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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Comparing How Different Presidents Handled the Border Crisis' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-03-05. Transcript available.

being in an election year right now it's like you start to see the political
kickball like you were
saying being kicked around of the border right it's the bit the border the
border immigrate you
know you start to see a lot of that happening and one of the things that you
hear recently is that
that uh democratic party wants to allow people into the country to to be able
to get them to be
able to vote or even even by by whatever means to be able to get them to become
democratic voters
but also i was thinking is there a value in like the republican side
in also letting it be an issue because then they can say hey this is an issue
so you have to vote
this way so so those are two things that i hear kind of and that i think about
um what is that like
like would you is that something that border agents feel at all or yeah yeah we
we we unfortunately
we did not want to be in the limelight and you know not be in the political
sphere but we we are on uh
because we're on the news all the time so let's let's dissect this a little bit
um for the democratic
side it is all about victim of the poor migrants we need to help them out they're
being exploited we
need to bring them over give them a better life right that that's a feel-good
story right now there's
some truth to that there are victims and there are people that want to but that
becomes a feel-good
story the republicans will say hey look it's a security issue they'll talk
about security we need to
save our country and secure our borders to prevent terrorism and criminal
aliens and drugs and all
that stuff because that's a real problem too so they're both they're both real
they just present
them as false choices like you can't have one without the other right and if
you want one then you're
against the other person and that's that's the divisiveness that this this
country has become
is you can be pro-security but still have lawful immigration the the other
piece too is there's
a if you if you utter this people will say it's kind of a conspiracy but you
have to start kind of
thinking about where are they going with why would you allow upwards of seven
million people to come in
here and one theory and that people will float around is well not necessarily
to have them vote
because your only citizens are supposed to vote but you know what census
determines representation
and ultimately electoral college numbers and things like that so if you can
flood a texas and you take
it from red to purple you get more representatives that may vote swing to a
district that could be a more
democrat i see so if you feel like your party could influence to get more
electoral votes
or representatives or representatives so if you feel like your party could get
more representatives
because there's a larger population in that area right and you feel like you
got the the the ability to
get more players in the game then you're going to be pro that that that that is
a that is like without
the truth without somebody saying well here's why we're letting seven million
people in you kind of
start floating these ideas and i'm not saying that that's the case but if you
if you look at it
if you have a state that is split 50 50 when it comes down to republicans and
and democratic elected
representatives but you can put in five more million people into that state and
the next time they
redistrict or do a census and and okay well you get to increase the number of
represented and it's
leaning one direction or the other you're gonna lock it yeah and look how close
the house is right now
yeah one extra uh or two extra democratic uh uh officials now on that on the
house swings everything
to the party of power so they're that i mean again without somebody telling you
hey why are you
letting all these people in why are you bogging the system down someone floats
that idea he's like
well now i mean if that's the truth it's evil genius great at least we know now
we can work
you know the devil you know versus the devil you don't know right right and
that's because because
for the life of me i can't make heads or tails of why this would happen right
so as an agent you're
like these people should be given a hearing and removed because they're not
going to meet the merit
instead we let them go and we house them let's talk about the requirements that
agents need to do their
job right okay so every administration and i remember i mentioned earlier i
started under clinton every
administration had leaned forward on border security clinton brought people on
board hired more people
um we had the tragic of 9 11 and that addressed uh illegal immigration and
border security so president
bush started building infrastructure and access roads obama built a lot of wall
15-foot wall trump
comes in and says hey we we are candidate trump was build the wall right
president trump's hey we're
going to build the wall but candidate trump candidate when he was candidate oh
when he was running for
president he was build the wall that was a campaign slogan when he became
president he's like we're going
to do this building the wall was so much more than the actual wall it was years
multiple administrations
of requirements that agents have said we need that wall that president trump
built was not only was it
a 30-foot steel wall where it made sense it was cameras right it was lights it
was sensors it was access
roads there are so many places on the border that mother nature will through a
monsoon storm season
will wash away and you can't even drive to the border so we needed all weather
roads that was
the wall system right there was so much more there were places where agents
could stop there were places
where they could sleep get rest there was it was so much to that right right
the wall it was the talking
point the system was what was important to us wow we didn't need a wall from
the gulf of mexico to
the pacific ocean right where we needed it was in the urban so the border
patrol has decided through our
requirements in our experience that there are three operating environments
urban where the vanishing
point is seconds to minutes like literally if they cross they can disappear el
