Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HISTORIC SIGNING OF THE LAKEN RILEY ACT

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00:00:30.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.

00:00:39.860 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:46.480 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:00:49.580 Christ is king.

00:00:50.720 America is going to be very rich again, and it's going to happen very quickly.

00:00:54.280 It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.

00:01:00.000 Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. 0.76

00:01:08.240 The illegal aliens that Joe Biden brought into our country are not full stop doing farm work.

00:01:13.240 They are not.

00:01:14.420 The illegal aliens he brought in from Venezuela, from Haiti, from Nicaragua, they are not doing farm work. 0.96

00:01:20.540 They are in our cities collecting welfare.

00:01:22.060 As for the farmers, there is a guest worker program that President Trump supports.

00:01:27.140 Over time as well, we will transition into automation, so we'll never have to have this conversation ever again.

00:01:33.020 But there's no universe in which this nation is going to allow the previous president to flood our nation with millions and millions of illegal aliens who just get to stay here. 0.99

00:01:42.500 And we are especially not going to allow a subset of those illegal aliens to rape and murder our citizens. 1.00

00:01:48.280 It's been almost a year since Lakin Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered by 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra.

00:01:56.160 President Trump will sign the Lakin Riley Act into law, which allows the DHA to hold and deport non-U.S. citizens when charged of crimes

00:02:05.340 and sue the government due to immigration laws that were not upheld.

00:02:09.440 We need to figure out ways to improve care, particularly for elderly, for veterans, for the poor in this country.

00:02:18.640 And Medicaid, the current model, is not doing that.

00:02:21.300 I would ask, you know, any of the Democrats who are chuckling just now,

00:02:25.980 do you think all that money, the $900 billion that we're sending to Medicaid every year, has made Americans healthy?

00:02:33.080 Do we think it's working for anybody?

00:02:34.720 Federal workers, that they have to return to work.

00:02:38.180 And if they don't, then they have the option to resign.

00:02:41.080 And this administration is very generously offering to pay them for eight months.

00:02:45.840 Six percent of the federal workforce in this city actually shows up to work.

00:02:49.980 That's unacceptable.

00:02:51.200 The first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years is to get on my knees and pray to God

00:02:57.800 that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and to help America's children.

00:03:05.320 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back live.

00:03:08.240 Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.

00:03:10.660 Today is January 20th, 2024.

00:03:13.060 Anno Domini.

00:03:14.540 Here on Human Events, we are going to go live very shortly to the White House itself.

00:03:20.320 We're going to be bringing you inside with Real America's Voice camera,

00:03:24.280 as well as our White House correspondent, Brian Glenn, where President Trump is just minutes away

00:03:29.160 from signing the Lakin-Riley Act.

00:03:32.560 And as we all remember, Lakin-Riley was brutally murdered just a little over a year ago.

00:03:38.300 Actually, it's just coming up on the one-year anniversary.

00:03:40.720 I should check that.

00:03:41.540 She was, it's just coming up on the one-year anniversary.

00:03:45.540 It'll be February 2024, so a couple weeks away from the one-year anniversary.

00:03:50.920 The first piece of major legislation to be signed by President Trump right here in the White House.

00:03:56.720 It's going to be coming very soon.

00:03:58.780 And it's all about directing the federal government and federal officials to detain any illegal alien 0.76

00:04:06.860 who broke any law in the United States will be detained.

00:04:12.340 It's as simple as that.

00:04:13.700 And it also gives the state's powers of enforcement as well in ways that they didn't have before.

00:04:21.580 Look, at the end of the day, we can't do anything to bring Lakin-Riley's family the closure that they want.

00:04:31.800 We can't bring her back.

00:04:32.640 But what we can do is use this situation as an example of what we can say we never want to happen again

00:04:42.000 and take her story, hopefully, to put it to use to save the lives of children,

00:04:50.140 to save the lives of the young girls in this country, young college students in this country,

00:04:57.000 people who have been victimized for years by a policy that was completely and utterly supported

00:05:05.300 by the previous administration in this country.

00:05:09.200 Whether it be Jocelyn Nungary, whether it be Rachel Moran, whether it be any of these girls,

00:05:17.460 we know that the perpetrators did not have to be in this country.

00:05:22.040 They could have been taken out, but it was through the decisions of the federal government

00:05:27.080 to allow them to stay.

00:05:30.080 And I'm sick and tired of people saying that it wasn't deliberate.

00:05:34.400 We've seen over the past week and a half that it was, that it's all deliberate.

00:05:41.560 What did we tell you all last year?

00:05:43.220 You don't have to live like this.

00:05:45.860 And guess what?

00:05:46.520 The American people stood up, the government is under new management now, and guess what?

00:05:52.420 The illegals are all going to go home. 1.00

00:05:56.500 And anyone who breaks a further law is going to be going first.

00:06:01.580 We'll be right back here, Human Events Daily.

00:06:16.520 All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back live here in Washington, D.C.

00:06:44.260 I'd like to bring you now to the East Room of the White House, ladies and gentlemen,

00:06:50.380 where we've got White House correspondent Brian Glenn for Real America's Voice on standby.

00:06:56.360 Brian, set the scene for us.

00:07:00.140 Hey, Jack, good afternoon.

00:07:02.240 Yes, we are in the East Room here at the White House awaiting for President Trump to come out

00:07:07.820 and obviously address the crowd that we have inside here.

00:07:10.760 We probably have, and I'm just eyeballing it here, maybe 100, 120 people in this room.

00:07:17.420 From what I've been told, many angel families here in this room, people that have been affected

00:07:23.320 by a lot of the migrant crime that's been happening in our country.

00:07:27.900 The president will deliver, from what I've been told, a short speech.

