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Stephen A's Take: Biden Pardon People | Trump ended migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.

Jan 22, 202522 min
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Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

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Speaker 1

I want to make sure that as I go forward, everybody knows that I'm not getting personal and I'm not personally attacking anyone. I might attack what you say and how you feel and what you expressed, but I'm not going to attack you. And I'm certainly wasn't attacking Keith Boykin,

I wasn't attacking anybody. Having said that, let me get to a more sensitive issue because if you go on video right now, if you scan the digital stratosphere, social media and beyond, you're going to see footage and pictures of Mexicans waiting for appointments for the CPB one app that's basically border patrol and people trying to come into the country or what have you. You're going to see

an abundance of Mexican citizens crying. If anybody who enjoys that, who speaks of that with glee, with a smile on their face, you really got to question their humanity because

what's happened to them is incredibly unfortunate. Upon being inaugurated as the forty seventh President of the United States, within the hour, President Donald Trump discontinued the CPB one app leaving migrants in Mexico heartbroken reading from the report here, with many reportedly seeing crying after their appointments were canceled.

Coming in heavily to deliver his promise of restricting immigration into the United States, Donald Trump banned the CBP one app that facilitated the legal entry of nearly one million people into the United States by granting them work eligibility. The decision was announced just minutes after Trump was sworn in as the forty seventh president. The impact of this move was immediate, as people in Mexico who were waiting for their CBP one parole appointments were reportedly left devastated

upon hearing the news. According to a post shared on x by a gentleman by the name of Aurelius R. Hernandez, a journalist with the Washington Post, some migrants in Mexico were seeing crying when they learned that the appointments were no longer valid. They denied entry. I'm gonna repeat what

I said seconds ago. Anybody who speaks on this subject in favor of Donald Trump's decision, with glee, with joy coming out of their mouth, with their facial expressions, in their heart and soul, you really really need to question their humanity. This is cruel, This is so unfortunate, This is so sad, but necessary. You see, when we're talking, and this is one of the problems that exists in politics. See, the one side only talks about the other side and

what they do wrong. You ain't talking about what they did right. You're not talking about the wrong that they committed. That was a necessary wrong. You see, that's what happens when you let when you allow fourteen million immigrants to enter the country illegally. If you didn't do that, Joe Biden, who by the way, made sure he departed out of office pardoning of granting clemency to over twenty five hundred peace for non violent offenses, not to mention all of

his family members, all of them. All of them. Okay, make sure they couldn't be touched. If you didn't have open borders your first week on the job in twenty twenty one, it might not have come to this. You see. Trump talked a lot of smack, and this is the part that he's not giving credit for. He talked a lot of smack about mass immigration and deportation and stuff like that in his first term. Even talked about ending birthright citizenry, citizenship, remember that. But what did he actually do.

He talked about building a wall, a great big wall, and the Mexican's gonna pay for it, and then they did that. He probably built about two percent of the wall. You know why he couldn't get things done to the degree that he had pretended, and it campaigned on back in twenty sixteen, because Barack Obama was the deporter in chief. He didn't advertise it, but he wasn't having it. He didn't allow folks to come in mass into our country.

Nobody else allows it but us nobody. You can't go into Mexico like that, you can't go into Venezuela like that. You can't go anywhere in this world with those kind of open borders that Joe Biden okayed. Barack Obama didn't do it. And the reason why Trump had a hard time was because the Barack Obama was the deporter. They said, he just didn't advertise it, he didn't bust a brag about it. But had he done it, had he not done it, I'm sorry, then Trump could have lived up

to his campaign promises. But you know why Trump couldn't do that when he was in office, first go round, because he would have mirrored Barack Obama or looked worse. We have to pay attention to what's going on. I bring up what mister Boykin said on CNN. Why because you're talking about what respect you have or lack thereof for black people who would perform at the inauguration. So obviously you feel the same way about people who voted for Trump. I did neither. I did neither. But when

are you gonna understand? And I know you do, sir, just like I know my mayor Roland Martin. Does y'all know this better than me? This is y'all lane, not my lane appared to y'all. I got that part. Some people try to sit up there and say, Joe Biden deported more people than Donald Trump. Whatever. You open the borders, fourteen million people crossed. It cost this country billions, which is subject we'll get into in just a second. But the reason why I brought up what we gotta start doing.

