Feb. 19, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than 100 people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| So you don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| That this is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than a hundred possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always, because if you don't and the worst happens, War Room. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| Welcome, live from an occupied Washington, D.C. | ||
| 43rd day of the occupation here, still 7,000 National Guard troops freezing here in a light snow. | ||
| Ice out there. | ||
| Still trying to find out why we're occupied, right? | ||
| Hasn't been any information put forward, any analysis. | ||
| And it's time now for the Republican Party, it's time now for Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell to stand up and start demanding this, and the governors. | ||
| It's outrageous that we have this occupation. | ||
| We have this fencing. | ||
| No wall at the border, but we have a wall around the nation's capital. | ||
| We need to know what for. | ||
| Okay, you're in the War Room. | ||
| It is Friday, the 19th of February, the year of our Lord, 2021, now with over 36 million downloads on our podcast, also live right now, nationwide radio, John Frederick's Radio Network. | ||
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| There's a lot to go through today. | ||
| So I want to start. | ||
| Very honored to have Rabbi Sparrow join us again to lead us in prayer. | ||
| He's the author of Pushback. | ||
| Reclaiming the American Judeo-Christian spirit. | ||
| Rabbi Sparrow, could you lead us in prayer for the nation? | ||
| Father of mercy, we come to you today with a heavy heart, sad, with ache and void. | ||
| We have lost a longtime friend, Rush Limbaugh, a man who believed in us as Americans, a champion and cheerleader for America and its founding. | ||
| Someone who expressed for us three hours a day the deep thoughts and personal emotions that make us who we are, doing so with a voice and pinpoint vocabulary and passion unmatched in our generation. | ||
| He brought us together wherever we were each day as a family of patriots. | ||
| He sat with us at the head of the table. | ||
| Who will replace him? | ||
| We will. | ||
| All of us who believe in America, God, country, family, faith, Fair play. | ||
| Common sense reasoning. | ||
| Those proud to be called Americans. | ||
| The days of our life are 70 years. | ||
| So says the psalmist. | ||
| Russia just turned 70. | ||
| Life ends for all of us. | ||
| So Lord, teach us to cultivate a wise heart So that the numbered days of our life are lived with majestic purpose, with wisdom, responsibility, heritage, love, and service to you. | ||
| Life is God's gift, his precious gift to us. | ||
| We in our community of patriots have lost in this last year, So many dear friends and benefactors within the cause of liberty and our Judeo-Christian heritage. | ||
| We have, as well, lost much in the political arena. | ||
| Undoubtedly, things have been stolen from us, and we have witnessed betrayal from political And judicial office holders who are not putting America first. | ||
| Some are even an enemy from within. | ||
| But though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no harm for thou art with me. | ||
| Thy rod and thy staff do comfort me. | ||
| We Americans Have over the centuries felt the cold of the low-lying nadir. | ||
| But as the Bible teaches, we have arisen. | ||
| We have scaled the heights once again. | ||
| You anoint our head with oil, our cup runneth over. | ||
| America will once again overflow with goodness, strength, Liberty, prosperity, and devotion to our Constitution. | ||
| We, together with God, shall make this possibility, yea, this probability, happen. | ||
| Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. | ||
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Amen. | |
| Amen. | ||
| Thank you, Rabbi Sparrow. | ||
| I want to talk, I want to address, have you address the cold winter of 2021, where we stand as a country. | ||
| But I want to go back to Rush Limbaugh for a second. | ||
| He has been relentlessly attacked by the left since he passed away on, I think it was on Thursday, or excuse me, on Wednesday. | ||
| What is your, How do you see that as far as your understanding of the Americanized Judeo-Christian West spirit that Rush was up there for 31 years every day talking about versus the left that attacked him as a racist, a bigot, a misogynist? | ||
| Well you know many of these people have lost their soul. | ||
| We've known this even before the comments after Rush Limbaugh's death. | ||
| Many of these people enjoyed the fact that for months, the Black Lives Matters and Antifa were burning cities, were beating people, were scaring Americans, were toppling our monuments. | ||
| They enjoyed it. | ||
| They felt that these groups represented them. | ||
| They've lost their soul. | ||
| They are mired in a strange worship. | ||
| It's the worship of Communism, it's a worship of themselves, and it's also rooted in hate. | ||
| They not only hate our country, they hate the American people. | ||
| And when you're filled with hate, you've lost a soul. | ||
| You are people without spirit. | ||
| The Judeo-Christian ethos is the farthest thing from their mind. | ||
| They don't operate within that beautiful context and heritage. | ||
| And that's why what we have in this country today is not simply a diversion over some tax policy or where to put the bridge to nowhere. | ||
