Transcript of Border Security & Minnesota Turkey Farms | 11.27.24

Trump threatens Canada and Mexico with heft tariffs unless they help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants into the US.

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I'm Daily Wire, Editor-in-Chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, November 27th, and this is Morning Wire. Texas is beefing up border security and working side by side with Trump's incoming borders are.

It's reassuring to knowing that we have strong leadership now moving forward. And as Governor Abbott mentioned, now we have an ally as opposed to having an adversary with the federal government.

And, Minnesota is the Thanksgiving turkey capital of the US. But regulation is threatening the farmers and the industry.

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This week, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will implement steep new tariffs on goods coming in from Mexico and Canada.

Here to break down what's behind the new policy and the impact it'll have as DailyWire's senior Editor, Kabbit, Philip Saykhabit. So a major announcement here. What can you tell us?

Well, candidate Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to implement wide-scale tariffs, and now President-elect Trump is following through in a big way. This week, he posted on his Truth Social app that on day one of his second term, he will order a 25% tariff on all goods coming into America from Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. That's in addition to those already in place. Now, typically, tariffs must be approved by Congress, but the President can unilaterally impose them in certain instances, including those involving national security. That is likely the route he'll go.

Tell us about his reasoning there.

So according to Trump, these tariffs are meant to force Canada and Mexico to prevent the flow of illegal and drugs through their countries into ours. Remember, the Mexican government in particular has really actively helped facilitate the flow of Central and South American migrants to America, going as far as offering bus rides from their own border in the South to the US border in the North. Those trips even include free meals and security along the way. In Trump's words, Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long-simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power, and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price. The turfs can be removed if the two countries crack down on drugs and illegal immigrants, but they'll pay a heavy price until then. To that point, the Canadian dollar and Mexican peso already tumbled when markets opened yesterday morning.

All right, so an immediate impact on the markets already. How have the two countries responded?

Well, the announcement drew a mixed response in Canada. Some leaders there expressed immediate outrage, vowing to respond with the tariffs of their own and bristling at the accusation that they were facilitating illegal immigration. Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, for example, said, To compare us to Mexico is the most insulting thing I've ever heard from our friends and closest allies, the United States. But others there have taken a slightly more deferential approach. Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Public Safety Minister released a joint statement this week saying border security is their top priority and stressing that they would work with the US to, quote, disrupt the scourge of fentanyl coming from China. Then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed optimism after a call with President Trump.

I had a good call with Donald Trump last night, again, where you talked about some of the challenges that we can work on together. It was a good call.

This is something that we can do. For their part, Mexico has taken a much more combative approach. The country's new far left President, Claudia Scheinbaum, essentially blamed America for the border crisis, saying drugs were a problem of public health and consumption in America's society. She added that While she is open to negotiations with Trump, Mexico is ready to implement tariffs of their own in response. Now, obviously, the US is in a much stronger position to negotiate, but things could get messy with our neighbors to the south. Trump, however, says he will do whatever it takes to force them to crack down on the border crisis.

Coming back stateside, what political reaction have we seen to this announcement?

Well, it's interesting. In recent decades, Democrats have been more pro-tariff, and Republicans were the ones against them. But in the age of Trump, we have seen a flip. Most Democrats have come out in opposition to Trump's plan, saying it will result in higher prices on everything from produce to aluminum and steel. Their basic argument is that tariffs are a tax ultimately paid for by American consumers. Now, for their part, Republicans say, Tariffs are not ideal, but are a necessary and useful tool to incentivize our allies and adversaries alike to take action, in this case on illegal immigration. They say free trade is ideal, but leaves America out to dry when other countries are acting in bad faith or manipulating the market. Remember, Trump has long argued that America is too reliant on foreign goods and that cheap imports have hollowed out American manufacturing, leaving us vulnerable to the whims of countries like China and Mexico. Now we'll have to wait and see exactly what impact these tariffs have and how long they'll remain in place. We'll know very shortly, Trump takes office in just 53 days.

All right, well, Trump already hitting the ground running here even before retaking office. Kevin, thanks for reporting. Anytime. Hey, guys.

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Texas is ramping up its border security efforts. Governor Greg Abbott hosted Trump's incoming borderar Tom Homan at Eagle Pass this week in preparation for a joint response to the border crisis.

Here to talk about Texas's renewed efforts to secure the border is Daily Wire reporter Tim pierce. So, Tim, what's the latest on border security efforts in the Lone Star State?

Yeah, Homan traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas, where he praised Abbott's efforts and said that Texas has provided the blueprint for border security. Here's what that sounded like.

Governor Abbott has done an amazing job Look, illegal migration in Texas is down 86 %. Think about that.

This is a model we can take across the country.

One of the biggest impacts the Trump administration will have immediately is that Texas will no longer have to fight with the federal government on its border security efforts. Here's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on Fox News Tuesday talking about that.

Our taxpayers bill, we spent over $8 billion. That's more than many states budgets, $8 billion in the last four years that I write into the budget, the governor asked for it, and we put it to work. Now between President Trump at the top, Christie Noem, Tom Holman, Governor Abbott, myself, and the state legislature, we're going to close this son of a gun down.

Now, earlier this week, the image of a two-year-old girl at the border went viral. What can you tell us about that story?

