The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress are complicit in what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border, said Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz.

“President [Joe] Biden, on day one when he became president, said, ‘I’m going to stop construction on the border wall.’ He undid all of the [former President Donald] Trump policies that were actually helping reduce the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border,” Lesko said during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.”

“In December of last year, we had the highest number of illegal immigrant apprehensions in the history of us recording how many people are coming across the border. I always find it interesting when reporters ask illegal immigrants themselves, ‘Do you think the border is closed?’ and the immigrants say, ‘No, I just crossed it.’ This is just terrible. This is a humanitarian crisis.

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