Several border officials are criticizing President Biden’s decision to secure the Tajik-Afghanistan border this week, calling it a “slap in the face” as the United States has seen historic waves of migrants crossing its own southern border this year.
Days after the U.S. completed its chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the U.S. embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, announced plans to build new facilities for the “Border Guard Detachment.” along the border with Afghanistan.
“The new detachment center will replace the outdated Shahritus detachment and allow the Border Guard Service to deploy forces more quickly to border areas in response to threats,” the embassy said.
Border officials have harshly criticized this decision and have criticized the Biden administration for focusing on border security in another country.
“With the record pace of nearly a million encounters so far on the southern border, it is encouraging to finally see the Biden administration take border security seriously. It is very serious that it is in another country,” he told Fox. News a senior border official.
Another called it “a slap in the face for us.”
“Biden has already destroyed Afghanistan, so there is no need for the borders to be open,” a third party said at the exit.
The three officials spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of pay.
Amid the withdrawal of troops, several officials warned that international terrorists were arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Last week, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) took to Twitter to urge President Biden to secure the southern border “before it’s too late,” after ISIS bombed the airport. Kabul, killing 13 American soldiers and about 200 Afghans.
Meanwhile, the former head of the Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, warned that Biden’s mishandling of the increase in illegal immigrants on the southern border is posing a threat to national security due to the number of known terrorists or presumed to believe in the US.
July saw a maximum of 21 years of crossing the U.S. border when authorities made 212,672 arrests, most in a single month since March 2000, when 220,063 stops were reported.
In total, CBP has stopped more than 1.1 million illegal cross attempts during the first seven months of this year.