In the latest installment of the immigration crisis at the southern border, Sen. Johnson demands answers from DHS Secretary Elaine Mayorkas about why the border is not secure, and what the agency is doing to make it that way. She also demands a 342 percent increase in funding for combating child trafficking and sex trafficking.
00:02:22.920The senator mischaracterizes our policies with respect to the security of the southern border.
00:02:28.400The senator, of course, disparagingly mischaracterizes our commitment to address human trafficking and the exploitation of vulnerable individuals, including children.
00:02:38.900And the senator misstates the data because he confuses encounters with unique individuals.
00:02:44.880But a number of things I'd have to say in addition to the senator's statements.
00:02:48.360And I would look forward to doing so, Senator Johnson, subsequent to this hearing.
00:03:06.200Let me tell you, because you won't tell me candidly.
00:03:08.620The reason is that your policies have led to 345,000 unaccompanied children entering this country, which now the New York Times in multiple articles has revealed what that's led to in the quality of their lives.
00:03:24.620You apparently believe this to be a game, Mr. Mayorkas.
00:03:29.580I think that's why all the acrimonious interchanges that happen over and over, even, you know, the last time that I asked you whether you maintained that we have operational control back in November, and you said yes, and we're trying to make it, and we're trying to do more every day.
00:03:42.640They played that on 60 Minutes, and let me tell you this.
00:03:47.100It wasn't because 60 Minutes is a fan of mine.
00:03:50.340It is my testimony that the border is secure, and we are working every day, day and night, to increase its security.
00:03:59.180The challenges that we are experiencing at the border cannot be overstated.
00:05:29.980I spent the last week in Juarez, and it was just complete pandemonium with thousands of immigrants, you know,
00:05:37.860pouring over the river and into the U.S. and being allowed in, and just, you know, it's still going on to this day.
00:05:45.180But, you know, I think what this boils down to really is a difference in definitions.
00:05:51.020They're not asking the right question.
00:05:52.780The question that they should be asking him is, what is your definition of border security?
00:06:00.680Because I guarantee you that his definition is not like any of the rest of our definition.
00:06:06.240His definition is really about accommodating the flow into the U.S. with the least pooling up at the border that television cameras can see.
00:06:21.880If he can get people moving through and not pulling up, that's security to him.
00:06:27.260To the rest of us, security is stop, block, deter, shut it down.
00:06:56.320Now, I want to get into the nitty-gritty details, the legality, talk about Title VIII.
00:07:00.080But if you can just sort of give us, again, a boots on the ground firsthand knowledge, really an insider account since you've spent so much time on the border.
00:07:10.060I used it in my open, but I think it's valid.
00:07:12.500Can you explain what exactly constitutes this doom?
00:07:15.680What we're seeing, I mean, first of all, we're already in a tidal wave.
00:07:20.280We've been in the tidal wave and an onslaught for two years straight.
00:07:24.600But I don't know if you can pump steroids into that, but that's about what's going to happen.
00:07:29.940And it's just going to be really much more vigorous numbers.
00:07:34.920You're going to start to see, like now, it's already begun.
00:07:38.460I saw it down there in Juarez, where the numbers of people just making a rush on the border is already happening.
00:07:46.100It's increasing in the places where they can get across.
00:07:48.540They're turning themselves in, and the Biden administration, Mayorkas, is admitting them.
00:07:54.160So as they admit them, those admitted people send selfies back down the line, and everybody comes, and that's the snowball effect that we're about to see.
00:08:05.640Now, that's happening now, and I'll leave you to ask me about the nitty-gritty if you'd like.
00:08:11.820But there are probably somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 immigrants pooled up inside Mexico right now, and with many, many thousands, tens of thousands right now coming through the Darien Gap,
00:08:28.040as my colleague Michael Yan and Ben Berquam and Oscar L. Blue have been reporting down there.
00:08:35.780That's where you need to keep your eye to know what's coming to the border very soon.
00:08:45.800If you can just walk our viewers through, the piece really gets into Title 42 versus sort of the deflection point that the Biden regime is using, the concept of Title 8.
