Border union criticizes Harris for demonstration with Beyoncé

Pablo Pérez, president of the National Congress Border Patrol Council, harshly criticized the Democratic presidential candidate for ignoring the issue of “migrant crime in Kamala” during her Friday visit to Houston, where, in June, 12-year-old resident Jocelyn Nungaray was murdered. Two suspects have been identified as illegal immigrants.

“I want to talk about the person who will come to Houston tonight, not to apologize or highlight the crimes of illegal aliens, but to have fun like a fool on stage with celebrities instead of apologizing to the families,” Perez said Friday. late at an event for former President Donald Trump in Austin, Texas.

“This is someone who likes to brag about being a former federal prosecutor, who prosecuted transnational gangs and cartel members,” Pérez said. “She knew better, President Trump, knew better than most, exactly the threat that these people, these animals, create. The threat they bring to our community that will harm our families and these bastards listed here in these photographs are part of Kamala’s crime wave.”

The Border Patrol union, made up of approximately 17,000 agents, endorsed Trump during a campaign rally in Arizona on October 13.

Trump, who is expected to win the electoral votes in Texas on November 5, said the United States had become a “garbage can” for criminals from other countries.

“We’re like a trash can for the rest of the world to get rid of people they don’t want,” Trump said.

Trump highlighted violent crimes committed in the United States during the Biden-Harris administration, including by gang members MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, Salvadoran and Venezuelan gangs, respectively, that have established strongholds across the United States.

Alexis Nungaray, Jocelyn’s mother, joined Trump at the event and said she had yet to hear from Harris following her daughter’s death.

“Kamala Harris never reached out to me,” Nungaray said.

“Kamala Harris never reached out to me,” says Alexis Nungaray, mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, who was murdered by an illegal migrant

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in a mid-October Fox News interviewHarris was asked if he should apologize to Nungaray’s mother and other families.

“Those are tragic cases. There’s no doubt about it,” Harris said, adding that he couldn’t “imagine the pain that the families of those victims have experienced over a loss that should not have happened.”

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Also on Friday, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) asked Harris to declare the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization during his visit to Houston.

“In fact, today she is in Houston, the same city where the innocent Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, was raped and murdered by two Aragua Train gang members. “Jocelyn, her family and all Americans deserve better,” Abbott said in a statement.

“Vice President Harris should follow Texas’ lead and designate Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization immediately,” said Abbott, who declared TDA a foreign terrorist organization in September. “But that’s just the beginning. “The Biden-Harris Administration must use the full weight of the federal government to eradicate them once and for all, for Jocelyn and for all Americans.”

Harris is in Texas to highlight reproductive freedom in a state that has banned most abortions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. With the help of Houston native Beyonce, whose song “Freedom” has become the Democratic candidate’s campaign anthem, Harris also hopes to boost Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), who is seeking to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R -TX). .

“In just four years as president, Donald Trump was able to erase half a century of hard-fought progress for women,” Harris is expected to say, according to excerpts of her remarks. “And now he wants to go even further. Let’s be clear: if Donald Trump wins again, he will ban abortion nationwide.”

Trump’s visit to Austin was to record an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan. It coincided with an open letter to voters that 200 former federal immigration and border agents signed on Friday endorsing Trump over Harris.

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“The most important factor in evaluating candidates should be ensuring the security of the United States. Of the countless issues to consider, each one depends on our national security,” the letter says.

“Assuming you care about border security as much as we do, the choice is clear,” the signatories continued. “President Trump is the only candidate we can trust to protect our nation’s borders.”