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- 0:00Speaker 1: If you believe the legacy media, a DoorDash dad was
- 0:04Speaker 1: shot for no reason by ICE in Austin, Texas. We
- 0:07Speaker 1: know that's not true. And then we hear migrant dad.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Then we hear Venezuelan father. Then we hear a man
- 0:12Speaker 1: trying to make a living for his family. A man
- 0:14Speaker 1: who is here legally. A man who came legally. A
- 0:16Speaker 1: man who is allowed to work. We heard all those
- 0:18Speaker 1: things from the legacy media. And they never once said
- 0:22Speaker 1: he's here illegally, came illegally, had a final order of deportation.
- 0:26Speaker 1: and didn't stop, or he did stop, but then took
- 0:28Speaker 1: off when he found out ICE was on his tail.
- 0:30Speaker 1: I've got to get with Gregory Bovino. He's the former U.S.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Border Patrol commander at large. He's the guy who was
- 0:35Speaker 1: the face of the movement to get rid of people
- 0:36Speaker 1: who came here illegally, and then he left the position.
- 0:39Speaker 1: We're going to talk about all that and then some. Greg,
- 0:41Speaker 1: good to see you. How you doing?
- 0:43Speaker 2: I'm doing good, Joe. It's good to see you also.
- 0:46Speaker 1: It's pretty much standard operating procedure for the left media.
- 0:49Speaker 1: They will lie and paint this guy as a poor
- 0:51Speaker 1: guy trying to make some money for his family here legally,
- 0:54Speaker 1: loves the country, loves everybody, has a bullet in his
- 0:57Speaker 1: back that they won't take out. They're not giving him
- 0:59Speaker 1: any pain meds, and he's sleeping on the floor. So
- 1:02Speaker 1: let's just take it from the start. You have an
- 1:04Speaker 1: order to go and get somebody. DHS says this guy
- 1:08Speaker 1: was the target. But others are saying they read his
- 1:11Speaker 1: license plate and they realized the target was there. Either way,
- 1:14Speaker 1: you know that's the guy you want to go and get.
- 1:15Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do? Did they do anything
- 1:17Speaker 1: wrong from what you understand so far in this case?
- 1:21Speaker 2: Joe, from what I've seen, that's standard operating procedure. We
- 1:25Speaker 2: have to remember that this illegal alien, not an Uber
- 1:28Speaker 2: or DoorDash driver, this illegal alien had a final order
- 1:33Speaker 2: of removal. That final order is issued by an immigration judge.
- 1:39Speaker 2: That says do not pass code, do not collect $ 200.
- 1:42Speaker 2: You're going back as soon as we catch you. And
- 1:46Speaker 2: that fact has been grossly overlooked. And when you have
- 1:50Speaker 2: that final order of removal, Joe, you know, you are
- 1:53Speaker 2: a target for ICE. The targeting operations that ICE does,
- 1:58Speaker 2: that is one of the things they look for is
- 2:00Speaker 2: that immigration warrant. Think about a warrant, say, for a
- 2:04Speaker 2: bank robber or a criminal. This is a warrant for immigration,
- 2:07Speaker 2: plain and simple.
- 2:09Speaker 1: And the guy got due process. The argument that he
- 2:10Speaker 1: didn't get due process is bogus. He came here via
- 2:13Speaker 1: the CBP-1, some would say. DHS says he came illegally.
- 2:17Speaker 1: I'm still not sure which one it is. Either way,
- 2:19Speaker 1: he had a certain amount of time to get himself
- 2:21Speaker 1: a legal status. He went through the process and either
- 2:24Speaker 1: didn't show up or was told no when it comes
- 2:27Speaker 1: to asylum. And then the immigration judge, an actual judge
- 2:30Speaker 1: that gives you due process, said, that's it. Final order
- 2:33Speaker 1: of removal. I'm going to sign this. And when somebody
- 2:35Speaker 1: comes in contact with him who's law enforcement, he's got
- 2:38Speaker 1: to go. What am I missing?
- 2:41Speaker 2: Well, exactly. That is the due process. It was actually
- 2:45Speaker 2: more due process, it seems, than an American citizen criminal
- 2:49Speaker 2: would get here in the American system. All kinds of
- 2:52Speaker 2: due process there. We have to remember that most illegal
- 2:55Speaker 2: aliens don't show up for their court hearings. When we
- 2:58Speaker 2: were allowing those millions to come in under Joe Biden,
- 3:02Speaker 2: we knew, the Border Patrol knew, CBP knew, ICE knew,
- 3:05Speaker 2: these tens of millions are not going to show up
- 3:08Speaker 2: for their court hearings. It looks like from initial information
- 3:12Speaker 2: anyway that this individual I believe his name is Wilbur
- 3:15Speaker 2: Perez yes didn't show up for at least one of
- 3:18Speaker 2: those meetings and he was issued that final order of
- 3:21Speaker 2: removal in absentia by that judge.
- 3:24Speaker 1: And that's on him if we believe the DHS case
- 3:27Speaker 1: and I do I think what they say makes sense
- 3:29Speaker 1: we've now seen video of him speeding away from two
- 3:31Speaker 1: cars with lights and sirens on we see this on
- 3:33Speaker 1: video so it appears as though DHS is correct in
- 3:37Speaker 1: what they're saying this guy knew ICE wanted to deport him,
- 3:41Speaker 1: in my opinion. Otherwise, why do you run? They did
- 3:44Speaker 1: stop him. He stopped. They made it clear he was
- 3:46Speaker 1: going to be arrested. Then he takes off and there's
- 3:49Speaker 1: this high speed chase. And now that's what we're getting
- 3:51Speaker 1: from DHS. Can you tell me when it's appropriate to
- 3:54Speaker 1: use the gun? When is it appropriate to use lethal
- 3:57Speaker 1: force to stop the guy? Because in that case, we
- 3:59Speaker 1: don't have the video of him using the car to
- 4:02Speaker 1: run them over. Some say he hit the ice car.
