Texas Representative Pete Session (R) sat down with Texas Politics to denounce the current national security efforts by the Biden administration and shared that he completely supports Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R).
“It’s a hoax and a lie, and the Democrats will make up excuses to enable them to sleep at night. The bottom line is not following the law — it’s a national security effort that will only embolden America as we move forward to become a poor nation,” said Rep. Sessions speaking on House Democrats’ reasons for the increase in migrants at the border.
Recently, Gov. Abott echoed a similar statement when he tore into Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s “climate change” response to the mass migration of migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Despite Gov. Abbott’s sharp rebuke of Sec. Mayorkas’s comments, which were made on the news network MSNBC, he ignores the surrounding context of the official’s response. In the clip, Mayorkas lists climate change among several other factors for mass migration including poverty and authoritarianism.
Rep. Sessions critiqued the federal government’s motives for not handling border security concerns with more urgency. However, he stated that Texas was in position to take over the job.
“For quite some time we have been trying to struggle with … the best answer about how we protect ourself. I don’t think that the state of Texas, nor do I, as a member of Congress, really fault the federal government," said Rep. Sessions. "We know that the federal government has that authority and responsibility. But if they give up that role that they have and abdicate that responsibility, the next person down, under really our rule of law, is the state of Texas. They have an intrinsic interest to this. Federal government has made a decision, because of politics, to do this.”
Sessions also expressed his support for Gov. Abbott's effort to keep illegal immigrants from entering Texas.
“I completely support Governor Abbott and think that what he has done has caused these other states to have to evaluate the policy. But very typical of the Democratic party, they blame Governor Abbott, and yet he’s only transporting less than 20% of the immigrants that are coming to these cities. And, so I think it falls on deaf ears,” said Rep. Sessions of Gov. Abbott’s controversial legislation, S.B. 4.
