Texas governor Greg Abbott putting a 250
million dollar down payment toward
building a border wall this allocation
of state budget money along with private
donations will pay for the estimated
26.5 million per mile it will cost to
build this Texas border wall joining me
now National border patrol Council vice
president and border patrol agent art
Del Cueto are do you think this is the
right move by Governor Abbott and what
are the roadblocks in his way in the
state's way of really getting this done
well I think if nothing else it's
bringing light to an issue that the
White House is currently ignoring so it
is important I think it's the right move
in the areas that they have built a
border wall the numbers have gone down
or it gives enough time for the agents
to show up and be able to affect an
arrest but uh I mean it's gonna we're
gonna time will tell because we're going
to see what areas he's going to be able
to build the wall on first and foremost
and and once again you know the at the
end of the day the the federal
government's going to have to step up
and actually have true consequences for
the individuals that are crossing
because if you put up a wall but they're
just going to go around some other area
where there's not a wall and at the end
not face any consequences and that's the
key thing you need to start putting
consequences on individuals that are
crossing some of the policies that we're
working during the Trump Administration
have to be brought back or else people
are just going to start continue to come
in
Sean Duffy jump in
hey Art Sean Duffy here I was a member
of Congress at the border wall with you
a couple years ago you do a great job
question for you though do you think the
American people truly understand the
crisis at the border
um do they understand the the the
situation with the kids and the drugs
and the cartels that are in control and
if not what do you think America needs
to know about what's actually happening
at that southern border right now
you know I think more people need to
start focusing and seeing it I think
there's there's not enough Focus that's
been done I know there's some members of
the media have done a fantastic job but
at the end of the day unless you have
the top level officials coming down here
speaking up about the problems that
we're seeing the violence that we're
seeing you know just south of Mexico all
that is coming into the United States
people have this false sense that the
drugs that come in the individuals that
are coming in illegally they're staying
on our Southern border and they're not
they're affecting everyone throughout
the country they're expecting your
school system they're affecting you know
the Medicals it's there's so many things
uh Domino effects that are created
because of that and people are just not
aware of it look I mean just look at the
Opium crisis in America all that is
coming from the southern border and
people need to start waking up and and
if not now I can tell you in the future
it's going to have some serious damage
serious damage because of the lack of
consequences against these criminal
elements and the rhetoric that comes
from the current Administration all it
does is it emboldens the cartels to
continue bringing in drugs to continue
bringing people into this country and it
gives the people that are coming across
a false sense of security that nothing's
going to happen to them when they come
in I've said this before or that the
Biden Administration rolling back Trump
policies has created the foundation for
criminals to profit from Human suffering
and misery whether it's through human
trafficking child trafficking and drug
trafficking and there were more than 180
000 border crossings that happened last
month but drug seizures as you pointed
out were up 18 percent this is President
Biden and vice president Harris have yet
to make a trip to see the crisis for
themselves and I want to get your
reaction to this is a report out it was
published about 12 hours ago on axios
that the White House is now considering
and talk of making a situation worse is
considering as early as July 31st
rolling back ending the use of the Trump
era Public Health order that let border
officials turn migrant families back to
Mexico
it's known as the title 42 policy that
they're considering getting rid of that
so it was put in place during covid
because of health concerns but this will
exacerbate a flood of illegal immigrants
into the United States will it not art
well it already has been doing that
because of the rhetoric alone this is
just going to be pretty much I hate to
say it but it would be a nail in the
coffin especially to the future of our
country and it seems that this
Administration was a lot more concerned
with Twitter posts than it is about the
future of America and the security of
our country
art great to see you thank you so much
always a pleasure please come back soon
art Del Cueto