NO KINGS Protester Calls For People To SHOOT ICE, Tom Homan SLAMS Extremists ft. Tom Homan
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In this episode, we discuss the growing threat to ICE agents in the wake of the nationwide "No Kings" protest, and how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responding to the growing violence and calls for ICE agents to be shot and killed.
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And one of the reasons we have the most secure border in the history of the nation right now
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is because of President Trump's executive orders and his leadership. Two, the men and women of
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Border Patrol who stand on that line enforcing law. And three, the consequences. Over a thousand
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ICE teams are on the streets every day. We're showing the whole world, if you got by, if you
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get by, we're looking for you. And that stops many, many people from using their entire life savings,
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putting their hands on criminal cartels to take that dangerous journey. The actions of ICE is one
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of the reasons we had the most secure border in history, this nation. Violent symbolism. Threats
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steal the show at the nationwide No Kings protest. Many of you have already seen this video. It's
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from the DHS. It's from a No Kings liberal. This is not Antifa. This is not some fringe extremist.
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This is mainstream liberal protest in daylight on a microphone. Listen to this.
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You got to grab the guns. We got to turn around the guns on this fascist system.
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These ICE agents got to get shot and wiped out. All right. Today, we're going to talk about
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how we can find out and how much we can find out. So this is DHS pointing out at a Chicago No Kings
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rally. This man called for ICE agents to be shot. We've heard reports out of Oregon and Illinois
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that local police are collecting evidence to criminally charge and arrest federal agents.
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In California, Newsom says, take your mask off. Otherwise, you will be criminally charged misdemeanor
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starting January 1st. And a Chicago judge says ICE agents can be arrested at courthouses
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because this one crime is now protected. Well, I've got a lot to ask about this because I'm concerned
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about the escalation. We're going to bring in, we've got Tom Homan. Let me fix that. There we go.
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Tom Homan will be joining us. Let's get it going. Pull it up. We are currently loading.
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DHS agents can be arrested and Trump wins on right to deploy.
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We pulled you in. We can hear you now. Can you hear me?
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I'm doing pretty well. Actually, how are you doing? I think it's actually an important question
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considering the violence and the threats. How are you doing?
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I'm doing all right. Look, it's a tough job, but I'm not going anywhere. And we're going to keep
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doing what we're doing. I mean, they're not going to stop us from keeping President Trump's promise,
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make this country safe again, arrest those here illegally. And that's exactly what we're doing.
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We're going to keep doing it. We're going to do it today. We're going to do it tomorrow,
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Right on. Well, I think most people do know who you are. Do you want to give a brief overview of
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your role in immigration enforcement, what your job is?
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Well, look, I'm the border czar and President Trump. I report directly to President Trump.
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He brought me on to do three things. Number one, secure the border. Number two,
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oversee the biggest deportation operation this country's seen. And three, find over the 300,000
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reportedly missing children that the last administration released on vetted sponsors to find those kids.
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That's the three pillars. I got my arms wrapped around, and that's what I'm doing every day.
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There are a lot of stories. I got a lot of questions. We've got threats to arrest federal
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agents. But I'll start here. This viral video from Chicago, the No Kings protest. It's a man saying
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that people should buy guns and shoot ICE agents. What's terrifying about this, I think people need
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to understand, is this is not, it appears, some far-left extremist in a basement plotting a terror
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attack. This appears to be a run-of-the-mill mainstream liberal guy in broad daylight at a
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massive liberal protest organized by NGOs on a microphone calling for people to kill federal
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agents. I think it's obvious the DOJ is going to go after them, but I'm curious your thoughts on
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this degree of escalation. What do you think should happen, and what do you think will happen?
