00:00The chair recognizes Mr. Langworthy from New York.
00:04Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
00:06Governor Hochul, yes or no, do you think someone who's committed murder or rape in this country,
00:11and they're here illegally, should have tools at their disposal to avoid deportation?
00:18As the governor's primary responsibility is to protect the people of New York, those crimes are abhorrent?
00:25I'm sorry, whatever response you prepared to give today dwarfs in comparison to your actions as governor.
00:31I would like to remind you of someone named Gianfranco Torres Navarro,
00:35an illegal alien and suspected leader of a violent Peruvian gang.
00:40He was tied to 23 murders in Peru and came to this country illegally across the southern border.
00:48He had his victims' faces tattooed on his body,
00:51and he was hiding in plain sight in Endicott, New York, for an extended period of time where ICE could not locate him.
00:59And why did it take so long to find him?
01:01Because policies like your green light law,
01:03which blocks ICE and U.S. Border Patrol from accessing critical DMV databases.
01:12In fact, it threatens the badges and threatens to charge with felonies any officer that shares that DMV data with federal agents.
01:23These agents rely on data to be able to know who they're pulling over on the side of the road.
01:29They're taking their lives into their hands every time they're trying to, you know, keep our streets safe.
01:33The really sick irony here is that your government in New York, my home state,
01:41freely shares that same DMV data with the government of Canada at our bridges in you and my hometown.
01:49But it doesn't share that data with your American federal government.
01:54Why, Governor?
01:55You're misstating the green light law because we are able to cooperate with federal authorities when there's a crime involved.
02:05Why do you shield the database, Governor?
02:07Anything they want from us related to investigating a crime is available to them.
02:12This is data that's needed in real time to enforce the laws on the streets.
02:17They can't subpoena these records from your government.
02:20And I've had these conversations with my county sheriffs all across the state of New York.
02:26State police, they want to work with the federal officials.
02:30They want to clean up these messes.
02:32But they can't because they are being threatened by you and our attorney general
02:35that they'll take away their badge and end their careers.
02:38And countless, countless instances where we've cooperated with federal law enforcement happens on a daily basis.
02:44And so your characterization is just incorrect of how we provide information to people.
02:50Who asked for it?
02:50You share the database in its entirety with Canada, but you don't share it with the federal government.
02:57It's just, it's beyond belief.
02:59I mean, this is denial and excuses, Governor.
03:01You know damn well that the New York State Sheriff's Association,
03:04the State Association of Chiefs of Police have both condemned the green light law.
03:08Sheriffs from Erie County, Niagara County, Monroe, Albany, Broome, Dutchess, and Oneida counties,
03:13multiple parties represented here, not just Republicans, have warned that your law ties their hands.
03:20It puts officers' lives in danger and it shields criminals from accountability.
03:25When you refuse to work with law enforcement, when you refuse to hand over data that can protect communities and save lives,
03:31you are actively aiding the illegal alien criminals who have crossed our borders and committed violent crimes.
03:37And the consequences are not hypothetical.
03:40Your bail reform law is the reason that Lakin Riley is dead.
03:45He should have been in jail in New York.
03:48And he wasn't.
03:48He went to Georgia.
03:49He fled our state because he should have been in prison.
03:54These are tragic and real circumstances.
03:56In Buffalo, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant hacked his wife to death with an axe.
03:59In Syracuse, an Ecuadorian national strangled a young woman on her birthday and dumped her body in a park.
04:06In Irondequoit, in Monroe County, a Dominican national slaughtered an entire family, including two toddlers.
04:14And he set their house on fire.
04:16Governor Hochul, you took an oath to serve the citizens of the state of New York.
04:20And you've allowed violent criminals who came here illegally to hide in plain sight and to avoid federal officials because of your support for the green light law.
04:29I mean, this is an abomination.
04:32This is not keeping New Yorkers safe.
04:34We turn over the information you're referring to all the time.
04:37You're misstating the laws and its purpose.
04:40We cooperate all the time.
04:42As much as I want to believe you, Governor, I believe the cops more.
04:46I believe the cops that I know and I trust in our same hometown that are out there in the streets every single day.
04:56Your laws put lives in danger.
04:58Your laws have led to people being murdered.
05:01My job is to protect the people of New York, and I fight hard every single day.
05:05You're doing a very lousy job of it, Governor.
05:07I have to reduce the crimes.
05:07Murder rates are down to historic lows, and we're working hard to make sure one crime is one too many.
05:13I take this very seriously, but we do cooperate when any time they need help with law enforcement.
05:19That is just not what the law enforcement officials tell me, Governor.
05:23You're just not accepting the facts.
05:24I can't help that.
05:25I trust the professionals.
05:27You and I aren't police officers.
05:29I trust the people out in the field that wear a badge, that are honorable, decent, hardworking people.
05:36And that's why they shouldn't be served.
05:37You have a record of disrespect to law enforcement, just like you disrespected every corrections officer in the state of New York.
05:43You have a lot of gall to come here and criticize the president for using the National Guard to actually bring law and order to the streets of our country.
05:52When you sent those same National Guard officers to become corrections officers after you destroyed the lives of so many of the hardworking corrections officers of the state when you broke their union.
06:03You're absolutely right.
06:03There is a distinction.
06:04I have the authority over the National Guard in the state of New York.
06:08The president is usurping the sovereignty of another state, of the 50 states, when he imposes the National Guard against the will of the governor.
06:18Time is expired.
06:19It's a difference of understanding of basic civics.
06:21Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
06:22I yield back.
06:23Mr. Chairman, I have a unanimous consent request.
06:24I'm sorry?
06:25I have a unanimous consent request.
06:26Proceed.
06:28First, I'd like to seek unanimous consent to enter
