What constitutes a crisis?

How would we know if we really have a problem going on at the U.S. – Mexican border? What would that really look like?

Well, how about 100,000 crossing in a month, many of whom are coming illegally bringing drugs, guns, sex slaves, and disease.

But what about this…what about dragging children through the water and through incredibly sharp razor wire?

BEFORE YOU WATCH!

Let me warn you, as a parent, it’s tough for me to watch this video. So be advised.

According to The Daily Caller,

A Guatemalan woman and her three children, ages 2, 4 and 15, were found drowning on Thursday as they attempted to pass through the Rio Grande River. Border Patrol agents were able to reach the family on an airboat and pull them to safety before it was too late.

“Migrants continue to ignore the hazards and risk their lives attempting to cross the Rio Grande River,” Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Louie W. Collins said in a statement. “Had our Border Patrol agents not been in the area to respond quickly, the woman and her children would have more than likely drowned.”

A CBP spokesman said rescues like the one on the Rio Grande are happening more frequently.

“Rescues by BP agents along the Rio Grande have increased dramatically in recent months,” Dennis Smith, a CBP spokesman stated to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Let’s face an obvious fact here as well. These children that these smugglers are bringing in may not even be their children at all. They could have kidnapped them from someone else to serve whatever purpose they may have to get into the United States. If they think that it would give them a better chance of getting into the country, they may take that risk. Or they may just be using the children as a shield from the razor wire.

The thing is, we don’t know really. If they would just stop doing this, come through a port of entry, this scenario would never have happened.