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Well, look, I said back in March, I think in March, I said if the hateful rhetoric didn't get
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tamped down, there was going to be bloodshed. Someone's going to die. Now, I was hoping I'd be
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wrong, but I wasn't, right? So we had three shootings just in Texas alone, where one gunman
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attacked a Border Patrol training facility. He ended up being killed by the BORTAC agents inside
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absolutely. Another one, they had a group of people show up at a processing center,
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detention center outside of Dallas, a group of them, and a local law enforcement responded to
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assist our agents, and he was shot in the neck. Then we had this shooting in Dallas, where a sniper
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intended to shoot ice agents shooting into a blacked-out van that was transporting detainees and
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killed detainees. And so, unfortunately, I was right, and I'll say it again. If the rhetoric doesn't
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stop, there will be more bloodshed. I've seen this movie before, and I actually thought after
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these three incidents that maybe the hardcore left that is pushing this hateful rhetoric would stop
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when they see the consequences of this rhetoric, but they haven't. They doubled down. That was
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evidence this weekend in the No Kings protest. And these stories, look, there's always nuts on both
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sides, but I'm not really concerned as much with the nuts on the left with the rhetoric as I am with
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members of Congress. Governors, mayors, elected members of Congress who want to vilify ICE for
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enforcing the laws that Congress enacted, right? ICE isn't out there making this up. They're
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enforcing laws that were acted in the federal statute. They are funded, appropriated by Congress
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to enforce these laws. So people don't like what ICE is doing. I've said this a lot of times. Go protest
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Congress. Tell them to change the laws. But for any member of Congress, for any mayor or governor who
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wants to push this hateful rhetoric, I find it hard to believe, because I think, I find it hard to
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believe that they just continue to do this. Because I would think the number one responsibility
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of any member of Congress, any mayor, any governor, is protection of the communities. And ICE is out there
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concentrating on public safety threats, the worst first. And the data clearly shows that's exactly
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what they're doing. Approximately 70% of everybody they arrest, it's a criminal. So every criminal
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alien, they take out of that neighborhood, makes that neighborhood safer. So why can't we be
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shoulder to shoulder on that and make this country safer? I'm actually going to quote you on this one
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from that viral clip you had when being questioned by AOC. First, I'll clarify with respect the 70%
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number for most people. You're referring to, these are violent criminals who, on top of being illegal
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immigrants, have committed more serious crimes. But just to throw it back to what you said in that
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hearing, entering the country illegally is a crime. 100% of these people are being arrested
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for a crime they committed. And the majority, 70%, you're saying it's more serious crimes than just
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illegal entry. Oh yeah, they're public safety threats, right? Entering a country, you're right,
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correct, entering a country illegally is a crime. So in fact, they've all committed crimes. But we're
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talking a public safety threat. I want to separate a public safety threat because that shows that
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President Trump's keeping his promise to American people that we're concentrating on a worse first.
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We're concentrating on those public safety threats who endanger life in our communities. So that is
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what we're going to keep pushing for. The left can keep saying we're out there arresting brown and
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black people. It's just ridiculous because ISIS arrested people from 181 different countries.
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That's almost every country in the world. We arrest people from Europe. We arrest people from Asia.
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We arrest people from Central and South America. So it's not about brown and black people. It's
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about criminals. It's about public safety threats. And look, 70% criminal. Who's the other 30%? Many
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of them are national security threats. Most national security threats don't have a criminal history
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because they're laying low to do their dirty deed down the road, right? A lot of them, a lot of who we
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arrest are fugitives. They had due process at great taxpayer expense. A federal judge ordered them
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deported. But rather than leave, they became a fugitive. You're damn right we're looking for
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them. We're enforcing laws and our job is to execute those fine orders because the message we're going
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to send to the whole world, it's not okay to enter this country illegally. It's not okay to commit a
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crime after you hear illegally. And finally, it's not okay to ignore the federal judge's orders.
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We're going to look for you and remove you because we want to send that message to the whole world.
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There are consequences. And one of the reasons we have the most secure border in the history of the
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nation right now is because of President Trump's executive orders and his leadership. Two, the men
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and women of Border Patrol who stand on that line enforcing law. And three, the consequences. Over
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a thousand ICE teams are on the streets every day. We're showing the whole world, if you got by,
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if you get by, we're looking for you. And that stops many, many people from using their entire life
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savings, putting their hands of criminal cartels to take that dangerous journey. The actions of ICE is
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one of the reasons we had the most secure border in history of this nation.
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You brought up these terror attacks on ICE facilities. Chicago, there were a handful of
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vehicle rammings. We saw the initial story was rather shocking where the vehicle was reportedly
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surrounded. This woman rams the, I'm not sure if it was ICE or CBP, but they got out, returned,
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they opened fire on the woman. I read reports that Chicago police were instructed to clear the area
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and not provide assistance. And then we heard that gang members in Chicago are being offered bounties
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to kill ICE agents, DHS agents, CBP or otherwise, and that Mexican gangs are now increasing that.
