The Great America Show - July 17, 2026


Mid-Day Update： July 17, 2026

Hosted by
Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
Mentioned
Trump Mark Wayne Mullen Gavin Newsom Mullen
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

143.08

Word count

719

Sentence count

44

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

5

sentences flagged


Summary

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Nearly 250,000 non-citizens registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Deportations have nearly reached what was done in all of 2025 alone. Smog warnings in Canada due to smoke from the wildfires.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm John Foster with this Great America Show midday update for Friday, July 17th.
00:00:04.900 Happy Friday, folks. Well, President Trump had his massive press conference last night.
00:00:09.460 Today, it was Mark Wayne Mullins time, secretary of DHS, confirming that new released DHS report
00:00:15.760 found nearly 250,000 non-citizens registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Nevada,
00:00:24.740 and Pennsylvania he says those are just the four states that they decided to first review
00:00:30.160 there's still 46 left to go imagine that 250,000 and the Democrats don't want to pass the Save
00:00:38.540 America Act I can only wonder why take a listen 250,000 non-citizens registered to vote in just
00:00:47.800 four states. Mind you, we have 46 other states. In just four states, we've identified 250,000
00:01:00.700 non-citizens registered to vote in California and Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.
00:01:09.880 We also worked with proactive states to identify 28,000 non-citizens on their voter rolls, plus 400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased.
00:01:28.560 Now, Mullen also touched upon the enforcement of arresting illegal aliens because there's been some reports out that the Trump administration was reportedly scaling back.
00:01:39.580 Mullins says that deportations thus far in 2026 have nearly reached what was done in all of 2025 alone.
00:01:46.700 Take a listen. 0.88
00:01:47.540 We have ramped up our enforcement and our arresting illegals. 0.99
00:01:53.080 Just to give you some numbers on this so everybody knows, and I want to get them correct, so I brought them with me. 0.96
00:01:59.020 Last year total in 2025, we deported.
00:02:02.780 Now, these are not including self-deportations.
00:02:05.820 These are just ones that we had to go through.
00:02:07.520 we had to arrest, we had to go through the system, and we had to deport, and they tried to stay inside the country,
00:02:12.460 and they had no legal status to do it.
00:02:15.920 442,637 total deported last year in 25.
00:02:23.400 To date, well, these are yesterday's numbers.
00:02:26.120 We have 403,294 that we've done in 2026.
00:02:31.460 Our arrests are up.
00:02:33.220 We're hitting single-day records every single day.
00:02:36.020 But what we've done is I've turned down the temperature of the stove to try to get it correct without boiling over.
00:02:43.520 We're trying to perfect our ability to work with local law enforcement, state law enforcement, and get illegals and criminals off our streets.
00:02:54.060 Seventy percent of the arrests we do daily are felons or have pending felony charges.
00:03:02.280 Seventy percent.
00:03:03.660 We should all be able to work together with that.
00:03:06.020 Total removals is three million.
00:03:11.800 Total removals, three million.
00:03:14.020 One point four total aliens have been since we've been put in place have ever volunteered to be deported. 0.95
00:03:24.440 Yet we paid for them or we forced them. 0.58
00:03:27.540 But as I said, total removals have said, hey, we're leaving the country and did it on themselves was over three million.
00:03:32.440 And let's hope this is just the beginning and they continue to push forward and ramp up these deportations.
00:03:39.140 It's what President Trump ran on. It's what the American people want.
00:03:42.680 Well, if you're living in most of America, you've probably looked outside and seen smog everywhere.
00:03:47.600 That's probably because there's 800 wildfires burning across Canada with air quality alerts now extending south in multiple states.
00:03:55.380 think blanket of smoke from the skylines from detroit and toronto to new york and cross new
00:04:00.840 england causing hazardous air quality alerts across much of the regions many outdoor events
00:04:07.180 are canceled as officials urged for people to stay indoors stressing the dangerous health
00:04:12.020 ramifications of inhaling the fumes in canada one of the fires in northern ontario forced
00:04:17.460 residents from first local nations to evacuate one chief saying her community has been burnt
00:04:23.300 to ashes. This is Canada, folks. They can't manage their wildfires, much like Gavin Newsom in
00:04:30.360 California. Now Americans are dealing with the ramifications of these incompetent, incompetent 0.98
00:04:36.600 leaders. I think it's time for the American politicians to do something about this once
00:04:41.140 and for all, because it happens far too often, and we deal with the ramifications, as I said,
00:04:46.480 of their wildlife mismanagement. Folks, please be sure to join us tonight and each and every night.
00:04:51.860 rumble youtube twitter 6 p.m eastern time for the great america show wherever you join us
00:04:56.720 we'll see you there tonight for the great america show i'm john fawcett with this
00:04:59.580 midday update happy friday everybody