Title 42 Ends: Border Crisis and America’s Food Security

On May 10, 2023, the Kim Monson Show tackled two critical issues threatening American sovereignty: the imminent expiration of Title 42 at the southern border and the challenges facing rural America’s food production. Mark Krikorian from the Center for Immigration Studies warned about the ideological roots of open border policies, while sixth-generation farmer Trent Loos connected water rights to the 30 by 30 initiative’s threat to domestic food security.

The Ideology Behind Open Borders

Start listening at 31:35 – Hour 1

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, breaks down why Title 42’s expiration represents more than a policy change. The public health measure allowed Border Patrol to immediately return illegal border crossers to Mexico without asylum hearings. With its end at midnight on Thursday, Krikorian reports that thousands of migrants have already begun streaming across, with Border Patrol admitting they will simply release them into the country with a piece of paper and hope they show up for immigration hearings.

More troubling than the immediate crisis is what Krikorian identifies as the ideological shift driving these policies. The Biden administration’s approach stems not from a cynical vote-importing scheme, but from a genuine belief that Americans have no moral right to exclude foreigners who want to enter. This mainstream Democratic position treats immigration limits as equivalent to Jim Crow, making compromise or negotiation nearly impossible. Krikorian warns that organized groups of single males from Russia, China, and Iraq are crossing the border, with cartels and left-wing nonprofits effectively rowing in the same direction to facilitate the influx.

“The mainstream left now does not believe that the American people have a right to say no to any foreigner who wants to move here. This has always been around, but it was always kind of a fringy kook idea on the fringy left, but this is now the mainstream view in the Democratic Party.”

Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Water Rights and the 30 by 30 Threat

Start listening at 69:27 – Hour 2

Trent Loos, a sixth-generation farmer and rancher, connects the dots between water policy and food production in ways most Americans never consider. He recounts how explorer Stephen Long declared the Great Plains uninhabitable in 1820, yet American innovation transformed this “great American desert” into the world’s breadbasket through center pivot irrigation tapping the Ogallala Aquifer. Today, 28 million acres and 57,000 farmers rely on this technology that Nebraska farmer Frank Zybach developed in partnership with a Colorado farmer.

The real threat, Loos argues, comes from Executive Order 14008 and its 30 by 30 initiative, which mandates returning 30 percent of U.S. land and water to its “natural state” by 2030. This rewilding agenda targets not just land through conservation easements but critically targets water allocation. Cities like Aurora are buying farmland not to farm but to control water rights, while farmers in the Rio Grande Valley face water shortages despite record snowpack because allocations go elsewhere. Loos connects this domestic threat to the border crisis, noting that unchecked immigration strains the very resources these policies are already restricting.

“If you really want to create a crippling effect to the global food supply, in particular the domestic food supply, you make water hard to come by for the people who own and tend the land to produce the food.”

Trent Loos, Sixth-Generation Farmer and Rancher

Election Integrity and Voter Roll Manipulation

Start listening at 05:21 – Hour 1

Kim Monson followed up on her previous day’s interview with tech expert Jay Valentine about election manipulation. Valentine’s analysis showed how voter rolls expand approximately 30 days before elections and contract within 90 days afterward, creating windows for ballot harvesting. Colorado serves as a petri dish for these techniques before they spread to battleground states like Arizona and Nevada. Kim identified Republicans complicit in the system, naming officials who signed letters of support for David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, the same organization behind the problematic ERIC voter database system.