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Biden's only action on immigration crisis was to 'open the border': Lara Logan

2021-06-07 | 🔗
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.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Premium thats made to be used 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.
Transcript generated on 2021-07-14.