'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host live from El Salvador examines the migrant surge unfolding at the US southern border
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Right now
good evening and
welcome to
Tucker Carlson tonight
we are coming to you from
El Salvador on the pacific side
of Central America.
We were here four years ago and
we are back to take a close look
at MS 13
Nell, a global criminal
organization.
Our full investigation into
MS 13 will air in an upcoming
new series, Tucker Carlson
Originals on Fox nation.
We just spoke to the countrys
president here at length.
We asked the president of the
migrant crisis on the southern
border, where portions of the
interview in a moment
that is fascinating
right now, we are in San Salvador
to compact a pretty place that
is reined by dormant volcanoes,
but, unlike other countries in
the region, this country,
El Salvador, not high, end beach,
resorts or tourist attractions
along the coast.
There has been very little
foreign investment and there is
a reason for that.
For a long time, El Salvador has
been a dangerous place in a few
yours, ranked the most by rent
domain, violent country in the
world
ongoing fighting in the 80s
with the brutal civil war and
extending to the current battle
against gangs. Like MS 13,
if you are from Long Island
Virginia, you know all about
MS 13,
you read the stories about human
trafficking and beheadings
El Salvadors, most famous export
with millions of low wage
workers
about a third of all self and
Dorians live in the
United States. Many illegally
and many more appear to be comin.
The reason the bite and
administration has declared the
violence in El Salvador and
other parts as a humanitarian
crisis.
That means the United States now
has a moral obligation to fix
and pay for that crisis.
Biden has ended, so call save
third country agreements. The
United States once had with
Guatemala, El Salvador and
Honduras.
Migrants moving north without
visas will no longer have to
apply for asylum from the
countries they come from here
they can come directly to our
country. No questions asked
once in the: U Dot S, they can
qualify for free health care,
free education and citizenship.
They will not be deported and
they know it
so simply by crossing an
international border, a line on
the map, these migrants move
instantly from poverty to the
unimaginable benefits of the
welfare state or country.
So who wouldnt make that trip
huge numbers are up? People are
making that trip.
In February last month, customs
and border protection agency
found one hundred thousand people trying to
enter the United States
illegally and most appear to be
from Central America
a year ago for context, that
number was thirty. Four thousand.
There is no precedent for an
increase like that over a month,
so they learned, several people
rested up the southern border on
the FBI terrorist watch list.
We also learned there are over
thirteen thousand unaccompanied to my
stomach migrant children in the
detention center.
That is more than tripled a
record high end of the Trump
administration.
Just days ago we were told the
total number was four thousand migrant
children in custody,
so the numbers have been
increasing exponentially since
December. They seem likely to
increase exponentially from
here
one border facility and taxes.
The situation is now seven hundred and twenty nine percent over C
hurt by definition,
is it an emergency.
Fema has been called in to help
just two months into the
Joe Biden administration. The
border is officially a disaster.
The administration is not
denying this.
They cant deny it
its on tape,
so instead they are telling us
the tragedy they created is in
fact a sign of hope here and
watch.
Do you think it is coincident
that Trump, an immigration policy
on the way out and Biden State
of policy on the way in is a
historic surge that the border
started?
Surgeons tend to respond to
hope.
I dont know if I would call
that a coincidence, but I
certainly think the idea that a
more humane policy would be in
place.
They have driven people to make
that decision
surges tend to
respond to hope, explains a
reckless arrogant bureaucrat to
teach genters studies at a
community college, but instead
has power,
hope whose hope exactly
is there? Anyone in our country
in the United States, who
sincerely believes that we are
seeing tonight on our border
will improve our country.
Of course. No one believes that
purity, but it doesnt matter,
because the lies of actual
Americans mean nothing to the pe
making these decisions.
Your happiness is not a
consideration and its never
even discussed in Washington.
Instead, the rest have a duty to
fix problems in countries that
we dont understand,
problems that, by the way
absently caused by the
United States but other colonial
powers centuries ago.
So if anyone has a legacy
responsibility for what is
happening in Latin America and
if anyone is ultimately
responsible for latin american
immigrants moving north, it is
not the United States, its pain.
Maybe the spanish government
could start by sending back the
gold sitting in that central
bank.
Where do you think that came
from El Salvador might
appreciate that,
but Roberta Jacobson is not
suggesting that has never
occurred to her, because the
point is not to help the
United States.
In fact, the point is to punish
the United States.
An official in Washington agrees
with that purity surge of
desperate illegal immigrants is
what you get when you vote for
the other party.
That is the message
they are telling us. The last
president is responsible for all
you are seeing right now.
It is a pretty remarkable claim
if you think about it, given the
last president was elected
president, because everyone else
in Washington somehow thought it
was racist to have international
borders,
they have no shame and they
think you are stupid
here. It is
what the administration has
inherited is a broken system at
the border.
The eleven year high for
crossings without documentation
of the border was in the middle
of Trumans presidency.
This idea that it is Joe Bidens
election that has prompted more
people to show up is belied by
the actual facts.
Joe Biden inherited a huge
mess on immigration.
What we are seeing today is a
consequence of four years of
dismantling every system in
place to address this way of
humanity and compassion.
