As always, we break down for you the disastrous, abysmal, the abominable, the very bad border bill that should be titled the "invasion authorization act." We go through point by point explaining just how godawful this thing really is, and as bad as you might have heard that it is, it's even worse. Buckle up.
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00:00:15.000As always, we break down for you the disastrous, the abysmal, the abominable, very bad border bill that should be titled the Invasion Authorization Act.
00:00:28.000We go through point by point explaining just how god-awful this thing really is.
00:00:34.000And as bad as you might have heard that it is, it's even worse.
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00:03:02.000The Republicans have been around for 150 years.
00:03:06.000Reading through it, and we'll get into all of the details over the course of this hour and in the next hour, but you get the feeling reading this.
00:03:15.000You can kind of have two interpretations of it.
00:03:17.000One is that Senator Lankford and his staff, they might have just been, like, Democrats ran circles around them.
00:03:26.000Like, the Democrats know more about border policy, and so they know what they can insert into the bill that will be helpful to them.
00:03:34.000And maybe the staff for Senator Lankford or other senators are like, well, this seems like a good idea.
00:03:43.000But maybe that's just us trying to find a way to cope with this because the alternative is that this is a sinister piece of legislation.
00:03:51.000And that if they know what they're doing, they are definitely selling out their constituents.
00:03:57.000They're basically selling out the country.
00:04:00.000And you just don't want to think, would they deliberately do this?
00:04:03.000Would a senator from Oklahoma, one of the reddest states, one of the most MAGA states, one of the states that most wants us to secure the border, would their senator just go and do this?
00:05:47.000I saw a tweet from Molly Hemingway last night where she basically, as soon as she saw it, she said, Senator Lankford should resign in disgrace and give Governor Stitt another chance to appoint somebody that actually represents the great state of Oklahoma.
00:06:04.000And we've had Governor Stitt on the show recently.
00:06:07.000Great man, great patriot, rock rib conservative.
00:06:22.000McConnell put Lankford in the negotiating seat because he's got five years left until he gets reelected.
00:06:30.000And they're banking on the fact that Oklahomans and Americans have a short memory and they will forget this and they will forgive it and they'll just re-elect him like business as usual.
00:06:39.000That's exactly the way the game was played.
00:06:42.000He was chosen on purpose and I want everybody to internalize that, that you have a party that is not an opposition party in D.C. that put their puppet, Lankford, up on this, in this position on purpose because he would tow the party line.
00:06:57.000He would get the deal for Ukraine and we would be American last all over again.
00:07:01.000And then he'd have five years to let everybody forgive and forget and move on.
00:07:05.000Well, I'm sorry, that's not going to happen this time.
00:07:08.000And a friend of mine made the argument when I was talking about this with him that it's more treacherous than it seems at first because so far, Speaker Johnson has, to his credit, said this bill is dead on arrival in the House.
00:07:22.000And as long as he remains Speaker, then we have no reason to think this will pass.
00:07:26.000But even if it doesn't pass, the situation we're setting up is if the Senate approves this bill and a bunch of Republicans, McConnell, Lankford, maybe two dozen others, if they sign on to this, they're making it so the border crisis, which has been so bad that even the mainstream press has to cover it, that they'll pass this and then they'll say, well, there's this bipartisan bill in the Senate that Biden says he will sign that's going to fix all of this.
00:07:56.000But intransigent Republicans in the House are refusing to act.
00:08:00.000They just want the crisis to continue.
00:08:21.000That will damage his campaign by trying to shift the border crisis so they can bizarrely blame it on Donald Trump, on conservative Republicans, who are the only ones who have been wanting to fix this crisis that has been going on for years on end.
00:08:38.000So what this is, is everything that we have said on this show, everything that Charlie has said on this show about the Uniparty, about controlled opposition, about America last versus America first.
00:08:52.000This is coming to fruition in this bill.
00:08:56.000There's no clearer picture that I've ever seen.
