So the president actually came to Texas admitting there's a problem at the southern border. Why now we're going to discuss it. It's verdict was Center, Ted Cruz Center. Nice to be back with you in studio. It's been a little bit since last year. Literally, it's a happy New Year. We haven't done a show in person since before Christmas, before New Year. So Barry Christmas, Happy New Year, Welcome to twenty twenty three. It's already been so terribly dull. Yeah,
already dull. We had this little speaker conversation that happened for several days that was quite understand It makes you think, what's week two gonna look? Yeah, exactly what. You're right, Yeah, it's gonna be entertaining. Can you believe the President United States of America actually decided to come to Texas and admit there's a crisis at the border all at the same time, Well, this is all political spin. It's about damn time. He should have been here at the outset,
Kamala Harris should have been here at the outset. And this is a problem he created, the hypocrisy Joe Biden is showing. I have to say, this trip to the border is infuriating because he still doesn't intend to fix the problem. He doesn't care. This is one hundred percent politics, This is one hundred percent optics. This is to get his lapdogs and the corporate media just to say, oh, now now the border's fine. Oh oh, magically it's fixed.
It wasn't a problem yesterday, but today it's magically fixed. It's all a lie. He doesn't intend to change anything. If he cared, he wouldn't just go to El Paso. He'd come to the Rio Grand Valley. If he cared, he'd sit down with farmers and ranchers in Texas and he'd look at photograph after photograph of dead bodies that they find on their farms, on their ranches, dead bodies, pregnant women, elderly people, little children, two year old children.
Last year, over eight hundred people died crossing the border illegally. When I took nineteen senators down to the border, we were out on the river. We encountered a dead body floating in the river. He is literally creating a line of body bags, and yet Joe Biden can't be bothered to look at the people his policies are killing. If he gave a damn. He'd come to the Rio Grand Valley and he'd come to the Biden cages. Democrats and the media wind on and on and on about Trump cages,
Trump cages, trump cages created by Obama. They were built by Obama, which they never acknowledged, and then they became bigger and more full under Joe Biden. Joe Biden won't acknowledge that. He won't go and look at the children in the Joe Biden cages. This is all about optics. It's politics, it's deceptive, it's dishonest, and it's infuriating because here in the state of Texas we face the consequences
of these disastrous political decisions. There was real questions before we didn't gain back the Senate about getting rid of my orcus, impeaching my chas. He went on TV this past week with a straight face and said in a press conference, the border is secure, the border is secure, the border is secure. You know that's not true. I know that's not true. And if it was true, the White House wouldn't have come out with their new I call it flimsy list about securing the border. While they're
saying that the border is secure. So which one is it? And if you look at this list, and I want to throw it up here and we'll go through this for People Center. They're listing in the audio version only this. But the White House planned occurred migrant crisis, which they say isn't a crisis but now it is. Is new consequences for illegal immigration, surging resources to help secure the border,
disrupting criminal smuggling networks. I don't know what that means, additional support for border communities, and use the CBP one app to make asylum claim. So basically they're saying we're going to fix this on a cell phone with an app. Well, it's worse than that. So new consequences for illegal immigration. There of illegal immigration is it's a good thing that people have a right to come here illegally. That means apparently people have a right to be physically and sexually assaulted.
Children have a right to be physically sexually assaulted by the cartels and like for example, their second point on the surging resources to help secure the border. Look, it's one thing when you say something that's a misstatement. It's another thing where you deliberately lie. We just saw this disastrous one point seven trillion dollars omnibus bill written by
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. If you want to know what the Democrats want, look to that the omnibus explicitly said the funds in this bill cannot be used to secure the border. They wrote that into the law that Joe Biden just signed. So he puts out a little little, pretty glossy press release saying we're surging resources to help secure the border, except for the fact that the Democrats just wrote a law saying none of these resources can be used to help secure the border. And there was
a lot of money. It's a ton of money, but what's it's going to be used to do well? It's bullet point five UCB one app to make asylum claims. This is all about they want to release people faster. They want to put in place the most efficient logistical network ever seen where you cross illegally and faster than you can say, Jimminy cricket. We're going to have you located in the city of your choice across the country.
