The United States is experiencing the biggest border crisis in American history, and no one is talking about it. Why? Because when it comes to the Democratic Party and their lackeys in the press, they must cover up what is going on at the southern border. Because if Americans understand what's going on there, Joe Biden will not be re-elected. It's that simple. The problem is, the border is largely undefended by the Border Patrol, and the drug cartels are taking full advantage of the situation. They are dropping people off at the border, and letting them walk across the border into the United States. In order to do so, they are using a system of catch-and-release, where they release people who are caught at ports of entry and then release them into the country. That's what catch and release is, and that's what Joe Biden's administration is doing to make the situation worse, not better. And it's a travesty that needs to be talked about, because if people understand what is happening, then they will vote for Joe Biden in 2020, because he's going to have to do something about it, not just about the border crisis, but about the rest of the country's immigration problems. The Border is a disaster, and we're all going to pay the price for it, because we're not going to get any help until we fix it, and it's not just at the ports, but across the entire southern border, where people are being dropped off by the cartels dropping off to the border to claim asylum, we're going to the interior of the US, and being released back into the US. We'll talk about that in this new documentary that shows what's really going on, and how they do it. What's happening at the Southern border and why it's so bad, and why we should all pay attention to what's happening there, and what it really is happening there and why the situation is so bad and what we need to do about it and why Joe Biden needs to do anything at all, not only to stop it, but what we should be doing about it in the first place, not in Mexico, and not just here in Mexico and the Middle East. . We'll get to the bottom line, and then we'll get into the details of what's actually going on in this documentary, right here in this episode of The Daily Wire Plus Documentary, The Biggest Problem on the Southern Border.
00:00:00.000Right now, the United States is experiencing the biggest border crisis in American history.
00:00:04.000And I'm looking at the front pages of the biggest newspapers in the United States right now, and none of them are even covering it.
00:00:11.000The top headlines over at the Washington Post are all about a UN court, which is entirely irrelevant, ordering Israel to do more to prevent harm in the Gaza Strip, or an Alabama man being put to death with nitrogen gas.
00:00:24.000Nothing about the giant wave of illegal immigration on a border that is now spurring a constitutional showdown between the state of Texas and, by the way, 24 other states and the federal government.
00:00:33.000Same thing over at the New York Times.
00:00:50.000What is going on at the southern border is a travesty.
00:00:52.000So as I mentioned to you, I've been mentioning to you for a few weeks here, near the beginning of January, we actually went down to the southern border in Arizona.
00:01:00.000And it is absolutely stunning what is going on at the southern border.
00:01:04.000Not merely the numbers of people who are showing up at ports of entry and then being caught and released.
00:01:08.000Catch and release is where you claim asylum, they bring you in, they process you, There are no beds for detention facilities, and they're not going to detain you anyway if you come in with a kid for very long.
00:01:17.000So instead, they just release you into the interior with a comeback later date, which nobody ever does.
00:01:23.000It is that the drug cartels are in complete control of the southern border.
00:01:28.000We have a documentary that is now available at Daily Wire Plus that shows you everything that we saw at the southern border.
00:01:32.000We took a giant tour about 25 miles of the southern border in Arizona.
00:01:37.000With Brandon Judd, who is in fact the head of the Border Patrol Officers Union.
00:01:42.000And it is astonishing, because again, not only is the southern border largely undefended, it is made so by this administration.
00:01:50.000This administration has decided that what they are going to do is turn CBP into a busing and processing service.
00:01:56.000They're effectively the DMV on the southern border for illegal immigrants.
00:01:59.000What you're going to see in this documentary, when you go over to Daily Wire Plus, one of the things that you're going to see is a sign that is at the southern border that literally says to illegal immigrants in spanish push this button for border patrol help this is over at the san miguel gate in arizona which is actually on a native american reservation right at the border there is no border wall over there because the native american reservation does not want a border wall over there so you can literally just step over the border walk into mexico walk back across the border into the united states people are arriving en masse dropped off
00:02:32.000Drug cartels are literally taking trucks filled with illegal immigrants and they're driving them yards from the border, dropping them off, having people walk across.
00:02:40.000Because of Joe Biden's asylum policies, which are different than Donald Trump's asylum policies, people are throwing up their hands, surrendering to Border Patrol.
00:02:46.000Border Patrol is then letting them into the country.
00:03:03.000Because the drug cartels know exactly what Joe Biden has done, they have essentially decided to use this asylum process not only to smuggle more people across the border, because it doesn't require very much, you literally just drop somebody off at the border the same way I would drop my kids off at school.
00:03:38.000They were all over the detention facility, doing processing work, where they take basic information about your life.
00:03:44.000Illegal immigrants are coming across the border with phone numbers of people in various cities they wish to visit.
00:03:49.000We literally have on tape sheets of paper with phone numbers of people in Denver, in Atlanta, in Houston.
00:03:58.000The entire desert is covered in trash over there.
00:04:01.000Trash left by illegal immigrants who are crossing that desert to get it.
00:04:04.000And again, it's not just that the drug cartels are getting paid for the illegal immigrants that they smuggle in at the border.
00:04:10.000It's the drug cartels are trying to gather border patrol agents to the processing facilities and away from guarding the border so that the really dangerous people, not just the illegal immigrants who want to come here and who want to work, some want to be on welfare.
00:04:22.000We're talking about the people who are actively dangerous, people with criminal records.
00:04:26.000People who want to smuggle drugs into the country.
