Joe Biden announces he's finally heading to the border and that he's shifting his immigration

policy to stop illegal border crossings. The speakership crisis in the House hits day four,

and Prince Harry's new book is filled with wine. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, folks, it is January 6th. And you know what that means? Two-year anniversary of January 6th, 2021, the day that the media will spend talking about all day today. All you're going to hear all day today is about January 6th, 2021. I'm going to mention it. And then that's all I'm going to say about it because it happened two years ago. And that's all. That's like the whole thing. Meanwhile, the speakership crisis in the House continues, but I'm not going to talk about that at the top of the show either, because frankly, I don't care that much. The reason I don't care that much is because in the end, somebody is going to be elected Speaker. That person is going to be faced with the same set of institutional problems any Speaker of the House is faced with in the Republican Party. And that means that Not all that much is going to change because no matter what pledges are made, no matter who is made Speaker, that person is going to be faced with the prospect of a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president. They're going to have to negotiate deals with those Democrats. They're going to have to spend too much money. In fact, Republicans will always spend too much money, whether the president is a Democrat or a Republican, the negotiations will be hard fought and in the end, bills will be signed.

So there's that. What I really want to talk about today is the fact that we have a massive crisis on our southern border. And that massive crisis on our southern border has amounted to five million people illegally crossing the southern border since Joe Biden took office. It is a massive, massive number. And now Joe Biden is finally starting to realize that maybe he should do something about that.

When I say he's starting to realize that, what I mean is he is using the cover of what's going on in the house to pretend that he has now formulated a working policy for our southern border. He does not have a working policy for our southern border. In fact, his policy is totally self-contradictory.

For example, Joe Biden's new southern border policy is going to focus rather heavily on expanding the use of Title 42.

Well, five seconds ago, the Biden administration was challenging Title 42 at the Supreme Court level attempting to abolish Title 42.

Title 42 is a CDC regulation that allows for the quick excommunication,

the quick throwing out of people who arrive at the border due to COVID concerns, due to a

COVID crisis, a public health crisis. And so that's been challenged by a bunch of left-wingers,

including the Biden administration, who have said, well, we don't want to enforce Title 42 anymore because the COVID crisis is effectively over a bunch of Republican attorney generals and governors said we would like for Title 42 to continue to be enforced so that we don't have this continuing wave at the border and have that wave be exacerbated. So again, Biden challenged that in court. He lost. The Supreme Court 5-4 decided that it was not

time to get rid of Title 42 quite yet. Now, they really didn't have a strong basis for that, actually.

And I'm saying this as an originalist and a conservative, five of the justices who voted in favor of

holding Title 42 were on the right. Only one of the dissenters was on the right. That would be

Justice Neil Gorsuch. In any case, Joe Biden is now relying on a title that he himself wishes to

end in Title 42. The biggest thing that's happening right now is that he wants to head down to the

border. And he wants to stand on the border and presumably change policy a little bit. But what

he's really going to do is he's going

to almost time shift illegal immigration. So you'll still get illegal immigration. It'll just come

through sort of slightly different mechanisms. According to Mediaite, over the past 24 hours,

President Biden has solidified plans for a border visit on Thursday afternoon in a statement emailed to

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