State Senator Aric Nesbitt is back in Michigan after taking a trip down to the southern U.S. border last week.
Nesbitt tells us he and other lawmakers from around the country were hosted in Eagle Pass by Texas public safety officials. We asked what they saw.
“I’ll tell you one thing is that visiting the border, going to Eagle Pass, interviewing those that are on the ground, it’s as bad as it looks on TV and I’d say even worse,” Nesbitt said. “What Texas has done is they’ve really stepped up their enforcement, something that the federal government has relaxed.”
Nesbitt says Texas has spent heavily on its own border measures to make up for a lack of federal support.
“Instead of a year ago where there’s 70% of the illegal immigrants coming across in the Texas border, from what Texas has done, they’re being pushed into other border states, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.”
Nesbitt took a helicopter tour and says he saw a couple of migrants trying to get around border security as well as a few being picked up.
Nesbitt tells us what happens down there does affect Michigan as illegal border crossings have enable drugs like meth and fentanyl to get into the U.S. He blames the Biden administration for relaxing Trump era policies.
