ICE acting director blames AOC for wanting to remove an agency: "I'd like to talk to this young congressman"

ICE's acting director appeared on Wednesday in "The Ingraham Angle", where he criticized Congress for being inactive in the US-Mexico border crisis, saying lawmakers "refuse" to do what is needed.

Mark Morgan, who took office in early May after leading the US Border Patrol, also defended ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) against those who would like to see him abolished, especially Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

"If you're talking about abolishing ICE, it's absolutely irresponsible," Morgan told Ingraham. "Last year alone, 34,000 criminal arrests and 5,000 gang members were arrested. Thousands of cases of exploitation of child trafficking and human trafficking. "

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"If you talk about abolishing ICE, it's absolutely irresponsible. Last year alone, 34,000 criminal arrests and 5,000 gang members were arrested. Thousands of cases of exploitation of child trafficking and human trafficking. "

– Mark Morgan, Acting Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Morgan added, "I would like to talk to this young congresswoman and ask her to tell me what will happen if ICE is abolished."

He also told facilitator Laura Ingraham that the Congress was a major obstacle to achieving the goals of the ICE at the US-Mexico border.

"It has been a long time since we sound the alarm that it is a humanitarian and national security crisis," Morgan said. Congress has failed to do its job.

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"It's amazing to me that we always ask, overall, what Congress can do," Morgan added, "when we say it to Congress – to the experts who live this every day, from ICE to border patrol, the CBP [Customs and Border Protection] – They must adopt significant laws, comply with the Flores agreement and do so, fund beds and the crisis ends tomorrow. "

The Flores agreement refers to Reno v. Flores, a US Supreme Court case from the 1990s that set standards for the treatment of minors detained by US immigration authorities.

Border patrol apprehensions at the US-Mexico border reached their highest level in more than a decade in May, when officials warned that they did not have the money. nor resources to deal with the influx of parents and children entering the United States.

The agents apprehended 132,887 in May, the first time apprehensions had exceeded 100,000 since April 2007. This set a record with 84,542 adults and children apprehended. 11,507 were children traveling alone and 36,838 were single adults.

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Morgan acknowledged dire situations involving facilities and supplies on the border with Mexico, saying that the conditions and facilities were not safe and that Congress was refusing to help them.

"Congress is still sitting on their hands," Morgan said.

Associated Press contributed to this report.