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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We had Bright Bart reporter Randy Clark to talk about
Speaker 1: the unfolding situation on the border where things seem to
Speaker 1: be getting better and better, at least for those who
Speaker 1: care about it. Welcome to the program, sir. It's great
Speaker 1: to have you on today.
Speaker 2: Great to be here with you. Brent.
Speaker 1: Did you see Rashida Tale was the old hold out
Speaker 1: about the cartel border tunnel system vote yesterday from the
Speaker 1: House of Representatives. The bill was aimed at cracking down
Speaker 1: on Mexican cartels. It passed four oh two to one.
Speaker 1: They used tunnels to tunnel underneath our southwestern border and
Speaker 1: the bill requires some management and monitoring of that. And
Speaker 1: she was the lone no vote. No explanation as to why.
Speaker 1: But it was a nice thing to see some bipartisan ship.
Speaker 2: Anyway, you know it is. But for some people, you're
Speaker 2: just never gonna win them over. And she's one of them.
Speaker 2: And there's you know, there's a handful of others that
Speaker 2: will practically vote no on anything that's helpful as well.
Speaker 1: Well, and vote no on anything Trump supports, and they
Speaker 1: just they still just Trump's been living for rent free
Speaker 1: inside their collective heads now for years and years, and
Speaker 1: if he says he wants to do something, they're an
Speaker 1: immediate no, regardless of how sensible it is. But he
Speaker 1: did demonstrate on day one that it only took some
Speaker 1: executive actions to actually bring about some border security. It's
Speaker 1: a remarkable, remarkable shift from the Biden administration's open borders policy.
Speaker 1: And everyone recalls the Democrats kept screaming about, oh, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump killed a bill that would have fixed the border.
Speaker 1: We need the pastest border bill in order to stop
Speaker 1: the problem. Well, no, you just need a change of administration.
Speaker 1: As I read on bright Bart with your reporting, the
Speaker 1: Southwest border hit the lowest ever market, down ninety four
Speaker 1: percent from last February.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, I live about a mile from Mexico in
Speaker 2: Eagle Pass, Texas. That was one of the busiest border
Speaker 2: crossing spots during the entire Biden administration era. And it
Speaker 2: is calm, peaceful, and quiet. And people don't realize when
Speaker 2: we say, hey, the borders under control what that means
Speaker 2: to those of us that live near and on it.
Speaker 2: And that means there's no debts, there's no children getting
Speaker 2: pulled out of the water that are drowning. That means
Speaker 2: that there's no pursuits on the highway that are causing
Speaker 2: accidents that are killing American citizens. That just means night
Speaker 2: and day difference for us that have to live it
Speaker 2: every day. So it's a big deal for America, but
Speaker 2: it is a super big deal for those of us
Speaker 2: that live close to that border well.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that was revealed with the
Speaker 1: open border situation is the smuggling of unaccompanied miners and
Speaker 1: the obvious trafficking in human beings that was happening as
Speaker 1: a result of that. And you think of these poor
Speaker 1: kids clearly, what you might you can only imagine what
Speaker 1: they had to go through. That that has stopped, or
Speaker 1: at least has been curb substantially.
Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, we're seeing zero apprehension days in some parts
Speaker 2: of the US Mexico border. But those unaccompanied children you mentioned,
Speaker 2: there were nearly half a million. In the four years
Speaker 2: of Biden was in office, nearly half a million children
Speaker 2: were voluntarily abandoned by their families at the border to
Speaker 2: be used for a number of purposes. And you said,
Speaker 2: we can only imagine. You're absolutely right, because that's as
Speaker 2: much as we know right now. We can only imagine
Speaker 2: what happened to the bulk of those children.
Speaker 1: Well, and they seem to have been lost to the
Speaker 1: ether here in America. I mean, they were reportedly, you know,
Speaker 1: assigned to home to addresses that had no dwelling. They
Speaker 1: were handed over to people that had no familial connection
Speaker 1: with them. I mean, it's it's just a horrific situation.
Speaker 1: You just wonder if, well, if they're ever going to
Speaker 1: be found. I guess this is something that comes to mind.
Speaker 2: Well, and what people need to remember is the federal
Speaker 2: government doesn't have any trained people on board that serve
Speaker 2: as child protective services. Those folks that handed over children
Speaker 2: to sponsors in the United States, most of them were contractors,
Speaker 2: and all they could do was a very cursory vetting
Speaker 2: of the thousands in custody a day. Up to eighteen
Speaker 2: thousand of those children were being held in federal government facilities,
Speaker 2: and it was a rush to get rid of them,
Speaker 2: and we were paying over seven hundred dollars a day
Speaker 2: to detain each and every one of those young children,
Speaker 2: So it was just a travesty.
