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The John Batchelor Show

#POTUS: Crashing the border & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#POTUS: Crashing the border & What is to be done? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/border-chief-says-it-s-too-early-to-know-if-migrant-surge-has-peaked/ar-AA1baOE4

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:04.0

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0:15.0

This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society. I'm John Batcha with Thaddeus MacCarter,

0:20.0

recovering politician from the state of Michigan looking to the state of Texas, New Mexico,

0:27.0

Arizona, California, the southern border.

0:30.0

And in these last many hours I've watched video from London,

0:35.0

the telegraph and the London Times,

0:38.0

of migrants crossing the Rio Grande sometimes up to their neck and water,

0:44.0

sometimes way steep in the Rio Grande,

0:48.0

to reach the American side of the Rio Grande,

0:51.0

but then to pass through what looks to be barbed wire

0:55.0

in order to reach America and then go through a process that is described to me as orderly,

1:01.0

but it certainly doesn't look that way.

1:04.0

What was striking to me was to watch National Guard or Border Patrol or US combat soldiers.

1:13.0

I couldn't tell, it was dark, with their flashlights watching these migrants,

1:19.0

men, women and children.

1:21.0

Across the river, come out of the river along the muddy bank

1:25.0

and make their way along a small ledge,

1:27.0

they were tripping along the ledge,

1:29.0

to find a way to pass through the barbed wire.

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