National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd says 240 miles of the southern border are "left completely open" at any given time, leaving criminal cartels opportunities for drug or human trafficking.
Drugs cartels will control the U.S. border once the Biden administration lifts Title 42 at the end of May, warns Border Patrol union chief Brandon Judd.
The Biden administration is expected to terminate the Title 42 authority, which allows U.S. immigration law enforcement officials to remove certain categories of migrants on the spot to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"We are ultimately going to wave the white flag of surrender," said Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, during a briefing of House Republicans. "The cartels are going to control our borders.
"They're going to create gaps in our coverage and going to cross more of their drugs, their fentanyl — and more of our U.S. citizens are going to die simply because this administration doesn't want to give the proper policies to protect U.S. citizens."
Judd warned that returning to a "catch-and-release" policy of releasing migrants apprehended at the border and ordering them to report to court at a later date is not a sufficient policy.
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