Speaker 1: By Billy Cunningham, the great American of course, Bernie Marino.
Speaker 1: Senator Bernie Marino is now the senior Senator from the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio, and one of his first acts in
Speaker 1: the Congress and the Senate was to introduce a piece
Speaker 1: of legislation to reform the crackdown, to reform the immigration system,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to asylum claims. And once again,
Speaker 1: Senator now Senator Bernie Marino, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Senator,
Speaker 1: first of all, can you explain to the American people
Speaker 1: what is the asylum system we currently have? Then we'll
Speaker 1: get into your bill that changes it. But what do
Speaker 1: we currently have relative to asylum?
Speaker 2: So this is a great place to start, because I
Speaker 2: think most Americans would be appalled to learn the way
Speaker 2: our laws are currently written. So today, the way it worth,
Speaker 2: if you're a migrant anywhere on Earth, you can come
Speaker 2: and cross our riverie legally, jump over a wall, illegally
Speaker 2: into this country, and the minute you're about to get arrested,
Speaker 2: you raise your hand and claim to be a refugee
Speaker 2: get asylum. Biden would then take those people, fly them
Speaker 2: to anywhere they wanted, sometimes on first class house them,
Speaker 2: feed them, provide them healthcare, and then keep them in
Speaker 2: the country for up to six or seven years before
Speaker 2: they had a claim heard before judges said are you
Speaker 2: really a refugee? Total insanity. That's the way it works today.
Speaker 2: About twelve million people claimed asylum during Joe Biden's four
Speaker 2: years in office and senator.
Speaker 1: The human traffickers have a card. They instruct the so
Speaker 1: called migrants what to say and so America as the law,
Speaker 1: you can request asylum if you suffered persecution or fear
Speaker 1: of persecution in their homeland because of their race, religion, nationality,
Speaker 1: or membership, and a social group of political opinion. So
Speaker 1: you just raise your hand and says I fear persecution
Speaker 1: in Nicaragua because of my political opinion. Those are the
Speaker 1: magic words. You get to stay.
Speaker 3: Do I have that right?
Speaker 2: You have it exactly right. And the drug cartels know it.
Speaker 2: And they're making tens of billions of dollars trafficking humans
Speaker 2: to our border. And they say, I thought were firsthand.
Speaker 2: I was at the border. You saw these people come
Speaker 2: across Acilo Acilo Asilo because they and I even asked them,
Speaker 2: do you know what that means?
Speaker 3: And they said, no, we're just told to say that word.
Speaker 1: And then once that word is expressed, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden ice backs off. And then what happens at that
Speaker 1: point if someone says asylum, I fear persecution because of
Speaker 1: my political opinion.
Speaker 3: Say it in Spanish.
Speaker 1: What happens at that moment?
Speaker 2: Currently, they hit the lottery, They get a new set
Speaker 2: of clothes, they get a free cell phone, they get
Speaker 2: an airline ticket anywhere they want in America. When they
Speaker 2: get to a sanctuary city like New York City or Chicago,
Speaker 2: they get free housing, luxury hotel rooms at a cost
Speaker 2: of six grand per month per room, free food, free healthcare,
Speaker 2: free education. By wanted to give them sex change operations,
Speaker 2: by the way, they wanted that too, total insanity.
Speaker 3: And so our bill absolutely gets rid of all that
Speaker 3: and says.
Speaker 2: If you cross illegally, you forfeit your right to claim
Speaker 2: its island forever.
Speaker 3: We immediately return you.
Speaker 2: You have to come through a legal port of entry,
Speaker 2: and when you claim itsylum, you have to wait in
Speaker 2: Mexico while we hear your claim.
Speaker 3: And look, this is common sense, and I'm.
Speaker 2: Hoping we get a lot of support even from some
Speaker 2: of the non nutty Democrats.
Speaker 1: We have millions of cases pending, and then by the
Speaker 1: time you get a hearing, which is three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: maybe ten years from now. By the time you get it,
Speaker 1: you've kind of incorporated yourself into the country. And then
Speaker 1: how many what percent of these cases are successful? I
Speaker 1: hear numbers less than one percent? What less than one percent?
Speaker 1: And then what happens at that point, Like right now
Speaker 1: we have one point four million, I've gone through the
Speaker 1: deportation process and they've lost and they refuse to leave
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 3: So this is on top exactly.
Speaker 1: Hey, all right, so you're explaining to the American people,
Speaker 1: Senator Bernie Marino, what would your bill do.
