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April 1, 2026 - Tim Pool Daily Show
01:00:26
SCOTUS Could END Birthright Citizenship, DEBATING Mayra Flores

Tate Brown and Mayra Flores debate the Supreme Court's potential 7-2 ruling to end birthright citizenship, which could enable mass deportations by closing "birth tourism" loopholes. While Solicitor General John Sauer argues the 14th Amendment must reflect modern global travel realities, Chief Justice Roberts remains skeptical of such interpretations. Flores counters that Republicans should invest in Hispanic voters rather than pursuing denaturalization, claiming Hispanics are naturally conservative, whereas Brown insists mass deportations are essential to counter demographic shifts and foreign allegiances. Ultimately, the episode highlights a fierce ideological clash over whether citizenship stems from birthright or political loyalty. [Automatically generated summary]

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mayra flores
r 17:23
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tate brown
33:20
Appearances
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d john sauer
02:40
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justice amy coney barrett
scotus 01:01
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justice samuel alito
scotus 00:54
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chief justice john roberts
scotus 00:10
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justice elena kagan
scotus 00:24
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Bleak Supreme Court Ruling 00:02:08
tate brown
It was Tate Brown here holding it down.
Apologies for running a little late.
It got away from me.
I was tuned in.
I was locked in on the arguments before the Supreme Court regarding birthright citizenship.
It's bleak.
It is very bleak.
We're not going to get any good news out of this.
Unfortunately, I think it's over.
I expect probably a 7 2 decision.
Really, really ugly.
Roberts is extremely skeptical.
He had an insane response.
We're going to get into some of the arguments so far.
Obviously, this is.
You know, before the Supreme Court, the birthright citizenship, you know, obviously the Trump administration, in addition to the entire right wing, is hopeful that we can overturn birthright citizenship.
This is just a completely antiquated law on the books that allows effectively anyone around the world to pop out a baby on our soil and they become an American citizen, as American as you and me.
That is literally what is written down in the law.
Very, very, very grim, very grim situation.
We're going to get into all of that.
We do have Myra Flores joining us at the half hour mark for the debate.
It's going to be a debate.
It's going to be a very cordial debate.
I'm not one of these blood sport guys that's going for takedowns.
It's not going to be like that.
But she has made a statement at CPAC that has sparked a debate across, again, the conservative movement regarding Hispanics, Hispanics within the coalition.
Should we be catering more to them?
What is the status?
I'd put up a post.
Saying that actually, instead of investing in the Hispanic community, we should be pursuing denaturalizations and deportations, something I unironically believe should be the case because Trump has demonstrated that running on mass deportations can actually be quite popular across multiple demographic groups.
It can actually be a way, it's a very popular policy, it's a way to expand your coalition.
So we'll bring her on, we'll have a conversation with Myra.
Again, she's scheduled to join us at the half hour mark, and we'll get that going.
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tate brown
But obviously, yeah, again, I was running a little late.
Was locked in.
I was locked in.
The ACLU's, what's her title?
The legal director, national legal director, is giving arguments before the Supreme Court as we speak.
Soda Mayor literally was making her arguments for her to the point where Cecilia Wang, the ACLU national legal director, was just going, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So it's very, very bleak to say the least, very black pilling, quite frankly, because we'll get into all that.
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The Fabric of Our Nation 00:15:09
tate brown
With that, we're going to get into the action so far out of the Supreme Court regarding the birthright citizenship case.
Again, I don't really have any good news to report, and I'm very black pilled, quite frankly.
I'm fairly demoralized because, look, let's just cut to the chase here.
Let's cut the crap.
If, again, if we fail to overturn birthright citizenship, mass deportations kind of lose their teeth.
Right?
They kind of lose their teeth.
Any talks that we've seen in the Trump administration, Trump himself has used the words remigration.
Stephen Miller and co. have used the term remigration.
Any hopes of that kind of go out the window if you don't have birthright citizenship?
Again, you're just kind of paling water out of the Titanic because we have a massive leak, a massive legal loophole, which again allows foreign nationals to come into our country, even if they're literally a tourist, which is an industry in and of itself, birth tourism, pop out a kid, and that kid is now a citizen.
And now that child's family have a degree of entitlement to domicile in the United States.
It's a really ridiculous law, very adequate.
Again, it comes from the 14th Amendment, from the 1800s, where we're debating these freed slaves what is going to be the status of these freed slaves?
And they're saying, well, they're legally residing in the U.S., they were born here, therefore they should be citizens.
Very sensible, makes a lot of sense, made a lot of sense at the time, and that was the law of the land.
That Chinese would be participating in birth tourism?
Could they have anticipated massive migrant caravans crossing our southern border and squatting in the United States?
No.
Could they have anticipated people, quite literally, at eight months pregnant, visiting New York City and having a child?
People from Ghana visiting New York City, having a child, and then leaving immediately.
And then that child has a U.S. citizenship.
And then that child returns when they're like 17 or 18 years old with zero ties to the United States, but they have paperwork that says, I'm an American.
Not just that, I'm as American as you and me.
No, they could not have anticipated any of those things.
And that is what Tom Sawyer, not Tom Sawyer, friend of the show, John Sauer, that was the argument he was making.
The only receptive voice on the court so far is Alito.
Alito's fantastic.
We love Alito.
The blackpillar thing, again, is, you know, Clarence Thomas has not said much, which is if you know anything about the Supreme Court, that's kind of his MO.
He's not a very vocal, you know, not a very vocal during oral arguments.
That's always been the case.
But Alito, you know, is active.
Alito's making some great points.
Outside of that, it is very bleak.
Roberts, not just skeptical, outright, like basically debating John Sauer.
Very, very, very grim.
Any Comey Barrett, who was kind of the last hope, you know, everyone is following this live on Twitter.
And John Roberts, very skeptical.
They're saying, okay, it could be 5'4.
We could still win over Amy Comey Barrett.
Now, Amy Comey Barrett, I think, was less likely than John Roberts.
If you know anything about Amy Coney Barrett's personal background, she's adopted two children from Haiti.
I mean, does that sound like someone that, uh, I'm not trying to be rude or mean here, but does that sound like someone that has a hardline stance on American citizenship and who ought to be in the country and who ought not to be?
I don't think so.
And then we saw later in the oral arguments that she also sounds quite a bit skeptical.
Gorsuch will have to see.
Who knows?
Again, either way, we lose.
That's four to five to the liberals.
Very, very grim stuff.
I'm going to play you some of the highlights thus far, or lowlights, depending on who you ask.
This is the first one.
This was Eric Daughtry is doing a good job clipping from Fox News and CNN.
