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And it is a pleasure to be here today. You know, the Democrat
governor of the Connecticut I believe, has actually come out and he said,
look, we I've tried to help. I have tried to help President Biden
along the southern border. I've written a letter along one of my other governor
colleagues, the governor from the state of Vermont, who is by the way,
a Republican, But the White House has just refused our help. We
have been rejected. We have, folks. The reason I want to talk
about this, and I know we talked about illegal immigration, border security,
all this stuff for some time now, and it's an issue that matters number
one, because we've got this piece of legislation they're trying to sneak past the
American people that I want to make sure that we don't allow that to happen.
We don't allow that to happen because and here's the takeaway. The most
important thing to know about the issue of border security is that we have won
this argument. We have won the argument about the border. We have won
it in every measurable way. We have Democrat mayors in cities that are admitting
they have a problem because of illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants that have been allowed
to cross our border, that cities and states are not prepared, are not
prepared to provide necessary infrastructure and services to it is not they are not prepared
to do that. They are not prepared to do that in any number of
ways. And so Democrats are now admitting this. Democrats are admitting this.
We have now a governor, the governor of the states of Connecticut, I
said Colorado. Ned Lamont said he offered himself to President Biden and again President
dismissed it. President rejected it. When you have you've got. We mentioned
the other day Rapper fifty cent fifty cent out there saying Trump maybe the answer.
We have Rapper Snoop Dogg saying that he has nothing but love and respect
for Trump. We had Michael Rappaport, which we played yesterday, the guy
who's I mean, unhinged in so many ways, vulgar and vile in so
many ways. He's out there saying the vote for Trump is still on the
table because of what illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants attacked six law enforcement officers in
New York City at Times Square, and there seems to be no concern for
this now, at least not amongst our political leaders, amongst the average Americans.
Of course, of course there are concerns and problems. We have won
on this argument now, But there's an important distinction, and that's what I
want to get to today, because look, I know some of you are
seasoned vets. This is not the first time that you've been through this.
You've seen this game played before. You've seen the games of semantics, you've
seen the games of posturing. You've seen people campaigning in a very specific way,
and then once the election was over, they never even thought about the
issue they were campaigning on. Some of you are season vets. You need
to patch yourself on the back because you know what's going on here. But
we have a whole host of other people, a whole host of other people
who have been awakened in recent years because of problems that have been created by
our government, created by lovers of government, made worse by the lovers of
government ushered in by the extreme radical leftists who do not represent but just the
tiniest of portions of this great nation. It's a I don't even know if
a fringe is the correct way of referring to this group. It's a portion
of the fringe. Extreme radical leftists have ushered in all sorts of chaos in
this country. And for those who for those who just can't stomach those words,
I don't. I want to be clear that not every problem on this
planet can be laid at the feet of Biden and the left. I would
say, I would say that when you look at you know, you know
the William F. Buckley said, the problem with capitalism, excuse me,
the problem with socialism is socialism the ideology itself. But the problem with capitalism
are individual capitalists, meaning that there are bad apples in any bunch, so
to speak. So the problem with the idea of socialism, just as an
example, is that the ide the ideology itself is broken. It is a
broken, bankrupt worldview, broken ideology. Capitalism is the is the right way
of looking at it. It allows for people to operate freely. But that
does not mean that individual capitalists will not be will not be problematic. Of
course there will be. But let me tell you something else. There were
those same people if they were socialists, would also be the problem in socialism
in addition to the ideology itself. So, no matter how you slice it,
it's worse to have an ideology that's broken because individuals. We're not going
to prevent every individual from trying to work the system or practice deceit or whatever.
We know this. This is human nature. This is the condition of
humanity since the fall. And so we have to look at this and say,
while certainly there are bad apples in the Republican Party, absolutely, unequivocally,
one hundred percent, and there are people in the Republican Party that pay
lip service to conservative principles and ideals, They pay lip service to the constitution.
They pay lip service in order to get campaign donations, in order to
get votes, in order to get volunteers, whatever. That's certainly the case.