paso is a great example
oh yeah they can 100 yards they're in a neighborhood they're in a high school
they're in downtown yeah you
get into rural areas it's it's hours to it's minutes to hours they can
disappear and then you get in
the remote areas it's literally uh days to weeks they can disappear because the
it's you know a hundred mile
trek through the desert so where it made sense we built the wall based on
agents require not just all
the chiefs requirement it was what do you need agents to do your job sir we
need more wall here a double
wall here we need cameras so we built that package and that that package was
being deployed and was being
effective as i mentioned the numbers you combine that with consequences through
policy detaining people
prosecuting people that took those numbers from 900 000 to 400 000 but by a
stroke of
several pins under this administration the wall was stopped the migrant
protection protocol was turned
off this administration uh halted all deportations for no less than 100 days
which means nobody was
being removed is that true what you're saying yes that's all look it all up it's
all executive orders
biden's election the foreign-born population has grown spectacularly in
millions um yeah
i see yeah right there are there are places on the border right now theo where
you can drive and see
30-foot wall and then a quarter mile gap with stacks of steel right there that
was just left there
some of it's being sold off for salvage now wow our agents had to drive by spools
of fiber optic cable
with a trench but we couldn't deploy it because when they signed up when they
ended that wall
it was the system the whole package we went from an administration the trump
administration who
championed board choice who had them at the state of a union had him at his
inauguration parade now
obama had done a lot you said too obama had so let's let's talk about obama on
that one because
if you remember going into his second term he wanted comprehensive immigration
reform
the daca which is the deferred action against childhood arrivals which i don't
think anybody disagrees
with if you're an adult and you bring your one-year-old kid over and that kid
has stayed here
all his life or her life and they're graduated high school you're going to
deport them because
they're not you know that's what daca was for right right that makes that makes
sense no one's
going to boot that kid all this kid knows is american life right right 100 as
long as he's not a
criminal and doing bad things and trying to contribute let them stay but but
there was the issue also
but there was also there was another thing that he did where it was like um he
did dapa which was uh on the
like parents like you could bring your now you could bring your parents in so
what happened was
he wanted comprehensive immigration reform the republicans said well we border
security first so
he said okay i'll give you border security if you give me uh immigration reform
so they went he went
to bat and started removing people maybe he had a lot of deportations under
bomb he built a lot of wall
and then in typical political fashion they argued over the definition of border
control operational
control of the border and so the left and the right started the political
football back and forth what
does control mean what's an effective uh level of control obama said okay
enough's enough i'm just
going to start doing you know uh i'm going to start writing this as executive fiat
and do executive
orders and i'm going to start allowing people to stay here i'm gonna do that
and that's what he did and that's when
it kind of went look the republicans at that point missed an opportunity and
and why because they
could have they could have had they could have had more border security and
championed some kind
of immigration reform because we hadn't had any changes in immigration law for
you know 20 years
before that so there was an opportunity and to obama's credit at least on the
front end now i don't
know all i'm not going to get into all the behind the scenes stuff but at least
on the front end
he gave it the old college try you got i'll give you security but you got to
give me something in
return and when we've when we argued on the definitions semantics of it yep he
said fine
i'm going to do my own thing and we're going to start letting if you were you
know he started doing
his own executive actions and and that that was a pull factor so we started
seeing this huge increase
of people in the in 2012 13 and 14 under the second term of obama why because
you mean they're they're
seeing these reactions in the news and stuff like that and they're knowing okay
now's like time now's
the time to come he's not going to remove you you're going to be he's going to
reunite families he's
going to do all this stuff so people just started for most of last year we
hovered over 10 000 arrests
a day okay right now we're sitting around 6 700 arrested now so now we're twice
that twice that it
was a full-blown crisis under jay johnson and vice president biden and fast
forward we've doubled that
yet we won't acknowledge the crisis from the white house now wait a second what
happened
and then in between you had president trump who tried to fix it and was making
huge progress
only be only to be kind of you know the the yeah i mean the media hated him oh
yeah well that was even
though now some of the the democratic policies are turning into the republican
policies they're like
coming over because at a certain point i i there's no argument against
organization right there's no
argument against like investing in our infrastructure and wanting to have this
machine run well back to
the political politicalization of the border i tell you i had so many
congressional delegations under
president trump i couldn't i was the deputy chief in el paso number one is a
congressional delegation
that is where a group of congressional members representatives will come down
uh and they want
to hear and learn it's they it's a field trip for them right sometimes their
caucuses like hispanic
caucus or a border security caucus or you know african-american caucus they'll
they'll be a group of like-minded
mainly usually one party they go down there and they they want to hear what's
happening um
oftentimes it's oversight committees will go down there under president trump
in el paso i kid you
