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June 29, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Death At The Border - June 28th, Hour 3
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If you want to be a part of the program, interesting developments as it relates to illegal immigration.
I mean, this is just beyond tragic and sad.
Forty-eight people originally it was 46.
We we now uh that number has gone up to 48 people found dead inside a tractor trailer in what was a suspected migrant smuggling attempt uh on a Texas roadway.
Forty-eight people dead.
I mean, this this is a perilous journey.
And why are people coming?
Because they already know that we have open borders.
They know that Joe Biden's policies are not Donald Trump's policies.
They even have heard that they'll get a free telephone and transportation to another state because of Joe Biden's lack of enforcing the law.
So we have that story that came out today.
Interesting story in New York, a New York City law that was passed that allows illegal immigrants, or as they say, non-citizens to vote in local elections.
Uh it was struck down yesterday by a judge who said it violated both the state constitution and various provisions of state law.
Uh I was well, if you're here illegally, by the very nature, you shouldn't have legal rights to vote.
Anyway, it was a 13-page ruling, said city officials.
Uh you know, cannot just overlook restrictions in New York's constitution, which expressly state that only residents, uh I'm sorry, only citizens, meaning the age and residency requirements are entitled to register and vote in elections.
It's primary day in New York, so that's why it was so relevant.
Uh anyway, our friend Brandon Judd is with us.
He's the president of the National Border Patrol Council, 20-year active border patrol veteran.
Uh, I don't think I'd want your job.
I don't I don't think I'd want to open a tractor trailer and see 48 dead human beings.
Um I I talk to guys that are on the ground.
They say morale has never been this low, and they feel that they're having zero impact on uh in and incapable of doing their jobs.
And by the way, Governor Abbott said these deaths are on Joe Biden.
I don't disagree with him because he's telling people to come here basically.
Oh, they are on Joe Biden.
If you look at what we're currently dealing with on the border, uh, anybody that crosses the border illegally and claims asylum, they're they're going to be released into the United States.
These individuals uh that are trying to evade apprehension, the ones that are going to um get smuggled in tractor treasures, they're trying to evade apprehension.
Um they're the they're part of the million people that have been able to cross the border illegally, evade apprehension in what we call gotta wave.
They've been able to get away.
Um, you know, in this very, very tragic instance.
Um unfortunately the smugglers didn't care enough to even give them water or air conditioning to keep them alive, and they ultimately ended up perishing.
But that's the situation that that that we're under, and this tragedy clearly falls directly on the shoulders of President Joe Biden because of his policies.
He is encouraging people to violate our laws.
He's encouraging people to come to our borders, cross our borders illegally, whether to try to get away or to claim asylum.
He's encouraging them to gain the game the loopholes that exist in our immigration system.
And it is disgusting to see what is currently going On and to know that there is nothing that we can do about it because his policies do not allow law enforcement to properly um in enforce the laws which keeps American citizens safe and and it even keeps people that cross our borders illegally safe.
You know, it's pretty amazing to me that this is a pretty simple proposition.
We had control of our borders prior to Joe Biden being president.
Now we had what a 20, 25, 30 year record last year of illegal immigrants entering our country.
Uh he got not only did he eliminate the state of Mexico policy, they stopped building the border wall, uh, which we could have completed in the interim.
How many miles of border wall did did Donald Trump accompl finish by the time he left office?
Oh, he he finished well over six hundred miles of of border wall.
And and that's not just new wall, it was replacement wall, it was what we actually needed.
He looked at the border, he spoke with all of the people that knew exactly what needed to be done.
Um he built the border wall in the strategic areas where we needed in order for us to control illegal immigration.
Now there's gaps in the wall that unfortunately his his term as president ran out where that wasn't able to be filled, but but when you look at that, it's insane to think that walls have proven time and time again.
Joe Biden himself voted for the Secure Fence Act back in two thousand and seven, and now he's gonna pretend like they don't work.
I worked at a border patrol station in Arizona, um, Knockle, Arizona, where we were apprehending in a short fifty-six mile stretch of border, over a hundred thousand people per year.
When we built the the walls there, that number dropped down to less than ten thousand.
It is proven time and time again that walls work yet.
This administration refuses to acknowledge that because they have way too many activists in the White House in DHS, and these activists want these open borders.
