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TRUMP IN TEXAS: Only If DeSantis Comes Out for An Immigration Moratorium Can He Break Trump’s Grip On the White Working Class, by Peter Brimelow

24-10-2022 < UNZ 94 5465 words
 

VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow writes: I know that American Renaissance Editor Jared Taylor and I are the last two people in the world who refuse to watch videos (and he makes them!) But I did actually watch/ listen to Donald J. Trump’s October 22 Saturday night speech in Robstown TX, partly because you can get really no idea of what the 45th President of the United States really said by reading the Regime Media reports; and partly because it annoys me that he’s being so systematically suppressed by the TV networks. What are they afraid of? We make this transcript available as a public/patriot service,




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Trump in the White House actually did more on immigration than many immigration patriots acknowledge, partly because it was through administrative action and hence reversible (as indeed it has been). But on election eve, I sadly concluded that Trump was not even campaigning on his achievements and had apparently lost interest in reducing legal immigration, so we had to move on.


But where there’s Trump there’s hope (or fear, in the case of Conservatism Inc.) We’ve been tracking Trump’s recent speeches to see now much he emphases immigration generally (increasingly, in the context of the Biden Rush at the border) and legal immigration (rarely, alas). See here, here, here


Generally speaking, Trump has talked only about the border collapse, which is not completely unreasonable given its staggering size. But in Robstown, while saying “We want people to come into our country—they have to come in legally,” he did throw out “we will end chain migration, we will end the visa lottery.” Since chain migration is driving the current influx, this implies radical reform.


Or it might not. Trump speeches are not a conventional political phenomenon. But the fact is that he raised the issue. Who else would— ¡Jeb!?


What was impressive here in Texas is how much he hammered on the border collapse, even bringing former Acting Director of ICE Tom Homan and President of the National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd to the podium. DEEP LINK


Trump also said:



Just a few days ago, an illegal alien in McGregor, Texas was charged with the savagely murdering a 38 year old woman and her two teenage children, beautiful children, and then continuing his deadly rampage in the house next door that he went to, another one and another one before he was caught, he was massacring, helpless people, including a 47 year old woman and her precious 20 old year old daughter. A beautiful daughter who was studying to become a doctor, doing really well top of her class before driving down the street, wildly firing gunshots, wounding. Yet another innocent victim was finally caught.


(25:41)
And let’s see what happens. Let’s see what happens. Because they catch him now and then they release him, the Democrats.


In El Paso this month, three illegal aliens were arrested for the brutal murder of a 28 year old man after shooting him multiple times in dumping his body on the side of the road. And last year in Harris County, two illegal alien MS 13 animals were convicted of kidnapping. Three teenage girls, raping them and sadistically murdering the 15 year old girl in a horrific satanic ritual.


Immigrant murder, let alone illegal immigrant murder, is generally completely suppressed in the Regime Media, but not on VDARE,com. So where did Trump learn about this?


And who else is raising this?



Note: the three cases he mentioned are real, although MSM factcheckers might harrumph that the MS-13 Satanist murder of Genesis Lizbeth Cornejo, 15, occurred in 2017, rather than just last year.



To my great delight, Trump also adopted my point that is what is going on under the Biden Regime is a communist (i.e .Left Totalitarian) coup:



Before our very eyes, Biden and his left wing handlers are turning America into a police state. And I don’t even think it’s Biden to be honest with you, but they got some bad people around, like something straight out of a communist country.


(32:20)
See, I used to say socialists, but we’ve skipped socialism. We don’t talk about that. I don’t even mention it anymore. We’re not socialists anymore, we’re communists. We’ve gone over socialism, we’re gone. It’s over. It’s communist. They’re talking about communist. This Is a communist system that we’re putting up with right now. The radical Democrats are locking up pro-life activists, persecuting their political opponents, spying on their political rivals, silencing dissent, and using the full force of government, law enforcement and the media to try and crush our movement


Another impressive moment: Trump’s crowd spontaneously started singing the National Anthem when he mentioned the January 6th Capitol Insurrection Hoax.


Conclusion: For whatever reason, this man’s grip on America’s white working class may well be, as Megyn Kelly (who has some reason not to like Trump) recently told a visibly unhappy Dave Rubin,unbreakable.




Unless, of course, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis trumps (heh heh) Trump—by coming out for an immigration moratorium.


Transcript (Some of this transcript is from Rev.com, which cut out at the 90 minute mark, the rest is provided by our own software.)


Donald Trump (00:00):


What a nice crowd. What a lot of wind. What a lot of wind.


Crowd (00:04):


USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA-


Donald Trump (00:04):


Thank you.


