00:00The President said that the administration should take a softer approach on immigration
00:04enforcement. He's also suggested for months that some migrant workers should be spared from these
00:10raids based on what they're doing. Is the administration going to continue to conduct
00:15large worksite raids as it seeks to target violent criminals? And can you clarify, is the federal
00:20government going to continue doing these deportation operations in blue cities where
00:25authorities say they don't want them? Well, first, again, to the President's answer yesterday,
00:30the full context of his answer was that he'd like to see a softer touch, but we are always
00:35going to remain tough. That softer touch the President is referring to is that cooperation
00:40that is necessary between state and local authorities and federal government authorities to ensure
00:47that we can continue deporting illegal aliens from our communities without tons of agents
00:53having to go after one illegal alien. If the states and the local governments just turn
00:58over their illegal aliens to ICE at jails, as they should be doing, it requires one agent
01:03to deport that one illegal alien who can then go on their way to their home country in a peaceful
01:07manner. The escalation that we've seen take place in Minnesota is a direct result of the
01:12refusal of state and local officials to cooperate with the federal government and with ICE, which
01:17has led to these hostile and dangerous environments. And so we don't want that. Again, the President
01:22wants direct cooperation, and that's what he was referring to. As for worksite raids, I don't
01:28broadcast any future action that may or may not happen from the Department of Homeland Security. But
01:33again, the President's focus and the administration's focus is on targeting illegal alien criminals,
01:39especially those who have committed heinous crimes in our country, as evidenced by the few
01:44illegal aliens that I just shared with you here today.
01:46Will ICE and Border Patrol avoid going to other blue cities where the local officials are saying,
01:51we won't work with you, we don't want you here?
01:52Well, first of all, those local officials should be wanting to work with ICE. Why would any
01:58official, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, want murderers and predators in your city?
02:04It makes zero sense. It's an untenable position. The only reason Democrats are taking that position
02:09now is because their entire party platform is just anti-Trump. It makes no sense for the American
02:14people. They should be calling this White House. They should be calling Secretary Noem. They should be
02:18calling Tom Homan. And they should be saying, we want to work with you to remove the worst of the worst
02:23criminals from our city. Please come here. So yes, ICE is going to continue to do their job in cities and
02:29communities across the country. But it certainly makes it much easier when we have that level of
02:33cooperation and corroboration at the state and local level in places like Florida, where there has been
02:39the arrest of thousands, tens of thousands of illegal alien criminals. None of you talk about that or none of you
02:45hear about that because these operations are going seamlessly and peacefully. Why? Because there is an
02:52intimate cooperation between the state government and the federal government. And that's what the
02:56president wants to see in all 50 states.
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