Rep. Andy Biggs: Arizona Is Doing So Much Better Thanks To The Trump Administration's Border Crackdown

Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs joins Fox Across America With guest host Rich Zeoli to shed light on how the Trump administration's clear strategy to curb illegal immigration is already having a significant impact on his state.
'They didn't release anybody. The federal government, the CBP, they didn't really anybody into the United States last month. Not one, not one person. And we have communities that saw literally millions of people pour through those communities during the Biden administration. And this, by the way, this particular governor didn't speak out, didn't do anything to help us. In fact, she got rid of, you know, cargo container barriers that had been put up. She got rid the border security task force. She got rid of all that. Total disaster. And the reality is, though, where we still have an issue is we do have places where there's no border fencing, no border wall, and they're conduits for human and drug trafficking. And so we see the evidence of that still, not nearly to the extent that we did when Joe Biden was president, and it's significantly better. But we really, my position as a guy who's lived in Arizona, you know, native of Arizona. I want that to stop. I don't want any of that trafficking coming through our state. Child, human, sex, drug, none of that trafficking do I want coming through our state.'
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