Steve Scalise: “I think we ought to obey America's laws on immigration across the board. If you look at the asylum laws, there is a…”

“I think we ought to obey America's laws on immigration across the board. If you look at the asylum laws, there is a process to seek asylum. In fact, every year, people are granted that asylum if they prove their case. That is where the law comes into play, which is being ignored right here. What President Trump did when there was a surge in 2019, he confronted it, as a leader should do. He talked to people on the ground. He talked to our Border Patrol agents, who are the ones who have to deal with this crisis on a daily basis. In fact, 40 percent of our Border Patrol agents tonight at midnight, like Thursday night at midnight last week, when I was with those Border Patrol agents, 40 percent of them were pulled off of guarding our border, where their primary mission is to stop drug cartels from smuggling fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin into our country, which they are doing now at much higher levels, killing Americans all across the country. Forty percent of them pulled away because they are going to be changing diapers in the Donna detention facility tonight because that is what they are being tasked to do by the Biden administration. That is not their job. It is not why they signed up. Their morale is incredibly low. Well over roughly 90 percent of people who say they are coming here to seek asylum, those cases are rejected by the courts. Rejected.…”