1 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: On this episode of Newtsworld. This week, President Biden signed 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: into law the Inflation Reduction Act, which more than doubles 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: the size of the Internal Revenue Service. The Act will 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: grow the IRS to nearly one hundred and sixty thousand 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: total employees, making it bigger than all of these federal 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: law enforcement agencies combined. The border patrol of the Drug 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: Enforcement Agency, alcohol tobacco firearms to the FBI, the Secret Service, 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: Homeland Security Investigations, the US Marshal Service, the Federal Protective Service, 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: Capital Police, and the Federal Bureau of the Prisons, All 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,919 Speaker 1: of them combined will be smaller than the IRS. Despite 11 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: a historic border crisis and record numbers of illegal aliens 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: and deadly drugs pouring across our border, the Left is 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: only interested in growing the Internal Revenue Service. Meanwhile, the 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: Biden administration has officially declared an end to the Remains 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: in Mexico policy. Here to help us understand the expansion 16 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,839 Speaker 1: of the IRS and the ongoing crisis at the southern border, 17 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: I am really pleased to welcome my guest, Mark Morgan. 18 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: Mark is currently a visiting fellow in the Border of 19 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation and previously 20 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: served as Acting Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: in the Trump administration. He has thirty years of law 22 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: enforcement experience, including serving twenty years with the FBI. Mark 23 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 1: welcome and thank you for joining me on Newts World 24 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: only I would say, mister speaker, thanks for having me on. 25 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: But I asked you before and you said it was 26 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: okay for me to call you new So I appreciate 27 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: you having me on before we dive in. Do you 28 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about your background and 29 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: law enforcement and all the things you did is pretty impressing. Well, 30 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Yeah, I actually started off nineteen years old. 31 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: I entered the United States Marine Corps as an a 32 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: listed member, later became commission and then I continue my 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: education and got my law degree. I was a police 34 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: officer for the Los Angeles Police Department, and then, as 35 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: you said, I served two decades in the FBI, retired 36 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: as assistant director, and then I transitioned over to DHS, 37 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: where I was the chief the United States Border Patrol 38 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: and then later became Director of Immigration Customs Enforcement before 39 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: then President Trump moved me over to be the Acting 40 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: Commissioner of Customs Border Protection. I've been doing this new 41 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: for my entire adult wife thirty five years, served under 42 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: six administrations, both Republican and Democrat. And the reason why 43 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: I say that last part is because where I come from, 44 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm passionate, and I'm angry and I'm mad. But I'm 45 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: angry and mad as someone who's been a practitioner for 46 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: thirty five years and as an American, what I have 47 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: to say isn't driven by politics. What motivated you? Mean? 48 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: In every case here you're trying to protect the public 49 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 1: and you're trying to stop the bad guys. What motivated 50 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: you to have that as a lifetime career. When I 51 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: reflect on that, I really think it was part of 52 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: just the way I was raised. My father served in 53 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: the United States Army and had this sense of public service, 54 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: and he instilled that in me as well as my uncle. 55 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: He was a marine and he served three tours in Vietnam, 56 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: flew a Huey gunship, was wounded, highly decorated. I just 57 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: think it was something in me, and then a little 58 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: bit a part of it is, Look, I just think 59 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 1: it's into DNA public service, just like you. It's about 60 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,959 Speaker 1: wanting to give back to this country. It's about trying 61 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: to have a positive impact, and that's what I'm still 62 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: trying to do. My dad spent twenty seven years in 63 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: the infantry, so I think in that sense, I kind 64 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: of grew up in a very similar kind of focus 65 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: on service duty, protecting the country that there were in 66 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: fact bad people, and then you needed good people to 67 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: be able to protect you. I think that's exactly the 68 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: right and look, there's many ways to serve this country, 69 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: but I think it's having that part. It's been said 70 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: a long time ago, and I remember watching it was 71 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: a documentary on law enforcement. It's been many years, but 72 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: I think it's a little corny, but I think it's true. 73 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: Is that, you know, we look at that and I've 74 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: always looked at what I've done is as it's never 75 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: been a job for me. It's been more akin to 76 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: a calling. Since you did spend twenty years in the bureau, 77 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: what was your reaction to the raid at my algo? 78 