Senator Marsha Blackburn argues sanctuary cities like California admitted 8.5 million illegal immigrants to offset population loss, while Biden's 94 executive actions triggered 302,000 December crossings despite stalled H.R. 2 and deferred $650 million in security funding. She contrasts this with Tennessee's tax elimination and local empowerment, supports Governor Abbott's constitutional property protections, and defines womanhood by two X chromosomes before closing with Southern dialect phrases like "ragamuffin" and "heavens to Betsy." Ultimately, the segment frames immigration as a deliberate Democratic strategy to alter apportionment, challenging federal mandates for zero unauthorized entry. [Automatically generated summary]
They have let in eight and a half million people already that we know of.
Eight and a half million.
And you will notice, and I think this is very telling, you hear these big sanctuary cities complaining about the number of people coming to their city.
But do they say, Joe Biden, go close the border because there are too many illegal immigrants coming here.
No, they don't say that.
They say, send us more money so we can prepare for these immigrants.
Reason being, they are needing to backfill the hundreds of thousands of people that they've lost out of their cities and states.
You know, 2030 is another census.
Apportionment, number of members of Congress are decided at that time.
Your federal funding is set and it depends on that apportionment.
So we do have legislation that would prohibit people that are not citizens from being counted in the census and those numbers used for apportionment.
But we know full well that's what California is doing.
California has lost hundreds of thousands of people, lost congressional seats, and now Gavin Newsom is saying, hey, come here, we'll give you free health care.
Yeah, well, as opposed to watching people kind of get hitting the nuts with things and the usual stuff that we do here, we'll talk to one of the few serious people in this town, actually.
And I suspect on that paper you have in front of you, there's going to be some stuff about the border because there's a big fight a-brewing at the moment.
So that would then codify the entrance of those people between our borders.
And I think you look at this, you look at the provisions on catch and release, it would basically codify catch and release for certain groups of people.
And I'm just saying, no, the first step is securing the border.
So we could go pass a bipartisan deal, a tripartisan deal, and everybody else on the deal.
And the piece of paper would not require Joe Biden to do anything because Joe Biden took 94 different actions in his first hundred days to open the border.
And I think there are people who are on his team that are making many of the decisions and it is so troublesome to so many people who feel as if he is frail and not in charge and probably is more dependent on those around him than most Americans would like to have their president be.
So I know we can always talk about the problems, but since you're from Tennessee and I now live in Florida, as you know, I fled Cali very publicly a couple of years ago.
Let's talk about some of the things that are going right, because you guys are getting new people into your state.
Your economy is doing well.
You don't have the illegals all over the place, at least as I understand it.
What are some of the things that Tennessee is doing right that we should know about?
Because when you're here in D.C., it seems like everything's broken, but certain states are doing some things right.
And this is why you want to look at the states and say, yes, indeed, they are the labs of experimentation for preservation of this democratic republic that we have.
And one of the things that Tennessee has done right is to say, instead of growing our government, what are we going to do to wipesize our government?
How do we make certain that we put more decision-making power at the local level closer to the people?
That's a good thing.
The school choice initiatives that have taken place in our state, the empowering local school systems to make decisions, the desire to engage People at the local level to address problems, whether it is education or infant mortality or crime or the issues with fentanyl.
As I visit with each of our counties, our state's 95 counties every single year, and visit with people who are citizens and teachers and principals and county elected officials, they are focused on problem solving.
Because people are moving in.
They are wanting to live in Tennessee.
They're wanting to be in a place that has a small state government and values the rights of citizens.
So they are looking at how you address these problems, how you deal with growth, how you deal with transportation issues.
Good set of problems.
Good set of problems.
Yeah.
And they're being creative with it.
And I like that.
I think that is what a representative of government is about.
And of course, our economy is strong because we do not have a state income tax.
I led that fight when I was in the state Senate.
And then, of course, our state Voted, the people of our state voted to amend our state constitution.
You will never have the state income tax in Tennessee.
I mean, having, I was raised in New York and then I lived in California and now I live in Florida and we have roads and we have schools and everything seems to operate quite well, actually.
Are you, are you amazed that some more states aren't doing this?
It is so surprising to me that some states like California... That people want to pay mortgage taxes, actually.
Yeah, and they continue to escalate the rate of their state income tax because they have pension issues, they have long-term legacy system issues in their governmental structure, and they don't go about trying to right-size that government.
They don't go about utilizing technology.
You take a state like Tennessee.
Where they know that they're going to be dependent on that sales tax.
They're not going to have an income tax and that they're going to have to be frugal and they're going to have to be good stewards of the taxpayer's money.
And they can't go print money and do deficit financing because our state has a balanced budget amendment.
Well, as we know, the Internet can be a technology for good and for bad.
And I think that there are times that it has truly allowed people to be anonymous and to push bad ideas and try to build support for things that are sometimes not very good ideas.
And my hope is that we'll be able to turn to more live partisanship and people will think long term.
And that's a ramifications of some of these things that seem like they would be the issue at the moment.
So I take it when you saw what Texas did and what Greg Abbott did a week or two ago with the border, you were probably supportive or at least pleased that he was doing something that the federal government wouldn't?
You know, when you look at, he had the Article 4, Section 4 issue and the Article 1, Section 10 issue.
Where he is in proper standing, because in one, he can protect himself from invasion.
That would be your Article 4 issue.
Article 1, the Section 2 issue, is his right to do the protection of his state when the federal government has not done their job.
And you can look at that as a 10th of a million issue also.
A governor has that responsibility.
And he stepped forward and said, this is what we're going to do.
And I've had the opportunity to be on that Texas border and actually meet with some of these rangers and farmers and private property owners, people that live Their property backs up Rio Grande.
And the thing is, they're losing their right to private property because they have illegal immigrants running through that property, poaching cattle, And this is their livelihood.
Whether it's melons or lettuce or whatever that they're growing down there.
And then they run through the field and the whole group's gone.
And this is their livelihood.
So these individuals definitely want to be able to say, no, this is my property.
And I'm going to have, exercise my right to protect my property in this state.
My guys in their childlike handwriting have written some phrases, some Southern phrases down, and they want to see if I know all of these or if you want to add any commentary to any of these.