Biden administration needs to acknowledge border 'crisis,' former Trump and Obama immigration official warns

Ronald Vitiello, former acting ICE director in the Trump administration and former Border Patrol chief in the Obama administration, says the migrant surge at the border is 'completely predictable.'

RONALD VITIELLO: They're going to see what happens when you take all of the tools that prevent this kind of surge at the border with children alone or families coming with children, they're going to see the results of the reversal of those policies that were keeping surges like this from happening. The migrant protection protocols allowed people to have their due process in immigration court and then their asylum claim, and they could wait in Mexico to do that. And what happened when they waited in Mexico? They didn't call back home and ask all of their cousins, their aunts there, uncles and their friends to come to the border. But now you reverse that... if there was a child or they're a child alone, they're going to be -- the child is going to be turned over to HHS, then released to family members in the US. And the families that come with children are just going to be released right there at the border. So this is completely predictable. And to say that it's not a crisis, but then yet call out the Emergency Management Agency to handle it, helps CBP handle it. Those don't jive.