1 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,679 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,160 Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the 3 00:00:24,199 --> 00:00:29,120 Federalist and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for Knowledge. 4 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,920 As always, you can email the show at radio at 5 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,439 the Federalist dot com, follow us on ext FDRLST, make 6 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,320 sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and of 7 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:43,560 course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:48,320 Our guest today is Tricia McLachlan, Department of Homeland Security 9 00:00:48,399 --> 00:00:52,359 Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. As you can well imagine, 10 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:56,280 Tricia has been quite busy this week and over the 11 00:00:56,359 --> 00:01:01,240 last several months in the Trump administration and dealing with 12 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:06,400 I don't know of a more important area to deal with, 13 00:01:06,439 --> 00:01:10,719 and that is homeland security after four years of an 14 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,560 invasion of this country by a massive amount of illegal immigrants. Tricia, 15 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:18,519 thank you so much for joining us on this edition 16 00:01:18,519 --> 00:01:19,760 of the Federalist Radio Hour. 17 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: No, it's an honor. Thanks for having me. 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,599 Speaker 1: Absolutely. You have been working overtime, obviously, and that's what 19 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:30,000 the job entails for the most part, no matter what. 20 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,560 But these are crazy times. What's the latest at this 21 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:41,120 point on the as the accomplist media likes to call it, 22 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,560 the civil unrest in Los Angeles, which we know are 23 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,640 riots from anti ice officials who have made the job 24 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,239 of federal law enforcement extremely difficult, to say the least. 25 00:01:54,519 --> 00:01:58,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, extremely difficult, is right. I mean, we've had writers 26 00:01:58,799 --> 00:02:03,879 throw molotov cock tails at our ice enforcement officers. They've 27 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:10,360 thrown and pummeled our officers with rocks, They've slit fires, 28 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:15,759 they've been burning American flags, taunting them, threatening them. We've 29 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,560 had them being other weapons being used against them. So 30 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:23,280 any of these politicians who are trying to force feed 31 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:25,879 down the throats of the American people that and anyway 32 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,919 these riots are peaceful or just lying straight to the 33 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:33,000 American people's faces. As a lot of listeners probably heard 34 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,599 last night, Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, implemented 35 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:41,159 a curfew. So I think that things are a little 36 00:02:41,199 --> 00:02:43,800 bit more steady, But we are bracing ourselves for the 37 00:02:43,879 --> 00:02:47,120 sixth day of these riots. We're seeing that they're starting 38 00:02:47,159 --> 00:02:50,719 to spread in New York and Chicago and other of 39 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,919 these sanctuary cities. But the American people who should know, 40 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,960 and rioters should know, and these politicians who back them 41 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,879 should know enforcement arrests are not going to slow down. 42 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,520 They will only ramp up. We're not going to be 43 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,479 intimidated and we're not going to be impeded by these 44 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,599 by these violent rioters. Just in the last seventy two hours, 45 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:16,560 we've arrested off the streets of Los Angeles drug traffickers, 46 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,759 multiple gang members, child molesters, convicted rapists, convicted murders. These 47 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,639 are criminals we were getting off of the streets. And 48 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,919 like I said, we will not be deterred. This is 49 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,599 only going to make us ramp up more. 50 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:33,159 Speaker 1: There are so many cases that we could point to, 51 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,199 but I think of a guy that you had picked up, 52 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:42,039 an illegal immigrant from Vietnam who was involved in shooting 53 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:46,360 up a I believe it was a graduation party. Multiple 54 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,759 people were killed. These are the sorts of people that 55 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,919 you're getting off the street. Why do you think there 56 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,759 is so much resistance from the Democratic Party and from 57 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:06,280 the usual suspects in the accomplice media, to ice to 58 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,240 the Department of Homeland Security trying to protect the homeland. 