By Karen Gleason
The 830 Times
BRACKETTVILLE – Popular Fox News anchor and program host Maria Bartiromo on Monday urged residents here to “keep fighting” in their efforts to address the region’s ongoing border and immigration issues.
Bartiromo visited the border in Kinney and neighboring Val Verde counties this week at the invitation of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Bartiromo is the host of “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo” on Fox News Channel and “Mornings With Maria” on the Fox Business Network and the anchor of “Wall Street Week” on the Fox Business Network.
Paxton introduced Bartiromo to an audience of several hundred persons in the convention center.
“She spent the day talking to all kinds of people from our state police to our National Guard. We’ve flown around in a helicopter, looking at what’s going on. We met with ranchers. We met with people who are affected, and I don’t think there’s anybody that I know that is better at telling the story about what’s going on on the border,” Paxton said.
“If anybody deserves to be an honorary Texan, it would be Maria Bartiromo,” Paxton added.
Paxton said this is Bartiromo’s second trip to the Texas border region at his request, noting she visited McAllen with him in the spring.
“I just can’t believe the incredible position that we find ourselves in. It has been quite a 10 months, and we are in a tough situation in America. I think all of you are on the front lines, and you’re seeing this threat from the border every single day and living it, and I’m trying hard to communicate that,” Bartiromo said after the applause died down.
“I’m trying to ensure that the American people understand the risk and the predicament that you all find yourselves in, having to face off against coyotes and cartels and crime, and we need leadership. We need to figure a way out, because this cannot go on the way that it has in these last 10 months. Something has got to give,” she added.
Bartiromo said she has “lots of ideas” about how the country arrived in its current straits.
“Without people having a true understanding of what’s happening, I don’t see a way out, so Ken has been gracious with his time – comes on my show a lot – to talk about the way he’s fighting back, suing this administration, forcing their hand to follow the law, and they still don’t,” she said.
Bartiromo said she wants the people of the Texas border region to know they are not alone.
“You are being heard, and I get it. I understand what’s going on. My industry, it’s shameful, honestly. I don’t know what has happened to the media. I don’t know how the media just rolls over and follows the narrative of lies in so many places, particularly the border,” she added.
In her opinion, Bartiromo said, former President Donald Trump “came too close to the fire.”
“What I mean by that is he came to too close to the fire of corruption, and he started figuring out who was getting paid, and who was getting under-the-table benefits and where the corruption was, and he just started blurting it out. The establishment didn’t like that at all, and I think they said to themselves, ‘Oh, God, he’s figured this out, and he’s going to call it out, so we’ve got to get rid of this guy.’ And that’s where we are, and whether you liked his personality or not, he was real, and he told you what he felt, and we need authenticity. We need real, because these are real issues that we’re all dealing with,” Bartiromo said.
Bartiromo said when she first came to Fox News, she “tripped over the story of the Russia collusion hoax, and I knew that it was a lie and made up by one political campaign against another political campaign, and I can’t believe the hate that came my way because I called it out.”
Bartiromo also spoke about the resilience of the American spirit and shared some of her memories of 9/11.
“I’m not here to sugarcoat anything and tell you that this is going to get better, or I know how it’s going to get better. All I know is, we have seen challenges before, and we have emerged stronger,” she said.
“I pray for all of you. I thank you for coming out, and keep fighting, because we will rise again,” Bartiromo added.
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