May 23, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| So you recently visited the San Diego and Yuma borders. | |
| You mentioned that you've been to the border through three different presidential administrations now and so forth. | |
| So briefly speaking, what was your experience there? | |
| I think I've now been to all nine sectors on our southern border. | |
| And I'll just be honest, every time I've gone, I've come back infuriated with what's occurring in our borders. | |
| And it has increasingly become worse. | |
| And the situation now is worse than I've ever seen it. | |
| And we were in San Diego, starting in San Diego, which has Tremendous wall system. | |
| There are breaks, there are gaps in the wall, but for the most part, the wall has helped people come through the ports of entry. | |
| And so that's probably one of the least problematic areas that we have on our border. | |
| And even then, it's just unbelievable what's coming in. | |
| The human trafficking, the drug trafficking, the criminals that are still coming across our borders, the enormous lines of those who are legally trying to come and go. | |
| Sometimes having to wait, as we were told, as long as four and five hours to get across the border one way or the other. | |
| I mean, it's just unbelievable. | |
| Then we went from there to Yuma, Arizona, and what our border agents are facing there. | |
| We saw buildings that were facilities designed for about 100 people. | |
| While I was there, there was well in excess over 400 in those facilities. | |
| And on Sunday, before we got there, they said there was over 700. | |
| And this type of thing is across the board. | |
| Our border agents, we were told, in one of the sectors, one of the areas that we just came from, 80% of our border agents are processing illegal individuals, which leaves only 20% guarding our borders. | |
| It is impossible. | |
| We already have a shortage of border agents, but now of those we have in certain areas, only 20% are actually there doing their job because the mass numbers of people who have to be processed. | |
| The unbelievable. | |
| While we were there, the night before, four individuals from Iran were captured. | |
| We were told in one area they had already had over a hundred or in the ballpark of 160 different countries coming across that area of our southern border. | |
| Who are these people? | |
| Why are they coming? | |
| What are their intentions? | |
| Why are they allowed basically to freely enter our country Right now. | |
| And we are allowing this. | |
| It's a frightful thing. | |
| It is a humanitarian crisis. | |
| It is a national security crisis. | |
| And of course, it's impacting our economy on multiple fronts as well. | |
| I'm not necessarily that surprised that there's a lot of interest in coming to America. | |
| My parents escaped from communist Poland in the 70s and came to North America to look for a better life, to get away from persecution and so forth. | |
| Presumably, some of these people are going to be in that boat. | |
| Broadly speaking, maybe just for the record, what is your position on immigration in general? | |
| We are a country that welcomes people from other parts of the world, but there's a right way and a wrong way to come here. | |
| And right now, and this is exasperated by us having open borders and us as a country right now not even abiding by our own immigration laws. | |
| What is the point of having laws if we're not going to abide with those laws? | |
| And right now it's coming direct from the White House and this administration Don't abide by the laws. | |
| And that's very puzzling and concerning to me. | |
| On the other hand, our immigration right now is bottlenecked. | |
| I personally know individuals that have taken up to 27 years to become a legal citizen of this country. | |
| It should never take that long. | |
| And the expense involved in that is enormous as well. | |
| So, look, the problems are on both sides. | |
| We have got to simplify the process of coming into this country legally. | |
| We've got to deal with a bottleneck issue that is here, the amount of time and the expense for people to come here legally. | |
| But at the same time, that does not provide an excuse for people to come here illegally and for us as a country to be irresponsible in not even checking who these individuals are who are coming. | |
| The enormous amounts of fentanyl and the drugs, the cartels right now basically run every square inch of our southern border. | |
| And we've got to get this thing under control. | |
| You know, one of the videos that I saw, you were there, I think, with Congressman Perry, was this, you know, terrible canal or river with, you know, raw sewage and so forth. | |
| Well, and you were just describing that people actually swim through there to get across the border. | |
| I think it's the most polluted river in America or something like this. | |
| If you're standing here, you don't want to smell this. | |
| This is raw sewage coming from Mexico directly into the United States. | |
| And believe it or not, in just a little while, we're going to watch foreign nationals come illegally right down the middle of this river, right underneath these gates. | |
| They actually swim underneath the gates right into the United States of America in a river of sewage. | |
| Right here, last night, they caught Iranian foreign nationals illegally coming into this country. | |
| This is the situation at the border happening today. | |
| Just looking at that on the face of it, I think those people are pretty serious about wanting to get away from something to do that. | |
| So there's this kind of humanitarian question, right? | |
| Is the system just not able to handle all the people that really do need help and are willing to swim a river of sewage to get here? | |
| Yeah, I mean, there are multiple reasons involved, but that was in Mexicali and Calexico area where the new river comes out. | |
| And listen, the most polluted river in America, why is the EPA not even involved in this? | |
| Why do we continue letting this raw sewage come into our country? | |
| That in itself is a whole other issue. | |
| But there are people willing to do anything to come into America, of course. | |
| America is a land of opportunity and freedom, and people want that from other places in the world. | |
| And we don't want to deny the pursuit of those things. | |
| The human heart longs for liberty and freedom, and people want to come to America for that. | |
| But as we are currently opening our borders to individuals like this, we are gradually changing the freedoms that we have in this country. | |
| As we are breaking down laws, criminals are coming into this country, the drugs, the human smuggling, all these type of things It's just a wide-open, inexcusable. | |
| Any country that does not have borders ultimately is not a country. | |
| It's just a land mass. | |
| And we are frightfully moving down that direction, and I really don't understand why. | |
| What good for our country possibly can result from having open borders like we currently have? | |
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