00:08:59.000And so instead of protecting our borders, instead of actually dealing with the crisis at hand, they want to go spend billions abroad so that it's an extortion racket on the American people to get us to spend $60 billion on a quagmire against Putin bad.
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00:13:08.000It's the disdain to pass a bill that will not help them and will essentially only help people coming to invade and sponge off and dispossess them.
00:13:20.000And then also the contempt latent in just putting this forward and essentially thinking we can ram this through.
00:13:28.000We can lie to you about what's in it and just pass it.
00:13:32.000And what are you going to do about it?
00:13:34.000Are you going to remember to primary us in five years?
00:13:52.000The central concept of this bill is it creates an emergency authority for the executive branch, the president, to act on the border if there's a border emergency as they declare it.
00:14:04.000Now, first of all, there's no requirement to declare it.
00:14:07.000The president can just, whenever he wants, he doesn't have to declare an emergency.
00:14:11.000There's never something where he's legally compelled to do it.
00:14:40.000So the basic concept of this is already false from the get-go.
00:14:46.000And on that point, Blake, I think it's really important to state that one of the big, if we're going to have a silver lining here, it's the fact that this bill admitted from the jump, even when we got the leaked rough outline of this bill, is that it admitted that you could turn the border on and off like a switch, that they could essentially control the inflow of illegals to 5,000 a day, or then if we have a surge, we could then turn it off for a number of days.
00:15:13.000The power is completely within their ability right now.
00:15:17.000And actually, you know, kudos to Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:15:20.000He's actually been very, very good on this.
00:15:21.000We've been tough on Mike Johnson on this show, but he's been very, very good on the fact that this bill A is dead on arrival, but B, that the president has currently all the authority he's needed, right, to get this done.
00:15:35.000As a matter of fact, there was about 60 different things that Speaker Mike Johnson has outlined as soon as Biden came into office that he immediately put into place a reverse Trump era policies to start the border invasion.
00:15:50.000He's the one who created the problem, and he is the one that has the power to stop the problem.
00:15:56.000And actually, Trump is also, and you just outlined one of the examples here, but there's multiple, and we will go through them.
00:16:26.000So it's all so much kabuki theater, as the metaphor goes, that they do all of the song and dance about securing the border, emergency authorizations, and it's all elaborate stuff to make it seem like they're really busy.
00:16:42.000When, as Stephen Miller has pointed out, it's really simple what you need to do.
00:16:47.000You could pass a one-page bill to secure the border.
00:16:50.000It's all of this complexity that allows them to get away with it.
00:16:53.000And we'll be getting into that into the next segment.
00:16:55.000But that's like the first thing to start with, is that it creates an emergency authority over the border that is fake.
00:17:01.000And the only accomplishment of this emergency authority is that it's allowed to kick in when illegal entries are at a rate above 1.8 million per year, which is the record before Biden was president.
00:17:13.000So it sets the Biden-era flood as like a baseline for immigration.
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00:18:34.000There's some breaking news in the break.
00:18:37.000The House Republican leadership just released a statement on the Senate immigration bill.
00:18:42.000And I think it's actually worth reading because it hits some of the, I would say, like three or four buckets of why this bill is so disastrous.
00:19:05.000Quote, House Republicans oppose the Senate immigration bill because it fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration.
00:19:17.000Among its many flaws, the bill expands work authorizations for illegal aliens while failing to include critical asylum reforms.
00:19:25.000Even worse, its language allows legals to be released from physical custody, which would effectively endorse the Biden catch and release policy.
00:19:35.000The so-called shutdown authority in the bill is anything but riddled with loopholes that grant far too much power and discretionary authority to Secretary Alejandro Mallorcas, who has proven he will exploit every measure possible in defiance of the law to keep the border open.
00:19:54.000The bill also fails to adequately stop the president's abuse of parole authority and provides for taxpayer funds to fly and house illegal immigrants in hotels through the FEMA Shelter and Services Program.
00:20:09.000It goes on for a little bit and then it ends.
00:20:29.000I don't, I'm hoping that this means this isn't going to become law.
