The President's Daily Brief - June 17th, 2022. Our Southern Border Continues to Worsen. A Link Between Childhood Obesity and Dementia?

Episode Date: June 17, 2022

It’s June 17th. You’re listening to the President’s Daily Brief. Your morning intel starts now. ------ First up, America broke a record last month; it’s the number of arrests of illegal migrants. We’re going to talk about who these folks are, and what message this sends to our enemies around the world. As always, I’m keeping an eye out for developing stories. Put these two on your radar. First, we’ve got some weird weather going on, and it’s all because of La Niña. I’m going to explain what that is and why it has major implications both here in the United States and abroad. Second, a study out this morning that shows a link between childhood obesity and dementia in later life. We’re going to talk about that study because 20% of our kids are obese. ------ Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of the President's Daily Brief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's June 17th. You're listening to the President's Daily Brief. I'm your host and former CIA Officer Brian Dean Wright. Your morning intel starts now. The brief you're about to hear is in the same spirit of the actual President's Daily Brief, which is a top secret summary of the most critical events in the past 24 hours, all delivered to the President each day by the nation's spymasters. And so, ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy and this is your brief. Here's what we're going to be talking about this morning. First up, America broke a record last month, and it's the number of arrests of illegal migrants. So we're going to talk about who these folks are and what message this sends to our enemies abroad.

As always, I'm keeping an eye out for developing stories. Put these two on your radar. First, we've got some really weird weather going on, and it's all because of La Nina. So I'm going to explain what this is and why it has major implications, both here in the United States and abroad. Second, a study out this morning that shows a link between childhood obesity and dementia later in life. We're going to talk about that study because 20% of our kids are obese. All up next on the President's Daily Brief. First up this morning on the PDB, the Department of Homeland Security reported yesterday that America broke a record, and that is not a good thing. In the month of May, the U.S. Border Patrol made 22,6505,000.

arrest all of people crossing the border illegally. And that's a record, a nearly 10% increase compared with April. So that means that we are now at about 1.4 million arrests since just October. And that's not counting the getaways or the people who managed to slip by the Border Patrol. So all told, we are on pace to set a new annual record of illegals, breaking the one that we set just last year, which was 1.7 million. Now, last month's illegal population was a little bit different for a few different reasons. About 70% of this group was made up of single adults.

And in the past few years, we've had more families represent, or at least people saying that they were families, which of course helps them get entry into the country. Plus, last month, people from Mexico actually reemerged as the largest single country of origin for illegal crossers. Now, that had been trending more towards Central. American nations like Guatemala and Dallas Salvador. One final fact. The Department of Homeland Security said that about 25% of all the arrests last month involved repeated border crossers. In other words, that's 55,000 people who were previously arrested, sent home, and then

re-arrested for trying to cross the border again. Now, I think that there are a lot of different things that we could talk about this morning if I were briefing you in the Oval Office. Certainly, we could talk about costs because the annual net cost from illegal immigration, that runs about $130 billion, depending on the estimate, of course. But instead of cost, I want us to focus on what this group of 222,000 plus people really says about them and about us. And I want to talk about the message that this new record sends to our enemies all around the world. So let's dive into it. Well, we all know that this is a complex issue. So I want to start with a very simple idea. And that is America is our home. It's our house. And just like any other homeowner, we are responsible for keeping this place clean and safe, for being a good neighbor.

And generally, we don't just let anyone into our house. We ask that people organize their visits in advance, you know, to make sure that it's a good time to come. they are known to us. Now, none of what I just said is controversial when we talk about our own personal residences. We don't leave our front doors unlocked at 2 a.m. with a neon sign in the window that says, come on in. And if we have guests, we ask them to call an advance to make sure that the time is right, or geez, at least we ask that they knock on the door before they come in. but that's not how these 222,000 people thought about us or our house last month. In fact, what they're saying by coming once or multiple times is that they don't care about our house. They don't care about our rules or our laws.

I mean, they could have gone to a U.S. embassy or a U.S. consulate in their home country. And there they could have gone through the proper paperwork, the vetting. But they didn't. They just came into our house. I'll let you decide what that says about these folks, about their character, and how compassionate you want to be for whatever reason they offer for ignoring our laws and making themselves at home in our home. Meanwhile, I want us to ask and answer this question. No matter what you think about illegal migration, what impression does it leave on our enemies that 222,000 people can rush across

our border and then some of them be released inside to join the upwards of 22 million other illegal migrants who've done exactly the same thing. So to answer those questions, I want you to imagine yourself this morning in Moscow or Beijing and that you are the leader of one of those nations. Now, you know as leader that you don't like America, so you are constantly looking for weaknesses and then to exploit those weaknesses. So what would you think, city? in Moscow or Beijing, looking at America's southern border and watching all of this, how would you size up America looking at that situation? Well, I can tell you without getting into classified information here, that you as Russian and Chinese leadership would very much recognize that

that collapsed border, that's an opportunity, an opportunity to either infiltrate or exfiltrate people or equipment to cause America very serious harm. So, To say that all differently, Moscow and Beijing would absolutely see that America is weak. And that's because America's president can't control their own border, obviously. These migrants aren't afraid of America or its laws, so they just walk right past the border and demand to stay. And America's leaders largely let them. So the question is, what, if anything, we do about this?

