Today, my administration is taking several steps to stiffen enforcement for
those who try to come without a legal right to stay.
And to put in place a faster process,
emphasis a faster process to decide a claim of asylum.
Someone says I'm coming because I'm escaping oppression.
Well, there's got to be a way to determine that much quicker for
people who are incredibly seeking protection from persecution.
>> President Joe Biden announced that he is effectively expanding Trump-era
immigration policies likely due to the pressure he's been facing from
bad-faith Republicans who would never give him credit for anything and
will likely continue claiming that there is a completely open border,
which of course is not true.
Now, what is Biden doing exactly?
Well, according to the Los Angeles Times,
it appears the administration decided that turning back immigrants from Cuba and
Nicaragua, two countries that have either limited or
refused to accept deportations of their nationals along with Haitians was
an essential tool to lower the number of people arriving at the border.
So what I fail to understand and it hasn't been explained in the way the media
has reported this story is if their home countries are refusing to take
them back in, where exactly are they supposed to go as the United States
refuses to hear their asylum claims and turns them right back around?
>> I believe the correct answer is Mexico.
So they just give them back to Mexico.
I don't know what Mexico is doing with them and
I don't know how much we're paying them to house all those folks.
But they got nowhere to go.
By the way, Ukrainians still allowed in.
So our Afghans to be fair, right?
But it is interesting that tons and
tons of brown folks not allowed into the country anymore, but
Ukrainians rightfully so allowed in, and Afghans rightfully so allowed in.
But you should also have the same standard for Venezuela and
many of these other countries.
But all of a sudden they're all blocked.
>> Now, the same report indicates that the Biden administration will continue its
embrace of Title 42, the public health rule that allows border officials
to immediately expel migrants who cross the US border illegally to Mexico,
a dramatic shift in policy that will narrow the ability of thousands of
migrants who are flee persecution to seek asylum in the United States.
So to be fair to Biden, part of the reason why he is continuing to honor Title 42
is because he's essentially forced to by the Supreme Court which
decided to keep the policy in place indefinitely until I guess there's
a better solution to the flow of migrants coming to the southern border.
Now, Biden did address Title 42 during his speech today.
So let's take a quick look at that.
>> They've been turned away.
They go back, they try again.
Well, they can and they do try to re-enter the United States again and
again, which makes the problem at the border even worse.
And under the United States Supreme Court decision,
a case on Title 42 later this year, my administration will and
it will make a decision finally what to do about the Title 42.
In the meantime, my administration will continue to use that authority
as the Supreme Court as required.
And until Congress passes the funds, a comprehensive immigration plan to fix
the system completely, my administration is gonna work to make things
better at the border using the tools that we have available to us now.
>> Look, Cenk, on one hand, it's frustrating to see the weakness of
Biden's administration when it comes to this issue.
It's also incredibly frustrating to see the clear difference in how the media
handled the way Trump dealt with immigration and how they're so
different when it comes to Joe Biden.
For some reason, when a Democratic president is being vicious to migrants,
it's ok, when the Republican president is being vicious to migrants, not okay.
Pretty interesting stuff there, but
at the same time real quick I don't know what Biden can unilaterally do about this,
especially when you have these conservative judges blocking every effort
to unwind some of Trump's anti-immigration policies.
>> Yeah, so there's always a lot of things that you could do that are not normally
considered, okay?
So for example, Biden could bring in tons of judges to the border and
spend what is really a minimal amount for the federal government to
bring those judges in and to process people quicker, right?
And if he wanted to, he could be a little bit more defined towards the course he
could let that play out, but he could say, hey, we're ready to actually do this.
He could fight back rhetorically telling you that there's nothing wrong with
immigrants seeking asylum.
But we can't let everybody stay if they don't have a legitimate asylum claim.
He could clarify all of these things and fight for his positions.
Instead, what he's done is, no I'll just keep doing what Trump did.
And actually, now that he's blocking Haiti, Venezuela,
Cuba, and Nicaragua, all of them are little worse.
So, but I think the main point in this story
is the one I just shared with you guys.
It's the same policy as Trump.
>> It is, yeah. >> It's actually a little bit worse
because he's blocking a couple more countries.
Why is the media up in arms over it?
Now, it's massive bias.
And don't get it twisted guys, were on the left.
It's not bias in favor of the left or it's not the liberal media.
No, it's the conservative media that will do whatever corporate politicians want and
frame it in a way that corporate politicians are happy with.
If George Bush had done the same immigration policy as Trump,
they would have thought it was great.
>> Well, my take us a little different, right?
Because when people refer to the media as the liberal media, I would always roll my
eyes at that because when it comes to bread-and butter-policies,
we know that the media overwhelmingly is owned by the corporate world, right?
So they don't in any way support build back better.
They weren't supportive of build back better.
So when it comes to bread and butter issues, they're certainly not liberal or
leftist or anything like that.
But when it comes to cultural matters,
I feel like there is a lot of liberalism in the media.-.
>> Yeah, it's corporate media.
And I'm glad you're clarifying corporate media and we've said this many times, but
to be clear here, on economic issues is very conservative and
it will agree with Fox News on almost everything.
