1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 I Daily Show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,079 your support. So now it can be told so many 10 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:38,240 stories follow this pattern. Things that we could see, but 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,960 we're told that we were seeing things that we weren't 12 00:00:41,039 --> 00:00:48,960 seeing aka gaslighting. Right, But now years later it can 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,799 be told that we were actually seeing these things the 14 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,880 latest example, and there are others I could like, let's see, 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,479 the Hunter Biden laptop was one of them. The Russia 16 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:05,319 Gate collusion hoax that was another one. The COVID stuff, 17 00:01:05,359 --> 00:01:07,959 a lot of the COVID stuff that was one. Joe 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:14,719 Biden's declining mental acuity that was another one. But now 19 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,879 the New York Times tells us actually, when it comes 20 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:27,680 to the border security issue, actually yes it was intentional. 21 00:01:28,599 --> 00:01:31,640 Now why the New York Times doesn't really explain that 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:39,319 except Orange Man bad. But Democrats in the administration knew 23 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,120 that what Biden was going to do was going to 24 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:49,200 create chaos. It would explode the number of border crossings, 25 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,920 and it would pose an electoral challenge for Biden were 26 00:01:54,959 --> 00:01:59,719 he to run again, or if Harris were to run. 27 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,000 So this goes back to the very beginning, even before 28 00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:08,039 Biden was sworn in. This goes back to the very 29 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:14,120 beginning of the Biden presidency. This is a massive story 30 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,759 that The New York Times did. I think it totals 31 00:02:16,759 --> 00:02:20,639 somewhere around twelve pages. Here. I will read to you 32 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,719 every work. No, I'm kidding. I will give you the highlights. 33 00:02:25,199 --> 00:02:30,120 But keep in mind I am an over highlighter. Like literally, 34 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:34,879 I highlight way too much in my pages here. I 35 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,439 draw boxes around stuff, I highlight entire paragraphs, and it's 36 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:44,599 just it's kind of ridiculous. So big story by Christopher Flavel. 37 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:49,199 He interviewed more than thirty former Biden administration officials who 38 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,439 worked on immigration and border policy, as well as members 39 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:59,680 of Congress, stayed and local officials, lawyers, and migrants. And 40 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:05,400 here here's the headline, How Biden lost American's faith in 41 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:09,960 immigration sub headline. The Democratic president and his top advisors 42 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:14,000 rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that 43 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,039 helped return Donald Trump to the White House. See so 44 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,360 this is Biden's fault that Trump is back in. That's 45 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:27,280 the talk about scapegoating, right. It begins thusly. In the 46 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,560 weeks after Joe R. Biden Junior was elected president, advisors 47 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:37,599 delivered a warning his approach to immigration could prove disastrous. 48 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:43,199 Biden had pledged to treat unauthorized immigrants more humanely than Trump, 49 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,560 who generated wide spread backlash by separating migrant children from 50 00:03:47,639 --> 00:03:49,680 their parents, which, by the way, Obama was doing but 51 00:03:49,719 --> 00:03:51,919 nobody cared. But then Orange Hitler got in, and then 52 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:53,639 it was like, oh my god, it's Range Hitler. He's 53 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:58,759 doing this. Mister Biden was now president elect, and his 54 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:07,599 positions threatened to drastically increase border crossings. Yeah, this according 55 00:04:07,639 --> 00:04:10,919 to experts who were advising his transition team. They warned 56 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,120 him in a zoom call in the weeks of twenty twenty. 57 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,800 In the final weeks of twenty twenty, this, according to 58 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,360 people with direct knowledge of the briefing, and that jump 59 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,560 in the border crossings could provoke a political crisis. Chaos 60 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,959 was the word that advisors had used in a memo 61 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,279 during the campaign. They offered a range of options to 62 00:04:33,319 --> 00:04:39,720 avert the crisis by better deterring migrants. Remember Joe Biden's 63 00:04:39,759 --> 00:04:42,920 famous warning to people who were thinking about making the 64 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,920 dangerous trek across hundreds or thousands of miles to be 65 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:56,439 smuggled in by the cartels. Remember the message don't. If 66 00:04:56,439 --> 00:05:01,120 you're thinking about coming, don't. It's powerful. It was a 67 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,959 very powerful message that nobody listened to. And then you'll 68 00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:07,800 recall he put Kamala Harris in charge as the borders are. 69 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,000 Remember then she flew down to some countries and was 70 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,040 trying to get at the root causes of the immigration crisis. 