Speaker 1: Well in other areas that are bringing about savings. I
Speaker 1: note again Breitbart Reportingdy Clark, the detention centers are now
Speaker 1: being shut down because they're now empty.
Speaker 2: That's correct. You know, there's just no need for them.
Speaker 2: And they were running ten to twelve million dollars a
Speaker 2: year in some parts of the country. Tucson had them.
Speaker 2: Where they are keeping them open, they're using them to
Speaker 2: facilitate the flights, the deportation flights, so they're not going
Speaker 2: to keep them open just to keep them open. And
Speaker 2: now we're opening hardened facilities that are used to detain
Speaker 2: folks waiting for removal as well. Two facilities in Texas
Speaker 2: that are set up for families are starting to get
Speaker 2: the mothballs removed and they're going to be opening soon
Speaker 2: and that's going to facilitate that those massive deportation operations
Speaker 2: that allegedly are on the horizon.
Speaker 1: Well, we can only hope, because the current focus for
Speaker 1: the Immigrations and Customs enforcement are criminals, not just illegal
Speaker 1: aliens and not criminal virtue of them being in the
Speaker 1: country illegally or unauthorized, people who actually committed crimes and
Speaker 1: some of them going back to children. Pretty damn horrific.
Speaker 2: Randy, Yeah, so that's the good news. I mean, we
Speaker 2: know that, you know, as the operations are ramping up,
Speaker 2: that's the focus over almost six hundred and fifty just
Speaker 2: in the last month in the Houston area alone, and
Speaker 2: most of those eighty percent were you would considers criminal aliens.
Speaker 2: So that's a big deal. We know now we're prosecuting
Speaker 2: folks for some of the most heinous crimes. Also, that's
Speaker 2: a good place to be. But I think the administration
Speaker 2: knows we had unvetted people coming into the tune of
Speaker 2: tens of thousands, sometimes a week or more, and that's
Speaker 2: going to be the pace that we have to put
Speaker 2: into reverse to ever undo the damage that was done
Speaker 2: over the last four years.
Speaker 1: Well, one of the mechanisms that the Trump administration just
Speaker 1: did to reverse that process is this turning the CBP
Speaker 1: one app into a self deportation tool. I thought that
Speaker 1: was rather brilliant what they did.
Speaker 2: It was and whether you know illegal aliens take advantage
Speaker 2: of that feature or not is really not the important thing.
Speaker 2: What the important thing is is consistent messaging across the board.
Speaker 2: And so we got consistent messaging under the Biden administration
Speaker 2: from the very go that hey, come and searche the border,
Speaker 2: and then we dismantled every mechanism to remove somebody from
Speaker 2: the United States that Trump had put into place, and
Speaker 2: then we just basically abandoned ship on the border and
Speaker 2: let everybody come in and we release them, so that
Speaker 2: messaging was consistent. Now we have the message, a consistent
Speaker 2: message coming out going, hey, we're going to relaunch this app,
Speaker 2: which has other features that were really what it was
Speaker 2: originally for to facilitate legal trade and travel. Now it's
Speaker 2: also telling everybody, look, that app is there again. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to self deport yourself by all means, go ahead,
Speaker 2: but we're not going to facilitate you coming in. And
Speaker 2: that's important to have that message because folks are turning
Speaker 2: around mid journey, not even trying to reach the southern border.
Speaker 2: Now they've decided in Mexico, Central America, as far away
Speaker 2: as Panama, we need to turn around. That's what messaging
Speaker 2: does well.
Speaker 1: I think some may consider, you know, fizing the option
Speaker 1: to self deport, whether through the app or not. But
Speaker 1: because we will fly them back to their country of origin,
Speaker 1: they don't have to take a multi thousand mile journey
Speaker 1: on foot. We'll give them a ride.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, we've seen we have seen that already. We've
Speaker 2: seen some folks that are packing up and leaving. Like
Speaker 2: I say, we've seen it mid journey. But we've seen
Speaker 2: folks leave from the United States on their own back
Speaker 2: to Mexico decide I don't like this here, I don't
Speaker 2: like this climate, and wondering if I'm going to get
Speaker 2: caught on my way to work or at the worksite.
