Over one hour. Thank you for coming. It has been clear from the beginning of this administration that if approached, the border specifically is to accommodate the flow of inadmissible aliens, rather than to stop it. The problem is that that has caused nonpolitical headaches as people notice the magnitude of the border crisis. Just at the southern border, since this administration took office, theres been more than five and a half million socalled encounters, that is the pc term and now, at the southern border. So how to do damage control . They can enforce the law and reduce the number of Illegal Immigrants. That is apparently off the table, so to accommodate the flow, they have turned to a strategy the linchpin of which is cbp 1. Its a smart phone app, it you can download it, i havent used it because i dont have to schedule my illegal immigration, but its there for anybody to see what it looks like. The point is this is a tool to funnel inadmissible aliens from between ports of entry where they show up as apprehensions by Border Patrol, to go through lawful ports of entry and call it legal, that is the key point. The goal is reduce arrest numbers and declare victory because the legal pathways i use that in quotations, are what people are turning to. It worked for one month. In june Border Patrol numbers went down and the numbers using cbp 1 one up, so the administration spiked the football. The numbers there was a news dump friday after close of business that showed the numbers at the border are up in the numbers using cbp 1 are up so it is not working. This is the linchpin of the administrations border policy and so to explore what cbp one is in the central role it plays in the administrations approach to the border, we have two eminently qualified people to talk about it. First, mark morgan. He was at the heritage foundation, a visiting fellow, acting under trump. Before that he was head of Border Patrol under obama. Before that, had a long career as an fbi special agent and other experience in Law Enforcement, so he has dealt with this directly and in real life. Joining him is andrew arthur, a resident fellow at the center for immigration policies. He has decades of experience in immigration, was a lawyer for the old immigration and naturalization service, at one point was acting chief of the security law division. Has served two terms on capitol hill, wrote some of the Immigration Law that we all have to deal with now, and also was an immigration judge for many years. So i want to thank them for coming and i want to ask mark first, so you where the Border Patrol chief and then you got a promotion, you are head of cbp which included Border Patrol under it. How not just numbers have gone up, but how has it changed under President Biden . Push the button. Hyper she the question. What we are experiencing is the worst selfinflicted Border Patrol crisis that we have experienced. Sheriff daniels who is the sheriff of coach ice county a few days ago on her both testified that the border is a crime scene. Why the focus on illegal immigration . Thats one of the false narratives. It was at the southwest border is about Border Security. What drives our border to be not secure is illegal immigration. Not legal immigration, that a separate issue. Were talking about illegal immigration. Large areas go uncontrolled, unmonitored, unsecured because Border Patrol agents are at facilities processing illegal aliens and other administrative tasks. We literally have had handed control over the cartels so they can improve power, control and influence, so they can push criminals across our border. That is why numbers matter, that is why the focus on illegal immigration. Let me give you a couple of facts that back up my call that this is the worst Border Security. Some arbitrary number 28 months into the initiation, the comparison should be when President Biden took over the white house. If you look at total enforcement encounters, those numbers were 646 thousand and change. Keep that in mind. That number jumped to one point 9 million, 200 increase. Then it jumped to 2. 7 million. An increase in total nationwide encounters. Right now we are at 2. 5 million on track for 3 million, a 60 increase in total encounters in 30 months under the administration. This is the worst historic high numbers that we have ever seen as well as the highest number from yeartoyear. The total encounters in the first is 7. 7 million. That is insanity. To put that in perspective, there are 37 states in the United States whose population is less than the total nationwide encounters that we have experienced in the last 30 months. I know this is going to be hard to realize but it gets worse. In the first 30 months weve seen 1. 6 million total known. Always. Congressional testimony said that number is underreported by 20 so we are looking at total nationwide got a ways up to 2 million and 30 months. There are 12 states whose total population is less than 2 million compared to the number who got away in 30 months. Right now we are on pace in the first full term of the administration if we keep going theres nothing indicating it will slow down. Were looking at 13 million total nationwide encounters plus those who get away in the first term as president , the fifth largest population under new york. Numbers are not going down, thats a lie and theres no one if you are honest who can stand here after seeing the border, hearing those numbers and telus borders are secure. Its a lie. U. S. What is changed, a lot is change. President biden campaigned and said he was going to stop building the wall, open the borders. During the Democratic Campaign they