On today's episode of Human Events, Jack Posobiec talks about the latest ICE raid in Texas, the latest on the Epstein case, and why we don't need to hear about Jeffrey Epstein ever again.
00:09:05.500So, I don't know, maybe, maybe there's something there to go, you know, you take the python hunters, but then you clean up one swamp, but then you go to D.C. and clean up, I don't know, or I guess Tallahassee in your case.
00:09:29.520Well, when it comes down to it, though, Congressman, when we look at everything that Florida has done and the way that the Florida delegation and everyone have put together this new program regarding illegal aliens, you know, I've heard from the liberals, I've heard from reporters, they say, oh, America doesn't want this, America doesn't support it.
00:09:47.520And yet I look at the polls, and every single poll that's coming up has been deportations, deportations, deportations, even in states like Florida, California, Texas, states that are closer to the border, states that are closer to the South, Southern Hemisphere, they want all of this.
00:10:02.400Is that, what kind of response are you seeing from your constituents and the people of Florida regarding this?
00:10:07.100I think people are happy that the state of Florida has taken this very seriously to the extent that the new facility was set up to help deport criminal illegal aliens and a lot of the people that Joe Biden let in over the last four years.
00:10:22.200I mean, that's what's overwhelmed every city in the country.
00:10:25.120That's where all the crime has come from, not in total, but definitely in part.
00:10:29.420And so I think people will just want to see action happen quickly.
00:10:33.300They don't want to see political statements that don't go anywhere.
00:10:38.240That's why, you know, I know there was a lot of people who were concerned about the spending side of the one big, beautiful bill.
00:10:44.860And I'm concerned about the spending side.
00:10:46.580But at the end of the day, we had to get Tom Holman and Kristi Noem $150 billion in order to start these deportations and have the manpower, the bed space, and the logistical capabilities to start that mission.
00:11:00.760And it's going to be an arduous mission.
00:11:04.020We're going to have to be consistent about it.
00:11:07.120And I think on a broader level, when you talk about the need for deportations, it's a real conversation about what is immigration going to be in the United States?
00:11:15.640Are we going to be haphazard how we have been the last 30 years, depending on if it's Democrats in control or Republicans in control?
00:11:24.360Or are we finally going to say we're going to have secure borders, we're going to have one pathway in, you comply with the pathway in, or you're not allowed to come into the United States?
00:11:35.140And I think that if we are consistent with immigration policy overall and securing the border, then the American people might be open to talk about visas.
00:11:44.300And I stress, only then might they be open to talking about it.
00:11:52.760They can't stay here and just think that they can live in our, you know, go to our hospitals, get welfare, work in the shadows, and think that's going to support the American way of life and the things that the American people want to see happen in the United States.
00:12:08.060It does not happen, and we can't allow that to continue.
00:12:11.160So there have to be deportations, and we're going to follow through.
00:12:15.300And by the way, that's one of the things that whenever I go out and talk about this to people, I always bring up that it seems that people say, they look at it and they say, oh, it's this almost a romantic description of, oh, they're coming from such hardship, and they're coming to the United States, and we've got to help them.
00:12:31.620And, you know, think of the, you know, the poem on the foot of the Statue of Liberty, et cetera, et cetera.
00:12:36.760But then I say, what about the people who live here?
00:12:39.560What about the people that are actually in our cities and in our towns and trying to go out for these jobs and trying to actually go out there, trying to buy a home if you're a first-time homeowner or if you're trying to have to compete?
00:12:54.020I don't want to have to wait for three hours in the ER.
00:12:57.260And people just, they just don't talk about it.
00:12:59.460They just don't talk about the massive stress this 10-plus million people is putting on all of our systems.
00:13:06.000And by the way, that affects you if you're working class, it affects you if you're middle class, and it certainly benefits you if you're in that top 1%.
00:13:12.900Well, I'll give you one example, and you touched on it a little.
00:13:18.900So let's take a look at the last four years.
00:13:22.200Four years ago, COVID, in a lot of blue states, definitely blue cities, kids were kept out of the classroom for almost two years.
00:13:29.460So they weren't allowed in the classroom.
00:13:31.380So American children were already falling behind.
00:13:34.700Then Joe Biden let in, last count, 1.3, 1.4 million children into the, just children, let them into the United States.
00:13:43.420Well, where do you think those kids were?
00:13:45.020A lot of them were in American classrooms spread all across the United States.
00:13:48.580So now you have a kid in an American classroom who doesn't speak English, who by any metric is two to four grade levels behind at age, and they're in the same classroom with an American student who was already kept out of the classroom for two years.
00:14:13.080American kids who are poor, white, black, Hispanic, they're not even having full access to the resources they need to catch up because we're now having to allocate resources to children who were allowed into the country by Joe Biden through illegal immigration.
00:14:28.200Like, that's really how dastardly this stuff is.
