Glenn Beck on officer Hernandez from last month.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/02/gb.01.html
Here`s the point tonight. The U.S. government, is on the wrong side of this issue. Americans know that our representatives in Washington are lying to us about what they want to do with the border. This will not last much longer. Society cannot stand if people think their leaders are intentionally lying to them all the time.
Here`s how I got there. Three stories I want to touch on here. I believe they`re all connected.
First one is Gilmer Hernandez. He is a former sheriff`s deputy in a small town in Texas. He was convicted of violating the civil rights of a Mexican woman who suffered a minor gunshot wound -- I believe it was in her lip -- while being smuggled into Austin.
Now, the woman was hiding in back of a van. When Hernandez discovered her and several other illegals crouched in the back, he said, "Can I see your papers?" Instead, the van sped away and, according to Hernandez, he tried to stop it by shooting at the tires. One of the bullets went in low and ricocheted in the van, and it accidentally struck the woman. Now, she`s OK, but she`s decided to sue.
Now, Gilmer is facing ten years in prison. Thanks, justice system.
Second story, David Seip (ph), he`s a former border agent accused of using excessive force to stop an illegal alien in 2001. He was subsequently fired and now has just been acquitted after six years of being out of work. He now wants his old job at the border back.
Why would you do that? You get paid very little and you currently have no authority to even do your job. Why you want that job is beyond me.
And three, finally, in Raymondville, Texas, 2,000 non-Mexican illegal aliens are being held in a tent city until they`re sent back to their home countries. But civil liberties groups, surprise, surprise, are now saying that the facility is "inhumane and unsafe". Really?
Well, here`s a quick piece of advice for you. If you want to avoid the unsafe tent city that cost us $65 million to build, don`t break into our country!
The common thread here is, is that good Americans are working their butts off to protect our borders from illegal aliens, but when they try to do their job, the government swoops in and helps the criminals.
Civil rights? You don`t have civil rights here. You`re breaking the law. You have human rights, but no legal rights.
You know what? Problem is, illegals will keep coming as long as our government gives them an open invitation to do so with the full legal protection.
Our government is like a bad set of parents. You know, the kind that tell their kids, "Hey, you behave yourself," but then they never enforce anything? The kids know their parents aren`t going to back up their words, so they run wild.
You want to know why our society is falling apart? It`s because mommy and daddy in Washington are lying to you. They`ll never keep their promises.
They tell us that they care about security. They tell us they want to stop illegal immigration, but they do nothing about it except ribbon- cutting ceremonies and other hollow gestures. Look, we caught 12 people in Los Angeles.
Actually, you know what something, Washington? Simply doing nothing would be an improvement of what you`re doing now. You`re sending the completely insane message to our border police that if you get involved, you`ll go to jail.
Meanwhile, the illegal aliens have lawyers who are trying to get them rooms at the Ritz Carlton! How did this happen in our country?
No, I actually know. Let me tell you. Our politicians are involved in power grabs and backdoor deals which help keep them getting elected over and over again but compromises our security.
So, here`s what I know tonight. The politicians in Washington, you better pay attention. The American people are sick and tired of your lies. We`re onto you. We know you don`t mean anything you say about the borders, and we`re not going to put up with your lies very much longer. We`re not that stupid. Stop treating us like we are.
Here`s what I don`t know. Why is the government actually doing it? I have my theories. I actually believe because it`s sold out to multinational corporations or they`re just desperate to get the growing Hispanic vote.
But I`m not even sure if that`s the truth. Why? Because I can`t get one politician in Washington to actually tell me a story that I believe.
Mark Krikorian, he`s from the Center of Immigration Studies. Why is our government lying to us about the border? What`s really going on?
MARK KRIKORIAN, CENTER OF IMMIGRATION STUDIES: Well, I mean, I think couple of the things you pointed to are part of the explanation, but just part.
The fact that, you know, campaign contributions from companies that use cheap labor, that maybe is part of it.
The idea that Democrats especially, but also some Republicans, think that they`re going to import voters, likewise, it may be part of it, but I think it`s really more than that.
Immigration is one of those issues that splits the elite and the public. It`s not a right/left issue; it`s an up/down issue. And, frankly, much of the elite, whether it`s Republican or Democrat, businessmen, labor, whatever it is, just don`t see the fuss.
They think it`s OK to have a loose border and no real enforcement because -- and I say this advisedly -- they have become what I call "post- Americans." They`re really no longer concerned, first of all, with the good of their fellow countrymen. They`re kind of citizens of the world, and they see this whole idea.
BECK: You know, that`s what I mean when I say they sold out to multinational corporations. I don`t think that these corporations, they don`t -- they see America as a market. They don`t see it as their home country. And you see this on news channels all the time.
You`ll see these people: "We`re a global news organization." Bull crap. You`re an American news organization. This country gave you the right to say these things and to create this country first. But they don`t feel a responsibility to pay that back or protect it at all.
KRIKORIAN: No, absolutely not. And it`s clearly the case with a lot of the multinational corporations.
But my point is that it`s not just a corporate thing. This is really big business, big labor, big media, big academia, big religion. This is a elite versus public thing. The American public is still very patriotic and nationalistic, and I consider that to be a good thing. The elite just isn`t. And that`s why you see it`s so hard to make progress on this thing.
BECK: Here`s what I don`t understand. It`s not that I`m -- it`s not that I`m a jingoistic guy and hey, rah-rah America. I can actually see the middle class being erased. I`m seeing -- I`m seeing such a split between the uber-rich and the desperately poor.
And that`s not necessarily something that is new, but what is new is you`re importing people with a fourth grade education who have no chance of ever living the American dream, because they`ll be trapped in that fourth grade education.
That cannot last. It destroys America. How come these -- these elite and these, you know, professors can`t figure that one out?
KRIKORIAN: Well, there`s a couple of reasons. One, they don`t see it. It`s not their kids who are going to these schools, not their -- you know, they`re not going to emergency rooms that are being overwhelmed. It`s not their jobs that are being affected, which is why I`ve long thought that the kind of immigration I`m for is journalists and lawyers from overseas. Because then, you`ll see some competition and some action.
But it`s not just that. It`s also that much of the elite gets to feel kind of morally superior to ordinary people because they say, "Well, listen, I`m not a narrow-minded bigot like are you. I want to let everybody come in. That makes me better than you."
BECK: You know what kills me, is we`re sending such a dangerous message to our law enforcement people down at the border. I mean, here we are, we`re sending them to jail and some of them. Look, this guy who is in the shootout in the van, I don`t know if he was on the right side or the wrong side. But I`m hearing these stories an awful lot.
And it always ends the same way. The border guards either lose their job or they go to jail, and then the illegal aliens get cash. The guy who -- the two border guards that are now serving prison time, this drug dealer is suing the United States government for $5 million.
Why deal drugs? Come across the border, sneak across, hope somebody mistreats you and play the great American lottery?
KRIKORIAN: Exactly. I mean, in some sense, if you had any sense, you`d come over and provoke the Border Patrol to hit you over the head with a flashlight so that you can cash in.
Now you know, you`re right, it probably is true that, as in any law enforcement organization, that there`s going to be some bad apples, but we`ve seen a pattern of going against our people, our law enforcement people.
BECK: It`s insane. Thanks, Mark, appreciate it.
KRIKORIAN: Thanks, Glenn.
BECK: Whenever I do a segment on illegal immigration, I get tons of leaders from people asking about, you know, all the really awesome footage of people sneaking over the border and over the fence. If you want some of that footage, today is your lucky day.