Ex-Trump border chief on Biden sending 1,500 troops to southern border: ‘All smoke and mirrors’
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Mark Morgan, former Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner, discusses recent news that the Biden administration has ordered 1,500 troops down to the southern border in preparation for the lifting of Title 42, which is expected to result in a surge of migrants. Morgan comments, that the sending of troops is “not substantive, it's all about politics. Because there is a crack, and there's nothing substantive. So 1500 military personnel, make no mistake, this is simply about resources going down, and they're only putting those resources down for political objects. It's not going to change anything, because the resources are not being sent down there to do what they need to do for their constitutional mandates. They're not being sent there to secure the border. They're simply being down there to facilitate the catch and release of those illegally entering and filing fraudulent claims.” The former border chief says, “let's make no mistake, this is all smoke and mirrors, nothing's going to change. They're not doing anything with respect to an effective strategy of deterrence and consequences and put integrity back in the system. It's just the opposite. It's more of the same. They're they know the numbers are going to increase so they know they need more resources there, to help process and release illegal aliens as fast as humanly possible, and that's exactly what's going on right now.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America happy Tuesday a very busy day in the Hunter Biden scandal where we're going |
| 0:10.6 | to get you up to speed on all of the developments. |
| 0:13.2 | Some of them exclusively breaking on just the news. |
| 0:15.8 | But first before we get to that, let me tell you what lies ahead on the show. |
| 0:19.0 | We've got two extraordinary guests about two very important issues in America right now. |
| 0:25.0 | The border yesterday Joe Biden sent 1500 troops down to the border, barring a page of the |
| 0:30.7 | playbook of Donald Trump. |
| 0:32.3 | But these 1500 troops are going to be down there. |
| 0:35.1 | They're trickle in the bucket. |
| 0:37.0 | They can't actually do anything. |
| 0:38.4 | They can't arrest or detain people. |
| 0:40.3 | They're really window dressing to make it look like Joe Biden is doing something as millions. |
| 0:45.0 | Think about this. |
| 0:46.0 | We sent 1500 troops with no police powers to try to stop millions who are legally crossing |
| 0:51.1 | our border. |
| 0:52.2 | It is a farce. |
| 0:53.2 | It is a optical event without any real meaning to the security of the border. |
| 0:57.7 | But it is a sign that Joe Biden and Democrats are beginning to see in their polling numbers, |
| 1:02.6 | some troubling signs and they're at least trying to go through lip service and actions. |
| 1:07.2 | We're going to have Mark Morgan, the former head of the Custom Border Protection Agency, |
| 1:12.0 | both under President Obama and President Trump. |
| 1:14.4 | He's a guy that got that border security under President Trump. |
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