A group of migrants shouted across the Rio Grande as former president, and presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump inspected makeshift barriers in Eagle Pass, Texas.
As Trump waved and pumped his fist, people across the river began chanting his name and waving.
“They like Trump. Can you believe it?” The 45th president remarked after one individual pointed out that the group was waving at him. Trump patted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the back and added, “They like your governor.”
The interaction came after Trump delivered his assessment on the state of the border crisis.
Breitbart’s Hannah Bleau Knudsen explains:
Trump spoke about some of the worst consequences of President Biden’s porous border, pointing to the recent murder of Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley. Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela, was arrested and charged with kidnapping and murdering her. Notably, Trump has spoken to Riley’s parents, describing them as “incredible” people.
Trump’s visit to Eagle Pass followed the state of Texas seizing Shelby Park, and it now “boasts significant reinforcement of no-climb fencing and layers of concertina wire added by soldiers as part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border security mission,” as Breitbart News detailed. Migrant crossings near the park have decreased exponentially, dropping from around 5,000 a day in December to what Clark described as a “mere trickle on most days.”
Meanwhile, Biden’s White House is beginning to refer to illegal immigrants as “newcomers.”
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