WE’RE ALREADY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORST SELF-INFLICTED CATASTROPHIC CRISIS ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER IN OUR LIFETIME
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As we approach the new year, I can t help but reflect on what this new year may well mean. We re nearing what has to be an inflection point, a place where history pivots so dramatically and profoundly it just can t be missed. An obvious moment so much so that it shakes us to our bones and rattles our teeth. That s what's in store for all of us this year, and I believe whatever form that historical pivot takes, the inflection that points toward our future will bring great clarity and great change.
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Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs. This is the Great America Show. Great to have you with us.
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Welcome all, and as we approach the new year, I can't help but reflect on what this new year
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may well mean. We're nearing what has to be an inflection point, a place where history
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pivots so dramatically and profoundly it just can't be missed. An obvious moment so much so
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that it shakes us to our bones and rattles our teeth. That's what's in store, I believe,
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for all of us this year, and I believe whatever form that historical pivot takes,
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the inflection that points toward our future will bring great clarity and great change to all of us
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now struggling to understand how this great nation has fallen so far. Our leaders have lost their way.
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Our government is almost unrecognizable and suspect in everything that it does, and everyday life for
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so many of us is filled with uncertainty, ambivalence, and there's little clarity about
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our direction and our destiny. Right now, there are tens of thousands holed up south of our border
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preparing to charge into the United States because they believe without Title 42 there's no stopping
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them. The crazy thing is there's no stopping them anyway. Apparently millions, five to six million,
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have already crossed into the United States in the first two years of this Biden presidency.
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Consider this. Biden is bringing in millions of illegals illegally, and we have no idea where
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those illegals are going. They're being shipped all around the country in the dead of night.
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No one cares enough, it is obvious, to demand where they're going, where do they live,
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work, and who's paying for it all. No Republicans, certainly no Democrats, are asking those questions.
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The news outlets are corporate-owned, and they're not about to cover the history that's being made
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by the Marxist Dems in league with the deep state and the globalist corporations. You have to pay for
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the schooling of these illegal immigrants, their welfare, medical costs, health care, their housing,
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their protection. It's been said that demographics are destiny, and it's certainly so. So what is our
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destiny now? It's not one of our making, you and I, our fellow citizens, who have no voice now and no
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vote, because the Marxist Dems don't have time to pretend that ours is a great constitutional republic.
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What we are approaching is the inflection point, the point of no return, the day that the consent of
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the governed will no longer be required, because we haven't stood up for the country. We've turned our
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borders over to the Mexican drug cartels, and they're not likely to return the sovereignty
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that our leaders have surrendered to them. And the cartels now control both sides of our southern
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border, free to bring in enough deadly drugs, especially fentanyl, to kill our entire population
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several times over, as they continue their sex trafficking and, of course, bring in as many
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illegal immigrants as they possibly can. Our guest today was in charge of our borders and ports as
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commissioner of customs and border protection in the Trump administration. Our guest is Mark Morgan,
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great American. And Mark, it's great to have you here on the show. This is one of the lowest points
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in American history. I'm not sure what we can do about it all. Your thoughts? Yeah, Lou, look, I
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completely agree. Look, you said a couple of very important things. One is we're already in the middle
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of the worst catastrophic crisis, self-inflicted crisis on our southern border we've seen in our
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lifetime. You know, everybody's talking about the end of Title 42. Like, that is going to be the
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beginning of the crisis. And that's just wrong. We've been in the middle of the crisis for the first
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past two years. The second thing that you said is very important, and I couldn't have said it better
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myself. Our southwest border, literally, large strategic areas of southwest border have been
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handed over the cartels. The cartels, no doubt, have operational control. And there's a sub-element
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that you mentioned, too, which is, again, spot on. It's why I love talking to you. Cartels aren't just
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operating on the Mexico side. The cartels are on the United States side, too. The cartels reach their
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arms, reach into the entire country and all 50 states. That's a reality. The last thing that I'll say
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they'll actually foot stomp. You know, it's not just the drugs coming in. It's not just the illegal
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aliens, but it's also criminals that are pouring in because our Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed.
