This week a federal judge asked investigators to look into allegations of sex trafficking at a Bastrop shelter for girls who survived of sex trafficking.
Ashley Goudeau: Mr. Payan, we ll start with you. Gov. Greg Abbott is painting a pretty bleak picture about what s happening at the border with the number of people unlawfully entering the country through Texas and the amount of drugs coming in. Can you first give us some perspective on the numbers of people who are coming into the country?
Tony Payan: Yes, well, the very first thing that we have to begin with, even if we disagree with the governor s solution is to give him the credit, the benefit of the doubt. The governor is correct with the numbers – 180,000 encounters at the U.S. Mexico border just in the month of May 2021. I think there were some initial errors, mistakes made by the Biden administration that made those numbers climb through February, through March, April and of course, in May. They re flattening out now, but I think they are still very, very high. In that sense, the governor is correct. The number of individuals that are coming through, though they re not