Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Monday the border policies of the Biden administration are providing a multibillion-dollar “business model” to the drug cartels, which he described as “some of the most evil people on the planet.”

Johnson made the comments on “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” adding the mainstream media is complicit in stifling the truth of what’s happening at the southern border.

“We have a corrupt and complicit media, mainstream media, that’s part of the left. The left wants this,” Johnson said. “They don’t want a secure border. If they want a secure border, they’d go back to what President Trump did. We could go back to where we were before the Biden administration. But the Biden administration opened up the border.”

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