00:04:29.000When the border is unprotected, that's when these people cross the border with the help of the Mexican drug cartels.
00:04:34.000How much technical superiority do the drug cartels have at America's southern border?
00:04:39.000When we were down there, as we show in our documentary, it's the first episode of a new series we're putting out called The Divided States of Biden.
00:04:45.000You should go check it out right now at dailywire.com.
00:07:00.000The state of Texas can only do so much so far.
00:07:04.000Meaning that the state of Texas can put up razor wire.
00:07:06.000The state of Texas can put physical impediments on the border to stop people from crossing over the American border.
00:07:12.000One of the big problems with the Trump border wall, which again is a great thing, the border wall is very useful, except you actually have to have people to guard the border wall so that illegal immigrants and drug cartel members don't actually just solder directly through The border patrol wall.
00:07:26.000I mean, we actually saw evidence of this.
00:07:27.000Again, in the documentary, you will see sections of the wall that have been completely cut through, cut through by the drug cartels.
00:07:37.000But one of the things that is amazing, truly amazing, is, again, that not only would Texas have to build more impediments there, Texas would somehow have to come up with a mechanism for expelling people back south of the border.
00:07:51.000And that's something that Texas has not done yet.
00:07:53.000Not only that, even if Texas were to do that, because of Joe Biden's asylum policy, all that would do is then focus all the rest of the illegal immigration at ports of entry where people would still claim asylum.
00:08:02.000That would be better than it currently is where they're just crossing the southern border anywhere and throwing up their hands.
00:08:06.000And the drug cartels are literally using them as a distraction technique so they can get fentanyl across the border and terrorists across the border.
00:08:37.000Because the day that we were down at the San Miguel Gate, which was, again, early January, there wasn't a lot of illegal immigration that day.
00:09:24.000They must be detained until they have an asylum hearing.
00:09:28.000Romania, Mexico changed the law via executive order and executive agreement with the state of Mexico.
00:09:35.000That Remain-in-Mexico policy said that, effectively speaking, if you came to the border and you claimed asylum, you had to wait south of the border before you could get your court date.
00:09:44.000Well, that radically cut down on the number of people who are arriving at the border and claiming asylum, because if you claim asylum and you are immediately released into the United States within 72 hours, which is what is happening right now, that is a very different story than you arrive at the border, you claim asylum, we tell you, wait in Mexico, you show up for a court date, you don't have a claim for asylum, and you go back to Mexico.
00:10:05.000But the fact is, Joe Biden decided he didn't like the outcome with less illegal immigration.
00:10:10.000He is facilitating all this, and it's really, really dangerous.
00:10:13.000There's a letter that went out about a week and a half ago from a couple of former members of the FBI and the CIA, a guy named Chris Swecker, who's Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division of the FBI, retired.
00:10:27.000And Kevin Brock, who's an Assistant Director of the Directorate of Intelligence at the FBI, at the National Counterterrorism Center, also retired.
00:10:34.000And what they point out, and they are totally right, is that this is a massive national security threat.
00:10:40.000They say, as former senior executives of the FBI with deep experience combating dangers to the nation, we write to express our concern about a current specific threat that may be one of the most pernicious ever to menace the United States.
00:10:50.000The danger arises from the nature of the threat itself.
00:10:52.000Wars and espionage and bombings and riots are sadly familiar delivery systems of instability, intimidation, and insecurity.
00:10:57.000The country has faced these and more throughout its history and is held together, though not without struggle.
00:11:01.000The threat we call out today is new and unfamiliar, and it's modern history.
00:11:04.000The United States has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and yet one is unfolding right now.
00:11:08.000Military-aged men from across the globe, many from regions or countries not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands.
00:11:16.000It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is a comparatively multi-division army of single young adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown.
00:11:27.000In 2021, they say, the demographics of those crossing the poorest southern border started to shift.
00:11:32.000Young men from around the world traveling alone and holding questionable motivations dramatically increased in number to become the most common profile of those breaching the nation's borders.
00:11:43.000We were told by border patrol agents who shall remain nameless That the number of terrorists who are being captured at the border is completely unspecified.
00:11:52.000Even when somebody is caught on the terror watch list, that doesn't necessarily mean that the person is a terrorist.
00:11:57.000Because the terror watch list is really, really vague.
00:12:00.000It's the unknown unknowns that are truly dangerous.
00:12:03.000Whenever we look at the stats on the Southern border, you have to recognize there's a few different things that are being aggregated together.
00:12:10.000A border apprehension, by the way, does not mean the person is kicked back to Mexico.
00:12:13.000A border apprehension or a border encounter means the person is taken by CBP and then processed, which means they end up in the country the vast majority of the time under Joe Biden if they know the magic words.
00:12:23.000If they say, open sesame, I want asylum.
00:13:36.000So there is largely Camera coverage of the entire southern border.
00:13:41.000Okay, that camera coverage is very comprehensive, but you need to have actual agents who are watching 24 hours a day the camera coverage to see what they can see.
00:13:49.000Now, a bunch of those people don't get captured.
00:13:51.000They get seen on the cameras and they escape into the interior.
00:14:12.000But what we do know is that if those people wanted to just be released in the United States and for the U.S.
00:14:17.000government to know who they were and what they were about, if that's what they wanted, if they just wanted to come here and they wanted to work illegally and then hope for amnesty at some point, they want to come here, get married, apply for a green card.
