The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: The REAL Border Czar Joins Us

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

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Moore's. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy that last week went the way it did. We live in a border state in Texas. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Listen coast to coast. Channel 347 direct TV if you're not listening terrestrially. We're on X, everywhere else. Because part of what last week is bringing in, well, we're going to have Border Thanos. I'm calling in that. I am calling him Border Thanos because he's a badass and there's just no other way to put it. It's Tom Homan who is new, newly announced as the border czar for the Trump administration. He's a president CEO of Border 9-1-1, former acting ICE director, retired federal agent, and the newly appointed border czar coming into the new Congress, the new term. And he joins us now

via Skype, Tom. Or do I call you as a proper border czar? I mean, we got to figure out the title for that because border Thanos, I don't think that they make a desk application for that. No, I think borders are just perfectly fine. I think that says it all. There you go right there. Well, congratulations on your selection. And I know a lot of people, I think, are breathing a sigh of relief today because I noticed when you were asked, well, what's going to change on day one of the border? You said it's going to be shock and all that's going to change. You're going to go in and make some significant differences immediately. Can you give some insight into like what is the most dangerous thing to Americans that you see that can be done with

immediately and effectively in the first week? Well, look, President Trump's made it clear that we're going to get out of the gate. We're going to target national security threats and public safety threats. We've got criminal gangs in this country committing heinous acts of rape and murder. We got MS-13. We've got trained inaguay. We got a lot of criminal aliens. We got to round up because this administration and Biden administration, so I'll look at the data the other day.

They tried to sell that they're going to concentrate on just criminal aliens, those convictions of the crimes. When you look at the data, the removal and deportation of criminal aliens has decreased 74% from the Trump administration. So we've got a target-rich environment. So we're going to concentrate on public safety threats because they pose the most dangerous to us. So we're going to go after them right out of the gate. Also, we're going to secure the border right out of the gate. So there's like three rails we're operating right now.

There's going to be secure the border, run the deportation option by prioritization and find and save over 300,000 children. Wow. And that's the other big thing. And I've never do this, but I'll give New York Times a little bit of credit because they did write a very critical story about DHS and the border and the administration when they first reported that there were hundreds of thousands of kids missing, like actual legitimate kids that are brought over by coyotes, brought over illegally into the country. And then they go missing. And then you have, who is it, Becerra? Or no, is Americus who's running this saying, well, you know, we got to process these people faster. It has to be like the Ford Assembly line.

We got to process them faster, but then it came out that they weren't doing their due diligence and seeing even where anyone went. I mean, we have no idea, hundreds of thousands of kids. No one's talking about it. You are. A few people are. Yeah, I know. And Sarah, I saw him on stage one time talking about how quick they release these children

is at all time record because, look, this administration has been concerned about one thing. That's the optics, right? So if they process quicker and release quicker and there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to see here. And we learned it. Turned that because when Fox News had that 5,000 Haitians on the bridge, that was a bad day for this administration. So the instruction from then, that day forward was process quick, release quick. If there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to see here. We keep claiming the border secure.

You had said that there are 10 times that terrorists coming into the United States are 10 times more likely to come through the northern border than the southern border. A lot of people have been paying attention to what's happening up between the Canada and U.S. border out there. I mean, I know we put a lot of. of attention rightfully so at the southern border. Tell us exactly like some of the scary stuff that's happening up north. Well, look, the problem with the northern borders, they got very few resources up there to begin with. And I get that, you're right? You're going to put most of the farm in where the big fires, that's the southern border. However, what did the northern border of this administration because you had a stork of immigration, they took half of the very small

population on border legislation and detailed them to the southern border. When you do that, that even makes some northern border further week. And the half that were left at the northern border, they were processing illegal aliens from the southern border virtually. So there's- what? The board patrol on the river, on the lakes, or on the patrol up north. So the north patrol, the north border,

look, some of the sectors on northern border, especially where I grew up in upstate New York, it's up 800%. So we've got to pay attention to the northern border. That is virtually processing them up at the northern border, which is, I'm unbelievable. We're talking with the new borders are Tom Homan, who's also saying, you're telling these governors, look, you're not going to be a lot of these, you know, people like J.B. Pritzker. J.B. Pritzker threw down and said our residents are staying here. Well, they're here illegally. So they don't have that protection. These governors, I mean, how are you going to counter these governors that are saying out this isn't going to happen? There's not going to be any removal of illegal immigrants here. Well, first of us, it's amazing to me that these left-ling people, they got the world upside down because, you know, all of a sudden, the people who enforce the law are the bad guys, and the people who break the law are the victims.