| We have two completely opposite systems of thought and approach to life. | ||
| And our side, I think, is full of light and theirs is full of darkness. | ||
| But they esconce it under this fraudulent term, social justice. | ||
| It's really social injustice. | ||
| It's socialism, but their souls have become toxic. | ||
| What comes out of their mouth is dangerous, mean, and so far removed from the Judeo-Christian heritage that our founding fathers, with all of their sacrifice, had envisioned. | ||
| Rabbi Sparrow, today Joe Biden is going to address, I think, the G7. | ||
| He's going to talk about the ending America First, the America First policies to go back into these more multilateral agreements where just America is just another country, one of many, instead of the leader putting America's interests first in the interest of its allies. | ||
| In addition, he's put out an amnesty bill in the last 24 hours that is breathtakingly radical. | ||
| And we're having many experts from Numbers USA, CIS, people talking about the cartels on the border throughout this show today to go through how radical this is and really about, this is about the destruction of American sovereignty. | ||
| In addition, we've just found out in the last 24 hours in the Biden, the Biden NIH bill to pay for going forward and what we're going to pay for as far as health care and the vaccines and finding out about this virus. | ||
| He's actually they're actually going to continue payments to the Wuhan lab for the next two or three years, totaling millions of dollars. | ||
| Is this exposing now in your mind really this gulf between, and you can't have unity. | ||
| And the country's had this before where you just have to, you just have to fight it out, right? | ||
| You have to fight out the ballot box and through politics, but you have to fight it out. | ||
| You can't have unity where there's two radically different views of the direction of the country. | ||
| Do you think Biden now in the last 48, 72 hours through his policies has now exposed himself? | ||
| Well, when they speak of unity, those on the left, What they mean is uniformity of thought, uniformity of action. | ||
| They want us to submit. | ||
| It's sort of like what you find in Islam, submission. | ||
| They don't want unity. | ||
| They want uniformity. | ||
| And these, as you say, are not people that believe in America first. | ||
| They're globalists. | ||
| They're citizens of the world. | ||
| And they absolutely want to destroy the America that was bequeathed to us. | ||
| They don't want the regular people, someone in Paducah or someone in Des Moines, a regular citizen, to have the same authority in determining the destiny of America that they, the ruling class, aspire for themselves only. | ||
| That's what they don't like about America. | ||
| They also don't like that under the Judeo-Christian ethos, the American people are rather a wholesome people, a religiously wholesome people. | ||
| And they don't like that wholesomeness. | ||
| America first, that's the way it should be. | ||
| If you're a president of the United States, you should be America first. | ||
| And if you can't do that, then you should be the head of the United Nations, but not the president of the United States. | ||
| Can you imagine the chairman of General Motors saying, I don't put General Motors first. | ||
| You know, I'm going to do whatever I can to work on behalf of Tesla or Ford or Chrysler. | ||
| Can you imagine anybody Who's the head of an organization saying, I'm going to nullify or put secondary this organization or this family in behalf of other families. | ||
| We're just going to be sacrificial lambs. | ||
| If a president of the United States cannot be America first, then really that person shouldn't be president. | ||
| But we knew this was going to happen. | ||
| There is a Politburo in a way behind President Biden. | ||
| There is a Politburo who is making these executive orders that are coming off the assembly line at rapid speed, but the intent and the goal of this Politburo, what he calls advisors, we all knew beforehand, but now it's being manifest clearly, but I think we all had an intuition that it was to destroy the America that we love and that has given success to all. | ||
| And part of it is to destroy the middle class. | ||
| Without a middle class, America is not America. | ||
| What gives the strength to the people is the fact that they're a middle class with an earning capacity. | ||
| And when you have earning, you have wealth, then you have independence. | ||
| And your voice is heard and you feel confident to express it. | ||
| They want to just utterly obliterate it, except that they'll once in a while Give us some of these exterior symbols to try to fool us into thinking that they love America, but they don't. | ||
| Rabbi Sparrow, how do people get to your website to get your book, Pushback? | ||
| Go to Caucus for America, and at Caucus for America, you'll see our book, Pushback, and we've retitled it now. | ||
| It's our battle to save America's Judeo-Christian heritage. | ||
| You'll find it on... Hang on for a second. | ||
| I want to take you over, just take over the break. | ||
| We're going to bring Rabbi Sparrow back in a second. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome back to the show. | ||
| You're in the War Room, Friday, 19 February, Year of the Lord 2021, in a cold and occupied Washington, D.C., the 43rd day of our occupation. | ||
