Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builder Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. I'm Rick Green America's Constitution Coach, here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And we are actually sharing with you some of these presentations from

our pro-family legislators conference. We've already shared a couple of those from Tim Barton and from

David Barton and one of mine. We're going to share another one from David. This one's only

going to be today's program. So this will be the entire presentation in just one episode. But it's

about immigration. It's very timely as this comes to a head with President Trump moving into office and an absolute reversal of the Biden policies, which were a reversal of the Trump policies.

So really important to get this foundation and this history. Let's jump right in with David Barton speaking at the pro-family legislators conference.

This time we're going to get into something that many people have thought was solely a federal issue

and that is the issue of immigration and looking at immigration states have a big role to play in

this and i want to take you back through some history of what we've done statewide with immigration

because all 50 states now are border states. Well, maybe 48 of them.

Alaska, you guys having problems there?

Maybe not.

Hawaii probably doesn't, but probably the continental 48, all have become border states.

And so as a result, with what we had to go through in Texas, with the things that we do here

in Texas, related to immigration,

we've had to do so much because the courts have required us

to include, for example, illegal immigrants

and all of our social programs, which is a lot of money.

So I wanna take you back to the original intent

of immigration laws as done by the Founding Fathers.

So when you look at immigration from founding standpoint,

we all take an oath to uphold the Constitution. Now, I have put a different emphasis on this in the last

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