specific piece of domestic business that they did not like. so americans beat and bloodied our own police. they stormed the senate floor. they tried to hunt down the speaker of the house. they built a gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president. they did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth. because he was angry and lost an election. former president trump's actions were a disgraceful dereliction of duty.

the house accuse the former president of incitement. that is a specific term from the criminal law. let me just put that aside for a moment and reiterate something i said weeks ago. there is no >> we will leave this conversation here to go life to eagle pass, texas, where president donald trump is visiting the u.s. southern border. live coverage on c-span. mr. trump: if you look at arizona, they haven't done anything, the governor hasn't done anything, people are flowing through there like nothing. texas is very see daughter, going to be even more secure by the time you finish, which will be soon. i want to thank some friends of mine. brandon you'd has been a friend from day one, knew what we were all about. knew what we were saying and

doing. i think we were ahead of our time. general thomas soser was somebody that was always right there and understands this texas military department about as well as he could, i think eunderstands war, that's what you're in, you're in a war. william mike gorby. nan it's a i think. an incredible group you've put together. i might ask brandon to say a couple of words. right at the beginning we were -- we saw what was happening and the governor was there and then he really, he really stepped it up. it's been amazing. i came when i was lucky enough to receive his endorsement, i endorsed him also, very proudly endorsed him. a lot of things have happened in the last little while. this is an incredible operation. brandon, would you like to say a couple of words? >> absolutely, thank you, sir. mr. president, thank you. sir, i want you to know, your

agent,000,000 agents, they're mad as hell. absolutely mad. that president biden went to brownsville, texas, rather than going to arizona, rather than going to san diego, california, rather than coming to eagle pass, texas, which has been the epicenter. what president trump has seen right here is he's seen how his policies have worked. but he's also seen how he can expand upon those policies once he takes -- goes back into the white house. he's seen how governor abboston has been able to use his policies to secure this specific area. the epicenter of the last two years of the illegal border crisis that we have had to endure. and your agents, president, they are pissed. border patrol agents are upset. that we cannot get the proper policies that is necessary to protect human life, to protect american citizen, to protect the people that are crossing the border illegally. we want to protect them as well. we can't do that because

president biden's policies con to invite people across here. thank good ef we have a governor like governor abboston. thank goodness we have somebody who is willing to run for president of the united states, forego everything else he's been going, to serve the american people. as president. thank you. mr. trump: the reports have come out, we've been covering them, everybody has been, i spoke to the parents of an incredible young lady and you saw her the other day. you saw what happened the other day in georgia. and the parents are devastated. they're incredible people. but this is a joe biden invasion. it is a biden invasion over the past three years. i call him crooked joe because he's crooked. he's a terrible president. worst president our country has ever had. probably the most incompetent president we ever had. but it's allowing thousands of and thousands of people to come

in from china, iran, yemen, the congo, syria, and a lot of other nations, many nations are not very friendly to us. he's krpted the entire columns of fighting-aged men. they're all at a certain age. you look at them, they look like warriors to me. something is going on. it's bad now. the united states is being overrun by the biden migrant crime. it's a new form of vicious violation tour country. it's migrant crime. we call it biden migrant crime but that's a little bit long. so we'll just leave it. but every time you hear the term migrant crime you know where that comes from. allowing thousands and thousands and actually millions and millions of people to come, could be 15 million, could be 18 million, by the time he gets out of office because hopefully the biggest risk we have is nine month, that's a long time. a lot of bad things can happen. i always say, in speeches and rallies, you take the 10 worst

presidents in the history of our country and added them all up, all the problems, all the lousy jobs they have done, you can add them all up it's not as bad as this one man has done for our country. what he's done to our country, he's destroying country. we were just talking before, general was saying, i can't believe -- he can't believe what's happening. he can't believe it. so sad. last year almost half of all i.c.e. arrests were criminal aliens charged with more than 33,000 assaults. 3,000 robberies. 6,900 burglaries. 7,500 weapons crimes. this is all migrant crime. 4,300 sex crimes. 1,600 kidnappings. 1,700 homicides and murders. these are the people that are coming into our country. and they're coming from jails. and they're coming from prisons. and they're coming from mental institutions. and they're coming from insane

