Valuetainment - November 07, 2026


Pete Buttigieg Gives Trump Credit on the Border and Admits Democrats Waited Too Long

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00:00:00.040 Okay, when I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice.
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00:00:30.000 overnight he becomes president boom well i do need to stop you well i want to let you go i don't want
00:00:35.420 to go through you can interrupt all you want please feel free about that so he becomes president
00:00:40.120 all of a sudden what happens and i remember six weeks before he became president oh my god oh
00:00:45.660 biden lord you know amount of people coming in but over the four years he was president whether
00:00:50.500 you want to call kamala harris the border czar no i'm not the border czar you know all this other
00:00:54.640 stuff the moment he came in tom holman whoever he had as his team immediately went away
00:00:59.420 the border issue hasn't been talked about for two years because it was cleaned up like this.
00:01:03.760 It wasn't that complicated. Why didn't Democrats do it? Okay. So let me complicate that story a
00:01:08.500 little bit. I don't agree. I don't disagree with the big picture, which is the Democrats should
00:01:12.600 have done more, should have done it sooner. We need a secure border. There was a real problem
00:01:17.200 with the border. And excuse me, my party was way too quick to ignore it. I will say the story you
00:01:24.500 just told it was one for all four years of biden you have this huge amount of crossings at the
00:01:29.660 border and then the i think the way you just told the story the moment trump comes in it drops the
00:01:34.560 truth is there was a pretty big drop in 2024 in the summer of 2024 a new trump was coming in
00:01:40.840 come on no no i agree well no no i know i don't think it was because it was because of the
00:01:45.460 executive orders you're a guy in the space you don't think it was the executive order oh my god
00:01:49.680 pete wait wait are you seriously arguing that the executive orders of june 2024 had no effect on
00:01:54.280 quarter crossings. Yeah, but you had three and a half years. You could have done it earlier.
00:01:57.200 You're right. I agree. Why didn't you? So to me, so now watch this. This is the concern.
00:02:01.720 I asked you a question, open-ended. I asked you, so, you know, you were at McKinsey,
00:02:06.980 you speak eight languages, da, da, da, da. You're like, oh, what are you up to? So I'm
00:02:09.780 working on these three issues, right? And I asked you about something and you said,
00:02:13.340 secure the border, illegal, lawful immigration. And then you said, given a path for the people
00:02:20.080 to so the third one is the concern of conservatives independence and libertarians that the democratic
00:02:27.220 playbook is let them in open the floodgates and let's find a path towards citizenship and then
00:02:34.740 let's eliminate electoral college and then let's pack the court and guess what we'll have this for
00:02:39.900 many many decades under control and we can do our globalist agenda you're you're laughing at this
00:02:45.260 This is the step process.
00:02:46.260 That sounds pretty fanatical, though.
00:02:47.660 It doesn't sound fanatical.
00:02:48.600 Globalist agenda.
00:02:49.900 Look, first of all, one thing on my part I learned the hard way is just because somebody's an immigrant or the son of an immigrant doesn't mean they're going to vote for us.
00:02:55.800 Another thing that's really important is, and this is where, look, I agree with you.
00:02:59.200 Most of them will.
00:03:00.580 60% vote for you.
00:03:02.160 But here's the thing.
00:03:03.000 That data's out there.
00:03:03.740 Um, I think that you're right, that in order to satisfy concerns about what happens with
00:03:10.780 the pathway to citizenship, you first have to satisfy concerns about the border actually
00:03:15.040 being secure.
00:03:15.780 And I will give the Trump administration credit for that.
00:03:18.140 Now, I think they also went way too far rounding up people.
00:03:22.300 I was just, yesterday I met somebody, a citizen, by the way, US citizen, Cuban American, gets
00:03:26.700 detained at the airport for no reason.
00:03:29.120 They never give him a reason. 1.00
00:03:30.260 They treat him like shit. 0.99
00:03:31.020 and it's clearly the only real reason he can think of is he's he's latino and he looks latino he has 0.99
00:03:35.440 a bit of an accent he's cuban and he's a citizen and people have stories like this by the millions
00:03:40.400 not to mention citizens being dragged off their doors people getting shot in the street like
00:03:43.980 i think most of us can agree i'm sure i haven't looked up a poll but i'm pretty sure most of us
00:03:49.300 can agree that the trump administration has gone way too far with uh the the way ice is is roaming
00:03:55.920 the streets and some of this stuff but i think i really believe there's a grand bargain here
00:04:00.320 where most of us agree on most of what has to happen. Border security, lawful immigration done
00:04:08.360 the right way and doing something that is not just deporting every single man, woman, and child who's
00:04:14.060 in this country who isn't documented. Because I think about a lot of people who came to this
00:04:18.880 country undocumented, have been here for five years, 10 years, 20 years, paying taxes, by the
00:04:23.880 way, payroll taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, maybe not income taxes, paying taxes, building
00:04:29.100 businesses, whether it's, uh, you know, somebody owns a diner. This happened in my part of Indiana,
00:04:34.620 a guy got deported, or, you know, whether it's, uh, you know, so many people rely on, um, to,
00:04:41.440 to work for their family or for their business. But we've also got to face that we're in a
00:04:46.740 situation right now where the U S economy has taken advantage of this situation. So there are
00:04:53.240 some people who say our immigration system is broken. I often say that there are other people
00:04:58.140 who have a point when they say that this immigration system is working exactly as
00:05:01.800 intended. And what they mean by that is it creates this kind of underclass of people, right? Who 0.76
00:05:07.260 don't have protections, don't have status, they get underpaid. But the reality is we've allowed
00:05:12.680 this gap to open up between the level of immigration that our economy needs and the
00:05:17.940 level that our law allows. And the last person to deal with that was Ronald Reagan. They had an
00:05:22.940 immigration reform in the 1980s that dealt with that. Bush tried, came close, didn't happen.