were elbowing each other out of the way when the question was asked will you give free medical care to illegal aliens. Everybody raise their hand including candidate biden, but lets talk about specifics. The networks of tools, authorities and policies they disband bolts, we dont have enough time they dismantled, we dont have enough time. All northern countries, it was designed to give true asylumseekers relief in the First Transit country they got to and eliminate foreign shopping. The Biden Administration eliminated that. Remain in Mexico Program that acted as a deterrence program, that policy reduced illegal immigration by over 85 within a few months. The Biden Administration to smell that. Catch and release, make no mistake, migrants come to our border right now, theyre not looking for asylum, theyre looking to be part of the asylum process which will release them under this administration. The Biden Administration reinstated catch and release. We leverage mexico through strength and power to get them to join us on the global issue that it is. They had over 25,000 personnel, not only securing the southern border but increasing enforcement. On day one that leverage one away. Interior reinforcement. The highest levels of illegal immigration encounters in our history, the lowest number of deportations since ice was created in 2003. Restrictions placed on the incredible men and women of ice, you have to be a convicted criminal before you are a priority. We are allowing Illegal Immigrants that have committed a secondary crime in the United States released into communities because of this administration. Refusal to enforce the law. He views the law as an advisory opinion. Hes abdicated responsibility, refuses to enforce the law. He said being in our country illegally is not enough to remove you. I object because the law says otherwise. I can keep going, those are the highlights. They have destroyed every element of strong deterrence to deter those illegally entering the country and applying consequences to those who break our law and put integrity in the system by reducing the number of illegal alien false claims. Thank you, mark. Given the situation the white house has created, which is terrible but also a problem for them, they are using this carrot and stick approach with cbp one as the caret and if you could sort of explain a little bit how they are using that to try to create a different message for what is going on at the border. Right, thank you, mark. Lets give the administration the benefit of the doubt. They assume there is a set number of people, foreign nationals who seek to enter the United States illegally every year. They can have those people go between ports of entry, be apprehended and released or the Biden Administration plan that they rolled out on january 5 was to have what is called circumvention of lawful pathways final rule, which they printed up the parameters of, so if any smuggler wants to know how it works, they can explain it. Such a long title, you can claw it the search call it the circumvention law. There is the rebuttable presumption that the alien is not eligible for asylum. There are ways that they can rebut it. One of those exceptions is if you would be illegal migrant schedules a time and place to enter the United States through a port of entry they will be processed under the old asylum rules here is how they do it. You download the app and in northern or central mexico, you can make an appointment to show up at a port of entry. You will get a date for the appointment. Any time you can show that one of eight ports of entry. They dont ask whether you want asylum. Cbs news reported 131,000 people who would use the cbp one app. We know that through the end of july 188,500 p have either come through the people have either come through the ports using that. It is a 23 hour time at a port of entry, one of eight ports of entry along the southwest border, which means one of those aliens can show up at 11 00 at night, mark will tell you you have a shift change and you have other personnel on duty and they can be screened by that person or they can show up the time the kids come over to go to school which is a common phenomenon at the southwest border. Theyre gonna have to make a determination to let you in the United States the only thing they can base it on is what the government has. If we dont have information on you and cant make a ripple on the pond, were not going to know whether you are a criminal, whether you are a terrorist, member of the drug cartel. If you think they set up under cbp one, thats how that works. One of the ways that the administration is pitching this program, justifying it is it reduces the smugglers, people wont have to pay smugglers to bring people across the border. Theyll be able to do it in an orderly way. Our smugglers benefiting from that, making money from it even with this cbp one process . This is one of the areas where i get frustrated because i learned a long time ago intentional omission is the same thing as a lie and that is what this administration, think about it. For the last 40 years, the cartels have only gotten stronger, more powerful and more influential in their Bank Accounts have grown read they have done this on the backs of illegal aliens they have pushed through at the southwest border in the last 30 months. Think about that, what weve learned over the past four years dealing with cartels they have an incredible hierarchy. It did not take them long. Youre supposed to be in mexico but its a joke. Cartels are able to coovercome and get anybody anywhere to get online and get their application to come to a port of entry