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Exclusive – Rep. Burgess Owens: Democrats Shutting Their Eyes To Unaccompanied Migrant Children Issue
Breitbart ^ | 04.11.2021 | Ashley Oliver

Posted on 04/11/2021 3:29:10 AM PDT by USA Conservative

McALLEN, Texas — Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) finds the Democrat Party is failing to acknowledge the issue of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, he told Breitbart News in an interview Wednesday during his two-day trip to Texas.

Owens, a newly elected congressman and member of the House Judiciary Committee, visited McAllen with a congressional delegation of several other Judiciary Committee members to tour border facilities and meet with officials within the Rio Grande Valley.

During both the interview and a roundtable with his colleagues and Texas officials just prior to the interview, Owens became tearful as he spoke about a seven-year-old he encountered at a federal facility in Donna that temporarily holds mainly UACs. While a UAC is defined as anyone under 18 years old who has crossed the border illegally without a parent or guardian and many of the UACs are teenagers, Owens was particularly moved after he observed a group of UACs who were girls ages three to seven.

Owens said the children were “sitting there, looking up, sitting on the floor.” He continued, “And I recognize, I think about my grandkids the same ages. They have no idea what the next steps are. They don’t know where their moms and dads are,” adding, as he became choked up, “I think about this young girl, seven years old, slightly autistic, and she could not communicate, but for the 15 or 20 minutes we were there talking with everyone else, she just had tears in her eyes the entire time.”

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bidencrisis; bordercrisis; democrats; illegals
Democrats are lying by even using the term "unaccompanied Minor Child" there's no way those kids are making it across the desert by themselves. they are being abandoned by the traffickers that had them in case they got caught so they could be released as a family and once the need to have them is over they are simply left behind to fend for themselves
1 posted on 04/11/2021 3:29:10 AM PDT by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

only important when there is a conservative at the helm


2 posted on 04/11/2021 3:37:14 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: USA Conservative

And these kids will grow up to be part of ms13 and other gangs and kill children that were born in America. And plenty of adults.


3 posted on 04/11/2021 3:42:00 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: USA Conservative

The traffickers just have to get the illegals across the border where Biden’s forces pick them up to be distributed across the country. Biden has made the federal government the last leg of the trafficking operation.


4 posted on 04/11/2021 3:44:16 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: ronnie raygun

The Democrat Socialists have VERY selective outrages, and the application of that selection is at times both inconsistent and entirely illogical. They have an especial paranoia about the possibility that law enforcement officers and military personnel are “infected” with alt-right ideologies, and they mean to root it out everywhere they find it.

By any means necessary.

All command-and-control regimes end up being a strict hierarchy, similar to but much more harsh than military discipline, with “re-education camps” and utilizing summary “justice” without recourse to law, courts, appeal or mercy.


5 posted on 04/11/2021 3:47:58 AM PDT by alloysteel (¡Viva la Revolución! It worked for Castro....)
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To: USA Conservative

Remember the Democrat year of the child, when men with guns took a kid from his father’s arms?


6 posted on 04/11/2021 3:52:48 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

And sent him back to Cuba.


7 posted on 04/11/2021 4:21:35 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: All

8 posted on 04/11/2021 5:28:36 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: USA Conservative
Democrats are lying by using the term "unaccompanied Minor Child" to arouse sympathy; no way kids make it across the desert by themselves.
Trafficers keep kids around in case they got caught; when the kids serve their purpose, trafficers abandon them to fend for themselves,

Excellent point.......plus I'm pretty sure the depraved parents get a kickback for letting trafficers use their children as a shield.

9 posted on 04/11/2021 5:35:31 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Ironically, the border is actually closed due to coronavirus!
It is closed to all Mexicans and other foreigners, who would like to do some legal shopping in US, visit family or do sightseeing (not all Mexicans want to settle in the US).
It seems, that now, the only way to cross the border is to do it illegally.
Better hire coyote, if you want to shop in Chandler mall!


10 posted on 04/11/2021 5:56:27 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: USA Conservative

need to stop accepting the terms of the argument from the UniParty

debating them from a normie viewpoint is a waste of time


11 posted on 04/11/2021 5:58:09 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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NewsMax on Friday had a video about a 7 year old boy who was abandoned when he couldn’t keep up. A parent who never abandon their kids...


12 posted on 04/11/2021 6:11:59 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missed already...)
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This article shows how many new camps have opened. Skim down to the end to see the list.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kxan.com/border-report/3-new-facilities-for-unaccompanied-migrant-children-open-in-texas-sites-in-california-considered/amp/


13 posted on 04/12/2021 4:47:53 PM PDT by HollyB
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