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It feels like with the institutional opposition in Illinois combined with the gang presence that
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it's getting pretty dangerous for our federal law enforcement agents that, as you mentioned,
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the duly elected popular president, won the popular vote, has asked these men to care at the law as the
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will of the voter. And now they're facing criminal threats and institutional opposition.
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Do you have concerns about the escalation in Chicago, particularly with these bounties and these
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Yes, I do. And every night before I go to sleep, I pray that every man and woman of Border Patrol ICE go home to their
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families. I also pray that those are arresting. No one dies. But the bounties placed on Border Patrol ICE is an
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escalation. And look, the criminal cartels in Mexico, they're hurting, right? On the last four
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years, when the border's wide open, they're making record amount of money in smuggling aliens, a record
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amount of money in sex trafficking of women and children, a record amount of money moving dope
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across that border, specifically fentanyl that killed a quarter million Americans. Now we have the most secure
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border in our lifetime. These cartels are hurting. Matter of fact, they're looking at expanding
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operations in Asia and Europe because they know it's tough here. So look, they're attacking the very
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people who's affecting their bottom line, the money they're making. And we all know gangs here in the
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United States help distribute narcotics for the cartels. I mean, the cartels used to just be in
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charge of smuggling the drugs into the country and go to the cities and be distributed. Now the cartels have
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a presence in the United States and every major city in this country to take over the interior operations
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of the distribution with those major cities. So yeah, taking out ICE, threatening ICE and
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Border Patrol agents, they're trying to protect their bottom line to open up that business opportunity
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again. But I got news for them. The men and women in ICE and Border Patrol will keep doing this job.
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They're under a great threat, but they're standing up and putting a gun on their hip every day,
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putting that Kevlar vest on to do what this country needs them to do, enforce the laws and remove
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these public safety threats. The job's always been dangerous. It's a lot more dangerous now,
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but I haven't talked to one ICE agent or one Border Patrol agent that wants to stop and go
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away because of threats. They're doubling down, they're tripling down. They're not going to let
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the cartels decide how this country operates. They're not going to let the cartels threaten them
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and not enforce the law. They're going to do the right thing. Because I tell you,
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with a half a million arrests already, look at how much safer this nation is under President
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Trump's leader. Look what he did in Washington, D.C., what he's doing in Memphis, right? What
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we're doing in Chicago, what we're doing in Portland. I mean, we're making these communities
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safer again. And the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol, they now get to do their job that
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they weren't able to do for four years. The morale's at an all-time high. No one's going to stop them
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from doing what they've been to do what they swore and oath to do and that they believe needs to be
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done because these men and women are patriots and they're going to keep doing this job every day,
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despite the hate, despite the threats. I'm from Chicago. I grew up there. I spent my first
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23 years there. A couple months in between, I had briefly visited other places, but 23 years in
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Chicago before I left. And a lot of it had to do with crime and opportunity. I have friends from
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the city still. I've known my whole life. And I even employed some and moved them out here to work
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with me on the shows that we do. And I asked them, growing up, we had criminal gangs threatening us,
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robbing us. It was just the way of life in Chicago. You have gun violence. And I said,
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what do you think when you see these DHS guys or the National Guard? It's laughter. Is this a joke?
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For me, I can imagine walking down the street and I see these videos of these CBP guys walking down
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the street. I'd be like, howdy officers. And I'd keep walking and I wouldn't think twice.
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If someone asked me, were I still living there? Part of the reason why I got away from it,
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I've been shot at for no reason. Would you prefer federal law enforcement patrolling Chicago to keep
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it safe? I'd say it's about time the mayor asked for help from the federal government to deal with
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the hundred years of violence the city has been going through. So what's crazy to me now is we see
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this political move. These Democrats are acting like it's an invasion. It's evil. It's wrong.
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They are opposing law enforcement that's actually keeping the city safer. You as a citizen of
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Chicago have literally nothing to fear as a resident. But what do we end up seeing at the
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Broadview facility, which is just slightly west of Chicago proper? A judge ruled that these agents,
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that the ICE facility had to remove the barricades protecting them from violent rioters who had been
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harassing and attacking law enforcement now for, what is it, weeks. I'm curious your thoughts on this
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institutional level. You mentioned, you know, you got to follow the rules, the orders of these
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judges. And ICE did. They took the barriers down, even at great risk to themselves. What do you think
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of the institutional opposition? It feels like they're opposing you for the sake of opposing you,
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and they're making things less safe. Well, they are making things less safe. And I think it's a
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coordinated attack. Look, they do not want President Trump to be successful. Every day we're out there,
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you know, they keep attacking men and women, Iceland, Border Patrol, and this administration.
