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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Administration Policies Effect The United States Border' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Administration Policies Effect The United States Border' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-05-24. Transcript available.

the president gets to declare his his top priorities and for the longest time
immigration and border enforcement was it wasn't even on the radar screen with
President Trump it was the top five I think was number three and as a result
of that we got access to a bunch of agencies that have techniques skills
tools technology that goes well beyond what we've ever experienced and that
really enabled us to start painting a better picture along the border one of
the things that's happening right now is that up until about 2010 2014 I think
it was more realistic most people coming across were single adults right yeah
so
they were arrested some were prosecuted some were just simply returned back
into
Mexico in 2014 people began to realize that they could exploit the asylum loophole
in other words I come here and I say Theo I want asylum right and because of
that
I've got to process you and then I've got to release you and when I release you
now
you have access to state aid you get a work authorization and you may not have
a
hearing for five years and that's if you elect to show up and a lot of people
don't show up for their hearings so they don't necessarily qualify for asylum
and I
think that's it's one of the shortfalls all this because you've really you've
bastardized the definition of asylum and for those that truly need asylum now
they've become one of a million people asking for it and you've you've taken
that
away from them right and at the same time now these folks are using the system
against the system in order to benefit from them from it excuse me and so that
the family units they come in they ask for asylum they get into the US and they
disappear looking at today right now with the situation at the border it's a
crisis is it a crisis oh absolutely and I'll tell you why it's a crisis there's
a
focus on kids there's a focus on family units so in 2019 we had we had a border
crisis then and what made it a crisis was these two populations families and
kids
what they do is they caused the system to just to come to a complete grinding
halt
right because there is no law enforcement entity in the world that's designed
to
house or care feed children and families right you know so we often heard you
know
negative backlash about all the you know it's inhumane treatment and X Y and Z
but
nobody's situated for that but when you get I think it was a hundred and almost
two
hundred thousand family units and something like eighty thousand unaccompanied
children when you put the put that into the system that's not designed for it
it
just it stops it's gridlocked and then everything else falls apart behind it
you
can't prosecute you can't house criminal aliens so the system will collapse it's
a
crisis on multiple fronts first and foremost because it's not being addressed
the
flow is going to continue right you know the unfortunate part and for the
border
patrol you were apolitical you know we're worked for 32 years under different
administrations every administration you know you you give them the facts you
tell
them what what's gonna what you think is gonna work what's gonna benefit and
then
you step back and then you know you fall in the line this administration was
briefed on if you reverse these programs if you take these steps this is what's
gonna
happen and unfortunately sure as shit that's what happened we also have to
recognize that kovat has impacted these countries probably much more severely
than
it has the US you know the medical capabilities aren't aren't the same as
they are here in the US right so you're getting a population of people that are
coming into the US we're not doing koba testing on them so you have the
potential of another resurgence of kovat in the US part of what happened when kovat
started back you know last year is we implemented what's known as title 42
which
is the ability to when you come across I make the arrest and I expel you
immediately I don't bring you into a station I my goal is to get you back
across the border and out of the US as quickly as possible to minimize that
exposure and they that was started during kovat yeah okay so prior to that it
was
you're arrested driven to a station processed and with kovat it was you don't
even come into the station and we get you out of there as quick was that kind
of
nice that's great but the only problem with it is that so when I came to the
border patrol in 88 we were just arresting people and you'd process them and
you'd return them right back to Mexico and then you'd see them again in the
same
shift or the next day and so it was just ever constant revolving door with with
title 42 we're kind of there again because all the courts are shut down so
there's no prosecution there's no deterrence you can't house them so you
put them back on the border and the smuggler says hey I'm taking you back
across you know you paid me I'm gonna get you back across and they just keep on
doing this until the Biden administration recognizes that but they are the
their
actions and their words are having an impact they're driving illegal migration
I
feel that changes this is going to continue so when we talk about crisis I
mentioned the system coming to a grinding halt but the bigger issue is that
there
isn't enough from this administration saying you can't come here right you
know you're going to be prosecuted or the the reality behind this whole thing
is in
people may find this quizzical thinking you know here's an enforcement officer
but our
immigration system has to be revamped and you have to think about this as it's
it's a
whole system the enforcement part and the legal part if you fix the legal part
then that
enables the enforcement part to focus on the true criminals the really bad
elements when
you have a legal system that's messed up and it's not working well that's when
you get all
these people that take the illegal route and then it just burdens border
security so you
know I'm a strong advocate of whether it's this administration or the next one
somebody has to
come in and fix our immigration system as a whole really they can't do it half-assed
you
can't focus on the legal part not the enforcement part or you can't take apart
the enforcement
part and then bolster the legal part you need to do it simultaneously so that
you've got this
immigration system this umbrella that works well the title 42 thing it was also
about preserving our
medical system in the u.s. because we wanted to make sure that we had ample
medical care for u.s.
