00:00:18.240Joe Biden was there as a photo op doing everything he could to cover up from the disaster unfolding on our southern border.
00:00:25.180Donald Trump was there to focus on the need to secure our border.
00:00:29.680And tonight we're going to discuss what's happening at the border, the crisis, and in particular, the crimes that are unfolding, the murders, the rapes, the children who are being assaulted.
00:00:39.300And all of this is being done with the absolute complicity of Joe Biden and the congressional Democrats.
00:00:45.720And the media is enthusiastic in covering up their complicity in this regard.
00:00:53.300We're going to break it all down for you.
00:00:54.960Plus, shocking new poll numbers that are coming out as well that talk about the lack of trust in Joe Biden and great numbers for Donald Trump when it comes to border security.
00:01:05.220But first, I want to tell you about our friends, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
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00:03:15.780Customs and Border Protection Sources told Fox News that nearly 5,000 illegals were apprehended along the southern border from California through Texas in a single day on Monday.
00:03:28.200The Eagle Pass Station in the Del Rio sector, where Trump is headed, in Brownsville, Texas, reported 511 apprehensions on Monday.
00:03:38.240Anyway, Brownsville Station in the Rio Grande Valley sector, where President Biden will be, only 12 were reported.
00:03:47.400Texas's lieutenant governor is going after Biden's, well, location.
00:11:56.100And the White House lied about that as well.
00:11:58.020They were asked about the fact that this trip by Joe Biden was actually planned after Donald Trump announced his visit to the border with the governor of Texas as well.
00:12:10.620And this is what the White House had to say about it.
00:12:12.680The former president, his people are saying that the only reason President Biden is going this week is because former President Trump was going to go and he wanted to not lose this issue.
00:12:25.360So can you give us a sense of what the planning process was to go this week?
00:12:29.900I mean, look, you guys have covered this president and other presidents for some time.
00:12:35.280We just can't all of a sudden put something on the president's schedule, right?
00:12:48.200Biden announced his visit right after President Trump did.
00:12:52.500And yes, the president can be agile and go on last minute trips or do something in 24, 48 or 72 hours.
00:12:59.600They act like this man is just too busy to go to the border because it's just too hard to get there.
00:13:03.540We're, again, selling another lie to the American people.
00:13:06.760And look, it's obvious now the White House understands, Senator, that this is a major issue and could cost him a re-election candidacy, a re-election bid, I should say, against Donald Trump because the American people have also walked away from him on border security.
00:13:24.060You know, I was down on our southern border on Sunday of this week and I was there.
00:13:29.160I was there in Laredo and I was in a town hall.
00:13:32.000It was a town hall that included the mayor of Laredo, who's a Democrat.
00:13:37.720It included the county judge, who's the chief executive in Laredo and Webb County, who's also a Democrat.
00:13:44.320And we did an extended town hall, about an hour and a half, two hours, talking about the issues facing Texas.
00:13:50.900And what's amazing, in the state of Texas, there's actually quite a bit of common ground and bipartisanship between Democrats and Republicans.
00:14:00.160And in Texas, we managed to work together.
00:14:05.200And what was amazing is sitting there with two Democrat elected officials in South Texas, nobody, and I mean nobody, nobody, nobody, was defending Joe Biden's open borders.
00:14:17.100Because any person that actually sees the human suffering, the disaster, the pain, the death that is caused by Biden's open borders, nobody can defend it.
00:14:28.720In South Texas, there is literally nobody out there saying, hey, this is great, this is awesome, this is the right policy.
00:14:34.600Because when you see it, there is no defense.
00:14:38.000And in this town hall, Ben, I was asked by the moderator, I said, do you have any message you would give to Joe Biden?
00:14:48.080And they asked each of us, all three of us, they said, look at the TV camera and say, what would you say to Joe Biden right now?
00:14:54.380And what I said to Joe Biden, this is on Sunday, I said, Mr. President, come to the border.
00:15:00.140Come down to the border, see with your own eyes, the people who are suffering, who are dying, who are paying the price of your open border policies.
00:15:12.440See the dead bodies of the people who are found on Texas farms and ranches every day, about three a day, found on ranches and farms every day.
00:15:21.780See, go sit down with the children, with the little boys, the little girls, who've been brutalized, who've been beaten, who've been mutilated, who've been violently sexually assaulted.
