Donald Trump Jr. argues the U.S. must prioritize citizens over illegal aliens and cartels, citing a new White House counterterrorism strategy targeting anti-capitalist groups via sanctions. He contrasts ICE statistics showing over 60,000 detainees with sanctuary city failures in Los Angeles and New York, where officials like Mayor Karen Bass allegedly hinder enforcement. Highlighting Operation Iron Pursuit's 350 arrests of child sex offenders, he accuses Democrats of ignoring these successes to protect criminal elements, asserting that restoring order requires ending policies that endanger public safety through chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
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Who Is The System Protecting00:15:09
Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
I hope everyone is doing well today.
Big show, because if you want to understand the moment we're in, it really comes down to one very simple question Who is the left's system actually protecting?
Is it protecting American citizens?
Is it protecting the family trying to get on a plane?
The parent trying to keep their kids safe online?
The police officer trying to get violent criminals off the street?
Honestly, is it the taxpayer who's sick of getting robbed by people who hate this country?
Or is it simply protecting the criminals, the illegal alien, the cartels, the radical left wing activists, the bureaucrats, the NGOs, ultimately their fundraising mechanism, the media narrative?
Because Democrats are once again going on the record to make it very, very clear.
That they want to take back power so they can put illegal aliens first instead of you.
So, we're going to get into all of that today.
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And I want to start with the big picture because the White House just released the 2026 counterterrorism strategy.
And it's exactly the kind of thing Washington spent years pretending was too complicated to say out loud.
The threats, guys, are not mysterious at all.
Cartels are a threat.
They have been for a long time.
Foreign terrorist organizations are a threat, literally by definition, but we ignored that for far too long.
Transnational gangs are a threat.
Violent left wing extremists, including Antifa, are a threat.
And the job of the United States government is not to write a think tank paper about it.
It's to find the people who want to hurt Americans, cut off their money, destroy their networks, and to make sure they can't operate in this country.
Check this out from the White House.
Cause to stir.
Opposition to capitalism, imperialism or colonialism.
We hear those chants all the time.
They're ridiculous.
Support for LGBTQ rights, support for environmental causes or animal rights, adherence to pro communist, pro socialist beliefs or anti fascist rhetoric, which we hear nonstop, and opposition to government authority.
Now, the thing is, you can believe that, you can get together.
They're worried about when it leads to violence.
And then Treasury could play a big role, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
As we saw with Operation Economic Fury, you know, the counterpart to Epic Fury, you can now apply the entire toolkit that Treasury, I'm telling you, as a detective, we salivated over the ability that the federal government had with IRS and Treasury to go after money, to go after sanctions.
This is something now that can now be done that will impact us at the state and local level.
This is a huge change.
And it's follow the money, right?
Follow the money.
You don't go after people.
For ideology.
We've got to be careful from a First Amendment standpoint.
But when that ideology leads to violence, now they become a target.
Now you apply the whole toolkit.
And when you disrupt their money, I'm telling you, Brian, most of these groups are not flush with cash.
You start disrupting that.
You start disrupting their recruiting capability.
You can have a huge impact in a very short amount of time.
Don't you believe that a lot of this money comes from our adversaries, Russia, North Korea?
For years, the so called experts wanted to talk about root causes, grievance studies.
Diplomatic frameworks, community engagement, all of the normal Washington nonsense that turns every obvious threat into a graduate seminar.
My father is saying something much simpler.
If you hurt Americans, or you're planning to hurt Americans, we will find you.
And if you're a cartel moving poison into our communities, if you're a gang turning neighborhoods into war zones, if you're a radical left wing group using violence to intimidate people, if you're a foreign regime, Using the border as a pressure point, we're not going to pretend you're a misunderstood nonprofit organization.
We're going to treat you like the threat that you are.
Because once you remove the left wing euphemisms, once you remove the consultant language, once you remove the media panic, most of this is honestly pretty easy to understand.
Protect the country, enforce the law, secure the border.
Destroy the cartels.
Stop treating American citizens like collateral damage in someone else's ideology.
And speaking of that, Tom Homan and Secretary Mullen are making it very clear that ICE is not slowing down.
Secretary Mullen said they have arrested more than 1,900 individuals in a single day.
