WATCH: Washington Examiner’s Anna Giaritelli details catastrophe at broken border
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Washington Examiner homeland security reporter Anna Giaritelli said Thursday that President Joe Biden does not appear to have a plan to deal with the nation’s crisis at the southern border.
“President Joe Biden has not been down to the southern border in his five decades,” Giaritelli told Julie Banderas of Fox News.
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“I’ve been covering this issue for five years, and I’ve been down 45 times myself. I’ve never seen it like it is at present … and Joe Biden’s administration had since May, when they were first going to end Title 42, to figure out what they were going to do in place of it. Then it got extended to December, and now it’s been extended again, and we still aren’t hearing enough about what it is going to look like afterward.”
Footage has gone viral of illegal immigrants breaking into a home in Edwards County, Texas, and areas around the border appear to have become inundated with crime coming from the border.
“There aren’t border patrol agents on the border in El Paso right now,” according to Giaritelli. “I was driving on a road, it’s called border highway, in El Paso last week. I was there for five days, and you see people who have come over the river, and they’re walking along the wall that went up under President Trump, and they’re looking for a way to get in at the end.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has taken action, but it does not appear to be enough, Giaritelli said.
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“He has put up a lot of razor wire, fencing,” she said. “Those things aren’t deterring people, they are funneling people to an area where we are for sure apprehending them, but, then again, once in custody, you may be released into the United States.”
Asylum hearings come “years down the road,” she added, and seeking asylum is not required to be released into the country.