GOP Rep Goes SCORCHED EARTH On Immigration, Says DEPORT THEM ALL w/ Rep. Randy Fine
Timcast's White House Correspondent, Elaad Eliahu, sits down with Congressman Randy Fine to discuss a variety of today's most pressing issues. BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO SUPPORT THE SHOW - https://castbrew.com/ Become A Member And Protect Our Work at http://www.timcast.com Host: Elaad @ElaadEliahu (X) Guest: Rep. Randy Fine @RepFine (X) Producer: Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) My Second Channel - https://www.youtube.com/timcastnews Podcast Channel - https://www.youtube.com/TimcastIRL
I am Alad Eliyahu, the White House correspondent here at Timcast, and today we have a very special episode because we are in Congress interviewing Republican congressional members.
And today we have a very special guest, Representative Randy Fine from Florida, freshman member from Florida.
Thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us.
We have a long range of topics that I wanted to get into, so I wanted to hop right into it.
And this is coming on the heels of news from last weekend about how two National Guardsmen were shot outside of the White House.
I wanted to get their names because one was already announced, killed.
That's Sarah Beckstrom from West Virginia.
Now, Andrew Wolfe, who is currently in critical condition.
As we understand, this was an Afghan refugee who our intelligence agencies collaborated with in the past to help us in Afghanistan.
We ended up giving him some refugee status to come over here a few years ago.
He didn't assimilate as well as he thought he could, and it led to this tragedy from 100 feet away.
Can I get your reaction to what went down and what should our response be?
Look, we let a Muslim terrorist into this country, and he engaged in Muslim terrorism.
I think we have to ask ourselves: how many Americans are we going to let die by Muslim terrorists before we do something about it?
This guy shouldn't have been here.
And the biggest problem we have with all this is people talk about, well, vetting, vetting, vetting.
The whole idea of vetting is a lie.
You can't know what's in someone's heart, and you can't know what's in someone's mind.
And so, if we should not be importing people from countries that hate America, saying, oh, they don't have a criminal record, therefore they're going to be fine.
That doesn't tell us what's in their soul.
And so we need to lock down our borders.
President Trump's done a great job on illegal immigration, but I've started to think the left flooded us with illegals to distract us from the real flood, which was legal immigration.
We need people in this country who love America, share our values, want to assimilate, and don't want free stuff.
We'll tap into more on the immigration conversation in a moment, but I wanted to kind of follow up with you.
And how would you respond to somebody who argues that we owe some sort of debt to those who collaborated with American troops and help us fight against the Taliban and other enemies of ours?
And if we don't help out these types of people, then in the future it'll be more difficult to find people who are willing to collaborate with U.S. troops.
I think that's a fair point, but maybe we could have sent them to a Muslim country that, I mean, maybe they needed to get out of Afghanistan, but there are 56 other Muslim countries around the world.
Maybe we could have asked Indonesia to take them on, the world's most populous Muslim country that's not known for massive amounts of Muslim terror.
So I think there is a legitimate thought, if you helped us, maybe we have to take care of you.
Well, that Truth Social Post may be the most consequential of his presidency to deal with the greatest challenge facing us in our country, which is immigration.
Let me be clear.
So we've talked about illegal.
We're talking about legal.
People who come to this country and look at New York.
Zohran Mandami got blown out in the election by natural born New Yorkers.
People who were born here, whether they were Republican, Democrat, black, white, Asian, Hispanic.
It was people who just arrived who elected him.
Now, if the people showing up in your country, they should be voting the same as the people who are already here.
Whether they're liberal or conservative, it should mimic that.
And if you're not, it means you're bringing in people who are changing the complex of your country.
That's not the purpose of immigration.
Our immigration system right now is filled with people who hate America, who do not share our values and want to change it, who do not seek to assimilate.
Look at Dearborn, Michigan, and want free stuff.
That is a recipe for disaster.
And so we need immigrants, if we're going to have them at all, who love America, share our values, want to become part of the American melting pot, and don't want anything for free.
If you come here for freedom and opportunity, I'm willing to have that discussion.
If you say I love America, if you come here for free stuff, stay at home.
You know, the same sort of people who write that say that it's better that 100 people go free from prison than one guilty person, than one innocent person be held in prison.
How many Americans are they willing to sacrifice on the altar of suicidal empathy?
If you have a specialized job, some sort of super specific programming job, and there's not an American to do that job, and your company can't exist without it, and that person's in India, I don't know that we should force your company to close.
But here's the issue.
You shouldn't import Indians to undercut American wages.
And I wanted to ask you, on immigration and the future of the Republican or MAGA movement, do you think we're heading towards like a net zero immigration type mindset?
I wanted to pivot to another topic that's been in the news recently and the Trump administration's been busying themselves with, and that's dealing with the drug cartels in Venezuela and preventing the flow of drugs.
They have called the Maduro regime illegitimate and narco-terrorist, and they've been bombing boats out of the water.
Can I get your reaction?
What do you think about the administration's actions so far in the waters around Venezuela?
The president ran on no new wars and he's definitely helped end a lot of conflicts around the country but I feel as though some MAGA supporters have some reluctance in going along with this.
What would you say to somebody who says we don't need to do regime change in Venezuela?
We shouldn't be applying a ton of pressure.
We shouldn't be moving all of our military assets, you know, not all of them, but as I understand we have an aircraft carrier there among other assets.
And just to follow up on the strikes, the reason I really wanted to focus on that a little bit more was because there are many Democrats who are saying that if the reporting from the Washington Post is true, they're accusing the Secretary of War of potentially committing war crimes.
And I believe it was Admiral Bradley who Pete Hegseth named as doing it.
So there's the senator from Connecticut, Van Holland, who said this could potentially be viewed as war crimes.
Same with Mark Kelly from Arizona.
What is your thoughts on these Democrats pushing that line?
And also I believe it was Mark Kelly who recently said that if you're being told you should refuse illegal orders.
One last topic that I wanted to hit on is that, I don't know if it's everybody, but definitely people on the right feel as though it's open season on them.
We're coming off the heels of Charlie Kirk being murdered in cold blood, and then there's these other two National Guardsmen.
It's right-wing coded.
It seems as though law enforcement people are willing to say that ICER and Gestapo in the case of Tim Waltz is the common line among the Democrats.
I just wanted to get, what's your reaction to those who feel as though it is open season on those on the right, and particularly on Charlie Kirk's passing recently?
I also think it's worth mentioning that some of the loudest voices on the right suspect that there is some foul play when it comes to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
I don't know if you've seen this, but what is your reaction to some of these voices?
I'm reading a tweet from Candace Owens from earlier this morning that says, I can now say with full confidence that I believe Charlie Kirk was betrayed by the leadership of Turning Point USA and some of the very people who eulogized him on stage.
I think people try to telegraph things onto things that aren't the case.
I mean, what happened to Charlie, sort of, I mean, it's a horrible story, but someone who is radicalized into transgender stuff went nuts and shot him.
I mean, the story in and of itself is terrible enough.
I don't think we have to make up wacko conspiracy theories in order to do it.
But I think it is justified that people feel concerned about what happened to Charlie Kirk.
