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McAllen, Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos says his city is starting to be affected 'quite a bit' by the migrant surge at the southern border.

McAllen, Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos said he is "happy" former President Trump is visiting the southern border and told "Varney & Co." that "hopefully this brings attention to the issues we have."

"We welcome any elected official,whetherstate or federal," Villalobos, a Republican who was electedmayor of McAllen earlier this month, told Fox Business' Stuart Varney on Tuesday. "We need to dosomething to tighten ourborders and we are not necessarily talking necessarily about a wall."

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Villalobos stressed that "we need some enforcement somehow, one way or another, because it is starting to affect us quite a bit now." He noted that in McAllen, "we used to have maybe 500 crosses through McAllen."

"This past week weve had over 1000 a day and its starting to be a little burdensome on the city," he continued, stressing that"we shouldnt have to bespending a single dollar on federalissues."

Villalobos made the comments one day before Trumpis scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexicoborder with Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Trump described the border as an "unmitigated disaster zone." The president said in a press release that he had accepted Abbott's invitation to visit the "decimated" border, a deteriorating situation that he attributed to the Biden administrations decisions to reverse many of his immigration policies.

McAllen, Texas Mayor Javier Villalobos says he is 'happy' former President Trump is visiting the southern border and says 'hopefully this brings attention to the issues we have.'

President Biden scrapped a number of his predecessor's immigration policies, which included wall construction and having asylum seekers remain in Mexico instead of in the U.S. while they wait for their cases to be heard. The moves have led to a record surge inmigrants, including unaccompanied minors, that has strained capacity at immigration facilities.

Trumps visit to the southern border comes five days after Vice President Kamala Harris visited El Paso, Texas, nearly 100 days after being appointed by President Biden to address the immigration crisis at the southern border.

During a press conference, Harris touted "extreme progress" made by the Biden administration in tackling the migrant surge despite inheriting a "tough situation" due to the "disastrous effects" of the Trump administrationsborder policies. When asked why she visited El Paso, instead of areas that have been more acutely hit, like the Rio Grande Valley Sector, Harris explained that El Paso was where a number of Trump policies, like the Remain-in-Mexico policy and child separation policies, were implemented.

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When Varney asked Villalobos if he has "heard anything fromVice President Harris," he responded,"No actually."

"This is a lions den. This is where the action is," he explained. "I think this is a placewhere they can talk and they whatthe issues are."

"You can go to El Paso, you can go to different areas, but here we have a lot of peoplecoming in and we need to do something," he continued. "Weve been expending our municipal funds and we shouldnt have to."

Villalobos added that he would welcome President Biden or any other federal or state official to come see the issues his community is facing due to the immigration crisis.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to FOX Business request for comment.

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Fox News Brittany De Lea and Lucas Manfredi contributed to this report.

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Vice President Harris' border trip is coming under fire as critics point out that she's steering clear of the areas that have been hardest hit by the ongoing immigration crisis.

Harris' trip to El Paso, Texas, on Friday came 93 days after President Biden first tapped her to deal with the "root causes" of the border crisis.

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"If Vice President Harris truly wanted to assess the situation at the border, she'd head to McAllen and sites along the Rio Grande Valley," a senior border official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Fox News. "It will be worth seeing if this trip extends beyond a rubber stamp of I visited the border."

Tom Homan, former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) chief, said Harris "needs to go to the epicenter of this crisis."

"Instead of going there and talking to the men and women dealing with that crisis and taking care of thousands of unaccompanied children, she picks El Paso because she doesn't want to see the devastation that her administration's policies have caused," he said.

"Now, El Paso, is seeing a rise in crossings, absolutely a rise in drug crossings, but when you look at the crisis, why would you not go to the epicenter and talk to the men and women of Border Patrol and see what's going on?" Homan noted separately in a Friday interview on Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

A Border Patrol who insisted on anonymity told Fox News he was "not surprised" Harris took so long to visit the border. "I'm not surprised. She doesn't think this is a problem."

Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff pointed out that Harris' trip to El Paso allows her to avoid harder-hit areas in the Rio Grande Valley, where even Democratic officials have been critical of the Biden administration's response to the border crisis.

The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector has been especially hard hit by the crisis.

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Border Patrol agents in that sector are seeing a significant increase in large groups of migrants hitting the border, with more groups in fiscal year 2021 already matching the number encountered in the past two years combined.

"With 3 months remaining in the fiscal year, RGV has already matched the total number of large groups apprehended in the previous two fiscal years combined," RGV Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted Monday.

Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw contributed reporting.

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A 24-year-old Somali-born man stabbed three women to death and injured seven more; a 42-year-old Kurdish man risked his own life to intervene and prevented much worse.

Three months to election day, Germanys tortured immigration debate is back on the political agenda as politicians and journalists grapple with how to frame a horrific kitchen-knife attack in the southern city of Wrzburg.

Police say their only suspect in Fridays attack is a man who arrived in Germany six years ago and had been treated at a local psychiatric institution.

