Benny Johnson: “Virtually every society-crippling attack on who we are as Americans could have been ended if we just closed the border after 9/11”
Johnson calls immigration from Third World countries “a sin, a blight, a scar on our people. It must be undone by any means necessary.”
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From the March 2, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): To prevent every bad thing happening in our country since 9/11, since 9/11 -- and let's have a totally different conversation about 9/11 and what happened there. We have to do that later, though. And what happened on 9/11 was the CIA brought the hijackers into our country. That's a matter of fact. That's like a bona fide matter of fact. OK? That's a that's a different conversation for a different time. We're happy to have that conversation.
Let's just carve that out and say since 9/11, there have been a lot of terrorist attacks on our nation. There's been a lot of homegrown domestic terrorism. All of it, all of it -- we're just painting with broad, bold brush stroke -- all of it could have been halted, and virtually every society-crippling attack on who we are as Americans could have been ended if we just closed the border after 9/11. If we would have had a hard shutdown of criminal migration and then Third World migration, Ilhan Omar -- see Ilhan Omar-style migration, chain migration, refugees.
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There are eight -- we checked before the show. There's 18,000 criminal aliens on the terrorist watch list residing in our home right now in America. We have captured and deported 1,800 of them, so only 10%. So 90% of the known terrorists that are currently here -- not just the sleeper cells. I mean, a lot of these people are sleeper cells. Right? Because there's no way to, like, track them. They don't have birth certificates. And we don't know who they really are. They lie. They hop on one of those C-17 Globemasters that are taken off on the runway. They hang on to the wing. In Afghanistan, they come here. They plead that they're under threat, and they create, like, a terror cell, and they wait. Very patient people and ancient people, and then they go kill.
This is the most — the single most important thing I will say on this broadcast. There is no explanation, defense of Third World migration that will ever happen in the public space ever again in this nation. It is a sin, a blight, a scar on our people. It must be undone by any means necessary. I am not only talking the deportation of 100% of the people who are here illegally.
I am talking a structural remigration plan for peoples who are here that are incompatible with the West. It is the only way. You mean you're going to round them up? No. I mean, if you cut off the welfare benefits, actually, if you cut the fraud, then a lot of people just want to go home. And that's just a matter of fact. This is an economic play for all these people. They don't actually like it here. They don't actually like American — they don't like America. Then I think that there would be, like -- there's actually, the vast majority of deportations that have happened under Trump have been voluntary.