Don McLaughlin Jr. is one of the mayors overwhelmed by the ongoing Biden border crisis in his south Texas town, Uvalde. McLaughlin joined ‘Americas Newsroom’ Friday to bring attention to this crisis and call out the Biden administration's refusal to secure the border.
, the southern border is expecting to hit one-million encounters. He also said that agents have encountered migrants from 157 different countries – an indication of the global character of the U.S. border crisis.
There were 164,973 migrant encounters in February, up dramatically from 101,099 in Feb. 21 -- a month that preceded a massive surge in the spring and summer months. The February numbers mean that there were 838, 685 encounters since the fiscal year began in October. "I have never seen an administration that doesn't care like this one," McLaughlin answered, caution there is"no vetting on the border" and migrants are coming from all over the world.
"That's one of my biggest arguments. This administration is creating a public health and humanitarian crisis," he said, adding"we don't know who these people are."Drone footage from Abram-Perezville, Texas on March, 29, 2021.
"Every one of those politicians in those countries take their bite of that money before it gets anywhere," he said. "We need to close this border down, and we need to come through the right way, which is the rule of law … on the books that we are circumventing and breaking that law every day."Elizabeth Heckman is a digital production assistant with Fox News.
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