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El Cajon, California, Mayor Bill Wells has been vocal about the impact of illegal people in his community in the face of Joe Biden's dismal failure to protect the border.
Hundreds of people are now staying at the San Diego airport because the state has no space left to house people and Wells says there is no help coming from Governor Newsom or the federal government.
Wells, who is running for California's 51st Congressional District, joins 'Varney & Co.' To expose the government's migrant operation, which has seen the San Diego area increase from 300 illegal 'drop offs' per day to 4,000 over the past five days.
Stuart Varney: If you want to know what's happening at the border, you watch Fox. listen to this. More than a thousand migrants were left on the streets in San Diego over the weekend. There was no place for them to go. The county ran out of money and had to close a shelter. Bill Wells joins me now. He is the mayor of El Cajon in San Diego County. Can you spread it for us? Please pronounce it. What happened, Honorable?
Mayor Bill Wells: Yeah, so typically we get about 300 drop-offs a day, and that's pretty bad. But recently, Border Patrol told us we should expect 1,000 per day, and that's what's happening. In the last five days, 4000 people have come before us and the roads have been flooded. California already has the largest concentration of homeless people in the country. So that puts pressure on our resources that are already beyond capacity, I mean, really beyond capacity. And now you have this crisis where you don't have money to help and you don't even know where these people are coming from, where they are going or what they are doing. And this is a humanitarian disaster.
Varney: Your Honor, are they really roaming on the streets? Sleeping on the street? Sleeping on the beach? Just wandering around…is this what's going on?
Mills: You know, it's a mixed bag. When I was there with Bill Melugin, and they were taking people off the buses, and they were immediately being taken to another bus that was being run by NGOs, taking them to another location, which was taking them to another bus. Which took them to the San Diego airport. And I think this cloak and dagger thing is designed to keep us from knowing… We're not supposed to know who they are or where they're going. But we know that some of them are going out of the city to the airports. We know that many of them are sleeping at the airport. And the rest of them, we have no idea.
Varney: This is extraordinary. California is a sanctuary state. Is this likely to change any time soon?
Mills: Oh no. San Diego is a far-right bastion of left-wing political thought. And they are more committed to ideology than keeping people safe. And they would rather see an entire state, and frankly the country, destroyed than give up on the ideology that open borders are a good idea and homelessness is a good idea. They are definitely going too far in this matter.
Varney: I know San Diego well, having lived there for a while. This is a beautiful place. It feels like I want to be a weather forecaster in San Diego because it's always 72 degrees and sunny, but, I think it's beautiful.
Let me ask you this. How do San Diego people feel about Governor Newsom running for president?
Mills: I think everyone realizes that Governor Newsom has been a disaster. Again, it goes back to this loyalty to party lines, no matter what. And I think even though their lives have been made worse by homelessness, by uncontrolled pricing, by border increases, just by law and order problems, I mean, we have almost no law and order here, even though All these things, there is a large percentage of people who vote Democrat that will vote for him no matter what. And that's a little disappointing. We looked at it with recollection.
But, still, I want to give some hope because I think, I think things are changing. I'm running for Congress right now. I'm on the campaign trail, and every day I have Democrats coming up to me and saying I've never voted for a Republican in my life, but this has to stop. It's over. were done. I am voting for you.
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