Senior National Security fellow Todd Bensman has claimed the big American cities "have gone broke" because of "needy" migrants crossing the border.
More than six million migrants have crossed the US-Mexico border since Joe Biden took office, despite a "drop" in crossings reported by US Border Force in March.
Speaking to GBN America, host Jacob Rees-Mogg explained that the people who can afford thousands of dollars to cross a border illegally are probably" quite motivated."
He then asked: "What are the social and political consequences of that for the long term? Is this a fundamental change to the United States, or will ultimately the great United States melting pot absorb them all?"
Todd Bensman said that the US "absorbs" diversity
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Bensman said: "Well, I believe that the United States is very good at absorbing diversity, ethnic, religious,.
"I don't think that's the problem in the United States. We will end up absorbing most of them into the fabric of the country. However, it is transformative because the numbers are so vast.
"You just try to imagine six, seven, eight, or ten million people in a very short period who are needy, who have nothing and who immediately plug into social welfare networks and government funding sources to support themselves.
"That is just absolutely we are not prepared for this. We are seeing major American cities going broke. They can't afford it so are begging for federal bailouts."
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"The health care system is is just collapsing in many places here nobody has health insurance here, all these millions of new people.
"That's going to go on for years and years. Housing, the labor markets, the criminal justice system, the school systems, our schools.
"Our public schools are required to take all children. And this was a very child-centric mass migration. It still is. And so just hundreds of thousands of children, who don't even speak English, have to be incorporated by hook or crook into our systems.
"They're at different educational levels and it's going to go on like this for years as a very significant strain on all American systems and on all quality of life variables."
Migrants are "changing the fabric" of the US
ReutersBensman said the he has spent the last week in Mexico, speaking to migrants along the US-Mexico border, to investigate how the American migrant crisis has escalated so quickly under Biden.
Bensman revealed: "I'm in Juarez, Mexico right now. I've spent the last five days among the immigrants.
"I had a large group speak to me yesterday. I asked 'why are you coming now?', and they said 'because they're letting us in'."
Bensman continued: "I asked them if they would have come otherwise, and they said no, we would have stayed home. We're coming because they're letting us in."
He fumed that the illegal migrants are not entering the US because of "some big climate change crisis" or "political persecution erupted", or "even big hurricanes or something like that", but they are coming because "the US opened the door to them".
Bensman stated: "They simply opened the door, the Americans opened the door. And when everybody saw that, they were like, well, I can't believe this is happening. Let's go. Let's make it before they change their minds."
He added that the border crisis is the "worst in American history" based on the ‘metrics’ alone, but he went even further to suggest it could be considered the worst in human history.“
He said: "The numbers, the metrics tell a story. We have never had anywhere near the number of illegal immigrant crossings into the US over the past 36 months in the history of the country and I dare say it is probably in the history of the world."
