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| Wednesday afternoon, come on. | ||
| You guys don't scare me. | ||
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Can you give us an update on the arrest made if you've seen so far? | |
| I don't have the numbers. | ||
| I've been in the skiff for the last couple hours. | ||
| I've got no access to electronic devices. | ||
| I know they're making arrests. | ||
| Like I said this morning, it's just not the number of arrests they're making. | ||
| It's the deterrence effect. | ||
| The bad guy knows we're tenfold out in the street. | ||
| Federal agency is working side by side with the Metropolitan Police. | ||
| So the bad guys, based on my four years of experience, a lot of them are hiding. | ||
| They're not coming out committing crimes. | ||
| So not only are we arresting people and locking them up, we're preventing people from hitting the streets and committing crimes. | ||
| They know we're serious about making D.C. safe again. | ||
| President Trump has made a commitment to the citizens of D.C. to make this city safe again, and he's doing it. | ||
| He's doing it one arrest at a time. | ||
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Do you have a response to the judge asking ICE facilities in New York to be improved? | |
| You guys ought to go look at an ICE facility. | ||
| Go look at them. | ||
| I'll compare, if it's an ICE facility that ICE owns, I'll compare our detention standards to any county, jail, or state prison in the country. | ||
| And I mean that. | ||
| Anybody can go to ICE.gov, look at the detention standards. | ||
| Matter of fact, a lot of people may be a little upset we're spending this much money on detention standards. | ||
| When I was the ICE director, we had county sheriffs and our contracts with them because they could not afford those detention standards. | ||
| And they said, if I can't give these detention standards to U.S. citizens, why am I going to pay all this money to give detention standards to somebody that's not even supposed to be here? | ||
| I literally had sheriffs walk away from agreements. | ||
| So I'll compare an ICE facility to any facility in this country, any state, any county, prison in the nation. | ||
| I'll compare them side by side. | ||
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How do you have any more detailed numbers on what it could look like to renovate Alcatraz? | |
| You mean San Francisco Alcatraz? | ||
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unidentified
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Right. | |
| I'm not in the loop on that. | ||
| I leave it up to, I know Pam Bonnie's working on that. | ||
| And I leave it up to the DHS and DOJ because they're working on that. | ||
| I'm not in the loop on that. | ||
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Okay, and the Speedway Slammer, do you have an update on that, when that will be up and running, any kind of timeline there? | |
| No, it should be pretty soon. | ||
| I think it's going to be 1,000 beds. | ||
| And I appreciate the governor stepping up and helping us on that. | ||
| I don't particularly like the names. | ||
| I mean, the men, women, and ICE, what they're doing every day out there is dangerous, is serious. | ||
| They're doing it with dignity, honor, and respect. | ||
| And I think sometimes those names take away from that. | ||
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I think the name is mocking what ICIS at work doing. | |
| I'm just saying I don't particularly like the names. | ||
| That's just me. | ||
| Because I don't want anything to take away from the dangerous, important work ICE is doing. | ||
| They're trying to do it with dignity, honor, and respect. | ||
| And I don't want anything to take away from that. | ||
| And sometimes the names, people get caught up on the names and they think it becomes a joke. | ||
| I don't think what we're doing is a joke. | ||
| It's serious, dangerous stuff, as we can tell from the over 1,000% increase in ICE attacks. | ||
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And just on the floor, I settlement: does the Trump administration believe it's still operational after the cost of the 1B deposit of the 1B Jews within the? | |
| Well, look, I'm not, that's a question of a DOJ. | ||
| They're litigating by the Florida Settlement Agreement by Dolly G, it was the worst immigration decision in the history of this nation. | ||
| Because I said if they found that way where accompanied children are treated like unaccompanied children and they can only hold them for 20 days, I said at the time if they did that, you would see a surge of family units across this border like never seen before. | ||
| If they knew they're not going to be held long enough to see a judge. | ||
| And what happened? | ||
| I was called a fearmonger by the other side, but I was exactly right. | ||
| Hundreds of thousands of families rushed across the border because they knew they would be released before they saw a judge. | ||
| They knew 90% of people who claim asylum at the border end up with an order removal. | ||
| They knew that. | ||