71 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:22,680 And remember her her powerful message was don't come, which 72 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,680 nobody listened to either. Yes, so the warnings came true. 73 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,680 These advisors offered a range of options to avert the 74 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,439 crisis by better deterring migrants. Biden, though, seemed to grasp 75 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:40,360 the risk, so he seemed to understand it. But then again, 76 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:44,959 he wasn't really dealing with a full deck, so maybe 77 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:48,439 he forgot. I don't know. He and his top aids, though, 78 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,240 failed to act on the recommendations. The warnings came true, 79 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:57,000 and then some after Biden became president, migrant encounters at 80 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,560 the southern border quickly doubled and then kept. New arrivals 81 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:06,720 overwhelmed border stations, then border towns, and eventually major cities 82 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,959 like New York and Denver. A New York Times examination 83 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,240 of Biden's record found that he and his closest advisors 84 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,759 repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster. 85 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,480 You don't say, actually, you do, say, I said. I've 86 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,879 been saying that, like we could all. It was obvious 87 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,879 this was intentional. Whether or not people were saying whoa wha, whoa, 88 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,079 don't do it, nobody was saying that in public. Former 89 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,360 Biden officials told The New York Times that Biden and 90 00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:43,959 his circle of close confidants, including Ron Klain, Mike Donnellan, 91 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,920 Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, and Anita Dunn, which we're always polite here, 92 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:56,199 we call her Anita, finished, they made two crucial errors. First, 93 00:06:57,319 --> 00:07:01,639 they underestimated the scale of the migration that was coming. See, 94 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,279 they just they didn't realize that there would be so 95 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,480 many people that wanted to come into America when you say, hey, 96 00:07:09,879 --> 00:07:12,160 we're not going to stop you from coming into America 97 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:13,639 and we're not going to kick you out if we 98 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,920 find you in America. They didn't realize that, like when 99 00:07:16,959 --> 00:07:19,560 you make something free and open that like you get 100 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,800 overwhelmed by a whole bunch of people coming in, which 101 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:24,879 is kind of bizarre because that's obvious, but they didn't 102 00:07:24,879 --> 00:07:30,480 realize it. I was the first crucial error them being dumbasses. 103 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:35,959 Apparently number two, they failed to appreciate the political reaction 104 00:07:36,319 --> 00:07:42,240 to that migration. They believe that stronger enforcement would alienate 105 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:51,199 Latino and wait a minute, why isn't that LATINX? What's 106 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:55,439 going on here? New York Times? I was I was 107 00:07:55,519 --> 00:08:00,399 told that the correct term moving forward from a couple 108 00:08:00,399 --> 00:08:05,519 of years ago would always be Latins or LATINX. Well, 109 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,959 what's going on? Why are we going back to the 110 00:08:07,959 --> 00:08:14,240 patriarchy here? Let's so they thought that if they enforced 111 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:20,199 the border that that would alienate Latino and progressive voters, 112 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:24,480 and also they thought that a border surge would not 113 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:28,959 be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would 114 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,440 later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos, 115 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,919 citing immigration as a reason for supporting Trump in twenty 116 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,799 twenty four. Quote, everybody was reacting to the excesses of 117 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:47,039 the Trump administration, said Cecilia Munos. She helped shape immigration 118 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,480 policy in the Obama administration and oversaw domestic and economic 119 00:08:51,519 --> 00:08:55,480 policy for the Biden transition team. Yet as a public 120 00:08:55,879 --> 00:09:00,000 as public concern over border security grew partly in response 121 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:05,600 to Biden's own actions, his administration proved catastrophically slow to 122 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,240 change course. In other words, they were messing up. They 123 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:16,440 were making bad choices. And when advisors who now claim 124 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,039 they knew better and are telling the New York Times 125 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:21,399 off the record and anonymously we knew better. We were 126 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,320 telling him not to do this and change course, they 127 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:29,200 wouldn't change course. Why Because this is what they wanted. 