A two-year-old unaccompanied girl showed up at the border. All she had was a piece of paper with a first name and a number on it. The Texas Department of Public Safety released a video of an official questioning her in Spanish. Which all she could say is that she had come to the United States looking for her parents. That girl was one of about 60 unaccompanied minors that crossed the border with that group. Here's Lieutenant Governor Patrick talking about that.

In terms of that little girl, Bill, look, we have seen this. This is a sin. I'm going to just say it's a biblical sin, in my view, of what Biden and Kamala Harris did. They let children in here. When President Trump was in office, we took the DNA to try to match with the parents. We also looked at the adult and the child. Was the child hesitant? Did they look like they were hugging them? Did they look like they were in fear? We tried under President Trump to protect these children, and we did to the best of our ability. What did Biden do? He got rid of the DNA testing. He told the Border Patrol, Just let them through. So today, as we speak, there are hundreds of thousands, there are like 300,000 that we don't know where they are because Biden and Kamala Harris didn't care. They're either being enslaved in some type of work in a sweatshop They're being sex trafficked, boys and girls, seven, six, eight, 10 times a day. This is a horrendous torture to these children.

It is unconscionable. And yet we have seen pushback to Trump's immigration agenda from some local and state officials. For example, the Denver mayor comes to mind. But we also have some Republican pushback. What's going on there?

Right. Trump is getting some pushback from Republicans, specifically on using the National Guard to help with deportations. Senator Rand Paul pushed back on the idea during an interview with CBS.

I don't think it's the best way to do it. It's less clear whether that's legal or illegal. Typically, it has to be done at the behest of the governors. I still don't like a militarization of police, whether it's National Guard or Army. I think there's a lot of FBI, there's a lot of border patrol agents. There's a better way to do it, and it needs to be individualized. That doesn't mean I'm any less serious about getting it done. It just needs to be done according to the law and consistent with our traditions.

In a note on the Denver mayor, Homan went on Fox News on Tuesday and responded to Mayor Mike Johnson's comments about being willing to go to jail to resist deportations.

Look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail. Because there's a statue, it's Title 8 United States Code 1324 III.

What it says is, it's a felony.

If you knowingly harbor and conceal, it will go in from immigration authorities.

Tim, thanks for reporting.

Good to be on.

When many Americans sit down to Thanksgiving dinner tonight, they may not know that their turkey comes from Minnesota, the turkey capital of the country. In recent years, though, the state's turkey industry has been hobbled by controversial regulations. Joining us to discuss is Daily Wire investigative reporter, Mairead Alorty. Mairead, what's going on with Minnesota's turkey industry?

Hi, Georgia. Minnesota has over 600 turkey farms and produces about 39 million Thanksgiving turkeys a year, and the industry creates more than 26,000 jobs. But the Biden-Harris administration, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, and even politicians in California have pushed for regulations that have deeply affected not not just the turkey industry, but Minnesota's large agriculture industry generally. We spoke to Jim Schultz. He's the President of the Minnesota Private Business Council about the effects on the state's agriculture and what the Trump administration might do differently.

Since 2022, Net Our farm income is down substantially. There's a variety of factors that go under that. Some of it's just broader economic environment and so forth. But a lot of it is just the one-way ratchet of regulation on our farmers, the tax burdens, the regulatory burdens, the difficulty of running a farm today is immense. And so you get these results. Our farmers around the country, including in Minnesota, are under tremendous pressure. And it is really these heavy-handed mandates that have become just so onerous on them.

Schultz said a major issue on the federal level is environmental land grabs, which is when the government decides that an area, sometimes just a wet area the size of a puddle, is a wetland and says farmers can no longer use the land, even though they've been cultivating it for generations in some cases.

Now, there's also a new California regulation that affects Minnesota farmers. How does that work?

That's right. Proposition 12 in California went into effect at the beginning of this year, and it mandates certain living spaces for different animals, such as more space for egg laying hens, and it prohibits the sale of products that don't comply with these regulations. Animal rights groups like PETA are behind the regulations, and even though it's a California regulation, it affects Minnesota farmers who want to sell their products in California. This applies to all states that sell products in California. The Supreme Court upheld the California regulations in May, so it looks like they're here to stay. Schultz said that while there can be a narrative that farmers don't care about their own land or animals, that's not the case at all.

Nobody is more invested in their land than the farmers who have raised them for generations. In Minnesota here, you got sixth, seventh, eighth generation farmers. They also care about the waterways surrounding them. They also care about their animals, their human beings, and they also just the health of their operation depends on it. And so oftentimes, bureaucrats, whether in California or in DC or elsewhere, tend to view farmers as these malicious profiteers that simply want to make a buck, and that couldn't be further from the truth.

Now, looking forward, what policies can we expect from the Trump administration regarding farming?

Most of what they're discussing is just a lighter touch on regulation, a friendlier EPA and an administration that is pro-farmer, which Schultz is looking forward to. Finally, Schultz shared that he would love for people enjoying a Minnesota turkey tonight to appreciate the state's great agriculture.

Sometimes we can all take for granted just the wonderful work that our farmers do every day to provide for our nation and provide for the world.

Well, thankful to the farmers and to the turkeys. Mairead, thanks for reporting. Thanks, Georgia.

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