Welcome to the show, everybody.

Incredibly, we are seeing the primary lens through which the New Orleans New Year's Eve

attack is being viewed is through the lens of immigration and the border.

Now I'll explain why to you in a moment, but we're going to look at a couple of clips, a couple

of examples of right-wing elected officials and politicians continuing to insist that the prism

through which we should think about, interpret, and understand the New Orleans

attack that left many dead on New Year's Eve, it's really a story about immigration

and the border and undocumented migrants, even though the attacker we now know with certainty is born in Texas, a military veteran,

which by the way is also the case with the Tesla Trump Hotel bomber guy, I guess is what we're

calling him. There is nothing related to foreign countries here there is nothing related to the border

but republicans are i would argue cynically seizing on a detail about the vehicle in question

to try to make this a trump was right those dangerous criminal illegals are the problem

the border is the source of all of our domestic issues let's start with one clip house

republican on fox business saying the open borders are the problem look i'm on the border security

caucus and we've had former Border Patrol people come in and

talk to us. 55,000 under Obama, and I call him Obama, because I think he's Obama's third term.

55,000 special interest aliens have come across our border. That's from countries who hate us.

Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen,

you can go right down the list. And yet they're coming into this country free. They've

been handled the border. Now, Cheryl, if only 10% got through that we didn't know about,

a 55,000, that's 5,500 special terror.

You guys following this math. Now, if you're waiting for how this explains the New Orleans attack, just keep waiting.

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