128 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,440 That's the obvious answer, is it not. This is what 129 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,600 they wanted to see. The people who were obviously able 130 00:09:37,919 --> 00:09:41,519 to win the argument among the advisors. They wanted what 131 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:50,759 we saw, and political fallout be damned, didn't matter. The 132 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:54,120 President and his closest aids treated immigration as a distraction 133 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,799 from other issues, such as the coronavirus pandemic as well 134 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,840 as the economy. 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Yet when 163 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:57,159 Donald Trump took office, the first thing he did was 164 00:11:57,159 --> 00:12:01,000 shut down the border and that has worked. Like the 165 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:06,080 numbers of border crossings are in I want to say, 166 00:12:06,159 --> 00:12:08,519 like there was I think there was a couple months 167 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:13,519 where there were zero, Like they didn't have anybody. You 168 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,519 didn't need new laws, You just needed somebody to enforce 169 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,720 the laws that are on the books. And so the 170 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:22,320 way the New York Times frames this that you know, 171 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,720 we're trying to adhere to these outdated law. They're not outdated, 172 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:29,759 you just don't want to follow them. That was the point. 173 00:12:30,879 --> 00:12:34,600 There were there were obviously factions inside the Biden administration 174 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,519 that had a difference of opinion about how to enforce 175 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:42,320 immigration law. You had some that were like, hey, we 176 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:44,559 got to make sure that we don't do it in 177 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,279 a way that you know, alienates the voters that we need. 178 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,399 But we can't do what Trump was doing, so we 179 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,960 got to find some other way or whatever. And then 180 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,759 you've got another contingent that's just like, throw open the doors. 181 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:05,559 And they won. They won the argument. Obviously, the aids 182 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:08,799 lamented that Biden never articulated a clear vision well that 183 00:13:08,919 --> 00:13:12,799 is on brand, or pushed his cabinet secretaries to coordinate 184 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,840 their efforts on immigration in the way that Trump has. 185 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,960 So Trump is better at this. That's that's quite the 186 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:28,600 admission unspoken. Biden created new legal pathways for migration to 187 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,759 ease pressure at the border, under which more than a 188 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:37,240 million people were allowed into the United States, fueling public resistance. Yes, 189 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:41,000 and one little side note about that new legal pathway. 190 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:44,679 This was the creation of the CBP one app that 191 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:49,000 allowed people to apply for asylum anywhere, right. And in 192 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,879 so doing, you opened up the you opened up the doors. 193 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:59,360 And then the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Majorcas, he 194 00:13:59,399 --> 00:14:04,720 gave blank approvals to all asylum requests, which not for nothing, 195 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:10,159 is illegal. That's illegal. He's not that the law is 196 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,519 clear that he can grant asylum requests on a case 197 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:19,080 by case basis. He's allowed to do it for individuals. 198 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,559 You don't get to do it for entire classes of people, 199 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:29,440 which is what he did. Very clear, he was asked 200 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,159 about it, he had no and he had no no 201 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,960 explanation for it, no legal justification for his actions. He 202 00:14:37,039 --> 00:14:39,759 was dragged in front of Congress and put under oath 203 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:43,240 about it. The New York Times doesn't mention that anyway. 204 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,840 It goes on to say that Biden failed to convince 205 00:14:46,879 --> 00:14:49,960 Congress to change immigration laws, dragging his feet on a 206 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:54,120 crucial Senate border deal that I just mentioned. Who said 207 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,720 the the Langford, the Republican who was leading this effort 208 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:01,600 because I don't know, said the effort might have otherwise 209 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:05,879 succeeded if only Biden had had gotten involved. Now here's 210 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:11,639 a great point from Eric on the text line, who says, Pete, 211 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:14,279 the Democrats thought that Donald Trump would be out of 212 00:15:14,279 --> 00:15:17,799 the race via law fair and he wouldn't win in 213 00:15:17,879 --> 00:15:20,200 twenty twenty four, so they figured they could do the 214 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:26,159 open borders. Look that, I think that's a valid theory. Right, 215 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:32,919 Biden had just won, Trump is out. You've got you know, 216 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,480 the gearing up of the J six Committee and all 217 00:15:35,519 --> 00:15:41,759 of that. Right, so you've got this this animus that's 218 00:15:42,159 --> 00:15:46,559 getting you know, amped up. And so maybe, yeah, you've 219 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,840 got people that were running for US or district attorney offices, 220 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:56,000 attorney general's offices, and they were saying like, elect me, 221 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,240 I'm gonna get Trump. Elect me, I'm going to prosecute Trump. 