That's what this is about. This is all about We're going to get even more efficient that when these murderous cartels abandoned people in the US. The Joe Biden travel agent New consequences for illegal immigration? What are they giving them a set of stake knives in a brand new car? Like the new consequences are a Joe Biden T shirt, a membership of the DNC. What are they giving them?
Or maybe they're just giving them an illegal handgun to join a drug cartel on the streets and kill people in your communities because a lot of these kids coming in, oh, thousands upon thousands of dollars to the cartel. Else this is all you know. I'm trying actually not to not to convey just how pissed off I am at this, because this is a lie. It's a brazen lie. It's a shameless lie. Biden knows it was a lie. And
by the way, look what was it. Just a few weeks ago, when he was asked if he was going to the border, he says, I got more important things to do. Yeah, like literally said that. He said that. He actually said, I've got more important things to do. Having the woman who's supposed to be in charge of the border issue, Kamala Harris, how many times has she called you? As a senator from Rancis to come down and see this this state. She doesn't come. She doesn't come.
She has not been to the Rio Grand Valley. She has not seen the Joe Biden cages. She has not seen the misery and suffering. And look, someone, can I ask you a question for people to understand the logistics of the state. He's coming to al Paso. This is realistically going to be an al Paso airport visit. Yea, the Rio Grand value mentioned three or four times. If you live in Texas, you understand that right where it is.
Why it's important explain why the Rio Grand Valley is the center point of this, that it's the choke point of if you wanted to stop illegal immigration, this is the most important area to the cartels. Let people understand what it is, all right. So, Texas geographically is a massive state. Texas is larger than the entire country of France. It's huge. America's entire southern border is about two thousand miles. Of those two thousand miles, twelve hundred of them are
the state of Texas. So more than half of our southern border is the state of Texas. And that it is the Rio Grand River, and it runs that. The southern border runs from Brownsville, which is at the southern tip of Texas, right right right on the Gulf of Mexico, all the way up to El Paso, which is the western tip of Texas. Now, the Rio Grand Valley is down near the southern tip. It's just in from the southern tip. It has been the epicenter of the worst
of this crisis. It is where you've seen thousands upon thousands of children. It's where you've seen the worst. It's where the cages are, right, It's where Biden's cages are. It's where the Biden cages are. Is there in the Rio Grand Valley? Is that where AOC actually cried? Yes, okay, I don't know, but those were those were the Trump cages. Yeah, same cage is actually no, not same cages, bigger cages. AOC won't cry. So that's the Rio Grand Valley. You've
got further west, you've got Del Rio. Del Rio is where you've seen massive influx of Haitian illegal immigrants, immigrants. It's where you've got a bridge where in one day you had ten to fifteen thousand illegal immigrants crossing. I went there, I filmed it and put out the video of the Del Rio And by the way, Del Rio is a town that's about thirty thousand people. Yeah, so you need to understand in a day, you've got fifty percent of the population of the town coming across Martha's vineyard.