00:07:31.100 Then we'll go over and sign that Laken-Riley Act that was passed by Congress and signed

00:07:37.960 by Speaker Johnson last week.

00:07:40.260 From that, I anticipate perhaps maybe a few moments that he might take a few questions

00:07:44.540 from the press.

00:07:45.640 There is a large amount of press and people in this room.

00:07:48.660 So how that plays out, Jack, is yet to be seen.

00:07:51.640 I mean, it's incredible to see just in the, in some ways, a short period of time.

00:08:00.380 It's only been one year since this took place, and yet the legislation is being signed.

00:08:06.640 But in addition, we've had a complete turnover in government since then.

00:08:10.920 Brian, are you able to tell us, do you recognize any of the angel families?

00:08:14.820 Do you recognize any of the other special guests that are in attendance there?

00:08:18.400 I don't, unfortunately.

00:08:21.880 I'm kind of in the back, the way they brought in the press a little bit late, where everyone

00:08:26.960 was already in seat.

00:08:27.840 I wish I could identify some of the people in here, but apparently, unfortunately, I

00:08:32.640 can't.

00:08:34.020 But as soon as I get a little bit better ID on the situation, I can let you know.

00:08:38.560 But, you know, this is something that you said before.

00:08:41.160 This was a big campaign talking point.

00:08:44.960 It was really getting, you know, kind of these criminals off the street.

00:08:48.880 And I talked to Tom Holman earlier this morning about these ICE raids that he's been, you know,

00:08:55.060 conducting the last several days and just really apprehending some of the worst of the worst

00:08:59.680 that's on our city streets.

00:09:00.860 This, in a way, is a great backup to that as far as apprehending people that have been,

00:09:08.960 you know, arrested for other crimes and held in custody so they can just better check out

00:09:14.420 who they are.

00:09:14.860 Hang on.

00:09:15.620 We're getting a little bit of instructions from some people up front.

00:09:19.460 We might be getting close to start, Jack.

00:09:21.020 But, yeah, this is a great support to what Tom Holman is doing right now.

00:09:26.460 And we know how this microcrime has been over the last several years from this Biden open

00:09:33.180 policy, open border policy, should I say, that's been happening to this country.

00:09:37.420 Okay, and we can see now the ceremony is beginning.

00:09:46.960 President Trump about to walk in there.

00:09:51.180 The Angel families are seated.

00:09:54.740 Brian, is Tom Holman there?

00:09:56.000 Can you see is Tom there?

00:09:57.900 Oh, is that them coming in?

00:10:00.840 Well, let's see.

00:10:01.880 I don't, well, no, I don't believe.

00:10:03.760 If, Jack, I wish I could see if Tom was there.

00:10:07.500 I would imagine I just saw Susie Wiles walk in and sit down. 1.00

00:10:14.420 I'm trying to get a better shot.

00:10:16.240 And I don't know if, I don't want to lose a shot of that door of him walking in.

00:10:20.620 But if we were to pan the camera down and to the left to right,

00:10:24.080 you might be able to get a better idea of who is sitting here.

00:10:26.700 But, like I said, I'm sitting, standing behind the press, essentially, kind of out of the way.

00:10:34.020 If you could.

00:10:34.680 But, really, this thing is scheduled to start at 2 o'clock.

00:10:37.860 Obviously, we're sitting at 2.12 now.

00:10:44.620 I do have an opportunity when this is over.

00:10:47.560 Of course, President Trump could be meeting with the family one-on-one right now.

00:10:51.300 Yeah.

00:10:52.520 Yeah.

00:10:53.500 That's a good point.

00:10:54.660 He could be doing that prior.

00:10:55.700 We will have a few minutes with some angel families after this ceremony that we'll have for, you know, to push out a little bit later.

00:11:04.900 But, you know, this is a big moment in a lot of these people's lives.

00:11:08.720 They're able to, you know, get something that can help, you know, potentially save lives.

00:11:14.180 And that's what this was all about.

00:11:15.680 And, of course, Lake and Riley, a Georgia student there that was kidnapped, abducted, and, you know, later murdered by an illegal.

00:11:27.100 And this is just some of the stories that have unfolded over the last year or so with this open border.

00:11:33.660 I'm trying to get a better idea, Jack, exactly who else is in this room.

00:11:38.760 Obviously, a lot of the Trump staff is in this room as well.

00:11:41.500 A lot of people I recognize from the Trump campaign over the last couple of years are here.

00:11:47.720 A lot of them now have jobs in the administration, obviously.

00:11:51.460 And that's, I think, a good transition to building such a strong collective.

00:11:58.760 Let's see if we can get a shot of some of the people coming in now.

00:12:03.980 Let's see if we can.

00:12:07.180 And there we go.

00:12:07.960 Looks like we have Vice President J.D. Vance coming in as well.

00:12:16.580 Jim Jordan, Congressman Jim Jordan.

00:12:18.680 Just letting this play out, looks like a lot of people from the state of Georgia, obviously, the Georgia delegation, as far as the Republican Congress, everyone on board.

00:12:41.700 And that's basically it had bipartisan support for this bill.

00:12:44.960 But, Jack, as you know, there were some that simply could not get on the support of this act.

00:12:53.020 Let's see.

00:12:53.240 The music has cued.

00:12:54.800 Let's pay attention to that front door.

00:12:56.880 We are live here in the East Room.

00:13:07.600 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

00:13:14.960 Thank you.

00:13:36.680 Thank you.

00:13:38.740 Thank you.

00:13:39.340 Thank you.

00:13:40.140 Thank you very much.

00:13:45.680 Please, thank you very much.

