Todd Bensman - Center For Immigration Studies Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're all say, what I see at the border not
a lot, a lot less people at the border. I mean,
it's come down to a trickle. It is amazing how
this thing did a one to eighty in just you know,
basically thirty to sixty days. Joining us to talk about
Todd Bensman Center for Immigration Studies. Do you think the

(00:20):
border war is over? We won the war, Todd, Well.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Most definitely, the mass migration crisis of the last four
years is over. Those were the numbers that were putting
us in over you know, two hundred three hundred thousand
every month for four years. Those numbers are are replaced
now by you know, eight thousand a month in the

(00:48):
first month of the Trump administration. I expect that, you know,
that's about two hundred three hundred a day. We haven't
seen numbers that low ever. That's just simple record, you know,
in recorded history. So I expect that because of the
policies that were put on place on in the first

(01:11):
hour of Trump's first day, that they'll they'll continue to
hold that those numbers down, keep mass migration at bay.
We won't ever see a completely hermetically sealed border. But
this is about as good as.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It gets Yeah, And I think I think maybe one
of the most galvanizing moments, at least for me from
the president's speech the other night is when he was
talking about the border and talking about illegal immigration, and
he basically said, turns out that we didn't need you know,
new laws from Congress, we just needed a new president.
Well that's certainly the case here, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, I mean that he made he makes a great
point because you know, most of you know, the country
was told over and over again, especially during the presidential campaign,
that well, it's just, you know, we need the Senate bill.
If only we had the Senate bill, we could you know,
do something. But Trump killed the Senate bill. The Republicans
killed the Senate bill that we just desperately needed to

(02:16):
be able to close down the border and root causes.
We have to address the root causes in other countries
that's causing the immigration. We we have climate change, we
have hurricanes, and you know, government persecution all over the world,
and you know, we have to fix all that in

(02:37):
the world while we're keeping our border open. But it
turns out that none of that was true at all.
All of that was just a big, fat whopper. Ye.
You know, he fixed this thing and all you needed
to do was detain, deport, and expel everybody that comes across.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
That's it need. He has a lot left to fix,
the car tell being the number one thing, don't you think.
And JD Vance was an eagle pass yesterday and they
were talking about that, and it sounds like there may
be some US military involvement as far as drones in
taking out drones being used by the cartel.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah. Well, part one of part three is over, you know,
with the border. The hemorrhaging is over, people coming in
by the millions, but there's a massive cleanup inside the country.
Millions of people here they're going to have to deport.
And then there's the agenda item of Fentanohl and the
cartels that are moving that over. That's what all the

(03:36):
trade tarifs aren't are about that. You're hearing the designation
of the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and the movement
of serious combat units of the US military down to
the border, spy planes, a massive realignment of the CIA

(03:57):
from abroad to Mexico. Evil forces moving up the Gulf
of Mexico or Gulf of America. I don't know in
the Gulf of America. You know, all of this pretends,
you know, a war against the cartels. He says, we're
going to wipe them out.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well, and if I, if I were them, I would
assume that's exactly what he's going to do. Todd Ben's bean,
Thank you for your time, sir, appreciated. Todd is at
the Center for Immigration Studies at seven twenty seven