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Congressman Mark Green - November 1st, Hour 3
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Now that we have and we'll have by the end of this year anywhere between an estimated 8 and 10 million illegal immigrants, including gotaways.
And why are all these 659 people we're discovering from Iran wanting in this country?
Or the 538 from Syria wanting in this country?
Or the thousands of other special interest illegal aliens from the Middle East?
Or why are people from China, thousands of them, coming into this country and people from Russia?
Why are they coming into this country?
But here's the more important question.
Why are they just allowed to walk in?
Because this congressional report a couple of weeks ago rightly pointed out that 90 plus percent of the people, 99 percent rather, actually get in.
And Joe Biden is not enforcing the laws of the land and he's taken it a step further.
He's aiding and abetting in the lawbreaking.
You know, look at all the times we have now been lied to over the last three years.
The border's closed, the border's closed, the border's secure, the border's secure.
Joe Biden has said it.
Kamala Harris has said it.
Secretary Mayorkas has said it.
Karine Jean-Pierre has said it.
Circleback Jensaki.
They've all been lying to us.
Listen.
The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.
The border is in fact secure.
A record 221,000 migrants crossed into the U.S. last month.
Our border is secure.
We believe certainly that the border is secured.
1,300 migrants a day.
We have taken unprecedented action over the past year and a half to secure our border and rebuild a safer and orderly process system.
This year is on pace to be the deadliest year for migrants crossing into this region of Texas in recent memory.
The border is secure.
The border is secure and the border is not open.
Crossings are still at an all-time high with Border Patrol reporting more than 1.8 million apprehensions from October 2021 through July.
The border remains closed.
It is not open.
We are turning away the majority of adults.
But the border is secure.
The border is closed.
So we are offering solutions.
That's what the Biden-Harris administration has been doing since day one.
This is worse now than it was before.
A record number of migrants this year, and the total could surpass 2 million by the end of September.
We're certainly doing a lot more to secure the border.
We have a secure border.
And we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border.
A record surge of migrants in New York City.
Over 2 million illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.
An all-time record.
The border is secure.
We agree that the border is secure.
Well, it's not been secure.
It's not been closed.
And we've been lied to the entire time.
Now, let's return to yesterday.
And this is Alejandro Mayorkas trying not to answer Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin's question on illegal immigrants.
Listen to this.
Secretary Mayorkas, I've asked you this in the past.
What numbers are represented here?
How many people has this administration let in by encountering, processing, dispersing, or that have come in as a known or unknown gotaway?
Approximately, I don't need an exact number.
So what do we got?
Senator, let me say.
I need numbers.
Again, don't filibuster me.
How many people has this administration led into the country?
Let me say at the outset that our job would be a lot easier if the broken immigration system was.
Mr. Secretary, I want a number.
How many people have you led into this country?
I should also.
Okay, I'll give you the number.
It's about 6 million.
About 1.7 million as known gotaways.
Now, again, we don't know who these people are.
We just know that they've come to this country and they're residing somewhere.
But we don't know how many and we don't know where they are, and he doesn't want to answer any questions.
Then, of course, you know, and we got into this earlier.
Mayorkas sparring with Josh Hawley about a Department of Homeland Security employee with really radical views that he would not even answer whether or not the person was fired.
The person needed to be fired.
Mr. Secretary, what's going on here?
Is this typical of people who work at DHS?
This is an asylum and immigration officer who is posting these, frankly, pro-genocidal slogans and images on the day that Israelis are being slaughtered in their beds.
What have you done about this?
Four things I'd like to say to you.
Number one, your question to suggest that that is emblematic of the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security is despicable.
I'm sorry.
What have you done?
This person works for the Department of Homeland Security.
Have you fired her?
That was one of four answers.
Have you fired her?
One.
Have you fired her?
Don't come to this hearing room when Israel has been invaded and Jewish students are barricaded in libraries in this country and cannot be escorted out because they are threatened for their lives.