00:13:48.520 Before we begin, I want to provide a brief report on the unprecedented success our country has been witnessing in recent weeks.

00:13:56.400 Since even before the election, we've been making extraordinary progress.

00:14:02.280 The American people gave us a clear mandate to save our country, and we won all seven swing states by large margins, historic.

00:14:12.280 Very importantly, we won the popular vote by millions and millions of votes.

00:14:17.500 Also, all 50 states, as you know, shifted toward the Republican Party, and that's never happened before.

00:14:24.300 All 50, every single one of them. 0.89

00:14:27.000 In our first week in office, we set records taking over 350 executive actions.

00:14:33.640 That's not been done before.

00:14:35.200 And it has reportedly been the single most effective opening week of any presidency in history.

00:14:43.260 And we want to keep it that way.

00:14:44.940 We want to keep it going.

00:14:51.500 We want to keep it going.

00:14:53.120 We've broken from decades of failed Washington policies and restored common sense and sanity to our government.

00:15:01.260 We've unleashed American energy, and we've already achieved record low illegal immigration.

00:15:06.760 As you see, there's nobody trying to get in.

00:15:10.180 And that's what we've been waiting for for a long time and gotten woke ideologies out of our government and out of our military.

00:15:17.080 The water has now begun flowing in California as we continue to increase the flow in coming days.

00:15:24.980 Nobody's seen anything like that.

00:15:26.700 And I've also taken strong action to regain control of the Washington bureaucracy.

00:15:32.200 Just for clarification purposes, because it was incorrectly reported yesterday, we have informed the federal workforce, which they've looked to do for many years,

00:15:42.900 that if they're working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule.

00:15:49.500 We don't want them.

00:15:57.100 We don't want them to work from home because, as everyone knows, most of the time they're not working.

00:16:03.460 They're not very productive.

00:16:05.020 And it's unfair to the millions of people in the United States who are, in fact, working hard from job sites and not from their home.

00:16:14.620 As federal employees, they must meet a high standard.

00:16:18.340 They're representing our government.

00:16:20.020 They're representing our country.

00:16:21.860 If they don't agree by February 6th to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated.

00:16:28.760 And we will, therefore, be downscaling our government, which is something that the last 10 presidents have tried very hard to do but failed.

00:16:38.240 Most of the people we're talking about have not been going to their federal offices in many, many years from even before COVID.

00:16:46.740 But they have nevertheless been paid.

00:16:49.380 Some have worked.

00:16:50.620 Some haven't worked.

00:16:51.640 And most of the studies say that some have just gone through the motions.

00:16:57.180 We may ask these people to prove that they didn't have another job during their so-called employment with the United States of America.

00:17:06.320 Because if they did, that would be unlawful, as you understand.

00:17:10.040 A lot of people are getting paychecks, but they're actually working other jobs.

00:17:13.880 So they'll have to prove that to us, that they weren't.

00:17:16.500 In any event, we're requiring them to show up to work or be terminated.

00:17:21.200 We think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work, and therefore our government will get smaller and more efficient.

00:17:29.420 And that's what we've been looking to do for many, many decades, frankly.

00:17:33.620 Thank you.

00:17:38.200 In addition, there was a short-term pause or funding freeze on certain discretionary spending payments, such as government grants,

00:17:48.760 only for us to quickly look at the scams, dishonesty, waste, and abuse that's taken place in our government for too long.

00:17:56.360 So, as was explicitly stated, this in no way affected Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or other entitlements that Americans depend on.

00:18:07.460 I've made abundantly clear from the very first day that I ran from office.

00:18:12.360 That was a long time ago now.

00:18:14.180 That's 2015.

00:18:15.560 If you think about it, I announced in 2015, and we won in 2016.

00:18:22.100 We did very well in 2020, but we did really well just recently.

00:18:26.920 And I'm restating right now to correct any confusion that the media has purposely and somehow, for whatever reason, created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,

00:18:37.320 have not been affected by any action we're taking in any way, shape, or form.

00:18:41.760 We are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse.

00:18:51.640 In that process, we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.

00:19:02.460 $50 million.

00:19:03.940 And you know what's happened to them?

00:19:05.980 They've used them as a method of making bombs.

00:19:09.560 How about that?

00:19:10.280 We stopped an attempt to make an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement.

00:19:16.680 We canceled $181 million in DEI training contracts.

00:19:21.620 This is just for the training of people in DEI, which has been terminated and completely terminated.

00:19:27.680 And we paused $1.7 billion in unauthorized payments to foreign organizations, including stopping more than $40 million that was on its way out the door to the very corrupt world, health organization,

00:19:43.680 which has not done its job and not done it properly.

00:19:47.140 We also blocked $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma.

00:19:59.600 $45 million, that's a lot of money for diversity scholarships in Burma.

00:20:05.100 You can imagine where that money went.

00:20:07.140 These were the types of payments, and many others.

00:20:10.860 I could stand here all day and tell you things that we've found.

00:20:13.880 And we have to find them quickly because we want the money to flow to proper places.

00:20:18.040 But these were the payments and types of payments affected by the temporary freeze, and the American people strongly support these efforts.

00:20:25.320 I talked about it during the campaign, and they voted for us in record numbers.

00:20:29.820 Every single day, we're now putting America first and fighting to get the most out of every single tax dollar for our great citizens.

00:20:39.980 We've gathered this afternoon to take another historic action.

00:20:46.020 However, in a few moments, the Lakin-Riley Act will become the very first bill that I proudly sign into law as the 47th President of the United States.

00:20:59.820 Lakin was a brilliant and beautiful 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia, the best in her class.

00:21:18.240 She was always the best.

00:21:19.480 They would say, Lakin, how do you do this?

