The Daily Signal - Obama Judge Blocks Deportations AGAIN, Whiplash at the DNC, Steve Cortes on BLS | Aug. 26, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia is again arrested, but now is stuck as an Obama-era judge blocks deportation yet again. The first day of the Democrat National Committee's summer session has the entire nation suffering whiplash, and Steve Cortez joins us to discuss financial organizations abandoning federal statistics. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kennett-Cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Tuesday, August 26, 2025. This is the Daily Signals. Top News in 10.

Starting point is 00:01:06 Obama appointed federal judge Paula Zinnis intervened on behalf of illegal immigrant and citizen of El Salvador, Kilmore Abrago-Garcia, accused of being an MS-13 member due to the human trafficking violations in the knuckles that are tattooed with symbology from MS-13, the wife-beating allegations, a number of rather rough things. Judge Zinnis has intervened on his behalf in order to keep him from being deputies. deported out of the country to Uganda in Uganda due to his not knowing the language or facing certain persecution. Here was Kilmer Abrago Garcia at a rally yesterday unable to speak the language of the United States. A miracle, thanks to God and a thanks to all the community. And for that I want to say the thanks to each one of you that marched, And they've always and they've never

Starting point is 00:02:02 to believe and to fight for my liberty. Now, the Supreme Court has already ruled the Trump administration has the power to deport individuals to other countries

Starting point is 00:02:11 around the globe. So it's not certain whether or not this is going to be something that is held up for a long time. Regardless, those at the

Starting point is 00:02:20 Kilmar-Abrego-Gar Rally did stand and sing in solidarity with him. Kilmar is our neighbor, you can't have him Trump. No. Kilmar is our neighbor.

Starting point is 00:02:37 You can't have him from. Also of note, Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota announced due to this particular Kilmar Abrago-Gar-Garcia possible deportation that immigration customs enforcement is beyond reform and should be abolished. She received a considerable amount of scorn. from those on the right and center parts of the political aisle. And speaking of Democrats in Minnesota, the first day of the Democrat National Committee summer session began

Starting point is 00:03:08 with a lot of stuff that gave the country a bit of whiplash from the 2024 campaign. Widely questioned as its appeal to voters wasn't particularly strong. In yesterday's case, the DNC began with a land acknowledgement to a completely different Native American tribe than the speaker that was brought up to replace Ken Martin. Bujhu, Lindy Sambikinidjikas, Ammikdodum, Sagina Chippwa Dojaba, Nishinabe Quay, and Dow. Good morning, DNC members, friends and relatives. Let's talk about the land for a second. The DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota O Yate, the Dakota people,

Starting point is 00:03:51 who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes in the Wauquitanka, the Great River, the Mississippi River, for thousands of years before colonization. This land was not claimed or traded. It's a part of a history of broken treaties and promises, and in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress indigenous people's cultural and spiritual history. Now, believe it or not, that was one of the more tame moments of the day. There were individuals suggesting that migrant crime didn't matter, that it was just bait Republicans wanted the DNC to take. issues voters care about. Where does Trump go? Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual. Don't take the bait because most Americans are more worried about how are we going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us. That's what you should be talking about. That's where you should be focused. Don't take the bait and talk. talking about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don't matter to that many Americans.

Starting point is 00:05:02 And then go to the- Minnesota governor and former vice presidential candidate Tim Walls yelled about individuals in red hats and waking up to see not Kamala Harris, whom he called the adult, on television. Think of how easy it would be to be a Republican. Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid freaking red hat. What should I say today? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:05:25 Just make sure it's cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy. Oh, the felon in the White House? Yeah, listen to him and that will be fine. Now he's talking about burning flags. He's going to have flag burning or whatever because he knows there's a hell of a lot of flags with his picture on it that are going to get burned. And Amy Klobuchar, the senior senator of Minnesota, making some interesting claims about illegal immigrant farmers and that being America. Farmer in New Mexico relied on immigrant workers who are too afraid to do it anymore. And we have a message. to Donald Trump. Immigrants don't diminish America. They are America. Many Americans have been quick to point out that this may not be the best strategy heading into the midterms due to the unpopularity of many of these policy platforms and opinions. For example, though

Starting point is 00:06:16 individuals like Mayor Brandon Johnson, Democrat Mayor of Chicago, suggests that incarceration is not a way to solve intense inner-city crime. We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence. We've already tried that. And we've ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence. The addiction on jails and incarceration in this country, we have moved past that. It is racist.