00:14:28.000They want to come here and be on welfare in California or whatever.
00:14:31.000If they wanted all of that, the easiest way to do that is to throw up your hands and surrender to CBP.
00:14:36.000The people who are crossing as unknown gotaways are people who should not be in the country under any circumstances, not just because they're illegal immigrants, but because they probably have criminal records or drug connections, at a minimum.
00:14:46.000And many of them probably have terror connections as well because that's why you're avoiding CBP.
00:14:50.000It's one thing back in the olden days when CBP was actually trying to stop everyone from crossing the border to say that many of the people are crossing the border between ports of entry and trying to evade border patrol.
00:15:00.000Those people are not criminals in the sense of anything except for the illegal immigration.
00:15:06.000And many of those people are, you know, the people who proverbially work in the fields or do the cleaning or whatever the left wants to say they're important for because the left is very racist with regard to a lot of these people.
00:15:14.000But With that said, now that it is very obvious that you can surrender to Border Patrol and then move to Houston or go to Atlanta or go to Colorado or whatever, the only people attempting to evade the Border Patrol are people who are presumably dangerous.
00:15:31.000And that amounts to millions of people every single year because of what they are doing.
00:15:35.000By the way, the drug cartels know this.
00:15:38.000Some of the most shocking footage from the documentary that we just put out at Daily Wire Plus, and again, you should go check it out because it really is shocking stuff, CBP told us that some of the stuff that the drug cartels do, for example, is they literally, if they're being chased by CBP and they are traveling with children, they will literally discard the children.
00:15:58.000We're talking about babies, like toddlers or smaller.
00:16:01.000Discard the children, hoping that CBP will go and care for the children as they are morally duty-bound to do so they can evade arrest.
00:16:10.000So they'll literally take human babies and throw them to the side of the road In an attempt to distract CBP so they can escape into the interior of the country.
00:16:17.000They have no regard for human life, the drug cartels.
00:16:20.000And this is being, again, facilitated by the federal government.
00:16:24.000So as these former FBI agents say, all of this is particularly alarming in light of the Hamas terror attack on Israel last October 7th.
00:16:31.000Those of us who have fought terrorism know that historically successful terror attacks invite mimicry.
00:16:35.000We know as well that terror leaders intentionally cultivate throngs of young men possessing a certain easily manipulated personality type to carry out atrocities.
00:16:42.000It is stark to say so, but having a large number of young males now within our borders who could begin attacking gatherings of unarmed citizens in imitation of 10-7 must be considered a distinct possibility.
00:17:08.000Joe Biden can do exactly what Donald Trump did.
00:17:10.000Joe Biden can reinterpret the asylum laws to require that you make a colorable showing that you will in fact receive asylum before you're released into the country.
00:17:18.000Joe Biden can detain people and should detain people when they cross the border.
00:17:23.000Joe Biden can renegotiate, remain in Mexico and do that again.
00:17:26.000Apparently his aides don't want to do that because they're afraid it'll hand Trump a victory.
00:17:28.000So they would literally rather keep the border open rather than hand Donald Trump a victory.
00:17:33.000All of this is leading the states at the Southern border led by Texas to actually try and do something about it.
00:17:38.000When I say the states at the Southern border, I really only mean Texas.
00:18:02.000That's why they put barriers in the middle of the Rio Grande, because they haven't come up with a process yet whereby Texas will actually expel people back south of the border, which is what you would actually need to do if you were going to repel the wave of illegal immigration that is currently happening.
00:18:14.000Plus, you'd need way more personnel down at the border.
00:18:16.000It's not just enough to have razor wire.
00:18:18.000You'd actually have to have people who could theoretically arrest people and then Come up with some mechanism for deporting them back to Mexico, because if they get to the razor wire and they get through the razor wire, then the same laws that apply to Borough Patrol still apply.
00:18:33.000There's no mechanism in the state of Texas for actually expelling people once they cross illegally.
00:18:38.000They can hand them over to the federal government, presumably, but the federal government will then presumably release these people after processing them.
00:18:43.000In any case, here is Governor Abbott explaining that he's doing the best that he can over here.
00:18:48.000One quick point of clarification, something, Bill, you just said that everybody's saying, and that is that the Supreme Court, you said the Supreme Court said what Texas cannot do.
00:18:59.000If you look at what the Supreme Court actually issued, they didn't write any type of opinion.
00:19:03.000All they did was to vacate a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals order and to submit back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:19:21.000Regardless of what federal statute may exist.
00:19:25.000The Supremacy Clause means that the Constitution itself is the supreme law of the land.
00:19:31.000The Constitution itself provides Texas with a right of self-defense in this case, because the United States has abandoned its responsibility to defend Texas.
00:19:42.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:20:43.000Okay, so the Biden administration is going to be forced to a choice here.
00:20:47.000That choice is going to be to either sue the state of Texas for trying to enforce the border and try and force them to open up the razor wire, just actively sue, not to allow Texas to allow border patrol agents to cut the razor wire, but to stop Texas from reinforcing the border, to actually side with vast swaths of illegal immigration.
00:21:04.000They're going to have to sue, or they're going to have to acquiesce.
00:21:08.000Right now, they're choosing a third path, which is to try to blame Republicans politically.
00:21:14.000Republican governors all over the United States are backing Greg Abbott's play as well they should.
00:21:18.000There are 27 Republican governors in the United States at this point.
00:21:21.000One of them is Governor Abbott, of course.