00:21:22.960 And what do you do?

00:21:23.860 They were always asking her questions.

00:21:25.500 She was respected by everybody.

00:21:27.000 Even her teachers, they respected her so much.

00:21:29.980 From the time she was in first grade, Lakin knew she wanted to spend her time caring for others.

00:21:36.800 That's what she did.

00:21:38.120 To her friends and classmates, she was a light of warmth and kindness in every single room.

00:21:44.100 To her parents and family, she was everything in the world.

00:21:48.380 They've had a miserable period of time.

00:21:51.360 Just after 9 a.m. last February 22nd, Lakin went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia, but she was just never returned.

00:22:02.280 She never came back, did she, huh? 0.97

00:22:05.100 Parents are here.

00:22:06.420 Sister.

00:22:08.520 All of her relatives.

00:22:09.480 While on her run, Lakin was attacked, viciously assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and murdered by an illegal alien gang member who was set loose into our country by the last administration.

00:22:22.400 We are deeply honored to be joined today by Lakin's parents, Allison and John, and her sister, Lauren.

00:22:28.780 Thank you very much.

00:22:31.220 Thank you.

00:22:36.800 So sad.

00:22:37.640 We were together right after that happened, and it's a tremendous tribute to your daughter, what's taking place today.

00:22:49.180 That's all I can say.

00:22:50.360 But so sad we have to be doing it at all.

00:22:53.440 Thank you very much for being here.

00:22:55.960 To Lakin's family, we will keep Lakin's memory alive in our hearts forever, everyone's hearts.

00:23:02.200 With today's action, her name will also live forever in the laws of our country, and this is a very important law.

00:23:10.100 This is something that has brought Democrats and Republicans together.

00:23:14.500 That's not easy to do.

00:23:15.760 Lakin did it.

00:23:16.820 Lakin did it.

00:23:18.420 America will never, ever forget Lakin Hope Riley.

00:23:22.480 The vicious criminal who murdered Precious Lakin was an illegal alien member of the barbaric Venezuelan prison gang known as Trendy Aragua. 0.96

00:23:32.740 He trespassed across our southern border in 2022 and was apprehended by Border Patrol, but under the cruel policies of the last administration, instead of being deported, as he should have been, he was released into the United States, as were millions of other people, many of them very dangerous people.

00:23:56.680 And you see what we're doing, we're getting the hell out of here.

00:24:07.680 He was soon arrested again in New York City on charges of endangering a child, but because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies, as we have in California and many other places, which we're ending, we're going to end there.

00:24:23.200 He was released again to reoffend the Biden administration, then provided this illegal alien criminal with a free taxpayer funded flight from New York to Georgia, where he was arrested yet again, constantly, this time for stealing from a Walmart, along with his gang member brother, who was a bad one.

00:24:44.320 Only after being released a third time by the U.S. law enforcement did this cold-blooded criminal go out on that fateful morning, hunting for women on whom to pray.

00:24:56.300 That's what he did.

00:24:57.060 He hunted.

00:24:57.860 He hunted.

00:24:58.500 It was like a hunter.

00:25:00.900 We're going to show him who the hunter is.

00:25:03.320 This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen.

00:25:06.920 And as president, I'm fighting every single day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.

00:25:12.100 We don't want this to happen.

00:25:19.780 And under the law, thank you.

00:25:22.160 Under the law, I'm signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for theft, burglary, larceny, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, murder,

00:25:37.760 or any crime that results in death or serious injury.

00:25:41.560 In addition, for the first time ever, this act gives state governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive relief.

00:25:49.660 If any future administration ever again refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the United States, like happened for four long years.

00:25:59.520 And that was happening for four long years, frightful years.

00:26:11.520 Amazing.

00:26:12.300 You'd say, how can people do this?

00:26:14.380 How can they allow this to act?

00:26:15.820 How can they allow criminals to pour into our country and then try and defend it?

00:26:19.980 And they're still trying to defend it, but they can't.

00:26:23.660 That's why I'm here instead of somebody else, actually.

00:26:26.420 It's the biggest reason.

00:26:27.340 I believe it's the single biggest reason.

00:26:29.060 Inflation was horrible.

00:26:30.660 Many things were horrible during that administration.

00:26:33.320 When you look at what took place in Afghanistan, the way they got out, not that they got out, but the way so many things were horrible.

00:26:40.980 But to me, this was the worst of all.

00:26:44.280 It's a landmark law that we're doing today.

00:26:46.800 It's going to save countless innocent American lives.

00:26:51.000 I want to thank every House Republican, every Senate Republican, as well as the 12 Senate Democrats and the 48 House Democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill.

00:27:02.960 And many of them are with us today.

00:27:04.600 And I really do appreciate it.

00:27:06.060 And I very much especially appreciate the bipartisan support.

00:27:10.240 The Democrats, really, a big percentage of them came through.

00:27:13.780 And plenty of them wanted to.

00:27:14.940 They probably felt they couldn't, but they really wanted to.

00:27:18.580 They don't understand that would have made them a lot more popular, would have made them a lot better with their people.

00:27:25.780 The ones that didn't are going to be, they're going to be sorry because the people are not going to forget that they wouldn't sign.

00:27:33.000 This is a perfect, incredible tribute to an unbelievable young lady.

00:27:38.260 We're joined today by many great supporters of our new strong border policies.

00:27:44.020 And they are indeed strong, including Vice President Vance.

00:27:48.800 Thank you, J.D.

00:27:51.100 Secretary Scott Besson, who just got approved, by the way.

00:27:53.880 Where's Scott?

00:27:54.940 He just got approved.

00:27:56.480 Scott, I'm very impressed.

