Analysis: On Tuesday, Greene and a GOP colleague floated sending the U.S. military south while citing what U.S. Border Patrol now says was a false claim about a bomb.
“During a Jan. briefing, leadership was notified that Agents found a duct-taped ball filled with sand that wasn’t deemed a threat to agents/public,” Ortiz said.
But later on, Luttrell seemed to acknowledge the possibility that it wasn’t what it was cracked up to be. In, Luttrell described things he and others were focused on “running to ground.” Little is known about the item beyond what the Republicans said they were told and what Ortiz now says. Strongthat it “was brought up in a meeting while we’ve been here in McAllen, Texas, and not only were we briefed on it, but we saw it.” Luttrell’s and Strong’s offices haven’t responded to a request for comment, and Customs and Border Protection haven’t shared more information.
Luttrell suggested that it was a scandal that this information wasn’t previously shared with Congress and the American people.“Now, if this is the case, and we’re surging money, hundreds of billions of dollars across the seas to secure everybody else, and we’re not doing anything here in my state at our southern border, that’s a problem,” Luttrell said. “Because that means that they’re lying to us.
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