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Immigration Enforcement Update

Liam Quinn12min

Speaker 1

00:00

Hi, Tom, what are the what's the status on adding more beds to detention centers?

Speaker 2

00:10

Any contracts

Speaker 1

00:17

and other states have teased maybe starting their own alligator. Alcatraz. Can you confirm which states maybe have been working with you on more detention centers? Immigration

Speaker 3

00:32

issues? Negative. Immigration and he hopes that you'll reach that negative immigration this

Speaker 2

00:47

year. I hope so too. But how quickly bringing resources on the ground fund more detention pits is how quickly we bring people back.

Speaker 2

01:00

Great Wall. I don't know, just too many factors. How quickly can bring contractors in that can do a job that don't require a pageant guns that badge can't get on the streets. There's too many variables, but our goal is to arrest everybody. We can prioritize some criminal safety threats, national security threats, but I'll say it again for sanctuary

Unknown Speaker

01:33

cities, where our priority

Speaker 4

01:35

is now, there are reports that ice is Looking to expand ankle monitors for 180,000 plus migrants in the ATD alternative to detention program. What can you tell us about that?

Speaker 2

01:46

I'm not on weeds on that, but I support it. I looked at the numbers the other day on removal orders. Over the last year, 51% of those who got a remove order were in absentia, which means they didn't show up in court. So annual monitors helps with that. So I'm not in with that, but if

Speaker 5

02:03

that's happening, I support Venezuelan members of the TDA to following up on that. Do you believe that every illegal

Speaker 2

02:10

immigrant should Every case is different than deportations? Make that judgment based on criminal history, immigration history, so it's a case by case basis, but I can tell you, back when I was ice tractor, having that GPS capability increase those going to court a lot. So it does make a difference. And it's cheaper than detention, right in some cases. But, you know, again, it depends on the cases. But GPS, in the past, has been very helpful. That's a big like you said, 51% of remove orders are an abstention, if GPS helped to get into court. 200 pounds, sir, has

Unknown Speaker

02:56

the President

Speaker 6

03:02

discovered? Spoken to you at all about what he wants to see the work program for agriculture and hospitality workers? That's

Speaker 2

03:07

a conversation about going on. I'm not going to have the president on that. We'll see what comes out. But we have conversations every day and strategies and policies. That's one conversation happening. But again, I don't want to have the

Speaker 5

03:21

President in terms of the deportation, are you going to keep sending Venezuelan members of the TDA to El Salvador this? Or are you going to send them directly to Venezuela El Salvador is

Unknown Speaker

03:32

always an optional agreement. El Salvador.

Speaker 7

03:42

George, how often do you meet with Christine OAM and Stephen Miller on your vision? And are you all the lines? Stephen

Speaker 2

03:52

Miller every day. Stephen Miller is brilliant. I don't care if you like a rumpick guy, the smartest guy I've ever dealt with Texas immigration policy. You

Speaker 6

04:10

on the fentanyl situation on the Mexico border. Can you give us an update on whether you've seen progress on that's the basis for the tariff we're

Speaker 2

04:21

in middle discussion on Canadian baseline.

Speaker 8

04:27

The President indicated he would try to help Afghan nationals who had aided the United States previously. Will that extend to those who aided the United States, who were here under TPS? I'm familiar with some.

Speaker 2

04:40

To do something for the State Department. I'm prepared with some discussions going on, but State Department,

Speaker 4

04:48

Hey, Tom, Kentucky, recently walked back their status designation as a sanctuary city. Here in DC, near mural, Bowser is walking back her position is DC as a sanctuary jurisdiction? Is there a message in there for other cities like LA, like Boston, like Chicago and you hope to see more jurisdictions

Speaker 2

05:12

change? Absolutely. Sanctuary cities are sanctuaries for criminals. Hard stop, bottom line and President Trump made a commitment a couple weeks ago that we're going to prioritize sanctuary going to prioritize sanctuary cities. I made a statement the other day in about New York. We're going to flood the zones. The sanctuary cities are going to get exactly what they don't want, more agents in the community and more worksite and fortification. Why is that? Because they won't let one agent arrest one bad guy to check. They're going to release a public safety threat back in the community. Now I gotta send a whole team to go find that person. So, you know, we're going to find a bad guy whether they help us or not. So they're missing the community. We gotta send more people to do that. We just can't send one officer in the community to find a bad guy, because the officer safety consideration is he has access from a war veteran, right, like a little boy and a criminal. So we gotta send the whole team. Now in New York, he's releasing hundreds of criminals every week, right straight from the precincts. We got to go find them. So we know we have a problem in New York City, and that's why I first talked about you prioritize sanctuary cities. We know the releasing public safety plans. We don't have the crime report. We don't have that crime in Texas. So those resources can certainly be redeployed. Dr Christine owns on it, we're gonna flood the zone. Sanctuary cities priorities. Right thing to do with our limited resources right now, we need to concentrate on worst births that we've done from day one. We can continue that, especially in sanctuary cities. We've got no

Speaker 4

06:35

system. Assaults on ICE officers will continue to increase. I This will continue to increase.