00:27:58.560 Got a lot of Democrat votes.

00:28:01.600 He got a lot of Democrat votes.

00:28:03.880 That's great.

00:28:04.320 I don't know.

00:28:04.660 Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

00:28:06.540 I'll have to think about that.

00:28:08.180 Secretary of Homeland Security, who's going to be fantastic.

00:28:12.380 I know her so well.

00:28:14.220 And I know it's probably not complimentary because she is a woman, but she is tough.

00:28:19.560 Where is she?

00:28:20.200 Where is Christy?

00:28:21.760 Christy?

00:28:22.360 Christy?

00:28:23.280 Right.

00:28:23.720 Stand up, please.

00:28:24.500 You have such an important job to do.

00:28:32.500 Really great.

00:28:33.320 Thank you very much.

00:28:34.240 And don't let that look fool you.

00:28:35.740 That look is, she's tough, and she cannot stand what she's, that she's having to sit

00:28:42.560 here and even listen to this today.

00:28:44.780 Another one who's done a job like nobody that I've seen in a long time.

00:28:49.920 Tom Holman.

00:28:50.580 He's my friend, but he is something special.

00:28:54.140 He is something special.

00:28:57.520 Great.

00:29:01.080 And Tom and Christy, the numbers are unbelievable what's happened.

00:29:04.240 And it's like, just shut down.

00:29:05.800 Nobody thought that was even possible.

00:29:07.520 It's just shut down.

00:29:08.480 They showed an area that a year ago had thousands and thousands of people rushing into our country.

00:29:14.840 And today there was nobody there.

00:29:16.920 It was like a beautiful sight.

00:29:19.700 And also Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso.

00:29:22.960 Great guy.

00:29:23.940 Great guy.

00:29:24.520 Thank you, John.

00:29:25.160 And I also want to thank the bill's sponsors, Senator Katie Britt.

00:29:32.960 Katie.

00:29:33.400 Thank you, Katie.

00:29:36.560 And Congressman Mike Collins.

00:29:39.480 And Mike, you were fantastic from Georgia.

00:29:42.940 He took this.

00:29:46.040 He loves this state, and he took this very personally.

00:29:48.520 So thank you very much, Mike.

00:29:51.020 As well as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.

00:29:55.380 Chuck is here someplace.

00:29:57.460 Chuck, thank you very much.

00:29:59.440 You look great.

00:30:01.640 And House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who is a special guy, special man.

00:30:08.860 And House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green.

00:30:13.140 Thank you very much.

00:30:14.360 Thank you, Mark.

00:30:15.080 And we have many other congressmen and senators, but I'm not going to introduce, because this

00:30:20.400 is about your daughter.

00:30:22.140 This is about something that's so important, and we're going to just go along.

00:30:27.000 Thank you also.

00:30:28.160 We have to say, Bert Jones is in the room, and Bert is your lieutenant governor, and he was

00:30:33.020 on this like you wouldn't believe.

00:30:35.340 Thank you very much.

00:30:36.240 I see you sitting there.

00:30:37.260 Thank you very much.

00:30:40.800 So we have state, local officials.

00:30:42.900 We have law enforcement organizations.

00:30:45.600 We have everybody.

00:30:46.620 Most of them are in the room or represented in the room, and they're incredible people,

00:30:50.900 and I've never seen them come together like they have for this.

00:30:54.160 I've done many of these, not of this kind, but different bills, different passages, having

00:30:58.980 to do with many different things, from Homeland Security, to Inner Security, to taxes, to 50

00:31:07.280 different items.

00:31:08.280 I've never seen such support as you have today and as your great daughter has today.

00:31:14.920 So I've never seen anything like it.

00:31:16.440 And we have to thank your daughter for that, because she's going to save a lot of lives.

00:31:22.060 She's going to be responsible for saving a lot of lives.

00:31:25.000 So I'd like to just say to the angel families, I've been with them, and they've been with

00:31:33.040 me from 2015 when I first got this crazy idea in my head to run for president because we

00:31:38.980 can do better as a country.

00:31:40.200 I want to thank so many of the people that are here that have been the angel moms, and

00:31:45.920 we call them angel moms, but they're angel families, fathers and sons and daughters.

00:31:50.700 But they've suffered tremendously, like you have, for no reason whatsoever.

00:31:56.280 I want to thank Alexis Nungari, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungari, murdered last

00:32:03.220 summer by two illegal alien gang members, released into the United States by Joe Biden's open 1.00

00:32:08.400 border, stupid policies. 1.00

00:32:11.080 And thank you very much, Alexis. 0.99

00:32:12.640 I want to thank you very much.

00:32:14.020 We had an amazing trip, and it was really special to meet you and your family.

00:32:19.920 I appreciate it very much so bad, so sad we have to be here, frankly.

00:32:25.020 And Jocelyn, as you know, is in our hearts, as she was then.

00:32:27.940 It was an amazing day we had, a great day, but it was a day of celebration of somebody

00:32:33.060 that unfortunately won't be with us.

00:32:35.760 But she is with us now.

00:32:36.940 You know that.

00:32:38.220 Here also is Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, killed two years ago by an illegal alien 0.97

00:32:43.740 who was led into our country by the last administration's ridiculous, weak policies. 0.89

00:32:49.640 Open border. 0.95

00:32:50.480 Can you imagine?

00:32:51.700 When I heard open border, I said, oh, that's terrible.

00:32:54.080 They're going to release their prisons all over the world.

00:32:57.000 They're going to release their prisons into our country.

00:32:59.140 That's exactly what happened.

00:33:01.040 Patty is joined by Rachel's brother, Michael, Rachel's daughter, Clementine, and sister-in-law,

00:33:06.760 Shannon.

