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PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HISTORIC SIGNING OF THE LAKEN RILEY ACT

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Christ is king!
America's gonna be very rich again, and it's gonna happen very quickly.
It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.
The illegal aliens that Joe Biden brought into our country are not full stop doing farm work.
They are not.
The illegal aliens he brought in from Venezuela, from Haiti.
From Nicaragua, they are not doing farm work.
They are in our cities collecting welfare.
As for the farmers, there is a guest worker program that President Trump supports.
Over time as well, we will transition into automation, so we'll never have to have this conversation ever again.
But there's no universe in which this nation is going to allow...
The previous president to flood our nation with millions and millions of illegal aliens who just get to stay here.
And we are especially not going to allow a subset of those illegal aliens to rape and murder our citizens.
It's been almost a year since Lakin Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, was murdered by 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra.
President Trump will sign the Lakin-Riley Act into law, which allows the DHA to hold and deport non-U.S. citizens when charged of crimes and sue the government due to immigration laws that were not upheld.
We need to figure out ways to improve care, particularly for elderly, for veterans, for the poor in this country.
And Medicaid, the current model, is not doing that.
I would ask, you know, any of the Democrats who are chuckling just now.
Do you think all that money, the $900 billion that we're sending to Medicaid every year has made Americans healthy?
Do we think it's working for anybody?
Federal workers, they have to return to work.
And if they don't, then they have the option to resign.
And this administration is very generously offering to pay them for eight months.
Six percent of the federal workforce in this city actually shows up to work.
That's unacceptable.
The first thing I've done every morning for the past 20 years.
Is to get on my knees and pray to God that he would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic and to help America's children.
All right, Jack Posobiec, we're back.
Live Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C. Today is January 20th, 2024. Anno Domini.
Here on Human Events, we are going to go live very shortly to the White House itself.
We're going to be bringing you inside.
With Real America's Voice camera, as well as our White House correspondent, Brian Glenn, where President Trump is just minutes away from signing the Lakin-Riley Act.
And as we all remember, Lakin-Riley was brutally murdered just a little over a year ago.
Actually, it's just coming up on the one-year anniversary.
I should check that.
It's just coming up on the one-year anniversary.
It'll be February 2024, so a couple weeks away from the one-year anniversary.
The first piece of major legislation to be signed by President Trump right here in the White House.
It's going to be coming very soon.
And it's all about directing the federal government and federal officials to detain any illegal alien who broke any law in the United States will be detained.
It's as simple as that.
And it also gives the states powers of enforcement as well in ways that they didn't Look, at the end of the day, we can't do anything to bring Lake and Riley's family the closure that they want.
We can't bring her back.
But what we can do is use this situation as an example of what we can say we never want to happen again and take her story, hopefully.
To put it to use to save the lives of children, to save the lives of the young girls in this country, young college students in this country, people who have been victimized for years by a policy that was completely and utterly supported by the previous administration in this country.
Whether it be Jocelyn Nungary, whether it be Rachel Moran, Whether it be any of these girls.
We know that the perpetrators did not have to be in this country.
They could have been taken out.
But it was through the decisions of the federal government to allow them to stay.
And I'm sick and tired of people saying that it wasn't deliberate.
We've seen over the past week and a half that it was.
That it's all deliberate.
What did we tell you all last year?
You don't have to live like this.
And guess what?
The American people stood up.
The government is under new management now.
And guess what?
The illegals are all going to go home.
And anyone who breaks a further law is going to be going first.
We'll be right back here.
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All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back live here in Washington, D.C. I'd like to bring you now to the East Room of the White House, ladies and gentlemen, where we've got White House correspondent Brian Glenn for Real America's Voice on standby.
Brian, set the scene for us.
Hey, Jack.
Good afternoon.
Yes, we are in the East Room here at the White House awaiting for President Trump.
To come out and obviously address the crowd that we have inside here.
We probably have, and I'm just eyeballing it here, maybe 100, 120 people in this room.
