Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that U.S. Border Patrol agents under President Biden’s administration are “working as travel agents.”
“We have brave men and women of Border Patrol who are down there, ready, willing and able who want to enforce our laws, who want to fight for our country, and instead as you point out, they’re being assigned tasks like passing out blankets and working as travel agents to just bring people into this country,” Lee said in a Fox News interview.
Lee’s comments come after U.S. Customs and Border Protection released data last week reporting close to a quarter of a million migrant encounters at the southern border in November.
The agency reported 242,418 migrant encounters that month, up from October’s 240,986 recorded encounters, but down from September’s record of 269,735 encounters.
