If This Isn't An Invasion, What Is? with Todd Bensman

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You do a great job. So, Todd, how bad is it right now on the southern border? Well, appearances are not reality at the border. The administration is spiking the football in the end zone and taking victory laps, saying that the numbers of illegal crossings is down. And it is true that the number of illegal crossings are down, which gives the appearance of kind of orderliness at the border, but what they won't tell you is that by the percentage of decline, that same number is being brought through the ports of entry with permission slips that they're handing out by the buckets, by the dump truck load, to anybody who applies. So they're handing out probably something on the order of one million of those over the course of a year. So the same high numbers, 200,000 a month, are still entering the country, but they're just being diverted through this other kind of pathway. They call it legal orderly pathways is actually the term for this, but the cities like Chicago and New York and Washington and everywhere else, all they know is that there's all these people are coming in that are uninsured and needy and going into their school systems and getting onto the public rolls and filling up hotel space and all the rest.

So none of that has changed. Just the way that they're entering looks like it's fewer, but it's the same. How many have entered it this year illegally into our country? It's hard to say, but altogether we think that they're probably on the order of four and a half million people, new people have entered and been allowed to stay in the United States since Biden's inauguration. There have been some changes recently in policy.

Title 42 went away and it only went away in mid-May. So we don't have a really good figure on how many are entering, mainly because the dump truck loads of passes that they're handing out on the Mexican side, they're not telling us how many. So we can only kind of guess. They will not tell us how many. Nobody's demanding the numbers really. Up until yesterday at the hearing with Mayorkas, he was being asked how many. They're also flying probably we think on the order of 40,000 a month from foreign airports into American airports directly through ports of entry. So we think about 80,000 a month, maybe 100,000 a month are being brought in just in these two hidden ways. So, you know, I do have a FOIA request that has been ignored and we are suing the Center for Immigration Studies as a federal lawsuit to get those numbers. We were told in our last round of meetings with the DHS lawyers that we may actually get the data in another week or two.

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Play cut eighty five. Secretary Mayorkas, you must resign. Will you resign? No, I will not. I am incredibly proud of the work that is I understand the Department of Secretary Mayorkas. If you will not resign, that leaves us with no other option.

You should be impeached. So, Todd, they want open borders. Why do they want them? Why do they want millions of people illegally breaking and entering coming into our country? Well, there are several several reasons.

I believe I have an entire chapter. Chapter four of my book, Overrun is that is dedicated to this. I think a lot of it is ideological. It's this feeling of we are being virtuous. We are a virtuous people and our immigration laws are not virtuous. Our immigration laws are cruel and inhumane and have to be ignored. So this administration is the first one ever in the history of the country to just simply decouple itself from congressionally mandated statutes to detain and deport. They just decided we are not going to do it.

We are going to ignore the 1996 law signed by a Democrat, Bill Clinton. And we're going to do our own thing. And our own thing is we're going to just invent out of whole cloth these massive new admittance programs outside of any authority of Congress.

Meaning we're going to fly them in from airports to airport and we're going to escort them in over the bridges with these entry permits. All of this is not legal. It's extra legal. There is litigation.

Sooner or later, courts are going to strike that down. I believe that they want to do this because there's money in it. The migrant advocacy industrial complex, as I call it in the book, makes money when they have to step forward to help the administration manage the crisis that they engineered and that they built. Because the DHS finds that we can't handle all of these problems that come with our policies, so we are going to let $150 million contract to Catholic charities to help us. We're going to let $500 million for this charity, for that charity, for monies to go out and they're making money. It would be as if the industrial, like the defense industry that makes bullets and bombs were to take charge of our diplomacy, national diplomacy, we would never see a day of peace. It would be just war every year as we're making money. And that's what I think is really driving it on kind of old school journalism that way. People lobby and obtain their policies that benefit them financially.

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Yeah, up until recently, the governor Greg Abbott's passivity had to do with just kind of a natural conservative. He's a lawyer and he doesn't want to lose litigation that you know would reflect poorly on him politically and, but I will say that the, that the governor has in more recent months, starting like in May, has gotten aggressive with new tactics down there where he's having the Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard string razor wire up and then like NFL linemen block these immigrants at the riverbank so that they can't pass and then as they traverse along looking for a hold of the troops, you know, kind of follow them along and don't let them in and I was just down there, a week or two ago and I watched it happen I mean that they were returning to Mexico, large numbers of them. And that's a new tactic that they're doing they've actually really fortified in depth.

This one really busy sector, Del Rio sector in Texas and it's very interesting to watch. But what's undermining about it is that the Biden administration's border patrol agents are under orders to find them and bring them in past the Texans, and then let them loose into the country. So these two agencies have polar opposite agendas and policies that are kind of undermining each other at the same time. And part of what you're seeing is with the water barrier was part of what Greg Abbott's news for the in depth fortifications that they're doing is that they're not down there. And so the Biden administration has now moved it to the next level and they're suing the state under various grounds to try to get rid of it which always tells me that they must be worried that it's going to work.

So it's very interesting what's going on. Ultimately what the, what people on Abbott's right want most is to see him, not just block him at the river but to round them up and bring them back to Mexico. Why don't we do that? He's still just not quite willing to do that. Now their claim is that they believe that they don't really have the authority, they have to declare an invasion title. Why hasn't he declared an invasion though? He won't do it because he doesn't feel like they have the legal grounds to do it, and that the Texas troopers that are ordered to do that could be arrested for kidnapping.

So what would constitute an invasion due to the brilliant legal mind of Greg Abbott? And who would arrest them for kidnapping? The feds? Yeah, the feds. Oh, that would be really rich.

Good luck. Good luck arresting a bunch of Texas state troopers. Let me understand this. So Greg Abbott doesn't think it's an invasion? Well, he doesn't think it enough to actually go the route of Carrie Lake. Carrie Lake was going to do it if she'd been elected governor of Arizona.

Nobody's ever tried it. It's brand new legal territory. At the very least it would immediately get tied up in litigation.

A lot of people argue well that, you know, why not test that thing out, make it go all the way to the Supreme Court? But no, hold on a second. Texas signed a declaration of invasion during the wars in the 1800s. They're a sovereign country, so they've signed a declaration of invasions before.

So it's not new. No, you know, listen, these are legal arguments that have not been thoroughly articulated by the Abbott administration, but some of it has leaked out. They're in touch with some of the people that are on the inside over there, and they really do feel like the feds would have grounds to arrest their troopers for kidnapping and prosecute that. They believe that whether it's true or not. So Abbott is afraid a bunch of feds will come and arrest Texas state troopers.

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