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Today is Tuesday, March 16, 2021. I am John Pudhortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe.

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Okay. So I was as I really do I had on one of the morning shows totally by happenstance and it was Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talking about the border crisis.

You now know that migrant on a company minor children. Migrant children are filling up the facilities down by the border.

Totally spurred on by the change of administration and apparently the the marketing of the line in Central America that now you know trumps gone so everybody should should start pouring across the border because they'll be.

There's a there's a new more liberal regime in town and Mayorkas said just the most astonishing thing.

He sent the message he wanted to tell everybody the following do not come now.

Give us the time to rebuild the system that was entirely dismantled in the prior administration a nice wonderful system to you know help you went with your all of your illegal crossing of the border needs.

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