00:33:07.200 Thank you all for being here.

00:33:09.460 We appreciate it very much.

00:33:10.860 Thank you very much.

00:33:12.260 Thank you.

00:33:13.100 With us as well is the loving family of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old girl, murdered in July

00:33:19.160 2022 by the MS-13 illegal alien gang member who is violent, vicious, and they knew it, and 0.58

00:33:26.560 they didn't do anything about it.

00:33:27.940 And I want to thank you to Kayla's mother, Tammy, and her grandmother, Kathy, and her stepfather,

00:33:34.240 Jeremiah.

00:33:34.800 Thank you very much.

00:33:37.440 And finally, I want to thank others who have also suffered this horrible scourge that goes

00:33:46.060 on with young people being killed, and other people, too, but young people, largely young

00:33:51.140 people being killed.

00:33:52.780 Thank you to Scott Root, the father of Sarah Root, killed at 21 years of age.

00:33:59.320 Think of that, 21, by an illegal alien.

00:34:02.140 Shouldn't have been in our country.

00:34:03.200 You would have never been in our country if we were here.

00:34:07.020 What a sad thing.

00:34:08.380 To each of these angel families, we love you, and we stand in awe of your courage and your

00:34:13.460 strength.

00:34:13.960 It's the toughest thing anybody has to go through.

00:34:15.880 Many of the angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration with this heartless 0.99

00:34:23.640 and foolish and really very, very arrogant and very, very dumb policies. 0.99

00:34:31.480 policies that aren't even believable when you talk about common sense. 0.99

00:34:36.300 I say we're the party of common sense, but the Democrats also, they have plenty of common sense, and that's why so many are here today and so many supported what we're doing.

00:34:45.460 The very government that was supposed to protect their daughters instead opened our borders and transported the world's most dangerous criminals straight into their communities.

00:34:55.020 They came from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world, not just South America.

00:35:02.660 People think South America.

00:35:04.120 They come from all over the world.

00:35:06.380 They come from every continent, and they came here by plane, and they were loaded onto buses, and they were driven right up to our border, and they drove right through the border, and nobody even said a word to them.

00:35:18.460 And in those buses and those cars and those trucks were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world.

00:35:23.820 As of last September, 425,000 illegal alien criminals were roaming free, including 13,099 convicted illegal alien murderers, of which about almost 50% killed more than one person, and they were roaming all over the country, in our farms, in our cities.

00:35:43.660 Under the Trump administration, we're moving with urgency and speed to get these vicious and violent criminals the hell out of our country,

00:35:51.160 and to restore law and order to our suburbs, our cities, and our towns.

00:35:55.240 And we're going to do it with Tom and with Christie and with all of the people that are working so hard on this.

00:36:00.940 This week, compared to a comparable time a year ago, think of this.

00:36:05.480 The number of illegal border crossers has already fallen by more than 100%.

00:36:09.860 And because the election was coming, they started getting a little bit tougher on the border.

00:36:15.980 They tried to follow our policies, and they did much better, but it still was horrible.

00:36:21.160 The numbers were still horrible.

00:36:22.740 So that's 100% over those.

00:36:24.360 They only did it because of the election, so they knew what they were doing was wrong.

00:36:29.880 And those who do cross the border, and you're seeing that every time.

00:36:35.540 All you have to do is turn on your television set or pick up a newspaper, read any form of new media,

00:36:42.320 because we have a lot of new media today, fortunately, that's letting the word get out.

00:36:46.680 But they're watching these people be captured and removed from our country.

00:36:51.320 Ice arrests have risen by 15 times, 15 times in just a short period.

00:36:57.560 And over the past eight days, the heroes of ice and Border Patrol, we can never forget Border Patrol.

00:37:03.160 Those people, I've gotten to know so many of them.

00:37:06.160 Our border czar, as you remember, never went to the border and never made a phone call.

00:37:10.020 She was the border czar.

00:37:11.040 She never made one phone call.

00:37:12.560 They went to the heads of border.

00:37:15.100 They went to the heads of ice.

00:37:16.240 Did you ever get a call?

00:37:17.120 No.

00:37:17.940 And she admitted she never made one call, but she was the border czar.

00:37:21.440 And that's exactly what our border was all about.

00:37:23.860 The heroes of ice have arrested thousands and thousands of illegal alien criminals, 0.98

00:37:28.800 including hundreds of gang members, traffickers, child predators, terrorists, and murderers.

00:37:33.980 For the first time in history, we're loading dangerous and illegal aliens into military aircraft 1.00

00:37:40.480 and flying them back to the places from which they came.

00:37:43.880 You probably read about Colombia two days ago.

00:37:46.480 They said, no, we're not taking them.

00:37:47.980 I said, we're going to take them.

00:37:49.880 You're going to take them.

00:37:50.800 You're going to like it, too.

00:37:52.260 You're going to take them.

00:37:53.160 They talked about, we're not going to take people that are in shackles. 0.94

00:38:03.460 I said, well, but the people that are in shackles are murderers. 0.98

00:38:06.440 They're drug lords. 1.00

00:38:08.000 They're rapists. 1.00

00:38:09.020 They're very tough people. 0.99

00:38:11.360 They make our criminals look like very nice people.

00:38:14.180 That's about the only thing that comes out of this.

00:38:16.120 And I said, could you imagine you're a pilot on the plane and you have your co-pilot and you're sitting there

00:38:20.820 and you have 150 people, no shackles, and they like to murder people.

00:38:26.540 This is not a good, this would not be a good flight.

00:38:30.680 So actually, so Colombia apologized to us profusely within an hour based on something I said,

00:38:38.360 meaning you're going to pay tariffs like nobody's ever paid tariffs before.