You have employees who are celebrating genocide and you are saying it's despicable for me to ask the question.
Has she been fired?
Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Secretary, after the consumption of Senator Hawley's time, I'd like to speak.
Has she been fired?
Because I will not.
I'd like an answer.
Would you?
Because I will not be given the opportunity.
Has she been fired?
So that individual has been placed on administrative leave.
So she's not been fired.
Number two.
Why has she not been fired?
Number two, the individual was hired in 2019.
Why has she not been fired?
Number three, I cannot speak to an ongoing personnel matter.
This is exactly what he's saying.
So he can't say how many illegal immigrants.
He can't even give a straight answer on whether the woman is fired and deserves to be fired.
And then you have to see all of this through the prism of what we played earlier today.
And we've now played a number of times.
Christopher Wray basically acknowledging, yeah, we're vulnerable and Hamas may make attacks right here on our own soil.
This is so beyond dangerous and so beyond incompetence.
It's incomprehensible.
Joining us now, Chairman Mark Green.
He is with the powerful House Committee on Homeland Security.
What is your reaction to all of this and again, seeing it through the prism of the warning that the FBI director gave the country yesterday?
Well, as you just said, Sean, and thanks for having me on.
It's despicable that the Secretary, his policies, which have facilitated this open border, have created what I think is the greatest national security risk to this country.
You know, they talk about China with the 22,000 that have come into this country, many of whom are military age.
You look at Hamas and the threats they've made when Gerald Ford was sent into the Mediterranean.
They actually responded and said, we're not afraid and you better beware.
And I'm assuming that threat is either about Americans held hostage in Gaza or some cell that's sitting here in the United States.
I mean, what other threat do they have against the United States?
And it's all because of the failure of this secretary, Secretary Mayorkis, and his policies.
And he's not incompetent.
This is intentional.
All of this is intentional, and they are aiding and abetting.
I love that you said that, Sean.
They are aiding and abetting the criminal cartels and potentially these terrorists who have infiltrated our country.
Let me ask you your thoughts.
And we have talked at length about, what, 659 from Iran, 538 from Syria, thousands of other special interest illegal aliens we know from the Middle East.
You talked about tens of thousands of Chinese nationals.
By the way, many are coming here buying up thousands and thousands of acres of farmland, ranch land, and land near military installations.
And now you're saying tens of thousands of Russians as well.
Are these not hostile regimes, our top geopolitical foes in the world?
Well, you know, we've got a governor or two across the country.
Yes, they are.
They absolutely are.
It's interesting.
The schizophrenia in this country about China.
We got this Department of Defense saying they're the greatest strategic ally or enemy of the nation.
And then you've got the Commerce Department who has failed to restrict the sale of classified information resulting in China having access to American technology.
This schizophrenia has got to end.
We need a whole of government approach to China.
But yeah, I mean, this is out of control.
I mean, it is completely out of control.
They don't seem to care.
And Americans, every single American is at risk because of this.
No American is safe.
Is this the worst you've ever seen?
And how long have you been in Congress?
This is my third term.
I now sit as the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, so I'm looking at it with a very critical eye right now.
It's the worst I've ever seen.
And it's the worst I've seen in my lifetime.
I spent 24 years in the U.S. Army, first as a ranger and then as a special operations physician.
And I've never seen anything like this.
I've never seen strategic decisions being made by the White House, the commander-in-chief, that are so flawed.
But this guy can't get anything right.
He doesn't know a good guy from a bad guy.
He wants to cut a deal with Iran and give, you know, we wind up giving billions of dollars to Tehran.
But they just recently from the Commerce Department said, oh, no, don't sell any more weapons to any country in the world.
They've did a 90-day stop and won't let any of the manufacturers of military firearms or weapons or ammunition in the United States be sold anywhere else.
So, what those countries are going to do is start looking for places to buy that.
Well, that facilitates empowering the very people, the bad guys we don't want to empower and why our State Department kind of controls that stuff.
