Appearing on “The View,” Dr. Phil showed his conservative views by coming out swinging in defense of border security. Particularly, he stunned the ladies of “The View” by describing the terrible trafficking situation involving the border, telling them that, while visiting the border, a “head of the border guards” told him that children are being trafficked across the border for prostitution rings and sweatshops.
As background, Dr. Phil recently visited the US-Mexico border to determine for himself the scope of the crisis and then report on it to his viewers. While there, he called out the massive scope of the crisis, saying, “Abbott has said that the federal government has broken the pacts between the United States federal government and the states. Governor Abbott says President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and is even violated.”
He continued, “The result is a humanitarian crisis unlike anything we’ve seen before, smashing records for illegal immigration by wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas border, to tear open Texas border security infrastructure.” He added, “According to the Department of Homeland Security since President Biden took office, more than 6 million illegal immigrants across Texas Southern border in just three years. That’s more than the population of 33 different states in this country. And what about our vice president? Kamala Harris? Did you know she’s our country’s immigration [chief]? Yes, how many times she’s been to the border?”
Since he got back from the border, Dr. Phil has been on a media tour, calling out the crisis at the border and telling Americans about what is really going on along the border. Speaking to FNC’s Sean Hannity, for example, he said, “And I wanted to know what’s happening down here. What’s really going on? You know, we hear this number 6 million people have come across under the current administration. I talked to experts down there that say that number is a myth that it’s closer to 13 to 14 million that have come across and I asked him straight up, what is it? You need here and they I was shocked to hear them say, We don’t need more money. We don’t need more resources. We don’t need more officers. We don’t need more legislation. We just need the laws that are on the books to be followed. We need to be allowed to do our job, and we can get this under control right now.”
But it’s not just conservative shows he has appeared on to discuss the matter. He also spoke to “The View” about how terrible things are happening to kids in the border zone, saying, “I talked to the head of all the border guards down there, they are the union. I asked him straight up, ‘kids are coming over the border with numbers written on them, phone numbers and addresses. Do we check those out?’ He said, ‘Well, we call them.’“
He added that he then asked about the potential for child trafficking into prostitution rings, saying, “‘Is it possible that we’re sending them into known prostitution rings or sweatshops?’ He said, ‘It’s not possible, it is absolute.’ We are using American tax dollars to ship children into known prostitution and sweatshops and children. Well, who knows? We don’t know.”
Sunny Hostin then asked him, “So what kind of checking do they do?” Responding, Dr. Phil told the hosts, “They call the number, they ask ‘do you know about this child?’ They say ‘yes.’ ‘Will you receive them when they come?’ ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Is it possible that’s a prostitution ring?’ He said, ‘we know enough to know that in a number of cases, it has turned out to be absolute sex ring. It has turned out to be an absolute sweatshop.’ I said, ‘How is this possible?’ Well, what he said it is happening.”
Hostin then asked, “What do they do then? If they know that that’s happening? Where’s the US Attorney’s Office? Where’s the IRS?” All Dr. Phil had to say to answer that was to tell her that she was asking a “good question,” implying that it is one that can’t be answered because the government is so absent. Watch them here:
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