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: This is tough for me because I have served twenty 79 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: years in the FBI, So look, I know this organization 80 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: I know well knew, and look, the overwhelming majority of 81 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: rank and file are good folks. They get up every 82 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: day they check their political viewpoints and ideology at the 83 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: door when they walk in, and they do the right 84 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: thing for the right reasons. However, I also think as 85 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: an American citizen, it's our responsibility and duty to question 86 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: the government. We shouldn't just roll over and every single 87 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: action just say Okay, let's trust them. That's just not 88 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: how that works. And that's what this is about right now. 89 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:50,720 Speaker 1: And if you look since Comy, look, I know former 90 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: director Comy knew. I was there, I worked with him 91 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: side by side, and I can say that he probably 92 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: will go down to history is one of the worst 93 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: directors in the FBI. That really started this huge push 94 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: that the public has lost trust in our justice system, 95 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: specifically FBI. And we could go through a whole list 96 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: of issues that have happened in the past five six 97 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: years that have led to the erosion of the public's trust. 98 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,279 Speaker 1: That's a fact. Now, that doesn't mean that I'm casting 99 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: this widespread net that the entire FBI and all the 100 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: rank and file are bad, are woke, are political. That's 101 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: not the point. But I do think there are people 102 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: at the highest level that have made some bad decisions, 103 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: and I think that look real quick whenever the FBI 104 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: has involved in sensive investigations, I go and after former 105 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: president as to hight the sensitivity. There's a balance that 106 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: has to be weighed here and to not even consider 107 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: or think about the backlash that would happen is unconstable 108 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: here and at the end of the day, look unprecedented action. 109 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: It's never happened in the history of our country at 110 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: the home of a former president has been execute a 111 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: search warrant on I believe that calls for unprecedented transparency. 112 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: I believe you go outside the norms. The affidavit needs 113 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: to be released because it will answer a lot of 114 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: questions given the years you spent in the FBI. I 115 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: always thought of the FBI as sort of the gold 116 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 1: standard of law enforcement worldwide. And I think you're probably right. 117 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: The people I know, yeah, serious people. They're mostly conservative personally, 118 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: I don't mean politically, but just you know, they lead 119 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: controlled lives. They are very concerned about doing the right thing. 120 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: And in that sense, I think starting with Comma has 121 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: been a real shock. I think you're right. New Look, 122 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: I couldn't have described it better. I think it was 123 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: I think the FBI has for so long been that 124 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,119 Speaker 1: gold standard really throughout the world. And I also agree 125 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: with your description of a conservative in this point. Not political, 126 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: but as you said, we kind of keep things in 127 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: order and we're kind of rule followers, et cetera. That's 128 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: why we went into an organization like that. But over 129 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: the past years, again, several things have happened that I 130 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: think legitimately have caused people to question that. Look, I've 131 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: talked to individuals like yourself, three four star generals, sheriffs 132 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: and chiefs, and other folks that forever held the FBI 133 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: very high esteem. They're all questioning some of the actions. 134 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: But look, they're not questioned the rank and file. It's 135 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,480 Speaker 1: the leadership. I have questions with Director Ray. I want 136 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: to know because part of the job of the director 137 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: of the FBI is to protect the public's trust in 138 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: that organization. That's part of the equation, Especially when you're 139 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: investigating the political figure, especially a former president United States, 140 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: that has to go into the mix. And I want 141 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: to know what did directors say to the AG. Did 142 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: he say to the AG, Look, you're going to open 143 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: up a can. You're going to take a country that's 144 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: already divisive and cause it to be more divisive. You're 145 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: already going to take what is already an erosion of 146 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: the public's trust and DJ and the FBI, and you're 147 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: just gonna send it down the toilet. Here did those 148 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: discussions happening, Because if they didn't, then their tone depth 149 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: and shame on them. You in a sense took all 150 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: of your FBI experience. Then you ended up as the 151 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: chief of the US Border Patrol in the Obama administration. 