Ep. 1891 - Border STANDOFF: Texas Fights Back
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So yesterday afternoon, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a letter basically announcing that the state of Texas was going to start enforcing the border. They've been doing this for a while. They put a bunch of fencing in the middle of the Rio Grande, barriers in the middle of the Rio Grande to prevent people from crossing at the border. The federal government has objected to that. They've used razor wire in state parks that are on the national border, and the federal |
| 0:22.3 | government has objected to all of that. Well, yesterday, Greg Abbott, looking at the crisis that has |
| 0:26.8 | been created by Joe Biden on the southern border, issued what is a rather historic letter? |
| 0:31.5 | And we're going to go through it in its details, because what we are watching is now a constitutional |
| 0:36.3 | crisis that is created entirely by Joe Biden and his |
| 0:40.2 | evil activities on the border. And they are. I'm sorry, it is an evil thing not to enforce the |
| 0:44.3 | border of your country to purposefully say that you're going to leave the border wide open, |
| 0:48.4 | which is what Joe Biden has done. I've been down to the border. It is wide open to facilitate that, |
| 0:53.5 | to basically incentivize the drug cartels, |
| 0:55.9 | to pour millions of people into the United States is a bad thing. It is Joe Biden abandoning |
| 1:02.3 | his constitutional duties. It is Joe Biden abdicating the presidency of the United States. |
| 1:07.5 | It is an evil for the president of the United States to do those things. It would be the equivalent of a mayor of a large city, simply announcing that they are not going to police crime anymore. The fundamental duty of the federal government is to protect the people of the United States of America and to protect the borders of the United States of America. That's why it is a federally mandated duty for the government of the United States to do that. |
| 1:28.5 | That's why it's a federal issue and not a state issue. And Joe Biden has not only signally failed. |
| 1:33.6 | He has done the opposite of good. He has facilitated all of this. In the estimates on the number of |
| 1:40.5 | illegal immigrants who have entered the country, it ranges from a low. |
| 1:44.7 | The low would be like six million people have entered the country illegally under Joe Biden. |
| 1:49.2 | There's certain estimates that put that upwards of 10 million. |
| 1:52.4 | And there's no real way to know because, of course, there are a bunch of people who ran across the border and got away, and those are unknown gotaways. |
| 1:57.6 | They're known gotaways and unknown gotaways. |
| 2:00.2 | But Joe Biden has |
| 2:01.1 | facilitated all this with terrible border policy. It is wrong. It should be against the law. |
| 2:08.3 | Again, the federal government has one job and one job only in the end, and that is to protect |
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