This is obviously the same feed that every news channel has coming live from the Supreme Court from the oral arguments.
Donald Trump is present, which, you know, I saw Batya Unger Sargon make this point that it's really unprecedented for the president to, you know, show up to the Supreme Court.
It's never happened before.
And that probably creates kind of an ugly precedent if this doesn't go our way.
Again, if we don't win in the end.
There's something to be said about that.
She was getting attacked for that, but that's actually a W point.
That's neither here nor there.
Look, let's play this clip.
This is really some shocking stuff.
Listen to what John is saying here.
He's saying China has 500 birth tourism companies to bring people here to give birth and return to our nation.
And then Robert says this has no impact on legal analysis.
It's a new world.
It's the same constitution.
You know, again, John Sauer is basically saying we live in a new world, right?
These laws.
Fail to apply, you know, concisely to the situation that we're in.
That's the point of the Supreme Court.
That's the point of the Supreme Court.
So take a look at this clip.
This is really grim.
d john sauer
Based on Chinese media reports, there are 500, 500 birth tourism companies in the People's Republic of China whose business is to bring people here to give birth and return to that nation.
chief justice john roberts
Having said all that, you do agree that that has no impact on the legal analysis before us?
d john sauer
I think it's, I quote what Justice Scalia said in his Hamdan dissent, where they have, where like their interpretation has these implications that could not possibly have been approved by the 19th century framers of this amendment.
I think that shows that they've made a mess, their interpretation has made a mess of the provision.
chief justice john roberts
Well, it certainly wasn't a problem in the 19th century.
d john sauer
No, but of course, we're in a new world now, as Justice Alito pointed out, where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a child who's a U.S. citizen.
chief justice john roberts
Well, it's a new world.
It's the same constitution.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
It is.
d john sauer
As Justice Scalia said, I think in the case that Justice Alito was referring to, you've got a constitutional provision that addresses certain evils and it should be extended to reasonably comparable evils.
He said that about statutory interpretation.
I think the same principle applies here, and I think we quote that in our brief.
unidentified
Thank you.
tate brown
So, okay, it's a new world, but it's the same constitution.
Now, the Reddit woffin's eating this up.
The Redditors are all over this.
Tim, my boss, made an excellent point here.
He says, The debate on birthright citizenship is hilarious.
Justices be like, Yes, this will destroy the fabric of our nation, but it was written down, so.
Whatever.
Unbelievable.
I mean, you could make the point that, like, look, this is what a lot of my friends that are very conservative and are legal minds are saying.
Look, it's the justice's job to interpret the law as it is written.
So you could go back and say, well, it's the authors that mess this up.
It's the authors that mess this up.
And that's true, but this is just the issue.
This is the issue with the whole debate whatsoever.
And we have this debate over and over again in all constitutional matters how can a framer.
In the 1800s, possibly predict this environment that we're in, possibly predict this world that we're in.
This is why I am holding out hope.
The one thing I'm holding out hope on that, you know, potentially we could get out of this mess is there is a situation, an instance in which the Supreme Court decides to kick this to Congress.
Now, here's the thing that's blackpilling do we expect Congress to, you know, strike here?
Do we expect Congress to, you know, actually correct this, this, you know, legal disaster?
Probably not.
I mean, we can't even get the Save Act passed.
You think if we can't even get like nationwide ID for voting passed, there's not a chance in Haiti that we're getting birthright citizenship.
Banned, effectively overturned through Congress.
Just, I mean, this is, it's just, it's bleak, folks.
It's bleak.
To Alito's credit, I mean, Alito's holding the line here.
Dautry's copy here, he says, Look, Justice Samuel Alito says perfectly on birthright citizenship.
He suggests that just because legal aliens were not a problem at the time the 14th Amendment was adopted does not mean they shouldn't be addressed today.
Take a look at this clip.
Shouldn't be addressed.
justice samuel alito
They had in mind when they adopted the general rule, or do we?
Say they adopted a general rule, they meant for that to apply to later applications that might come up.
Justice Scalia had an example that dealt with this situation.
He imagined an old theft statute that was enacted well before anybody conceived of a microwave oven, and then afterwards, someone is charged with the crime of stealing a microwave oven, and this fellow says, Well, I can't be convicted under this because the microwave oven didn't exist at that time.
And he dismissed that.
There's a general rule there, and you apply it to future applications.
And what we're dealing with here is something that was basically unknown at the time when the 14th Amendment was adopted, which is illegal immigration.
So, how do we deal with that situation when we have a general rule?
d john sauer
Yeah, I strongly agree with the way that you framed it that there is a general principle that's a broad principle that's adopted in the phrase, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.
And we submit that our theory of allegiance and domicile based allegiance is what explains those specific exceptions that everybody was aware of, but it is broad enough to sweep in.
Future situations, and as you pointed out, illegal immigration did not exist then.
Now, the problem of temporary visitors did exist, and it's very interesting that as you look at pages 26 and 28 of our brief, commentators going from you know 1881 until 1922 are uniformly saying the children of temporary visitors are not included.
Now, that logic we say it's naturally extends, it's really an a for sure case.
If you have someone who enters illegally by the 1880s, there are restrictions on immigration.
If you've entered illegally, it's kind of you know a well established principle of law going back to the code of Justinian that says you're not allowed to be there.
You cannot, you don't have the legal capacity to create domicile there.
justice elena kagan
But I think, General Sauer, that what you just said suggests that you can't be arguing in the way Justice Alito suggests, because most of your brief is not about illegal aliens.
Most of your brief is about people who are just temporarily in the country, where there was quite clearly an experience of and understanding of that they were going to be temporary inhabitants.
tate brown
So, okay, so what John, what the Solicitor General, obviously he's kind of parodying what Alito's saying here, which is absolutely correct.
Alito's saying, like, okay.
You know, again, these statutes need to be reflected with the context of the situation we're in now.
What John has been making so far is that, again, in the original 14th Amendment, there were exceptions for like American Indians, there were exceptions for ambassadors and their children and whatnot.
Like people that, again, were not legal, that were not under the legal jurisdiction of the United States, therefore, you know, the birthright citizenship wouldn't apply to them in this instance.
And what John is saying, this sort of Precedent allows us to expand the definition of who wouldn't be under the legal jurisdiction of the United States, which There's some obvious ones.
I mean, like, look, if you're from Iran and you're born to an Iranian national, you are also an Iranian national.
Therefore, you have allegiance to Iran because Iran has, like, you know, service requirements.
Same thing with, you know, citizens from, you know, China or Russia or anywhere like this.
And then obviously that can be expanded then to illegal immigrants because it's like they're not even legally domiciled here.