00:38:42.600 But they actually wanted to terminate his position.

00:38:48.480 They're essentially Congress met and they were very angry with them.

00:38:52.620 But they actually said they were going to send the presidential plane to pick up these criminals

00:38:57.440 and to bring them because they didn't want to inconvenience us or have us do a second flight.

00:39:02.520 And that's what they did.

00:39:03.840 And I appreciate it.

00:39:05.160 And I do appreciate the people of Colombia are wonderful people.

00:39:08.280 And the representatives really acted well.

00:39:10.320 And I appreciate it.

00:39:11.620 They took back that tough talk.

00:39:13.300 But, you know, we may have tough talk from others, but it's not going to mean anything.

00:39:17.200 They're going to all take them back and they're going to like it, too.

00:39:19.680 They're going to like it.

00:39:20.600 They're going to take it back and they're going to like it.

00:39:23.000 Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security

00:39:29.620 to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.

00:39:34.420 Most people don't even know about it.

00:39:35.940 We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. 0.92

00:39:45.280 Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. 0.63

00:39:50.500 So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.

00:39:52.260 This will double our capacity immediately, right?

00:39:56.160 And tough.

00:39:57.440 That's a tough place to get out of.

00:40:00.540 Today's signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all. 1.00

00:40:07.240 And it was just a purely it's just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this.

00:40:13.020 Now we need Congress to provide full funding for the complete and total restoration of our sovereign borders,

00:40:19.800 as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.

00:40:24.460 And these are illegal alien killers, criminals at levels that nobody's ever seen before. 0.99

00:40:30.860 And you would have known that.

00:40:32.860 And you were there when I said it.

00:40:34.720 I said everybody that's bad is going to be thrown.

00:40:37.440 If you look at Venezuela, Venezuela's crime is down 77 percent because they've taken their gang members, 0.51

00:40:45.080 their prisoners, their drug dealers, their drug lords.

00:40:49.000 They've shipped them all into the United States. 0.97

00:40:51.480 Many other countries, their crime is way down and our crime is not doing well.

00:40:56.460 But we're going to have it do really well very soon and we're shipping all these people back where they came from. 1.00

00:41:02.800 And now before I sign the Lakin Riley Act into law, I would like to ask Lakin's really incredible mother.

00:41:09.580 I've gotten to know a very sad day.

00:41:11.940 I got to know her.

00:41:13.800 But this is an amazing tribute to an amazing young person.

00:41:17.980 And if you could come up, Alison, and say a few words, that would be great.

00:41:21.640 Thank you very much.

00:41:26.460 Thank you, Ms. Trott.

00:41:40.700 We would like to thank Senator Katie Britt for her diligent bipartisan work to get this bill through the Senate. 0.76

00:41:47.660 We'd also like to thank Congressman Mike Collins for his unwavering passion and for leading on the Lakin Riley Act from the start.

00:41:58.160 Our family will forever be grateful for the prayers of the people across our nation and for helping to get this legislation into law.

00:42:06.360 We also want to thank President Trump for the promises he made to us.

00:42:10.720 He said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin.

00:42:17.320 And he hasn't.

00:42:18.820 He's a man of his word.

00:42:20.940 We trust that he will fight for the American people.

00:42:23.120 Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us.

00:42:37.600 But because of him, we can continue living, knowing that we will see Lakin again.

00:42:41.660 There's no amount of change that will ever bring back our precious Lakin, our hope moving forward, is that her life saves lives.

00:42:55.800 We're so thankful that her passion for helping others and her legacy for doing good in the name of Jesus Christ will carry on.

00:43:03.440 Thank you.

00:43:03.880 Thank you.

00:43:05.880 Thank you.

00:43:06.380 Thank you.

00:43:08.540 Thank you.

00:43:10.260 Thank you.

00:43:11.660 Thank you.

00:43:41.660 Thank you.

00:44:11.660 I don't think this is...

00:44:12.660 I respect that, but I don't think it's...

00:44:28.660 I can just tell you government is doing very well.

00:44:32.420 We're cutting way...

00:44:33.660 Thank you.

00:44:35.280 Thank you.

00:44:35.660 Thank you.

00:44:36.660 Thank you.

00:44:43.660 Thank you.

00:44:44.660 Thanks.

00:45:02.660 Thank you.

00:45:32.660 Thank you.

00:46:02.660 Thank you.

00:46:32.660 Thank you.

00:47:02.660 Incredible ceremony, very tearful response, of course, from Lake and Riley's family, her mother giving the remark on her daughter's passing, but also on the fact that this passing can be used to potentially and likely will,

00:47:32.660 and hopefully no family is going through.

00:47:34.660 And hopefully, no family ever does again.

00:47:37.540 Now, we know that this is the real world, and that's not how that works.

00:47:42.020 But at the same time, here you have a situation where those families are brought in. 0.90

00:47:50.620 Brian Glenn is there in the room.

00:47:52.640 Brian, tell us what's going on.

00:47:55.060 Give us some color as to the scene.

00:47:57.940 Yeah, Jack, we all just witnessed the gravity of this whole situation, how President Trump has, not only President Trump, I should say, the entire country has been really affected by what has happened in this with all of the illegal crime and things like that.

00:48:20.520 But it's, you know, proud to say that this president has stood next to his campaign promise to basically put this Lake and Riley bill into effect.

00:48:32.900 The room, as we later found out, Jack, was attended by not only several Georgia congressmen, but also Christy Noem, Department of Homeland Security, Vice President J.D. Vance, and others, and a few of the angel moms or angel families in attendance.

00:48:52.740 And, Jack, I've got to say this country is a lot better off now.