- 4:05Speaker 1: We know the ice vehicle hit him to stop him.
- 4:07Speaker 1: When does it rise to the level of, let's take
- 4:10Speaker 1: out our service weapon and use it to stop the threat?
- 4:14Speaker 2: You mentioned stop the threat. Fantastic use of wordage there, Joe.
- 4:19Speaker 2: It's to stop a threat. A threat from doing what exactly?
- 4:23Speaker 2: That threat that either threatens your life Or the life
- 4:28Speaker 2: of another. It doesn't have to be that police officer
- 4:31Speaker 2: or that immigration officer's life. It can be the life
- 4:35Speaker 2: of a member of the public that's nearby. Also, there's
- 4:39Speaker 2: that part of Lethal Force that talks about grievous bodily injury. Joe,
- 4:45Speaker 2: do you want to have your arm cut off or
- 4:46Speaker 2: your leg crushed by a 2,000-pound missile? I'd rather not.
- 4:50Speaker 2: And no one should have to be subject to that.
- 4:52Speaker 2: So it's loss of life or grievous bodily injury. When
- 4:56Speaker 2: that officer or when that agent believes that his life
- 4:59Speaker 2: or the life of the public's in danger or grievous
- 5:02Speaker 2: bodily injury, that's when that use of force can come
- 5:05Speaker 2: into play. Go ahead. And that, you know, it looks
- 5:11Speaker 2: like that yet again is what has happened here.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Was there confusion? It's Gregory Bravino. Go follow him. Gregory K.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Bravino over on X. And we're going to talk about
- 5:20Speaker 1: his new venture as well coming up in a little while,
- 5:22Speaker 1: former U.S. Border Patrol commander at large. He was the
- 5:24Speaker 1: face of the movement to get people out of here
- 5:26Speaker 1: who came here illegally under Biden. Is there a consideration
- 5:29Speaker 1: by you in that position, by ICE agents, by CBP,
- 5:33Speaker 1: by anybody? Whether he's here via CBP1. And again, I
- 5:37Speaker 1: don't know that he really was. I mean, they're trying
- 5:39Speaker 1: to say that he was, but I'm not sure that
- 5:41Speaker 1: he was. I know the DHS is saying he was
- 5:43Speaker 1: here illegally and came illegally under Biden, but that's still
- 5:46Speaker 1: to be worked out in the wash. Does that matter
- 5:48Speaker 1: to you? And does it matter to you if he's
- 5:49Speaker 1: got a work permit, work authorization? Again, DHS says he didn't.
- 5:53Speaker 1: His lawyer says he did. Does that matter to you
- 5:55Speaker 1: as you're out there enforcing?
- 5:58Speaker 2: It does not. We go by the INA, the Immigration
- 6:01Speaker 2: and Nationality Act. and how he falls within the INA
- 6:05Speaker 2: and other applicable laws, rules, and regulations, that's what we
- 6:09Speaker 2: look at. What is his status at the moment? If
- 6:12Speaker 2: they ran his plate or they already knew he had
- 6:14Speaker 2: a final order of removal, what is his status at
- 6:17Speaker 2: that point? That is what's important. If he's out of status,
- 6:19Speaker 2: if he's an illegal alien, if he has a final
- 6:21Speaker 2: order of removal, then he's subject to arrest. He should
- 6:24Speaker 2: be subject to arrest. Something else here that it seems
- 6:28Speaker 2: the media is overlooking and many there on the left
- 6:31Speaker 2: is Why is a Venezuelan illegal alien working for DoorDash?
- 6:37Speaker 2: Why are these illegal aliens? Does that not alarm the
- 6:43Speaker 2: average American? And I think it does. Why is that
- 6:46Speaker 2: not being talked about? Who are these people that are
- 6:49Speaker 2: delivering your groceries, coming up to your home, near your home,
- 6:52Speaker 2: near your family? We don't know if he's a trained
- 6:55Speaker 2: ARAGWA member. We don't know what his background, was he
- 6:58Speaker 2: arrested or a criminal in his country of origin? We
- 7:02Speaker 2: don't know that. There's a fantastic question that you would
- 7:05Speaker 2: think this out-of-control news media would actually ask, Joe.
- 7:09Speaker 1: This is a great point. I don't want him coming
- 7:11Speaker 1: up to my driveway if we have no idea who
- 7:13Speaker 1: he is, if he hasn't been vetted, and if he's
- 7:15Speaker 1: in the country illegally. But there were reports that he
- 7:17Speaker 1: had a work authorization that expired in 2025. Isn't there
- 7:20Speaker 1: some way that DoorDash or any employer can be notified, hey,
- 7:24Speaker 1: the guy you got working for you no longer has authorization.
- 7:27Speaker 1: There should be a process, should there not?
- 7:30Speaker 2: Well, there should. And these large corporations often know what
- 7:34Speaker 2: the process is. And the reason I can say that
- 7:36Speaker 2: is take a look at the corporate farms there at
- 7:39Speaker 2: and near the U.S. border, the southwest border. They know
- 7:42Speaker 2: what the deal is. Most of their workers, 99.9% of
- 7:46Speaker 2: the time, are legal with the legal required documentation to work.
