President Trump Speaks On Border Security

President Trump from the Oval Office.

(Start video at 5:50. Ends at 15:35.)

The Democrats offer excellent service at the legal Ports of Entry, where the Illegals do not cross, and nothing to stop the flood in the hundreds of miles between border crossings. They offer faster processing of legal entrants at the Port of Entry but nothing to detain or deport illegals who are apprehended and nothing to apprehend the people who overstayed and are now illegal and already within the United States.

By analogy if you went to the Democrats with a gunshot wound they would offer a very nice x-ray and the service of a plastic surgeon to reconstruct that hole in your front, but nothing to stop the bleeding or repair the damage everywhere else.

The only argument they made for reopening the 25% of the government that is now not funded is that small business loans are not being processed. That is small beer and argues for a reexamination of the role of these programs and how they are administered. If the Federal Reserve and federal and state bank examiners are doing their jobs there should be enough liquidity to ensure that good businesses can get loans without getting the approval of a federal bureaucrat.

Trump keeps mentioning Steel because it connects with Democratic base union steel workers, who were always hard Left and are now swinging over to support Trump. This is an economically, socially, and racially unifying message that paints the Democrats into an elitist corner.

Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer in response.

(Start video at 3:25.)