residents right right right if you allow this population to come in it can
overwhelm the medical
system but when we have people being released at the border so now you have to
house feed care for
you have to provide medical care for them so some of these border communities
they're not equipped for
that you know not equipped for a surge of a thousand or twenty thousand people
coming in on a daily
basis and so it overwhelms them you know they don't have the deep pockets to
pay for this stuff and
right now the government's not doing anything to help them out is it hard for
border patrol agents
like some of them whether they're to set aside any political beliefs they may
have and just do their
job do you see any of that or most of the guys like you said administration
just changes over time
and um and you guys just kind of stay on the task at hand you know it does
bother you personally of course
you know you want somebody that's supporting your endeavors um but you don't
take it to work um
you know again because we're gonna every four years you have the potential for
working for a new boss
right and the rules can change every four years what's uh i think what's what's
fortunate for the
agent in the field is that you know you're you're tasked with enforcing the
laws that have been
legislated by congress right and so even though the president may not like
those laws it's the law
and it's hard for him to change it or her to change it maybe someday um so you
you try to stay apolitical
but it certainly bothers you when you're not getting support we need congress
we need the white house
but more i think congress more than anything kind of to to get in the game
right um you know if i can
be blunt it's congress needs to get its head out of his ass and start doing
something right they have
the power of the purse and the power to legislate right um they need to apply
the purse towards
addressing this um helping with the kids and the family units they need to
legislate they need to
revamp the entire immigration system and uh you know i i applaud the biden
administration for looking
at you know what do we do to invest in the source you know where are these
people coming from right
that's great and we've always tried to do economic redevelopment these
countries but they have to
recognize that you could you can't put a billion dollars in el salvador today
and expect it to
stop this flow right you have to recognize that it's going to take 10 or 20
years before that plan
comes to fruition so in order to make things better it's it's revamping the
immigration system it's
helping some of these sending countries but it's also having a very strong
effective immigration system
that includes the border enforcement right you know you just you can't
undermine it and whether it's
technology more agents more infrastructure whatever it may be you just you need
to secure that border
congress has to do its job i mean it really hasn't done anything towards um
addressing the problem
uh and a lot of what's going on right now is uh congress's fault from the last
two or three years
because a lot of the funding that was earmarked for um detention for remodeling
detention facilities
was removed from the budget because part of the intent was to ensure that
people were being released
okay so now you fast forward two years and what's happening we can't hold these
people so we have to
release them so it's it's a vicious cyclical game and and i would just hope
that our elected officials
just focus on the problem it not only for the humanity of these kids and these
families but also
for the bigger aspect of the border security you know one thing we didn't touch
was terrorism
yeah i assure you and i can't speak to specifics because there's classifications
behind it
but there are folks that have terrorist ties terrorist training that are intent
on hurting us
that have come across our southern border what do you feel like is some type of
a solution or
something moving forward it's the legal aspect it really is it needs to be revamped
um you know
what you described about programs um refugee programs are well established so
where you're sponsoring
refugees as they come in in different category from an asylum seeker right um
but there are programs
for that where it's whether it's a church group or a particular individual that
supports that refugee
and then helps them assimilate and you know uh become part of america really we
the key is legal
migration but it's got to be a system that's just much more effective and
efficient um the reason
people start coming across illegally is you may apply legally but it's going to
take you three to five
years right and then the categories again a lot of what we have are unskilled
labor right um you know
i agree with one thing that president trump did talk about was if we're going
to bring people in
why aren't we bringing in more skilled labor you know we're not we're not the
country that we used
to be 40 50 years ago where we had a great demand for unskilled labor right we
have a greater demand
for skilled labor your technology folks you know stuff like that so if we're
going to do this it has to
be revamped so that it's addressing the particular types of skills that we need
but it's also done in
such a manner that it's just it's effective it's we live in a world where we
want things now right
nobody wants to wait two or three years and that's part of what's driving this
illegal migration is
if i apply legally a i may not qualify b it's going to take me forever dang and
then c right now if i
come across illegally i'm going to get released at least that's the mindset
that's what we're seeing on
on social media and chatter and debriefs that we do with the folks we encounter
and that's some of
the stuff that's really the worst because that's how people are learning about
it and getting
inspired really like now's the time you know oh yeah yeah i mean they're they're
on social media
facebook instagram twitter it's out there hope you enjoyed that video and you
can watch another
and you can watch this one you can watch this one different options different
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Administration Policies Effect The United States Border

the president gets to declare his his top priorities and for the longest time
immigration and border enforcement was it wasn't even on the radar screen with
