Congressman Mark Green, R-Tenn., criticized President Joe Biden for how the administration is handling China now that new video seemingly shows a group of military-aged Chinese men headed toward the U.S. border from Panama.
Antony Rubin, Muchraker.com founder, shared the images that suggest hundreds of Chinese men are headed to America, according to a FOX News report. Rubin told Fox and Friends First these men are routinely getting onto buses to continue traveling similar to other people who can't fly directly into the United States.
"And we thought the President letting the Chinese spy balloon traverse across the U.S. was bad," Green wrote in an April 23 post on Twitter. "Apparently, that was just the start."
The most recent data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicate more Chinese nationals have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into the U.S., FOX News reported. Just within the first few months of the current fiscal year, there have been 4,300 encounters with Chinese nationals at the border.
FOX News reported a little less than 2,000 Chinese nationals crossed the border in 2022.
House Homeland Security Committee members, including Green who serves as chairman, have introduced legislation that aims to equip CBP and state and local law enforcement with the resources needed to address the "record-breaking border crisis" due to the administration's refusal to secure the nation's borders, according to an April 24 news release. The legislation is called the Border Reinforcement Act of 2023.
“Following over five million illegal encounters at our Southwest border, a worsening crisis at our Northern and Maritime borders, and the record number of lives lost to fentanyl poisoning across the country, it is clear this administration does not have the operational control it claims," Green said in the release. "Today, this Committee introduced real border security solutions crafted with the insight of those who pay the cost of this crisis every day: frontline Border Patrol agents, their families, local business owners, state and local law enforcement, as well as farmers and ranchers."