But the difference is conservatives are embracing are promoting an ideology, even if
they're just paying it lip service, which I'm not defending. Don't don't misunderstand.
I'm not defending that. I'm simply saying that at least the ideology they
are promoting is rooted in truth, whereas the liberal worldview, the radical leftist
worldview in particular, is morally bankrupt and completely broken, and so nothing good
can come from that. Nothing good can come from a morally bankrupt and broken
worldview. And so while I certainly admit and acknowledge that not all problems on
planet Earth come from the radical left, I do say that they will never
be able to solve the problems, even if they have people of the highest
levels of integrity, because they are embracing an absolutely broken worldview, absolutely broken.
Of course, then that begs the question whether you can be how absolutely
moral you could be and still embrace such a morally depraved worldview. I don't
think that those are compatible, but that's another discussion for another day. The
point is not every problem can be laid at the feet of the lefe,
but certainly a lot of these problems can be, and the border is one
of them. And even Democrats acknowledge this. Even liberal democrats acknowledge this.
Even sitting governors of blue states acknowledge this. Mayors of liberal cities acknowledge this.
We have won the argument on border security. There is I'm not saying
there's nothing else to do. Actually, in some ways this is just the
beginning of the fight. But we have won the issue. I have written
about this in our column, which you can get by free email. By
the way, just go to tied upshow dot com and sign up there for
free. I've written about this, We've talked about this. This is important
to understand, especially if you are newer to following politics, because because whenever
you have all these you have all of these signs and signals that we are
kind of in agreement here, let's secure the border, let's stop the madness.
It's then it's at that point that some people are maybe tempted to let
their defenses down and think we've won the argument, which we have. But
now we have to say, what are we actually going to do about this
politically, because now you've got a factor in, I'm dealing with people,
I'm dealing with a massive problem. So we have to win the argument number
one, which which we have. We have won the argument. Now we
have to win the political fight. And those two things are not the same
thing. They are different things. Remember, the DC apparatus, the bureaucratic
state, the swamp is its own problem altogether. Yes, part of that
problem is that it embraces the worldview of the lovers of big government, up
to and including the radical left. But the other part is just that it's
it's it's just disgusting itself. It's repugnant, it is inefficient, it doesn't
know what it's doing. It's a massive, bloated mess. And so we
have this bill that's now made itself known. We can now actually look at
this bill and begin to see what these jokers and clowns in Washington, d
C. Have been discussing about doing their proposed solution. And so I ask
you this, if you knew that the piece of legislation that these jokers and
clowns were putting together behind the scenes, Remember, they kept this They kept
this hidden from the American people, They kept it hidden from one another.
This thing was crafted again, not in some sort of open discourse sort of
way. It was crafted. Remember, Republicans wanted people to sign on to
support it before they even had this thing hammered out. It's all about again,
there's so much going on here. There's special interest behind the scenes.
