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.@CBPMarkMorgan says "the gloves are off" under @realDonaldTrump when it comes to securing the border. dailysign.al/2p4cTzG via @LRacheldG @DailySignal

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal The Obama and Trump administrations couldn’t be further apart on the issue of border security and immigration. One man knows that from firsthand experience. Mark Morgan served as chief of Border Patrol under President Barack Obama, and now works for President Donald Trump

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal There is still a tremendous amount of work to be done, with the increase in Mexican families we’re seeing now, a slow increase. What that should alert the American people to is that the cartels, the human smuggling organizations, they are smart and they’re flexible.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal As soon as we start to cut off the flow for the Northern Triangle countries … we know that they’re using social media now to encourage Mexican families to start coming across illegally. So although we’ve made tremendous progress, we’re not done yet.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal Morgan: Yeah, Congress has failed the American people. That’s at the top of my list. Look, we’ve got the government of Mexico that has stepped up in unprecedented ways. Over 25,000 troops. They probably are going to double their apprehensions at their southern border this year.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal They are absolutely targeting the smuggling routes. They’re stopping large groups coming in.
In May, we had between 40 to 50 large groups. Last month, we had one

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal Just a couple weeks ago, we had a caravan starting to come together of over a thousand. Mexican troops went right in there and absolutely disbanded that.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal So look, Mexico is doing an incredible job. We have the agreements with the Northern Triangle countries. They’re really stepping up to do this and really [looking] at this as a regional crisis and being partners.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal But the end of the day, none of this is durable or sustainable. At the end of the day, we still need what I’ve been saying from Day One: Congress needs to get off the sidelines.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal They need to do their job that we elected them to do and pass meaningful legislation to address the loopholes in this system. They failed to do so. They failed the American people.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal So we have both ends. We have Congress on one end that’s failed to do their job, and judicial activism on the other that every time this administration, this president tries to implement a new rule, a new policy, new regulations, it’s shot down.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal The judicial activism should scare every single citizen in this country. These individuals are not elected, but yet they are legislating from the bench. That’s scary.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal We need to talk about this more because when we talk about how we secure the southwest border, the wall, it’s always in the realm of talking about illegal immigration. What we don’t talk enough about is the national security crisis part of that, the illicit drugs.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal Last year, 68,000 people died in this country because of illicit drug overdose. The year before that, 70,000 people. Where does almost 100% of the drugs in this country come from? From outside the country. More likely than not, that came from the southwest border.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal That’s why I always say every town, city, and state is a border town, city, and state. Why? I’ll give you an example.
ICE ,just a couple of weeks ago, did interior enforcement operations in six Midwest states—Missouri was one of them. They caught almost a hundred illegal aliens.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal A hundred criminal illegal aliens that were here illegally and committed additional crimes. And guess what? There were absolutely individuals who were smuggling drugs through this.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal How come we’re not talking about this every single day? Sixty-eight thousand Americans died last year to drug overdose, and an overwhelming amount of drugs are pouring into this country from the southwest border.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal So 2005, we had bipartisan support for the Secure Fence Act that led to 654 miles of wall being built. Fast forward now, and this current president is in power, and now all of a sudden, the wall is immoral and ineffective. It’s hypocrisy and it’s a lie.

@CBPMarkMorgan @realDonaldTrump @LRacheldG @DailySignal The wall is part of a multi-layer strategy example of infrastructure, technology, and personnel. It works. Everywhere those three elements have been applied effectively, illegal immigration has gone down, illegal drug entryhas gone down, and assaults of agents have gone down.