| And under President Obama, in the beginning, under President Obama, when the family units came across, we detained them at the first residential center we created. | ||
| We held him. | ||
| It took about 40 days to see a judge. | ||
| And what happened? | ||
| 90% lost their case. | ||
| We put him on airplane and sent him home. | ||
| The border numbers dropped significantly. | ||
| Then the Ninth Circuit decided this can only hold them for 20 days. | ||
| And what I said would happen, happened. | ||
| The numbers went up. | ||
| They exploded. | ||
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They had the significant profit in illegal immigrants coming crossing the border. | |
| But what about those deportations tell people how successful has to be charged with? | ||
| I looked at the numbers the other day. | ||
| Ever since President Trump's been in the overall office, we got over 300,000 repatriations, close to 320,000. | ||
| If you look at the short time he's been in office, that's historic in itself. | ||
| I mean, we tracked things by fiscal year. | ||
| And of course, Biden administration almost four months. | ||
| So those four months weren't hurt because they weren't doing SWAT, right? | ||
| So I think that at the time President Trump's been in office, he's kept his promise to American people. | ||
| We're removing people at record numbers. | ||
| We're taking public safety threats, national security threats off the streets at record numbers. | ||
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What are the factors do you attribute to the sharp profit that need to be with what? | |
| What other factors do you attribute to the sharp profit? | ||
| We got the most secure border in the history of the nation today because of President Trump. | ||
| No one does it better. | ||
| I worked for six presidents. | ||
| No one can hold a candle to this president. | ||
| Trump 45, we had the most secure border in the history of this nation. | ||
| Biden came in and unsecured it on purpose. | ||
| The first president in the history of this nation to unsecure a border on purpose. | ||
| Now President Trump comes back, Trump 47. | ||
| We even beat Trump 45. | ||
| We have the most secure border in the history of the nation. | ||
| It has to do with the president's great decisions on executive orders, remaining in Mexico through a safe country agreements, ending catch release was huge. | ||
| And on top of that, on top of the great work of the men and women of the Border Patrol, what ICE is doing is having a deterrent effect too. | ||
| They're showing there's over a thousand teams on the streets every day looking for people in this country entering legally, especially public safety threats and national security threats. | ||
| We're showing the whole world we're going to force immigration laws in this country. | ||
| That has a strong deterrent effect. | ||
| People know you can't come to the border and expect to be released because you're not going to be released. | ||
| We haven't released anybody in months. | ||
| And if somehow you get by the Border Patrol and we find you, you're going home. | ||
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I see President Trump deploying the National Guard here. | |
| Do you think that step was incredibly necessary? | ||
| I mean, it's quite the escalation. | ||
| Crime is, of course, a concern for the National Guard. | ||
| You live in D.C.? | ||
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unidentified
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I didn't work here at the moment. | |
| Okay, would you walk around D.C. at night? | ||
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unidentified
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I do, but I do think it could be safer. | |
| I think there are. | ||
| It could be safer. | ||
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Look. | |
| Look, I think President Trump made the right decision, just like they made the right decision in Los Angeles. | ||
| I was in Los Angeles with the National Guard. | ||
| Control got, you know, undertaken very, very quickly. | ||
| D.C. is a dangerous place. | ||
| I don't go the streets at night without a gun. | ||
| And, you know, it's dangerous. | ||
| I mean, we see the crime in D.C. You got the Democrats saying the crime isn't that bad. | ||
| Come on, you walk through the streets of D.C. | ||
| It's not safe to walk the streets at night here. | ||
| And President Trump, this is the capital of the greatest country in the world. | ||
| We should have a capital that's safe for tourists, for citizens. | ||
| Anybody comes to the greatest nation on earth, our capital should be a showpiece. | ||
| And President Trump is going to make sure not only is it safe, it's a showpiece for the whole world. | ||
| And that's the right thing to do for the greatest nation on earth. | ||
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Is it enough for that? | |
| Or do you think it would be a good idea? | ||
| President Trump doesn't have a limitation on his authority to make this country safe again. | ||
| There's no limitation on that. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. Hellman. | |
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