The Tucker Carlson Show - Tom Homan’s Plan to Destroy the Cartel Empire, End Child Trafficking, and Secure the Border for Good

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

Which government has killed more Americans: Iran or Mexico? Tom Homan is the new border czar and he knows the answer.  (00:00) Tom Homan’s Detailed Plan to Fix the Border (08:24) How to End the Cartel Drug Empire (26:21) Biden Auctioning Off the Border Wall (29:42) The Corruption of Alejandro Mayorkas (35:51) The Prioritization of Illegal Immigrants Over Americans (46:20) What Happened to Mayor Eric Adams? (1:02:00) How Many Deportations Are Coming? Paid partnerships with: ExpressVPN: Get 3 months free at https://ExpressVPN.com/Tucker Heritage Foundation: https://Heritage.org/Tucker PureTalk: Get 50% off first month at https://PureTalk.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Well, look, we had a discussion that night, and he gave me three rails, three things he wants me to do. Number one, secure the border. Yeah. Shut the border down. Number two, run the biggest deportation operation this country's ever seen. And third, he wants me to lead an effort to find the over 300,000 missing children that were trafficked into this country,

and this administration cannot locate them. Welcome to the Tucker Carlson Show. We bring you stories that have not been showcased anywhere else. And they're not censored, of course, because we're not gatekeepers. We are honest brokers here to tell you what we think you need to know and do it honestly. Check out all of our content at TuckerCarlson.com. Here's the episode. So, seal the border, deport the illegals, find the missing children, 300,000. Yes.

Let's go in order. Seal the border. What has happened? Do you have a sense now, over a month after Trump's victory, of just how big the invasion was under Biden? Do we know? Well, we know that we can document over 10 million encounters, 10.5 that we can document. Then we can document over 2 million gotaways, right?

These are known gotaways. What is a known gotaway? These are people we capture an image on drone video. Is that in addition to the 10? Yeah. So at least 12 million people have been encountered at our border. 10.5 have been encountered.

Over two, we know they're a gotaway because we capture on drone traffic, video traffic, or sensor traffic, and Borg chose over one that couldn't respond. So we know there's at least 12.5 million people at that border. So that's like New York plus Chicago. It's a historic number, which is one of the reasons why I wake up pissed off every day,

because we went from the most secure border in my lifetime. I started in 1984. I was a board drill agent. I worked for six presidents. Where did you start, by the way? I was a board drill agent in Campo, California, San Diego sector. Yeah. But to go from the most secure border of my lifetime under President Trump, based on data, right?

That's just my opinion. That's data. Go from the most secure border of my lifetime to historic illegal immigration in one administration, that's by design. That's not mismanagement. Yeah. That's by design. What do you think the goal was? You know, I ask that a lot.

Why would anybody open a border up? I think Joe Biden's the first president in American history who came into office and unsecured a border. I worked for, you know, six presidents. Obama and Clinton took steps to secure the border because they understood you possibly can't. There's no way you can have strong national security. If you're on border security, you need to know what's coming, who's coming, where it's coming, and why it's coming. Joe Biden's first president came into office and unsecured the border. And people ask me all the

time why. I think they see a future political benefit. I think they think these people will be future Democratic voters, number one. Two, but we don't even have to get there, right, Tucker? I mean, when Biden signed over 90 executive orders getting rid of everything we did, he also overturned the Trump census rule where man's illegal aliens would be counted in all these sanctuary cities, which is going to result in more seats in the House

for the Dems and reproportionate seats in the House. Can that be undone? Oh, yeah. I think President Trump, when he gets back in, when he needs to establish the other census rule illegal and should not be counted the census well yeah because illegal foreign citizens non-americans should not be able to determine how many members of congress you have and where they sit exactly i think president trump will reinstitute the game-changing

policies he had during the first administration so we can secure the border. We did it before. This time we're going to finish the job. How many came through Canada? Do you know? I don't have it off the top of my head, but I know the number, depending on what sector you look at, is 600 to 800 percent increase on the northern border. Specifically in upstate New York, where I grew up. And I still have a home up there, so I'm very familiar with that area, and I talk to Border Patrol chiefs up there all the time. Northern New York has a huge problem. And the problem with northern border, a lot of SIAs come through the northern border.

They can afford to fly to Canada and cross the northern border, which is wide open because there's a lot of border and very few agents. So a lot of Indians, a lot of Pakistanis, a lot of Turkish come to the northern border. I mean, who organized this? You say it was by design. There are a lot of NGOs involved. The United Nations is involved. A bunch of religious charities, pretty evil religious charities, in my opinion, involved in this.

But they seem to be coordinating with one another. Do we understand exactly what happened? You know, we're still looking into it. I think under the Trump administration, it needs to be an investigation on what happened, who was involved. I know I've had numerous conversations with Mark Green, who is the chairman of Homeland Oversight. He plans on having some oversight hearings on this, specifically when it relates to the NGOs. I think they were complicit in a lot of this illegal immigration.

And certainly the United Nations, we're south of our border, working on this global illegal immigration to the United States. So I'm counting on the new Congress, which we now have control of both the House and the Senate, to conduct oversight hearings and hold people accountable. There's no way, again, there's no way this is mismanagement or incompetence, this is by design. And do I think Joe Biden had the expertise to do it?

No, I think someone's pulling his strings. So this is something that needs to be fully investigated. People need to be held accountable because... Oh, they need to go wreck the country. They need to go to prison. They created the biggest national security vulnerability this nation has ever seen. We got a record number of people on terrorist watch lists being arrested. We got 2.2 million people. And this is my biggest issue I brought up for the last two years. It's just not about illegal immigration anymore. When you cause a crisis this big, the overwhelm of the border patrol, where many times 70% of agents were pulled off the line dealing with this humanitarian crisis,

right? Changing diapers, making baby formula, making hospital runs, doing that humanitarian mission, leaving 30% of our Homeland Security officials left securing the border. There was times in the last two years where 100%, 100% of border police were pulled off the line, such as in El Paso, because when they got overcrowded, this administration said, wait, we can't have overcrowding. That's a bad optic. So let's pull every agent off the line, process as quick as possible, release as quick as possible, because if there's no overcrowding, there's nothing to see here. The border's still secure. So when you overrun the border, that's when all the bad things happen.

That's when we got 2.2 million Gatowys, right? That's when the fentanyl comes across to kill a quarter million Americans. That's why sex trafficking of women and children is up 600%. That's why the number of migrant deaths is at a historic high. So this, what people call this innocent illegal immigration crisis, made a lot of bad things happen because the border patrol was strictly overwhelmed and couldn't do their national security.

Well, it changed the culture of the United States, which is worse than any of the things that you, and more permanent than any of the things you listed. You can't run in and change people's ancient culture. You've been here for 250 years. You can't do that. No, it's the worst crime ever committed against the U.S., worse than the Civil War, in my opinion. But the question is, like, who did this and why? So the United Nations, we pay the largest share of the U.N. budget.

You know, we should have some ability to control what the U.N. does, but they commit this act of war against us. Do we know who did at the UN and why? I do not, but it's something that's going to be, I believe it should be investigated. I'm pushing people. I'm coming to the administration where that we need to investigate it.

Again, I've talked to numerous representatives on the Hill that swear they're going to have hearings on this. And we need to. American people need to know exactly what happened, who is responsible. Do you think that the fentanyl

traffickers, known as the cartels, I guess, I'm not exactly sure what that means. I'd like to ask you, actually. But you keep reading and hearing that they have control of parts of the southwestern United States. First of all, what is a cartel?

Who are they? Where are they from? And do you think that's true? Well, the criminal cartels in Mexico, they were born out of the narcotics smuggling industry in Mexico, and they're powerful. Look, they're like a Fortune 500 company. This is not a gang anymore, right? Jalisco cartels, they're in over 45 countries of the world, right?

