The Cochise County Sheriff, Mark Dannels recently testified before Congress where he explained the Biden Administration has completely ignored and failed to respond to his calls for help along the souther border with the situation getting worse by the day.
Dannels testified he tried contacting the White House directly and the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas but was unsuccessful and his potential solutions for the border went unheard. In fiscal year 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 2.3 million illegal entries, a new record.
Republican Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson questioned Dannels about the Biden immigration polices and Dannels responded, “we actually have on behalf of the National Sheriffs’ Association … Our National Sheriffs senior leadership has attempted through letters to reach out to President Biden, he’s been invited to our events with major county sheriffs, western sheriffs, southwest border and national. We have never gotten a response back from this president. In fact, I was told just a couple months ago he’s the first president not to meet with sheriffs in this country. He still has not to date to my knowledge.”
“We did meet with Secretary Mayorkas. We reached out. I assembled about a dozen sheriffs, we met in El Paso. We sat down with the secretary, gave him a 16-point action plan to share what we thought were common sense, humanitarian, public safety and national security objectives built within that. Never heard back, I asked the secretary where that plan was, what they were gonna do with it. He asked me, ‘what plan?’”
The White House has again not offered to comment on the testimony and neither has the Department of Homeland Security.
Rep. Mike Johnson described the events in the testimony, “an absolute dereliction of duty. It’s inexcusable.”