President Trump it was the top five I think was number three and as a result
of that we got access to a bunch of agencies that have techniques skills
tools technology that goes well beyond what we've ever experienced and that
really enabled us to start painting a better picture along the border one of
the things that's happening right now is that up until about 2010 2014 I think
it was more realistic most people coming across were single adults right yeah
so
they were arrested some were prosecuted some were just simply returned back
into
Mexico in 2014 people began to realize that they could exploit the asylum loophole
in other words I come here and I say Theo I want asylum right and because of
that
I've got to process you and then I've got to release you and when I release you
now
you have access to state aid you get a work authorization and you may not have
a
hearing for five years and that's if you elect to show up and a lot of people
don't show up for their hearings so they don't necessarily qualify for asylum
and I
think that's it's one of the shortfalls all this because you've really you've
bastardized the definition of asylum and for those that truly need asylum now
they've become one of a million people asking for it and you've you've taken
that
away from them right and at the same time now these folks are using the system
against the system in order to benefit from them from it excuse me and so that
the family units they come in they ask for asylum they get into the US and they
disappear looking at today right now with the situation at the border it's a
crisis is it a crisis oh absolutely and I'll tell you why it's a crisis there's
a
focus on kids there's a focus on family units so in 2019 we had we had a border
crisis then and what made it a crisis was these two populations families and
kids
what they do is they caused the system to just to come to a complete grinding
halt
right because there is no law enforcement entity in the world that's designed
to
house or care feed children and families right you know so we often heard you
know
negative backlash about all the you know it's inhumane treatment and X Y and Z
but
nobody's situated for that but when you get I think it was a hundred and almost
two
hundred thousand family units and something like eighty thousand unaccompanied
children when you put the put that into the system that's not designed for it
it
just it stops it's gridlocked and then everything else falls apart behind it
you
can't prosecute you can't house criminal aliens so the system will collapse it's
a
crisis on multiple fronts first and foremost because it's not being addressed
the
flow is going to continue right you know the unfortunate part and for the
border
patrol you were apolitical you know we're worked for 32 years under different
administrations every administration you know you you give them the facts you
tell
them what what's gonna what you think is gonna work what's gonna benefit and
then
you step back and then you know you fall in the line this administration was
briefed on if you reverse these programs if you take these steps this is what's
gonna
happen and unfortunately sure as shit that's what happened we also have to
recognize that kovat has impacted these countries probably much more severely
than
it has the US you know the medical capabilities aren't aren't the same as
they are here in the US right so you're getting a population of people that are
coming into the US we're not doing koba testing on them so you have the
potential of another resurgence of kovat in the US part of what happened when kovat
started back you know last year is we implemented what's known as title 42
which
is the ability to when you come across I make the arrest and I expel you
immediately I don't bring you into a station I my goal is to get you back
across the border and out of the US as quickly as possible to minimize that
exposure and they that was started during kovat yeah okay so prior to that it
was
you're arrested driven to a station processed and with kovat it was you don't
even come into the station and we get you out of there as quick was that kind
of
nice that's great but the only problem with it is that so when I came to the
border patrol in 88 we were just arresting people and you'd process them and
you'd return them right back to Mexico and then you'd see them again in the
same
shift or the next day and so it was just ever constant revolving door with with
title 42 we're kind of there again because all the courts are shut down so
there's no prosecution there's no deterrence you can't house them so you
put them back on the border and the smuggler says hey I'm taking you back
across you know you paid me I'm gonna get you back across and they just keep on
doing this until the Biden administration recognizes that but they are the
their
actions and their words are having an impact they're driving illegal migration
I
feel that changes this is going to continue so when we talk about crisis I
mentioned the system coming to a grinding halt but the bigger issue is that
there
isn't enough from this administration saying you can't come here right you
know you're going to be prosecuted or the the reality behind this whole thing
is in
people may find this quizzical thinking you know here's an enforcement officer
but our
immigration system has to be revamped and you have to think about this as it's
it's a
whole system the enforcement part and the legal part if you fix the legal part
then that
enables the enforcement part to focus on the true criminals the really bad
elements when
you have a legal system that's messed up and it's not working well that's when
you get all
these people that take the illegal route and then it just burdens border
security so you
know I'm a strong advocate of whether it's this administration or the next one
somebody has to
come in and fix our immigration system as a whole really they can't do it half-assed
you
can't focus on the legal part not the enforcement part or you can't take apart
the enforcement
part and then bolster the legal part you need to do it simultaneously so that
you've got this
immigration system this umbrella that works well the title 42 thing it was also
about preserving our
medical system in the u.s. because we wanted to make sure that we had ample
medical care for u.s.