And not only are they responsible for moving narcotics in this country, they're currently in every major city in the United States. Because not only are they smuggling the drugs in the United States, they're taking over the distribution within the United States, right? So, again, and I said this at the RNC, and President Trump agrees with me. These criminal cartels have killed more Americans than every terrorist organization in the world combined. And every war, more than the Second World War. So that's why they need to be designated terrorist organizations and wiped off the face of the earth. And it's going to take the United States to do it. Mexico has failed to do it, even if they tried to do it. Mexico has failed to do it, even if they tried to do it. The bottom line is much of

the Mexican military, much of the Mexican law enforcement, much of the Mexican government's corrupt. That's just a fact. Well, then why? Okay, so I noticed that the incoming administration just basically toppled the prime minister of Canada, who's a thoroughly evil person called Justin Trudeau, just by threatening tariffs. They kind of fixed the Canada problem. Trump fixed it in about, I don't know, 20 minutes. But how much more leverage do we have over Mexico? I mean, we're the entire economy of Mexico. Why don't we do that with Mexico? Well, we are.

President Trump has threatened tariffs, and the president seems to say she's going to help. We'll see if her actions match her words. But President Trump has a lot of power over Mexico. Look, the terrorists alone, Mexico needs us more than we need them, right? And look, I'm not saying every cop, every soldier, every politician in Mexico is corrupt, but many are. That's just a fact. When I was ICE director, we had vetted units we worked with, law enforcement down there.

We vetted them so we can work with them. But we didn't even tell the vetted units everything we know because we just couldn't be sure, right? But PressJob has a lot of leverage. Remember, when I became board of directors in 1984, one of my first assignments out of the academy was protecting a port of entry in Tecate, California, because we had a DEA agent that was tortured and murdered, Kiki Camerana.

I think you remember that. I remember very well. And they wouldn't help us to identify and turn over the people responsible. Ronald Reagan shut down a port of entries. And what, it took him two days? All of a sudden, we know who committed the crime. And so President Trump can obviously do that.

He can end all the visas now, end the tourist visas, the business visas. There's a lot of power he has over Mexico. And he needs, President Trump's willing to do whatever it takes to protect our sovereignty and protect this country, and he's ready to do it. He proved it the first time, you know, when we made the Mexico program. Mexico didn't want to do that. Third Safe Country Agreement, Mexico didn't want to do that. They didn't want to put 10,000 military on their border, but President Trump threatened them with tariffs, and they came to the table. There are so many nice Mexican people, I mean, most Mexican people I've met I really like,

that we forget that the government's very anti-American, is not our ally in any sense. We spend all this energy being mad at Assad, whoever, who cares? And we live next to this country that's helping to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. No one ever says anything about it. Don't you think it would be worth shifting some of that emotional energy and military resources to like countries right next to us who are hurting us? I'm 100% with you.

And that's why I've been pushing for Mexico to come to the table and be accountable. It's against the law in Mexico to traffic in women and children, but they don't do anything about it. It's against the law in Mexico to transit to that country. If you're from another country, well, a transit visa, but they don't do anything about it. It's against the law in Mexico to transit to that country. If you're from another country, well, transit visa, but they allow it. I mean, look at the beast, the big train that thousands of people came every weekend. They didn't do anything until

President Trump got in office and had them put a stop to it. I mean, but good thing is a lot of countries are willing to come to the table right now. Mexico says they're going to, let's see what they do. I'll be deeply involved in those conversations. Panama, Panama wants to come to the table right now. Mexico says they're going to. Let's see what they do. I'll be deeply involved in those conversations. Panama. Panama wants to come to the table and help the United States secure our border by shutting down the Darien Gap. This administration said they're going to do it. Secretary Mayorkas said he was going to do it.

Panama never got any funding to do it. They never got anything done with this administration. They're coming to the table again. We will shut down Darien Gap, but please help us. We will help them. Darien Gap, but please help us. We will help them. Shutting the Darien Gap down would be a huge game changer on illegal migration to this country. But again, given the economic leverage the United States has, that shouldn't take more than a weekend, right? It's going to be pretty quick.

I mean, we're going to come to the table what we need Mexico to do. Remain in Mexico program A game-changer that needs to happen quickly. That was a game-changer because after about Two months they stopped coming they stopped coming because they knew they weren't being released into the United States To not show up in court And even if they show up in court No one's looking to remove them because on this administration ice can't arrest somebody for simply being illegally in the United States. Secretary of Commerce has made that clear. They've got to have a criminal conviction before ICE can even look at them, even though they're illegally here.

So the remaining Mexicans are game until they stop coming. They stopped selling everything they had, giving the cartels every dollar they had to come to the United States to be released. When the remaining Mexican program came into place, they stopped coming. When they stopped coming, look at the lives that were saved. Look at the money that was saved. If someone is really escaping fear and persecution from their homeland, from their government, home government, if they're really escaping fear and persecution, they're going to be willing to wait in Mexico for the hearing. But most of them know. But why would the U.S. take anybody who's, I mean, why is it our job, given our appalling track record around the world of like trying to make things better, you make them worse because the world's super complicated. Why do we have an obligation to take anybody from anywhere ever?

I don't really get where does that come from. Well, that was the genius of the Remain in Mexico program, right? Because President Trump, I remember sitting in the Oval Office one day, we're talking about this, and I was trying to explain to him, and he understood clearly what the whole situation on asylum is. I told him that if you look at the data, immigration court data, about 9 out of 10 people who claim asylum at our border never get relief from the U.S. government

because they simply don't qualify, they don't show up in court. Then you look at the Homeland Security Lifecycle Report, a report that's put up by Homeland Security, for instance, family units, for those that were ordered removed, only 6% leave. So when I explained to President Trump, 9 out of 10 don't even have a valid claim, but when that nine out of 10 gets already removed, 6% leave. He says, you know,

it didn't take him long to say, why the hell are we doing this? Yeah. So let's not let him in. Let's have him remain in Mexico. If you really escape

infirm persecution, you wait in Mexico. If you win your case, which are very few, welcome to the United States. But if you don't win your case, we don't have to go find you. And we're not putting

this message out of catch and release so people keep coming knowing they're going to be released in the United States at the same time knowing when't win your case, we don't have to go find you. And we're not putting this message out of catch and release so people keep coming knowing they're going to be released in 90 states at the same time knowing when they lose their case, no one's looking to remove them. That whole dynamics is going to change. Right? Because I've said, I've been real clear since the day President Trump appointed me, if you're in the country illegally, you got a problem, right? If we don't take the judge's order, immigration court, when you order, you're removed. He gets a deportation officer, a deportation order.

If we don't execute those orders, then what the hell are we doing? Shut down the immigration court. Doesn't make, don't mean anything anymore. Take the border, draw off the border because there's no consequences for entering this country illegally. We'll give you due process,

but when you're already removed, you're going to be removed. Or if we don't, we send the message to the whole world. You can enter the country illegally, which is a crime. You can see a judge or not see a judge, get an order removal. No one's looking for you. And that's what the Democrats are doing on this administration. They have overwhelmed the system, released the millions of this country.

Immigration, the court doc has pushed back seven, maybe as much as nine years, like in New York. By that time, when they get an order removal, they got two or three U.S.C. kids, right? Then everybody's complaining, you can't remove that guy. He's got three U.S.C. kids. When I was vice director, I got calls from Republican senators. Why did you remove that person? He has two U.S.C. children. Well, he didn't have two U.S.C. children to enter the country legally.

He didn't have two U.S.C. children. You got calls from Republican senators? Oh, absolutely. They're the worst. And I said, I said, well, what's my option? He had due process, a great taxpayer expense. He was already moved by a federal judge. The option is a slim mistake.

