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English to Spanish: News - Texas Farmer, Wife Blast Biden After Finding 5 Little Migrant Girls Abandoned In Brutal Heat General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Government / Politics
Source text - English On Mother’s Day, a 75-year-old Texas farmer found five abandoned little girls in the dirt on his property near the Mexico border, prompting the farmer’s wife to blast the Biden administration for its immigration policies, saying, “If this doesn’t make you mad and make you want to take to the streets, I don’t know what will.”
Jimmy Hobbs and his wife Katie found the five girls, three of whom came from Honduras, ages seven, three, and two, and two little girls from Guatemala, ages five and eleven months.
Katie Hobbs told Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales, “These children were dumped out on the side of the river here on our farm. If this doesn’t make you mad and make you want to take to the streets, I don’t know what will. They have no mother, no father, no nothing. This is one of our workers’ wives right here taking care of this tiny one. No one with these children.”
Jimmy Hobbs, who farms onions and watermelons on the farm he has always lived on and owned in Quemado, Texas, said he thought the girls would have died in the heat if they hadn’t been found.
“I was making a round here on the farm and it was about 8.30 in the morning, just driving along and all of a sudden I see them there at the side of the bank here on the river,” he stated. “Five little baby girls, all by themselves, hungry, crying. One didn’t have any clothes on, wasn’t even old enough to walk, crawling around. So immediately, I called the Border Patrol. They’re probably snowed under, they don’t have any help either. I waited for a while then I called one of my workers to go to the house and get his wife and bring some food and water. … It was really hot. I don’t think they would have made it if I hadn’t found them. It got up to 103 yesterday.”
“My thoughts are it needs to stop right now,” Katie Hobbs stated. “There’s going to be thousands. This is just five miles of the Rio Grande. That’s a huge border, this is happening all up and down it. It can’t go on. It’s going to be too hot. There are going to be a lot of deaths, a lot of suffering this summer.”
Jimmy Hobbs compared the situation under Biden to the Trump administration, as he took aim at Biden, saying, “We’re talking about how the United States is a humane country — this is not humane anymore and it all started under his deal. He needs to either come down here and look at this himself or change it back like it was, it was working.”
Referencing Trump, Katie Hobbs added, “Change it back under Trump’s administration. For the first time in 30 years we felt secure here. It was working and it was working well. They stayed in Mexico. A lot of people are going to die this summer and we’re going to be witness to it.”
Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin L. Skero II, “It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately, this happens far too often now. If not for our community and law enforcement partners, these little girls could have faced the more than 100-degree temperatures with no help.”
Translation - Spanish En el Día de la Madre, un granjero de Texas de 75 años encontró a cinco niñitas abandonadas sobre el suelo de su propiedad cerca de la frontera con México, lo que llevó a la esposa del granjero a criticar a la administración de Biden por sus políticas de inmigración, diciendo: "Si esto no te enfurece y te hace querer salir a las calles, no sé qué lo hará".
Jimmy Hobbs y su esposa Katie encontraron a las cinco niñas, tres de las cuales procedían de Honduras, de siete, tres y dos años, y dos niñas de Guatemala, de cinco y once meses.
Katie Hobbs le dijo al congresista de Texas Tony Gonzales: "Estos niños fueron arrojados a un lado del río aquí en nuestra granja. Si esto no te enfurece y te hace querer salir a las calles, no sé qué lo hará. No tienen madre, ni padre, ni nada. Esta es una de las esposas de nuestros trabajadores aquí cuidando de esta pequeña. Nadie con estos niños."
Jimmy Hobbs, quien cultiva cebollas y sandías en la granja de la cual es dueño y en la que siempre ha vivido en Quemado, Texas, dijo que pensó que las niñas habrían muerto bajo el calor si no hubieran sido encontradas.
“Estaba dando una vuelta aquí en la granja y eran alrededor de las 8.30 de la mañana, solo conducía y de repente las veo allí al lado de la orilla aquí en el río”, dijo. “Cinco niñas chiquitas, solas, hambrientas, llorando. Una no tenía ropa puesta, ni siquiera tenía la edad suficiente para caminar, estaba gateando. Así que inmediatamente llamé a la Patrulla Fronteriza. Probablemente estén abrumados, tampoco tienen ninguna ayuda. Esperé un rato y luego llamé a uno de mis trabajadores para que fuera a la casa a buscar a su esposa y trajeran algo de comida y agua...hacia muchísimo calor. No creo que hubieran sobrevivido si no las hubiera encontrado. Ayer subió a 103 grados".
"Mi pensamiento es que debe detenerse ahora mismo", declaró Katie Hobbs. “Habrá miles. Estamos a solo cinco millas del Río Grande. Esa es una frontera enorme, esto está sucediendo de arriba abajo. No puede continuar. Va a hacer demasiado calor. Habrá muchas muertes, mucho sufrimiento este verano”.
Jimmy Hobbs comparó la situación bajo Biden con la administración de Trump, mientras que apuntó a Biden, diciendo: “Estamos hablando de cómo Estados Unidos es un país humanitario, esto ya no es humanitario y todo comenzó bajo su acuerdo. Necesita venir aquí y ver esto él mismo o cambiarlo como estaba, estaba funcionando".
Haciendo referencia a Trump, Katie Hobbs agregó: “Vuelva a cambiarlo bajo la administración de Trump. Por primera vez en 30 años nos sentimos seguros aquí. Estaba funcionando y estaba funcionando bien. Se quedaban en México. Mucha gente va a morir este verano y seremos testigos de ello”.
Austin L. Skero II, Patrullero en Jefe del sector de Del Rio, “Es desgarrador encontrar niños tan pequeños arreglándoselas solos en medio de la nada. Desafortunadamente, esto sucede ahora con demasiada frecuencia. Si no fuera por nuestra comunidad y cuerpos de seguridad con quienes estamos asociados, estas niñas habrían enfrentado temperaturas de más de 100 grados sin ayuda alguna"
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