59 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,759 Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt, You're exactly right. It was a Vietnamese national. 60 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,360 He was shooting at thirty high schoolers. Actually, it was 61 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,600 a high school graduation. He was asked to leave and 62 00:04:21,639 --> 00:04:25,120 he began shooting and killed multiple people. That's one of 63 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,199 the individuals who we arrested. Actually, just yesterday we arrested 64 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,560 another illegal immigrant who was part of these riots, who 65 00:04:32,959 --> 00:04:36,519 was throwing molotov cocktails at our ice enforcement agents. He's 66 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,560 been charged with attempted murder, but this wasn't his first 67 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,680 run in with law enforcement. Of course, he was here 68 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:46,160 illegally from Mexico, but as well, he was arrested last 69 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:49,240 year for a dui as well as grand larceny. So 70 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,120 he should not be on American streets and it's insane 71 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,720 that he's been allowed to run around Los Angeles with 72 00:04:55,759 --> 00:05:01,600 impunity under Gavin Newsom. In Karen Bass, but answer your question, Matt, 73 00:05:02,399 --> 00:05:06,480 I think that right now Democrats are desperate for a message. 74 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,319 I don't. I think that they're still grappling with the 75 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:15,600 last election. They're so so drink the kool aid that 76 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,199 open border policies is the only humane policy that there is, 77 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,199 which is what we've seen. Of course, that is the 78 00:05:24,199 --> 00:05:28,399 opposite of humane. It leads to, of course, massive amount 79 00:05:28,399 --> 00:05:31,759 of crime in American communities, fetanyl killing over one hundred 80 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,879 thousand Americans a year. And also, of course the human 81 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,399 trafficking aspect is just despicable. You know, under Biden and 82 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:42,959 Harris there are three hundred thousand children who are lost 83 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:49,480 migrandchildren lost and often so so many times exploited. In 84 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:52,959 this administration with HHS and RFK and Secretary Nome are 85 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:56,959 working so hard to unify these children with safeguardians, but 86 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,279 it has been a heck of a task. I think 87 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,360 the bottom line is that these people have a degree 88 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,920 of trumped arrangement syndrome. Anything that this administration does, they're 89 00:06:07,079 --> 00:06:10,279 opposed to. Of course, we didn't see such opposition when 90 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:15,079 Barack Obama was Deporter in chief, as we've heard before, 91 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,199 So I think it is just a truly allergic reaction 92 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:25,319 to this administration's policies, and it's putting American citizens in 93 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,680 peril and making our streets far more dangerous. 94 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: Man, well, I can tell you what you've had to 95 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:35,519 explain so many times, the things that should not have 96 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:37,920 to be explained so many times. You can hear it 97 00:06:37,959 --> 00:06:40,800 in your voice. I mean, you've got a tired voice 98 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,439 right there, and I feel bad. 99 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 2: I'm a little horse Madam'm not going to lie to 100 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,439 you if we're working hardier at DHS, so I will. 101 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:49,839 That's to your listeners because no a fun voice to listen. 102 00:06:49,639 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: To you right now, No no apologies necessary. In fact, 103 00:06:53,319 --> 00:06:57,879 I think our listeners would agree, we're very grateful that 104 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,160 you are taking the time to explain what is going 105 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,279 on on the streets of Los Angeles and elsewhere across 106 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,759 these sanctuary cities so called in America today to try 107 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,360 to keep the homeland safe. But it is it's got 108 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:15,759 to be taxing to have to say, for instance, you know, 109 00:07:16,079 --> 00:07:19,000 I've seen several interviews with you where you say, this 110 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,279 guy is not a Maryland man. Okay, he is a 111 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,839 criminal who has done terrible, terrible things. You've spent so long, 112 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:35,720 and the facts of the case of Abrego Garcia, in 113 00:07:35,839 --> 00:07:38,800 the case of the so called Maryland man, couldn't be 114 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:43,040 any more clear. Yet here you are having to explain 115 00:07:43,199 --> 00:07:47,800 over and over again why DHS is doing what it's 116 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:52,920 doing in getting the worst of the worst illegal immigrants 117 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,519 off the streets of America. 