Hey, everyone, welcome to from the kitchen table.

I'm Sean Duffy along with my wife and my life and the co-halls for my podcast, Rachel

Campos Duffy, or our podcast, I should say,

not mine.

Yeah, it is ours.

Yours, mine, ours.

I guess that's how it goes.

So today's interesting because we had a guest on Fox and Friends last weekend, who I thought

brought up some points that I've been trying to talk about a lot, but of course he has all

this research behind it. I've been worried to talk about a lot, but of course he has all this

research behind it. I've been worried about the destabilization of Mexico because of the open

border policy, because of how rich the cartels are becoming. And John Daniel Davidson, who is a senior

editor at the Federalist, has been following this and had a lot to say. And I thought, boy, I wanted the conversation

to keep going. And that's why we had this podcast. John, welcome to From the Kitchen Table.

Thanks for having me. Pleasure to be here. So my daughter, who also, by the way, works at the

Federalist, told me that you guys are doing a documentary from the border. Tell me a little bit

about that before we get going on this. Sure. We did a documentary from the border and we released

it in August. We went down there and filmed it in June, which was right after the record breaking

numbers from May, the arrest numbers from May came out

240,000 all-time record monthly arrests at the border.

We went down to northern Mexico for about a week in early June and visited migrant shelters

in two Mexican border towns, Matamoros, which is across the border from

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