asylums and they're terrorists, they're being let into our country and it's horrible. it's horrible. and you know, i know many of the leaders of these other countries that are doing it. it's not just south mesh, it's all over the world, the congo, a very big population coming in from jails from the congo you look at the jails there you take a look at the jails throughout the region, but more importantly throughout the world. they're emptying out because they're dump them into the united states. these guys try and make like, oh, isn't it wonderful. they don't have a clue. i think they're looking for votes. they're looking for something. nobody has really been able to tell me how anyone could want -- you always envisage, you want to understand the phor side, you want to figure it out so you can do something that's good or bad depending on what you're looking for. nobody can explain to me, because everybody has said how horrible it is, nobody can explain how allowing millions of people from places unknown, from clints unknown, who don't speak

languages, we have languages come into our country we have nobody that even speaks those languages. they're truly foreign languages, nobody speaks them. they're pouring into our country. they're wringing with them tremendous problems. including medical problems, as you know. we're entitled to and had different things to solve that problem but they've term naitd all of that. even the judge couldn't believe it. the judge said no, no, you can't do that. it would be horrible to do that. and he let it go. but he said in six months it expires. and it expire and that's it. i think you're doing an incredible job just one week ago, a beautiful 22-year-old jursing student from georgia was barbarically attacked, almost unrecognizable, while she was out on her morning run. she was a morning run, she was doing, keep herself in shape. she was a beautiful young woman. a great person. best nursing student there was i

spoke to her parents yesterday. they're devastated. beyond belief. she was beautiful. just so beautiful. in so many ways. brutally assaulted. horrifically beaten. kidnapped and savnlly murdered. the monster that charged in the death is an illegal alien migrant who was let into our country and released into our communities by crooked joe biden. i took the name away from hillary because she's no longer relevant, i guess. she was terrible. but what he is doing is unbelievable. owe biden will never say laken riley's name. but we'll say it. we will remember it. we're not going to forget her. it's been just a horrible story we've had to li with for the last few days. it's hard to believe. her parents are just, they can never be the same. great people. just four days ago, an illegal alien in louisiana was arrested for brutally raping a

14-year-old girl while holding a knife to her throat. he then allegedly robbed a man who was getting out of his car in front of his home and repeatedly stabbed him in the face and the back, in the face many, many times before police found this person standing in the middle of the street, all covered with blood, standing over the blood of the man he was attacking. last year, a sadistic illegal alien criminal released into our country by joe biden was arrested for raping an 11-year-old girl and strangling her to death and -- in pasadena, texas. shortly before she was murdered she texted her father that someone was knocking at her door. he arrived home from work and found his daughter's body stuffed in a laundry basket underneath the bed. horrible. crooked joe. the blood of countless innocent victims. so many stories to tell. so many horrible stories. three years ago we had the most secure board for the history. brandon was saying it, the yen

was saying it. and people weren't coming because they knew they weren't going to get in. and we weren't promising free education, free medical, free everything. all the promises that are made. no wonder they come. you look at what this governor newskom from california, isn't that his name? newscom? our soldiers, our veterans aren't being taken care of but people who come in illegally are we built 570 miles of border wall, more than i prommed to build. in addition we purchased another 200 miles and they sold that, much of it for five cents on the dollar. it's the best wall, the same wall you're using because the governor is now building a lot of wall also. and it works. walls work. walls and wheels i always said. one thing never gets obsolete, a wall and a wheel. everything else is obsolete about two weeks after you come up with it.

we got mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers. we had the safest border in the history of our country. and now outside of this area where texas has done an amazing job and in a pretty short period of time they'll have it all covered, they have just been incredible what they -- the operation that they showed me ising in nothing less than incredible. i'll say this, it's a military operation. we have a military -- this is like a war. it's a military operation. so we had remain in mexico. remember that? can't come into our country, and mexico agreed to it. i'll tell you why, asylum bans, title 42, rapid removals. but title 42 was so important. rapid removal so important. but the best was remain in mexico. you stay in mexico. we had catch and release in mexico. we had catch before that, it was catch and release a criminal @and we released them in the united states. we had no more catch and