From what I've been told, many angel families here in this room, people that have been affected by a lot of the migrant crime that's been happening in our country.
The president will deliver, from what I've been told, a short speech.
speech, then we'll go over and sign that Lakin-Riley Act that was passed by Congress and signed by Speaker Johnson last week.
From that, I anticipate perhaps maybe a few moments that he might take a few questions from the press.
There is a large amount of press and people in this room, so how that plays out, Jack, is yet to be seen.
That's, I mean, it's incredible to see just in the In some ways, a short period of time.
It's only been one year since this took place, and yet the legislation is being signed.
But in addition, we've had a complete turnover in government since then.
Brian, are you able to tell us, do you recognize any of the Angel families?
Do you recognize any of the other special guests that are in attendance there?
I don't, unfortunately.
I'm kind of in the back, the way they brought in the press a little bit late, where everyone was already seated.
I wish I could identify some of the people in here, but apparently, unfortunately, I can't.
But as soon as I get a little bit better ID on the situation, I can let you know.
But, you know, this is something that you said before.
This was a big campaign.
Talking point it was really getting you know kind of these criminals off the street and it I talked to Tom Holman earlier this morning about these ICE raids that he's been you know conducting the last several days and just really apprehending some of the worst of the worst that's on our city streets.
This in a way is a great backup to that as far as apprehending people that have been you know arrested for other crimes and held in custody so they can just better Yeah, thank
you.
Okay, and we can see now the ceremony is beginning.
President Trump about to walk in there.
The Angel families are seated.
Brian, is Tom Homan there?
Can you see?
Is Tom there?
Oh, is that them coming in?
Well, let's see.
I don't...
Well, no, I don't believe...
Jack, I wish I could see if Tom was there.
I would...
Imagine I just saw Susie Wiles walk in and sit down.
I'm trying to get a better shot and I don't know if I don't want to lose a shot of that door of him walking in but if we were to pan the camera down into the left right you might better get a better idea of who is sitting here but like I said I'm sitting standing behind the press essentially.
Kind of out of the way if you could, but really this thing was scheduled to start at 2 o'clock.
Obviously, we're sitting at 212 now.
I do have an opportunity when this is over.
Of course, President Trump could be meeting with the family one-on-one right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
He could be doing that prior.
We will have a few minutes with some angel families after this ceremony that we'll have to push out a little bit later.
But this is a big moment in a lot of these people's lives.
They're able to get something that can help potentially save lives.
And that's what this was all about.
And, of course, Lake and Riley, a Georgia student there that was kidnapped, adopted, and later murdered by an illegal.
And this is just some of the stories that have unfolded over the last year or so with this open border.
I'm trying to get a better idea, Jack, exactly what's happening.
Who else is in this room?
Obviously, a lot of the Trump staff is in this room as well.
A lot of people I recognize from the Trump campaign over the last couple of years are here.
A lot of them now have jobs in the administration, obviously, and that's, I think, a good transition to building such a strong collective.
Let's see if we can get a shot of some of the people coming in now.
Looks like we have Vice President J.D. Vance coming in as well.
Jim Jordan, Congressman Jim Jordan.
Just letting this play out.
Looks like...
A lot of people from the state of Georgia, obviously, the Georgia delegation, as far as the Republican Congress, everyone on board in this.
Basically, it had bipartisan support for this bill.
But, Jack, as you know, there were some that simply could not get on the support of this act.
Let's see the music has cued.
Let's pay attention to that front door.
door we are live here in the East Room ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States
the the thank
you very much Please, thank you very much.
Before we begin, I want to provide a brief report on the unprecedented success our country has been witnessing in recent weeks.
Since even before the election, we've been making extraordinary progress.
The American people gave us a clear mandate to save our country, and we won all seven swing states by large margins, historic.
Very importantly, we won the Popular vote by millions and millions of votes.
Also, all 50 states, as you know, shifted toward the Republican Party, and that's never happened before.
All 50, every single one of them.
