A ten year old migrant child from
Nicaragua was lost and later found
walking alone in a rural part
of Texas near the border.
Let's watch.
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>> So authority said that
he had fallen asleep and
the group left him behind.
And so he woke up obviously,
he's a ten year old,
just absolutely terrified and
I'm happy that he was found.
And the report says that he's now
safe but remember, he's going to be
passed off to Health and Human
Services where currently there
are 19,000 unaccompanied migrant
children in federal custody.
And we've shown you what those
detention centers look like.
They are overcrowded, the children
are sleeping on the floor.
They have those foil blankets.
It's just it's an awful situation
and there has been
a lot of pressure on the Biden
administration to act now.
And of course, that ten year
old boy is not an exception to what
we're experiencing at the border
right now.
For instance on Monday in
California, Border Patrol said at
rescue two children a six year old
boy and a five year old girl who
were dropped over a rocky area of
the border and left.
The children found near this
area had a handwritten note that
included their mother's name and
phone number and
also had the same information
written on their forearms.
I shared that with you because they
are being sent to the border
unaccompanied because their parents
are desperate,
their families are desperate, they
want to get their kids to safety.
And so they do so
knowing that there are sponsors or
family members within the country,
oftentimes, they come to the border
with contact information.
And there just needs to be more
resources at the border to get
these children in contact
with their family members or
their sponsors in the country, so
they're not in these
disgusting filthy facilities.
With that said, though John, Biden
has blamed the Trump administration
for ignoring the root causes of
the migrant crisis.
And I think that as much as I
despise Donald Trump,
as much as I find him deplorable,
the fact that he took children away
from their parents at the border
as they were seeking asylum,
he is a special brand of monster,
there's no question.
But with that said,
to blame that on Trump alone,
I think is ridiculous.
Especially as Biden's State
Department continuously embarrasses
itself with a continuation of
the same policies and
the same talking points that
led to the migrant crisis that
we're experiencing at the border.
And I'll give you the details on
that but I wanted you to jump in.
>> Yeah, and then and
this is a message that you've been
delivering consistently for a few
weeks now, this criticism of him on
the border and you're 100%, right.
And then we see, well, some of
these gaps in the wall, they might
end up being completed under Biden.
Because that's not like one of
the things the American people were
most singularly against during the
Trump years, though he might end up
getting completed under Biden.
I'm sure we'll end up talking more
about that in the future.
When I watched that video
I'm assuming you feel what I felt.
I'm seeing people in the chat.
It's devastating you want to help
the kid instantly you worry about
how is this experience going to
impact the rest of the kid's life?
And depending on how the kid is
treated, once they're brought into
one of these facilities, there's
a lot of potential lives that could
result, depending on the choices
that we make as a country.
We'll we make the right ones?
Probably not.
And we're having this debate
nationally about this issue, but
it is so disconnected for
many consideration, like what's
going to happen to that kid?
What life is that kid
going to have?
It's like betas like Lindsey Graham
and Ted Cruz riding around in speed
boats with machine guns, wanting to
pretend that they're tough, guys.
Right wing talking heads thinking,
God, that's Stimulus Bill seemed
really popular,
we need something to hit Biden on.
So let's talk about the border but
not actually talking about
the people at all.
It's just frustrating that is such
an inherently human issue that has
so much of its humanity drained out
when talked about by most of the
politicians and the commentators
that actually engage in it.
>> Yeah, you're exactly right.
And the disingenuous nature of
the Republicans people like
Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham going
to the border and
pretending to be concerned about
the safety of these children.
I'm not buying it when they were
the very people who defended
Donald Trump as he was ripping
children away from their
parents at the border,
as they were seeking asylum.
They have no leg to stand on and
obviously, their calls for
banning abortion in order
to protect children's lives is also
incredibly disingenuous.
And I mean, look Republican
hypocrisy political hypocrisy is as
American as apple pie.
It's not even an interesting
talking point or
Point to bring up at this point.
But with that said,
I do want to get back to Biden's
statement about what Trump did
as if he bears no responsibility.
Keep in mind, I mean, Biden didn't
just arrive to the political scene
a few years ago.
I mean, he's been a life
long politician,
first elected into the house,
then he was a longtime senator,
then vice president, and now he's
the president of the United States.
He has held positions of power for
decades.
And he knows very well how US
foreign policy has impacted
migration throughout the world.
And so to say that, it's Trump,
he's not addressing the root
causes, I think is pretty pathetic.
So let's take a look at what
secretary Anthony Blinken had
to say about the outcome
of Bolivia's democratic election.
They did have a democratic election
after the Organization of
American States, a US backed
organization essentially
orchestrated a coup in Bolivia and
overthrew Evo Morales, okay?
So that happened.