Crowd (00:04):


… USA, USA, USA.


Donald Trump (00:13):


Thank you very much, everybody. Let’s have a little fun. Let’s have a little fun. We have a bad subject because you look at what’s happening to our country, it’s a bad subject. But we are going to make the best of that and we are going to be stronger than ever before soon. What’s happened to our country is a disgrace. But I’m thrilled to be back with the proud, hardworking American patriots of the great state of Texas. We love Texas.


(00:46)
We ran twice and we won it twice in landslides. I don’t know. They say that Texas is going blue. It’s not going blue. I know it’s Trump. It’s Trump. It’s not going blue that I know of. They think it’s going blue in their imaginations. And they said that before our race, remember? “We think Texas is going blue” and then we won in a landslide. They said, “Well, we’ll have to use that again the next time.” But during the primers, MAGA went undefeated in Texas. 33 and O, 33 and O. But every single candidate I endorsed, everything of this. Oh, they owe me if I wanted to do something. But I don’t do that because I’m an honest person. Every single candidate that I endorse won their race. That’s really great. And we take it very seriously. It’s a very serious thing. Thank you. Wow, that’s a big crowd back there. That’s…


(01:43)
Took a little while for the sound to catch up. And this November 8th, the MAGA movement is going to deliver yet another Texas size landslide. We have to, we have no choice. 17 days from now… the people of Texas are going to defeat Beto O’Rourke, a flake. He’s a flake. He’s a flake. There’s another flake. He actually had the name Flake. So that was easy. And we’re going to keep Greg Abbott a wonderful man, a great man, a great governor. We’re going to keep him in the governor’s mansion. And Greg, we love him. I’ll tell you, he does a tremendous job. You’re going to reelect your absolutely amazing Lieutenant Governor, man named Dan Patrick. Has anyone ever heard of Dan Patrick? Where’s Dan? Where is Dan? Dan is over there. His son, the only person may be better than him, is his son. He was US attorney. I’ll tell you.


(02:48)
And Dan’s happy to hear that, right? Somebody else would say a lousy father. Oh, that’s a terrible thing he said about me. No, you’re happy, right? But your son is great and brilliant and so are you. And thank you very much, Dan Patrick. And you know, a man, I wish I had him in the White House with me. Reelect the great Ken Paxton. I wish I had him as Attorney General. You’re going to vote for an incredible slate. Ken, thank you very much. Where’s Ken, by the way? Oh, I wish I had you in there a little while. Ken. He’s tough. He was tough. He would’ve figured out that voter fraud in about two minutes. You’re going to vote for an incredible slate of true America First Republicans up and down the ballot. And we are going to end crazy Nancy Pelosi. And she’s nuts, she’s crazy.


(03:37)
We’re going to end her political career. Her political career is going to be ended once and for all under Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the Radical Democrat Congress. The Texas way of life is under siege. Biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on Texas. Energy workers, can you believe this? They’re against oil, God and guns. And then they say they’re going to do well in Texas. I don’t think so. They’re crushing your oil and gas jobs, imposing massive taxes and restrictions on the American energy production and population. They’re destroying your jobs and destroying our country and doing it and strangling American families with soaring prices. We’ve never had energy anywhere near these prices. We can be the only ones that when energy oil hits an all time high, we announce we’re not drilling. It’s supposed to be the other way, right? Energy has hit at all time high.


(04:38)
Oh good. It’s a great time to stop drilling. That’s wonderful. Water group, right? Let’s open up the borders. Let millions of people pour in. Let convicts, prisoners come in from 129 different countries, murderers, rapists. They’re going to come in from 129 different countries. Think of it. How stupid can we be? How stupid are these people that are allowing our country to be ruined? Inflation is costing the typical Texas household nearly $800 every single, not year, year would be bad, but months. How about that? And that’s a stat that’s put out by our gover- In fact, it’s put out by the federal government, so therefore it’s probably much higher. Your border has been completely erased and violent crime in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and other Democrat run cities is totally out of control. There’s only one way to end this mad- This is madness. What’s happening to our country is madness.


(05:39)
If you support the decline and fall of America, then vote for the radical F Democrats. If you want our country to fail, vote Democrat. If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American dream, which you don’t even hear too much. But two years ago you heard about it every single hour. But if you want to hear about the American dream and make it come true, as we made it come true just a little while ago, Remember two years ago we had the strongest border in the country’s history. Now we have the worst border in our history. So go out and vote up and down the slate. Vote for Republicans, good, great Republicans.


