Andrew Colvett (18:48)
That's exactly right. You know why? There's two reasons, really. One reason is that the media establishment in this country is 95% just based on donations to political parties. 95% in the bag for the Democrat Party. So of course they come in with an implicit bias against a conservative. In this case, Senator Ted Cruz is the recipient of that. But it's frankly, it's all of us. They're pitted against us from the jump. And then when you give them something like this and you capitulate and you Apologize. You're only making it worse for yourself. Now, my theory on this is the second reason is that nobody in D.C. likes Ted Cruz. And that's okay. That's totally okay. If the kingdom of Washington is pitted against you, Senator Cruz, that's okay. That probably means that you're doing something, something worthwhile. But I think what happened here is as soon as Ted Cruz got onto that plane and it was a commercial, he was, you know, there's. People were snapping pictures of him. He started to see that everybody was. Was aware that he was on a plane getting out of Texas, going to Mexico, during the coldest stretch in anybody's memory. He knew he messed up. He knew he messed up, but it was too late. He was on the plane with his. With his daughter and her friends. And he started getting nervous and he started backtracking. News broke relatively quickly. He got himself back and started groveling. And for somebody that wants to be president, and it's very well reported that Senator Cruz wants to be president. And we like Senator Cruz here. We're fans of him. He's been on Charlie's podcast a couple times. Great guy, smart guy. But if you want to assume the energy within the conservative movement moving into 2022 in the midterms and then again in 2024, you've got to. To be stronger than accepting the premise of the left and capitulating to what they tell you you need to be sorry for and what you should not be sorry for. And the left is just having a heyday with this. I don't freak. Honestly, I don't want to talk about it. I think, you know, we've done probably enough on it already because it's just giving into this narrative. It was bad optics. Could it have been done better? Yes, of course. But the main issue here is that Senator Cruz himself shouldn't have dealt with the fallout the way he has. He should never, ever play ball on the left's turf. That's the lesson, folks. If you're out there, never play ball on their turf, because then you have to play by their rules, and they will always win. It's like that. You like going to Vegas. The House always wins. Well, guess what? When you give in and you start playing on their turf, and the House always wins. And in this case, the gavel at the House is Speaker Pelosi. So the analogy continues. So, Senator Ted Cruz, you have nothing to be sorry for. You did your state well. You got the emergency declaration. You were being a good dad. You do not have to apologize Enough of this already. Moving on, in my opinion. So the next big story that I think is, you know, honestly, I'm extremely passionate about, is the announcement yesterday that the Biden administration is trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform. And this is the debate within Democrat circles right now is do we do a comprehensive piece which has failed both during Bush and Obama years, or do they do a piecemeal piece, piece of legislation? And regardless of whatever it is, both are utter disasters. Just read at the onset, open borders, blanket amnesty. There's three pieces that they're trying to potentially divide up and pass on their own. One is the DREAM Act. I think we all are well aware of what the DREAM act is. It's for childhood arrivals brought by their parents. There is probably some bipartisan consensus that could be reached on the DREAM Act. There is the Promise act, and then there is a piece of legislation designed to help farm workers that are here as well. Now, the poison pill in all of this is these three pieces, and there are these three pieces of legislation. All grant immediate green cards, and then they allow for a pathway to citizenship within three years, which is faster than the five year track that other green card holders would typically get. So right at the onset, we have a problem. And then what they want to say is, for anybody that arrived in the country as of January 1st, you have an. An eight year path to citizenship. If this doesn't frighten you, then you're not thinking about this the right way. The left wants to frame this in purely moral terms, that we are to be a nation, as a nation of immigrants, we are to be compassionate, that we are bigger than the trivialities of the Trump administration, that we need to think about those lesser than us, and that Trump was just cruel, he was a bully. One of the facts that we need to confront and we need to be honest about with the left is that not only is this a recipe for utter chaos, it's the opposite of compassion. By telling these people, everybody has cell phones down there. You could be in the middle of the jungle with no power, and you still have a cell phone in the Northern Triangle. And there are 55 million people there. And when polled, about 90% of them would come if given the chance, to America. This is why you see, this is why you see caravans forming over and over and over again. And what you're doing is you are sowing the seeds of absolute and utter chaos. That is the opposite of compassion. Why do I say that? I say that because you are empowering the most vile and evil forces within Mexico, with the power of God at their hands. They are the ones making all the money trafficking human beings across that border. Some of the cartels, it's even been reported, have stopped dealing drugs and dealing guns and all these sorts of things because it's more profitable to force these people to pay them the money for safe passage through their territories. So when you incentivize them and you send messages to Mexico and to Central America and the Northern Triangle, you're putting lives at risk. So you want to tell me about kids in cages? You are endangering young people that are going to be coming up without their parents. You are endangering whole families of getting exploited by the cartels and really dangerous terrain, really dangerous circumstances. It is the opposite of compassion, and we need to hit that message extremely hard moving forward. It's incredibly frustrating to me to watch politics completely hijack something that is, to my mind and probably to many of yours, something that is completely common sense. I'm reading here from the National Review, and by the way, just before I get into this, some of you might be confused. There is a comprehensive piece of legislation, and then there is piecemeal. Both are working their way through Congress and being proposed simultaneously because the worry from the Democrats is that if they issue a comprehensive immigration bill, that it will get debt on arrival. Won't happen. Probably all this is debt on arrival, to be honest, which is good. But if they do the piecemeal, they might have more success of getting certain aspects of. Of their wish list across the finish line. So I'm reading here from National Review. Like the bloated comprehensive measure, the piecemeal proposals would not result in a similar broken promise because they don't even pretend to provide for future enforcement, all but guaranteeing the buildup of another large illegal population in the future. This part about enforcement is really key. I feel like we're living in an era where the left has completely abandoned the idea of law and order and enforcement. To them, it's cruel. Defund the police. Let's not protect the border. That's mean. Kids in cages. So in the absence of enforcement, you get chaos, which is cruel to the rest of America, which is cruel to those living at the border, which is honestly cruel to the immigrants that are trying to make their way across the border because you're selling them a false bill of goods. But let's get to Senator Menendez, who is the Senate sponsor of this new immigration package. Let's play his clip. Well, what I want to achieve is robust reform. Look, you know we want to have border security, but we think that technology, in addition to everything that's already been done, we have more border patrol than we've ever had. We spend more on border patrol than we do in all of the other federal law enforcement entities combined. So it's time to take a new look at how do we ensure the border. So that's one piece of it. Like I said, they look at all the enforcement at the border, which is one of the crowning achievements of the Trump administration, and they look at that as somehow a black eye against the United States of America, that Trump has successfully reduced the chaos and the criminality at our southern border, built 450, 500 miles of wall street that they've toyed with taking down. Meanwhile, those communities that are benefiting from the wall love it. It's never been so good. They've never had so much peace. But you know, they can't live with that because guess what? It's all political. But meanwhile, Chad Wolf, former acting DHS DHS secretary, explains the problem with the lack of enforcement. Clip 82 Go ahead and play it well.
