A New Mexico rancher has revealed that migrants flooding across the US border are turning up in her yard asking for food and water – and her family helps them because they are afraid they’ll get hurt if they refuse.
Amanda Adame told Fox & Friends on Tuesday that illegal migrants get ‘fairly close’ to her house and that she blames President Biden for giving them the ‘greenlight’ to cross the border.
She said she had spotted an increase in what she described as ‘walkers’ and border agents close to her home under the Biden administration.
‘A lot of them… come into the yard asking for food and water,’ she said.
‘We don’t want to get hurt so we feed and water them and try to get them to move on.’
Amanda Adame told Fox & Friends on Tuesday that illegal migrants get ‘fairly close’ to her house in New Mexico and she often has to call border agents to report them. Pictured are migrants after being detained by border patrol
She said she had spotted an increase in what she described as ‘walkers’ (pictured above on her property) and border agents close to her home under the Biden administration
Adame said they often just go back in there house and call border agents to alert them to the migrants walking through their yard.
Photos taken from her ranch show illegal migrants walking in the distance, as well as discarded clothes and shoes left on the property.
Adame said they turn up in her yard asking for food and her family helps because they are afraid of getting hurt if they refuse
Adame said she blames the Biden administration for the recent influx of migrants.
‘I think in part, it’s the asylum cooperative agreement that they terminated,’ she said.
‘They’re not wanting to get caught. They’re trying to run as fast as they can. They’re not afraid.
‘When they saw a border agent before, they stopped and they waited and now they keep trying to go.’
She added that border agents did ‘catch them when they see them’ but the ‘big problem’ was that the migrants aren’t always found.
Border officials have been overwhelmed by the recent surge and thousands of minors are stuck in substandard holding facilities as the government struggles through a backlog to process them.
More than 16,000 unaccompanied children were in government custody as of last week, including about 5,000 in substandard Customs and Border Protection facilities.
Internal projections leaked on Monday show unaccompanied minor apprehensions are expected to surge as high as 26,000 in September.
Photos taken from her ranch show illegal migrants walking in the distance, as well as discarded clothes and shoes left on the property
Overnight Sunday to Monday, more migrants arrived illegally from Mexico at the U.S. shore of the Rio Grande river
These figures only represent minors crossing through the southern border from Central America – as those from Mexico can be more easily returned to their home country.
The previous record of minor border crossings was under former President Donald Trump in May 2019 when it reached 11,475.
This month, that record was shattered with the numbers surpassing 16,000.
Biden had claimed at his first press briefing last Thursday: ‘Nothing has changed,’ adding that the massive influx ‘happens every single, solitary year.’
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield reiterated that point on Sunday, calling it a ‘cyclical issue’ that isn’t any worse than other points in U.S. history.
‘These are the same kind of surges that we’ve seen,’ Bedingfield told ABC’s ‘This Week’ host Jonathan Karl. ‘They’re not the result of one administration’s policies or another administration’s policies. They’re the result of, for example, weather disasters in the region. They’re the result of people fleeing poverty and violence.’
Biden administration projections leaked and revealed Monday show Border Patrol is projecting up to 26,000 minor border apprehensions in September – more than double the record reached under Trump in May 2019
The group of migrants from Honduras and Guatemala where pulled ashore on an inflatable boat by a ‘coyote’ people smuggler
Biden insists family units and adults arriving at the border are being turned away and sent back to the country as the administration claims the ‘border is closed.’ Above a family of immigrants who arrived illegally stand in line at a processing checkpoint Sunday night
Despite her claims, the number of southern border apprehensions and illegal crossings, minor and otherwise, is the highest it has ever been regardless of circumstance.
The president and his senior officials insist the ‘border is closed’ and claim they are sending all adults and family units who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border back to their home countries.
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security, however, warn of a migration surge including adults and family units that could be the largest ever in the last two decades.
DHS expects somewhere between 500,000 to 800,000 migrants to arrive as part of a family group by September.
Border patrol processing and holding facilities have become quickly overrun and have reached at least 700% of its mass capacity.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking additional accommodations for minors, including a need for an extra 6,000 beds for shelters. The target is to keep facility occupancy at 90% capacity.
There are plans to open up space for an additional 5,000 minors on military bases.