They want to continue to have this chaos on the border, and and it's it's unfathomable that he is not willing to protect the citizens of this country, rather he's willing to listen to activists that want this.
Do these illegal immigrants know that they're once they get into this country, they know exactly what to say that will ensure that they get to remain here.
Is that correct?
Their coach, their coach, the cartel.
They coach.
All right.
Secondly, do they know they're about to get a free phone from the Biden administration?
Yes, yes.
All of this is part of how the cartels advertise their services.
And they and they also know that they'll at some point be given free transportation to uh a different state as they move people all around the country.
They know that too.
They know that as well as work permits everything.
So I mean, it's it's all this is is a scam.
Um, you know, I saw an another article which really caught my attention, and it had to do with Mayorcus, and I I mean this leaked memo that came out, um, and he's wrote Senator Ron Johnson is demanding information uh about American taxpayers shouldn't be forced to further exacerbate the border crisis facilitating migrant travel.
And he wrote the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Majorcus, June 22nd, and it was in Fox News Digital, and he that another top Republicans, you know, noted that an MBC report that the federal government would begin paying for migrants travel from the U.S. Mexico border to various shelters located in Texas, New Mexico, and and Calif uh California.
Um, and that according to the plan, the DHS would pay to transport aliens away from the border and deeper into the U.S. So they're actually saying what they're gonna do, and then they go before Congress and they just outright lie.
And and again, that's the problem that we see in our government today.
When you look at this administration, and when you look at the way that they deflect on what's actually going on, they know the mainstream media is gonna eat it up.
They know the mainstream media is only going to report on what they want them to report.
And so they're trying to hide it from the American public.
Thank goodness that there are sources out there that are willing to report the truth so that the American public can understand what is going on, and therefore we can have elections that will actually have consequences.
All right, Brandon Judd, President National Border Patrol Council, 20 year active border patrol vet.
Our prayers are with you and all your guys.
I mean, it's gotta be so disheartening.
You're willing to put your life on the line every day, enforce the laws of this country only to have a president undermine all of those laws.
Unbelievable.
Thank you.
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Phil is in Wyoming on the Sean Hannity Show.
What's going on, Phil?
A lot of a lot going on politically out there.
Uh I know Liz Cheney's down by like thirty points in the last poll that I showed for this primary that's upcoming.
When j when is your primary?
Uh I think it's coming up the middle of August.
Yeah.
And now she's asking Democrats to change, I guess, their registration and vote for her.
And then she tweeted out that she supported the Roe v.
Wade that supported Roe v.
Wade being overturned and Democrats said nice try, we're not doing it.
Yeah, she claims to represent Wyoming, but she doesn't represent Wyoming, she represents herself.
She has this terrible hatred for President Trump and she's letting that uh control her emotions and she spouts off about the rule of law and and following the Constitution and uh this committee that she uh is she's on that that's unconstitutional in and of itself the way it's put together.
I mean and and those of us from Wyoming that that don't agree with her she called us all crazies uh this spring and I I just I don't understand uh how she thinks she's representing the people of Wyoming uh on this one issue uh specifically of Donald Trump because most people think he was uh from Wyoming think he was a good president.
Um it's a you know I worry about the future of our country and she is part of that worry.
Well you know who knows what her real plans are pro probably you know to get together with the Lincoln project and all the never Trumper groups out there and they'll try to run a a third party candidate in the hopes that they can peel away enough votes that uh what Joe Biden gets re-elected or Kamala Harris or you know the genius mayor Pete uh God help us because they don't really have any anybody that inspires any confidence in me to be very blunt.
Um but uh you it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Look I think the American people have decided January 6th can't happen.
I mean I want to be very clear uh we can't we have to protect our institutions.
We can't have the summer of 2020 happen again either there's no committee hearings for that.
And the fact that Donald Trump authorized the troops you would think the the guard troops ahead of January 6, you'd think that would be a big part of their investigation if they wanted to prevent this from ever happening again, which I do want to prevent from ever happening again they they have no interest in that.
And that to me is sad because they they had an opportunity.
Now if Republicans get control of the House and Senate they can have their own hearings and hopefully come up with solutions to prevent it from ever happening again.
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Buddy is in North Carolina.
What's up, Buddy?
Hey how are you doing?
What's up man?
Hey just uh I'm I'm really worried about uh November it seems like it was just Bad timing with the Supreme Court uh Roe v.
