Tulsi Gabbard

Very few people are paying attention to what's going on in San Diego.

And went down there.

What I saw was astounding to me because within a few minutes, we came upon these little camps almost of illegal immigrants, more and more people walking up just as I was there.

this idea of the gotaways.

You hear about the gotaways on the news all the time.

Well, how many gotaways are there?

These are people coming across the border knowing exactly where to go for Border Patrol to pick them up.

And they sit there, peaceful, calm, cell phones, candy, snacks, chilling, waiting for Border Patrol to pick them up because they know that

Border Patrol will come, load them in the vans, they'll go to the processing center, and they'll walk out with that white piece of paper says that they've claimed asylum, and they are no longer undocumented.

They are now documented, and they get a plane ticket to go anywhere in the country where they want to go.

I talked to a number of people there who'd come from all different countries, none of them from Mexico, by the way.

Mexico's the only country, apparently, where Border Patrol sends them immediately back across the border.

You come from any other country, they go through this process that I just talked about.

Talked to this one guy who came from Colombia.

And he said, oh, I flew into Tijuana and then walked across.

Took me, I don't know, a couple hours.

And I asked him like, have you been here before?

Oh yeah, I've been here before.

Interesting.

He had no issue talking, by the way.