00:14:31.220And to your point, people have, I think the left wants to promote this romantic view of people trying to come into the country and better themselves.
00:14:40.360But the reality is the drug cartels were making $12 billion a year trafficking people into the United States.
00:14:46.760You had NGOs who were profiting, who were literally profiting in terms of getting more government largesse to help support illegal immigration on both sides of the border.
00:14:56.700We've become a big business, both in the United States and South and the border.
00:16:16.180But I wanted to get Congressman Byron Donalds on here because you were one of the chief, I would say, just quarterbacks for this thing all the way through its passage.
00:16:59.940It's actually interesting through this whole process.
00:17:02.100In the House, we were, you know, dealing with this for really about seven to 10 months to get ready for the president signing the bill and doing all the work.
00:17:12.060The border stuff was really not even up for debate.
00:17:18.220There was no real hard debates on what we were going to do when it came to securing the southern border and giving the president the resources that he needs.
00:17:27.660Where it really got tough was spending.
00:17:30.960And I'll tell you, even though as Republicans it was universal, we were going to secure the border and do what needed to be done to begin deportations out of the United States because that has to happen.
00:17:43.720The spending piece is of real concern.
00:17:46.740We have a ticking time bomb, if you will, and that's called the bond markets.
00:17:52.880What it is costing the United States to borrow money, the cost of those borrowings continue to rise because not just of the amount of debt that we have, but it's how reckless our deficits are.
00:18:04.860And so even though one big, beautiful bill is done and we got that to the president's desk, he signed it.
00:18:14.360There's a lot more work that we have to do in Washington.
00:18:16.920We got to get long-term deficits under control.
00:18:20.540And the reason why reconciliation is really helpful in that is because you don't have to even deal with the Democrats.
00:18:26.980I'll tell you right now, if it weren't for 10 members of the House and a handful of the senators, we would have cut significantly more spending.
00:18:35.480We absolutely would have because if we continue to borrow money at this velocity, it will begin to increase the cost of capital for every American.
00:18:46.100And when I say cost of capital, what I mean is what it costs you to borrow money for a home, what it costs you to borrow money for a car, credit card rates.
00:18:53.420If you're a small business, you're working capital lines of credit, what it costs for you to borrow money for equipment, et cetera, the costs will go up on that.
00:19:01.760And that begins to create an almost insurmountable burden on the quality of life and also on purchasing power in the United States.
00:19:10.720And at the end of the day, when you're talking economics, it's really about the purchasing power for individuals.
00:19:17.980How many goods or services can they buy with that dollar?
00:19:20.500And if the cost of our debt continues to ride, it will have an upward pressure on, frankly, the weight, quality of life, and it will decrease purchasing power in the United States.
00:19:33.240So we have to get serious in Washington.
00:19:35.480Glad we got the president's agenda through.
00:20:36.040So this is something that, as you said, Congressman, it's something that if it gets out of hand once, it's going to take a really long time to be able to tame that.
00:20:44.720And, you know, I did like a CPAC Japan, you know, last year.
00:20:48.540And I remember, so you go to buy a soda and say, what do you mean this thing costs 10,000 yen to buy a soda?
00:20:56.140And you realize what it does to your currency.
00:20:58.920You realize what it does to your country and your purchasing power if you run into those waters.
00:21:04.400So Japan is, it's a real, I think, just a case study in how this stuff can get out of control very, very quickly.
00:21:12.800And obviously something that we don't want to get into.
00:21:14.920And that's, I think, why President Trump is so focused on being able to grow the American economy through that domestic growth rather than just government spending and largesse.
00:22:41.060Like, it should be 30 hours a week, quite frankly, if you really explain this stuff to the American people.
00:22:45.540The other thing that we did were eligibility checks.
00:22:48.380Most states have an error rate north of 10% in food stamps and in Medicaid, meaning there are people who are on these programs who are not eligible to be on these programs, but they're still on the programs anyway.
00:23:01.720So all we said was, well, let's make sure we have more rapid eligibility checks.
00:23:06.840You would have swore we were cutting people's arms off by doing that.
00:23:09.680No, all we're saying is, if you are qualified and you are eligible to be on this program, you just have to verify that you're eligible to be on the program.
00:23:18.860And if you don't meet the eligibility, then you can't stay on.
00:24:08.100On August 16th, you're invited to be a part of a national movement to revive our culture, to reawaken the heart of our nation, and to strengthen the conviction of our children.
00:24:23.000It's a nationwide day when hundreds of thousands of families gather at local libraries, read stories that reflect timeless values, and pray for our children and our country.
00:24:34.560At a time when truth is being challenged and families feel under pressure, this is a chance to stand together.
00:24:43.260Let's show up boldly in our biggest numbers yet.
00:24:46.380Find out how to get involved, and I'll see you at the library.
00:24:49.380All right, Jack Pasoba, here we are back.