I don't get it. Their world's upside down. But look, they don't want to help. They get to hell all the way because we're coming. We're going to do this job. The President Trump has a mandate from the American people to get this done. So we've got to get it done. And we're going to get it done with their help.

So I would love to have their help, but they can't help us. then we'll have to move forward on it. One of the biggest things, too, we're talking with Tom Holman, the new borders are under President and Elect Trump. One of the biggest things, too, you mentioned Trenta Aragua and all of these other gangs that are taking root in major cities. I mean, it's here. I'm in Dallas.

It's here in Dallas. I mean, it's everywhere. Far, far into the interior of the United States, that's going to be a real effort to combat that. And I know that there's been a lot of red tape that's been put by the Obama Biden administration and by the Biden-Harris administration, preventing, you know, you and DHS, and ICE from actually working with these local law enforcement to get detainers, have those detainers follow it up on, report this, and then get these people removed.

Is that going to be a lot to work through? How long do you think that's something like that's going to take? Well, thank God we got strong. President Trump. He's not going to take that garbage. And, you know, there's a lot of sheriffs. I've been contacted by hundreds of sheriffs that want to work with us. They want to fire up the 287G programs, how their sheriff's deputies help us,

especially in the jails. So I think this Trump went as meaningful to law enforcement. And even in the sanctuary cities, the law enforcement wants to work with us. I'm in New York City all the time, and every police officer I talk and I've talked to hundreds, they want to work with us. It's the leadership, the city leadership. So I think President Trump's going to make a lot of headway of these agencies and the other ones. Look, we need to sue the sanctuary cities like President Trump did their first administration. However, when Joe Biden became president, he dropped that lawsuit that DOJ had against Sanctuary City. So we're going to refile that lawsuit. We're going to take these people to court.

there's no downside. For any city official, a mayor, a governor, a chief of police, to not want public safety threats taken off their streets. That's what it is because we said we're going to prioritize public safety threats. What mayor or city councilman or governor does not want to take public safety threats off their streets? They're number one responsibilities to safety of their communities, and we want to help them do that. So again, they don't want to help us. We're taking the court, but we're going to do what we're told to do.

Yeah, that's a, I mean, I know so many people are so. happy to see this change. We're talking with Tom Holman, uh, Borders are. I know your announces of Borders are, were you asked to, to head up DHS out of curiosity? Because you were former eyes. And I honestly, I, out of the gate, I was like, oh, it's going to be Tom Homan over at DHS. I mean, I know you're going to go wherever, wherever you feel that you are best suited to serve and where you want to go. But I was just curious about that. Uh, I'd rather not comment on that. Okay. All right. I just wanted to ask, well, I'm so glad that you're going to be somewhere on the border. These personal appointments, I just, I hate to get in that.

with my kind of situation with the president, but I'm, I'm aware where I think I should be. I'm a border guy. The secretary has a lot of responsibility. You got secret service. You got a fix. You got, you got, you got to fix. I want to spend 100% of the time 24-7 on the border. There you go. One last question for you. Border agents, I know that they're, they've got so much that they have to handle, and I know we are in dire need of them. What's the plan to combat some of the fatigue, the demoralization, and maybe get some more on the ground there? Yes, the morale is already sky high because of President Trump's re-election. A lot of the borderline had a retirement paper put in.