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I mean it. The people who did this are rich white liberals in the United States who hate themselves and the country. And to punish it, they invited all these people illegally from failed countries.

But they can't stand the idea of living near these people because they're racist. So why wouldn't you move every Haitian to Bethesda and Brookline and Aspen and Martha's Vineyard

and Nantucket like today? Can we do that? I will donate money if we can do that. Well, absolutely. Look what Martha's Vineyard in Nantucket, like, today. Can we do that? I will donate money if we can do that. Well, absolutely. Look what Martha's Vineyard did. They put them on there. They called the cops immediately because they're racist.

Governor Abbott done more to secure this border than anybody in this administration. Guy's great. DeSantis is the same. Do you know who first came up with the idea of busing people to sanctuary cities? It was President Trump. I remember sitting in the Oval Office one time, and he said, why don't we do that? So we started putting plans together, but the Remain in Mexico

program was such a game changer, we couldn't fill a bus up if we wanted to. So we beat the problem before we actually got to that. The problem, though, is that the people doing it didn't have a precise enough understanding of rich, white, liberal culture, but I do. So they

would bus them to New York, then they wind up in Midtown and Queens. Okay, none of the people who are doing this were affected by it. But I could give you a list of zip codes where like Tony Blinken lives and stuff like that. Because I know that world, they need to be moved into the neighborhoods of the people who are calling you racist for wanting to have laws and borders. Like, they need to feel the effects of their own destruction. So just text me and I will send you the zip codes. I mean it, too. Because what happened is they opened the borders and then all these people, like, moved to Jackson, Wyoming to the least diverse zip codes in the country.

They literally ran to the hills to get away from diversity. I think we need to add to that, though. The senators and congressmen are pushing back on any border security. 100%. You know, moving the illegal aliens right outside of the vice president Kamala Harris' residence, that was a game changer, too. So I think not only those who are well-financed, how about the politicians who are pushing back against any any form of enforcement of our border well that's why bernie sanders needs a ton of haitians in vermont because it's just it's appallingly it's blindingly white it needs to change i i couldn't agree more um so

but just back to the cartel question i don't i don't know that much about it but i keep hearing i think informed people say man you know parts of new mexico arizona california even florida texas or you know there is real control um by these cartels in the way that they control mexico i mean they're basically a state within a state with their own army and armored personnel carriers and tanks and like you know do you think that's real do you think they have that kind of beachhead here? Oh, absolutely. As I said earlier,

they're like a Fortune 500 company. They're well-financed. They're diversified in their funding. And look, I've seen a lot of intelligence reports. They have access to military-grade weapons. They'll take the Mexican military on

and Mexican law enforcement. They do all the time. And it's just not my opinion. They have control. Operational's just not my opinion. They have control, operational control over the southwest border. And I've talked to chief patrol agents who agree with me.

They've lost operational control on the southwest border. One chief patrol agent used the term broken arrow. I was on the phone the one time. He goes, Tom, I can't contain what's coming across. I'm lucky I'm catching 10% of it.

The criminal cartels, knowing this administration caused this huge humanitarian crisis and overwhelmed the border patrols we discussed earlier, and whatever assets is left on the border, left to patrol, the criminal cartels, you think 100 family units or 200

family units show up accidentally at the same place at a certain time? No, the cartels control that. They'll send a group to one area knowing whatever left on the border was seized to that humanitarian crisis, right? They have to go deal with that. They create gaps in the system. That's when they move the fentanyl that's killed a quarter

million Americans. That's why sex trafficking is up 600%. The cartels, they create gaps in our system. And that's where they operate. And for the Democratic representatives up on on Hill saying, well, most fentanyl comes to the port of entry. That's just a bunch of garbage.

Most fentanyl is seized at a port of entry because every vehicle stopped. And based on the CBP targeting system, which is law enforcement sensitive, and based on the responses to the questions, chances are they'll get secondary and they'll find some things. Between the port of entry, we're maybe touching 10%. So if I'm a criminal cartel, I'm going to use a route of least resistance.

I know my vehicle is going to be stopped at a port of entry. Will it be secondary or not? I don't know. But between a port of entry with 70% of the agents off the line, that's when I'm going to move my product. I mean, it's not rocket science.

Just right over the open border. Absolutely. So I know I'm going to move my product. I mean, it's not rocket science. Just right over the open border. Absolutely. So, I know I'm jumping around, but I have too many questions for you. I read in the last three days, it's hard to believe this could be true, that the Biden administration auctioned off portions of the unfinished border wall at bargain basement prices. Is that true? Yes. I actually had a conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham two days ago. Someone needs to take some action because this is products that the taxpayers already paid for, and they're going to auction it off. And now, you know, Texas talked about buying it back. Shouldn't have to buy it back. We bought it once before, right? This administration's out. They're out in a couple more weeks. Why would they continue to set us up for failure?

That's what they're trying to do, right? President Biden's signing all these executive orders. They want to sell the border product. I thought the American people on election day gave this country a clear mandate. They want to secure a border. But this administration's going to stop at, they won't stop at anything to slow us down.

It's not going to slow us down. We're going to get that border wall finished. But the mere stupidity of selling the stuff, pennies on the dollar, every taxpayer should be... What's an act of hate toward the country? Of course. Well, I've said it many times.

They hate Trump more than they love their country. For sure. And I think they hate the country more than they hate Trump even. He represents the country to them, the old country that they tried to change with immigration. Do you know Mayorkas? I know him. How would you assess him?

I used to respect him. Under President Obama, I got a Presidential Ranking Award under President Obama because I oversaw the removal of well over a million aliens during that three-year period. Mayorkas actually accompanied me on operations in New York City targeting criminal aliens and illegal aliens, both. Jay Johnson approved the family operation. A lot of families were coming across during the obama administration and i told jay johnson look nine out of ten of these families going to be already removed i'm going to remove them he said absolutely jay johnson stood by that

ali mayorkas alejandro mayorkas went on operation with us he backed me up on a lot uh the only the main thing we disagreed on is the transgender policy where you wanted special treatment for transgenders in ICE detention. I was ordered to sign that policy and that's- What kind of special treatment? Making sure they're identified as being a transgender, that they're protected in our facilities and separated

and get medical attention whether it's hormone therapy or whatever it was. Wait, so he wanted the U.S. government to pay for hormone therapy? Yeah. And we got a huge argument over that and I was ordered to sign a memo and that's where we had a fallen out. Do you have any, why would he want, I mean, first of all, how many transsexual illegal aliens

are there? You'd be surprised how many we run across. And they just, you know, they want a certain protection for our facilities. But Alejandro Mayorkas went on an operation with me. He shook hands with officers

who were enforcing the immigration law. I remember we went to New York City on a huge operation, arrested a lot of illegal aliens. And when he was nominated to be secretary, I thought, okay, we're in the middle of this crisis again, right? He knows how we stopped it.

We stopped it by building detention facilities, including family residential centers, you know, the so-called cages, right? He knew how we stopped it. We stopped it by building more detention facilities, detaining people, making them have a hearing, because if you're in detention, you have a hearing within like 35 days. Nine out of 10 lost.

We put them in an airplane and sent them home, and the board of numbers tanked. So I'm thinking, okay, he knows how to fix it. He might be able to do this job. He got into the job. He did a complete 180. I don't recognize him anymore. He's about not enforcing the law. One of his first instructions to ICE is that being in the country illegally on its own is not enough for you to go make an arrest.

You got to wait till they're convicted of a serious criminal violation. How can a federal administrator ignore federal law? Isn't that unconstitutional? Why can't he be arrested for that? It's illegal. I mean, the Fifth Circuit, the federal judge in the Fifth Circuit said not only are they ignoring the law, they're actually violating the law. Again, that's when we need to hold these people accountable in the incoming administration.

