Border Crisis: Dems' Extreme Rhetoric Inflaming the Situation

Published: June 21, 2019, 1:30 p.m.

National Border Patrol Council union representative Chris Cabrera extended an open invitation to Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to tour the border privately without media to see the \u201creal border crisis\u201d from through the eyes of the agents.\xa0

Cabrera, spokesman for the National Border Patrol\xa0Council and Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said recent comments from both Omar and Ocasio-Cortez reveal that they are not familiar with the actual border crisis. He said the problem is exacerbated\xa0by lawmakers who have not educated themselves on the realities of the crisis. On the second episode of the Sara Carter Show podcast, Cabrera promised that the trip would be private, without media, so the lawmakers can gain a real understanding of what is happening along the border.

\u201cI think that they\u2019re uneducated as far as what goes on down here and I would put out a blanket invitation whether it\u2019s to Mrs. Omar or Mrs. Ocasio-Cortez, or whoever, Republican, Democrat, liberal, independent doesn\u2019t matter, \u201d Cabrera told Carter. \u201cCome down here, get with me, I will take you out there and show you. No reporters, no cameras, no press moments just we will go out there and I\u2019ll show you, and that way, when somebody says well you don\u2019t know well now you have a firsthand look, not a political look no politics just me and you I\u2019ll show you.\u201d