1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Governor, you're joining us today from India. What are you 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: hoping to accomplish with business leaders there? And do we 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: need to know about any new businesses that are coming 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: to Texas. 5 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 2: So we're connecting with business leaders as well as the 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 2: government leaders and working on deal after deal after deal. 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 2: We've talked to business expansions or new projects in instead 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: of Texas, from issues ranging from energy to technology to healthcare. 9 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: There actually is a big parallel between businesses and India. 10 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: Businesses in Texas all seeking economic opportunity. Another thing that 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: the Texans and Americans need to know, and that is 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 2: the rapid growth of the country of India. There are 13 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 2: infrastructure projects across the entire country, highway projects, airport projects, 14 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 2: and so you see a first class infrastructure being built 15 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: that's going to accommodate the growth of India has. The 16 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: last point is this and that is what businesses are 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: learning across the globe, and that is they need to 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: look for, say, countries with which to do trade. And 19 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 2: India is the largest democracy. America is the oldest democracy. 20 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 2: There's a very natural and very important fit between Texas 21 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 2: and India. 22 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: I got a switch to immigration right now. Congress working 23 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: on this immigration package, and many Republicans, many people feel 24 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 1: that Republicans are simply just playing politics with this and 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: that nothing may go through. Isn't it important to try 26 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: to get something rather than nothing? 27 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: At this point, what's important is for the federal governments. 28 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 2: I'm talking about the executive branch as well as the 29 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 2: legislative branch to fix a brooken border. Texas is doing 30 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 2: everything that we can by building border walls, erecting more 31 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: than one hundred miles of razor wire, having the National 32 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 2: Guard deployed constantly, with Texas taxpayers spending more than ten 33 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 2: billion dollars already to secure the border. And what we 34 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: have is Joe Biden not enforcing the laws already on 35 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: the books. Allowing this outrageous parole of people who crossed 36 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: the border tell them to come back for a court 37 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: hearing in ten years is outrageous. And so it's essential 38 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 2: that both the executive branch and the Congress work effectively 39 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: to secure our border. 40 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: So do you think at this point that the Republicans 41 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: in Congress are doing enough to work with the president 42 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: on this? And is the President doing enough? 43 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 2: So I have no inside information about what members of 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 2: Congress are hashing out and conversations they may be happening 45 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: with the president. I do know more about where the 46 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 2: President's not doing because I've been battling against the president 47 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 2: for three years now, and I actually have personally handed 48 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 2: a letter to the President, in addition to seven other 49 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: letters I sent to the President, seeking for the president 50 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: simply to step up and enforce the immigration laws already 51 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 2: on the books, and repeatedly he has failed to do so. 52 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,560 Speaker 1: You know, this week, and you touched on this a little, 53 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration. Federal agents 54 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: can remove this razor wire placed on the Texas border, 55 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: will you still continue to put it there even though 56 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court has made that decision. 57 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 2: Well, actually, what the Supreme Court did, they did not 58 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 2: issue a decision with a single word explaining anything. All 59 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: they did was to return the case to the Fitth 60 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,839 Speaker 2: Circuit Court of Appeals. What Texas is doing, as has 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 2: been seen about the video after video after video, is 62 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: we are adding more razor wire as we speak right 63 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: now to make sure that we are doing even more 64 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 2: to secure the border. We are going to make it 65 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 2: impossible to enter Texas illegally, and that includes maintaining the 66 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 2: national gardland border, building more border wall just like what 67 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: President Trump put up, as well as extending the razor 68 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 2: wire wall in the state of Texas. 69 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: So even after the Supreme Court decision, will continue to 70 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: put up the razor wire, even though the decision does 71 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: clear the way at this point for US Border Patrol 72 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: to get rid of it. 73 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 2: Again. The Supreme Court decision did nothing to write any 74 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 2: words saying anything opinion wise. All the Supreme Court did 75 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 2: was send a case back to the Fifth Circuit. And 76 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 2: after they sent it back to the Fifth Circuit, and 77 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: while this process has taken place, I've made very clear 78 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 2: what Texas is doing. What I sent out in a 79 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 2: statement was to make clear Texas has the constitutional authority 80 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: to do exactly what we're doing because the authors of 81 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 2: the Constitution they knew there would be times when the 82 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 2: federal government does not do its job and states have 83 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 2: a right of self defense, and that right of self 84 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 2: defense is established in Article one, Section ten of the Constitution, 85 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 2: and Texas is relying upon the authority written into the 86 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 2: Constitution for us to be able to secure our border 87 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: and enact self defense. 88 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,799 Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about the migrants 89 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: by your own estimates, more than one hundred thousand migrants 90 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: have been bussed or flown to democratic cities. How long 91 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: do you plan to continue to do this and what 92 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: should these cities expect in terms of migrants coming and 93 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,920 Speaker 1: how should they prepare for them? 94 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 2: Well, they should. They're dealing with it the same way 95 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 2: that Texas is dealing with it, and that is with uncertainty. 96 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 2: Texas doesn't have any information about who's going to be 97 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 2: crossing the border. We don't have no ability to get 98 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: prepared for it. And so this is all caused by 99 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: Joe Biden's refusal to enforce the immigration laws that are 100 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,679 Speaker 2: already in effect. And as long as there are illegal 101 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 2: immigrants crossing our border that Biden is not stopping Texas 102 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 2: in order to alleviate congestion in small little towns like 103 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 2: Del Rio, Ningo Pass, we will continue a busing migrants 104 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 2: to cities across the entire country. 105 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:59,840 Speaker 1: You know, this is something that many people have paid 106 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: it attention to, this busting and just you know, how 107 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: did this idea come to be? Can you sort of 108 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: get into a little bit of the strategy about how 109 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: you decided to do this and how the policy all 110 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: came together. 111 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 2: Sure, I was in a meeting on the border with mayors, 112 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 2: kind of judges, police chiefs, sheriffs, etc. And they were 113 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 2: talking about how their community had been overrun with migrants 114 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 2: dropped off by the border patrol. They said they couldn't 115 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 2: handle it anymore. I said I would help them out 116 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 2: by beginning this bussing process, and it has alleviated the 117 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 2: congestion in small little towns of the border and has 118 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 2: spread those migrets across the entire country. 119 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: And Governor, before I let you go, and I know 120 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: we didn't have a lot of time with you. You know, 121 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: what specific laws can you point to that you say 122 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: that President Biden is not enforcing specific laws. 123 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 2: Sure, so he's violating a law that puts people on 124 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 2: parole that when somebody crosses the border illegally, they're at 125 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: violation of the law, they're required to be detained, and 126 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 2: he's not detaining them. He's giving them a parole mass parole. 127 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 2: It does not have any legal validity, and he's violating 128 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 2: federal laws by allowing that mass parole across the entire country. 129 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: And last question on India, So I can bring it 130 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: back around. You're there for a few more days so far, 131 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: what have you seen that's really stuck out to you 132 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: there on this trade mission. 133 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 2: Is the passion that people in India have to do 134 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: business with the State of Texas. There will be a 135 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: lot of projects that will be announced in the coming 136 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 2: days and months that will bear fruit for this trip 137 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 2: that we've made here and Texas continues to have a 138 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 2: terrific business relationship with India and it will mean even 139 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 2: more business growth in the great State of Texas.