Trump ends "catch and release" of illegal aliens (07-16-2025--Hour1)

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That's the release part of catch and release, while their cases go through the administrative courts. And well, unless they are a flight risk, then you would keep them detained. Although under the Biden administration, I don't think they thought anybody was a flight risk. So even though people were fleeing literally their own countries, but okay, the absconding rate is constantly high though. In other words, they don't appear, they don't come back for their court appearance. The result of that has been millions and millions of illegal aliens that have been absorbed into the country. And when you have Democrats in control, they don't ever fund the clearing out of these cases. They don't dedicate resources to go and find the people to rearrest them, bring them into the court, run them through their process, and then deport them if their asylum claims are bunk, and most of them and when I say most, it's somewhere in the neighborhood of I think the last stime I saw was somewhere around eighty to ninety percent of the asylum claims are bunk, and so the courts say, no, you're not actually in fear of your life or in fear for your life, so we're going to send you back. Which is why once they get caught and they get their notice to appear and then they don't appear like that's why they don't appear is because there was really no fear of them ever being picked up and being brought back and then being told they have to go back to their home country, but now the opportunity for bonding out is closed. Ed Morrissey, the founder of hotair dot com, writes about this today over at the website hot air dot com. He says, ICE will now detain all illegal border crossers for the duration of their case without exception. So if you get picked up at the border, you're going to be held until you appear in front of a judge. That's it. No more being released. Here's how the Wall Street Journal reported it, though, quote the Trump administration is attempting to make millions of immigrants living in the country illegally once again. Like here is the Wall Street Journal. It's just illegal alien. Save yourself, like five words and some you know, half a column inch here and just say illegal alien. And by the way, these immigrants that they're talking about, they're not living in the countrygally. They just crossed in. They don't even have an address, they have no home, right, they've just arrived. You pick them up at the border, you're putting them into the detention facility. So they're not immigrants living in the country illegally. But once again another example of the obfuscation of reality based on choices that media and Democrats, But I repeat myself that they make in these vocabulary changes that they make in order to advance their agenda. So back to the peace. The Trump administration is attempting to make millions of illegal aliens ineligible to be released from detention on bond as they fight their deportation cases. According to an administration official familiar with the matter, So here's an unnamed source. The move marks a significant departure from decades of practice when immigration judges had the latitude to release someone from detention on a bond if they were not deemed a flight risk. By the way, I remember Republicans and back then even some Democrats complaining about the catch and release program. This would have been twenty five years ago. They were complaining about this. I went to town hall meetings with congress people who were being berated by their constituents for the catch and release approach. This has been part of the immigration debate for twenty five years. Immigration law states that all immigrants in the country illegally must be detained while their fates are decided. That's what the law is. You are to be held and then you are to be adjudicated, and then you are to be either released or you are to be deported. However, with limited beds available in the ice jails, the government had considered the law effectively impossibly to enforce. Right, So you get the game here, right. If you don't build the beds, then you can keep releasing the people. And when you overwhelm the system and you don't have enough beds to begin with, then you don't even never go and pick them up. You never bring them back in. If they just disappear into the fabric of our society, well we'll never know, and we won't have any resources to go get them, and we can't schedule them to appear in a timely manner because we're so overwhelmed by all of the millions and millions of people that have been allowed to come in, particularly in the last four years. Ed Morrisy goes on to say later in the piece, most of those inside the US who could be impacted by this policy change are already absconders. So people who did not show up to court, they had a date, they did not show and so that means they are already subject to arrest and detention. That's already the law. So this policy is not aimed at the existing population of illegal aliens. It's aimed at those who want to try entering the US illegally now and in the future. That's what this policy does. It sends a message, It sends a signal. And this is one of the things that the left and the media and I repeat myself again, but they never talk about this, which is the messaging that goes out to the rest of the world. And if you're as sending the message that the borders are open, and if you get here, you'll stay and we won't do anything to get rid of you, and you'll even be able to get some benefits, and if Democrats have their way, you'll even be able to vote here. Meanwhile, you'll be able to send remittances. You'll be able to send money back to your family and friends back in your home country, and that's not taxed. Like these are rational decisions that people in the other countries are making to come here and take advantage of this. If we are foolish enough to offer this kind of a system to anybody on the planet, then anybody on the planet is rationally going to take advantage of that offer. And so now the policy is changing. Now, no we are going to enforce the law. And the message is going out clearly. It's a signal. There's no way to avoid making the inside, to avoid making the inside of a detention center the sum total of your entire experience of living in America under these circumstances, if you cross that border, we're going to catch you, because they're catching them now, we're going to catch you. And once if we catch you, you're going to stay in a detention facility until you are adjudicated, and then you're head and home. That's going to be your experience in America, and you then cannot come back. If you try to come back, you're in even more trouble. You can't even apply to come back if you get caught. That sends the signal do not come, which is what Kamala Harris told everybody that's where that that was her plan. Don't come, remember like that was the extent of it, like, and nobody listened to her because all of the incentives were aligned for them to come. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot com going over the hot air dot com piece by Ed Morrissey. The name of the piece by Ed Morrissey is chu changes. I don't know if he has a stutter or something, but Trump ends catch and release bonds for illegal immigrants, so illegal crossings have dropped by over ninety percent year over year, delivering on one of Trump's biggest political promises and giving him the biggest political win I would submit so far. Some of the numbers the US borders are. Tom Homan put out a tweet he called it the Trump Effect. Total border patrol encounters. These are just encounters for the entire month of June, last month, six thou seventy. Okay, that is less in an entire month. That's sixty seventy. That is less than a single day. Under Biden, It's less than half of a single day. The total number of counters is less than half of a single day under Joe Biden. Under Biden's term, you saw ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand encounters every day, and of those sixty seventy, the six thousand and seventy encounters, zero were released into the US. That sends a message. Here's Bill Malugin on Twitter. Bill Malugin is a Fox reporter. Customs Border Patrol reports June was the lowest month of illegal crossings ever recorded at the southern border, with just sixty thousand, seventy two for the month. The Biden administration routinely had sixty or sorry, six thousand in a single day, CPB reports, or it's a six thousand plus in a single day. CBP reports zero releases of illegal aliens into the US and June compared to twenty seven thousand, seven to seventy six a year ago. So we went from almost twenty eight thousand people released into the country during the month of June last year to zero released this year. CBP says June was the second month in a row of zero releases of illegal aliens at the southern border, and CBP calls it the most secure border in history. I'd say that's pretty good. That's a pretty big victory. Then there's this, as Ed Morrissey writes at hodair dot com, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or the oh Bah Babbaba as I like to call it. Congress injected more than one hundred and seventy billion dollars into the Department of Homeland Security to bolster border related functions. Much of those funds will go to expand ice detention capacity, going from forty thousand to one hundred thousand capacity, and other funds will ex span the capacity of the administrative judges handling these cases. Finally, finally again twenty five years. People have been clamoring for this on the right. I don't know where the lefties are on this now. They used to be for border protection, Now I don't know what they're at. Now. They're just open borders because it'll destroy America, I guess. But more judges speed up the process, greater capacity at the facilities. While some of that detention and process capacity could be used for absconders, the people who got released already, who are found and then detained, most of it will likely get used for quick turnarounds on new border crossings, making their U turns a lot quicker and entirely more certain. It's the combination that between these two approaches that makes it work more. As he says, even one hundred thousand beds would not have been enough, while over one hundred thousand crossed into the country each month under Joe Biden. Right, so even if you just increased capacity when Biden was president, you would not have been able to turn them around quickly. Don't forget Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the bill that they said that they had to have that Donald Trump tanked right, that they oh, we had a bipartisan deal, and Donald Trump called them up and said, don't you pass that bill. Their bill would not have put any emergency measures into place until the number of illegal border crossers went over twenty five hundred a day, which is seventy five thousand a month, which still would have made no bond policies. In other words, the release policy would have made it impossible to undo. You would have had to release this many people because the trigger for declaring an emergency was too high, which is why Trump and Republicans opposed it. At six thousand a month, a bed capacity of one hundred thousand should be pretty effective as long as DHS hires enough administrative judges to process the cases expeditiously. Now, all that being said, it'll take years, maybe decades, to fully deal with the damage already done by decades of lax enforcement into four year period of open borders chaos from the Biden regency. So keep that in mind. You have to have a realistic view of this. But at least now people come across, they're going to get detained and they're going to get sent back home. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, and you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. So when when discussing the illegal immigration crisis okay in America, and this is also true in other countries of the West that have thrown open their borders as some you know, virtue signal of suicidal empathy or something. It's important to remember that there are different categories of people that are attempting to come across the border. And what the left likes to do and the media that I repeat myself, what they like to do, is to always focus on economic migrants, shall we say, people who are coming to make a better life for themselves here in America or in some other Western society. Maybe they get in they're here as a child with their parents, and then they you know, grow up in this society. They they become successful, they run for mayor on a platform of how terrible America is, like what's happening in Minneapolis and in New York City. More on that later. But there are other types of people that do come across the border. And I've talked about this for years, various reports out of the Dare Gap down in Central America, this really harrowing connection point where it's like jungle and densely forested and stuff, or would that be densely jungled, I don't know. And there are like these pitstop areas, these base camps and where