Every decision they make, empowering the cartels.
But at the same time, they want to vilify law enforcement and street violent criminals.
They don't know good people from bad people.
And that is a failure of their ideology.
And it is why we have to win the White House in 2024.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with Chairman Mark Green.
He is the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
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Let me ask you this.
Do you believe that there among the, what, I guess by the end of the year, anywhere between 8 and 10 million illegal immigrants under Joe Biden have come into this country.
We don't know anything about them.
They've not been vetted.
Do you believe, what do you think the likelihood is that among those 8 to 10 million people, that there are people that come here with the intention of committing acts of terrorism?
We have to, it is only common sense to believe that in that group of people, there are someone who means ill harm.
Because if you come right now to the United States southern border and turn yourself into Customs and Border Patrol, you will be immediately released into the country.
Heck, they even created an app where you can schedule your appointment and 96% of those people just get streeted without any vetting.
If you're intentionally avoiding border patrol, you must have some nefarious reason why you're coming here.
You're either trafficking human beings, little girls, you're either bringing in fentanyl to kill Americans, or people who are here to do crime or terrorism.
We have to assume.
If you look at China, the three years prior to this last fiscal year, it was about, I think the highest year was 1,500, 1,800.
And the last physical year is 22,000, many of whom are military age.
And not that we're going to have an invasion by China, but if we ever went to defend Taiwan, we have to assume.
I mean, it's only every general in the military would tell you that's a strategy.
That's what Russia did in Ukraine.
They sent people in, they migrated in, and then they became the saboteurs when the invasion happened.
This is a modus operandi, and we have to assume that's what's there.
Unbelievable.
Let me ask you this question.
What do you say to the American people hearing this today?
Because I have to believe that a lot of Americans like me are shocked that our homeland is not secure.
And you're the committee chair on the Committee of Homeland Security.
You know, obviously, Majorkas is not up to the job.
He can't even answer simple questions.
Two things.
One, call the United States Senate and tell them to pass House Resolution 2.
Jim Jordan and I worked for three months and built an incredible bill, the most conservative border security bill in the history of this country.
And we passed it on the House floor, and it sits languishing in the United States Senate.
So number one, call the U.S. Senate and say pass H.R. 2.
Number two, we've got to educate our fellow Americans.
Majorkas, I'm doing a five-phased investigation on him, and I think you cited the report that we released just last phase four report.
Phase five is our last phase.
We're into it right now.
We're looking at waste, fraud, and abuse.
When we're done with this, we're going to have Maorkis come before us, and we will refer him with the findings of what we have in these five phases.
But we need the American people to get loud on this so that those people who are against both in our party and on the other side who hate impeachment and think because of what happened in the last cycle and how it was abused, we shouldn't do impeachment unless we need people to see this guy knows what he's doing.
He knows the harm that's being caused.
He hasn't changed his policies.
He's aiding and abetting the drug cartels and crime in America.
And we will hold him accountable for that.
Well, we appreciate you being with us.
Thank you so much, Chairman Mark Green, House Committee on Homeland Security.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
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I 25 to the top of the hour.
We've been telling you about the mission of Pre-Born.
Now, this is the group that uses the science of 4D ultrasound, and they give free ultrasounds to any expecting mom.
They also provide other services like counseling and, you know, if you need help with, you know, finances or baby formula or food for your new baby.
But what they're finding is when expecting moms hear a heartbeat and when they see facial features and they can count fingers and toes, if they were thinking about getting an abortion, most people's hearts change very, very quickly.
And unlike Planned Parenthood, by the way, do you know the Planned Parenthood founded by a woman, Margaret Sanger, who believed in eugenics?
Yeah, they get millions and millions of taxpayer dollars.
Pre-born doesn't get a penny.
They can't do it without the support of people that, like yourself, believe in the sanctity of life, people in the pro-life community.
And anyway, one ultrasound, by the way, is $28.
They are in desperate need of support for these expecting moms, and they're doing great, great work.