00:08:54.760I know immigration, it's this grand concept, but it really boils down to the law, right, illegal versus legal.
00:09:00.440So can you just differentiate what exactly they're repealing here, what they are at least purporting to replace it with?
00:09:08.840Title 42 is not an immigration measure.
00:09:18.720Donald Trump put Title 42 in place where you can repel and instantly expel every single migrant that comes in illegally back to Mexico immediately without providing access to our broken asylum system.
00:09:39.340Title 42 kept people from abusing that asylum system.
00:09:44.540So what's going to happen now is, and the Biden administration has reduced use of Title 42 from Trump's 80 percent to about 35 percent, Trump's 90 percent to 35 percent.
00:10:00.960So what they're going to do is get rid of that last bit and put in place a new plan.
00:10:06.700And my column should have said that the Biden administration has no real plan, no actual plan.
00:10:15.020But the plan that they're that they're going to replace 42 with is is something that's been around for years and years and years and has been abused for years and years called Title 8 expedited removal.
00:10:29.460Remember that it's going to become the common currency.
00:10:32.160We're going to be talking about this a lot, and that is where they can come in and we place you in an expedited removal.
00:10:41.040But the Biden's plan has these huge loopholes in it, as I point out in the New York Post piece today, what those loopholes are.
00:10:50.260For example, no unaccompanied minors will be subject to it.
00:10:54.840So all unaccompanied minors are told right now that you have a free ride right over the border.
00:11:00.380You come over that border and you're in.
00:11:03.040So we've had 350, 400,000 unaccompanied minors, a world record, already come in in the last two years.
00:11:10.140You're going to see that go from like this to like this.
00:11:14.700Family units have another loophole called the Flores Agreement.
00:13:30.320Well, first of all, my book, Overrun, has a chapter on this.
00:13:34.400So I'll refer you to Chapter 4, The New Theologians of my book, Overrun, which is all about this invasion, this border crisis.
00:13:42.680But this is very, very much intentional.
00:13:46.160This is purposeful policy because the ideology for it is coming from a very, very hard left-wing progressive coalition or part of the Democratic Party coalition that has always been very outspoken about.
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00:17:01.820We've got to vote out people like Joe Biden, so Alejandro Mayorkas doesn't even have the honor of getting to sit in front of those senators and be grilled.
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00:17:36.380But before we let Todd go, I had one quick question I wanted to ask him.
00:17:40.960People may have seen it's sort of been making its way of the news cycle,
00:17:44.780but in New York City, some health officials sort of kind of just in a passing remark mentioned that only like half of these immigrants or illegal immigrants who are being bussed into New York City from the southern border have been vaccinated against very basic diseases like polio and tetanus.
00:18:05.240And some of these diseases, they've sort of been resurging in local level outbreaks.
00:18:10.280I'm just curious, the connection between, you know, public health and illegal immigration, it seems like there's a pretty, I would say, natural and mutual exclusivity there.
00:18:19.280But real quick, what are your thoughts on that?
00:18:21.440And at the end, if you want to give us your socials and how people can get to you and your book, that would be wonderful.
00:18:28.120Well, we should all just remember that and keep in mind that 40 percent of everyone who is reaching our border is coming from 155 countries other than Mexico and Central America, the ones that we're used to seeing.
00:18:43.500This is truly a multinational, a real kind of Star Trek deck of people coming through from all over the world and from countries where, you know, public health systems aren't, don't even exist, frankly, or the public health systems are, you know, wanting.
00:19:03.820So you're going to have diseases coming over that border with the people that you don't normally see.
00:19:13.000And because that is one of these kind of taboo topics, you can't talk about the disease ridden immigrants, you know, like it's some kind of a terrible connection to make that you're stereotyping.
00:19:26.300You're probably not going to see very much media reporting on this, if any at all.
00:19:31.800You said that you saw this in the New York Post.
00:19:34.500OK, well, you know, they've got the guts to put something out like that.
00:19:37.840But I believe that you're going to that we already have a lot of very strange and vanquished diseases in the country.
