On Monday, Mark Morgan, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official, and Ken Cuccinelli, a Department of Homeland Security official, visited Tucson to tour the border area and discuss the Border Wall’s construction.
Toured the border with @HomelandKen today. pic.twitter.com/a1Um6wTOca
— CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) November 3, 2020
Morgan, the senior official performing the duties of commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, and Cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, toured the the border area south of Tucson before meeting with reporters at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
As @HomelandKen said, the effective strategy is “stop, detain, and return.” Any illegal immigration policy with pillars consisting of “release, protect, and reward” will sound the alarm that our borders are in fact open. pic.twitter.com/xBYKCCINNq
— CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) November 3, 2020
The border wall system is unlike anything we’ve built before. It’s more than steel and concrete going into the ground. It’s a “system” with lighting, access roads, anti-climb plate, and state of the art technology that will eventually infuse AI. pic.twitter.com/kKBmOJShG3
— CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) November 3, 2020
Cuccinelli noted that under the Trump administration, the Department’s achievements were “unprecedented,” citing the seizure of more fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine, in the last four years than in the previous eight years of the Obama administration.
“In Fiscal Year 2020, CBP apprehended 363 gang-affiliated individuals along the border,” explained Cuccinelli. “That was a drop of almost 63 percent from the 976 gang-affiliated individuals in 2019.”
The border wall system helps stop:
✅ Illegal immigration
✅ Human smuggling
✅ Deadly drugs
✅ Violent gang members
✅ The spread of #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/CQbCH1pdgu— CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) November 3, 2020
Morgan praised President Trump for his “bold action” in addressing what he characterized was a “crisis at the border.” Morgan chalked up the success in drug and human smuggling interdiction to the fact that “this President listened and this President delivered. That’s just a fact.”
They said we couldn’t build the wall.
We did, and we will continue to prove them wrong — 400 times over — with each and every mile we complete. pic.twitter.com/guq65K0WuI
— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) November 3, 2020
Cuccinelli said he hadn’t been to the Arizona border yet when asked by reporters what the purpose of Monday’s visit was. “We don’t stop doing our job because there is an election,” responded Cuccinelli.
Morgan addressed the recent censorship he experienced on Twitter which he described as “a grave threat to national security.”
Twitter suspended Morgan’s Twitter account last Wednesday after he touted the success of the Border Wall.
“I just said walls work to stop bad people coming in,” said Morgan on Monday referring to his censored tweet. “Which is the truth and they wanted to take that down because again – they want to shut down the American people hearing how successful this President has been and how his critics will totally undo all the successes and really create another immigration crisis.”
The American people deserve secure borders & safe communities.
They also deserve to know the truth about their national security. But Big Tech and the media don’t seem to agree.
Cuccinelli: ‘Dystopian scenario’ of Twitter censorship is ‘deeply troubling’ https://t.co/3yJ4uz5a7F
— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) November 3, 2020
