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Aug. 13, 2021 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Fight On The Border
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The Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Mayorkas, was caught on tape, leaked audio saying, ah, yeah, the border is unsustainable.
These numbers can't continue.
He says it as now every month it goes higher and higher and higher.
It went higher, you know, from February to March to April to May to June, now July.
212,672 illegal immigrants coming into the country.
There's no, it's basically process and release.
It's not detain and give them a court date.
No, it's process release and then give them free transportation and disperse people all over the United States without any COVID testing in the middle of a pandemic after people have been in overcrowded Biden cages that he's built for people.
I mean, that's pretty much what happens.
Anyway, just listen to this leaked audio.
Oh, this is unsustainable.
These numbers can't continue.
They're not only continuing, they're continuing to get larger every month with now July setting a new record.
Listen.
Is it unsustainable?
These numbers cannot continue.
We cannot get to a point where we were a couple weeks ago.
And we're going to make sure that doesn't happen.
We're looking at the policy documents.
Yeah, we're going to make sure that doesn't happen.
And then when all else fails, now it was the Biden administration that ended the Stay of Mexico policy that was very successful.
That brought us to a 30-year low in terms of illegal immigrants coming into America.
And of course, the border wall construction, that stopped too.
Catch and release was ended under Donald Trump, now brought back, and it's even more liberal than ever.
It's process and release.
But when all else fails, just blame Donald Trump for the current border crisis, not Joe's policies.
There's a direct correlation.
As soon as the policies changed, the numbers went up exponentially from a 30-year low and now what will be a 30-year high of illegal immigrants.
But that's Trump's fault.
Listen.
The rise in encounters of migrants at the southern border began in April of 2020, last year, but the increase is most certainly sharper over the past several months and greater than in June.
Allow me to share with you the CBP enforcement numbers for July.
212,672 persons were encountered attempting entry along the southwest border, a 13% increase over June 2021.
A majority continue to be single adults, specifically approximately 52%.
This is a 6% decrease from June.
95,788 individuals, more than 45% of July encounters, were processed for expulsion under Title 42.
Tragically, former President Trump slashed our international assistance to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, slashed the resources that we were contributing to address the root causes of irregular migration.
Another reason is the end of the cruel policies of the past administration and the restoration of the rule of laws of this country that Congress has passed, including our asylum laws that provide humanitarian relief.
And thirdly and importantly is the resurgence of the economy in the United States and the gleam of the American promise once again.
The restoration of the rule of law, you've got to be kidding me.
They're not only not enforcing the law.
You see, the law says you're not allowed to enter the country without our permission.
You have to respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty.
The only people not respecting the law are the people that are entering illegally, aided and abetted by Mayorkas, Biden, Harris, and all the Democrats that don't seem to care at all about the high rate of COVID positivity.
You know, we now see the DHS having to admit, yeah, coronavirus positive border crosses are increasingly arriving.
You think?
They're the ones that they took the policies that were working, that were keeping people home.
I'm not sure what he's saying here, is that if we don't pay a ransom to countries, that people are going to come here.
That's what it sounded like to me.
The only way to keep people in their countries is to give them money to stay in their country.
No, we can control our own borders.
That would be the decision the Trump administration followed.
You know, you've got leaked video that just came out.
Hundreds of people at this camp are COVID-positive migrants, you know, but we're not even testing most of the people.
We put them in overcrowded cages in the middle of a pandemic, and then we ship them out and disperse them all over the country.
And they're not even telling states that they're dropping people right on their front door.
Former CB Customs and Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan even said that the Homeland Security of Joe Biden released potentially 40,000 coronavirus positive illegal immigrants into the U.S. What does that mean?
That means they're going to infect innocent Americans.
And some will be hospitalized, just a matter of math at that point.
And some will die as a result of these open border policies, aiding and abetting the lawbreaking that's going on.
Biden orders ICE agents not to arrest and deport people that they find.
Well, that's not enforcing the law.
That's not what the law says.
That's just making up your laws because you don't like the laws that we have.
But they have resumed their Cuban deportation plans.
If you come by sea, you can't get in.
Why?
