Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro slammed Democrats who attribute any opposition to illegal immigration as racist.
“Everything is seen by Democrats in terms of a racial conflict,” Shapiro stated on his podcast Tuesday. “That’s why Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said that when (Texas GOP governor) Greg Abbott sends illegal immigrants to major Democratic cities, he’s doing so because he’s targeting black people.”
“Every game is played the same way in the Democratic Party circles,” he continued. “It’s really ugly.”
“You’re absolutely right about the intentions of Governor Abbott,” Johnson had told Al Sharpton. “He is attacking democratically-run cities and particularly cities that are being led by black leaders or leaders of color. This is unconscionable. I mean, it’s a very raggedy approach. And quite frankly, not only is it reckless and raggedy, but it is evil-spirited.”
“It is ‘evil-spirited,'” Shapiro repeated. “Why? It’s apparently racist. It’s racist to ask that a sanctuary city take in the people they said they’re going to provide sanctuary for. And this has to be what’s motivating U.S. policy at this point because U.S. policy is a s*** show.”
“The biggest factor at the border is that the United States has changed its laws so that if you apply for asylum, which means literally you arrive on the border and you say, ‘I fear to go back to my home country,’ we will process you and we will let you into the interior of the United States,” he noted. “Up to 90% of all Border Patrol agents are now staffed on busing and administrative duties. We have turned them into babysitters, and meanwhile, the entire border is left completely unmanned.”
“There are no Border Patrol agents anywhere along large swaths of the American-Mexico border,” he said. “And what does that look like? It looks like the amount of fentanyl in the country is extraordinarily rising. According to that same Homeland Security Committee, fentanyl costs as little as $0.10 to produce. That’s a fake prescription pill laced with fentanyl. It can be sold for 10 to 30 bucks, which means ten kilos of fentanyl are worth about $20 million. In 2023, according to Border Patrol, fentanyl seizures were 27,000 pounds.”
“That amounts to about $24.4 billion worth of fentanyl,” he said, “and much more is getting through than is getting caught because the stuff that’s getting caught at the border comes from morons who are largely trying to bring it through ports of entry or people who are getting caught, which is a minority of the people who are now entering the country illegally.”
“But apparently it’s racist to mention any of this. Apparently, it’s bigoted to mention any of this,” he charged. “There is no reason to leave the border open the way the border has been left open, and Mexico is holding Joe Biden over the barrel. Apparently, according to Fox News, Mexico’s president is now demanding 420 billion basically in cash, plus work permits for 10 million people from south of the border in exchange for immigration help. Mexico says the United States has to end its blockade on Cuba and cut Venezuela sanctions because Lopez Obrador, who’s the leader of the Mexican government, is, in fact, a pinko socialist who’s allied with the entire pink wave that has happened from Venezuela to Cuba to Mexico. He basically wants the United States to surrender to him.”
“The only reason the most powerful country on earth would surrender to this is because there is an internal belief inside the United States that you have to surrender on illegal immigration because it is unjust that people can’t just enter via the southern border willy-nilly,” he declared. “The motivation behind the Democrats’ agenda is ideological. It is not driven by America’s best interests. It’s DEI related, again because DEI is just code for ‘America’s systems are white supremacist’ — and therefore America has to fix all of its systems by bending over backward.”