A Turkish migrant who told Fox News he sold all his possessions and paid about $10,000 to a drug cartel on his way to the U.S. said Americans should be concerned about insecurity on the southern border.
After illegally entering Jacumba, San Diego County, California, the man told Fox News: “Actually, the Americans are right. Absolutely. Who’s coming into this country? They don’t know. OK, I’m OK. But what if they’re not good people? What if they’re murderers or psychos? There’s no guarantee.”
“There’s no guarding, no security checks, no background checks, nothing,” he added of the border crossing.
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The migrants crossed the Mexican border near Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego, California, and arrived at a makeshift camp. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)
He said he was concerned about who was coming across the border because “people are not normal.”
He told Fox News that his journey to the US took 24 days, passing through Qatar, Dubai, Egypt, South Africa and Brazil before arriving in Central America and then on to the US.
Fox News saw dozens of migrants, mostly from China and Turkey, crossing into Southern California on Thursday.
San Diego County has the highest number of illegal border crossings in the country, with U.S. Customs and the Border Patrol reporting 37,370 crossings in April, according to the Los Angeles Times.
CBP told Fox News that 120 Chinese migrants entered California on Thursday alone.
This comes as record numbers of migrants continue to cross the border illegally and one day after a bipartisan immigration bill failed for a second time in the Senate on a 43-50 vote, blocked by Republicans and a handful of Democrats.
Turkish immigrants told Fox News that Americans should be worried about border security. (Fox News)
“We’ve given Republicans a second chance to show where they stand,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after the vote. “Do they want to solve this so-called emergency, or do they want to remain blindly loyal to the former president even though they know he’s wrong?”
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“Today we have not a bill, we have a proposal,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said on the floor ahead of the vote. “Everybody knows what it is.”
“I will not vote for the bill before the Senate this week because it contains provisions that are contrary to the shared values of the American people. These provisions will not make us safer,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said in a statement earlier this week.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent stands along the Rio Grande River, which separates the United States from Mexico. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, one of the bill’s chief authors along with Lankford, said the bill would not help keep the border secure.
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“Using this failure as a political punching bag only punishes those who had the courage to try hard in the first place,” she said, calling the vote “political theater.”
Illegal immigration has become one of the key issues in the run-up to this fall’s 2024 presidential election.