Speaker 2: Somebody crosses the river, or it goes over a wall,
Speaker 2: or in any way comes to this country illegally, we
Speaker 2: document who you are. You forfeit, your right to claim
Speaker 2: is silent for life, and we immediately return you to
Speaker 2: the other country that you just came from. If you
Speaker 2: come to a legal port of entry, we document who
Speaker 2: you are, get the rationale that you want us to
Speaker 2: follow us to why you're a silum seeker. You then
Speaker 2: wait in the previous country until we adjudicate your claim.
Speaker 2: Ninety nine percent of the time it's going to be
Speaker 2: a fake claim, and the one percent, the one in
Speaker 2: one hundred chance it's actually a refugee, we will let
Speaker 2: you into the country and welcome you the way we
Speaker 2: should based on international treaties, very simple laws. It's going
Speaker 2: to cut down our border crossings dramatically and have refuge
Speaker 2: true refugees not have to wait in line behind millions
Speaker 2: of fake refugees, and then have true people who want
Speaker 2: to come into this country for economic reasons not get
Speaker 2: dumped ahead of by people who are claiming falsely asylum.
Speaker 2: So it brings some common sense and sensibility to our
Speaker 2: border system.
Speaker 1: So if an asylum seeker goes into a legal port
Speaker 1: of entry and says, I'm here, I'm presenting myself, I've
Speaker 1: been persecuted in Afghanistan or whatever, you say, Okay, identify here,
Speaker 1: this is who you are. Great, leave the country and
Speaker 1: you'll be in line for a hearing. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: if you come into the country illegally and you're caught,
Speaker 1: then you ship back to your country of origin, in
Speaker 1: which case you can't apply for asylum in the future.
Speaker 3: Do I have that right? Correct? For life? And in
Speaker 3: that first scenario, by the way, we're going to follow
Speaker 3: the law. So this is even crazier.
Speaker 2: The current law says we have to adjudicate these claims
Speaker 2: within one hundred and.
Speaker 3: Eighty days, and as you correctly.
Speaker 2: Pointed out, we're giving court dates that are five to
Speaker 2: sixty seven years out, so we're violating our own laws
Speaker 2: by getting rid of all these state claims. We're actually
Speaker 2: going to follow the law and get this done quickly.
Speaker 2: So if you're a true refugee, somebody that truly is
Speaker 2: being persecuted, you have a safe place to come to
Speaker 2: in America, we hear your claim within one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty days. But during that period of time, though, let
Speaker 2: me stress this again, you're not paroled into the country.
Speaker 2: You're waiting to goo or Canada or the safe country
Speaker 2: that you came from until we absolutely determine that you have.
Speaker 3: A valid claim.
Speaker 1: Senator Bernie Marin Oval High, what do you do with
Speaker 1: the pending case? What do you do with the more
Speaker 1: than one million persons in America today right now as
Speaker 1: we speak, who are making an asylum claim and they
Speaker 1: have a hearing date in twenty thirty one, and they're
Speaker 1: on the taxpayer dol. What do you do with the
Speaker 1: millions of people already here.
Speaker 3: We're doing it now.
Speaker 2: We've been doing it since President Trump inaugura got inaugurated.
Speaker 3: We're going to deport them.
Speaker 2: If you're hearing this country illegally, you follow the fake claim,
Speaker 2: you enter the country incorrectly, we're going to deport you.
Speaker 3: We did that with Columbia over the weekend. You saw
Speaker 3: that dust up.
Speaker 2: Columbia massively disrespected America. We showed them that that's not
Speaker 2: something that America will tolerate.
Speaker 3: Interestingly, the president of.
Speaker 2: Columbia said, well, when Biden was president, this is what
Speaker 2: I did. Well, Biden's not president anymore. There's a new
Speaker 2: sheriff and down his name is President Donald J.
Speaker 3: Trump.
Speaker 2: We're not going to put up with this nonsense anymore.
Speaker 2: We were going to do something very very simple. We
Speaker 2: want the mayor of Cincinnati, we want the governor of Ohio.
Speaker 2: We want every elected official in America to put the
Speaker 2: interests of American citizens above all else. And if they
Speaker 2: stand in the way, if they defend and protect illegal
Speaker 2: criminal aliens, they will have legal personal jeopardy and we
Speaker 2: will go after them.
Speaker 3: We're not playing around.
Speaker 2: If you're in this country illegally, you're going to be
Speaker 2: deported period.
Speaker 1: Of course, in the city of Chicago, the city of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, City at Denver, the city of Cincinnati. Here
Speaker 1: after a peerval, the mayor said the Cincinnati, the city
Speaker 1: thereof is a sanctuary city and that the local police
Speaker 1: will not cooperate with ICE. And then we had Sergeant
Speaker 1: Ken Kober, head of the FOP union, says, oh, yes
Speaker 1: we will, because that's our job. We work with them,
Speaker 1: they work with us if we need back up the FBI,
Speaker 1: the ICE is there, if they need backup, we're going
Speaker 1: to be there. And so what do you tell, Senator
Speaker 1: to a police officer whose employer and might be in
Speaker 1: the city of Chicago that says you can't do that,
Speaker 1: but the cop does it because it's his oath.
