A shocking video of two girls thrown over a border barrier in New Mexico is fueling criticism of the way the Biden government is dealing with the crisis on the southern border – with critics saying the government is encouraging smugglers and illegal immigrants.
The video, released by El Paso sector patrol chief Gloria Chavez on Wednesday, shows what she said was two smugglers climbing the fence and throwing each child, one of 5 and the other of 3, on the ground and hard. surface, before throwing what appears to be some belongings on the floor.
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The two smugglers are seen fleeing the south side of the fence.
Chávez said the girls were left “miles from the nearest residence”. They were picked up by agents after being tracked using surveillance technology.
“I was really horrified, shocked and worried when I first saw the images of my team,” Chavez told ‘Your World’ host Neil Cavuto. “When I saw that first child fall to the ground and not see him move for a few seconds, I honestly thought that child probably hit his head and is unconscious. And then I see the second child and immediately DHS, obviously, in some minutes responded to that area to rescue them. “
The video quickly caused outrage at the smugglers who threw the sisters at the fence, but it also heightened criticism of the way the Biden government handled the crisis.
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“The reason we are seeing the Biden border crisis is because Joe Biden told the world, if you are a child or teenager, or intend to be a football player or appear with a child, we will let you in our country – what did he expect to happen? “Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in” America’s Newsroom “.
“There is nothing virtuous or moral about inducing hundreds of thousands of migrants to make the trip, sometimes very dangerous, to our country, even when they have no legal right to be here,” he said.
Cotton’s comments came when several vehicles, including Fox News, reported that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is on its way to have met more than 171,000 migrants in March – a significant increase from January and February and a sign that the increase in migrants at the border is not decreasing.
On Friday, Fox confirmed that CBP is projecting that up to 184,000 unaccompanied children could reach the border this fiscal year.
The Biden government has refused to call the rising crisis numbers, although it has admitted that it is a “challenge” and blamed the Trump administration for dismantling legal avenues for asylum. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday that the government is focused on sending a “clear message” to migrants.
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“That this is not the time to come. You must not send your children on this treacherous journey, ”she said. “That these smugglers are feeding on vulnerabilities in these communities. There are many problems and measures that we need to take to address the root causes ”.
However, Mark Morgan, CBP’s acting commissioner during the Trump administration, told Fox News that the image of the two girls suggests that the Biden government is sending the wrong message to people south of the border.
“This means that now mothers and fathers are saying, ‘It’s worth it, it’s worth giving my son up to the cartels and risking their lives, I will intentionally separate my son from me and turn him over to smugglers and traffickers because this government will let them in, ”he said.
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Morgan cited the Biden administration’s decision not to apply Title 42 public health protections, which allow for the quick removal of single adults and some migrant families, for unaccompanied children (UACs), as the Trump administration sought to do.
“Smugglers saw this as an opening and that is what has boosted UAC’s numbers now,” he said.
He said that even this measure, as well as other long-standing laws – such as a 2008 human trafficking law that limits the U.S. ability to return unaccompanied children to countries in the Northern Triangle – are fixed, messages from the Biden government telling migrants not to come would fall on deaf ears.
“They continue to lie and deflect and deflect what really happens and really happens in the minds of these individuals, and what happens to the cartels that is motivating everyone – that’s the truth,” he said.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday linked Biden’s policies to the increase in numbers, saying that “open border policies have created a hunting season for human traffickers, drug traffickers, cartels and gangs. “.
Former Trump DHS employee Ken Cuccinelli also linked smugglers’ behavior to the Biden government
“The most wicked, cruel and cruel people in the entire western hemisphere are the people in the Mexican drug cartels who control the smuggling of human beings across our southern border,” he tweeted. “The ‘Biden effect’ is a gold mine for them, not so much for everyone else.”
Republicans like Senator Cotton asked Biden to extend Title 42 to unaccompanied children and to reinstate Trump-era policies, such as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which kept migrants in Mexico and the Biden administration abolished after taking office.
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Morgan was very clear about what he believed to be the solution to the problems at the border.
“We should be protecting the border, ending illegal immigration, because then we will be taking billions of dollars out of the hands of cartels, human smuggling organizations, we will reduce human suffering, reduce human trafficking and reduce the abuse of the vulnerable population. in search of a better life ”, he said.
“If you really care about them, you are going to close this shit,” he said.
Griff Jenkins and Samuel Chamberlain of Fox News contributed to this report.