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stories follow this pattern. Things that we could see, but
we're told that we were seeing things that we weren't
seeing aka gaslighting. Right, But now years later it can
be told that we were actually seeing these things the
latest example, and there are others I could like, let's see,
the Hunter Biden laptop was one of them. The Russia
Gate collusion hoax that was another one. The COVID stuff,
a lot of the COVID stuff that was one. Joe
Biden's declining mental acuity that was another one. But now
the New York Times tells us actually, when it comes
to the border security issue, actually yes it was intentional.
Now why the New York Times doesn't really explain that
except Orange Man bad. But Democrats in the administration knew
that what Biden was going to do was going to
create chaos. It would explode the number of border crossings,
and it would pose an electoral challenge for Biden were
he to run again, or if Harris were to run.
So this goes back to the very beginning, even before
Biden was sworn in. This goes back to the very
beginning of the Biden presidency. This is a massive story
that The New York Times did. I think it totals
somewhere around twelve pages. Here. I will read to you
every work. No, I'm kidding. I will give you the highlights.
But keep in mind I am an over highlighter. Like literally,
I highlight way too much in my pages here. I
draw boxes around stuff, I highlight entire paragraphs, and it's
just it's kind of ridiculous. So big story by Christopher Flavel.
He interviewed more than thirty former Biden administration officials who
worked on immigration and border policy, as well as members
of Congress, stayed and local officials, lawyers, and migrants. And
here here's the headline, How Biden lost American's faith in
immigration sub headline. The Democratic president and his top advisors
rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that
helped return Donald Trump to the White House. See so
this is Biden's fault that Trump is back in. That's
the talk about scapegoating, right. It begins thusly. In the
weeks after Joe R. Biden Junior was elected president, advisors
delivered a warning his approach to immigration could prove disastrous.
Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely than Trump,
who generated wide spread backlash by separating migrant children from
their parents, which, by the way, Obama was doing but
nobody cared. But then Orange Hitler got in, and then
it was like, oh my god, it's Range Hitler. He's
doing this. Mister Biden was now president elect, and his
positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings. Yeah, this according
to experts who were advising his transition team. They warned
him in a zoom call in the weeks of twenty twenty.
In the final weeks of twenty twenty, this, according to
people with direct knowledge of the briefing, and that jump
in the border crossings could provoke a political crisis. Chaos
was the word that advisors had used in a memo
during the campaign. They offered a range of options to
avert the crisis by better deterring migrants. Remember Joe Biden's
famous warning to people who were thinking about making the
dangerous trek across hundreds or thousands of miles to be
smuggled in by the cartels. Remember the message don't. If
you're thinking about coming, don't. It's powerful. It was a
very powerful message that nobody listened to. And then you'll
recall he put Kamala Harris in charge as the borders are.
Remember then she flew down to some countries and was
trying to get at the root causes of the immigration crisis.
And remember her her powerful message was don't come, which
nobody listened to either. Yes, so the warnings came true.
These advisors offered a range of options to avert the
crisis by better deterring migrants. Biden, though, seemed to grasp
the risk, so he seemed to understand it. But then again,
he wasn't really dealing with a full deck, so maybe
he forgot. I don't know. He and his top aids, though,
failed to act on the recommendations. The warnings came true,
and then some after Biden became president, migrant encounters at
the southern border quickly doubled and then kept. New arrivals
overwhelmed border stations, then border towns, and eventually major cities
like New York and Denver. A New York Times examination
of Biden's record found that he and his closest advisors
repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster.
You don't say, actually, you do, say, I said. I've
been saying that, like we could all. It was obvious
this was intentional. Whether or not people were saying whoa wha, whoa,
don't do it, nobody was saying that in public. Former
Biden officials told The New York Times that Biden and
his circle of close confidants, including Ron Klain, Mike Donnellan,
Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, and Anita Dunn, which we're always polite here,
we call her Anita, finished, they made two crucial errors. First,
they underestimated the scale of the migration that was coming. See,
they just they didn't realize that there would be so
many people that wanted to come into America when you say, hey,
we're not going to stop you from coming into America
and we're not going to kick you out if we
find you in America. They didn't realize that, like when
you make something free and open that like you get
overwhelmed by a whole bunch of people coming in, which
is kind of bizarre because that's obvious, but they didn't
realize it. I was the first crucial error them being dumbasses.