00:18:59.960Not only do we have people coming across the border on the terrorist watch list, but we also have, as Donald Trump said back in 2016,
00:19:07.040cartel members, gang members, rapists, murderers, and they're now all over the country.
00:19:12.280But listen, the White House continue to lie.
00:19:14.160This idea that just there's no vetting and there's no proper immigration enforcement going on at the border just does not comport with reality.
00:19:22.620I mean, that's just what they're saying at the White House.
00:20:25.900Because Joe Biden and the Democrats are sending illegal immigrants to your city, to your state every day.
00:20:31.980If you look at, in the last two weeks, the number of people who have died from violent crimes caused by illegal immigrants that Joe Biden let go, it is staggering.
00:20:44.620Look, everyone now knows the crime in Georgia.
00:20:48.520Lake and Riley, a 22-year-old beautiful woman, a nursing student, murdered by an illegal alien.
00:20:56.300The responsibility for that, understand, the responsibility for Lake and Riley's murder is 100% with Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:22:13.900So, they don't let immigration officials know when illegal immigrants are criminals in their city.
00:22:19.400Now, mind you, if they'd done the right thing, when he endangered the welfare of a child, if they'd thrown his ass in jail, if they'd put him in jail, Lakin Riley would still be alive.
00:22:32.380In El Paso, when Joe Biden let him go, and in New York City, when New York Democrats let him go, if either of those changed, Lakin Riley is alive today.
00:22:44.880But instead, this murderer went from El Paso to New York to Georgia, and he murdered that 22-year-old woman.
00:22:54.960And Joe Biden and the Democrats have direct, absolute culpability for that murder.
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00:23:33.640The Border Patrol Union President Brandon Judd also said that many Border Patrol agents were very angry, extremely upset about Biden's border visit.
00:23:45.180Here's why he said they were so upset about how this all went down.
00:23:48.840Having said that, he's now piggybacking onto this Trump trip to make it look like, to the people who are mad about immigration when they go to the polls, he's trying to do something.
00:23:58.080At the end of the day, though, Brandon, you know as well as I do, you cannot please everybody here, and a trip like this, it's just not going to work for him.
00:24:06.260No, and especially for the Border Patrol agents.
00:24:09.780We're all upset that he is going to Brownsville rather than going to an area where he would be able to evaluate exactly what's going on and to come up with ideas and policies to actually secure the border.
00:24:26.400He's going to see exactly what has been done to secure this particular area so then he can expand upon that when he gets back in the White House.
00:24:34.760That's exactly what policymakers should do.
00:24:37.620That's what people that govern should do.
00:24:39.000They should look at the areas that are trouble spots so that they can use what has worked and expand upon that.
00:24:46.280This president, by the way, Joe Biden, he kneeled, he eulogized, he cried for a violent criminal who died during an arrest.
00:25:24.260These Border Patrol agents are angry because clearly the president isn't taking this situation seriously.
00:25:30.500And proof of it is where he went to visit.
00:25:32.460Say her name, Lakin Riley, she was murdered because of Joe Biden's open borders.
00:25:41.280By the way, in Virginia, Prince George's County, Jeremy Caceres, a two-year-old child, was murdered by an illegal immigrant who Joe Biden released.
00:25:53.640In Boston, Massachusetts, a 14-year-old child, was raped by an illegal immigrant, Joe Biden released.
00:26:03.620In Louisiana, a child under the age of 14, was raped by an illegal immigrant, Joe Biden released.
00:26:13.660All of these have happened in the last couple of weeks.
00:26:16.460This is happening right now, real time.
00:26:19.460When it comes to the radical policies of the Democrats, they are endangering you, your family, your children, and we are seeing dead bodies.
00:26:31.840And none of the Democrats will even say the names of the victims whose lives they are taking.
00:26:40.720White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre asked about it on CNN.
00:26:43.700Here's what she said about it at the White House this morning.
00:26:46.080One of the things that some Americans are focused on are crimes that are allegedly being committed by migrants who are in the country illegally.
00:26:54.860There was the death of Lakin Riley in Georgia.
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00:32:10.180Senator, lastly, White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre on Biden's trip to the border.
00:32:15.820She said this is not about politics, which made me about fall out of my seat.
00:32:21.440What does it tell you that both President Biden and Donald Trump are going to be at the border on the same day?