00:48:57.620 I do see Senator John Fetterman here.

00:49:00.100 He is in his classic hoodie and shorts.

00:49:04.400 Glad he could dress up for the occasion, Jack.

00:49:07.540 But this is, you know, met with bipartisan support, which is good to see on such a serious issue in this country, Jack.

00:49:17.680 Well, it was an incredibly serious issue.

00:49:19.700 Also, Brian, a huge news there from President Trump breaking essentially the story himself that he's going to be signing an executive order regarding Guantanamo Bay.

00:49:30.100 It was a 30,000-bed facility opening up.

00:49:33.320 Guantanamo was a place where I served at for about a year while I was there working with the detainees deployed down to Gitmo.

00:49:42.000 And, look, there's plenty of space.

00:49:44.440 And, in fact, for folks who don't know, this is a longstanding use of Guantanamo Bay.

00:49:48.120 It dates back to the Clinton era.

00:49:49.460 It even dates back to 1991.

00:49:51.740 George H.W. Bush used to use it for the Haitians.

00:49:54.480 It's been used for Cubans in the past.

00:49:56.320 So that really just goes to show that this administration is firing on all cylinders regarding the issue of the illegal alien invasion of our country. 0.87

00:50:04.860 You're right, and it's nice that he is going to open up that facility.

00:50:11.820 And, you know, I like the way he really explained the process in terms of what happened with the president of Colombia

00:50:21.160 and the way they did not want to inconvenience the president of transporting those prisoners, those detainees, back to Colombia.

00:50:31.120 Rather, they sent one of their planes to do it.

00:50:34.680 But that does show the amount of respect that the world has for President Trump in regards to this topic alone.

00:50:43.400 And I think, Jack, this would only translate into other topics financially, you know, foreign policy issues.

00:50:53.340 President Trump, you know, we've known this, that he is the leader of the free world.

00:50:59.220 And I would say whenever, regardless of what the policy is, Jack, if he says this is what needs to happen, that's going to happen.

00:51:08.960 And I think this is just an example of it.

00:51:11.380 But, Jack, what a wonderful day here in the East Room to see this very important bill come to life.

00:51:18.480 Well, and really just an incredible sea change from a year ago when, you know, these angel mothers and I certainly don't recall ever hearing Joe Biden ever highlight any of these.

00:51:33.080 You've got the family of Rachel Moran there, the family of Jocelyn Ungari there, so many others, in addition, of course, to the family of Lake and Riley, for whom the act is named.

00:51:44.500 But President Trump taking these people and inviting them to be there for folks who understand how the White House works or understand how just the sheer logistics of getting all that people together in one room is a feat in and of itself.

00:52:00.280 And, of course, President Trump working diligently to actually bring them all in. 0.67

00:52:04.440 And, Brian, it's kind of amazing to think that President Trump has only actually been in office for nine days.

00:52:13.040 Isn't that amazing?

00:52:14.080 I didn't think of what you and I have been covering for the last nine days.

00:52:20.180 And I've heard a lot of people in the briefing room just kind of hearing conversations that this is the most press that some of these people have seen in such a long time.

00:52:32.240 I mean, some people that have been here at the White House for 10, 15 years said they never have seen outside of the Trump presidency as much media, as much focus on everyday press briefings, as much focus on having someone like Carolyn Leavitt walked by the Pebble Beach here in front of the White House several times, stopped to take questions.

00:52:54.880 So did several other key administrative figures.

00:52:58.880 They are the most transparent.

00:53:00.180 And I think that's what you and I, to your point, you feel like there's been so much because they've been communicating what they're doing versus the last administration.

00:53:09.640 That's a good shot what you're looking at right now.

00:53:11.560 That is pretty much a lot of the Georgia delegation.

00:53:15.560 It's missing a few people on here, but that's who really got behind this from day one and Congressman Mike Collins looking at him and Brian Jack as well.

00:53:28.060 They have been key people in all of this.

00:53:31.680 Marjorie Taylor Greene being another one has been just putting the spotlight on this problem. 1.00

00:53:38.220 And as President Trump said several times, Jack, this is something that he doesn't want to have to do.

00:53:43.180 But at this point, this is what he has done to make this country safer.

00:53:48.680 Well, that's right.

00:53:49.480 We just about got a minute left here in the show.

00:53:51.620 So, Brian, thank you so much for covering this historic event for us here at the East Room of the White House.

00:53:56.600 Folks, and OK, that's the end of that ceremony, but that's not the end of the fireworks because President Trump has so much more to do.

00:54:06.020 Also, RFK, we saw that incredible or just round robin discussion that he had, sparks flying between himself, Elizabeth Warren, a number of the other senators in there.

00:54:17.480 You can really see who's taking the Pfizer bucks.

00:54:20.460 You can really, really see it.

00:54:22.280 But I think RFK is going to be confirmed.

00:54:23.880 And then tomorrow, RFK pulling a double shift because he's got to go up again.

00:54:29.480 Today was the Finance Committee.

00:54:30.840 Tomorrow will be the Health Committee.

00:54:32.800 We've also got Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard.

00:54:36.480 So tomorrow morning, it goes, there are going to be all three of them basically simultaneously from 930 on RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, Senator Kaye Loeffler.

00:54:47.560 It goes later today at 3.30 p.m., just about a half hour's time there before Senate Small Business.

00:54:53.500 So, folks, stay tuned.

00:54:55.420 There's a lot going on.

00:54:56.960 And Human Events Daily is bringing you directly to the driver's seat.

00:55:01.860 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to let it short.

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Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - January 29, 2025

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HISTORIC SIGNING OF THE LAKEN RILEY ACT

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