So how could they possibly be subject to the legal jurisdiction of the United States in its totality if they're not even legally domiciled?
If you're not legally domiciled, how can you be extended?
The sort of principles that come in tandem with being legally domiciled here.
Makes a lot of sense to us.
It does not make a lot of sense to these Supreme Court justices.
Here's Amy Coney Barrett.
This is the last couple of plays, and then we'll keep moving along here.
Again, Coney Barrett, obviously not as keen, not as receptive to the Solicitor General's arguments either.
Take a look at this clip.
justice amy coney barrett
Okay, and let's talk about its applications.
So, you know, there are some, I can imagine it being messy on some applications.
What would you do with what the common law called foundlings?
The thing about this is, then you have to adjudicate.
If you're looking at parents and if you're looking at parents' domicile, then you have to adjudicate both residence and intent to stay.
What if you don't know who the parents are?
d john sauer
I think there are marginal cases.
That one, I think, has the benefit of being addressed in 1401F, where it talks about.
justice amy coney barrett
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But what about the Constitution?
d john sauer
Under the Constitution, it's.
I mean, look, domicile is a constitutional standard in all kinds of other situations.
justice amy coney barrett
Well, and it's hard.
d john sauer
Diversity jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction.
justice amy coney barrett
Well, yeah, and personal jurisdiction, I mean, 1332, diversity jurisdiction.
And the thing is, it has to be litigated because it turns on intent.
And both the virtue of both use solely and use sanguinis, whichever one you pick, it's a bright line rule.
How would it work?
How would you adjudicate these cases?
You're not going to know at the time of birth for some people whether they have the intent to stay or not, including U.S. citizens, by the way.
I mean, what if you have someone who is living in Norway with their husband and family but is still a U.S. citizen, comes home and has her child here and goes back?
How do we know whether the child is a U.S. citizen because the parent didn't have an intent to stay?
d john sauer
I'd make two points one practical, one legal.
The practical point is under the terms of this executive order, you don't have to because the executive order turns on objectively verifiable things, which is immigration status.
Are you lawfully present but temporarily present, or do you have an illegal status?
So, those kind of like taking evidence, so to speak, on your subjective intent wouldn't be done.
And as to the constitutional point, obviously domicile is baked into a lot of constitutional and legal concepts, and there may be situations where facts are determined, but if you look at the guidance, The guidance that all the agencies did after this court and Costa said the agency could go forward and issue guidance.
The guidance provides, I think, very, very clear, objective, verifiable approaches to doing this.
And so, as a practical matter, I don't think it's presented by this executive order.
justice amy coney barrett
Thank you, General.
tate brown
So it's over.
unidentified
Justice Jackson?
tate brown
It's over.
It's over.
Stephen Miller weighing in here, kind of trying to attempt a buzzer beater here.
Really just rallying the troops, if anything.
Birthright citizenship means the children of legal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.
Again, to Tim's point, The debate on birthright citizenship is effectively yes, this will destroy the fabric of our nation, but it was written down, so whatever.
I mean, look, again, you can point back.
Again, this is what a lot of my friends are saying is like their job as Supreme Court justices is to interpret the law as it was written, doesn't leave a lot of room for nuance.
So we're just, it's just a mess.
It really is just bleak.
Again, I'm going to go through some of the ways in which birthright citizenship is just completely like robbing our nation.
I mean, take a look at this, this stat right here.
It's really just unbelievable.
This is really unbelievable.
This is, again, this would fall within the purview of Congress to really step up to the plate on this.
Mass Deportations for Republicans 00:07:59
tate brown
Will they?
unidentified
No.
tate brown
Again, this is just data from CIS, and CIS just uses Census Bureau data.
So, you know, people cite CIS, but CIS is using Census Bureau data.
Sometimes they throw in some Pew Research data.
Again, gold bear, you know, gold star, standard bearers of data, of demographic data.
This is from the White Papers Policy Institute.
A common sense piece of legislation, he's referring to, or they're referring to, this Missouri bill that would require citizenship proof for food stamps and health care.
Again, common sense.
According to the CIS, again, using Census Bureau data.
Some 46% of non citizens use traditional welfare benefits compared to 27% of those who are American born.
Completely eviscerates any argument for immigration writ large, that data point right there.
This includes 61% of illegal aliens and 51% of legal immigrants.
No more welfare benefits for foreigners.
Again, there's not many indications that the children of illegal aliens perform that much better than their parents, even with all the legal documentation that is granted to them through birthright citizenship.
You're effectively just battery farming foreigners in your country to strip away your inheritance.
And they're doing this, again, through welfare nets, welfare systems that were set up at the time for American citizens.
And even then, that's still up for debate whether even American citizens should be entitled to effectively having their lives bankrolled by the taxpayer.
It's so bleak.
It's so bleak.
So 27%.
So that's 73% of the country is subsidizing their replacement.
73% of the country is subsidizing their replacement.
With 51% of legal immigrants, the majority of immigrants, legal or illegal, taking welfare benefits.
I mean, there's data points like this.
The Mexican origin population of the United States is roughly 40 million people.
28.5, or about 11.4 million, were born in Mexico.
Another 12 to 13.6 million are the children of immigrants.
Americans never voted to host a quarter of all Mexicans within their border.
Again, a quarter of the entire Mexican diaspora is currently residing in the United States.
Correction, a quarter of all Mexicans on earth, including Mexicans in Mexico, are currently residing in Mexico.
The United States of America.
I mean, the reason this comes up is obviously this is the clip.
This is what we're going to discuss with Myra.
This was her statement at CPAC.
Take a look at this clip.
mayra flores
This is not my opinion.
This is a fact.
If you look at the census, if you look at the birth rate, we have to.
There is no future for the Republican Party if we do not invest in the Hispanic community.
And what I need Washington to do is to stop dictating what we do, compliment our work.
tate brown
So, okay, so she's basically, you know, I'm being as objective and fair as possible.
She is saying that the Republican Party needs to cater to Hispanic voters to keep them within the coalition.
Cater.
And I already went through, I mean, again, there's just not really a good argument for why this wave of Hispanic migrants should have been permitted to enter the country in the first place.
I mean, take a look at this stat right here.
Her own state, Texas.
State of Texas.
This is where she was a congresswoman hailing from.
In 1980, only 6% of Texas was foreign born.
68% of the population was born in state, including 64% of whites, 80% of blacks, and 74% of Hispanics.
Now, 20% is foreign born, 13% are the children of immigrants, and 56% of the population is Texas born.
Just 59% of whites, 61% of blacks, and 60% of Hispanics were born in state, a 5.19 point and 14 point decline, respectively.
