Thursday’s CBS Mornings was desperate to keep up the sob stories and a lack of concern for border security amid the latest installment of the Biden border crisis, continuing to fret that there’s “no easy end to” this with illegal immigrants now having to suffer through a long “wait” because of the Supreme Court’s decision to halt the end of Title 42.
“Migrants are still packing shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border even after the Supreme Court’s decision to extend a pandemic restriction,” said co-host Vladimir Duthiers in a tease.
Co-host Nate Burleson later insisted “[t]here is no easy end to the latest border crisis in west Texas” with the City of El Paso “working to create more temporary housing for people who continue to arrive in the U.S.” and “[s]helters are overcrowded,” while others are stuck “at the border until the Supreme Court decides whether to end Title 42”.
Correspondent Omar Villafranca began his report by showing video of the “[h]undreds...outside of Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, a facility that can hold about 100 each night, hoping for a place to sleep in this first come, first serve shelter,” with droves “sleep[ing] on the street” because they lack “documents.”
Villafranca made sure to have soundbites from both advocates and illegal immigrants themselves with none for, say, angel moms, Border Patrol agents, or citizens now saddled with hoards of people in need of welfare (click “expand”):
VILLAFRANCA: For many, the wait has already been too much to bear.
UNIDENTIFIED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ADVOCATE [in Spanish]: They’re coming here to seek asylum and they keeping on crossing the border in dangerous ways.
(....)
MARLENA HERNANDEZ [in Spanish]: I fear for my kids.
VILLAFRANCA: Marlena Hernandez says she traveled alone from El Salvador to be free violence and police corruption in the country. She hopes to find work in Fort Worth and help her family with crossing into the U.S. All she asks of officials —
HERNANDEZ [in Spanish]: If they could just help me.
VILLAFRANCA: Hernandez is staying at the Enunciation House Charity in El Paso where Ruben Garcia is the director.
RUBEN GARCIA: They risk their lives, and now that they’re here, they’re finding that they can’t ask for asylum, and that’s just truly, truly tragic.
Along with passing along a bulletin from the open-borders Department of Homeland Security insisting “extremists” are now plotting to harm illegal immigrants, Villafranca closed by stating the obvious that “El Paso officials are preparing for another uptick in migrant border crossings” with both a tent city being set-up and two schools being converted to house them.
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To see the relevant transcript from December 29, click “expand.”
CBS Mornings
December 29, 2022
7:01 a.m. Eastern [TEASE][ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Crisis at the Border]
VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: Migrants are still packing shelters at the U.S.-Mexico border even after the Supreme Court’s decision to extend a pandemic restriction.
(....)
7:10 a.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Border Crisis Impact; El Paso, Texas Struggles with Influx of Migrants]
NATE BURLESON: There is no easy end to the latest border crisis in west Texas. Officials in El Paso are working to create more temporary housing for people who continue to arrive in the U.S. Shelters are overcrowded, and the travel slowdown across the U.S. is making it harder to relocate migrants. Others are waiting at the border until the Supreme Court decides whether to end Title 42, the pandemic policy that allows migrants to be expelled over public health concerns. Omar Villafranca has more on one city’s struggle.
OMAR VILLAFRANCA: Hundreds of migrants line up outside of Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, a facility that can hold about 100 each night, hoping for a place to sleep in this first come, first serve shelter. The line forms every day and circles the block. Those who can’t get a spot or fear going to shelters without documents sleep on the street. For many, the wait has already been too much to bear.
UNIDENTIFIED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ADVOCATE [in Spanish]: They’re coming here to seek asylum and they keeping on crossing the border in dangerous ways.
VILLAFRANCA: And the road to the U.S. is becoming increasingly dangerous. According to DHS, there have been extremists calls for attacks targeting migrants should Title 42 ever be lifted. This includes the placement of landmines along migration routes and poisoning migrants with gas.
MARLENA HERNANDEZ [in Spanish]: I fear for my kids.
VILLAFRANCA: Marlena Hernandez says she traveled alone from El Salvador to be free violence and police corruption in the country. She hopes to find work in Fort Worth and help her family with crossing into the U.S. All she asks of officials —
HERNANDEZ [in Spanish]: If they could just help me.
VILLAFRANCA: Hernandez is staying at the Enunciation House Charity in El Paso where Ruben Garcia is the director.
RUBEN GARCIA: They risk their lives, and now that they’re here, they’re finding that they can’t ask for asylum, and that’s just truly, truly tragic.
VILLAFRANCA: El Paso officials are preparing for another uptick in migrant border crossings. U.S. border officials announced plans to establish a tent facility outside of El Paso to hold roughly 1,000 migrants starting next month. And city leader are working to prepare two schools to house migrants. For CBS Mornings, I’m Omar Villafranca, Dallas.
(....)
8:01 a.m. Eastern
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Migrant Border Crisis]
BURLESON: El Paso, Texas, create more housing for migrants as state officials prepare for another wave of border crossings.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT [voice of translator]: There’s a lot of good people. Many come during the night and give us a lot of help.
