00:01:03.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:01:38.000You can check out his website, ToddBensman.com, currently serves as Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies.
00:01:50.000So, Todd, how bad is it right now on the southern border?
00:01:54.000Well, appearances are not reality at the border.
00:01:58.000The administration is spiking the football in the end zone and taking victory laps, saying that the numbers of illegal crossings is down.
00:02:08.000And it is true that the number of illegal crossings are down, which gives the appearance of kind of orderliness at the border.
00:02:16.000But what they won't tell you is that by the percentage of decline, that same number is being brought through the ports of entry with permission slips that they're handing out by the buckets, by the dump truck load to anybody who applies.
00:02:35.000So they're handing out probably something on the order of 1 million of those in the course over the course of a year.
00:02:43.000So the same high numbers, 200,000 a month, are still entering the country, but they're just being diverted through this other kind of pathway.
00:02:52.000They call it legal orderly pathways is actually the term for this.
00:03:00.000But the cities like Chicago and New York and Washington and everywhere else, all they know is that there's all these people are coming in that are uninsured and needy and going into their school systems and getting onto the public roles and filling up hotel space and all the rest.
00:03:19.000Just the way that they're entering looks like it's fewer, but it's the same.
00:03:25.000How many have entered it this year illegally into our country?
00:03:28.000It's hard to say, but altogether, we think that there are probably on the order of four and a half million people, new people have entered and been allowed to stay in the United States since Biden's inauguration.
00:03:43.000There have been some changes recently in policy.
00:03:46.000Title 42 went away and it only went away in mid-May.
00:03:51.000So we don't have a really good figure on how many are entering, mainly because the dump truck loads of passes that they're handing out on the Mexican side, they're not telling us how many.
00:04:11.000Nobody's demanding the numbers really.
00:04:15.000Up until yesterday at the hearing with my orcas, he was being asked how many.
00:04:20.000They're also flying probably, we think on the order of 40,000 a month from foreign airports into American airports directly through ports of entry.
00:04:33.000So we think about 80,000 a month, maybe 100,000 a month are being brought in just in these two hidden ways.
00:04:41.000So, you know, I do have a FOIA request that has been ignored and we are suing the Center for Immigration Studies has a federal lawsuit to get those numbers.
00:04:54.000We were told in our last round of meetings with the DHS lawyers that we may actually get the data in another week or two.
00:05:04.000So once we actually have hands on the data, I'll be able to give you a good answer to that.
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00:07:12.000And our immigration laws are not virtuous.
00:07:15.000Our immigration laws are cruel and inhumane and have to be ignored.
00:07:19.000So this administration is the first one ever in the history of the country to just simply decouple itself from congressionally mandated statutes to detain and deport.
00:07:30.000They just decided we are not going to do it.
00:07:33.000We are going to ignore the 1996 law signed by a Democrat, Bill Clinton.
00:07:42.000And our own thing is we're going to just invent out of whole cloth these massive new admittance programs outside of any authority of Congress, meaning we're going to fly them in from airports to airport and we're going to escort them in over the bridges with these entry permits.
00:08:06.000Sooner or later, courts are going to strike that down.
00:08:10.000I believe that they want to do this because there's money in it.
00:08:15.000The migrant advocacy industrial complex, as I call it in the book, makes money when they have to step forward to help the administration manage the crisis that they engineered and that they built because the DHS finds that we can't handle all of these problems that come with our policies.
00:08:43.000So we are going to let $150 million contract to Catholic charities to help us.
00:08:48.000We're going to let $500 million for this charity, for that charity, for monies to go out.
00:08:58.000It would be as if the industrial, like the defense industry that makes bullets and bombs were to take charge of our diplomacy, national diplomacy, we would never see a day of peace.
00:09:11.000It would be just war all day every year as we're making money.
00:09:14.000And that's what I think is really driving it on kind of old school journalism that way.
00:09:20.000People lobby and obtain their policies that benefit them financially.
00:09:29.000It's the same old story, in my opinion, on that.
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00:10:37.000So, Todd, what could Texas do if anything?
00:10:40.000Because they've been awfully weak on this.
00:10:42.000You know, they have something in the river.
00:10:44.000Why is Texas so passive with the routine invasion of our country?
00:10:48.000Yeah, up until recently, the Governor Greg Abbott's passivity had to do with just kind of a natural conservative.
00:10:58.000He's a lawyer and he doesn't want to lose litigation that would reflect poorly on him politically.
00:11:07.000But I will say that the governor has in more recent months, starting like in May, has gotten aggressive with new tactics down there where he's having the Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard string razor wire up and then like NFL linemen block these immigrants at the riverbank so that they can't pass.
00:11:32.000And then as they traverse along looking for a hole, the troops, you know, kind of follow them along and don't let them in.
00:11:38.000And I was just down there a week or two ago and I watched it happen.
00:11:42.000I mean, that they were returning to Mexico, large numbers of them.
00:11:47.000And that's a new tactic that they're doing.
00:11:49.000They've actually really fortified in depth this one really busy sector, the Del Rio sector in Texas.
00:12:00.000But what's undermining about it is that the Biden administration's border patrol agents are under orders to find them and bring them in past the Texans.
00:12:12.000and then let them loose into the country.
00:12:14.000So these two agencies have polar opposite agendas and policies that are kind of undermining each other at the same time.
00:12:23.000And part of what you're seeing is that with the water barrier, it was part of what Greg Abbott's new sort of in-depth fortifications that they're trying out down there.
00:12:33.000And so the Biden administration has now moved it to the next level and they're suing the state under various grounds to try to get rid of it, which always tells me that they must be worried that it's going to work.
00:12:46.000So it's very interesting what's going on.
00:12:49.000Ultimately, what people on Abbott's right want most is to see him not just block them at the river, but to round them up and bring them back to Mexico.
00:13:06.000He's still just not quite willing to do that.
00:13:08.000Now, their claim is that they believe that they don't really have the authority.
00:13:13.000They have to declare an invasion title.
00:13:16.000Wait, why hasn't he declared an invasion, though?
00:13:18.000He won't do it because he doesn't feel like they have the legal grounds to do it and that the Texas troopers that are ordered to do that could be arrested for kidnapping.
00:13:33.000So what would constitute an invasion due to the brilliant legal mind of Greg Abbott?
00:13:38.000And who would arrest them for kidnapping?
00:14:24.000No, you know, listen, these are legal arguments that have not been thoroughly articulated by the Abbott administration, but some of it has leaked out.
00:14:38.000I'm in touch with some of the people that are on the inside over there.
00:14:42.000And they really do feel like the feds would have grounds to arrest their troopers for kidnapping and prosecuting.