CARLEY: RODE IN THE 18-WHEELER
NEVER BEHIND THE WHEEL.
STEVE: CARLEY, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH.
MEANWHILE TURN TO THE BORDER
CRISIS.
AND IT IS A CRISIS.
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
ISSUED ORDER TO RESTRICT THE
TRANSPORTATION OF MIGRANTS WHO
POSE A RISK OF CARRYING THE
VIRUS.
>> WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
IS DOING IS DEADLY, IS
DANGEROUS, AND IT MUST BE
STOPPED.
TEXAS WILL STEP UP AND TAKE THE
LEAD.
WE’RE GOING TO ADDRESS THIS
COVID-19 DISASTER THAT THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION IS BRINGING IN TO
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
STEVE: THIS COMES AS A JUDGE IN
HIDALGO COUNTY CALLS ON FEDERAL
OFFICIALS TO STOP RELEASING
COVID-19 POSITIVE PATIENTS FROM
CUSTODY AFTER SICK MIGRANTS WERE
SENT TO HOTELS WITHOUT NOTIFYING
OFFICIALS.
LOCAL PEOPLE.
FORMER ACTING DHS SECRETARY AND
HERITAGE FOUNDATION VISITING
FELLOW CHAD WOLF JOINS US NOW TO
DISCUSS.
CHAD, GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
>> GOOD MORNING.
STEVE: IT IS TROUBLING.
JOE BIDEN TOLD EVERYBODY WE GOT
TO MASK UP HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES INDOORS.
EVEN IF YOU HAVE GOTTEN THE
VACCINE BUT, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS
TO BE A REAL PROBLEM WITH THE
MIGRANTS COMING INTO THE
COUNTRY.
THEY ARE BRINGING NOT ONLY THEIR
FAMILIES BUT THEY ARE BRINGING
COVID.
HE.
>> ABSOLUTELY, WHAT WE HAVE SEEN
OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS IS TWO
DIFFERENT STANDARDS, ONE FOR THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE AND ANOTHER FOR
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE COME
ACROSS THAT BORDER.
AND WE SEE THIS NOT ONLY IN THE
STATE OF TEXAS, BUT WE SEE IT
ALL ALONG THE BORDER, WHICH IS
THEY ARE COMING ACROSS AND WE
REINSTATED CATCH AND RELEASE.
THEY ARE CATCHING THEM AND THEN
THEY ARE MOVING THEM TO BUS
STATIONS, TO AIRPORT, AND THEN
THEY ARE RELEASING THEM INTO
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, INTO
BORDER COMMUNITIES.
SOME ARE TESTING POSITIVE.
SOME ARE NOT TESTED.
SOME ARE CHOOSING THE VACCINE.
SOME ARE NOT CHOOSING THE
VACCINE.
IT’S A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
GOVERNORS LIKE GOVERNOR ABBOTT
IN TEXAS ARE HAVING TO TAKE
MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HAND
BECAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
IS NOT DOING ITS JOB PROTECTING
AMERICAN CITIZENS.
STEVE: INDEED.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF
CASES REPORTED AMONG DETAINEES
THERE HAS BEEN 900 PERCENT SPIKE
DETAINEES WITHIN COVID REPORTED
WITHIN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY
SECTOR.
CHAD, I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT
A STORY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
YESTERDAY.
AXIOS GOT THEIR HANDS ON SOME
NUMBERS THAT APPARENTLY 50,000
MIGRANTS HAVE JUST BEEN RELEASED
INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE UNITED
STATES WITH NO NOTICE TO APPEAR.
USUALLY THEY ARE GIVEN A NOTICE
HEY, HERE’S A PAPER.
YOU GOT GO TALK TO YOUR LOCAL
ICE OFFICE.
THEY HAVE LOOKED AT IT ONLY 13%
OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN THE
COUNTRY ACTUALLY WENT TO THE ICE
OFFICE.
BUT THEN AGAIN, IF YOU BREAK
INTO A COUNTRY, ILLEGALLY, WHY
WOULD PEOPLE THINK THAT SUDDENLY
THEY ARE GOING TO START OBEYING
THE LAW?
>> WELL, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY
RIGHT.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN
THE ABSURDITY OF THE CRISIS
THAT’S GOING ON.
THEY ARE SO OVERWHELMED BY THE
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL MIGRANTS THAT
COMING ACROSS EVERY SING DWELL
MONTH THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER
EVEN PROCESS THEM.
