Eagle Pass Mayor: ‘Thousands’ Crossing Border ‘Without any Consequence’ — ‘Just Enforce the Laws’
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IAN HANCHETT21 Sep 2023246
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On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Eagle Pass, TX Mayor Rolando Salinas stated that you have “thousands of people just walking in without any consequence whatsoever. So, the word is getting out. It’s kind of a come one, come all type of approach” and stated President Joe Biden does bear part of the responsibility for the crisis in the city. Salinas also pleaded, “just enforce the laws that are on the books.”
Salinas said, “First of all, this is definitely a very serious situation for the City of Eagle Pass. We’re a city of about 28 to 30,000 people. And in the last couple of days, we’ve had in excess of 5,000 people cross from Piedras Negras, Mexico into Eagle Pass, TX. It’s become a big concern for the community. A lot of people are frustrated. A lot of these people are being let loose in the community, walking around. And it’s just a big concern for the City of Eagle Pass, not only safety-wise, but also our local economy is taking a hit because, because of this crisis, we’ve had to shut down bridge number one, our international bridge, which so many millions of dollars flow through this bridge. We depend on the tolls of the people that pay those bridge tolls. And it’s just an emergency situation. That is why, as Mayor for the City of Eagle Pass, I decided to declare a state of emergency for our city, because we’ve never seen this before. This is not normal. And we shouldn’t have to be going through a situation like this in the United States or here in Eagle Pass, Texas.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/21/eagle-pass-mayor-thousands-crossing-border-without-any-consequence-just-enforce-the-laws/
