and, you know, the governor of the state of texas controls the national guard of his state. there is certainly a lot of pow they re the governor has to do what he s doing. maybe not, maybe. but what is it that you think the president should or could be doing now? the constitution and federal law both empower and mandate the president to remove the buoys that are in the middle of the rio grande river channel, clearly illegal, under the purview of the international boundary and water commission. those have to be pulled up immediately. again, those are drowning devices, and mark my words, people will drown because they have been placed in the river channel. remove the razor wire that s on the riverbanks that s impeding customs and border protection, the border patrol agents from doing their job of securing and protecting the border and also rendering humanitarian aid. that is part of their job mission, and they re unable to do it.
Failed Texas Democratic senatorial, gubernatorial, and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke joined MSNBC’s Friday edition of Jose Diaz-Balart Reports to discuss the situation at the border and to accuse Gov. Greg Abbott of having “blood on his hands” and inspiring “white nationalist terrorists.” All the while, Diaz-Balart either sat silently as O’Rourke made these outrageous accusations or joined O’Rourke in pushing President Biden to counter Abbott.
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we do not need walls. 2,000 miles long, 30 feet high at a cost of $30 billion, walls that would be built not on the international boundary, which is the center line of the rio grande river channel, but would be built miles into the interior on someone s ranch or farm or home or property. we ll have to use our power of eminent domain to take your property to build a wall that we don t need at a time of record security and safety on the border. the level of northbound apprehensions today is the lowest that it s been since 1971, the year before our birth. doesn t mean that we don t have serious challenges on our borders and threats against which we must remain vigilant. there are people who would smuggle other people into this country, others who would bring illegal drugs and try to traffic them into our communities. we must support the nearly 20,000 women and men of the border patrol and that important job that they do to keep our communities safe. we must support local law
speaking different languages, come together joined, not separated by the rio grande river, forming something far greater, more powerful than the sum of the parts or the people, not unrelated to that is the fact that el paso, texas, is one of if not the safest cities in the united states of america. a quarter of those that i represent in congress were born in another country, chose us, and i would argue by their very presence help us to be more successful, help us to be stronger, help us to be safer, help us to be more secure. we do not need walls. 2,000 miles long, 30 feet high at a cost of $30 billion, walls that would be built not on the international boundary, which is the center line of the rio grande river channel, but would be built miles into the interior on someone s ranch or farm or home or property. we ll have to use our power of eminent domain to take your property to build a wall that we don t need at a time of record security and safety on the border. the level of northbou