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Kurt Wallace: This is Kurt Wallace and our guest today on Rare is U.S. Congressman Kerry Bentivolio. Congressman thanks for being with us today.
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: My pleasure, thank you for having me.
Kurt Wallace: Well, congratulations on the passing of the Safe and Secure Act, that was passed unanimously. Tell us what this act can do regarding, say, Obamacare?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Well, we won’t point out any one particular bill, but right now if you put your birthdate or Social Security number on a federal website or additional information like your personal financial account information – it has to have some strict protocols. And we’ve outlined those protocols in the bill. To a certain degree we talked about some standards. It has to be continually checked in reports we can check in oversight government reform. We can investigate it if there’s too many people losing their personal identifiable information to some bad actors, we can go after them. And we hold that particular federal agency and the I.T. person responsible for that website, accountable. Which right now the federal government, if you put that information in to a website that was run by any federal agency, if it’s stolen they have to notify you in three days and we can actually go in and shut the website down. Which is very important and if it doesn’t reach those protocols the website must be shut down. So that’s the important thing – you can apply that to any federal website including the Obamacare federal website. My understanding right now it doesn’t meet those protocols so it may have to shut it down.
Kurt Wallace: Now would this cover the Act if this information was, say, extracted from another federal government agency without permission, such as the NSA?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: That’s a good question, now we’re going to let the cat out of the bag. Look you got to be smarter than these guys in Washington here, especially the bureaucrats. The answer to that question would be, “yes!”
Kurt Wallace: Incredible!
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: So, we came into the back door unsuspectingly. Now unfortunately it’s going to get out there because anyone can access this interview, but here’s the thing – we need to keep it a secret. Because it’s a back door way of, yes, doing that kind of thing because if the NSA goes in there they don’t the right to extract that information. Yeah, that federal website has to be shut down.
Kurt Wallace: You recently returned something to the Chamber of Commerce in your area there. You received an award, this is over immigration policy?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Yeah, I’m pro-business. I tend to vote pro-business and the free market and they decided that they were for pro-amnesty, which I’m not. They’re for unsecure borders and I’m quoted a year ago saying that nothing will get done on immigration because the Democrats want the votes and the Republicans want cheap labor. And now they pretty much came out in the Chamber of Commerce saying yeah, we support amnesty because it provides cheap labor and I have young adults graduating from college that owe all kinds of debt, they can’t find a job. And I have kids that don’t want to go to college that maybe want to work in construction or landscaping, or become an electrician, or plumber, or brick layer – can’t get those jobs because now they are going to compete with more inexpensive labor from south of the border. And I don’t think that’s fair, we have to take care of our own citizens first.
Kurt Wallace: You recently went to Central America, why did you go?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Well, because I wanted to know first hand. I’m an old soldier and I wanted to get into the trenches. I need to ask the hard questions to the people that are involved in the fight. What does the battleground look like? And that’s why I went down there. I talked to some really good people. Having some law enforcement background in the military, policemen tend to associate and there’s kind of like a common bond or brotherhood if you will. And they tend to open up maybe when you are outside smoking a cigarette they’ll tell you some things that you won’t hear in a briefing. And what I found out in El Salvador is they basically describe a country on the verge of anarchy run by gangs. When you go to Honduras, I was in the most dangerous city in the world. They have 700 murders per 100,000 people. It makes them the number one murder capital of the world. And it’s pretty much another country that’s run by gangs and thugs that are controlling the cocaine and heroin problem that we have in this country.
Kurt Wallace: You had highlighted on your website about San Pedro Guatemala, talking about how children need permission from gangs in order to go to school. This is really sad this whole situation with the children coming over the border. It’s a very difficult situation, anyone with a heart in the United States we’re dealing with children. This is almost like drug trafficking in a way. Are these gangs?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Human trafficking!
