MASS RELEASING THOUSANDS OF
CUBANS AND VENEZUELANS AND
NICARAGUANS BY AUTHORIZING
HUMANITARIAN PAROLE, THIS GOING
FOR A YEAR THOUGH FEDERAL
LOSSES, PAROLE AUTHORITIES ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE USED ON A
CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS,
KEN PAXTON, THANKS FOR BEING
HERE.
WHAT’S YOUR REACTION TO THIS?
>> THEY ARE CONTINUING TO NOT
FOLLOW FEDERAL LAW, THEIR JOBS
TO PROTECT THE BORDER, SEND
PEOPLE BACK THAT ARE HERE
ILLEGALLY.
THE IDEA OF RELEASING PEOPLE ON
A MASS SCALE IS SUPPOSED TO BE
INDIVIDUAL CHOICE EACH TIME, A
MASS DECISION TO LET EVERYONE
GO COMPLETELY ILLEGAL, AND
PRESIDENT BIDEN IS NOT
FOLLOWING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
ROLE.
MARIA: YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE
SEEING A SITUATION THAT IS
LEGAL LANDER STRUCTURE THAT WAS
PUT IN PLACE BUT A LOT OF THIS
IS MIGRANTS JUMPING THE LINE,
GETTING INTO THE US, WE DON’T
KNOW WHO IS COMING IN.
WHAT’S YOUR ASSESSMENT OF THE
SOUTHERN BORDER?
THE ADMINISTRATION IS LOOKING
TO OVERTURN TITLE 42.
>> ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION UP 300%.
EVEN UP SINCE LAST YEAR WHEN
BIDEN STARTED DOING THIS.
IT IS ONLY GETTING WORSE.
THEY ARE NOT VETTING THESE
PEOPLE, THEY COULD BE
TERRORISTS, CRIMINALS, MANY ARE
CRIMINALS, STILL SPREADING
COVID, STILL ALLOWING DRUGS TO
BE IMPORTED, THERE IS NOTHING
GOOD FOR AMERICANS IN THIS.
I DON’T SEE ANY BENEFITS TO
AMERICA, ONLY DETRIMENTS AND
THE GOAL IS VOTES.
IT’S NOT WORKING OUT WELL FOR
AMERICA.
MARIA: I WAS TOLD BY SENATOR
MARSHA BLACKBURN THEY HAD
ALREADY IDENTIFIED 34 OR 35
PEOPLE ON THIS TERRORIST WATCH
LIST COMING INTO THE BORDER.
CAN YOU GIVE US ANY NEW
INFORMATION IN TERMS OF WHO IS
COMING INTO THE BORDER?
1.7 MILLION PEOPLE WERE
APPREHENDED AND WE SEE APPREHENSION SKYROCKETED EARLY
APPREHENSION SKYROCKETED EARLY
THIS YEAR, BUT WHO IS IT?
>> THEY DON’T TELL US IF THEY
KNOW.
MY GUESS IS 99% OF THESE PEOPLE
ARE VETTED, WE DON’T KNOW IF
THEY ARE TERRORISTS.
WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THEIR
CRIMINAL HISTORY IS.
WE DON’T CARE.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE.
THE MESSAGE IS GET HERE, WE
DON’T CARE WHAT YOUR BACKGROUND
IS.
TO GET MORE PEOPLE HERE.
MARIA: ALL OF THIS AS WE WATCH
INFLATION SKYROCKET AND COST
AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS $2000 MORE
THIS YEAR AND ENERGY
PRODUCTION, AND WHAT CAN YOU
TELL US ABOUT THE POTENTIAL FOR
THE UNITED STATES TO BECOME
ENERGY INDEPENDENT ONCE AGAIN.
>> I AM IN WEST TEXAS, SPENT
THE DAY IN MIDLAND.
THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE
US ENERGY INDEPENDENT.
WE WERE THERE UNDER THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION.
IT IS SAD AND SHOCKING THAT ONE
YEAR LATER WE WERE DEPENDENT ON
FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT WERE NOT
OUR FRIENDS WHEN WE COULD BE
ENERGY INDEPENDENT RELATIVELY
QUICKLY IF THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION WOULD ENCOURAGE
ENERGY PRODUCTION INSTEAD OF
DISCOURAGE IT.
MARIA: THAT IS NOT THE AGENDA.
THE AGENDA IS TO DISCOURAGE IT
AND PUT THE CLIMATE AGENDA AS
PRIORITY.
LOU, JUMP IN.
>> TO MARIA’S POINT, ATTORNEY
GENERAL, YOU ARE THERE WITH THE
MOST OIL PRODUCTION AND
REFINING ASSETS IN OUR COUNTRY.
WHAT ARE SOME LEGAL THINGS?
WE TALKED ABOUT ILLEGAL
MEASURES BY THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION, WHAT ARE LEGAL
THINGS YOU COULD DO QUICKLY IN
YOUR STATE TO PROVIDE RELIEF,
AND GASOLINE PRODUCTION? >> THEY ARE PRODUCING AS MUCH
>> THEY ARE PRODUCING AS MUCH
AS THEY CAN. THE PROBLEM, AND TO PUT OIL IN
THE PROBLEM, AND TO PUT OIL IN
THE RIGHT FORM.
IT TAKES TIME, TRYING TO STOP
THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE FROM
BEING SHUT DOWN AS THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION IS ALLOWING
PUTIN TO OPEN HIS PIPELINE.
WE ARE UP AGAINST THE FORCE IS
DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO
GET GAS PRICES HIGH, TO MOVE
US, INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE BECAUSE
GAS PRICES ARE SO HIGH AND THE
PROBLEM IS MOST AMERICANS CAN’T
AFFORD IT.
MARIA: FIGHTING AND BATTLING
BACK THIS AGENDA FOR YEAR.
HOW MANY LAWSUITS HAVE YOU
FILED AND WHO HEARS THESE
SUITS?
>> WE ARE OVER 30, WE ARE
FOLLOWING A COUPLE WEEKS.
FEDERAL JUDGES IN TEXAS, THE
GOOD THING IS EVEN THOUGH IT IS
A SLOW PROCESS, RELATED TO THE
ASYLUM PROGRAM, IN APRIL.
I HOPE WHEN WE GET THERE,
ALLOWING PEOPLE CLAIMING ASYLUM
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MARIA: THAT IS AN IMPORTANT