| And we are going to press forward very hard on why Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell are not demanding Demanding, demanding why this city is occupied with 7,000 armed troops who are in the freezing snow and sleet and rain. | ||
| It's one thing to be deployed in the service of your country and your countrymen. | ||
| It's another thing on this fiasco here. | ||
| And it's upon, it's on the Republicans to find out what's going on. | ||
| We can't depend on Nancy Pelosi and this crowd. | ||
| Where are the voices of the Republicans? | ||
| With Jim Jordan, everybody, where are you to demand? | ||
| What's the intelligence? | ||
| What's the actionable intelligence that demands that this, that the Capitol looks like Kabul? | ||
| Looks like the Green Zone in Baghdad. | ||
| Completely and totally unacceptable. | ||
| A disgrace to this nation. | ||
| You want to see managed decline? | ||
| You've seen it all over. | ||
| This radical immigration bill. | ||
| Today he's going to step up in front of the Western Europe and the Allies. | ||
| Talk about no more America first. | ||
| You've seen it in Texas. | ||
| Up in the Pacific Northwest. | ||
| This is managed decline of this nation by our elites. | ||
| One of the great voices in the fight against that is Rabbi Sparrow. | ||
| Rabbi, tell us, you've retitled the book. | ||
| I want to make sure you get the book, because on Amazon, Rabbi, the book is selling for $95. | ||
| So I take it there's not a lot in stock at Amazon. | ||
| So how do people get your book? | ||
| It's a must read. | ||
| And I want to thank you once again for leading us in prayer on Friday. | ||
| Can you tell us how they get the book and what's the new title of it? | ||
| It's still called Pushback. | ||
| But the subtitle is now, The Battle to Save Our American Judeo-Christian Heritage. | ||
| Our America, the Judeo-Christian heritage in America is very unique, and that's what's given us our success and our morality. | ||
| You can purchase it if you go to our website, Caucus for America, www.caucusforamerica.com. | ||
| We have some books left. | ||
| And it doesn't cost $96. | ||
| I think it's $26. | ||
| The main point here is that this is your country, our country. | ||
| We have to fight for it. | ||
| This is a battle for the soul of America, for the life of America. | ||
| And it's the American thing to do, to fight your own battles. | ||
| This is what America is about. | ||
| If we don't do it, no one else will do it. | ||
| And it's crystal clear now that the globalists, the ruling class, These quasi, these Leninists, these very wealthy Leninists, they want to take our country from us and from our children. | ||
| And I think now with the death, the unfortunate death of Rush Limbaugh, the Stephen K. Bannon war room takes on even more importance. | ||
| All of us have to become leaders in this battle. | ||
| We're all soldiers, we're all colonels, but we have to do it because what's at stake is everything. | ||
| Rabbi Sparrow, thank you. | ||
| Honored to have you on again. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I want everybody out there to get this book. | ||
| It's an elemental part of our movement. | ||
| Thank you, Rabbi Sparrow. | ||
| Okay, I want to go now to, now we go back, now we go to the action, action, action. | ||
| There's nobody in this city that has fought more for the American people than Rosemary Jenks, our next guest from Numbers USA. | ||
| Rosemary, we're gonna have the great guys from We Dropped Her. | ||
| Rosemary's gonna come on in a second, we're trying to get Rosemary up on the phone. | ||
| Even if it's not perfect, let's just go ahead, if Denver can pass her through. | ||
| Is this Rosemary? | ||
| Rosemary, can you hear me? | ||
| Hi. | ||
| It's a little crackly, Beth, but we need to have you on. | ||
| Talk to us about not just the radical nature of this bill, but what we need to do immediately to combat it, because I'm telling people right now, this is a globalist, Wall Street, corporatist bill to destroy not just the sovereignty of this nation, But to destroy working-class Hispanic and African-American families and white working-class throughout this nation. | ||
| And also the Millennials. | ||
| This bill is so radical at every element of it. | ||
| To wit, the 3 million individuals that have been deported by Donald Trump over his administration, I believe the bill says that the State Department will send out letters to 200 nations. | ||
| The Secretary of State is mandated to send out letters to 200 nations. | ||
| To request that those people be notified and to come back to the country. | ||
| To return to the United States. | ||
| To be processed for citizenship. | ||
| And that's just one small element of its radical nature. | ||
| It gets even worse than that. | ||
| Rosemary, walk through the highlights of this bill since you've been in this fight now for over a decade. | ||
| And then I want you to tell us what this audience needs to do today to put its shoulder to the wheel. | ||
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It's the most extreme amnesty bill that I have ever seen, and it's not just amnesty. | |
| It also massively increases our legal immigration flow from its current level of just over 1 million. | ||
| It would probably double it. | ||
| We're still trying to work out all the numbers. | ||
| But yeah, I mean, it gives instant amnesty to around 3 million so-called dreamers, everyone who has temporary protected status. | ||
| Uh, 1.2 million or so farm workers and then it gives a little bit longer amnesty to every other illegal alien who was in the country as of January 1st of this year. | ||