Wade decision because I know there's there's a lot of people like myself that are hurting financially with everything that's going on.
And this comes up and there may have been a large portion of Democrats that might have been kinda on the fence and starting to realize, hey, my pocketbook's hurting, but now they the Dems the politicians had nothing on that side to run on, and now they can just kind of Buddy.
Let me ask you a question.
Do you think the American people if they haven't figured it out yet?
Do you think they'll figure out that if they want an abortion, it'll be fairly easy to obtain?
Oh, oh, sure.
Sure.
But so now you're gonna be you're gonna go so every day, every American that goes shopping in any store you shop in, you're paying dramatically more than what you paid last year.
The average family household is paying because of Biden inflation, somewhere around six thousand dollars per household per year for inflation.
If you drive a car to and from work, you're gonna pay well over two grand more in gasoline than you paid last year, depending on what kind of car you have, right?
So the question is what do you think is gonna have a greater impact on people's mind?
Abortion, which got sent back to the states.
All this decision the only part of this decision that was made was who gets to decide.
And because it's not enumerated as a right in our constitution, they they gave it back to the individual states to decide.
Those states will make their decisions, and if anything, it gets closer to the people.
It's it it you you're getting more democracy out of this in our democratic republic.
Does that make sense?
The people have a greater say.
I totally agree with that.
I just think that it's just something that gets people stirred up and they lose all sense of logic when the media um has something like this to jump a hold on, you know.
I don't do listen, I don't disagree with you.
I think the Democrats are gonna run on abortion January 6th on the second amendment and calling Republicans names like they do every year.
That's all they do.
Racist, sexist, you know the list.
You know, but the key but listen, we get we end up getting the government we deserve.
I've been telling people since early 2021 that you've got to get your state legislatures to adopt uh integrity measures for our voting system so that we have confidence in the results.
We know how to do voting right, even mail and voting.
The state of Florida does it right.
And Florida's gotten it wrong a couple of times.
They've had to make adjustments along the way after 2000, after 2016.
They made those adjustments.
If we want a system that every American believes has integrity at its foundation, and we can all have confidence in the results, we can easily do that.
I've I've I've given out the list of things that need to be done.
It's not long, it's simple, it's not complex.
So if states, you know, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody control, updated voter rolls, uh, and partisan observers watching the vote count start to finish, up close.
That's it.
If you do if you adopt those integrity measures, then we won't have problems with future elections.
Get rid of those stupid drop boxes too, I would add that.
Um anyway, appreciate the call.
I totally agree with you.
Yeah, we can do it.
We're we are the United States of America.
All right, quick break, we'll come back.
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Linda, I might be mistaken.
I might need your help on something.
Didn't Joe Biden a number of times?
I think we have the tape somewhere.
Say over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that he never discussed his foreign business dealings with his son.
Zero experience.
Oh, yeah, it's very true.
And and I think we put a montage together on that.
Is that true too?
Absolutely.
All right, before we play that montage, let's play the new montage.
First broken by the Daily Mail.
Uh it was on apparently the laptop from hell, a voicemail of Hunter from his dad Joe, discussing his foreign business dealings with China.
Hey, pal, Dad.
It's 8:15.
On uh one choose to be called nothing urgent.
Just want to talk to you.
I thought the article released this thing on online.
It's gonna be printed tomorrow and times and screwed.
I mean clear.
And uh anyway, um we get a chance to make call.
I love it.
We're in the clear.
Does that sound like they're talking about a foreign business dealing?
Now we also, Linda, correct me if I'm wrong, we found on the laptop pictures of Joe Biden and foreign business partners of of Hunter.
Is that true too?
Yes, that's true.
And references of Hunter that he made about all the different people that he brought through the the Obama White House and got to meet Joe and got to meet Obama.
That we we've heard that before as well, right?
Absolutely.
So when Joe Biden was on the campaign trail and said over and over again that he never talked to his son about his foreign business dealings, I think we can conclude that's a lie if we have that tape, right?
I mean, we would conclude that yes.
Let's let look let's go back in the our memory banks and our uh and see if we still have that montage.
I think we might.
How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business deals.
I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else in the having to do with their business, period.
And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration.
There'll be an absolute wall between personal and private uh and and the government.
Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealers?
Yes, I stand by that statement.
Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you?