White Texans went from 70% of the population, a share that they held for 120 plus years, to about 38% today.
You can't maintain a culture if you replace the population.
Only remigration solves the issue.
Again, it's just unbelievable.
It really is just unbelievable.
What's going on in this country?
There has been a replacement that has taken place.
There's really no ifs, ands, or buts.
That is just statistically a replacement.
And not only that, it's a replacement that Americans never signed off to.
It was never up for vote.
It was never up for vote for Texans specifically to, again, change the demographic composition of their state, to change the way that their state is composed.
That was never up for debate.
That was never up for vote.
I mean, I'll find it here in the stack.
Patrick Casey made a great point here.
He says, Look, responding to Myra Flores, who was responding to a lot of people who were critical of her statement, and she said, Trump proved in 2024 that you can gain Hispanic voters while running on mass deportations.
You do not need to invest in the Hispanic community, whatever that means.
Also, Myra Flores appears giddy at the prospect of phasing out white women.
Not sure what that means.
Yeah, I don't really know what that means either.
I mean, that's what I'm going to ask her about.
And, you know, she was responding to a post.
It was a pretty, like, post antagonizing her.
But, She responds, she's like, Look, I helped President Trump with swing states, et cetera.
I put together a Hispanic roundtable.
But Patrick Casey is just upset.
I mean, rightfully so.
He's saying, Well, okay, put that aside.
Like, thank you.
Thanks for helping, you know, win an election.
You know, seriously, like, thank you for doing your part here.
The phasing out, that's kind of what we have an issue with.
Because, again, I can go back to this data point here.
Oh, not Tim's.
This point here, again, 6% of Texas was born in 1980.
Now it's 20%.
Again, you know, in 1980, 64% of the state was white.
Or, sorry, correction.
Um, whereas 70% of the population was white to about 38% today, the majority of the displacement has occurred from uh Hispanic migration.
Again, wasn't up for debate.
So, this was my point.
I mean, my point is look, if you want the Republican Party to succeed long term, mass deportations need to be pursued and mass denaturalizations.
Again, a lot of people have come to the country.
I mean, look at this data point right here there are more than 2 million Guatemalans in the United States, 1.3 million or 65% are foreign born.
Another 740,000 are their children.
That means that 99% of the Guatemalan population of the US are first or second gen immigrants.
Again, America never asked to host 10% of all living Guatemalans.
Again, an insane, insane data point.
10% of all Guatemalans currently alive reside in the United States.
Unbelievable, unbelievable.
99% of the Guatemalans.
So these are all people that have showed up again like yesterday.
Wasn't up for debate.
Was not up for debate.
So that's why I go back to my point again.
I think in her head, and I'm going to steal, man, and I'm going to ask her about this.
She's probably thinking about like Tejanos, people that have a long legacy residing in the state of Texas.
But that's not really what we're talking about when we're thinking about Hispanic migration, Hispanic migration that's occurred over the last 40, 50 years.
Again, we're thinking about illegal immigrants that have come to the country and their children are born and now their children have citizenship.
That's the type of people that, to guarantee long term success of the Republican Party, you would look to denaturalize and then deport.
Same thing with Guatemalans.
You have to start looking.
You got to make some tough calls.
You got to make some tough calls.
The state of the country, we're not in a good state.
So, with that, let's bring in Myra.
We're going to have a conversation with her and see what she has to say on all of this and so much more.
Let's see.
Do I have the virtual camera going?
Bada bing, bada boom.
Hey, Myra, can you hear me?
mayra flores
I can hear you perfectly.
unidentified
Awesome.
tate brown
Well, I want to say thank you so much for joining us today.
Defining True Patriotism 00:17:23
tate brown
Obviously, before we get into everything, could you just give the people who maybe aren't familiar with you a quick intro of who you are and what you do?
mayra flores
Well, I was born in Mexico.
I was born in Burgos, Amalipas, Mexico.
Blessed to come to this amazing, beautiful country.
When I was a little girl, my dad being an American, I was given citizenship.
As in, when I was a little girl, my dad lived the right way, brought us to this amazing country.
When I was six years old, parents, migrant workers, moved a lot growing up.
Graduated from San Benito High School, San Benito, Texas.
And I became a respiratory care practitioner.
And it wasn't until 2016 that I got interested in politics.
I saw the need here in South Texas and how the Hispanic community didn't have all the information and didn't really understand what they were voting for, and the values that we were raised with were not aligning with the Democrat Party.
And so that is what motivated me to get involved in politics and educate the Hispanic community on the political.
Platforms and convince them to vote Republican.
And that's how I got involved in politics.
And in 2022, we made history.
I decided to run for Congress, made it to Congress, and got an opportunity to serve one term.
Unfortunately, I was not able to win my reelection due to redistricting.
And here I am, but very proud of the work that we did in 2024.
We lost a district that Hillary Clinton had won by 36 points.
36 points, and Biden won it by almost 20 points.
We lost it by only two points.
And that's a testament to the work that we did in convincing Hispanics to vote Republican.
And the work continues, and I'm still involved.
Why?
Because I want to make sure that we win this Senate seat in November and that we keep Texas red.
tate brown
Absolutely.
Well, I really appreciate you coming on.
Obviously, we're having you on in the context of your statement at CPAC.
I think before we get into everything, the one thing that we can probably both agree on the common ground is that Twitter is a bit of a cesspool.
It's a.
mayra flores
They need to go hug a tree and touch some grass.
tate brown
Yeah, I totally think we have some common ground there.
It is a den of jackals.
There's no question about it.
That's why I wanted to bring you on so we could kind of cut through because we had a quick exchange on Twitter.
A lot of people in the sphere, obviously, you're having kind of go back and forth with them.
It's difficult to really, because sometimes I think we end up talking past each other.
I think that's a common issue that occurs.
unidentified
It does.
tate brown
So that's why I wanted to bring you on because I did want to push back on that statement because.
And kind of to my initial point, that's what I quote tweeted, you know, your clip where you're saying, and I don't want to misquote you here.
mayra flores
No, no, no, no.
tate brown
As you're saying, look, for the future of the Republican Party, in order to guarantee future electoral success, we need to invest in the Hispanic community.
And my contention, my issue with that was I was saying, look, my concern with that, I should say, is that when I hear this kind of rhetoric coming from politicians within the Republican Party, from officials or elected officials, for me, that sounds like we're sort of Of trying to water down aspects of the agenda in order to appeal to other groups that are not considered part of the core sort of Republican base.
And my main contention would be President Trump himself ran on the most staunch deportation platform of our lifetimes.