222 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,279 And so when those people won, along with Biden, maybe 223 00:16:03,279 --> 00:16:05,399 they anticipated, We're going to throw this guy in jail. 224 00:16:05,399 --> 00:16:07,519 We're gonna throw Trump in jail. He's not going to 225 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:09,519 be on the ticket again. He lost, he's done, he's 226 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:12,080 not going to run for reelection. He's out, and so 227 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:18,080 now's our chance to run, you know, full steam towards 228 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:25,399 this you know, utopian progressive idea of open borders. A 229 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,919 spokeswoman for Biden blamed Republicans, which is also on brand, 230 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:33,120 but former advisors. The piece goes on to say later 231 00:16:33,879 --> 00:16:38,799 former advisors said the problem ran deeper than Republican obstructionism. 232 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,679 The Biden White House quote had no strategy because they 233 00:16:42,759 --> 00:16:48,879 had no goal. That's according to Scott shoe Cart or 234 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:54,320 shoe chart sh Chart. I'm just gonna stop with the 235 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,679 pronunciations on that one, because I feel like I might 236 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,759 be like up against some FCC guidelines. 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The New 263 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,640 York Times now telling us what we kind of already 264 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:37,279 knew five years later, that yes, the border chaos was 265 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,839 due to Biden, was due to what they did and 266 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,799 didn't do. And now you've got you know, people talking 267 00:18:43,839 --> 00:18:46,160 to The Times five years after the fact saying we 268 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,240 told him this was gonna happen. We said that you're 269 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,240 going to cause this massive influx of people crossing the border. 270 00:18:53,319 --> 00:18:56,680 But you know, he just he he just didn't do 271 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,759 anything about it or something, because as long as you know, 272 00:18:59,839 --> 00:19:02,759 you do whatever, the opposite of what Trump did, like 273 00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:06,039 that was see this is this is why it's kind 274 00:19:06,039 --> 00:19:08,160 of comical to me and I've seen some of this 275 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:15,079 on social media with the announcement of the the the 276 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,799 migration of WBT over to one O seven point nine 277 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:22,200 FM this week. Is there are some people who I 278 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,039 think maybe are Republican conservative or something you know, on 279 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:31,240 the right, and they, you know, they used it as 280 00:19:31,319 --> 00:19:34,119 a chance on our Facebook pages and stuff to you know, 281 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:37,480 attack us as like Trump bootlickers and all this stuff. 282 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:39,759 It's like, okay, well, I don't know if you've listened 283 00:19:39,799 --> 00:19:44,599 to our shows, because I don't know, Like particularly Vinced, 284 00:19:45,079 --> 00:19:50,200 I don't think would qualify for that Moniker he gets 285 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,200 a lot of it, gets a lot of pushback because 286 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,559 he criticizes Trump a lot. I criticized Donald Trump. I 287 00:19:56,559 --> 00:19:59,759 get pushed back for it anyway. But what I always 288 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:02,400 try to keep in mind when dealing with people like 289 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,240 this is that they view everything through the prism of 290 00:20:04,279 --> 00:20:08,839 Trump pro or con. Okay, there are people that love 291 00:20:08,839 --> 00:20:11,160 Trump so much that whatever he says or does is fine, 292 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:13,160 and there are people who hate Trump so much that 293 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,079 anything he does is terrible. And this is what it 294 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,519 sounds like is that the Biden team comes in and 295 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:22,400 they're like, whatever Trump did, we're going to do the opposite. 296 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,960 For example, Title forty two. Remember what that was. It's 297 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,720 a provision in the law that allows the government to 298 00:20:29,839 --> 00:20:34,599 block the entry of people who risk introducing a communicable 299 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,599 disease into the country. Right if there is an outbreak 300 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,759 of measles. Okay, maybe all right, let me use a 301 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:47,160 different example that's not in the news, the bubonic plague. Right, 302 00:20:47,799 --> 00:20:50,559 Let's say you've got some country, let's say it's Ireland 303 00:20:50,839 --> 00:20:53,960 and they've got the bubonic plague running rampant, and a 304 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,359 bunch of Irish people show up and they're like, we 305 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,640 want in. The US government can say, yeah, you know what, 306 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,440 you guys, you got this outbreak over there, like, we're 307 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,599 not going to take you in Title forty two. Trump 308 00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:11,680 invoked this during COVID, but when Biden got in, he 309 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,359 had to decide between a more permissive approach, which is 310 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,160 what his fellow Democrats were demanding of him, and then 311 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,079 