00:05:27.720 They tried under Obama.
00:05:28.620 John Boehner didn't happen.
00:05:30.280 I really think there's a chance to get to some common ground here where maybe not everybody,
00:05:35.900 you know, whether it's the far left in my party who really do believe in open borders
00:05:39.740 or the far right in the Republican Party who are just against immigration, period.
00:05:43.240 But everybody in between those polls, which I think is most people, including most Democrats,
00:05:48.360 and I hope most Republicans, can find their way to a grand bargain around a balance of
00:05:53.400 those three issues.
00:05:54.700 I think that's fair.
00:05:56.620 I think to be able to figure something out there is fair.
00:06:00.880 I do think it needs to be a way of you earning the right to get it and somehow to pay.
00:06:07.820 I don't know what that is, to be honest with you.
00:06:09.400 Like, you know, if you're under a certain age, go join the military.
00:06:11.960 If you're in this, go do this.
00:06:12.920 It's got to be some way that you contribute.
00:06:14.800 Like back in the days with LSI, if it's like that, if you don't have to earn and it's like, no, we are lucky to get you here.
00:06:22.520 No, no.
00:06:22.940 We have to go back to your I'm lucky to come to America.
00:06:26.620 America's not lucky to have me.
00:06:28.200 I'm the guest.
00:06:29.360 I'm grateful.
00:06:30.600 That mentality of, I had 200 countries to choose from.
00:06:34.480 I chose to come here.
00:06:35.640 They gave me a green card.
00:06:36.560 We waited almost eight years.
00:06:37.760 The day we found out we're coming here, we're doing backflips at celebrations.
00:06:41.520 So I think that's the only thing about it.
00:06:44.040 But it's fair.
00:06:45.340 I respect the fact that you're saying on the immigration side.
00:06:48.240 So to be fair, if let's just say you were to win, your mindset is not going to be with the border.
00:06:53.940 Like, let's let the border in and let people come in as much as they want.
00:06:56.620 That's not you.
00:06:57.720 You mean like open up the border?
00:06:58.900 Open up the border like Biden did.
00:07:00.200 You wouldn't do it that way.
00:07:01.340 Your strategy would be more along the way Trump did it than the way Biden did it with the border.
00:07:05.240 I mean, those are two pretty big extremes to pick from.
00:07:07.460 But one of them got zero.
00:07:08.660 The other one got quite a few millions of people that came here.
00:07:11.360 By the way, you know how difficult it is.
00:07:13.100 I knew this was going to be horrible when a guy who's in the space, he sends me a proposal.
00:07:18.440 He says, can you please give this to the president?
00:07:20.700 I said, what's this? 1.00
00:07:21.460 here's how much it's going to cost them to deport all the illegals that came 1.00
00:07:26.400 here. 0.99
00:07:27.160 So I'm going through this thing and it was like a $600 billion cost to deport
00:07:33.440 the people.
00:07:34.680 I said,
00:07:35.300 how he says,
00:07:35.940 you need this many,
00:07:36.600 this,
00:07:36.840 this many,
00:07:37.220 that,
00:07:37.380 this many,
00:07:37.740 this.
00:07:38.240 And it was actually a very methodical way.
00:07:40.220 He broke it down.
00:07:41.100 Okay.
00:07:41.540 So he says,
00:07:42.160 Pat,
00:07:42.360 this is not going to happen because no one's going to prove that budget.
00:07:45.880 And what's going to happen is the moment they need one story,
00:07:49.380 He went in an ICE incident.
00:07:50.620 He has to shut the whole thing down. 0.95
00:07:51.980 The guy ended up being right.
00:07:53.660 They had one incident from there.
00:07:54.900 It's like the left is going, look what they did.
00:07:56.560 Oh, they're trying to do this.
00:07:57.660 And then he had to stop it.
00:07:58.560 So those people stayed in here.
00:07:59.580 So guess what?
00:08:00.060 Democrats ended up winning.
00:08:01.700 So they ended up winning because we didn't deport those guys.
00:08:04.080 There was about, what's the number of self-deportation?
00:08:06.400 Did you see that number, Pete?
00:08:07.660 I think it was like a million and a half or something like that.
00:08:09.580 I don't know what the number was.
00:08:10.380 Here's another area where I care about something that I think conservatives care about maybe in a slightly different way,
00:08:14.720 which is the population of the country.
00:08:17.660 And two things go into that, right?
00:08:19.380 birth rate, immigration. That's how countries grow, obviously. We are now on track for
00:08:26.220 negative net migration as a country. Might even be there right now. I'm not sure. I know we were 1.00
00:08:30.420 close. Okay. When I sell my business, I want the best tax and investment advice. I want to help my
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00:09:02.520 2.2 million.
00:09:03.660 I agree that we want immigration to be lawful. 1.00
00:09:06.480 We want it to be controlled. 0.87
00:09:07.580 We want it to be safe.
00:09:08.540 We want it to be reasonable.
00:09:10.560 If the level is too high, that causes all kinds of problems.
00:09:14.660 What if it's zero?
00:09:15.960 Or if it's net zero, that could be fatal to our economy.
00:09:20.360 For a period, no.
00:09:21.460 For a long-term, yes.
00:09:23.180 So I think you want them to come here.
00:09:25.960 You want them to still be the land of the free and American dream.
00:09:33.360 You still want that.
00:09:34.700 But you want to be selective of who comes, not just anybody and everybody.
00:09:38.420 We're seeing what's happening in Europe right now with immigration.
00:09:41.440 Of course, you're following what's going on in France, some of these other places.
00:09:44.780 that's a whole different model of immigration of who they let in uh hopefully we won't be making
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