Over 60,000 people are currently being detained and going through the deportation process.
And they deported more than 2,700 people last week.
Hear it from himself.
I made this very clear when we were moving forward with my nomination that I wanted to get DHS out of the headlines so our ICE agents, our CPP agents, and all the other law enforcement agencies we have underneath DHS could go do their job without being harassed by the media.
That doesn't mean we're slowing down even a little bit.
In fact, just yesterday, we arrested over 1,900 individuals.
We have over 60,000 individuals that are currently being detained going through the process of being deported.
Last week, we deported over 2,700.
We're getting slowed down a little bit because of some of our court issues.
We're working through that.
But we haven't missed a beat.
We're still on track pushing as hard as we can.
We just are doing it in a different way by using local law enforcement to work with us.
In fact, I had a meeting this morning with local law enforcement about our 287G program that is very effective.
And then at the same time, we had a meeting about the last administration.
It was interesting to me, Rob, when I sat down and talked to my ICE agents in a different state today, they were surprised that we were leaning in so hard because underneath the Biden administration, they couldn't even go pick up individuals when local law enforcement would hold them.
And they were having a hard time deporting individuals once they got released from the prison sentence.
We are leaning extremely hard in that.
So, no, absolutely, positively, we're not slowing down one bit.
And Tom Holman put it even more plainly than that.
As he always does.
Good friend of the show.
Check it out.
Let's remember why we're here.
Four years of an open border.
Over 10 million illegal aliens that we know of came to the border.
Millions were released in this country, illegally, in my opinion, against established immigration law.
Four years of historic, never seen before numbers.
We had a historic illegal immigration crisis for four years.
What's required now?
An historic mass deportation to deal with these people that enter this country legally, many released in this country illegally, many who have no case in this country to be here.
There it is, guys.
Simple.
A historic illegal immigration crisis requires a historic mass deportation effort.
Not a strongly worded memo, not a blue ribbon commission, not another bipartisan bill where Republicans give amnesty now and Democrats promise enforcement maybe years down the road.
We all know they're in on it, folks.
This is not a surprise.
You're never going to get them to agree to anything real.
Okay.
Simple mass deportation, because that's what happens when a country actually decides it's a country again.
And of course, the media is not handling it well.
The activist class can't handle it.
The sanctuary politicians definitely can't handle it.
But here's the truth they can put up all the roadblocks that they want.
They can scream on MSNBC.
They can file lawsuits.
They can hold press conferences.
They can call every ICE agent a racist and a fascist and, you know, whatever else they call them.
They can pretend every deportation is some sort of moral crisis, but they're not going to stop this.
Watch the Dems right now.
Well, Governor Hoko, I'm not asking either.
I said it.
We're going to do it.
No, she wants to sign legislation.
She supports this legislation to lock us out of jails.
It's going to end 287G agreements.
And it's going to prevent us from arresting a criminal alien in the safety and security of a jail.
We have partnerships in New York throughout the state.
Not everywhere, but she wants to end the partnerships we currently have, which means now we've got to send a whole team to look for a criminal that we could have arrested in the safety and security of a jail, which is safer for the officers, safer for the aliens, certainly safer for the community.
So you're forcing us into the neighborhoods to find this person, which means since we lost the efficiencies of the jails that you want to lock us out of, now we've got to send a whole team.
Out there to find this person.
So, of course, we're going to increase manpower a lot.
And not only that, she says she wants to protect the migrant communities.
Really?
Because now we arrest an illegal alien.
We can't rent a bed from any of the sheriffs in New York State.
So, what are we going to do?
We're going to arrest that illegal alien.
We're going to fly them to Texas, Arizona, to one of our tens of facilities there, away from their families, away from their attorneys.
This is what we have to do because she forces in this position.
And we're going to do it.
They're not going to stop us.
They can put all the roadblocks they want, but we're going to do this job.
And the reason they're not going to stop it, guys, is because Americans have seen what the alternative looks like.
We've been there.
We've seen the open borders.
We've seen the sanctuary cities.
They've seen the excuses.
They've seen the victims.
And DHS has been putting those stories right in front of the country.
Yesterday, they highlighted a horrifying case out of Suffolk County, New York.