Because they think the people that are coming from Cuba might be more inclined to vote Republican.
I don't know.
I'm a little suspicious based on everything else they've done.
Brandon Judd is the president of the National Border Patrol Council, 20-year active Border Patrol vet.
And Cesar Ybarra is back with us, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs at Freedom Works.
Well, okay, Mr. Ybera, you tell me, am I describing accurately the real conditions at the border and the real cause is Joe Biden not enforcing the law?
Sean, you're exactly right.
The current crisis at the southern border was created by President Biden and Vice President Harris's open borders rhetoric and their dismantlement of Trump-era border security policies.
Fact is, majority of Americans want strong borders, especially those who live along the border.
Many of them are Hispanic, Sean, who want to live in safe communities and free from criminality.
The evidence is shown by the recent mayoral election in McCallum, Texas.
An overwhelmingly Hispanic border town just elected a Hispanic Republican into office.
Law and order, border security, and good government, good governance is the message that got Mayor Villalobos elected.
The left's disdain for the rule of law will continue to drive Hispanics to Republican candidates and give us a shot at taking back the House and the Senate majority, Sean.
Brandon, I read the GAO report came out earlier this year that showed that as high as 35% of Border Patrol agents have contracted COVID-19.
Dozens apparently have died as a result of contracting this horrible disease.
And are these numbers of estimates of as high as 20% of people entering the country illegally are COVID positive?
So it's going to be a lot higher than that.
And the reason why we can't give you an exact number is because we don't test everybody like what you said.
When we take people into custody and we release them with an NTA or an NTR, we're transporting them to non-governmental organizations.
Whether they test them or not, we don't know whether or not they give the government what those tests come back as, whether they're positive or negative.
We just don't know.
So there's no way to say that.
But of the ones that we hold in custody and that we do test, it's more than 20%.
So it stands to reason that a large number of these people have COVID that they're bringing into the United States.
But more importantly, I'd like to take Secretary Marokis to task when he says that this is unsustainable.
He's absolutely correct.
It is unsustainable.
Yet he's the only secretary that I've ever seen come to the border and not have solutions or programs or policies that he's going to put in place to address this issue.
He also blames this on Trump and says that this is Trump's fault because he slashed the funding that we're giving these countries, yet they didn't come under Trump.
So how is that?
Trump slashes the funding, yet they don't come, but now it's his fault.
This doesn't make sense.
And if the mainstream media was honest, they would fact-check him and they would take him to task for what he's saying because he's lying to the American public and he's misleading them.
By the way, that's a joke that they're going to be honest, right?
You're kidding.
You don't really expect something like that to ever happen, do you?
I don't only hope.
You know, I mean, you talk to people.
I know the great people at Freedom Works have done a lot of studying about what's happening down there.
We've had our own reporters on the ground almost the entire time investigating everything the media mob is saying about it, which is little, is not true.
They're not highlighting and focusing on what's been going on, the high rate of COVID positivity, the overcrowded cages.
The Biden administration has successfully now drawn attention away from it from most media outlets, except for a few shows like mine.
I don't think anybody else is showing any of this.
That's right, Sean.
And the hypocrisy by the Biden-Harris administration cannot be more clear.
Biden wants to require federal employees, including our brave military service members, to get vaccinated.
The administration is calling on schools to require kids to wear dirty masks all day.
But undocumented immigrants who test positive for COVID are being released in cities across the country.
This is the kind of hypocrisy that demonstrates that the COVID-19 mandates are more about control than actually protecting our most vulnerable citizens.
Every American, Democrat or Republican, should be outraged by this administration's lack of will to secure a border and enforce the rule of law.
Now, you were born in Mexico.
You became a naturalized citizen after moving to Southern California.
And I know you helped, you know, for example, aside from managing legislative affairs, drive the organization's message and the Hispanic community.
I've been down to the border everywhere from the Rio Grande straight through San Diego.
And I got to tell you something.
It's sad in San Diego, for example.
I remember one particular report I did is, you know, on one side of the border, you have a beautiful American town with half million million-dollar homes in the neighborhood that's right across the border.