00:21:24.000And then every other Republican governor in the country has backed Greg Abbott's play.
00:21:29.000If you look at a map, it's every red state, basically.
00:21:32.000There are a few sort of exceptions that are red states with blue governors, and the blue governors refused to back Greg Abbott's play.
00:21:37.000And as you will see, Arizona and New Mexico are a couple of the states that are not doing what Greg Abbott is doing here.
00:21:42.000But many of these governors came out early.
00:21:44.000They said, we're sending National Guard troops down to help do what Texas needs to do here.
00:21:49.000Here's Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida making that case.
00:21:52.000Biden is going after Texas, saying that they must remove fortifications from their border.
00:21:57.000They put wire, they put things to keep people out.
00:22:01.000Biden's saying you got to take that down to let people come in illegally, which is just crazy.
00:22:08.000And I remarked that if the Constitution was originally understood to mean that a state could not protect itself, against an invasion.
00:22:16.000If the federal government could force a state to allow an invasion, the Constitution would have never been ratified in the first place.
00:22:23.000Texas would have never joined the Union when it did.
00:22:26.000And if you look at Federalist 46, which Daniel Horowitz pointed out, James Madison talks about situations where federal encroachment can be mitigated by state action.
00:22:56.000Jeff Landry, he also expressed his support for Greg Abbott.
00:23:00.000We support legal, not illegal immigration.
00:23:06.000We support secure and safe borders, not open border policies that allow criminals, human trafficking, and drugs to pour into this country.
00:23:18.000We stand with Governor Abbott and Texas in reminding the federal government that under our Constitution, states are still sovereign and we have the right to protect our citizens.
00:23:31.000Meanwhile, both Republican candidates still technically in the race.
00:23:34.000Nikki Haley is still technically in the race.
00:23:36.000And of course, Donald Trump is the leader in the Republican nomination race.
00:23:39.000Nikki Haley actually put out a statement before Trump did.
00:23:41.000Here is Nikki Haley's statement yesterday about what's going on at the border.
00:23:46.000She said, Governor Abbott is right. The state of Texas has every right to defend itself and its borders.
00:23:49.000It's absolutely ridiculous that Joe Biden is trying to stop governors from doing everything
00:23:52.000they can to protect their citizens. It's also nothing new.
00:23:55.000Biden was part of the administration that sued me when I passed one of the toughest anti-illegal
00:23:57.000immigration laws in the country as governor of South Carolina. And the reason I point this out
00:24:01.000is because when it comes to the 2024 GOP nomination race, let's be clear about this. There are no
00:24:06.000open borders candidates in the race and there really haven't been throughout this entire Republican
00:24:11.000Donald Trump did come out late yesterday with a couple of statements on Truth Social.
00:24:15.000He said, When I was president, we had the most secure border in history.
00:24:18.000Joe Biden has surrendered our border and is aiding and abetting a massive invasion of millions of illegal migrants into the United States.
00:24:23.000Instead of fighting to protect our country from this onslaught, Biden is unbelievably fighting to tie the hands of Governor Abbott and the state of Texas so that the invasion continues unchecked.
00:24:31.000In the face of this national security, public safety, and public health catastrophe, Texas has rightly invoked the Invasion Clause of the Constitution and must be given full support to repel the invasion.
00:24:39.000We encourage all willing states to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of illegals and to remove them back across the border.
00:24:46.000Now again, that's an extension beyond even what Texas is doing right now.
00:24:48.000Texas is not actively removing people back across the border.
00:24:51.000Once they get in, they're presumably being turned over to border patrol.
00:24:55.000But that is what Texas will have to do or will have to be will have to make that case to the Supreme Court that they
00:25:29.000Trump term one, and presumably a prospective Trump term two, the people who make policy in the Trump administration are going to do a pretty good job.
00:25:37.000And that is true when it comes to illegal immigration above all other matters.
00:25:41.000Again, having spoken to Border Patrol agents, and you can see us talk about it, again, at the DW Plus documentary that we just made about this, that you should go check out right now, become a subscriber, and you can see all of it.
00:25:50.000The policy radically shifted from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
00:25:53.000Joe Biden came in, he got rid of all the policies, and that is why you have a wide open border.
00:25:57.000We'll get some more on this in just one second.
00:25:59.000First, according to Forbes, January is the hottest month for hiring.
00:26:56.000ZipRecruiter is indeed the smartest way to hire.
00:26:59.000Meanwhile, it's amazing how Democrats have shifted their own positions on the border over time.
00:27:05.000It really is truly an incredible thing.
00:27:07.000So, here is Joe Biden back in 2007, talking about sanctuary cities.
00:27:12.000Again, when people talk about bipartisan polarization in the United States, something that is worth noting here, the Republican Party has not actually gotten more right-wing on anything my entire life.
00:27:22.000In fact, they've gotten more left-wing on a wide variety of issues, ranging from, say, gay marriage to things like federal spending.
00:27:31.000The only area where they seem to have even held the line is on immigration.
00:27:35.000Democrats are the ones who have had an asymmetric polarization.
00:27:37.000Democrats have moved radically to the left on every issue.
00:27:39.000Here's a person you might recall from when he was sentient, Joe Biden, talking in 2007 about sanctuary cities.
00:27:45.000Would you allow these cities to ignore the federal law regarding the reporting of illegal immigrants and, in fact, provide sanctuary to these immigrants?
