Migrants arrive at a makeshift camp after crossing the nearby border with Mexico near the Jacumba Hot Springs in San Diego, Calif. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)
He said he worried about who is crossing the border because "people are not normal."
He told Fox News his trek to the U.S. took him 24 days, and he traveled through Qatar, Dubai, Egypt, South Africa and Brazil before he arrived in Central America to come to the U.S.
Fox News witnessed dozens of migrants, mainly from China and Turkey, crossing into Southern California on Thursday.
San Diego County has become the busiest sector in the country for illegal crossings, with U.S. Customs and Broder Patrol saying 37,370 people came through in April, according to the Los Angeles Times.
CBP told Fox News that 120 Chinese migrants crossed into California just on Thursday.
This comes as record numbers of migrants continue to cross the border illegally, and a day after a bipartisan immigration bill failed for a second time in the Senate on a 43-50 vote after it was blocked by Republicans and a few Democrats.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stand along the Rio Grande separating the U.S. and Mexico. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., who along with Lankford was one of the bill’s primary authors, said the bill wouldn’t help keep the border safe.
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"To use this failure as a political punching bag only punishes those who were courageous enough to do the hard work in the first place," she said, calling the vote "political theater."
Illegal immigration has become one of the main issues going into the 2024 presidential election this fall.
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