Reaction & Commentary
EXPLAIN WHAT HE IS DOING. MR. GOVERNOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING ON. THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. IF YOU DON’T MIND, AND IF YOU COULD GIVE OUR VIEWERS AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT HAVE YOU YOU HAVE DONE TO SECURE OUR BORDER H MEXICO. >> I WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT
WE ARE DOING BUT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE A PHRASE YOU USED EARLIER, THAT IS THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IS ACTIVELY ENCOURAGING THIS, WHICH IS IN CONTRAST TO WHAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DID. WHAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS TAKEN OVER, WHAT TEXAS HAS DONE, WE NOW HAVE 6500 NATIONAL GUARD AND DPS TROOPERS
ON THE BORDER TO HELP SECURE THE BORDER, AND AS WE ARE TALKING RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE IDENTIFYING LOCATIONS ON THE BORDER WHERE THEY ARE LAYING DOWN RAZOR WIRE TO SECURE ALL THE POSSIBLE CROSSINGS THAT THESE CARAVANS MAY BE COMING TO, AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, BEGINNING TODAY, WE BEGIN DROPPING THESE
LARGE CONTAINERS THAT YOU SEE ON 18-WHEELERS, THAT YOU ALSO SEE ON THESE SHIPS THAT ARE GOING ACROSS THE OCEAN, WE ARE DROPPING THEM DOWN ON LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE CROSSINGS THAT WOULD BE USED BY THESE CARAVANS TO SERVE AS A BLOCKADE TO PREVENT THEM FROM COMING ACROSS
THE BORDER, AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, IF THEY DO COME ACROSS THE BORDER, THE NATIONAL GUARD AND THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY ARE AUTHORIZED TO ARREST ANY OF THESE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT THROUGH OUR BLOCKADE EFFORTS AND PUT THEM IN JAIL FOR VIOLATING A CRIME OF CRIMINAL TRESPASSING IN
THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND TUCKER, ON TOP OF THAT, TEXAS IS STEPPING UP AND WE ARE BUILDING OUR OWN BORDER WALL. THAT PROCESS HAS ALREADY BEGUN. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING BIDS ON IT AND I AM TOLD TO EXPECT PART OF THE TEXAS WALL TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE END
OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. >> Tucker: AMEN. WHEN THE COUNTRY FALLS APART, STATES HAVE TO ACT LIKE COUNTRIES. SO YOU ARE THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF A STATE WHOSE SOVEREIGNTY IS BEING VIOLATED BY FOREIGN NATIONALS. MANY OF WHOM ARE NOT EVEN FROM NEARBY COUNTRIES, OR LATIN AMERICA, BUT AROUND THE WORLD.
IT SEEMS YOU ARE DOING THE SENSIBLE THING, THE ONLY THING. WHAT KIND OF PUSHBACK DO YOU EXPECT TO GET FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FOR DOING THIS? >> LISTEN, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS BEEN PUSHING BACK EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT I DID, TUCKER, I ISSUED AN ORDER OF
PREVENTING ANY OF THE NGOs OR OTHER ASSISTED AIDES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS FROM TRANSPORTING OR MOVING ANY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITHIN THE STATE OF TEXAS BECAUSE OF HEALTH CARE REASONS, BECAUSE OF POSSIBLE SPREAD OF COVID. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION SUED ME, THEY WENT TO FEDERAL COURT, THEY GOT A FEDERAL COURT TO RULE
THAT MY EXECUTIVE ORDER WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. I WILL CONTINUE TO ACT, HOWEVER, BUT IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THE LEVEL OF PUSHBACK BY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION, EVEN TRYING TO DENY ME TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF MY FELLOW TEXANS. >> Tucker: YOU HAVE HAD HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE COME FROM
OTHER COUNTRIES MOVING THROUGH TEXAS, AND THEN COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES. HOW — TO WHAT DEGREE CAN YOU STANCH THE FLOW OF PEOPLE COMING IN ILLEGALLY, DO YOU THINK? >> SO, THE BEST WAY WE CAN DO THAT IS THE STRATEGIES THAT WE ARE EMPLOYING AS WE SPEAK RIGHT
NOW, AND THAT IS TO IDENTIFY ALL OF THESE LOCATIONS WHERE THEY MAY BE COMING ACROSS, AND THEY ARE CALLED LOW WATER CROSSING AREAS, AND THEN TO SERVE AS BLOCKADES IN THOSE REGIONS SO THAT WE WILL BE PREVENTING THE PEOPLE FROM COMING ACROSS THE BORDER. >> Tucker: WHAT — I HAVE TO
ASK YOU, SINCE YOU DEAL WITH THIS EVERY DAY, WHAT DO YOU THINK THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S MOTIVE IS IN THROWING OPEN OUR BORDERS TO THE WORLD? >> IT IS CLEAR, KIND OF WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. JOE BIDEN BELIEVES IN OPEN BORDER POLICIES, AND HIS MINISTRY CAN DO, AND THEY ARE
TRULY TRYING TO REDESIGN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN A COMPLETE LAWLESS WAY. THEY TALKED ABOUT THIS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WENT ALL THE DEMOCRATS WERE ON THE SAME DEBATE STAGE TALKING ABOUT, QUITE LITERALLY, THESE SOCIALISTIC POLICIES THEY WOULD EMPLOY IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH MIMIC OCASIO-CORTEZ AND HER ACOLYTES, AND THEY ARE
ACTING OUT ON ALL THOSE POLICIES AND PROMISES THEY MADE DURING THE CAMPAIGN. THAT LEAVES IT TO THE STATES NOW TO STEP UP AND DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HOLD ONTO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNTIL REPUBLICANS CAN REGAIN CONTROL OF CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENCY. >> Tucker: YEAH, WITH NEW ATTITUDES