00:24:57.420Human events, daily Washington, D.C., and that was an incredible announcement from our friends over at Brave Books, and we've got the person who made that announcement.
00:25:36.220It's a national event where tens of thousands of children, together with their parents and grandparents, are meeting in the public square at public libraries, and we are taking back culture.
00:25:48.840And we're going to be doing it through prayer time, singing patriotic songs, and story time.
00:26:30.080By the way, I don't know if you know this, but when you and I did that one last year, and we had Pastor John Amachuco there, and we had just such a huge crowd down in northern Virginia, that that was actually the very first event.
00:26:45.780So when I got up to do my brave book, The Island of Free Ice Cream, that was my son who came up and read the book with me.
00:26:53.700That was the first event that he ever spoke at publicly, you know, outside of, like, the family in his entire life.
00:27:00.780And it just goes to show you the power of brave books, the power of reading.
00:27:06.940And by the way, the power of reading in public in an event like this, because I could see how it inspired him to want to share that with the rest of the world.
00:27:17.400And he was able to do so without any fear of public speaking or anything.
00:27:21.980That was the first time, and you were right there to see it.
00:27:27.060And what I love about this, Jags, is it's turning out to be something so much bigger than just reading books.
00:27:31.100I mean, I'm not sure the last time that many parents took their kids to a library to read books to them, but it's bigger than that.
00:27:39.100It's actually an opportunity to win back the culture as people who love God, prioritize family, and are grateful for this country.
00:27:48.280And the other side is advancing their values every single day.
00:27:51.520So if we don't stand up and fight for our values now, we won't have the freedom to live for them later, right?
00:28:02.480It's like Reagan said, if we ever forget that we're one nation under God, we'll be a nation gone under.
00:28:09.480And so we must take advantage of opportunities like this to teach our children this and get them to love the things that God loves and hate the things that he hates.
00:28:21.020And by the way, the left already understands this intrinsically.
00:28:25.160This is why, and you and I have talked about this before in previous years when we've done the Sea of the Library event, where every library you go to, almost every library, it doesn't even matter how small your town is in some cases.
00:28:38.040Because wherever your local communist is, I always joke about this, wherever your local Marxist is, they target your library.
00:28:44.240Why? Because they understand that libraries are nodes of information, so they're nodes of influence.
00:28:50.280And when you walk in, what's the first thing you see?
00:28:53.440And everybody knows what table I'm talking about.
00:28:55.200And you've got Ibram X. Kendi, and you've got Wokeness, and DEI, and CRT, and all this complete nonsense and gendered stuff that has nothing to do with just the basics of reading, the basics of learning.
00:29:09.700But what are they doing? It's an operation, a cultural, psychological operation where they're going to kill them when they're very young, when they're impressionable.
00:29:18.060And they're saying, we want you to have our culture.
00:29:21.260We want you to think this about these topics, and we are directly going in to program your children.
00:29:27.700If you're just dropping your kids off and saying, hey, have fun at the library, well, that's the first table they're going to see, and maybe they're going to pick up one of those.
00:29:34.100And they're doing it over and over and over.
00:29:36.700So that's why I've always commended Brave Books and your work and try to be as supportive as I possibly can.
00:29:42.180And I strongly encourage everyone to get involved with this because you do need to take back the culture through libraries.
00:30:07.340Jack, I'm sure, is going to be talking all about it because he's going to be there.
00:30:09.760Go to seeyouatthelibrary.com, find a local library near you that's participating, or sign your library up for it.
00:30:17.160And we'll show you how to do all of it.
00:30:18.640There's the map on your screen right now, and it's just spreading and it's growing.
00:30:23.700Remember, somebody is going to capture the future for your children.
00:30:29.320And I believe it's those who lean in and do the hard work of reading stories to them when they're little.
00:30:36.160So if you and I show up and we stand with truth, love, and conviction, we can and will reshape the narrative.
00:30:44.900It's so important, you know, and I was floored, by the way, last year, and we saw the big one that we were doing.
00:30:52.560But then I took a minute to look at the map and I said, oh, my gosh, because even as we were driving from where we live to where this event was,
00:30:59.580we must have drove past almost a dozen of them just in, you know, and the area we're at.
00:31:04.420We live in the D.C. area, so not exactly a conservative bastion.
00:31:07.560But there are pockets of conservatives, of Christians, and just people who love America, which, by the way, isn't political at all,
00:31:17.360even though they've tried to make it political, where people are saying we want to do this and we absolutely want to be there.
00:35:24.460My wife loves watching that, seeing it and seeing how you can make healthy stuff for your family without having to break the bank or out having to go to some exotic food suppliers or anything.
00:35:35.800Just normal stuff that you can find around.
00:35:37.820But, you know, just make different choices when you're going around the shelves.
00:35:40.720And what else I love about Brave Plus is when you do it, we do it through the subscription model.
00:35:46.140So we get the book every month, which is great.
00:35:48.460My kids are always waiting for the next one.