Immigration
Texas farmer finds 5 abandoned migrant girls along Rio Grande
A farmer in Quemado, Texas discovered five migrant girls all under the age of seven, who were abandoned on his property Sunday.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) tweeted out a video talking to the farmer about the situation. The farmer described them as “five little baby girls all by themselves.”
“One didn’t even have clothes on,” the farmer said.
Sunday was an extremely hot day, reaching 103 degrees fahrenheit at one point. This farmer gave the girls food and water and called Border Patrol himself. “I don’t think they would have made it if I hadn’t found them,” the farmer went on.
In a press release, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said after they received the call and that they have handled the situation.
“The agent quickly responded and located the five female children – three Honduran nationals age 7, 3, 2 and; two Guatemalan nationals ages 5 and 11 months,” the statement read. “The children did not require medical attention and were transported to the Uvalde Station for processing pending transfer to Health and Human Services custody.”
“It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves in the middle of nowhere,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin L. Skero II. “Unfortunately this happens far too often now. If not for our community and law enforcement partners, these little girls could have faced the more than 100-degree temperatures with no help.”
Gonzales thanked the farmer for caring for the girls.
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Immigration
Ex-ICE Director Says Trump Deportation Policies Could End Migrant Gang ‘Lawlessness as Quickly as it Began’
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Ronald Vitiello has said president-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy plans could successfully bring down the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TdA).
Vitiello served as acting director of ICE from June 2018 to April 2019, and told Newsweek that under Trump’s proposed plans the gang could be “dismantled quickly.”
“In the case of Tren de Aragua, they can be dismantled quickly and definitively because their presence in the United States, although dangerous, has just begun,” he continued.
Newsweek reports that TdA is a transnational criminal organization formed in a Venezuelan prison, focuses on human trafficking and other abuses targeting vulnerable migrants.
“They are particularly vulnerable to removal and deportation, and so the United States could end their lawlessness as quickly as it began” said Vitiello who also previously served as the acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
TdA has been linked to a string of high-profile crimes, including the murders of nursing student Laken Riley, 22, and Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, as well as taking over a hotel in El Paso.
“We’ve seen deadly examples where illegals who have committed crimes and then went on to do terrible things, as in the case of Laken Reilly near Atlanta, who was killed by an individual from Venezuela who was here illegally and was arrested,” Vitiello said.
TdA is also known as the syndicate of which footage emerged of its armed gang members storming an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. The gang has been linked to a series of high-profile crimes, including murder, sexual assault, and sex trafficking in the U.S.
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