We can't keep talking about the right. We can't keep talking about conservatives. We can't keep talking about what a danger Donald Trump is to our society without mentioning the left, meaning Biden. You want to bring up the central part case.

Donald Trump was clearly wrong, should have apologized. But we all know that when that was broached, particularly during the Democratic National Convention and the campaign trail, it was used as a tool to point to what some would deem racial insensitivity or racist behavior when America was worried about their own wallets. They don't care because the vast majority of Americans are still white in this country. Hispanics don't make up thirty percent of the population, Blacks don't make

up fifty percent of the population. It's still a predominantly white society. That's not gonna fly with them anymore. Because they got their own bills to worry about, and they all streets to worry about walking in. They ain't falling for it. So we got that issue. You brought up Donald Trump and being a landlord and not wanting to rent to black folks. Did you mention Joe Biden and his relationship with segregationists, Robert byrd West Virginia KKK member,

to bring that up. See if you bring up Donald Trump with that, you gotta bring that up. You bring up Donald Trump with that, you gotta bring up Joe Biden, Senator, prominent senator with Clinton's crime Bill that was widely accused of contributing the mass incarceration that disproportionately affected black people in the nation. Gotta bring that up at least did

you forget to bring that up? Or did you not want to point out how the Congressional Black Caucus had something to do with persuading Joe Biden to take the positions that he took as a senator at that particular moment in time in the nineties when Bill Clinton was in office. You gotta mention it. Did you have any problem with Joe Biden going on to the breakfast club and trying to define who was black and who wasn't

in terms of you choosing him or bout it. If you don't vote for me, you vote for Trump, you ain't black. We can't have it both ways, It's all I'm saying. And right now, that's what got the Democrats booted out of office. That's what has them being the minority in the House and the Senate, and how they've lost the White House. Yeah, there's something on social media right now with Elon Musk and giving a Nazi sign

out once but twice. You're hearing about Trump and how he's determined to do away with entitlement programs and what have you. And you've got minorities in this cutry wondering what the hell is going on. First you're attacking immigration, and then you're attacking entitlement programs, so everything is gonna be catered to white people. I already know what everybody's saying. I'm not here to say you wrong. We gonna see,

We're gonna see. But while we looking to see what Trump does, we already know what the left has done, which is why we've tired of hearing stuff like this from Alexandria Ocassio Cortez better known as AOC Take a listen.

Speaker 2

Well, we are on the eve of an authoritarian administration. This is what twenty first century fascism is starting to look like. Republicans really model themselves after Orbon's Hungry, and so you can look to see how Victor Orbon runs Hungry to get a taste of how they will try to govern and control media and companies in the United States. And this is kind of an entrede to that. As far as what we do, you know, this is a

time of experimentation. A lot of people will still use platforms can still use platforms, but I also look towards places where you have more ownership as well and develop your audiences there. Like Blue Sky, you own your audience as a protocol, decentralized protocol.

Speaker 1

Did you say control the media AOC By the way, I appreciate your work. I appreciate you what you do for your constituencies in the Bronze, with your constituency in the Bronx, But did you talk about controlling the media? Is that what you brought up? So the left has had no control? Huh? So the left is not engaged in bullying tactics or woke culture didn't exist where people had to make sure they echoed the right pronan in order to keep their job security, where you had to

sit up there and God forbid you. You literally challenge somebody with regards to transgender issues and you will consider to be transphobic. Where one minute we were called the pond to protect the young ladies and the women in our society, and then that got thrown out the window. The second a male was transitioning the female and wanted to participate in female sports, and then all of a sudden it wasn't any consistency with the stuff that had

been being spewed beforehand and ultimately forced. So that is the Republicans that we need to be worried about. But not y'all. Y'all will never do such a thing. Oh my goodness, it would never be you. It would never be y'all. That would never happen. Huh. Really, really, this is exactly why Trump is in office. Racist, fascist, and all of these other names. That's what you do when you're on the left, not paying attention to the fact that a vast majority of American people tied to that.