You know, he was saying, like, you know, at the RNC, they're holding up signs saying mass deportations, and he performed better than any candidate before with, you know, Hispanic voters.
mayra flores
Absolutely, because we made sure of that.
I actually traveled with President Trump in swing states.
I put together Hispanic roundtables for President Trump.
And I told President Trump, we're going to give you the biggest Hispanic support.
President Trump was investing in the Hispanic community.
I mean, he had a Latinos for Trump coalition in his campaign.
So that's investing.
See, there's a difference.
Hispanics voted for President Trump.
That doesn't mean that they're going to vote Republican.
tate brown
Right.
mayra flores
And President Trump is not in the ballot in November.
That's my concern.
President Trump got the job done.
Now, I'm watching Univision, I'm watching Telemundo, and I'm watching all this propaganda.
And I see absolutely nobody from the GOP pushing back the lies and the misinformation on these networks.
And these people are going to go vote in November.
Believing all the crap that they're putting on these networks.
So, my concern is like, where is our representation, right, from the administration pushing back on these lies and this propaganda?
Because the fact is, they're going to vote in November.
unidentified
Right.
mayra flores
And so, I want them to know all the amazing things President Trump is doing and not lying to the Hispanic community, because that's what they're doing.
The Democrats are.
Just spreading a lot of misinformation.
And I'm like, wait a minute.
I didn't put in all this work in 22 and 24 and help President Trump putting together Hispanic roundtables, spoke at his rallies for all this to be wiped out because the GOP doesn't have the right message.
My concern is President Trump is not in the ballot.
And just because they supported President Trump doesn't mean that they're going to vote Republican.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
So this could be, I think this could be the instance in which maybe people are talking past each other.
What you're addressing is you're saying, look, in the short term, like coming up to the midterms, you know, you do need to make pitches to the Hispanic community to turn them out to vote.
I think what a lot of people, sort of, in the sphere, their contention is the existence of channels like Telemundo and Univision in the first place indicate that there's a massive issue.
That it indicates that the fact that we do have ethnic voting blocs by and large in the United States is a concern.
And that's a concern that a lot of Americans have that's driven a lot, quite frankly, a lot of sort of the MAGA movement.
Is they're saying America increasingly.
Is becoming unrecognizable.
And people, for what it's worth, just say the closer the country resembles Mexico, the less I like that.
I want America to resemble the United States.
And I think that's a perfectly fair example.
mayra flores
I resemble the United States.
Hispanics are Americans.
tate brown
Hispanics are.
unidentified
We are.
mayra flores
We're Americans.
tate brown
Yeah, a lot of Hispanics.
mayra flores
My great great grandfather founded a city here in Texas.
My grandfather was born here in South Texas.
Fell in love with the women in Mexico.
So we're Americans.
We're proud Americans.
See, I'm pushing back white liberals, white liberals that were born and raised in this country and that hate this country.
See, our values align with the founding fathers of this amazing country of putting God first, our family, patriotism.
We love this country.
We work hard for this country.
We're Americans.
There's no reason for us to compete.
We should be compete with each other.
We should be complimenting each other.
This is what America is.
The white liberals or all these liberals, they are not a representation of this country.
Because how can you be born and raised here and hate your own?
That's another thing and hate your own race.
You should be proud.
No matter what, you should be proud.
You should be proud of being white.
You should be proud of being Hispanic.
You should be proud.
You should be proud of being an American.
Because that's what makes this amazing country great.
So, my point here, when I look at the census, when I look at the birth rates in Texas, I'm concerned that if we do not get a message to the Hispanic community about all the amazing things.
President Trump is doing and this administration, I want them to know so we can keep their support in November.
You know, that's my message here I want Texas to stay red.
I want to win the majority and that we shouldn't be competing here with each other because at the end of the day, we're all Americans.
tate brown
I guess my pushback would be I think white liberals would be closer to your sort of analysis of what is an American.
Than I guess, like white conservatives or conservatives broadly.
Because I mean, I did see a lot of Hispanics, Hispanic Americans, you know, Americans of a Hispanic background sort of pushing back on you as well.
unidentified
Yeah.
mayra flores
And so I was like, actually, President Trump won the Hispanic men vote.
The majority of the Hispanic men voted for President Trump.
If President Trump wouldn't have won that vote massively, who knows what would have happened?
God forbid, I can't imagine.
tate brown
I know, I totally.
mayra flores
And that's why I've worked so hard.
Alongside the president and putting these Hispanic roundtables and getting his message across because I didn't not want a Kamala Harris.
And I don't want a Democrat at the Senate level here in Texas and lose the majority.
tate brown
I totally agree.
And I mean, I think the Trump administration, the Trump campaign rather, ran a terrific campaign.
It really did build a broad coalition.
You saw a lot of people that probably wouldn't have voted for President Trump jump in and vote for President Trump.
It wasn't just like Hispanic men, like they're typically not part of the coalition.
You saw libertarians, even like disaffected liberals.
I guess my point is, and this is what you responded to, is my quote on your clip was I think what would be viable long term for the Republican Party is pursuing denaturalization and deportations.
I mean, that seems to be kind of viable because, again, the fact that Texas is becoming increasingly.
mayra flores
I mean, people who are illegally here should be deported.
tate brown
Well, I mean.
mayra flores
I'm talking about Americans, I'm talking about Hispanic Americans.
There's a difference between illegal immigrants and Hispanics.
unidentified
Well, yeah, I agree.
mayra flores
If you're illegally in the country, I don't care where you're from.
You shouldn't be here.
We support deportations.
tate brown
I agree, but that's a very broad.
Because again, like we, I have to go back to earlier in 2025, we saw in Los Angeles, you know, there was the pushback on the ice raids.
And you saw a lot of Mexican Americans turn out in the streets, but they're flying Mexican flags or Hispanic Americans broadly, flying Guatemalan flags, flying Honduran flags.
To me, what the problem I see is that even with people that are born in the United States, there's nothing magical about the citizenship.
The citizenship just becomes paperwork at that point.
There has to be something deeper to what an American is beyond.
Just paperwork because what I'm seeing and what a lot of people are seeing, and this is why they're frustrated, is again, a lot of people are arriving at the country and they're not actually leaving those allegiances.
mayra flores
Nobody should be doing the same thing.
I agree with you.
Nobody should be waving the Mexican flag in the United States, just like, you know, I don't know if you know this, but in Mexico, it's illegal to wave a foreign flag in a protest.
unidentified
Yeah.
tate brown
I mean, I think that's a law we should be like.
unidentified
Yeah.
mayra flores
And yet they're here waving the Mexican flag.
tate brown
Would you not?
mayra flores
I mean, it's a huge disrespect.