00:27:55.000The reason that cities ignore the federal law is the fact that there is no funding at the federal level to provide for the kind of enforcement at the federal level you need.
00:28:21.000Part of the problem is, you have to have a federal government that can enforce laws.
00:28:25.000This administration has been fundamentally derelict in not funding any of the requirements that are needed even to enforce the existing law.
00:28:33.000So, Senator Biden, yes or no, would you allow the cities to ignore the federal law?
00:29:05.000So much so that a top ICE official named Patrick Leichleitner actually had his chief of staff meet with abolished borders activists and then had to defend that the other day.
00:29:29.000So, the ICE Chief of Staff Michael Lumpkin, he's a great partner.
00:29:34.000So he came on, he's a great partner with me.
00:29:37.000We meet with as many parties on either side of the aisle as possible to get everyone's take on this.
00:29:43.000We're mission focused and mission oriented and we support our workforce as much as possible to get the mission done.
00:29:49.000And absolutely not, it's not out of the normal to be with various organizations that are more aggressive on immigration or want to be less aggressive on immigration.
00:29:59.000We need to make sure we understand the dialogue so that we can communicate with folks and explain kind of where we're coming from as an operational component.
00:30:11.000Abolished Borders activists do not need to be meeting with ICE.
00:30:14.000They don't need to be meeting with the Department of Homeland Security.
00:30:16.000Their goal is to ignore the law and eviscerate the law.
00:30:19.000Again, one of the things we saw down at the border when we were in Arizona Signs of so-called humanitarian groups literally directing illegal immigrants away from law enforcement.
00:30:30.000People leaving in the desert bottles of water, by the way, not by the ports of entry, not by the places where only the sort of civilian illegal immigrants are going.
00:30:41.000A criminal places where criminally illegal immigrants are the most likely to be actually getting those bottles of water as they run into the country.
00:30:50.000Nobody is suggesting anything remotely like that.
00:30:52.000But if you want to facilitate human suffering, let the drug cartels continue to do what they are doing.
00:30:55.000They are earning tens of billions of dollars every single year via illegal immigration and drug smuggling at these borders.
00:31:03.000So Democrats have now been left with a final attempted move here before they have to cave on this thing.
00:31:08.000And that is they're going to try to pretend that they are willing to compromise on the border when they really are not.
00:31:13.000And there are some Republicans who are willing to help them out in this, Mitt Romney being the most prominent among them.
00:31:17.000So here's Kamala Harris making this case.
00:31:19.000She says that there's a congressional negotiation going on.
00:31:21.000It's been going on for months at this point.
00:31:23.000It's a congressional negotiation over a $105 billion bill that will provide $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, military aid to Ukraine, some $14 billion in military aid to Israel, a little bit of military aid to Taiwan, and some border money.
00:31:36.000The problem is that all of the provisions on the border are really, really soft.
00:31:41.000As Andy McCarthy has pointed out, the Republicans in the Senate have negotiated a truly bad piece of legislation.
00:31:48.000According to McCarthy's back in December, he says what's reportedly being discussed is a triggering mechanism that would empower government agents to close the border to illegal immigrants.
00:31:57.000Not surprisingly, Democrats do not want border closure triggered until 5,000 aliens have crossed.
00:32:05.000That's what Democrats were looking for in this negotiation.
00:32:08.000Republicans have signaled they would agree to 3,000 border crossings a day.
00:32:12.000Let me just point out at this point, 3,000 border crossings a day would be 1.1 million people crossing the border over the course of a year.
00:32:20.000That's what Republicans were seeking to do as a compromise with Democrats.
00:32:24.000Now again, Joe Biden does not need additional authority to do any of this.
00:32:28.000Joe Biden could simply declare that he is going to pursue a Remain in Mexico policy, that everyone who crosses the border will be detained until they actually have a date in court, no matter how long that takes.
00:32:41.000These Republicans have not pursued the stuff that Democrats are unwilling to sign off on include, for example, a provision that requires that if somebody shows up at the border and claims asylum, they have to show by a preponderance of the evidence that they actually will get asylum.
00:32:56.000Otherwise, they'll be immediately deported.
00:32:58.000Now, that seems perfectly reasonable to me.
00:33:18.000The federal government has the power to declare who can get asylum and who cannot get asylum.
00:33:23.000There's no unspecified right that attaches to foreign citizens of other countries who simply declare things without any evidence.
00:33:31.000In any case, here is Kamala Harris pretending that because Republicans are not caving on this border deal, it's Republicans' fault that the border is open.
00:33:53.000And I will tell you that This is first of all not a new issue but sadly it has become so deeply partisan and the subject of then political gamesmanship when in fact the solutions are at hand and we offered a solution early on and invited bipartisan work let's work on it to fix this and in fact we have right now a proposal for fourteen billion dollars
00:34:23.000So that we can put more resources to address this very situation.
00:34:28.000And we hope and are really trying to compel, in particular, some of the Republicans in Congress to participate in the solution.
00:34:39.000But sadly, you know, we want to fix it.
00:34:51.000They want more administrative law judges to allow people into the country more easily and more resources at the border patrol stations for detention processing.
00:35:22.000I'd be in favor of some sort of grabbing as much of the law as you can right now, regardless of the election, because you gotta grab what you can grab when you can grab it, because you just don't know how the election's gonna go.
00:35:31.000But the bill that is being proposed right now, at least the details that have been leaked out, are bad.
00:35:36.000But here's Mitt Romney trying to, I guess, jump on the Democratic bandwagon, Captain Inflation Reduction Act over here.