Speaker 2: Then what happens, Well, the police officer is doing his job,
Speaker 2: is going to continue to do his job and follow
Speaker 2: the law.
Speaker 3: Look, if Appab wants to make the case as.
Speaker 2: To why his job is to protect criminal illegals in
Speaker 2: his city, he won't be the first, he probably won't
Speaker 2: be the last. Let the official, unfortunately in Cincinnati that
Speaker 2: ends up in prison because obstructing federal investigations, blocking law
Speaker 2: enforcement activities that are lawful is a felony, and he
Speaker 2: will be prosecuted.
Speaker 3: I hope it doesn't come to that.
Speaker 2: I hope that he actually realizes that in his job
Speaker 2: description is the lookout for the people of Cincinnati who
Speaker 2: are here legally as immigrants or who are American citizens.
Speaker 2: It's not that complicated, and that's what I expect him
Speaker 2: to do, in every elected official in Ohio to do.
Speaker 2: Otherwise they're going to see serious problems.
Speaker 1: A couple issues left. You were born in Bogata, Columbia,
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty seven, So this is personal to you,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: It is because you know what, My family had to
Speaker 2: wait in line. My relatives who want to come to
Speaker 2: America are currently waiting in line to come to this
Speaker 2: great country, and the fact that this country rewards people.
Speaker 3: Who skip that line is infuriating.
Speaker 2: It's not right, it's not fair, and we have to
Speaker 2: stop the madness. Look, this country deserves to decide who
Speaker 2: comes here and who doesn't. Are sovereign nation with a
Speaker 2: secure border. That's what was adjudicated on November fifth. They
Speaker 2: expect President Trump to deliver that on that expect me
Speaker 2: to deliver on that promise. And just know that that's
Speaker 2: what I'm here doing every single day.
Speaker 1: As far as churches and schools, of course, the media
Speaker 1: and the Democrats will run toward churches and schools automatically.
Speaker 1: Would this Act of yours authorize permitter allow ice officials
Speaker 1: to go into churches and schools.
Speaker 2: We don't need additional legislation to allow the do that. Look,
Speaker 2: if I commit a crime in Cincinnati, I rob a bank,
Speaker 2: can I go to Saint John's the Baptist and hide? No? No,
Speaker 2: exactly if I murder somebody, can I go to a
Speaker 2: school and hide? Now? So, look, we don't need any
Speaker 2: more legislation around doing the right thing. If you're a
Speaker 2: criminal in this country, there's no place that you're safe
Speaker 2: from law enforcement. We're going to catch you, We're going
Speaker 2: to find you, and you're going to be punished.
Speaker 3: And if you're an.
Speaker 2: Illegal alien in this country, you will one hundred percent
Speaker 2: be deported in some cases, I think Guntanamo Bay if
Speaker 2: you're a really hardened criminal in your home country, won't
Speaker 2: take you.
Speaker 1: As far as Daca, which is uh. Those are the
Speaker 1: kids brought here by parents, many times at tender years.
Speaker 1: President Trump has often had sympathy for those who have
Speaker 1: DAKA status and they got close to being legalized at
Speaker 1: one point or another and then it's gone. Any does
Speaker 1: your bill address the DACA situation for those brought here
Speaker 1: as children by others and they weren't born in this country,
Speaker 1: but they were brought here. What's your reaction to DACA
Speaker 1: being included in this or not.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: President Trump has already said that he's in favor of
Speaker 2: some form of legalization for DACA students, for DOCA kids.
Speaker 2: You know that these are not kids anymore. The youngest
Speaker 2: one is probably already over eighteen, but he's already he's
Speaker 2: already talking about that.
Speaker 3: That's going to be a separate effort. Look, we can't
Speaker 3: boil the ocean. We want to take effective rifle shots
Speaker 3: at immigrations. So let's fix asylum. Let's fix that.
Speaker 2: Let's not try to fix everything else in our immigration system.
Speaker 2: Let's take it one bite at a time. Let's fix asylum.
Speaker 2: We'll deal with DOCTA later, We'll deal with the number
Speaker 2: of visas later, We'll deal with a lot of other
Speaker 2: things that we have to work on in our immigration system.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to be doing that.
Speaker 2: But let's get sometimes trying to do everything means you
Speaker 2: do nothing. Let's fix asylum. This is the pressing moment
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: That we got to do.