118 00:07:55,279 --> 00:07:58,199 Speaker 2: Yeah. I thought the case of Kilmar Abrigo Garcia was 119 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:01,959 just absolutely remarked, Well, this is a man from Al Salvador, 120 00:08:02,079 --> 00:08:05,680 this is a man who Prince George's county, Maryland's gang unit, 121 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,360 which by no means is any red haven. This is, 122 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,199 you know, a deep blue county. They were saying. Kilmer 123 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,959 A Brigo Garcia is a known member of MS thirteen 124 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 and he was arrested in twenty nineteen. He was arrested 125 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,000 wearing MS thirteen garb with other members of MS thirteen. 126 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,319 Flash forward to twenty twenty one when he was arrested 127 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:30,319 now on that infamous traffic stop where he was driving 128 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:35,759 from Texas to Maryland through Tennessee in a three day 129 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,480 journey with eight other people in the car with not 130 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,039 a single piece of luggage, which is textbook human trafficking. 131 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,480 And then of course his own wife's written testimony that 132 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:50,679 he beat her, he choked her, he would threaten their 133 00:08:50,759 --> 00:08:55,360 children and locked them that locked the children away inhumanely. 134 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,399 In the end, the media doing such the bidding of him, 135 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,759 calling him the innocent Maryland Father. I mean, how many 136 00:09:02,799 --> 00:09:05,639 commentators I would listen to on different networks saying this 137 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:09,399 is a man that's part of the fabric of the 138 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,639 Maryland community and they would gladly invite him over for dinner. 139 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:18,000 And then this indictment coming out and it's showing that 140 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:20,519 this is a man who his full time job was 141 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,360 human trafficking, that he would abused the women under his control, 142 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:28,120 that he would solicit child pornography. Truly, this is an 143 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,240 individual not only who's in this country illegally, but is 144 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,960 scum of the earth. And I think the Democrats showed 145 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:37,720 us and the media showed us exactly who they are. 146 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:40,120 That they didn't care about the facts. They didn't care 147 00:09:40,159 --> 00:09:43,639 about the victims of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. All they cared 148 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,039 about was their narrative and sticking to it. 149 00:09:46,759 --> 00:09:50,639 Speaker 1: Kudos to my former colleagues at the Tennessee Star. They 150 00:09:50,639 --> 00:09:54,919 broke a lot of that information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia 151 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:01,039 and the trafficking, and the amazing circumstance is surrounding it. 152 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,759 That you had the Biden administration Department of Justice telling 153 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,720 the law enforcement officials in Tennessee that picked up this 154 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:16,000 guy on allegations of human trafficking to stand down. And 155 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,240 I think, Tricia, that's representative of the mess that you 156 00:10:20,399 --> 00:10:24,600 folks are dealing with. I mean, it's a mess by 157 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:31,000 any measure, But to have a former administration so abusing 158 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:36,399 the laws of this land, the very security based laws 159 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,240 of this land. I don't even know where do you 160 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:44,159 begin to deal with the mess that the Biden administration made. 161 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 2: I mean, you make such good points, Matt, and I 162 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,039 think you know, we talk so much about how Biden 163 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,080 and Harris broke the border, but something we talk less 164 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,759 about is how they broke the legal imtegration system. We 165 00:10:55,799 --> 00:10:59,960 look at these programs like CHNV, which is Cuba Haiti, 166 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,360 Nicaragua Venezuela, which was a parole program, and that was 167 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,159 a scheme by the Biden administration twenty twenty one. They 168 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,879 set it up really to let in five hundred thousand, 169 00:11:11,039 --> 00:11:14,799 half a million people who are very poorly vetted. I 170 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:19,360 mean what they did, Matt, is like legalizing murder and 171 00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:23,919 saying you solved violent crime. Well, no, you just legalized 172 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,799 illegal immigration with a robber stamp and you let these 173 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:28,799 people who don't we don't even know who they are 174 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:34,200 into this country. And that's everything we're trying to unwind. 