Migrant said he traveled with his wife and three young kids.
A South American migrant who recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border said he did so “basically” because Joe Biden was elected president and would not have tried to cross under former President Donald Trump.
The man spoke to ABC “This Week” anchor Martha Raddatz at the border in Tucson, Arizona, saying he traveled from Brazil to Mexico with his wife and their three kids with the hope of entering the U.S.
“Would you have tried to do this when Donald Trump was president?” Raddatz asks the man in a clip aired Sunday and tweeted by Steve Guest, a special advisor to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
“Definitely not,” replies the migrant, who asked that his face not be shown.
In another clip, a migrant who traveled from Guatemala with her 10-year-old son tells Raddatz in Juarez, Mexico, that she made the trip now because “Biden promised that we could cross with minors.”
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Migrant from Guatemala with 10-year old son to ABC’s Martha Raddatz: “Biden promised that we could cross with minors.”
Raddatz: “She said she heard that because of President Biden, she would be welcome.”
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Raddatz reported that the mother and her son were being sent back to Guatemala.
Migrants have surged the U.S. border in recent weeks after Biden took office and rolled back some of Trump’s measures, an act interpreted by some as a signal to travel to the U.S.
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Biden’s administration is now scrambling to manage the humanitarian and political challenge of the migrant surge at the border.
Fox News’ Griff Jenkins, Tyler Olson, and Marisa Schultz, along with The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-border-crossing-biden-elected-not-trump
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