Todd Blanche: WHCD Shooting Should Be A ‘Wake Up Call To Congress’ | EUROtoday

“The fact that DHS is not being funded after what we saw those men and women doing last night should be a wake-up call to Congress, and I hope that it is,” Blanche stated Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Funding for DHS lapsed on Feb. 14 after Senate Democrats demanded coverage adjustments at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol following the deadly shootings of two Americans by federal brokers.

NBC moderator Kristen Welker requested Blanche how the armed suspect, who was later recognized as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, Calif., was capable of breach the safety checkpoint on the occasion.

“We believe he was staying at the hotel. So I know there’s been some reports about assembling the gun somewhere outside of his room or somewhere else in the hotel. We’re still investigating that. We don’t have all the answers on to how he got far. But the perimeter is the perimeter,” Blanche stated.

“So necessarily if somebody’s outside the perimeter and they try to breach it, assuming they don’t get very far, that’s what we want law enforcement to stop, and they did. And that’s a real testament,” he added. “I know there’s some video out there that shows his efforts to break through, and you saw these Secret Service agents; they were remarkable.”

Despite the DHS funding dispute, Blanche stated America remains to be secure.

“What we saw last night with law enforcement was something that should be a testament to every single American that they have men and women protecting them not only outside these borders with our great military, but also inside these borders with law enforcement,” he stated.

Watch Blanche’s look on “Meet the Press” beneath: