The Matt Walsh Show - Morning Wire： Title 42 Stays In Place For Now & Japan Boosts Military Spending ｜ 12.28.22

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00:00:16.820 November saw a record number of migrant crossings at the southern border,

00:00:21.040 surpassing last year's already soaring numbers by a startling amount.

00:00:24.340 We break down the new numbers and discuss the latest on the border battle and Title 42.

00:00:31.040 I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, December 28th,

00:00:35.860 and this is Morning Wire. Amid the perennial power struggle over school funding and oversight

00:00:44.200 only heightened by the pandemic, recent reports reveal troubling details about mismanagement

00:00:49.080 and the failure to protect special needs children. And after decades of strict pacifist policies,

00:00:56.040 Japan is significantly ramping up military spending. What's prompting the Asian nation 1.00

00:01:00.820 to change course? Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.

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00:01:31.640 The U.S. Border Patrol has logged a record number of encounters with migrants for the month of

00:01:39.700 November. The Biden administration revealed the new numbers on Friday evening before the Christmas

00:01:44.580 weekend. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court may have postponed an even more intense rush on the border

00:01:49.140 in a ruling this week that'll keep Title 42 in place at least for a few more months. Officials had

00:01:54.380 expected illegal migration to double if the policy ended. Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Tim

00:02:00.020 Pierce. All right, Tim, I'm almost afraid to ask, but just how bad are these new numbers?

00:02:05.480 They're record-setting at over 230,000 encounters. The raw number doesn't show how the border crisis

00:02:11.020 has gotten worse in the past year, though. Last month's numbers are way over the previous record

00:02:15.600 for November, set last year at over 170,000 encounters. In other words, in a year's time,

00:02:21.340 the number of illegal migrants taken into custody or turned away by authorities in the month of November

00:02:25.800 shot up by 60,000 encounters. There was also a pretty significant demographic change in the migrants

00:02:31.240 that arrived last month versus a year ago. According to the Department of Homeland Security,

00:02:35.920 migrants from Mexico and northern Central America still accounted for nearly 60,000 unique encounters

00:02:40.800 last month, but that was about 14% fewer than November 2021. In their place, border officials saw a

00:02:47.420 significant increase in migrants coming from other countries. Customs and Border Patrol Acting

00:02:51.620 Commissioner Troy Miller pointed to Nicaragua and Cuba as examples. Also, an important stat that was

00:02:57.100 not reported in the DHS numbers is the number of gotaways at the southern border. According to

00:03:01.760 reports, 73,000 more migrants crossed into the United States without being caught by border authorities.

00:03:07.880 Now, on Tuesday, the Supreme Court voted to take up a case over Title 42, which left that Trump-era

00:03:12.840 border policy in place for at least a few more months. Tell us about that ruling.

00:03:16.600 Well, it's given many who are concerned about the border a chance to breathe, for now at least.

00:03:21.860 The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Title 42's repeal in February. That gives federal and

00:03:27.160 state officials at least a few months to prepare if the rule is eventually struck down. The court voted

00:03:32.240 five to four to take up the case of 19 Republican-led states against the Biden administration for trying

00:03:37.580 to repeal Title 42. The vote was mostly split down ideological lines, except for Justice Neil Gorsuch.

00:03:43.420 The conservative judge sided with the progressive bloc and voted to deny the state's appeal.

00:03:48.640 In his dissent, he wrote that courts shouldn't uphold administrative edicts designed for one

00:03:53.020 emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency.

00:03:57.580 The court's decision will likely come sometime after arguments are heard in February and before

00:04:02.040 the court's summer recess, usually in June or July.

00:04:04.340 It seems universally acknowledged that rescinding Title 42 will result in a surge at the border.

00:04:11.260 What measures are being taken to prepare if that's the case?

00:04:15.120 Well, the federal government has at least a few months' breathing room, but its resources are

00:04:19.180 already stretched to the limit. It's now mandating that officials and the U.S. air marshals redeploy

00:04:23.960 to the border to help out the Border Patrol. Ahead of the SCOTUS ruling, the Border Patrol had set up

00:04:28.320 a tent bigger than a football field near El Paso, Texas as a temporary shelter for migrants.

00:04:32.280 El Paso is one of the border's hottest spots for illegal entry.

00:04:36.260 Texas has also stepped up its involvement. Governor Greg Abbott ordered 400 National Guardsmen

00:04:40.800 to El Paso recently. The city of El Paso already can't cope with the number of migrants. 1.00

00:04:46.140 Many are sleeping on the streets of the city with nowhere to go. Last week, the city paid for buses

00:04:50.700 to idle on the streets so homeless migrants had a place to warm up during the night in the freezing

00:04:54.860 temperatures. Abbott also continues to bus migrants into sanctuary cities to keep up political

00:04:59.820 pressure, as well as relocate migrants from overcrowded facilities on the border. Several buses from

00:05:05.200 Texas even dropped off dozens of migrants in front of Vice President Kamala Harris's official D.C. 1.00

00:05:09.780 residents on Christmas Eve.

00:05:11.760 And apparently, no end in sight for any of this. Tim, thanks for reporting.

00:05:15.960 Thanks for having me.

00:05:16.700 That was Daily Wire's Tim Pierce.

00:05:19.120 Coming up, reports reveal an egregious lack of oversight in Seattle's special ed programs.

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00:05:49.580 Amid heightened scrutiny over public school oversight and district spending, a report

00:05:56.540 from earlier this fall revealed shocking levels of abuse at Washington State's special education

00:06:01.540 schools. Investigative reports from the Seattle Times and ProPublica uncovered copious evidence

00:06:07.120 of physical abuse as well as academic failure in the state-funded schools. Daily Wire investigative

00:06:12.740 reporter Maraid Elordi is here with the details for us. So, Maraid, what exactly did this report

00:06:17.920 find? Hi, Georgia. Sure. So, this is a stunning deep dive on what appears to be an extremely

00:06:23.740 concerning situation at taxpayer-funded special education programs housed in private schools in

00:06:29.320 Washington State. The Seattle Times and ProPublica reviewed more than 17,000 pages of documents from

00:06:35.580 45 school districts, three police departments, and Washington State's Education Department. What they

00:06:41.480 found is that there is an egregious lack of oversight at a set of special ed private schools known as

00:06:46.340 non-public agencies. And what specifically is the report alleging is going on?

00:06:52.660 Well, some of these schools have otherwise positive reputations, but one school that had multiple

00:06:57.100 shocking reports is Northwest School of Innovative Learning, or Northwest Soil, which is also the biggest

00:07:03.280 of these schools. In one complaint to state education officials, a therapist claims that a teenage boy with

00:07:09.340 severe autism was locked in a schoolroom for hours as he begged to be let out. One local education

00:07:15.460 official witnessed a teacher put her foot in a student's face as he lay on the floor and threatened

00:07:20.040 to step on him as he pleaded with her. In a particularly disturbing incident, a staffer who

00:07:25.220 was previously convicted of assault and drug possession put a student in what a school counselor

00:07:29.640 called a chokehold. In that case, the incident was caught on security footage. Former staffers of

00:07:35.820 Northwest Soil describe a chaotic and understaffed environment where the adults often resort to restraint

00:07:41.100 or isolation to deal with difficult children. Parents reported finding bruises on their children's

00:07:46.380 bodies. Meanwhile, students often suffer academically. So far, the state has not addressed the issue and

00:07:52.940 the schools continue to maintain multi-million dollar contracts. Now, you mentioned that these schools

00:07:58.060 claim that they're underfunded. How much is the state currently spending on these programs?

00:08:03.680 So over the last five school years, the state has spent at least $173 million on these schools,

00:08:09.440 which have more than 60 campuses and serve about 500 students. We should note that most of the about

00:08:15.400 140,000 special education students in Washington state attend their local public schools. But lately,

00:08:21.760 the state has been sending more and more students with the most serious disabilities to these separate

00:08:26.040 schools. Because of this, state spending on these schools has more than doubled over the last five

00:08:31.000 years. Just based on those raw numbers, the per capita spending is about $346,000 per student over five

00:08:38.260 years. But the report was careful to note that true per capita spending is hard to calculate because

00:08:43.520 the number of students fluctuated over that period. For example, Northwest Soil pulled in at least $38

00:08:49.600 million and they accepted hundreds of public school students during that period.

00:08:54.260 So how did this go on for so long? Who was responsible for oversight? And was there a clear

00:09:00.000 structure for oversight?

00:09:01.720 So according to state officials, local school districts are responsible for monitoring these schools.

00:09:06.620 That's because they're the ones sending students there. But it's complicated because it's not

00:09:10.840 actually the local district's money funding these students. So unfortunately, there may not be much

00:09:15.600 incentive for them to stay vigilant about what's going on. As this report shows, it sounds like the

00:09:20.280 system resulted in local schools sending their most challenging students off-site on the state's dime

00:09:25.320 and not really following up. As of now, it's unclear how many other states operate with this model.

00:09:31.160 Well, Mairead, thanks so much for reporting.

00:09:33.400 Thanks, Georgia.

00:09:34.480 That was Daily Wire investigative reporter Mairead Elordi.

00:09:41.300 With tensions high in East Asia, the Japanese government recently announced plans to double

00:09:46.880 its military budget over the next five years.

00:09:49.240 Here with the details is Daily Wire's Michael Whitaker. Hey, Michael.

00:09:52.960 Hey, John.

00:09:53.740 So for decades, since World War II, Japan has maintained what it calls its self-defense force,

00:09:58.800 which is designed to defend and only defend the country. That was possible because the U.S. 0.65

00:10:03.700 could guarantee wider stability in the region. But now there's a perception that the situation

00:10:08.100 has changed, correct?

00:10:09.920 Oh, yes, absolutely. China has been building up its navy and air force. In addition to threatening 0.72

00:10:14.120 Taiwan, they've made aggressive territorial claims in the South China Sea. The Chinese have

00:10:18.440 even built artificial islands with air bases to reinforce those claims. North Korea has also

00:10:23.300 developed nuclear weapons in recent years and has repeatedly fired missiles over Japanese

00:10:27.320 territory. Our troubled withdrawal from Afghanistan last year hasn't helped our image on the world

00:10:31.680 stage as a reliable partner. And the Russian invasion of Ukraine has further destabilized the

00:10:36.060 world. We have to remember that Russia is massive and also borders Japan, and it has a history of

00:10:41.580 collaborating with China and North Korea. Gordon Chang, an expert on foreign policy in East Asia,

00:10:46.120 told me that these belligerent nations are beginning to cooperate even more closely.

00:10:49.980 China has been the primary backer of North Korea, and North Korea would not be able to maintain its

00:10:56.480 weapons programs were it not for China's support. And China and Russia are working very closely

00:11:01.580 together. So for instance, tomorrow, China and Russia are going to start their American cooperation

00:11:07.100 in 2022. Those joint drills in the East China Sea, which, by the way, are very close to Japan.

00:11:14.180 And so they've been working a long time. What we're seeing recently is a pickup in the joint military

00:11:21.940 exercises between China and Russia, as well as a move towards interoperability, which is a sign that

00:11:28.980 they plan to fight together. Japan's military posture has been shifting in recent years. Former Prime

00:11:34.640 Minister Shinzo Abe was a prominent advocate of remilitarization, and this seems to be a culmination

00:11:39.460 of that shift. Abe was assassinated earlier this year in a seemingly unrelated incident. While this

00:11:44.700 plan would increase Japan's military budget, what the money is being spent on is even more important.

00:11:49.440 The plan includes the purchase of American missile systems that could hit key military targets in

00:11:53.660 other nations, and represents a pivot towards more offensive capabilities.

00:11:57.780 All right, so the growth of military force that could potentially be used on the offense,

00:12:01.880 how significant is this buildup? Very. Right now, Japan spends about 1% of its GDP,

00:12:08.480 40 billion or so, on its military. The defense plan put out by Tokyo would raise that to 2% by 2027

00:12:14.820 and get to $80 billion in military spending. All right, so it's doubling the spending. How does

00:12:19.760 that compare to other nations' military budgets? Well, if you recall, 2% of GDP is the magic number

00:12:25.480 for NATO's target spending, although most NATO allies haven't met it, which became a favorite talking

00:12:30.360 point of former President Trump. Although they have started to increase spending at his urging,

00:12:34.520 and we've even seen that process accelerate after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

00:12:38.580 Globally, in 2020, the average country in the world spent 2.4% of their GDP on defense.

00:12:43.480 However, China's economy is more than twice as large as Japan's, so they're currently spending

00:12:47.960 about $230 billion per year. This year's omnibus bill would raise U.S. defense spending to $858 billion.

00:12:53.720 While the proposed budget would be many times smaller than America's or China's,

00:12:58.740 it would turn Japan into the third-largest military spender in the world by 2027.

00:13:02.940 And certainly a force to be reckoned with. Thanks for talking with us, Michael.

00:13:05.860 Thanks for having me.

00:13:06.880 That was Daily Wire's Michael Whitaker.

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 28, 2022

Morning Wire： Title 42 Stays In Place For Now & Japan Boosts Military Spending ｜ 12.28.22

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