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Border crisis is 'exactly' what Biden wants: Ken Paxton

2021-09-20 | 🔗
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the crisis at the border is worse than he's ever seen.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
We certainly are experiencing. We certainly are experiencing a challenging situation. We are surging resources and we have a multipronged approach to this. We have sent a very clear message. Early in light of the fact is that we are in the midst be pandemic. Border is not open and people should not take the perilous journey. Here we are returning people who other countries, Steve yeah, thats, what he said. Dhs Secretary Mayorkas, pressed on the thousands of migrants camped under that bridge in Del Rio, Texas. He, the secretary, prepares to visit the area himself for a firsthand look hes, not going to like it Texas Attorney General KEN Paxton joins us right now from Texas, Mr Attorney General Good morning, good morning Steve. So we just heard from the secretary who said we sent a very clear message: the border is not open and yet thats not the message they are getting. Is it no,
and that is not the message they have sent from day. One President Biden said youre welcome to come here. We will not deport you and that message was sent loud and clear and Haitians have been given special protection. They are not being deported, the ones that are already here, so the administration has even told them. You know the ones that are here. We are not deporting that message has gotten through thats. Why you see that picture on the border with thousands of people waiting to get in Steve. That goes to show you how uneven the application of the rules is, because if he gave the Haitians temporary protected status and now he is end Ising them back, he says yeah. I changed my mind. You know that explains why the Haitians are saying: hey, stop sending them here. We dont have room for our own people, no thats exactly right. There is a reason that the Haitians are here. He invited them by giving them that special protection and that message got sent to their community thats. Why you saw so many show up so quickly that he was the type of message he has been sending since day,
one of his administration Steve. We understand that, apparently they sent three flights of migrants back from San Antonio yesterday. There could be six flights later today, as they try to look like were sending them back. They cant, you know its going to take one hundred planes to send that many people back. Ultimately, as the people get off there in Haiti, but Mr Attorney general, when you hear them say all right. We have closed the border border that just amounted to some of your guys at that dam people were walking across and some also apparently a couple of mexican police on the other side saying its closed here, but they are coming in across the river about a mile down yeah thats, a joke. Those people know how to get through. They have made no real effort to stop them. If you just look at the immigration numbers in general, we are over two hundred thousand last month over two hundred thousand the month before that three hundred million increase. This idea that somehow they are blocking the Haitians,
they are not blocking the Haitians, no more than blocking everyone else. They want illegal immigration, they want what that brings and its clear from what their actions are that thats, true Steve? What do you make of the Senate parliamentarian handing the Senate Democrats and the White House a big loss yesterday in saying that the Democrats cannot jam some sort of immigration, reform or pathway for citizenship here in gigantic three point: five infrastructure bill, thats, not really infrastructure. You know what at least is. There is something right going on in Washington. Typically, you have to germaneness. If you are going to stick immigration on stimulus bill or whatever it is, it has to be germane. Im glad the par pen, Tarren ruled correctly Steve. You have been watching whats going on on our southern border for years on a scale of one to ten. How bad is it now? I would have to say I have never seen it this bad.
I mean we have been complaining about it for decades, ignored it other than the four years that Donald Trump is in office and whats remarkable. He had so many good policies, whether it was stay in Mexico program, whether it was the stopping the catch and release building the wall, resources that went into now. We have taken all the opposite policies and getting the opposite results. My guess is: this is exactly what the Biden administration wants Steve. Well, the secretary is coming your way to eyeball it himself, KEN Paxton, the a dot g for t dot x.
Transcript generated on 2021-09-20.