Speaker 2: We know that this administration is putting a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure on ICE to do work side enforcement, which is
Speaker 2: pretty much just was abandoned over the last four years.
Speaker 2: And that's very important. But one other important thing to
Speaker 2: remember is that yes, the President is right that all
Speaker 2: we needed was a new president to start to control
Speaker 2: the border, but we do need some legislation to keep
Speaker 2: it this way because in another four years or eight years,
Speaker 2: we could have another president to come in and open
Speaker 2: these borders again, and we'll be right back to where
Speaker 2: we were. So I think we certainly need to set
Speaker 2: some limits on parole. We need to start work side enforcement,
Speaker 2: as you know, as a regular thing. We need to
Speaker 2: get everified, pushed federally to all fifty states. Make that mandatory.
Speaker 2: Make it cover contractors. If you cannot get a job
Speaker 2: and you can't get benefits here.
Speaker 1: You will not come well and clean up the social
Speaker 1: security ranks. With active Social Security numbers out there, probably
Speaker 1: being used by folks who are not authorized to work
Speaker 1: in this country, because conveniently, there are a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of Social Security numbers on the system that are still open,
Speaker 1: and our people would would be one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two hundred years old if they were still alive, and
Speaker 1: they're not. There's no way they can be. So that's
Speaker 1: one other small area that seems to be a rather
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit, easy thing to fix.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it sounds like there's you know, some work getting
Speaker 2: done at least in that direction that we haven't done
Speaker 2: before in history.
Speaker 1: Well, in the other opponent of this, it's not just
Speaker 1: the United states and the environment and our cities being overrun,
Speaker 1: and all the resources that have had to be dedicated
Speaker 1: to dealing with the illegal immigrant crowd, the schooling, the housing,
Speaker 1: the food, the medical issues. But the fact that the
Speaker 1: Mexican drug cartels were human trafficking cartels also making billions
Speaker 1: of dollars off of this, so they get their funds
Speaker 1: dried up because of the lack of demand given the
Speaker 1: new border policies, but also the ability to smuggle drugs
Speaker 1: into the country is challenged by this.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you know, for too many years, look at
Speaker 2: the terror they've caused inside of Mexico. You know, we
Speaker 2: get lectured from Mexico about their sovereignty and this and that,
Speaker 2: and in almost every state, they've got some of the
Speaker 2: cities with the highest murder rates in the world. You know,
Speaker 2: if you look at the top ten cities in the world,
Speaker 2: the bulk of them are in Mexico. And these folks
Speaker 2: they're bringing that death over here. And now it seems
Speaker 2: like we are getting to a point that we have
Speaker 2: had enough. This president has had enough, and that's good
Speaker 2: because what they are peddling here is is substances that kill,
Speaker 2: and substances that are addictive, So it's disruptive. We've sent
Speaker 2: jobs over there, and we've imported the world's poor here,
Speaker 2: and these cartels are just they're making a killing.
Speaker 1: Well figuratively and literally. Now, yes, and the other thing
Speaker 1: I think they service that helps Donald Trump win the election,
Speaker 1: this immigration crisis that was created by the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: We get the infiltration of these various gangs and in
Speaker 1: large amounts. And these are the worst of the worst
Speaker 1: human beings alive. They are violent, evil and they also
Speaker 1: engage in criminal activity and drug activity here in our country.
Speaker 2: You know, they've certainly taken the limelight of any domestic gangs.
Speaker 2: You rarely hear anything about, you know, domestic gang activity
Speaker 2: in the United States because these people are pros that
Speaker 2: leaving their home countries, they're extremely like you say, they're
Speaker 2: extremely violent, and they come in and they take over
Speaker 2: the vice markets in large cities. That's what they do.
Speaker 2: They've done it in Columbia, they've done it in Peru.
Speaker 2: The Venezuela and friend at Agua gang, that's what they do.
Speaker 2: You know, they fled Venezuela, but they didn't stop their
Speaker 2: criminal activity. They are here and they're moving from city
Speaker 2: to city as ice goes to different places where you're
Speaker 2: seeing some actions in Houston, Texas, or you see someone
Speaker 2: in Colorado. Those folks are pros at just leaving. They're
Speaker 2: in Colorado one day, they'll be back in Manhattan and
Speaker 2: another so they can be in your neck of the
Speaker 2: woods at the drop of a hat if they need to.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed that in your area? I know you
Speaker 1: mentioned you live right there close to the border, but
Speaker 1: I guess the deportration raids in Texas led to two
Speaker 1: hundred federal criminal cases. I can only imagine some of
Speaker 1: the gang members are among these. Did you notice or
Speaker 1: were you aware of gang activity during this what i'll
Speaker 1: call crisis under the Biden administration.