| In the past, always, the Democrats have said, well, we're not going to give you enforcement unless you give us amnesty. | ||
| But if you give us amnesty, we will give you enforcement. | ||
| Now the Democrats are saying, we're in charge, we're not giving you squats. | ||
| There is no enforcement in this bill. | ||
| In fact, the first thing that would happen if this bill were to pass is that all immigration enforcement across the country would come to a grinding halt. | ||
| Because anyone who is prima facie eligible for amnesty, which is everyone, could not be removed. | ||
| Regardless of criminal background, regardless of whether ICE finds you in a jail cell, You cannot be removed until you've had a chance to apply for this amnesty. | ||
| It is insanity on every level. | ||
| By the way, do you agree that this bill, this shows you, this rips the mask off Joe Biden. | ||
| Joe Biden is not just a globalist, he's the running dog for the financial interest on Wall Street and the global corporations. | ||
| This is their bill. | ||
| This is what gets him an unlimited amount of cheap labor at every aspect of it from high-tech jobs all the way down to low-skill jobs. | ||
| This destroys the American worker and it will destroy the American family. | ||
| One of the most radical parts of the enforcement, correct me if I'm wrong here, Rosemary, isn't, like, government officials that actually pass on that, hey, this may be an immigration violation, aren't they fined $50,000? | ||
| $50,000 or the units find $50,000 by even the by even even trying to do that I have not seen that yet but it is very likely in there Again, we just got this yesterday, and we're trying to go through it as fast as we can. | ||
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But yeah, I mean, this is all about bringing in as many people as possible, regardless of their skill level, so that they can take American jobs, so that they can be cheap labor for the elite, and screw Americans! | |
| I mean, that's what it all comes down to. | ||
| We don't like Americans, and so we're going to replace you. | ||
| It's just the most radical thing. | ||
| And, you know, Biden pretending to be a moderate is just a joke at this point. | ||
| Yes, the radical nation. | ||
| But now, Rosemary, we've got you for a few minutes. | ||
| I need you to tell our audience what they want is action, action, action. | ||
| What do you need this audience to do today? | ||
| I know we're going to have CIS later about analyzing the bill and getting access to that. | ||
| Numbers USA, what do you need this audience to do? | ||
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We absolutely need everyone in your audience to go to numbersusa.com and hit the join us button at the top left of the screen and we will give you all the information you need to know about this bill and the other immigration amnesty bills that are coming up. | |
| provide everything you need and make it as easy as possible to tell your member of Congress how to you know that you want this stopped and that ask them you know why do you hate Americans if they're on this bill why do you hate Americans so go to numbers USA comm hit click the join us button on the top left this is going to be a fight for you know at least a year Until we get closer to the next election, the Democrats are going to keep pushing this in one way or another. | ||
| They're now talking about potentially breaking up this bill and trying to pass pieces of it. | ||
| The only thing in this bill is amnesty and increased legal immigration. | ||
| So regardless of how they break it up, it's still bad. | ||
| You know, it's still, it's just a smaller amnesty or a smaller increase in legal immigration. | ||
| It's all bad and we're going to be playing whack-a-mole. | ||
| The only thing that is going to stop this from passing is grassroots pressure. | ||
| One last thing, and whenever I go to Numbers USA, we'll get that up on the site in the live stream. | ||
| In a year of a plague, in the second year of this plague, what has devastated the world economy, which the United States government just announced they're going to fund the Wuhan lab, we'll get to that, Dr. Yonabian, later. | ||
| There's no mention, I mean, what is so It's breathtakingly radical about this. | ||
| Without the schools open, without some plan on the vaccines, without even knowing if it's a vaccine or some sort of experimental treatment, right? | ||
| There's nothing in here about that. | ||
| They're opening the floodgates to destroy American workers in a time of a global pandemic and plague. | ||
| Rosemary, how can they be so tone-deaf of what this nation's going through right now? | ||
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It is just amazing. | |
| I mean, they are so dogmatic in their belief in open borders that nothing else matters. | ||
| And the inconsistencies in the messaging is just stunning. | ||
| I mean, right now you've got the State Department putting out announcements bragging about how they're going to be COVID testing the 25,000 asylum seekers who we're going to bring in from Mexico in a metered way, but they're not testing the Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who are crossing the border illegally and being released at bus stops, you know, to go on their merry way throughout the country. | ||
| We're already seeing the surge that Biden's immigration policies are leading to, and it's only going to get worse. | ||
