Watch: Bovino Urges Press to Cover Real Child Crisis at the Border

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino spoke to assembled media about ongoing operations in Minnesota on Friday. As we might expect, the commander had some sharp opinions about press coverage of Border Patrol operations, but this time he specifically called out the media about the 300,000+ children lost during the Biden administration's non-enforcement of the border and immigration law.

🚨 Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino just called OUT the media directly to their FACES for failing to cover the harm Biden's open border policies has inflicted on children.pic.twitter.com/xdY4p33pV1
"300,000+ plus lost children are trafficked across that border. Now when we've…
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"300,000+ plus lost children are trafficked across that border. Now when we've got the news media talking about children, I'd certainly love to hear more reporting on the 300,000 lost children."
"How about the 14 that we recovered at that pot farm a few months ago in Camarillo, California?! [...] I didn't didn't really hear much much from you guys!"

Commander Bovino said:

(300,000+) Thousand plus, that were trafficked across that border. Now, when we've got the news media talking about children, I'd certainly love to hear more reporting on the 300,000 lost children. How about the 14 that we recovered at that pot farm a few months ago in Carpinteria, California, the 14 lost children trafficked across the border that were found working illegally on a pot farm in California? Very little reporting from the Minneapolis news media here, I didn't really hear much from you guys.
And then some of the more heinous crimes against children that are trafficked across the border that ICE and Border Patrol saw daily back when that border was out of control, over the past four years. I'll detail one for you, folks, that's truly heinous. Border Patrol agents there in the El Centro sector encountered, uh, a young child that was approximately three years of age, the child appeared to be drugged. Not with his parents. With strangers.
Agents managed to wake the child up after doing what is known as a sternum rub, which is something that, which is a technique to wake someone up that may be induced by drugs. As the child woke up, we understood the child's parents were not, were not with him, and medical examination saw that this child had non-surgical sutures in his abdomen. Let me say that again. Non-surgical sutures in the child's abdomen. He was being trafficked across the border in that condition. That's not an isolated event with the U.S. Border Patrol where I face. We saw that many, many times. Drugged children, coming across the border, and guess what? Other than a couple of news outlets, I believe News Nation and Fox reported, nobody else would. Nothing on a child with non-surgical sutures in his abdomen and nobody knows why.

These people, the kind of people that do the kind of things Commander Bovino describes, are the kind of people that the anti-ICE protestors and rioters are defending.

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This is what we face. This is the kind of thing the left defends. There's no indication why the child Commander Bovino describes had non-surgical sutures in his abdomen - his stomach. There could be any number of reasons; an injury, for instance. But Commander Bovino notes that this child was drugged, that this child was with strangers, presumably human traffickers, who may also have been drug traffickers.

The anti-ICE, anti-immigration enforcement people are defending people who do this sort of thing. They are defending the sort of goblin who murdered Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, and Laken Riley. These are the people they are defending. If anyone takes one thing away from this affair, it must be that.

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