Mike Johnson blames 'wide open border' after U.S. citizen allegedly attacks New Orleans

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) pointed to the "wide open border" after a U.S. citizen allegedly carried out a truck attack, killing over a dozen people in New Orleans.

During a Thursday interview on Fox News, host Lawrence Jones asked Johnson if the FBI was previously aware of the identity of the man suspected of attacking people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

"Mr. Speaker, we're praying for your state, but there's a lot of folks in your state that want answers," Jones said. "And one of the questions that I continue to hear was, was this guy on the radar of our Department of Justice, the FBI?"

"I don't know the answer to that yet, Lawrence," Johnson replied. "I don't know if enough attention is being paid to this, but we all know that for the last four years, the Biden administration has been completely derelict in its duty."

"The congressional Republicans, we here in the House and the Senate, have repeatedly asked the DHS under the Biden administration about the correlation, the obvious concern about terrorism and the wide open border," he continued. "The idea that dangerous people were coming here in droves and setting up potentially terrorist cells around the country."

"This is the thing that we were all concerned about. This is why we raised the alarms."

Johnson argued House Republicans passed a border security bill to prevent attacks like the one in New Orleans.

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"The Biden administration has a lot to account for here, and we see now, in glaring view of everybody, that this dereliction of duty has real consequences," he insisted.

The FBI has identified Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas, as the suspected attacker in New Orleans.

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