I believe they violated the law. And the fact that Congress never did anything about that is really telling. Well, they went through the impeachment proceedings. And I said at the time, I think we had five or six Republican congressmen that didn't vote for impeachment. I couldn't believe it. And I thought they lost the right to be a congressman at that point. I mean, if they can impeach President Trump for making a phone call, you can't impeach Alejandro Mayorkas for what he did to this border? The biggest national security vulnerability this nation's ever seen? Look, me and Christopher Wray,

I'm not a friend of his. I don't really respect the man much, but he agrees with me that the border has become the biggest vulnerability this nation's ever seen. He sees more red flags than ever before, and they continue with the open border, even to this day after the election. Now they're going to sell border wall material that we're going to need, and day one we're getting in there. The illegal behavior, the treasonous behavior from this administration has not stopped. What do you think happened? It's so interesting. I'm glad I asked you if you knew him.

I didn't know that you did. But since you do, what do you think happened to Mayorkas? You know, as an agent since 1984, I think I, you know,

we study people. That's what we do. Either he fooled me under the first, under the Obama administration that he actually believed in enforcement. Either I was hoodwinked

and just thought he was behind enforcement or he always felt that way. And just, he played the role under the Obama administration. Then when he came back, he actually did what he always truly believed and opened borders. I know the NGOs and he has a very close relationship. He worked for some NGOs before he came back.

So I don't know what happened. All I know is a man who at once respected, I have zero respect to now because of what he's did. Again, not because of incompetence. This is by design. They knew exactly what they were doing because he's been there before. He knows how we shut it down.

He knows how we secure the border at a high level. Not as high as Trump. We secure the border at a pretty good level. He did everything he could to unsecure the border, which is a complete 180. It's fascinating. There's something you watch when he talks. There's something strange, very, well, first of all,

he's lying. He's lying under oath, which is a felony, too. If I lie under oath, you don't think they would love to prosecute me for lying under oath. And they should. You shouldn't be allowed to do that. He's lied many times. One of the biggest statements he made was for those who don't immediately qualify

for asylum, they'll be immediately removed. Really? You've got the lowest number of removals in the history of ICE. At the same time, you have historical immigration. So, you know, you're supposed to have a hearing a couple weeks ago, and I asked a couple of congressmen to ask that question again. Well, there's a lot of anti-Trump, anti-Homan rhetoric out there

that we shouldn't have a mass deportation operation. Do you stand by the statements you've made numerous times that if they don't qualify, they need to be removed? Because you can also help send a message to the American people, we're doing this deportation operation, it has to be done, and you said it, would you say that again, of course him and Ray backed off the hearing, never had the hearing, but for the American people, here's my biggest issue, I read it every day, racist, inhumane, to have a mass deportation

operation, we just went through four years of historic illegal immigration, racist, inhumane, to have a mass deportation operation. We just went through four years of historic illegal immigration. Again, we're 9 out of 10 to get order removal. We don't have a choice. That's the way the law is set up. They lose their case, they're going home. I mean, we just ended African-American political power, by the way, because of the demographic changes.

Just basically made it, you know, both parties have paid, especially Democratic Party, a lot of attention to what black voters want, because they're a huge part of the Democratic coalition. And now that's not true. And so it's not, you know, this is a complicated question. Anyone who says, oh, it's just white racism is, what is your average black person in Chicago, native born, family been here 300 years, what does he think of watching his city overwhelmed with illegal aliens? You know? That's exactly what they think.

I was up in Chicago last week. I met with hundreds. I met with black pastors. Black pastors are upset. Well, they should be upset. Yeah, they feel like, you know, people who are not supposed to be here enter the country illegally,

which is a crime. I'm going to keep talking about that. Are getting massive amounts of care, right? Free hotel room, three square meals a day, I'm going to keep talking about that, are getting massive amounts of care, right? Free hotel rooms, three square meals a day, free medical care. And the black community feels left behind because a lot of these people are, you know, they could use some of that tax money in Chicago to help them. And they're taxpayers. They should have the first chance to get some of that help.

But the mayor of Chicago is just, you Chicago, he's ignoring his own community. And I was up there just over a week ago and I met with hundreds of people that were up there and they're suffering because of the decisions to take care of these illegal aliens. I mean, I saw city transit buses parked running fuel as warming buses. How about taking care of the homeless people in that city?

Let them get on a warming bus. But, you know, they'd rather put these illegal aliens in a hotel room at 500 bucks a night in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and give them three meals a day and give them free medical care rather than take care of their own people. We've got homeless vets. You've been to Washington, D.C. many times. You know, less than a mile from the Capitol, you We got homeless vets. You've been to Washington, D.C. many times.

Less than a mile from the Capitol, you got homeless vets living in tents. They don't have a free hotel room. They don't get a hot shower. They don't get three squares a day. They don't have access to free medical care. But you got people who are in the country illegally, you got all that stuff. Well, yeah.

And they also, you know, this is is a democracy so we make decisions based on population size and if you dilute the population you dilute the political power of the people who are born here very much including black people so really it's a takeover of our of our government of our democratic system um and i just want to say for the third time it completely disenfranchises black people and they're you know black leaders in Congress who supposedly speak for black people. They sold them right out, actually, in fact. And the violence in these communities, and we're trying to address the violence. Mayor Adams finally gets it, I think.

We'll see what he actually does. But the mayor of Chicago, the crime rate is extremely high in Chicago, right? We know the shootings are outrageous. And what we're saying to him, President Trump and myself have been very clear. We want to prioritize those illegally in the country that are public safety threats. That's what we want to target first because they're the most dangerous to our community, public safety threats and national security threats. Why would any elected mayor of a city with a crime rate as high as they have not want public safety

threats taken out of their communities, especially if they're here illegally? You would think the mayor of Chicago has number one responsibility is the safety of his community. Why not help me take those public safety threats out of the community? ICE agents aren't allowed to take a step into Cook County Jail, one of the biggest county jails in the country, where we used to get hundreds of illegal alien criminals out. We can't even step foot in that. They won't honor an ICE detainer. They much rather release that public safety threat back in the community to reoffend. And where is he likely to reoffend?

The immigrant community where he lives. But I don't understand. I mean, so when South Carolina tried this in 1861 at Fort Sumter, it kicked off a civil war. When Central High School tried this in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne. You can't allow states to ignore federal law. I'm trying not to use the F word here. So how is that not an act of insurrection? I don't understand.

If a mayor or a governor says, you know, we're going to ignore federal law and there's nothing you can, you can't come into our facility. How about you get a SEAL team and go to the facility? I mean, like, how is that allowed? That is insurrection. Am I missing something? I thought this is the way the system worked. And that's why I've been out there taking a lot of hate the last three

weeks saying, okay, well. You're taking hate from the insurrectionists? Yeah. Which I'll wear as a badge of honor. I've been out there saying one thing to the mayor of Denver, right? To the mayor of Chicago and to Governor Pritzker and the rest of them. You cannot help.

You can choose not to help us. Stand aside because we're going to do it. However, there's a line you can't cross. If you're going to impede what we're doing, that's a felony. If you're going to annoyingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from ICE agents, USC 1324 to apply, that's a felony. And we will prosecute. We're done playing the game. There are federal statutes on the books written by Congress, enacted by Congress, signed by a president, said this is a felony to do these things. And we're going to take that seriously. And we got a strong AG coming in, Pam Bondi, I think will back me up on this. You can help.

You can sit aside and watch us do your work for you. Fine. You do it. But here's the message. No one's asking you to be immigration officers. What we're asking is give us access to the taxpayer funded jail where you already

locked somebody in a jail cell because apparently they're a public safety threat. When you're done with them, simply give them to us and we'll remove not only from the community, from the country. Because when you don't, and here's what they're going to get, they're going to get exactly what they don't want by taking this stance.

