Custom & Border Patrol agent Fernando Grijalva told CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal what he had seen at the border between the United States and Mexico in the state of Arizona.
“Fernando Grijalva says this area has become a hotbed for illegal crossings,” Villarreal said to her viewers.
“Let me put it this way, I’ve seen six different presidents in the time that I’ve been with the Border Patrol, and this is the worst crisis that I’ve seen,” he explained.
“You actually will use that word, ‘crisis’?” she asked.
“Yes,” he responded.
Villarreal also appeared surprised that the Border Patrol agents would work without pay since the partial government shutdown began more than a month ago.
“They believe that strongly in the mission and they know they, and we, have a job to do,” Grijalva responded.
Villarreal showed a portion of the border that was poorly guarded and explained that many buses drive right up to the lax barrier, and let off migrants who become illegal aliens by simply crossing through.
“Last year, border agents apprehended 52,000 people in this area alone, an increase of more than a thousand apprehensions a month over the previous year,” she added.
Jack Trump says
When The President reopened the gov. he said he did so because he’s spoken to members of Congress who’ve convinced him that they are now ready to address this situation/crisis/border problem, and resolve it in such a way as to address the security of this nation. He stated that we have a serious problem in all the local areas of the border in that we no longer have anywhere there to house these immigrants to hold them until their particular entry decision is resolved. He alluded to the possibility that we may have to bus these folks elsewhere., to different areas of the country.
I believe that Congress has insulated itself from the American people and does not hear us. I believe they speak of winners and losers as if the democrat party has kicked a last minute field goal or hit a walk off home run; or Trump has fumbled the snap, or pitched a meatball. How sad for all of us.
America to Congress. WE ALL LOST on all fronts and in every manner. To all of them, YOU ARE A DISGRACE.
I am against new legislation being considered that would elliminate the possibility of gov. closure. I instead would rather see legislation that holds Congress responsible for DOING THEIR JOBS !! Whenever we have a shutdown it is essentially caused by Congress refusing to do their job. They are there to speak with each other and figure out a way to help America function and take care of legislation in a timely and efficient manner. Failure to do so is to refuse to do their jobs. If I, or any of the readers here refuse to do their jobs, we are fired. Therefore I propose that when Congress fails in their duties they should not be paid. They should not get back pay, AND their medical benefits for themselves and their families should be suspended for 6 months just like they are for us when we lose a job. All other workers harmed by the closure would get their back pay like they do now.
Forcing Congress to not be insulated I believe would create a different work ethic over there. It might actually start to put them in touch w/us.
As far as bussing the overflow of immigrants elsewhere……….I think any member of the House or Senate that has said that walls don’t work, or are immoral………well we should start bussing the overflow to their areas of the country. Our representatives need to stop being able to hide behind their talking points, their political agendas, and face the public and facts. That includes all of D.C. Put the overflow of immigrants into the budget of D.C. etc, and remove the some of the burden from the border states. This will also influence information and opinions with regards to I.C.E. and actually bring the entire situation to the forefront and scrutiny of us all. This is just so we can see “where the sausage is made, and how” so that opinions are formed by reality, and not agendas.
Paul Plante says
These immigrants are already being “bused” to different areas of the country as can be seen in this Washington Post article entitled “MS-13 is ‘taking over the school,’ one teen warned before she was killed” by Michael Miller on 10 March 2018, where we are treated to the following:
Out sprang members of the violent street gang MS-13, armed with baseball bats.
They attacked three 16-year-old students they suspected of being rivals before driving off.
When police spotted the van in the same neighborhood the following afternoon and surrounded it at gunpoint, the MS-13 members were in the midst of trying to abduct a fourth.
“We were going to take him somewhere private and beat him to death,” said Miguel Rivera, 20, according to a Suffolk County indictment.
The Dec. 6 arrests of Rivera and four others thwarted what police say would have been the sixth murder of a Brentwood High School student by MS-13 in less than two years.
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For the record, Brentwood High School is a secondary school in Brentwood, New York, which is about as far from the Mexican border as you can get, and it is one of the largest high schools in New York State, and is located on the southern shore of Suffolk County, Long Island.
So what is the connection?
Let’s go back to the Washington Post and see:
But the incident also shook the school for another reason.
All but one of those arrested attended Brentwood, according to Suffolk County police.
Three were unaccompanied minors who had been caught at the border and then placed in the community by a federal refugee program.
From New York to Virginia to Texas, schools in areas racked by MS-13 violence are now struggling with a sobering question.
What to do when the gang isn’t just in your community, but in your classrooms?
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Now, ask yourself, people – what responsibility does the worthless Congress play here, given that we are talking about unaccompanied minors who had been caught at the Mexican border and then were placed in a community on Long Island, part of the corrupt third-world ****-hole of New York state, a distance of at least 2,032.6 miles, by a federal refugee program?
Probably none, though, given that the worthless Congress isn’t responsible for one ******* thing, which makes one wonder why we bother having them there, waste of space and money that they are.
Getting back to the Washington Post article:
For the past year, the Trump administration has waged a nationwide crackdown on MS-13.
Nowhere has this effort been more intense than in Suffolk County, where police say the gang has committed 27 murders since a surge of unaccompanied minors began arriving in 2013.
In his January State of the Union address, Trump recounted the story of Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens, two Brentwood High students killed by MS-13 on Sept. 13, 2016.
“Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws to enter the country as unaccompanied alien minors and wound up in Kayla and Nisa’s high school,” the president said as the girls’ parents, who had been invited to watch the speech at the Capitol, wiped away tears.
Faced with an influx of scores of unaccompanied minors and an uptick in gang violence, Brentwood High has been criticized both for doing too little and too much to address the problem.
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Does anyone think that either Nancy Pelosi or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez give a damn about any of this as they shriek and scream at Trump for violating the human rights of these murderous gang members?
Getting back to the Washington Post article, we see two sides of that story, as follows:
A $110 million federal lawsuit, filed in December by Kayla’s mother, claims administrators failed to protect her 16-year-old, allowing MS-13 to create an “environment filled with fear within the school.”
Meanwhile, a class-action suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Trump administration alleges the school went too far, hastily labeling kids as gang members and leading to their wrongful imprisonment.
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BOO HOO HOO HOO HOO says the so-called “American Civil Liberties Union” as it weeps and moans about the murderers, paying absolutely no attention whatsoever to their victims.
Getting back to reality here:
Located 50 miles from Manhattan’s skyscrapers one way and the Hamptons’ oceanfront estates the other, Brentwood High School serves a community of 60,000 that was once largely Irish and Italian, then Puerto Rican and now nearly half Central American.
Starting in 2013, thousands of unaccompanied minors – most from Central America – began entering the United States illegally from Mexico each month, many turning themselves in to authorities.
More than 200,000 have been detained, screened and then placed with relatives by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Nearly 5,000 have been sent to Suffolk County.
Schools are required by law to enroll and educate these students.
At Brentwood High, the student population soared to 4,500, making it one of the largest high schools in the state.
“We had to open many more classes and hire more teachers,” recalled Wanda Ortiz-Rivera, the school district’s head of bilingual education.
But the challenge went beyond language.
Many of the new students were years behind in their education.
Some had never gone to school and couldn’t read or write in any language.
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Those are the ones who really should be sent to live with Nancy Pelosi.
And back to the Washington Post we go:
Brentwood had long been overwhelmingly Hispanic, but the sudden surge in enrollment led to new tensions.
“There were a lot of Salvadoran people, Salvadoran people we don’t like,” said Mabel Castaño, a friend of Nisa’s and Kayla’s who said she attended Brentwood High for 18 months.
“Some of them would say they had family members in MS-13.”
“They’d say, ‘I’m going to get my brother or my uncle or my cousin on you.'”
Sanchez, the school district safety director, said MS-13 had long been overshadowed by gangs like the Bloods and Latin Kings.
“The last couple of years, when we had the unaccompanied children coming, that’s when we saw the change,” he said.
By providing vulnerable newcomers with a sense of belonging, MS-13 “became a powerhouse.”
A deadly one.
First, a former Brentwood student was fatally shot by the gang in November 2015, police say.
Then Brentwood students began to go missing.
A 15-year-old Ecuadoran named Miguel Garcia-Moran vanished one February evening.
Two months later, Oscar Acosta, a 19-year-old Salvadoran, left home to play soccer and never returned.
And in June 2016, Jose Peña-Hernandez, 18, a suspected MS-13 member, disappeared, too.
Three missing immigrant teens didn’t draw much attention to Brentwood.
But that would change with the killings of Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens.
Kayla, a basketball player from a Puerto Rican family, had first clashed with MS-13 two years earlier at Brentwood’s Freshman Center, where gang members spat on her, stole or broke her things and taunted her, according to her mother’s lawsuit.
Things escalated in summer school, when an MS-13 member threatened her with a knife, then continued to attend Brentwood High, the lawsuit says.
“She used to tell me, ‘Ma, they are taking over the school.'”
“‘It’s like they’re everywhere,'” said Evelyn Rodriguez, who has become the face of MS-13 victims.
Rodriguez said she and her daughter reported the bullying to school administrators, who promised the knife-wielding student wouldn’t be allowed back.
But when Kayla, 16, who had exchanged online taunts with MS-13, showed up for classes that fall, he was still there, the lawsuit alleges.
After a confrontation at Brentwood, federal prosecutors say, MS-13 put a “greenlight” or “kill order” on Kayla, and members made a “throat slicing gesture” toward her at school, the lawsuit says.
A week later, she was walking home one evening with Nisa, a basketball teammate one day shy of her 16th birthday, when MS-13 members spotted them and attacked with a machete and baseball bats, according to prosecutors.
The girls were beaten to death.
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Now, given that this story was in the Washington Post (democracy dies in darkness, don’t you know) can it be at all possible that San Francisco congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, dubbed “NANCY NO” up this way for her intransigence (refusal to change one’s views or to agree about something) and need to have everything go her way could be unaware of it, given she is the one, besides Hillary Clinton, of course, who knows everything that goes on in this country?
And how about the new media and TWITTER darling Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the air-headed modern dancer who wants to eliminate all border control by abolishing ICE so these criminal thugs can pour through en masse, whose congressional district is only 32 miles from Brentwood?
Can she be unaware of this?
Or is it a case of she simply does not care?
Jack Trump, dude, all I can say is keep on keeping on.
But now, I bet we’ll be accused of being white nationalist racist pigs because we happen to object to these thugs being imported into this country so they can beat more young women to death that they don’t like.
We should feel sorry for them, instead.
And people wonder if there might possibly be something wrong with our immigration system, which not only allows this to happen, but actually causes it to happen.
Go figure.