00:20:32.000There's still the danger that the press will use this to just sabotage the 2024 election, boost the Biden administration, but that's not as bad as this actual bill becoming law.
00:20:44.000But, you know, they'll still try to pass it.
00:20:46.000There's, we have a narrow majority in the House.
00:20:48.000There's always a chance something comes to pass.
00:20:51.000There's, yeah, there's always a chance something can happen.
00:20:53.000And just so that the audience is clear, this does need to get 60 votes in the Senate, right?
00:20:57.000So 41 senators can basically cause this to not go forward, right?
00:21:04.000But when you have Schumer, Lankford, you know, maybe Thune, some of McConnell's closest allies getting behind this bill, I mean, it's going to get close, certainly.
00:21:17.000We've seen Mike Lee, we've seen some others kind of stand up against this.
00:22:21.000In the midst of your processing, which could be several years, you get an immediate work authorization, right?
00:22:28.000We have to bring these people out of the shadows.
00:22:30.000But what that is, is the magnet to draw even more people here because they know that the system's gamed.
00:22:35.000Stephen Miller made a great point on Twitter I saw, and I think it's worth reiterating here that complexity is the ally of the lawyers and the open borders advocates.
00:22:54.000And when you add complexity to a lot of authority to Alejandro Mallorcas and discretionary authority, you're asking for a situation where they not only have the discretion, but they have the complexity to game the system even further.
00:23:12.000So, and then contrarily, simplicity is the friend of secure borders and sovereignty and deportation.
00:23:21.000If you wanted to secure the border, you just pass a bill and you say, even if you want to have some asylum, you just say, okay, once you hit the asylum threshold, that's it for the year.
00:23:33.000But instead, we have this 350-page bill, which makes it easy for people who understand the process best, which I think probably is the left more than the right overall.
00:23:44.000And they're able to insert all this stuff that can be used to effectively keep the border open no matter what it says.
00:23:51.000And I just want to rattle through this list quickly.
00:23:54.000This is just what stands out in the bill that we've seen so far.
00:23:58.000So we mentioned the emergency authority, which is fake, but even its emergency authority, if it's to exist, it kicks in when you have people entering the country at a rate of about 1.8 million a year, which is already that was essentially the record high when Biden took over.
00:24:16.000So we're locking in that as a baseline.
00:24:18.000The Biden wave is the minimum before we think an emergency is happening.
00:24:23.000But on top of that, the emergency authority can, it only exists for three years, then it sunsets, it would have to be renewed.
00:24:29.000And there's a cap on how often the president can use it.
00:24:32.000And it goes down by about a month or two every year until by year three, three years out from now, you could only use the emergency authority for 180 days.
00:26:39.000It creates a new right to an attorney for all illegal immigrants for their hearings.
00:26:45.000You just get one paid for by the taxpayers to argue for why you should be let in.
00:26:51.000But perhaps the most important thing of all in this is all of this is theater because within the bill, it explicitly says that an immigration officer with the approval of a higher-up can just decide to exempt a person from these requirements if they believe the, quote, totality of the circumstances warrants it.
00:27:16.000So if the totality of the circumstances, and it gives some lists of possible justifications like humanitarian concerns or whatever, they can just decide law doesn't apply.
00:27:27.000We're overriding it in this special case.
00:27:29.000So you're just saying, well, the immigration authorities who are overseen by Alejandro Mayorkas, who we are currently impeaching because he has decided to ignore the laws that we already have, he's just allowed now explicitly to just ignore immigration requirements when he thinks it's a good idea.
00:27:46.000And what's the limiting principle of this?
00:27:49.000Well, the only limiting principle we would have is the courts.
00:27:54.000Because another provision of this bill is that any challenge to this bill, its constitutionality or how to interpret its provisions, has to be heard by the federal district court for Washington, D.C.
00:28:38.000So we have more conservative circuits, more liberal ones.
00:28:40.000This one is saying it's got to be the D.C. circuit, which is a relatively liberal circuit and relatively more deferential to federal authority in this way.