175 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:38,840 And it's difficult, and especially with this historic number of injunctions. 176 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:41,960 I mean, we've never this administration. We knew going in 177 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,799 we would be facing activist judges, no question, and I 178 00:11:44,799 --> 00:11:46,840 think that that's why we have used so many of 179 00:11:46,879 --> 00:11:50,000 the legal authorities that Congress has given us and executive 180 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:55,360 orders under the president. But it is staggering to see 181 00:11:55,399 --> 00:11:58,720 really that the fact that they don't want to get 182 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,919 these terrorists, they don't want to get these gang members 183 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,799 off of US oil. In fact, they're trying to bring 184 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,639 them back. We saw that a couple of weeks ago 185 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,840 with a deportation flight to South Sudan where there were 186 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,840 eight individuals who are all all had final deportation orders, 187 00:12:12,879 --> 00:12:15,720 that all were convicted of a heinous crime, whether it 188 00:12:15,759 --> 00:12:21,279 be a rape of a disabled person or murder or rape, 189 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,879 I mean, really bad people. In the fact that there 190 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,639 was a distract judge out of Massachusetts who said that 191 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:32,200 they have to come back for no reason is it's 192 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:33,320 just stunning. 193 00:12:32,919 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 3: That this is Molly Hemingway of the Federalist Join Me 194 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,919 My Husband, Mark of Real Clear Investigations, CNN political commentator 195 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,799 Scott Jennings, doctor Carl Truman of Grove City College, and 196 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:52,480 others for the twenty twenty five Making the Case Conference 197 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:58,679 Friday July eighteenth and Saturday July nineteenth at Concordia University Chicago. 198 00:12:59,159 --> 00:13:03,320 Learn more at Issues Etc. Dot org. Making the Case 199 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:08,039 July eighteenth and nineteenth in Chicago, Issues etc. 200 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 2: Dot Org. 201 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: To the Ambrago Garcia situation. Again it is stunning. And 202 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:21,320 again this is a guy who I think a lot 203 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:25,720 of folks believe should be in an l. Salvador prison today. 204 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,720 He's what is his status? He's coming back or he 205 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,120 is back? Do you do you does? How does DHS 206 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,039 feel about that decision to bring him back. Obviously he 207 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,320 should be facing the crimes that he committed in this country. 208 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:46,519 But there I think there is a sense that the 209 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,519 feeling that these rogue judges have scored a major victory, 210 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:53,080 and of course the left is lapping all of that up. 211 00:13:53,879 --> 00:13:56,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, and on that front, I mean he should come 212 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,679 back and face justice. I hope we hear from his 213 00:13:59,759 --> 00:14:03,120 victory the victims of human trafficking and other people who 214 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:06,240 he's victimized, because that's the story that the media refuses 215 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:10,000 to tell about these criminal legal aliens, is that these 216 00:14:10,039 --> 00:14:14,120 are not victimless crimes, and they're American citizens whose lives 217 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,200 have often been chattered. As far as he will face 218 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,519 a jury and he will serve time here in the 219 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,559 United States, but there is no question his last stop 220 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:28,960 is Nel Salvad or he will not be on us soil. 221 00:14:29,159 --> 00:14:33,120 We should not be spending further US taxpayer dollars to 222 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,120 keep him walked up longer than we have to. 223 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:37,799 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, how much do you think 224 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:43,480 the Supreme Court plays into the disorder that we're seeing 225 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:48,559 in Los Angeles today? And you just have a feeling 226 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,120 that we've seen this movie before. We're about to see 227 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,799 the sequel from the Black Lives Matter disorder, chaos and 228 00:14:55,879 --> 00:14:59,960 quite frankly insurrections that occurred in twenty twenty. It's going 229 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,879 to be rit large once again in twenty twenty five 230 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,440 already has. But the Supreme Court, we know, wheels of 231 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:12,120 justice turned slowly. How much responsibility does the High Court 232 00:15:12,159 --> 00:15:16,720 have in all of this by in essence countenancing what 233 00:15:18,039 --> 00:15:23,039 appears to me to be overstepping, overreaching by lower courts 234 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:23,799 in this country. 