00:35:42.000Jumping on the Democratic bandwagon as per usual arrangement.
00:35:46.000Do you think this is what he wants, the issue, Donald Trump?
00:35:50.000I think the border is a very important issue for Donald Trump.
00:35:55.000And the fact that he would communicate to Republican senators and congresspeople that he doesn't want us to solve the border problem because he wants to blame Biden for it is really appalling.
00:36:08.000But the reality is that We have a crisis at the border.
00:36:12.000The American people are suffering as a result of what's happening at the border.
00:36:17.000And someone running for president ought to try and get the problem solved, as opposed to saying, hey, save that problem.
00:36:25.000Okay, again, the problem is not getting solved by the legislation presented by the Senate, and it will die in the House anyway.
00:36:31.000In just one second, we'll get to this purported House negotiations and Senate negotiations in just one second.
00:36:36.000First, America, as you know, as we are talking about, is experiencing an unprecedented border invasion.
00:36:42.000Millions of illegal immigrants are flooding over our border under the Biden administration's watch, facilitated by the Biden administration.
00:36:48.000Texas is shouldering the fight against the surge, but Arizona's governor, Katie Hobbs, she's remained eerily silent throughout all of this.
00:36:54.000Now, as I'm telling you, I personally traveled to Arizona to see one of the highest traffic points on the southern border.
00:36:59.000It's like the number one place where fentanyl crosses the border.
00:37:01.000What we found is absolutely shocking and criminal.
00:37:46.000Join me on the ground as I bring you the real world consequences of one of the most destructive presidencies in American history.
00:37:52.000Watch Invasion on the Southern Border, streaming right now over at Daily Wire+.
00:37:56.000So meanwhile, again, the media are trying to drive a sentiment that it's really Republicans who are standing in the way of the border issue.
00:38:44.000But they're trying to blame Trump for no more border negotiation or something like that.
00:38:50.000The White House is still hopeful a deal could be struck.
00:38:53.000On the Hill, negotiators spent a frantic day trying to salvage talks after it was reported on late Wednesday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was bowing to Trump's desires to dissolve the border deal.
00:39:01.000The following day, McConnell clarified he still supports pursuing border security linked to Ukraine funding, though he and other top Republicans weren't able to entirely assuage murmurs that a deal is on its deathbed.
00:39:12.000Democrats were quick to accuse Trump of trying to perpetuate a crisis at the border for political gain.
00:39:16.000The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee said Senate Republicans are, quote, tanking a border deal for political reasons, but the White House did not join the chorus.
00:39:22.000They felt it was imprudent to join the fray.
00:39:24.000Well, it is imprudent to join the fray because everyone's just going to point out what I did, which is you don't need a border deal to close the border.
00:39:29.000You got all the laws on the books you already need.
00:39:33.000The other thing here is that, again, if Joe Biden just caved here, if he just caved, he would get his Ukraine funding, which supposedly he wants.
00:39:41.000McConnell, for his part, there was suggestion that he had basically killed the deal himself because he sees there's not enough support in the House to actually pass the deal.
00:39:50.000But apparently, on Thursday, he said he still supports a border security deal linked to Ukraine aid.
00:39:55.000So, at a tail end of the Senate GOP's last meeting of the week, McConnell removed doubts.
00:39:59.000He said he's still forcefully pushing a deal that would pair new border and immigration restrictions with money for Ukraine.
00:40:04.000But that's not actually going to solve the problem because it still has to pass in the House.
00:40:10.000We don't even know what this border compromise even looks like at this point.
00:40:14.000So before we can make a judgment as to whether Republicans should sign on to it in the House and Senate, we have to find out what it looks like.
00:40:20.000And the bottom line is this, even if they sign on to the border compromise, Joe Biden is still responsible for what goes on the border, because again, he already has all the legal authority.
00:41:42.000On and on about why I didn't send in security to the Capitol on January 6th.
00:41:50.000He said it over and over and over and over again.
00:41:54.000I mean, somebody's got to tell him I wasn't there on January 6th.
00:42:00.000I've never been at the Capitol working at a job like that, but I think he was a bit confused, and so we'll let that pass.
00:42:07.000Okay, so again, Donald Trump should just ignore Nikki Haley.
00:42:09.000I mean, the more he pays attention to Nikki Haley and the more the RNC tries to preemptively declare the race over, which casts attention, and Nikki Haley, the worse it is for Donald Trump.
00:42:17.000Which Trump, I think, knows, which is why he told the RNC to stick it.
00:42:19.000He was like, listen, I don't need you to pass a resolution here, guys.
00:42:22.000Like, I already know that I have this wrapped up.
00:42:23.000Don't need you to preemptively crown me king.
00:42:26.000Chip Roy, of course, who's right on most of these issues.
00:42:34.000Like, if Trump is going to win the nomination anyway, why are we doing this?
00:42:37.000Well, first let me say that I think, Nicky, with all due respect, he kind of represents that old guard of the Republican Party that I just was kind of lambasting that's big spending and all defense and, you know, endless wars.
00:42:48.000I think we need to move a different direction.
00:42:49.000I think President Trump represented in 2016 a challenge to the establishment, a, you know, challenge to drain the swamp.
00:42:56.000But I don't think we should be coronating somebody.
00:44:21.000Okay, people keep pretending that he's not in decline.
00:44:24.000Again, I played a clip earlier of him talking about the border.