And the answer here is that you all as voters have to decide if this issue, is important. Fundamentally, you have to decide if America is your home and how you expect people to treat your home. Now, you could decide that you prefer open borders and you welcome people in. And if that's your choice, fair enough. But you have to accept the cost. Financial, yes, absolutely. But also that America's enemies believe you to be weak and they'll exploit it. And they will hurt you and your neighbors eventually. On the other hand, if you want a strong border or to remove the upwards of 22 million people who've already come here illegally, well, you have to understand that the financial and political costs of doing those things,

that's going to be really high. Border security, yes, that is expensive. But sending 22 million people back to their homes, it's going to be a very ugly process and very expensive. So I will leave it up to you this morning on whether this new record of a record of a restaurant, rests in May bothers you. And if so, well, you have a chance to express yourself next November during the midterm elections. Now, you could also ask politicians who are running for office now, those candidates, and ask them what they believe and what steps that they would take to accomplish whatever your goals might be, to reflect whatever your values might be. So go to house.gov or

Senate.gov and look up your representative or senator and let them know politely of course what you think of last month's new record because folks this is your country. America is your house. So let them know how you want it to be treated. Coming up next, a closer look at what's on my radar. As always, I'm watching a few other stories this morning. Put these two on your radar. First, we've got a lot of really wild weather going on, don't we? You all have probably seen the videos and headlines over the past few days of all the flooding and Yellowstone. Meanwhile, we've got record heat in the southwest and record rains in the Pacific Northwest. Plus, we've got this forecast for more hurricanes on the East Coast for the coming season. And here's what's fascinating about all that. It's connected.

And what's more, this weather and what's behind it all could actually drive some of the briefs that I give you, especially regarding the Wheat Wars. There's a weather phenomenon happening right now over the Pacific Ocean. It's called La Nina. And that means that we've got colder than normal ocean temperatures along the equator in the Pacific. In fact, May was the coldest ocean temperature there in 22 years, and April was the coldest in 72 years. Now, La Nina has a twin, El Niño, where the opposite is true. We've got warmer ocean temperatures, but not this year. Or for the last three years. And that's what's so unusual. And it's why I'm briefing you about this and weather on the PDB.

These colder than normal ocean temperatures mean that we're likely going to have what's called a triple dip lanina. And that's a record. So you're probably asking, what does all this mean? Well, historically, it's meant that the Pacific Northwest should see lots more rain, even flooding. And the south and the southwest will see far less rain, making the drought there even worse in places like Southern California and Arizona. all the way through Texas into northern Florida. Now, for my friends along the east coast, La Niña's usually mean more hurricanes

and longer into the hurricane season. Now, that does not mean that all of them will land. It just means that more will probably form. And La Nina also impacts weather as far away as the horn of Africa in places like Somalia and Kenya. It makes it drier there. And as I briefed you on previously, Kenya and Somalia are, in fact,

having the worst drought that they've had in 40 years, and it's crippled their wheat crops. At any rate, weather is a very hard thing to predict, but in this case, it's worth mentioning on the PDB because of the very clear historical impact that La Niños have had not just on the United States, but abroad. And that could mean unpredictable developments in national security. So as always, I'll keep an eye on it and share more with you as things develop. Own it all. Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari, Celebration of the world premiere of the Monopoly, Big Board Buckslot Machine by Aristocrat Gaming, Yamava Resort and Casino and San Manuel is giving one person a $1.6 million dream package.

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Finally, and switching gears, most of us know that America, America struggles with obesity. I've spoken a lot about this on the PDB, including that 20% of our kids are obese. And I do it because of the clear implications that obesity has on our military readiness, our hospital bills, and our ability to bounce back from things like COVID. Well, this morning we have a truly amazing study out of Australia that shows that childhood obesity has a direct impact on cognition later in our lives. In other words, obesity when we're younger impacts our ability to think and process and remember

things many decades later when we're older. And that can sadly determine whether or not we'll develop dementia in those final couple decades of life. So let's dive into this data. The Journal of Science and Medicine and Sport published a study yesterday that followed over 1,200 people starting when they were kids in 1985. So over 30 years later, they put these same kids, now age 39 to 50, through a series of mental exams to test their mental dexterity, their cognition.

And here's what they found. Kids with the highest levels of heart, lung, and muscular fitness, and the least obesity, well, they as adults had higher test scores of processing speed and attention. as well as cognitive function. And based on other data that we know about those things, all of that should lower their chances of getting dementia as they become elderly. And that's a really big deal because it's the first significant study to find very strong data that says how physically fit we were as kids has a direct link to how mentally fit we become

as adults. And this study isn't just neat or interesting. It's incredibly important for the future of this country. And once again, that's because our, childhood obesity rates are around 20% in America and getting worse. So for you parents out there or teachers who work with kids, you've got your homework this weekend. You might want to find fun ways to get your kids moving and work up a sweat. Because as Benjamin Franklin once very famously said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And that, ladies and gentlemen,

concludes your morning brief. I sure appreciate you listening in, which by the way, a record number of you guys did yesterday. So that sure means a lot to me. Thank you. As always, we close out the show reminding each other of why we are here, talking about our country and our world. It's the creed of every good spy and every smart American. It's from John chapter 8, verse 32. And you shall know the truth. And the truth shall make you free. Good day.