00:00That's why I fight as hard as I fight.
00:12Real quick, closing thoughts by all three of you.
00:15What are the next three and a half years look like in solving the immigration crisis in
00:20America?
00:21One, two, three things that need to happen, should happen, or hopefully will happen?
00:24Well, there's a term that I've been using over these last 50 days, and that word is
00:28velocity.
00:29The amount of action that the Trump administration has done in these 50 or 60 days has been unprecedented.
00:36I hope that continues for the next three and a half years.
00:39I hope we don't slow down.
00:41I think there's so much change that can be done, not only at the border, not only about
00:46removing individuals, but also on that legal side, and really need to fix that, because
00:51it is being abused, as the governor said, and so there's a lot that needs to continue
00:58to be done on border security and on immigration.
01:01So if the pace continues, we'll see if folks can keep up with it.
01:06I think there's a lot of folks that are tired, not Tom, but others, 60 days or so in, but
01:14that pace needs to continue.
01:15I think that's what the American people voted for last November.
01:18They didn't vote for 60 days of it, they voted for four years of it.
01:21And so I'm hopeful that that velocity that we see continues across all the fronts that
01:27we've been talking about here.
01:29First of all, I got a hard job.
01:36You probably don't know this, but I'm 30.
01:41Look, I'm honored to be on stage with Secretary Wolf and Governor Sanchez, who's one badass
01:47governor, I love him.
01:56They both need a haircut.
02:01We have hair.
02:02Again, it all goes back to the job, Chad.
02:09Look, here's why I said earlier, I've seen a lot of tragedies in my lifetime who changed
02:16me.
02:17It made the man I am today.
02:20Again, I started in 1984 as a border patrol agent, I was a special agent, I've done numerous
02:25investigations.
02:26I've seen so much tragedy, so much death, so much terrible things in my life, that I
02:34fight hard today because I know every day that we secure that border, we're saving lives.
02:39Women aren't being raped, children aren't drowning in the river.
02:42And as we remove these public safety threats like TDA, who've raped and murdered young
02:47women, set a woman on fire in a subway, that's why I fight so hard.
02:53So what does the next three, almost, well, just two months shy, four years mean for me?
02:59I will start smiling on TV when we remove every illegal alien public safety threat,
03:07every gang member, every national security threat from this country, they have no right
03:12to be here.
03:13And they need to go.
03:14If they don't want to go on their own, then we're going to hunt them down, and we're going
03:18to deport them.
03:19And I do that with no apology.
03:21That's what we're going to do.
03:23If I accomplish that, I can retire for the third time.
03:27No, I got the greatest wife in the world, best thing ever happened to me, I'm sure you're
03:39in the same spot as I am, who's been through hell.
03:42I got death threats, you see a lot of security detail around me, kids, I got more death threats
03:46than you can imagine.
03:47You know what?
03:48But I'm not going to shut up, I'm not going away.
03:51Bring it.
03:53I'm going to do my job, and President Trump is going to do his job.
03:59What I ask you to do, what I need to tell you, here's what I want you to do.
04:01You see an ICE agent, you see a border patrol agent, you see a Florida state trooper, you
04:06see a cop, walk up to them and just thank them.
04:09Because these men and women are putting it on the line every day, while you're sleeping
04:13in your bed at two o'clock in the morning, there's a border patrol agent standing post
04:17on a dirt trail someplace, who's going to take something on.
04:20A sensor goes off, is it just an illegal alien looking for a better life, or is it a heavily
04:24armed drug smuggler?
04:25They don't know, but they're going to take it on.
04:27I know because I did that job.
04:29So God bless the men and women of the border patrol, God bless the men and women of ICE,
04:33and God bless the men and women who carry a badge and strap it to their hip every day
04:37to keep us all safe.
04:39That's what you need to do.
04:40Well, I think over the next three and a half, four years, we've already established Florida
04:57will be leading the states in this fight.
05:01We are on board, and we understand this is a team effort.
05:09When you have a federal system, where there's states and the federal government, you got
05:15to collaborate, you got to work together.
05:16In fact, we've got a proposal to augment the things Tom's talking about.
05:21I know he's reviewed it.
05:22I think they're this close to proving and letting us go out and do even more than we've
05:26already done over the first two months of the Trump administration.
05:30So we're looking forward to that, love to be able to announce something soon.
05:33So that's just where we're going to be on all this stuff.
05:36We're going to ensure the law is enforced in Florida across the board.
05:40We're going to make sure we're doing everything we can to protect the people of the state
05:45from, yes, public safety threats, but also just making sure that our state is orderly,
05:50that we have a legal workforce, and that we're following the rule of law.
05:55So we had four years of frustration under the Biden administration, where you could
06:00have a criminal alien, and they were very lackadaisical, and even taking those people
06:07off the street when you presented to them.
06:09It was just the inmates running the asylum.
06:11They were flying people in who were here, who were coming illegally.
06:15I mean, it was a total, total catastrophe.
06:18And so there's been remarkable progress made at the border.
06:21I knew there would be good progress, but 96% in less than two months is pretty spectacular.
06:27But now we need to see the best effort in American history on the interior enforcement.
06:34And I know that's what Tom is pushing for.
06:36I know there's other folks in the agency.
06:38I know that's what President Trump wants to see.
06:41And if states like Florida step up, I think we'll be able to achieve it.
06:44If states don't do more than what they're doing outside of Florida, that's going to
06:48be much more difficult.
06:49So we're going to lead the way, but some of this is leading by example.
06:53And the number of things that have happened in this country over the last six years in
06:58other states that started with Florida leading, showing results, and then citizens in those
07:04other states asking their representatives, hey, why aren't you doing what Florida's done?
07:08You can write a book about all those things.
07:10And so that's what we're going to keep doing.
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