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Bottom line is, for the last four years, over 10.5 million illegal aliens came to our southern
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border. Fast majority released in the United States. Now that President Trump is pulling the
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curtain back, I know they weren't properly vetted. Look how many criminals they released,
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public safety threats released. And we're wrestling and taking them out. We have a secure border now.
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When they claimed for the last four years, the border was secure. They want President Trump to
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fail because if President Trump succeed, which he's doing, that pulls the curtain back in the last
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four years of an open border, a lawless immigration system where ICE agents were not allowed to enforce
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immigration law. Border Patrol agents were not allowed to enforce immigration law on the border.
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So now we're back to work. We're doing right now what people haven't seen in four years. So I think
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a lot of them are in shock. Now we're actually back there doing what we've done for decades.
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What we're doing right now is no different than what we've done for decades, other than the problem
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is so big because the millions of people, many criminals, they released the United States.
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We need the help of DEA and FBI and Secret Service and ATF. We need the help of National Guard to come
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and protect our federal buildings, to protect our officers. It's because the problem has been so big.
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What the American people are seeing right now is that the problem the Biden administration created
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is so big that President Trump, in a genius move, said, OK, it's going to take all the government to
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fix this. It's going to take all the government to make this community safe again. That's exactly
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what you're seeing. But don't let anybody fool you. The pushback on all these politicians on the left,
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don't let Trump succeed. We can't give him a win. And that's our number one concern. It's not about
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the safety and security the communities are responsible for. I've said this many times
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and I mean it. They hate Trump more than they care about the community because they really care about
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the danger in the communities. You want all law enforcement working together. No stovepipes.
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Local law enforcement works in front of law enforcement. I think we learned that after 9-11
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that there should be no stovepipes. Law enforcement should work with law enforcement. Let's remember who
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the terrorists were in 9-11. Many of them were non-criminal aliens that are here unlawfully.
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So we're going to keep doing this job. President Trump's going to keep his promise. But I don't
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think they're going to stop. I think they don't want Trump to succeed. And every day he succeeds,
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it just irritates them. And they're going to push back that much more.
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You said you think they hate Trump more than they care about pushing.
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They hate Trump more than they care about the security of the communities. Because if I was a mayor
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and I got federal law enforcement coming to me and said, look, I don't want you to be an
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immigration officer. I'm not asking you to be an immigration officer. But we want your law
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enforcement to work with our law enforcement to remove public safety threats who are here illegally
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from your neighborhoods making that neighborhood safe again. Anybody in their right mind will say,
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yeah, yeah, let's make the community safe again. That's the number one responsibility. But they're
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saying no. Why would they say no about assistance from other law enforcement to make the community
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safer? This is politics. That's all it is. And it's not public safety. This is politics.
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I think it's because they don't care about the community. And, you know, you don't have to agree
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with me because maybe you'll be a little bit more diplomatic. But having grown up in Chicago,
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what I found is 100 years of entrenched Democrat political rule. They have never solved the problems
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of homelessness, poverty, gang violence, gun violence. I had a debate with a liberal about
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sending in the National Guard, sending in federal law enforcement, which I support. I don't live
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there anymore, but I do support it. We had an area in Chicago on the south side called the LeClaire
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Courts, which is a historic gang territory. The city could have dealt with it by asking the feds,
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bringing the National Guard, securing the community for those that were not criminals,
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which was 99%. You know what they did instead? They bulldozed all their homes and told them,
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don't worry, we'll rebuild it, and never did. That was the policy of Democrats. So forgive me if I'm
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being a little bit more political. I think the attitude of these politicians is extract what
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you can, trick as many people into supporting you. If it really was about helping keep the
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community safe, if they cared in any way, they would have called Trump the moment he got in office
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and said, we are ready and waiting for your assistance to help us with this crime.
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Look, I don't think we disagree. You bring a different perspective, but me being a cop since,
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you know, 1980 and 1983, I find it hard to believe the law enforcement don't want to work
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with law enforcement. That's not the world I grew up in. That's not the country I grew up in.
