and Yuma any given day 2000 plus migrants for more than 30 countries over a recent weekend. What is the situation, what are you doing about it?
Attorney General of Arizona – Mark Burbage:
Thank you for having me on today. The folks that are serious, haven’t had a day off all year because the Biden Administration is systematically allowing the cartels to seize control of our border. Last week we held a press conference in Scottsdale Police Department where we work. Together to seize more than 1.7 million pills, more than 20 pounds of Fentanyl Powder which is enough to make 4 million pills. You’re talking about a drug that is highly addictive and can kill you. Just one bust we got more than six and a half million Fentanyl pills.
This is a problem that will stay in Arizona and is coming to every neighbor address in the country. Also, we have lawsuits trying to force the Biden Administration to build the Wall and stop incentivizing people to coming here. The U.S. Supreme Court with the Biden Administration is giving public benefits, we seen a record number of people coming into our country more than 2 million people and as a result decriminalizing and we are seeing a dramatic impact that is going to affect not only Arizona and Texas but the entire country.
Griff: Last week and I was at the Texas Border where Texas is building its own wall, the Governor in the DPS Agents trying to prosecute. What are you doing in Arizona?
Mark Burbage: You know that it is the Federal Government’s job. The President with the apex of power with National Security and Border Security and statue of authority and he is failing been doing his job, as a result the field by them policy I record amount of people crossing, record diploma, rising gas prices and the Biden Administration was to collect unvaccinated to the Press conferences they have totally misplaced.
It’s not fair that Governor Abbott should have to build a wall on his own in Arizona and Texas Taxpayers have to pay for this because it’s in Federal Governments responsibility. And it’s a matter of will they have to enforce existing wall. That’s why we see President Biden in his administration and their failure to deport people. In the deportation orders with ICE, he needs to do his job. And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ultimately need to build the Wall.
If you have been down to the border you know in Hartsville Arizona. There is literally concrete rebar sitting there and we’re paying peel under people taxpayers, and we are paying people not to build a wall which already been paid for. It is madness and chaos and Global Climate change in demand is a disaster it’s a man-mad disaster that Joe Biden is doing on our Southern Border will not be asking who’s coming across.
Griff: I followed your numbers with crossings very closely in Arizona and talked to Agents on the Ground there in the number of Got-a-Ways is that a record level and we don’t know who they are. Is this in your opinion and National Security issue as we’ve heard from some of the border Patrol Agent.
Mark Burbage: Absolutely, someone on the terror watch list has been apprehended. Recently someone came over from Saudi Arabia and wore a first A First Responder uniform. There are literally 2 million people that we know that are coming across and sickly surrendering, they come across to give up. What keeps law enforcement up at night is the got-aways. These are people trying to evade detection, the Tucson sector is the number one sector in the United States. These are people that are usually young males 18-30 dressing in Camouflage and Black wearing slipper shoes, we know the number of pursuits and are in border countries is more than doubling. Sometimes tripling, these are the folks that want to evade detection and believe they need to do us harm by bringing crazy amounts of drugs. The cost and also who knows what they’re going to do once they get to Chicago, Detroit or Minneapolis and all these other cities.
Griff: Let me turn to another topic before I run out of time. There is the Surging Crime in your nearby California Golden State. A woman carrying a Pickax within Rite Aid yelling at customers, what are you doing and how bad is the situation in neighboring Arizona?
Mark Burbage: I spent much of my career as a State Prosecutor and a Federal Prosecutor. We know when you incentivize and decriminalize activity you will see more crime. In places like California, where three of the top ten cities organized retail theft has been decriminalize, that is what California has done, they’re not prosecuting people engaged in property crimes.
I would submit to you this is a generational issue for the progressive left is undermine religious institutions and law enforcement and then you elect prosecutors and city officials and places like Chicago and San Francisco that basically delegitimize and stigmatize law enforcement and they will not prosecute crimes. You will see more and more of it. This is all part of the Neo-Marxist Agenda to undermine our institutions and our respect for property rights. That’s why we see the surge of crime and that why as a prosecutor, we cannot turn a blind eye we cannot say this is okay, it’s not okay and it undermines the very fabric of our society and I worry will have a long hot spring.
This is one of many Biden Border Crisis Stories.
