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- In July alone, a record210,000 migrants entered the US
along the border, oftenwith the help of smugglers.
Many of those putting their feet
on American soil for the first time
are said to be carrying COVID.
Detention facilities out ofspace, agents overwhelmed,
and border communities like McAllen, Texas
in a state of emergency.
- It's an issue and I keep on saying
we shouldn't have to be dealing with.
- [Tara] As thousands of migrantsper week, none vaccinated,
make their first pit stop here.
- In one week alone,
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris released
1,500 illegal immigrants into McAllen
who were COVID positive.
- [Tara] Across theentire Southwest border,
illegal crossings are at a 21 year high.
- Judging from the number of people
I'm seeing down here onMexico's southern border,
in the city of Tapachula,
those numbers could be aboutto get very much worse.
- [Tara] Swarms of people,
including 19,000-plusunaccompanied children,
turning themselves into agents in July.
- [Tucker] Our drone videoshowing a massive group
of illegal immigrantsbeing held by Border Patrol
under Anzalduas Bridge.
It's the largest group we have ever seen.
- [Tara] Critics are soundingthe alarm across the country,
blaming Biden's border policies.
- They will defend the illegal immigrants
again the right of Americans.
- [Tara] Day after day, hundredsof thousands of migrants
landing in communities across the nation,
via planes, trains, and automobiles.
- Why don't you get this border secure?
And until you do that, Idon't wanna here a blip
about COVID from you.
- [Tara] But those blips aren't going away
given the delta variant.
- People are dying and willdie who don't have to die.
- [Tara] And if anything,
the Biden administration and the CDC
are focusing on unvaccinatedand unmasked Americans.
- Something supersedes that need
to do exactly what you wanna do.
- [Tara] While almostignoring the border crisis.
Actions like that causing some on the left
to call for the president to impose order
on the increasingly outof control migration.
- The Washington Post editorial board
is as liberal as they come,
probably the most liberalpaper in the nation,
competing with The New York Times,
they know that this is apolitically toxic issue.
- Agencies on the border
report as many as one in five migrants
are showing up with COVID.
The administration is reportedly
preparing to help control it
by offering them vaccinespaid for by US tax dollars.
In Washington, Tara Mergener, CBN News.