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And I think the line officers, well, last time I was in Chicago, we're doing operations,
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and we stopped at a couple of precincts to, you know, to do a nature call. And every uniform
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walked up to me, shook my hand, and thanked me for being there. The frontline officers, I think,
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they want to do the right thing. They're happy we're there. It's the politicians. It's the folks
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that, you know, have an agenda. And I think it's, I think it's an anti-Trump agenda, but I'm not
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going to disagree with you about, do the local politicians really care about the neighborhood?
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You bring a different perspective than that. As a career cop, though, I just can't believe
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people aren't letting cops work for cops. I just, it's not the world I grew up in.
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That's, it's, you know what I think? I think in Chicago, especially the, the issues,
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they're wedge issues they can use to keep getting elected by claiming they're the only ones
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who can solve it. But one, one thing we just saw is a, a U.S. district court judge ruled that
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ICE agents can be arrested if you apprehend what's called the collateral, the collateral arrests.
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They find migrants at courthouses, or illegal immigrants, I should say. They said they could
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actually arrest ICE agents for trying to capture these people, which, if this is, this seems crazy.
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It's a judge basically saying there's a category of crime, which you can't arrest someone for.
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I mean, that's insane to threaten ICE agents with arrests. What, what, what is going on with
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these, these arrests at or around courthouses? And what do you think of this judge's ruling?
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Look, one of the safest places to arrest an illegal alien is inside a courthouse because you're going,
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you know, you got to go, you got to get past, you know, the, the magnetometers you get searched for,
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you're going to a courthouse. What a safer place to arrest a public safety threat than a courthouse,
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right? And look, I've been in courthouses throughout my career. I've been in courthouses
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where I watched a father being taken into custody for not paying child support. Arrest right in the
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courthouse because he hasn't paid child support in six months. Judge says take him into custody.
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So that's okay to arrest a father for not paying, you know, child support, which I support,
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but it's not okay to arrest a public safety threat in the same type of courtroom situation.
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So no, you know, I think the judge's order, of course, federal law always trumps local law.
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Good luck with that. ISIS is going to enforce the laws, again, enacted by Congress and they're
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not going to apologize for doing it. So that I'll let DOJ fight that. And, and when I'm sure that,
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that ruling is going to be appealed and we'll win that appeal because they can't simply,
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you know, tell federal law enforcement obviously what they can and can't do. So, you know, we'll see
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that get appealed and we'll win the appeal. But I think courtroom arrest makes sense because it's a safe
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place, safer for the officer, safer for the community and safer for the alien. When, for
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the same reason, I want access to jails, right? If, you know, the sanctuary cities don't give us
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access to the jails where it'd be safer for the community, safer for the alien, safer for the
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officer to arrest somebody in the, in the, in the safety and security of public jail, we know he
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doesn't have weapons. Instead they want to release them in the public, which is again, creates a public
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safety issue and it's much more dangerous for the officer and much more dangerous for the alien
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themselves because anything can happen on a street arrest. So I support what ICE is doing
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in the courthouse and we're going to continue to do it.
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This is where I, you know, I'll get a little, a little darker and more serious. There's a question
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about what's going to happen because we've seen a chain of events, terror attacks on ICE facilities,
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shooting law enforcement, shooting into vehicles. We know there is motive and intent from these
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extremists. Now we've seen at this No Kings protest, what appears to be some run of the mill liberal
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advocating people buy guns to shoot ICE agents. We then have a court, a judge ruling that the ICE
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facility in, in Broadview, just outside of Chicago, can't have barriers to protect itself. In Portland,
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when they put wood up on their windows to protect the glass, they got a zoning violation from the city.
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I fear that there is, whether intentional or otherwise, a combination of factors from extremism
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bubbling up on the left, as well as the courts obstructing federal law enforcement's ability to protect
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themselves, which is leading us to a point where there will be an escalation of terror attacks on federal
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law enforcement. Like the Broadview facility being a very good example of the worst. I mean, in Texas, as you
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already pointed out, they were shooting at this facility. Now there's a judge saying that in Illinois, where
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there's riots, they can't protect themselves with these barricades. I think escalation is all but
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guaranteed, and I don't know how we stop it. Have you guys thought about how to deal with this stuff?
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I know it's sort of getting into other territories, Trump with the National Guard, but this has me
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genuinely concerned for the safety of our law enforcement and the community in general.
