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Tucker: Biden created an immigration crisis at America's doorstep

2021-03-16 | 🔗
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host live from El Salvador examines the migrant surge unfolding at the US southern border
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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.