They pulled it back. Dana, I got called by hundreds. Texas calls through my LLC. Hundreds of borderline who have retired that are begging to come back to help Trump. Hundreds of soldiers that have retired wanting to come help Trump. Law enforcement options from all the country want to come help. I've got thousands of people willing to step up tomorrow and do the job. Tom Holman, borders are. Things are about to change. You said shock and awe earlier, and I like that. There's going to be a lot of change at the border. And we are grateful for it. We can't wait until you get in there and start getting things done. Thank you, sir. We'll talk with you again soon. God bless you.

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But RFK Jr., I will say. One more last thing about that. And I just, as long as we can silo things off, because it's not my pick, as long as we can silo things off, then I think that, but there's, there are some questions. Like, he's a very, he's not a very pro-life dude. And I just want to make sure that abortion doesn't get included as an activist thing for him in health and human services. Because remember, HHS is the largest department in the federal government. It is the biggest. And I think So Phil Klein said that one out of every $4

and then this is over at USA Spending.gov One out of every actually more than one out of every $4 in the budget goes to HHS because you have Obamacare, you have Medicaid, you have Medicare,

all of that. And with the passage of Obamacare, you didn't just get government health care, you also had a significant number, a significant amount of regulatory power that was reallocated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. And it, that's how when you're, when you talk about policy in terms of abortion on demand and all this stuff, all of that happens through HHS.

I mean, R of K Jr. said, and this was NBC, and the date was May 9th, 2024, he was doing an interview with Sage Steel. And he was asked if there should be a limit for women to have an abortion or go all the way to full term. He said that he doesn't think anyone would want to do that at eight months of pregnancy. But, quote, even if it's full term, he says, I think we have to leave a date. the women rather than the state. So just that's a that's a concern. That is a legitimate concern. And remember, he's coming and it's great to have a coalition, but here's where the 20% of the 80, 20% of the 80, 20 rules starts to be a stickler. What if he doesn't agree with you on abortion and he also thinks that it should be treated as a health care issue, the way that the left says? what if there's money

and I'm this is all plausible I'm not saying it's going to happen but you have to this is it is reasonable and responsible to speculate with every nominee is that something

that he is going to oppose or facilitate as head of HHS he was someone who said he in the past he totally supported single payer health care he said that

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So that's, I mean, Kane, I think it's reasonable, right, that I'm just raising these as potential. Look, having concerns before, you know, doing a little future tripping, I get it. I just think on a federal level that the abortion thing is not, it doesn't exist anymore on a federal level. Well, when states get federal grants, it can, yeah. Yeah, like they, they, of course, you know, I guess have to do what the, you have to do. what the state says? Do you have to do what the federal government says if you're receiving federal money? Unless you're incentivizing it. Remember how the DOJ was incentivizing participation in maximum mandatory instead of minimum mandatory? And so I, what was it, the exile program?

Yeah. And so although I agree with being cautious, I have no problem with that at all. I think that there is something here that is probably a little more valuable to the American people than the way the status quo has been going and the way things have been going. I'm not, I am not saying that I oppose him as HHS secretary. I'm trying to find assurances that I don't want these departments weaponized because, well, or continued to be weaponized. What am I talking about? They're already weaponized. Continued in the weaponization.

And I think that that is something that we've seen the left do and Big Pharma do. And I don't see this administration or the picks that he has made. As long as he can come forward and tell me, look, yes, I agree. These are huge HHS issues that I am completely not even in the same universe on with MAGA, by the way, or the Republican Party platform, however you want to put it. As long as he can say, my focus, I mean, if we're going to make it a singular thing with, you know, pharma and all of that, I just want that assurance. And I want him to give assurances that none of my outside of that, my views, which still trend super left, on this, he needs to say my views, which, you know, are still left, are not going to be involved in the day-to-day or any part of the regulatory activities of these.

And I think that's like a fair request. Yeah. And it's easy for him to be able to do that. I just think that I don't think Trump has given him a rogue green light. I think that everything that he does through that agency has to be green lit through Trump. And so that's why I have less of a concern, although it's understandable to have the concern.

Yeah. I mean, it'll be, I mean, it's going to be interesting to see because it is an outside of the box thing. It will be interesting to see. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.