- 7:50Speaker 2: on those farms or in other industries at or near
- 7:53Speaker 2: the border. But you start getting away from the border
- 7:56Speaker 2: where there's not as many Border Patrol agents and ICE officers,
- 7:59Speaker 2: and they start to fudge that a little bit. And,
- 8:02Speaker 2: you know, we should hold them accountable. They should hold
- 8:06Speaker 2: themselves accountable because, again, look at all the cases we've
- 8:10Speaker 2: seen of whether it's an Uber driver or, you know,
- 8:13Speaker 2: DoorDash or one of these drivers that harms American citizens
- 8:18Speaker 2: as part of that activity that they're engaged in, that
- 8:22Speaker 2: driving or whatever they're doing, that happens. And they should
- 8:26Speaker 2: not be working for DoorDash or anyone else if they
- 8:30Speaker 2: are an illegal alien. Plus, it takes jobs away from
- 8:33Speaker 2: American citizens. Joe, when we were in Chicago, LA, Charlotte,
- 8:38Speaker 2: New Orleans, we went to the airports. We went to
- 8:41Speaker 2: those locations that many of these Uber drivers and other
- 8:44Speaker 2: types of individuals were seeking in employments. We arrested a
- 8:48Speaker 2: lot of illegal aliens doing that. And very interestingly, American
- 8:52Speaker 2: citizens and some of those legal, legal aliens, the folks
- 8:55Speaker 2: with green cards said, thank you so much. They're destroying
- 8:58Speaker 2: our living wage. We can't get enough fares. We can't
- 9:01Speaker 2: get enough business to stay afloat because illegal aliens like
- 9:06Speaker 2: this DoorDash driver, this Venezuelan illegal alien. They do it
- 9:11Speaker 2: all over the United States in every single state in
- 9:14Speaker 2: our country.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Well, that's verifiably true, Greg. I live in South Central Texas.
- 9:18Speaker 1: I live in the San Antonio area. And I know
- 9:21Speaker 1: that the 65% Hispanic market, most of them don't like
- 9:25Speaker 1: illegal immigration because they're here legally or they're American citizens
- 9:28Speaker 1: who were born here who just happen to be Hispanic.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Hispanics by nature don't love illegal aliens, although people like
- 9:34Speaker 1: Greg Kassar act like they do. People like Joaquin Castro
- 9:37Speaker 1: act like they do. When they were putting out the
- 9:39Speaker 1: narrative on this story, They literally said the guy was
- 9:42Speaker 1: driving DoorDash, shot in the back by ice. They didn't
- 9:46Speaker 1: give him any pain meds. They made him sleep on
- 9:47Speaker 1: the floor. They didn't take the bullet out. And here's
- 9:50Speaker 1: a guy who's now holding a news conference via phone
- 9:53Speaker 1: in Spanish. He can't speak English, but he's riling in
- 9:56Speaker 1: pain somehow, but he can still do the news conference.
- 9:58Speaker 1: So when you saw this from the beginning, you've got
- 10:01Speaker 1: a very different perspective than I have, a very different
- 10:03Speaker 1: perspective than anybody watching and listening has because of the
- 10:06Speaker 1: position that you had, a very important position. When you
- 10:08Speaker 1: heard that original narrative, what did you immediately think? There's
- 10:11Speaker 1: no way that happened that way? Or there might be
- 10:13Speaker 1: some veracity to this? What did you think when you
- 10:15Speaker 1: heard all that?
- 10:17Speaker 2: I thought exactly what you said at the beginning of
- 10:19Speaker 2: your program, Joe. Here they go again. Here they're going
- 10:22Speaker 2: to spin yet another DoorDash driver. They didn't say illegal alien.
- 10:27Speaker 2: It's usually the Maryland ad, the DoorDash driver. They start
- 10:30Speaker 2: spinning it immediately. Now, what they won't spin is the
- 10:33Speaker 2: fact that immigration officers, whether it's border patrol agents on
- 10:36Speaker 2: the border or ICE in the interior, one of the
- 10:40Speaker 2: things we're trained in is saving lives. Look at the
- 10:43Speaker 2: thousands of lives saved just by border patrol, those folks
- 10:46Speaker 2: that would have perished coming across the border every single day,
- 10:50Speaker 2: especially in that summer heat. And, you know, that's part
- 10:55Speaker 2: of the mission, just like it is in any police force.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Police save a lot, heck of a lot more lives
- 11:00Speaker 2: than they ever take. And that's glossed over here. When
- 11:05Speaker 2: I heard that, I thought, you know, the very first
- 11:07Speaker 2: thing an ICE officer is going to do when there
- 11:09Speaker 2: is the potential use of lethal force or lethal force
- 11:12Speaker 2: is call for medical attention. ICE is not going to
- 11:15Speaker 2: deliver pain medications to a suspect. A doctor or a
- 11:21Speaker 2: hospital is going to do that. So right as soon
- 11:23Speaker 2: as I heard that, I thought, you know, this is
- 11:25Speaker 2: absolutely ludicrous. And ICE did a good job in encountering
- 11:29Speaker 2: that narrative. The only problem is when the news media
- 11:33Speaker 2: puts that narrative out first, what they're doing is they're
- 11:36Speaker 2: feeding that rabid leftist base. to commit more acts of violence,
- 11:41Speaker 2: to coalesce in Austin and further attack ICE officers. So
- 11:46Speaker 2: it's not just a lie they're spinning. They're doing something
- 11:51Speaker 2: else that's much more insidious. That is fomenting violence and
- 11:55Speaker 2: anarchy against law enforcement.
