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JACKIE: WELCOME BACK.
TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
ANNOUNCING TEXAS AUTHORITIES
WILL RETURN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
BACK TO THE BORDER.
THIS AS A NEW DRONE VIDEO SHOWS
HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS CROSSING
INTO THE UNITED STATES.
SOME PEOPLE CAN BE SEEN SMILING
AND GIVING THE THUMBS UP AS THEY
ENTER.
THE LATEST VIDEO COMES AS
ARIZONA’S ATTORNEY GENERAL URGES
THE STATE’S GOVERNOR TO DECLARE
AN INVASION AT THE BORDER.
EARLIER THIS WEEK MULTIPLE TEXAS
COUNTY OFFICIALS TOOK THE SAME
ACTION.
JOINING US NOW TEXAS CONGRESSMAN
PAT FALLON OF HOUSE OVERSIGHT
AND REFORM.
CONGRESSMAN, GREAT TO HAVE YOU
WITH US THIS EVENING, THIS CALL
FOR INVASION ON SOME OF THE
SOUTHERN BORDER STATES CONTINUES
TO GROW.
WE SEE EXACTLY WHAT THE RESPONSE
IS.
WE GOT A RESPONSE IN SOME WAYS
FROM GOVERNOR ABBOTT TODAY.
HE WAS ON WITH OUR COLLEAGUE
LARRY KUDLOW HE EXPLAINED BY
EXECUTIVE ORDER WHAT HE IS DOING
IN TEXAS.
LISTEN TO THIS.
>> WHAT TEXAS IS DOING, WE’VE
TAKEN UNPRECEDENTED ACTION TO
RESPOND TO THIS, INCLUDING
BUILDING A BORDER WALL,
DEPLOYING THE MILITARY, LAYING
DOWN MILITARY GRADE RAZOR WIRE
AND NOW DOING THE UNPRECEDENTED,
THAT IS, TEXAS LAW ENFORCEMENT,
NATIONAL GUARD, ANYBODY THEY
APPREHEND COMING ACROSS THE
BORDER ILLEGALLY THEY WILL BE
RETURNING TO THE BORDER.
>> THEY’RE NOT PUTTING THEM BACK
IN MEXICO.
YOU’RE GOING BACK TO THE BORDER.
WE’LL TRY TO DO DEAL WITH THIS
IN A SYSTEMIC WAY.
THERE IS CONSTITUTIONAL
PROVISION THAT ESSENTIALLY SAYS
EACH STATE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE
PROTECTED FROM INVASION.
HE IS NOT USING THE WORD
INVASION OR DECLARING IT IN A
NATIONAL WAY BUT IT SEEMS TO ME
THE PRINCIPLE THIS IS RESTING
ON.
>> YES, THANKS, JACKIE, FOR
HAVING ME ON TOO.
IT’S A GOOD STEP BUT I WOULD
LIKE TO SEE US GO FURTHER
PARTICULARLY IN TEXAS AND FOLLOW
THE ARIZONA AG’S THOUGHTS, WHICH
WE INVOKE IN THE U.S.
CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE IV,
SECTION 4, ARTICLE I, SECTION
10. DECLARE AN INVASION THAT WILL
DECLARE AN INVASION THAT WILL
GIVE US, TO EXERCISE
EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES IN TEXAS,
STATE TROOPERS, DPS, NATIONAL
GUARD TO ENFORCE BORDER
SECURITY, TO RETURN PEOPLE TO
THE BORDER TO EXPEL THEM.
JACKIE: WHY DO YOU THINK
GOVERNOR BE A SO THE ISN’T
NECESSARILY DOING IT THAT WAY?
>> HE IS IN AN ATTORNEY.
HE WAS OUR AG AS WELL.
HE HAS A BRILLIANT LEGAL MIND.
THERE MAY BE SOME LEGAL CONCERNS
HE HAS.
ME BEING A LAYPERSON, SEEING
WHAT WHAT DEALING WITH, THIS SUN
PRECEDENTED.
WE HAD 240,000 BORDER CROSSINGS
IN MAY WHICH IS THE WORST IN
HISTORY, THE SECOND WORST MONTH
WAS APRIL.
IT WAS 10 TIMES WORSE THAN IT
WAS UNPRESIDENT TRUMP AND SAME
MONTHS TWO YEARS AGO.
I THINK DRASTIC MEASURES NEED TO
BE TAKEN.
I WOULD LIKE TO PUSH THEM EVEN
FURTHER BECAUSE THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION IS JUST, THEY
HAVE A DERELICTION OF DUTY HERE.
THEY’RE NOT ENFORCING BORDER
SECURITY AT WILL.
JACKIE: TELL ME YOUR
CONSTITUENTS LIVING IN TEXAS,
DEALING WITH, COPING WITH SOME
OF THESE PROBLEMS.
IT IS NOT ABOUT PEOPLE COMING TO
THIS COUNTRY INNOCENTLY.
THEY OFTEN TIME BRING PROBLEMS
LIKE DRUGS AND CONCERNS THAT
THREATEN SECURITY FOR CITIZENS
IN THIS COUNTRY AND YOUR STATE?
>> JACKIE, THAT IS AN EXCELLENT
QUESTION.
UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
1,660,000 POUNDS OF ILLEGAL
NARCOTICS.
IN 2022, 700,000-POUNDS OF
FENTANYL.
THAT IS ENOUGH TO KILL EVERY
WOMAN AND CHILD IN THIS COUNTRY.
830,000 OF OVERDOSE DEATHS FROM
FENTANYL ALONE.
HE ABDICATED HIS RESPONSIBILITY
LETTING MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS
REALLY CONTROL THE BORDER AND
WHEN I ASKED HIS DIRECTOR OF
NATIONAL, JOE BIDEN’S DIRECTOR
OF NATIONAL DRUG POLICY,
DR. GUPTA, IF THE BORDER IS
SECURE, HE SAID YES UNDER OATH.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
JACKIE: ACCORDING TO THEM THE
BORDER IS SECURE.
ACCORDING TO THEM, CONGRESSMAN,
THEY’RE TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO
COME.
YOU SAW VIDEO OF PEOPLE SMILING,
THUMBS UP, THEY’RE COMING,