INSTEAD OF PROCESSING THEM AND
GIVING THEM A NOTICE TO APPEAR
NTA, THEY ARE SIMPLY IN THE
FRONT DOOR AND OUT THE BACK
DOOR.
AND IF YOU RECALL, SEVERAL
MONTHS AGO, SECRETARIES OF DHS
GOT ASKED ABOUT THIS IN
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY.
HE INDICATED THAT HE WAS UNAWARE
THAT THIS WAS GOING ON.
IF IT WAS GOING ON.
IT WAS HAPPENING IN SUCH SMALL
NUMBERS THAT IT WAS MORE OR LESS
NEGLIGIBLE AND, OF COURSE, WHAT
WE HEAR NOW, 50,000, AND THE
SHOW-UP RATE IS SUCH A SMALL
NUMBER.
THAT’S ALMOST THE EXACT SAME
PERCENTAGE OF THOSE SHOWING UP
FOR COURT DATES WHEN THEY COME
INTO THE U.S. FOR THEIR ASYLUM
CLAIMS BECAUSE WE KNOW IF YOU
HAD A VALID CLAIM YOU ARE GOING
TO WANT TO SHOW UP FOR COURT.
WANT TO SHOW UP AT DHS OR ICE
FACILITY BECAUSE YOU GET LEGAL
STATUS IN THE U.S.
WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THE VAST
MAJORITY NEVER QUALIFY.
THAT’S WHY YOU SEE THESE DISMAL
SHOW UP RATES.
STEVE: ONE OTHER STORY I WANT
YOU TO RESPOND.
TO SAY THERE IS A STORY NOW THAT
APPARENTLY A COUPLE OF
GOVERNMENT WHISTLEBLOWERS WHO
WERE VOLUNTEERS AT THE CHILD
MIGRANT FACILITY AT FORT BLISS, THEY HAVE COME FORWARD AND THEY
THEY HAVE COME FORWARD AND THEY
SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT, THE
ADMINISTRATION HAD THIS MASSIVE
COVER-UP.
WE SAW THOSE THOUSANDS OF KIDS
IN THAT FACILITY AND WE SAID AT
THE TIME IT’S GOT TO BE A SUPER
SPREADER EVENT.
NOW IT’S COMING FORWARD THAT
APPARENTLY THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION DID EVERYTHING IN
THEIR POWER TO KEEP THE NUMBER
OF SICK KIDS OUT OF THE NEWS AND
THESE PEOPLE HAVE COME FORWARD
AND ARE SPILLING THE BEANS.
NONETHELESS, TURNS OUT HUNDREDS,
COVID WAS WIDESPREAD AMONG THE
KIDS AND IT SPREAD TO MANY OF
THE EMPLOYEES.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DIDN’T
WANT THAT NUMBER OUT.
DIDN’T WANT THOSE NUMBERS OUT
BECAUSE THEN IT WOULD BECOME
POLITICAL.
>> WELL, ABSOLUTELY.
WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AGAIN LAST
SEVERAL MONTHS WITH THIS MIGRANT
HOUSING CRISIS IS A NUMBER OF
MISSTEPS BY THE ADMINISTRATION.
THEY HAVE HAD TO OPEN UP
FACILITIES AND CLOSE FACILITIES
IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
OF COURSE, THE FORT BLISS
FACILITY THAT YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT PRESS HAS NEVER BEEN
ALLOWED IN THERE YOU HAVE NEVER
BEEN ABLE TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT’S
GOING ON.
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO
HIDE NUMBERS OR DOWN PLAY
NUMBERS IS NOT SURPRISING TO ME.
I THINK WHAT IS SURPRISING IS
THAT OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS OUTLETS
OTHER JOURNALISTS ARE NOT
COVERING THIS ISSUE.
IT IS A HUGE ISSUE.
IF YOU GO BACK TO 2018 AND ’19
WHEN WE HAD A CRISIS ALONG THAT
BORDER AND WE CALLED IT A
CRISIS.
WE WANTED TO BE UP FRONT WITH
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
WE LET THEM.
IN WE LET THEM IN TO FACILITIES
SO THEY COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT
WAS GOING ON.
STEVE: WELL, IT’S A GOVERNMENT
COVER-UP ADDING BY THESE
WHISTLEBLOWERS.
EVERYBODY SHOULD BE COVERING