But see, just like these people are disrespecting our country by doing that, so are white liberals that have been here way before.
See, a lot of white people, especially here in Texas, are going left.
unidentified
Yeah.
mayra flores
If it wasn't because of the Hispanic community moving towards the right in Texas, Texas would be blue right now.
We're looking at areas around Dallas, you know.
Austin going completely blue.
So we're seeing white people going left and we're seeing Hispanics moving towards the right.
I don't understand that.
So explain to me why do you think white people?
Are voting Democrat.
Why do you think they're moving towards the left?
Why do you think that?
Especially because they've been born here, raised here for generations.
Why do you think that?
tate brown
Well, we're still not seeing.
I mean, we're seeing some trends that indicate that in certain places, yes, the Hispanic community is moving to the right, the white community is moving to the left, but white voters still, by and large, are voting, like a majority, and in some cases overwhelmingly, for the Republican Party and no other ethnic group.
unidentified
So we're seeing shifts.
mayra flores
I don't know if you, yeah, I agree with you, but we're still seeing every cycle they're moving more towards the left.
Here in Texas, I can only speak here for Texas, right?
So, I don't know what's happening in other states.
I can only speak here for Texas.
So, we've seen that.
And I don't understand how these people are generational, right?
And so, I guess they take it for granted.
They don't understand how good they have it in this amazing country.
tate brown
But your contention, and this is what you said in response to my tweet, was I want to swap or replace, I think you used the word replace, white liberal women specifically with conservative Latinas.
First of all, we hear replacement.
That was my pushback.
I was like, I think we've had enough with replacement for a while.
I was reading off data beforehand.
mayra flores
We're talking about political.
We're talking about political.
tate brown
I know, Myra, just real quick.
mayra flores
Latinas are Americans.
We're very proud of them.
tate brown
But what I'm saying is, but you're saying replace, and that's what we have been seeing.
And I guess my contention would be if a white.
unidentified
Hang on.
tate brown
Myra, hang on.
mayra flores
I will say it again.
tate brown
Hang on, Myra, just real quick.
Let me finish my point real quick, Myra.
Just real quick.
I'm sorry, but just let me finish my point real quick.
So if a white liberal failing to show allegiance to the United States is grounds, For rejection, then that would put a lot of Hispanic Americans up for denaturalization and deportation, considering we are seeing, you really don't have to go far.
I mean, I went to high school in San Antonio.
The south side of San Antonio doesn't feel like the United States.
You see Mexican flags everywhere, you see Honduran flags everywhere, you see Panamanian flags everywhere.
These people do need to have their citizenship reevaluated because, again, citizenship isn't what it used to be.
Citizenship has become paperwork that allows people to domicile in the United States.
mayra flores
But how can citizenship be evaluated?
tate brown
Well, I mean, this is the contention you're.
mayra flores
I'm the only people that look like me.
tate brown
Well, people, again, that have arrived in the country yesterday, yes, their citizenship should be up for evaluation because, again, we saw under the Biden administration, under the Obama administration, they played it very fast and loose.
Even the Bush administration, we saw mass amnesty.
mayra flores
We don't have to be white and with blue eyes and blonde to be American.
tate brown
That's a straw man, Meyer.
That's not what I said whatsoever.
mayra flores
We're proud to be American.
tate brown
That's a straw man.
That's a total straw man, Meyer.
What I'm saying is there is a distinction between, again, white liberals who we disagree with, but Again, they've been in the country for hundreds of years.
mayra flores
And we want to remove them.
We don't want them to have the power.
We want conservatives to have the power.
We want people who believe in God, who believe in strong family values, who love this country to lead this country.
tate brown
Myra, people that believe in God and have strong family values.
Okay, but Myra, people that believe in God and have strong family values, that defines like half of the world.
That's pretty much the entirety of the third world.
mayra flores
They're extremely religious.
So you don't want to.
That love this country, that love God.
unidentified
A lot of people love the United States.
Family.
tate brown
There's, there's, but what I'm contending is there's, but there's more to being a citizen.
mayra flores
You want to grow the Republican Party with those people.
Don't you want that?
tate brown
Well, Myra, let's take a step back then.
I'll just ask you, and this isn't like a gotcha.
I don't, I don't like the blood sport evading stuff.
I think it's really bad.
This isn't a gotcha.
mayra flores
I'm just trying to understand because I want to grow the Republican Party.
I want us to win big in November.
I want to keep.
Texas red, and I want to grow the Republican Party.
Doesn't matter what we look like, Americans come in different with different ethnicities and different.
Color, you know?
Well, I mean, we're proud to be Americans.
You don't want, do you not want people that look like me in America?
tate brown
No.
Again, this is like your strong.
I've never once proposed like an ethnostate.
That's not what I'm arguing for whatsoever.
What I'm saying is I'm trying to, I guess I should drill down and ask you this question.
Again, it's not a gotcha.
To you, what is an American?
mayra flores
What is an American?
Somebody who loves and respects this country, who respects its constitution.
You know, our founding fathers, what this country was built on.
You know, to me, being an American is having strong faith in God, loving family.
And again, loving and respecting this country, being proud to be, you know, patriots and that to say, I'm a proud American.
Like, we need to bring that patriotism.
And it starts at an early age, right?
So, if we want others to respect our country, we got to instill those values in our children.
So, that when people move to this country, they see how proud we are and that we wave the American flag of people with all backgrounds.
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mayra flores
To me, that's America.
tate brown
So, okay, but this is a propositional nation, then.
This is saying that your Americanness is defined by your ideology.
So, that's why I go back to the point where you're proposing that, again, Americanness is predicated on your ideology.
Therefore, what do we do with people that don't have that American ideology?
mayra flores
Oh, We have to respect people that don't agree with us.
But that's why.
tate brown
But then they're not American.
So then why should they reside in the country?
If they don't share American values, then they're not American.
So we would have the grounds to deport them.
mayra flores
But you're mixing things.
I'm talking, all this to me is political, right?
To grow the Republican Party.
Just because I don't agree with someone, hey, they're Americans.
They have the right to be just because I don't agree with them.
But I want more people with our.
Conservative ideology in our party to grow so we have a stronger voice.
I want us conservatives, right?
Those that love this country to have a bigger voice than those who are still here but don't love our country.
They were born here, raised here, but they're Americans.
Do I agree with them?
unidentified
No.
mayra flores
But I want people like ourselves, like you and I, that love this country, that believe in God, that believe in family, that believe in hard work, that respect the Constitution and what this country was built on.
I want our voices to be louder.
I want people like you and I to lead.
tate brown
I guess what I'm contending is I think there has to be more to being an American.
