02-19-25 YMS The US military is now being deployed to the border with Mexico… But so far there hasn’t been much action. National correspondent RORY O’NEILL fills us in on the latest.

The US military is now being deployed to the border with Mexico… But so far there hasn’t been much action. National correspondent RORY O’NEILL fills us in on the latest.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your morning show with Michael del Chuno.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Pope's condition took a turn for the worst. He now
has pneumonia in both lungs. Roy O'Neil our national correspondents
joining us ry. I didn't realize this till Red set it.
I don't know even know if you're aware of it.
But did the Pope have some lung issues earlier in
life where he lost a portion of a lung. I
don't even think that may be adding to some of
the what has me fearing for the Pope's life right now.

(00:26):
I mean, this is not a good sense.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
We know that most of one of his lungs was
removed when he was a young man because of an infection,
and that's why he's always been susceptible to these kind
of winter bronchitis flare ups. And this one, though, is
that poly mix, which is so much more dangerous, and
that's why they're much more concerned, of course, and now

(00:48):
he's eighty eight and it's.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
A real challenge, right It's interesting the Vatican release the
statement that you know he's canceling all his plans for
this week. I mean, I would I would encourage Catholics
to be praying for the Pope and his life. I mean,
they're not really playing at like a life threatening situation
that it appears to be. That's the odd part of
all of this.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
But we wish it's always that mixed. Yeah, always that
mixed messaging. Right, But again saying a statement this morning
saying he was up, had breakfast, read the papers, even
got up from his bed, got to a chair in
his hospital room and was looking at some of the
kids in the hospital had done artwork for him to
wish him will so who was looking at some of

(01:29):
that as well. So he seems to be alert and comfortable,
but just has difficulty breathing.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
The US military is now being deployed to the border
with Mexico. Well, Mexico was to be sending ten thousand troops,
Canada was to be to the northern border, allocating money
and heading up a borders hour. Again, I don't play
politics for this. I think they needed to do that
for the Canadian people. I mean, they've got a problem
with drugs too, they got a problem with the legal

(01:58):
immigration too, and they have the threat of terror too.
So that's what we have now. We have US military
head of the border, give US the distinction.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Well, right, several hundred were deployed to places like Del Rio, Texas,
just after a President Trump declared that state of emergency
at the end of January and said that there was
an invasion at the border. Well, the troops are there,
but now the migrants are not. At Eagle Pass, the
Customs and Border Protection reports only about fifty five zero

(02:26):
people a day have been crossing the border. In twenty
twenty three, in that same area, it was about five
thousand migrants who were surrendering to agents on a daily
basis after crossing the Rio Grande.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
I remember sixty three days into Biden's presidency, he finally
had a news conference, and in that news conference he
kind of assigned to the vice president the issue of
the border, and I remember thinking that could be a
message to his handlers that he's not going anywhere. It
was almost like handing the poison apple, if you will,
to Kamla Harris, because that's a no win situation to

(02:58):
do these things and how you'll be portrayed. She was
trying to make the point that the problems are within
these nations and we should be giving money to these
nations to solve these problems that they won't be at
the border. Well, in contrast to that, you can have walls,
military technology there, but it's sending a clear message with

(03:18):
credibility you can't just come here and break in. And
then they just stopped coming. They seem to have gotten
that message more so with Trump, right.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
And look, there were some policy changes as well. You know,
obviously things were terrible in the first three years of
the Biden administration, but going into the election, they decided
to try to take some action. Too little, too late,
and the border numbers were falling off sharply in the
last six months or so of the Biden administration. But
then really the bigot got turned off January twenty.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
And now there's troops there. Bory's going to be back.
It's been called the worst outbreak in more than fifteen years. Well,
I already got through the outbreak of influenza, and now
I got COVID. But we'll talk about influenza. It's sweeping
the nation and what areas they are looking the hardest
hit When Rory comes back later, next half hour, great reporting.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Ry, miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot,
and we'll miss you. It's your morning show with Michael
del Churno,