back with us now is texas democrat
congressman henry cuellar
sir thanks again for staying for the
final block okay
you know we see the news coming in that
texas is now probing migrant child sex
abuse and neglect
and an overcrowded federal facility in
san antonio
should that be shut down uh well we
don't have the facts i mean i think the
the governor made some allegations i
don't know what it's based on
uh i have not visited that uh that
facility i
visited the ones in carisso springs uh
and of course uh down to the donna area
and the ansa dua
but the agent says that i know there's a
lot of good men and women that are doing
their job
uh but again if there's allegations they
should be investigated
and before you shut down a facility you
got to make sure
that we're talking about facts
allegations or allegations
facts let's see what what the
investigation looks and then hss should
look into this
yeah that's a good point even the texas
rangers were sent in apparently
but you're right we need to see what
happened inside there you know
let's move on to this democrat house
speaker nancy pelosi
is now saying quote we are on a good
path at the border but
we're seeing illegal border crossings at
a 15-year high
uh and president biden's approval rating
on the border is plunging
so are we on a good path at the border
well you know certainly if you're
talking about uh pathways
i mean the numbers are very high uh on
the uh
handling of the vaccines very high on
the uh
on the relief package uh but on the
border i think we need to do more
work and certainly a lot more work on it
because you know this last month
we had a hundred over 172 thousand
uh this uh last four days i think we had
over eight thousand
uh there's been uh i think as of sunday
there were over eleven thousand
prosecutorial releases uh that means
they were not put in the system they
were just released from the ansa dua
area
uh which is uh you know pretty
incredible to me
uh so there's a lot more work that needs
to be done and certainly
uh the you know we all need to listen to
the border communities
and to the men and women uh that serve
uh
in green or even in blue
well sir you're known as a straight
shooter you're honest you have a lot of
integrity you talk to border patrol
we know that you visited the border
we're letting in the equivalent of a
fort lauderdale it seems like every
month
i mean that's a lot of people listen
this is a country that's pro-immigration
america gets that we understand it we
just feel like you know congress is
passing laws border patrol has to uphold
those laws
but then border patrol gets criticized
and called by kamala harris
things like they're the kkk when they're
saving people's lives down there i
support
border patrol i support the men and
women in blue oppo
and i certainly support ice support
homeland
there are good men and women you know
sometimes people might disagree
about the policy but we got to support
the men and women that are carrying out
that policy
uh the numbers have been coming in it's
basically what i see at the border it's
a
input output situation every day
uh they're getting so many people coming
in a couple days ago they had
3 100 people plus in one day
in just the valley uh and and certainly
i think as
of a couple days ago they had over 8
000 individuals that had come in and as
you know the people in donna
uh 72 are unincompetent kids and 22
percent of them
are family units uh the single adults
are being returned
uh they'll be returned under title 42
some of the family units
but again it's an input too many people
coming in
uh not enough people are going out
because hss has the luxury
of saying uh no because we don't have
the space
our men and women in greece do not have
the luxury to say no more people
because they keep coming in in very
large numbers across the border
yeah that's tough we hear exactly what
you're saying okay the homeland security
secretary alejandro mayorkas traveling
to the border
and texas but the criticism has been
where's uh
biden had said vice president kamal
harris you're in charge of the border
she was in california she still she
didn't go to the border she still hasn't
visited the border at all
what's going on here i i don't know i
think you need to refer
that the question to her office but i
will tell you that
i i hope she will come down to the
border uh i hope that uh
you know you know and i thank the
secretary for being down here in mcallen
in el paso and certainly the the men and
women in green because
i hope that when he was down here he had
a very frank conversation
with the men and women in green because
they've been throwing out red flags
red flares they have they need help uh i
just spoke to the
graduating class 1153 uh in artisan new
mexico and my advice to
those young men and women that are
going to be border patrol tom get ready
because you're going to be facing a
challenging situation at the border
yeah that's good advice democrat
congressman henry crayer
thanks so much for your insights thank
you so much for joining us that was
terrific stuff it's good to see you