GOP Congressman on Biden, Harris handling of border crisis: 'Nobody can be this dumb'

Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez said President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are intentionally not stepping up border security measures despite rising numbers of encounters of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Illegal immigration is at record levels. There were 153,941 migrant encounters this past January verses 78,414 migrant encounters in January 2021.

"I believe they know exactly what's going on and this is exactly what they want because nobody can be this dumb," Gimenez, the former mayor of Miami, told Just the News during a House GOP media availability ahead of President Biden State of the Union address.

"You can see it with your own two eyes and you can see the impact. I think it's an open border policy. That's exactly what they want, although they don't want to say it's an open border policy because it's not very popular with the American people; but it is with their base, their far left radical base. That's exactly what they want," he added.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats typically discuss immigration policy in general terms rather than differentiating between illegal immigration and legal immigration. Gimenez, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, was asked if Democrats have successfully blurred the lines between the two.

"No, because we legal immigrants, we understand exactly what's going on. As a matter of fact, you talk to legal immigrants, they're probably very much against what's happening at the border because we came in legally, and we followed the process. This is supposed to be a country of laws," he said.

"And that's one of the reasons we came here because it is a country of laws and opportunity. We didn't come here for, you know, chaos and illegality and that's exactly what's happening at the southern border. It's illegal. It's chaotic. It's really un-American," he added.