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We've had over 1.2 million gotaways in the past 23 months. And then, of course, let's not forget
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about the potential national security threats that are pouring in among potentially that 1.2 million
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gotaways, Lou. I have to ask you, as a former commissioner of Customs and Border Protection,
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you look at what the Biden administration is doing, you look at that bureaucracy, give us a sense of
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what in the world the people who are supposed to be down there guarding the border, protecting the
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nation, those people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement who are supposed to be taking out,
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actually deporting people who shouldn't be here. What are those people doing right now? Because
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they're not doing what we're paying for them to do. Yeah. Again, you're spot on. Look, I just returned
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from El Paso once again on the border. And keep in mind, I'm no longer in the federal government. I'm no
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longer the Commission of Customs and Border Protection. Yet I've been to the I've been to the border
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countless times. Yet our president still has not been to the border as we're going through the
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worst catastrophic crisis. Right. So the irony there. Look, I still talk to the men and women
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of Border Patrol. They're on the front lines every single day. Lou, they're frustrated just like you
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and just like me, because they know that this administration has tied their hands to be able
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to do their job. They know that this administration on day one removed every single effective tool,
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authority and policy we have that got us to the most secure border in our lifetime. You know,
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you and I talked about before by February of 2020, we have reduced illegal immigration by 85% to the
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lowest that had been in decades. And the result meant that more agents were actually on the front
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lines on their national security mission, doing their job, just as you described. The reality is
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they've been relegated to a welcoming agency. In large areas along the border, 90%, 90% of Border Patrol
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agents have been removed off that front line. And they're relegated to doing administrative duties to
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processing, hospital watch, transportation, everything that goes along with a processing
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millions of illegal aliens that this administration has incentivized. The result is, is that large
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areas, again, of our border are unpatrolled, unmonitored. The cartels own it. And what's
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happening, again, drugs are pouring in, criminal aliens, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles,
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aggravated felons and gang members. That's not hyperbolic. And of course, illegal aliens on the
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potential on the FBI's terror screening database. So they know, Lou, one last thing I'll say,
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they know, these men and women know that they're not able to do their job. And when they hear about,
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for example, an American being killed by an illegal alien, they know they failed. When they hear of
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another American, every single die dying of fentanyl overdose, knowing the majority of fentanyl comes on
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the wide open southwest border, it hurts them. That's why their morale is the lowest it's ever been,
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because they're unable to do the job, as you said, that we pay them to do.
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About 19,000. It's actually, the irony is, they have fewer Border Patrol agents than when I was the
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commissioner under President Trump. And yet, that's what some of the Democrats are wanting to do right
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now, is say, oh, look what we're doing. We're asking for more agents, like that's going to solve
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the problem. First of all, it's one, because we've got lower or fewer agents now than we did. And second,
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that's not the issue. You can throw all the money and resources. That's the Democratic way, right?
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Let's just throw more money at it, call it a day, pat ourselves on the back, say we fixed it.
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That's a lie. It's not going to happen. This is a policy issue that they destroyed.
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And what is happening with CIS? Legal, if you will, immigration. I don't even hear a discussion
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about the efforts to create a giant amnesty, thanks to the Western Growers Association and various
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other corporate organizations, what I call global corporatism. The country is being overrun
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by, yes, illegal immigrants, drugs, you name it. But we're also being overrun by these corporations
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who have decided, they're going to decide who comes into this country, under what terms,
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and we, and we, and they frankly don't give a damn how many Americans are dislocated from their
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employment, their lives are disrupted, or their wages suppressed. Your thoughts?
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Yeah, Lou, I agree. Look, this is the Chamber of Commerce across this country have a stranglehold
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on a lot of Republicans. So look, right now, the crisis we have right now, make no mistake,
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it's the Democratic Party system administration. But the Republicans, they don't get off scot-free
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either. They refuse to do what they need to do. They refuse to step up. Remember,
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under President Trump, the Republicans have the White House, the Senate, and the House,
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and they failed to pass a single piece of meaningful border security legislation that
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would have stopped about 85 percent of what's happening now. In the past two years, we still
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have countless Republicans that have remained in the shadows, remained off the front lines of this
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devastating crisis along our southwest border, again, because they don't want to lose funding for
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the re-election. I mean, I'm sorry, I don't want to be political, but you can't talk about politics,
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you can't talk about the border without talking about politics, because it's so infused. And it
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shouldn't be that way. I mean, Lou, you and I talk, securing our border, there's no downside to
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securing our border. But it has become political. And right now, we need to put pressure, obviously,
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on this administration, but also the Republicans, to step up and do the right thing.
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And do the right thing. We're watching a battle amongst a lot of principled, principally,
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Freedom Caucus members in the House of Representatives over Kevin McCarthy, who wants to be Speaker.
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I mean, what in the world are we doing? We're watching the Republicans, absolutely, as a conference,
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turn to a rhino for their leadership. It's mind-boggling. President Trump this weekend came
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out and endorsed Kevin McCarthy, said he deserves at least a crack at the job. I don't understand what
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he's done to deserve it. Do you? And I don't have any confidence that he can do anything approaching
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of what has to be done to get this country righted? Look, you know, Lou, you and I, we know each other
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for years. I don't want to get too far into the politics. But like I said, you can't talk about
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the border without talking about it, because it has become, unfortunately, so infused with politics.
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Now, look, you saw McCarthy go down to the border. He was at El Paso, the same spot that I was at.
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And he did, you know, he said the right words, right? He was calling for Secretary Mayorkas to
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resign, which is the right thing. He said, if he does it, we're going to start having hearings to
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lead towards impeachment. That needs to happen. I'm hoping, I want to hold on to those aren't just
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words, that he's not just saying that to get the votes from the Freedom Caucus so he can become
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Speaker. I hope he's going to be a man of his words and do that, because that's one of the first
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things that needs to happen, is we need to hold this administration's chief architect of their
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open border policy, Secretary Mayorkas, accountable for his deadly policies, for lying to Congress,
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for lying to the American people. But also on day one, look, we've also provided McCarthy and the
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Republican House a roadmap. Several conservative think tanks got together. We produced a coalition
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letter that provides a roadmap with exactly what they need to do from a legislative perspective,
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that if they do it, it will secure the border. That should be House bill number one, right out of
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the gate. There should be no debate. They already know what needs to be done. We've provided it to
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them. So we're going to know in short order if he's going to step up and do the right things. One,
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by putting forth the right border security bill, and two, holding people accountable like Secretary
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Mayorkas. I think that's commendable, but you and I are straight talkers. What happens then? It goes to
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the Senate. It gets killed. What happens if it weren't to get killed? It gets vetoed. The Republicans
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have got to think in terms of what they can do to affect change. Legislation is good, but these trials
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and these investigations they're talking about amount to nothing more than show trials, which is exactly
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what the January 6th committee has been, because they have no way to get criminal referrals. They have
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no way to hold accountable the people that they find. The Justice Department is so corrupt. The
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Department of Justice throughout, including the FBI, is so corrupt. There is no way forward unless the
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Republicans bring great mental energy, intellectual energy to this exercise, and they find a way to
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govern with effect rather than for show. Your thoughts? Yeah. Those are all great points,
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and I'm with you. Let me give you an example, though. Here's one way to look at the impeachment
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hearings as Secretary Mayorkas. I think it's very different than the January 6th. I agree with you.
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That's been all theater and all show. We could do a couple hours just on that. But when it comes to the
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border, it's really about truth, fact, and reality. So I think there will be substance there,
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because one thing that this administration has done when it comes to the deadly open border
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policies is they've been lying to the American people. I mean, you have the President of the
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United States that says he's got more important things to worry about. The Vice President has said
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the border is secure. And of course, we know Secretary Mayorkas says the borders are closed and secure.
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We have operational control. We know all of that's a lie. So not only for the first time in two years
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where we have a forum where the American people for the first time will actually get to hear the truth,
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reality, and the how and why we got to the worst border crisis in our lifetime. All that's been
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ahead from them. And I still say that's part of the reason why the election went the way it went,
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because the border, it didn't get to the kitchen tables and issues should, because this administration
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has been covering it up. The mainstream media has assisted them in covering it up. So through those
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hearings, it really would, for the first time, the American people would actually get to hear
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full transparency with respect to what happened. Now, the last thing that I'll say with the
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Republicans is, here's another thing that they could do. And again, I'm already hearing a lot
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of pushback because they're so worried about the way it will look. But the House, look, they have a
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powerful tool, the power of the purse. They own the budget. Look, they could stop funding this
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administration's deadly open border policies. They could just stop it. And that means to have the
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political courage, strength of will to shut down the government to say, no, we're not funding one
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single agency that is complicit in opening our borders and facilitating illegal immigration,
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driving our borders to be open and having operational control over the cartels. We're not doing it one
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more day. We're not going to fund it. We're going to close it down on this border until this
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administration reverses course. They could do that, Lou. And you know it.