Linda, you know, they're saving hundreds of kids a day.
They do.
And, you know, one of the things, and you enabled people this, you know, this ability with your donation of these ultrasound machines is they've never seen this little tiny thing and how it has a heartbeat.
They're just told, oh, it's not a life yet.
You can get rid of it.
And Pre-Born is saying, no, look at this.
This little thing, this is your baby.
This is your living thing inside of you.
It has a heartbeat.
It's a life and you can save it and we can help you.
And that's what they do at Pre-Born.
And by the way, Pre-Born has a 100% charity rating, so you can give with confidence.
There's two ways to help out.
This is why I donated two 4D ultrasound machines.
I'm going to donate another one.
Why?
Because they desperately need the help.
You can dial pound250, say the keyword baby, pound250, keyword baby, or their website, preborn.com slash Sean.
So we're going to do tonight's TV show from the swamp and the sewer.
Linda, you love the swamp.
You love the sewer, don't you?
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I mean, the aroma alone is enough to keep me there.
Yeah.
The aroma alone.
Anyway, so there's going to be a lot of votes going on.
The issue of censure involving Congresswoman Tlaib.
We talked about this with Chad Pergram early in the program today.
The issue of whether Marjorie Taylor Greene will be censored, whether they'll table all of these issues, then the issue of potential expulsion.
That would be the George Santos issue.
Honestly, I think we got really important things to think about.
But also, we're going to have a panel with those that have been looking into the Biden Family Syndicate.
That's the House Oversight Committee with Jim Comer.
Then House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, which has been looking into whether or not our FBI and DOJ have been politicized and weaponized, and the follow-the-money part out of the House Ways and Means Committee, and that's chaired by Jason Smith.
So all things we're going to get into.
But James Comer has now explained how Joe Biden, maybe this is the big guy money, got $40,000 in laundered money from China.
Listen.
Here's how Joe Biden benefited from his family's shady deal with CEFC, a Chinese Communist Party-linked company.
It all began with a shakedown in the summer of 2017 when Hunter Biden sent a message to his CEFC associate demanding a $10 million capital payment.
As Hunter Biden extorted this associate, Hunter claimed he was sitting with his father and that the Biden network would turn on his associate if he didn't pony up the money.
The extortion scheme worked.
Days later, $5 million flowed in from a Chinese affiliate of CEFC.
Over the following three weeks, Biden family members made a series of complicated financial transactions to hide the source of the China money.
Here's how that happened.
First, Northern International Capital, a Chinese company associated with CEFC, wired $5 million to Hudson West 3, a joint venture established by Hunter Biden and a CEFC associate.
Then Hudson West 3 sent $400,000 to an entity owned and controlled by Hunter Biden.
Next, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Haul Group, a company owned by James and Sarah Biden.
Sarah Biden then withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Haul Group.
Later the same day, she deposited it into her and James Biden's personal checking account.
A few days later, Sarah Biden cut a check to Joe Biden for $40,000.
The memo line of the check said loan repayment.
Oh, wow.
It's an awful lot of money.
All these shell corporations, all these family members, all these tens of millions of dollars with no experience of any Biden in energy, oil, gas.
I'm sitting here next to my father.
We're wondering, why have you not fulfilled your commitment?
Unbelievable.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Kyle is in Texas.
Apparently disagrees with me on something.
What's up, Kyle?
What can I do for you?
Hey, thanks, John.
Hey, first, I want to thank you for everything you do for our country and bringing attention to the border.
We definitely need it down in here, Texas.
I don't necessarily disagree, but first off, I want to say I'm a conservative.
I'm a Republican, and I absolutely condemn the horrible, indefensible attacks, right, that occurred on October 17th.
But I know there's a butt coming.
Go ahead, but what?
Yeah, but I am concerned that the narratives and the discussions seem to follow a line that these attacks operated in a vacuum, which they didn't.
You know, there's four key things, and I'll be very quick with them.
What do you mean?
