Duncan Trussell

They're going to, you know, drown.

There will be many deaths because of this, not to mention the drug smuggling and all that stuff.

And so every time the NPR reporter would push back with the human rights compassion angle, his take is, yeah, but...

Which which do we pick?

Which do we choose creating some way for people to stay in the United States who came here as kids and do the nuanced, compassionate thing?

But it gives the impression to the rest of the world that we're doing that and that gets X amount of people involved.

killed that many people die that was his take on it which is why they're doing they're still going to have human trafficking and if you've got a very closed border and you give amnesty they're going to let they're going to figure out a way to get people in that was his argument that's his argument and and you know that what you when he was talking about like all the awful shit he's seen and you hear it in his voice yeah you're like okay

Maybe I don't completely agree with your point of view, but I can understand where you're coming from there.

And yet, when you see this in practice, you know, when it's not an NPR interview and you see the videos you've been seeing and everyone else has been seeing.

then you realize like there's – OK, sure, but there must be a way to do this that doesn't involve ripping parents out of their communities, away from their children, that doesn't involve like actually removing people who have been contributing to society, to American society, from American society, sending people to other countries when they can't even speak the language.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

No idea.

No idea.

But you see how, you know—and I hate using this word because the word is getting thrown around so much, and it's a stupid—well, you didn't say that word.

I'll say authoritarianism.

You see how authoritarianism, when it begins to emerge—

It's not like it's like non-consensual.

You see how it slowly, slowly creeps in and how there's a great many people directly impacted by people who have crossed the border without using the right protocol and in a horrific way.

And