Speaker 2

06:42

I hope not, and I hope the rhetoric, especially with members of Congress, stops. I've seen members of Congress compare ice to the Nazis, racists, terrorists. Members of Congress need to understand one thing, ice is enforcing the law that Congress wrote and enacted. So if that you drove by ICE agents enforcement immigration law. They call them a racist. What's that make Congress? They wrote the law Congress. You know, ICE agents aren't making this up. They're out there enforcing laws and acting quite Congress and signed by the President. I'll say it again. We're focusing on national security, national security threats and public safety. We're making this country safe every day you have the right thing to do. And I'm sick and tired of reading in the media that most of people we arrest aren't criminals. Tell the whole story. The majority of the arrests are criminals public safety. Who are the others? Many are national security threats. They may not have a criminal conviction. We got over 300 Iranians that we've arrested in the last month or so. May not have a criminal conviction, but a national security threat. Who are the others were arrested? Those will find orders. Those who had due process at great taxpayer expense. A federal judge said you must leave. They became a fugitive. So what will rest then too? If not, we send a whole send message the whole world. Enter the country illegally. It's a crime, but don't worry about it. Go to court, or don't go to court. Get order removal. Don't worry about because no one's looking for you. No, we're going to send a message the whole world. You got the right to due process, but the end of that due process, if your order removed, you're leaving because we don't execute those orders. Then what the hell are we doing? Shut down immigration court. Let me take the board from the border. No, we want to enforce the law. You have a quota of migrants. I want to address many public safety threats, actually threats as possible. I'll rest when every public safety for those who question their 3000 days, saying it's unreasonable number, do the math, we'd have to rest 7000 a day, every day for the remainder of this administration, just to remove those who by administration,

Speaker 9

08:46

least in the country, attacking Microsoft for firing Americans while still applying for h1 visas. What's your message to companies that

Speaker 2

08:55

are doing just that illegal aliens? As far as that, that would be a question for Joe and low or cis, they handle the visas and again, new borders. I'm an enforcement guy. I'm

Unknown Speaker

09:11

in the export program. Yes, self

Unknown Speaker

09:15

deportation numbers.

Speaker 2

09:17

Last time I looked over 6000 going through the CDP home at but according to numerous studies of over 1 million self reportations,

Speaker 10

09:27

is there any concerns murder rate in history? How much do you contribute to lockdown border to

Speaker 2

09:34

lower the overall murder rate numbers this morning, ice has over 150,000 arrests in the interior, most of them criminals. Every criminal ice arrest makes the community much safer. That's what President Trump is committed to. President Trump wants a better, safer American. That's exactly what men and women ice is doing every day. And let me say this about the attacks on ice. I want you all to remember ICE agents are mothers and fathers too. They don't hang their heart on the hooks every day to come to work. I'm sick and tired of the attacks on ice. President Trump's sick and tired of it. You impede an ice officer, you're going to jail. You throw a stone, you're going to jail. If you interfere the enforcement, you're going to jail. We're done. We're done playing the game. We're going to force the law. We're going to make America safer. We're going to do it with no

Speaker 10

10:22

problems. Concern about grandmother? Sorry that are being arrested and that?

Speaker 2

10:28

Well, we started telling the truth. The poll numbers won't be affected, right? We I just talked about the vast majority of people we arrested are criminals. But who are the others, the national security threats and Fine Arts. I don't read that anywhere as far as ICE detention, I looked at numbers the other day, 130,000 arrests, 90,000 criminals. That's 70% who are the others? Many are national security threats and final orders. I don't read that anywhere, right? So the media is pushing a false narrative out there, which may be turning some people off. I don't believe it, but let's start telling the truth. Who's in ICE detention? Majority of criminals who arrest their expedibility removal cases, who are mandatory, detained by statute, maybe non criminal. For the lawsuit, they must be detained for expedibility removal cases, plus we got national security threats. I don't read that anywhere, but we knew this from day one. The media is going to paint this false narrative, try to turn the public against us, but we're going to stay ahead of the game. We're going to have our own narrative. Our own narrative. Our narrative is gonna be the truth. Exactly who we're arresting, who retained, who were removing, because Americans had the truth and the facts, they support us 100%

Speaker 6

11:28

specifically, Tom on the Iranians. Have you been targeting or focusing on Iranians more since the bomb bombing run the President

Speaker 2

11:35

ordered, yeah, we're concentrating off public safety threats and national security threats and national security Big Deal we've been looking for, you know, national security threats. In addition to Iran from day one, did the

Speaker 6

11:47

bombing change the landscape on that at all, given the potential for retaliation or something like that

Speaker 2

11:54

we're on from day one, we may be posting a little more resources on it, but we've been looking for those national security threats from day one, we just escalated our work. our work because the national security threats from that country. So of course we're going to address it

Unknown Speaker

12:08

sooner. Thank you. So thank you, sir.

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