00:13:41.040And they know that the corporate media will be complicit in ignoring it.
00:13:45.500This is one of the many instances where the corruption and politicization of the media, the destruction of journalism,
00:13:52.200the the it ends up producing the extremism with elected Democrats.
00:13:58.940Their strategy is is simply ignore it and cover it up.
00:14:03.520And so the most important value of impeachment of Mayorkas is to put the facts of the utter disaster that is happening at the border before the American people.
00:14:16.400So so so let me give you some of the facts in all of fiscal year 2023, the Biden administration deported one hundred and forty two thousand five hundred and eighty people, one hundred and forty two thousand more than twice.
00:14:33.740That number came across our our border just last month in December.
00:14:39.680So that's one hundred hundred and forty two thousand out of roughly three million.
00:14:47.660You look at the month of December that we just finished three hundred and two thousand illegal alien encounters, the highest single month ever recorded.
00:14:58.200First time it's ever been over three hundred thousand.
00:15:00.520There have now been since October 1st, more than seven hundred and eighty five thousand migrant encounters at the southern border.
00:15:11.580Seven hundred eighty five thousand since October 1st.
00:15:14.300That is the highest first quarter of the year.
00:15:17.160The way the fiscal of the federal government fiscal year measures, the first quarter is from October one to December 31st.
00:15:23.640That's the highest first quarter ever recorded.
00:15:27.760Seven hundred and eighty five thousand people is larger than the city of Seattle.
00:15:33.920And that's what crossed the southern border in the last three months.
00:15:38.200And despite all of that, what does the White House say?
00:15:41.320Corrine Jean-Pierre describes the situation on the border as, quote, not unusual.
00:15:46.200It's record shattering, horrific, and it is producing a line of body bags of dead illegal immigrants abandoned on Texas farms and ranches.
00:15:57.440It is producing thousands upon thousands of children horribly abused, brutalized women, thousands upon thousands sexually assaulted, drug overdoses.
00:16:08.140The value of this impeachment is to overcome the media blockade and to put the facts before the American people.
00:16:16.780You know, what's even more shocking is their excuses for why this is happening.
00:16:20.600And one of them, I just have to play it for you because I have to get your reaction.
00:16:25.080You talk about my orcas and moving forward, this impeachment, it's long overdue.
00:16:30.360But listen to what my orcas said about what's happening at the border and and more importantly, why it's happening at the border.
00:16:41.640As you know, Mr. Secretary, Border Patrol in the month of December processed more migrants entering the United States illegally than any month in the history of that agency.
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00:21:00.420You know, Speaker Johnson took a delegation of congressmen down to the border and was in Eagle Pass, a place the president won't go, a place that, you know, the White House press secretary won't go, the place the vice president Kamala Harris won't go.
00:21:15.860Democrats won't go to where the actual crisis is.
00:21:18.600And I was on Outnumbered, and they were showing the video of illegal immigrants from different countries yelling out in their native languages, help, to the congressmen saying, we're trying to get through the razor wire.
00:23:40.620You understand that the border is, in fact, wide open.
00:23:44.020And no one that's coming across the southern border thinks they shouldn't be doing it or shouldn't be trying to turn themselves into Americans.
00:23:50.400Look, what Corrine Jean-Pierre says, she doesn't give a damn about Border Patrol agents.
00:23:56.500And in fact, she and Joe Biden regularly demonize Border Patrol agents.
00:24:01.000I spend a lot of time with Border Patrol agents.
00:26:04.720If the answer is you put them on a plane and you fly them back to the country they came from, the numbers plummet and they plummet immediately.
00:26:14.340We have seen there's an instantaneous cause and effect.
00:26:18.700On the other hand, if the answer is that when you apprehend them, you let them go and they get to stay in America, the numbers skyrocket.
00:26:28.700When I was last down there, we had the group of illegal immigrants that came and turned themselves into us while we were on midnight patrol.
00:26:45.120And they laid out all the cities that they wanted to go to.
00:26:47.300They all knew where they wanted to go.
00:26:48.540And as long as they believe they will stay, the numbers keep rising.
00:26:55.440And you have to understand part of the reason it's instantaneous, virtually every illegal immigrant who comes shows up carrying a plastic baggie.
00:27:04.580They typically have in the plastic baggie.
00:27:06.540They have some form of identification, a birth certificate, a passport.
00:27:10.280They have usually a cell phone and they have a name and number of somebody in the U.S.
00:27:18.400Unfortunately, often it is traffickers who are bringing them in that they're calling.
00:27:22.800When we were talking to the kids, all of the young girls said they were they were calling their tios.
00:27:31.300And yet they wouldn't tell us anything when we asked any questions about who these tios were.
00:27:35.740But the cell phone is what makes it instantaneous, because when people get here and get released, they immediately text or call their friends and their families back home.
00:27:46.260And they say, hey, if you come, you get to stay.
00:27:48.880If on the other hand, if they've gone through a horrendous journey and they've been horribly abused and they get here and they get deported, they get put on a plane and sent back right where they started.
00:27:59.680Again, they text their friends and families and they say, don't come.
00:28:06.320And so the reason those illegal immigrants are calling Iuda, calling for help is because they believe and they believe quite rightly that under Joe Biden, the Biden administration views its job as helping illegal immigrants come into this country and invade this country.
00:28:23.280We're now upwards of 10 million illegal immigrants under Joe Biden.
