00:00:00.000Hey, everybody, what is immigration and what is going on with immigration in our country?
00:00:05.000Pretty comprehensive episode on immigration, and we dive into it.
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00:01:46.000Well, immigration is the movement of a person or a people from one nation to the other.
00:01:54.000Now, there is an incantation that is repeated by the American ruling class, where they say, we are a nation of immigrants.
00:02:02.000Now, that is partially true, but there is a difference between being an immigrant and a settler.
00:02:09.000An immigrant is someone who comes to a nation that is largely already built to contribute to something that has already been designed and exists.
00:02:18.000A settler is someone who comes to a largely barren land.
00:02:21.000I'm not saying there was nothing here when the pilgrims came, but it was a largely barren land and started something new that used ideas that they were close to, that used principles that they were familiar with, and implemented them and built something unique, exceptional.
00:02:40.000So there's differences between settlers and immigrants.
00:02:44.000We are told that we are nothing more than a nation of immigrants, but I think that also de-emphasizes and also dilutes the incredible impact of the founding fathers who decided to create new things.
00:02:58.000So immigration, in its purest sense, needs to always benefit the mother country.
00:03:06.000Immigration should not be an opportunity to try and pursue some sort of racial or social justice agenda.
00:03:12.000Immigration should not be something that you do to make yourself feel good.
00:03:16.000Immigration must benefit the society as a whole.
00:03:20.000And in America's history, immigration at times has done that and at times has not done that.
00:03:24.000A fair and honest look at immigration in American history has showed that certain immigrant groups from certain countries have been a phenomenal net benefit to the American project, where other immigrant groups have, I would say, been at tension and at odds with the American creed, such as the influx of Somali immigrants in Minneapolis with Elon Omar.
00:03:48.000Now, I think it's really important as we look at this story, look at this issue, I should say, that we understand that immigration is an issue of consent.
00:04:01.000So, if you listen to this program, you'll hear me kind of rattle off a series of characteristics that are unique to the American Constitutional Order.
00:04:11.000Separation of powers, independent judiciary, checks and balances, and consent of the governed.
00:04:34.000You must have a judiciary that is independent.
00:04:37.000And then you must have, the most important part, the consent of the governed.
00:04:42.000This idea of consent is something that we have decided to stop focusing on.
00:04:50.000You see, consent is something that we all participate in every single day.
00:04:54.000The best example of consent I can think of that would relate to every listener is consent in the marketplace.
00:05:01.000When you go to a grocery store or you go buy a product, you are both consenting to the transfer of goods and services for paper bills or for cryptocurrency or whatever.
00:05:13.000That is inherently a consent transfer.
00:05:16.000Now, when markets do not have consent baked into them, that's when we as conservatives believe that it's necessary to intervene in the market.
00:05:25.000For example, when the Sackler family develops a type of opioid that people do not know is going to make them addicted and possibly kill them, that is a violation of the consent principle.
00:05:36.000When parents are forced to give vaccines to their children without knowing any of the possible adverse events or some of the other issues, that is a violation of the consent principle.
00:05:47.000So, consent is when both parties agree to participate in something.
00:05:54.000There's a lot of libertarian literature around this, and honestly, it's not all wrong.
00:05:58.000Some of it is actually really thoughtful and deep, and it is largely true.
00:06:04.000I just think at times they don't look at some of the externalities that could potentially arise when you think everyone is always informed just because trade occurs.
00:06:12.000So, consent is an incredibly important part of immigration policy.
00:06:20.000So, no one in their right mind would say that the slaves or the black slaves that came to the United States immigrated here.
00:06:28.000They were kidnapped and they were trafficked here.
00:06:33.000That was an immoral act of an evil act against someone's consent and against their will of transporting a certain people across the ocean for a very specific economic purpose.
00:06:50.000The only people that consented to that were the slave traffickers and the plantation owners.
00:06:56.000And at the time, the society that allowed it to happen through its laws until Thomas Jefferson in 1807, I sometimes say 1803, but it was 1807, signed the moratorium of new slaves coming into the United States.
00:07:11.000That broke apart that horrific importation of individuals.
00:07:18.000But we also have another part of one-party consent, mass immigration or mass flow of people that is happening in real time.
00:07:26.000And it's not as evil as what happened with slavery, but it is still immoral.
00:07:32.000When a Honduran or a Nicaraguan or a Mexican or El Salvadorian or a Panamanian walks across the southern border without the states or without the government or without the people's or without the country's consent, that is a one-party consent rule.
00:07:51.000Both are immoral and both contribute to the downfall of your civilization.
00:07:58.000When we kidnap slaves out of West Africa or when we tolerate people flowing into our country, both are a deterioration of the basic contract of what immigration needs to be.
00:08:10.000Now, if you look at the history of American immigration, there is a lot of revisionism that occurs.
