Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends ahead of President Trump’s trip to the U.S.-Mexico border to discuss the devastating humanitarian and national security crisis that President Biden has created. Whip Scalise criticized the Biden Administration’s disastrous “open-door” immigration policies for causing the unprecedented surge of migrants illegally entering the United States. In addition, Whip Scalise talked about Republican-led efforts to learn the truth about COVID-19’s origin and questioned why Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats are refusing to examine claims that the coronavirus started in a Chinese lab. Whip Scalise also slammed Democrats’ support of the “defund the police” movement, noting how their anti-police agenda has caused record rates of police retirements and a dramatic increase in crime in cities across the country.  

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  On President Biden’s self-made border crisis:   “President Trump had gotten control of our southern border and he had actually engaged countries like Mexico, like Honduras, and El Salvador and Guatemala to help us get control of the southern border. And what President Biden did is reverse all of those things that were working. And it's now out of control. In fact, the drug cartels have operational control of major America.   ...   “So it's a humanitarian crisis. It's a national security crisis. And it was all created by President Biden's policies that aren't working. It’s why Kamala Harris didn't [go to the border] because she would have seen what we've seen. I've been down there. Y'all have had [television] crews down there. And everybody knows what's going on. The Border Patrol agents all tell you the same thing, ‘Just put back in place those policies that were working, that [the Biden Administration undid.’”   On the Biden Administration’s disastrous border security and immigration policies:   “It's really bizarre. It's their priority. They want open borders. Look, you looked over the weekend. You had the White House trying to blame other people for defunding the police, which is a crazy idea that they embraced. Now, they're trying to defund our border patrol. When that goes south, they're going to blame somebody else for that too. They're the ones doing it.   ... “They can blame everybody they want. It proves that their policies are failing. But in the end, they're doing this deliberately. They know that the results of it. You can go down to the Donna Detention Facility and see these places overrun with people here illegally. They don't know what to do with them. They're sending them to states all around the nation and they won't even be honest with us or the American people about where they're going, which states they're sending them to. I mean, local school systems are going to be getting kids by the hundreds that can't speak English. And they don't care about those consequences because they just want to register everybody to vote. They, they have an agenda and they're using these kids, unfortunately, as pieces their game, it's a dangerous political game for America.”    On President Trump’s upcoming trip to the U.S.-Mexico border:   “Look, [Border Patrol agents] spoke very highly of President Trump when I was there because he took care of them. He gave them the tools they need. If you meet with our Border Patrol agents, they're wonderful people. But they took this job because they want to get control of the border. They want to push the drug cartels out of America. They see the fentanyl coming across right now in record numbers. And they see, by the way, the trade, the human trafficking that's going on, this is a multi-million dollar a day business for the drug cartels to bring people across illegally because of Biden's policies. And, it's incredibly demoralizing for our Border Patrol agents. And they know that President Trump had their back and that Biden doesn't. As you pointed out, he wants to cut them and take away their ability to do their jobs. So all of this is playing out before everybody's eyes, but to negative consequences for America's national security. You've got people on the Terrorist Watch List that have been caught coming across the southern border recently, and not just us from central and south America, from Middle Eastern countries and other places around the world.”   On the need to investigate COVID-19’s origin:    “[House Republicans] have been calling for more than a year to have bipartisan hearings and Speaker Pelosi refuses to do that. So we held our own hearing. And what you saw, some of my colleagues [were] talking about what they found in a lot of research has been done.   “We had four medical experts from different areas of science that came, who had been researching different aspects of the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Every single one of them testified that this started in the lab. It was a leak from the lab. It was not transmitted [from] bat to animal to human, which is what initially what China, the Chinese Communist Party, [and] the World Health Organization said.   “It’s clear when you look at the gene structure – also they've tested over 80,000 animals in China – not one of them has been determined to have COVID-19. Yet, when you look at the gene structure of COVID-19, it looks like it's been around for more than 10 years when it's only been around for maybe a little over a year, which tells you that it was genetically modified in that lab that was doing research on bat coronaviruses. And so when you look at SARS or MARS, [it’s a] very different structure [compared to] those medical occurrences, just maybe 5,000 or 7,000 people infected worldwide. With COVID-19, over 200 million infected. In America, over 600,000 deaths, 4 million [deaths] worldwide.   “Everybody testified that it was created in the lab. And so it raises more questions that need to be answered. What did America know about it? Did the NIH have any financial investment directly or indirectly to that lab? Not pointing fingers, but saying let's get these answers. How could this have happened so we can prevent it from happening again? Speaker Pelosi ought to want to join with us in doing it. Instead, she's covering for the Chinese Communist Party. They won't have the hearings.”