Speaker 1: Pump's own DHS came out and said, we read this
Speaker 1: emergency funding and we need a lot of it to
Speaker 1: deal with this crisis. This is not politics. This is
Speaker 1: a humanitarian crisis. Trump's own department said this, um and
Speaker 1: in twenty if you just look back, I mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: but that's a similar crisis inteen not as big. Uh.
Speaker 1: The bomb administration put forward is similar for a million
Speaker 1: dollars a billion dollar emergency spending proposal UH supplemental to
Speaker 1: try to deal with their own crisis at the border,
Speaker 1: and was not passed. Both parties went into recess. Republicans
Speaker 1: were blocking that idea in the House. Now you haven't flipped.
Speaker 1: Republicans are saying, well, the Republican administration is saying we
Speaker 1: need the money, but that doesn't look like the political
Speaker 1: will to do anything. Trump's a racist. David David knock
Speaker 1: Amer on face the nation. I think it was trying
Speaker 1: to make the point that a couple of presidents in
Speaker 1: our own now have tried to deal with a major,
Speaker 1: major problem, but a variety of reasons that we've talked
Speaker 1: about for years now, the politics don't allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: This is no way to run our country. Please welcome
Speaker 1: John Annual Davidson to the show. John is a senior
Speaker 1: correspondent and federalist. Is written a number of things actually
Speaker 1: about immigration lately, including a piece in recent days as
Speaker 1: illegal immigration skyrockets the border crisis spins out of control, John,
Speaker 1: how are you, sir, doing well? Thanks for having me. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's our pleasure, so listen. Uh, you know, depending on
Speaker 1: who you ask, you get all sorts of different descriptors,
Speaker 1: but I think they're all true. It is a humanitarian crisis,
Speaker 1: it's a logistical crisis, a legal crisis, financial, constitutional, It's
Speaker 1: a mess. And it's dangerous too, isn't it. It's extremely dangerous,
Speaker 1: and as the numbers of illegal immigrants continue to rise,
Speaker 1: we're going to continue to see more people die at
Speaker 1: the border, either after they crossed the border or attempting
Speaker 1: to cross the rio grand um. You know these reports
Speaker 1: don't often make headlines or uh, you know, get written
Speaker 1: up in the news media, partly because it's so frequent.
Speaker 1: But you know, you imagine the worst things you can
Speaker 1: think of happening at the border, and they've probably happened
Speaker 1: in the last month. Well, I know you outline your
Speaker 1: story infants and handicapped people drowning or dying of dehydration
Speaker 1: in the desert, and the rest of it. How does
Speaker 1: that stuff time make more news? Doesn't have to do
Speaker 1: with Yeah, I don't know it yet. Part of it
Speaker 1: is that it's the steady drum beat. It's happening constantly. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I think for a lot of Americans, it's
Speaker 1: hard to even imagine what the border is. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: the news media doesn't have anything like the excuse of
Speaker 1: regular Americans. You know, they really should spend more time
Speaker 1: on the border. Um. It's not hard to do. Just
Speaker 1: book a flight down to El Paso and you know,
Speaker 1: right around with the border patrol and you'll see for yourself. Um,
Speaker 1: but it is sort of hard to imagine what it's like.
Speaker 1: It's also hard to imagine how dangerous it is on
Speaker 1: the other side of the border. Raynosa is the city
Speaker 1: in Mexico right across from the Texas town of McAllen.
Speaker 1: It's not a big place. McAllen about a hundred fifty
Speaker 1: thousand people. Rains is a little bit bigger, but it's
Speaker 1: one of the most dangerous cities in the world. And
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of Americans quite grasped that
Speaker 1: you've got hundreds of thousands now of Central Americans. And
Speaker 1: that's one of the big issues is that it's families,
Speaker 1: it's women and children, sometimes children rented out by the cartels.