You don't let me into jail to arrest a bad guy, where one agent can arrest a bad guy in the safety and security of a county jail where we know he don't have access to weapons. You're going to release him back in the community. You're endangering the community, the immigrant community, because he's most likely to be offended in that community. You're endangering our officers, and you're endangering that alien, because things

could happen when you make an arrest in a public setting. We have access to who knows what weapons, right? So what's Tom Holman going to do? We're going to send more agents to the community. We're going to find a guy. That means I've got to send a whole team to the community to find him. We send a team because of officer safety concerns.

I'm going to send a whole team to find him. When we find him, he's probably going to be with others. Others are not necessarily an operational priority, but guess what? ICE agents aren't going to be told to turn their back on any illegal handling. So we're going to find the bad guy and anybody else around him. So by your actions of not letting me in that county jail means more agents in your neighborhood, a lot more agents in your neighborhood, and a lot more arrests, and many non-priority arrests. You want to play the game, we're going to play the game. That's the result you're going to get. But I can't believe to this day that any elected governor, Governor Pritzker says, you got

to come through me, okay? No problem. We can do that. Why would you not want to help remove public safety threats? I mean, this should be no question. You're going to have your opinion on illegal immigration. We're talking about criminals. Well, to the extent that he allows officers in his state to violate federal law,

Pritzker's a criminal. I mean, any governor who willingly flouts federal law, again, this is why we had a civil war in the United States in 1861. Because South Carolina did this. So I don't know why we would ever put up with that for one second from any governor, a Republican or Democrat. President Trump's administration will not put up with it. And that's why I've been sending a warning shout out. This is not going to be tolerated.

We're going to take action. American lives are at stake here. And this president, I think, has been given a mandate by American people. Apparently, the results of the election has no influence on many of these people. Mayor Adams reached out to me. I actually went to Mayor Adams.

He understands it. I think he realizes that we're taking it seriously. Eric Adams from New York reached out to you. Reached out to me. Good for him. I went and sat down and met with him. He believes he should take public safety threats out of his communities too. He's offering to help us. He's offering to let me in the Rikers Island Jail.

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But on the other hand, he didn't seem crazy. And my impression is that he was indicted on what seemed like pretty silly charges by the feds because he complained about immigration in New York. I think that's what he thinks happened. Do you think that's possible? I absolutely do. Yes. And when I sat down with him, it was all about public safety. Other stuff never came up. The cop at him came out. And look, I've been calling him out for two years saying he forgot what it's like to be a cop and became a politician. He's not helping with this crisis. I agree. But when he reached out to me, I sat down with him. I saw the,

first time ever, I saw the cop, the career cop come out and said, look, this is, this is, this should be controversial. I want to work with you on this. He goes,

we're not going to be immigration officers. I'm not going to help you round up illegal aliens. I said, I don't want, I don't want you to be an immigration officer. I want cops to work with cops to remove public safety threats.

He gets it. And he says he's going to take some executive actions. So I hope he does, because that's going to make New York City much safer, not only for the community, but for my officers. My biggest threat is you're going to force us in the community to arrest bad guys when we could arrest them in a safety and security of a jail. That puts our guys at grave risk. So, and the same with the border patrol agents.

The criminal cartels can be put out of business by President Trump, which means the violence is going to rise on the southern border. Well, that's right. And it's also, if you think about it, and I know you have thought about it, I think it's safer for everyone to have your guys arresting illegals in the Sonoran Desert than in Times Square. I mean, that's scary in a crowded city. Right.

And these men and women, they're going to put their lives on the line every day. Again, I can't believe any politician, left, right, middle, would want to put these officers at risk when there's a better way to do this. When I first started in this game back in thes, I never heard the word of sanctuary city. We got in every county jail. Everybody worked there. I can't believe we're at the time now. My father was a cop. My grandmother was a cop.

Your grandfather was a cop? Yeah. I knew I was going to be a cop. Where were the cops? In upstate New York. So in my day, cops were respected. Police officers were respected. Fast forward now,

and these politicians, if you enforce law, all of a sudden you become the bad guy. And if you break the law, you're the victim. That's truly the way it is in some of these cities. It's weird that Republicans

put up with that acts of insurrection. I mean, they've been yammering about the insurrection of January 6th, but a sanctuary city is a bold, unequivocal move toward insurrection. You're saying, I'm not obeying federal law. And no one did anything about it. They made fun of them on Fox News, but they didn't send the 101st Airborne.

I don't understand why. President Trump can take higher stance. I think he'll take your, one of the things, take their federal funding away. I think that's going to bring a lot of people to the table because they need that money. And plus, I think it gets down to,

if they MP, if they know any harbor, I think we need to, you know, prosecute members. You know, I said this back, I said this when I was ICE director, that they need to be held accountable and DOJ needs to look at criminal prosecution.

Of course, the media went crazy. Homan's calling to lock up politicians. What I call for is DOJ, if I'm not an attorney, but I, as an agent, many years ago, I have arrested United States citizens for annoyingly harboring, concealing, an illegal alien in their home. I arrested a U.S. citizen for harboring,

concealing an illegal alien in the place of business. If I can arrest a U.S. citizen for harboring, concealing an illegal alien in the place of business. If I can arrest a U.S. citizen for violating those crimes, why can't I arrest a mayor or a governor who's given his staff explicit instructions to impede us and to hide from us? I mean, the mayor of Adams came around the city. He would have the police force at the city boundaries preventing us from coming in, right? That was one of the comments he made. Now, he's walked in back because he made a statement he's willing to go to jail, and I responded, well, I'm willing to put you in jail if that's what it comes to.

I'm not looking for a fight with these people, but I'm not going to run away from one either. We're going to enforce this law. We're going to do what the American people wants us to do. We're going to enforce the law. We're going to run this deportation operation. If you don't want to help, get the hell out of the way. But if you impede us, then we need to prosecute these people and send a message.

This is no longer acceptable to anybody. Should never have been acceptable, but under the Trump administration, we're not playing that game. Yeah, because it's not even about, on some level, immigration. It's about holding the country together. If parts of the country decide we're just not following the federal laws because we don't feel like it, then how is it a country?

Lake and Riley would be alive today if we had a better relationship in New York City. She was arrested. A killer was arrested in New York City for injury to a child. If we had the relationship we used to have, they would have turned him over to ICE. ICE would have detained him and removed him. Yeah. But instead, he went to Georgia and killed them. Murdered a girl.

And if President Trump was president, he wouldn't even be in the United States. He'd be in Mexico in the Remain in Mexico program. Would have never been released into the United States, given a free hotel, given a monthly stipend for food and expenses. Free cell phone, airplane tickets. It's just incredible where we're at today. But I got full confidence in myself and in President Trump, and I'm working very close with Steve Miller, brilliant,

the architect of the most successful border policy this country ever had. What's his position going to be? He's the deputy chief of staff. Yep. I'm a senior advisor to the president, term Borders are. Not my term, but that's what they nicknamed it. But I can guarantee you, Tucker, and to the president, term Bordasar, not my term, but that's what they nicknamed it. But I can guarantee you, Tucker,

and to your listeners, this Bordasar is going to do a hell of a lot better than our last Bordasar. I've actually, I've already been to Bordasar three times

and I'm not even an office yet. I got to, I cannot resist asking you, what are these drones in New Jersey? I don't know. I've talked to people in the intelligence community.

Some think it's, some are from an Iranian ship, but I haven't got access to intelligence reports. I know one thing. Maybe it's, maybe the news is right. Maybe they're surveying drone,ves. Maybe they're all legal. I just find it hard to believe. I can't believe this administration has taken action on it.