There's politicians who don't know the difference between up and down. You've got bills
that are of massive size that no one reads, that no one even has
the time to read. So it's one thing after another that creates this absolute
mess. So the people in this society, well, we've agreed that the
border needs to be secured, which, by the way, should go without
saying. But at least we have enough reasonable people in this country to say
this madness has got to stop. Even people who are on the liberal side
of the aisle agree with this. Now comes the solution, the so called
solution. Do you think it makes sense if you were to find out that
in that bill, in that bill, it would be allowed for up to
not just five thousand, which was the original rumors on online, but up
to eighty five hundred illegal immigrants per day before an emergency border shut down is
issued. So in order think about this, a bill that's designed to secure
our border is written in such a way that the that says we will allow
up to an average of eighty five hundred illegal immigrants to cross encounters encounters along
that border per day before we say we completely shut it down. Well,
why are we talking about completely shutting it down as a as a consequence or
as I guess if more people come in, If we can do it as
step two, why can't we just shut it down as step one? Because
we are at that point. We are at the point I don't know about
the number specifically, but we are at the point that this is totally justifiable
that I would say the American people are totally behind this issue of absolutely shutting
down the border period. Now that doesn't mean that there's no legal immigrants allowed,
that we stopped the legal immigration process or anything. I mean, maybe
that's a discussion because we can't take in every single person for all times in
this country. We've seen what it does to our cities. I mean,
budgets are being slashed by the way. You may have seen may not have
seen this. It's in the snack of stuff. The state of Washington has
apparently reportedly here given three hundred and forty million dollars of COVID relief money as
giveaways to illegal aliens. You try to do that, by the way,
you try to misappropriate something for your business and then report it to the irs,
especially to the magnitude of three hundred and forty dollars. Three hundred and
forty million dollars. But the government just shrugs their shoulders and says, eh,
well, you know, what do you do. It's unbelievable the mess
that we are dealing with. But I want to talk about this. I
got a SoundBite of a bit of an interview between Sharon Breem Fox News and
Senator Langford of Oklahoma, who either doesn't know what's in this bill or is
I mean, I don't lying to us. I don't know. I want
to talk about this bill because it's important to understand. We've won the argument
itself, but the political solution may not match that whatsoever. This is where
the games are played. The stakes are high, and the deceivers are operating
behind closed doors. So timeouts in order. When we get back. I
want to get to this. But a quick timeout needs to happen right now,
So time my friends back here in just a minute. Welcome back to
my friends talking about this bill that has been introduced introduced regarding border security,
which again the American people have agreed we need to secure the border. Now,
in some ways you might say, well, gee, with has taken
us a lot of time to get to that point, and I would agree.
But then at the same time, to have as much support for this
as there is the idea that the border is in crisis, it is a
mess, it needs to be fixed. That is a big step forward for
this country because we have not really been here say Trump did it. And
again I think in that sense maybe we've always had this argument, one on
our side, but to see the conditions and everything that is happening there along
the southern border and across this whole country because of illegal immigration, because of
catch and release, because of well just how we manage the entire thing,
because of the elimination of the remain in Mexico policy, whatever, all these
things created an unmitigated disaster to the point to where not only have we won
the argument, there is now political pressure, real political pressure to fix this
issue. So Congress gets to it. Oh yes, Congress rolls up its
sleeves, Congress sits down, and they want to deal with this problem.
So we're supposed to believe, Yeah, they're going to come along and they
are going to solve this problem once and for all. Remember, these are
the same people, the same people, I think that we can never hit
this point enough. The same people who tell you that they can control the
levels of the seas in one hundred years. The same people who tell you
that they can make sure every single person on planet Earth is paid exactly the
perfect amount what they are owed, and they have some chart somewhere that can
say, hey, this is what that particular job is worth, and we're
going to ensure that you get it. Of course, they can't make make
sure that all of their candidates when they actually have primaries, which is not
this year. Of course, they go through the motions. They've kicked RFK
Junior out. They didn't want to have to go through that process with Biden.
They're worried enough about Trump. They didn't want to prolong this to a
full year of campaigning. But anyway, when they actually had primaries, they
could not even make sure that their candidates all had equal time, even a
handful of them. But yet they tell us they can do all of these
grandiose things. It is absolutely patently absurd and ridiculous to believe this nonsense.
But here we are. Here we are, and so now they're gonna sit
down and deal with the border. Right the border. You talk about something
that should be incredibly easy to do. This is all. This all has
to do with political will. This all has to do with the will of
our politicians to do the right thing. Secure the border. My goodness,
this is not Look, there are things that need to be done. I'm
not minimizing the work. I'm simply saying, give the folks the tools,
send enough people down there, give them the right amount of infrastructure, whether
that be wall or technology or whatever. Right this is it's not a hard
concept. Keep people from just walking across. How about that? How about
if Texas wants to put up a barrier along the Rio Grande River that I
don't know, maybe you let them do that. It's just it's remarkable to
me. This is not complicated. I mean, I jokingly talk about the
idea that well, when I woke up this morning, the walls worked last
night. The walls worked in the home studio here held the building up,
kept the cool air out, kept the warm air in. When we go
to leave the studio, we walk through the door. We don't walk through
the wall. Because the walls have a purpose and the walls work. And
so that is what we have to give the folks along the border who are
trying to protect it, in addition to policies that actually work, not just
security policies, but how about also ideological concepts that we can pass on to
the countries that have been completely just wrecked by these lovers of big government,
by these corrupt politicians, by these socialists who have bankrupted their country and starved
their people. How about that? How about exporting the ideas that made America
great so that other countries can see greatness increase in their home country as well.
