Fox News confronts Democrats in Washington about the border crisis: 'They own it now' | Fox News
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Melugin presses Democrats for answers on 'alarming' border crisis
Fox News' Bill Melugin confronted many Democrats in his search for answers as the border crisis rages on.
Fox News pressed Democrats in Washington to explain how America's borders can be secure when hundreds of migrants are crossing into the U.S. each day.
Fox traveled to Washington to question members of President Biden's administration who have insisted for months that America's southern border is secure. Fox News requested an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but was ignored. Secretary Mayorkas also refused to answer questions outside his home in the capital.
All told, the members of Congress who refused to address the border crisis with Fox included Rep. Ayana Pressley, D-Mass.; Cori Bush, D-Miss.; Benny Thompson, D-Mich., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.
Texas Democratic Reps. Colin Allred, Veronica Escobar and Henry Cuellar were willing to speak with Fox, however, and they expressed deep concern about the border crisis.
"This is unsustainable. It has been unsustainable for years," Escobar said.
"We have resources down there, but we clearly need to be doing more," Allred argued.
Cuellar said Democrats need to acknowledge their party controls Congress and the White House and that they now "own" the border crisis.
Meanwhile, Democratic leaders on Capital Hill struggled to defend Biden's handling of the immigration crisis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged the need to "secure our border" but insisted Biden "has a plan to address that."
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer blamed Republicans for a lack of progress on immigration, saying they don't support any form of compromise.
The instability from Democrats comes as Republicans are poised to take over the House of Representatives and potentially the Senate as well. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy says Republicans would focus immediately on changing policies if they take the chamber in November.
Many have speculated that Republicans would move to impeach Mayorkas, but McCarthy argued their first priority would be passing legislation aimed at securing the border and repealing funding from the Inflation Reduction Act that recruited an additional 87,000 IRS agents.
Bill Melugin currently serves as a national correspondent for FOX News Channel based out of the Los Angeles bureau.
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Sorry, Mr. Cuellar, but we can't even get most Democrats to even admit that there IS a crisis on the border.
Somehow, all the blame will be put on Republicans for Democratic party policy failures.
When the going gets tough.....................Democrats refuse to speak!
It's hard for the democrats to blame anybody but themselves with an EO in place that suspending activity securing the border. I guess we could take Pelosi's recommendation and use those crossing the border as slave labor in the fields.
Pelosi, after her claim that Biden has a plan, is not to be trusted.
She was probably just too busy derailing the bill on Congressional folk buying stocks.
Not trusting her is a given. Biden doesn't have a plan, and there is "nothing in the works".
Naturally. They aren't going to cut off a source of income.
When has she ever been to be trusted?
Good point!
When Democrats can't figure out how to spin the news then we know the situation is really, really bad.
Biden failing to implement his plan ain't gonna do much to change what's happening at the border. Things have gotten so out of hand that promises won't change the news cycle, either. Democrats are being expected to walk their talk. Democrats need to stop chewing and spit out that gum. Apparently they can't do both.