release, our catch and release was we release themed in mexico. if you broke the law, we caught you, deported you or did something else. but we were doing a great job. and that's where it stood. then we had an election. that we ended up getting many millions of more votes than we did. we did much better in 2020 than we ever even thought about doing in 2016. and very bad things happened. from that moment on it was a whole different ballgame in texas and all over. but the governor in texas picked up the ball and they've done an incredible job. it's an honor to be here. brought some people here. some executives from new york. they're marveling at it too. and you're doing your job. now we have to find out what's going on on the side. each side. because arizona is not doing their job. off democrat liberal or more than that governor that probably doesn't want to do anything. so people are just pouring in through arizona. and they're pouring in through the beautiful state, the once

beautiful state, still beautiful, i guess, but they have a lot of crime and a lot of problems, california. because the governor is not doing his job in california. he's doing a terrible job. he talks a good game. talks about how wonderful things are. but he's wrong. they have a big outflow of people. people that pay taxes. people that don't commit crimes, a lot of them are leaving. so i want to thank the governor. i want to thank this incredible group of talent behind me. and we just went through a -- we just went through something very, very special. we did a tour and we did it through all sorts of cameras, they're all over the place. they're in the sky, they're in satellites, in the top of the light pole, all over the place. you really have it done, i'm appreciative of it governor, you did a great job, you're my friend, it's an honor to have your support and endorsement and likewise me to you. thank you. great to be here. thank you. governor abbott: thank you, president trump, for being back

in texas. you being here shows that today is a day of an extraordinary contrast. we have president trump back in the state of texas, literally on the border itself in a place he's been to many times. talking about all the things that he's done to secure the border. at the very same time we have president biden down in brownsville, texas. which was an obligatory visit by him. he had never been to the border in. fact i don't think he's on the border itself right now. he's in some sanitized location in the brownsville area. not seeing the razor wire that texas has put up around brownsville. and he announced he was going to brownsville after it was already known that president trump was coming to the state of texas. it just goes to show that biden does not care about either texas or the border. and what's going on. as a result you see a disaster. the united states of america is

dealing with more deadly consequences than we have in my entire lifetime because of joe biden's policies on the border. and it did not have to be this this way. as president trump just talked, there were four poll shis put in place that led to the lowest illegal border crossings in about four decades. the end of catch and release. the title 42 policy. the remain in mexico policy. and building the border wall. all joe biden had to do to secure the border was to keep in place what president trump put in place in the first place. but instead, what joe biden did, he signed executive orders eliminating all of the effective policies that president trump put in place. and then joe biden, joe biden did something even worse. joe biden lied to america. when he told america that he needed congress to pass laws for

him to be able to do something about the border. because there are three laws that congress has already passed that are on the books right now that biden could and should enforce. one is a law that requires the biden administration to deny illegal entry into the united states. like what texas is doing right here and like what president trump did. he's not denying illegal entry. president biden is aiding and abetting illegal entry. the second law is requires the president's administration to detain anybody who does get here illegally. biden is not detaining them. he's releasing them across the entire country. the third law that congress already has on the books is a law that requires the biden administration to build border barriers like what texas has built. like what president trump has built. and biden not only is not building any borders, biden is

using every tool that he can to tear down the borders that texas is putting up in our state. and because what biden is doing has endangered our country, as president trump was telling you the story, not a week goes by without an american either losing their life, being raped or assaulted by somebody that biden has allowed in our country illegally, the fact of the matter is, because of joe biden's policies and the more than eight million people who have crossed the border, the united states of america is being invaded. because owe biden is not doing his job to step up and secure the border, texas has invoked the authority provided to us in article 1, section 10 of the united states constitution, to declare an invasion and for texas to defend our -- ourselves from the crimes that are being caused by joe biden. very quickly, he's what texas is doing.

