This week on Firebrand, we have a jam-packed episode with breaking news on the border crisis, a new demand from Nancy Pelosi's committee, and an interview with Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs. Plus, we take a look at why we need to fight back against the deep state.
00:05:09.000Once invaders are here, the damage is done.
00:05:13.000It's not politically correct, but it is the truth.
00:05:16.000America is being invaded across our southern border.
00:05:21.000According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 1,510,772 enforcement actions have occurred in fiscal year 21.
00:05:31.000That is over twice the amount of fiscal year 20.
00:05:35.000Biden and Kamala, they've totally failed.
00:05:38.000On Joe Biden's first day as president, he signed just a plethora of destructive executive orders
00:05:45.000in a desperate attempt to undo the progress of the Trump presidency.
00:05:50.000Biden immediately reversed Donald Trump's executive order, 13768, which calls for the prompt removal of all illegal immigrants living in the United States.
00:06:02.000And he withdrew federal funding from so-called sanctuary states.
00:06:07.000Joe Biden's executive order on the revision of civil immigration enforcement policies and priorities paved the way for the immigration crisis that we are suffering right now, this year.
00:06:19.000In fact, even the Washington Post reported that ICE deportations fell to a record low in April 2021.
00:07:03.000Additionally, Joe Biden released a proclamation on the termination of emergency with respect to the southern border of the United States and redirection of funds diverted to border wall construction.
00:07:14.000In other words, he stopped wall funding and decided to declare that there is no state of emergency at our southern border.
00:07:22.000It's like he's entered a state of denial.
00:07:24.000Shortly after positioning himself for failure on immigration, Joe Biden passed the buck and officially tasked Kamala Harris to lead the border effort.
00:07:36.000I've asked her, the VP today, because she's the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help us.
00:07:50.000We're going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks stemming the migration to our southern border.
00:08:00.000Kamala will never build the wall and will never stem the flow of illegal aliens.
00:08:06.000In June, nearly three months since being appointed czar of the border, Kamala didn't even manage to visit the southern border, as evidenced by this cringeworthy interview with Lester Holt.
00:08:18.000There's one other topic I wanted to talk to you about, but let me just quickly put a button.
00:08:22.000Do you have any plans to visit the border?
00:08:25.000I'm here in Guatemala today at some point, you know, we are going to the border.
00:08:45.000I don't understand the point that you're making.
00:08:47.000I'm not discounting the importance of the border.
00:08:49.000Kamala's been acting like the slacker in your high school group project, procrastinating until the final night with no plan and then leaving everyone else overburdened and stranded.
00:08:59.000Some politicians tell you that the invasion is inevitable, an unsolvable problem.
00:09:05.000This border cannot be commanded mountains, rivers, deserts, gorges.
00:09:12.000And finally, I would suggest that the proposal made by another candidate of building a fence based on the just the common sense practices that are being applied here doesn't work.
00:14:34.000And had I not been there as a member of Congress, they wouldn't have gotten over and been able to be processed.
00:14:40.000If we love America as much as we should, we should cherish citizenship more than we do.
00:14:46.000Its allocations should be husbanded, restricted, I would say, not expanded to anyone who could lie, cheat, or invade their way onto our soil.
00:14:56.000Upon accepting the Republican presidential nomination in 1924, Calvin Coolidge made the case.
00:16:08.000All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
00:16:19.000If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?
00:16:42.000My amendments aim to allow the Library of Congress to move forward with its proposed changes to replace the term aliens in subject headings with non-citizens and replace the term illegal alien with non-citizens and unauthorized immigration.
00:16:59.000I believe that the term alien is not only offensive, but also dehumanizing.
00:17:03.000These folks may not be U.S. citizens, but they're not from outer space.
00:17:07.000The Biden administration orders U.S. immigration agencies to stop using terms such as alien and illegal alien when referring to immigrants.
00:17:15.000The Washington Post says the change is detailed in memos to department heads.
00:17:20.000Among the changes, the term alien will become non-citizen or migrant and illegal will become undocumented.