he had, on the other hand, all of the warnings 312 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,119 right about, hey, you're going to be letting in all 313 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,880 these people potentially with COVID while you're telling everybody to 314 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:34,119 stay locked down. Soon after being sworn in, he issued 315 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,920 a one hundred day pause on deportations. Then he drastically 316 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,519 narrowed the categories of unauthorized immigrants targeted for arrest. He 317 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:44,599 directed his government to stop building the border wall. He 318 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,279 suspended the remain in Mexico policy. He sent draft legislation 319 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,119 to Congress to create a citizenship pathway for people in 320 00:21:51,160 --> 00:22:01,440 the country illegally. So his policy changes sent a signal 321 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,319 that the border was opening up again, and people made 322 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:12,960 the rational logical decision in response to that signal. When 323 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,440 you send out the word that we are reversing all 324 00:22:16,519 --> 00:22:20,640 of the policies of Trump that close the border, We're 325 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,079 not going to build the wall, We're going to let 326 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:23,839 everybody in. We're going to do all of the things 327 00:22:23,839 --> 00:22:27,720 that I just ran through. Then obviously people hear the 328 00:22:27,759 --> 00:22:33,599 message and they respond, I've said this for twenty five years. 329 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:39,400 That's how long I've been aware of the immigration crisis 330 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,960 going on in the country and the lacks enforcement of law. 331 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,440 The people who make the decision to come to America 332 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:52,759 are acting in a rational way. If we don't care 333 00:22:53,079 --> 00:22:55,839 about our own immigration law and we don't care enough 334 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:59,079 to enforce it, then the rational response is Okay, well 335 00:22:59,079 --> 00:23:02,000 then I'll come. Why wouldn't it be of course it 336 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:03,839 would be you want to come for a better life 337 00:23:03,839 --> 00:23:05,680 for your family. You want to come work, send money 338 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,640 back home so you can have a decent house, you 339 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,279 can have a standard of living that maybe is much 340 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,559 higher than everybody else in your town. Of course, you're 341 00:23:14,599 --> 00:23:19,240 going to do that if you can. Right. It's a 342 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,480 rational response. And so, of course the crisis that was 343 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:29,480 foretold by Joe Biden's advisors manifested. They got exactly what 344 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,119 the advisors said would happen. Two months into his term, 345 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:39,119 Biden assigned Harris Right to be the borders are get 346 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,160 at the root causes, but none of the former officials 347 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,240 who spoke to The New York Times describe her as 348 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:48,640 a central decision maker on border policy, which is also 349 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,640 not surprising. Many former aides complained about the administration's reluctance 350 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,559 to push foreign governments harder to try to slow the 351 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:01,000 movement of migrants or accept more deportation flights. This is 352 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,599 something Donald Trump has done in his second term. Aides 353 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,519 described Biden as having no strong positions on immigration beyond 354 00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:14,039 two key areas. He resisted anything that looked like Trump's 355 00:24:14,039 --> 00:24:17,240 remain in Mexico policy, which was that if that's the policy, 356 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,160 where if you were trying to get into America on 357 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,240 an asylum claim, you would have to wait in Mexico 358 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,440 if that's where you were coming through, you would have 359 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:30,000 to wait there until the claim was adjudicated. And Biden 360 00:24:30,079 --> 00:24:34,319 scrapped it, which then allowed people to come in set 361 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,559 up their lives while their asylum claim is being adjudicated. 362 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,240 And the idea there is that you just never get 363 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,799 around to it, or at some point you give them 364 00:24:40,799 --> 00:24:45,960 all amnesty. As border crossings jumped. Oh sorry, that was 365 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,400 the one thing. He had no strong positions beyond two areas. 366 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,319 One scrapped the remain in Mexico policy, and two he 367 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,200 did not want to send children back across the border, 368 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,640 which then of course created the ob vis reaction, which 369 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:05,920 was the cartels began using kids right, because then you 370 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,480 have the chain migration issues. You put them with quote guardians, 371 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:10,640 and that's how the Biden administration lost track of hundreds 372 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,759 of thousands of kids. Many former AIDS complained about the 373 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:18,240 administration's reluctance to uh, all right, sorry read that part already. 