Speaker Johnson accuses Biden of ‘absolute madness’ on border, warns of ‘clear and present danger’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) accused President Biden of “absolute madness” Wednesday over his administration’s handling of immigration policy and warned of a “clear and present danger” to the US unless the migrant crisis comes to an end.

“We have a catastrophe at our southern border,” Johnson said in his first House floor speech, which came nearly 100 days after he won the speaker’s gavel in October. “From Texas to New York, waves of illegal immigrants are now overwhelming our communities.”

Johnson’s speech laid out record-shattering numbers of border crossings, spiking rates of deaths due to fentanyl overdoses and the trafficking of “vulnerable women and children” by Mexican cartels during the Biden administration — in addition to the apprehension of 361 illegal aliens flagged on terror watch lists.

“The situation at our southern border presents a clear and present danger to our national security,” Johnson declared, citing congressional testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray about the 1.5 million “gotaways” who evaded detection on Biden’s watch when they entered the US.

Roughly the same amount have been released into the country on humanitarian parole to await court hearings, which may not take place for a decade in the future, that will determine their immigration status — an “absurd” policy, according to Johnson.

US Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 7 million migrants on the southern border since Biden took office in January 2021, he added, noting that “35 of our 50 states, including my home state of Louisiana, don’t have a population that large.”