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Well, I think President Trump's addressing in several words. First of all, Pam Bondi's a great
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attorney general. She's going to litigate. You know, she said it herself. These radical judges
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making decisions that don't consider public safety. They're more political decisions than
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decisions made on federal law or how the statute reads. But, you know, we got some radical judges,
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and Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice are taking them on. They're appealing these cases,
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but that takes a while, like you said. So we're trying to plug a hole until then. What are we doing?
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We're hardening our facilities to put more security features in their facilities. And you're right.
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Some of the barriers had to be taken down. But that's one of the main reasons President Trump
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sent in National Guard. National Guard is not going there to enforce immigration law. They're
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going there to protect our facilities and protect our officers. So together with the DHS and DOJ and
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the White House here, we're trying to harden the facilities. We're sending more resources to
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have a protective layer. Teams are big enough. We just don't have one or two guys going out in the
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public. The rest of them, we send a whole team that can not only infect an arrest, but while that
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arrest is being affected, you got officers in the background watching to make sure these officers
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are safe and looking at a 360 perimeter to make sure the operation goes successfully. So we're
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stepping up our game to not only protect the officers, but to also send a message we're not
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stopping. So I think between DOJ, DHS, and White House, we're trying to deal with this as quickly as
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we can. But the bottom line is DOJ needs to get these appeals on calendar as soon as possible.
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So I truly believe, look, I'm not a lawyer, but I can read. And I think the vast majority,
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if not all of them, will be overturned by the Pellet Court, the Supreme Court. We just got to
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make sure we push that agenda quickly. So I guess, multi-part question, how many
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illegal immigrants do, I've seen wild estimates for how many illegal immigrants are currently in
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the country. Is it the mission of ICE and CBP to deport all criminal illegal immigrants,
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illegal immigrants in general? And do you think you will succeed if that is the criteria for the
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mission? Well, we're going to succeed. We already are succeeding. It looks like we'll
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surpass 600,000 removals the first year of Trump, and that beats the record by 200,000. But look,
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how will we succeed? Every criminal threat we take out of the community in deport, every national
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security threat we take out of the community in deport makes this country safer. I don't have a
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number. But I said this from day one. We're going to prioritize public safety threats and
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national security threats. And the data shows we're doing it 70% of the time because they're
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the biggest concern, right? Because of the threats. But if you're in the country illegally, you're not
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off the table. You've never been off the table. You never will be off the table because it's not
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okay to be in this country illegally. It's not okay to cross that border illegally. It is a crime.
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And the message we can't send to the whole world is enter the country illegally. It's a crime, but
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don't worry about it. Show up in court or don't show up in court. Get an order removal. Don't worry
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about it. Unless you commit another crime, no one's looking for you. If that's the message we send the
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entire world, you're never going to fix this problem. When next administration comes, they're
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going to keep coming. We got to send the message of consequences. We need to enforce the law. And that's
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why the CBP home app, there's several thousand removals there already. If you're in the country
00:27:21.540
legally, leave on your own. Give yourself an opportunity in the future to come back under a
00:27:25.220
legal program, visitor's visa, tourist visa, a work authorization, H-1BH, 2A, whatever. Make
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yourself available to come back because we have to formally deport you, find you, informally remove
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you. There's a statutory bar in federal statute, and it was five years to never coming back. So I said
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it from day one, and I mean it. If you're in the country illegally, you're not off the table. Just
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because you prioritize a subset doesn't mean you forget about everybody else. Just last question. I
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don't know. This might be a little outside of your wheelhouse, but there are concerns and have been
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for some time about illegal immigrants either voting accidentally, as some might argue about,
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regardless, voting illegally affecting the outcome of elections, as well as the illegal immigrant
00:28:08.840
population, creating additional congressional seats largely in these sanctuary citizen states.
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Do you think that, and again, I don't know, maybe it's not your wheels, but is there a potential for
00:28:19.620
these illegal immigrants to affect the midterm elections or our elections in general moving
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forward? Look, I think there's been many examples of illegal aliens voting in elections, and it's just a
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stone-cold fact. We've uncovered some of it. But you hit on a bigger subject. As I said for a long
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time, why did the Biden administration release millions of people in the United States when
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federal law clearly says if you enter a country illegally without proper documentation, you
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shall be detained? So why weren't they detained? When we had thousands of empty ice beds, already
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paid for about $127 a night, thousands of beds sitting empty. Why didn't they detain them? Why did
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they detain them in accordance with federal law? Why did they release an NGO? Well, I'll tell you why.
