Lt. Christopher Olivarez: Open-Border Activists Were Not on the Front Lines Taking Care of the Children, the Border Patrol Was

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OLIVAREZ: "Well, I think there is no winning with anybody that's criticizing. For one, of course, they are criticizing that we shouldn't deport anybody, and also children themselves. But we have to look at — look at the amount of family separation that took place over the last four years, and I witnessed it myself because I would come across unaccompanied children, as small as two years old, that were coming across the border, but yet there was no criticism about that at all, there was no help from anybody. These open-border activists, they were not out on the fronts line taking care of these children, we were. And now that we're trying to reunite these children, actually locate over 300,000 unaccompanied children, that will be a challenge. This is the process moving forward. I mean, we have to get these children back to their families. Of course, if they do not have a legitimate asylum claim, then the rule is, the law is, they have to go back their country."