On Friday evening he entered a discount store and stabbed three people with a knife. His victims were all women: a 24-year-old shopping for a dress for a friends wedding; a 49-year-old stabbed while protecting her daughter from the attacker; and an 82-year-old pensioner who tried to overpower the man.

Identified locally as Abdirahman J, the suspect was born in Mogadishu in 1997 and applied for asylum in Germany in 2015. He remained in Germany with subsidiary protection status after his application was rejected.

Investigators say the man, who was shot in the thigh and overpowered by police, has no known Islamist links. However, an eyewitness report, that the suspect cried Allah Akbar! (God is greatest!) during his spree, sparked speculation of an extremist motive.

The attack shocked the country and brought back unhappy memories of a series of nine violent attacks stretching back to 2016, which left 14 dead and more than 100 injured, that were carried out by young men who arrived during the refugee crisis.

On Monday the Bild tabloid accused the rest of the German media and much of the political establishment of downplaying the possible Islamist connection. It claimed Islamic State material had been found in a homeless shelter where the man lived and that, after his arrest, he told police he was planning his own jihad or holy war.

He was already known to police and had spent time in a closed psychiatric facility. But his lawyer, Hajo Schrepfer, told Bild the doctors clearly assumed there was no acute danger for himself or others.

The attack has echoes of another incident, in July 2016, an hour from Wrzburg, when a Syrian asylum seeker attempted to blow up himself and others with a self-made bomb.

Police registered that attack as the work of a psychologically disturbed perpetrator rather than a political extremist. A similar tag was added to the 2017 Christmas market attack in Berlin that left 12 dead.

The far-right Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) says fear of being dubbed racist has inhibited proper discussion of the phenomenon of extremist immigrants.

Mass immigration is also knife immigration, said Gottfried Curio, an AfD Bundestag MP after Fridays attack.

But leading German politicians have pushed back against the AfD strategy of highlighting when attackers are people with a migrant background.

They pointed on Monday afternoon to the eastern city of Erfurt, where police detained a 32-year-old German man after he stabbed two people at a tram stop.

Among the heroes of the Wrzburg attack is Chia Rabiei, a Kurdish-Iranian man in Germany for nearly 18 months. Video footage shows him trying to tackle the knife-wielding man and slow him down as he ran through the city.

I tried to stop him with my rucksack, I tried to take the knife from him but didnt succeed, said Rabiei.

On Sunday, Bavarian state premier Markus Sder thanked Rabiei personally for his bravery and has nominated him for Germanys highest civil honour, adding: Good and evil are not an issue of nationality, religionand ethnicity.

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When Kostas Papadopoulos entered Houlton on a rainy Tuesday afternoon riding in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle, it was the end of a long journey that had taken him from one end of the United States to the other.

HOULTON, Maine When Kostas Papadopoulos entered Houlton on a rainy Tuesday afternoon riding in a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle, it was the end of a long journey that had taken him from one end of the United States to the other.

Papadopoulos, a CBP officer who was stationed in the Houlton sector of the U.S.-Canada border, had been transferred to the Mexican border at the Rio Grande Valley Central Processing Center in Texas to help combat the ongoing migrant crisis occurring there. The crisis has drawn national attention for many of the facilities having poor conditions for migrants and unaccompanied children, often overpacked and lacking proper sanitation, overwhelmed by the number of arrivals at the southern border.

Combined with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the migrant crisis has also become a public health crisis, with the conditions of the facilities and the large number of arriving migrants, most of whom are unvaccinated, making it easy for the virus to proliferate among new arrivals and CBP officers stationed at the facility.

On March 25, less than a month after he first arrived in Texas, Papadopoulos began feeling ill with coronavirus symptoms, and tested positive for COVID-19. He was admitted to the Valley Baptist Hospital in nearby Harlingen, and spent six weeks in the intensive care unit as he fought against the disease which has claimed more than 600,000 American lives.

With Papadopoulos being treated in Texas, family and friends in Houlton began a campaign to bring him back home. A GoFundMe page was started by family friend Dayna Lincoln, raising more than $34,000 to provide for an out-of-pocket medical evacuation flight from Texas to Boston.

Weve been overwhelmed by the love, support, and prayers of our community, friends, border patrol family and even strangers, Jaclyn Papadopoulos, Kostas wife, said. Getting him the medical care he not only needed, but deserved, and ultimately getting him back home for continued care was a joint effort.

Kostas Papadopoulos arrived in Boston on May 10, where he continued to receive treatment. On June 22, he finally returned home, being greeted with a parade of family and friends as well as local Customs and Border Patrol and other law enforcement.

During this difficult time Kostas has managed to stay in the fight and persevere, said Jodi Williams, the active patrol agent in charge of the Houlton station. We are all extremely proud of him and are overjoyed that he is finally home with his family.

The concern for our law enforcement and front line workers, and in turn their families contracting COVID-19 is a real concern, Jacyln Papadopoulos said. These men and women serving our country have signed up to protect and defend the constitution of the United States of America. They selflessly serve.

