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Buck Sexton (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast. Second hour of clay and Buck kicks off right now. We've been talking about this terrorist attack in Colorado in Boulder. The guy was a, an illegal, a visa overstay illegal. And I can tell you that in the pre Trump era, I'm pretty familiar with these stats, they would estimate something like a half a million visa overstays a year. That's not even a number that you think of when you're generally considering illegals in the country. Right. You think of the people that come across the border, which was about 10 million under Biden. We'll call it 10 million. I think that's right. Eight million officially. Plus you add up all the gotaways, nine or 10 million is, is where it is. And we have more people in more ways that they are gaming our immigration system and staying in this country illegally. This is a massive problem. Last hour, we're talking about the anti Semitism and the components of the ideology of anti Semitism against, well, against the Jewish. Against the Jewish people. And why so many Americans. I mean, think about this for a second. A lot of these college kids who take this very anti Israel and very pro, pro Palestine or pro Palestinian point of view, and I know there's something deeply unfair about the same way I said this with Iran, I extend the same thing to There are people in Gaza who, you know, there are children there. There are people who have no choice. There are people who have no political agency, and they're stuck there, and it's unfair. But there are also a lot of adults who are there and aren't doing anything. And then there are a lot of adults who are doing terrible things, right? Or rather, there are adults who could do more to try to bring about something else somehow. There's always, there's always somebody who will fire a rocket at the Israelis in Gaza. There's not somebody who will, let's just say, try to change up the Hamas leadership situation. You know what I mean? Somehow there are plenty of people willing to be, you know, brave martyrs, so to speak, against the Israelis, but they won't do anything to stop the mad men in their midst who are running the country. So. But the same, same thing's true in Iran, right? If we had to do strikes in Iran for some reason, it wouldn't be the fault of every Iranian. But this war is hell and war is unfair, and this is reality, and we have to operate within that reality. And, you know, you do the best that you can. We didn't want to be bombing villages in Afghanistan until 9, 11, quite honestly, we didn't really care very much about Afghanistan, but then they made us care. Well, the Israelis have been made to care more than ever about their own safety and security after October 7th. So there's the immigration part of this. So that's the ideological Mideast foreign policy part of it. Now let's look at the. The truth of what's going on here with our border. It's wide open, and I'm sorry, has been wide open. Of course, it's not wide open anymore. Trump has brought the numbers down 99%. Something. Something unfathomable. I thought Trump would do a good job. And if I'm just being honest with you, I thought we would see a 90%, something like that. A 90%. I didn't think it would be almost zero. And the numbers now, I think they can count in the hundreds on a monthly basis. How many are entering the country illegal? I mean, it is. And this frees up. This is what I have said all along. This is so important. This frees up the resources at Border Patrol. And I've done. I've spent time with our Border Patrol guys. You got. It's, you know, the more people know about Border Patrol, I think the more respect for those men and women they have. They do a tough job. Something like a third of Border Patrol are United States military veterans. Maybe 25% are Latino as well. Latino Americans. So this notion that, you know, that, that Border Patrol is in some way a, a racist enterprise or that these aren't people that are, you know, they're demonized by the left as though they're doing something terrible. You know, they're rounding people up and putting them into these camps. They're protecting us. And as we see with, with this, this terrorist, I know that he's a visa overstay, but, okay, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is supposed to and should have gotten this guy out of the country. Now I know he's. He has claimed asylum. I think that we just need to have a shutdown of the asylum process in this country for a while until we figure things out. That's really where we are. And all pending asylum claims just need to be, you know, maybe. Maybe they come up with some very high threshold for it. But there are. And see, and I know that's unfair, too, right? Because there are people who need a place to go, but we're not the only place they can go. The more you dig into this, almost all of the asylum claims that are making their way through our courts are Invalidated by one thing alone, and that is that these people came via Mexico. They are not supposed to pick which country they want to get to for asylum. It's which country they get to first, where they can be considered safe. So if we were serious, and I think the Trump administration will be, but if the Biden administration had any intention of enforcing actual asylum. All right, think about it. If you're fleeing, you know, I don't know, you're fleeing oppression in Indonesia as a. As an ethnic minority, and you make your way to Mexico, you're supposed to say, hey, Mexico, I need asylum. You're not supposed to go, hey, you know what would be really cool? If I can make it to America. Because they're rich and they have a big fat welfare state. That's not how it is supposed to go. And so all of these people that are saying they claim asylum, they. Right on its face, we should be able to just say to them, okay, well, did you show me your asylum paperwork from Mexico? Wait, you didn't. You didn't try to get asylum? Mexico? Why? Oh, because you want to just jump the line and go to America and you're. And then that's not even looking at whether they have a legitimate claim of asylum, which they don't, because there's not a hundred. And if 180 countries around the world all have asylum seekers, all coming to America, it just means that every country, you know, pretty much, you know, we don't have a lot of asylum seekers from Liechtenstein or, you know, Denmark, but we've got a lot of asylum seekers from everywhere else. Tom Homan is pointing out that this has created the Biden administration problem is something that is going to plague this country for years to come. No matter how fast, no matter how efficient the Trump administration border policies are and the enforcement mechanisms are, it is just mathematically impossible to fully handle and turn around just what Biden did. Think about that. If I said to you the Trump administration's mandate is to return everybody who came under Biden in those four years illegally, never mind everyone who came before Biden illegally. That's a. We'll just, we'll put that to the side for a second. That number is probably too much, just logistically too much. I. I'd like to think that I'm wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong. Because if we ramped it up and you got to a million deportations a year under Trump, which would be a lot, let's say you get to a million, and these are Real deportation. People are gonna say, but, Buck, what about in the, in the, in the 2000s or what about in the 90s and we were deporting. No, a lot of that was people who were turned away. The immigration, illegal immigration, particularly into California in the 90s was single adult males crossing the border, working and then going often, going back and then coming back again seasonally. So, yeah, they were breaking our laws, but there were multiple crossings and they were single adult males. Now it's turned into a lot of family units, women, women showing up with children, and they plan to stay forever, and they're from all over the world. What the Obama administration did to make the numbers seem much more robust than they were was, oh, Border Patrol stopped you and just sent you back to Mexico. That's a deportation. Like, that was how we got to the deporter in chief. They changed the way that they. So if we got to a million real deportations a year, meaning people picked up from the interior, put on a plane and sent to their country of origin, that would be pretty impressive. Okay, well, that's 4 million. You got 6 million to go. Here's Tom Homan. This is cut 10. Just laying this out so everybody understands the scale of this problem. Play it.