On Monday, former Kansas Secretary of State and long-time sovereignty defender Kris Kobach appeared on the Tucker Carlson show to discuss the border situation and the inability of the Trump administration to stop the invasion. In March, the total number of aliens admitted under the fake asylum scam was over 100,000, the highest number in 12 years — certainly not the result millions of citizens had in mind when they voted for Trump.
It’s interesting that Kobach says the DHS has been undermining Trump’s enforcement agenda, on top of all the trouble from insufficient laws and liberal judges.
During the interview, Kobach briefly laid out his three-point plan for bringing order to the border. You can read his recent Breitbart article with more details here: Exclusive: Kobach – Three Steps to Solve the Border Crisis.
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TUCKER CARLSON: More than anything, Americans want secure borders, but they’re not getting any of that, and so resentment is building, and why wouldn’t it? So what can be done to fix it?
Kris Kobach is a former Secretary of State of the state of Kansas, and he joins us tonight. Mr. Kobach, thanks very much for coming on. Why is it so hard for the administration to enact the policies the president ran on?
KRIS KOBACH: I think the biggest impediment has been the Department of Homeland Security itself. Leadership at that agency for the past two years, ever since the president took office, has been unwilling to execute many of the president’s plans. And I can say from direct personal experience — I have been in the room when the president has given express orders to leadership at DHS and been assured that, yes those orders will be carried out, and then a year later, nothing has happened.
So there has been deliberate foot dragging, and I think that’s why you’re seeing the White House take the necessary steps to clean house at DHS, and put people in hopefully who will quickly execute what the president orders. I mean, it was the president who was elected, not the agency, and the agency need needs to enact and move quickly to execute the president’s objectives and policies. That has not been happening, and it’s been it’s been really remarkable how badly the agency has been doing in executing what the president has asked.
CARLSON: Well, that’s not just a hope: it’s a constitutional requirement. All authority in the executive branch flows from the one guy who’s elected by voters who’s the president.
So if you’re running DHS tomorrow, what would you do first?
KOBACH: First three things I would do to address this current problem on the border is number one, we would publish the final version of the regulation that settles the Flores settlement; it supersedes the Flores settlement. Basically, it allows how the United States can detain an entire family unit together so you wouldn’t have separation of families and detain them as long as is necessary. That could be done tomorrow.
Second thing is, I would deploy the thousands of FEMA trailers either to border cities or to military bases in Texas and Arizona and set up processing centers. Instead of turning loose these bogus asylum applicants onto the American streets never to be seen again, let’s put them in mobile homes. Let’s process their claims. Let’s ship the judges in. Have the claims processed right there. As soon as their claim is denied, put them on a passenger plane and fly them right back home. Word will get out in the villages back home — hey, it doesn’t work to get in these caravans anymore. You’re not going to be released into the United States.
The third thing that I would do is publish a regulation that tells Mexico in so many words, no, your illegal aliens in the United States can not send remittances home anymore, you can’t wire things through Western Union. You could do that with a Treasury regulation and tell Mexico, look, that regulation’s going to take effect and become final unless you sign a Safe Third Country agreement like we have with Canada, so that any asylum applicant, when they safe country they step foot in, mainly Mexico they have to apply there for asylum. They can’t walk all the way through Mexico and then say, ‘Oh, we’re applying for asylum in the United States.’
I’d do those three things right away, keep building the wall, and then there is about 50 other executive actions.
CARLSON: But those three things you just explained would take care of a huge percentage of the problem that we’re seeing on television, so I hope whoever is doing those things tomorrow. . . I can’t resist asking you about Barack Obama’s remarks from Berlin.
He said it’s not racist to ask people to learn the language of the country they’re moving to, or to encourage them to assimilate — if you want to hang together as a country, you have to do that. I wonder how have things changed so much at that obvious statement which has been an article of faith for Americans since the country was founded has become hate speech.
KOBACH: You know, I think it’s that multiculturalism and political correctness has gone so far over the edge that now, to even say anything that suggests to people who came to America because they like something about our country, to suggest to them, well why don’t you adopt the language of our country, and why don’t you appreciate the United States Constitution? — there’s an idea — to suggest that is to be somehow racist or intolerant, and that’s not true at all. It’s simply to say, look we want to be a country where we all agree with each other, and in principle I mean obviously we can disagree politically, but we want to have shared principles and shared language and and to the extent possible shared values. There’s nothing wrong with that. Every great nation has done that.
CARLSON: Of course, or the country falls apart. People are so afraid of being criticized by CNN that they won’t, but they should.
