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-- [In progress] So there's gonna be hundreds of thousands, if this keeps up, millions of United States citizens and countries that I consider our adversaries who will come back to this country and make, you know, have an effect on how this country is run. Huge national security issue.
Do you have that, uh, do you have that [Inaudible] provide us?
[Inaudible] -- talked about stepping up prosecution of birth tourism schemes. Does the administration have numbers on how often --
HS, uh, ICE HSI runs birthright tourism investigations. Uh, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I can tell you based on this, uh, the state's decision, there's going to be an increase in birthright tourist investigations.
But the votes probably aren't there.
What new action is the administration considering on, on birth tourism? [Inaudible]
Doubling down on birthright, birthright tourism investigations, right? And those organizations that do that. Uh, also, step up enforcement. That's what I'm gonna do. We're going to step up enforcement. The enforcement's already at a record level, we're going to have to do more.
What does that look like? Stepping up enforcement.
More agents in the street arresting more illegal aliens.
How many birthright, how many birthright tourist, uh, tourists are there every year?
Hear that from ICE. ICE has the, I don't have the numbers.
I mean, do you have, uh, dozens? Hundreds?
Thousands.
Thousands?
Yes.
According to which data?
The same data when I was ICE director. I mean, I haven't been over, I haven't been in charge for a few years, but with, uh, ICE would have those numbers.
You threatened to send more ICE agents than we've ever seen before to New York. What can New Yorkers expect in the weeks ahead?
They get to force us to enforce the immigration law like we do in every other state, you know? And I met with Governor Hochul before she made that decision. I explained to her how we handled Minneapolis, right? We're able to take thousands of people off the street in Minneapolis, agents, because we got cooperation from more jails than we ever got before, which means one agent arrests one bad guy in jail.
And it quelled the hate, the violence, and it's safer to arrest a criminal, uh, illegal alien in jail rather than trying to find them in the neighborhood, 'cause when we go to the neighborhood, it's unsafe for the neighborhood, it's unsafe for the agent, it's unsafe for the alien, and when we find a bad guy, usually they're with others.
Others, they may not be a public safety threat but in the country illegally, they're coming too, if we're going to enforce the law, so it results in more collateral arrest. And I explained this all to the governor. I, I'm, I'm a native New Yorker, born in, born in New York, you know, raised in New York, went to college in New York, will retire in New York, will die in New York.
I care about New York. Well, she did the complete opposite. She locks us out of the jails. What does that mean? Every illegal alien we arrest in the State of New York will be on a plane and sent out the state to be detained because we can no longer rent beds in New York. It means more collateral arrests in New York.
But [Inaudible] this, uh, and it's not a threat. She keeps saying it's a threat. No, we're going to do what we, we're going to do target enforcement operations. Every day we leave, we know who we're looking for. And we're going to do things the right way. So, you know, it's not going to be another M- -- Minneapolis type operation, and we just hope the people understand we got to enforce the law.
If she don't want to support, then, s- -- s- -- you know, s- -- stand back and we'll enforce, we, if she doesn't want to make her streets safer, then we'll make them safer, because she has said, she has said many times that she supports ICE looking for the criminal aliens, right? So how does she square that with the fact she ended 287(g) agreements and she ended agreements with jails giving us bed space?
How do you square that? She can't. She's talking out of two sides of her mouth.
[Inaudible] TPS for Ukrainians and Salvadorans?
Pardon me?
Is the administration going to terminate TPS for Ukrainians and Salvadorans?
That, that's not my call. That's Secretary Mullin had, that would his call.
Can I ask about the World Cup?
[Inaudible] -- a new, a new bill in Congress to talk about birthright citizenship as the president --
I hope so.
-- suggested?
I hope so.
Walk me through the idea that you don't need a constitutional amendment for this, given that the [Inaudible]
I, I'm not an attorney. As a, as a career law enforcement officer, I don't know how that whole thing works. But it needs to work, it needs to happen. Because, again, it's a driver for a lot of illegal immigration, but most importantly, it's a national security issue. When you got people from adversary countries coming here under false pretense, like I'm coming here on business or a tourist visa, they have a child that becomes a US citizen, how many hundreds of thousands US citizens are we going to have living in adversary countries that don't like us, don't respect us, and don't believe in that, you know, in our way of life here?
I mean, and at any time, they can come back, have an impact. Whether it's going to the voting booth or whether it's running for office, they're going to have an impact on the future of this country. It's a national security issue. And I, and the governor, um, I mean, Judge Alito got it exactly right. I'm glad he brought up national security issue.
He put all this other stuff about, look, illegal immigration. Very controversial. Always has been. Right? Um, I get it. It's always been controversial. People feel hard on both sides. But the national security implication? Everybody should agree.
Do you think, do you think that, Mr. Homan?
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