| And the longer they keep talking about amnesty, the worse it's going to get. | ||
| They're going to be bringing the plague into the United States on a massive level and nobody is lifting a finger to stop it. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Rosemary Jenks, you are in this audience as Rosemary. | ||
| We're going to get your social media up after the break. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Honored to have you on. | ||
| We're going to go to the border and talk to Todd Bensman. | ||
| Man, he's just written an amazing book about the surge that's coming across by the cartels now. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Banner. | ||
| This is why it's not going to be... I need a mic. | ||
| This is why it's not going to be unity. | ||
| Um... | ||
| There's not going to be unity because of the radical nature of this Biden administration. | ||
| There's a Rasmussen poll out today that says, we'll get you the details in a little while, I think it's 54 to 40 people think he's a puppet of big business in the radical left. | ||
| And today, with this, now people getting through this, this bill, this immigration bill, which really is the not, it's even not about amnesty. | ||
| It's about breaking the sovereignty of the United States of America. | ||
| At the same time, he's going to address the G7 with that the America First policies of President Trump are gone. | ||
| This is the personification of the managed decline of our country by these elites. | ||
| This bill is so radical, so radical. | ||
| It's breathtaking in its how radical it is. | ||
| We're going to go through this and this bill is also DOA, dead on arrival. | ||
| Impossible to get this bill passed. | ||
| Okay, so why are they doing it? | ||
| They're doing it because what they want to do is break it up in pieces and still get much of the radical nature of it passed in pieces and that's where we have to stop it. | ||
| We've stopped this right now. | ||
| There's zero chance this can pass. | ||
| And here's the thing, this bill is the tool of Wall Street and the global corporations. | ||
| This is to flood the zone at every level, from unskilled workers all the way up to tech workers. | ||
| The current generation, the millennial generation, the generation after them, want to be Russian serfs? | ||
| This is the bill to do it. | ||
| And if you don't think it's having an impact immediately, we're bringing back Todd Bensman, the Senior Fellow over at Center for Immigration Studies, in which we have Steve Camerata and Mark McCrory coming on later to analyze the bill. | ||
| Senior Fellow there for National Security wrote this amazing book, America's Covert Border War, that everybody should get. | ||
| It talks about the jihadists trying to come across the border. | ||
| But then he's got an article up this morning That's breathtaking, but immigrants massing in northern Mexico and massing in northern Mexico to come across because of Biden's policies. | ||
| And they know the new Biden policies. | ||
| A crisis is coming now at the southern border because of Joe Biden and these radical, radical, radical Democrats. | ||
| And Todd Bensman, who's been all over Mexican media because the mainstream media is not reporting this. | ||
| And even the conservative media is not doing a great job of this. | ||
| We've been talking about this week. | ||
| Signal, not noise. | ||
| Don't be chasing these daily stories, all the stuff about noise. | ||
| This is signal. | ||
| This is what they're trying to do to break the sovereignty of this country. | ||
| Todd Bensman, tell us about what's going on in northern Mexico right now by your reporting of what Mexican media is saying. | ||
| Well, there's a mass migration underway, thousands of Central Americans, for one, and also migrants from all over the world are coursing through Mexico, past the Mexican National Guard and troops and police and everything else to get to the Northern border in time to be let in on the Biden promises. | ||
| They are absolutely on an adrenaline rush to get up there and they are moving into places like Tijuana, Reynosa. | ||
| Piedras Negras, Acuna, all from across the Texas, Arizona, California border, getting ready to come in and in a lot of cases coming through. | ||
| But even more interestingly is that Panama recently opened its border from the pandemic. | ||
| Behind the pandemic border closure in Panama were hundreds and thousands of migrants backed up from places like the Middle East. | ||
| South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, all of the countries that I discuss in my book had been unable to move forward. | ||
| Panama opened its border and moved on to Costa Rica, which is now preparing to open its border. | ||
| And there's reporting in southern Mexico about shelters that are being overrun by those kind of migrants right now. | ||
| There's a nun, Isabel Chavez, in Palenque, which is a southern Mexican city who reports an avalanche at her shelter of people coming out of the Darien Gap from Panama, and all of those people are on the way to the northern border to cross, and they are crossing too in large numbers getting past Border Patrol. | ||
| Okay, I want to do two things here. | ||
| Number one is to talk about Central America. | ||
| You know, we had at least the beginning of some sort of organized effort, right, for the frontline nations Down in Central America to work together kind of say hey look the problem your problems can't be solved on working class people in the rear Grand Valley on their shoulders so let's try to solve them down there but let's have buy-in by these governments to work together to make sure that we don't have because Ladies and gentlemen, don't think this is a tragedy of biblical proportions. | ||
