Migrants destroy border business
A business owner near the U.S. southern border said she was forced to sell her family honky-tonk after the venue was broken into on five separate occasions since February.
"I worked alongside my father for 19 years," said Selena Buentello Price, the former second-generation owner of The Wagon Wheel, a local barbeque joint. "One break-in in 25 years."
"From February to now, I've had five," Price said. "Not only has my business been broken into and ransacked—it's just the insecurity now, you don't feel safe at home anymore."
Price said migrants arriving in Eagle Pass often look for shelter and supplies in vacant buildings. Her family restaurant, which had been shuttered since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was a frequent stop.
The Del Rio sector of the southern border, which includes the small town of Eagle Pass, has had 375,000 migrant encounters since October last year, according to Customs and Border Protection. Price says migrants have "completely overrun" the small town leading residents and business owners to feel insecure.
"Two locations down from our original location, our smokehouse and our honky-tonk, we have this facility that assists in processing all these immigrants coming in," Price told Fox News.
"Once they are processed — I literally see busloads on a daily basis — they're just released, and they find sanctuary in anything that's abandoned or not," she continued. "What I had that I valued — that not only had sentimental value, but had actual monetary value — has depreciated thanks to the mess, the trash, the vandalism."
Price said she has taken to surveilling her buildings in the early hours of the morning to monitor for migrants.
"I'm so scared that they're going to steal something that was a family heirloom of mine and depreciate the value even more by rummaging through my stuff and breaking that building," she said.
Price said she reached a breaking point when she encountered an intruder on her property one evening. The business owner called police, but by the time they responded, the trespasser had fled.
"So, I decided to finally sell my family business," Price said.
The mayor of El Paso, a Democrat, recently began busing migrants to other cities as a means to deal with record migration on the southern border. Recently, President Biden criticized the Republicans governors of "playing politics" after busing migrants to the northeast.
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One of the big lies of the Biden administration is that the "border is secure." Nothing could be further from the truth. The Hispanic border residents are not migrants. Their families have been living there for generations and Biden's irresponsible border policies have been a disaster for these American citizens. Biden and Harris should both be impeached.
See, also:
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And:
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