Tulsi Gabbard

On the border, huge issue.

We have no idea how many people, you know, the question cited a couple hundred thousand, we don't have any idea how many people have streamed through our borders illegally who pose that direct threat to us here on our own soil.

I would encourage, should President Trump get elected, and I would encourage President Biden today, hey, if you're really serious about securing our border, which we know he's not,

Federalize and mobilize the National Guard.

Help.

I was in the National Guard for a lot of years.

Our job is to support the homeland, whether it's during times of national disaster or crises or emergency.

I would say this is a very serious national crisis.

And the president has the authority to federalize the National Guard, to deploy them, to go and actually help secure our border.

I was in Southern California, San Diego, and spent a couple days down at the border there just to see for myself.

A lot of people talk about Texas and Arizona.

Very few people are paying attention to what's going on in San Diego.

And went down there.

What I saw was astounding to me because within a few minutes, we came upon these little camps almost of illegal immigrants, more and more people walking up just as I was there.

this idea of the gotaways.

You hear about the gotaways on the news all the time.

Well, how many gotaways are there?

These are people coming across the border knowing exactly where to go for Border Patrol to pick them up.

And they sit there, peaceful, calm, cell phones, candy, snacks, chilling, waiting for Border Patrol to pick them up because they know that

Border Patrol will come, load them in the vans, they'll go to the processing center, and they'll walk out with that white piece of paper says that they've claimed asylum, and they are no longer undocumented.