In our first week in office, we set records taking over 350 executive actions.
That's not been done before.
And it has reportedly been the single most effective opening week of any presidency in history.
And we want to keep it that way.
Anyway, we want to keep it going.
We want to keep it going.
We've broken from decades of failed Washington policies and restored common sense and sanity to our government.
We've unleashed American energy and we've already achieved record low illegal immigration.
As you see, there's nobody trying to get in.
And that's what we've been waiting for for a long time and gotten woke ideologies out of our government and out of our military.
The water has now begun flowing in California as we continue to increase the flow in coming days.
Nobody's seen anything like that, and I've also taken strong action to regain control of the Washington bureaucracy.
Just for clarification purposes, Because it was incorrectly reported yesterday, we have informed the federal workforce, which they've looked to do for many years, that if they're working for the federal government, they must show up to the office on time and on schedule.
We don't want them...
We don't want them to work from home because, as everyone knows, most of the time they're not working.
Not very productive.
And it's unfair to the millions of people in the United States who are, in fact, working hard from job sites and not from their home.
As federal employees, they must meet a high standard.
They're representing our government.
They're representing our country.
If they don't agree by February 6 to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated, and we will, therefore, be downscaling our government, which is something that The last 10 presidents have tried very hard to do, but failed.
Most of the people we're talking about have not been going to their federal offices in many, many years, from even before COVID. But they have nevertheless been paid.
Some have worked, some haven't worked, and most of the studies say that some have just gone through the motions.
We may ask these people to prove that they didn't have another job during their...
So-called employment with the United States of America because if they did that would be Unlawful as you understand a lot of people are getting paychecks, but they're actually working other jobs So they'll have to prove that to us that they weren't in any event We're requiring them to show up to work or be terminated We think a very substantial number of people will not show up to work and therefore our government will get Smaller and more efficient and that's what we've been looking to do for many many Decades, frankly.
Thank you.
In addition, there was a short-term pause or funding freeze on certain discretionary spending payments, such as government grants, only for us to quickly look at the scams, dishonesty, waste, and abuse that's taken place in our government for too long.
As was explicitly stated, this in no way affected Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or other entitlements that Americans depend on.
I've made abundantly clear from the very first day that I ran from office.
That was a long time ago now.
That's 2015. If you think about it, I announced in 2015, and we won in 2016. We did very well in 2020, but we did really well just recently.
And I'm restating right now to correct any confusion that the media has purposely and somehow, for whatever reason, created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid have not been affected by any action we're taking in any way, shape, or form.
We are merely looking at parts of the big bureaucracy where there has been tremendous waste and fraud and abuse.
In that process, we identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.
$50 million.
And you know what's happened to them?
They've used them as a method of making bombs.
How about that?
We stopped an attempt to make an illicit payment for illegal alien resettlement.
We canceled $181 million in DEI training contracts.
This is just for the training.
Of people in DEI, which has been terminated and completely terminated.
And we paused $1.7 billion in unauthorized payments to foreign organizations, including stopping more than $40 million that was on its way out the door to the very corrupt World Health Organization, which has not done its job and not done it properly.
We also blocked $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma.
$45 million, that's a lot of money for diversity scholarships in Burma.
You can imagine where that money went.
These were the types of payments, and many others.
I could stand here all day and tell you things that we've found, and we have to find them quickly because we want the money to flow to proper, places.
But these were the payments and types of payments affected by the temporary freeze, and the American people strongly support these efforts.
I talked about it during the campaign, and they voted for us in record numbers.
Every single day, we're now putting America first and fighting to get the most out of every single tax dollar for our great citizens.
We've gathered this afternoon to take another historic action, however.
In a few moments, the Lakin-Riley Act will become the very first bill that I proudly sign into law as the 47th President of the United States.
Lakin was a brilliant and beautiful 22-year-old nursing student from Georgia.
The best in her class.
She was always the best.
They would say, Lakin, how do you do this?
And what do you do?