And then I look across in the side of Mexico, and it looks like, you know, broken down, dilapidated, you know, homes put together with string and whatever they can find and kids playing in what we would view as the equivalent of almost like a junkyard with old tires piled upon old tires and other stuff.
It's sad if I was on that side of the border, I'd want to come here too.
Now, we do have a process, though, to do it and do it legally.
That's exactly right, Sean.
And funny you mentioned that region.
You know, I grew up on the San Diego-Tijuana border on both sides.
You know exactly the image I'm describing.
Am I accurate?
You're exactly right, Sean.
You know, and I think that Republicans need to take action if we do take back the majority.
We need to secure the border.
We need to reform our legal integration system to make it merit-based and give people a shot at the American dream, just like me and my family were afforded.
And also work with business leaders to implement a national e-verify program because a lot of this is going to be working, it's going to take the federal government working with industry to ensure that they are hiring people who are eligible to work and not promoting the criminality of undocumented people working in the United States.
So it's going to take big cooperation between the feds and civil society and business industry to make this all work.
You know, I just look at this, and it's one of these problems that we know how to solve.
We had it all resolved under Donald Trump.
Anyway, I want to thank you, Cesar Yabara.
Thank you.
Brandon Judd, thank you.
Quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll get back to the phones.
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Sean Hannity.
Hi, back to our busy phones.
Tom is in New Jersey.
Hey, Tom, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm good, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
You know, I'm just getting tired of this on this.
Everything at the border is just getting worse and worse.
And we don't have enough people power to handle this.
And thank God, Sarah Clark's down there, like all the time.
I watch her reports with her, and thank God she's keeping us abreast of what's going on down there.
I mean, but the problem is, it's like it's only us and maybe a couple of other shows.
Laura, you know, just a few of us.
There's not many of us doing it.
Sean.
And the stories are there.
I don't see it anywhere.
Only on your show.
Only on Fox.
Sad.
Forget CNN.
They're going down the tubes.
Thank God.
Do you realize for 20, what was it, 24 straight weeks?
Did you read that, Linda?
They didn't even crack a million viewers.
I can't believe that it was even a question.
Well, I mean, they got a little bounce after the election.
I mean, that happens.
There's a certain cycle, news cycle, that impacts viewership.
And usually after elections, people need a little bit of a break.
And then believe me, they're back in droves now.
And, you know, I wouldn't survive if my audience was that negligible.
I just wouldn't survive.
I mean, it's been what?
You know what?
Somebody told me this, Linda.
You're going to get a kick out of this.
Next year, I might be the longest-serving prime time cable news host in cable news history.
I'm like, oh, gee, there's something to celebrate.
That just means I'm getting old, man.
I'm like, oh, geez.
Now, you use Chamonix.
You look younger than ever.
Right?
I'm telling you.
Everybody swears by it.
I mean, you swear by it.
You've been using it for years.
I just love the people at Chamonix.
They're just nice people.
George, everybody, their entire team.
I love how everyone tries to rip them off and duplicate them, and they can't.
They're just smarter than everybody else.
They've been with us the longest.
They're awesome.
Oh, yeah.
They're great.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour on a Friday.
Aren't you glad it's Friday?
I'm so glad it's Friday.
Oh, man.
Linda, you glad it's Friday.
You know what you need to do this weekend?
Need to do something out of the box and something very different.
Okay.
Take your six-year-old Liam to McDonald's and get him a happy meal.
That's unique in the front.
Seriously?
And yeah, because you've never done it.
And if you do it, you say, Uncle Sean wanted you to have this special present.
And then, without you brainwashing him and prepping him, then I want to call him and ask him if he liked it.
Then I want to ask him an important question.
Now, whose french fries do you like better?
Mom's air-fried french fries or real french fries from McDonald's?
I already know the answer.
Real french fries from McDonald's.
No, he's going to love my food.
I'm his mother.
He loves me.
I'm his favorite.
Okay, you say that, but I'm telling you, he's going to like the other fries better.
Put it up as a question.
I just can't win with you.
Put it up as a question on Hennedy.com.
What are better, air-fried french fries or McDonald's french fries?
That's assuming that most people in the country have an air fryer, which they don't.
Okay.
