soil has hit a new high under the Biden administration-well over 700-but we rarely hear about that. The number of migrants found dead on U.S. More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, a historic number largely driven by fentanyl flowing across our southwest border.Īnd the migrants themselves are suffering and dying in record numbers. More than 800,000 individuals have evaded Border Patrol altogether and entered this country since Biden took office.
Illegal crossings continue to skyrocket, with an all-time monthly apprehension number near 240,000 last month. Thanks to the Biden administration’s open-borders policies, especially the return of catch-and-release, the most vulnerable people in the world are putting themselves in the hands of criminal cartels to take advantage of what Biden, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and this administration have promised.Īnd the cartels have been happy to oblige, finding creative ways to increase their bottom line. The increase in truck smuggling in recent months has been pronounced. I and others who have worked in border security and immigration enforcement for decades have been warning since President Joe Biden took office and undid President Donald Trump’s border security policies, that a tragedy like this was going to occur. The horror discovered on the side of the road in San Antonio is quite possibly the worst such tragedy in the history of this nation. We ultimately arrested more than a dozen individuals responsible for the tragedy, sending one man to prison for life. In 2003, I was flown to that crime scene in Victoria, Texas, and walked it as the first step of my investigation into a human smuggling bust. In total blackness.Ī boy whose last words, according to one survivor, were, "Daddy, Daddy, I’m dying." I know what it’s like to stand in the back of a tractor trailer, with 19 dead migrants at my feet, including a 5-year-old boy who had suffocated to death in 170-degree heat. Speaking on June 7, she warned people against crossing the Mexican border into the United States, saying they would be turned away and needed to find legal ways of entering the country.The news of 53 dead migrants found in a refrigerator truck in San Antonio Tuesday was a painful reminder of my own experience investigating similar horror nearly 20 years ago. And our approach has to be thoughtful and effective."ĭuring her first foreign trip as vice president, Harris visited Guatemala. She said speaking with them reminded her "of the fact that this issue cannot be reduced to a political issue. Harris said she spoke with five young girls from Central America during a tour of the El Paso, Texas, central processing center.Īt a news conference after her trip, Harris said the girls she met were separated from their parents. Last Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Border Patrol facility near the U.S.-Mexico border.
5 year old abandoned at border driver#
They said that travelers on the truck told the driver to stop after people had fainted from dehydration and a lack of air. However, eight Central American adults remained to speak with the authorities and described the conditions they had faced. Most of the other 100-plus passengers from the truck fled when authorities approached them, according to the report.
He was also described as being shirtless when he was found and was holding his face in his hands. Reuters described a photo of the child, saying he was seen in the image by himself with black trash bags, packaged snacks, half-empty water bottles and discarded clothes on the ground around him. Border Patrol agent loads detained migrants into a van on March 31, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
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