WEBVTT - Steve Schmidt Explains The Outrage Over The Border & Immigration

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<v Speaker 1>Should Donald Trump win the presidency, it will be on

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<v Speaker 1>the power of America's broken immigration system and his talent

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<v Speaker 1>for Demagagarey. It's March first, two hundred and forty nine

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<v Speaker 1>days to go until America decides who the next president

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<v Speaker 1>of the United States will be. And a quick reminder

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<v Speaker 1>this morning, remember subscribe to the Warning YouTube channel. The

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty four race journey to America's southern border with Mexico,

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<v Speaker 1>President Biden went to Brownsville, Texas President Trump to eagle pass.

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<v Speaker 1>Immigration is Joe Biden's most dangerous issue. Make no mistake.

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<v Speaker 1>Should Donald Trump win the presidency, it will be on

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<v Speaker 1>the power of America's broken immigration system and his talent

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<v Speaker 1>for demagagrey. The one issue that everybody in this country

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<v Speaker 1>knows that Donald Trump is extreme about his immigration. He

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<v Speaker 1>began his national political career with the denunciation of Mexico.

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<v Speaker 1>He called Mexicans rapists and murderers. He diminished, he dehumanized,

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<v Speaker 1>and he insulted the contributions of America's largest ethnic group.

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<v Speaker 1>It was disgraceful, but not unexpected because Donald Trump, over

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<v Speaker 1>these last years escapegoaded every minority population. Yesterday, Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>went to the border and said he's going to stop

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<v Speaker 1>the Biden invasion. That's what he called it, the Biden invasion.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a Biden invasion over the past three years.

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Biden, on the other hand, went to the border

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<v Speaker 1>and reached his hand out to Donald Trump and said,

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<v Speaker 1>let's work together. Join me, or I'll join you in

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<v Speaker 1>telling the Congress to pass his Biprodish and Border Security bill.

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<v Speaker 1>What is it that the President's political advisors and speech

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<v Speaker 1>writers and White House aids are missing about Donald Trump's intentions.

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<v Speaker 1>He is a world class demagogue trying to inflame a

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<v Speaker 1>crisis for his own benefit, because the more chaos there is,

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<v Speaker 1>the lotter his calls for order can become. And that

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<v Speaker 1>call for order is potent politically, it's powerful. Don't underestimate

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<v Speaker 1>its appeal. The Biden administration has failed with regard to

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<v Speaker 1>securing the southern border in a hundred different ways. The

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<v Speaker 1>debate about whether the President has been effective on the

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<v Speaker 1>border over the last three years is settled. What the

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<v Speaker 1>White House must do is abate the problem, lessen the delta,

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<v Speaker 1>do something that brings order out of chaos immediately, no

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<v Speaker 1>matter what. Because in the couple of states that will

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<v Speaker 1>decide the election by margins that range in some number

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<v Speaker 1>of tens of thousands of votes. This will be the

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<v Speaker 1>determinative issue, and this issue cannot be allowed to become

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<v Speaker 1>the gateway through which a fascist takes power in the

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<v Speaker 1>executive branch. There is no nation in the world, not Mexico,

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<v Speaker 1>not Germany, not Canada know where, that would tolerate the

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<v Speaker 1>current situation on the southern border. The worst part about

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<v Speaker 1>it is that it has opened the floodgates for the

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<v Speaker 1>most venomous type of demagogurey, nativism, and nationalism to flourish.

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<v Speaker 1>What did anybody think might happen in a time of

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<v Speaker 1>profound technological disruption where forty percent of the country doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>have four hundred dollars cash available for an emergency, and

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<v Speaker 1>tens of millions fall into a population that is unbankable

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<v Speaker 1>they can't open up a savings account. The Biden administration

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<v Speaker 1>is profoundly out of touch politically with the country on

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<v Speaker 1>the issue of immigration, which has been inflamed and worsened

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<v Speaker 1>and turned from problem into existential crisis by a propaganda

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<v Speaker 1>industry that profits billions of dollars a year for dividing

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<v Speaker 1>the society and injecting fear into it. The only remedy

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<v Speaker 1>to this is the full use of the bully pulpit

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<v Speaker 1>of the presidency to magnify arguments for the good, for

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<v Speaker 1>the better that are real, that are true. This issue

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<v Speaker 1>of immigration is not one that the Democratic Party and

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<v Speaker 1>President Biden have their arms around. The country's outraged over it.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's outrage in the African American community, and there's

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<v Speaker 1>outrage in the Hispanic American community. There's outrage Amongst American citizens.

