The speaker argues that a nation's greatness shows in whether people want to enter it. He notes Russia, China, and the Middle East don't face mass migration, while the US does. He claims the world's poorest and most marginalized people choose America and Europe over Eastern nations, and says Black Lives Matter should recognize this pattern.
You can tell how great a nation is by which way the people run when the walls come down, when the fences come down. Do you ever sit and wonder why there isn't a bum rush, there isn't a border crisis in Eastern civilization? There isn't a, uh, there isn't a, a, a bum rush to, to, you know, to go to, uh, uh, Russia or, or any of these places, to China, the Eastern Hemisphere. You don't see the border crisis there. You don't see a border crisis in the Middle East. You see the border crisis particularly first and foremost in the United States. Somebody should inform Black Lives Matter of that, that the people with the, uh, the people, the most downtrodden people in the world and some of the darkest-skinned people, they all want to come here. They don't want to go to Eastern nations. They want to come to the West, primarily the United States of America, but also our allies in, in Europe. That's where they want to go.
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