Fox News "Hannity" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Andy Biggs

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REP. ANDY BIGGS, R-ARIZ.: Yes, here's the thing, Dan. The narrative that they have been living on was this manufactured crisis. It is absolutely crumbling.

If you look at polling today, there is a majority of all people from all parties and persuasions. They say that there is a crisis on the border. So, the next thing she does and her cohorts, they come in and say, well, these are concentration camps. There's atrocities going on here. Those aren't accurate either.

So, what's happening is they are being exposed, but because they believe in this kind of Alinsky type of method of, you just keep telling lies about this stuff, you still keep making it up, to facilitate their narrative, because they don't want Trump to get a political victory. They are for open borders, that's what is happening.

It is astounding to me, but like Sara, I was on the phone with my contacts today. They were like, this is -- that's crazy. And it didn't happen. And you saw that from the group of pastors that were there at the same time. They said, where is she coming from?

BONGINO: You know, Sara, what is fascinating case too is how the Democrats always to, quote, Thomas Sowell, a legendary economist, they always start the story in the middle. They say, well, these facilities are overcrowded and the conditions are deplorable, so we should look into it.

But when you ask the obvious question, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, why are they overcrowded? Well, we have not done anything about Flores, there is no wall, there's very little before Donald Trump in Central America to stop the flow -- you were down there, you saw -- if we extend the wall, we would not have an overcrowding problem.

CARTER: That is absolutely true, and I spent a lot of time of the border. For many, many years I have been traveling to the U.S./Mexico border as well, not just Central America. But really working and watching what was happening with agents on the ground and a lot of the immigrants that were trying to come across.

And you know what I can say, Dan, what I saw were agents that put everything on the line to save people that were crossing. People that were actually coming across the border who sometimes were ill, whose first hospital that they saw was a border patrol agent delivering them to safety or trying to help their child. And I think this is what is not coming across to the American public.

BONGINO: Yes. Congressman, you know, I saw a picture today that was very touching, a border patrol agent in the water throwing himself into the river to save a young migrant child who was clearly in distress in the water.

You know, granted, any large agency will have a few bad apples -- I mean, listen, you are up in Congress, I'm sure that you are familiar with a few bad apples up there too.

BIGGS: Yes.

BONGINO: But the border patrol, these are heroic men and women, and Sara just said, put their butts on the line every day, they are not getting rich. I was a police officer. No one is living the life as a police officer. I'm sorry, you are not getting rich there.

It's really a shame that the Democrats have used them as a ping-pong ball here for their political lens. It's a shame.

BIGGS: Yes, absolutely right, Sara is right and you are right. You've got 17,000 roughly agency and personnel and border control, and you might have a dozen that are not doing what they should do, but the vast majority are giving their best effort to try to get this done.

Don't forget -- never forget this, that the people that are complaining about -- and making up, it looks they're fabricating. You know, it just doesn't make sense, these are the same people that want to get eliminate all of ICE, and they would like to get rid of border patrol, they do not want internal enforcement of our laws. And so, they are politically biased all the way.

BONGINO: They are the problem.

Sara, Congressman Biggs, thanks so much.

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