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Stephen Miller: US taxpayers will end up paying for immigrant crisis

2021-03-27 | 🔗
Former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller discusses the crisis on the southern border.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Just in the last couple of days to visit the crisis, there lets bring in Steve Miller, former White House senior adviser to President Trump good morning. Steven thank you for being with us today good morning. Will, in the last couple of days, we have noticed that the Biden Administration has begun to describe what is happening at the southern border as a normal, seasonal surge, nothing greatly outpacing what happened under the Trump administration that defies the account and numbers. We have seen whats your reaction to this very stupid in politics to say something that will be disproven with data thats going to be released in a matter of days. So at the end of the month they are going to release the monthly border statistics, and what you are going to see is the largest number of unaccompanied minors apprehended, since the data has been kept. Just to put this in perspective during the unaccompanied minor surge that we all remember very well in two thousand and fourteen right. That was the first year that people
really came in large numbers as unaccompanied under the age of eighteen illegally across our borders for the whole year, the total was sixty, eight thousand just shy of seventy thousand or about one hundred and ninety people a day rate. Now they are apprehending in this age, demographic between six and eight hundred people a day more than four times what was happening in that terrible crisis that we remember in twenty fourteen. There is no precedent, not just in our country. I would argue there is no precedent in world history for a resettlement of young people illegally entering a country on the scale and who is going to pay for it all. Who is going to provide the healthcare who is going to provide the education who is going to provide the housing? The answer is: hardworking: u DOT s taxpayers who have just been through a global pandemic. Pete Steven, the Biden administration would say well. This is in the name of humanitarian. This is in the name of a different approach than that harsh approach of the Trump administration.
What do you say to their claims that hey? This is okay, even though its unprecedented? Maybe they dont admit that because we are being humane, yeah so lets take the example that was brought up at the press conference that Joe Biden did on Thursday. So a reporter for another news, outlet asked Joe Biden about a story. The story was that an unaccompanied minor nine years old came here. The parents were back in their home country under Biden, administrations that child separation is being perpetuated, they will be resettled in the United States. They will be kept away from their parents. They will stay here indefinitely. They may go years even longer without ever seeing their parents again thats Joe Bidens policy. The Trump administration policy was to contact the home country, contact social services, contact our embassy and consulate and arrange for a reunification for the home country and to work with that government to make
sure that family was safe, thats. The difference Joe Biden is splitting up families all over the world for years at a time to bring them here to America at taxpayer. Expense. Donald Trump was humanely reuniting people at home and the termination of that policy. The decision to keep all illegal aliens under seventeen here in America indefinitely is triggering a titled surge that we have never seen before again as long as cat that has been kept Jedediah Steven, I want to ask you: we have two problems here, which is that people are continuing to couple, and then you have the people that are already here. So, even if President Biden were to come out at this point and say, stop coming or you will be sent back, the question is one: do those people believe him, because all the people that just came are likely going to be able to stay? I would assume- and secondly, is that enough- and does that address the problem we have now, which is overcrowding of facilities? What happens to all of these people now?
What do we do right so couple things. First of all, Joe Biden has the authority right now, under what you may have heard is called titled forty two CDC public Health Authority that dump put into place. You could take all of the unaccompanied minors that are in facilities today and begin the process of lining up charter flights and sending them back to their home countries. Once you do that the overcrowding will disappear within days and they will stop coming and the problem will be solved. It is a voluntary choice of this administration. Secondly, to your point, the rhetoric is meaningless when it is contradicted by reality, and so the people that are getting in not just minors, but thousands upon thousands of adults traveling with children as well, are being released, whether they get in they go on to social media. They report how they got in where they got in where they are now and that information travels back to where they come from. So unless you change the
reality, then this mass illegal resettlement is going to continue not only at its current unprecedented pace but to reach even greater highs high than we.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-27.