235 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:29,639 Speaker 2: Well, you're exactly right. Federal district district court judges should 236 00:15:29,639 --> 00:15:32,039 not be able to dictate the national security and foreign 237 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,720 policy of the United States of America. That's just lunacy. 238 00:15:36,039 --> 00:15:38,840 And I think President Trump, he's been pretty clear that 239 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,919 he wants to see Chief Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts step 240 00:15:42,919 --> 00:15:46,519 in more and be more vocal, especially when there's just 241 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:52,639 such activism from the bench. I think this summer, especially 242 00:15:52,679 --> 00:15:56,200 these cases in Los Angeles, we do see these rioters 243 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,639 and we do see these politicians who are backing them 244 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,279 test us. And I think that is also a test 245 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,039 of the Supreme Court is how far are they going 246 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,440 to let this? How far are they going to let 247 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,279 this go? And God forbid there is bloodshed because of 248 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:13,960 these riots. 249 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: Well, it appears that we've already seen too many law 250 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:27,000 enforcement officials hurt injured. Things could have already been a 251 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:31,279 lot worse. Things could very well get a lot worse. 252 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:38,799 We are starting to see officials in Los Angeles actually 253 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:45,480 try to seriously deal with these riots. And one could 254 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:50,279 build this as an insurrection and attack as well, you know, 255 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:56,440 on federal law and federal officials and federal buildings. What 256 00:16:56,519 --> 00:17:00,360 do you think of the response by Mayor Bass and 257 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:05,319 of course the ever politicking Governor Gavin Newsom. 258 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,759 Speaker 2: I mean, it's absolutely been a train wreck. And to 259 00:17:09,799 --> 00:17:11,920 your point about insurrection, I mean it's hard to not 260 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:16,599 use that word when you're seeing American flags being burned 261 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,400 in the streets as they hoist up for the writer's 262 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,400 hoystop foreign flags. But I will say I think that 263 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,920 this is a natural escalation. We've seen for weeks now. 264 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,720 I mean, starting with Tim Walls at a commencement ceremony 265 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:37,119 calling ICE enforcement officers, likening them to the Gestapo, likening 266 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:41,400 them to Nazis. We saw that further from AOC. We've 267 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:45,240 seen that from Mayor Karen Bass also likening them to Nazis. 268 00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:50,359 Mayri wou out of Boston. If you give these radical rioters, 269 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,480 these violent activists, a permission slip, which is exactly what 270 00:17:54,519 --> 00:17:59,119 they're doing by calling our law enforcements Nazis, this is 271 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,720 your were naturally going to see these people attack law 272 00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:06,359 enforcement and that's exactly what's coming to fruition. So I 273 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:10,400 mean it is completely in co If Mara Bas and 274 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:14,079 Governor Newsom told these rioters to stand down, we would 275 00:18:14,079 --> 00:18:16,799 not be seeing the protests we are in the streets. 276 00:18:16,799 --> 00:18:19,559 But they've continued to give them a free pass by 277 00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:23,680 saying we'll stand with these protesters until ICE raids stop. Well, 278 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,000 ICE rates are not stopping. We will continue to arrest 279 00:18:27,079 --> 00:18:31,240 illegal immigrants. Like I said before, we will only ramp up. Matt, 280 00:18:31,319 --> 00:18:33,599 you and I have rattled off just a few of 281 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:38,599 these despicable human beings that we've arrested in the last 282 00:18:38,599 --> 00:18:42,240 seventy two hours in Los Angeles. The fact that Mara 283 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,720 Bass and Gavin Newsom are giving these criminal legal aliens 284 00:18:47,839 --> 00:18:52,559 cover and treating them as you know, legal immigrants who 285 00:18:52,559 --> 00:18:54,720 are innocents, It's despicable. 