Rep. Nicole Malliotakis: America's northern border is closed for COVID while southern border is open
John Solomon Reports
John Solomon
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) says that while the U.S.-Canada border is closed to non-essential travel because of COVID-19, the U.S.-Mexico border is open with 175,000 illegal immigrants crossing in March, less than 10 percent of which have legitimate asylum claims.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and welcome to a new edition of John Solomon reports. |
| 0:09.9 | A podcast from Just a News Where there's so much extraordinary news today and some of |
| 0:14.9 | it is occurring right at our southern border where another contingent of Republican lawmakers |
| 0:20.0 | have come back with extraordinary harrowing stories of what's going on. |
| 0:25.4 | It impacts side by side by side without COVID protections or without COVID testing in rooms |
| 0:31.6 | that weren't designed to hold a quarter or an eighth of what they're holding. |
| 0:37.7 | Customs and border patrol officers pleading to go back to the policies of the Donald Trump |
| 0:43.1 | era and security threats becoming more and more apparent with the arrest of terrorists, |
| 0:52.9 | the arrests of gun runners, the arrests of sex traffickers and human traffickers. |
| 0:57.2 | We've brought lots of people on the show to remind people that the border is not just |
| 1:01.1 | about humanitarian crisis. |
| 1:02.8 | It is a security crisis and we have an amazing guest today. |
| 1:07.8 | First term congresswoman Nicole Meliittakis from the great state of New York from Staten |
| 1:12.0 | Island, Brooklyn to my favorite places when I grew up in the tri-state area years ago. |
| 1:18.2 | The congresswoman just came back with the House minority with Steve Scalice who's been on |
| 1:24.0 | the show and many other lawmakers and what she has witnessed, what she has described is |
| 1:29.5 | really remarkable. |
| 1:30.9 | It is important news and so we're going to bring around the show today because we want |
| 1:35.0 | you to hear firsthand not only what she witnessed but what the customs and border patrol, |
| 1:39.7 | what the immigration and customs enforcement agents and leadership were telling her they |
| 1:44.9 | need their pleading for help, their pleading for pressure to get Joe Biden to reverse these |
| 1:51.5 | policies and alleviate what is both a security and humanitarian crisis and the congresswoman |
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