00:28:31.740And the other part, I think, that's that's also so disingenuous from this White House is the fact that they try to act, as you mentioned, it's about the money.
00:28:39.920But the executive actions that the president could take instantly could change so many of the policies that are allowing for this crisis, which was created by design by the Biden administration.
00:29:32.600Mayorka should have been impeached over two years ago.
00:29:34.880I have been calling for it for virtually the entirety of his tenure because it has been we have never seen a cabinet member so utterly defy federal law the way Mayorkas has done.
00:29:48.480I want to move to something else that is obviously important and significant.
00:29:53.580We've talked about it and it's a big win on the border to secure the enactment of a streamlined permitting process for new and expanded bridges across the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Laredo and Eagle Pass, Texas.
00:30:08.640It is something that you were a part of and led on.
00:30:17.420And I want to play for people part of what you had to say at this very, very big moment.
00:30:22.880We're here today to celebrate bipartisan legislation that was signed into law in December of last year that will expedite building new bridges and expanding bridges between Texas and Mexico.
00:30:39.560We're here at the World Trade Bridge, the largest land port in the United States.
00:30:46.300Every year, Texas and Mexico have roughly $800 billion in trade and commerce that comes across this border.
00:31:10.220This is obviously significant, not just from the standpoint of security that you talked about and orderly commerce coming across the border in a safer manner.
00:31:19.440But it's also a really big deal from the fact that, as you mentioned, it was bipartisan.
00:31:24.800Talk about how significant this is going to be for this country and for Texas.
00:31:29.420Well, the audio you just played was for a press conference that I did in Laredo yesterday morning.
00:31:34.420And it was right at the World Trade Bridge, right on the southern border.
00:31:38.120And I did that alongside Henry Cuellar, the Democrat congressman who represents Laredo.
00:31:43.380And Henry and I worked hand in hand in this.
00:31:47.760The Texas Business Association that was down there with us, and there was a large group of people celebrating this legislative victory that we had just two weeks ago,
00:32:00.160described the legislation that I introduced and passed as the biggest positive step for jobs and commerce in Texas since the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement was negotiated.
00:32:17.900It is literally billions of dollars of additional trade and commerce and tens of thousands of jobs.
00:33:41.200If you're building a bridge across an international border, there's an additional legal requirement.
00:33:46.840You need a permit from the president of the United States.
00:33:51.100Now, the way this used to be done is the president would grant that permit contingent on the completion of the NEPA review.
00:34:01.140And what that did is accelerated the process, enabled it to move through quickly.
00:34:06.700When Joe Biden became president, he announced they were reversing that policy.
00:34:12.840And Biden was going to grant zero presidential permits for cross-border bridges unless and until the NEPA environmental review was fully completed.
00:34:26.500The effect of that was to add two, three, four, five years to these bridge projects, to delay them all.
00:34:33.580It also made it harder for them to get funding because the banks were reluctant to commit capital until the presidential permit had been granted.
00:34:44.180So there was a chicken and egg problem.
00:34:48.680And so what I did is, number one, unified the congressional delegation in South Texas.
00:34:54.300And so I brought together a coalition of myself and John Cornyn, the other Texas senator, along with Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, Monica De La Cruz, a Republican, Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat, and Tony Gonzalez, a Republican.
00:35:08.660All of the South Texas congressional delegation, we jointly pressed the Biden State Department, reversed this idiotic policy.
00:35:19.040This is hurting Texas and hurting America.
00:35:25.380And so I authored legislation mandating that they expedite the process, got bipartisan support in the Senate, passed it out of the Senate, and then passed it out of the House.
00:35:37.660And Joe Biden signed it into law on December 22nd.
00:35:41.940It was actually my birthday that he signed it into law.
00:35:45.440And so it was a pretty great birthday gift because it's a huge victory for jobs in the state of Texas.
00:35:52.380And it's an example of, you know, I got to say, it's also an example of the bizarre hypocrisy.
00:36:01.580I mean, let me ask you seriously, Ben, explain to me the mind of a whack job liberal that you want totally open borders and 10 million people invading this country illegally,
00:36:13.860including human traffickers and drug traffickers, on the one hand.
00:36:17.940But on the other hand, you want to put bureaucratic roadblocks in the way of legal trade and commerce from farmers and businesses while you're allowing illegal immigrants to flow with no restraint.
00:36:31.140Yeah, it makes no sense, especially when every year Texas and Mexico, as you mentioned, have roughly 800 billion in trade and commerce that come across this border.
00:36:39.980And this does it in a more orderly fashion, but also with the issue of national security involved in it, keeping it orderly with safety and security,
00:36:48.980especially with all the drug trafficking, fentanyl and everything else coming across the border.
00:36:56.880And we ended up building the bipartisan coalition to pass this into law.
00:37:03.040And so the way the law works is December 22nd is when Joe Biden signed it into law.
00:37:08.420On that date, which was the date he signed it, the legislation starts a shot clock of 60 days and the State Department has a 60 day time limit to submit its recommendations to the White House as to whether he should grant the permit for these four bridges.
00:37:26.160After that 60 day period, a second shot clock starts and the president has 60 days to make a determination on the permit.
00:37:37.760If the president does nothing after that second 60 days, the permit is deemed automatically granted by operation of law.
00:37:48.020What that means is because it was signed on December 22nd, that by April 20th, we will have these presidential permits, which will expedite these bridges going forward.
00:37:59.320That is an enormous victory, despite the Biden administration putting roadblocks in the way every step of the way.
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