Senator, nice to be with you in the studio, as always. You just got back from the border, and I want to get into this.

It's not really shocking, but it's very concerning now from a national security standpoint.

How bad has it gotten compared to what it was even just last time you were there?

Well, it keeps getting worse and worse. So I was down on the border Thursday and Friday of last week. And so the

Senate was in session. I was in D.C. until Thursday afternoon and then jumped on a plane and I flew down

to McCallon Thursday night. And I brought along with me four other senators, John Cornyn,

and he and I often host our colleagues down at the southern border. And we also had with us

John Barrasso and Mike Lee and Pete Bricketts. And so the five of us came down. We landed,

the first thing we did, we went straight from the airport to the midnight muster of the Border

Patrol agents. And there were about 50 Border Patrol agents gathered the muster

is where they sit and talk right before they go out on duty. And we had a good discussion with

the Border Patrol agents. Really, I just stood up and told them, thank you. More than anything,

I wanted them to hear from me, thank you, thank you, thank you, and to tell them. And I said

exactly this. I said, listen, I travel all over Texas. I travel all over the country. You need to know that the American people appreciate what you're doing. Their morale is low right now. It's incredibly low. I mean, they are working for bosses who undermine them, who undercut them, who make their jobs impossible to do. All right, I'll tell you

something. So we did, each of us spoke to them a few minutes, and we opened it up for Q&A. And we

asked the Border Patrol agents, okay, what should we know that we don't know? One of the things

we learned, which I had never heard, which is in the past year, the Biden administration has put out

new guidelines for pursuit of illegal aliens. This is illegal aliens that are running, that are

trying to get away. And the guidelines, you'd have to effectively call them guidelines for non-pursuit

because they are told you cannot pursue illegal aliens if there is anything that could potentially

endanger someone's safety. So what does that mean? It means if in a car they have four people

in the back seat and you know there are only three seat belts, you're not allowed to pursue them.

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