Dr. Phil Rails Against Border Chaos to Jesse Watters: ‘We Need to All Stand Up for This Country’
Dr. Phil host Phil McGraw railed against the ongoing border crisis and called on Americans to “stand up for this country” during an appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, Monday.
After Fox News host Jesse Watters asked McGraw why the crisis at the border – which saw record high migrant encounters at the end of 2023 – had not yet been resolved, McGraw replied:
I think people are afraid to take a position on this because if they take a position and say we should control the border, then they are labeled as anti-immigration, they’re labeled as haters for these different countries that people are coming from, but that’s missing the point, isn’t it? Because we are not talking about immigration. We are talking about illegal immigration. I’m very pro-immigration.
“So am I,” replied Watters.
McGraw continued:
We need immigrants in this country. We got a 1.6 birth rate, we need to 2.1 to sustain our infrastructure here. I welcome immigrants into this country, but we need to know who they are, don’t we? We need to know who it is that’s coming into our country. We need to be able to sort through these people, and those that are enemies of the United States that are coming into the country, those that are on the terror watch list coming into the country, those people certainly need to be filtered and stopped, and when you come into the United States illegally, that’s a felony.
Watters questioned, “So we’re suckers and we don’t want to speak up about it because we’re afraid of being labeled haters?”
“Exactly,” McGraw replied. “People don’t want to talk now because, if you do, with the advent of social media platforms and the different ways that you can be targeted and labeled– they can go to your work, they threaten to boycott the business that you work at if they don’t get rid of you.”
He argued, “People are just saying, look, it’s easier not to speak out, and that has to stop. There has to be a call to action. This middle group of people throughout America that care about this country, love this country, need to say enough is enough and too much is too much, and I’ve got to stand up and speak up.”
McGraw then told Watters:
Look, I love this country. I do. I stand up when the flag goes by, I put my hand over the heart when they play the national anthem, and people criticize me for that. I don’t think this country is perfect, and I love it enough to admit that we have things we need to work on. That just goes on a to-do list. But I love this country, and we need to all stand up for this country and stop apologizing for this country. Stop apologizing for having rules and guidelines, stop apologizing for having a border that’s not a turnstile. I’ve been to the border. I’ve just been there one time, I’m not saying I’m a border expert, I’m certainly not a politician, but I’ve talked to the border agents down there.
He concluded, “These are dedicated men and women, Jesse, they are, and they are so frustrated that they’re not allowed to do their job. They wanted to guard the border, they want to patrol the border, and they’ve become social workers.”
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