- 11:58Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. They are, and they're doing it
- 12:01Speaker 1: on purpose. Keep in mind, Greg Kassar, This guy is
- 12:04Speaker 1: a U.S. representative from the Austin area. When he was
- 12:06Speaker 1: on the city council in Austin, he took part in
- 12:09Speaker 1: defunding the police by about $ 150 million. And then we
- 12:12Speaker 1: saw the murder rate rise exponentially in Austin. He's the
- 12:15Speaker 1: guy who's the face of this, which makes no sense.
- 12:17Speaker 1: But yesterday, Greg, you probably saw this. If not, I'll
- 12:20Speaker 1: fill you in. He actually took to a microphone and
- 12:22Speaker 1: he said, that's it. Enough is enough. We've got to
- 12:24Speaker 1: get a legal path to a path to legal status
- 12:28Speaker 1: or more importantly, a path to citizenship for all the
- 12:32Speaker 1: millions who came here. Now, of course, what he wants
- 12:34Speaker 1: is them to vote. He thinks that they're all going
- 12:36Speaker 1: to vote Democrat, and that keeps him in power and
- 12:38Speaker 1: so on. Is that always the underlying thing that you're
- 12:41Speaker 1: dealing with when it comes to politicians? They would love
- 12:43Speaker 1: for them to stay here, because if they do, and
- 12:45Speaker 1: if they get citizenship, they can go and vote for
- 12:48Speaker 1: a Democrat.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Yes, when we talk politicians, and as you know, Joe,
- 12:53Speaker 2: I've been up against a lot of politicians there over
- 12:56Speaker 2: that year, all over the United States. And one thing
- 12:58Speaker 2: that I noticed most of all is, yes, they're looking
- 13:02Speaker 2: for votes and and things like that, but it's also power.
- 13:06Speaker 2: They can retain control of power. It's all about power
- 13:10Speaker 2: to them. It's not about what's doing best for America.
- 13:13Speaker 2: If it was, they would call out the illegal alien
- 13:16Speaker 2: child rapists, bank robbers, DoorDash drivers, and that type of thing,
- 13:20Speaker 2: but they're not. It's all about retaining power. They will
- 13:23Speaker 2: walk over the backs of dead Americans if they can
- 13:27Speaker 2: retain control. some semblance of power or more power or
- 13:31Speaker 2: whatever that's going to do. And, you know, they've turned
- 13:33Speaker 2: their backs on black America in those cities.
- 13:36Speaker 1: Yes.
- 13:36Speaker 2: In favor of illegal aliens, all for power. Again, they
- 13:39Speaker 2: will walk over people to retain power. They'll do anything.
- 13:44Speaker 2: I'm convinced at this point, they'll do anything. Right. So
- 13:47Speaker 2: that they can, you know, stay in, stay in office
- 13:52Speaker 2: or have some of their friends, you attain office, that
- 13:56Speaker 2: type of thing. Then you've got those lucrative contracts, the
- 13:58Speaker 2: lucrative government contracts. It often seems that they are millionaires
- 14:02Speaker 2: within two or three years of attaining office. There's something
- 14:05Speaker 2: else that, that, that, that comes into play there. And
- 14:08Speaker 2: then also the cheap labor.
- 14:10Speaker 1: A hundred percent. And I think the cheap labor, the
- 14:13Speaker 1: cheap labor is on the right side. Those who are
- 14:14Speaker 1: running businesses should be fined. They should be penalized. They
- 14:17Speaker 1: should face jail time if you continue to knowingly hire
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- 15:51Speaker 1: passing on. Let me finish on the Austin incident. And
- 15:56Speaker 1: I call it an incident. I'm not going to call
- 15:57Speaker 1: it a shooting because it was a whole lot more
- 15:59Speaker 1: than a shooting. It was a guy who's not supposed
- 16:01Speaker 1: to be here running from police, getting stopped, allegedly using
- 16:05Speaker 1: the vehicle as a weapon, and then getting shot. But
- 16:08Speaker 1: the body cam video came out, and again, all that
- 16:10Speaker 1: narrative that you and I have been talking about for
- 16:12Speaker 1: the past 10 minutes is true. They all put it
- 16:14Speaker 1: out there as if that was fact, and it wasn't.
- 16:17Speaker 1: DHS has dispelled a whole lot of it. But in
- 16:19Speaker 1: watching the body cam video, what do you glean from that?
- 16:21Speaker 1: What do you see from that?
- 16:24Speaker 2: You know, I see somebody that was actively, well, they
- 16:28Speaker 2: made a choice. First and foremost, that individual made a choice.
- 16:33Speaker 2: He made a decision. And that decision was not to
- 16:36Speaker 2: do what you're supposed to do when law enforcement is
- 16:38Speaker 2: investigating or trying to arrest you, and that's submit to U.S. law.
- 16:43Speaker 2: That individual made the decision to, well, he tried to
- 16:46Speaker 2: get away, but in doing so, another decision was made
- 16:50Speaker 2: that put someone else's life in danger. And when you
- 16:54Speaker 2: put someone else's life in danger... the consequences of your
- 16:57Speaker 2: decisions suddenly become a lot more stark. You're putting yourself
- 17:06Speaker 2: into danger. You're putting the public into danger. That's what
- 17:08Speaker 2: I see. There is poor decision-making and someone that doesn't
- 17:14Speaker 2: seem to want to assimilate into American society. Us as Americans,
- 17:20Speaker 2: we're not all perfect. But we understand that a law
- 17:24Speaker 2: enforcement officer is here because we are a nation of laws.
- 17:28Speaker 2: The individuals coming here don't seem to want to assimilate
- 17:31Speaker 2: to that. And, you know, unfortunately, Joe, they're also being
- 17:33Speaker 2: coached by those politicians, the so-called community leaders to resist ICE,
- 17:38Speaker 2: resist Border Patrol, resist law enforcement. as if that's some
- 17:42Speaker 2: type of a solution that's going to create a positive outcome.
