Oct 13, 2026

Border security is the subject for the full hour, and two numbers frame it: in August 2024, under President Biden, the Border Patrol released 10,186 illegal aliens into the country in a single month. In August 2026 it released zero, the sixteenth straight month at zero. Jenny Beth Martin spends the hour with Rosemary Jenks, co-founder and policy director of the Immigration Accountability Project, who testified before the House Judiciary Committee in September on making the Trump border policies permanent. Jenks walks through what changed: 10,000 to 12,000 crossings a day under Biden against about 250 a day now, catch and release ended, asylum grants down from more than half of cases to about 7 percent, and all of it done under laws already on the books. That is the warning: what existing law did, the next administration can undo, and a Congress run by the left could defund ICE and the Border Patrol. Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee posted "Abolish ICE" the day before the show, and Jenks says a discharge petition on a Democrat amnesty bill is one signature away from forcing a House vote in the lame duck. Also in the hour: New York's 16,070 refused ICE detainers, the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, the Labor Department suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and the H-1B body shops from the green card program, Optional Practical Training, the J-1 investigation at nine universities, and how denaturalization law works. Election Day is 21 days away. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

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