They were always asking her questions.
She was respected by everybody.
Even her teachers, they respected her so much.
From the time she was in first grade, Lakin knew she wanted to spend her time caring for others.
That's what she did.
To her friends and classmates, she was a light of warmth and kindness in every single room.
Everything in the world, they've had a miserable period of time.
Just after 9 a.m.
last February 22nd, Lakin went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia, but she just never returned.
She never came back, did she, huh?
Parents are here.
Sister.
All of her relatives.
While on her run, Lakin was attacked.
Viciously assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and murdered by an illegal alien gang member who was set loose into our country by the last administration.
We are deeply honored to be joined today by Lakin's parents, Allison and John, and her sister Lauren.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
So sad.
We were together...
Right after that happened, and it's a tremendous tribute to your daughter, what's taking place today.
That's all I can say, but so sad we have to be doing it at all.
Thank you very much for being here.
To Lakin's family, we will keep Lakin's memory alive in our hearts forever, everyone's hearts.
With today's action, her name will also live forever in the laws of our country, and this is a very important law.
Something that has brought Democrats and Republicans together.
That's not easy to do.
Lakin did it.
Lakin did it.
America will never, ever forget Lakin Hope Riley.
The vicious criminal who murdered Precious Lakin was an illegal alien member of the barbaric Venezuelan prison gang known as Trendy Aragua.
He trespassed across our southern border in 2022. And was apprehended by Border Patrol, but under the cruel policies of the last administration, instead of being deported, as he should have been, he was released into the United States, as were millions of other people, many of them very dangerous people.
And you see what we're doing?
we're getting the hell out of here.
He was soon arrested again in New York City on charges of endangering a child, but because of New York City's deadly sanctuary policies, as we have in California and many other places, which we're ending with.
We're going to end them.
He was released again to reoffend.
The Biden administration then provided this illegal alien criminal with a free taxpayer-funded flight from New York to Georgia, where he was arrested yet again.
Constantly.
This time for stealing from a Walmart along with his gang member brother who was a bad one.
Only after being released a third time by the U.S. law enforcement did this cold-blooded criminal go out on that fateful morning hunting for women on whom to pray.
That's what he did.
He hunted.
He hunted.
It was like a hunter.
We're going to show him who the hunter is.
This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen.
And as president, I'm fighting every single day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.
We don't want this to happen.
And under the law, thank you.
Under the law I'm signing today, the Department of Homeland Security will be required to detain all illegal aliens who have been arrested for daft burglary.
Larcity, shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, murder, or any crime that results in death or serious injury.
In addition, for the first time ever, this act gives state governments the ability to sue the federal government for immediate injunctive relief if any future administration ever again refuses to enforce the immigration laws of the United States like happened for four long years.
And that was happening for four long years, frightful years.
Amazing.
You'd say, how can people do this?
How can they allow this to act?
How can they allow criminals to pour into our country and then try and defend it?
And they're still trying to defend it, but they can't.
That's why I'm here instead of somebody else, actually.
It's the biggest reason.
I believe it's the single biggest reason.
Inflation was horrible.
Many things were horrible during that administration.
When you look at what took place in Afghanistan, the way they got out, not that they got out, but the way so many things were horrible.
But to me, this was the worst of all.
It's a landmark law that we're doing today.
It's going to save countless innocent American lives.
I want to thank you.
Every House Republican, every Senate Republican, as well as the 12 Senate Democrats and the 48 House Democrats who voted to pass this vitally important bill, and many of them are with us today, and I really do appreciate it.
And I very much especially appreciate the bipartisan support.
The Democrats, really a big percentage of them came through, and plenty of them wanted to.
They probably felt they couldn't, but they really wanted to.
They don't understand that would have made them a lot more popular.
It would have made them a lot better with their people.
The ones that didn't, they're going to be sorry because the people are not going to forget that they wouldn't sign.
This is a perfect, incredible tribute to an unbelievable young lady.
