President Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" initiative in Florida seeks to slash bureaucracy by deputizing National Guard members as immigration judges to expedite the removal of 530,000 individuals from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba. While Ron DeSantis aims to reduce court appearances from years to days, critics like AOC falsely label Republicans anti-immigrant despite their stance on legal status. The segment contrasts this with a New York proposal for 800,000 non-citizen voting rights, arguing Biden-era admissions fueled Trump's victory and that strict asylum requirements under 8 U.S.C. 1158 remain essential against open-border agendas. Ultimately, the discussion frames these measures as necessary corrections to restore order and enforce legal immigration standards. [Automatically generated summary]
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Expediting People Out of Country00:06:40
And they're looking to round everybody up and put them down in Florida into the detention center that has become known as Alligator Alcatraz.
It's quite a name.
The president was talking about it a little bit earlier today as he began his trip down to Alligator Alcatraz and made the point that they need some kind of system to work through.
You get all this red tape.
And even though they've been proven right at even the Supreme Court level, right, in terms of the deportations that are now being allowed.
and the canceling of visas for people, 530 some odd thousand of them that were brought here from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba under the Biden administration.
They're canceling those visas, but what do you do with them at that point?
And that's become a bit of a challenge.
So Ron DeSantis is offering up some answers and a little bit less bureaucracy.
This is, we're offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges.
We're working with the Department of Justice for the approvals.
I'm sure Pam will approve.
But then you have, I'll have a National Guard judge advocate here.
Someone has a notice to appear.
Biden would tell them to come back in three years and appear.
Now you'll be able to appear in like a day or two.
So they're not going to be detained, hopefully, for all that long.
We'll have people here in this facility that can make, you know, it's a bureaucracy.
A president's got to deal with the bureaucracy.
Now, that Supreme Court ruling was good because that's going to allow him to be able to exercise Article II the way founders intended.
But you still have bureaucracy.
So, we want to cut through that so that we have an efficient operation between Florida and DHS to get the removal of these illegals done.
Boom.
All right.
So, they mean business.
And, you know, alligators are quite an image, let me just say.
You know, as someone who grew up in the Northeast, I have a special fear for those things.
So, that takes on a whole new meaning.
But the point being that they want to be able to expedite some of these people out of the country.
And in terms of some of the national security. concerns, etc.
Their hope is that they'll be able to do this in a more efficient kind of fashion.
So what does AOC do with all of this?
Well, she's trying to twist it into somehow that the GOP is totally anti-immigrant.
Here's my newsflash for her.
You know what?
They're not anti-immigrant.
The party's not anti-immigrant.
The party is pro-legal immigration.
So that means some kind of system has to be developed so that you know who the heck is in the country.
Don't try and tar and feather them with this whole idea that they're completely anti-immigrant.
I think that's insanely unfair.
But you guys have gone the opposite direction.
We're all about open borders, are you not?
About how this is about illegal versus legal immigration.
They are attacking legal status and removing legal status.
The Republican majority is anti-legal immigration in the United States.
I want to make that very clear and I yield back.
Woo!
Okay.
You've got to ask yourself, like, why is all this happening right now?
I mean, I know it's Trump and everything, right?
We know that Trump, ever since he went down the escalator and said, you know, there's people that we.
Shouldn't have in this country, here in this country, he has become a lightning rod for this, and so they want to go after him.
And in going after him, they go after this issue, but they kind of make themselves look foolish in the process.
I mean Jasmine Crockett.
You need look no further than the representative from Texas, one Jasmine Crockett, making some lousy remarks trying to sell her constituency on why you need open borders.
So I had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country, or the fact that we are a country of immigrants.
Right right, The fact is, ain't none of y'all trying to?
Okay, so I'm lying.
Raise your hands.
You're not.
You're not.
We're done picking cotton.
We are.
You can't pay us enough to find a plantation.
Wow.
So, quite a way to phrase it.
Yeah, it's quite a sales pitch.
Hmm?
But you again need to ask why is this all happening right now?
Why has the left gotten so extreme?
Why are they trying to argue for open borders?
And it brings you back to this article earlier in the year.
New York moves to allow 800,000 non-citizens to vote in local elections.
New York City will become the largest municipality in the country to allow legal residents to vote if the election is approved as expected in December.
Okay, so that's a pretty fascinating headline.
And for everybody who's like, oh, no, there's no way that would actually happen.
Well, I mean, they were trying.
If the appellate court hadn't struck it down, you would have had 800,000 non-citizens who were quote unquote legally here, right?
Just think about the 533, 532,000 that Biden imported from the likes of Nicaragua, Haiti, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Mm-hmm.
Think about that.
Okay.
So I guess you sort of legally are here because you've been given this pass, which by the way, Donald Trump just took away.
And suddenly, You're voting in elections.
You wonder how this works, right?
It's just math at the end of the day, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, but by the way, this is a big part of why Donald Trump won.
Don't kid yourself, Dems.
People aren't really into this.
And let me go back to what the actual rules are.
The actual rules are in terms of asylum, etc.
And we got real rules on the book.
8 U.S.C. 1158 aligns with the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol.
To qualify for asylum, the applicant must prove two things.
Two things okay.
One, persecution of well-founded fear of persecution.
Must have suffered persecution or have had a genuine and responsible fear future persecution and and be with protected grounds.
So you're going to meet both of these criteria.
So one, you have to be fearful right of your life and the situation there, but it can't just be because it's a a terrible place I mean, there's plenty of terrible places out there.
It can't be.
It actually has to be on these protected grounds, one race, two, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
So this is pretty narrowly defined.
And yet they wanted to change it into something entirely different.
Why you ask why?
Fighting the Oligarchy Tour00:01:25
And look, I got to, you know, I hate to be so critical, shall we say.
But you had 800,000 people that had a shot at voting in local elections that were not actually citizens of the United States.
Like, what the heck is that about?
And it's all being orchestrated by the same people who are on the fight the oligarchy tour.
Fight the oligarchy tour.
In other words, they want handouts for everybody.
They want open borders and they want them to have everything that they could possibly want and need.
I'm thinking about the commie that wants to come into New York as mayor.
And then they have the audacity to get out there and ride around on a private jet.
Here is AOC with her fight the oligarchy tour.
What do you know?
Stepping out of none other than a private plane.
Like, it's amazing how that happens.
You're out there, you know, fighting the oligarchy.
By the way, she's getting caught in a total lie.
We talked about this yesterday because she apparently likes to say that she's a girl from the Bronx, but turns out she's kind of from a Tony suburb, very different place.