I guarantee you if President Trump was in the Oval Office, everyone would have blown out the sky by now. I don't know factually because I don't see the intelligence reports. I'm not in yet. But I find it highly suspicious that the administration is saying

they're all legal and lawful and that they pose no harm to the communities. I don't buy it. Do you think that other members of the incoming Trump administration have been briefed on what the current administration thinks they are? I do not know. I'm hoping they have. I mean, they should have, but I don't know. I just saw one congressman from New Jersey said He said he got information from an Iranian summit. Yeah, I saw that.

And I've also talked to friends in the intelligence community that, off the record, taught the same thing, but I have no direct knowledge of it. That's bizarre. But I guarantee you, within a few days of Trump getting away, the White House won't find out. Yeah, I believe that to be true. So of the – so you've described, I think, really well the problem and how you plan to secure the border.

The deportations, that was the second goal you had of three. How many of those 12 million do you think are eligible, can be deported? Oh we know there's right now we got over 1.7 million with final orders removal already been ordered removed that haven't been removed. Okay so that's just a gimme that's easy. We got 700,000 780,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions. They're going to be priority one. Then we got, you know, like I said, we got criminals, national security threats, and fugitives. These are the ones I talked at one point, 1.7, I think the last number was, of people who had due process, a great taxpayer expense, were ordered to remove.

They need to go. We'll find them. Then we take the rest. I mean, everybody says, how many illegal aliens can you remove in a year? I don't know. I'll find out when I get into office, how many positions do I have? What does my money look like? How much money

do I have to buy beds? Do we need detention beds? People don't understand. You don't arrest somebody and just deport them that day. We have to detain them and work out arrangements for their home country to get travel documents. They have to accept that, yeah, they're a national of ours and there's a process we go through anywhere from a few days to a few weeks so we have to detain these people so how many beds can i fortify by because if i don't have beds it's gonna be hard to do this uh how much money you have with transportation

contracts whether over the ground or in the air and and can other agencies be involved? I know I specifically have requested that DOD be involved. They can do non-enforcement duty. What that does is, so the officers wearing a badge and gun with immigration authority, they shouldn't be driving a bus. They shouldn't be building infrastructure on the southwest border, south side of facilities. They shouldn't be doing the intelligence. They shouldn't be doing infrastructure on the southwest border, south side of facilities. They shouldn't be doing the intelligence. They shouldn't be doing the targeting, right?

As much non-enforcement work as possible, contract that out, have DOD do a lot of it, and that releases those badges and guns to the street where they're really needed. So what other agencies are involved? Is DOD going to be a part of this, take off the non-enforcement duties off our shoulders? So hopefully I'll find out really fast what we have. I know right now my sources at ICE, they're already $300 million in the hole. So I'm hoping Congress will provide us with huge funding through the conciliation process. That's my hopes.

And I know I talked to Lindsey Graham yesterday. Or deportation. Yeah, Lindsey Graham yesterday said he's working on an astronomical bill. It'll be more money than we've ever seen before. I hope that's true. I just don't want to be held up in this tax bill because that's going to take six or eight months and it gets watered down by the time we get it

and it's just ridiculous. Have you, I mean, is there some legal way to designate Americans just for a temporary period as Ukrainians and just tell the Congress that money's going to Ukrainians? Wouldn't that be great? That would expedite it, don't you think? Here's $200 billion. They're spending money defending the Ukrainian border, but it would be nice if they gave us just a piece of that action because they got a lot of money. I'm hoping and praying that this is going to be

different than the first Trump administration when he had the Senate and the House the first two years. I'm hoping they come to the table and help this president succeed. So funding is paramount. We're only going to be as successful as the funding we're given to get this job done. Well, I can, I'm no expert, but I know members of Congress, most of them, and I know that they only respond to pain, unfortunately. And you just haven't threatened them, and you're going to lose your seat, and we're going to call you out by name and make you unpopular in your state, and your career will be over unless you obey immediately. Normal people, you can reason with normal people, and love motivates people. I mean, I doubt, like, in your house, you and your wife are threatening each other.

You probably love each other, saying nice things to each other. But members of Congress are not normal people, and you really just have to, you know, grab them by the face and say, do this or suffer. And they will respond to that. So I hope you will do that. Yeah, there's a lot of media outlets right now. I think they're trying to shame us in how expensive this operation is going to be. It's just incredible. More expensive than letting in 12 million people

and giving them cell phones and food vouchers and free medical care, destroying our hospitals. First of all, what price do you put on national security? What price do you put on Lake and Riley's life and so many other little girls? It's going to be a cost savings for American people because right now we're spending billions of dollars on a free airline ticket, free hotel room,

not even mentioning the cost of schools and trauma centers and hospitals and social services and perpetuity. Yeah, it's going to be expensive. Well, they destroyed rural America. I mean, just flat out. I live there. It'll be expensive right out of the gate, but in the long run, we're going to save American taxpayers billions of dollars by getting this country back to the rule of law. What's the point of a government except to ensure safety and tranquility for its people? I mean, what is the point other than to obviously kick out Assad and secure the

borders of Ukraine, which are the top priorities, I think, listed in the Constitution. But after that, you know, taking care of your own people seems to be important also. Well, that's why President Trump won this election. He's put America first. That's why I can't. Look, this is the second time I came back from retirement to serve this president because, like I said, I've been doing this a long time and I'm at the point now where I wake up every day pissed off. The first day I

woke up with a smile on my face was the day after the election because I knew we can fix this. I knew by fixing it, you save lives. Secure borders save lives. Even when borders save lives. Yes. Even when you get 100% of the agents on the line doing their job, rather than changing diapers, making baby form, more fentanyl Cs means less fentanyl deaths.

Less people, less gotaways, which means less sex trafficking on women, children, less known suspected terrorists. Even the wall saves lives. And people say, Trump's vanity wall. No, that's America's wall, first of all. Every place they build a border barrier, illegal immigration reduced, illegal drug flow reduced.

What people don't want to talk about is how many lives it saves. The most vulnerable of those that come into the country, the women and children, can't get over that wall, which means they're going to a place where there's not a wall. And what's waiting on them? The men and women wearing that green uniform, the finest and children, can't get over that wall, which means they're going to a place where there's not a wall. And what's waiting on them? The men and women wearing that green uniform,

the finest 1% this country has, who are going to take care of their medical needs first because they're in a lot of bad shape when they get there. Men and women in the border patrol save thousands of lives every year. Of course, the left wants to calm, you know, haters and stormtroopers, and they want to, you know,

slander the men of the horse patrol for what they did. And still no policy to stay. Men and women in border patrol save a lot of lives. Border wall saves lives. And under Trump administration, the number of deaths were very, very low. Both Americans and illegal aliens. Under Joe Biden, we're just, I think we're just short of 4,000 aliens have died crossing the border.

While you and I are talking right now, while you and I are having this discussion, women are being raped by members of the cartels as part of the crossing through that border. A child's going to die today. Either drown in a river, be lost in the desert, or abandoned by these cartels. And they think the

government's getting close to them. They'll dump people and save their own skin and put these... Look how many children have been abandoned. Border patrols found a lot of them. I guarantee border patrols didn't find all of them. There's some toddlers they're going to find someday. So it's so evil. I mean,

I know that in El Salvador, when MS-13 ran the country before Bukele, there was a religious component of kind of voodoo witchcraft component to MS 13, where they were worshiping the devil. I mean, openly. It's a component of the cartels. You see it in Mexico as well, all through Latin America. Is that, have you come across that? Yeah. Yeah. They, they, they worship death and Like formally worship it, though. Yeah, yeah.