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Because if they detain them in a nice facility, they get a hearing within 36, 37 days, somewhere
00:29:09.860
around there. 90% will lose their case because they simply don't qualify for asylum. They get sent
00:29:16.120
home. That's not what they wanted. They know based on 10 years of court data, nearly 9 out of 10 people
00:29:22.280
who claim asylum at their southern border end up with order removal. So they know if they detain them,
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9 out of 10 will be deported. However, if they release them, they get put on what they call the
00:29:32.500
non-detained document. It takes years. So what are they hoping for? Millions of people they release
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to sanctuary cities do two things. Number one, maybe a Democratic administration comes in
00:29:44.000
before they'll have hearings and get ordered removed, given amnesty. Now you got millions of
00:29:48.340
what they think future Democratic voters. But on the other hand, when President Biden signed all
00:29:52.920
these executive orders, killing everything we did to create the most secure border on Trump 45,
00:29:57.440
they also overturned the Trump census rule where millions of people in these sanctuary cities now be
00:30:01.260
counted, which results in more seats in house for the Dems. I truly believe they opened the
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border up and didn't detain this population because they saw a future political benefit.
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Wow. I really do appreciate you joining me and having a discussion. Is there anything else you
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wanted to add before we wrap up? That's it. There's a message that ICE isn't going to quit doing
00:30:18.380
what they're doing. God bless the men and women of ICE and Borchow. And if your listeners see one of
00:30:22.720
them out there, shake their hand. Thank them for doing a very dangerous job and making this country safe
00:30:29.500
again. They deserve it. They get so much safe. It'd be nice for people, the American public out
00:30:34.640
to just say, hey, thank you for what you do. We appreciate you.
00:30:37.380
Tom Homan, thank you so much for joining me and providing those insights. We look forward to
00:30:46.180
That was, of course, the great Tom Homan discussing what they're currently working on and all those
00:30:51.920
insights. And I want to stress something. I've said it before. I'll say it now.
00:30:54.460
You know, look, I've had complaints about bad cops and law enforcement and all that,
00:30:59.460
but I want to stress who we are, where we are this past election. I'll give you a quick bit
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before we wrap up. We had an election in 2024. Immigration was the either number one or number
00:31:09.820
two concern. We asked President Donald Trump, take immigration enforcement seriously because
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Biden went nuts. Well, he is. And we got these guys. Let me show you this. This is, I don't think,
00:31:24.440
this is the National Guard. I see these guys. This is federal officers outside in Portland,
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Oregon. You know what I think when I see these guys? I think these guys are out here working
00:31:34.740
for me because I asked them to. I see these guys in uniforms. I see them in armor. I see them wearing
00:31:39.900
masks. I see them facing threats from lunatics. And the reality is, I said, Trump, I want you to
00:31:45.500
find a few good men. Ask them to go and enforce the laws passed by Congress that we as the American
00:31:51.660
people want to see enforced. And Trump said, you got it. You vote for me. I'll make that happen.
00:31:55.960
So we did. We voted for Trump. He won the popular vote. These men then volunteered and said,
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I will put myself in harm's way at the request of the American voter, at my request. So I have
00:32:08.040
tremendous respect for these guys out there. I've been on the ground. I've been tear gassed.
00:32:12.440
I get it. But there is a request we make of law enforcement when we vote, and that is to keep the
00:32:19.440
community safe and enforce the law. And that means it's not always personal. And there are bad cops.
00:32:25.680
Sometimes you might get caught up sometimes, but that's never the intention. The left says you're a
00:32:30.320
bootlicker if you defend cops. I mean, maybe corrupt cops, but I ain't nicking nobody's boot.
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I asked these guys to be here. So when I say I have requests of you, good sir, and they say,
00:32:44.640
you got it, strap up, put on the armor and go outside, what do I see? A bunch of guys out there
00:32:49.700
on the streets taking risks to themselves because I asked them to, and you did too.
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Shout out to our federal law enforcement doing this dangerous job facing down these extremist threats.
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I hope you guys stay safe, and I really do appreciate what you're doing at the request of the
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00:33:25.360
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