EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, MATT, THANKS
A LOT.
FOR MORE ON THIS I’M JOINED BY
FORMER ACTING HOMELAND SECURITY
SECRETARY CHAD WOLF.
CHAD, WELCOME.
CHAD: THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
MIKE: SO YOU SAW THAT VERY REAL
HUMAN CRISIS UNFOLDING THERE ON
THE GROUND ON EAGLE PASS, TEXAS,
I’M SURE THE SCENE PLAYS TIME
AND TIME AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE
DAYS, YOUR REACTION TO THE LIVE
EVENTS WE WERE JUST WITNESSING
CHAD: IT’S UNFORTUNATE.
WE SEE THE NUMBERS COME OUT IN
THE COUPLE OF DAYS AND THE
NUMBERS FOR JUNE REALLY TELL THE
STORY.
WE ARE AT THE SIXTH MONTH WITHIN
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OF
ILLEGAL APPREHENSIONS OVER
200,000, SIX MONTHS OVER
200,000.
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK ALL THE WAY
TO MARCH -- OF YEAR 2000 TO FIND
A MONTH OVER 200,000 AND THAT
WAS ONE MONTH BACK ALMOST 21
YEARS AGO AND YET WE HAVE 5
MONTHS OR SIX MONTHS DURING THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
SO, LOOK, THE BORDER PATROL,
THOSE AGENTS AND OFFICERS WHILE
THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL AND
CONTINUE TO DO THEIR JOB, THEY
ARE AT THEIR WITS END, THEY
DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
THIS CRISIS IS 17 MONTHS FOR ALL
THEY KNOW THEY HAVE ANOTHER TWO
YEARS OF THIS.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NEEDS
TO SECURE THAT BORDER, THEY NEED
TO PUT EFFECTIVE POLICIES IN
PLACE OR YOU WILL CONTINUE TO
SEE IMAGES LIKE THIS WEEK AFTER
WEEK AND MONTH AFTER MONTH AND
THE SITUATION IS NOT GETTING
BETTER AT THE BORDER.
IT’S GETTING WORSE AND USUALLY
DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE, JULY
AND AUGUST HISTORICALLY YOU SEE
APPREHENSION NUMBERS DROP
BECAUSE OF THE HEAT BECAUSE OF
THE SITUATION THERE.
WE CONTINUE TO SEE THE NUMBERS
INCREASE BECAUSE OF THE POLICIES
OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.
FOLKS ARE SMILING WHEN THEY COME
IN BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THE
VAST MAJORITY OF THE WORLD KNOWS
WHICH IS IF YOU CROSS THAT
BORDER IN ALL LIKELIHOOD YOU
WILL REMAIN HERE IN THE UNITED
STATES FOR YEARS TO COME WHILE
YOUR IMMIGRATION COURT
PROCEEDINGS, YOU’RE UNDERGOING
THOSE.
MIKE: CHAD, YOU MADE REFERENCE
TO NUMBERS. LET’S PUT UP ON THE
SCREEN THE NUMBER OF ENCOUNTERS SO FAR THIS FISCAL YEAR.
SO FAR THIS FISCAL YEAR.
1.746119 UP FROM 1.486 LAST
YEAR.
WE STILL HAVE TWO AND A HALF
MONTHS FOR THIS WEAR.
HOW STAGGERING ARE THOSE
NUMBERS?
CHAD: THEY ARE INDICTMENT OF THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES.
LOOK, WE HAVE 3 MONTHS TO GO IN
THIS FISCAL YEAR AND WE HAVE
ECLIPSED LAST YEAR’S NUMBERS AND
IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER LAST
YEAR’S NUMBERS WERE HISTORIC
NUMBERS.
WE’VE NEVER SEEN THOSE IN THE
HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY AND WE
ARE ALREADY BEATING LAST YEAR
NUMBERS AND WE HAVE 2 AND A
HALF, 3 MONTHS LEFT IN THIS
FISCAL YEAR SO YOU ARE GOING TO
SEE THE NUMBERS WELL OVER
2 MILLION OR MORE AND, AGAIN,
IT’S AN INDICTMENT OF THE
POLICIES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.
THEY ARE NOT DOING WHAT THEY
NEED TO BE DOING TO DETER THIS
TYPE OF ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR AND
HOLD INDIVIDUALS ACCOUNTABLE.
THEY KNOW THERE’S AN IMMENSE
AMOUNT OF FRAUD IN THE ASYLUM
SYSTEM AND THEY ARE NOT DOING
ANYTHING ABOUT IT INSTEAD
ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO COME IN
AND TO GO INTO CITIES AND
COMMUNITIES AROUND THIS COUNTRY.
THEY’LL LIKELY NEVER SHOW UP IN
THEIR IMMIGRATION PROCEEDINGS AND THIS ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT
AND THIS ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT
ALLOW ICE TO ACTUALLY LOCATE
THESE --
>> MIKE: FENTANYL WHICH IS
EXTREMELY LETHAL AND COCAINE
WHICH MATT FINN MADE REFERENCE
TO AND THERE’S THE TERROR
DATABASE.
56 SO FAR FROM THE TERRORIST
SCREENING DATABASE SO FAR.
6 IN JUNE ALONE, 30 IN THE
PREVIOUS FOUR YEARS COMBINED.
HOW ALARMING IS THAT?
CHAD: WELL, THAT’S EXTREMELY
ALARMING, THESE ARE THE 56
INDIVIDUAL THAT IS HAPPENED TO
RUN INTO A BORDER PATROL APPREHE
YOU HAVE TO THINK OF THE
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WHAT WE
CALL GOT AWAY, INDIVIDUALS THAT
CROSSED THE BORDER AND ARE NEVER APPREHENDED AND NEVER COME IN
APPREHENDED AND NEVER COME IN
CONTACT WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENT.
VAST MAJORITY OF BORDER PATROL
AGENTS ARE NOT DOING SECURITY
MISSION INSTEAD PROCESSING ALL
OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT YOU’RE
SHOWING ON THE SCREEN.
THEY ARE SIMPLY PROCESSING THOSE
INDIVIDUALS, INSTEAD THEY NEED
TO BE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR THE
BAD PEOPLE WHO ARE SMUGGLING
OBVIOUSLY INDIVIDUALS OVER BUT
ALSO THESE ILLEGAL NARCOTICS,
THEY NEED TO BE APPREHENDING
INDIVIDUALS AND NOT SIMPLY
PROCESSING HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF INDIVIDUALS
EVERY DAY THAT ARE CLAIMING
ASYLUM BUT WE KNOW THEY ARE
ECONOMIC MIGRANT AT THE END OF