We're joined today by many great supporters of our new strong border policies, and they are indeed strong, including Vice President Vance.
Thank you, J.D. Secretary Scott Bessent, who just got approved, by the way.
Where's Scott?
He just got approved.
Scott, I'm very impressed.
He got a lot of Democrat votes.
He got a lot of Democrat votes.
That's great.
I don't know.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I'll have to think about that.
Secretary of Homeland Security, who's going to be fantastic.
I know her so well.
And I know it's probably not complimentary because she is a woman, but she is tough.
Where is she?
Where is Christy?
Christy?
Christy?
Right.
Stand up, please.
You have such an important job to do.
Really great.
Thank you very much.
And don't let that look fool you.
That look is...
She's tough, and she cannot stand that she's having to sit here and even listen to this today.
Another one who's done a job like...
Nobody that I've seen in a long time.
Tom Holman, he's my friend, but he is something special.
He is something special.
Great.
And Tom and Christy, the numbers are unbelievable what's happened.
It's like just shut down.
Nobody thought that was even possible.
It just shut down.
They showed an area that a year ago had thousands and thousands of people rushing into our country.
And today there was nobody there.
It was like a beautiful sight.
And also Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso.
Great guy.
Great guy.
Thank you, John.
And I also want to thank the bill's sponsors, Senator Katie Britt.
Thank you, Katie.
And Congressman Mike Collins.
And Mike, you were fantastic from Georgia.
He took this...
He loves this state, and he took this very personally, so thank you very much, Mike.
As well as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.
Chuck is here someplace.
Chuck, thank you very much.
You look great.
And House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who is a special guy, special man.
And House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mark.
And we have many other congressmen and senators, but I'm not going to introduce because this is about your daughter.
This is about something that's so important, and we're going to just go along.
Thank you also.
We have to say Burt Jones is in the room, and Burt is your lieutenant governor, and he was on this like you wouldn't believe.
Thank you very much.
I see you sitting there.
Thank you very much.
So we have state, local officials.
We have law enforcement organizations.
We have everybody.
Most of them are in the room or represented in the room, and they're incredible people.
And I've never seen them come together like they have for this.
I've done many of these, not of this kind, but different bills, different passages, having to do with many different things, from homeland security, to inner security, to taxes, to 50 different items.
I've never seen such support.
As you have today and as your great daughter has today.
So I've never seen anything like it.
And we have to thank your daughter for that because she's going to save a lot of lives.
She's going to be responsible for saving a lot of lives.
So I'd like to just say to the Angel families, I've been with them and they've been with me from 2015 when I first...
Got this crazy idea in my head to run for president because we can do better as a country.
I want to thank so many of the people that are here that have been the angel moms.
And we call them angel moms, but they're angel families, fathers and sons and daughters.
But they've suffered tremendously like you have for no reason whatsoever.
I want to thank Alexis Nungari, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungari.
Murdered last summer by two illegal alien gang members released into the United States by Joe Biden's open border, stupid policies.
And thank you very much, Alexis.
I want to thank you very much.
We had an amazing trip, and it was really special to meet you and your family.
Appreciate it very much.
So sad we have to be here, frankly.
And Jocelyn, as you know, is in our hearts, as she was then.
It was an amazing day we had, a great day.
But it was a day of celebration of somebody that unfortunately won't be with us.
But she is with us now.
You know that.
Here also is Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, killed two years ago by an illegal alien who was let into our country by the last administration's ridiculous weak policies.
Open border.
Can you imagine?
When I heard open border, I said, oh, that's terrible.
They're going to release...
There are prisons all over the world.
They're going to release their prisons into our country.
That's exactly what happened.
Patty is joined by Rachel's brother, Michael, Rachel's daughter, Clementine, and sister-in-law, Shannon.
Thank you all for being here.
We appreciate it very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
With us as well is the loving family of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old girl murdered in July 2022 by the MS-13 illegal alien gang member.
Who is violent, vicious, and they knew it, and they didn't do anything about it.
