'The American Public Should Not Fall For This Dem Deception!': Ashley Moody Sounds Off On 'Horror' By Biden

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At today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) decried former President Biden and Democrats' border policies.

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00:00Mayor Moody. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am the newest senator here, certainly the newest on

00:08judiciary, and I am so glad that I am here in this capacity now because I served as Florida's

00:17Attorney General and watched in horror as Biden and his handlers and the radicals in charge of

00:27his administration systematically and intentionally broke down all of the structures and security

00:35safeguards at the border, and it was only through litigation that we were able to uncover documents

00:43that showed their plan was in place from day one. In fact, when they started rolling out executive

00:52orders dismantling everything that the Trump administration had put into place,

00:57they were warned by those in the administration and Border Patrol and DHS that if you do this,

01:06we will immediately be overrun. We will immediately lose any control at the border, and we do not have

01:16the ability to keep pace with the detention capacity that will be needed. And in fact, ignoring all of

01:23those warnings by their own administration, they not only went ahead and issued the executive orders

01:30dismantling everything that Trump had put into place, they then asked for less money for detention beds.

01:38And the consequences and the chaos that unfolded not only was predicted by their own administration,

01:47it put law enforcement at the border at risk, it put families and communities at risk,

01:56it put our nation's sovereignty and security at risk, as more and more people flooded into this country

02:03country with previous criminal backgrounds, and those that were on the terrorist watch list.

02:09And as I pursued litigation, a judge said,

02:13Biden and his administration has turned our border into nothing more than a meaningless line in the sand.

02:23And when there were warnings that our border would be overrun when Title 42 was expiring,

02:29Florida uncovered documents saying that their grand plan was to step back and let it be overrun.

02:38And in my litigation as Florida's Attorney General,

02:42I uncovered that not only were they pushing more and more and more and more and more historic numbers

02:48into our country, unvetted,

02:50that they established quotas every day

02:54to make sure that Border Patrol pushed a certain amount of numbers into our country

02:59that was barely vetted.

03:02So as Attorney General, when I had sheriffs from all over my state calling me

03:06to say that the Biden administration was canceling detainers on criminals in their jails

03:12and telling them to release them back into the communities,

03:15I was horrified.

03:17Horrified not only because I work with law enforcement across the state

03:23and I knew that was doing what that was doing to their communities,

03:26but horrified because I knew that went against not just the policies of Republican administrations,

03:30but Democratic administrations.

03:34It was a radical's wish list.

03:37They had changed the entire policy on whether or not we were going to deport serious felony offenders,

03:43and their agenda was no.

03:45And the resulting crime that occurred across this country as a result was predicted.

03:53I predicted from the beginning of this administration,

03:55I was one of the first states to sue

03:57when they stopped deporting people here illegally

04:00that were committing crimes against Americans in our communities.

04:06So the gaslighting that started under the last administration

04:10when Mayorkas showed up and said the border is secure, the border is secure,

04:13and I guess he thought the American people would believe that.

04:16It's still going on.

04:19There are so many felony offenders that are here illegally in our country

04:24that because Biden released them,

04:26this administration has to do the hard work of tracking people down

04:31and deporting anywhere from 11 million to 20 million people

04:35because we don't know who's in this country.

04:37On a conservative estimate, 11 million people is more than the population of 42 of our states,

04:45and most of those people were unvetted.

04:49So you're going to hear a lot about people here that just want a better life.

04:54But make no mistake, Biden and his administration

04:57purposefully unleashed those here illegally committing crimes on you

05:03and on your families, and it was intentional.

05:07And when I brought it to their attention that they were no longer

05:10even deporting those in federal prisons that were completing sentences

05:13that were here illegally,

05:15that they were taking them back to where they were prosecuted

05:17and pushing them into those districts

05:19like no other presidential administration had done,

05:22they fought me on giving me the information,

05:24and I had to sue them for that too.

05:26So we can have hearings all day long,

05:29and I can hear about these stories,

05:31but make no mistake,

05:32and the American public should not fall for this dim deception.

05:37This was intentional, it was purposeful,

05:40and they're going to roll out everything that they can think of

05:43to stop any sort of progress to shoring up

05:45and making this country safe again

05:47until they get somebody back in office that will do the same thing.

05:50So I appreciate you, Chairman, for standing strong,

05:53and I would like to ask Sheriff,

05:55I know we have a sheriff with us from the Lone Star State,

05:58from your state,

06:00and I want to just know if you heard the same thing from people,

06:03from sheriffs that were forced because detainers were canceled

06:06to release people back into the communities.

06:10Yes, you're absolutely correct, Senator.

06:12They were forcing them to release people back into the community,

06:16and we have had a longstanding partnership with Border Patrol,

06:21Department of Homeland Security, and our federal partners.

06:24And regardless of what is said,

06:26they were not issuing any orders to Border Patrol or to ICE telling them,

06:30don't enforce this, don't do that.

06:32But what the administration was doing was sending people to those stations

06:35and then giving them verbal orders.

06:37You're no longer allowed to help law enforcement do this.

06:40And much to Border Patrol's credit,

06:43they would sit down and figure out,

06:44okay, how do we circumvent this order and help them in another way?

06:47They would figure out how to help us

06:49in a way that they hadn't been strictly forbidden from doing

06:52until the Biden administration would realize

06:55that they had figured a way around that order

06:57and then the Biden administration would issue a new verbal order to them

07:00telling them they couldn't do that

07:01and they would sit down and figure out another way.

07:04So the administration wasn't dumb enough to send out a paper trail.

07:07What they were smart enough to do

07:08is they were smart enough to send people to those stations

07:11and go, you quit helping local law enforcement.

07:14You quit taking these actions.

07:16Well, indeed, they held back as much paper as they could

07:19until attorneys general like me and others

07:22pushed in court and got it

07:24and found the documents that showed

07:25they knew this was happening their first month in office.

07:28They knew we would be overwhelmed

07:30and they did it anyway.

07:31And if I just might, Chairman,

07:33I am a mother as well

07:35and I just want to say thank you.

07:37I can't imagine the loss of a child

07:40but sharing those stories

07:43and making sure this never happens again in our country

07:45because we can follow the law,

07:47we can do what's right.

07:48I want to thank the parents that share their stories

07:51and I want to thank every law enforcement man and woman

07:53who signed up to wear the badge

07:55and stand between chaos and order and good and evil

07:58and made sure that this country

08:00stands for what we were founded on

08:03and that is the people governing ourselves

08:06under a rule of law.

08:08And that was so important

08:09and I'm so grateful to them every day.

08:11Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

08:12Senator Hirono.

08:13Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

08:18I think we can all agree.

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