Speaker 2: Well, so that's what you know. People don't realize is
Speaker 2: that where's the transit point? Nothing stays sedent, terrier, stationary
Speaker 2: on the border. Everything is going to a city near you.
Speaker 2: They don't want to live in Eagle Pass, Texas. They
Speaker 2: don't want to live in Laredo, Texas. They want to
Speaker 2: live in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York.
Speaker 2: So everything leaves right so we we see the immediate carnage,
Speaker 2: We see the loss of life, and we see the
Speaker 2: smuggling as it occurs, but it's all in a push
Speaker 2: to get up north and to get to large cities,
Speaker 2: mostly sanctuary cities, and so we live with it every day.
Speaker 2: But it's a different episode every day. And it's it's
Speaker 2: you know, people dying in the river. It's large, massive groups.
Speaker 2: It's folks in neighborhoods with the dogs barking all night
Speaker 2: and not get in any sleep. But it's everything leaving.
Speaker 2: It doesn't stay. The gang members will never stay in
Speaker 2: Eagle Pass. It's all going to you.
Speaker 1: Oh fun facts. Although again least Trump's put a stock
Speaker 1: trying to put a stop to it. Are they Are
Speaker 1: they rebuilding the wall now that Trump is the trubman
Speaker 1: fustration is in. I know they had the wall bought
Speaker 1: and laying around in pieces, and the Biden administration started
Speaker 1: selling off chunks to it the scrap dealers for a
Speaker 1: fraction of what it cost us. But are they back
Speaker 1: to building?
Speaker 2: Yes, they're back to building. And you just you mentioned
Speaker 2: something else that yes, this is changing. The changes are dynamic,
Speaker 2: they are visible. And that's the one thing that I
Speaker 2: think we need to focus on is that, yes, this
Speaker 2: border has slowed to almost a crawl to nothing any
Speaker 2: kind of action, And the tension that you're seen is
Speaker 2: related to the removal process on the fencing question. In
Speaker 2: the wall, Yes, where there are materials, like especially in
Speaker 2: the Texas Real Grand Valley, other places where there are
Speaker 2: some gaps in Arizona, they are starting to fill those gaps.
Speaker 2: There are still projects like in Eagle Pass, Texas, where
Speaker 2: we were building the wall that hasn't started yet, but
Speaker 2: my assumption is going to be that's going to be
Speaker 2: coming soon. They've just got to restart those material orders
Speaker 2: and get the funding going again and the contractors there,
Speaker 2: so as soon as they finish a project, they'll move
Speaker 2: those contractors and they'll start somewhere else. So, yes, the
Speaker 2: wall is back on.
Speaker 1: Right Bert Reporter Randy Clark talking about the border situation.
Speaker 1: Since you lived there before we part company, and it's
Speaker 1: been a great conversation. You sound like you have a
Speaker 1: renewed sumptive, a sense of optimism for your neighborhood, your
Speaker 1: community there on the border. Is that like a widely
Speaker 1: held perception that people are sort of exhaling and going
Speaker 1: finally we're going to get a sense of calm around here.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, it's not just for my community, but
Speaker 2: it's every community from Brownsville, Texas, all the way to
Speaker 2: San Diego, California where they were dealing with these problems.
Speaker 2: But I think that's why we have a new president,
Speaker 2: because that's how badly we wanted this to end. Amongst
Speaker 2: all de demographics of voters on the Southwest border, we
Speaker 2: saw a lot of inroads by the Republican Party in
Speaker 2: South Texas counties that had never voted Republican, you know,
Speaker 2: in one hundred years, turned and went to the Republican Party. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of optimism down here, and yeah, I'm pump.
Speaker 1: Well I'll tell you, Randy, it's been a wonderful conversation
Speaker 1: with you. I appreciate you spending time with my listeners
Speaker 1: and me, and thank you for all the work you
Speaker 1: do over at Breitbart. I just truly appreciate your website.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, and I look forward to
Speaker 1: having you back on again real soon.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Thanks for having me. You have a wonderful day
Speaker 2: you too.
Speaker 1: It's been my pleasure stick around folks. Daniel Davis Deep
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