Speaker 1: And this is so fundamentally different from years ago when
Speaker 1: it was strapping twenty four year old Mexican young men,
Speaker 1: and that that logistical challenge is just enormous. John Once
Speaker 1: once folks get apprehended or turn themselves in, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's fundamentally different than it was even ten years ago,
Speaker 1: to say nothing of twenty or thirty years ago. All
Speaker 1: the facilities that we have built up over the course
Speaker 1: of the past thirty or forty years along the border
Speaker 1: were designed to hold single Mexican adults because those were
Speaker 1: the people that were trying to cross into the country
Speaker 1: and evade detection. Uh. And they were coming here to work.
Speaker 1: They were coming to work in all different industries, in
Speaker 1: all different parts the country. Uh. The facilities that we
Speaker 1: have now are wholly inappropriate for families and small children. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know, um, sometimes pregnant women sometimes infants uh
Speaker 1: that that are are crossing, you know, with with the
Speaker 1: with their mothers. Uh. So it's not as easy as
Speaker 1: just saying, oh, you know, well, let's get some better
Speaker 1: facilities down there. It takes a long time to build
Speaker 1: these facilities. It took us decades to build up the
Speaker 1: infrastructure we have there, and now we're facing a completely
Speaker 1: different problem. Well, we're talking about how it's some of
Speaker 1: the bad stuff is not getting enough attention, so people
Speaker 1: don't realize what a crisis is is let's not hide
Speaker 1: it from our listeners, spell it out and you talk
Speaker 1: about it in your piece. What are some of the
Speaker 1: bad things that are happening on the border on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. Well, one of the things that we talked
Speaker 1: about in the pieces that people are dying. Uh. If
Speaker 1: you follow the news releases and the media statements from
Speaker 1: the border patrol, uh, you know themselves, you'll see this.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty routine thing. People are found h dying
Speaker 1: or dead after they crossed into the United States and
Speaker 1: remote areas. UM. In some cases, infant children will drowned
Speaker 1: in the Rio Grand or nearly drowned before border patrol
Speaker 1: can rescue them. There was a case last week of
Speaker 1: smugglers on the Mexican side throwing into the river a
Speaker 1: double amputee and another band who was a paraplegic, who
Speaker 1: both of whom almost drowned before border patrol could rescue them. Uh,
Speaker 1: really bad stuff is going on, and a lot of
Speaker 1: it is being driven And this is another thing I
Speaker 1: think people don't realize. A lot of this is being
Speaker 1: driven by what is essentially a huge black market for
Speaker 1: human smuggling. Smuggling networks and drug cartels are making billions
Speaker 1: of dollars a year off of smuggling Central Americans through
Speaker 1: Mexico up to and across the US border. They're charging
Speaker 1: them between two and seven thousand dollars sometimes more per person.
Speaker 1: And you think about the hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 1: that are coming, it adds up. John Daniel Davidson, Senior
Speaker 1: correspondent at the Federal It's just one more question for
Speaker 1: you from me, John. I read in your piece that
Speaker 1: you have pretty serious doubts as to whether the six
Speaker 1: thousand Mexican National guardsman sent to the border will do
Speaker 1: any make any serious difference to the number of Central
Speaker 1: Americans coming into Mexico. Why the doubt because the Mexican
Speaker 1: National Guard is an institution that was created very recently,
Speaker 1: and Mexico has a real problem with their institutions being compromised,
Speaker 1: uh by corruption by drug cartels. Uh. This is not
Speaker 1: a serious thing. This is window dressing on the part
Speaker 1: of the Mexican government to avoid tariffs, and we shouldn't
Speaker 1: expect it to make much of a difference. You know,
Speaker 1: that's obviously true. If there are billions of dollars at
Speaker 1: stake for the drug cartels or or whoever is making
Speaker 1: all the money off the smuggling, you're not gonna let
Speaker 1: some nineteen year old guardsmen in Mexico slow you down.
Speaker 1: You're either gonna writing number bribe them, right, And that's analysis.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard from anybody but John Well well done,
Speaker 1: John Daniel Davidson from the Federalist. Give our best wishes
Speaker 1: to Molly Molly Hemingway, would you if you run into her?