152 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: That's a pretty big shift in terms of the whole 153 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: pattern of what they're doing. What was that like? It 154 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: was incredible. It just kind of came up. It's not 155 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: something that I really sought afternoon. What happened was I 156 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: was especially in charge of the FBI's Opasso division. You know, 157 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: from my window, I could see Warez and that's really 158 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: the first time that I really worked alongside customs of 159 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: border protection, both those at the ports of entry, the 160 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: Office of the Field Operations and United States Border Patrol. 161 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: I was impressed with the men and women. It really 162 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: harkeded me back to my days as a marine. They're 163 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: a spree to cord their commitment to country and mission 164 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: and protecting the citizens of this incredible nation. And so 165 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: I was smitten with them, and quite frankly, I left 166 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 1: there with this high esteem and then an opening came. 167 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: I received a call and I thought about it. I 168 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: was just coming to the end of my twenty years 169 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: I was eldrey retired, and I made the move. But 170 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: it was challenging real quick. I was the first chief 171 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: of the the United States Border Troll from outside the Border 172 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: Troll since inception nineteen twenty four, so I adbody work 173 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: cut out for me getting to the rank and file. Wow, 174 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: that's quite a record. I didn't realize they had promoted 175 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: from within for over eighty years. Right, that's right, that's remarkable. 176 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: I must have in a shock to both them and 177 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: you to have an outsider. It was tough to be 178 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: honest and rightfully so look and part of my responsibility 179 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: of the chief, I had to earn their respect and 180 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: trust and confidence. That was my job. I didn't expect 181 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: just coming everybody's going to roll over and say, hey, yeah, 182 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,959 Speaker 1: we're just going to welcome this first guy that's unknown 183 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: from outside the agency. It was my responsibility to gain 184 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: their trust as working hard. But it ended a little 185 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: quicker than I it was hoping for. When you think 186 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: about what they're doing the challenge, they face the fact 187 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: that it's every day, seven days a week. Wouldn't we 188 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: have been better off to have increased dramatically the number 189 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: of border agents rather than the number of IRS agents. Yeah, look, 190 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: I think you hit the thing. So I'm over generalizing here, 191 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: but look, not only do we have an increase in 192 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 1: violent crime going across the nation. Everybody the stats so 193 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,599 Speaker 1: that you can't disagree with that. Everybody understands we have 194 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: a fetan al crisis across this nation that's killing Americans 195 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: every single day. Everybody clearly see we still have a 196 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: national security vulnerability from terrorists wanting to do us home, 197 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: both here and abroad. And of course we have the 198 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: disaster's wide open Southwest border that's bringing in threats and 199 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: violence across the border every single day. And the White 200 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 1: House priorities is to increase IRS agents to collect more taxes. 201 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: It's just unconscionable. But I think it's also very clear 202 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,719 Speaker 1: where their priorities are. Look at. Giving another example a 203 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: lot of people don't know, so within Customs and Border 204 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 1: Protection on the ports of Entry, the Office of Field 205 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: Operations OFO specifically to winin that is the Office of Trade. 206 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: And what a lot of people don't know is CBP 207 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: is actually the second largest revenue collector in the United 208 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: States outside of the IRS. 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That's exactly rights I'm telling you, 236 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: because when they do this, you can't, as any agent 237 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: in the federal government, as you're doing investigating XYZ, if 238 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: you then see information or evidence of another violation or crime, 239 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: you can't just ignore that, right. It doesn't work that way. 240 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: They can't just wall it off and separate it and 241 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: magically say okay, I r S agents. If anyone in 242 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 1: the country's making under one hundred thousand, you're not going 243 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: to do anything. I'm pretty sure that memo is not 244 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: going to go out to the I r s, Dude, 245 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. It's fiction, it's reality. They're 246 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: just misrepresenting exactly what's going to happen, and they're lying 247 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 1: to the American people about it. And you know, back 248 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: to your question about the border, Hill Agents, Yes, it's 249 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: very important when we talk about the border, because I 250 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,319 Speaker 1: was just up in Wisconsin with Senator Johnson, the incredible senator, 251 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: and we really cover the entire history since nineteen twenty 252 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 1: five to president and look, every single time that we've 253 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: seen a catastrophe along our southwest border, it hasn't just 254 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: been a resource issue, it's been a policy issue. Every 255 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: time there's been bad policy, law or legislation, it's directly 256 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: led to a catastroph for crisis on our south so 257 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 1: its border. So why we need resources, most important, we 258 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: need policy change. The border is a catastrophe in its 259 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: own right, and most of that, my sense is, as 260 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: you point out, is literally of just a functional policy. 