And we'll show you 100 examples including one earlier today on the show where
Stephanie Ruhle and Sean Hannity agreed 100%, right?
And so but on social issues,
that's where they're supposed to do the theater of disagreeing.
So they do have people who actually disagree, Stephanie Ruhle,
Don Lemon etc, genuinely have the opinions, but why were they picked?
They were picked to be socially liberal and economically conservative so
that they could have fake fights with Tucker Carlson and
Sean Hannity about social issues while the corporate world robbed us blind.
So but Trump was an outsider and now also Trump did terrible things.
So that's why it gets a little complicated.
I know everybody wants it easy, Trump bad guy, these guys, good guys know Trump
was a bad guy but he was a verifiable outsider for some portion of that time.
Not the entire time when he was passing tax cuts for the rich, corporate media
was totally okay with it, right after that they found out he was a liar, okay?
When he started doing outsider things that the corporate world didn't agree with.
Now the outside of things weren't positive.
There was just in his behalf, right?
Progressives want to do outside of things that are on your behalf but
none of this gets explained instead what we have is this what seems to be this
mysterious situation where Biden gets credit for
the same exact policies that Trump was annihilated for by corporate media.
>> Yeah, now, and look to be fair,
I didn't feel like the press was giving Biden credit.
They just covered the story without the added opinion, right?
Because there was a lot of added opinion coming from the journalists,
the reporters, the writers, and
now it's matter of fact this is what Biden is doing.
>> It's just perfectly normal.
The thing that was super outrageous just a couple of years ago is not perfectly
normal, now that somebody else that's a corporate politician is doing it.
>> And we're saying it's outrageous regardless of which
administration does it.
That's what honest journalism is.
It's not picking aside and just being super tribal about providing cover for
that side.
And I feel we see a lot of that.
>> Are you kidding me?
That's almost all of media.
So-.
>> And by the way, it doesn't solve the problem, that's the biggest issue, okay?
These are people who literally at this point have nowhere to go because they're
being turned away by the United States at the southern border.
Their home countries aren't taking them in, so they're stuck in limbo in Mexico.
Does the United States government think they're just gonna
magically disappear and go away?
No, they're gonna try to come back into the country through illegal means.
That is the way that it works, that's what's gonna happen.
When people are desperate, they will do anything to get to safety and
that is likely what's going to happen.
And then you're gonna hear members of both parties whine and
cry about it because they neglected their jobs.
They didn't do their jobs, they didn't pass any immigration reform.
They just kept kicking the can down the road for decades.
The immigration battle has been going on literally for decades with no solutions.
>> Yep.
>> I can't stand these guys, let's go back to talking about McCarthy.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Okay,
that's why I don't care about, my God, they can't get any official business done.
What business are they gonna get done?
>> [LAUGH].
[INAUDIBLE].
>> All they've done over the last, I don't even know how many years,
how many administrations, is cut taxes, deregulate-.
>> All they've done.
>> Yeah, it's okay.
All right, it's okay.
They can go on with this fight as long as they'd like at least we're being
entertained.
>> Yeah, one last thing,
you know what the press is celebrating now the bipartisanship tour that McConnell and
Biden are doing for the infrastructure bill.
The infrastructure bill has some good parts to it, but
overall it's a giant shoveling of money towards other corporations.
So McConnell and Biden, very different all the guys are there will always fighting.
No, they're not.
They just shoveled tons of money to their mutual donors and now the media is,
yes, look at wonderful bipartisanship.
>> Okay, let me just one other thing about that, okay?
I love how we always have to do that caveat with the bipartisan infrastructure
bill, it has some good things in it, some good things.
Okay, mark my words, this is a prediction, you guys noted the date
the time because we're gonna go back to the video at some point, okay?
Because as these programs are rolled out,
which require public-private partnerships, it's going to be a disaster.
Take a good look at how public-private partnerships for
housing have worked out in Los Angeles County, okay?
Bunch of developers padding their pockets, no affordable housing has been built or
a very tiny amount of affordable housing has been built.
I guarantee you 100% of it for the most part,
going straight into the pockets of private corporations.
That is where our money's gonna go, okay?
And I'm sick of all of the Democrats coming at me for
saying it when we all know it's true.
If they were real about creating jobs, building infrastructure,
they wouldn't do it in a way that funnels billions of dollars into
the pockets of these corporate executives.
>> The range of matter was on the air the other day saying, it's incredible how much
Biden has gotten accomplished, incredible its like this semiconductor bill.
All that does is take $50 billion dollars of our money and
give it to the semiconductor industry.
You might think that it's necessary, that's an interesting and debatable point,
but it's not like we got the money.
No, they took our money and gave it to incredibly wealthy corporations,
incredibly profitable corporations.
And by the way, right afterwards, Intel said we were kidding and cut $8,000 jobs.
8000 jobs, okay?
>> Also, there were no protections in place to ensure that these
corporations don't ship those chips to other countries.
There was one regulation preventing those chips from being exported to China, but
any other country that is in shortage, I mean just like the oil companies,
they can go ahead and sell to the highest bidder.
>> Everything they pass is taking money from us and
giving it to their corporate donors.
Everything, I just solved all the politics for you.