U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., joined “The Julie Mason Show With Guest Host Elliot WIlliams” on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s P.O.T.U.S. Channel to discuss federal spending, asylum policy, and border security last week.
Donalds said there was a link between the lack of border security and fentanyl trafficking.
“I think a couple things. Number one, we’re having more of a semantical argument about ‘open,’ or ‘porous,’ or ‘closed.’ That’s semantics. Hold on, this is important. To families who have lost a loved one to a fentanyl overdose because of the fact that fentanyl trafficking has spiked dramatically under Joe Biden, for those families, our border is open. For people who are in New York or Chicago right now, and they’re watching the soccer fields that their kids are supposed to play on, and it’s now being used to shelter migrants, for those families, the border is open,” Donalds said.
Donalds talked about some possible solutions to the problems.
“I think overall if you want to talk about actual border security, there are some serious things that we can do. The first thing is ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. If we actually went back to ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, and turned people around at the Southern border, and did not process them into the United States, then what would happen as a result is the cartels wouldn’t continue to ship people into the United States. And number two, the Mexican government would actually shut down their border, and they would stop the flow moving into Mexico, and push everybody back into the Darién Gap. Once you do that, the coyotes have no business model to traffic people. It starts with our policy here in the United States. If we do that, and a few other key things, we can get this back under control in pretty quick fashion, because if the cartels ain’t making money, they’re not going to allow anyone to traverse their territory.”