An illegal alien from Honduras, who authorities say beat a man unconscious behind a dumpster and then sexually assaulted him.
You know, not exactly the kind of people we probably want in this country.
And yet, the Democrats are going to go too bad for them.
According to DHS, he had entered the country illegally four times and had already been deported three times, but re entered.
And re entered again and re entered again under Joe Biden.
How many victims does it take before Democrats admit their sanctuary policies are not actually compassion?
Their cruelty with maybe better marketing, maybe better branding, because that's what it is.
It's cruelty to the victims.
It's cruelty to the communities.
It's cruelty to the police who have to deal with the same people over and over again, who then just get released back in the streets to do the same thing over and over again.
It's cruelty to the legal immigrant who did everything the right way and now gets lumped in with people who have no respect for our laws.
But the left never wants to talk about that.
They want to talk about the criminal's fears.
They want to talk about the illegal alien's hardship.
They want to talk about the activist lawyers' feelings.
They never want to talk about the American who got hurt because some sanctuary politician wanted applause from the resistance crowd.
And by the way, This morning, Kash Patel announced another one.
An illegal immigrant serial rapist, years on the run, arrested thanks to the FBI's advanced DNA system.
Positive match, apprehended in less than four hours, and it's yet another sign that real law and order are back.
These are the people that they just let back on the streets over and over again.
I mean, serial rapists.
Think about it.
Remember the stats of how many people had come across the border that were rapists and murderers?
Like 13,000 and 16,000, respectively, back under Joe Biden.
That's all over.
Check it out.
Violent crime is on the rise in many cities.
Now, most cities are seeing an uptick in violent crimes.
The search for answers is underway into the murder of a well respected member of the Mount Airy and Germantown communities.
Two sisters were stabbed to death, their bodies found on the second floor of their townhouse.
She was a human being, and she didn't deserve this.
She didn't deserve it.
I, Kasha Pramod Patel, do solemnly swear.
That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Violent Crime On The Rise00:10:26
Thanks to our Department of Justice partners, you had 2,100 indictments in three months, from June to September alone.
Mr. President, that in and of itself would be historic for a four year presidency.
You did that in seven months because you let good cops be cops.
In an absolutely remarkable turnaround, the FBI is reversing years of spiraling crime across the country.
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year.
Running over the same old ground.
But have we found the same old fear?
Wish you were here.
Operation Summer Heat is a nationwide effort to crush violent crime, dismantle gangs, and rescue child victims.
Last year, Operation Night.
Forgotten got results in connection to Operation Grayskull.
Charges include racketeering, drug trafficking, kidnapping, assault, and murder.
You under the Trump administration, this FBI has literally had a historic year.
We have 112% increase in violent offenders arrested last year alone, a 20% decrease in homicides, 20% decrease in robberies.
We have disrupted 1,800 criminal gangs.
That's a 210% increase.
The way we do this, we let good cops be cops.
That's what these agencies should be doing.
Finding the predators, finding the violent criminals, using the tools that we have access to, moving fast, protecting the public.
Again, not writing essays about why criminals are actually just victims of the systems and coddling the worst people humanity has ever created.
And just breaking this week in Operation Iron Pursuit, more than 350 alleged sex.
Child sex abuse offenders were arrested.
More than 200 child victims were located.
All 56 FBI field offices were involved.
Check out Kash Patel and Operation Iron Pursuit here.
Guys, that's what the FBI should be doing.
Not spying on parents at school board meetings, which they spent a lot of time doing prior to this.
Not treating Catholics like domestic terrorists.
Not running political interference for the regime.
Not tracking down the bank accounts of someone who may have bought MAGA swag or maybe a Bible.
Finding child predators, rescuing kids, crushing trafficking networks, using every field office in the country to go after the monsters who prey on the most vulnerable people in America.
And we're seeing that exact fight in Virginia right now.
The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano, the Soros backed prosecutor whose office allegedly weighed immigration consequences in charging decisions and plea deals.
I mean, think about that.
If someone could possibly get deported, even if they're a really bad guy, maybe we just won't charge them that much and we're just going to let them go right away.
And, you know, got to make sure we keep these people in these streets that create more chaos.