When you're gonna tell us a message we want to hear, when you're gonna tell us some message we need to hear. Right now, let me read to you. Read to you from the Wall Street Journal today. Allow me to put on my reading glasses and read this to you, ver Betam from the Wall Street Journal. President Trump plans to sign executive orders to overhaul border and energy policies and indiversity programs across the federal government, unwinding signature Biden administration

policies on the first day of his second term. Trump's immigration plans include ending birth citizenship, deploying troops, and declaring a national emergency at the southern border, as well as ending asylum by speeding deportations. Trump said as he was sworn in on Monday, quote with these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. Those weren't his words. What ammunition would he have to say such a thing? How about everything? I

pointed out? Trump didn't win the election, you all lost. You put him in there, and let me get real raw with this. It got so bad with Biden in an office. Racism was thrown aside. Transgender issues don't make up one percent of this population. Black people make up more than forty nearly fourteen percent of this population, and for a vast majority of the last few years, that issue has been more important than issues pertaining to black people. It seemed that is just the truth. And I didn't

even bring up the money. We don't have money for police officers. We don't have money to keep the streets safe. We don't have money to make sure there's no inflation, or that if there is inflation, it doesn't drastically affect us, because you got enough people in America making a hard earned, honest, fruitful living. But we got enough money to let in fourteen million immigrants illegally. We got enough money for fifty three million dollars in prepaid credit cards in the state

of New York. We got enough money to allow seventeen cities in the United States to be sanctuary cities. At least. We got enough money to throw billions to Ukraine. We got enough money for all of that, but we don't have enough money to address the American needs. I've said to y'all on repeated occasion, what is my ultimate claim to success? It happened in two thousand and nine when I got fired and I had to take a long,

hard look on myself, at myself. It's in my book Straight Shooter, a member of Second Chances, the first taket. You really should read it. It's very motivational and this opirational. She really should check it out. What did I say back then? And epiphany hit me? And I learned to wake up every day because ninety nine percent of us have a boss. And I learned to wake up every day and learned that my manaturer is how do I make my bosses more money? How do I get some

of it? Because the system is rigged ladies and gentlemen, the power broke as that be, almost all of whom are white, have designed a system to ensure they're going to get theirs and in order for you to get yours. Even while you're getting yours, they gonna get theirs. You just saw me talking about Drake and Kendrick Lamara other day, both of them under the Universal Music Group umbrella. You don't think there's white folks in power at the Universal

Music Group, You know what? You don't think? So you don't think all these artists out here that is making money, name's somebody white near the top or at the top that's making sure they get this year. Agents, lawyers, accountants. The system is designed to make sure they get paid.

The trick is figuring out how you get paid to and what the Democrats did over the last few years will somehow managed to figure out a way to convince you, somehow, someway you were gonna omit, eliminate and eradicate them and have the fruits of your labor all to yourself. And the Trump administration is a declaration of the obvious hold on not so fast. A system don't work that way. You can go ahead and get yours. We gonna get ours.

We ain't gonna sit here doling out all of this money with one thing after another that ultimately compromises our pockets instead of float them. That's what happened, That's the truth. And they come up and arrived to the left because what they tried to do was eliminated an entire system of government that the American people are not only comfortable with, but addicted to. And everything you see right now is

then reminding you of that. That's why Trump and his administration teased Biden out the door, showing a picture of him and a White House and then eviction. Notice that's why Elon Musk is up there doing whatever damn symbols and signals he's doing. It's why change came. And as alarming as the change is, it seemed closer to most American citizens to normalcy than what we've been experiencing the

past four years. This ain't about the right anymore. It's about what the left tried to turn this nation into and guilted us in fear mangada us and intimidated us into supporting no more, No more Independence is the way to go. The hell with the right and the left. Do what's best for you, and do what's best for this country. Bump what they think, what they feel, or how you should be. Enough's enough. Independence is the way to go because of that reason, more than anything else,

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