Lost their mind when fifty illegal immigrants showed up in their lily white environments. Texas border towns are seeing unbelievable influxus. So where is El Paso? El Pasos all the way at the western end of Texas. El Paso is eight hundred miles away from the Rio Grand Valley. To put that in perspective, Chicago is closer to Washington, d C. Then Al Paso is to the Rio Grand Valley. That's how far away he is from the epicenter of what he says he needs to see and look at the
point of coming here now. Ironically, so, Kamala Harris was ostensibly named the borders Are and then she proceeded to do absolutely nothing to address the problem. And really the reason she was named borders Are is because Biden and his cronies hate Kamala Harris and they know that this is a stinking mess. So let's blame Kamala for it, so they named her. She promptly when she's borders are said, I'm not going to go to the border. I'm not gonna go to the border. I'm not gonna go to
the border. Then finally she said, oh crap, if I'm borders, maybe I should go the border. Where don't you go el Paso? Why? Because of the places on the border, el Paso was the best of the of the major areas, and so she went there, did a photo op, made sure not to actually show any of the people suffering, any of the children being abused, any of the women being raped, any of the people being killed, made sure not to show the drugs, made sure not to show
the disaster, but just a pretty photoop of sea. Isn't it great? What's interesting is things have gotten so bad that even El Paso was really hurting. El Paso is a wonderful city. But el Paso's mayor, who's a Democrat, has declared an emergency. He's got king for help and resources. He's because and things have changed in El Paso from when Kamala Harris was there. When Kamala came came to El Paso, things were relatively better because it was the
real Grand Valley that was getting slammed. It was del Real that was getting slammed in El Paso was had had a significantly less volume. The volume has increased so much in El Paso that El Paso is hurting as well. Now I'm assuming that by has Biden doesn't intend to do anything to fix this. Well, he would disagree. I want to play this clip for you because he would disagree with you on that. This isn't the like the moment right we're going to war. Look at what the
White House is saying. Clear, the immigration is a political issue that extreme Republicans are always going to run on. But we need more resources to secure the border. Yet again extreme Republicans have said no, but you probably haven't serious about this at all. They're blaming you. They're blaming Republicans.
Same guy that saysn't need more resources, It says you can't secure the border with the money that was just passed for this fiscal year and the sound of spinning bill that just went through that you tried to stop and say, have a cr have a new Congress vote on it. And now he's trying to look at you and say no, no, it's your fault center, Ted Cruz and every other Republican down there. You guys, let this happen. Look,
those are just deliberate lies and their brazen lies. As you noted, the Democrat bill, the Pelosian Schumer wrote, explicitly hibits funds from being spent to secure the border. Joe Biden signed it. That's what the Biden White House wants. In the last two years, I've forced vote after vote after vote on the Senate floor of let's direct funds to secure the border. The Democrats party line of voted
against them over and over and over again. You know what the Democrats did vote to do, give millions of dollars of stimulus payments to illegal aliens. Joe Biden happily signed that. Democrats party line voted to send millions of dollars of stimulus payments to illegal aliens. The dishonesty, and by the way, the claim. You know, Republicans, they're not serious, they don't want to secure the border. The last year of Trump's presidency, we had the lowest rate of illegal
immigration in forty five years. The next year, when Joe Biden became president, it went from the lowest and forty five years to the highest in sixty two years. It flipped overnight, and then he said, I'll one up that from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two, where it was even worse, which means you did it deliberately. Well, so it's it's a weird example. I'm not necessarily going
to say Joe Biden did it deliberately. A I'm not sure he does anything deliberately, including putting on his pants and tying his shoes. I think his mental acuity is so badly diminished. I think what happened. Today's Democrat Party is a collection of interest groups, and it's a collection
of radical interest groups. So on any particular issue, you know, when Democrats nominate, as Joe Biden has not one, not two, but three of the leading advocates of abolishing the police to be senior officials at the US Department of Justice, a rational Democrat if such a thing existed anymore in Washington. They exist in America, but they don't exist in Washington.
Irrational Democrat would say, gosh, why are Democrats nominating some of the leading advocates of abolishing the police to senior positions. It's because the Democrat Party has handed their and over to the radicals. So on law injustice issues, it's the abolish the police crowd that sets the agenda. On gender issues, it's the most radical transgender Let's have a drag show for seven year olds, that's who sets the agenda. I mean, look at you know, Joe Biden's appointee. Um, you know
the dude who keeps stealing lug luggage. Yeah, he would have loved what happened Southwest last week. Okay, by the way, I saw the funniest thing on Twitter. Um. On Twitter, you know, lots of folks were criticizing his Lensky for for being in his green sweatshirt when he when he spoke to Congress, and and and somebody tweeted said, look, to be fair, don't blame Zelenski for not wearing a suit when he spoke to Congress. An official from the
Biden administration stole his luggage. It's a pretty accurate assessment of exactly that entire SCE. Look you think about, it's a quota filling thing. That's what they've done in serious positions and seriously quota filling. But it's also on every issue. If you were a James carvill of the world who said, you know, we got to abandon this woke stuff. I mean, I mean, he's someone who actually wants Democrats to win elections. Yeah, on every issue, the crazies in their party set the agenda.