It's nuts.
In other words, if you were here illegally and charged with a crime, the office was allegedly considering whether prosecuting you too harshly might get you deported.
And I think of how insane that is.
Check this out.
Now, again, just think about that for a second.
The victim doesn't get special treatment, right?
The citizen doesn't get special treatment.
The law abiding taxpayer doesn't get special treatment.
An American who commits these crimes gets treated far more harshly because there's no deportation consequence.
I mean, seems totally normal, right?
But the criminal, illegal alien might get the system softened for him because accountability could interfere with his immigration status.
That's literally insane.
If there's one thing you could think that could unite everyone, it's protecting children and punishing their predators.
Again, that's what the FBI should be doing.
It's what they always should have been doing.
And unfortunately, for a long time, they weren't.
But notice how upset the regime media gets when the Trump administration does exactly that.
When they do exactly what they said they were going to do, when they do what they told the American public they were going to do, which got them elected.
They lose their minds.
And if they were leaking about some fake Russia story, some fake Russia theory, you got wall to wall coverage.
But 350 child predators arrested.
350.
That's a lot.
More than 200 kids located and saved.
A missing 14 year old rescued.
The transformed FBI actually doing the job Americans wanted to do.
Suddenly, suddenly, guys, now, the media has other priorities like.
Protecting illegal aliens.
We've seen this one before.
And California is giving us two perfect examples of what the alternative looks like.
First, look at this exchange from the LA mayoral debate about whether non-citizens should vote.
This is a yes or no question and answer.
So there's an LA council member.
He wants voters to decide.
He is saying that non-citizens, should they be allowed to vote in local elections?
Is this a yes or no, Mr. Pratt?
No.
Mayor Bass?
It depends.
It's not a yes or no.
Depends on what?
Well, first of all, when you say non citizens, it doesn't mean they're here illegal.
It doesn't mean they're undocumented.
They could have green cards.
They could be here perfectly legal.
And there's a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections.
We have to see what the councilman is proposing.
Council Member Bremman.
Yeah, I would say, again, it does depend.
In other places, school boards have non citizens.
Yes or no?
Mr. Fred, I have a question for you.
The question is very simple.
Should non citizens be able to vote in local elections?
Spencer Pratt says no.
The correct answer is obviously no, because what's even the point of being a citizen if everyone gets the exact same rights as you and they don't have to pay taxes and do any of the other things that California desperately needs them to do?
And then Karen Bass and Councilwoman Rahman do what every progressive politician does when the honest answer is politically poisonous they start rambling incoherently.
Because they know the real answer.
They actually do.
It just doesn't work for their politics.
It doesn't work for their voter base.
It doesn't work for the people who they want to be their voter base that shouldn't be legally allowed to vote in elections.
The left has spent years trying to blur the line between citizen and non-citizen, legal and illegal, voter and activist, public service and political machine.
And once you blur that line, everything else follows.
Sanctuary policies, no real border, no deportations, no accountability.
And eventually, why shouldn't the people who are not citizens help decide who runs the city?
That's not compassion, guys.
That's the left wing business model.
And here's more from the LA mayor's debate last night.
Robin acts like she doesn't have any authority with this homelessness.
She was the third most powerful person in city council.
She runs the homeless housing thing.
She acts like this is just Mayor Bass.
First off, inside safe.
I like to say inside safe makes all of us outside unsafe.
The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth.
They are on fentanyl.
The DEA statistics say 93% of this is a drug addiction problem.
Nithya, Councilwoman Robbins' plan for treatment first.
I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her, and we can find some of these people she's going to offer treatment for.
She's going to get stabbed in the neck.
These people do not want a bed, they want fentanyl or super meth.
These ideas.
Cost us over $400 million to house 70,000, what is it, 3,000 people for $400 million?
This is an absolute failure for both of them.
They're a team.
So, Councilmember Rahman, you have 30 seconds to respond.
I want to just say to everybody who's watching today, you're going to watch today as Mayor Bass and Spencer Pratt attack me because they want to run against each other in the general election.
Each of them thinks that running against each other is what's going to help them win.
And they don't want to run against me because my ideas, which are based on real results in my district, which are based on real data, a real analysis of the system, and a focus on accountability and using every dollar as effectively as possible, which we have done in my district.
