Teh One Who Knocks
07-26-2019, 10:45 AM
By RYAN SAAVEDRA - The Daily Wire
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Brian Hastings, Chief of Law Enforcement at the U.S. Border Patrol, made a stunning claim on Thursday about the U.S. citizen who was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three weeks, saying that the individual never claimed to be an American.
Hastings remark came in response to a question from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) about the detained U.S. citizen, Francisco Erwin Galicia, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on some of the Trump administration's policies on the border.
"I can give you some preliminary. The individual came through the Falfurrias checkpoint. He came through with the other illegal aliens. The individual claimed to be a Mexican national who was born in Reynosa, Mexico," Hastings said. "Throughout the process, and while he was with Border Patrol, he claimed to be a citizen of Mexico with no immigration documents to be in or remain in the U.S."
"Upon further investigation, we also found he had a border crossing card and that border crossing card he had used 53 times to cross the border into the U.S. which gives us further indication that he was not a U.S. citizen," Hastings continued. "At no time in Border Patrol custody did he say that he was a U.S. citizen."
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) immediately seized on the initial reports regarding Galicia by demonizing federal immigration authorities, which is something she has been doing for months.
"CBP is detaining *American citizens.* How would you feel trapped in a border camp, where guards wear face masks because the human odor is so strong?" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "When we allow the rights of some to be violated, the rights of all are not far behind."
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The Daily Wire reported earlier this week that, according to The Washington Post, "Francisco's mother, a Mexican citizen living in Edinburg illegally, listed her son on a U.S. tourist visa as being born in Mexico. She also falsified information on his birth certificate."
https://i.imgur.com/5V4WZRtl.jpg
Brian Hastings, Chief of Law Enforcement at the U.S. Border Patrol, made a stunning claim on Thursday about the U.S. citizen who was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three weeks, saying that the individual never claimed to be an American.
Hastings remark came in response to a question from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) about the detained U.S. citizen, Francisco Erwin Galicia, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on some of the Trump administration's policies on the border.
"I can give you some preliminary. The individual came through the Falfurrias checkpoint. He came through with the other illegal aliens. The individual claimed to be a Mexican national who was born in Reynosa, Mexico," Hastings said. "Throughout the process, and while he was with Border Patrol, he claimed to be a citizen of Mexico with no immigration documents to be in or remain in the U.S."
"Upon further investigation, we also found he had a border crossing card and that border crossing card he had used 53 times to cross the border into the U.S. which gives us further indication that he was not a U.S. citizen," Hastings continued. "At no time in Border Patrol custody did he say that he was a U.S. citizen."
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) immediately seized on the initial reports regarding Galicia by demonizing federal immigration authorities, which is something she has been doing for months.
"CBP is detaining *American citizens.* How would you feel trapped in a border camp, where guards wear face masks because the human odor is so strong?" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "When we allow the rights of some to be violated, the rights of all are not far behind."
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The Daily Wire reported earlier this week that, according to The Washington Post, "Francisco's mother, a Mexican citizen living in Edinburg illegally, listed her son on a U.S. tourist visa as being born in Mexico. She also falsified information on his birth certificate."