Speaker 1: Should Donald Trump win the presidency, it will be on
Speaker 1: the power of America's broken immigration system and his talent
Speaker 1: for Demagagarey. It's March first, two hundred and forty nine
Speaker 1: days to go until America decides who the next president
Speaker 1: of the United States will be. And a quick reminder
Speaker 1: this morning, remember subscribe to the Warning YouTube channel. The
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four race journey to America's southern border with Mexico,
Speaker 1: President Biden went to Brownsville, Texas President Trump to eagle pass.
Speaker 1: Immigration is Joe Biden's most dangerous issue. Make no mistake.
Speaker 1: Should Donald Trump win the presidency, it will be on
Speaker 1: the power of America's broken immigration system and his talent
Speaker 1: for demagagrey. The one issue that everybody in this country
Speaker 1: knows that Donald Trump is extreme about his immigration. He
Speaker 1: began his national political career with the denunciation of Mexico.
Speaker 1: He called Mexicans rapists and murderers. He diminished, he dehumanized,
Speaker 1: and he insulted the contributions of America's largest ethnic group.
Speaker 1: It was disgraceful, but not unexpected because Donald Trump, over
Speaker 1: these last years escapegoaded every minority population. Yesterday, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: went to the border and said he's going to stop
Speaker 1: the Biden invasion. That's what he called it, the Biden invasion.
Speaker 1: This is a Biden invasion over the past three years.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, on the other hand, went to the border
Speaker 1: and reached his hand out to Donald Trump and said,
Speaker 1: let's work together. Join me, or I'll join you in
Speaker 1: telling the Congress to pass his Biprodish and Border Security bill.
Speaker 1: What is it that the President's political advisors and speech
Speaker 1: writers and White House aids are missing about Donald Trump's intentions.
Speaker 1: He is a world class demagogue trying to inflame a
Speaker 1: crisis for his own benefit, because the more chaos there is,
Speaker 1: the lotter his calls for order can become. And that
Speaker 1: call for order is potent politically, it's powerful. Don't underestimate
Speaker 1: its appeal. The Biden administration has failed with regard to
Speaker 1: securing the southern border in a hundred different ways. The
Speaker 1: debate about whether the President has been effective on the
Speaker 1: border over the last three years is settled. What the
Speaker 1: White House must do is abate the problem, lessen the delta,
Speaker 1: do something that brings order out of chaos immediately, no
Speaker 1: matter what. Because in the couple of states that will
Speaker 1: decide the election by margins that range in some number
Speaker 1: of tens of thousands of votes. This will be the
Speaker 1: determinative issue, and this issue cannot be allowed to become
Speaker 1: the gateway through which a fascist takes power in the
Speaker 1: executive branch. There is no nation in the world, not Mexico,
Speaker 1: not Germany, not Canada know where, that would tolerate the
Speaker 1: current situation on the southern border. The worst part about
Speaker 1: it is that it has opened the floodgates for the
Speaker 1: most venomous type of demagogurey, nativism, and nationalism to flourish.
Speaker 1: What did anybody think might happen in a time of
Speaker 1: profound technological disruption where forty percent of the country doesn't
Speaker 1: have four hundred dollars cash available for an emergency, and
Speaker 1: tens of millions fall into a population that is unbankable
Speaker 1: they can't open up a savings account. The Biden administration
Speaker 1: is profoundly out of touch politically with the country on
Speaker 1: the issue of immigration, which has been inflamed and worsened
Speaker 1: and turned from problem into existential crisis by a propaganda
Speaker 1: industry that profits billions of dollars a year for dividing
Speaker 1: the society and injecting fear into it. The only remedy
Speaker 1: to this is the full use of the bully pulpit
Speaker 1: of the presidency to magnify arguments for the good, for
Speaker 1: the better that are real, that are true. This issue
Speaker 1: of immigration is not one that the Democratic Party and
Speaker 1: President Biden have their arms around. The country's outraged over it.