So on immigration, what happened is they they have let the true open border radicals set the agenda. And so Biden, Biden caused this crisis. He caused it by three specific decisions, all made the very first week he was in office. First week in office, he immediately halted construction of the border wall. First week in office, he immediately reinstated catch and release, where now when they apprehend you, they give you a court date sometime in the future, they let
you go and you're never seen again and you stay. Yeah. And the third thing he did that first week in office as he ended the incredibly successful Remain in Mexico policy, which had reduced illegal immigration to the lowest rate in forty five years. So when Biden says Republicans aren't serious about this, he knows he's lying. Now, I will say there have been reports that Biden has really pissed the borders all screwed up, but he's not pissed substantively. He's
not pissed about the lives being destroyed. He's pissed that has become a political issue. Is he's pissed that, gosh, this this is kind of a mess. And even though my little lapdogs in the media are not reporting on it much, some people know how bad a mess this is. I think when he did those decisions the first week, you know, did Joe Biden affirmatively know I'm going to
create the worst illegal immigration in history? Probably not. I think it was Trump was for it, therefore I'm against it, and it was Today's Democrat Party is a collection of extreme interest groups on any given issue. So on immigration, it's the open borders radical radicals. On law and order, it's the abolished the police radicals. On gender, it's the extreme transgender you know, go after kids radicals. It's on every issue. There's not a middle in the Democrat Party
in Washington. But I think some of the people in Washington were surprised, and some of the people in the White House they did not understand. If you talk to Customs and Border Patrol and I have look, we have had the head of the Customs of Border Patrol Union here on this podcast. You want to stop illegal immigration? The number one thing you can do to stop illegal immigrations and catch a please, as long as Joe Biden orders the border patrol. When you catch someone, let them go.
It will remain a crisis, and no amount of power points, no amount of press conferences will fix it because people behave according to incentives. And if you know if you come here you can stay, more people will come illegally and more people will be abused and raped and assaulted and killed. I want to tell everybody about our amazing sponsor,
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is not theoretical. Look, Karine Jehan Pierre a few months ago said people are not just walking across the border. It's not happening now. That was another brazen lion. By the way, Joe Biden carries responsibility for that. That was done in the White House, at the White House podium with the White House seal in front of her. That means it's she was lying on his behalf. As I said on this podcast immediately following, you're lying to the Washington pres score of the American people. And it's an
easily disprovable lie. It's not like it's a sneaky, clever one of Oh this is a lie you'll get away with. I invited her down, you know what. I'm an extend an invitation right now, President Biden. I'm glad you finally came to the border. I'm glad you finally came to Texas. Mister President. You're press secretary lied on behalf of the White House. You've lied on behalf of the White House. Mister President, I want to invite you come to the
real Grand Valley. Come with me out any evening. Let's spend an hour out on midnight patrol with a border patrol who works for you, and just see what's happening. Because if you go out at midnight, or if you go at at one in the morning, or you go out at two in the morning, you go out in three in the morning, you will not have to search for people crossing illegally. It is a constant stream of humanity. They will come find you, groups of children, women who've
been brutalized. They're usually care a baggy with some identification in it and a phone number of someone in the United States because they know that Joe Biden Kamala Harris are the last mile of the human trafficking network and that they'll call that number and within days they'll be there with someone they know in the United States who's here, and they go affirmatively find the border patrol. I've been down there and had multiple groups of illegal immigrants turn
themselves into me. They're just they look for the first American they can find to turn themselves in because they know Joe Biden will get them where they want to go. He's caused this, and miss President, let me also invite you come to the Biden cages. They've been named after you. You ought to at least see the children who are suffering. And by the way, Miss President, I want to invite you to come to Brooks County. Where's Brooks County. Brooks County is just north of the border. It's not right
