00:46:13.680I'd like to I'd like to see that long list. I really would, because I don't think the American people felt that way.
00:46:19.720And certainly the GOP didn't feel that way. But you should call your senators in Washington, D.C. today and tell them, no, John Thune should not be.
00:46:32.940I mean, they did not get the message. If you sent a message, that's what you voted.
00:46:37.000And you were like, I'm sending a message. I'm going to vote for the other guy.
00:46:39.720They didn't get that message. I told you they wouldn't, but you have another chance. Send it now. Call the Capitol building and say, no, no, no. You're going to go the way of the wigs. You keep doing this again. You're going to go the way of the wigs. I'm telling you, GOP, I told you this before, and I actually hoped that it didn't come true there at the end.
00:59:46.260And the law only works if we enforce it every day, even when it's unpopular, even when the cameras are ugly, even when the election goes the other way.
00:59:58.880Because the border is the only checkpoint before you run into the man with the gun in the line.
01:00:08.520Every checkpoint after that is a roll of the dice.
01:00:11.560and the secret service has to win that gamble every single time the assassin only has to win
01:00:19.480it once how many times is the secret service going to stop an assassination attempt and be
01:00:26.460successful with everyone that misses the odds get worse for the president and for america
01:00:32.640and all of this is true beyond the white house it's true of your home your church
01:00:40.720your children's phones, your own mind. What you let in decides what you have to defend.
01:00:52.240Thank God, Thursday night, an officer looked at a parked car and thought, that doesn't look right.
01:00:57.240That's all it took. One person paying attention. He may have saved a president. And if he did,
01:04:04.520Going after guns, red flag laws by the truckload, legalizing marijuana because nothing says affordability and gas prices like legalizing marijuana.
01:07:44.440Coming up, the woman who led Hispanic outreach for Trump's 2024 campaign joins Glenn next.
01:07:58.180bianca rodriguez is with us she is the republican national hispanic assembly communications
01:08:23.380director former trump administration official um and she says she knows the real reason the
01:08:29.640gop lost the hispanic vote we were talking about this yesterday um vianca welcome to the program
01:08:36.460i will tell you everybody's spooked about amnesty um and they think the president's going to go
01:08:43.180after amnesty blah blah blah blah um i have to ask you that is that in his future is that where
01:08:49.980we're headed and what is the real reason we lost the hispanic vote so we're not headed towards an
01:08:57.180amnesty whatsoever we don't we don't even want that we're not asking for that we saw what happened
01:09:02.240in 1986 after ronald reagan gave it the first time around in exchange for enforcement we never saw
01:09:08.080that happen so we don't want to replicate that what we do want and this is just something that
01:09:14.000i've seen in my community i'm based out of miami i feel like on one hand it's kind of a bubble down
01:09:19.680here where the majority of us are Hispanic. And so it's kind of normal for us. Whereas where you
01:09:25.060go to maybe Oregon or Idaho, and you don't see as many of us. So it's not as common of a conversation
01:09:31.460to have. But all in all, what a lot of Venezuelans here argue for is to just be recognized, to just
01:09:37.840have somewhat of a legal status. It's what a lot of them, that's why they apply for asylum. You
01:09:42.680know, everybody has their own individualized case by case type of basis. But no one is necessarily
01:09:48.860arguing that they want to become a citizen tomorrow. That's why you saw, you know, maybe
01:09:54.500it's considered a little bit more controversial, Representative Maria Elvira Salazar's Dignity
01:09:59.160Act. But in that proposal, what you see is she's saying she wants these individuals that crossed
01:10:05.560illegally to pay a fine for restitution. It contributes to our economy. It helps maybe bring
01:10:11.720down the deficit, too, if we require that. And that way, they don't have to continue staying
01:10:16.780here illegally and that's not for everyone that's only for non-violent illegal immigrants that are
01:10:22.000currently um you know illegally in the country and i think that's maybe a good way to start
01:10:26.480so bianca i i will tell you everybody is spooked because they think anything we do is a step
01:10:33.300towards amnesty where i look at this and say i need we must know who is here and if we if we
01:10:42.960don't have i mean look it it could be just like a number at the deli you know now serving number 56
01:10:49.460everybody has to have some sort of identification on them that identifies who they are so they're