Apparently number two, they failed to appreciate the political reaction
to that migration. They believe that stronger enforcement would alienate
Latino and wait a minute, why isn't that LATINX? What's
going on here? New York Times? I was I was
told that the correct term moving forward from a couple
of years ago would always be Latins or LATINX. Well,
what's going on? Why are we going back to the
patriarchy here? Let's so they thought that if they enforced
the border that that would alienate Latino and progressive voters,
and also they thought that a border surge would not
be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would
later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos,
citing immigration as a reason for supporting Trump in twenty
twenty four. Quote, everybody was reacting to the excesses of
the Trump administration, said Cecilia Munos. She helped shape immigration
policy in the Obama administration and oversaw domestic and economic
policy for the Biden transition team. Yet as a public
as public concern over border security grew partly in response
to Biden's own actions, his administration proved catastrophically slow to
change course. In other words, they were messing up. They
were making bad choices. And when advisors who now claim
they knew better and are telling the New York Times
off the record and anonymously we knew better. We were
telling him not to do this and change course, they
wouldn't change course. Why Because this is what they wanted.
That's the obvious answer, is it not. This is what
they wanted to see. The people who were obviously able
to win the argument among the advisors. They wanted what
we saw, and political fallout be damned, didn't matter. The
President and his closest aids treated immigration as a distraction
from other issues, such as the coronavirus pandemic as well
as the economy. Well, they didn't do a great job
on those two either, so not really sure. Uh, maybe
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administration faced a steep challenge addressing a border crisis while
adhering to outdated immigration laws. Well but wait, well then
why is Trump able to do it? See? This is
the thing, right, we were told by Democrats and media,
But I repeat myself that we needed new laws in
order to combat the border crisis and the massive influx
of illegal aliens that poured across the border. Yet when
Donald Trump took office, the first thing he did was
shut down the border and that has worked. Like the
numbers of border crossings are in I want to say,
like there was I think there was a couple months
where there were zero, Like they didn't have anybody. You
didn't need new laws, You just needed somebody to enforce
the laws that are on the books. And so the
way the New York Times frames this that you know,
we're trying to adhere to these outdated law. They're not outdated,
you just don't want to follow them. That was the point.
There were there were obviously factions inside the Biden administration
that had a difference of opinion about how to enforce
immigration law. You had some that were like, hey, we
got to make sure that we don't do it in
a way that you know, alienates the voters that we need.
But we can't do what Trump was doing, so we
got to find some other way or whatever. And then
you've got another contingent that's just like, throw open the doors.
And they won. They won the argument. Obviously, the aids
lamented that Biden never articulated a clear vision well that
is on brand, or pushed his cabinet secretaries to coordinate
their efforts on immigration in the way that Trump has.
So Trump is better at this. That's that's quite the
admission unspoken. Biden created new legal pathways for migration to
ease pressure at the border, under which more than a
million people were allowed into the United States, fueling public resistance. Yes,
and one little side note about that new legal pathway.
This was the creation of the CBP one app that
allowed people to apply for asylum anywhere, right. And in
so doing, you opened up the you opened up the doors.
And then the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Majorcas, he
gave blank approvals to all asylum requests, which not for nothing,
is illegal. That's illegal. He's not that the law is
clear that he can grant asylum requests on a case
by case basis. He's allowed to do it for individuals.
You don't get to do it for entire classes of people,
which is what he did. Very clear, he was asked
about it, he had no and he had no no
explanation for it, no legal justification for his actions. He
was dragged in front of Congress and put under oath
about it. The New York Times doesn't mention that anyway.
It goes on to say that Biden failed to convince
Congress to change immigration laws, dragging his feet on a
crucial Senate border deal that I just mentioned. Who said
the the Langford, the Republican who was leading this effort
because I don't know, said the effort might have otherwise
succeeded if only Biden had had gotten involved. Now here's
a great point from Eric on the text line, who says, Pete,
the Democrats thought that Donald Trump would be out of
the race via law fair and he wouldn't win in
twenty twenty four, so they figured they could do the
open borders. Look that, I think that's a valid theory. Right,
Biden had just won, Trump is out. You've got you know,
the gearing up of the J six Committee and all
of that. Right, so you've got this this animus that's
getting you know, amped up. And so maybe, yeah, you've
got people that were running for US or district attorney offices,
attorney general's offices, and they were saying like, elect me,
I'm gonna get Trump. Elect me, I'm going to prosecute Trump.
And so when those people won, along with Biden, maybe
they anticipated, We're going to throw this guy in jail.
We're gonna throw Trump in jail. He's not going to
be on the ticket again. He lost, he's done, he's
not going to run for reelection. He's out, and so
now's our chance to run, you know, full steam towards
this you know, utopian progressive idea of open borders. A
spokeswoman for Biden blamed Republicans, which is also on brand,
but former advisors. The piece goes on to say later
former advisors said the problem ran deeper than Republican obstructionism.
The Biden White House quote had no strategy because they
had no goal. That's according to Scott shoe Cart or
shoe chart sh Chart. I'm just gonna stop with the
pronunciations on that one, because I feel like I might
be like up against some FCC guidelines. Anyway, he joined
the administration as a senior advisor on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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go away so that they could focus on the things
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York Times now telling us what we kind of already
knew five years later, that yes, the border chaos was
due to Biden, was due to what they did and
didn't do. And now you've got you know, people talking
to The Times five years after the fact saying we
told him this was gonna happen. We said that you're
going to cause this massive influx of people crossing the border.
