Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday, pointing out that while the Republican governor was outspoken about the abuse of migrant children during the Biden administration, he was quiet on the matter during President Donald Trump’s tenure.
While conservatives describe the recent wave of unaccompanied minors on the southern border as an unmitigated disaster and crisis, Abbott rushed to hold a press conference last week after government officials received some tips that migrant children were being exposed to sexual abuse at a temporary shelter in San Antonio. .
“These problems are a byproduct of President Biden’s open border policy and the lack of planning for the consequences of those disastrous policies,” Abbott told reporters outside the facility, adding, “Children in this facility are being sexually assaulted.”
In short, this facility is a health and safety nightmare. The Biden government is now leading the abuse of children, ”the governor concluded. “To end this abuse, Biden’s government must immediately close this facility.”
During his interview with Abbott on Fox News SundayHowever, Wallace put forward that the Trump-stimulating Republican was silent just a few years earlier when it was revealed that more than a thousand migrant children reported sexual abuse and harassment while in federal custody.
“You made news this week and reported that there have been cases of sexual abuse at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas, where more than 1,600 children currently live,” said the Fox News moderator. But the head of a nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrants said this: ‘The only reason Abbott now pretends to care about the children in these facilities is for political reasons.’ ”
Wallace continued, “Governor, there were thousands of complaints of sexual abuse in migrant shelters during the Trump years. Not to say that what’s going on right now is okay, but we couldn’t find a case where you complained and cried out when President Trump was president. “
Abbott, meanwhile, largely dodged Wallace’s question, claiming that there were “multiple differences between what happened in the Trump administration” and the current White House.
After insisting that the Trump administration was “in constant communication” with him about any issues with detained migrants and that those allegations of abuse “had been filed with federal agencies,” the governor then dismissed his previous silence table.
But don’t fall prey to Democrats and others who say, ‘Well, Abbott hasn’t complained about this in the past,’ he concluded. “What they should focus on is exactly what I drew attention to last month in Dallas , Texas, where I then pointed out that there were going to be cases of child sexual abuse. “