I read the reports, saw the news clips. I just wanted to see what was
actually happening in order to better enable our efforts to find a fair
and a just solution to our broken immigration system,” said Rodriguez,
who has advised President Trump and both Presidents Barack Obama and
George W. Bush on immigration reform, according to Fox News. “To my
Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian
Leadership Conference, the world’s largest Hispanic Christian
organization, and senior pastor of New Seasons Christian Worship Center
in Sacramento, recounted what he saw there.
“We found no soiled diapers, no deplorable conditions and
no lack of basic necessities,” Rodriguez remarked, adding he
specifically asked border agents if they staged the facility in response
to the negative press. “They unequivocally denied it — we were
witnessing the identical conditions the attorneys saw when they toured
the facility days earlier.”
In fact, some told him the sources from whom the negative coverage
originated “never toured the areas of the facility that we toured” and
speculated they might have had political motivations.
The pastors left encouraged by the commitment and dedication of
America’s Border Patrol and immigration officers, “many of which are
Latinos, by the way.” He said one emotional Border Patrol agent turned
to him and said, referring to the vilification: “Pastor Sam, what
they’re saying about us is completely false. We care about these kids
and have a passion for our calling.”
surprise,
I saw something drastically different from the stories I’ve been
hearing in our national discourse. Even as a veteran of immigration
advocacy in the U.S., I was shocked at the misinformation of the crisis
at the border.”
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