261 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: I think President Trump headed down to the lowest number 262 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: of people crossing the border in decades by systematically following 263 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: strategies that made it harder and harder to get into 264 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: the United States illegally. All of those have apparently just 265 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: gone by the wayside in the current administration. Yeah, you're 266 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: absolutely right. Look, by February of twenty twenty, and remember, 267 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: so June of nineteen, we have the highs that we'd 268 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: had in a couple of decades, one hundred and forty 269 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: four thousand in a single month. By February of twenty twenty, 270 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: because we were provided a network of tools, authorities, and 271 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: policies from the term administration, we reduced illegal immigration by 272 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: eighty five percent. February twenty twenty, we saw the lowest 273 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: numbers in decades. So we know how to do it, 274 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: we know what works. It's not complicated what needs to 275 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: be done. But what's incredibly important, though, is it wasn't 276 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: just policies that provided the men and women as me 277 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: as Commissioner to do what we need to do to 278 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: secure the border and protect American people, but we also 279 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: got Mexico in the Northern Triangle countries out of the shadows. 280 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: No longer were they tend that they weren't part of 281 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: this problem, and they need to be part of the solution. Look, 282 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: I was there when President Trump threatened the tariffs with Mexico. Shockingly, 283 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: all of a sudden Mexico stepped up. At one point 284 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: they had over twenty five thousand personnel that were involved 285 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: in this global issue. They were securing their southern border, 286 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: they were increasing interior enforcement, and they were supporting initiatives 287 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: like to Remain in Mexico program, which is today still 288 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: the single handedly most important policy that we had from 289 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 1: President Trump that really close significant loopholes. Why do you 290 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: think President Biden dropped that program because it certainly seemed 291 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: to make a lot of sense. It did, and look, 292 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: there's a lot of false errors out there is, quite frankly, 293 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: a lot of intentional lies being told about the Remain 294 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: in Mexico program. Let me give you an example. There's 295 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: only about sixty thousand illegal aliands rolled in the program. 296 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: That's pretty light considering all the numbers. Well, the issue 297 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: that they won't tell you about, that they won't be 298 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: honest about, is about five hundred thousand less illegal alien 299 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: families came because they knew they were no longer going 300 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: to be released into the interior United States, never to 301 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: be heard from again. When you d incentivize, when you 302 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: apply consequences, shocker, the numbers go down, and then our 303 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: ability to secure the border goes up. But at the 304 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: end of the day, and again, I've been doing this 305 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: for thirty five years, served under six administrations, both Republican Democrat, 306 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: so it doesn't give me pleasure to say this, but 307 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. The only thing that makes sense 308 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: why they took the most secure border in a lifetime 309 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: and they intentionally unsecured it is because they see this 310 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: as some perceived political benefits by doing so. I have 311 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: to confess I have a hard time saying Inflation Reduction 312 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: Act because I think it's such a total lie that 313 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: we should come up with a better term for it, 314 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: because the truth is it doesn't reduce inflation. It just 315 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: spends a lot of money and probably increases reflation. But 316 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: it's interesting that the Dominant Accounting Office, which is a 317 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: technical office, said that the majority of additional taxes that 318 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: the IRS goes after August comes from taxpayers within comes 319 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: below two hundred thousand dollars and that it is in fact. Ironically, 320 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: there's work by former IRS economist Kim Bloomquist which says 321 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: the five counties with the highest audit rates are predominantly 322 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: African American rural counties in the South. How can the 323 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: white House claim that you could add eighty six thousand 324 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: additional HRS agents and not inevitably start auditing families and 325 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: small businesses and people who are being promised they won't 326 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: be hit. New. Look, I think you're right. I think 327 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: the American people are seeing right through that. Just today, 328 