Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott on Crooked Joe Biden's Border Executive Order: "This is all political theater. It's not going to change anything at the border…”
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So let's just look at it historically though, the numbers and what that means. Over a thousand illegal entries a day takes away the border patrol's ability to proactively patrol the border. They literally over a thousand, they go into a response mode and they're just dealing what's coming across. The reality of that is it gives the cartels complete control of what's crossing the border because they control the crossings to include that second wave. The Biden administration understands and knows this. I've briefed many of the people in the administration several times. And then now, even when we're talking about thresholds, they're more than doubling that to trigger this new authority, but they shut off the authority at 1500 is what I've heard. So that ensures that the cartels still maintain control. This is all political theater. It's not going to change anything on the border. So once they hit the 2,500 person threshold, it's not like they put a big sign up to say the border's closed. Try again tomorrow, people are going to continue to come across the border and they'll continue to go to the border patrol and they'll be apprehended and they'll get into the system and maybe their asylum claims might not be valid because we're above the 2,500 threshold. But it's not like you can send them back because a lot of these people are coming in from places like Mauritania. We had Bill Molygian talking to people who are coming in from Nepal, China, Pakistan, India, you can't hold them. There aren't the facilities to do it. So does the Biden administration have any other choice than to maybe they don't go into the asylum claim processing system, but can they do anything else other than parole them into the United States? There's a lot of things they could do. The Biden administration created this border crisis with the stroke of a pin by shutting down the Remain in Mexico program and shutting down the asylum cooperative agreements we're building out with a host of other nations. They could turn that back on, but you, you hit the nail on the head. As long as people get released into the United States, the flow will continue. And this mediocre response is not going to send the message that we need to actually get control of the border again. We literally need to stop this massive flow. It's like stopping the flow of a river, if you will. But you got to stop the flow before you can clean up the flood. So there's really my understanding is Mexico has not agreed to take these people back. So they are still going to have to go through the regular system, even if expedited. Yeah, and with current law, we can't return people from Nepal to Mexico because the no Remain in Mexico agreement. So they'd have to be returned to Nepal. And how long does it take to do that? There's one other really curious aspect to all of this. Even when you hit the threshold, according to our bill of illusion, you can still apply through the CBP one app. Is this just some grand plan to push people to that app? So I think the grand plan has been to allow as many people into the country as possible while still getting reelected. The only reason that they're announcing this executive of action now, in my opinion, is to try to sound tough on the border. But when you look at the numbers, it doesn't really mean anything. And I'm glad you highlighted this. They're bringing in another 1,000 to 1,500 a day through the CBP one app. So we're basically locking in now over two million illegal entries a year between these two processes, assuming this new executive action authority is actually implemented. We simply just we can't sustain this. And remember, vetting is against U.S. databases, not against some made up global database. So we really still have no idea who we're allowing into this country. I mean, when you.
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