They're wherever the country. Whoever embraces these ideas should see prosperity, should
see opportunity, should see liberty and freedom and choice. My goodness, these
are good, but we don't do that. In fact, we have people
in the White House today who seem embarrassed about the United States of America,
who seem to hate the United States of America as founded, that's not going
to get it done. And so the problem, of course, just it's
in a way it's circular. You've got an open border, you've got no
policies that prevent people from coming over. You give them free giveaways once they
get here. You don't help export ideas that they can use to make their
own countries better, less violent, less corrupt, more free, more prosperous.
And I don't blame them for wanting to come here, but it is
absolutely mismanaged in ways I cannot even fully explain. So Senator James Langford,
who is a Republican from the state of Oklahoma, on with Sharon Bream Shannon
Bream, excuse me a Fox News defending his legislation, defending this bill,
trying to tell people that there is not basically a free pass for the first
five thousand, which is what he talks about in this particular interview segment.
But the bill itself, if you read it, gives a free pass to
the first eight thousand, five hundred illegal immigrants to enter this country every day.
But I just want you to listen to this exchange. I'm going to
play this for a little bit here and then I'm going to take a break,
but I want you to hear this exchange and listen to how he's framing
this bill. And then I'm going to come back after we take a timeout,
and I'm going to talk to you about things that we have discovered that
are in the bill. So here we are Senator Langford on with Shannon Bream,
Fox News Sunday, talking about this immigration bill. Here. About a
month ago, you said you were getting close. Then you say you're even
closer now, So let's talk about the rumors. Give you a chance to
respond to some of the critics who say they don't like what they know of
this deal. There's something a kin to a Title forty two power that would
allow everyone at the border to be turned away once there was a rolling average
over a week of five thousand people showing up. Here's Senator Ted Cruz on
that idea. This bill normalizes five thousand people a day coming in. Five
thousand people a day is over one point eight million a year. That's called
an invasion. By the way, under Joe Biden, we've had nine point
six million. So the Great Republican Compromises, we're for two thirds of Joe
Biden's open borders. That's right, we'll let end six million instead of nine
million. This makes utterly no sense. Is that part of the deal?
And how would you convince someone like Senator Cruz to vote for it? Yeah?
The challenge that Senator Cruz has and a bunch of other folks is they're
so waiting to be able to read the bill on this and this has been
our great challenge of being able to fight through the final words, to be
able to get the bill text outs so people can hear it right now.
There's internet rumors, is all? Let me pause that real quick? Did
Jeready said at that time? That was last week? That was last Wednesday?
He said, there's no way for people to be able to read the
bill right now, there's just internet rumors, which let that sink in.
Remember they wanted people to voice support for a bill that was not finalized yet
there was no way for people to read it to know what was in it.
There were rumors. Turns out Ted Cruz is right though, which we'll
get to. Actually, Ted crue the numbers that Ted Cruz was given are
actually lower than what's in the actual bill, which we'll get to that anyway.
But that's important. They want they There's no transparency here. There is
literally zero transparency in this process. He continues, Bla're running on. It
would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to five thousand people day. This
bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. There's no amnesty.
It increases a number of border patrol agents, It increases asylum officers.