That's not a common thing.
Okay.
And then say, please only vote if you've ever had air-fried french fries.
I actually have had them.
And I can tell you, it's not even close.
It's not even close.
First of all, we cannot talk to you about this because we have to grade on a curve with you.
When we traveled in this past month and we had to have meals as a team, okay?
I literally could say we don't need anything on that certain plate of that certain type of food except salt.
That was all you wanted.
So we're clearly not grading on an even scale here.
The audience knows that you are a soul adult.
What did I order?
I don't even remember.
Do you remember?
Do you want me to share it with the audience?
Because it's great.
Yeah, of course.
I don't care.
Okay, sure.
So we brought cans of Campbell's soup, chicken noodle, that you do not dilute with water, that you just eat out of the tiny, tiny bit.
You're full of blood.
Less than like about a third of a can of water.
Uh-huh.
And then I ordered you chicken wings.
Correct.
Chicken wings.
No sauce.
No sauce.
No buffalo sauce.
No hot sauce.
Just sauce.
No sauce at all.
No sauce at all.
This is me putting the order in and the girl saying to me, I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.
I'm like, yeah, I just want chicken.
Regular chick, plain chicken.
Fried wings, and then we're going to put salt on it.
And she's like, all right.
It was bizarre.
Exactly what I did.
Disgusting.
James liked them.
He loved them.
First of all, James is your brother.
He's always going to support you.
And he's the easiest eater I know.
He said to me, these are like the best wings I've ever had, right?
James, correct?
Say it.
Correct.
Correct.
There you go.
Uh-huh.
I'm not going to get between you and your brother.
He's my brother-in-law, but he's still my brother.
Oh, my God.
First of all, he's been your brother-in-law for a gajillion years.
So at this point, he's your brother.
You and I both know that.
That's correct.
I believe he's the brother that I always wanted my whole life.
That's correct.
So don't split hairs on the roof.
I'm just telling you.
Anyways.
But also, there's a reason we call him sweet baby James is because he's the nicest guy in the whole wide world.
I am not as nice as you can.
I actually have a different theory on that name.
I think we call him Sweet Baby James so that nobody knows that he's actually a military guy who will cut yourself.
No, he's crossed the line.
He was in the Navy.
He served in the Navy.
You don't cross the Navy and probably was going to for life, but I stopped him.
But, you know, well, there was nothing wrong.
And here's the problem.
You're describing my eating habits as if there's something wrong with it.
I had a dinner a while back with some friends, and we all talked about what we like to order.
And they all go through, oh, when I go to this fancy hotel, I like to order this.
I'm like, well, if they have really good New England clam chowder, I'm always interested.
And then I said, I really usually just prefer the kids' menu.
Grilled cheese with bacon, mac and cheese, spaghetti with marinara sauce, or a cheeseburger.
That's what I usually like to do.
And you said this to a group of strangers?
This is a group of strangers or people you knew?
No, half the people I didn't know.
We were just hanging out.
It was a social situation I had to deal with.
So I'm just asking.
Well, you know how social I am.
I'm a total loser.
I mean, if anybody understood what my life was really like, wouldn't they think I'm a loser?
They would.
No, I don't think so.
You just like to be home.
Okay.
I stay.
Why do I stay home though?
Because I love my job.
I think it's an honor to do this.
And I'm as disciplined as a Marine.
I get up.
I work out.
I study.
I go to the studio.
I do my radio show.
I take, you know, a little snack break, whatever it is that I'm eating.
And then I get right back to studying and writing.
And I do my next show.
And then I try to fall asleep as best I can as fast as I can, which is usually a few hours later, catch up on some calls.
But I'm usually studying for the next day already before I go to bed.
Yeah.
And then I get up to the next day.
You're a hard worker.
You also have two full-time jobs on the air as well as several other jobs, not the least of which is being a dad.
So you have a lot going on, just like most Americans who believe, you know, in not getting a stimulus check and actually working.
So there's a lot of people that are hustling out there.
I want to relate to you.
That's everybody I know in life.
I don't know.
And you don't, you know, everyone, why do you do it for?
I don't do this for money.
I do it because I love our country.
