{"id":400842,"date":"2019-03-22T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/beto-tells-supporters-we-do-not-need-any-walls-there-is-no-border-crisis\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:33:59","slug":"beto-tells-supporters-we-do-not-need-any-walls-there-is-no-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/beto-tells-supporters-we-do-not-need-any-walls-there-is-no-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto Tells Supporters \u2018We Do Not Need Any Walls, There Is No Border Crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Floats conspiracy theory that it\u2019s a plot to steal land<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>March 22, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/us-border-patrol-agents-el-paso-apprehend-over-400-five-minutes\">daily reports<\/a> of hundreds of illegal immigrants being arrested every day attempting to cross the Southern border, Democrat presidential candidate Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke told an audience during a campaign stop that there is no border problem and building a wall would be a waste of money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video, taken in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shows Beto waving his hands in the air, declaring that the border crisis is actually a manufactured plot to steal land from ranchers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not need any walls \u2013 $30 billion, 2,000 miles long, 30 feet high.\u201d O\u2019Rourke urged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will not be built on the international boundary line, which is the centerline of the Rio Grande River. That wall will be built well into the interior, on someone\u2019s ranch, someone else\u2019s farm, someone else\u2019s home,\u201d he added, without citing a shred of evidence to back the claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou and I will be forced to take their property to solve a problem we do not have.\u201d Beto exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SPpMS-g-eDs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke\u2019s claim that there is \u2018no problem\u2019 will be hard, even for Democrats, to swallow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/sw-border-migration\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics<\/a>\u00a0prove that there are tens of thousands of illegal immigrants trying to cross every month, and that the number is rapidly rising.<\/p>\n<p>More than 110,000 people were stopped in January and February alone, according to the figures.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testified before Congress, warning that close to a million illegal immigrants are expected to attempt to cross the border into the US in 2019 alone, making the situation \u201ctruly an emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l8E7lE1xzl8\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/media-releases\/all\">USBP reports<\/a> indicate that there is rampant criminality among those trying to gain access to the country, including sex and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/obama-border-patrol-chief-border-crisis-absolutely-a-national-emergency\">Obama\u2019s former&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/video-beto-tells-supporters-we-do-not-need-any-walls-there-is-no-border-crisis.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floats conspiracy theory that it\u2019s a plot to steal land Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comMarch 22, 2019 Despite daily reports of hundreds of illegal immigrants being arrested every day attempting to cross the Southern border, Democrat presidential candidate Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke told an audience during a campaign stop that there is no border problem and building a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}