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