What was Israel doing at the time that, you know, for example, over the last number of years, there have been hundreds of thousands of rockets fired into Israel?
do you think that that was warranted uh what about the network of terror tunnels that have been built out by no but there are anti-peace radicals on both sides um including hamas and their raids and attacks and rockets including baroque uh goldstein I mean, Arafat and Rabin.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Barack Goldstein, who are you talking about?
Baruch Goldstein, who shot up the mosque back in, I don't know, I think it was 94.
But, um, you know, that's one of the things and, and, and let's not forget that, you know, there's been an occupation for 56 years, longer than there's not been an occupation.
Historically, this is Israel's homeland.
Go check your history.
I've gone through it repeatedly.
I don't have time to do it again.
But biblically, you know.
Biblically, this is their homeland.
That's correct.
But I don't think it says that in the Koran or the Buddhist or Hindu or other.
So if we take religion out.
So you want to use all of the Hamas buzzwords about occupation, but you're not explaining why you have a terror group with its charter that says that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.
The rockets that are being fired are being fired into Israel from the north, from the south, and from Syria, and now from the Houthis.
So if we're going to talk about, if anything, I think Israel has shown more restraint than any other nation on the face of the earth, and they've shown respect for human life because it's Hamas that uses the people of in Gaza, the Palestinians, as human shields, do they not?
Yeah, and that's two of a key.
Those are always the arguments.
But they forget that the Gazans have been under a blockade.
You keep saying these things.
You keep echoing these talking points to justify.
There were 1,400, there are now 1,400 dead Israelis.
They were doing nothing.
I have been there when cities that I visited were having rockets fired at them.
Why are they firing rockets?
That seems to me that they've been at war with Israel for a long time.
Well, and again, yes, there are, and that's terrible.
So why don't you just condemn terrorism and say that they need to lay down their arms, stop wasting money that is given to them for humanitarian purposes to build out a terror tunnel network and buy rockets to fire into Israel.
And why don't they build up their society and use that money for hospitals and infrastructure and schools?
And why are they indoctrinating their kids to hate the Jews with their cartoons and their books?
Why don't you call on them to stop teaching terror?
You know, that's my last point.
I do not believe that the Gazans, majority of Gazans support Hamas any more than I support.
Well, they're the duly elected, you know, they're the duly elected entity of the Palestinian Authority.
Stole an election by using federal agencies to suppress truth.
So I can only imagine what Hamas, a terrorist group, does to stay in power.
So just to say, well, Gaza ought to rise up and kick them out, how?
How are they going to do that?
Okay.
Why do you think no other country wants to take in the Palestinian community?
And how are they going to get international?
Because they've been radicalized.
They see the cartoons that we've shown you.
Well, of course that's the thing.
But you know what?
You know what I don't hear from you?
I don't hear any sympathy in your voice.
All you want to talk about, Israel has now been under never-ending fire.
It has been going on decades.
The Hamas Charter calls for its destruction.
The war was brought to Israel.
Israel did not want this war.
Israel doesn't want to fight this war.
Israel would much rather live in peace.
But the Hamas terrorists, the Hezbollah terrorists, the Houthi terrorists, the Iran proxy warriors are out there trying to destroy their homeland.
They're defending their homeland.
What else do they, what other option do they have?
There's nothing left.
They've tried giving money.
They've tried humanitarian assistance.
They've tried to help them build infrastructure and schools and hospitals, and they don't do it.
It's used for terror purposes to kill Israelis.
That's just the history of it.
On the peace process.
So now there's only one option left, and that's to destroy Hamas in the south, Hezbollah in the North, the Houthis in Yemen, and anyone else that is firing missiles into their country.
I would assume if it was happening to America, you would want America to fight back.
Yes, but you see, UN Resolution 2 doesn't involve America.
Oh, good grief.
All right.
I got no more time for you.
800-941, Sean, our number.
Ray is in Texas.
Ray, how are you?
I'm doing pretty good.
How are you, sir?