It increases detention beds so we can quickly detain and then deport individuals. It
ends catch and release. It focuses on additional deportation flights out. It changes
our asylum process so that people get a fast asylum screening at a higher standard,
and then get returned back to their home country. This is not about
letting five thousand people in a day. This is the most misunderstood section of
this proposal. And let me tell you briefly what it is. In the
last four months, we've had seven days. In four months, we've had
seven days that we had less than five thousand people. This is set up
for if you have a rush of people coming at the border, the border
closes down, no one gets in. This is not someone standing at the
border with a little clicker saying I'm going to let one more in. We're
at four nine hundred ninety nine, and then it has to stop. It
is a shutdown of the border and everyone actually gets turned around. Okay,
God, So why don't we do that now? If we can do that,
Senator Langford, if there's a seven day rolling average of five thousand people,
which interestingly you refuse to say is actually in there, but then you
explain why it is in there, I don't know. You just say that
we're too stupid. We're too stupid to understand because it wasn't in the bill
because nothing existed. We've heard internet rumors. Forgive us for not trusting you.
You folks have been asleep at the wheel for decades. Anyway, I'm
more to say about this. He's a Republican. So for those who say,
oh, you just target the Democrats, No, I don't. I
target people who look, maybe there's something a nuance here that I need to
make sure, we need to make sure that we understand from him. But
the bottom line is, this is in the bill, but the number is
not five thousand a day. It's eight thousand, five hundred, eight thousand,
five hundred average per day over a seven day rolling average. If we
eclipse that number, then there's a hard and fast shutdown. Why is it
eight thousand, five hundred? Why why people want this shutdown? Now?
I just if it can be done, if we eclipse those numbers, it
can be done today. This is patently ridiculous and absurd. And I understand
we've got a Democrat run Senate. I understand we've got Biden in the White
House. I understand all of that. But don't tell us something's not in
the bill when it clearly is timeouts in order. I'll get to this on
the other side of the break, my friends, sit tight back here in
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to the issues of the day, in particular the issue along the southern border.
I want to I want to read for you now. This is at
RedState dot com. RedState dot com. It's in the stack of stuff.
Headline says centator Lankford doubles down denying five thousand illegals will be admitted daily no
matter what the bill says. And so if you scroll down this article and
you read this, there are some bullet points and some bullet points that Red
State is sharing, some from colleagues, some from other groups that have analyzed
the bill, and they want to tell you what's in the bill. So
I'm going to read these bullet points. Here we go. Well, that's
not and these numbers aren't accurate because it's actually eighty five hundred I've seen.
I mean, there's a copy of the bill that is also posted. But
this says five thousand illegals per day or one point eight million per year are
allowed entry before an emergency order can be declared. Those numbers are actually low.
Work permits will be issued to illegal aliens. The federal courts in d
C listen to this. By the way, the federal courts in d C
have original and appellate authority, meaning federal courts in Texas cannot hear cases about
the bill. They want to make sure these are all run through the DCQ
are courts, which of course are all run by the left. The emergency
can be ignored if the President decides it isn't in our quote national interests.
Boy, can you imagine how that could be used? There are limits on
the number of days an emergency can be kept in place, regardless of the
number of illegals. All right. He This article also says America First Legal
has uncovered more things in the bill that we probably will not, Like all
families must be released from custody, only single individuals can be sent back.
Unaccompanied miners don't count against the daily total. That daily total, which I've
seen as eight thousand, five hundred, but other people's days, is still
five thousand. I think it is eight thousand, five hundred. But regardless,
whatever that total is, they're not counting everybody. Number three at key
all existing consent decrees in place, some of which prevent immigration laws from being
enforced. Number four, it takes excuse me, it makes into law a
controversial rule created by Biden that lets asylum officers, not immigration judges, rule
on asylum claims, and it gives them a fifteen percent raise. Number five,
the Border patrol can quote opt out, excuse me, the Biden Border
team can opt out of the quota of any illegals that they think should be
included. So this is like, this is like how they calculate the jobs
reports. Go back and look at the jobs reports. They'll give you a
number, and I think over the I mean, it's like every month over
the past pretty significant amount of time that they revise the numbers downwards. Sometimes
they need to cut them in half. They erroneously quote unquote erroneously doubled the
number of jobs created in a particular month. Same sort of thing here,
Just it's a numbers game. We're not gonna count you, doesn't matter.