texas is the only state in the history of america to build our own border wall. and we did not reinvent the wheel. we're just building the very same wall that president trump put up. second, we deployed those big orange buoys into the rio grande that are effective at denying illegal entry. and joe biden filed a lawsuit to try to put a stop to it. even though that lawsuit is tied up in the courts right now, those buoys remain in the rio grande river as we speak right now. the third thing is we have tremendous members of the texas national guard, led by general selzer, general, thank you, and i want to take this time to thank martin freeman from the texas department of public safety and mike banks, where we have our own border czar. mike banks has spent more time as texas border czar in one day than the united states border czar has spend in her entire tenure. i want to thank mike banks for his job as a former border

patrol agent and now as the texas border czar. but what our national guard has done, they have sealed you have a this entire park. and taken it over. because this area was being used by the biden administration to violate the laws of the united states of america and i said, i will not allow this texas land to be used by the biden administration to violate american laws. and i asked the national guard to take it over and they did in one day. buts the important fact. since they took it over, the number of people that used to come across the border before were 3,000, 4,000, sometimes 5,000 people a day. now since this park has been taken over and wired shut, there is on average about six or seven people coming across a day. most of them are in violation of state law for trespassing and they are arrested. when they come into this park.

so for all practical purposes, this part of the border is sealed. same goes for where joe biden is right now. where joe biden is, on the night that joe biden lifted title 42, brownsville, texas, was ground zero where people were crossing across the border illegally. and immediately the texas national guard wired that shut. so an area during the time of joe biden, before title 42 was -- or when title 42 was lifted, there were thousands of people coming across the border. now there is on a average about 14 people crossing the border in that area. that's because the texas national guard has wired it shut. because we are having to do so much to secure our border, that's exactly why five miles south of here, texas has now launched its own texas national guard military base that will

house 2,300 texas national guard so they will be able to more swiftly and more effectively continue to secure our border. the last thing i'll say is this. unless an until joe biden steps up and does his job, that he has the power to do already, to enforce the laws of the united states of america, texas will continue toes but those migrants to sanctuary cities all across the united states of america. but i am very thankful for the model set by president trump. president trump showed that when he was in office he was able to secure the border. and i know that when he is re-elected as our president, our border will once again be secured. so thank you, president trump. at this time i would like to introduce you to the person

leading the effort on behalf of the texas national guard, general selzer. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone. your texas national guard remains decisively engaged across 1,254 of texas boarder from el paso down to brownsville we are blocking illegal immigration, drug smuggling, weapon smuggling into this state. we do this in depth. we have boats on the rif, as you can see. we have drones in the sky. we have a radar truck right over there. that can track 300 targets at once. and if they get to the shore, as everyone just said, they're going to meet miles and miles of barriers. if they get through the barrier they're going to meet thousands of texas soldiers and thousands of d.p.s. troopers who are going to arrest them. so if you are around the world contemplating coming to do an illegal entry into the united states of america, you need to think twice about that.

go somewhere else. or don't even begin your journey. if you get through that wire we're going to arrest you. [inaudible] president trump: sure. governor, i'll go and then -- governor at-bat boston: if -- governor abbott: if biden were here i'd tell him what i told him on he tarmac in el paso. i handed him a one-beige dumont that listed all the items i talked about here, the laws that

already exist that he can enforce to secure the border. i handed it to him and handed it to secretary mayorkas who were there at the time. i said there are these three simple strategies you can take right now to secure the border to stop all the madness that's taking place. they said they would take a look at it. i've not heard from them since that time. president trump: venezuela is a terrible situation. when i left they were in very bad shape. we would have done something very easily with them just like we had a lot of countries in very bad shape. as you know, just to go to a different part of the world, iran was broke, they weren't going to be attacking israel, they had no money. they weren't giving it to hamas or hezbollah -- hezbollah, they didn't have it. now they're rich, $250 billion and rich as you can be and they're handing money out all over the place. venezuela was in bad shape, now they're in good shape we buy their oil if you can

believe it we refine it and use it. it's the only place you can refine it because it's more tar than oil. we would not be playing games with venezuela they're sending people and they just put out a statement last week, we're not taking them back. they're sending people from jails and prisons and mental institutions. they say we're not taking them back. that wouldn't happen with the trump administration, that i can tell you. i want to thank everybody. i want to thank the governor and the entire group of people behind me and i would call them staff and i would call them representatives and generals, they are unbelievable people. the job they've done so quickly and so effectively and congratulations, congratulations to all of you guys, fantastic job, really. good job. thank you all very much. great honor. thank you. [inaudible] president trump: i hear he's not going to be leader and he's taking that step a lot of people are calling