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A delegation of House Democratic lawmakers volition sojourn a information of the southern border connected Friday to behaviour oversight of the Trump administration's borderline policies "firsthand" arsenic authorities proceed the president's wide deportation program.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-MS., the ranking subordinate of the House Homeland Security Committee, volition pb the delegation.
Also going volition beryllium Reps. Lou Correa and Sara Jacobs, some of California; Delia Ramirez of Illinois; LaMonica McIver and Nellie Pou, some of New Jersey; and Tim Kennedy of New York.
A radical of big and kid migrants are smuggled astatine the Tijuana-San Diego border. (Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached retired to Thompson's office. The lawmakers volition sojourn the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector.
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, who has called for greater borderline information successful the past, criticized the timing of the visit.
"They should person been visiting erstwhile we had the confederate penetration crossed our borderline and thousands of radical coming crossed and determination wasn't arsenic overmuch attraction then," Desmond told Fox News Digital. "But I’m gladsome they're present now.
"It does look similar ‘Where were you erstwhile we had truthful galore radical who were coming crossed before?" helium added. "But I’m gladsome they're present now."
Rep Mark Green, R-Tenn., blasted Democrats for present wanting to sojourn the confederate borderline pursuing years of denying a situation arsenic grounds numbers of amerciable migrants flowed into the U.S.
"The American radical volition not hide however legislature Democrats turned a unsighted oculus arsenic their ain enactment created the worst borderline situation successful U.S. history," Green said successful a statement. "When the Committee held a tract proceeding successful 2023 successful Pharr, Texas, nary Democrat members attended. My counterpart, Mr. Thompson, adjacent repeatedly called hearings astir the borderline situation a discarded of time."
"While the sojourn time comes years excessively late, I americium grateful Democrats volition beryllium drafting attraction to the instrumentality and bid that the Trump medication has and volition proceed to restore," helium added. "They volition person the accidental to witnesser the rising morale of our CBP personnel, who present person the needed enactment to bash their jobs. It intelligibly was this casual to extremity the crisis––Democrats conscionable didn’t privation to."
TRUMP REPORTS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ENCOUNTERS AT HISTORIC LOWS DURING FIRST FULL MONTH IN OFFICE
Chairman Rep. Bernie Thompson (D-MS) speaks earlier the House Select Committee. (Getty Images)
The Trump medication has deported much than 100,000 amerciable migrants successful the weeks since Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, according to a New York Post study citing a Department of Homeland Security official.
"He’s doing what helium was voted successful to do. Point blank!" a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) root told the outlet.
A Marine looks towards Tijuana, Mexico, lasting betwixt 2 borderline walls successful San Diego. A radical of House Democrats volition sojourn the borderline successful San Diego connected Friday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Trump’s 2nd term, overmuch similar his first, has consisted of executive orders, enforcing existent laws and hard-line messaging to clamp down connected amerciable crossings. On his archetypal time backmost successful office, helium declared a nationalist exigency astatine the confederate border.
Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
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