(06:22)
There is no more urgent task for the voters of Texas. And you lead the way. I mean, you’re just an incredible group of people. You are tough, and brave, and brilliant, but for the future of our country, then to stop the invasion. It’s an invasion just like an army is invading us and you have criminals coming in. That’s like an army and they get their arms. If they don’t have the arms, they get them real fast. But they’re invading our southern border. We had it stopped. Biden has allowed millions and millions of illegal aliens to storm across the border from 160 as of this moment. We have the great Tom Homan with us. We have… I asked him how many countries, Tom? He actually said 181. We wanted to be very conservative. 160 countries. They’re storming. They’re storming our country. They include Syria, Saman, China, Iran, all of Africa.


(07:21)
They’re storming our country. They’re storming our borders. We have no idea who they are, where they come from. Biden, Pelosi, the radical Democrats spend all of their time obsessing over the borders of distant foreign nations. Think of it, they talk about foreign nations. But Americans deserve a Congress and a President who will protect the borders of our nation. We deserve a government that will defend our own sovereignty, secure our own land, stand up for our own families and protect the people of our country.
It’s called a very simple policy, America first. I watched Biden and some of the people in his administration, “How dare they say America first?” They said, “Wait a minute, it says America first. What’s wrong?” The greatest is when they say, “We will stop MAGA.” I said, “You know what MAGA means?” Some of them actually don’t. No they don’t. It means Make America Great Again.


(08:23)
We will stop MAGA, we’re going to stop it. I saw that they said we’re going to stop MAGA, we’re going to stop the MAGA movement. I don’t think they know what it means. Make America Great. How do you do that? Even if you want to stop it, you just don’t say you want to stop, Make America Great Again. Even if you do, you just say, all you do, say we disagree with the policies, much better. We will stop MAGA. You hear that Doc Ronnie? I don’t think you’d say that. Where’s Doc Ronnie? Stand up, Doc Ronnie. We love this guy. He said I was the healthiest president in history, Doc Ronnie. Doc Ronnie said, I just see him sitting. He’s a handsome guy. His wife’s actually better looking and his kids are better looking than both of them, okay? But Doc Ronnie said I was the healthiest president in history.


(09:12)
And in fact I said, “Hey Ronnie, they’re trying to say bad things like I’m crazy, I’m this, like I’m that.” They actually tried the stupid thing that didn’t last too long, hopefully. But I said, “Is there some kind of a test we can take, a cognitive test?” Which our current president should be taking, but I don’t think you’re going to see it. “Well, there is one sir, but it’s tough and frankly it’s at Walter Reed,” which is incredible, by the way, an incredible hospital. And it’s public, or it can be very easily made public. In this country they leak all over the place, even on the Supreme Court. By the way, you have to find the leaker of the Supreme. You have to find the leaker. You know how you find the leaker? They’ll say, “Oh, this is [inaudible 00:09:55].” I said, “So they can’t find the leaker?”


(09:56)
He leaked all about Roe v. Wade, like this person leaked from the Supreme Court, never happened. You know how you find? But they don’t want to mention this because they think it’s so terrible. You take the writer because you’re never going to find it or they’re going through phone records. It’s been a long time. You take the writer and or the publisher of the paper, a certain paper that you know, and you say, “Who is the leaker, national security?” And they say, “We’re not going to tell you.” They say, “It’s okay. You’re going to jail.” And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, “I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker, it was Bill Jones. I swear he’s a leaker.” And we got him. But they don’t want to do that. They don’t want to do that.


(10:47)
But that’s the only way you’re going to find… We have to find… Can you imagine they leak out of the Supreme Court? Never happened, a thing like that never happened before. You have to get the writer and you have to tell the writer, “Look, here’s the story.” National security, you have to do this, and the publisher too, or the top editors. Just think this year more Americans will die of fentanyl and drug overdose than the number of Ukrainians killed in a gruesome and bloody war. Yet Biden and the radical Democrats do nothing to stop the death and devastation that we have happening right here at home. They’ve deliberately surrendered our border to vicious coyotes and drug smallers. I mean these drug smug- the smuggler, a smuggler is a vicious, horrible, oftentimes very smart person. And what we do is we set up blue ribbon committees composed of some nice dilettantes, nice, gentle people.


(11:39)
Tell us about what to do about the coyotes and the cartels and all of this. And no, you have to do something very strong, it’s called the death penalty.
And you’re not going to, you’re have no drug problem. You’re going to have… Crime will go down to a level that you haven’t seen. But I see the blue ribbon committees, because I get many calls, ” Oh, I’d love to serve on the committee, on coyotes, on cartels.” And these are not people that can do that job. They’re very fine people in some cases and some people just want the publicity. But we have to get very tough on that. And if you don’t do the death penalty… I was with president Xi of China, very tough, very tough. You could go all over Hollywood if you wanted to play the role of President Xi. I guess he just got elected for life, right? Somebody said, “Is President Xi smart?” I said, “Yeah, he actually is very smart, brilliant.” And the fake news back there, there’s a lot of them.


