Texas farmer Whit Jones told Fox & Friends on Thursday that he and his neighbors had found bodies of migrants on their properties.
Jones, who lives in Hebbronville, Texas, said that although he found about two to three bodies a year, “a neighbor of mine has found nearly ten in the last ten years.”
He noted that he currently found mostly adult men who would not get asylum on his property.
“At the moment, we see almost no children or women because of everything that is going on at the river,” Jones explained. “Those people do not have to undertake this journey.”
He noted that women and children can claim asylum and that they are ‘bus stops’, leading to more ‘single men coming up’ and ‘a little more of a dangerous situation.’
“There’s a sense of dread that exists here all the time,” Jones told host Brian Kilmeade. “It’s a terrible situation.”
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Said last month that similar issues had been reported by farmers in Arizona.
“I spoke to John Ladd, a local farmer in Cochise County, who has told me over the past thirty years that he has had more than a dozen illegal immigrants on his farm,” Blackburn tweeted.
President Biden has scrapped a number of immigration policies from former President Trump, which include wall construction and that asylum seekers should stay in Mexico instead of staying in the US while waiting for their cases to be heard. The moves have led to a record increase in migrants, including underage minors, which has hampered capacity at immigration facilities in recent weeks.
Jones explained that he lives a little north of the border with Mexico.
“What we usually hear about in the news are people crossing the border,” he explained. “But essentially there’s another boundary that is about 50 miles to the north, and we call it the ‘inside checkpoint’ or ‘the inside checkpoint’.”
“As soon as all these people come across the river, they must now make a journey to this again,” he continued.
Jones said he hoped to pass a state law that would help “punish smugglers” and provide protection to migrants.
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He noted that the law “would strengthen the punishment for transgression of a state level” and “give our local law enforcement the ability to do more with the situation”.