Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Podcast.

Welcome everybody to the second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.

I want to talk to you about borders here for a moment.

We could start with our own border and then we'll discuss what's going on far, far away,

a border that's getting a lot of attention. Certainly the media and all over

the world right now, at least the Western world and its media.

I want to start with ours though because while the Biden regime is very focused in on

the situation in Ukraine and you're going to see a lot more talk about what's happening there

and there could be an invasion any day by Russia. What will the scope and scale of that invasion be?

Who knows? We're still trying to figure all this out. But just so you know about our own border,

Southern border. The first three months of fiscal year 22, there have been over half a million

encounters in Southern border. That means essentially they've had either an arrest to make of someone

crossing illegally or a god away, someone coming into the country, they know as illegal and then

who makes a run for it. That is more than double the first three months of fiscal year 2021

and the same period of time. CBP released its December border numbers, 178,840 encounters in December.

So you know getting close to 200k for the month. That is an increase over November. It is definitely

a lot higher than the 73,000 encounters in December of 2020. So in December last month we had data from

the Customs and Border Patrol, 178,000 encounters. Our border is basically open. So let's just talk

about that for a second here because there's no there's no interest from the Democrat party in doing

anything about this other than keeping it going. I mean they actually think that this is a benefit

to them. So now let's, I just wanted to put that out there for the context here of the enormous

focus that's now going to be spent across the apparatus of our government and the media industrial

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