There's, I won't call them religious. Some places, even the Texas DPS have found some of these places where the cartels were operating. They got statues, statutes there and memorabilia worshiping death as a consequence of not allowing them to do their business. Right. And these are from cultures that have practiced human sacrifice for thousands of years. I got a video on my phone showing a member

of the cartel skinning a man alive. Skinning him alive. On video. To send a message to anybody. If you push back on the cartels. If you snitch on the cartels. They're not going to just kill skinning him alive on video to send a message to anybody, if you push back on the cartels, if you snitch on the cartels, they're not going to just kill you. They're going to make you suffer immensely.

I got sent this video by someone in the intelligence community, and I'm a pretty tough guy, but I can't watch a whole video. No, of course not. When they skin somebody alive and the pain that man went through. This is what they do. That's why MS-13, they don't just shoot somebody. They hack them up. Me and President Trump, remember when we did Operation Matador in Long Island, we arrested just short of 500

gang members and a lot of MS-13. During the press conference, President Trump referred to these people as animals. And of course, Nancy Pelosi arrested people as nuts. These are people you refer to as animals. She's an animal, actually. Then they came to me and I said, I don't know what president trump has against animals but uh animals kill to survive ms-13 kills for pleasure they're much worse than animals well it's witchcraft it's

human sacrifice and they've i mean again they're from cultures that have practiced it for well since uh the beginning of recorded history so um but turning to agua and the rest of recorded history. Well, Trenton, DeAgua, and the rest of them, they're on notice. There are days of coming over here and committing crimes and victimizing this country over. And a lot of people are pushing back, saying, well, you can't remove them to Venezuela. They're going to be removed.

And if Venezuela don't take them, well, it's on someplace south, but they're not staying here. So Trenton, DeAgua has done a lot of harm in this country. As you know, the rape, murder of little girls and the theft and the organized crime they've instilled in major cities in this country. President Trump put them on notice. Our gang is bigger than their gang.

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Well, I think we've proven that the southwest border is a huge national security vulnerability. I think it's a perfect place for the military to be. Yeah, bigger than Syria, I would say. It's more of a national security vulnerability in Ukraine or Syria or anyplace else. So I think President Trump a perfect place for the military to be. Yeah, bigger than Syria, I would say. It's more of a national security vulnerability than Ukraine or Syria or anyplace else. So I think President Trump's not going to take no for an answer. He is the president of the United States. He's going to make this work.

And DOD will be a part of this operation. We need them. We can make a bigger impact if they can do some of the things that don't require a badging gun for us, and that puts more badging guns on the street than the rest of the bad guys. They're an imperative part of this operation. Other agencies, when we need help from, you know, I'd like to see the U.S. Marshals be a part of that,

the FBI be a part of it. You know, I've gotten, I've actually shut down my LinkedIn account because I've gotten thousands of accounts, thousands, retired border patrol agents, retired ICE agents, retired police officers, retired military, all want to come back and help this operation.

And I'm hoping we can rehire a lot of these people. Rehire the new ones. Especially the retired border patrol agents and ICE agents. They know the Fourth Amendment. They know they can do and don't do. A lot of them speak Spanish. They know how to use the processing systems. They know the game. They're good at it. So one of the first things I'm going to be working on

is bring a lot of these retarded agents back and let them help us do this job. They're educated in immigration enforcement. They hit the ground running. I should have asked you this at the outset, but of the 12 million that you described, you came here illegally under Biden. Where were they from, roughly?

181 different countries. So how does, I won't ask you. That's almost every country in the world, think about it. I think there were 199, you know. So there were none from Vanuatu or Seychelles, but the rest came. But how was the breakdown? Like you think of illegal immigration, well, when I was a kid it was from Mexico, I don't think it is anymore. Then it was Central America, then it was South Mexico. I don't think it is anymore. Then it was Central America.

Then it was South America. Roughly, what was the breakdown? Can you remember? Mexicans still read, National Mexico still lead. Oh, really? Yeah. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, close second. I mean, those four countries make up a majority.

But what concerns me is the country that we never had much activity from. Yes. You know, 46,000 Chinese. What's that? It scares the hell out of me because a lot of them are military-age males. 46,000 military-age males

don't leave China without the coordination to prove with the Chinese government. That just don't happen. Russians, we got over, I think last look I have 27 000 russians uh people from turkey syria iran iraq big africa too um it's just how many from africa do you think i don't have that on top of my head but special interest countries countries numbers like we've never seen before. And we can't properly vet them.

That's one thing I've been screaming about for two years. Secretary of the Monarchies gets up there and says, they're all properly vetted. Vetted against what? Because we don't have criminal data from El Salvador or Turkey or Syria. Do you think China's going to give us any national security data on their people or Russia? So you vet them against NCIC, which we have.

So unless you've been convicted, arrested in this country before and your fingerprints were taken, you're going to come back clean because we don't have access to most countries' criminal data. A lot of these countries don't have criminal data, right?

You think Haiti has an NCIC? Absolutely don't. So they say they vet them and they don't vet them properly. And when it comes to terrorist vetting, beyond the criminal vetting, how about terrorist vetting? You and I both know most terrorists in this world aren't vet them properly. And when it comes to terrorist vetting, beyond the criminal vetting, how about terrorist vetting? You and I both know most terrorists in this world

aren't in any database, unless they were part of a T3 operation or caught on chatter or encountered on a battlefield by a soldier and biometrics were taken. We don't know who they are or where they're at. And so even when they say they vet them through these terrorist databases, don't really mean a lot.

But here's one thing that has been talked about a lot, and I've talked to several whistleblowers in Border Patrol. So they arrest somebody from one of these countries, they vet them through the Bureau. But there's been such a push by this administration, process quick, release quick, because there's nowhere we're crawling, there's nothing to see here, border secure.

They process and release so quickly, sometimes the vetting came back after they released. And they were hot. At least two occasions this has happened. ICE actually found one later on. They're hot, meaning what? They've got... They're a positive hit on the terrorist database. Person of interest.

So that's going to change. I mean, we have to detain these people. The Trump administration won't end catch and release. Either you're going to be sent back to Mexico or we detain you. The only thing that I'm concerned with is the Zabados Supreme Court ruling. There's a ruling called Zabados versus U.S. It says you can only hold somebody up to six months for a significant likelihood of removal. So if we have a country

that absolutely will not take them back, at the end of six months, we've got a decision to make. Either we move them to a cooperating third country, or we have to release them, unless we can prove... Why not send them to Mexico if they came through and let Mexico deal with it? Let the Claudia lady deal with it. That's part of the plan. We're hoping

to do that. But the Zabadas ruling is terrible and we're hoping that now we got a better Supreme Court that needs to be relitigated. To say we can only hold somebody for six months

and they're a significant public safety threat just because this country says no we don't want them. There's got to be a better way. I wonder if the 47,000 Chinese

that you mentioned that's kind of what Fidel Castro did in 1980 with the Mariel Boatlift, just like empty the prisons and the mental hospitals. Why wouldn't they do that? Well, they have. Venezuela has. Venezuela has. Yes. But has China, do you think?

I don't think so. I think China, these people came here for a purpose. As you know, you've done a lot of reporting. They got land around military bases. They're setting up shadow business here. I think China, between all these people they sent, plus continuing to create the precursors that make fentanyl, they're trying to destroy this country.

That's my personal opinion. Well, they're selling drugs all over the country. They're selling drugs all over the state of Maine. Maine. Chinese nationals. And what has the Biden administration done to China about creating these fentanyls that they sell to cartels in Mexico? What have they done about the cartels? Nothing. President Trump's going through. No, because fentanyl's killed

the exact Americans that Biden hates and is always attacking. So, I mean, it's committed genocide against his enemies. So, he doesn't seem against it at all. It's all very dark. I have to wonder, you said, UN, and others, you have to kind of wonder, like, is there some military purpose to this invasion?