It is hard to
believe you are hearing that
so lets repeat it slowly, so you
can get every word
what we are seeing today. The
border crisis is the
consequence of four years of
dismantling every system in
place to address this with
humanity and compassion
that was congresswoman, Veronica
Escobar of Texas.
So she is telling you the last
administration is just too
liberal in its border policy,
those open border trump people.
We are always warning us about
that. That is why two months into a
has pul
has Pul
lecture us, some more about
humanity and compassion.
These people
youve got to wonder if they
think a single human being
believes anything. They say
they probably dont care.
They certainly dont care about
the country. They are supposed to
be in charge of peer. That is the
one obvious link
they have given up trying to
pretend they are anyway making
life better for american
citizens.
It is easier to yell at
Americans about making life
better for the rest of the
world.
That is the appeal of it. It
shifts the attention and
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez can
sound like a hero after offering
to El Salvador. Someone never
have a job giving away other
peoples, money
and Alexandria. Ocasio Cortez
doesnt have to worry about the
Americans who live in queens,
the people she is supposed to be
if hired to represent and help,
and who is she not worrying
about, though
ever been to her congressional
districts?
Detroit Oakland Gary Indiana:
these are the actual places that
Democrats run the places they
are supposed to be improving,
but those plays have not
improved not in fifty years
they become much worse.
The people do not pause to
reflect on what they have done,
much less apologize for it.
They move on.
They headed to Afghanistan,
Libya, Syria, were now
El Salvador.
We hope the good people of
Central America are ready for
the democratic, Partys version
of humanity and compassion.
They might want to take a quick
field trip to Baltimore to see
how it works out in the end,
in two thousand and eighteen, the city of Baltimore, a
higher murder rate than the city
of El Salvador, or for that
matter, Honduras, Guatemala or
Afghanistan. Even
no one thought to call FEMA to
help the people of Baltimore.
Somebody should have
no one from Baltimore offered
asylum in El Salvador
by the way come if they are,
they should strongly consider,
excepting because much safer to
live with MS 13, then Baltimore
you would be far safer to go to
Honduras
in two thousand and eighteen. Thirty of the two hundred and ninety eight
municipalities, undressed
reported no murders at all
same and guatemalan
in El Salvador, zero murders.
That is a massive improvement
over so many other cities,
so Heres an idea
if you are telling us that parts
of Central America are so
dangerous that crime constitutes
humanitarian crisis. That is
exactly what the Biden
administration is claiming. Then,
why not move the people of
El Salvador, Honduras or
Guatemala to safer parts of
their own countries?
Has that occurred to any of the
professional compassion
merchants in the Biden
administration?
Apparently it hasnt
instead, in a cruel twist, they
are encouraging every young and
ambitious person in El Salvador
to leave the country and head
north to wash dishes and do our
laundry.
How is that a compassionate
program?
How is that not exploiting the
people of Central America?
How is it good for El Salvador,
its not pure? It is something
Mckinsey and company thought
of the commit grotesque
into solving of national crisis.
They are, as usual, making it much
worse
the message the Biden
administration has sent to
El Salvador and the countries
around it could not be clear.
The border is gone, we have a
raised, it come join us.
The people in the region have
heard that message.
They dont have a plan at the
moment to get this under control,
and you know the White House is
dispatching officials to the
border to feed the situation,
firsthand families with young
children. They do feel like this
is a moment where they can get
into the United States.
They do feel like there will be
a more receptive policy from the
Biden administration.
This is the challenge that the
White House have appeared if
they dont think their policy is
open invitation. They have to SIG
that more clearly, because
that is obviously not the way it
is being interpreted.
So if the question
is, is the Biden Administration
encouraging the crisis at the
border lets see? There are
honduran migrants on camera,
saying Joe Biden is going to
help all of us, so, yes, they are
encouraging it.
They are doing it on purpose.
Why are they doing it on
purpose?
Here is one clue.
This week the
Democratic controlled House of
Representatives set to vote on
two separate bills that would
grant citizenship and legal
status to at least four million
illegal aliens in the
United States.
One of those bills is called the
farm work force, modernization
act and it grants amnesty to
roughly a million immigrants.
The only criterion commit if
they can prove they worked in
agriculture for one hundred and eighty days over
the past two years.
One hundred and eighty days that is all it takes.
That is all american citizenship
is worth at this point.
Apparently,
so it is starting to make sense.
White Joe Biden suspended all
those deportations.
One hundred and eighty days is all it takes, and the
clock is running,
but dont say that out loud in
Washington and dont say, the
watchword is plausible
deniability.
Of course you are to report as
many new citizens, as you can
in the United States to replace
the disobedient ones that did
not vote for us
come on now. That is insane
conspiracy, theory the street
from Qanon
to prove it its not true at
all, not even a little bit. The
DHS secretary has warned all
potentially illegal immigrants
to stay far away from our
southern border or else
or else what exactly
or else the dh secretary could
be mildly unhappy with them
miffed at the very least
hes that kind of ruthless
border protector.
All I can do is communicate
bow to the american public and
to the individuals seeking
protection
they need to wait.
We are not saying dont come,
we are saying dont come now.
We will be able to deliver safe
and orderly process to them as
quickly as possible.
Oh so, actually we
are not saying dont come.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-17.