374 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:21,160 See I highlight too much, That's what I mean. As 375 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:25,880 the border crossings increased, advisors across the administration kept offering 376 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,200 ideas to try to deter migrants, but political concerns remained. 377 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,519 Muno said they were a little too sensitive to criticisms 378 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:41,680 from the left. The result was paralysis. Some Biden aids 379 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,440 believe that the less the President said about immigration, the better. Yeah, 380 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:50,359 just don't talk about it. Just don't talk about it. 381 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,640 Nobody will realize, nobody will recognize what's going on. So 382 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,640 what happened? Right? You have this massive inflow of people 383 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,119 gets uh more and more people coming across every year. 384 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,079 It's worse and worse and worse. So what brought it 385 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,039 all to? The four? All? Right? If you're listening to 386 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:11,599 this show, you know I try to keep up with 387 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,759 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, 388 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,440 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 389 00:26:16,519 --> 00:26:21,079 multiple sources. Why. Well, because it's how you detect media bias, 390 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,720 which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News. 391 00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:27,480 It's an app and it's a website and it combines 392 00:26:27,559 --> 00:26:29,599 news from around the world in one place, so you 393 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,000 can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it 394 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:37,599 out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I 395 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,519 put the link in the podcast description too. 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The New York Times, five years after the fact, 407 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,599 is now laying bare what we all knew to be 408 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,119 true at the time. But they're now on the story 409 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,359 doing the deep dive and why the Biden administration blew 410 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:32,039 open the borders and how it helped to re elect 411 00:27:32,039 --> 00:27:34,480 Donald Trump. Right, this was one of the big issues 412 00:27:34,559 --> 00:27:39,319 for Donald Trump. And so they spend the article and 413 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,440 I went over for the last three segments here talking 414 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:48,799 about the decisions, and you know the people that were like, no, no, 415 00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:51,279 don't do it, don't do that, don't do this, don't 416 00:27:51,279 --> 00:27:55,480 do it that way, whatever. But something happened about mid 417 00:27:55,519 --> 00:28:00,839 twenty two that changed the whole dynamic. Remember what it was. 418 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:09,799 It was the bussing, right, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, 419 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:16,079 began his bussing campaign sending illegal immigrants to other cities, 420 00:28:17,039 --> 00:28:20,240 dumping them on the doorstep of these sanctuary cities, who 421 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,519 then claimed, oh, no, no, no, no, don't come here. 422 00:28:22,599 --> 00:28:25,240 It's like I thought you were sanctuary. What's up with that. 423 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:30,559 The Biden administration accused Abbot of a cruel stunt, but 424 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:34,559 the campaign worked. And by the way, I remember when 425 00:28:34,559 --> 00:28:37,000 this was happening in twenty two. Then I was sitting 426 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,119 in this chair and I was talking about it, and 427 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,640 I said, this is brilliant, and this is a good 428 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,799 thing to do, because while the problem is being shouldered 429 00:28:46,839 --> 00:28:49,799 by all of these border towns down in Texas and 430 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:54,039 New Mexico and Arizona whatever. Like they the liberal elites 431 00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:57,440 out on the coast, they can ignore it because their 432 00:28:57,519 --> 00:29:02,000 services aren't being overrun, right, They're not having to deal 433 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,480 with the budget pressures of having to feed and house 434 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,160 and educate all of these these massive amounts of people 435 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,079 coming in. So bring them to the places that claim 436 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,720 to be morally superior as a sanctuary city. Go, We'll 437 00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:20,480 take you there. It's cheaper to do that than it 438 00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:23,240 is to provide all of the services here in our 439 00:29:23,279 --> 00:29:26,559 state when you've got an extra one to two million 440 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:33,359 people a year coming across the border. So when migrants 441 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,799 began making headlines in places like New York, everything changed. 