Todd Bensman
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
This is probably his earliest signature achievement. is closing the border and putting it to a place as close to operationally secure as we have ever seen. The numbers are down to historic levels. We have never seen numbers like this. If we stay on track, it'll break the national record that predates 1960. That's when we first started keeping track of the numbers. So this is a major achievement.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
It took all of one hour on the first day. of inauguration. The new president, Trump, just came in and used the tools that were always available to end catch and release and to begin detentions and deportations at 100%. And that was all it took. No comprehensive immigration reform necessary. No root causes had to be addressed in Central America or any of that stuff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
That was all just a bunch of junk. Nothing about it true.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
Border Patrol agents are trained to catch, tackle, arrest, detain, cuff, deport. That's their cops, their border cops. That's what they do. And so imagine if you were to tell any cop that you have to release all the criminals and reward them for their criminal activity. ICE agents, who were by and large prohibited from arresting
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
Anyone in the interior without permission from Washington go through this whole approval process, and they were chained to their desks. They were not allowed to do their jobs at all.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
These children, ages 2, 4, and 7, are U.S. citizens and were sent with their mothers who were deported Friday morning.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
The public... elected him on this. And the public, all the way up until relatively recently, was overwhelmingly in favor of mass deportations in the 50 percentile range, even for non-criminals, but in the 80 percentile range for criminals. So the task and challenge for the pro-criminal alien crowd and the pro-illegal immigrant crowd is to put
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
sob stories, I call it injustice porn, to fill the media with injustice porn stories that are mostly fraudulent, fake, untrue, using narratives that are easily disproved, but which make their way into multiple news cycles long enough that it can influence public opinion. And we've seen recently swings
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
in public opinion, away from the mass deportation program and some of the particular programs that Trump is doing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump’s Historic Border Crackdown, First 100 Days Media Tour, Eagles at White House: AM Update 4/29
The numbers are down to historic levels. We have never seen numbers like this. If we stay on track, it'll break the national record that predates 1960.