Del Rio, Texas: Haitian Migrants and the Border Crisis

• 24:07Tim opens segment on Haitian migrants gathering under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
• 24:50Haiti's 2010 earthquake decimated the country, and Tim admits he doesn't remember it due to Havana syndrome.
• 25:33Haitian migrants migrated to Central and South America years ago, and social media rumors brought them to Del Rio after the border wall went down.
• 26:33Texas sent mounted state police to the border, using horses for crowd control while photos made it look like they were lassoing migrants.
• 26:59The horseback imagery looks bad in photos and evokes troubling historical comparisons, but Texas officials insisted it was necessary for handling 10 to 15,000 people.
• 27:55The real debate remains unchanged: how many immigrants can America absorb, what does a citizen owe to border crossers, and how do you maintain a functioning society.
• 28:29The US spent two decades in Afghanistan and overthrew governments worldwide, creating the refugee crises it now complains about.
• 29:19Immigration concerns are valid and largely economic, not inherently racist or xenophobic, but treating the issue as having immovable positions makes no sense.
• 30:05Tim argues that during a pandemic with rising inequality and millions of undocumented immigrants already in the country, maybe holding off on more immigration makes sense.
• 30:30Anyone saying that gets labeled a Nazi by progressives who then refuse to explain how their plans would actually work—they just watch the Met Gala and tweet about reality TV.
• 31:11All modern politics is aesthetic and optics; nobody's serious about any of it, whether that's open borders or total immigration bans.
• 31:29Baby boomers retiring will require immigrants to fill healthcare jobs, making a total immigration freeze unrealistic.
• 31:46Nursing homes will need to be exposed for beating and robbing elderly residents, and Tim will put his parents in one where he knows they'll get roughed up and stolen from.
• 32:07The basic problem is the inability to have a logical discussion about immigration, which is why people have to put their heads in the sand.
• 32:40Someone in Texas should have pointed out that deploying mounted officers against Haitian migrants invokes the imagery of slavery and Black people being chased on horseback.
• 33:11Governor Abbott remedied the optics problem by parking a wall of cars on the border instead of using horses.
• 33:26American muscle cars are good only for blocking migrants at the border.

immigrationAlexandria Ocasio-CortezTucker CarlsonDel RioHaitiGreg AbbottJoe RoganPatrice O'NealColin Quinn