The Real ‘Border Czar’ Defends the Biden-Harris Record

[@lonelydronerfl5184]

Many folks have oversimplified the border issue. The in depth analysis was eye opening.

[@justgivemethetruth]

Thank you again for finding the point, getting to the point, and exploring the point from an objective point of view.

[@archigoel]

You mean form the GOVT pov.

[@meks90]

@@archigoel this is the way it is for every western European country too. you could go to school, graduate and start working before the legal process is exhausted and even end up being accepted.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@archigoel Nope, I meant just what I said. I don't subscribe to your Trump conspiracy theories.

[@swansuz]

That is his job. And it certainly reflects more truth than the previous administration.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@swansuz true

[@bluedreams517]

This was so enlightening. I kept thinking just much the narrative around immigration has been watered and dumbed down in our culture. It makes it easier to fit ones approach into simple slogans and "solutions" that doesn't actually help the system. I also don't know how we distill more complexity into our culture of sound bites, memes, and emotional bait. Or to foster the patience needed for large systems to reset after implementing shifts.

[@nossenkanter]

It's called propaganda to justify something that has no happened in hundreds of years of American history 🤡 Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump did not allow this extreme amount of illegal immigration.

[@servandopatlan6150]

Thank you for intelligent reasoned education on this important issur. You all forgot to contrast the declining USA birthrate. When your kids do not bring children, we need immigration.

[@cartman2027]

Legal immigration would be nice.

[@doricetimko5403]

@@cartman2027did you listen to the entire segment? Do you understand the importance of critical thinking skills for all?

[@tbone8636]

@@doricetimko5403, did you scramble your brain in the microwave before finishing this comment? It makes zero sense. "Liberty and Critical Thinking Skills for All"!

[@fredschnerbert1238]

*Dem AOC says we should HAVE less kids"for the planet"* *But yea, then IMPORT millions of people from countries* *where people look like her?* *Yeah,there is no racism there*

[@trtoer]

What a shame that most Americans will never understand this issue or how fortunate that Mayorkas was in this position.

[@muay_khao]

Big opportunity here for government to do some good. Survey employers from the Springfield-like communities of the country, find out who needs a few good employees, then back at the border, if you're going to admit these people anyway, send a manageable number spread out across the country, with the job lead in hand, and the employers ready to receive them. Don't allow 20,000 to one place. Instead, send 500 spread amongst 40 Springfields. Put stipulations on their border entry that they must go where they're setup to be received.

[@fredschnerbert1238]

*The city REP from Denver, told a group, that NY city and *Chicago gave out better benefits,then Denver did!* That doesn't sound very compassionate for a sanctuary city*

[@susanlippy1009]

This ignores the reason that groups settle together in the first place. They like us want to live in community. Settling together gives them support of community. Allows extended families to stay together and makes it feasible to have religious and traditional practices maintained. Their children get to look out into the community and see others who look like them instead of being alone. Could you imagine being dropped off someplace you don't speak the language, you don't know the culture and you are the outsider. They succeed because of the communities they build together.

[@muay_khao]

​@@susanlippy1009 it doesn't ignore it, it's just how it needs to be. Many examples of mass migration to one place not being good.

[@MaxF28]

@@fredschnerbert1238 It doesn't sound like you actually know what "sanctuary city" means as it's not necessarily about have the best benefits, it's about what policies work best when you have large immigrant communities like how best to create trust so people will work with authorities when there are problems.

[@MaxF28]

For newly arrived migrants, referrals to go specific places (instead of shipping people to just a handful of cities to manufacture crisis for political purposes like Gov. Abbot did) is a good idea but you're missing some pieces here: work authorization is not instant, takes 6 months at least (from submitting formal asylum application) and in Springfield it's not like every immigrant there just arrived in the US. There's no federal law that you can limit geographically where people with legal status can live, nor would one really fit in the American system. For new arrivals, you could incentivize dispersement through making services contingent on location, kind of like how refugee services work already. Also, any place that becomes desirable for any reason among any group of people can face rising housing costs or other issues along with the benefits of new workers and economic activity (this is happening all the time with different cities and metro areas as they become the new desirable place to live).

[@doricetimko5403]

Thank you, gentlemen, for providing thorough yet concise and relevant info on this topic.

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

I got caught flying and busting them all over the country paying for them to live in hotels giving them apartments Birmingham giving them 2500 a month a taxpayer money disabled Americans in some states only get 940 a month

[@russelnw4530]

“Mass Due Process" not “Mass Deportation"

[@doricetimko5403]

Perfect!

[@tbone8636]

Another tag line that sounds deep, but upon closer inspection is revealed to be completely shallow. We already have due process in this country... What would you suggest we do with people who enter the country illegally? Nothing?

[@russelnw4530]

@@tbone8636 what is described here is an effort to increase the capacity to address asylum claims. If the backlog is multiple years, the answer is to break the bottleneck in judicial review. Mass due process isn’t shallow. It means we have e to have the capacity to deal with all claims, legitimate or illegitimate. The result may well be deportation. In fact if the numbers he quotes hold true, it could be 75% of applicants are deported. But “Mass Due Process” means everyone quickly gets their day in court (or in administrative review.). We can hold onto our constitutional principles, treat people with dignity and resoect, but do it expeditiously.

