i did roundtables with sheriffs of law enforcement, local elected democrats. most of the elected officials in south texas are democrats. that s been true 100 years. also to a person, the elected democrats said to me, listen, if my party, the democratic party is the party of open borders, i can t support that. it s a disaster. it is overwhelming the communities on the border. del rio, the population of del rio is 35,000 people. there were 15,000, half of that population crossing illegally. what does joe biden do? he shamefully demagogues the border patrol. when he said you will be punished, that was disgraceful. i know many of the brave men and women of the border patrol. i ll tell you, i stand with the border patrol and biden demagoguing and attacking them over a media lie. the media claimed that the reins on the horse were a whip. it was a flat-out lie.
has been part of the goal actually and looks like they re going to reach that goal. one of the things that is very interesting, the political impact in texas. i want to pull up a poll that shows texas voters give president biden a negative 61% rating. that is down 24 points since june of 2021. tell me about that in your home state. yeah, look, texans see it first hand. we re seeing the devastation coming from this catastrophe of a policy. a couple weeks ago, i was in south texas, mcallen, edinburgh. i did roundtables with farmers and ranches. there were woman that described that they would not allow their teenage kids to go on their own property without carrying a loaded firearm because there were so many human traffickers and drug traffickers crossing their property daily.
can do is an election. the senate could do a great deal but we are not going to because there s not a single democrat is willing to work with us to secure the border. every democrat, to that democrats decided they are the party of open borders, the last few weeks i traveled all along self texas, not just laredo, mccallum, roma, a bird and did roundtables with ranchers and farmers down there, sheriffs and law enforcement, with local elected officials, most of the local elected officials in south texas are democrats, that has long been a democratic area of the state. every elected democrat i met with was so horrified by what is happening at the border they said to me over and over, listen, if the democratic party is the party open borders count me out. i can t support this and it is
this is costing the united states of america. we don t know, the costs are massive, whether the immediate cost of housing them, transporting them and many of them turn themselves into the border patrol and president biden and kamala harris are the last mile of the human trafficking, they bring them to their final destination but it is worse than that. when i was doing the roundtables in south texas, one of the things we saw the color-coded wristbands many of the illegal immigrants are wearing because the cartels which are global criminal enterprises, the charge anywhere from 3 to $8,000 across the board have 100% operational control of the border, you don t cross or they will kill you. what happens for many of them they cross the border and end of that mustache out of the cartels extract more money and the risk by how many thousands you paid and how many more thousands you owe and they locate you in whatever city you re going to and these teenagers, young illegal immigrants spend the
whitth uninvm because they said they would have four or five guys coming rather than 50 or 60 or 70, that s crazy. there are all sorts of unknown things and i ve heard rumors that they were saying they wanted to have meetings with the president for the president denied it. i don t believe the president would want to deny a meeting, he would have one of those roundtables that you see on tv. but the president invited them he said, we will send five or ten people. martha: and now it turns into this whole thing, you lebron james and i know regardless of who wins the series, they play the golden state warriors, no one wants an invite anyway. if we have gotten to a point where we should stop this whole thing? i think the team should just go. yes, they should just go. they should just go. i remember, bill clinton is not