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it with texas congressman michael
burgess
okay your your reaction to the president
saying
that the border is sick it's dangerous
but now we've got texas democrats
gonzalez and feyla saying it's the board
is not in chaos
that the governor of texas should focus
on the texas power grid and set
instead what do you say to that well
look uh
the the photos that you have been
showing the b-roll that you've been
showing
clearly the the border is not secure
uh people are passing across the border
with virtually no one
interfering with their with their
passage it is good
that the former president is down on the
border it was
a mistake i think for the vice president
to miss that opportunity when
after all this is in her sphere of
responsibility
but i'm very grateful that the president
did
take his own time to go to the border to
highlight the problems that we have in
texas
with the fact that the federal
government is not not performing its
function of securing the border
governor abbott has required to keep
texans safe
and the federal government's not doing
their job so
governor abbott is stepping in and doing
it for them and it's the right thing to
do
got it thank you we hear you on that
let's listen to former president trump
at the border today watch this
now we have an open really dangerous
border more dangerous than it's ever
been in the history of our country
all biden had to do is go to the beach
if he would have just done nothing
we would have now the strongest border
we've ever had
and so now you've got texas moving to
build its own wall
make its own arrests guard its own
border you got at least five states
including south dakota
florida nebraska sending having to send
law enforcement to help out
what do you say well it should not be
texas responsibility
to provide the defense for the remainder
of the nation but again governor abbott
is stepping up and doing what is
it is required of him to do as far as
finishing the
the wall or building the wall look i
flew over
vast portions of that just a few weeks
ago
after the biden administration withdrew
all of the activity with building the
wall
literally walked off the job contractors
walked off the job
leaving equipment and tools on the
ground
now texas is going to take the
responsibility for securing those
portions that had been
almost finished but not quite look the
border wall
is it does work in the areas where it is
continuous
and the president last uh the last
president president trump was correct
and identifying as a national security
crisis securing the funding for it
the current administration was wrong to
uh to just arbitrarily abdicate that
and the consequences i mean here's the
problem every time
that a decision like that is made in
washington dc
the the cartels the child traffickers
down in central america
they monetize that they they use that to
induce and
encourage people to make that dangerous
journey to the southern border
saying we'll get you across to the land
of plenty where they're uh
where then they'll take care of you but
the poor people who
the pictures of people left stranded on
the side of the
of the road that's just wrong
we hear you you know the house democrats
are moving to defund two billion dollars
away from the border wall that was
already appropriated by congress
they're moving to take about 930 million
dollars away from
uh border patrol also about one and a
half million away from ice
so you know this is at a time when we
have about the size of the population of
nebraska potentially
crossing so that is also happening too
so
what do you what do you think what do
what is a republic what are republicans
going to do about
democrats moving to defund border
security
well look there of course we are coming
up to our appropriations time and it is
important to direct the dollars where
they need to go
for the purpose of homeland security and
the defense of our nation
but it's also important that people
understand that it has never been this
bad
i've been making trips to the border now
since the
one of the first migrant surges back in
2014
i've never seen it as bad as it is right
now
and this administration this
administration has to recognize
just just how much jeopardy they're
placing the american people in by not
responding to their responsibility
congressman michael burgess thanks for
joining us it's good to see you