00:17:27.000Undocumented is a lot different than illegal.
00:17:31.000It makes it sound like the people who break into our country are simply missing some paperwork, like when you don't have the right three forms of ID at the DMV.
00:18:01.000The United States has a carrying capacity.
00:18:05.000The indefinitely expanding population of illegal aliens, along with the Biden administration's abrupt stop to securing our border,
00:18:13.000present significant national security and public safety threats to the United States.
00:18:18.000As the left continuously posits that we cannot take care of our own people,
00:18:23.000they simultaneously widen the net and increase the burden on the already burdened U.S. dollar.
00:18:30.000The Federation of American Immigration Reform found that the total cost of illegal immigration after subtracting the taxes they pay is roughly $116 billion.
00:20:33.000It is bipartisan in all the wrong ways.
00:20:36.000There is an unholy alliance between Democrats who want voters, the bleeding heart liberals that do their bidding,
00:20:43.000and massive multinational corporations that want a surplus of unskilled labor to keep wages stagnant and low for Americans.
00:20:54.000It's not enough for these corporations to cut costs by shipping your jobs abroad.
00:21:01.000They want to scalp your salaries and auction off your jobs at home, too.
00:21:05.000It's no surprise, then, that some Republicans are right there supporting illegal immigration and the policies that encourage illegal immigration.
00:21:26.000It's great for the Democrats' voting base and Big Corp's bottom line.
00:21:30.000Don't worry, the Cato Institute says that immigration is good for GDP.
00:21:35.000But the loser in this transaction is the American people.
00:21:41.000And it is time that we put them first.
00:21:44.000We're going to talk about it with one of Congress's best, Andy Biggs of Arizona, leader of the Freedom Caucus, thorn in the side of the leadership in both parties,
00:21:54.000former Arizona Senate President and America first to the core.
00:21:58.000I hope you enjoy my conversation with Congressman Andy Biggs.
00:22:03.000Here with Congressman Andy Biggs, who is leading the fight in the House of Representatives to impeach Joe Biden's Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Mayorkas.
00:24:44.000And the result is that we're less safe.
00:24:47.000So what I would tell my colleagues and what I've tried to make the case to them is, yeah, most Americans are seeing this.
00:24:53.000They understand that there's this crisis along the border.
00:24:56.000They don't really know who's in charge of it.
00:24:58.000And we're going to have to let them know.
00:25:01.000Most people in America have no idea that Alejandro Mayorkas is the Homeland Secretary
00:25:06.000and that he's the guy that's responsible for keeping us safe along the border.
00:25:10.000So we have got to lay the predicate by lighting the fuse.
00:25:17.000The fuse for removal and restoring us to some kind of sanity along the border is to impeach the guy that has purposefully made us less safe along the border.
00:25:34.000I mean, and once we do that, the American people will be able to put a face and a name to the disaster and the danger and the inhumanity along our southern border.
00:25:44.000Now, Andy, you have voted against every immigration bill that was brought to the floor of the House under the reign of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
00:25:53.000What might surprise people is that you have also voted against every immigration bill that Paul Ryan brought to the floor when Republicans had the majority.
00:26:03.000And so if we are coming back into power, what is it that you think the Republican establishment and Republican leadership get wrong about the immigration issue?
00:26:12.000Well, they get they what they get wrong is that they think you can stop people from coming by granting amnesty to what would now be more than 20 million people.
00:26:24.000So so they want to trade amnesty for border security.
00:26:27.000But what they get wrong and this is just this is just fundamental.
00:26:35.000So what's happening now is if every time we have a promise of amnesty or even a discussion of amnesty, what we see happening is we we see people flooding across the border.
00:26:47.000So all of the policies that that Donald Trump put in place that made us where we only had 40,000 apprehensions in July of 2020 when he was the president.
00:26:57.000You now have 213,000 because this this group emasculated all of those policies and they provided those incentives.
00:27:05.000So when you say, oh, Andy, what we're going to do is we're going to give amnesty and then we're going to secure the border.
