Concord, New Hampshire – Exclusive –Will Hurd, a former covert operative and former Republican congressman turned Republican presidential candidate, is heading to the northern border with Canada on Tuesday, Fox News learned.
And Hurd, who has represented Texas congressional districts that stretch hundreds of miles along the southern border with Mexico, spoke with President Biden in an interview with FOX Digital on the eve of a border inspection at the northern tip on Tuesday. Attacked former President Donald Trump. of New Hampshire.
“Joe Biden is going to be the worst border patrol president in our history,” Hurd accused. “The crisis we’ve seen and the fact that they don’t want to call it a crisis is shocking to me.”
Hurd said the Biden administration’s policies “actually encourage illegal immigration…they treat everyone who enters the country as an asylum seeker…that’s why so many people come from more than 180 different states.” It has become,” he argued.
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President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, January 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnick, File)
But Hurd, who has been a vehement Republican critic of Trump, the current frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination, said, “Treatment of everyone as an asylum seeker began under Donald Trump. , and Joe Biden continued it, and Joe Biden just added fuel to it.” So I’m going to stop doing that from day one. “
If elected to the White House, Heard promises to resume construction of the border wall started under the Trump administration and halted by the Biden administration “in some places where physical barriers are reasonable.” bottom. But he added that he also “needs to bring technology along the border.”
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The former CIA agent is scheduled to head to the northern tip of New Hampshire on Tuesday to join local authorities and inspect the US-Canada border. Hurd said he hopes to develop a better understanding of how border security interacts with local law enforcement.
Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd, former CIA agent and former three-term Texas congressman, gives an interview to Fox News Digital June 26, 2023 in Concord, New Hampshire. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
“The distance to the northern border and how few people are patrolling it. “It’s the known and suspected terrorist watchlists who arrested people coming in from the northern border. It’s just people we know coming in,” Hurd stressed. bottom.
And he also said, “If you look at the amount of fentanyl that’s coming into China, it’s coming from China, but a lot of it is going to Canada. It’s flowing into the country, and it’s coming from our northern border.”
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Hurd, who put his hopes on the Republican nomination last Thursday, said in an interview with Fox Digital that the Republican National Committee would not sign a pledge to endorse the eventual 2024 Republican nominee. repeated. He will be speaking at the first debate in August hosted by Fox News.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on April 27, 2023. (Spencer Pratt/Getty Images)
Mr. Hurd’s decision could jeopardize his ability to stand on the debate table because he is against Mr. Trump, but he said, “You can’t lie to the American people to get the mic. It’s a good idea to say, ‘Yes,'” he stressed. I said, “I’ll do it,” and didn’t support him in the end, but you can’t lie to people about it.
“I have made one oath in my life, and it is to defend and defend the Constitution of the United States. I have made one oath, and it is to my wonderful, beautiful wife. I stand up, and that’s when I swear, “Hands on my chest, I swear allegiance to the United States,” Mr. Hurd said. “So I’m not going to sing a pledge, but guess what? I’m going to be approachable. I’m going to talk about ideas. I’m going to talk about the future. Don’t just complain about the past.” I don’t mean to be silly. So I’ll get my message across in a different way. “
Hurd was the only black Republican in the House of Representatives in the final two years of Congress, but New Hampshire will hold its first primary and second general round on the Republican presidential nominating calendar after Iowa on Tuesday. meet many friends at
President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis trail the former president by double digits in the latest preliminary polls but lead the rest of the Republican nominees in what has been touted as a rival event. You will attract attention by holding an event where you are. Also campaigning in Granite State are former ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and entrepreneur, author and conservative commentator Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Hurd said he plans to spend a lot of time in the state.
“New Hampshire values dark horse candidates like me. New Hampshire values people with ideas. It’s a very important place to build a company,” he said. . “So you’ll see me a lot in New Hampshire.”
