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Lawrence Jones gets exclusive look at migrant surge in Texas

2021-10-14 | 🔗
'Fox & Friends' enterprise reporter Lawrence Jones traveled to Brackettville, Texas, speaking to law enforcement, a local rancher and migrants who are making the journey to the border.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Shes had a lot of jobs, Steve primary Anchor there, I think theres, a crisis at our southern border and the administration wont call it that, but Fox NEWS has an exclusive peek at some of the numbers and it at least one hundred and fifty thousand migrants have been released into the country since March, and the first number at the top close to thirty two thousand, were released by parole, thats a new one Ainsley. That means they get some form of legal status, Steve Heres, the thing Ainsley parole is granted on a case by case basis or urgent humanitarian purposes. Rodney the former border patrol chief said when I was in charge and that I probably gave out five or ten total per year. Instead, the Biden Administration close to thirty two thousand, they found a loophole to let a whole bunch of people and speak when he said he thinks the administration is abusing the parole Authority Brian. They were given a notice to report
Ainsley. That means they just have to notice the eyes office when they get to where they are going, their final destination Steve. There is no legal obligation and they dont actually have to do it. Brian thirty, nine thousand six hundred released since August six. Obviously they dont have the number of the got a ways. This is pretty unbelievable. You have an administration, the men and women of border patrol and Texas. National Guard have to do the same job and they know what works and what doesnt and the reason we get. The numbers is because these people dont run for office. They are just trying to control the countrys borders as an admirable patriotic thing to do in this administration has no interest in doing it. In fact, now we have a new thing happening. We have middle class people from other countries deciding on not even going to apply to get a visa im going to walk through the border and according to Lindsey Graham end up in Connecticut with my gucci bag and try to
live a middle class life in another country, because we have no process Steve theres an article this morning and the Wall Street Journal CO owned with our company theres, twenty six million people that lost their jobs in South America and the caribbean Islands and thats. Why we see seventy people twenty six million in the last year? What a lot of middle class people in South America are doing is taking a flight to Mexico as close to the? U dot s border as they can and then they are either getting into a taxi or a bus, and they are going right up to the border and they dropped them off right there and they walk across and then they just start. Looking hey. Who can I surrender to Brian? Why would I go to Ellis Island Ainsley, the chief? U dot S border patrol agent in Yuma Arizona said this: they got off the plane and went to a cab or to a bus and literally were driven up and just walked up and turned themselves over to us Steve if they can do it.
Couldnt people who are trying to come into our country, for instance, forbade purposes like terrorists do exactly the same thing. The answer is yes Ainsley, especially after the Taliban take over in Afghanistan Brian. Why would anyone do with the right way and now no one is doing it. The right way. Lawrence Jones is on the ground with more than thirty migrants when they were caught on a ranchers private property. Ainsley Lawrence is live in Texas and he joins us now, hey Lawrence reporter good morning, family interesting day yesterday, as I had the opportunity to spend the day with the Texas Department of Public Safety special operations at division, what we saw was incredible: take a look about thirty illegal migrants on your property. Is this the first time no sir? This happens daily weekly, they slow down for a little bit, maybe two or
three weeks ago, but its back again when Trump was in, it was low and I never saw border patrol maybe once a week now they are here to help, but we can allow them reporter. They are not allowed to help. How do you feel im upset thats, like a punch in the bell, we can get the federal administration to allow us to reporter what is the difference when they arrest them and they charge them with criminal trespassing. They go to jail and we slow it down a little bit reporter when border patrol arrest them, they release them back into Mexico, and how long will it take them to be back over here? I wouldnt be surprised if its tomorrow night, when you have a revolving door, it will never stop at the question is: will they break into my house or what will they do reporter? That runs through your mind, all the time when you are on the ranch reporter, you worry about your families, a safety. I always worry about my familys safety.
How many more of the God ways? Are they talking ways? Are they talking about reporter them runners reporter them runners? Is that them right there take the boy out of Texas. Where did you come from Sir Mexico City? What made you make take this journey, sir? Twenty eight years in the United States, the government, Donald Trump and the new president change the rules, and he cancel my case thats. Why? I have to try to go see my family. You know reporter. What is your friends a story, my friends, a story.
This is my friend. This is my wife brother. This is my friend. Have you been in prison? Have you ever been arrested? No says he was deported, says he was deported for no drivers license reporter lets run suit through some of the criminal background. This individual over here has been arrested for possession of methamphetamine and illegal entry. Illegal entry is a charge for this. Individual here was arrested for multiple illegal entries, which are deportation charges reporter. Are you trying to see that same wife when you get here? Were you planning to meet here or or is this another wife?
This is another wife, my girlfriend reporter they are getting ready to head to the detention center, and this is part of operation Lone STAR, for the property owners gave troopers Department of Public safety that permission to come on their property, they coordinated with them and once they figure that out, some troopers came onto the scene, many women protecting the border day and night, and even flying over with helicopters to be eyes in the sky. For those on the ground of we have a group of about a dozen. I dont see any kids with them, but they are young hes, maybe in his 30s and hes in his 20s, they are on the move. Here, keep going north keep going theres about ten. They are heading closer. We had the light on them, 200 oclock right in front of you. They are sure picture
of the group. There we go reporter, hey guys. I just got some reaction from the Texas Department of Public Safety and they have arrested about one thousand two hundred migrants illegally entering the country since July. I hope you guys caught that one clip of the guy saying he had no criminal background and he was only deported under Donald Trump because of his drivers license we later found out after he gave us the sob story. He did have a record for domestic violence to. I will send it back to you guys in New York Ainsley, the one echo was going to look for his wife reporter exactly right. He had a domestic violence, charge and thats. Why I asked if he was going back to that same wife, and he said no. I have a new wife Steve a lot going on down there, Brian pretty amazing Lawrence off the top of your head. Should the Texas Guard be doing this troopers, or is this something
the border patrol would normally be doing reporter? They shouldnt be doing this, but they have no choice but to do this because a lot of the Texas residents are putting pressure on the governor on their elected leaders to do something and the federal government is simply not doing it. The border patrol want to do their job, but they arent allowed to lose. To do book patrols so Texans had their back against the wall and, like I continue to say- and I have for the last three weeks, the last defense the country come. The last defense for Texas is the Texas Department of Public safety. We should not have to pay for this in the state of Texas Ainsley. You said they were going to a detention center. What happens after that reporter? They will be charged with criminal trespass here in the state of Texas, and then they go through the legal channels and the da will bring charges and they will go through the United States process for that Ainsley. So we had to be
determined whether or not they are sent back home to Mexico or if they can stay reporter, they will be turned over to border patrol after they do that period of time. Whatever the process is for the: U Dot S and then border patrol picks them up. Brian and the people of Texas are paying this bill to put them through the process. Unbelievable Steve, we can show you the numbers, but to actually see it with your own two eyes. As you.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-15.