Have you wondered that? I've wondered every day. I can't wait to get in power and start drilling down on these files. Who are these people? Who did you release? What kind of vetting did you do? Did you take biometric, biographic data?

Yeah, highographic data? Yeah, high testosterone foreigners? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, why? I mean, I don't want to be paranoid, but. But it's been very, you know, they don't talk about it. And it's very, you know, but when we get in power, we're going to have to pull all those records.

You know, like that's over 300,000 missing children. We got to pull those records from HHS. Okay, so what, I'm sorry. I've been told by whistleblowers. What is that? 300,000 missing children. We got to pull this record from HHS. Okay, so what, I'm sorry. I've been told by whistleblowers. What is that? 300,000 missing children. That's something else I've read reference to. Look, over half a million children have been trafficked into this country.

And they get turned over to custody of HHS, Office of Refugee Resettlement, who finds sponsors and releases them to sponsors. I've talked to several whistleblowers who say they weren't even fingerprinting the sponsors on many occasions and not doing proper vetting we have a whistleblower who's testified in front of Congress now three times

that a lot of these children seem to be victims of trafficking they're released to unvetted sponsors and many children will be released to one sponsor the one whistleblower said there was 11 young girls released to one male, single male maybe it's all innocent, maybe it's not there's nothing innocent about it, that's sick said there was 11 young girls released in one mail, single mail.

Maybe it's all innocent. Maybe it's not. There's nothing innocent about it. That's sick. No. And look, the CBP One app, they shut that down because of massive fraud. One of the insiders in CBP told me, for example, one dead man sponsored over 1,600 people.

Been dead for years. Massive fraud, massive trafficking involved. And when they talked about opening CBP, we're going to have to do that. I said at the time, before they even implemented it, if you do this, it's going to create a huge trafficking network. Or if you're from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela,

you want to come to the United States under this CHNV program, you just got to find a sponsor who want to take care of you. How many sick pedophiles would be willing to sponsor anybody from one of those four countries to come live in the United States? Then after they get here, you own them. All you got to do is, you know, you're their official sponsor. Without you, they can't stay.

And what are these sick sponsors? Not all of them, but many of these are going to be predators and sick people. What are they going to do to these people who are trying to stay in this country? It's a huge human trafficking issue. I guarantee you. And by human trafficking, is it mostly for prostitution? Prostitution or forced labor. Mainly those two things.

So if you go to any construction site in the United, big construction site, they're building a data center or a mall. I know this because I know a guy in the business who just told me this. Anyone in the United States, there will be child prostitutes there from Latin America brought in by the cartels for the guys on the cruise. And I said, does everyone know this? He said, well, everyone knows it. I mean, it's just a fact. Every big construction site in the United States,

does anyone ever do anything about it? No, no one ever does anything about it. Wait until January 21st. I don't understand that, though. If everyone in the building trades knows that, how can law enforcement ignore it? We're not going to start doing it the 21st. Good.

But I can tell you, look, of the over 300,000 this government lost track of, I guarantee you, as I say here today, we'll find many in forced labor. We'll find many in forced sex trafficking. That's a sad thing. We won't find them. So that's why President Trump's saying, seriously, we got to save. We got to save these women and children that are put in this position.

The immigration consequences will still come, but first we got to save and get these kids. As far as the kids, over 300,000, we got to save these kids. A lot of them are living in life hell every day. And I guarantee you we're going to find, well, HSI has already found some of these children in meatpacking plants, cleaning up entrails on a midnight shift.

We're going to find some living with pedophiles. We're going to find some are in sex slavery. Some are going to be dead. But we've got to find these children, and President Trump made that a third rail of priorities. And it's something that needs to be done. This administration stopped the DNA testing. They stopped the proper vetting.

Under the Trump administration, we were having the same problem in the beginning. We did DNA testing. You weren't a family unless DNA testing showed you're a family. And we did vetting. Under the Trump administration, we were having the same problem in the beginning. We did DNA testing. You weren't a family unless DNA testing showed you're a family. And we did vetting. We didn't just vet the sponsor fully. We vetted everybody in their household to make sure there wasn't a pedophile living in the house, make sure there wasn't someone arrested with domestic violence in the house. This administration stopped all that because Becerra, the secretary of HHS, he gets on stage and brags. And I saw him on a stage bragging how quick we released these kids from government custody. We got a machine

here. It's like the Ford plant. We get them in and out of here. Yeah, because you stopped the proper vetting, you stopped DNA testing, and God help you for what you did to these children. Because a lot of these children are living the life of hell every day so we got to find these kids it's unbelievable so what last question i'm just interested in why you're doing this so you you did it for 40 years yeah 1984 40 years and then you go into the private sector and you're not retired but you get to do kind of what you want to do and make a real wage after working for the government all these years. And this problem is just so enormous, and the bureaucracy is so complex and hard to fight,

and they always win in the end. Why would you take this job? Well, because I love my country, first of all. We made more progress on the southern border than ever before in the first Trump administration. I was vice director. I'm taking an 82% pay cut. Oh, I bet. And I'm going back to a government paycheck. And thank God my wife supports me. She said, if I don't take the job, she's going to divorce me. She wanted to keep me waking up every day, mad at the world because I didn't come back.

Is your wife not a liberal? No. No, she's not. You know, I say this many times because of things I've seen in my career. I mean, I stood in the back of a tractor trailer. I grew up in a town of 2 500 people

either your milk cows or your lager or you worked at ford drum so many three things you did where i grew up um so i grew up in town 2500 i fast forward i'm sitting i'm standing back with trailer tractor trailer 19 dead people at my feet that baked to death and back that tractor trailer including a five-year-old little boy who suffocated to death. And on top of him was his father who was trying to protect him. During that investigation, they said that old boy begged his father not to let him die because he didn't want to see his mom again.

Begged over and over again. Here's a five-year-old little boy who knew he was dying and asked his dad for help. And his dad can't help him, right? No. I've talked to little girls as young as nine that were raped multiple times

by members of the cartel. Not once, numerous times. Grown men crawled upon this little girl, took everything innocent and pure from her. Her life would never be the same. Look in her eyes. There wasn't life in her eyes. It's just, the little girl's devastated for life. And this happens every day.

When they unsecure the border, on purpose, I wrote an op-ed for Fox News, and I says, if Joe Biden wins the presidency, we lose the border. When you lose the border, trafficking, sex trafficking will skyrocket, child deaths will, trafficking, sex trafficking will skyrocket. Child deaths will skyrocket. Migrant deaths will skyrocket. American deaths will skyrocket

from drugs coming across that border. I wake up ready pissed off for four years. So, and I've been on numerous networks complaining about it. So when President Trump calls me up, says, you've been complaining about it for four years. You want to come fix it? How do you say no?

First of all, you don't say no to the President of the United States. And second of all, I won't say no to secure. I love this country. I want to save some lives, secure borders, save lives. So I'm going to come back and do what I can. I guarantee you what we're going to do is going to save migrant lives. It's going to save American lives. It's going to protect our national security. That's why I'm coming back.

Not for the pay, I can tell you that. I'm coming back because after three and a half decades doing this job, do you understand it? Do you understand the tragedies that happen around it? The more secure that border is, the more lives we save. So when can rest, when I retire for the third time, I can say, I did my part to save some lives. And maybe less children are being exploited and women are being exploited by these cartels. And my number one goal is seeing

these cartels wipe off the face of the earth. And I think President Trump's the guy to do it. Of everyone appointed, I think you've got the best shot at winning, because you know exactly what you want to do. Tom, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Of everyone appointed, I think you've got the best shot of winning because you know exactly what you want to do. Tom, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you.

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