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Lawmaker shares shocking video of overcrowded border facility; Kamala responds as more migrants are bused to her house

May 15, 2023 | | Print Article

The Biden regime and its compliant media toadies have spent the days since the end of Title 42 gaslighting the American public that the humanitarian catastrophe at the nation’s southern border hasn’t materialized as predicted, but a shocking video of an overcrowded processing center shared by a GOP lawmaker punched a hole through the curtain of deceit.

On Sunday, President Joe Biden was enjoying yet another weekend in Delaware when asked about the border crisis, telling reporters that the situation is “much better than you all expected.” But the video that Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) shared tells a far different story of the miserable conditions at the El Paso facility where hundreds of mostly military-aged males are packed in, waiting their turn in conditions of squalor as overwhelmed agents work to process the massive influx of illegals that Biden rolled out the red carpet for.

The short clip, which was taken Friday, is from the Border Patrol’s Central Processing Center in El Paso and shows around 750 people packed into a room that normally has a capacity for 120 as mattresses and other debris line the floor. According to Gonzales, the facility has a maximum capacity of around 1,000 but there were about 6,000 people crammed into it on that day.

“You may not see a thousand people rushing through the border, the images everyone is looking for, but I guarantee you there are thousands of people in these processing centers,” Gonzales said.

Intrepid Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, who has chronicled the border disaster since Biden took office, posted the video from Gonzales, noting “Since Friday, illegal crossings have plummeted in El Paso, so capacity has likely gotten eased up significantly via releases. This video is a snapshot of what it was like on Friday.”

Meanwhile, another busload of migrants from Texas has been dropped off in front of the Washington, D.C. residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s absentee “border czar” who, as usual, was nowhere to be seen in the vicinity of her area of responsibility.

Video posted to social media shows the new arrivals as they disembark from the bus that transported them to the Naval Observatory, the designated home for the vice president of the United States, with the latest busload rolling up at Kamala’s crib on Sunday, a special Mother’s Day gift from Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

Sunday’s delivery followed a group of migrants who were deposited in front of the veep’s home last week.

The “border czar” gave her assessment of the situation in Texas, speaking to local media in Atlanta on Friday where she attended a fundraiser with Democrat high rollers in a wealthy suburb of the city hours after the Trump-era policy to mitigate the spread of COVID at the border formally ended.

“You know, I hear that everything in the last couple of days is going rather smoothly, given what the concerns were,” she said. “And the bottom line, however, is that this issue of immigration falls squarely within the responsibility of the United States Congress,” the veep added, passing the buck to lawmakers.

Rep. Gonzales discussed the video of the jam-packed processing center with Margaret Brennan on the Sunday morning edition of “Face the Nation” on CBS News.

“This is what I’m hearing on the ground from mayors, from Border Patrol agents, from embedded media. Everyone is saying, it’s not that bad. So, on Friday, I visited El Paso. I went to the central processing center. And you’re seeing these videos. And this is what not that bad looks like,” he said.

“In that — in the El Paso Sector, there’s over 6,000 people that are in custody. In this particular facility, it’s meant to house 1,000 people. It’s housing over 3,000. In one of these rooms, it’s meant that max capacity is 90 people. There was over 400 in here. That’s a 450 percent capacity,” the congressman added. “In another room meant to house 120 people, there was over 700 people in there. We can’t allow not that bad to be the normal.”

“Well, what you see is, you see career politicians blame somebody else. It’s always somebody else’s fault, and not them,” Gonzales said. “And if the light can be shined on someone else, the more, the better, the more, the merrier. And, right now, the light is shined on Secretary Mayorkas. The reality, this is all of our problems, starting with the president of the United States, who needs to lead this country, and starting in Congress.”

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