1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Should Donald Trump win the presidency, it will be on 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: the power of America's broken immigration system and his talent 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: for Demagagarey. It's March first, two hundred and forty nine 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,640 Speaker 1: days to go until America decides who the next president 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: of the United States will be. And a quick reminder 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: this morning, remember subscribe to the Warning YouTube channel. The 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four race journey to America's southern border with Mexico, 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: President Biden went to Brownsville, Texas President Trump to eagle pass. 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: Immigration is Joe Biden's most dangerous issue. Make no mistake. 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: Should Donald Trump win the presidency, it will be on 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: the power of America's broken immigration system and his talent 12 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: for demagagrey. The one issue that everybody in this country 13 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: knows that Donald Trump is extreme about his immigration. He 14 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: began his national political career with the denunciation of Mexico. 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: He called Mexicans rapists and murderers. He diminished, he dehumanized, 16 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:25,960 Speaker 1: and he insulted the contributions of America's largest ethnic group. 17 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: It was disgraceful, but not unexpected because Donald Trump, over 18 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: these last years escapegoaded every minority population. Yesterday, Donald Trump 19 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: went to the border and said he's going to stop 20 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: the Biden invasion. That's what he called it, the Biden invasion. 21 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: This is a Biden invasion over the past three years. 22 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, on the other hand, went to the border 23 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: and reached his hand out to Donald Trump and said, 24 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: let's work together. Join me, or I'll join you in 25 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: telling the Congress to pass his Biprodish and Border Security bill. 26 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: What is it that the President's political advisors and speech 27 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: writers and White House aids are missing about Donald Trump's intentions. 28 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: He is a world class demagogue trying to inflame a 29 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: crisis for his own benefit, because the more chaos there is, 30 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: the lotter his calls for order can become. And that 31 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:37,839 Speaker 1: call for order is potent politically, it's powerful. Don't underestimate 32 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: its appeal. The Biden administration has failed with regard to 33 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: securing the southern border in a hundred different ways. The 34 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: debate about whether the President has been effective on the 35 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: border over the last three years is settled. What the 36 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: White House must do is abate the problem, lessen the delta, 37 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: do something that brings order out of chaos immediately, no 38 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: matter what. Because in the couple of states that will 39 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: decide the election by margins that range in some number 40 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: of tens of thousands of votes. This will be the 41 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: determinative issue, and this issue cannot be allowed to become 42 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: the gateway through which a fascist takes power in the 43 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: executive branch. There is no nation in the world, not Mexico, 44 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: not Germany, not Canada know where, that would tolerate the 45 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: current situation on the southern border. The worst part about 46 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: it is that it has opened the floodgates for the 47 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: most venomous type of demagogurey, nativism, and nationalism to flourish. 48 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: What did anybody think might happen in a time of 49 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:26,200 Speaker 1: profound technological disruption where forty percent of the country doesn't 50 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 1: have four hundred dollars cash available for an emergency, and 51 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: tens of millions fall into a population that is unbankable 52 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: they can't open up a savings account. The Biden administration 53 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: is profoundly out of touch politically with the country on 54 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: the issue of immigration, which has been inflamed and worsened 55 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 1: and turned from problem into existential crisis by a propaganda 56 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: industry that profits billions of dollars a year for dividing 57 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: the society and injecting fear into it. The only remedy 58 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: to this is the full use of the bully pulpit 59 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: of the presidency to magnify arguments for the good, for 60 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: the better that are real, that are true. This issue 61 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: of immigration is not one that the Democratic Party and 62 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: President Biden have their arms around. The country's outraged over it. 63 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: And there's outrage in the African American community, and there's 64 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: outrage in the Hispanic American community. There's outrage Amongst American citizens. 65 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: No one who is in the country illegally will be 66 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 1: voting in the election. There's a presumption that Hispanic Americans, 67 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: because the surge of immigration is coming from south of 68 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: the border, or tolerant of it. This is an illusion. 69 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:28,239 Speaker 1: More importantly, it's a delusion and a dangerous one, because 70 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: the price of the incompetence, the price of the insecure border, 71 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: is President Donald Trump, and that is a catastrophe. The 72 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: United States is a nation of immigrants. Let's talk about 73 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,239 Speaker 1: the numbers for a second. In all of our history, 74 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: there have been slightly over seven hundred million Americans citizens 75 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: of the Republic. Of those, seven hundred, three hundred and 76 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: thirty million of them are alive today. By the end 77 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: of the century, there will be three hundred and seventy 78 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: million Americans. So basically half of all Americans that have 79 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: ever lived are alive right now. And the total number 80 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: of Americans who were born overseas but came to this 81 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: land and became citizens numbers more than seventy million. Vast 82 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: portions of the American population are descendants of those people, 83 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: black people, the descendants of slaves who were brought here 84 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: against their will, descendants of Europeans who immigrated to the 85 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: United United States in the latter stages of the nineteenth 86 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: century and the early parts of the twentieth century. Now, 87 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: looking at immigration, it helps to go back to the 88 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties in a very different era, when there was 89 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: economic growth an expanding sense of opportunity. Because in that moment, 90 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: President Reagan gave amnesty to millions of people who were 91 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: in the country illegally as part of a comprehensive immigration reform. 92 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: Years later, during the debate led by John McCain, the 93 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: question of amnesty was always off the table. Here was 94 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 1: the issue that needed to be solved. There were approximately 95 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: eleven million people in the countrygally, and the frame of 96 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: the compromise was this, the nation would secure its border. 97 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: The people who were here illegally, so long as they 98 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: were not criminals, could stay, pay a fine, go to 99 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: the back of the line. That was the frame of 100 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: the compromise. Now, a false issue was always raised in 101 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: this about the pathway to citizenship, and by the time 102 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: this got twisted and presented to the American people through 103 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: the cable news industrial complex, what average Americans believed was 104 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: that somebody could illegally cross the border, suffer no consequences, 105 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: and be made a citizen tomorrow, which is not what 106 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: the compromise ever said. What it did was placed a 107 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: person who was in the country treat illegally into a 108 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: regularized status. It gave them a piece of paper that 109 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: said they were in the country legally, not as permanent residents, 110 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: and far far far away from any opportunity to raise 111 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: their hand by choice and become an American citizen. Going 112 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 1: to the back of the line meant they were ten 113 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: to fifteen years away from being able to begin their 114 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: first year as a Green Court holder, which meant they 115 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: were seven years away from the earliest point of opportunity 116 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: to become a citizen. The Great Debate about the pathway 117 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 1: to citizenship got lost around a central fact that the 118 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: test of citizenship at its earliest point was never closer 119 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: than nearly a quarter century away. This issue became so 120 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: easy to demagogue. There's another issue, though, that must be 121 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: talked about and put forward front and center, because it 122 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: is simply the case that there is a substantial amount 123 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: of policy makers in Washington on the left fringe of 124 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:32,959 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party who simply don't believe that the United 125 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: States is a sovereign nation should have control of its borders. 126 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: They believe in a radical theory that anybody should be 127 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: able to come in, and when they do, they should 128 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: be sustained and supported by the taxpayer. Thank you for 129 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: listening to my political commentary. 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