| Don't think that journey from Central America up through Mexico is a good journey, particularly for young people and particularly for women and young girls. | ||
| This is 100% a business now. | ||
| This is a multi-billion dollar industry. | ||
| When we built the wall, when we built the wall, we asked the border patrol guys, tell us where we should build it, El Paso, right up that mountain, because that was a cartel where the cartels brought it through. | ||
| The border is controlled by the cartels. | ||
| It ain't controlled by the United States government on our side, and quite frankly, it's not controlled by the Mexican government on their side, it's controlled by the cartels. | ||
| This is a massive business. | ||
| They make more money now transporting human beings than they do drugs. | ||
| This is an industry. | ||
| That's the power of one of Todd Bensman's writing in his book. | ||
| And we had some sort of working relationship with the governments in Central America, and particularly in Guatemala. | ||
| I think it was Guatemala was doing the best thing. | ||
| What has happened to that? | ||
| Is that just collapsed? | ||
| Because in this Biden bill, look, I don't blame the people in Central America. | ||
| If you're down in Central America, right, and the problems they've got there that are not resolved today, Obviously, you're a rational human being. | ||
| These people are not dumb and they're not irrational. | ||
| They're rational. | ||
| And the rational response is, I'm heading north. | ||
| I don't care how bad it is up in northern Mexico. | ||
| I don't care how bad it is for me to get across the border. | ||
| Once I get across, I'm in. | ||
| And America is a thousand times better, even on its worst day, than what's happening down here. | ||
| So I'm heading up. | ||
| And now I got Biden telling me, basically, I'm throwing the sovereignty of the United States away. | ||
| So, Todd, I want to talk about the relationship in those frontline nations. | ||
| What happened to that, and particularly Guatemala and other nations trying to do it? | ||
| And now the cartels, what are they doing to what Biden's promises? | ||
| And the cartels are going to be making more money than anybody right now. | ||
| Mr. Bensman. | ||
| Well, first of all, the Biden administration has very furtively approached the Mexicans and the Guatemalans and asked them to retain The Trump policy of forcibly breaking up migration caravans, those mass migration caravans. | ||
| Reuters did a great report citing all anonymous sources, nobody would go on the record on this, that the Biden administration has asked those countries to stop Northern migration like Trump was. | ||
| And that this has had to do with political optics, that they just could not be having caravans rushing the border like that while they were trying to get an immigration bill through. | ||
| So that is happening, but it doesn't matter because the pull is so powerful of these Biden policies that there is a new migration phenomenon happening where they're just going around the troops In smaller groups and showing up at the border using smugglers. | ||
| Well, who do those smugglers work for? | ||
| Those are organized cartel efforts that are promoting and facilitating all of this, this action to the border, because there's money to be made, a lot of money to be made. | ||
| And the fact is that now, in my piece today, I quote a border patrol agent anonymously. | ||
| Who told me yesterday, and I quoted him at length, that cartel trucks are bringing them to the other side of the river, filled to the brim, big trucks, deuce and a half trucks, and dropping them at different spots along the border and saying, go. | ||
| And this border patrol agent said they are bum rushing the border. | ||
| Probably three quarters are getting away. | ||
| They know that they're overwhelmed. | ||
| They're going right past the border patrol in huge groups. | ||
| He says that they're aggressive, unusually aggressive, and they're battling and fighting with the border patrol agents that they come across while everybody's sweeping through. | ||
| This is happening in other parts of the border as well. | ||
| Our numbers of apprehensions, just the apprehensions, are 75,000 and up in January, which is probably by the time we get to the end of February, we'll be looking at, you know, close to 100,000, just the apprehended ones. | ||
| But a great many more are going past, just like this Border Patrol agent told me. | ||
| So Todd, how do people get to your, how do people get to your writings and how can they find out more about what's going on in the book? | ||
| Because this is a signal. | ||
| This is going to be, this is where the Biden administration laid out exactly what they want to do. | ||
| This is about destroying the sovereignty of this country. | ||
| This is about destroying working class families. | ||
| Look, you think this, the school reopening, the vaccines, everything to do with this plague. | ||
| And you're putting that all on the back of the people in the Rio Grande Valley, the hard-working Hispanic American citizens, working-class citizens down there, that turned out in record numbers for Donald J. Trump. | ||
| The Democrats are so shocked by this. | ||
| Perez is saying, oh, it's foreign interference. | ||
| It's not foreign interference. | ||