But you know, he just he he just didn't do
anything about it or something, because as long as you know,
you do whatever, the opposite of what Trump did, like
that was see this is this is why it's kind
of comical to me and I've seen some of this
on social media with the announcement of the the the
migration of WBT over to one O seven point nine
FM this week. Is there are some people who I
think maybe are Republican conservative or something you know, on
the right, and they, you know, they used it as
a chance on our Facebook pages and stuff to you know,
attack us as like Trump bootlickers and all this stuff.
It's like, okay, well, I don't know if you've listened
to our shows, because I don't know, Like particularly Vinced,
I don't think would qualify for that Moniker he gets
a lot of it, gets a lot of pushback because
he criticizes Trump a lot. I criticized Donald Trump. I
get pushed back for it anyway. But what I always
try to keep in mind when dealing with people like
this is that they view everything through the prism of
Trump pro or con. Okay, there are people that love
Trump so much that whatever he says or does is fine,
and there are people who hate Trump so much that
anything he does is terrible. And this is what it
sounds like is that the Biden team comes in and
they're like, whatever Trump did, we're going to do the opposite.
For example, Title forty two. Remember what that was. It's
a provision in the law that allows the government to
block the entry of people who risk introducing a communicable
disease into the country. Right if there is an outbreak
of measles. Okay, maybe all right, let me use a
different example that's not in the news, the bubonic plague. Right,
Let's say you've got some country, let's say it's Ireland
and they've got the bubonic plague running rampant, and a
bunch of Irish people show up and they're like, we
want in. The US government can say, yeah, you know what,
you guys, you got this outbreak over there, like, we're
not going to take you in Title forty two. Trump
invoked this during COVID, but when Biden got in, he
had to decide between a more permissive approach, which is
what his fellow Democrats were demanding of him, and then
he had, on the other hand, all of the warnings
right about, hey, you're going to be letting in all
these people potentially with COVID while you're telling everybody to
stay locked down. Soon after being sworn in, he issued
a one hundred day pause on deportations. Then he drastically
narrowed the categories of unauthorized immigrants targeted for arrest. He
directed his government to stop building the border wall. He
suspended the remain in Mexico policy. He sent draft legislation
to Congress to create a citizenship pathway for people in
the country illegally. So his policy changes sent a signal
that the border was opening up again, and people made
the rational logical decision in response to that signal. When
you send out the word that we are reversing all
of the policies of Trump that close the border, We're
not going to build the wall, We're going to let
everybody in. We're going to do all of the things
that I just ran through. Then obviously people hear the
message and they respond, I've said this for twenty five years.
That's how long I've been aware of the immigration crisis
going on in the country and the lacks enforcement of law.
The people who make the decision to come to America
are acting in a rational way. If we don't care
about our own immigration law and we don't care enough
to enforce it, then the rational response is Okay, well
then I'll come. Why wouldn't it be of course it
would be you want to come for a better life
for your family. You want to come work, send money
back home so you can have a decent house, you
can have a standard of living that maybe is much
higher than everybody else in your town. Of course, you're
going to do that if you can. Right. It's a
rational response. And so, of course the crisis that was
foretold by Joe Biden's advisors manifested. They got exactly what
the advisors said would happen. Two months into his term,
Biden assigned Harris Right to be the borders are get
at the root causes, but none of the former officials
who spoke to The New York Times describe her as
a central decision maker on border policy, which is also
not surprising. Many former aides complained about the administration's reluctance
to push foreign governments harder to try to slow the
movement of migrants or accept more deportation flights. This is
something Donald Trump has done in his second term. Aides
described Biden as having no strong positions on immigration beyond
two key areas. He resisted anything that looked like Trump's
remain in Mexico policy, which was that if that's the policy,
where if you were trying to get into America on
an asylum claim, you would have to wait in Mexico
if that's where you were coming through, you would have
to wait there until the claim was adjudicated. And Biden
scrapped it, which then allowed people to come in set
up their lives while their asylum claim is being adjudicated.
And the idea there is that you just never get
around to it, or at some point you give them
all amnesty. As border crossings jumped. Oh sorry, that was
the one thing. He had no strong positions beyond two areas.
One scrapped the remain in Mexico policy, and two he
did not want to send children back across the border,
which then of course created the ob vis reaction, which
was the cartels began using kids right, because then you
have the chain migration issues. You put them with quote guardians,
and that's how the Biden administration lost track of hundreds
of thousands of kids. Many former AIDS complained about the
administration's reluctance to uh, all right, sorry read that part already.