Kurt Wallace: Human trafficking yeah?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Let’s look at this subjectively. You have a child who is growing up in a community that’s basically run by gangs. There’s no rule of law there except the law of the gang right? And this is the culture that they grow up in. And the case when the policemen, we were outside and he said look two days ago at the school ,we’re touring by the way. Two days ago a bunch of kids ganged up on another kid a block away from school and stabbed him and a 12-year-old finished him off. They’re back in school, we’re talking to these kids and nobody turned them in – there’s no consequences. So, these are the kids, and I’m not saying they are all like this. God forbid that, what else do they know. Now they are going to come to this country, they’re going to be under the radar so to speak. They only people they can relate to are those people that understand their culture and understand their language. So, it’s been suggested by, not me, but by the policemen that these are future recruits for the gangs that control organized crime in L.A., which is MS13, runs through Mexico through Central America, all the way to Venezuela. This gang controls basically illegal activity from extortion to drugs this is the new organized crime. That’s what they’re talking about, that’s what this policemen told me. And these kids when they come to this country are the recruits for these gangs.
Kurt Wallace: So, if the gangs can get ahold of the kids first then this is easy pickings for gangs here in the states?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Right, because they’re already in the culture they already
Kurt Wallace: It’s like Stockholm Syndrome type thing?
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Exactly! You got it. They will do what they’re told to do and take the consequences if they’re caught, for instance, it’s going to be part of the culture. It’s kind of like being in the classroom, what I call the struggling learner classroom, where pretty much every student in the class in their high school year had a tether on. And I walked in one day and a young man is showing off his tether like it’s a badge of honor. So, now he’s part of the group because he’s wearing his tether like everybody else has sometime in their career.
This is the type of students that I taught in my teaching and I understood the culture. They understood me, we had a good relationship. I called it tough love, but I understand that culture. And this is what these countries are exporting. And you know that because when we took the tour they showed us the facilities that they have set up that will handle the returning citizens. OK, so the people that left to go to America on the way, they were caught and returned back to their home country. The interesting thing is I saw one person that was returned in these facilities. And in Guatemala they have I think it was 28%. Now don’t hold me to that but it worked out that each country is responsible for about 25% or more of the illegals that are coming up through the border. And in Guatemala they have facilities set up for returning Guatemala citizens. You go to Honduras they’ve got tent cities set up on five acres and I didn’t see one person that was returning and I asked them why? They said, ‘well it’s the weekend.’ It’s not an emergency on the weekend And they said they also use that for the flood victims during the rainy season when the rivers swell and there’s floods. People lose their houses, they come to this particular camp and stay there until they can rebuild or they make some money so they can rebuild. And if you go to El Salvador, which is our first stop. And it’s pretty much the same they have the facilities for returning citizens but I didn’t see anybody there. I have the feeling that really they gave us a snowjob and they’re just telling us what we want to hear so they can get more foreign aid and they can export their problems to us. And I don’t think that’s right.
Kurt Wallace: Now you’re up in Michigan, Congress Amash is also there. You have something in common with him that you took the Amash pledge, which some term as the Amash pledge – you post every vote online.
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Yes sir, and I was rated number one in transparency of the freshman class. Out of 84 freshman I rated number 1 according to Govtrack.us for transparency. Now we post our votes online and I tell people why I voted the way I did.
Whether you like it or not you’re allowed to post your comments and we get a lot of negative comments of course from the far left. But we don’t delete them unless they use four letter words. You want to yell and scream at your congressman then fine, just do it cleanly. And like being at the little league baseball team, you can yell at the umpire just don’t swear at them right or threaten them. You do that and we’re gonna delete your post. But other than that, you have a right to freedom of speech. And whether it’s good bad or indifferent, doesn’t matter to me, at least you get to state your case.
Kurt Wallace: Congressman Bentivolio, thanks for being with us today on Rare.
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: Hey, I want to tell you if you have any patriots that want to come and help us we have a big weekend coming up. On Tuesday the 5th is my primary. I have a primary opponent and I could use some boots on the ground delivering literature door to door.
Kurt Wallace: Well, good luck on August 5th and again thanks for being with us today.
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio: My pleasure, thank you Kurt.
