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Jay Furman: “The border looks like the worst I've served on.”

Featuring: Jay Furman, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Texas, District 28

Jay Furman's Campaign for Texas Congressional District 28: Border Security and Political Reform

Published June 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:30

That's why I do it. That's why I led my whole career that way. And now I come home and like, oh, my goodness, this The border looks like the worst I've served on. I better get involved because I know none of us, no matter what the politics are, what's the next thing, and we have to have the economy to pay for it. (35:30–35:36)

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Asserts that the current state of the border is the worst Jay Furman has seen in his experience.

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“Texas [is] the eighth biggest economy in the world.”
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“Half of all the US services military had decided not to take it [the COVID vaccine].”
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“They can't account for 400,000 children.”
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“LBJ earlier. You know, the, the Duke of Duval, box 13, you know, the 80 or so vote that he won, fraudulently won that election and then was…”
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“20 million is my number [of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.].”
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“40 of the mayors in England are Muslim, including London.”
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“Nancy Pelosi, who shows up with no money and now is worth $120 million on a public servant salary.”
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“We minted 50% more billionaires during COVID than we had before that.”
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“The DOJ has a 98% conviction rate.”
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“I flew the border, I flew drug missions, interagency firewatch.”
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“It controlled and controls today the US nuclear arsenal.”
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“Every pilot like myself who is also a mission commander, controls that mission and is given line and responsibility by name in the Pentagon.”
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“It was not legal to do to anyone and to the military as well because it was not FDA approved.”
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“In August of 2021 they made it mandatory for US uniformed services [to get the COVID vaccine].”
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“I was able to retire a day before they were going to prosecute me for not having the shot.”
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“Our officials have no idea who, how many [911 bomber cells] came in.”
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“The Biden administration just kind of ran amok. They kicked down our back gate and just let everybody trample over it.”
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“Laredo sector and on south off front, terror included is some of the worst part of the border.”
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“Puerto Laredo... that's being exploited and really not protected enough by the federal government.”
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“Texas 28 is, is 76% Hispanic, which means to me that it's 76% God. Family first, right?”
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“We have been held down by the Democrat machine, by the LBJ Democrat machine.”
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“A lot [of the media is] owned by the same seven families.”
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“I think we would have won but for the cheating in Webb County.”
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“We had hundreds of people swear affidavits... my name didn't show up on the ballot.”
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“We got a court order... to resume that, that count. And they ignored it for two weeks.”
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“They only tallied in pencil.”
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“We got Trump in now we've got to keep working it down towards our values.”
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“We were part of the biggest human smuggling operation to date, at least in the modern west.”
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“They used our immigration history against us and they just turned the volume up in ways that we've never seen before.”
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“They completely changed the policy.”
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“South Texas has been for 110 years, that's a reliable voting plantation.”
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“The governor's doing a really good job on trying to stymie them [efforts to implement Sharia law].”
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“A lot of [the media is] owned by China.”
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“We have 17 months until [the next election].”
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“The open primary system's a problem though. You can stack the vote so you can flood the zone and you can go vote for the other side and not…”
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“The Texas urban primary system, you know, is fraught with problems.”
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“We have let them come in and add regulations that make us all poor, weaker and less competitive.”
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“More people have come out of poverty in the last 70 years than anywhere else.”
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“More people are healthier than they have been because of those outcomes than any other time in history.”
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“Federal government, they should only be doing three things Constitutionally, no one knows this. They should only be doing defense, foreign…”
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“Economy and security hand in hand. That's never not the case.”
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“We have to unleash the natural gas and the oil that's there.”
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“Myra Flores has announced and then Raul Espinosa announced.”
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“We did that through an interagency effort led by the Texas Rangers.”
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“The cartel has been empowered by all of our enemies, principally China.”
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“Mexico's fallen into the Mexico none of us recognize anymore.”
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“The President can walk right through anything trying to stop him because his principal job as Commander in Chief is to stop a foreign…”
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“They were quite frankly lied to by the Biden administration, by the US government representing us.”
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“We didn't hold our elected leaders accountable to the extent that we should.”
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“We have over and we have the line outside the country again, unfortunately, it's simply a security management problem.”
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“There are cells in every city, as you said, they're organized, they are ambitious.”
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“We give them handouts when they arrive.”
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“You're not screening anybody coming through.”
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“The UK is a starking example of what's happening of Islamization of the country.”
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“France is the same way. Yeah. Germany is overrun.”
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“They're doing it here now [implementing Sharia law in Texas].”
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“Small businesses, you know, were crushed. Well, let's look at how they and why they were crushed. It was, it was, it was federal and state…”
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“It was the biggest wealth transfer that ever happened in this country.”
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“We have to deregulate people that took advantage of [the Paycheck Protection Program].”
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“The Cuellars are currently indicted by the DOJ.”
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“Senator Bob Menendez is a good example. Similar charges and was convicted for it got 10 years.”
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“The election is March 26th.”
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“South Texas can be that decisive if the big beautiful bill passed by one vote.”
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“We have a competitive advantage over Mexico.”
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“Our current political machine of Webb County doesn't allow competition like it should.”
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“The current head of the political machine, the Quails, right now, you run this thing like a mafia boss.”
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“Hundreds of people to go on record and swear with by affidavit and penalty of perjury that I was not on their ballot in November.”
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“We need more help from the feds to secure our most important port in the country.”
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“We will never accept any more fraudulent elections.”
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“Duvall had its historic corruption and... the condition of the infrastructure in Duvall is a tragedy.”
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“They have a revenue base of massive oil wealth and hunting revenue.”
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“Corruption is going to get in the way of bringing in new business.”
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“Cuellar has a 95 voting record with the Biden administration.”
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“I work for all 777,000 of you.”
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