01:10:56.660not going out and getting fake ids um exactly identifies who they are we know they're not a
01:11:02.420citizen um we know their status etc etc it will take people out of the shadows they still could
01:11:10.020go home they still could go home but we must know who people are we have to yeah yeah a hundred
01:11:18.540percent i think that's where we should be headed and again i i really think that there's a way to
01:11:23.980have kind of a happy medium with the situation maybe we don't necessarily target the dreamers
01:11:29.220right now maybe we do i mean that's something that president trump had had tried to do a deal
01:11:33.780with democrats back in 2018 on they denied it because they didn't want to give us they didn't
01:11:39.020want to give us border wall funding, right? And so they consistently, it's like they're hypocrites0.97
01:11:42.940as well, right? Because if they really cared about this issue, they would have done something0.95
01:11:46.740about it a long time ago, and they never did. So right now, you know, it's a situation where
01:11:52.400two things are combined, right? So we're talking about the economy and affordability being a
01:11:56.980number one issue also for our community, but it's also kind of in a way directly tied to the topic
01:12:01.860of immigration. Illegal immigration brings wages down. It's affecting our economy as well. People
01:12:07.740that are not necessarily here illegally, that are Hispanic, you know, they're seeing the news,
01:12:12.260they're seeing what Univision and Telemundo are presenting them, and they think, like,
01:12:16.100ISIS is going to come after them. And it's not true. Obviously, we know this, you know,
01:12:20.060they're not racially profiling anybody. But we also do know that because President Trump has
01:12:25.260been wanting to do and execute these mass deportations that we voted for, chances are
01:12:30.220that they've trickled down to maybe mistakenly detaining other people that are not necessarily
01:12:36.140here illegally or that maybe they're still in the process of asylum and that's something that i saw
01:12:40.640happen here in miami um actually with a co-worker of my husband um my husband he he has another he
01:12:48.020has actually a side job because the economy just doesn't allow for us to you know sustain ourselves
01:12:53.120with just one job and his side job he works for a soccer academy and in that soccer academy his
01:12:58.900co-worker he was on his way to a tournament in los angeles for the kids and he was detained
01:13:04.000and obviously i don't know all the the nitty-gritty of his case but what we do know is that
01:13:10.120he was here on you know in a process of applying for asylum he had a work permit he still has it
01:13:17.180he's no longer detained he got a lawyer you know very expensive process and it's one of those
01:13:21.980things where that's what i've talked about on on on x is that nuance is why are we necessarily
01:13:29.160going after these individuals that are just trying to make a living you know they've applied for0.90
01:13:35.060asylum for a reason right and that's the nuance that i think is oftentimes missed and it sucks
01:13:40.960because we're we're unnecessarily alienating a large portion of the population that voted
01:13:48.100historically for president trump because of these things but wait matthew iglesias said
01:13:54.800the fantasy backs it up the fantasy that his hispanic voters are primarily motivated by
01:14:01.640immigration rather than economic issues is convenient for some members of the coalition
01:14:06.980but it is clearly untrue he his point is is that it was it was economic conditions that was was
01:14:17.100driving the hispanics to the other side not uh the fear of ice or anything like that
01:14:23.960So, in a way, yes, but in that same, I think it's interesting because that same exit poll had demonstrated that the ones that did care about immigration were identifying as Republicans.0.83
01:14:38.240And, again, it goes back to the same subject, is that when you realize that all of a sudden you have people that are looking at our community in content, or, you know, they're on social media saying things like brown people have to go.
01:14:53.960And so you see that whole other radical extreme and you also see you pair that with the images is it makes people feel concerned for no reason.
01:15:02.360Again, the number one topic across the board for all Americans was the affordability issue.
01:15:09.200It continues to be that. And now it's just a matter of let's see what's going to happen in these next two years.
01:15:14.660And, you know, I know that President Trump was already working on some things, but he can only do so much.
01:15:19.200We need Congress to take action as well. But but that's really like it's still underlying because of all the nuanced issues that affect so many of these families.