HOULTON, Maine June 23, 2021 A car in a parade welcoming home Kostas Papadopoulos from the Mexican border waves an American flag to mark his return. (Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times)

HOULTON, Maine June 23, 2021 Hank and Ellie Papadopoulos get ready to greet their father, Kostas, after he returned to Houlton following treatment in Texas and Boston for COVID-19. (Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times)

HOULTON, Maine June 23, 2021 Family and friends of Kostas Papadopoulos stand outside in the parking lot of Mardens in Houlton before a parade welcoming him home from the southern border in Texas. (Alexander MacDougall, Houlton Pioneer Times)

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On Friday (June 25), a Somali immigrant went on a stabbing spree, killing 3 people and injuring 5 others, in the Wurzburg city of Germany. The deadly attack took place at around 5 pm in Barbarossa Square, which lies at the centre of the city.

As per reports, the unnamed accused has been identified as a 24-year-old immigrant from Somalia. He had been staying in Wurzburg city since 2015. According to eye witnesses, the accused had a big knife, which he used it to stab the passersby. During the attack, three people including a child and one of his parents was killed. An eyewitness informed that the accused shouted Allah hu Akbar prior to attacking the victims.

Julia Runze, who witnessed the incident, informed, He had a really big knife with him and was attacking people. Then many people tried to throw chairs or umbrellas or cellphones at him and stop him. The police then approached him and I think a shot was fired, you could hear that clearly. As per the Lower Franconia police, the accused was arrested after the police fired a gunshot to his leg.

In a video that has now gone viral on social media, a man was seen trying to overpower the accused using a bag. The Somali immigrant was seen walking barefoot and wielding a huge knife.

In another video, locals at the Barbarossa Square were seen chasing and intimidating the attacker with sticks and chairs. The police had clarified that there was no second suspect and that the people were out of danger. The cops informed that the accused did not know the victims and are now investigating the motive behind the knife attack.

While speaking about the matter, Bavarias security official Joachim Herrmann informed that the police were aware of the accused. His condition had been noticed in recent months, including violent tendencies, and a few days ago he was put into compulsory psychiatric treatment, Herrman added. He further informed that the Islamic extremist motive behind the attack could not be ruled out as eye witnesses heard him yelling Allah hu Akbar.

That suggests a possible Islamist motive, and that is also part of the investigation, he pointed out. Herrman confirmed that three were had died while other 5 injured remained in critical condition. He added that it was unclear when they would survive after the attack. While condemning the incident, Bavarias governor Markus Soeder said, We grieve with the victims and their families.

Wurzburg is a city of 130,000 people and is located between Munich and Frankfurt. Germany had opened its borders for refugees from poverty-stricken and war-torn countries in the year 2015. Coincidentally, the accused began living in the Wurzburg city from the same year itself. Hundreds of people came forward to pay tribute to those killed in the deadly knife attack. They left flower bouquets, and candles outside a makeshift memorial for the deceased.

At the height of the migrant crisis in Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkelannouncedthat the country had the economic strength to take in refugees. She also claimed that there was no upper limit to the number of refugees that the country could take in. Angela Merkel had come under fierce criticism for not consulting the federal States. Seehofer, the leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), had criticised the Chancellor and estimated that 30% of all refugees were from Syria. He had called upon the EU to cut funding to member States that reject mandatory refugee quotas.

A Germanstudyin 2018 found that the countrys fourth-most-populous state, Lower Saxony, witnessed an increase in violent crimes due to incoming migrants. Between 2007 and 2014, the region saw a 21.9% decline in such crimes. However, there was a 10.4% hike by 2016 end. It was found that Lower Saxony had about 7.5 lac residents without German citizenship. By 2016 end, only 1.5 lac migrants had applied for asylum. 92.1% of the total increase in crimes in Lower Saxony was attributed to the incoming migrants.

Bloomberg reported, Between 2014 and 2016, the share of solved violent crimes attributed to asylum seekers increased to 13.3 percent from 4.3 percent a disproportionately high share compared with the statesforeign population The breakdown of specific crimes committed by the asylum seekers is equally thought-provoking. In some 91 percent of murders and three-quarters of cases involving grave bodily damage, the victims are othermigrants.

The liberal, open-border policies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel had turned the country into the most sought after destination for refugees. Between January and December 2015, a whopping 1.091 million asylum-seekers registered with the German government for their distribution among federal States. However, in February 2016, the government conceded that itlost trackof 13% of the asylum seekers. Reportedly, the migrants did not move to their accommodation and instead migrated to other European countries or kept living in the country illegally.

The result of left-liberal indoctrination was such that a German politician by the name of Selin Grenliedabout the racial identity of the 3 perpetrators who raped her in 2016. The woman was caught off guard by the men at night in a playground and forced to perform sexual acts. She had concealed the fact that the accused spoke in Arabic /Farsi. She claimed that she did not want to stoke hatred against migrants in Germany. The policies of the German government to wholeheartedly welcome the refugees proved costly.

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