on the borders, it's just north of it. Brooks County. Year after year they have dead body after dead body after dead body because the illegal immigrants go through the hot, brutal Texas summer and they die on those ranches. And Brooks County is not a wealthy county. They faced enormous cost literally dealing with the disposal of human remains. I have a friend of mine who has a ranch down on the southern border told me just last week they
found another dead body on his ranch. This is an absolute crisis, and if the president cared at all, he would want to see that. That's what a responsible president would do, see the human misery, the suffering, the assault. You know, I'm curious, and I don't think any reporters ever asked him if Joe Biden knows about the wristbands. So when you're down on the banks of the Rio Grand Valley, when I was last there, I brought a
group of senators there. You look down in the grass and you see colored wristbands, just hundreds of them, thousands of them. The wrist spans. Just about every legal immigrant who comes wears one, and the color corresponds to how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels, and when they come in, they are effectively slaves to the cartels.
So many of the young boys who Joe Biden flies to every city in America, many of the fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old boys become gang members working for the cartels because they owe three, four or five thousand dollars to the cartels, and if they don't pay that debt off, the cartels will kill their families. So Joe Biden is putting foot soldiers, putting criminals, putting gang members in every city in America, no dealers who are killing our kids.
And the girls have it even worse. Thousands upon thousands of teenage girls because of Joe Biden, because of Kamala Harris, are finding themselves trapped in sex slavery where they're enforced prostitution because they owe thousands of dollars to the cartel because they were wearing I look at these yellow yellow bracelets as the modern day leg irons of twenty first century slavery. Because if you're a fifteen sixteen year old
girl from Honduras. You've looked north, you dream of freedom in America, and six months later, you are trapped in a brothel enforced sex slavery run by brutal cartels who brutalize you. You're living in hell, and that hell is Joe Biden's fault. He could stop it. He caused it, number one, and he could stop it number two. I don't know if Joe Biden ever knows that. I don't think anyone around him has ever told him that. I know no one in the press has ever bothered to
tell him that. So there are certain things in your career that you see, especially when you're an elected official, and it has an impact on you. In the way that you talked about it, it's clear that it had a personal impact on you. The centers you took down there, I can't imagine any of them laughed, not just feeling different emotionally about what these people are going. I've looked in the eyes of the children who've been brutalized by
these cartels. These are beautiful little kids. Nobody the Democrats used to pitch illegal immigration as an issue of compassion. They just care more than Republicans. I gotta say you and I are both dads. Nobody who gives a damn about humanity would put a single little boy or a single little girl in the custody of these cartels. And by the way, if you want to see how bad it is, look at what's happening right now with the cartels in Mexico. It's an odd civil war. A lot
of people don't realize what has just happened. Well, here play some of the fish. I mean, look at look at some of this video that has come out, and
so people understand what's happened down there. You had al Chapo's son who was arrested several years ago, and the cartel basically how the entire Mexican state hostage started an all out of a war within the country, and it was so bad so quickly that the president of Mexico at the time said, release his son back out into society, let him go back out there to the cartel, because too many lives and in some people's lives will be affected by this. Now they've caught him again and exactly
the same thing has happened. It's an all out civil war. Take a look. You look at this as apparently some of what we're being told is the government firing machine guns from helicopters in this all out war. The Mexican Army has deployed to these different areas down there where the son of this, you know, a drug lord, Elchopo, was caught. And this is just one example. I mean, you're seeing this. You see the fires that have been
set in all these different city center. They're apparently attacking hotels, they have attacked hospitals. We were told last night they were taking not just when they were going into the hotel, into the hospitals, they were taking the doctors and the nurses, so they couldn't treat the men and women in the police force, in the government, in the military, so they couldn't do a city with machine gun fire coming down.