Like, an American is a nationality, right?
It is a nationality.
I mean, JD Vance, the great vice president, JD Vance, said this at NatCon in 2024.
He said, American isn't just like a proposition like you're proposing.
It's a linked heritage.
It's a linked history, like a common.
We arrived here.
We have shared history.
mayra flores
My great, great, great, great grandfather landed here in Victoria, Texas.
In the 1700s and built Victoria, Texas in the 1700s.
tate brown
I agree with that.
mayra flores
His statue is there.
Martin de Leon, his statue is there.
That's my great, great, great grandfather in the 1700s.
tate brown
But that would make you an exception to the norm.
I mean, I was reading off a data point beforehand where, I mean, we see it with like Guatemalans, for example.
Wait, wait, just real quick.
Myra, just real quick.
Just, I mean, a good example is Guatemalans.
99% of Guatemalans currently reside in the United States are first or second generation immigrants.
I mean, so we're talking about a lot of people that don't actually have.
That much stake in the United States.
And then what you're saying is, I have to view them as just as American as me.
And quite frankly, that's just something that a lot of Americans.
Are really struggling to get the grass.
unidentified
You don't have to.
tate brown
I don't.
mayra flores
You don't have to.
But if they're American citizens, they're American citizens.
tate brown
But what's magical about the citizenship?
mayra flores
And so I'm wanting to make sure that if they're American citizens, that if they're American citizens, that they're voting Republican and that they understand what our country was built on.
And so those values continue living in our country.
Because they're going to vote in November whether you like it or not.
You can complain all you want, but they're going to vote in November.
unidentified
Right.
tate brown
But these people, again, a good majority of these people, I mean, we can go back to there's various data points indicating that they don't actually have that same level of love that you're talking about, that same level of attachment, of loyalty to the United States as they do to their home country.
I mean, you see remittances.
Like, remittances is a great example.
unidentified
I agree.
mayra flores
There's a lot of people who move here and their heart is still like where they're from, right?
tate brown
And we should be able to denaturalize those people, right?
mayra flores
I see that.
But I see it in the white liberals that were born and raised here.
And I'm like, how are you?
Born and raised here, and you, you know, burn the flag, disrespect our country.
And, you know, I also don't understand that type of ideology either, especially those that were born and raised here.
tate brown
I agree, but the white liberals are a minority.
But the white liberals are a minority of white people.
And then Hispanic liberals.
mayra flores
They play in the Democrat Party a huge role.
tate brown
I know, but they're a minority of white voters.
And then the majority of Hispanic voters, even with the massive trends that we saw in 2024, are liberals.
They're liberals.
And, And so I just see that.
mayra flores
And I want to change that because the values of Hispanics actually align more with the Republican Party.
Like they're Republican, they just don't know it.
Like, again, we've been hearing this for a long time.
tate brown
We've been hearing this for a long time, but I just really, again, there's.
mayra flores
Well, you can complain how you want, but see, you know, we're seeing a huge shift in white liberals, you know, in Texas.
And that's what I'm trying to stop.
I'm trying to stop white liberals.
tate brown
What I'm contending, I guess, is as the country becomes.
Look, as the country becomes less white, it becomes less familiar to Americans.
I mean, that's really at the crux of the issue because, again, white voters.
mayra flores
I'm sorry to hear that.
tate brown
Listen, Myra, listen.
mayra flores
This is also what America looks like, too.
tate brown
Again, I'm not contending that, but what I'm saying is that white voters are the only voting group in the United States, the only ethnic group that is voting Republican.
And what we're doing right now with the way that the immigration policy has been over the last six years.
mayra flores
Your birth rates aren't helping.
Your birth rates in the census, and based on that, we have to continue investing in the Hispanic.
tate brown
So, would it be worthwhile to pursue policies to reverse?
That trend rather than water down the message of the conservative movement to appeal to the people.
mayra flores
No, nobody's trying to water down anything.
tate brown
Well, I think so, because when I advocated for denaturalization, you pushed back on that.
And I think, again, denaturalization, mass deportations, again, very popular policies in the Republican Party.
mayra flores
I think you're not focused on.
Are you focused on winning in November?
tate brown
Yes, but I'm also focused on saving the country.
And I think winning for winning's sake is not actually.
Winning for winning's sake is not really winning.
mayra flores
But you're.
You like your mindset, it's not going to get us to win in November.
Okay, but I really want to win the Senate seat in November, and I really want the majority in November again.
tate brown
But what I'm saying is that if denaturalizations is like a breaking point for Hispanics, then we need to have a conversation about the Hispanic community.
mayra flores
Well, I mean, are you saying that to white liberals too?
So it just because white liberals aren't going to vote for their Republican Party, they're going to take away their citizenship.
tate brown
No, because they've been here for generations after generations.
There's no possible, there's nowhere to deport them to.
We can't deport someone that's been here for 30 years.
unidentified
Where do you get that?
mayra flores
If somebody committed a fraud to become an American citizen, like Ian Omar, who married her brother, absolutely.
unidentified
Right.
mayra flores
But I mean, if you committed a fraud to become an American citizen, absolutely.
But to take someone's citizenship because they don't agree with your ideology just because they haven't been here, you know, for long as you have.
tate brown
Well, yeah.
But a massive proportion, again, of Hispanic.
But hang on, hang on, Myra, Myra, Myra, Myra.
A massive proportion of those Hispanic voters are the children of illegal immigrants.
So, I mean, this is the whole debate we're having over the birthright citizenship conversation right now is, again, what citizenship has become.
mayra flores
Country, what's for your child to be an American citizen, and I agree.
tate brown
So, therefore, we need to start reevaluating people's citizenship because, again, what citizenship has become over the last 50, 60 years, it doesn't mean very much.
It really doesn't mean very much.
What I'm contending is crazy, even to those born here, and what I'm and what I'm liberals, and what I'm contending is we need to like the definition of American can't just be these like vague, you know, I love liberty and freedom and believe in God because, again, that's like the majority of the world.
The majority of the world agrees with those things.
mayra flores
And my issue with my issue with what you're America, I don't care about winning in November.
So, see, my message is.
Is what's going to win as a Senate seat for our Attorney General Paxton.
And that's what's going to keep the majority.
tate brown
Myra, but what my issue is, my issue is, is again, what you're proposing is going to be poisonous to the Republican Party long term.
Because again, all this indicates.
Because all this.
No, but because what you're proposing is that in order to win ethnic blocs, we should pander to them.
And that's what the Democrat Party does.
You're not going to beat the Democrat Party.
mayra flores
I don't think we should pander to you.