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 1: so after this act was passed, after the bills passed 329 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: for the first time, now you're I just saw Democrats 330 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: now backpedaling, And now after the bills passed, they're admitting, well, 331 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: we're not sure. This is a long term plan. It's 332 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 1: going to be implemented over a period of years, and 333 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: we're hoping within a year some inflation will go down. 334 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: But before it's being sold as the Inflation Reduction Act, 335 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 1: and now that it's passed, they're saying, well, it may 336 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,479 Speaker 1: not really impact inflation that much. I mean, look, I 337 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: think this is another example why Americans have lost trust 338 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: in this administration. I mean, look, whether it goes from 339 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: the rise in crime, the attackle law enforcement, to our 340 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: debacle in Afghanistan and other foreign affairs, to our wide 341 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: open Southwest borders, I think this is why the polls 342 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: are tanking. New I think Americans are waking up. They're 343 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 1: seeing this for the reality that it is, and they 344 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: know that we need to change the IRS. They've now 345 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: taken this down once it became public, but they actually 346 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: were posting for applicants who would carry a firearm and 347 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: be willing to use deadly force. Having served in the 348 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: FBI and having served in the Border Patrol, why would 349 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: the IRS be an agency that would be interested in 350 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: using deadly force? I mean, if they're faced with that 351 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: situation done, they have the US Marshals and the FBI 352 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: to turn to. Well, so they do. And I have 353 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: worked with IRS agents on a task force. But you're 354 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: conceptually you're right. I mean, it really is a regulatory agency, right, 355 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: It's not really looked at as a law enforcement agency, 356 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,479 Speaker 1: although they do have federal agents that are armed. And 357 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: I said, this was what was so alarming for me. 358 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: And when this first came out and they said they 359 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 1: were going to hire eighty seven thousand agents, I question that. 360 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: I said, are you sure these are agents or are 361 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: these analysts, auditors and etc. Because that doesn't seem to 362 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: make sense to me why you would need eighty seven 363 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: thousand agents that are armed and etc. Now it appears no, 364 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: that's exactly what that is, and I think when that 365 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: was sent out there like that, I think it also 366 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: represented just another layer of tone deafness. I mean, people 367 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: are saying, hey, they're questioning are they going to start 368 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: going after us? And then they have that line in 369 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: there about you've got to be able to carry a 370 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: gun and be willing to play deadly force. It was 371 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: just tone depth. It's irresponsible, and that's why I think 372 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: there are more questionings that are mounting with respect of 373 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: what they're doing. And here's another thing. I'll say, here's 374 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: another thing that's ridiculous. Eighty seven thousand new good luck 375 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: the federal government hiring eighty seven thousand new agents. That 376 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: will take a decade. Apparently there was one study that 377 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: came out and said they now have over four thousand 378 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: guns and over five million rounds of ammunition at the IRS. 379 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: But in addition, somebody did this analysis said if they 380 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: actually added about eighty thousand people there now, if they 381 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: had another eighty six thousand, at one hundred and sixty 382 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: six thousand total employees, the IRS would be larger than 383 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: the actual armed forces of twenty four of the twenty 384 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: nine NATO allies. Yeah, I mean, it's just outrageous. Whatever 385 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: comparison you do, it's simply just outrageous. You know, again, 386 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: I look at customs and border protection, like you mentioned 387 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: a border patrol, my gosh, border patrol that's responsible for 388 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,719 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of miles of border, both the northern 389 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: border to coastal ways as well as the southwest border. 390 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: And they've got about nineteen about twenty thousand i RS 391 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: is going to have one hundred and sixty thousand plus, 392 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: there would be six and a half times the size 393 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: of the border patrol. And the question I was asking, 394 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: particularly in states like Arizona, why would the two senators 395 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: vote for one hundred and sixty thousand person IRS as 396 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,880 Speaker 1: opposed to doubling the size of the border patrol. You're 397 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: absolutely right, those are the questions we should because it 398 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: just doesn't add up, it doesn't make sense. But again, 399 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: it shows where the priorities are. It's not just Texas 400 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,719 Speaker 1: in Arizona, because we've been saying for a long time, right, 401 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: every state is a border state. Look, I understand I'm 402 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: not condoning for anyone who cheats on their taxes. I'm 403 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: not saying that, but the last time I check, nobody 404 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: died because somebody cheated on their taxes. Right, But our 405 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 1: southwest border drugs are pouring in are wide open Southwest border. 