00:08:16.000Some people believe that we have always allowed as many people to come into the country at any time whatsoever.
00:08:25.000The history of American immigration is a lot more complex and nuanced than that.
00:08:29.000At times, when we accepted mass amounts of immigrants, kind of similar to when you eat a big meal, you need to allow that meal to digest.
00:08:38.000So after the famous Ellis Island or the famous Statue of Liberty, at times we allowed the immigration population to do something that is the most important part of immigration.
00:08:55.000If you do not allow assimilation, then whatever immigration policy that you are putting forward, whatever immigration policy you are articulating, is foolish, it's backwards, and it could be detrimental to your nation and to your home.
00:09:09.000So if you look at the immigration rates in America throughout the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, in the 1950s, it took a dramatic decline.
00:09:21.000America decided to take a basic pause, if you will, of mass immigration.
00:09:26.000Now, we all know about the waves of immigration in the early 1900s, and we all know about the waves of immigration in the 1920s, but we rarely ever talk about the troughs.
00:09:36.000We rarely ever talk about how during the America's greatest period of prosperity in the 1950s and early 1960s, when the middle class was the strongest, when wages were going up, when crime was at its relative lowest, when America became an industrial manufacturing beacon, did you know, relative to other previous decades, that's when American immigration was at its lowest?
00:09:58.000Now, partially it's because it allowed us to absorb the massive amount of American immigrants the last 30 to 40 years, and that's when we had the baby boom.
00:10:07.000So, I'm just beginning to touch the surface on this topic of immigration because there is something happening right now in the news in our country when it comes to immigration that violates the consent principle, it violates the assimilation principle, it violates every single fundamental, logical, common sense, and rational perspective that we must have when it comes to immigration.
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00:12:02.000In years past, it used to be the Democrat Party that used to be concerned that mass immigration was cutting the wages of their white working class base.
00:12:16.000They have turned their back on that base.
00:12:18.000Those Democrats are now strong Republicans, largely thanks to the pro-labor contribution of Donald Trump and his restrictionist view on immigration.
00:12:27.000Now, you should be able to have this conversation about immigration without being called someone who is trying to be a xenophobe or close off your borders or whatever, even though I'd love to close off our borders, but they mean that metaphorically.
00:12:42.000Instead, it should always come from a perspective of what is best for the nation as a whole, what's best for the society, what's best for your grandchildren's future.
00:12:52.000Now, there is a difference, though, between immigration and border jumping and an invasion.
00:12:58.000And I do not want to conflate the two.
00:13:02.000Just as slavery was not immigration to the United States, a Honduran border jumping across the southern border is not an immigrant to the United States.
00:13:12.000One is kidnapping and one is an invasion.
00:13:19.000Trespassing, you could use infiltrating, which I think is a little aggressive, until you hear the story that we have about a legitimate terrorist who has just been released into the United States.
00:13:35.000So with all of that kind of background into what is immigration and how should we view it, I want to play this tape from the great Bill Melusian, who is a reporter for Fox News.
00:13:48.000He has been incredible in just fact-first, bold reporting on the flow of illegals into our country.
00:13:58.000Bill Melusian talking about how the federal government is having illegals board airplanes privately and flying them to the interior of the United States.
00:14:13.000This is in August, and what you're looking at is police body cam video of a chartered government flight landing in the middle of the night at the airport there with that flight full of illegal immigrants who get off and go on buses.
00:14:24.000Well, that police officer is supposed to be security there, and he starts talking to these federal contractors asking essentially what the heck is going on here.
00:14:31.000And those contractors tell him they're basically trying to sweep this under the rug and keep it out of the spotlight.
00:15:04.000So this is worse than just someone walking into your country.
00:15:08.000This is worse than someone trespassing into your home.
00:15:11.000This is the government of the United States that is sponsoring, subsidizing, and even underwriting the transportation of those people that have illegally entered into your country.
00:15:25.000And so, where does this come into the consent principle?
00:15:29.000When you look at the very basic principle of movement of people, but then your own government that is sworn to defend you, that is sworn to protect your country, they then turn around and they say, well, if you illegally come into the country, we're going to sponsor you to go to New York or anywhere in the interior of the United States without even telling you about it.
00:15:56.000Where the federal contractors who are the ones behind this are even admitting, we really don't want people to know about this.
00:16:05.000This is not something that we want to get out.
00:16:10.000You see, they say this is because of restorative justice.
00:16:15.000But their view of justice is not giving to each man what is their due, which is the classical view of justice.
00:16:24.000The version of justice that they embrace is to take and prefer foreigners over citizens, lawbreakers over people that follow the law.
00:16:34.000They prefer people that burn down Wendy's than to small business owners that own a cobbler shop or a coffee shop.
00:16:43.000Those people are only embracing a white supremacist patriarchal orthodoxy.