00:44:28.000thanks for the Great Lakes. I wonder why he's coming. My professor, uh, well, I won't get into
00:44:34.000my professor. Well, look, my predecessor, though. Okay, people keep pretending that he's not in
00:44:42.000decline. Again, I played a clip earlier of him talking about the border. Forget about the content
00:44:46.000of what he's saying. I just want to play that again for you.
00:44:49.000Because the contrast between Joe Biden 2024 and Joe Biden 2007 is pretty strong for people who do not believe in decline in elderly age for Joe Biden.
00:44:59.000And here is Joe Biden, this is again, like 17 years ago.
00:45:05.000The reason that cities ignore the federal law is the fact that there is no funding at the federal level to provide for the kind of enforcement at the federal level you need.
00:45:37.000But according to Kamala Harris, it's because they haven't taken adequate credit.
00:45:39.000This is one of my favorite political lines.
00:45:41.000There are certain political lines you hear a lot, like when somebody retires from office for a scandal, they say they want to spend more time with their family.
00:45:47.000You're retiring because you were banging a hooker.
00:45:50.000And one of the other favorite political lines is, the reason we're unpopular is because people just don't understand what we're doing enough.
00:46:41.000Jon Stewart is six years younger than my father.
00:46:43.000Jon Stewart is like a decade older than Nikki Haley and two decades older than Ron DeSantis.
00:46:51.000Jon Stewart is in fact a senior citizen.
00:46:54.000And that guy, they're rolling him back out as though he's the voice of a generation over at The Daily Show because The Daily Show has been a crap show ever since Jon Stewart left.
00:47:03.000Now, there's something to point out here.
00:47:05.000One, they're rolling Jon Stewart out as though he's a trustworthy source.
00:47:08.000He's had a show on Apple TV for the last year and it's like literally one of the worst things.
00:48:02.000And it was really obnoxious and really ugly.
00:48:05.000But I want to be clear about something.
00:48:07.000Jon Stewart, as a singular media figure, did more over the course of the first decade of the 21st century to destroy actual political media in this country More than anyone else.
00:49:06.000And Jon Stewart in 2004 is during the 2004 race between George W. Bush and John Kerry.
00:49:11.000And Jon Stewart went on a show that was known as Crossfire.
00:49:14.000For those who don't remember kind of media history, Crossfire was a show on CNN that starred Tucker Carlson in a much earlier iteration of Tucker Carlson.
00:49:20.000This is bowtie Tucker Carlson versus Paul Begala, who was a Democratic consultant originally for Bill Clinton.
00:49:26.000And they would basically get on the air and they would debate issues every day.
00:49:29.000And Jon Stewart, who was a comedian playing the clown nose on, clown nose off routine, he goes on CNN and he then proceeds to say that these two are ruining the country for having what was effectively a civil debate about the issues, they were ruining the country.
00:49:44.000And here is Jon Stewart wrecking Crossfire.
00:49:47.000Again, that was a place where people just had a discussion from different sides of the aisle.
00:49:50.000You can't see a show like this anymore.
00:49:52.000There used to be lots of shows like this.
00:49:53.000There was a show on Fox, it used to be called Hannity and Combs.
00:49:56.000Right. A generation ago, Alan Colm's dropped off.
00:51:39.000And again, it's not as though we were at the peak of television politics.
00:51:44.000The Firing Line was a significantly better show than Crossfire.
00:51:47.000Because William F. Buckley was frankly much more intelligent than anyone in politics for a very long time, but John Stewart ripping down Crossfire was in fact one of the signal media moments in American history.
00:51:59.000I made a special effort to come on the show today because I have privately amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and television shows mentioned this show as being bad.
00:52:15.000And I wanted to... I felt that that wasn't fair and I should come here and tell you that I don't... It's not so much that it's bad as it's hurting America.
00:52:24.000So I wanted to come here today and say... Here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.
00:52:27.000Just let me hear, here's just what I wanted to tell you guys.
00:53:30.000But what he is doing in that particular clip is really dishonest.
00:53:33.000What he is saying is that you guys, you're, you're just, you're helping the politicians because instead of just having a debate, you're actually helping the politicians by being partisan hacks.
00:53:42.000Well, What you are basically saying is that one side deserves defense and the other side deserves mockery, which was actually Jon Stewart's model.
00:53:51.000So now they're bringing him back from the dead and they're going to have him on, I guess, once a week on Mondays to talk about the election and make the country worse again.
00:54:00.000But I think it is worthwhile to point out that nearly all political commentary on cable TV has now become Jon Stewart.
00:54:06.000Jon Stewart turned everybody into Jon Stewart.
00:54:09.000Virtually every mainstream political commentator on TV Now does this model.
00:54:15.000If you pick up a show on CNN, MSNBC, or even Fox News right now, if you watch those shows, you're very unlikely to see in-depth political commentary.
00:54:21.000What you're much more likely to see is somebody doing a quasi-comedic monologue with a pick-and-pick where somebody makes a face.
00:54:30.000Everyone turned to Jon Stewart because of Jon Stewart.
00:55:26.000This behind me right here, this is the International Bridge leading into Mexico, and this park has been the epicenter of this feud between the state of Texas and Governor Abbott and the federal government.
00:55:37.000Of course, we had this Supreme Court ruling just this week, and we've had this ongoing struggle over whether or not the state of Texas can put up razor wire to deter migrants coming in.