not i couldn't turn around without tripping over a congressional delegation
wanting to point the finger
at big bad trump and what he was doing and all the people that was when the aoc
was said they were
drinking out of the toilet all that kind of stuff was when i was there in el
paso completely ridiculous
but you know what under this administration when i was the chief in in yuma i
had two democrats
come down to the border one was uh democrat um he was he came down but but he
was uh i had
uh mark kelly the senator from arizona who worked with me to try to fill some
border gaps so he we it
took us 18 months but we finally got something done and i had uh gary johnson
out of the uh homeland
security committee uh senator johnson from uh from michigan only two democrat
sitting representatives
that came down to the border a lot of republicans but they did they wanted to
ignore the problem
i had some phone calls from uh senator cinema um but never came down there to
meet with me
only two but when it was president trump i had hundreds of so why aren't more
coming even just
because it's one president or the other that shouldn't determine why one
because one side
doesn't want to talk about the problem the other side wants to blame the
problem so under trump coming
down to blame just like the republicans come down there now to point the finger
at the biden administration
so it becomes so we have to we have to right that's what i was saying it's like
the republicans also
part of them is happy that it's open because they can say look this is this is
the problem so it gives
them also there's quite there's there's a handful in every party that really
want to try to solve this
but unfortunately they're they're the minority piece right there's people that
just don't want to deal
with it right part of it too when it comes political is it's it goes back to
that victim boogeyman thing
i can run on the emotions every two years as a congressional representative
senate's every six
years but as a congressman or woman i can say if they would have just voted for
my bill we would
have solved this but if you elect me next time we'll get it done and think
about this has been going
we've been talking about this since 9 11 23 years we've been cooking border
security immigration
controls in the forefront and we still can and it's the worst it's ever been
and there's people out there
that uh that see that you know um and that that want to do good they want to
secure that we want
to find that balance like when you what do you mean when you say that like
there's politicians yeah
there's politicians out there that i think see this um from uh from a a common
sense and have you had
some that have showed up like that yeah well bobby kennedy there's an example
as a guy
yeah so we've had well let's talk about current oh bobby gives a it's
unbelievable you look at bobby
and you look at other the other candidates you're like he oh he actually gives
he has thoughts and
views on biden i don't have i don't know any of his policies trump is very like
one-handed kind of
in a lot of ways you know he doesn't elaborate um biding is not he's just not
hell it's just not
fair what they keep doing to that man as a senior citizen i think it's sick um
but
yeah bobby is dialed in yeah so i would say this he says views he has views on
things he'll give
you reasons why he has you know you can tell that he cares and i think he's
open to to whatever but
you can i just like to have anybody that gives a i think that's that's you're
going to see in that
that video that there's actually picture me and what he posted he posted a
couple things about with
me on it today i'll do this i'll say this they're in the current sitting
political pieces there's for
every one that gives a darn there's a couple that don't care right you just
just you just get it right
they're down there for photo op they're they're nodding their heads um it's
like they don't want to
solve that as we just talked about so they can pawn it right um but then there's
again there's there's
there's yours truly right there you go oh that's cool so when you yeah i'm not
trying to sound like
i'm not some right wing nut job i just that's the crazy part too you start they
start brainwashing
you to feel like you're some like far right crazy person if you just think
there should be
organization to the program it's compassion and common sense is all we're
talking about because
there's yeah i don't want us to not have people here i don't want us to not
have diversity i don't
want i would hate that yeah i but i don't want us to have people hiding in the
desert who are scared
who don't know what the is going on right who don't know how they can they don't
have a path
yeah both people need immigrants to have a path it seems like the the current
elected class if you
will and i i'll just say the former uh politicians current politicians they
they they present you with
false choices like you can and we've talked about a little bit today you either
for it or you're against
it you can't be one or the other no that's not true it's not true you know
there is there is some common
ground and that's what i you know anybody to include yourself that's why we're
here today that wants to
learn facts to learn about the border or come down to the border and see what's
going on not just a
photo op not just saying i've been there to check a box but literally go down
there and spend some time
talk to the sheriffs talk to the mayors talk to the agricultural leadership the
farm and ranchers
talk to the non-profits the domestic violence shelter talk to the
superintendent of the hospital
that has a 21 million dollar bill from illegal immigration that hasn't been
paid yet who's
supposed to serve the community talk to retired border patrol officials talk to
people that have lived
there to find out what's going on not what one tv show or news station says or
the other uh counterpoints
it go down there and that's that's that's why i appreciate what bobby did he
came down there
it spent three days i spent maybe a couple hours with him giving him my my take
that's longer than
anybody else has spent yeah that's longer than the president the vice president
and the secretary goes
often but look this is somebody that's what we want we want those choices we
want that out of our
leadership whether it goes anywhere or not you come down there and you listen
