Rep. Young Kim: Biden's immigration crisis – my Texas border trip showed cartels thriving, migrants at risk

After visiting our southern border with a bipartisan delegation in South Texas and back home in California, it is clear that the situation continues to be a national security, public health and humanitarian crisis. 

Meanwhile, drug cartels are taking advantage of this crisis, exploiting migrants to increase revenue and accelerate the smuggling of drugs and weapons and other illegal activity across our southern border.  We cannot find a lasting solution if we fail to acknowledge the problem.  President Biden said in his joint address to Congress that his policies as vice president "helped keep people in their own countries instead of being forced to leave" but "the last administration shut it down."