(12:35)
The fake news said “President Trump said…” The president of China, President for life of China, I call him the king. He’s the king of China, right? 1.5 billion people. “He said he was smart. He might have even said he was brilliant. How dare he say that?” Oh, okay, he’s in charge of 1.5 billion people. They want me to say, “No, he’s not a smart person. It was just luck.” But I said to him, “Let me ask you, do you have a drug problem in China?” And he looked at me like, What the hell stupid question is that, of course we don’t. He actually did. He said, “No.” He goes, “No, no, no, no, no. What’s wrong? Why do you ask such a stupid question?” But I said, “No, you don’t. You have 1.5 billion people. You have no drug problem.” The only problem they have is they make the drugs and send them here, which they were stopping with me.


(13:25)
I said, “”Don’t do that. You can’t do the fentanyl. They make the fentanyl and send it through our horribly run southern border. But I said, “So you don’t have, right? You don’t have, why?” Quick trial. What’s a quick trial? I thought I knew what a quick trial was, but I said, “What is it?” When we catch a drug dealer, we give them a trial quickly. And if they’re guilty, they get executed and they send the bullet to the family and they want the family to pay for the cost of the bullet. This is called not playing around. So you know what the drug dealers do? Let’s get the hell out of here. They don’t do it there. And they don’t do it in Singapore and other countries too. And if you want to stop the drug epidemic in this country, you better do that. And it’s a hard thing to mention. It’s a hard thing to talk about. And it doesn’t sound nice.


(14:17)
A lot of these people back there that hate our country, they’re saying the mania of the fake news. They say, “Oh, that’s terrible that he’s talking about that.” Each drug dealer, over a period of their life, his or her life, will kill 500 people, Americans mostly. 500, think of it. So we have to put an end to it. And all these phony committees and all the things that we do, we’re trying to play nice, but you can’t play nice. These are smart, vicious, tough people. The cartels, they own now, Mexico. I mean they’re running Mexico and the President is a very good friend of mine, but it’s a very tough thing happen, it’s the most unsafe country anywhere in the world, Mexico, rated number one most unsafe, worse than Afghanistan. You believe it? Because of the drugs. And the drugs are, most of it are pouring right into our country. So we better get smart. And if we do something that I think most of the people in this audience want, we’re going to get that done. We’re going to get that done. You have no choice.


(15:20)
You know much of our crime, Dan, I think you know this. Much of our crime is caused by drugs. Even if it’s not, you don’t think of it as drugs. But a lot of the crime that we have, the robberies and all of the different things that’s caused by drugs, you end that, you end the drug situation coming into our country, you’ll end 75, 80% of the crime coming into our country. So we better get smart and tough and start using a little common sense, right? Not conservative, common sense. Somebody said, “Are you a conservative?” I said, “Well, I am, but I’m a person with a lot of common sense.” That’s why we had such a successful country two years ago. Energy independent, no inflation, little things like that. Since the end of the Trump administration, the drug cartels have seen their revenue skyrocket by an astounding 2000%.


(16:26)
If they were a Wall Street company, their stock would be through the roof from 500 million dollars to last year, 13 billion dollars in one year. This is what they’re making, the choice this November is simple. Democrats will defund the police, Republicans will defund the cartels. Under my leadership, we waged a very tough war on the cartels. We ended catch and release. We stopped asylum fraud. We deported illegal alien gang members by the thousands and thousands. We sent them back, got them the hell out of our country. And the other countries didn’t want to take them back, but we were giving them a lot of money. I said, “How much money do we give El Salvador and Honduras and these various countries?” They said, “Sir, approximately 750 million dollars a year.” I said, “That’s a lot.” So I said, “What’s the problem?” They said, “They won’t take them back. They won’t take MS 13 back, sir. They will not do it. They’re not going to take them back, sir. They’ve told us no, they wouldn’t do it under the Barack Hussein Obama administration. They wouldn’t do it.”