Speaker 1: Well done? John M's talk again soon. I don't want
Speaker 1: that to be true. I want this to get solved, right,
Speaker 1: But obviously, if you've got drug cartels who own the
Speaker 1: police force of some cities, of course they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to well, they own the frigging governor, so yeah,
Speaker 1: of course they're going to be able to infiltrate the
Speaker 1: National Guard or whatever they call them there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they might have to. They'll call the commander of
Speaker 1: the guard, the head of the cartel. We'll say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, Hector, how are you. I'm good, Jose, how
Speaker 1: are you? I'm terrific. Listen, I understand you guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be doing this on the border. What do I
Speaker 1: need to know? Yeah, well, let me get you the
Speaker 1: patrol schedule and we'll we'll go from there. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks best to a wife. I mean, it's literally like that.
Speaker 1: Well we learned that from the old Chappo trial. They
Speaker 1: had transcripts of conversations like that, including the at the
Speaker 1: time president of the country allegedly um so yeah. I
Speaker 1: have a feeling that that's too bad. I wonder if
Speaker 1: I wonder if anybody, if from Mexico, including the president
Speaker 1: who's the president of Mexican Labrador retriever, if he's said
Speaker 1: to Trump on the phone, or anybody has said, look,
Speaker 1: I'd like to remember the man's name. I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: just how I Dobrador over. I wonder if anybody has
Speaker 1: said to Trump our our our DHS secretary or anything,
Speaker 1: he said, look, we'd like to we can't, we can't.
Speaker 1: We We've got many cities where we have no control
Speaker 1: over the police force. We can't have we can't have
Speaker 1: a trial. We we can't. There's no way we can
Speaker 1: do this. It can't be done. What if they ever
Speaker 1: say that, I think they probably have ways to hint
Speaker 1: at it behind the scenes, you're lower, lower level talks.
Speaker 1: But this, this is exhibit number one of how idiotic
Speaker 1: the partisanship has become in the United States. Because, as
Speaker 1: I've said many times, you can get a panel of
Speaker 1: randomly selected Americans and they could pass common sense immigration
Speaker 1: reform in minutes. Explain to them, listen, most people come
Speaker 1: become well, listen, here's a great example. You got Gavin
Speaker 1: freaking Newsom, pretty pretty Gavin Newsom, the mayor of Kelly, Unicornia,
Speaker 1: who is now pushed and gotten past this law that
Speaker 1: anybody who sneaks into California gets free healthcare up to
Speaker 1: the age of twenty five and over the age of
Speaker 1: sixty or whatever it is. I can't remember, Uh, the
Speaker 1: old and the young, and sooner it will be everybody.
Speaker 1: If you are a Honduran and you've got all the
Speaker 1: problems of Central America, violence, gangs, corruption, poverty, the rest
Speaker 1: of it, if you don't do whatever you can to
Speaker 1: get to California specifically, I mean the United States, and
Speaker 1: once you get in, if you have a kid with
Speaker 1: your rented or otherwise, they'll turn you loose because they
Speaker 1: can't hold you. So once you get in the state,
Speaker 1: you just then get to California somehow. But if you
Speaker 1: don't do that, you're a bad person. You're a fool.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine why you haven't yet. So you know,
Speaker 1: until the magnets, and the magnets are getting bigger and bigger,
Speaker 1: until they're removed or the juice is turned off to them,
Speaker 1: there's virtually nothing Mexico Mexico can do, and damn near
Speaker 1: nothing we can do about it. So nobody's nobody's serious.
Speaker 1: That's what makes me crazy. Even people who agree, they
Speaker 1: spend their time shouting at each other about Trump and
Speaker 1: nothing changes, and it's no way to run a country.
Speaker 1: It is interesting that you have old people in babies
Speaker 1: dying on the border and it's not getting more attention
Speaker 1: than it is because I guess it's not a clear
Speaker 1: cut this is Trump's fault thing, so it's just oxygen,
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