And I want to thank you to Kayla's mother, Tammy, and her grandmother, Kathy, and her stepfather, Jeremiah, very much.
And finally, I want to thank others who have also suffered this horrible scourge that goes on with young people being killed, and other people, too, but young people, largely young people being killed.
Thank you to Scott Root, the father of Sarah Root, killed at 21 years of age.
Think of that, 21, by an illegal alien.
Shouldn't have been in our country, would have never been in our country if we were here.
What a sad thing.
To each of these angel families, we love you and we stand in awe of your courage and your strength.
It's the toughest thing anybody has to go through.
Many of the angel families here today were betrayed by the last administration.
With this heartless and foolish and really very very Arrogant and and very very dumb policies Policies that aren't even believable when you talk about common sense I say with a party of common sense,
but the Democrats also they have plenty of common sense and That's why so many are here today and so many supported what we're doing the very government That was supposed to protect their daughters instead opened our borders and transported the world's most dangerous criminals straight into their communities.
They came from prisons and jails and insane asylums and mental institutions from all over the world, not just South America.
People think South America.
They come from all over the world.
They come from every continent.
And they came here by plane and they were loaded onto buses and they were driven right up to our border and they drove right through the border and nobody even said a word to them.
And in those buses and those cars and those trucks were some of the meanest criminals anywhere in the world.
As of last September, 425,000 illegal alien criminals were roaming free, including 13,099 convicted.
Illegal alien murderers, of which about almost 50% killed more than one person, and they were roaming all over the country in our farms and our cities.
Under the Trump administration, we're moving with urgency and speed to get these vicious and violent criminals the hell out of our country and to restore law and order to our suburbs, our cities, and our towns.
And we're going to do it with Tom and with Christie and with all of the people that are working so hard on this.
This week, compared to a comparable time a year ago, think of this, the number of illegal border crossers has already fallen by more than 100%.
And because the election was coming, they started getting a little bit tougher on the border.
They tried to follow our policies, and they did much better, but it still was horrible.
The numbers were still horrible.
So that's 100% over those.
They only did it because of the election, so they knew what they were doing was wrong.
And those who do cross the border, and you're seeing that every time.
All you have to do is turn on your television set or pick up a newspaper, read any form of new media, because we have a lot of new media today, fortunately, that's letting the word get out.
But they're watching these people be captured and removed from our country.
ICE arrests have risen by 15 times, 15 times in just a short period.
And over the past eight days, the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol, we can never forget Border Patrol.
Those people, I've gotten to know so many of them.
Our border czar, as you remember, never went to the border and never made a phone call.
She was the border czar.
She never made one phone call.
They went to the heads of border.
They went to the heads of ICE. Did you ever get a call?
No.
And she admitted she never made one call, but she was the border czar.
And that's exactly what our border was all about.
The heroes of ICE. Arrested thousands and thousands of illegal alien criminals, including hundreds of gang members, traffickers, child predators, terrorists, and murderers.
For the first time in history, we're loading dangerous and illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came.
You probably read about Colombia two days ago.
They said, no, we're not taking them.
I said, we're going to take them.
You're going to take them.
You're going to like it, too.
You're going to take it?
They talked about we're not going to take people that are in shackles and I said, well, but the people that are in shackles are murderers.
They're drug lords.
They're rapists.
They're very tough people.
They make our criminals look like very nice people.
That's about the only thing that comes out of this.
And I said, could you imagine you're a pilot on the plane and you have your co-pilot and you're sitting there and you have 150 people, no shackles, and they like to murder people?
This is not a good, this would not be a good flight.
So actually, so Colombia apologized to us profusely within an hour based on something I said, meaning you're going to pay tariffs like nobody's ever paid tariffs before, but they actually wanted to terminate his position.
Essentially, Congress met, and they were very angry with him.
But they actually said they were going to send the presidential plane to pick up these criminals and to bring them because they didn't want to inconvenience us or have us do a second flight.
And that's what they did.