And if we do count you, we're gonna say it's a national you know
that we don't have to do this because of a national interest. So we're
gonna ignore this law anyway. What is this? What is this centater like?
For this is ridiculous? Is what this is? Number six? The
bill sunsets in three years, and the maximum permissible number of emergency days each
year decreases from two hundred and seventy to two hundred and twenty five to one
hundred and eighty. So even if they have created you talk about you know
how they complain about loopholes. Oh, there's loopholes. These companies are taking
advantage of loopholes. These billionaires are taking advantage of loopholes, these loopholes,
these loopholes, these loopholes, and they blame the people who take advantage of
the loopholes that they themselves create. It's preposterous, it is stupid, it
is nonsensical. So now think about this, Think about how many ways think
about how many ways, if you're the Biden administration, that you could manipulate
this to have no difference whatsoever in what you're doing along the border. You
can say, well, that person doesn't count. If you actually do hit
the ceiling for when the emergency order is declared, you could say, well,
it's not in our national interest to do so. I mean, there's
a limit even if there is an emergency declared along the border. There's a
maximum number of days that there can be an emergency. Why who? This
is so crazy? It's can you imagine? Can you imagine running your life
like this? I mean to say that there's a maxim I wish that I
could limit the number of things that could be declared an emergency or crisis in
my personal life and say, wait a minute, we've reached the limit.
Can't have anymore of these by law. It's just the way that it is.
It is complete, completely and utterly just tone deaf to reality, arbitrary
at best. Number seven, Here, FEMA receives one point four billion dollars
in grants to provide shelters and immigration services. The bill also appropriates thirty six
million dollars for attorneys for illegals. That's great, and number eight illegals entering
the US after July twenty first, twenty twenty one automatically get quote conditional permanent
resident status. But there's no pathway to citizenship. They were careful not to
put that in permanent resident does not mean citizen, although at some point,
what does citizen even mean, because if you're an illegal alien in many places
you can already vote, Like, what what does it even mean to be
a citizen? What's a conditional permanent resident? Folks, inexcusable. This is
garbage. Quick time out back here in just a minute, welcome back to
my friends. Garbage. Indeed, this bill is garbage. These folks do
not respect you. These folks think that you're stupid. These folks do not
care. They care about whatever is running the gears of Washington, d C.
They care about their campaigns, they care about their donors, they care
about their political careers and futures. They care about themselves. This is not
about you, This is not about the safety of this country. This is
absolutely absolute garbage. This bill is absolute garbage, absolute garbage. And for
Republicans to be out there arguing in favor of this, they make themselves part
of the problem regarding immigration. I told Oz during the break, and I
don't even like to utter these words, but I am telling you right now,
the folks in Congress, the administration today, all the folks that are
involved in making the decisions that have created this catastrophe along our southern border,
which, by the way, all the clowns out there who are telling me
the border's not in crisis, now that everybody from both parties is admitting it,
will you at least acknowledge the folly of your ways. But I am
telling you right now the next logical thing to think about. And I do
not take any pleasure in saying this. Let me be clear, but if
there is a terrorist activity because someone has come across the border, or of
someone's have come across the border and inflicted harm upon the American people, these
politicians who have allowed this to happen, including the administration, including Congress,
who does not do anything to stop this, they are all culpable, God
forbid, should that happen. Quick time out, my friends, back in
just a minute. All right, my friends, So the bill is garbage,
This has this nonsense has to be stopped. These folks in office have
to be held accountable for creating or not at least not stopping the stuff that's
happening in Washington, DC that creates problems for the rest of us around the
country, which includes now blue states, blue cities, governors from blue states
asking the president if they can help. We've got Alaska and other Alaska,
who's as far away from the southern border. I'm waiting for Hawaii to send
some troops to the southern border. This is a disaster. These folks have
to fix this problem, and this is not how you do it. Of
course, Biden can do a lot of this on his own, which we've
talked about. But I've got to go. Have a great day, my
friends. STG.