286 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:59,279 Speaker 1: It is despicable. And what they are communicating to the 287 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:05,039 country and to the rioters in particular, is unless you 288 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:10,799 allow us to continue to break the law, we will 289 00:19:10,799 --> 00:19:15,200 continue to break the law exactly. That is a no 290 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:21,200 win situation for any community that values public safety. And 291 00:19:21,279 --> 00:19:26,559 if Karen Bass valued public safety, she would have responded 292 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,920 much quicker. But instead it's the incriminations about the Trump 293 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:38,200 administration and the DHS and ICE inflaming the rioters. What 294 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,440 do you think when they make these kinds of things 295 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,680 that most Americans look at as they watch the car, 296 00:19:43,799 --> 00:19:46,720 as the squad car is on fire and the fireworks 297 00:19:46,759 --> 00:19:50,240 exploding in the faces of law enforcement officials, and they say, 298 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:52,160 are you kidding? What do you think when they when 299 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:52,960 they say these. 300 00:19:52,799 --> 00:19:56,319 Speaker 2: Things, it is so insulting to the intelligence of Americans. 301 00:19:56,319 --> 00:19:59,440 Do they think we're stupid? They're telling us, don't believe 302 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:05,720 you're lying? Eyes We saw what happened on Friday where 303 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,440 the federal building that ICE is housed in, it was 304 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,200 surrounded by more than one thousand protesters. Our ICE enforcement 305 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,559 officers were massively outnumbered. They were getting rocks pummeled at them, 306 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:22,680 there were fires being lit, they were being attacked, buildings defaced. 307 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,599 I think a lot of listeners probably saw their public 308 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:31,440 public vehicles, their tires being slashed, them having graffiti that 309 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:36,279 said death to America, Kill Ice. This was absolutely anarchy 310 00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:39,319 and chaos on Friday before President Trump called in the 311 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,079 National Guard, and thank god he did because he had 312 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,960 the foresight. He saw what happened in twenty twenty and said, 313 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,839 we're not going to watch that movie again. We need calm, 314 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:49,880 we need to restore in law and order. And that's 315 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,720 just something that Mayor Baths and Governor Gavin Newsom weren't 316 00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:57,119 willing to do. Because ICE called as soon as they 317 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:01,359 were starting to be out numbered and swarmed by these rioters. 318 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,799 They called the LAPD. The LAPD took more than two 319 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,359 hours to respond. That's when we knew we had to 320 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,559 call in for further resources or things we're going to 321 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:12,279 get massively out of hand. 322 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: Indeed, and then you have the folks at ABC News 323 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,920 and NBC and CBS and CNN, the New York Times, 324 00:21:21,039 --> 00:21:26,960 the Washington Post asking you why do the ice officers 325 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:32,359 wear masks? Isn't that Isn't that just trying to hide 326 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:37,440 them from all of these silly bits of spun logic 327 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:42,440 that they have here. Meanwhile, you can see the masked villains, 328 00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:46,000 the masked criminals, the masked rioters in the streets of 329 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:51,039 Los Angeles. Once again, how do you go up against 330 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:56,359 this when the narrative, the twisted narrative from the accomplice media, 331 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:57,119 is so set. 332 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 2: I was just on NPR yesterday and then they challenged 333 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,519 me on this, and I'm thinking, since when does NPR 334 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,359 contesting anybody wearing masks? They're telling everybody to mask up, 335 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:13,480 But I mean, yeah, exactly. Our ice enforcement officers are 336 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,480 facing a four hundred and thirteen percent increase in assaults 337 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,839 against them. We're seeing in recent days. Their families are 338 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:24,400 being docksed, their personal information, personal addresses being put all 339 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,079 over online from violent activists who want them targeted. Most 340 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,680 of a number of our ice enforcement officers are in 341 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,440 homeland security investigations, and oftentimes they work undercover to make 342 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,559 these targets, So they're targeting cartel members, highly sophisticated gangs 343 00:22:42,559 --> 00:22:46,440 and criminal rings. So for them to be docks, or 344 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,759 for their faces not to be covered in their identity 345 00:22:49,079 --> 00:22:51,759 to be revealed is like giving on a silver platter 346 00:22:51,839 --> 00:22:56,039 intelligence to these criminal rings and these violent gangs. To 347 00:22:57,279 --> 00:23:01,240 in any way compare them to these violent rotesters who 348 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,759 they wear a mask to shield their identity so that 349 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:09,759 they are not held accountable for their destruction and their violence. 