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I do know it. And I do know that the only branch of government that has
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a line item veto is the House of Representatives through the power of the purse. They can go
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through line by line and defund whatever they wish. And but I and it's that reason you were
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talking about, you know, for the election, people didn't have the the border in front of them
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because the press is there. There's nothing more than Marxist Dems, corporate owned and operated.
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The American people right now are getting more disinformation than they are any kind of
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semblance of truth from national media, corporate owned. Corporate America itself is ESG. It's CRT.
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It is absolutely it has moved in a way I never dreamed possible. It is a leftist or it is a leftist
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oligopoly in nearly every instance. And we have to take that into account. Kevin McCarthy right now
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is doing the bidding of the Chamber of Commerce because he has no choice. That's who he's been.
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It's who he will be. Think about this. Think about this. Gavin Newsom, the left wing crazed Marxist
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governor of California, is admitting that his state is broken because of illegal immigration.
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He's saying it out loud. Kevin McCarthy, I don't maybe, you know, I don't know that he's ever been
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to the border and he sure as hell has never stepped up and said, we're going to shut that border down
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and stop illegal immigration, deadly drugs and sex trafficking. Now, do you know? Yeah. So so what I
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was so he was so McCarthy was just to the border a couple of weeks ago, but it was after the vote,
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the initial vote to make him speaker or not. And I believe it was 35 members of the Freedom Caucus
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on the Republican side didn't vote for him. It was after that that he went to the border.
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So factually, what I will say is, in my opinion, I think to a large degree, he has not been in the
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forefront of this border crisis the past two years like he should have been. And it wasn't again until
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after he didn't cross that 218 vote threshold he needed that he goes to the border. And what he said
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at the border, Lou, what he said was very strong. He did. Again, he called for the resignation of
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Secretary Mayorkas, if not to lead towards impeachment. He called for the border to be secure.
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He said it was a crisis. He was saying all the right things. But but as you as you very astutely
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pointed out, Governor Newsom did the same thing, just almost the same time period. Although I think
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I think he was wearing Armani shoes when Newsom was at the border. But, you know, here you have a
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governor that created really the our country's first state sanctuary state has welcomed illegal
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aliens, has rewarded them with with more benefits than any other state, possibly than New York.
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And now he has finally stepped up and also said it's a crisis. That's where we're at right now.
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I mean, look, even the Democratic mayor of El Paso called a declaration of emergency for a city
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because of the crisis and said it was a crisis. We have a Democrat representative Cuellar who said
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it's a crisis, who our borders are said as our borders are broken, they're open. You know,
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meanwhile, we still have the president, vice president, Secretary Mayorkas ignoring it,
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pretending there's not a problem in the line of American people.
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I want to bring this back to one channel that I'm on right now, one lane, if you will. And that is
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the Republican Party doing something. I think you and I agree. And correct me if I'm wrong. But we
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agree that the investigations, while they will be necessary at some point, and I'm talking about the
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investigations into Biden corruption, I'm talking about the whole thing. Nothing can be done. There's
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no way to affect change with those investigations other than, quote unquote, public opinion. It's a PR
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campaign. And it's going to be a very narrow one because national media isn't going to pay any
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attention to it. The Dems are going to run over the Republicans with lies after lies. Every executive
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department and the federal government will be ginning out disinformation lies and taking steps
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to to avert the eyes of the voting public. So why not focus on defunding those parts of government
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that are unresponsive, that have fought tooth and nail congressional oversight. That includes the Homeland
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Security Department. That includes the Department of Justice, the FBI. And by the way, I don't think we
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lose a minute's worth of productivity and protection from the FBI because they're spending their time
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doing what local authorities do, which is investigating now murders and not not carrying out anything but a
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weaponized assault on the American people. I'm talking about parents and school boards. This is an outrage.
