An NBC News reporter expressed astonishment at the sheer volume of migrants who are crossing the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Guad Venegas appeared on MSNBC for a live report from the southern border on Thursday.
During the segment, he told MSNBC anchor Jose Diaz-Balart that he had never seen as many people at the border crossing as he did on that day.
“These crowds here in Eagle Pass have never been this large during my reporting,” Venegas told Diaz-Balart. His comments were reported by Mediaite.
“This is the most people I’ve ever seen in Eagle Pass, and other reporters, colleagues working other parts of the border in Arizona, [and] in Jacumba near San Diego tell me the same thing.”
Venegas said that he and other journalists covering the migrant crisis “have these conversations” and “the conversation is always, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen this number of migrants arriving.'”
When MSNBC shows up at the border and says: “I’ve never seen this many numbers of migrants arriving.”
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The NBC reporter said that hospitals in the area are “overwhelmed” due to the number of migrants.
“If someone calls 911 and needs to go to the hospital, that hospital might be overwhelmed because they’re helping a lot of these migrants, so you have that humanitarian crisis happening as well,” Venegas said. --->READ MORE HERE
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NBC News correspondent Guad Venegas was shocked during his reporting at the Eagle Pass, Texas, border crossing Thursday as he saw firsthand a huge number of migrants illegally entering the U.S.
This week, Customs and Border Protection have apprehended a record number of illegal immigrants, with more than 12,000 people illegally crossing the border in one day as the Biden administration faces continued calls to address the crisis. During Venegas’ report which aired on MSNBC, the correspondent stood by the Eagle Pass border crossing, showing a massive crowd of migrants waiting to be processed as more migrants continued to flow across the border, according to Mediaite.
“These crowds here in Eagle Pass have never been this large during my reporting. This is the most people I’ve ever seen in Eagle Pass, and other reporters, colleagues working other parts of the border in Arizona, [and] in Jacumba near San Diego tell me the same thing,” said Venegas, who grew up in a Mexican American household near the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California.
“We have these conversations and the conversation is always, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen this number of migrants arriving,’ and we know from the reports coming from the government with these numbers,” the NBC News correspondent added. “We have the number of apprehensions, the numbers of encounters, everything spiking, so we don’t know what this will mean moving forward, we just know that the numbers are much larger as the resources are spread thin.”
Venegas said he was told by Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) that the federal government’s processing centers and area hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of illegal immigrants. --->READ MORE HERE
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