Border crisis, abandoned migrant children ‘never get the outrage’: Jorge Ventura
Daily Caller field reporter Jorge Ventura discusses ‘overwhelmed’ border towns, Border Patrol facing thousands of abandoned migrant children and argues the Biden administration’s policies are creating a ‘public safety concern.’
A reporter who's spent years covering the southern border detailed on "Fox & Friends" Thursday the "heartbreaking" reality for children trying to cross into the country from Mexico.
"It's a humanitarian crisis, the unaccompanied children reaching the border, the children who are just basically abandoned by smugglers in the middle of nowhere," said Daily Caller field reporter Jorge Ventura.
Ventura noted that two boys were found by Border Patrol abandoned with numbers written on their clothes and skin. Thousands of children have been abandoned with over 140,000 unaccompanied minors reported through August.
"My last recent trip in Yuma, I met a 5-year-old boy that was abandoned in Mexicali. Two women found that little boy with literally no clothes," Ventura shared. "They put him on his back and took him into Yuma."
Migrants wait outside the Migrant Resource Center to receive food from Catholic Charities on Sept. 19, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. The center is the place of origin of the two planeloads of mostly Venezuelan migrants who were sent via Florida to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)
"These are the stories that are happening every single day at our southern border, but they never get the outrage from the other side," Ventura told host Brian Kilmeade.
Ventura criticized the Biden administration's immigration policies that have created an open border and encouraged more immigrants to make the journey north.
He said with more unaccompanied children on top of the huge influx of migrants, Border Patrol is completely "overwhelmed."
"I just left El Paso where the facilities have been so overcrowded, they're actually releasing migrants, including women and children in the streets, letting them sleep on the streets," Ventura said.
Since GOP Govs. Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis began efforts to bus and fly migrants to sanctuary cities, Democrats have unleashed criticism against the move, calling it "inhumane."
Republicans and those living in border towns have called on Democrats and the Biden administration to focus on the massive influx of migrants and the inability for authorities and border communities to deal with the surge.
"Martha's Vineyard just saw a little percent of what the border crisis, what border towns here do," Ventura said.
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"These small border towns just can't deal with it anymore."
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