| These people are rational and they're smart. | ||
| They understand that his border wall and the security in these efforts of internal enforcement and border enforcement by the most Hispanic of any branch of our government, the Border Patrol, the heroic, I might add, Border Patrol of this country. | ||
| And now we're putting all the problems of the world on their shoulders. | ||
| Why are we doing that? | ||
| Why is Biden doing that? | ||
| Because he's a running dog for the Wall Street financial interests and the global corporations that want to flood the zone of America with cheap labor. | ||
| And not that it's any benefit to these people. | ||
| They're going to come here and have issues a lot less than they have in Central America, granted. | ||
| That's why it's got to be a frontline nation solution. | ||
| The solution to that problem's got to be in the- and by the way, these people don't want to leave their countries. | ||
| You ask any- they want to be in their country. | ||
| It's like the diaspora of the Chinese people. | ||
| The vast majority want to be back in China. | ||
| They don't want to leave their countries. | ||
| They want to have peace and prosperity around where they were born. | ||
| Like 95% of people on Earth. | ||
| This is a radical policy and I'm telling you it is going to destroy working-class families in this country. | ||
| Todd, how do people get more access to you? | ||
| The book is tremendous. | ||
| Your daily reporting is incredible. | ||
| Just another great example of Center for Immigration Studies, the great work you guys do. | ||
| How do people get access to you? | ||
| Okay, so first of all, America's covert border war Is available on Amazon and where all books are sold. | ||
| And it really deals directly with that kind of extra continental migration that we are, that is coming dead at us out of Panama right now. | ||
| And also cis.org has all of my writings and my reportings. | ||
| And I'll just mention this too, just real quickly. | ||
| I was at the We Build the Wall segment just a few weeks ago, the one in Sunland Park, New Mexico, and watched Migrants have to be move around that wall segment up above the mountain. | ||
| And they're crossing over the section of desert where the next wall segment was scheduled to be built. | ||
| And that is a gaping hole that they're still going through right there. | ||
| Gaping hole. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| Todd, amazing work. | ||
| The audience loves you. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| And I appreciate you changing your schedule to come on today. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| Okay, everybody go take a look at the book. | ||
| Look at his writings. | ||
| I want everybody up on the ramparts, okay? | ||
| Cannot lose this fight. | ||
| There's not going to be any unity, because we're never going to submit to the destruction of our country. | ||
| We're going to turn in a minute. | ||
| Steve Camerata, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies, next in The War Room. | ||
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| We're going to get to all that. | ||
| We got that to come today. | ||
| But we must focus on the work at hand. | ||
| And this is the radical nature of the Biden administration to destroy the sovereignty of this nation and to break the back of American working class families, Hispanic, African-American, white and Asian. | ||
| All of it. | ||
| In this radical bill. | ||
| And in your face, Bill. | ||
| In the live chat, somebody just made a good point. | ||
| We have, what, 75 million votes? | ||
| He's got, what, a million eight people on Twitter? | ||
| It's a joke. | ||
| They stole this thing. | ||
| He's completely illegitimate. | ||
| And now you see what he's trying to do. | ||
| He's the front man for a radical, radical, radical agenda that's tied to these radicals on Wall Street and these global corporations and these radical progressive left groups that want open borders and to destroy this country. | ||
| I want to bring in now Steve Camerato from the Center for Immigration Studies. | ||
| Steve, your thoughts on the bill, but particularly you're a numbers guy. | ||
| I want to get into the math on how this affects American workers. | ||
| So what are your thoughts on the bill and then how does this affect Well, as I think some of your other speakers have already talked about, the bill does seem very radical. | ||
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In the past, I think, proposals for amnesty tended to be somewhat more restrained than this one. | |
| This one seems like it goes over the top, might be the way to say it. | ||
| I can just hit a few highlights. | ||
| So not only do a large fraction of illegals get lawful permanent residence, that's a green card, right away, pretty much unconditionally, and then they can even have an expedited route to citizenship, three years it seems, based on my reading of the bill. | ||
| Others have to go through an intermediate phase before they get There's very little conditions on this. | ||
| You can even have things like drunk driving, of course, and other criminal offenses and still get the amnesty. | ||
| is that you only have to have been here for a month. | ||
| Literally, someone who just arrived in December at Christmas time, crossed the border illegally, overstayed a temporary visa, they are eligible for this amnesty right off the bat. | ||
| The other thing that I think is important, or one thing I think is important, is the way the bill is structured. | ||