01:15:29.620And listen, let's let's eliminate the stereotype, because I understand as well that there's an aspect of people that want to bring them here legally or have them legalized,
01:15:39.860they continue contributing to our economy in a more fair manner you know in terms of helping
01:15:44.820out our agriculture and all those um blue collar type of work and construction and whatnot but we
01:15:51.460also have a lot of successful stories of hispanics in in leadership and public service we have them
01:15:57.940also being successful business owners and and we've had them at mar-a-lago right like we i helped
01:16:04.180co-host the Hispanic Prosperity Gala just last year, and there were so many Hispanics that were
01:16:10.180there that are still supporting President Trump, but I remember having conversations with some of
01:16:13.800these donors and high-level individuals that said, you know, I don't feel, we don't love
01:16:18.680necessarily where things are going because it's also kind of targeting people that we've employed
01:16:23.560or family members that are in the process. So explain to me, because I just don't think this
01:16:31.180line is walkable i just don't know how to walk this line um without compromising uh
01:16:39.500the the popular immigration policy um that trump has um downplaying the you know or or you know
01:16:50.620doing what what trump did in in minnesota which was not go soft on it go get the bad guys just do
01:16:56.800it in a much more reasonable way um and not compromising our values and our principles
01:17:04.100on amnesty how do we get hispanics to come back um if if this is a real issue0.99
01:17:13.700because we honestly i i really fear that what's going to happen to hispanics is what happened
01:17:19.660with the blacks in 1960 blacks were always always with republicans um and they had strong families
01:17:29.060they were they were fantastic um and then the policies shifted on the on the left and they
01:17:37.180imaged themselves the left imaged themselves as the great champion and they destroyed the black
01:17:42.420family we cannot destroy the hispanic family those are strong families strong values god-fearing
01:17:48.960people and strong entrepreneurs so how do we solve this without compromising our principles
01:17:56.720well there's so much that needs to be done i don't think it's too late but it's going to take
01:18:02.480some time i'm just going to be realistic about it but there's different approaches to it so
01:18:06.560the messaging matters the way that the administration right now is handling the
01:18:11.360messaging specifically for for this community it could be better right because again we voted
01:18:17.460myself included i we wanted mass deportations because we saw what happened in the last
01:18:21.700administration we saw how more than 13 maybe even 20 million is what trump has said at occasions of
01:18:28.680illegal migrants that have crossed into the country we don't know who they are we don't know
01:18:32.700where they are a lot of them may have chosen to self-deport but a lot of them probably didn't
01:18:37.640right because once they break the law they're not going to all of a sudden just you know self-report
01:18:42.200themselves to to court and say yeah i broke the law no they're just going to keep doing whatever
01:18:47.220verdicts that they do. And we only find out about them when they commit the horrific crimes that
01:18:51.540they do. So we voted for that. We want them to be deported. We want all violent criminals
01:18:56.180out of this country. We want people that have committed asylum fraud out of this country,
01:19:01.380completely deported, no chance, no second chance ever again. Any TPS fraud, anything like that.
01:19:06.920Coyotes have made over $13 billion in this smuggling industry, thanks to the last administration.
01:19:13.640So messaging that type of argument or, you know, the facts helps. But at the same time, you also have to be making it well known that we're not necessarily cutting legal immigration. We're all in favor that we want to have high skilled legal immigrants contributing to our economy.
01:19:32.720There were different immigration waves. I don't think the recent immigrants that came illegally, most of them were at all high-skilled, not at least in the same way that we saw in the previous wave under Reagan.
01:19:46.220And so knowing that, I think that we could at least make something very targeted. And that's just my personal opinion. Maybe that's my idea. Hopefully that's a happy medium for everybody.0.97
01:19:54.960And I'm hoping that the administration and some Republicans consider it is we don't necessarily allow them like if we if we give some of these individuals that are nonviolent, don't have any sort of criminal record, are contributing fairly.
01:20:08.280They've established their their families, you know, they make their case as they already do case by case that they don't necessarily become citizens.
01:20:16.900They don't necessarily they're not given voting rights because I think a lot of the skepticism from our side is that as well.
01:20:24.280I think that's what I've been hearing is like they saw what happened with Reagan.
01:29:02.340She was on because the school, unbeknownst to her, transitioned her child, and she was suing the school, and she lost, I think, in the lower court, and it was in Colorado, and then she took it all the way to the Supreme Court.
01:29:22.220The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, so she lost in, you know, for parental rights, she lost in the court of law.
01:50:07.200I think they've only been in business like three years and each time it's just off the charts growth because they are so good and unique at what they can do.