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00:30:20.000We spent so much time talking about the bad parts of the border half of this bill that it's worth remembering there's also the negotiation was apparently supposed to be that Republicans get concessions on border security and in return, you know, the Biden administration gets money for various conflicts abroad.
00:30:43.000And yet really, it's just both of these things favor Democrats.
00:30:46.000They get a border revision that empowers my orchestration, that institutionalizes the Biden flood.
00:30:52.000And on top of that, they get a ton of money for Ukraine.
00:30:58.000Charlie had a tweet last night that this border bill mentions deportation or deportable, some variant of the word deport, 10 times over the course of 300 some pages.
00:31:34.000There's a huge amount of deficit spending, borrowed money that will go out of this country.
00:31:41.000And then we're not stopping the intake into this country.
00:31:44.000It's just, it's, it is, you need to be a special type of D.C. person to believe that this is a good deal or that this is a good law in any capacity.
00:33:46.000They've polled them side by side 16 times.
00:33:49.000In November, Trump took his first lead ever by two points, still within the margin of error.
00:33:55.000Today, this weekend, they came out with a new poll has Trump up by five points.
00:34:01.000That's outside of the margin of error, and it's going the wrong direction for Biden.
00:34:05.000There's other polls from ABC that show that only 18% of Americans approve of Joe Biden's border policy.
00:34:14.000If there is ever such a thing as leverage, we have it.
00:34:18.000This is a bad, bad, bad situation for the Biden regime, and they know it.
00:34:24.000And so what they're going to try and do is put some sloppy junk garbage bill up on the table, and then they're going to try and, we're going to say, no, it's a bad bill.
00:34:39.000So Biden has all the authority that he needs right now to do it.
00:34:41.000And then secondarily, this is what would happen.
00:34:45.000If you pass this bad bill into law and Trump does get elected, which he is the odds on favorite to do right now, despite all the shenanigans, despite everything, he's up big in all the swing states, all the battleground states that really matter.
00:34:59.000If you pass this into law, what you are then doing is you are creating, you are hamstringing the president when he does get into office.
00:35:06.000All of that authority will then now be filtered through this law, this bad, bad bill, and he will not be able to institute a deportation force on day one.
00:35:16.000He will not be able to close down the border on day one because he's going to have these provisions that say you have to let in 5,000 a day.
00:35:22.000So you are literally cutting your knees out from under you in the future if you allow this bad bill to pass.
00:35:29.000When right now the laws on the books are plenty good enough and plenty strong enough to get exactly what we need to accomplish, which is to secure the border.
00:35:37.000That is the ultimate myth that has to be busted is the idea that we need new laws to secure the border.
00:35:44.000The president's powers over immigration, over security are enormous.
00:35:49.000He is the commander in chief of the U.S. military.
00:35:51.000His obligations include defending the United States from enemies.
00:35:56.000And when you have this total unrestricted flow of, as we like to say, military-age males from China, from literally anywhere on planet Earth, it is very easy to classify that as an incursion into the United States that is against the United States' interests.
00:36:16.000And they use all of this kabuki theater, all these complex laws to obscure that fact.
00:36:22.000And like we say, this bill doesn't force the president to do deportations.
00:36:27.000It doesn't force him to secure the border.
00:36:29.000But what it does do is it has various provisions that set the Biden flood as the baseline, as the bare minimum, as the natural amount of illegal inflow to a country.
00:36:42.000An unprecedented amount, not just in American history, in any country's history, in the history of the world, is now set as the natural organic baseline for how this country is supposed to operate.
00:36:55.000And we have to call that out as insane.
00:36:57.000And it's been pointed out that this is polling well for us.
00:37:02.000If this were a real border security bill that would secure the border, that would deport people, even if it would take the issue away from us for the election, we should pass it because it's good for the country.
00:37:12.000But this is not a bill that is good for the country.
00:37:15.000It is not good for the American people.
00:37:18.000It's not good for anyone except Joe Biden, Democrats in D.C., and every business in the country and every political group that wants unlimited open borders forever.
00:37:34.000Blake and I, we're honored to be here with you.
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