McAllen, TX — Republican members of a Texas congressional delegation visited the temporary detention center in Donna, Texas, where they saw first hand the deplorable living conditions and "human crisis issue" that Senator Ted Cruz (R) had first described and filmed just a couple of days ago the same facility. Sen. Cruz's video was blocked by a Biden administration staffer.
Upon arriving at a local airport for a briefing with U.S. Coast Guard officials and a flyover the Rio Grande Valley, Reps. Pete Sessions and Brian Babin both told Texas Politics that thousands of illegal immigrant detainees were being packed in deplorable living conditions and that the Biden administration was well aware of it.
"Some 4,000 young people were crammed into an area where they’re only supposed to have 250,” said Rep. Sessions. “It is a human crisis issue. The administration is well aware of it, they refuse to properly follow the law, where they properly follow human standards.”
Sessions went on to say that he was “surprised the U.N. has said nothing about the conditions that we saw,” and that the “human disaster” that was occurring along Texas’s southern border was entirely the Democratic Party and President Joe Biden were “personally responsible for.”
The delegation — Reps. Beth Van Duyne, Jodey Arrington, Pat Fallon (pictured), Ronny Jackson, John Carter, and Randy Weber, joined Reps. Sessions (pictured) and Babin — all jumped on board two twin-engine HC-144 U.S. Coast Guard aircraft on the flyover of the region to assess the immigration crisis.
How bad is the “border crisis?”
One ICE agent, who asked that we not disclose his or her name, could only say that if the situation was “pretty bad" and that whatever Sen. Cruz or any other visiting member has said about the video was most-likely very accurate.