00:55:47.000So the state of Texas can, in fact, they've not been ordered not to take the razor wire and put it there.
00:55:51.000It's just that they can't stop the federal government from dismantling the razor wire.
00:55:55.000If Border Patrol wants to go and dismantle the razor wire, then the state of Texas, according to the Supreme Court, has to let them go and do that.
00:56:01.000This all seems to be coming to a head because, of course, Governor Abbott has now suggested that he is going to not only continue to erect razor wire, but also maybe take other measures.
00:56:10.000The reality is, of course, until Texas comes up with a mechanism for expelling people back to Mexico, That razor wire can only stop people theoretically from crossing the border.
00:56:23.000So we're seeing two different types of wire that they're using here on the border.
00:56:26.000And this is right on the banks of the Rio Grande, spanning the entire length of this park.
00:56:31.000So they've got shipping containers, and on top of those shipping containers, they have actual full-fledged razor wire.
00:56:36.000And then on the ground, they've got something called triple-strand concertina wire, which is similar but a little bit different.
00:56:41.000And all this is to serve as a deterrent And of course, what the Supreme Court has ruled, as you stated, is that Border Patrol can cut through this wire.
00:57:01.000And really, it's just Texas authorities and certain members of the media that are being let in.
00:57:06.000But beyond that, All these entrances are very much sealed by Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety.
00:57:14.000So what are you hearing from members of Border Patrol or anyone else over there about that standoff, which really doesn't seem to be at the razor wire itself.
00:57:22.000It seems to be at the entry to the park.
00:57:28.000There's been a little bit of confusion because we actually have seen some Border Patrol vehicles entering the park.
00:57:33.000And something interesting here is that there's a boat ramp.
00:57:36.000So they are allowing limited access to Border Patrol so they can use this boat ramp.
00:57:40.000But beyond that, I really haven't seen any interaction between members of Border Patrol and members of these Texas authorities.
00:57:46.000So the conflict really does seem relegated to, of course, the media and the courts and this wider political struggle.
00:57:52.000But here on the ground, There really isn't too much tension between these two groups.
00:57:56.000And we know today that there was an ultimatum, a deadline really, that was set saying that Border Patrol must be given access to the park.
00:58:04.000From what I've seen on the ground here, there doesn't seem to be much confidence that the federal government is actually going to be taking much in the way of action if that deadline is not met.
00:58:13.000So, have you seen a lot of illegal immigrants at the actual border itself?
00:58:17.000What's the status of the actual, you know, what are you seeing there?
00:58:22.000So it certainly seems that these fortifications have worked.
00:58:25.000I came here in May in 2023 and it was a wildly different scene.
00:58:29.000We saw really this was publicly accessible and you could go really almost all the way up to the border and you did see people coming in.
00:58:38.000There's videos that have circulated of Dozens, even hundreds of people coming in through this crossing.
00:58:43.000But right now we're not seeing very much the wave crossings.
00:58:46.000There was recently just a dam that let more water flow down the Rio Grande.
00:58:50.000So this increased water, this increased rising water level is suppressing some of that turnout from the migrants.
00:58:57.000But at the same time, we do know that the actions from DPS and the National Guard are Cutting back on the number of crossings that they're seeing.
00:59:05.000Just last night, I actually obtained a video where a Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard worked together to apprehend some illegal migrants, and they actually arrested and imprisoned those who came here.
00:59:29.000Presumably they would be, if convicted, held in a domestic American prison or turned over to the federal government if immigration status was checked, which I assume it will be.
00:59:38.000And so the question then is what the federal government does with them.
00:59:41.000Do you have any status or what is the plan with those particular people?
00:59:45.000So that is one of the sticking points right now.
00:59:47.000Like you said, these people that are being taken to local domestic jails, domestic prisons.
00:59:53.000So we don't know exactly where these people are going to end up, but we do know that They're going out of their way, the Texas authorities that is, to not just hand these people over to Border Patrol.
01:00:02.000Because they know that if they do hand them over to Border Patrol, what will likely happen is they'll be processed, they may be handed off to an NGO that will allow them to fly throughout the rest of the country.
01:00:12.000So there are specific actions that are being taken by Texas authorities to make sure that these people do not be handed over to Border Patrol for that reason, for the fear that they will just be processed and allowed into the interior.
01:00:25.000So obviously this situation continues to be very fluid on the ground.
01:00:29.000We're going to have to come back to you for updates as you gain any more information.
01:00:33.000What are you hearing from the various sides of this debate on the ground?
01:00:37.000You said that there seems to be mostly confusion on the ground.
01:00:39.000What are you hearing from Texas state authorities as well as the Border Patrol and the federal authorities?
01:00:46.000Well, it certainly seems that Texas DPS and National Guard are set on maintaining their fortifications here.
01:00:53.000Just last night, I saw engineers with the National Guard putting up more razor wire.
01:00:57.000So, they certainly have no intention of backing down, no intention of taking down this razor wire, and it doesn't seem that they have any intention of letting Border Patrol take control of the park either.
01:01:06.000So, it seems that Texas is digging in their heels, and it's certainly going to be interesting to watch how this situation progresses in the coming days.
01:01:13.000That's Spencer Lindquist reporting from the border.
01:01:15.000Spencer, really appreciate your time and thanks for your insight on the ground.
01:01:20.000Okay, in just one second, we're going to jump into the latest news from the International Court of Justice, which has now ruled kind of against Israel, kind of not against Israel.