<p>A top administration official defended President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> on Sunday amid a large spike in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-disaster-biden-admin-sets-new-border-record-as-illegal-crossings-surge">border crossings</a>.</p>
<p>Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg">Pete Buttigieg</a> was asked about the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly in Texas where the Department of Defense just <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/us/migrant-crossings-eagle-pass-state-of-emergency/index.html">bolstered</a> a National Guard deployment, during an interview with NBC News.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let me ask you about what we are seeing at the border. Recently, the administration sent <a href="https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-09-21/troops-mexico-border-migrants-11445230.html">800 active-duty troops</a> to the Texas border to deal with the surge in migrants, some record numbers this past week. Was the Biden administration caught off guard by this latest surge of migrants?&#8221; asked &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator Kristen Welker.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Q: &quot;Was the Biden administration caught off guard by this latest surge of migrants?&quot;</p>
<p>BUTTIGIEG: &quot;What you saw was the administration, as always, responding as needed&#8230;&quot;</p>
<p>Q: &quot;Were you caught off guard though?&quot;</p>
<p>BUTTIGIEG: &quot;The president did what needed to be done.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/llontN4RTT">pic.twitter.com/llontN4RTT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1705967911704105296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Well, what you saw was the administration, as always, responding as needed to conditions being proactive where necessary,&#8221; Buttigieg responded.</p>
<p>Welker pressed the issue. &#8220;Were you caught off guard, though?&#8221; she asked again.</p>
<p>&#8220;Look, the president did what needed to be done. And often that involves a rapid response, like the rapid response that this administration directed. But also what we see is a political dynamic where some people seem to prefer that the problem continue, rather than to do something to actually solve it,&#8221; Buttigieg said.</p>
<p>&#8220;And I have to say, that kind of reminds me of what&#8217;s going on in the funding fight, where some of the very same people who would line up to take a shot at the administration over something like air travel disruption, are also trying to disrupt us from training more air traffic controllers,&#8221; he added, alluding to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-lee-argues-congress-should-avoid-government-shutdown">spending fight</a> in Congress ahead of a possible government shutdown.</p>
<p>The new military deployment was announced in the midst of reports about <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTiffany/status/1704137551571828886">illegal crossings</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/22/us-border-migrant-families-biden">spiking to nearly 9,000 a day</a> and Eagle Pass, Texas, <a href="https://www.epbusinessjournal.com/2023/09/eagle-pass-besieged-by-migrants-declares-state-of-emergency/#:~:text=Eagle%20Pass%20Mayor%20Rolando%20Salinas%2C%20Jr.%20declared%20a%20Local%20State,and%20U.%20S.%20federal%20government%20to">declared</a> a state of emergency.</p>
<p>Government data released last week showed authorities encountering migrants more than 304,000 times around the nation in August, a number which was over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-disaster-biden-admin-sets-new-border-record-as-illegal-crossings-surge">50,000 more</a> than the month before.</p>
<p>While Republicans have <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4213128-gop-governors-push-biden-on-border-shelters-are-full-food-pantries-empty/">criticized</a> Biden for not doing more to secure the border, Democrats have also gotten fed up as big cities across the country — and far away from the border — feel the crunch of an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-signals-break-in-direct-communications-with-biden-as-migrant-crisis-escalates">influx of migrants</a>. Among them is New York City.</p>
<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/aoc-third-term-congress.html">told The New York Times</a> that immigration was &#8220;arguably&#8221; the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;weakest issue.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kjp-responds-to-aoc-biden-has-done-more-to-secure-border-than-anybody-else">In response</a>, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued that Biden &#8220;has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Biden has <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-biden-blames-exploding-border-crisis-on-maga-republicans/">accused</a> &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; of &#8220;gutting&#8221; the immigration system and undermining border security.</p>

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