And then there was an unelected
right wing government led by this
woman named Janine Anes,
in place, she led a bunch of
massacres on communities,
their indigenous communities and
supporters of Evo Morales,
dozens of people died as a result.
And so
luckily the people of Bolivia
managed to fight back against
that have a democratic election.
And now Luis Arce from the Mah's
party, has been elected he's in the
same party that Evo Morales was in.
And so luckily democracy won
in that country.
It's important to understand that
context because after the election
Janine Anez got arrested.
Because she committed crimes by
being the leader of that coup and
by massacring people, dozens of
people died because of her.
And Secretary Anthony Blinken
wanted to weigh in on it and
said this.
We're deeply concerned by growing
signs of anti democratic behavior
and political eyes, I can never say
that word, I'm sorry.
But you got the picture.
>> The politicizing of the legal
system, I always say.
[LAUGH].
>> Yes, the politicizing of
the legal system in Bolivia.
The Bolivian government should
release detained former officials
pending and independent and
transparent inquiry into human
rights and due process concerns.
What?
Okay, we want to look into human
rights abuses.
When someone who
committed massacres,
someone who was not elected,
put herself in the position of
the president of that country and
then proceeded to do massacres.
We want to look into how her human
rights were abused because she was
arrested.
Notice it's a continuation guys.
>> I know, I know. >> It's
a continuation of the same garbage
US foreign policy that leads to
this migrant crisis.
And it's not just Bolivia,
it just goes on and on.
Like same with Venezuela,
Biden will recognize Juan Guaido as
Venezuel's leader top diplomat
says, but
Juan Guaido wasn't elected.
Juan Guaido tried to orchestrate
multiple coups in Venezuela and
failed.
And like who the hell is Joe Biden
to be like, yeah, who cares about
what the Venezuelan people want.
They haven't had an election to
elect this guy.
But the United States believes that
he is the rightful leader of
the country.
That headline comes from
Reuters and
I want to go to the next graphic,
so you can see what section it was
listed under emerging markets.
Emerging markets, that's what it
was filed under over at Reuters.
I wonder why I mean, US business
interests have been massacring
countries, especially Latin
American countries for decades.
And then they turn around and say
like, well, Trump needs to address
the root causes of mass migration.
No, I think you need to address it
Biden.
>> Exactly, yeah, and look, they're
addressing the human rights,
they're just doing it one person at
a time starting at the top.
Yeah I guess.
[LAUGH] In terms of the foreign
policy though,
comparing the Biden administration
to the Obama administration.
It seems like so far I don't know
what would have been different
if you would just taken their team
then and brought it here and
presented them with the current
geopolitical situation we have,
I feel like these moves would be
exactly the same.
The difference is that we do have
better people in Congress trying to
do the right thing.
Like there's that group of 80
Democrats who put out the letter in
the last day trying to pressure
Biden on the Saudi blockade of
Yemen.
And so they're good
on some of these issues.
The question is going to be does it
actually count for anything?
Just having them in Congress
actually going to produce a foreign
policy that's less internationally
corrosive underwriting that we saw
under the Obama administration.
>> So far, Biden's foreign policy
has been a continuation of what
the US government has done
under several administrations.
It's not a Democrat versus
Republican thing.
The State Department under Obama
awful, State Department under Trump
awful, Biden's awful when it comes
to Iran.
We are the ones who assassinated
their general.
We are the ones who pulled out of
the Iran nuclear deal, which was
one of the best achievements of
the Obama administration, right?
The Iran nuclear deal.
And Biden is like, I don't know,
may be we need some more
concessions from Iran before we
re-enter that deal.
What concessions?
They even decided to abide by that
deal after the US pulled out of it.
When it comes to China,
the Cold War rhetoric coming from
the Biden administration.
Look, China is currently and
I don't care what anyone has to say
on Twitter about it, what paid off
mouthpieces have to say about it.
There are human rights
abuses in China,
and we should acknowledge that.
But that doesn't mean that we
should use increasingly
militaristic language against
China, itdoesn't mean that we
should engage militarily.
It means that we need to,
first of all we need to work with
China diplomatically if we want to
do anything on climate change.
But the other thing to keep in mind
is we also engage in human rights
abuses in this country.
And the second thing to keep in
mind is that our government has
always used accusations of human
rights abuses to engage in wars,
whether it's a cold war or
an actual war with weapons and
boots on the ground.
Because it's all about moneyed
interests at the end of the day.
And China is about to be the top
hedgemon and the United States
is not comfortable with that.
That's at the heart of what we're
hearing with the Cold War rhetoric
toward China at the end of the day.
And this is all stuff that
ends up hurting us in the end.
So again, when you see migrants at
the border, it's not something
that's happening to us, it's
something that we played a role in.
And when I say we, of course,
I mean the US government.