WASHINATON – Congressman Jim Hagedorn, of southern Minnesota, a self-appointed member of the House Border Security Caucus, returned a week ago from a junket “to see first-hand the crisis unfolding at our Southern Border.” In a news release, Hagedorn made points scripted by House Republican leadership. He skipped references to Trump border situation to attack Biden policies, which he called “worse than anything our country has experienced in over 20 years.” Hagedorn is a Republican Trump supporter whose district stretches border to border across southern Minnesota. Hagedorn said that U.S. border agents had 180,000 border encounters in April, which he claimed was 10-fold more increase. Agents, he said, have seized 200,000 pounds of dangerous narcotics like methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin this year but offered to comparative data.
Hagedorn. Although seldom interviewed on dominant television, he parroted information from Trump-friendly border sources as a guest on the Trump mouthpiece One American News network.