I have one motivation now.
Well, I think that that bears your pet because there's a lot of people who don't realize that when you started out in radio, you know, radio is not this glamorous thing.
You don't make any money.
Like none.
You know, you're broke as a joke.
Listen, I worked for free for years.
My first paid gig wasn't until 1990.
I started in 87.
My first paid gig was 1990, and I made a whopping $19,000 a year.
87 money being a contractor.
Where was 87?
Is that California or is that Brooklyn?
Yeah, that's California.
Right.
Okay.
And then 90.
And then you had a one-hour a week show.
And then by the time I left Alabama, I was doing not only the afternoon show for three hours, I was doing the morning show for three hours.
I like Joe Paggs.
You don't even like the morning.
Oh, God, I hated it.
Oh, I did.
You're not really a morning host.
I wouldn't want to wake up to him.
Well, this is terrible.
I shouldn't admit this.
I'll probably be fine by the FCC, but I would assume the statute of limitations are long dead and gone now.
But it was a 50,000 watt station.
But at night, it powered down to like 250.
And in the wintertime, you didn't power up supposedly until 7:30.
And I'm like, if I'm coming in to work, I'm not coming in and people can't hear me.
And I just, you know, really didn't look at what the actual times were.
When I went on the air, the power went right up.
I figured out how to do it.
Believe it or not, the technical genius that I am.
You are a very technical person.
And I used to crank that sucker right up.
Was that back when you were splicing tape with a marker?
Yeah, I used to do all my own production by slicing tape.
Yeah.
I mean, those were the days, especially because you love production so much.
No, it's not that.
I mean, it's, I did it because I wanted to learn.
I mean, I couldn't do it now because I can't do the computer processing stuff that you guys do, which makes it infinitely easier.
Okay, so I got a question for you.
You ready?
Katie and I are talking, and we've had this call.
And since we're having a sort of a free moment here, I'll ask it now.
So we've had callers call in and ask, what is your most memorable moment on radio?
And what is your favorite moment on radio?
Oh, boy, that's hard.
I told this story.
You know, people ask me all the time, what do you like better, TV or radio?
And I just say, I like it all.
What do I most favorite moment?
I realized the power of radio when I told the story about the guy that told me he took a bottle of pills and drank a quart of gin and was saying goodbye because he was killing himself.
And when I finally got the location out of him, within a minute, literally, you know, dozens of cars and an ambulance descended on him and saved this guy's life.
That was a pretty, that woke me up to the power of radio and that I wasn't really thinking about and the responsibility that comes along with it.
But, you know, I like every part of it.
I mean, but like a happy memory.
Like that's, that's one of those moving memories where you save somebody's life, like a happy memory.
I tell you what I've enjoyed the most is getting to know and meet listeners.
I think, you know, when you're on the road, it's hard.
But when you meet, you know, it's like a family.
Radio is a heart medium.
It's very different than television.
And television, I can just roll my eyes or make a face and I can communicate in part that way.
But when you go out and you meet people and you see, and I talk to people and I learn their stories and I see their struggles and I know the importance of education and the importance of lower taxes and the importance of less government and whatever is important at the time, I realize the importance of the role politics plays in our life because it impacts every aspect of our lives.
And I just like being a spoke in the wheel.
Everybody thinks, well, you must think you're a big shot.
Not at all.
I just think I'm a spoke.
Just like every voter is a spoke in the wheel.
Everybody's doing their part.
When everyone does their part, we can fix things.
And, you know, it's the thrill of victory when you win election years and the agony of defeat when you don't.
But you never stop.
The fight for freedom never ends.
And that's something that's just ingrained in my DNA.
I don't know why as a young kid, I listen to talk radio, never imagining I'd ever have the chance to do it.
And then I get the chance to do it.
Then they took away the chance to do it.
Then I wanted it more, more than anything else in the world.
And I've been doing it now 33 years since I started.
And it's been the greatest journey in my life.
And I feel blessed to be behind this microphone every day.
I thank the people that make this possible.
At the end of the show, I often say, you make this show possible.
Thank you for that.
Because if you don't have listeners, you don't survive in radio.