Speaker 1: And there's outrage in the African American community, and there's
Speaker 1: outrage in the Hispanic American community. There's outrage Amongst American citizens.
Speaker 1: No one who is in the country illegally will be
Speaker 1: voting in the election. There's a presumption that Hispanic Americans,
Speaker 1: because the surge of immigration is coming from south of
Speaker 1: the border, or tolerant of it. This is an illusion.
Speaker 1: More importantly, it's a delusion and a dangerous one, because
Speaker 1: the price of the incompetence, the price of the insecure border,
Speaker 1: is President Donald Trump, and that is a catastrophe. The
Speaker 1: United States is a nation of immigrants. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the numbers for a second. In all of our history,
Speaker 1: there have been slightly over seven hundred million Americans citizens
Speaker 1: of the Republic. Of those, seven hundred, three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty million of them are alive today. By the end
Speaker 1: of the century, there will be three hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: million Americans. So basically half of all Americans that have
Speaker 1: ever lived are alive right now. And the total number
Speaker 1: of Americans who were born overseas but came to this
Speaker 1: land and became citizens numbers more than seventy million. Vast
Speaker 1: portions of the American population are descendants of those people,
Speaker 1: black people, the descendants of slaves who were brought here
Speaker 1: against their will, descendants of Europeans who immigrated to the
Speaker 1: United United States in the latter stages of the nineteenth
Speaker 1: century and the early parts of the twentieth century. Now,
Speaker 1: looking at immigration, it helps to go back to the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties in a very different era, when there was
Speaker 1: economic growth an expanding sense of opportunity. Because in that moment,
Speaker 1: President Reagan gave amnesty to millions of people who were
Speaker 1: in the country illegally as part of a comprehensive immigration reform.
Speaker 1: Years later, during the debate led by John McCain, the
Speaker 1: question of amnesty was always off the table. Here was
Speaker 1: the issue that needed to be solved. There were approximately
Speaker 1: eleven million people in the countrygally, and the frame of
Speaker 1: the compromise was this, the nation would secure its border.
Speaker 1: The people who were here illegally, so long as they
Speaker 1: were not criminals, could stay, pay a fine, go to
Speaker 1: the back of the line. That was the frame of
Speaker 1: the compromise. Now, a false issue was always raised in
Speaker 1: this about the pathway to citizenship, and by the time
Speaker 1: this got twisted and presented to the American people through
Speaker 1: the cable news industrial complex, what average Americans believed was
Speaker 1: that somebody could illegally cross the border, suffer no consequences,
Speaker 1: and be made a citizen tomorrow, which is not what
Speaker 1: the compromise ever said. What it did was placed a
Speaker 1: person who was in the country treat illegally into a
Speaker 1: regularized status. It gave them a piece of paper that
Speaker 1: said they were in the country legally, not as permanent residents,
Speaker 1: and far far far away from any opportunity to raise
Speaker 1: their hand by choice and become an American citizen. Going
Speaker 1: to the back of the line meant they were ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen years away from being able to begin their
Speaker 1: first year as a Green Court holder, which meant they
Speaker 1: were seven years away from the earliest point of opportunity
Speaker 1: to become a citizen. The Great Debate about the pathway
Speaker 1: to citizenship got lost around a central fact that the
Speaker 1: test of citizenship at its earliest point was never closer
Speaker 1: than nearly a quarter century away. This issue became so
Speaker 1: easy to demagogue. There's another issue, though, that must be
Speaker 1: talked about and put forward front and center, because it
Speaker 1: is simply the case that there is a substantial amount
Speaker 1: of policy makers in Washington on the left fringe of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party who simply don't believe that the United
Speaker 1: States is a sovereign nation should have control of its borders.
Speaker 1: They believe in a radical theory that anybody should be
Speaker 1: able to come in, and when they do, they should
Speaker 1: be sustained and supported by the taxpayer. Thank you for
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