Good.
What's going on?
Well, we got the state of Texas down here that our governor is trying to defend and protect by placing these barriers down on the Rio Grande.
And we have the federal officers, Border Patrol down there dismantling things and cutting them down with different types of tools and equipment.
Why didn't the state of Texas just go on down there and round them all up and detain them for damaging state property?
Well, they probably could, but I don't think they're going to have the space for all the people that have been trying to cross in.
I think the best strategy would be to prevent people from coming in.
If these barriers could be left alone, it would sure be a big help, but they're helping them right across the river after tearing down the razor wire and moving the barriers aside.
Well, that's why this court case that they won this week in this stay is so important and why it's important that Texas win that case against the Biden administration.
If they will listen to that and adhere to that order, that would be great if it works.
Listen, if you leave Texas alone and let them secure their own borders, they're going to do fine.
Not worried about Texas at all.
The people that have been interrupting their efforts to protect their state have been from the Biden administration.
Anyway, appreciate it.
Donna, Connecticut, next.
Hi, how are you?
Hey, Sharon.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm doing well.
Thank you.
So, Sean, just to springboard on what you guys were talking about earlier, you know, about the illegal immigrants, I see you guys, you know, a lot of times deal with the national level, but I look at it more towards the local level.
I deal with a lot of, I deal with the social service agencies, and I see what these illegal immigrants are getting.
And basically, a family of four coming in is now, and like I said, I'm just referring to the state of Connecticut.
They're getting $973 in cash assistance, and they're getting $1,004 in food stamps.
They're also getting free health care.
They have their free phone with unlimited data.
And, you know, basically, everything is free to the point where I don't feel like illegals are coming here for a better life.
I feel like they're coming here for the government benefits.
A lot of people we deal with, like a lot of the illegal immigrants that I've dealt with are moms, single moms, two, three kids.
They have a third-grade education.
I don't know, you know, I'm not saying that, you know, obviously they're here for a better life, but they come in and what they do is they literally say, I want to get on the program.
They all know that now they're, you know, you go to these certain states and you're going to be taken care of financially.
You know, and I, like I said, I. What states do they usually tend to gravitate towards?
I guess sanctuary states, right?
Yeah, it is sanctuary states.
And I believe in Connecticut is one.
I mean, I know New York is a big one where people tend to go because, you know, it's probably the most known.
But in one of our local high schools, Sean, that, you know, it has a couple of towns that it serves.
There's over 100 different languages that the kids speak.
I don't know how you have teachers to do all that.
And they have to record, you know, obviously, you know, you have to provide an education for these children.
And I don't think people are looking at like, I mean, yes, you look at the big picture and there's, you know, six to eight million people coming in, but it's just, you know, more so on the local level of just what they're getting and benefits and the resources that are going to assist these are taking away from the American citizens who, you know, who are down on their luck or not, you know, not doing well or, you know, need a helping hand.
And they're getting kind of pushed to the wayside because, you know, we've got to help these illegal immigrants.
And it's just, it's just a little, you know, disheartening because I have nothing because we can't afford it on top of everything else, right?
No, that's exactly it, Sean.
But sustainability issue.
It is unsustainable and it is hurting our country.
It is a national security threat.
It is now a financial danger to the country.
We cannot afford all these illegal immigrants.
And I don't know any other way to say it, but I keep saying it, like beating my head against the wall because they don't care.
And they're allowing it to continue and they're facilitating it.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
All right.
So we've got a lot going on.
We have Speaker Mike Johnson and all of the Republicans in the caucus.
The Republican caucus has been invited.
How many you're going to be able to attend?
I don't.
I have no idea, especially in light of the fact that they have the censure votes and the issue of potentially expelling George Santos before we get on the air 9 Eastern tonight, but we'll be at the nation's capital tonight in the sewer, in the swamp, with a Republican caucus town hall.
Set your DVR, 9 Eastern on Fox.
We'll see you tonight.
Back here tomorrow.
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