Glenn Beck Tearfully Promises to Illegally Smuggle Syrian Refugees into U.S.

Glenn Beck Promises To Smuggle Syrian Christians to America: "I Know Some Bridges Over A River In Texas" (RealClearPolitics)

Radio host and founder of The Blaze, Glenn Beck, sat down for an interview with Ginni Thomas of the Daily Caller, where he said he wants his audience to help him raise money to smuggle Syrian Christian refugees to the U.S. through Mexico.

Beck nearly breaks down into tears reciting the Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "The Colossus," and then he explains his plan."

"When we don’t welcome in ‘the tempest-tost,’ when we can watch them and see a boy laying face down in the sand and we don’t accept them into our country, we don’t have a light that we’re holding by that door anymore."

"Stop asking for permission!" he said. "Stop thinking we need permission… We started "The Nazerene Fund... if my audience could raise $10 million to bring the Christians in from Syria..."