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And I'm talking about people working on security there. National Guard, Border Patrol, Immigration, Customs Enforcement, Everybody, Local Sheriff's, Local Police that are all very clear on what's happening here.

Biden folks don't want the American people to figure out that the estimate I heard, the estimate I heard from a senior member of Border Patrol, was they think they'll have a million illegals cross in the United States this year alone.

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Not only is the border in a crisis, but those who are tasked with stopping it have no interest in doing so at the political level and they leave the people on the front lines completely unable to deal with it in any meaningful way.

You don't want them handling this problem other than to process the people coming. So I went down there last week because I was in the MacCallon, I went into MacCallon, the Rio Grant sector of the US Mexico border.

I was out with members of Border Patrol. I went out with an NGO that does anti-human trafficking work and tries to assist local law enforcement, state law enforcement because that's a part of this too.

The Biden administration could do a whole lot more at the federal level if they wanted to, but they would much rather allow Texas National Guard and Texas sheriffs and the Rangers to have to pick up all the slack.

Here's what you don't see. Here's what you don't hear about the border. Why is it, you know, one night when I was down there, we went 90 minutes in the car west of MacCallon.

Now, MacCallon is a city of about 100,000, not a particularly built up place, not a major city by any stretch. And it sits right on the US Mexico border in Southeastern Texas, right on the Rio Grande.

And you can see people handing themselves in in broad daylight, surrendering in broad daylight. The first night I'm there with my team, we go out and within 15 minutes, we're standing right at a border crossing and within 15 minutes, you have kids coming dozens at a time, children.

And I mean, you know, eight year olds, 10 year olds, just in a group, walking right across the border, just being sent right across the border by themselves. Sometimes adults, president, a lot of times not, you can imagine how, how traumatizing this is for them, but.

And it's awful. Here's the part of it, though, that you have to think about. Here's the part that doesn't make sense till you dig into a little bit more. They can show up and the cartels do this and they will push people right into the hands of border patrol, then border patrol has to take care of them, to get them food and medicine and take the hospital if need be.

Why not always do that? Why is it that there are remote places along the border where you will go where I went and you'll see efforts to cross there. It's because the cartels are incredibly sophisticated, international, not just smuggling and criminal enterprises, but really terrorist organizations.

And they have a communication and essentially a strategic command and control that lets them spread the border patrol and the resources we have down there as thinly as possible. Remember, because of the children that are being processed and any given time in the Rio Grande sector, 40% of border patrol agents are doing paperwork, changing diapers, making sure that people have access to the border patrol.

And sure that people have medicine that they need, whatever, maybe straight up humanitarian and babysitting mission essentially. What do you think the vicious Mexican drug cartels do while that's going on? They run drugs across the border.

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