Glenn Beck on Tuesday announced that he will be bringing tractor-trailers full of food, water, teddy bears and soccer balls to McAllen, Texas on July 19 as a way to help care for some of the roughly 60,000 underage refugees who have crossed into America illegally in 2014. Beck said he will be joined by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and a number of pastors and rabbis.
Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire, Beck said of the children. And while we continue to put pressure on Washington and change its course of lawlessness, we must also help. It is not either, or. It is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts.
Beck said that everybody told him not to talk about other controversial issues, like the caliphate, in the past, and that he is hearing the same thing about his stance that we must care for the children who have crossed into America illegally.
Everybody is telling me Im seeing subscriptions down; Im seeing Mercury One donations down, Beck said, growing emotional. Im getting violent emails from people who say Ive betrayed the Republic. Whatever. Ive never taken a position more deadly to my career than this and I have never, ever taken a position that is more right than this.
Were going to fill some tractor-trailers with food, with water, Beck said. The churches have asked us if we could bring teddy bears and soccer balls, so weve loaded up a whole tractor-trailer of nothing but teddy bears and soccer balls. And then Im going to go serve breakfast and lunch, and Im going to help unload these trucks, hot meals for 3,000. Thats what were doing.
We sure could use your help, Beck continued. I would like to ask you to donate to MercuryOne.org. If you dont want to be involved in this, you dont have to be. You can donate and earmark your money to be for preserving American history; we have a museum to build.
You could do it to help education.
Were building hospitals.
But all the things that we do, theyre not about politics, because politics is turning us ugly. Politics is the vehicle that is driving us to the fundamental transformation of America.
When America stops being good, we are no longer able to be great, Beck concluded.