BORDER PATROL OFFICERS ALLOW MIGRANTS INTO THE US BY CUTTING GOV. ABBOTT'S RAZOR WIRE

Broken barriers. Federal forces helping migrants cross. Charities' millions spent bussing them North. DailyMail.com exposes the damning TRUTH behind Biden's laughable border crisis claims

 

By Lewis Pennock 

Daily Mail

Sep 24, 2023

 

 

Border Patrol officers allow migrants into the Us by cutting Gov. Abbott's razor wire

 

A migrant carries a tiny baby around a razor wire fence and up a steep Texas riverbank where he precariously hands the child to another man atop a shipping container.

Within minutes, a uniformed federal officer arrives to help.

He hoists up the others in the 30-person group as they leisurely scale the fortifications and illegally enter the country.

A visibly pregnant woman is next. She's guided to river on the Mexican side by a smuggler.

Nearby, Texas state border guards simply look on.

They know all too well that Mexican cartels and human traffickers take advantage of these desperate people and use their children like pawns – even posing as their parents to curry favor with U.S. immigration officials, who appear sympathetic.

Not that a harder line would achieve much - they're overwhelmed.

So nearly everyone is simply ushered through. Few tough questions are asked. Only a small percentage are expelled.

Once safely across, the U.S. government transports the undocumented to charities that spend tens of millions of donated dollars to put them on buses and planes to shuttle them off to the destinations of their choosing.

 

A migrant carries a tiny baby around a razor wire fence and up a steep Texas riverbank where he precariously hands the child to another man atop a shipping container.

A visibly pregnant woman is next. She's guided to river on the Mexican side by a smuggler. (Above, middle) Aurymar Barrios, a pregnant 21-year-old from Venezuela

 

Shockingly, along a stretch of the Rio Grande River outside of Eagle Pass, where corrugated metal boxes serve as futile barriers between the U.S. and Mexico, this is what passes for border security in Joe Biden's America.

Many of the thousands of migrants will make their way to cities across America, where the vast influx is suddenly causing deep concern even among Liberals, who once fought so passionately for their rights to asylum.

And all the while, the White House brazenly insist that the President has 'done more than anybody else' to secure the border.

The damning reality has been documented by DailyMail.com on a nearly week-long trip to Texas' 1,300-mile international boundary with Mexico.

It proves America's border is open wide - and that The White House's claims are laughable nonsense.

'THEY STEAL THE KIDS. THEY TAKE THEIR MONEY'

'We have a crisis. I don't care what the federal government says,' Sergeant Rene Cordova told DailyMail.com as he stands overlooking a murky stretch of the Rio Grande River outside of Eagle Pass.

It's here that hundreds, if not thousands, of illegal immigrants cross daily from Piedras Negras, a Mexican city on the south side of the river.

Cordova and other members of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) were dispatched to the region by Governor Greg Abbott to help provide some semblance of security.

On Thursday, an estimated 10,000 people over a 24-hour period waded the Rio Grande near this spot and walked into Eagle Pass.

Among them were hundreds of small children – a major concern for Sergeant Cordova.

'We're always watching out for kids that are being exploited,' he explained. 'We don't even know if that's their mother, their father.'

 

'We have a crisis. I don't care what the federal government says,' Sergeant Rene Cordova (above) told DailyMail.com as he stands overlooking a murky stretch of the Rio Grande River outside of Eagle Pass.

Nearby, Texas state border guards simply look on. They know all too well that Mexican cartels and human traffickers take advantage of these desperate people and use their children like pawns.

 

In August alone, roughly 91,000 people traveling in family units illegally entered the U.S. over the southwest border exceeding the previous record of 84,486 at the height of the migrant crisis during the Trump Administration.

'[Mexican cartel members and human traffickers] know that we are not going to separate families,' Cordova says, 'so they exploit that… They steal the kids. They take their money.'

There's no way outmanned and overworked Texas border agents can screen everyone, so they pick and choose.

'We don't do a full check on all the migrants… If we suspect something, then we'll probably run one. And then, most of the time, we're probably right.'

Sergeant Cordova recalls one case in which a coyote was trapped on the U.S. side of the river by a Texas patrol boat.

The smuggler 'grabbed one of the children' and tried to pose as the boy's father, but an alert DPS drone operator saw it all go down and the attempt was foiled.

Surely, not all attempts are.

'They just want to see what they can get away with and if they can, they will,' Cordova told us. 'They know the weaknesses more than we do.'

'TURN MYSELF IN… SO I CAN GET LET IN'

In Piedras Negras, we spoke with a group of migrants outside a shelter just moments before they made their crossing.

Aurymar Barrios, a pregnant 21-year-old from Venezuela, said she was traveling with her partner, Reny Olivar, 22, to Dallas.

'Our first hope is to get processed and let into the U.S.,' said Olivar, speaking in Spanish.

Barrios has cousins with children who recently crossed from Piedras Negras and their success reassured her that they too should make the journey.

Henyer Loyo, 22, another Venezuelan in the group, said he wanted to reach Alexandria, Virginia or Washington, D.C.

'My biggest fear is to cross over and get returned,' he said. 'But my expectation is to turn myself in to Border Patrol and get processed so I can get let in.'

The latest statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol suggest his hopes are well justified.

After a pandemic-era border policy put in place by the Trump administration was ended by a judge's order in May 2023 there were fears the border would deteriorate into complete lawlessness.