I want to take this citywide.
This is why this is happening today.
Councilmember Sloan, we're out of time.
I'm going to give each of you 30 seconds to respond to this.
Mr. Pratt, I'm going to start with you, and then I'm going to go to Mayor Beth.
First off, Mayor Bass and I are definitely not working together.
I blame this person for burning my house and my parents' house and my town and all my neighbors down.
I am not working with Mayor Bass.
Second off, if I wanted to run against anybody, it would be the council member who is terrible.
Mayor Bass has at least been a mayor for almost four years and has, as she talked about earlier, the unions, all the unions endorse Mayor Bass.
You think it's easier to run against the incumbent mayor with all the unions or a random city council member who's been a failure?
For six years, I would much rather run against Councilwoman Rahman.
Thank you very much, Mr. Pat.
Pretty amazing stuff, guys.
Hard to believe this thing could even be close.
Mayor Bass And My Town00:05:40
And yet, it's LA, it's California.
And yesterday, guys, federal agents targeted an open air drug market in LA's MacArthur Park.
I mean, think about that an open air drug market.
They're just doing these things out in the open at this point.
That's left wing city leaders, frankly, allowed to remain there and operational for years.
Well, we're not letting that happen anymore.
Check out the operation here.
Street dealers, suppliers, fentanyl, meth, a public park in a major American city turned into a drug market while local leadership gives lectures about equity and inclusion.
25 arrest warrants, eight search warrants, about 19 kilograms of fentanyl seized.
19 kilograms, okay, just so we understand what that is.
It's like 45 pounds, okay, seized, and 18 people arrested, and seven fugitives.
This is what happens when the people in charge stop protecting citizens and start protecting the ideology that created all of the chaos.
That is California, guys, in a nutshell.
And that's why federal action actually matters here, because it's not going to happen from the state until you have a change of leadership.
Because if local leaders will not protect the public square, if they will not protect the citizen, if they will not protect the family walking through a park, then the federal government has to step in and actually enforce the law.
That's the same clarity is why the White House is looking at cartels like the national security threat that they are.
Because fentanyl deaths are not just a drug problem.
Human smuggling is not just an immigration problem.
Cartel violence is not just a border problem.
These are all national security threats.
They are attacks on American families, on American communities, and on American sovereignty.
And the only reason Washington spent so long pretending otherwise. Is because too many powerful people benefited from the chaos.
Cheap labor benefits from chaos.
NGOs benefit from chaos.
Cartels benefit from chaos.
Sanctuary politicians benefit from chaos.
The regime media obviously benefits from the chaos and the clicks.
The only people who don't benefit are the Americans, the citizens who have to live with it, who have to watch it destroy their community.
And that's the dividing line right now.
One side wants to manage the decline.
The other side wants to actually reverse it.
One side wants to explain why nothing can be done.
The other side is actually doing the things that can very obviously be done if there is some resolve, if there is some will.
One side protects the system.
The other side protects the citizen.
And that's why these stories all connect.
Does it protect Americans?
Does it make the country safer?
Does it restore consequences?
Does it put the citizens first?
If yes, do it.
If no, stop pretending it's compassion because Americans are done being lectured by the people who broke everything.
They're done being told that violent criminals need empathy while victims get none.
They get silence.
They're done being told that the border can't be secured.
It can be very easily.
They're done being told that cartels are just a law enforcement challenge.
They're done being told that anti FISA idea.
They're done being told that mass deportations are impossible.
They're done being told that protecting children is somehow controversial.
In other words, they're just done.
And the Trump administration is giving the country something Washington almost forgot existed consequences and accountability, consequences for criminals.
Consequences for predators, consequences for cartels, consequences for foreign regimes, consequences for officials who put politics over public safety.
That's how you rebuild a country.
Not with slogans, not with hashtags, not with another seminar about equity and inclusion, with strength, with law, with borders, with accountability, with consequences, and with a government that remembers who it works for.
One side protects the criminals.
One side protects citizens.
One side manages chaos.
The other side tries to restore order.
One side hides behind the process.
The other side delivers action.
And that's the whole ballgame, folks.
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