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The Byron York Show

Biden and the sanctuaries' dilemma: 'We're trying to make it easier for people to get here'

The Byron York Show

Radio America

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.8 β€’ 1.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This newsletter has written previously about the fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. When confronted with more than 2 million illegal border crossers overwhelming U.S. authorities on the border last year β€” and 250,000 more crossers last month indicates the figure will be even higher this year β€” Republicans want to find a way to stop, or dramatically reduce, the flow. Democrats want to accommodate it.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the No-Chit-Chit podcast.

0:07.2

We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is something that President

0:12.4

Joe Biden said recently and the problem that creates for democratic politicians all across

0:19.6

the country who run what they call sanctuary cities or sanctuary states, sanctuaries

0:27.0

for illegal immigrants.

0:30.4

So I've talked a lot previously about the fundamental difference between Republicans and Democrats

0:40.7

when it comes to the crisis on the US-Mexico border.

0:45.4

Now when they are confronted with more than two million illegal border crossers overwhelming

0:52.7

US authorities on the border last year, when they're confronted with that.

0:56.3

And by the way, 250,000 more crossers last month, December 2022, that's an indication

1:04.2

the figure is going to be even higher in this year, this fiscal year.

1:08.6

Now when they are confronted with that evidence, Republicans want to find a way to stop the

1:15.1

flow.

1:16.9

Democrats want to accommodate it.

1:20.1

Now maybe some of you think that's an exaggeration or an oversimplification.

1:25.2

It is not.

1:26.2

We're just going to, we're going to listen today to what President Biden said in Mexico City

1:31.5

last week has a summit with the Mexican President Lopez Obrador and the Canadian Prime Minister

1:37.8

Justin Trudeau.

1:39.2

Okay, so Biden says we cannot wall ourselves off from shared problems.

1:45.1

Now that is a veiled swipe, of course, at Biden's predecessor, President Donald Trump, whose

1:52.6

border policies were infinitely more effective than Joe Biden still Biden says we cannot

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