350 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,200 To compare a heroic law enforcement officer to a rioter 351 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:20,599 is just disgusting. And if people are too obtuse to 352 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,519 figure that one out, then it's intentional. 353 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 4: Was this whole dough thing the best idea? The watch 354 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,839 doot on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day 355 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,920 Chris helps unpack the connection between politics and the economy 356 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,440 and how it affects your wallet. After trying to save 357 00:23:38,519 --> 00:23:42,000 the government trillions of dollars in spending, Congress is voting 358 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:45,359 to only keep nine billion dollars of the DOGE cuts. 359 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,960 Are they totally insulting our intelligence? Whether it's happening in 360 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:51,400 DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 361 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: Be informed. 362 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 4: Check out the watch Dot on Wall Street podcast with 363 00:23:54,039 --> 00:23:57,200 Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 364 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:05,039 Speaker 1: I'd here quickly from yours, truly longtime journalists. Not a 365 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,440 cent to NPR, not a cent of my taxpayer dollars, 366 00:24:09,799 --> 00:24:13,200 not a cent of anybody's taxpayer dollars to National Public 367 00:24:13,279 --> 00:24:18,599 Radio and PBS and the like. Let's talk about the 368 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:23,640 days ahead. You mentioned. You know, we are at potentially 369 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,240 the beginning of a long, hot summer, as we saw 370 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:31,720 during the BLM riots and insurrections of twenty twenty. These 371 00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:38,519 are very planned, coordinated events. And despite what the folks 372 00:24:38,599 --> 00:24:42,519 in the accomplice media and their peals and the Marxist 373 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:47,519 left want us to know or see or believe, these 374 00:24:47,559 --> 00:24:52,759 are coordinated efforts, well funded, and they involve a very 375 00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:58,759 select group of organizations. How much do the nngos and 376 00:24:58,799 --> 00:25:03,359 the activist groups funded by the George Soros's and, as 377 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,079 we reported at The Federalist Today, the Ford Foundation, how 378 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,640 much are they playing into this and making your job 379 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,440 of enforcement that much more difficult. 380 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,519 Speaker 2: Well to your point, Matt, these are highly sophisticated and 381 00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:20,720 financially backed, potentially by foreign adversaries and other organizations that 382 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,319 do not have America's best interest by any means in mind. 383 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,319 We're certainly looking at the financial backing. We actively are 384 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:33,279 investigating this with the IRS and with the FBI. It's 385 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:37,160 something that we have been very honed in on as 386 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,039 far as the NGOs go. Actually, we just found that 387 00:25:40,079 --> 00:25:43,119 one of the groups that's backing this was had been 388 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:48,480 funded by DHS itself Homeland Security until March. We found that, 389 00:25:48,799 --> 00:25:51,680 and we had canceled it back in March. But I 390 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:57,200 mean that, I mean kudos to Doge and the rest 391 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,680 of this administration that very much is focused getting rid 392 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,119 of this waste, fraud, and abuse that's in this government, 393 00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:06,160 because it's staggering what has been found. 394 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,799 Speaker 1: That it is just a few more minutes and we'll 395 00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:11,599 give you your voice arrest. Okay, But just a couple 396 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:16,559 of final follow up questions. Do you believe that anybody 397 00:26:16,839 --> 00:26:22,319 in the Biden administration, particularly the Biden DHS I think 398 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,759 of the impeachment of Alejandro Majorcis and the effort to 399 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:29,039 hold him accountable. Of course it was never going to 400 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:34,519 happen with Democrats controlling the Senate, there was the attempt. 401 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,400 But will any of these people who uh not only 402 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:44,079 allowed this invasion to happen, facilitated this invasion. Will they 403 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:45,200 ever be held accountable? 