406 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,479 Speaker 1: We had one hundred and seven thousand Americans die from 407 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: drug overdoses last year. The leading cause of adults eighteen 408 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: to forty five is fent in al and we know 409 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: that ninety five percent of fentanol comes from the southwest border. 410 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: We know that there's an increased threat to our national 411 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: secure Just this fiscal year alone, we note that the 412 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: CBP has encountered sixty six illegal aliens on the FBI's 413 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: terror screening database. And we the FBI disrupted and prevented 414 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: a terrorist attack to assassinate former President Bush. And how 415 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: are they going to carry that out by bringing terrorists 416 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: across a wide open Southwest border and one last point 417 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: a border. This fiscal year alone, over six hundred thousand 418 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: goadaways who have evaded apprehension and made the way to 419 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: every state, and among them are some very bad people. Nope, 420 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,479 Speaker 1: but that's not a priority, jeopardizing every aspect of our 421 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 1: nation's safety and nastal security. It's more important to get 422 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 1: more IRS agents to collect more taxes. To give you 423 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: a sense of the scale of the crisis on the 424 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: border we've had so far under Biden. Through July, we've 425 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: had four point nine million illegal aliens who crossed the border, 426 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: which is about the same as the population of Ireland. 427 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: It's not slowing down. I think they in July there 428 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: were another one hundred and nineteen thousand illegal aliens crossing 429 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: the border. Bush is a three d and twenty five 430 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: percent increase over the average number of July apprehensions under Trump, 431 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: and my sense says that there are more people come across. 432 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: They aren't counting this because they managed to evade any 433 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: contact with the government. That's right. And in that four 434 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,640 Speaker 1: point nine million, think about that four point nine million 435 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: in the first nineteen months of this administration, because I'm 436 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: not even counting the first three months of last fish 437 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: sal year. He didn't take office till January. I'm giving 438 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: him credit for that nineteen months, four point nine million people. 439 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,199 Speaker 1: I don't understand how that doesn't make every American in 440 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: this country stand up and just have their jaw dropped. 441 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: And right now, this fiscal year alone, we're already with 442 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: two months still left to go in this fiscal year, 443 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: we've already had two point two million encounters, six hundred 444 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: thousand got known gotaways. Think about that, and now when 445 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,719 Speaker 1: you combine the about four million encounters that they've had 446 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: in the first nineteen months, they've released about half of those, 447 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: so they've intend You're released about two million illegal aliens 448 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: in the United States never be heard from again. They 449 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: protect him from lawful deportation. And during that same time period, 450 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: there's been about a million known guataways. You add in 451 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: another five hundred thousand or plus unknown gataways. You're looking 452 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: right now, the first nineteen months of this administration, the 453 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: administration either directly released intentionally, so are allowed to get 454 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: away three point five million illegal aliens into this country 455 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: in the first nineteen months. I was just looking at 456 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: the numbers. The Border Patrol so far in twenty twenty 457 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: two has seized five hundred and five thousand pounds of 458 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 1: drugs at the southern border. In the entire fiscal year 459 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, they seize nine hundred and fourteen 460 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 1: thousand pounds That included one hundred and ninety one thousand 461 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: pounds of meth, ninety seven thousand pounds of cocaine, eleven 462 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: thousand pounds of federal which I think is enough to 463 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: kill four hundred million people. These are staggering numbers, and 464 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't understand why the media and 465 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: the public aren't just sort of overwhelmingly upset by the 466 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: fact that we would add eighty seven thousand people to 467 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: the IRS but not dramatically beef up the border patrol 468 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: in our capacity to protect America. Again, I'm not saying 469 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: it's not important to collect taxes that are lawfully due, 470 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: but the last time I check, no one died from 471 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: not paying the tax. That's why I gets so passionate 472 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: about this, dude, That's why I just don't understand the 473 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,399 Speaker 1: prioritization of this current administration. Look, I was, just as 474 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,760 Speaker 1: I said before, I was up in Wisconsin with Senator Johnson. 