Alleged terrorist wanted to make a bomb, travel to NYC: US CBP

all right meanwhile there's the Supreme Court extending a pause on a Texas bill that would allow the state to arrest illegal migrants this puts the state and federal government at further odds on the front line of this border crisis White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre reacted yesterday watch Department of Justice makes clear that sb4 is flatly inconsistent with the Supreme Court's decision in Arizona the United States in 2012 and More Than A Century of additional precedent sb4 is just

another example of what we have seen from the governor of Texas governor Abbott attempting to politicize what's happening at the border politicize obviously what's happening with the immigration uh system joining me right now was former US border of Patrol Chief and Deputy Commissioner Ronald vitiello he is also the former acting ice director Ronald it's good to see you this morning thanks very much for being here your reaction to this pause on uh Texas's efforts to arrest people who break into

the country illegally good morning Maria thanks for inviting me Texas is doing more to help protect our border and National Security Homeland Security than any other entity except maybe the front line of DHS and so this ruling by the court to stay the implementation of s sp4 uh is a setback for sure um but we all we all know that Texas is going to remain in this fight to protect us and so we hope that this review goes quickly and the law that that they Prevail on the law it's interesting that t

he White House is now asserting Primacy over immigration matters which is precedent in law but yet they do nothing to help secure our border to implement policies that would actually work on the Southwest border that would R reduce the flow of illegal migration across the Southwest border they do none of that but they assert their Primacy against Texas who is doing what exactly protecting all of us it's the hypocrisy is pretty rich yeah you're right I mean it's just incredible I mean you know th

ey they try to fight with Texas at all at every turn meanwhile it was good that Texas got some of these migrants put them on buses and sent them all across the country particularly to Democrat run states and cities because it opened up the issue for those Mayors and and governors to deal with so that everybody understands what's happening at the US border yeah Governor Abbot his team the Texas guard the Department of Public Safety my hats off to them because they're helping my former colleagues

in the border patrol and then you're right they brought this problem front and center in the headlines because of the buses to New York the buses to Washington DC Chicago Denver Etc and these cities let's let's just let's just be clear these cities are already overwhelmed without what Texas has sent them uh for migrants we see the images all over the country all over the the and the crime and the deaths and and the Mayhem that these Venezuelan gangs are causing all over the country that that's g

otten nothing to do with Texas trying to secure the border that is the result of this chaos at the Border in which the cartels have operational control you know who's a better president than Joe Biden if you're in the Taliban or you run a Mexican drug cartel he has been a boom to their economy in ways that was unfathomable before this Administration they had the largest they had the lowest level of e legal activity on the Southwest border when they took over and now we have the worst ever situat

ion on the south incredible and they're taking home billions of dollars and amazingly they are the ones these drug cartels who are deciding who comes into American who doesn't we're showing on the screen as you're talking 132,000 Goda ways have come into the country since October and by the way these are the Goda ways that we know of right we've seen people come in on surveillance cameras we know they're here they got away we don't know the Goda ways that have not been uh on camera and and and 8

00 of them a day so we don't know what they motivation just to be clear we they only they only needed 19 to take down the Trade Center in the US and cause a terror the worst terrorist attack on our soil uh but border patrol agents arrested an illegal migrant from Lebanon near El Paso Texas last week the man and you you've seen this the man from Lebanon claims that he is a part of Hezbollah he told him I'm a member of Hezbollah he told the Border agency wants to make a bomb and then he's headed f

or New York City uh yeah Hezbollah with with a bomb headed for New York City he is still in custody today and he is under investigation Ronald how should we be viewing this well this is the threat that's in the mix right uh human trafficking cartels taking advantage of the border and then inside of all this chaotic flow you have discret individuals like this who are coming to do us harm we we are in a proxy war in the Middle East we are in a proxy war in Europe and if we don't believe that the C

hinese Communists the Russians or Hezbollah is not going to take advantage of the chaos at our border uh then you're not paying attention this is the threat that we all face you talked about the gods numbers your right to to characterize that that's just what the border of Patrol saw but could not apprehend that's not the thousands and thousands that are getting away that are not being seen by anybody in law enforcement but are coming to a city in a town near you and we know that the CH the numb

ers of young men from China are off the charts since the start of this presidency and that threat again again is going to be we're going to pay for this in ways we are not imagining right now because they've allowed this chaos to continue at the border and they sit on their hands and they watch thousands and thousands of people come and get encountered thousands of people come and get away and and there and then on top of that the releases of people all over the country we see the cities and tow

ns that are suffering from this organized crime that just got here from Venezuela and all the existing threats things like Hezbollah the ms3 Etc that's the problem that we're facing and when you let 7 to 10 million people come into the country illegally that's we're going to pay for this yeah and and some people would put the number at 10 million uh by the way but Ronald it's good to see you thank you so much Ronald Dello joining us this morning on that wide open border and its impact