GOP rep says he helped rescue Americans trapped in Haiti: Mission proves Biden's 'pattern of abandonment'

A Florida Republican congressman who served in the 82nd Airborne and as a defense contractor told Fox News his mission aiding the evacuation of Americans trapped in anarchy-torn Haiti was the third time he had to essentially go it alone abroad to save his fellow citizens.

Rep. Cory Mills told Fox News he helped rescue Americans at an orphanage, after Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., announced Mills' successful mission in remarks on Capitol Hill. Many of those rescued were reportedly McClain's constituents.

Chaos erupted in Haiti in recent days amid the resignation of Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry and the rise of a lethal slumlord named Jimmy Cherizier, AKA "Barbeque."

Mills claimed the Haitian rescue marked the third occasion in which the Biden administration "abandoned" Americans abroad, citing the Afghanistan withdrawal and Hamas terror attack on Israel in October.

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"This is unfortunately a pattern of abandonment by the Biden administration that has existed since 2021, when he left Americans behind in Afghanistan," Mills told "Fox & Friends."

"I always look at the fact that if the government is not going to be willing to do its job, that America has to step up and do certain things that are required."

He said he helped conduct an overland rescue of a mother and three children left behind in Israel after being asked by Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas. A total of 255 Americans were brought home from Israel in the mission, he said.

Mills' home-state governor, Ron DeSantis, also oversaw an evacuation effort that reportedly resulted in about 300 Americans being shuttled from Tel Aviv to Tampa after the Hamas attacks.

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