00:19:47.700So, you know, we can look forward to that as being among many other long term consequences of this mass migration crisis.
00:19:55.920Diversity is our strength, as I'm sure the left would tell us, even if it comes to having a more diverse array of infectious diseases that you can contract here in the United States.
00:20:07.780Todd, where can people follow you and your work and your book?
00:20:11.600Right. I'm at I work for the Center for Immigration Studies, CIS.org.
00:20:17.020You can find my postings there and for my general media, you can find me at Todd Benzman dot com.
00:20:28.660My new book is called Overrun How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.
00:20:35.620That is all about this particular crisis, two years on the border and beyond all the way into Central America.
00:20:43.980All my reporting in there about how this thing started.
00:20:47.400I'm on Getter, T. Benzman, Getter and Twitter Benzman Todd.
00:21:25.760For some reason, it's hard for me to pronounce.
00:21:27.440Dr. Sigmund joining us down the line, talking about the American Freedom Alliance event that is happening very soon.
00:21:35.320Before we get into the details of that event, real quick, because I'm a California girl originally.
00:21:40.660I'm pretty sure you guys are based out in California, which is where the event is happening.
00:21:44.180And from what I understand, I'm aware of what your group has done.
00:21:47.140You guys really used to focus on California politics and immigration, assimilation and cultural issues.
00:21:53.440And it seems like this event is sort of unique in that you're sort of going to the more meta level, right?
00:21:57.940And you're talking about what the ultimate agenda is, how immigration and these other issues are being used to advance really what is global governance and really just the abandonment of personal liberty,
00:22:08.620your ability to leave your house if you're not vaccinated against, you know, disease X.
00:22:12.520So can you just sort of talk about that shift in terms of what American Freedom Alliance is doing and this conference, what you guys are going to focus on?
00:22:20.340Well, you're very right about this particular one, our being focused on, as you say, the meta level.
00:22:29.060World War III, it's hard to get more meta than that.
00:22:31.780It pretty much encompasses absolutely everything from the global to the personal to the cellular, really.
00:22:38.640It includes absolutely everything that we're seeing now.
00:22:43.100But our prior one was globalist puppet masters, which was also on the meta level.
00:25:14.880It's two days with a dinner on Saturday where Douglas Murray will be speaking.
00:25:20.420We have Ed Dowd, Steve Bannon, Frank Gaffney, Joe Allen, Dave Walsh.
00:25:27.420So many of the speakers who your audience knows and loves.
00:25:32.720So, yeah, Trevor Loudon, Steve Coghlan, John Mills, Dr. Recktonwald, Dr. Thayer.
00:25:39.960They're all going to be there speaking, and the audience that we draw loves you all, loves freedom, loves truth, loves America,
00:25:48.660and wants to do everything to fight these incursions against our national sovereignty, our national security, and our individual liberties.
00:25:59.200Of course, you guys were very clairvoyant when you named the event World War III.
00:26:05.520I think that was before Trump actually tweeted, rather infamously, World War III about a week ago.
00:26:11.420But I just want to ask on behalf of the War Room posse, who either is blessed to not live in California
00:26:17.160or doesn't want to make the trek out to Gavin Newsom's hellscape, how can they watch it virtually?
00:26:23.680Are you guys going to have some sort of live streaming, or after the fact, can they watch Steve's speech or Ed Dadd
00:26:29.200or any of these other War Room contributors?
00:26:32.140We won't, generally speaking, be live streaming it, but we record everything that we do.
00:26:38.560Steve's speech at our last conference is up on our Rumble channel, and all of these, we put...
00:49:05.120But we've got a fascinating piece on trannies, on transsexuals, and the kind of dark antecedent to the trans movement that you see in an ancient practice in the Ottoman Empire.
00:49:19.220So it's a really fascinating piece, it's a disturbing piece, and it helps to contextualize this craziness going on where all of a sudden trans stuff is everywhere, and they seem to have taken a prominent role as foot soldiers and defenders of the globalist American empire.
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