BUCK: Border’s wide open, folks.

BUCK: That was Governor Abbott of Texas there talking to our friend Sean Hannity last night, and here’s what’s going on. Just so we all are very clear, people from all over the world — we’ve got the latest numbers here — about 4700 from the Philippines, 5000 from India, 400 from Myanmar, 1900 from China, 2600 from Russia, 2300 from Turkey, 1600 from Brazil. And then you get into the closer countries: Mexico 88,000, Guatemala 21,000, Nicaragua 16,000. People from all over the world that know the border is wide open, which is why they’re showing up from literally the other side of the world, and this is in advance of Title 42.

Understand that even those who are turned away under Title 42, unless they are arranged to be flown back to the Philippines, China, Romania — 900 from Romania — they will just try again, Clay. Just so people understand: Just being turned away doesn’t mean they don’t get into the country. They don’t get into the country in the end. It just means the first attempt was unsuccessful. The border is a joke right now.

CLAY: There are thousands of people who can’t get visas for fleeing Ukraine, Buck, traveling to Mexico as if they were gonna be on some sort of tropical vacation and then taking the trip all the way up to the border. And when you run through all of those different nationalities, this is going to become a even bigger issue than it is right now, which is people using our lenient southern border rules, because it’s far easier to get into the United States through the southern border than it is legally, in any way.

And so even if you’re of the opinion, “Hey, we should be taking in some of these Ukrainian refugees,” I think the Biden administration has said we’re gonna take in a hundred thousand, we may be taking in 30/40,000 before all is said and done through our southern border and barely having any ability to track them at all, and so this is I think one reason, Buck, why they allowed Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s ruling down in Florida to stand ended the masks was.

Because they’ve got Mayorkas testifying next week, as Congressman Jim Jordan just told us, and he would have gotten obliterated on how the CDC can be lifting Title 42 at the border while simultaneously extending mask mandates. And so I think the Biden administration saw this as a clever way to avoid responsibility for this judge reaching the right result, which is why they’re not appealing it.

BUCK: Yes. DOJ is apparently considering it, according to the White House. They’re mulling over their options. I think you will be proven correct with your assessment that they think this is the past of least resistance, but they’re still doing the, “Well, you know, we might…” I think that’s them trying to create a little leeway here for themselves with the blue check MD Mafia that’s in total meltdown over the mask mandate changing. But they still theoretically could bring a challenge, the Department of Justice could try to bring a challenge. All it takes is one appeals court to weigh in and all of a sudden, they’re gonna mask everybody up again.

CLAY: Can you imagine suddenly if telling people you’re gonna take your masks off, halfway through a flight if the pilot got on and said, “New rule, everybody has to put their masks on,” which is why I would encourage nobody to travel with a mask to the airport ’cause if the rule is you don’t need one now, it’s their responsibility to make you wear one at that point. But that would be a mess. Not a good look for the Bidens.