And the thing to understand, you know, you know, we're looking looking at footage for those of y'all just listening to the audio, We're looking at footage from Mexico of a helicopter firing a machine gun at night into a Mexican town and a gunfight with these cartels. And look, I know these are the people that are running the human beings over the border. If you think they're going to be humane to them, you're wrong. I know, in politics it's it's it's always easy to say, oh, it's
the other party's fault. But you need to understand, this is Joe Biden, Kamala Harris's fault. Why because these cartels. Joe Biden has personally made billions of dollars for these cartels. What you need to understand is trafficking is a multi billion dollar global empire. These are massive corporations filled with murderers and thugs, filled filled with people who bury people alive,
who light them on fire. So imagine the most violent criminals you can think of who have become multi billionaires because of Joe Biden. You look at the cartels. So for someone to cross illegally into the United States, every person must hire the cartel. It's interesting, actually the border is one hundred percent secure on the southern side, which is you can't cross the border without hiring the cartel. If you're down there and you just try to get
on a raft, they'll just kill you. Like nobody does that. It's zero. Like, if you want to cross, there's only one way. You're paying the cartels. How much do you pay the cartels. The prices vary. They are typically between three and twelve thousand dollars a person is what it costs to cross in. Now meant most of the people coming don't have three to twelve thousand dollars, so they come in debt and they work for the cartels in the United States to pay off their debt. There are
some people who are coming from further away. So for example, people coming from China illegally have been paying upwards of fifty thousand dollars for the cartels to traffick them in, people on the terror watch list who have been crossing in. In the totals, the cartels make about an equal amount
of money from human trafficking and drug trafficking. But the reason why you're seeing a war in Mexico between two armies is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have armed the cartels, have turned them into their a military operation waging war. The people of Mexico are suffering horribly. You want to talk about one of the worst things that ever happened to the people of Mexico, it was Joe Biden becoming president.
Why because Joe Biden becoming president took evil, violent murdering cartels and gave them billions of dollars, and they've used to commit horrific crimes. Look, in fiscal year twenty twenty two, fourteen thousand pounds a fentanyl was seized in that year. One kilogram a fentanyl, just over two pounds is enough to kill five hundred thousand people. That means in one year, enough fentanyl was seized to kill every man, every woman, and every child in the United States of America. That's
what's coming. In last year, we had over one hundred thousand people die of drug overdoses under Joe Biden. You want to talk about the Biden bodybags, one hundred thousand people. And by the way, I talked about the terror weight list, seventy eight people whose names appear on the terrorist screening data set where stopped trying to cross the border just in the last fiscal year. This is a crisis. And I'm glad Biden finally came because you know what it did.
It made TV cameras actually acknowledge the border exists. This was a political photo op check the box moment we went, we saw, we tell you we're going to work on it, and designed to get the reporters to say nothing to see here, move on, never mind the suffering, the misery, the death, the overdoses, the murders, the assaults. Not only did the Democrats not care about, they fully intend to continue the same disastrous policies and to let it go
get worse. I will say, you asked about Mayorcas. In the next six months, I predict alhand theer Mayorcas will be impeached, even with the Senate and the way it is. Yes, now, look, impeached is charged by the House, so the House will impeach him the Senate. Senate Democrats won't care. He will not be convicted. It takes two thirds to convict in the Senate. But you do believe the House side will say this is enough to impeach him. I do, And that will also be showing the country at the same
time exactly how bad it is down there, exactly. That's probably the smartest mood they could do. The Republicans in control of the hours, I have urged them vigorously to do that. I believe they will do exactly that. It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Nice to be back in the studio with you. Happy New Year to you and your family as well. For everybody watching and listening, don't forget hit that subscribe button in the auto download button because we do three shows
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