Starting point is 00:06:45 It is immoral. It is unholy. And it is not the way to drive violence down. We cannot return to the same failed strategies that got us here in the first place. Business owners in Chicago, on the other hand, don't particularly align with that point of view. The whole neighborhood is just sick of people coming into the neighborhood and acting like they can just come ravage your stores, take what they want to take, and then they try to make you feel like you wrong for defending your property. And last but not least, while the institutional legacy media is rather upset about some recent appointments to the Trump administration, some nominations like E.J. Anthony from the. the Heritage Foundation, we sat down with Steve Cortez, co-founder of Vera Cruz, as well as a

Starting point is 00:07:33 regular financial expert on CNBC, Fox, CNN, to talk about why Fortune 500 companies and other big players in the stock market are no longer trusting federal statistics on the economy, on labor, because it's a decades-old, slothful mess. So the reality is the BLS is a bloated bureaucracy that does not serve the needs of the people. It is not even remotely the kind of barometer and arbiter of economic numbers and statistics that it should be. And here comes E.J. Antony, an outsider, somebody with a very different perspective, somebody with expertise, and somebody, I think most importantly, with an attitude of urgency who says, hey, the tools are out there in this country, the tools are out there technologically economically to fix this and to get real-time

Starting point is 00:08:20 reads, or at least very quick, efficient reads that are believable and accurate. So, the good policy decisions can be made with the right numbers. And predictably, what we have is, is again, a freak out from permanent Washington. Yeah, and that's kind of the concern along the backlines that even though some of the major financial institutions that are, you know, again, pushing around millions, billions of dollars a day, they may not rely on some of those government statistics. Other government institutions, for example, the federal chairman and his board of governors do rely on those outdated and, as you said, slothful statistics. So what we get into is a perhaps a snowball catastrophic situation where you don't have a federal reserve that is even able to react to the economy in time if in case the federal chairman was doing everything above board.

Starting point is 00:09:10 It's a very multi, everything's built on a previous problem. You got quite a stack. You do, unfortunately. And yeah, and listen, I'm somebody who believes that the current Fed chairman, Jerome Powell, is fully politicized and is not remotely a. legitimate central banker, meaning that his first interest is protecting institutionally the Fed, secondly protecting the more general interest of Washington, D.C. as sort of a broad institution. Thirdly, maybe, or even further down the line, the prosperity of the American people.

Starting point is 00:09:39 But putting that aside, even if he had the best of intentions, even if he had the best of skills in the sphere of monetary policy, if he is only considering official government statistics, you're exactly correct. That garbage in, garbage out, you are sure to make bad decision based on slow, inaccurate information as an input. And by the way, if we look at the history of the Fed, again, don't have to take Steve Cortez's word for this. If you look at the history of the Fed, it has been wrong on every major policy turn for 25 years now.

Starting point is 00:10:08 I mean, going all the way back to Y2K and the tech bubble into the housing crisis, into COVID, it has mismanaged and completely gotten wrong every single crisis. And that's despite having literally hundreds of PhDs on a pandemic. staff. And so maybe we could use somebody who happens to have a PhD. Yes, he does have credentials, but much more importantly, operates in the real world of economic analysis, E.J. Antony. And again, not just those credentials and not just that knowledge base, but the attitude of urgency and the belief that is an outsider that we are there to deliver the very best information in the quickest manner possible to policymakers and to the American people, not to serve the interests

Starting point is 00:10:50 of the bureaucracism. We'll include a link to the rest of that interview in the description. Before you go, head down to that description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnett cast. And make sure to join us tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern, where we dig into the day's news and nonsense, along with a special interview this evening with Victor Davis Hanson. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been The Daily Signals, top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Obama Judge Blocks Deportations AGAIN, Whiplash at the DNC, Steve Cortes on BLS | Aug. 26, 2025

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