And I appreciate it.
And I do appreciate the people of Colombia are wonderful people.
And the representatives really acted well.
And I appreciate it.
They took back that tough talk.
But, you know, we may have tough talk from others, but it's not going to mean anything.
They're going to all take them back.
And they're going to like it, too.
They're going to like it.
They're going to take it back and they're going to like it.
Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay.
Most people don't even know about it.
We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.
Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them.
Because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.
This will double our capacity immediately, right?
And tough.
That's a tough place to get out of.
Today's signings bring us one step closer to eradicating the scourge of migrant crime in our communities once and for all.
And it was just a purely, it's just an unforced error that we even have to be doing this.
Now we need Congress to provide full funding for the complete.
And total restoration of our sovereign borders, as well as financial support to remove record numbers of illegal aliens.
And these are illegal alien killers, criminals at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
And you would have known that, and you were there when I said it.
I said, everybody that's bad is going to be thrown.
If you look at Venezuela, Venezuela's crime is down 77%.
Because they've taken their gang members, their prisoners, their drug dealers, their drug lords.
They've shipped them all into the United States.
Many other countries, their crime is way down, and our crime is not doing well.
But we're going to have it do really well very soon, and we're shipping all these people back where they came from.
And now, before I sign the Lakin-Riley Act into law, I would like to ask Lakin's really incredible mother I've gotten to know.
A very sad day I got to know her.
But this is an amazing tribute to an amazing young person.
And if you could come up, Alison, and say a few words, that would be great.
Thank you very much.
Thank you. - Trot.
We would like to thank Senator Katie Britt for her diligent bipartisan work to get this bill through the Senate.
We'd also like to thank Congressman Mike Collins for his unwavering passion and for leading on the Lake and Riley Act from the start.
Our family will forever be grateful for the prayers of the people across our nation and for helping to get this legislation into law.
We also want to thank President Trump.
We're the promises he made to us.
He said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin.
And he hasn't.
He's a man of his word.
We trust that he will fight for the American people.
Most importantly, I want to thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because without his sacrifices, Lakin's story would have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us.
But because of him, we can continue living, knowing that we will see Lakin again.
There's no amount of change that will ever bring back our precious Lakin.
Our hope moving forward is that her life saves lives.
We're so thankful that her passion for helping others and her legacy for doing good in the name of Jesus Christ will carry on.
Thank you.
I don't think this is...
I respect that, but I don't think it's...
I can just tell you government is doing very well.
We're cutting away.
Thank you.
All right, Jack Posobiec back live here at Human Events Jack Posobiec back live here at Human Events Daily.
The signing of the Lakin-Riley bill.
Incredible ceremony, very tearful response, of course, from Lakin-Riley's family, her mother giving the remark on her daughter's passing, but also on the fact that this passing can be used to potentially and likely will, definitely will.
Save the lives of future young girls, and so that other families don't have to go through what this family is going through.
And hopefully, no family ever does again.
Now we know that this is the real world, and that's not how that works.
But at the same time, here you have a situation where Those families are brought in.
Brian Glenn is there in the room.
Brian, tell us what's going on.
Give us some color as to the scene.
Yeah, Jack, we all just witnessed the gravity of this whole situation, how President Trump...
Not only President Trump, I should say, the entire country has been really affected by what has happened with all of the illegal crime and things like that.
But it's proud to say that this president has stood next to his campaign promise.
To basically put this Lake O'Reilly bill into effect.
The room, as we later found out, Jack was attended by not only several Georgia congressmen, but also Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security, Vice President J.D. Vance, and others, and a few of the angel moms or angel families in attendance.
Jack, I've got to say this country is a lot better off now.
I do see Senator John Fetterman here.
He is in his classic hoodie and shorts.
Glad he could dress up for the occasion, Jack.
But this is, you know, met with bipartisan support, which is good to see on such a serious issue in this country, Jack.
Well, it was an incredibly serious issue.