residents right right right if you allow this population to come in it can
overwhelm the medical
system but when we have people being released at the border so now you have to
house feed care for
you have to provide medical care for them so some of these border communities
they're not equipped for
that you know not equipped for a surge of a thousand or twenty thousand people
coming in on a daily
basis and so it overwhelms them you know they don't have the deep pockets to
pay for this stuff and
right now the government's not doing anything to help them out is it hard for
border patrol agents
like some of them whether they're to set aside any political beliefs they may
have and just do their
job do you see any of that or most of the guys like you said administration
just changes over time
and um and you guys just kind of stay on the task at hand you know it does
bother you personally of course
you know you want somebody that's supporting your endeavors um but you don't
take it to work um
you know again because we're gonna every four years you have the potential for
working for a new boss
right and the rules can change every four years what's uh i think what's what's
fortunate for the
agent in the field is that you know you're you're tasked with enforcing the
laws that have been
legislated by congress right and so even though the president may not like
those laws it's the law
and it's hard for him to change it or her to change it maybe someday um so you
you try to stay apolitical
but it certainly bothers you when you're not getting support we need congress
we need the white house
but more i think congress more than anything kind of to to get in the game
right um you know if i can
be blunt it's congress needs to get its head out of his ass and start doing
something right they have
the power of the purse and the power to legislate right um they need to apply
the purse towards
addressing this um helping with the kids and the family units they need to
legislate they need to
revamp the entire immigration system and uh you know i i applaud the biden
administration for looking
at you know what do we do to invest in the source you know where are these
people coming from right
that's great and we've always tried to do economic redevelopment these
countries but they have to
recognize that you could you can't put a billion dollars in el salvador today
and expect it to
stop this flow right you have to recognize that it's going to take 10 or 20
years before that plan
comes to fruition so in order to make things better it's it's revamping the
immigration system it's
helping some of these sending countries but it's also having a very strong
effective immigration system
that includes the border enforcement right you know you just you can't
undermine it and whether it's
technology more agents more infrastructure whatever it may be you just you need
to secure that border
congress has to do its job i mean it really hasn't done anything towards um
addressing the problem
uh and a lot of what's going on right now is uh congress's fault from the last
two or three years
because a lot of the funding that was earmarked for um detention for remodeling
detention facilities
was removed from the budget because part of the intent was to ensure that
people were being released
okay so now you fast forward two years and what's happening we can't hold these
people so we have to
release them so it's it's a vicious cyclical game and and i would just hope
that our elected officials
just focus on the problem it not only for the humanity of these kids and these
families but also
for the bigger aspect of the border security you know one thing we didn't touch
was terrorism
yeah i assure you and i can't speak to specifics because there's classifications
behind it
but there are folks that have terrorist ties terrorist training that are intent
on hurting us
that have come across our southern border what do you feel like is some type of
a solution or
something moving forward it's the legal aspect it really is it needs to be revamped
um you know
what you described about programs um refugee programs are well established so
where you're sponsoring
refugees as they come in in different category from an asylum seeker right um
but there are programs
for that where it's whether it's a church group or a particular individual that
supports that refugee
and then helps them assimilate and you know uh become part of america really we
the key is legal
migration but it's got to be a system that's just much more effective and
efficient um the reason
people start coming across illegally is you may apply legally but it's going to
take you three to five
years right and then the categories again a lot of what we have are unskilled
labor right um you know
i agree with one thing that president trump did talk about was if we're going
to bring people in
why aren't we bringing in more skilled labor you know we're not we're not the
country that we used
to be 40 50 years ago where we had a great demand for unskilled labor right we
have a greater demand
for skilled labor your technology folks you know stuff like that so if we're
going to do this it has to
be revamped so that it's addressing the particular types of skills that we need
but it's also done in
such a manner that it's just it's effective it's we live in a world where we
want things now right
nobody wants to wait two or three years and that's part of what's driving this
illegal migration is
if i apply le