If you don't have viewers on TV, you don't survive in television.
I can't believe I'm going to be the longest running primetime cable news host in history at some point next year.
I mean, somebody told me that and I said, good grief.
My next question was, how many years was Johnny Carson on?
I'm like, oh, man.
But that says something about you, boss.
That says something, you know?
Well, I mean, in my opinion, there have been, I mean, I've been here going on 17 years, which is a very long time.
And one of the things I can say is there have been many conversations where we've said, should we cover this?
Should we talk about this?
Should we do this?
And sometimes you just got to follow your gut.
And you have done that time and again.
I mean, you and I have not always agreed on everything.
You're like, nah, I think I got to do it this way.
Well, there have been times you've been downright pissed off at me because I'm the opposite of it.
And vice versa.
And vice versa.
And we've both been wrong and right on different times.
Versa visa, but go ahead.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
Anyways, all that to say, there are moments, but I think it speaks to the show, right?
So it's like, I'm going to do it with you.
This is the people we meet, though.
When we meet people, it's incredible.
When I was called, wait, can I tell you?
When I was call screening, this is crazy.
When I was call screening, I first started out.
I'll never forget when Ricky Medlock called.
And I said, how's he doing?
He calls in.
He's okay.
He's okay.
And he calls in.
He goes, hey, how you doing?
This is Ricky Medlock of Leonard Skinner.
And I'm like, yeah, whatever, buddy.
Click.
So I didn't know.
He calls back and he goes, this is Ricky Medlock again.
Can you not hang up on me?
I'm like, dude, it's not cool to impersonate people.
Okay.
Ricky Medlock is not.
Wait, I said, Ricky Medlock's not calling the 800 number.
He goes, Ricky Medlock is calling the 800 number because I don't have any other number.
And I'm like, all right, what instrument do you play?
And he's like, are you going to quiz me now?
Like, oh, yeah, I'm going to quiz you.
I'm going to ask you all kinds of questions.
And if you don't know the answer, I'm hanging up again.
Well, of course, he gets them all right.
And we start talking this and that.
And that was how Ricky Medlock became a friend of the show, but it was hysterical.
And I can't tell you how many people are.
Ricky Medlock's like the greatest guitar.
He's one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
I mean, this guy, when he's jamming out Freebird, I mean, during that long guitar, you know, medley that goes on and on and on and just gets more intense and more intense and more intense.
It's amazing to watch.
But there's a lot of moments like that, Sean, where like congressmen, senators, football players, I can't even tell you how many people have called the 800 number, you know, and I'm like, it's just bizarre.
It's totally one thing.
I want to give people some hope here because people are, you know, worried now about the future.
I can feel it.
I can't explain why.
I just know it.
I sense it.
I feel it.
It's my gut.
I've lived through this.
33 years here, 25 years on TV.
And there is now, it is percolating and it is beginning to boil and it's going to overflow.
And I believe crescendo first in November of 2022.
If we get these election laws fixed, which now happened in Texas yesterday, in case people weren't watching, we have one extra thing to fix in Georgia.
That's signature verification, but it's happening also in Pennsylvania and it's happening in Wisconsin and Michigan and hopefully Arizona.
And that is integrity, signature verification, voter ID, chain of custody controls, partisan observers able to observe, updated voter rolls.
If we do these things to ensure integrity in our process, we can fix what is an election system.
The last election.
Whoa, you're saying Hannity did it was fraud?
I'm saying the laws weren't followed.
That's correct.
Partisan observers were not allowed to observe.
That is a violation of the law.
The Pennsylvania Constitution was violated.
Read the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin's stinging rebuke and dissent about how laws weren't followed in that state.
It's interesting.
So we got to fix that.
And then hopefully we can fix the country.
Because I still believe in the dream of America.
But for America, this world is going straight to Adam Schiff.
And it ain't going to be good.
Wrap things up for today.
Let not your hearts be troubled.
Yeah, they should be.
Delta variant, Lambda variant, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, mask mandates, but nothing if you're an illegal immigrant coming through the border because you get special rights that American citizens don't get.
Makes no sense.
We'll have it all covered.
Monday edition on the Sean Hannity show.
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