[@hochhaul]

Third world migrants will transform the US into a third world sht hole. The decline has already begun.

[@fredschnerbert1238]

@@russelnw4530 *Yes, BUT he changed the RULES* *He isn't USING the UN Asylum rules* *You don't have to be a targeted "group" to qualify* *You can qualify as a targeted PERSON by a GANG* *Do you get that if YOU ARE in GANG BLUE* *You will be a TARGET of GANG RED?* *So ALL gang members NOW qualify for Asylum!* *UN Asylum RULES were carefully written!!!*

[@markacohen1]

O boy an actual interview, tough questions, knowledgable answers, as other commentators below have said, you leave as a listener enlightened. If only the MSM, which I largely enjoy because I’m entertained when in bubble mode, could manage this one hour a day…we’d be better off.

[@carolp9196]

She clearly has the power to change the border outcomes. She did not do anything!

[@oldasrocks9121]

No vice president has any legal authority or executive power to act upon border security or immigration policy you ding dong

[@debbywaldron6664]

You clearly didn’t listen.

[@rabbit22255]

@@debbywaldron6664 I mean this with no offense, you clearly don’t understand that not everything is as complicated as people make it out to be. “The simplest answer is often the correct answer.” Immigration does not replace declining birth rates, we need higher birth rates because relying on immigration is going to make the same problem happen again in the future because once those immigrants get settled here what are they going to do? The same as the rest of the people on average! You people are seriously foolish if you think this dingus is actually the border czar, why would he wait this long to come out and explain this? And if that’s so, why was Kamala Harris literally appointed to be “in charge of the border” by Joe Biden! Even if this is the “real border czar”, the situation at the border is so horrendous that Kamala Harris is actually pretending to be hard on the border! Literal clown world!

[@carolp9196]

@@debbywaldron6664 Not to you!

[@MaxF28]

​@@carolp9196 You clearly didn't listen to the many steps the Administration took to deal with a rise in irregular migration which in turn has fallen back to the same level as in the Trump Admin if your fake conclusion is "She did not do anything!"

Will the real border Czar please stand up.

[@existentialvoid]

Indefensible

[@topcat999]

his questions sound misinformed/not researched

[@vineetgera9212]

Much ado about nothing

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

they were giving them 2500 a month social security money and a lot of States disabled Americans only get 940

[@rogersjolly1]

Total bunch of B.S.

[@MaxF28]

What exactly are you claiming is "B.S."?

[@rogersjolly1]

Everything he says. Every word from his mouth is B.S.

[@MaxF28]

@@rogersjolly1 So, since you're too lazy to address the specifics of the policies discussed here, you're just pretending everything someone says is "B.S."?

[@rogersjolly1]

Everything everyone in this administration says is B.S.

[@MaxF28]

@@rogersjolly1 Ah, so after failing to show a single thing that is "B.S." in this interview, you're going with an even lazier claim you can't back up? 🙄

[@tbone8636]

If Mayorkas had anything of value to contribute in regards to securing the border and immigration he would've shared it years ago.

[@destubbed]

Ezra I appreciate your attempt to get to the bottom off this issue but i am afraid you failed. This guy did not speak one thing worth remembering, he avoided, he obfuscated he distracted but he never never told the truth. I just don't think the truth is something he deals with on a daily basis. My god I about crashed my bike twice.

[@jeffreyvollmer5417]

This is the first time I’ve listened to Mayorkas speak at any length in a press interview. My God!!! He speaks in such a convoluted way with such slow cadence. Why would anyone want to listen to him? Pete Buttigieg needs to inservice his Cabinet colleagues on how to speak in public interviews. This Mayokas guy may be more than competent and up to the job, but he is a deadly snoozer of a speaker.

[@raincadeify]

I don't mind the pace, but the how carefully crafts his language with passive voice and generalities that could leave one with the impression our current border policy is a migrant support system. Kinda of fascinating. I appreciate that Ezra was on it and pulled him back to focus on what's actually happening. I'm halfway through and very curious if the subject of US "intervention" in the southern hemisphere will be laid out.

[@HZ-fg9sf]

I just listen to it on 1.25 speed at least. I think he talks like that intentionally because he is being careful with his words. You can see where he doesn't directly answer the question. But the guy has a tough job.

[@swansuz]

That would seem to reflect your listening skills rather than his speaking skills. Deliberate, thoughtful and articulate are far superior to rapid fire spin. He does his job in presenting complicated, high profile material responsibly and with authority. I say (based on 40 years teaching university public speaking) "well done."

[@oldasrocks9121]

He crafts his language like a very skilled and immensely talented prosecutor. Pull the wool out of your spoiled earholes

[@fredschnerbert1238]

@@swansuz *HE speaks SLOW to make the time expire* *He told CONGRESS the BORDER was SECURE* *Do you KNOW what his CBP Operations CHIEF, said,* *UNDER OATH,TO CONGRESS?* *He said by CBP standards IT WAS NOT!*