00:16:50.000You see, the reason why they allow and they want the nonstop flow of people from foreign countries is every single new person does a couple things.
00:16:59.000It makes it less likely to have a national American identity, makes it less likely to be able to have assimilation happen.
00:17:06.000And finally, is it chips away at the thing they hate the most, the rule of law.
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00:19:51.000And speaking of releases of illegal immigrants, take a look at this video we shot at San Antonio Airport this morning where we got a tip that ICE was going to be dropping off a busload of single adult male illegal immigrants.
00:20:04.000You can see dozens of those men being released by ICE there.
00:20:08.000No families, no little children, no women, all men.
00:20:12.000There was an NGO there waiting to greet them.
00:20:14.000That NGO then took them into the airport in a single file line, and they are now free to travel across the country wherever they want to go.
00:20:21.000An ICE source tells me these discrete mass releases have been happening since last year.
00:20:26.000And that source also told me that ICE is releasing criminal, is releasing illegal immigrants who have criminal records for misdemeanors.
00:20:34.000Some of those misdemeanors include assault, drunk driving, illegal reentry, and drug possession.
00:20:41.000I reached out to ICE this morning to ask if that's true.
00:20:45.000They only told me they released these migrants on a case-by-case basis.
00:20:49.000That ICE source went on to tell me they feel the agency has been turned into a travel booking agency rather than an immigration enforcement agency.
00:21:00.000So if you are a U.S. citizen, could you use some travel booking?
00:21:04.000I never knew that immigration, customs, and enforcement would be known as Expedia, where we will be able to bring you to any American city of your liking if you cross into our country illegally.
00:21:33.000The total number of illegal crossings into America that we know of are 2,000,000 people, 33,863.
00:21:42.000The latest data from just December is 178,840 people that have come into our country.
00:21:54.000Reading from the Washington Examiner, just over half of these people were returned to Mexico, but approximately 1 million people remain arrested, and almost all were let into the country with just a promise that they would one day report to an immigration court and apply for asylum.
00:22:09.000So let me tell you how significant this is.
00:22:13.000Effectively, we just let a whole state of Montana into the country.
00:22:19.000Just cut in line, do what you want, go as you please.
00:22:24.000Washington Examiner writes: These are the only numbers of illegal immigrants who were actually caught.
00:22:33.000With Border Patrol agents tied up feeding, transporting, and processing tens of thousands of migrants making meritless asylum claims every month, untold numbers have slipped into the country completely undetected.
00:22:46.000Now, these people are willing to defy the rule of law.
00:22:56.000And by the way, this is what really frustrates me about the framing of all this.
00:22:59.000We just got an email about this at freedom at charliekirk.com, which I have a lot of respect for Catholics.
00:23:05.000I obviously have my own differences with Catholic theology and teaching.
00:23:09.000Obviously, I'm not a Catholic, but some of my closest friends are Catholic, and I think really highly of them.
00:23:14.000And I think there's a lot there that's positive, including Jack Posobic and many others.
00:23:19.000But this document from a local Catholic church that was emailed to us all about how we need to have more immigrants come across the southern border, how this is a positive.
00:23:30.000We need to be companions on their journey.
00:23:33.000If you look deeper into it, the Catholic Church and not the Catholic Church, but a lot of Catholic charities have been instrumental in subsidizing and helping and sponsoring the flow of illegals into our country.
00:23:50.000It's just part of the reality that we're living in.
00:23:56.000And the framing of all this is that we have to be tolerant enough to accept it.
00:24:03.000Well, what about the young girls that are raped coming across the southern border, which is a frequent occurrence?
00:24:10.000What about the guns that flow in through our open and poor southern border?
00:24:14.000What's been so interesting to witness is that in a country that is so wealthy, that has so much access to technology, how unable we are to solve some of our most basic problems.
00:24:28.000We have trains being looted in Los Angeles like it's 1835.
00:24:33.000Union Pacific is considering leaving California altogether because of the train looting that is happening.
00:24:41.000All the while, the man who's supposed to be in charge of our infrastructure, Mayor Pete Boot Edge Edge, with a $1.2 trillion sludge fund given to him mostly by Republicans, by the way, not mostly, but thanks to Republican support.
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00:25:35.000This is happening all across the country.
00:25:37.000Labor shortages, raw material shortages, expertise shortages.
00:25:42.000I can't tell you how many people are getting flights delayed, flights rediverted, fuel shortages.
00:25:47.000It's almost like the country is descending quickly into the third world.
00:25:54.000And this is an important thing, is that it's not a matter of technology.
00:25:59.000It's not a matter of the ability to be able to process information.
00:26:04.000We have the resources, we have the technology, we have the money, we have the intellectual capital, but we do not have two things.
00:26:12.000We do not have the will and we do not have politicians with the wisdom to be able to get these very basic things done.
