red states become blue states. that s genera not what i said.ts jus that s what democrats just said. cheap labor and babiest , crops and votes. don t you see the open border is not a crisis. it s the goalder is n. nd ocb last september and october, there were more border crosser s than american babies born. the truth is that uncheckedrr borders discourage americans from having bigger families. s discou drives up home price. it stagnates. wages. it crowds schools, raises taxes. here s an idea, gerri. americans will start getting and we ll manage our immigratioamern system. and you can still have all the veggies you want. okayl have ahe. todd benjamin is a senior national security fellow at the center for immigration studies. y> have you ever heard them sa this explicitly? t well, my job is to listen to them say thosthem saye kind of things. so, yeah, i have been listening to that.
into our country? oh , that s too hard. but texas is apparently taking some steps to slow the massiveta surge of migration about to hit this country. it s about to get even bigger a todd benjamin just wrote a piece about what texas is doing. he s the author of america s border wars, also senior national security fellow at the center for immigration studiesgh joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on . pardon my skepticism about this theater going on . it s greatly frustrating toer people in other parts of the country that texas hasn t just shut down its own borderwn since. it always talks b about how it s a country but the state is doing something you say to slow this border surge. what is it doingngrder surge.? right. well, i agree. i think that the busing of migrants to washington, d.c. is a bit of a sideshowit to the man event, which is that the abbott administrationad is shutting don trade with mexico. they re saying that they re doing it with enhanced safety inspections at th
and i think tohi the extent that the state can do somethinglt they are.im but ultimately the state of s texasta, if they were to round p migrants and bring them to the international bridge and try to drop them off, they would be stoppedy by the biden administration, see the blue uniforms on the bridges. you you couldn t i don t think that they can get past our own people toe the midway point of the bridge and that s reallypr i think ultimately what the problem is will be interesting toob who wins that fight. but it d be nice to have a fight because the country is disappearingng. so maybe maybe it s worth having. i don t know. todd benjamin, thanks so much for joiningh us. to appreciate it. thank you . so the state of california is t a great place despiteuc what thy tell you. unfortunately, it s gotten dirty and disorganized and dangerous under gavin newsom. so a frequent guest . on this show is just announced that he s running for governor of california against some of the upcoming ele