(17:32)
They wouldn’t do it. So I said, that’s when I said, “How much do we pay them?” You know what they do when we fly in with a plane? They’d put planes on the runway so that we couldn’t land. When the buses came in, they’d stop them at the border, send them back to… They didn’t want their MS 13 people back, even though they came from various places. So I said, “Here’s what you do. We give them 750 million dollars a year. Tomorrow put out a statement.” Or today, I think I said today, like this afternoon, ” Put out a statement that we’re not paying them anymore. We’re not paying them anymore.” And we did. And the following morning, I got a call from the three primary countries and Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, “President, we understand you’re unhappy.” I said, “Well, you know, well you won’t take MS 13 back, Uncle Sam.” Look at Uncle Sam. Stand up Uncle Sam. He’s the greatest. They’re trying to cancel Uncle Sam, you know that, right? Uncle Sam is no longer politically correct. You’re always going to be politically correct. No, they want to cancel. But they said, “President, we understand you’re unhappy.” I said, “Yeah, you won’t take back the people that you send” because they send them. They don’t just come. They send them. They make it easy for them. They send them. The OP’s stupid. They keep their good people. They fight like hell that the good people don’t leave. The bad people, they say send them to the stupid people at the United States, they’ll take them. And do you see what they’re doing, what they’re building for them? They’re living better than our soldiers. They’re living better than our veterans. They’re living better than the people in our country. They’re building things that are beautiful.


(19:08)
But they said, “We hear you.” I said, “Look, here’s the story. You’re not getting any more money. You’re not getting anything. What you’re doing to us, and then you don’t let us send them back.” The people of ICE are incredible. The border patrol is incredible. All of the law enforcement’s incredible. I said, “You won’t take them back.” And they said, “This is going on for 10 years. You’re not taking aback. So they come in here, you won’t allow them back.” And you know what? I think you’re very smart in doing that. But here’s the story. We’re not paying you 750 million dollars a year. “President, may we call you back in 10 minutes.” “Absolutely.” Calls me back in… “President, we’ve decided that it would be an honor to take MS 13 back to our country. It would be a great, great honor. We will take them back, sir. And we will do it. Please. I mean, they’d build new airports if we needed it.”


(19:54)
So this is what happens. We have people that just don’t know what the hell they’re doing. It’s so sad to watch what’s happening to our country. Our country has never been so low. It’s a laughing stock all over the world. We build hundreds of miles of border wall. And despite two and a half years of Democrat lawsuits, they tried to stop it. I won all of the lawsuit. We finished the first phase of the wall, then I said, let’s add some more. We added 200 miles more and we would’ve had more than that. And that’s when I got the distinct impression that they were actually serious about not wanting to close up the border because they refused. In fact, Texas wanted to finish up the wall and they wouldn’t let them use the wall that was already built and sitting there ready to be installed in three weeks. The additional wall that I didn’t even say we were going to do, but we needed it, was going to be built. The wall is why we had the best numbers in the history of our country.


(20:48)
We had very few people relatively coming in, and we really stopped human trafficking to a large extent that we stopped drugs. But we’re proud to be joined tonight by two Rock solid Defenders of America’s sovereign borders. And this guy is an amazing guy. He’s a friend of mine and the people that work with him at the top and everybody in there is just incredible. President of the National Border Patrol Council, Mr. Brandon Judd. He’s fantastic. Where’s Brandon? Come here, come here.
And also they’re so important and they’re heroes and they get treated very badly. But I get treated worse than anybody in history. So I got like 400 investigations. A friend of mine said, “You are the most honest person in history.” Why? He said, “You’ve been under investigation for five, six, seven years. They got nothing.” Okay? They got…


(21:45)
Looked at 11 million pages of documents. They got nothing, these people. They’re a bunch of bad people. They’ve weaponized. They’ve weaponized this stuff. It’s terrible. But Brandon Judd has done an incredible job. And another person that is… I mean, this guy, Brandon, this guy is central casting. Tom Homan, acting director of ICE. There was nobody better, tougher or smarter when it came to the border. And all they had to do, all Biden had to do is just say… All he had to do was go to the beach. He could have stayed in Delaware even. He could have stayed in his basement like he did during the campaign. He could have stayed because the border was in great shape and only getting better. And Tom Homan come up wherever you are, Tom Homan and Brandon, say a couple of words, please.


Speaker 1 (22:37):


You got to love the business mind. You have to love that. Nobody in the history brought a business mind to the White House. He cut through the bureaucracy, He cut through all of the BS, the red tape. He implemented policies immediately. It didn’t take years. It didn’t take months. It took days. And those policies saved your lives, your children’s lives, your grandchildren’s lives, your friends’ lives, your neighbor’s lives. That’s what he did. And that’s what we hope you’re going to do again. Thank you.


Crowd (23:12):


USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA.


Speaker 2 (23:31):


Well, look, I think I told you earlier during my speech, I was pretty clear. President Trump was one badass president. I joined the board [inaudible 00:23:48] in 1984. I’ve enforced immigration law for over 34 years. I worked for six different presidents. No president did more to secure our border than President Trump. Bo

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