Well, that's not true.
You're saying things you do not know what you're talking about.
No one said that.
Who said that?
No one, no one has asserted my son did a single thing wrong.
No one has asserted that I have done anything wrong except a lying president.
And are you vulnerable on this issue at all because of your son's business dealings in in China?
No, I don't believe so at all.
My son's business dealings were not anything where everybody that he's talking about, not even remotely, number one, because I've never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters, and I've never discussed them because they know where I have to do my job, and that's it, and they have to make their own judgments.
What's your understanding of what your son was doing for an extraordinary amount of money?
I don't know what he was doing.
I know he was on the board.
I found out he was on the board after he was on the board, and that was it.
And there's nobody well, you have a lot of time.
Isn't this something you want to get to the bottom of?
No, because I trust my son.
My goodness.
I think we might have caught Joey in a lie.
What do you think?
I mean, his mouth was moving.
So I'm gonna say it's probably a hard yes.
Absolutely.
All right, to our phones we go.
Look at this.
We've got not one, not two, well, three calls from Florida.
That's pretty amazing.
That means we have very a very smart audience, a lot smarter than we are.
Um Sandy and Missy want to talk about the same topic, so we'll put them on together.
Sandy, hi, welcome to the program.
I'm sorry, I'm not missing Melissa.
Um, I'm blind when I don't have my glasses on.
Melissa, welcome to the program.
Where in Florida are both of you.
Sandy, where are you from?
Atlantic Beach.
And where are you from, Melissa?
St. Augustine, Florida.
Very nice.
Say hi to each other.
Sandy, meet Melissa, Melissa meets Andy.
Hi, Sandy.
Hey.
We're we're pretty close.
Yeah, we are.
Yes, we are.
You mean close in proximity or close friends?
Yes.
Close in proxy about a four yeah, about a 40 minute journey.
Well, you might after this call exchange numbers, and who knows?
Well, maybe you'll get some coffee, maybe you go have a a drink together, you know.
Um, it after the news lately.
Yeah.
Sandy, what's on your mind today?
We'll start with you, then we'll get to Melissa.
Uh, the ridiculousness, uh how they manipulate words.
The lies, The propaganda that the Democratic Party always puts out.
But yet they say that everything's gonna be abolished, everything's gonna change, democracy, oh it's you know, we're not gonna have it anymore.
And they go on and on.
People need to go on to the White House dot govite so that they can read all the information for themselves.
They listen to this propaganda, the lies that come and fuel people's emotions.
Right now we have so many things that have changed in the past fifty years.
We are educated.
Technology has advanced.
We have medications, oral contraceptives, different types of contraceptives, including the morning after pill.
We have so many things at our fingertips.
A heartbeat that's a life.
At that point it's not your take Melissa I'm I'm curious, do you agree with Sandy?
Um yes I do, but one thing that bothers me as a mother of two is the fact that nobody absolutely no one has said the obvious thing.
Keep your legs crossed.
Quit having sex.
If there nobody has said that nobody's taking responsibility, especially these women who are protesting to be able to to you know have these abortions we're not talking about rape.
Rape is different.
That is not what I'm talking about.
I'm not talking about being molested.
That is very different.
I'm talking about these women who use abortion as a as a birth control.
And nobody is saying why don't you stop being promiscuous or you could save more money if you took the pill or bought a condom than you're spending on all these abortions.
It's not birth control and it's murder and that's how I feel.
It's I I believe in the individual that they're gonna make their own choices at the end of the day.
Correct.
But it's they can And that's between them and God.
It's not you know I the advice I would give would probably sound very old, outdated, old fashioned um and I'm not in the business of giving out people advice to people.
When people are adults they live their own lives and in that sense I'm libertarian.
You have to make your own decision and then you'll suffer the consequences based on the decisions you make.
And the more you uh to me the more you adhere to for example the morals and the value system um the s say biblical principles, Judeo Christian principles, I think the better off your life's gonna be that's my personal viewpoint.
Uh but yet we've all sinned and fallen short.
We all seek forgiveness average person s if you know s sins seventy times seven a uh day according to the Bible.
So you know everyone's gonna make their own decisions but in when it comes to this one issue there you you're you're both right.
If you're gonna engage in adult behavior be an adult there's very inexpensive and if you can't afford it it's pretty readily available access to contraception for free.
