Eagle Pass, TX Residents Sound Off on the Real "Invasion" | The Daily Show

Eagle Pass Texas has become the epicenter of the national immigration debate as over the last year an unprecedented number of migrants crossed here to apply for Asylum and for many observers this complex issue can only be summed up in one word Invasion we are being invaded we are being invaded we're being invaded we're being invaded just like it's a military Invasion but how are the locals coping with this Relentless Onslaught they've come and taken over the town it's our land and there's just p

eople coming in are causing U you know havoc and and and and craziness there's chaos shouldn't you be welcoming don't you have any empathy for the journey they've taken to get here they're not welcome get the hell out of our place you can't move around with seeing them you can't get a meal in a restaurant can't get a hotel room unless you're willing to pay $400 wait wait who are you talking about right now the state Guard from Florida Tennessee Arkansas Idaho oh what you need to be afraid of is

some of these convoys of people you're talking about Central American Caravans oh no we're talking about the people that are invading the country here not the Mexicans The Invasion here is from Governor Abbot and the trumpers and the Maga people yes Eagle Pass has been overrun since Governor Greg abot declared a crisis at the border and sent in the Texas National Guard attracting a flood of Republican Governors Congressional delegations and even billionaire weirdos this is our taxpayer dollars r

ight being put to use by coming out to Eagle Pass and what's happened is it's jacked up the hotel prices our room is $370 and they don't even have any hand lotion Judy uh understood understood what is your message to the people that want to come down here and don't come okay but be more clear please don't come it's not just cool guys and scarves that are being victimized in this conflict but also local small business owners who res resemble Sam Elliot right now the only people that are going int

o the water are individuals from the press that want to see how ugly it is out there the governor of Texas is here disrupting your job and you want to deport him get them out because I mean I'm expected to follow federal law local law state law I would expect the same thing from our leader of our state Sam Elliot and his mustaches concerns were Justified because when America sends its people to Eagle Pass they're not always sending their best some I assume drove countless hours to sit outside a

fence but why this is my land I'm from Texas yeah I'm here to support th those people who are fighting for me my life my land do we have guts enough to defend ourselves do we now you you're shaking your head you don't really skeptical you you're wearing a suit and you've been successful in the New York media you know what you sold your your soul to the devil if I sold my soul to the devil to be successful in news media I would be more successful I wouldn't be sitting here in an eagle P Texas you

think I want to stay at a Marriott Town Plaza with no body lotion that sounds like something the devil would say yes Dan's fashion critique hurt and his Outlook was very confrontational so I decided to talk to the chairwoman of the County Republican party for a more measured view so we've had this Invasion and uh it it's really turn this town upside down you mean from Governor Abbot from the 13 out of state Republican Governors news media such as myself no I'm talking about the illegals wets an

d I'm sorry what what did you call them whbs whbs man I haven't heard that word in a long time okay now that she'd gotten that out of her system I was ready for a more nuanced conversation we just want them to come legally through the front door calling them wetbacks to me is not we welcome you here I want them to come legally that's what I want so they they aren't wet backs so they don't have to swim the river they wouldn't be wet bags if they didn't obviously there's some disagreement about wh

ether we should let people from other countries seek Refuge here and whether we should refer to them with vintage racist slurs but as militarizing the Border actually worked to keep anyone out I asked magali urbina whose pean Farm borders the Rio Grand I asked them to several times please don't put the wire up we don't want it it's a liability yeah and they just came in and they put it up anyhow do you think the fencing and the buoys and the razor wire do you feel like that's working no no not a

t all the governor is just pushing them out to New Mexico to Arizona to California but guess what they're still coming in so if they haven't solved the migrant crisis could there be another purpose for the thousands of State guards miles of barbed wire and throngs of sunburned politicians in Eagle Pass I would have to say it has to do with the fact that it's an election year a narrative is being told that creates chaos scares people it's what's going to win them the election do you think this is

sue at the border has a lot to do with Donald Trump's re-election yeah you do Trump is concerned about the welfare of the people me this country he's not worried about trying to look good so that he can get elected a guy with a golden toilet and a spray tan isn't worried about looking good it's a political stunt the Republican pendos who don't give a damn I minored in Spanish but I forgot pendos it mean politician well it's kind of a heavier word than idiots mother uh not as heavy not as heavy a

s but heavier than idiots stupid somewhere between motherucker and idiot uh I would say so as I'd come to understand the order is a complex issue that affects people's real lives it's so much more than a photo op but before I left town there was one more thing for me to [Music] do