- 17:46Speaker 2: And we all know that's not going to be the case.
- 17:48Speaker 1: Well, I think it's sedition when you've got an AOC
- 17:50Speaker 1: putting out a video on how to avoid ice and
- 17:52Speaker 1: not get caught. When you've got Gavin Newsom doing the same,
- 17:54Speaker 1: other idiots on the left doing the same. I think
- 17:56Speaker 1: it's sedition. They should be held up on charges. It
- 17:58Speaker 1: probably won't happen, but it should be. Let me switch
- 18:00Speaker 1: to the operations that you were the tip of the
- 18:02Speaker 1: spear on. I'm going to say it, and then you
- 18:05Speaker 1: can tell me if I'm right or wrong. I think
- 18:07Speaker 1: the operation in Minneapolis was a vast, crazy success. You
- 18:11Speaker 1: guys arrested 3,000 or 4,000 people, got them out of
- 18:13Speaker 1: the community, made the community safer. Yes, you got two situations.
- 18:17Speaker 1: Renee Good, who clearly runs her vehicle into an ICE
- 18:20Speaker 1: agent and loses her life. Alex Preddy, that one's still
- 18:24Speaker 1: being studied. The CBP does stuff, but he definitely jumped
- 18:26Speaker 1: in and started interfering in the ICA or the CBP
- 18:30Speaker 1: agent doing something. We'll find out about that one. Those
- 18:33Speaker 1: two cases aside, and again, nobody wants to see Americans die,
- 18:36Speaker 1: but if they put themselves in harm's way, it might happen.
- 18:39Speaker 1: I find that what you did in Minneapolis was very successful.
- 18:42Speaker 1: Am I wrong about that?
- 18:44Speaker 2: It was successful. I think that it would have been
- 18:48Speaker 2: more successful had we seen it to the end. And
- 18:50Speaker 2: then put all 800 Border Patrol agents that showed up
- 18:54Speaker 2: there in Minneapolis towards the immigration mission. Yes, we got
- 18:58Speaker 2: a lot of criminals off the streets. ICE and Border Patrol,
- 19:00Speaker 2: a whole lot, did a lot of great work there.
- 19:03Speaker 2: But there was a lot more to be done. And
- 19:05Speaker 2: as Americans, we like to see things through to the
- 19:08Speaker 2: end and do things right. I think that there was
- 19:11Speaker 2: more and still is more to do in Minneapolis, as
- 19:15Speaker 2: well as across America.
- 19:16Speaker 1: And I just want to make sure that I'm clear
- 19:18Speaker 1: on this. When you go in and you do an
- 19:19Speaker 1: operation like that, if the police chief and the mayor
- 19:23Speaker 1: and the governor, lieutenant governor, and the attorney general all said, yes, Greg,
- 19:26Speaker 1: we're going to help you. We're going to help you
- 19:28Speaker 1: get this done. Go get the bad guys. You don't
- 19:30Speaker 1: have to have all those agents in town because if
- 19:33Speaker 1: they're handing you from jail to you guys, that's simple.
- 19:36Speaker 1: It doesn't make the news headlines. If you, if you dust,
- 19:39Speaker 1: if you tell people, take out your camera and start
- 19:41Speaker 1: videotaping ice and CBP agents and follow Bovino anywhere he goes.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Now you're starting trouble on purpose. Am I right that
- 19:48Speaker 1: this could have been so much easier had they just said, yeah,
- 19:50Speaker 1: let's get the bad guys out?
- 19:53Speaker 2: Yes, because concurrently with Minneapolis, we were also in a
- 19:57Speaker 2: place called New Orleans.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Right.
- 19:58Speaker 2: And New Orleans, that is exactly what happened in New
- 20:01Speaker 2: Orleans and to some extent in North Carolina. A lot
- 20:04Speaker 2: of good law enforcement there in North Carolina as well,
- 20:06Speaker 2: but New Orleans, total support from state and locals. We
- 20:09Speaker 2: actually had Border Patrol agents and police officers riding in
- 20:12Speaker 2: the same vehicles. The amount of self-deportations there in the
- 20:15Speaker 2: New Orleans area and greater Louisiana was astounding because we
- 20:21Speaker 2: had lockstep support from the state and locals, and there
- 20:26Speaker 2: was no violence. There was one act of violence within
- 20:28Speaker 2: about 30 days. One. Now, contrast that with Minnesota. As
- 20:34Speaker 2: soon as we get on the ground, it starts. As
- 20:36Speaker 2: soon as we get on the ground, the violence starts. And,
- 20:39Speaker 2: you know, why they can't look at that model and say, well, gosh,
- 20:42Speaker 2: there was absolutely no violence in Louisiana. Border Patrol is,
- 20:46Speaker 2: in fact, going after illegal aliens, criminal illegal aliens and
- 20:49Speaker 2: illegal aliens. And the self-deportations are at that rate that
- 20:54Speaker 2: we need to rid the country of illegal aliens. Why
- 20:58Speaker 2: that has not been looked at and studied, it's rarely mentioned.
- 21:00Speaker 2: You're one of the only ones to mention it, Joe, is... Hey,
- 21:05Speaker 2: there's your code book for success right there in New Orleans.
- 21:08Speaker 2: We were there for a month, about one act of
- 21:10Speaker 2: violence that I can remember, and that was actually pretty mean.
- 21:12Speaker 1: And that's why you didn't make headlines, because you guys
- 21:14Speaker 1: were able to do the job, because you got the
- 21:15Speaker 1: cooperation that you deserved. It's Gregory K. Bovino over on X.