So if there is no excuse if you're going to engage in that behavior and again we're taking a putting aside rape and incest and I make exceptions for that um then it's really it sh it shouldn't be that big an issue.
Fifty five percent according to Gutmacher of abortions today are done with a pill I it it yeah it and that is exactly right I'm not saying we all don't make mistakes that's not what I am trying to get across here.
What I'm trying to get across is I have never seen people destroying and hurting and burning and screaming and acting like complete psychopaths because they want to be able to use abortion as a form of birth control.
And I don't know that many people that would do that but I mean I guess you know if you have if after one abortion you end up getting pregnant again exactly fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
At some point, you know, you've got to and and maybe people don't really think deeply enough about it.
I don't know.
Um to me, I think that life is precious, it's a gift from God.
It's it's something that we should take seriously.
You know, and I'll tell you one other thing, and I've said this for years too, and it's not so much the case anymore.
But if somebody is not married in the years gone by, and they got pregnant, they were almost like shunned and gossiped about, and uh you know, you can't put a scarlet letter on somebody that may maybe you know had unprotected sex and decided to keep their baby because they believe it's the morally right thing to do.
Um I don't think you shun them either or put a scarlet letter on them either.
If anything, you applaud them.
Hey, you know what?
Congratulations on on your baby, because you're you're taking it to turn because you have a moral belief system that that caused you to make that decision, which I think is quite admirable.
We agree on that.
Oh, absolutely.
All right.
Sandy, Melissa, you're both smarter than I am because you live in uh Florida.
Thank you for checking in.
Thanks, Sean.
Have a great night.
Thank you.
You too, guys.
Uh Neftale, also in Florida.
It's Florida Day on the Sean Hannity Show.
Where in Florida are you, sir?
Uh Vero Beach.
So do you like it down there in Florida?
I bet you're loving it.
I love Vero Beach.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's on your mind today?
Good.
I w I just wanted to bring up the issue of immigration and just kind of put it into context.
I think it was Representative John Rose of Tennessee slammed President Biden on Wednesday night about how many immigrants have surged into the country, illegal immigrants.
Not to have a problem with illegal immigrants.
He had a number up of 2.9 million.
Thank you.
Uh illegals in the world.
No, they're they're coming.
Listen, we we set a record month last month at 235,000, and we've got the biggest caravan to date now heading our way.
And and everybody knows uh look, we talked to Brandon Judd, he's the president of the National Border Patrol Council, and they see it as they are powerless to do anything about it because they're not in charge.
And so literally they're being put in a position not to enforce the laws of the land and do the job that they were hired to do.
And while all of these resources are going in that direction because of Joe Biden's decision to flaunt the law, aiding the bet law breaking, well, that's that that opens up the rest of the border for the cartels, the human traffickers, the fentanyl traffickers, the opioid traffickers, heroin traffickers, you name it.
And we see the results of that too.
So it to put that in c context, I was doing a little math.
There's two hundred and thirty-seven countries in the world uh according to the CIA World Factbook.
That so if you if you were to take the the the most sparsely uh populated countries, starting with like the Pitcorn Islands all the way up to Samoa, you you'd literally this uh administration has allowed 53 sovereign the s population density of fifty-three sovereign nations in the world to to enter our country.
If you look at it, and we do no background checks, we do no health checks in a pandemic, there's no vaccine mandate, there's no COVID test, nothing.
If anything, they get preferential treatment, then they get a free phone, then they get free transportation to some pla other place in the United States.
I mean, it's unreal.
It's it's crazy.
We're talking about the size of the city.
And if it wasn't for a court decision in New York, illegal immigrants would be voting in today's primary.
I mean, it took a last minute reprieve from one decent judge in New York.
I can't believe it.
But you know, other states are allowing that to happen, like Vermont, Bernie Sanders State.
Anyway, appreciate the uh call.
Thank you very much, Neftali.
Call back again.
We'd love to have you back.
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That's gonna wrap things up for tonight.
Uh Hannity, we have A special investigation tonight into why are all these food processing plants uh well burning to the ground, uh becoming uh inoperable.
Uh it's happening in more and more numbers.
We'll have a full investigation.
The great one, Mark Levin, Leo 2.0 Terrell, Ari Fleischer, Kellyanne Conway, 9 Eastern, Say DVR, Hannity, Fox News.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
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