00:26:18.000What's so interesting is that when you start talking nonstop on television about systemic racism and vaccine rates of children, and you can't do the very like the most basic things, I don't know, like feed your population and keep the trains running without them getting looted by bandits, then you probably have to reprioritize what you care about.
00:26:44.000I've called for quite some time, and so has Connor and Andrew, what we call the American triage.
00:26:51.000We need to look at America as if we're running an emergency room.
00:26:56.000Who's the gunshot victim and who's the person who has the common cold who we can get to in a couple hours?
00:27:04.000If we were running the emergency room, we would have the person who has like psychological trauma be like, okay, you're to the front of the line.
00:27:11.000Yeah, the person who's giving birth, who's having a heart attack, and just chopped their right arm off, will get to you in a couple months.
00:27:19.000It's the opposite of how any sort of organization, outfit, or enterprise would run anything when there is a crisis at hand.
00:27:30.000But don't worry, the main priority of the regime is equity.
00:27:35.000And look, I believe this is all by design.
00:27:41.000The deeper you dive into the great reset agenda.
00:27:46.000The deeper you dive into the agenda to try and deteriorate our borders, to erode our currency, to debase our purchasing power, to deindustrialize the country, it becomes increasingly difficult to think this is all just acts of randomness.
00:28:05.000You know, people say, well, Charlie, they're really bad at running government.
00:28:11.000But there's also this kind of, we're going to let it burn because we think the ashes are better than the structures.
00:28:20.000That we think that once there is nothing, we'll be able to rebuild it in our image.
00:28:26.000And to quote one of my favorite movies, The Dark Knight, there are some people that just want to watch the world burn and rule over the ashes.
00:28:34.000And I could go by component by component, but when you have 2 million people, 2,033,863 people in one year and 178,840 migrants arrested illegally crossing into the border, you got to ask yourself, do you even at that time still have a country?
00:28:54.000And I want to just focus on the rule of law really quick.
00:29:09.000That's why on this program, we always bring it back to the Constitution.
00:29:14.000The Constitution is the great unifying document.
00:29:17.000Now, the reason is because the Constitution takes very clear stances on human nature, on who we are, how we will act, how we have acted, and you design a construct or a compact around those truths, understanding that a small yet strong government is necessary for human flourishing.
00:29:37.000Now, the rule of law is unique because it is unchanging.
00:29:42.000The rule of law is unique because it's public.
00:30:19.000It's because human nature has not changed since then and now, and it gives people the comfort to be able to plan their lives, to be able to know what's going to happen tomorrow, to know the natural rights that have been given to them by God, not by government, but are protected by government.
00:30:33.000But when things are constantly changing, or if the rules are kept in private, or if the rules are unequally enforced, such as a Honduran gets a private flight to New York, but if you're a nine-year-old black girl in New York and you're not vaccinated, the New York Police Department is going to arrest you and detain you.
00:32:29.000So a Venezuelan national on the FBI terror watch list has just recently been released into Michigan after crossing the border.
00:32:38.000Michigan investigative journalist Charlie Laduff told Fox News on Thursday that a Lebanese-born Venezuelan national listed on the terror watch list was released into the United States after crossing the border illegally.
00:32:52.000So I don't know if we have that story or not, but that's sound.
00:32:57.000Michigan investigative journalist Charlie Laduff told Fox News on Thursday that a Lebanese-born, I just, yeah, we just mentioned that.
00:33:04.000Bozzi got word that, quote, the Biden administration had given asylum to Venezuelans.
00:33:10.000He and his daughter and his wife flew to Monterey, Mexico, hire a smuggler, and get rafted over into Brownsville, Texas and wants asylum.
00:33:18.000He's not only on the terror watch list, it came back to high derogatory information affiliated with the unspecified group.
00:33:25.000But why did the American government release him?
00:33:28.000They released him because he was a high COVID risk.
00:33:31.000So terrorists that illegally come into our country, I don't know if he legally or illegally came into the country, all of a sudden get released into the interior if they're a high COVID risk.
00:33:44.000No, Mass, this is a foreigner on the terror watch list that is now prancing throughout the United States.
00:33:53.000U.S. Custom and Border Patrol agents arrested two other men on the FBI terror watch list last year as they tried to cross into the U.S. southern border.
00:34:01.000The men, ages 33 and 26, were from Yemen and were apprehended in El Centro, California sector.
00:34:09.000Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the number of migrants identified on the terrorist screening database coming across the border, telling fellow agents that it was at a level we have never seen before.
00:34:22.000They view justice as trying to harm your country and redefine Western civilization to give preference to the alleged disadvantaged and minority groups that they believe are victims of white supremacy.
00:34:37.000We believe, Mr. Briggs, we're going to have to have a conversation after this.
00:34:41.000We believe justice is giving everyone what is their due.
00:34:47.000Justice, we are told, should be blind.