- 21:19Speaker 1: Go and check him out. Get commanders. What is it? Commanders-choice.com.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Go and get the new beverage as well. Let me
- 21:26Speaker 1: ask you about mass deportations. The number one topic for
- 21:30Speaker 1: many voters in 2024 was, let's get rid of those
- 21:33Speaker 1: who came here illegally under Biden. close the border, make
- 21:36Speaker 1: it secure, make it safe. The number one issue for
- 21:38Speaker 1: some others was the economy. But if that was one
- 21:41Speaker 1: or two, was the border. Are we still doing mass deportations?
- 21:45Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like we are, but we're being told
- 21:47Speaker 1: that we are. What's the status of that?
- 21:50Speaker 2: Joe, no, we're not. Mass deportations are not occurring now.
- 21:55Speaker 2: When you target or conduct worst of the worst deportation operations,
- 22:01Speaker 2: that is one small tactic Mass deportations is total spectrum
- 22:08Speaker 2: immigration enforcement. That means everything brought to bear against transnational
- 22:13Speaker 2: criminal organizations, illegal aliens, the whole enterprise. And it's great,
- 22:18Speaker 2: you know, targeting the worst of the worst and child rape.
- 22:21Speaker 2: That's great. But that's barely scratching the surface. You have
- 22:25Speaker 2: to bring the fight to the illegal aliens throughout society
- 22:29Speaker 2: because we need those self-deportations. Joe, we have to have
- 22:32Speaker 2: self-deportations because there are so many tens of millions of
- 22:36Speaker 2: illegal aliens. It's going to be very difficult to put
- 22:38Speaker 2: cuffs on every single one of them. So our strategy
- 22:42Speaker 2: in the Border Patrol was create the mechanism for self-deportations.
- 22:47Speaker 2: That's why you saw two million self-deportations there while we
- 22:51Speaker 2: were conducting this large-scale immigration. operations. So right now, targeting
- 22:57Speaker 2: the worst of the worst, great. It's a great tactic,
- 22:59Speaker 2: but it's not mass deportations. It's not going to remove
- 23:03Speaker 2: tens of millions of illegal aliens. To do that, you need, again,
- 23:08Speaker 2: total spectrum immigration enforcement, not only going into the cities
- 23:11Speaker 2: in all aspects, but going after remittances, bank accounts, anything
- 23:17Speaker 2: we can do to make it uncomfortable or impossible for
- 23:22Speaker 2: any illegal alien to to live in, be, or operate
- 23:26Speaker 2: inside the United States. Leave, do it the right way,
- 23:29Speaker 2: come back at some point the right way, and that's
- 23:33Speaker 2: what we're after. But right now, you can't have 100
- 23:36Speaker 2: million illegal aliens running around with impunity in the United States.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Look at our gas prices, our housing, our affordability, all
- 23:43Speaker 2: the things that come with that many illegal aliens, our
- 23:46Speaker 2: resource destruction, natural resource destruction, water usage, you name it.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Everything is downstream. of illegal immigration in the United States today.
- 23:56Speaker 2: Mass deportations, we can start it tomorrow and it will
- 23:59Speaker 2: solve just about every single problem that we've got in
- 24:04Speaker 2: the United States today.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Former border patrol commander at large is Gregory K. Bovino.
- 24:10Speaker 1: I thought you did a great job in all of
- 24:11Speaker 1: those cities. The ones we didn't hear about, obviously they cooperated.
- 24:14Speaker 1: The ones that we did hear about didn't. When it
- 24:16Speaker 1: comes to mass deportations, the lie of the left is this.
- 24:19Speaker 1: They are arresting, ICE is arresting, 50% of the people
- 24:24Speaker 1: that they're arresting have no criminal record. And I'm going, okay, well, A,
- 24:27Speaker 1: they could be charged with something and still have no
- 24:29Speaker 1: criminal record. B, if they came across the border illegally,
- 24:32Speaker 1: that is a crime. It's a federal statute, 8 U.S.C. 1325.
- 24:36Speaker 1: If you're sent back and you come back, that's 1326.
- 24:38Speaker 1: That's a felony. So the idea that they're selling to
- 24:41Speaker 1: the American public that you're just arresting DoorDash dads and
- 24:44Speaker 1: you're just going after people that aren't the worst of
- 24:46Speaker 1: the worst, that's really not true. I mean, some of
- 24:48Speaker 1: these people have been charged with heinous crimes yet haven't
- 24:50Speaker 1: been adjudicated yet. Therefore, they don't have a criminal record, right?
- 24:54Speaker 2: That's true. And then also the crimes that they've committed
- 24:56Speaker 2: that we don't even know about in the countries of origin.
- 25:00Speaker 2: There's something there that is completely lost. We've got some
- 25:03Speaker 2: real criminals that come in. Sometimes we find out about
- 25:07Speaker 2: it two or three years later with the Interpol red
- 25:09Speaker 2: notices and things like that. But yes, you're right. First
- 25:12Speaker 2: and foremost, they're all criminals. And what the left also
- 25:16Speaker 2: doesn't seem to mention that is very important for your
- 25:19Speaker 2: viewers is Those immigration crimes, many of those are felonies.
- 25:23Speaker 2: They try not to count that as a crime. They're saying, oh,
- 25:26Speaker 2: you know, it's got to be a murder, a rape,
- 25:28Speaker 2: you know, something crazy. Well, you know, when you smuggle
- 25:31Speaker 2: illegal aliens, you smuggle narcotics, you engage in human trafficking,
- 25:35Speaker 2: child trafficking, and many of those other immigration related crimes,
- 25:39Speaker 2: or you reenter after an official deportation, that's a felony.