See I highlight too much, That's what I mean. As
the border crossings increased, advisors across the administration kept offering
ideas to try to deter migrants, but political concerns remained.
Muno said they were a little too sensitive to criticisms
from the left. The result was paralysis. Some Biden aids
believe that the less the President said about immigration, the better. Yeah,
just don't talk about it. Just don't talk about it.
Nobody will realize, nobody will recognize what's going on. So
what happened? Right? You have this massive inflow of people
gets uh more and more people coming across every year.
It's worse and worse and worse. So what brought it
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is now laying bare what we all knew to be
true at the time. But they're now on the story
doing the deep dive and why the Biden administration blew
open the borders and how it helped to re elect
Donald Trump. Right, this was one of the big issues
for Donald Trump. And so they spend the article and
I went over for the last three segments here talking
about the decisions, and you know the people that were like, no, no,
don't do it, don't do that, don't do this, don't
do it that way, whatever. But something happened about mid
twenty two that changed the whole dynamic. Remember what it was.
It was the bussing, right, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas,
began his bussing campaign sending illegal immigrants to other cities,
dumping them on the doorstep of these sanctuary cities, who
then claimed, oh, no, no, no, no, don't come here.
It's like I thought you were sanctuary. What's up with that.
The Biden administration accused Abbot of a cruel stunt, but
the campaign worked. And by the way, I remember when
this was happening in twenty two. Then I was sitting
in this chair and I was talking about it, and
I said, this is brilliant, and this is a good
thing to do, because while the problem is being shouldered
by all of these border towns down in Texas and
New Mexico and Arizona whatever. Like they the liberal elites
out on the coast, they can ignore it because their
services aren't being overrun, right, They're not having to deal
with the budget pressures of having to feed and house
and educate all of these these massive amounts of people
coming in. So bring them to the places that claim
to be morally superior as a sanctuary city. Go, We'll
take you there. It's cheaper to do that than it
is to provide all of the services here in our
state when you've got an extra one to two million
people a year coming across the border. So when migrants
began making headlines in places like New York, everything changed.
Biden officials came to view Abbot's campaign as the point
Democrats lost the debate. Deborah fly Shaker fly Sacker Caker whatever,
the assistant director for policy at ICE at the time.
She says, I don't think we ever recovered from that.
And this goes to a tactic. I heard this described
by Adam Carolla, the podcaster comedian guy. He was on
the Trigonometry podcast and he talked he gave an analogy,
and he's like, let's say, like your wife wants to
leave the front door open. But when you leave the
front door open, you get raccoons that come into the
house and they destroy the house. And so you're like, no,
don't leave the front door open. And so you close
the front door. And so while you don't have any
raccoons now ripping everything apart, and so you think this
is good, problem solved, your spouse then starts, you know,
throwing tantrums, screaming and yelling and constantly whining and just
making a fuss all the time. Everything is a fight
about the door being closed at night, and she wants
the door open. This is a silly example, I understand,
but this is the tactic that eventually you get so
tired of hearing the fighting and the whining and the
covetching and all of this. You're so tired of the
tantrums that you're just like, fine, keep the door open.
And then you get the raccoons that come back and
tear apart the place. That's the that's the tactic. And
when you when you understand that dynamic, that's why so
much of what we see with the you know, with
the protests and the you know, I'm gonna get in
front of these ice vehicles, like just making a nuisance
of yourselves when the obvious thing is to have enforcement
of immigration law. Right that now it makes sense. It's
like it's just an attempt to get you to surrender,
to just give in because I'm tired of the antics.
Governor Abbott expanded his bussing campaign. They talk about Denver,
the influx became a crisis there, the costs spread the
main safety net hospital spent millions of dollars treating additional
patients that had no insurance. The school system made room
for more than five thousand additional students. Denver spent almost
one hundred million dollars trying to manage the crisis, and
it was not alone. By September twenty two, Texas had
sent tens of thousands of migrants to Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia,
New York. Remember Eric Adams, mayor of New York City,
said the issue was going to destroy New York City
and the city we knew. He said, we're about to lose.
Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut. Senator James Langford of Oklahoma.
Remember they tried to come up with this this quote fix.
Democrats blamed Trump for sinking that deal, but Langford pointed
to another culprit, which was Biden's foot dragging. He was like,
maybe if Biden would have gotten involved, then you know,
we could have we could have gotten the deal done.
By June, fifty five percent of Americans said total immigration
levels needed to come down, and that the highest share
of Americans that have ever responded in that way in
a Gallop poll since just after the nine to eleven attacks.
By June of twenty twenty four, five months before election day,
Biden reversed course. He issued in order all but closing
the border to asylum applications, a move that was far
tougher than the proposals that had been rejected during his
first year in office, and at that point border encounters
quickly started to fall. Why he waited so long is
one of the defining questions of his presidency. All right,
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