Also, Brian, a huge news there from President Trump breaking essentially the story himself that he's going to be signing an executive order regarding Guantanamo Bay, 30,000-bed facility opening up.
Guantanamo is a place where I served at for...
About a year while I was there working with the detainees deployed down to Gitmo.
And look, there's plenty of space.
And in fact, for folks who don't know, this is a longstanding use of Guantanamo Bay.
It dates back to the Clinton era.
It even dates back to 1991. George H.W. Bush used to use it for the Haitians.
It's been used for Cubans in the past.
So that really just goes to show that this administration is firing on all cylinders regarding the issue of the illegal alien invasion of our country.
You're right.
And it's nice that he is going to open up that facility.
And I like the way he really explained the process in terms of what happened with the president of Columbia and the way they...
I did not want to inconvenience the president of transporting those prisoners, those detainees, back to Colombia.
Rather, they sent one of their planes to do it.
But that does show the amount of respect that the world has for President Trump in regards to this topic alone.
And I think, Jack, this would only translate into other topics.
Financially, foreign policy issues.
President Trump, we've known this, that he is the leader of the free world.
And I would say, regardless of what the policy is, Jack, if he says this is what needs to happen, that's going to happen.
And I think this is just an example of it.
But Jack, what a wonderful day here in the East Room to see this very important bill come to life.
Well, and really just an incredible sea change from a year ago when, you know, these angel mothers, and I certainly don't recall ever hearing Joe Biden ever highlight any of these.
The family of Rachel Moran there, the family of Jocelyn Ungari there, so many others, in addition, of course, to the family of Lake and Riley, for whom the act is named.
But President Trump taking these people and inviting them to be there for folks who understand how the White House works or understand how just the sheer logistics of getting all that people together.
In one room is a feat in and of itself.
And of course, President Trump working diligently to actually bring them all in.
And Brian, it's kind of amazing to think that President Trump has only actually been in office for nine days.
Isn't that amazing?
To think of what you and I have been covering for the last nine days.
And I've heard a lot of people in the briefing room just kind of hearing conversations.
That this is the most press that some of these people have seen in such a long time.
And some people that have been here at the White House for 10, 15 years said they never have seen outside of the Trump presidency as much media, as much focus on everyday press briefings, as much focus on...
Having someone like Carolyn Leavitt walked by the Pebble Beach here in front of the White House several times, stopped to take questions.
So did several other key administrative figures.
They are the most transparent, and I think that's what you and I, to your point, you feel like there's been so much because they've been communicating what they're doing versus the last administration.
That's a good shot what you're looking at right now.
That is...
That is pretty much a lot of the Georgia delegation.
It's missing a few people on here, but that's who really got behind this from day one, and Congressman Mike Collins looking at him, and Brian Jack as well.
They have been key people in all of this.
Marjorie Taylor Greene being another one has been just...
Putting the spotlight on this problem.
And as President Trump said several times, Jack, this is something that he doesn't want to have to do.
But at this point, this is what he has done to make this country safer.
Well, that's right.
We've just about got a minute left here in the show.
So, Brian, thank you so much for covering this historic event for us there at the East Room of the White House.
Folks, and okay, that's the end of that ceremony, but that's not the end of the fireworks because President Trump has so much more to do.
Also, RFK, we saw that incredible just round-robin discussion that he had, sparks flying between himself, Elizabeth Warren, a number of the other senators in there.
You can really see who's taking the Pfizer bucks.
You can really, really see it, but I think RFK is going to be confirmed.
And then tomorrow, RFK pulling a double shift.
Because he's got to go up again.
Today was the Finance Committee.
Tomorrow will be the Health Committee.
We've also got Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard.
So tomorrow morning, it goes, there are going to be all three of them basically simultaneously from 9.30 on RFK. Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Senator K. Loeffler goes later today at 3.30 p.m., just about a half hour's time, there before Senate Small Business.
So, folks, stay tuned.
There's a lot going on, and Human Events Daily is bringing you directly to the driver's seat.
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