I don't think we should pander to you.
tate brown
I think we should pander to conservatives.
unidentified
You know.
mayra flores
Yeah, that's who I'm talking about.
Who do you think I'm talking about?
We're conservatives.
tate brown
You were saying the Hispanics.
mayra flores
We're born Americans and we're conservatives.
tate brown
You were saying the Hispanics.
mayra flores
But Hispanics by nature are conservatives.
Again, they don't even know they're Republican.
I mean, their ideology and our values that we were raised with align more.
tate brown
I would accept that.
But again, the welfare participation rates are far higher in the Hispanic community.
I mean, the majority of Americans who are born outside of the United States are on welfare versus 27% of Native born Americans.
And then in addition to that, Again, Hispanics, the majority of Hispanics are voting for the Democrat Party and the ones that are voting for the Republican Party and the ones that are voting for the Republican Party.
That's not going to change because it's not going to change.
mayra flores
You focus on what you believe in.
You focus on what you believe in.
And good luck with that message.
tate brown
I'm going to focus on what I believe in.
Yeah, I agree.
mayra flores
And so I have to focus on this because I see an immediate threat, right?
I'm like, okay, I cannot see us losing the Senate seat in November.
We cannot lose the majority.
I got to make sure that the Republicans, that Hispanic Americans that voted for President Trump vote Republican, vote for the Republican candidates.
We've seen Trump's numbers in the Senate.
tate brown
We've seen Trump's numbers among Hispanics crater with the mass deportation policies.
mayra flores
Oh, yeah.
unidentified
We support it.
tate brown
Absolutely.
No, no, no.
His approval rating has tanked among Hispanics because of the mass deportation policies.
mayra flores
Not in South Texas.
I don't know.
We've, you know, South Texas is very supportive of President Trump because we saw here how bad it was under the Biden administration.
There's a lot of people, a lot of, I mean, there's, there are people.
tate brown
But again, like, you're asking people to vote against their, like, personal held allegiance.
I mean, people in their family are being deported.
I mean, people aren't going to vote for the party that's conducting those operations.
Well, that's the primary issue.
mayra flores
It doesn't matter who the president is if they're illegally in the country.
Our ICE agents, our border patrols, they're just enforcing the law.
tate brown
I agree.
And that's unpopular.
That's unpopular with a lot of Hispanic voters because, again, they have dual allegiance to their home nations.
And the paperwork, the citizenship isn't enough to keep them from going to the United States.
mayra flores
It's a feeling, it's their feelings, but the facts are that our ICE agents and our Border Patrol agents have to enforce the law.
Doesn't matter what their feelings are.
If they're illegally in the country, whether it's President Trump or Biden or Obama, they shouldn't be here.
President Obama had the highest deportations than President Trump.
He was known here in South Texas as a deporter in chief.
unidentified
Right.
mayra flores
And so I understand people's feelings getting hurt, right?
And I understand people's feelings, these people's feelings getting hurt.
But we have to enforce the law.
We are a country of law.
So you want to come to this country, you do it the right way.
You don't come here breaking in the law.
I don't support amnesty either.
I think it's a huge disrespect to those who actually follow the law and come to this country to do it the right way.
I don't support amnesty.
unidentified
I agree.
tate brown
But these deportation policies, again, these amnesty policies, these are Or rather, amnesty and then again, mass immigration from Latin America is popular with Hispanic Americans.
So, in order for the Republican Party to win more Hispanics, you're going to have to back away from some of those positions.
mayra flores
No, not at all.
You know, what's important is that they're actually hearing people like me in these networks in Univision and Telemundo why we're having these deportations and because they're being lied to and manipulated.
tate brown
And so I think they're just voting in line with their interests.
I think that's yes.
mayra flores
I understand what you're saying.
unidentified
That's everybody, right?
mayra flores
No, absolutely not.
And most people vote what's best for their family.
It doesn't matter what the background is.
They vote for the Democrat Party.
But at the same time, if they hear from us why President Trump is doing what he's doing, and that a lot of these people have a horrible criminal background, and that he hasn't put in place a new policy, these have been the laws.
This is what we ran on.
We don't have a spokesperson in Univision or Telemundo to talk about this.
No, we shouldn't stop deportations just to cater to certain people so they could vote for us in November.
unidentified
No, we will force the law.
tate brown
We have common ground there.
We have common ground there.
Myra, we are running out of time.
Obviously, this is a much longer conversation.
Obviously, I want to be getting to the macro, but I do appreciate you coming on.
mayra flores
I'm so glad, though, that we had an opportunity, you and I, to talk about this.
We can.
Maybe have a little bit of disagreements, but you and I at the end of the day want what's best for this country.
tate brown
So I agree.
I mean, and I mean, it is vital.
I mean, look, the midterms are vital.
There's no question.
So again, there's common ground.
mayra flores
Nate, we can focus on that a little bit later.
That's like more like a long term.
But right now, November is like six months away.
tate brown
Agreed.
I mean, because that was Charlie Kirk's last message really was what is an American?
You know, it's a conversation that needed to be had.
But Myra, with that, I agree.
mayra flores
I had the pleasure of knowing him.
tate brown
Patriot.
Well, I appreciate you coming on, Myra.
Where can people find you?
mayra flores
Absolutely.
All social media platforms.
I'm on X, Myra Flores.
I'm on Instagram, Myra Flores, Facebook as well, and True Social as well.
unidentified
Awesome.
tate brown
Awesome.
Thank you, Myra.
We'll catch you next time.
mayra flores
God bless you.
Take care.
unidentified
Bye.
All right.
tate brown
Well, that was Myra Flores.
Oh, my mouse is dead.
I got to reconfigure the mouse here.
unidentified
There we go.
Bada bing, bada boom.
tate brown
Well, you know what?
I appreciate her coming on.
I mean, obviously, Twitter is just a bit of a cesspool.
People end up talking past each other.
I respectfully disagree.
I mean, I just don't think it's a good electoral strategy to.
Appeal to groups that won't vote for you.
They really won't vote for you.
I think it would be best case scenario to deliver on policies that's widely popular with white Americans who are the base of the Republican Party.
White Americans are tapping out.
They're increasingly disenfranchised with the Republican Party because they just don't feel like they're delivering on things that are popular with them.
And it's just frustrating that white Americans aren't allowed to organize and promote interests that would benefit them, but every other ethnic group in the United States is allowed to.
So, with that, you can follow me on X and Instagram at Real Tape Brown.
We'll be back tonight for Tim Cast IRL at 8 p.m.
Thank you very much for watching, and I'll catch you guys next time.
unidentified
I don't know what you're talking about.
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