to the United States. Its equivalent to their Willy Wonka CharlieChocolate Factory ticket. As long as they have that appointment they are stepping aside and letting them come on in and theyre making their way. Think about that for a second. Its no different. It does not matter if youre going to enter illegally. Youre putting your life in the hands of the cartels, youre being abused, being exploited and i promise you, your having to pay for it every day, thats a lie. You think the cartels are going that as a side. Good luck, goodwill port of entry. That stupid. Thats not real life, somehow that works. The cartels every single day it does not matter whether a migrant is illegally entering or theyre using the cbp one app. I promise you, theyre paying for it. And the other thing ill say about the app, is not just those trying to claim asylum. There is a secondary purpose of the app as well, parole. You can get on the cbp one up in this movie from being from those countries you can get on the cbp one at and get paroled in the United States. That is also against the law, that itself is a certain circumvention of the law. Parole is to be used on a specific purpose for specific Public Benefit or humanitarian purpose. Being just born in a country does not satisfy that lawful requirement, that lawful mandate and of course, shocker, is that being abused . Yes. We know people who for example were born in venezuela but they lived in brazil for the last decade. Guess what . Does not matter, that is not being checked. Theyre getting on the app, saying i was born in venezuela. Theyre being paroled into the United States. That point is very important, we are talking about this because this is one of the tricks, this is part of their shell game that theyre playing, its not only as art said, they made a deal with the entire world and said it do me a favor, this is the deal, if you refrain from illegally entering in between ports of entry, were going to let you fill out the cbp one app, come to the port of entry, we will look the other way while you file fraudulent claims because everyone in the Administration Knows the overwhelming majority of migrants who come to our borders are economic migrants. Theyre not victims. Statesponsored persecution because of their involvement, they know that but they are diverting the port of entry, filing a false claim or looking the other way in the United States. It does not matter if you enter in between at the ports of entry, the same process is happening, the same incentive in the same result, youre being released in the United States. Thats why recalling this a shell game. If i could just follow up on some of the points that the chief made, with respect to the people coming in and they are using smugglers, this is the latest cbp one Monthly Update publish the other day. This one is for july 2020. It includes this line, effective august 9, cbp transition scheduling appointments from 14 days to 21 days in advance to allow noncitizens additional time to prepare and arrange travel to the requested port of entry. Now, if you were in northern mexico, why do you need an extra week to hang out in mexico before you show up for your appointment . Exactly what the chief justice said. The cartels well, the smugglers, the cartels with whom they are in league and for whom they more or less work, are trying to funnel those people north to get them to the border. And from further and further away, that is what the extra week is for. You can take a walk through mexico into a half days. So theres that. With respect to venezuela, nicaragua, haiti and cuba visa program, more than 180 1000 people have entered the United States under that program and again as mark said, none of them had to show an asylum claim. It does not ask you for a claim before it allows you to enter the United States. And many of these people have not lived in venezuela, nicaragua, haiti or cuba. If you want proof, go to the southwest border, the shores of the rio grande, where people cross into the United States and you will find piles and piles of discarded documents inevitably. What those documents are our drivers licenses for venezuelans from brazil. You have, you know, green cards for haitians. The reason that they are dumping those documents is they dont want anybody to know in the first thing mark will tell you they do is they check your pockets or pocket trash as we call it. They dont want anybody to find those documents that shows that theyve been resettled in another country because that is going to torpedo any asylum claim they may have. Real quick, on the Operational Update, i just started the Operational Updates. I can tell you right now, i say they were legitimate Operational Updates. They were not politically driven. We were given the data and the facts as we got them. We expanded the cbp fast portal so everyone can get online, because i truly believe transparency is one of the most significantly read responsibilities that we have to get the facts out there, regardless of where they stand, how they look. The monthly Operational Updates, they are a joke. Theyre totally overcome by political appointees. If you look at it right now and this is very careful, all theyre talking about now, the first two quarters of the Operational Update of the southwest border numbers, theyre only focusing on the southwest border encounters by the United StatesBorder Patrol. Because that is the only area. That is the only area where as mark said there was a slight down tick and a slight down tick the administration said because i was there at the time the numbers are not going down. They were misleading the American People because