| If you come forward and apply and you don't get it, let's say you committed fraud, that's not really who you are, you've been previously deported for a serious crime, they're not going to give it to you, presumably. | ||
| Your fingerprints will show that. | ||
| But, it'll make you leave. | ||
| There's no provision for that. | ||
| In fact, what the bill says is that if you provide information, such as your address, during the application, law enforcement is legally prohibited from using that information to go looking for you. | ||
| What that effectively means is everybody who wants the amnesty gets it. | ||
| If you don't get it because of, say, a very serious crime in your background, you don't have to leave either. | ||
| So it's not even like they're saying, well, look, we're going to legalize most illegals, but the bad ones we're going to make leave. | ||
| They don't even do that. | ||
| They make it almost impossible to make that happen. | ||
| At least in a way that would make sense, which is, well look, if you've committed fraud, we're going to come pick you up based on an address you provided, based on an employer you provided, based on other information that you provide. | ||
| Can't do it. | ||
| The law prevents that from happening as well. | ||
| It's very strange why you'd want to protect those who fail to get the amnesty. | ||
| But they do. | ||
| A couple other things very quickly. | ||
| If you were deported during the Trump administration, you can apply for this amnesty from overseas as well. | ||
| Then there's a whole other set of provisions for the families of illegal immigrants living overseas. | ||
| You can tear this bill apart on so many levels. | ||
| But let me just give your listeners one other thing to think about. | ||
| The current immigration system is generally considered by all observers to be totally overwhelmed by the workload we ask on legal immigration. | ||
| That's green cards, temporary workers, tourists, business travelers, foreign students, all those applications. | ||
| The system kind of busting at the seams as it is because it's so generous. | ||
| To add all of this on top of it means only one thing. | ||
| You will have to rubber stamp You're not going to be able to look at the documentation. | ||
| You're not going to do a good job of verifying identity or whether they meet the criteria. | ||
| There's just no way, because there's no bureaucracy, that could handle this. | ||
| So, that's another thing. | ||
| Rubber stamping has to be the hallmark of this, so we can expect a fair amount of fraud and things like that. | ||
| So, I guess, we can go on and on about the bill. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
| How does it impact American workers? | ||
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Well, look, we are in the midst of two things, a pandemic, which is bad. | |
| We have maybe eight million more working age people not working that's either unemployed or out of the labor market than we had before this thing started a year ago. | ||
| So we are there. | ||
| It has improved. | ||
| There's no question. | ||
| But the situation is pretty dire because most of those eight million people who are unemployed are out of the work are people without a college education. | ||
| They're what we might refer to as the less educated. | ||
| They're working class people. | ||
| So they have really taken it on the chin. | ||
| The college educated have been somewhat insulated from this crisis. | ||
| Not entirely by any means, but a lot. | ||
| So it's mostly lower income, less educated people. | ||
| So to have a big amnesty, allowing illegals to compete now throughout the economy for all kinds of jobs that they couldn't get before, and bringing in so many new people as this bill allows, seems incredibly unwise. | ||
| Now the other big crisis in employment has nothing to do with the pandemic. | ||
| In America, less educated people, those without a college, we can look at men or women. | ||
| We can include young workers or just look at people 25 to 64. | ||
| The fraction who are out of the labor market at any one time has been going up basically for 40 years. | ||
| This is sort of the crisis of non-work. | ||
| Actually, it's a little longer than 40 years, about five decades. | ||
| In other words, if you were to look at 1963, what share of men 25 to 64, sort of prime working age, who don't have a college degree, who are in the labor force, it's much higher back then, and it's less by 1980, it's less by 1990, it's less by 2010, and now it's kind of fallen off a cliff with the pandemic. | ||
| So, what we have is maybe a short-term employment crisis with the pandemic, but it's overlaid in the context into a massive increase in non-work. | ||
| And this is excluding people from prison, and this is excluding the disabled, though part of it is a massive rise in people who are claiming disability benefits. | ||
| Steve, can you hang on for a second? | ||
| We're taking a very short commercial break, about 90 seconds, two minutes. | ||
| I want to bring you back. | ||
| Also have Carol Swain. | ||
| Dr. Carol Swain is going to join us. | ||
| Mark Krikorian, Dr. Shiva, and Dr. Yan, all next hour. | ||
| We're going to get back into the immigration. | ||
| We're talking about Shakespeare coming out of the colleges. | ||
| Wuhan Lab is going to be financed by the U.S. | ||
| government. | ||
| And how are we getting rid of these voting machines in places like Massachusetts? | ||
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