Democrat Congressman says Biden is not doing well on border security, Trump did better

Congressman Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said during an MSNBC interview on Thursday that Democrats and President Joe Biden are not doing a good job with the border crisis, and that former President Donald Trump handled it better. 

"I’m a Democrat," Cuellar told MSNBC host Al Sharpton, according to Fox News. "I want Democrats to say we can have border security and still respect immigrants' rights. Not too many Democrats talk about border security, and that’s one issue — politically, if I can move from policy to politics, that’s one issue that the Republicans and Donald Trump are doing better than Biden and Democrats. On border security."

The Homeland Security Department revealed last year that the backlog of tracking and vetting illegal aliens inside the U.S. had nearly doubled under Biden, to over six million, while arrests of suspected terrorists and violent offenders also exploded.

When it comes to border security and illegal aliens coming into the U.S., Cuellar said that blue cities such as New York and Chicago are only seeing "a drop" of what border states like Texas see. 

"Some of us that live at the border," he said, "we’ve been seeing what New York and other places have been seeing for a long time, and with all due respect, New York and Chicago and Washington, D.C. and Denver are just getting a drop of what we see at the border." 

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott made headlines recently when he stated that Texas has a right to self-defense due to the massive number of illegal crossings over the past two years.

This statement came shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration by lifting an injunction that blocked federal agents from cutting and removing razor wire fencing that Texas placed along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Governors from 25 states signed onto a joint statement in support of Abbott and the Lone Star State’s “constitutional right to self-defense."