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Why not everybody, all of us come together and focus on what the Republican Party can do without the
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politics, without the, you know, the the namby pamby couching and posturing and nonsense. Just stand up
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and get it done. It takes spine, absolute spine, as Congressman Bob Good of Virginia said. I don't know if
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there's enough spine in all the Republican conference to do it, but if they could, if they
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would, we know they could, if they would, it would change the course of this tragic trajectory this
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nation's on. Yeah, Lou, look, we could do a whole nother couple hours on the FBI, so I'll save that for
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another time. But your concept with respect to what Congress can do, look, I couldn't have said
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better myself. But you and I both know, I mean, it's going to take an extraordinary high degree of political
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strength, courage and will for the House to do what they need to do, because I agree with you. I don't see the
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Senate because the Democrats own the Senate. So even if a decent bill comes out of the House, I don't see it being
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passed in a Senate. And by some miracle it does. I mean, of course, the president veto it. But I still think they've got to do
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legislation, right? They still got to pass a strong border security bill. Let them not pass it in the
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Senate. And we can hold those people accountable. If by some miracle it did pass and the president
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vetoes, then in 2024, we get to hold them accountable. So there are things we can do. But I agree with you.
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That's probably what's going to happen. And that's why it does get back to the House and it does get
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back to their power of the purse that they've got to utilize. Look, I think they should really laser
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focus on the border because that's something that's literally killing Americans every single
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day. That's literally something that's jeopardizing every aspect of our nation's safety and national
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security every single day. That's where the majority of the lies are just coming from. I mean, American
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lives are being jeopardized as well as the lives of migrants. I mean, hypocrisy there. And they could do
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it, Lou. They could. They could say, no, as you just said, we are not funding one element under DHS
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that is responsible for this deadly catastrophic crisis or southwest border, the worst we've ever
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seen in our lifetime. They could stop it, Lou. They could send the message. But that's look,
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that's where right now I'm going to continue to say I'm hopeful, but I'm skeptical. I just don't know
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how it's going to pan out. Yeah, none of us does. I would like to say that not knowing how it's going
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to pan out, I have absolute certainty of this, that it won't pan out under Kevin McCarthy. It will not
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pan out under RINO leadership. The Republican Party has some huge issues here, and I'm attaching
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those political problems to these national existential threats that we face because they're
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related. The Republican Party has for too many years given over the leadership of its conference
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to RINOs, whether it's Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, you go down the list. And they align
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with the Democrats, not with the conservatives and not with moderates in the Republican Party who are
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perfectly aligned. And the representatives are trying, trying to represent the voices of the
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people who send them to Washington. And then their leaders sell them out. Look at what Mitch
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McConnell has done, lining up with the omnibus bill for crying out loud. It undercuts with 11 other
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RINOs in the Senate. It undercuts everything that Mitch McConnell should be doing. He's more aligned
00:24:34.680
with the CCP than he is with the Republican Party, for crying out loud. We have to speak honestly. We have to
00:24:41.640
acknowledge the limitations. We have to acknowledge what's real and what's effective and what is not. And
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when we hear the mayor, you mentioned the mayor of El Paso, the Democratic mayor of El Paso. He's got illegal
00:24:54.520
immigrants crawling out from under the sewers of El Paso from the border, coming over. They can handle
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2,500 a day. I think that's a fascinating number. They're expecting 6,000 people after the 20th of
00:25:10.280
this month to be rolling in. It's going to be a heck of a Wednesday in America.
00:25:16.040
Yeah, well, let's keep in mind. So that's 2,500 a day. So in my opinion, I don't think they're managing
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that, right? Because when you talk about managing something, that means that there's no threats
00:25:29.040
coming through. They like to use the term on the Democratic side, even the mayor. Look, I don't want
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to call them out. But look, they're not being fully honest with the American people. Because here's why.
00:25:41.920
Because their focus is on the illegal alien. It's not the focus on what's in the best interest of
00:25:47.340
this country. It's all backwards, Lou. The reason why they can, quote, manage 2,500 illegal aliens
00:25:53.840
coming in, and that's just in that area, is because this administration is pouring hundreds and hundreds
00:26:00.180
of millions of dollars of UX taxpayers. The NGOs are getting funded millions of dollars from the
00:26:07.760
taxpayers. And the city of El Paso is paying for a lot of it to actually manage, process, and then
00:26:14.240
move the illegal aliens to every single state in this country. That's the only reason why they're,
00:26:19.180
quote, able to manage it. But during that management of that flow, what happens is there's no border
00:26:24.340
patrol agents on the front line. So is there a line of the American people saying, ah, we're managing it?
00:26:30.300
No. Drugs are pouring in. Criminals are pouring in. National security threats are pouring in.