yeah and when you listen
you can pause and you can maybe learn and you know maybe make a difference and
i think that's the
critical piece as a country as we talked about earlier we want choices we want
options you know we want
to look at a menu we don't want to be told what we're going to do and so many
of our elected i don't
even call them elected leaders because they're not leading so many of the
elected politicians like you
said it's either one way or the other it's either so strong-handed this way and
that's just not how
we are and so it's refreshing to have people that are actually listening people
like bobby that come
down and say hey i want to learn um you know uh it's it's a good thing and i
think we need more of that
to to make this country better
you

Comparing How Different Presidents Handled the Border Crisis

being in an election year right now it's like you start to see the political
kickball like you were
saying being kicked around of the border right it's the bit the border the
border immigrate you
know you start to see a lot of that happening and one of the things that you
hear recently is that
that uh democratic party wants to allow people into the country to to be able
to get them to be
able to vote or even even by by whatever means to be able to get them to become
democratic voters
but also i was thinking is there a value in like the republican side
in also letting it be an issue because then they can say hey this is an issue
so you have to vote
this way so so those are two things that i hear kind of and that i think about
um what is that like
like would you is that something that border agents feel at all or yeah yeah we
we we unfortunately
we did not want to be in the limelight and you know not be in the political
sphere but we we are on uh
because we're on the news all the time so let's let's dissect this a little bit
um for the democratic
side it is all about victim of the poor migrants we need to help them out they're
being exploited we
need to bring them over give them a better life right that that's a feel-good
story right now there's
some truth to that there are victims and there are people that want to but that
becomes a feel-good
story the republicans will say hey look it's a security issue they'll talk
about security we need to
save our country and secure our borders to prevent terrorism and criminal
aliens and drugs and all
that stuff because that's a real problem too so they're both they're both real
they just present
them as false choices like you can't have one without the other right and if
you want one then you're
against the other person and that's that's the divisiveness that this this
country has become
is you can be pro-security but still have lawful immigration the the other
piece too is there's
a if you if you utter this people will say it's kind of a conspiracy but you
have to start kind of
thinking about where are they going with why would you allow upwards of seven
million people to come in
here and one theory and that people will float around is well not necessarily
to have them vote
because your only citizens are supposed to vote but you know what census
determines representation
and ultimately electoral college numbers and things like that so if you can
flood a texas and you take
it from red to purple you get more representatives that may vote swing to a
district that could be a more
democrat i see so if you feel like your party could influence to get more
electoral votes
or representatives or representatives so if you feel like your party could get
more representatives
because there's a larger population in that area right and you feel like you
got the the the ability to
get more players in the game then you're going to be pro that that that that is
a that is like without
the truth without somebody saying well here's why we're letting seven million
people in you kind of
start floating these ideas and i'm not saying that that's the case but if you
if you look at it
if you have a state that is split 50 50 when it comes down to republicans and
and democratic elected
representatives but you can put in five more million people into that state and
the next time they
redistrict or do a census and and okay well you get to increase the number of
represented and it's
leaning one direction or the other you're gonna lock it yeah and look how close
the house is right now
yeah one extra uh or two extra democratic uh uh officials now on that on the
house swings everything
to the party of power so they're that i mean again without somebody telling you
hey why are you
letting all these people in why are you bogging the system down someone floats
that idea he's like
well now i mean if that's the truth it's evil genius great at least we know now
we can work
you know the devil you know versus the devil you don't know right right and
that's because because
for the life of me i can't make heads or tails of why this would happen right
so as an agent you're
like these people should be given a hearing and removed because they're not
going to meet the merit
instead we let them go and we house them let's talk about the requirements that
agents need to do their
job right okay so every administration and i remember i mentioned earlier i
started under clinton every
administration had leaned forward on border security clinton brought people on
board hired more people
um we had the tragic of 9 11 and that addressed uh illegal immigration and
border security so president
bush started building infrastructure and access roads obama built a lot of wall
15-foot wall trump
comes in and says hey we we are candidate trump was build the wall right
president trump's hey we're
going to build the wall but candidate trump candidate when he was candidate oh
when he was running for
president he was build the wall that was a campaign slogan when he became
president he's like we're going
to do this building the wall was so much more than the actual wall it was years
multiple administrations
of requirements that agents have said we need that wall that president trump
built was not only was it
a 30-foot steel wall where it made sense it was cameras right it was lights it
was sensors it was access
roads there are so many places on the border that mother nature will through a
monsoon storm season
will wash away and you can't even drive to the border so we needed all weather
roads that was