00:27:14.000What should happen is you should cure your border.
00:27:16.000You make sure people aren't coming across.
00:27:18.000And when you do that, you also give yourself an ability to have a rational, not a visceral, but a rational discussion.
00:27:26.000And until you start deporting people, you're going to have these problems coming across the border.
00:27:32.000What confidence do you have if the Republican Party retakes the majority that we will be done with the Paul Ryan strategy of trading amnesty for border security and that we'll actually deliver on the promises that we've made to the people?
00:27:47.000Well, I don't have a lot of hope, Matt, and I'll tell you why they the Republicans view the low hanging fruit of amnesty as being dock of the dock of population.
00:27:59.000And they're going to tell you, oh, it's about six hundred and eighty thousand, seven hundred thousand people that are still in that dock of population.
00:29:14.000Do you believe that an essential element of any Republican immigration plan must also demand internal enforcement of our immigration laws and actual deportations of people who've come here illegally?
00:29:29.000Because I'm I'm of the view that we've had this problem so acute for such a long period of time that we've actually got to deport people who are in the interior of the country.
00:29:46.000Right now we have about a million people with removal orders that have already had due process.
00:29:53.000These are people who've had due process and an immigration judge tell them you need to leave.
00:29:58.000And what what the what's happened is Mayorkas Secretary Mayorkas is basically total ice to stand down.
00:30:05.000We're not going to go out and find those people and remove them.
00:30:07.000Well, do you know you no longer are a country that has the rule of law when you do that?
00:30:14.000It we a big step is you got to get control of the border.
00:30:18.000But if you do not remove people who get hidden here illegally, then the only other alternative, at least our Republican colleagues would say is to grant amnesty.
00:30:28.000And the bottom line is you lose all of the advantages of having a sovereign nation by granting amnesty blanket amnesty.
00:30:39.000You should be removing people and not not only not only should you be removing people, you should be moving your immigration judges to the border, keeping them on the border.
00:30:47.000And for a moment anyway, stop the backlog of cases and just deal with cases of the of the torrent that's coming across now, because over 90 percent of them don't qualify for for asylum in this country.
00:31:00.000So you shouldn't grant asylum, you shouldn't be granting amnesty, you should be exercising due process and removing people who have no business being in this country.
00:31:07.000Is the U.S. government the largest human trafficker in the world because we pick these people up at the border and then we deliver them right into the arms of the cartel.
00:31:15.000And you and I have heard stories from the CBP agents who've told us that at times you'll have a group of 40 or 60 illegal aliens who will all say they have the same cousin Guillermo in Miami and then turns out that is a cartel operative.
00:31:32.000You know, is it is it your belief that impeachment articles against Mayorkas can hopefully create a different culture in the Department of Homeland Security where stopping the illegal aliens becomes more important than transporting them?
00:31:47.000Yeah, I mean, Matt, we are the logistics arm of the cartel.
00:31:51.000So so so you always have the last mile delivery.
00:31:54.000Well, that's where we are today with the catch and release program.
00:31:58.000We're taking we're seeing people all over the country.
00:32:00.000Andy Biggs, one of the smartest guys on this issue, Andy, give your social media coordinates so folks can follow you and be up to date on on key immigration issues.
00:32:09.000Matt, I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know my key social media coordinates.
00:32:14.000I don't I couldn't tell you how to get to them.
00:32:16.000But but I hope that people would go to my my website and and pull some of those coordinates down and follow me on these issues.
00:32:25.000On to what you don't know what your own Twitter handle is.
00:32:28.000You wait till the end of the interview to break the news.
00:32:31.000Andy Biggs can't find himself on Twitter, but he can find all the right answers to the immigration challenges.
00:32:36.000We will put them up on screen and he will make sure folks know how to find you because this is important.
00:32:41.000We have to craft a Republican majority and a Republican Party that will fight on these things that will not give up.
00:32:48.000They will not trade amnesty and what I think we've shared very bluntly with the American people here is that there's some work to be done, not just in persuading Democrats, but within our own party and in our own movement.