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Speaker 1: On this episode of Newsworld. In December two twenty one,

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Speaker 1: Congressman Dan User, who represents Pennsylvania's ninth district, was notified

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Speaker 1: by civilian airport employees the chartered flights carrying hundreds of

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants were landing at a local airport in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: These flights landed in the dead of night with no

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Speaker 1: prior notice provided to state, local, or federal officials, and

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrant passengers were put on buses to undisclosed locations.

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Speaker 1: And this is not just happening in Pennsylvania, as we

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Speaker 1: of similar situations in Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, California, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: New York. Thanks to the Biden administrations open border policies,

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Speaker 1: every state has now become a border state. Under current law,

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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health

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Speaker 1: of the transportation or placement of illegals in their jurisdictions

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Speaker 1: the matter. The Immigration Transparency and Transit Notification Act, modeled

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Speaker 1: on a Trump administration executive order will address these issues

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Speaker 1: by increasing transparency and enhancing the role of the states

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Speaker 1: in the process. Here to discuss the Immigration Transparency and

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Speaker 1: Transit Notification Act. The author of that act, my guests,

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Speaker 1: Congressman Dan Muser. Dan, thank you for joining me, and

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate the leadership you're showing. The number of

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Speaker 1: illegal border crossings has greatly increased since Biden took office.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it's amazing how fast it's increasing. The board

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Speaker 1: four thousand, nine hundred and seventy three border encounters on

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Speaker 1: there was only thirty six thousand, six hundred and eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: So that's basically almost a five hundred percent increase, and

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Speaker 1: those numbers are only the ones that encounter border patrol.

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Speaker 1: The Biden administration estimates at about a half million illegal

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Speaker 1: aliens successfully crossed into the US undetected by the border patrol.

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Speaker 1: From your perspective, how has the Biden Administration's immigration policy

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Speaker 1: caused this increase? Well, Speaker, first off, trill honor to

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Speaker 1: be with you. We really appreciate you spending time with

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Speaker 1: us in our congressional caucus and at various meetings. Your

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Speaker 1: What the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi have done is

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Speaker 1: which was proving enormously successful. I have been to the

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Speaker 1: personal discussion with President Trump as to how he brought

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Speaker 1: immediately it sent signals to hundreds of thousands of potential

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Speaker 1: under Title forty two. Title forty two, which was allowed

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Speaker 1: and Speaker, as I spoke with Customs and Border Patrol agents.

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Speaker 1: They had no idea what the age was of these

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Speaker 1: It's just crazy. Unfortunately that continued. I did have a

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Speaker 1: flights did cease, but of course headed off elsewhere, right,

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Speaker 1: And frankly, you know, they just didn't lie to me,

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Speaker 1: an unauthorized expenditure of federal money. I certainly believe it does.

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Speaker 1: You can learn more about the Immigration Transparency and Transit

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