the wall system right there was so much more there were places where agents
could stop there were places
where they could sleep get rest there was it was so much to that right right
the wall it was the talking
point the system was what was important to us wow we didn't need a wall from
the gulf of mexico to
the pacific ocean right where we needed it was in the urban so the border
patrol has decided through our
requirements in our experience that there are three operating environments
urban where the vanishing
point is seconds to minutes like literally if they cross they can disappear el
paso is a great example
oh yeah they can 100 yards they're in a neighborhood they're in a high school
they're in downtown yeah you
get into rural areas it's it's hours to it's minutes to hours they can
disappear and then you get in
the remote areas it's literally uh days to weeks they can disappear because the
it's you know a hundred mile
trek through the desert so where it made sense we built the wall based on
agents require not just all
the chiefs requirement it was what do you need agents to do your job sir we
need more wall here a double
wall here we need cameras so we built that package and that that package was
being deployed and was being
effective as i mentioned the numbers you combine that with consequences through
policy detaining people
prosecuting people that took those numbers from 900 000 to 400 000 but by a
stroke of
several pins under this administration the wall was stopped the migrant
protection protocol was turned
off this administration uh halted all deportations for no less than 100 days
which means nobody was
being removed is that true what you're saying yes that's all look it all up it's
all executive orders
biden's election the foreign-born population has grown spectacularly in
millions um yeah
i see yeah right there are there are places on the border right now theo where
you can drive and see
30-foot wall and then a quarter mile gap with stacks of steel right there that
was just left there
some of it's being sold off for salvage now wow our agents had to drive by spools
of fiber optic cable
with a trench but we couldn't deploy it because when they signed up when they
ended that wall
it was the system the whole package we went from an administration the trump
administration who
championed board choice who had them at the state of a union had him at his
inauguration parade now
obama had done a lot you said too obama had so let's let's talk about obama on
that one because
if you remember going into his second term he wanted comprehensive immigration
reform
the daca which is the deferred action against childhood arrivals which i don't
think anybody disagrees
with if you're an adult and you bring your one-year-old kid over and that kid
has stayed here
all his life or her life and they're graduated high school you're going to
deport them because
they're not you know that's what daca was for right right that makes that makes
sense no one's
going to boot that kid all this kid knows is american life right right 100 as
long as he's not a
criminal and doing bad things and trying to contribute let them stay but but
there was the issue also
but there was also there was another thing that he did where it was like um he
did dapa which was uh on the
like parents like you could bring your now you could bring your parents in so
what happened was
he wanted comprehensive immigration reform the republicans said well we border
security first so
he said okay i'll give you border security if you give me uh immigration reform
so they went he went
to bat and started removing people maybe he had a lot of deportations under
bomb he built a lot of wall
and then in typical political fashion they argued over the definition of border
control operational
control of the border and so the left and the right started the political
football back and forth what
does control mean what's an effective uh level of control obama said okay
enough's enough i'm just
going to start doing you know uh i'm going to start writing this as executive fiat
and do executive
orders and i'm going to start allowing people to stay here i'm gonna do that
and that's what he did and that's when
it kind of went look the republicans at that point missed an opportunity and
and why because they
could have they could have had they could have had more border security and
championed some kind
of immigration reform because we hadn't had any changes in immigration law for
you know 20 years
before that so there was an opportunity and to obama's credit at least on the
front end now i don't
know all i'm not going to get into all the behind the scenes stuff but at least
on the front end
he gave it the old college try you got i'll give you security but you got to
give me something in
return and when we've when we argued on the definitions semantics of it yep he
said fine
i'm going to do my own thing and we're going to start letting if you were you
know he started doing
his own executive actions and and that that was a pull factor so we started
seeing this huge increase
of people in the in 2012 13 and 14 under the second term of obama why because
you mean they're they're
seeing these reactions in the news and stuff like that and they're knowing okay
now's like time now's
the time to come he's not going to remove you you're going to be he's going to
reunite families he's
going to do all this stuff so people just started for most of last year we
hovered over 10 000 arrests
a day okay right now we're sitting around 6 700 arrested now so now we're twice
that twice that it
was a full-blown crisis under jay johnson and vice president biden and fast
forward we've doubled that
yet we won't acknowledge the crisis from the white house now wait a second what
happened
and then in between you had president trump who tried to fix it and was making
huge progress
only be only to be kind of you know the the yeah i mean the media hated him oh
yeah well that was even
though now some of the the democratic policies are turning into the republican
policies they're like
coming over because at a certain point i i there's no argument against
organization right there's no
argument against like investing in our infrastructure and wanting to have this
machine run well back to
the political politicalization of the border i tell you i had so many
congressional delegations under
president trump i couldn't i