Bannon’s War Room: The Border Crisis with Todd Bensman of CIS. March 17, 2022.
Illegal Immigration: Guest, Todd Bensman
Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: The Border Crisis with Todd Bensman
Published March 17, 2022.
Steve Bannon:
Let's bring a Todd Bensman from CIS. Todd, I want to go through some math here. Everybody in this town is all focused on the sovereignty, the territorial integrity and the self-determination of the Ukrainian people and the Eastern Russian-speaking language border of Ukraine as sacrosanct, right? That's where we're going to go to World War III about what want me through. Your latest numbers on what the invasion of our Southern border, looks like sir in January or February and March.
Todd Bensman:
Sure. Well, the February numbers are out. We're looking at 158,000 apprehensions and another 48,000 got aways. So, you know we're looking at two hundred thousand-plus just swarming through. Same thing in January, we had 148,000 cross, the same with December. So, we're looking at ionospheric numbers. There is a major border crisis historic in nature happening at that southern border with asylum backlogs of 4.5 plus years to adjudicate each case. Well over a million asylum seekers most of them will be ineligible. So, the whole border is still just breaking down.
Steve Bannon:
When you say ineligible, they just come and we lose track of them. They're just wandering around America. We have no earthly idea where they are. What is it? 75% of them still don't show up for the any appearances. It's a joke, that's again the ticket ago in the country. I want to repeat it. February's 158,000.
Please War Room Posse and all the historians out there and military types. I believe, D-Day of Canadian, British, Australian, French allied forces day one hitting the beach, I think it was 156,000, if memory serves me correctly. So, in February alone in February alone, had more than hit the beach at Normandy, an invasion. That's an invasion. Hitler thought it was an invasion, you know, Rommel thought it was an invasion, right? They thought it was an invasion. This is an invasion. What's going to happen in March, Todd Bensman?
Todd Bensman:
Well, it's looking about the same. We're going to probably escalate the numbers will see more numbers in March, April, May. Those are historically the months that because they're nice travel months, because people like to travel during those months. So, we should see a big escalation and if we, if the Biden Administration does away with Title 42, which is they are under tremendous pressure to get rid of that then all bets are off.
Because right now they're still pushing back a majority of especially single adults under Title 42, which is somewhat of an impediment. They turn around and come right back, but it's still a pain for them. So, the illegal immigrant advocates have placed this at the very top of their agenda. They want Title 42 gone so that all of those people everybody who comes to the border can apply for fake asylum and get in.
Steven Bannon:
Yeah, you got a million people wandering around. Soon as you get the ticket you never show back up and there's no enforcement because he’s cut ICE out. By the war, there's 50 to 80 million people in lockdown in Shenzhen and other areas of China. I think Shanghai schools are still closed and Beijing with a new variant of the CCP PLA Wuhan lab virus. Of course, there's not a better time to take Title 42 off and just come on in, let everybody in. You still got to wear a mask on an airplane. At my appointment, yesterday. I had an appointment, right? And that was an appointment at a federal building here in the district in the imperial capital. You had to have a mask on. I had to sit there for two hours and with a mask like a moron, right? Didn't have a choice. Everybody there masked up in a federal building right, but hang on let's take Title 42 off and Shenzhen I’m sure nobody coming through that had ever been in Shenzhen, I'm sure. Let's just take Title 42 off.
I want to go to Cortes first up, hang on Bensman. Rumor has it are Ukrainians? This is the smart thing to do. Don’t just go to Poland, keep coming because you got to get across the southern border and you're in. You got the ticket to the new Jerusalem. How many Ukrainians are come across the southern border right now?
Todd Bensman:
Well, it's escalating. We are in the midst of a surge of Ukrainian War refugees. We've had a 1,300 reach the border just since October when there were rumors of war. And now we're looking at, you know, an escalated number and we're letting them in on humanitarian parole because of the war and my argument..
Steve Bannon:
Hold on stop. Todd, they're not eligible for, they're not eligible for asylum correct? Given the rules of asylum in the United States right now. They're not technically eligible for asylum. You have to come up some new waiver, right?
Todd Bensman:
Yeah, but, you know, all of them will apply for asylum and get into that backlog that I just mentioned and weigh that down even further. They will apply for asylum but they are not eligible because they're passing through 10 different countries that are safe. The European Union has very generously provided them with three-year residencies with full access to the labor market and healthcare and housing, singing and everything else and also the UK so, in order to get to the US border, you've got a pass right through all that wonderful, those are modern economies and you know, the whole world would love to live in those countries.
Steve Bannon:
Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. They get full housing and medical. Remember we played the part and I want to pull this, I can't do it today about the woman working in the ceramic shop in Phoenix that's crying because the rent of her apartment, the 300 square foot apartment is going to go up to over 1,000 bucks, and she's going I have to live in her car. Does she have full medical or does she have free housing and full medical and health? No, she does not. You know why she doesn't? She's an American citizen. It's just the way the system rolls here. Right? How many Ukrainians have come across the border are you estimating sir?
Todd Bensman:
Right so about 1,300 since October. Ukrainians have always come through their economic migrants. Ukraine is one of the poorest European countries and so they want to come to the United States, and they can fly to Mexico very easily on an electronic visa. And they're flying into Tijuana.
There's been press recently of the Biden Administration allowing them in on the basis that maternity wards were being bombed in Kiev, but my argument is that the EU has 27 countries that have opened their arms to Ukrainians. These are not asylum seekers their asylum shopping economic migrants in my opinion, and we need to be colorblind in this country. These are white Christians that are coming through, but we need to regulate white Christians, coming to our border, through 10 safe countries just as much as Congolese coming through.
Steve Bannon:
It's ridiculous. It has to be colored blind. It’s got to be what the circumstances are. You can't come through 10 countries, and it's not heartless. You have to act like an adult in this situation. This is a real pandemic for the American people. A hundred thousand Americans died was it a year on this poison that's coming through the southern border, Todd Bensman.
Todd Bensman:
Well, when border patrol is off doing processing duty at mobile stations, the lines open so people are going to be able to, you know, the smugglers are going to bring that stuff across and I think that's what's happening. But even worse the DEA, the head of the DEA of our federal agencies, where are they? You never hear them talking about how to work with Mexico to kinetically destroy these super labs that are producing the stuff.
Nobody's talking about the precursor chemicals that are coming in from India and China to Mexico to be able to create this stuff and to bomb it if we have to or to, you know, go in and seize control just like we used to take over cocaine producing labs in Colombia in the jungle down there from FARC. That's what needs to happen here. If we're not going to be controlling the border, at least put the pressure on them inside Mexico
Steve Bannon:
This is the war. This is a war. We should be fighting. The army should be. This is the war we should be fighting and we should be doing interdictions if we have to in Mexico and negotiate. Our time and effort should be negotiating with the Mexican Government to take down the cartels. We just kick this can down the road and it's what's destroying the fabric of society. Real quickly, Todd, we got to bounce. How do people get to you? Your book on the Jihad on the Border. Also, your social media because you're putting great stuff out every day, every second.
Todd Bensman:
My book, America's Covert Border Wars. Its available anywhere books are sold, Amazon, etc., Barnes & Noble about the jihadist migrants that are also coming to the border. I'm @Tbensman at Gutter and I'm enjoying GETTR quite a lot. It's a great crowd in there.
Steve Bannon:
Our great crowd of your stuff, fantastic Todd. Thank you so much for joining us.
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