00:26:34.520
I mean, this is absurd that we've got a place in our country where we're okay with the end justifies
00:26:40.540
the means. That we're okay with somebody that wants to come to this country, that somehow we're a racist
00:26:45.020
if we call for them to come legally. I'm not against legal immigration. I'm against illegal immigration
00:26:52.760
because it drives our borders to be unsecure. But as you said, it's hard to imagine that it's going
00:26:59.780
to get worse than it already is now, but it is going to get worse. So we're already seeing it.
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Look, we're getting reports. There's tens of thousands of illegal aliens in Tapachula and
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Juarez that they've been kind of holding back and in shelters. Now they've opened up and they're on
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their way here. We've already seen El Paso. The numbers are exponentially starting to increase
00:27:18.420
in anticipation. I mean, it's just a mess. I mean, literally, we're already, the border is already
00:27:23.940
the wild, wild west. And it's hard to imagine that it's going to get worse.
00:27:27.540
I wonder sometimes, to tell you the truth, how many Americans care? How many Americans really care?
00:27:36.900
Because it may be that we've reached a point of apathy, a level of apathy, that we are looking
00:27:45.820
at what could be the end of this country as we know it. Because the Republican Party is gutless,
00:27:52.620
it's leaderless, it's rudderless. It's without principle, frankly. We've watched a lot of
00:27:59.560
posturing and staging on the part of the leadership, the RINO leadership. I don't know where it heads,
00:28:07.160
but I know this. The Republican Party is lying to the American people every day. And that's got to
00:28:14.940
stop. It is posturing, but not producing. It is debating, but not delivering. And we've got to
00:28:25.860
see this change. And I don't see anyone, I don't see a lot of people rallying to my cry for reform,
00:28:33.520
the Republican Party. Ronna McDaniel? Mark, Ronna McDaniel is a three-time loser. And she's still there
00:28:41.960
and still ostensibly endorsed by President Trump, who is, you know, God bless him for his many talents
00:28:48.560
and achievements. But his strong suit is not personnel. I think we can agree on that.
00:28:56.280
Well, yeah. I mean, I think we saw the first two years of the administration. I mean, that's part of
00:29:00.480
the, one of the largest problems he had is that there were a lot of individuals in the administration
00:29:05.860
that were not on board, were actually undermining what we were trying to do.
00:29:10.060
Every day. That's right. And I was there. Look, two things, Lou. One is, here's what I agree with
00:29:16.520
the American people. They don't understand what's happening at the border. I'm not sure because
00:29:21.080
they don't care as much that they're being lied to by the Democratic Party. And the Republicans have
00:29:28.220
not been aggressive enough to make the truth and reality known. So the Republicans play, that's why I
00:29:35.280
agree with you. They have a role in this. But I truly believe Americans feel disconnected from the
00:29:39.720
border. But if I truly believe that they realize that every single, you know, a fentanyl death that's
00:29:44.800
causing epidemic here, and they really understood that the fentanyl is coming from some place for it
00:29:49.060
would make a difference. If they understood that the 1.2 million gotaways and the number of murderers
00:29:54.320
and rapists and pedophiles and gang members, and that how gang members act as the cartel's drug
00:29:59.620
distribution arm throughout this entire nation, or the fact that the national security threat that could be
00:30:04.300
alive and well among the 1.2 million gotaways, I think that if they truly understood what it meant,
00:30:10.220
when we say every state is a border state, it would matter to them. But again, the mainstream media
00:30:15.120
has been lying to them. The mainstream media has been covered up for this administration.
00:30:19.040
You have the president of the United States lying to him saying there's nothing to see. You have the
00:30:22.400
secretary, a cabinet level official saying the border's secure, there's nothing to see. And the same from the
00:30:27.080
vice president. I mean, so that's why I go back to the hearings are important substantively,
00:30:31.280
because we're going to get the truth out there for the first time in two years. And look, I have the
00:30:38.360
same concerns about the Republican Party, Lou, that you're talking about right now. You know,
00:30:42.860
where have they been? They haven't been strong on this. You know, look, the Democrats are street
00:30:47.140
fighters. They are. They'll lie to your face and sleep well at night. Now, of course, I'm not advocating
00:30:52.580
lying, but I am advocating that the Republicans step up and be street fighters. You know, unfortunately,
00:30:57.660
I think we're conservative by nature, but they've got to do more. They've got to bring it to the
00:31:02.400
American people. As you said, they've got to be honest and start getting the true facts or reality
00:31:06.640
out there. It is. It is all of that and more. There's a refusal on the part of the Republican
00:31:13.480
Party. I think perhaps on the part of most Americans to acknowledge that the Marxist Dems are at war
00:31:20.820
with America. They're at war with the American family, the American worker, every middle class
00:31:30.380
value, every institution, everywhere you turn. The Biden regime and the Marxist Dems are trying to destroy
00:31:40.740
America. They're trying to destroy the family, trying to get parents out of schools, trying to keep
00:31:46.860
math, in many cases, trying to keep students out of schools. They don't care. And they don't care
00:31:55.000
about what happens to broadly this nation because they mean to carry out President Obama's promise
00:32:03.080
to fundamentally transform it. And by golly, he's winning right now. And we are being fundamentally
00:32:09.440
transformed. And it's because Republicans don't understand they're in a war.