The rule, known as Title 42, allowed immigration officials to quickly expel illegal aliens. But without Title 42, how would the U.S. stem a historic migration from South and Central America?

The Biden White House vowed to strictly enforce a decades-old measure called 'expediated removal,' which is authorised by U.S. federal law.

 

In Piedras Negras, we spoke with a group of migrants (above) outside a shelter just moments before they made their crossing.

The Biden White House vowed to strictly enforce a decades-old measure called 'expediated removal,' which is authorized by U.S. federal law.

Henyer Loyo (above), 22, another Venezuelan in the group, said he wanted to reach Alexandria, Virginia or Washington, D.C.

 

'If anyone arrives at our southern border after midnight tonight,' warned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as Title 42 was due to expire, 'they will be presumed ineligible for asylum and subject to steeper consequences for unlawful entry, including a minimum five-year ban on re-entry and potential criminal prosecution.'

But migrants like Henyer Loyo can likely rest easy. Illegal crossers are not being expelled in any significant numbers.

Customs and Border Patrol number show that only 14 percent of undocumented migrants caught crossing in July were subjected 'expedited removal,' that's down from 32 percent in April before Title 42 was scrapped.

We followed the Venezuelan group a few hundred yards down the street from the shelter onto a dirt, trash-strewn track to the riverbank.

A coyote rode ahead of them on an ATV and demanded that his photo was not taken.

The group stripped off their shoes and socks.

Barrios, who was visibly nervous, hesitated for a moment before wading into the water with help from her boyfriend and another man.

A few minutes later, they had made it to the US and presented themselves to the U.S. Border Patrol.

SO EASY A BABY COULD DO IT

The crossing we witnessed occurred near a stretch of the river where Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state border guards to install a controversial 1,000-foot floating barrier as part of Operation Lone Star, the state's $9 billion project to tackle the migrant surge.

DailyMail.com saw first-hand how utterly useless the barrier was.

Several large groups of migrants crossed the shallow waters just yards from where the floating wall ends. They picked their way through razor wire and up the banks.

Shipping containers draped in razor wire lining on the U.S. side also did little to block their path.

A dramatic photograph captured by a DailyMail.com photographer shows a man hoisting a tiny baby wearing nothing but a white t-shirt and a diaper onto the corrugated container.

As they struggled a uniformed U.S. Border Patrol official, employed by the federal government, came over to help. He was soon lifting migrants over the barrier himself.

Migrants who cross illegally at Eagle Pass and neighboring border points are processed at a CBP facility nicknamed 'Firefly'. The sprawling 153,300-sq-ft site opened last year to replace a smaller facility which had been overwhelmed.

 

A dramatic photograph captured by a DailyMail.com photographer shows a man hoisting a tiny baby wearing nothing but a white t-shirt and a diaper onto the corrugated container.

As they struggled a uniformed U.S. Border Patrol official, employed by the federal government, came over to help. He was soon lifting migrants over the barrier himself.

 

Those who are detained and released are given a 'notice to appear', a document that orders them to show up in court to make their asylum claim.

For some, dates are as far away as 2026.

After processing at Firefly, migrants are passed into the care of charities like Catholic Charities in San Antonio, which has received tens of millions of dollars in funding to provide services like shelter, food and legal advice.

In an interview with DailyMail.com, the charity's president and CEO, Antonio Fernandez, said it has spent a staggering $30 million this year on transportation for migrants.

'We help everybody to get to the final destination,' Fernandez said. 'That's what we try to do.'

'People do not want to stay in Texas, most people are going to Chicago, Washington, DC, New York, Miami, and Atlanta. Those are the five cities where people are going right now.'

'DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY WANT TO FIX IT?'

Around 300 miles southeast in the border city of McAllen, Texas, other migrants told a similar story, but with a surprising twist.

McAllen's bus station is often used by hundreds of migrants every day.

Angelica Morales, 45, from Venezuela, was waiting here with her three daughters - aged seven, nine and 15 - for a bus to Houston, where they were then planning to travel on to relatives in Indianapolis.

They had crossed the border illegally and were processed by CBP. Her court date is in July 2026, she said.

 

After processing at Firefly (above), migrants are passed into the care of charities like Catholic Charities in San Antonio, which has received tens of millions of dollars in funding to provide services like shelter, food and legal advice.

Around 300 miles southeast in the border city of McAllen, Texas, other migrants told a similar story, but with a surprising twist. McAllen's bus station is often used by hundreds of migrants every day.

Angelica Morales (above), 45, from Venezuela, was waiting here with her three daughters - aged seven, nine and 15 - for a bus to Houston, where they were then planning to travel on to relatives in Indianapolis.

 

Border Patrol asked her only basic questions, she said, like the names of her contacts in the U.S. and where she was going.

They didn't ask if she had a reason not to have entered through a legal port of entry or if she had a credible fear of persecution or torture if she were to be returned to her home country.

If 'expediated removal' rules were being enforced at all, Morales would have been required to undergo that screening.

Clearly, that's not being done. And Sergeant Cordova is ready to throw up his hands.

'I don't think it's going to get any better because then you'd need to have somebody on top actually do something about it,' he told us we wrapped up our ride along.

'[The White House] knows there's a problem, but I've always asked: Do you really think they want to fix it?'