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<v Speaker 1>No one who is in the country illegally will be

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<v Speaker 1>voting in the election. There's a presumption that Hispanic Americans,

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<v Speaker 1>because the surge of immigration is coming from south of

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<v Speaker 1>the border, or tolerant of it. This is an illusion.

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<v Speaker 1>More importantly, it's a delusion and a dangerous one, because

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<v Speaker 1>the price of the incompetence, the price of the insecure border,

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<v Speaker 1>is President Donald Trump, and that is a catastrophe. The

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<v Speaker 1>United States is a nation of immigrants. Let's talk about

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<v Speaker 1>the numbers for a second. In all of our history,

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<v Speaker 1>there have been slightly over seven hundred million Americans citizens

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<v Speaker 1>of the Republic. Of those, seven hundred, three hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>thirty million of them are alive today. By the end

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<v Speaker 1>of the century, there will be three hundred and seventy

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<v Speaker 1>million Americans. So basically half of all Americans that have

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<v Speaker 1>ever lived are alive right now. And the total number

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<v Speaker 1>of Americans who were born overseas but came to this

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<v Speaker 1>land and became citizens numbers more than seventy million. Vast

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<v Speaker 1>portions of the American population are descendants of those people,

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<v Speaker 1>black people, the descendants of slaves who were brought here

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<v Speaker 1>against their will, descendants of Europeans who immigrated to the

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<v Speaker 1>United United States in the latter stages of the nineteenth

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<v Speaker 1>century and the early parts of the twentieth century. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>looking at immigration, it helps to go back to the

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighties in a very different era, when there was

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<v Speaker 1>economic growth an expanding sense of opportunity. Because in that moment,

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<v Speaker 1>President Reagan gave amnesty to millions of people who were

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<v Speaker 1>in the country illegally as part of a comprehensive immigration reform.

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<v Speaker 1>Years later, during the debate led by John McCain, the

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<v Speaker 1>question of amnesty was always off the table. Here was

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<v Speaker 1>the issue that needed to be solved. There were approximately

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<v Speaker 1>eleven million people in the countrygally, and the frame of

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<v Speaker 1>the compromise was this, the nation would secure its border.

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<v Speaker 1>The people who were here illegally, so long as they

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<v Speaker 1>were not criminals, could stay, pay a fine, go to

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<v Speaker 1>the back of the line. That was the frame of

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<v Speaker 1>the compromise. Now, a false issue was always raised in

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<v Speaker 1>this about the pathway to citizenship, and by the time

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<v Speaker 1>this got twisted and presented to the American people through

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<v Speaker 1>the cable news industrial complex, what average Americans believed was

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<v Speaker 1>that somebody could illegally cross the border, suffer no consequences,

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<v Speaker 1>and be made a citizen tomorrow, which is not what

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<v Speaker 1>the compromise ever said. What it did was placed a

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<v Speaker 1>person who was in the country treat illegally into a

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<v Speaker 1>regularized status. It gave them a piece of paper that

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<v Speaker 1>said they were in the country legally, not as permanent residents,

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<v Speaker 1>and far far far away from any opportunity to raise

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<v Speaker 1>their hand by choice and become an American citizen. Going

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<v Speaker 1>to the back of the line meant they were ten

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<v Speaker 1>to fifteen years away from being able to begin their

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<v Speaker 1>first year as a Green Court holder, which meant they

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<v Speaker 1>were seven years away from the earliest point of opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>to become a citizen. The Great Debate about the pathway

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<v Speaker 1>to citizenship got lost around a central fact that the

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<v Speaker 1>test of citizenship at its earliest point was never closer

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<v Speaker 1>than nearly a quarter century away. This issue became so

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<v Speaker 1>easy to demagogue. There's another issue, though, that must be

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<v Speaker 1>talked about and put forward front and center, because it

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<v Speaker 1>is simply the case that there is a substantial amount

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<v Speaker 1>of policy makers in Washington on the left fringe of

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<v Speaker 1>the Democratic Party who simply don't believe that the United

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<v Speaker 1>States is a sovereign nation should have control of its borders.

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<v Speaker 1>They believe in a radical theory that anybody should be

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<v Speaker 1>able to come in, and when they do, they should

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<v Speaker 1>be sustained and supported by the taxpayer. Thank you for

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