00:32:13.420
Yeah, look, Lou, well, I can tell you, when it comes to the border, I could not agree more with
00:32:19.020
you. This administration took the most secure border in our lifetime, and they destroyed it
00:32:24.520
and dismantled it. And it's not because of incompetence. This was done by design. Look,
00:32:29.420
during the campaign, they said that what they were going to do when I was still commissioner,
00:32:33.260
in fact, I got charged with an alleged violation of the Hatch Act, which was later found up substantially
00:32:38.360
because as the commissioner, I said that if any administration does what the Biden campaign said
00:32:45.140
that they were going to do, this is back in 2020, I said that they would create an unmitigated
00:32:50.240
catastrophe along our southwest border. And what happened? He took over. He did exactly what they
00:32:55.460
said they were going to do. And we have the unmitigated catastrophe at our southwest border.
00:33:00.460
And look, here's what makes me so angry. They love to say that they inherited a dismantled system.
00:33:05.740
They keep saying it and saying that, like, if they keep saying it, then somehow it's going to be
00:33:09.540
proven true. But yet they never follow up with exactly what it specifically was that they were
00:33:14.820
that supposedly was dismantled. But we say they're the ones that dismantle it. And I could go down the
00:33:20.820
line, Lou. They stopped building the wall system. They ended the Remain in Mexico program, which was
00:33:24.940
one of the most successful tools we had. They ended the asylum cooperative agreements we have with all
00:33:30.340
three Northern Triangle countries. They've gutted ICE and restrict them from doing their job. I can keep
00:33:34.600
going on and on and on how they dismantled it. That's what we need Republicans to get out there
00:33:39.260
and start talking more about. And then the last thing I'll say with Republicans, Lou, is that they
00:33:43.880
need to stop with just saying how bad this administration sucks. Don't get me wrong. They
00:33:48.620
need to keep saying that. But but then they need to end with, OK, here's our plan to fix it. And here's
00:33:54.420
how we're going to show the political strength and courage to secure our borders and protect this
00:33:58.420
country. That's one thing that they fail to do effectively, Lou.
00:34:03.040
Yeah. And and if we can add to that, they've actually got to do something for once. And they're
00:34:08.420
in their careers. They've actually got to stand up and get it done. And they've got to do it in the
00:34:15.140
streets. They've got to do it in the halls of Congress, on the floor of the Congress. And they've
00:34:20.280
got to do it in community after community. I have never seen a more feckless, gutless group of people
00:34:27.700
than the rhino Republican leadership of that party. I I condemn them for their apathy, their passivity
00:34:36.780
and their indifference to this nation and the facts that are before them and their denial of those facts
00:34:42.820
and realities to the American people. They purport to want to truly represent at a level and standard
00:34:50.200
higher than that of the Marxist stems who are trying to destroy the country. The end result will
00:34:55.860
be the same for both parties if the Republicans don't change now. Mark Morgan, I want to tell you,
00:35:02.720
as always, I really appreciate you being here and I thank you for doing your best to get the truth
00:35:07.600
out to folks, particularly here on the Great America Show. Thanks for all you do. God bless you
00:35:15.020
and Merry Christmas. Lou, thank you for all you do for this country, too. And Merry Christmas to you
00:35:22.460
and your family. I wish you all the best. Mark Morgan telling it straight. And frankly, I'm not sure
00:35:27.500
the Republicans have enough fire in their bellies to do a thing about it, any of it. But let's hope that
00:35:33.400
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00:35:44.700
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Till then, God bless you and may God bless America.