Speaker 2: So that's why we got to get this legislation across
Speaker 2: the finish line.
Speaker 1: All right, Bernie Marinos, Senator Bernie Marino. We had a
Speaker 1: junior senator in Ohio for like twelve years. We never
Speaker 1: kind have a senior senator, and now we have a
Speaker 1: senior centator, a senator other than Shared Brown, who's normal.
Speaker 1: By the way, Sharon Brown called yet to congratulate you
Speaker 1: and to concede the election.
Speaker 3: Share Brown never debated me in a campaign. I was
Speaker 3: the only campaign that never had a debate. He never
Speaker 3: called me. He still has never called me.
Speaker 2: He got rid of all of his people in his
Speaker 2: offices without giving the opportunity to work for us.
Speaker 3: He's your casework, nonpartisan.
Speaker 2: People, closed his offices, closed all his cases. So if
Speaker 2: you had a case before him that you needed some
Speaker 2: help on, he just closed the cases. And sorry, you know,
Speaker 2: Wally World is closed. And now of course he lands
Speaker 2: at Harvard at the Institute of Politics, his happy place
Speaker 2: where he belongs. So let's we deported Sharon Brown to Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Let's make that deportation permanent.
Speaker 1: Great Senator Bernie Marino, thank you. I would think this
Speaker 1: bill of yours, which is a great first start, would
Speaker 1: have a significant Republican when you talk to John Thune
Speaker 1: and others, are they behind this thing?
Speaker 2: Yes, I think we're going to get broad support here
Speaker 2: along the Republican conference, and we're going to cost the
Speaker 2: finish line.
Speaker 1: All right, Senator, thank you very much. Good luck to you,
Speaker 1: and God bless you and God bless America. Bernie Marino,
Speaker 1: thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, bye, let's let's continue. But what it is
Speaker 1: is a simple It's a large part of the problem,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't solve the entire difficulty. Neither Democrats nor
Speaker 1: Republicans for generations have you desired to fix the immigration problems.
Speaker 1: Democrats did not want to fix it when they were
Speaker 1: completely in charge because they took away from them a
Speaker 1: big issue to use against Republicans, and Republicans when they
Speaker 1: were in charge could never overcome the filibuster in order
Speaker 1: to really have immigration reform, which is badly needed. This
Speaker 1: is a large part of what has to happen, which
Speaker 1: is the false claims of asylum seekers that seldom are successful.
Speaker 1: But Biden to let these individuals stay in the country
Speaker 1: for years at a great expense, when they knew they
Speaker 1: were going to lose the claim anyway. And to give
Speaker 1: you an example, there's one point four million human beings
Speaker 1: in this country that have had their claims adjudicated by
Speaker 1: courts and they've lost and they're still in the country.
Speaker 1: One point four million. That's on top of the six
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand known criminals, on top of
Speaker 1: the thirteen thousand or so murderers. They're here. And so
Speaker 1: this is a part of it. And I do have
Speaker 1: sympathy as President Trump does for those DACA receips and
Speaker 1: so he brought here as children who've lived in the
Speaker 1: country for a long time. A kid comes here and
Speaker 1: they have no criminal intent whatsoever. They're in the arms
Speaker 1: or whatever, their mother or father, and they're in the country.
Speaker 1: Trump has said those individuals need special consideration, and I
Speaker 1: support that one thousand percent. But Senator Bernie Marinos introduced
Speaker 1: the bill to reform the asylum system. That's a big
Speaker 1: chunk of it. But the rest of it needs to
Speaker 1: be done. And I hope this president, with the Democrats
Speaker 1: some democratic support, can actually fix the immigration system which
Speaker 1: has caused benefits and great costs in the United States
Speaker 1: of America. So as a brand new Senator Bernie Marino's
Speaker 1: doing the lord's work. I look at the mayors from Denver,
Speaker 1: from Chicago, from Sacramento, from Atlanta, and Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: They say they're not going to participate. And I hope
Speaker 1: the mayors in those cities take the words of Bernie
Speaker 1: Marino to heart when he said they face criminal prosecution
Speaker 1: for obstruction of justice, etc. And that should happen. Pam Bondy,
Speaker 1: Attorney General, is gonna crack down on that when she
Speaker 1: appoints all the US attorney's new ones around the country.
Speaker 1: I suspect at that point all hell's going to break loose.
Speaker 1: So let's continue with more and continue to follow this
Speaker 1: issue headline. Senator Bernie Marino introduces legislation to overhaul the
Speaker 1: US asilent system, and it appears a Senator John Thune
Speaker 1: of South Dakota is on board one thousand percent and more.
Speaker 1: So let's continue. We never saw it. We simply continue.
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