• El Paso City Council member Claudia Rodriguez called out the city’s Democratic mayor Wednesday night, saying he has been caught in a lie.
• “Absolutely not,” Leeser told host Dana Perino. “One of the things we need to learn and make sure we do is that we take the politics out of this.”
• “The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Chief Ortiz, does not support declaring a state of emergency at this point,” Leeser said during the Sept. 27 meeting. “And the White House has asked at this point for us not to do that.”

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