475 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: We did a panel. We were talking about the border, 476 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: talking about the history, and there was an angel mother 477 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 1: that was there that lost her son to fentnel and 478 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 1: it was a horrific story. And the problem is these 479 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: stories are going on every single day unbeknown Look, it's 480 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 1: common enforcing for a fifteen sixteen year old girl or 481 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: boy that thinks, hey, they're aparting, they're taking a purkoseet 482 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: or some other drug unbeknown to them and sla with 483 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: fentanel this poison, and they die. They make one mistake 484 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: in their life and they die. And those stories are 485 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: being repeated every single day. Where is the nation New 486 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 1: rep REPUBLICA can democrat? I don't care. Should we all 487 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: be standing up together, shoulder shoulder, arm and arms saying 488 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 1: this madness has to stop? How many more Americans have 489 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: to die before we say, okay, let's stop this madness. 490 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: Let's reverse course, let's secure our border. Let's stop, for example, 491 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: drugs from pouring in this country, killing Americans every single day. 492 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: I just don't get it. And here's the issue. This 493 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: is about border security. A lot of people think that 494 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: you can be for border security and for illegal immigration, 495 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: but you can't. It doesn't work that way. As illegal 496 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: immigration goes up, our ability secure our border goes down. 497 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: Why because border traders are pulled off the front line. 498 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: They're pulled off their national security mission to be relegated 499 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: to administrative duties, to hospital watch, to transportation and processing. 500 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 1: Right now, new along the southwest border, there are some 501 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: areas where eighty to ninety percent of border troll agents 502 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: are pulled off the front line to do those administrative duties, 503 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 1: and the cartels are exploiting that every single day. Criminal 504 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: aliens are pouring in, drugs are pouring in and increase 505 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 1: to our nationals vulnerability. It's insanity right now. Well, in 506 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: my sense is that when they get done process him, 507 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 1: we basically lose control anyway because they go somewhere to 508 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: the interior, and the odds against their showing up for 509 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,679 Speaker 1: some future court data is just absurd. That's exact right now. 510 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: That's exactly what happens the majority of individuals. That's where 511 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: ketching release. So we ended ketch and release under the 512 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: Trump administration. That's why you have the numbers go down against. 513 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: Not complicated. This administration reinstated ketch and release, meaning you 514 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: illegally enter our border, release, you never be heard from again. 515 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: You couldn't have said it better. I couldn't have said 516 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: about it myself. And look here's the issue. It's not complicated. 517 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,440 Speaker 1: The illegal aliens aren't one a few things. They want 518 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: to be able to illegally and enter, allowed to work, 519 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,160 Speaker 1: and be free from deportation. That's exactly what this administration 520 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: has given them. And then they shock this faint unaware 521 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: of while I can't understand why this is happening. Well, 522 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: of course, I've seen some people wearing T shirts to 523 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: say thank you Joe Biden as they come across the border. 524 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: I mean, it's an absurdity. I want to thank you. 525 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: I think you've had a remarkable general career, but tell 526 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: us yes from it. What are you focused on now 527 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: and what are your projects? Yeah, so right now, I'm 528 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: both a visiting fellow with the Heritage Foundation and FAIR 529 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: the Federation for American Immigration Form. I'm still in the 530 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: fight just like you are, because I still have that 531 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,560 Speaker 1: service in my DNA. And here's the tragedy. I know 532 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: what's happening at that Southwest border. I know every aspect 533 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: of our country's health, safety, national securities being jeopardays every 534 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: single day, and Americans are dying every single day because 535 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: of the policy that opened our borders, and I'm trying 536 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: to stop that. Well, I wish you luck. I'm really 537 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: grateful that you came to briefest with your remarkable background 538 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: across all the different law enforcement agencies. I think you 539 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: gave us a really unique view of what's going on, 540 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: and I look forward to following your work as you 541 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: continue to fight to make America safer. Well. I appreciate that, sir, 542 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,960 Speaker 1: and same to you, and if you ask me, I'll 543 00:28:52,960 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: come on any time. Thank you to my guest Mark Morgan. 544 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: You can learn more about Biden supersizing The irs for 545 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: the border crisis continues on our show page at newtsworld 546 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: dot com. News World is produced by Gingwish three sixty 547 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: and iHeartMedia. 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