- 25:42Speaker 2: There's a lot of significant crimes out there that are
- 25:45Speaker 2: immigration related that they don't want to count there as
- 25:49Speaker 2: far as significant crimes. Now, as far as the border
- 25:52Speaker 2: patrol is concerned, when we were in those cities, everybody
- 25:54Speaker 2: gets it. Everyone gets it because remember, when everyone gets it,
- 25:58Speaker 2: self-deportations rise.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Exactly right. It's Gregory Capovino over on X. Go to commanders-choice.com.
- 26:06Speaker 1: Let me ask you about what's happening on the border now.
- 26:07Speaker 1: I know that you're still in contact with people. Obviously,
- 26:09Speaker 1: you've got the inside scoop. I was surprised to see
- 26:12Speaker 1: this in my notes. The cartels are sending hundreds of
- 26:15Speaker 1: drones over our border. They're doing that on the regular.
- 26:19Speaker 1: Why aren't we hearing about this?
- 26:22Speaker 2: The drone situation has been, Border Patrol has known about
- 26:26Speaker 2: the drone situation for a long time now. And, you know,
- 26:29Speaker 2: I'm not going to get too much into some of
- 26:32Speaker 2: the more secured aspects. But there is some good anti-drone
- 26:38Speaker 2: activity going on on the border as well. But, you know, drones,
- 26:41Speaker 2: that's the wave of the future, Joe. I mean, look
- 26:43Speaker 2: what's happening in Ukraine and the Ukraine-Russian war. That's just
- 26:47Speaker 2: about all drones. And I think the cartels aren't stupid.
- 26:51Speaker 2: They're having a very difficult time because of what President
- 26:54Speaker 2: Trump's done on the border. That border is getting bolstered
- 26:57Speaker 2: more every single day due to President Trump. And in
- 27:01Speaker 2: talking with some agents just yesterday, there does seem to
- 27:04Speaker 2: be a sense of desperation amongst the cartels. It's never
- 27:07Speaker 2: been this hard for a cartel to push products. And remember,
- 27:11Speaker 2: they push people across the border now also because people
- 27:14Speaker 2: are just about as lucrative as drugs. There's a sense
- 27:17Speaker 2: of desperation. So you probably will see an increase in
- 27:21Speaker 2: drones and anything else they can bring. Remember, a cartel
- 27:24Speaker 2: or a smuggler will do anything they can to make
- 27:27Speaker 2: a buck. They're not idealists. They're greed based. And they're
- 27:31Speaker 2: going to try to make that buck, bringing anything across
- 27:33Speaker 2: that border they can in any fashion that they can.
- 27:36Speaker 2: But again, we've got the U.S. military on the border
- 27:40Speaker 2: as well. Let's not forget about that. Active duty troops
- 27:42Speaker 2: on the border working hand in hand with the U.S.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Border Patrol's fantastic troops. I mean, highly trained. They've got
- 27:49Speaker 2: anti-drone technology. Our intelligence resources are growing by the day, again,
- 27:53Speaker 2: due to President Trump. So the border is, you know,
- 27:57Speaker 2: we're doing good there. It's just that interior enforcement piece
- 28:00Speaker 2: that I think that we need to bolster up because remember,
- 28:04Speaker 2: if they get past Border Patrol on the border, what
- 28:07Speaker 2: you don't want is, hey, we're free now. We're free.
- 28:11Speaker 2: We're going to be in the interior. There's not going
- 28:13Speaker 2: to be any interior enforcement or mass deportations. What is
- 28:16Speaker 2: that going to do? It's going to create caravans. It's
- 28:19Speaker 2: going to create that sense of, hey, let's just make
- 28:21Speaker 2: it past the mean green team and we're good, drones included.
- 28:25Speaker 2: So we've got to have the interior piece. When you
- 28:27Speaker 2: have both of those working together, That border is virtually
- 28:32Speaker 2: impossible to cross, and people aren't even going to try it.
- 28:36Speaker 2: And that's what we want to do is just prevent
- 28:38Speaker 2: them from trying it in the first place.
- 28:41Speaker 1: We shut down billions of dollars of cartel activity, clearly. Drugs,
- 28:45Speaker 1: human trafficking, sex trafficking, all that on the southern border. Greg,
- 28:48Speaker 1: I used to work in Albany's Connected Detroit, New York.
- 28:51Speaker 1: That's not far from the northern border. They're not stupid.
- 28:53Speaker 1: Like you said, they're not going to just say, I
- 28:55Speaker 1: don't want the money anymore. Are they going that route?
- 28:57Speaker 1: Are they going all the way around the United States
- 28:59Speaker 1: and coming in through Canada? And how secure is that border?
- 29:03Speaker 2: Sure. Northern border, it's always an outlet that they're going
- 29:08Speaker 2: to try, whether that's pushing special interest aliens through the
- 29:14Speaker 2: northern border or drugs. So yes, they're going to try it.
- 29:17Speaker 2: And We've got some good border patrol agents and some
- 29:20Speaker 2: excellent intelligence there on the northern border as well. There's
- 29:23Speaker 2: vast stretches of the northern border, absolutely out in the
- 29:27Speaker 2: middle of nowhere. But sometimes that works to our advantage.
- 29:29Speaker 2: A lot of people think, well, gosh, you know, North
- 29:32Speaker 2: Dakota and Montana, they could just come across the border
- 29:35Speaker 2: anywhere there. Well, they also are affected by lack of infrastructure.