00:32:28.100Here, there's a difference here, and I want to be very clear about this,
00:32:31.180because the President is going to, as you just said, Brownsville, Texas, to hear directly from the Border Patrol agents,
00:32:37.560to hear directly from the frontline personnel on what is going on on the ground.
00:32:42.240And let's not forget, the President was at the border just about a year ago, in January of 2023, to do the same.
00:32:48.000This is not about politics for the President.
00:33:53.700Understand, Joe Biden and the Democrats do not want it to work.
00:33:58.640They are making the most cynical political decision I have seen in my lifetime because they are allowing people to die.
00:34:06.800We've talked about the people who've been murdered.
00:34:09.260We've talked about the children who've been raped.
00:34:11.840And, by the way, we've talked, not on this podcast, but many times before, about the risk of a major terrorist attack.
00:34:18.480God forbid, Ben, I don't want to wake up tomorrow or the next day or the next day and find out that we've had another 9-11 here in the United States,
00:34:25.740that we've had another mass murder by violent terrorists.
00:34:59.320They know before you know or I know or anybody else knows how many on the terrorist watch list are getting caught coming across the southern border.
00:35:05.540And we know how many were caught in September, October, November, and December of last year at record numbers.
00:35:10.980More than the last four years combined when Trump was the president.
00:35:16.600And the only, only way this problem is going to be solved is to reelect a Republican president, to reelect Donald Trump, put him in the White House.
00:35:27.400And understand, this crisis will be solved not over the course of a year, not over the course of six months, but literally within days.
00:35:37.060Because the driving factor, so what determines whether you have an illegal immigration crisis and what happens when people cross over the border?
00:35:45.800Almost all of them have a cell phone with them.
00:35:47.780And right now, they look for border patrol agents.
00:35:59.600And if you ask them, the last time I was down at the border, I asked multiple illegal immigrants, do you believe you get to stay in America now that you're here?
00:36:07.920And they all said, every single one said, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:36:11.820As long as that's the case, we will have an invasion.
00:36:29.600If that is the result, we will continue to have a full-scale invasion.
00:36:35.180The only, only, only way to stop it is when people come here illegally, you put them on a plane, and you send them back to where they came from.
00:36:42.980And again, they have a cell phone, so they call their friends.
00:36:45.340If you deport them, they say, oh, crap, you could spend months and thousands of dollars and be horribly brutalized by traffickers.
00:36:52.480And you get here, and they send you home.
00:36:55.700And it's why I'm going to make a prediction.
00:36:57.740In January of 2025, the numbers of illegal immigrants are going to plummet massively.
00:37:07.380And it's not like it takes a year-long program from the president.
00:37:11.880All it takes, Donald Trump as president, when you cross illegally, will deport you.
00:37:17.580And that will cause, that single fact, will cause the numbers to plummet.
00:37:22.440If there's anything that may be turning the tide here, and that seems to actually be media covering the stories that you mentioned and the tragedies,
00:37:31.940KABB-TV in San Antonio actually ran this on the local news.
00:37:37.720As for the question of why now, political experts have suggested to me that it's because the president has kind of had his oh-shoot moment,
00:37:45.720meaning that Biden and his campaign staff have realized that the immigration issue is important to the American people, and it isn't going away.
00:37:54.480That fact only further evidenced by numerous recent polls that show that immigration is a top-three issue for voters this election cycle, and for many, it's the number one issue.
00:38:06.280I mean, Senator, lastly, you look at this, and that's on local TV.
00:38:12.180We have not seen that type of scrutiny of this president ever.
00:38:16.460And when we go back over the tragedies that are happening in all these different states around the country, just in the last week,
00:39:32.360They know ABC, CBS, NBC will never cover it.
00:39:36.240And so the most powerful thing we can do is simply tell the stories of the death, of the rape, of the suffering, of the misery that Joe Biden and the Democrats are causing.
00:39:50.060That is the most powerful tool to turn it around and stop it.
00:39:54.740Don't forget, share this with your family and friends, please.
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00:40:02.020We're going to keep covering the border, no matter what the media does and let you know the stories that are happening.
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00:40:12.460So, and I'll keep you up to date, by the way, on my podcast, the Ben Ferguson podcast.
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00:40:19.900We do this Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
00:40:21.560And the senator and I will see you back here on Saturday for the week in review.