404 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,880 Speaker 2: No, Matt, I hope so, and I think so. I 405 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,559 mean we've we've found so much fraud. I mean, at 406 00:26:53,559 --> 00:26:56,599 the beginning of this administration, we were looking at arrest numbers 407 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:01,960 and for Biden's administer, they were remarkably high. And what 408 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,039 we found was actually they were counting individuals that they 409 00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:08,880 were letting into the interior of our country as arrest 410 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,319 They were just counting people who they processed as arrests. 411 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:15,079 So we've found the completely exploited the system, and we 412 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,200 do need to there needs to be accountability. Is it's 413 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:21,720 unjust and it's unjust to the American DAX payer what 414 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:25,599 has happened and the incompetence, and I think the intentional 415 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,920 degradation of our immigration system that was at the hands 416 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:30,519 of these people. 417 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: Indeed, final question, CBS you go pull out this week 418 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,240 shows that Americans are with the president. Americans are with 419 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,799 DHS and our federal law enforcement officials to apprehend particularly 420 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,759 violent illegal immigrants, but also people who broke the law 421 00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:52,720 to get here in the first place, and the port 422 00:27:52,839 --> 00:27:56,400 illegal immigrants. I think fifty four percent of Americans support 423 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,599 the policies of the president on this front. But as 424 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:04,519 they continue to see the chaos, do you believe Americans 425 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,559 will remain with the administration on this very important issue. 426 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,039 Speaker 2: I think that the American people will be more with 427 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,319 us than they were even before, because what is Karen 428 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:19,440 Bass fighting for? What is Gavin Newsom fighting for? They're 429 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,799 fighting for these criminal, illegal aliens to stay in their communities, 430 00:28:23,799 --> 00:28:26,960 to stay in our country. And I have to plug 431 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,359 this mat because I think it's so important. It is 432 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,079 such a grave disservice that Governor Newsom and Karen Bass 433 00:28:35,079 --> 00:28:37,920 have done to even the illegal aliens in their community. 434 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,880 Because the administration has so generously offered those in this 435 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,160 country illegally one thousand dollars in a free flight home. 436 00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:50,440 That preserves these aliens the option potentially to come back 437 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,960 the legal right way. But if they do not leave now, 438 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,039 they don't self deport we will find them, we will 439 00:28:57,119 --> 00:28:59,799 arrest them, and we will deport them. That should be 440 00:28:59,799 --> 00:29:03,160 the message that Karen Bass and Governor Newsom are giving 441 00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:06,160 these illegal immigrants, and it's a total disservice that they're 442 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,240 not well. 443 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,599 Speaker 1: They're not of course because for a long time, the 444 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,039 Democratic Party has looked at illegal immigrants as their constituency 445 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,880 ultimately to vote and to gain them power and to 446 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,880 consolidate their powers. So they're going to do what they're 447 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,039 going to do in the name of politics. You have 448 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,039 to do what you have to do in the name 449 00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:32,000 of homeland security, and that's what you're doing every day. 450 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,960 You can tell it's in your voice. 451 00:29:35,359 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt. I'm grateful to you for sharing the 452 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,240 truth and getting the facts out there. 453 00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: Indeed, thanks to my guest today, a Tricia McLaughlan, Department 454 00:29:44,039 --> 00:29:47,880 of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, you've been 455 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,599 listening to another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm 456 00:29:50,599 --> 00:29:54,279 Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the Federalist. We'll be 457 00:29:54,319 --> 00:29:57,559 back soon with more. Until then, stay lovers of freedom, 458 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:07,720 anxious for the friend. I heard the fame voice the reason, 459 00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:12,119 and then it faded away. 460 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: M HM.