- 29:40Speaker 2: lack of roads, lack of access to get into the country.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Our border patrol agents know that and they they use
- 29:47Speaker 2: that to their advantage. So northern border, definitely some concerns there.
- 29:51Speaker 2: Some of the Indian reservations there, especially in New York, Swanton, Sector, Vermont,
- 29:55Speaker 2: Salt A lot of traffic there over Biden as much
- 29:58Speaker 2: as some southwest border sectors did. Talked to the chief
- 30:02Speaker 2: up there quite a bit. And it's definitely a concern,
- 30:05Speaker 2: but it's something that we're well aware of. And once
- 30:08Speaker 2: those intelligence indicators let us know that something big or
- 30:12Speaker 2: something different or some type of change is occurring there
- 30:16Speaker 2: on the northern border, we do have the ability to
- 30:18Speaker 2: move resources to the northern border. Coastal borders, Joe, there's
- 30:23Speaker 2: another concern. thing we need to watch very closely, that
- 30:27Speaker 2: boatload of Chinese that came a couple of days ago.
- 30:30Speaker 2: You may have heard of that. Those red Chinese, those
- 30:33Speaker 2: communists were coming in on a boat. And remember, they're
- 30:37Speaker 2: not going to come if they think there's a lot
- 30:40Speaker 2: of interior enforcement. Why is that boat actually even out
- 30:43Speaker 2: in the water right now? Let's ramp up the interior enforcement. And,
- 30:47Speaker 2: you know, especially the Chinese, they're very attuned. to immigration enforcement.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Do we have any idea during Biden how many came
- 30:55Speaker 1: from communist China? How many came from Iran that hates us?
- 30:59Speaker 1: How many came from Yemen that might be Houthis? Do
- 31:02Speaker 1: we have any clue? I mean, it just, I get
- 31:03Speaker 1: the feeling that there are a lot of them here,
- 31:05Speaker 1: but we have no idea how many.
- 31:08Speaker 2: We don't because 80% of the border was wide open
- 31:11Speaker 2: for four years under Joe Biden. Think about that. 80%
- 31:15Speaker 2: of the Southwest border from California all the way to Galveston, Texas, 80%
- 31:21Speaker 2: of that entire border was wide open. And there is
- 31:24Speaker 2: no telling how many or what came through across that
- 31:28Speaker 2: border in those four years. Now, what we do know
- 31:30Speaker 2: is a lot of Chinese came and a lot of
- 31:33Speaker 2: special interest aliens from around the world. Remember, this was
- 31:36Speaker 2: not a Mexico problem. This was not a Central American problem.
- 31:39Speaker 2: This was a worldwide immigration or illegal immigration problem. And
- 31:45Speaker 2: I know from I was there in El Centro sector
- 31:47Speaker 2: early on during COVID. And then COVID obviously transitioned into
- 31:51Speaker 2: the Biden catastrophe. Right. The Chinese tried us there. They
- 31:54Speaker 2: certainly tried us there. Now, we hit them hard. We
- 31:56Speaker 2: hit those red Chinese really hard in El Centro. That
- 31:59Speaker 2: didn't stop them from coming across at different places in
- 32:04Speaker 2: the border. Because in talking to the other chiefs, they're saying, man,
- 32:06Speaker 2: we're getting hit by Chinese like you wouldn't believe right now.
- 32:09Speaker 2: So they just went from my sector to another sector.
- 32:13Speaker 2: But a lot. Let me just say the number, a lot. Yeah.
- 32:17Speaker 1: And you're not wrong. And the fact that we can't
- 32:20Speaker 1: put a number bothers me. And the fact that we
- 32:22Speaker 1: didn't vet so many of them who are special interest
- 32:24Speaker 1: aliens bothers me. And it didn't bother Mayorkas. And it
- 32:27Speaker 1: didn't bother Biden. And whatever. Because they don't love the
- 32:30Speaker 1: country like you and I do. Last question. Thanks for
- 32:32Speaker 1: all the time. And I'm going to ask you directly.
- 32:35Speaker 1: I'm hearing rumors. Are you thinking about possibly running in
- 32:37Speaker 1: 28 for president?
- 32:40Speaker 2: I am. But that all revolves around mass deportations. You know,
- 32:44Speaker 2: our country... hangs in the balance now, Joe, as you know.
- 32:47Speaker 2: That's why I'm on your show right now. Yes. And
- 32:50Speaker 2: we better get those mass deportations started. And that's my
- 32:54Speaker 2: life's work. When I signed my life away on the
- 32:55Speaker 2: dotted line, that was what it was all about, was
- 32:57Speaker 2: this country. And if that means, if that's the mechanism
- 33:03Speaker 2: to get those mass deportations, you better believe I will.
- 33:05Speaker 2: You better believe it. And if I do decide to
- 33:07Speaker 2: do it, it's on like Donkey Kong.
- 33:10Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you something. I love your
- 33:12Speaker 1: attitude about the border. I love your attitude about your
- 33:14Speaker 1: love of America. And I think a lot of people
- 33:15Speaker 1: out there would like to know what your next step
- 33:17Speaker 1: is going to be. And I think they would like
- 33:18Speaker 1: you to be involved on some level. If it's president,
- 33:20Speaker 1: let's see. Greg, I appreciate you taking the time. Go
- 33:23Speaker 1: to commanders-choice.com. Go check out his venture there. Go follow him,
- 33:27Speaker 1: Gregory K. Bovino over on X. I appreciate your friendship.
- 33:30Speaker 1: I appreciate you making yourself available to my audience again.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Let's do it again soon, my man. Thank you.
- 33:35Speaker 2: Let's do it, Joe. Thank you and God bless.
- 33:37Speaker 1: God bless.