442 00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:41,359 Biden officials came to view Abbot's campaign as the point 443 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,799 Democrats lost the debate. Deborah fly Shaker fly Sacker Caker whatever, 444 00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:51,680 the assistant director for policy at ICE at the time. 445 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,160 She says, I don't think we ever recovered from that. 446 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,119 And this goes to a tactic. I heard this described 447 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:06,039 by Adam Carolla, the podcaster comedian guy. He was on 448 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,119 the Trigonometry podcast and he talked he gave an analogy, 449 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:14,240 and he's like, let's say, like your wife wants to 450 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:17,440 leave the front door open. But when you leave the 451 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,599 front door open, you get raccoons that come into the 452 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,519 house and they destroy the house. And so you're like, no, 453 00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:26,720 don't leave the front door open. And so you close 454 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:29,359 the front door. And so while you don't have any 455 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,200 raccoons now ripping everything apart, and so you think this 456 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:37,920 is good, problem solved, your spouse then starts, you know, 457 00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:43,319 throwing tantrums, screaming and yelling and constantly whining and just 458 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,200 making a fuss all the time. Everything is a fight 459 00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:48,759 about the door being closed at night, and she wants 460 00:30:48,839 --> 00:30:51,559 the door open. This is a silly example, I understand, 461 00:30:51,599 --> 00:30:57,599 but this is the tactic that eventually you get so 462 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,319 tired of hearing the fighting and the whining and the 463 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,359 covetching and all of this. You're so tired of the 464 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,319 tantrums that you're just like, fine, keep the door open. 465 00:31:11,039 --> 00:31:12,599 And then you get the raccoons that come back and 466 00:31:12,599 --> 00:31:17,480 tear apart the place. That's the that's the tactic. And 467 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:20,200 when you when you understand that dynamic, that's why so 468 00:31:20,359 --> 00:31:23,079 much of what we see with the you know, with 469 00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:25,799 the protests and the you know, I'm gonna get in 470 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,799 front of these ice vehicles, like just making a nuisance 471 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:36,119 of yourselves when the obvious thing is to have enforcement 472 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,519 of immigration law. Right that now it makes sense. It's 473 00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:44,440 like it's just an attempt to get you to surrender, 474 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,920 to just give in because I'm tired of the antics. 475 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:55,039 Governor Abbott expanded his bussing campaign. They talk about Denver, 476 00:31:55,119 --> 00:31:59,119 the influx became a crisis there, the costs spread the 477 00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:02,359 main safety net hospital spent millions of dollars treating additional 478 00:32:02,839 --> 00:32:05,519 patients that had no insurance. The school system made room 479 00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:08,960 for more than five thousand additional students. Denver spent almost 480 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,359 one hundred million dollars trying to manage the crisis, and 481 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,640 it was not alone. By September twenty two, Texas had 482 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,440 sent tens of thousands of migrants to Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, 483 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,799 New York. Remember Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, 484 00:32:22,839 --> 00:32:25,440 said the issue was going to destroy New York City 485 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,920 and the city we knew. He said, we're about to lose. 486 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,599 Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut. Senator James Langford of Oklahoma. 487 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,759 Remember they tried to come up with this this quote fix. 488 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,079 Democrats blamed Trump for sinking that deal, but Langford pointed 489 00:32:44,119 --> 00:32:48,440 to another culprit, which was Biden's foot dragging. He was like, 490 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,359 maybe if Biden would have gotten involved, then you know, 491 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,079 we could have we could have gotten the deal done. 492 00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:57,559 By June, fifty five percent of Americans said total immigration 493 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:01,319 levels needed to come down, and that the highest share 494 00:33:01,319 --> 00:33:03,559 of Americans that have ever responded in that way in 495 00:33:03,599 --> 00:33:06,880 a Gallop poll since just after the nine to eleven attacks. 496 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,920 By June of twenty twenty four, five months before election day, 497 00:33:11,119 --> 00:33:15,240 Biden reversed course. He issued in order all but closing 498 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,400 the border to asylum applications, a move that was far 499 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,960 tougher than the proposals that had been rejected during his 500 00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:24,519 first year in office, and at that point border encounters 501 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,680 quickly started to fall. Why he waited so long is 502 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:34,359 one of the defining questions of his presidency. All right, 503 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,759 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 504 00:33:36,759 --> 00:33:38,839 for listening. I could not do the show without your 505 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,640 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 506 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,400 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 507 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,160 and tell them you heard it here. 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