Former Mayor of the city of Uvalde in Texas, Don McLaughlin, has joined Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News to discuss the problem areas on the US’s Southern border faces as a result of illegal migration.
Jacob began: “Thank you for joining me to talk about migration, which is such an important problem for both our countries.
“You're about an hour's drive from the Mexican border. So how is Uvalde affected by illegal migration?”
“Well, one of the things that we deal with is what they call ‘the got-aways’. The foot traffic and then the high speed chases,” said McLaughlin.
An image of the Texas National Guard on the US-Mexico borderREUTERS“I mean we have high speed pursuits on a daily basis at Uvalde, anywhere from two to four a day. Then they come in the community and they bail out and run through the neighbourhoods and so forth.
“And so that ties our law enforcement up all day trying to round up these people because we don't know who's in these cars.
“So it's just really frustrating. Now the influx has gotten so much that people are even walking from the border through our town and community.
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“And as they go they have a sense of entitlement and they steal, they take what they want and really don't think they have any regard for anybody's property or anybody's safety.”
It’s not only areas on the Southern border that have been affected by the influx of migrants to the US, with New York Mayor Eric Adams recently saying: "The visible signs of this crisis is going to start to show itself and our goal is to not have people sleeping on the street.”
Jacob also asked McLaughlin: “So how many police do you have available to you in Uvalde to try and stop these people?”
“On any given time we have about fourteen officers on duty and probably four sheriff deputies,” said McLaughlin.
Joe Biden's administration has overseen record levels of illegal migration PAJacob came back: “So that's not a huge amount of police, is it, to try and catch and send these people back? And if you do catch them, do they get sent back?”
“No,” McLaughing replied. “Then we turn them over to the Border Patrol. If we can get the Border Patrol to answer because they're so overwhelmed.
“We turn them over to them and then they turn them loose.
“It's really sad, what's going on.”