Fox Nation host Lara Logan describes what she witnessed firsthand at the border and says its 'shocking' that the Biden admin is not acknowledging that we have an 'open border.'
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Ainsley. Vice President Harris
touching down in Guatemala
yesterday kicking off a trip
through Central America to
address what her office is,
calling the root causes of the
crisis down at the southern
border.
But critics say she is not going
far enough
urging her to witness the crisis
at the border. Firsthand
fox nation host Lara Logan just
spent a week covering this
crisis, and she joins us now
good morning to you Lara
Good Morning
good morning.
Where did you go down on the
border? And what did you see?
Well, I was down in the Rio
Grande Valley area, which is in
Texas,
and we went all over because I
was with the Texas Department of
Public Safety and so some of the
will air on the ground and we
were out day and night
all through the valley out to
Roma, which is one of the biggest
migrant corridors thats, where
the video you are looking at
filmed in Roma late at night.
That was quite extraordinary to
see. Even the smuggler was not
concerned about agents from
Texas Department of Public
Safety and border patrol agents
being right. There on the river
bank-
it is just so common now
and everybody knows the game.
You know coming over hand
yourself over if you have a
shot of getting in the country
and otherwise you know hit one
of the other areas and just run
run for your life,
because no one is going to
enforce the law for minor
immigration violations.
So the only real problem here
is criminal activity,
and there are so many places. The
border is so wide open and all
the areas where there is no
border wall and very little
coverage that it was just
quite. It was almost shocking
to see that there really is an
open border,
and this administration is not
talking about it or even
acknowledging it
Ainsley. Is that the biggest
change you saw? The number of
people come through or the fact
that smugglers are just letting
you film them and they are not
getting arrested.
Nothing is happening to them.
You know the biggest change
that I saw was hearing from
agents all along the border
from every different kind of
agency
that they have never seen
anything in their lifetime like
they are seeing. Now
because the numbers are up on
every single part of the border
and perhaps and thats never
happened before
there, you know there have
been a number of crises that
have come and gone,
but in all of those situations
the administration in Washington
has acknowledged that there is a
crisis and has taken action to
mitigate what is happening.
That is not happening here.
In fact, the only action that
has been taken has been to
create the crisis
so its not that there is a
lack of policy
its that the policy is to open
the border
and its, not that there is a
failure of action.
The action has been to open the
border and owe politic rate
immigration law
and to prevent law enforcement
from enforcing it. So Texas has
stepped in the breach here so
has Arizona and Mexico
there is millions and millions
and millions of dollars that are
being spent.
The Biden administration is
spending it on immigrants
that has left national security
and security up to the states.
Texas is filling that gap
temporarily before, but there
has always been some kind of
acknowledgment from Washington
that you are in the midst of a
crisis. What Kamala Harris has
not done as so called border
czar. She hasnt spoken to the
people who are living on the
border in any of these states.
She hasnt been down and visited
any of these communities.
She hasntaged the problem.
She hasnt spoken to the
ranchers, who literally like a
highway of illegal immigrants who are trying to avoid the law
who are trying to avoid the law
we are talking about. Areas are
three four hundred percent increase in the
number of people coming over,
so thats a shock and being felt
in the community because you
have car chases and you have
bailouts where people know that
theyre caught so they bail out
in the middle of the street
and people. You know this is
putting people at risk rise in
crime,
even where I am
im far from north of the
border, and there has been a
massive increase in crime in
small towns in the countryside.
This is a real issue that is not
being addressed by this
administration
and that has never been the
chase in living memory from
anyone. I have spoken to
Ainsley almost one thousand four hundred percent
increase in the sexual offenders
in Del Rio sector.
He interviewed one rancher who
says he feels completely
abandoned by this
administration.
They are down there in the
triangle countries, but not
dealing with Americans on that
side of the border
Lara. Thanks for going down
there for us and reporting the
story,
we appreciate it
will Ainsley people coming
from one hundred and twenty countries
clarifies. Is she going to
address immigration problems and
root causes in all of those
countries?
The whole world is coming to
America right now
and coming over the border and
disappearing
of we dont even know who they
are.
This administration has done
everything
they have put this place.
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