people it's where you know, groups of people they meet up with the smugglers, the human traffickers and stuff, and they make their payments and they go up across the border. And there have been numerous reports over the years, many of them about certain categories of people, like military aged men from China, right, that are on their way to America through Central America. Why why are they killing chickens and drinking the chicken blood which is something that members of the Chinese military forces due as some sort of like initiation deal or whatever. Those are. Those are some reports. And then there was this one about Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained eleven illegal aliens a couple of weeks ago actually from Iran, including one former member of the IRGC that's the Revolutionary Guard and this individual had connections to Hesbalah. Right. That's a category of the types of illegal aliens coming across the border. They're not all coming for the same reason. Just because you you know, sanitize the word illegal alien to say they are migrants, that that doesn't mean that every single person crossing the border is doing so for the same reason. In its latest crackdown against illegal immigration, federal agents arrested eleven Iran money in foreign nationals within forty eight hours, including one watch listed individual. This was part of a series of targeted operations spanning eight states and nine cities nationwide. Among those arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Mehern Makari Saheli. He was up at Saint Paul, Minnesota. A ICE officials say, Shahelli or Saheli or Saheli whatever. He is a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite branch of Iran's armed forces. I says the DTE has quote admitted connections to Hesbelah, which, in case you are not aware, that is a US designated foreign terrorist organization backed by Iran. And in case you were also unaware, prior to nine to eleven, Hesbelah had the highest American body count of any terrorist organization. ICE said that five of those arrested possessed previous criminal convictions, ranging from grand larceny to drug and firearm possessions. A report also noted that the from ICE that the Biden administration detained more than fifteen hundred Iranian nationals who had crossed the southern border illegally, About half of them subsequently were released into the United States despite their affiliation with a country whose regime makes death to America both a slogan and a policy. Of the seven hundred and twenty nine illegal Iranian aliens that were released seven twenty nine. Of the seven twenty nine, all but fifty of them got released while Iran's proxies waged war on Israel with Iranian support. Why did the flood of illegal crossings by Iranian nationals increase year over year by three hundred percent in fiscal year twenty twenty two, and then by another one hundred and thirty five percent in fiscal year twenty twenty three, and then by another seventy three percent in fiscal year twenty twenty four. Why Why did we see this constant increase in Iranian illegal aliens year over year over year. Why would the Department of Homeland Security under Alejandro Majorcas, why would they have released any Iranian into America. Eleven arrests in forty eight hours. Pretty good start, but a lot more needs to be done on that count. That's also Ed Morrissey at hot air dot com. This is Jennifer Van lah Over at RedState dot com. Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed suit against the City of Los Angeles related to its sanctuary city policies, arguing that they violate the supremacy Clause of the US Constitution. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Ashville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion, Cabins of Ashville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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In the suit, the US Department of Justice states that sanctuary policies intentionally discriminate against the federal government by treating federal immigration authorities differently than other law enforcement agents. From the lawsuit quote, through access restrictions both to property and to individual detainees, by prohibiting contractors and subcontractors from providing information, and by disfavoring federal criminal laws that the City of Los Angeles has decided not to comply with. I don't know if this case will have any legs, but I'm going to watch it to see what happens. LA has been a sanctuary SA City informally at least since twenty seventeen, when the city council adopted a sanctuary resolution, which does not carry the force of law. When Trump won in twenty twenty four, city officials quickly worked to codify its sanctuary status. That ordinance, sponsored by City council members Nitya raman Ugo, Soto Martinez and Unices Hernandez, became effective December nineteenth, twenty twenty four, so just before Trump took office. Now go back eight years prior December twenty one, twenty sixteen, during the term of Chief Charlie Beck LAPD's Chief of Detectives, he had sent a memo to all commanding officers stating that department personnel quote, shall not detain an inmate already in local custody for state or local violations for the sole purpose of transferring custody of the mate to ICE, unless at least one of the following conditions present or is present. Rather, a judicial determination of probable cause for the detainer or an arrest warrant from a judicial officer. Custody Services Division will not honor idna's which are Immigration detainer notice of action. This is exactly what Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary not my fault. McFadden has been doing exactly the same thing. And these carve outs, Oh, if you get a judge with a probable cause order, a judicial order, or an arrest warrant from a judicial officer. See, because immigration is administrative law. It's not criminal law. It's administrative law. And so this is why they use these Weasley terms. Well, if you get a judge to issue the detainer, but judges don't do that. Customs and Border Patrol ice they do that. It's administrative and so this is what they did back in twenty sixteen. Our sheriff has been doing very much the same thing. That's why you've got all this state legislation that has come down the pipeline to try to force the sheriff to cooperate fully with ICE on these detainers. And remember, one of the reasons why McFadden and Democrats say that they can't possibly cooperate with ICE is that they're worried about being sued. That's been their argument all this time. Oh, if we hold somebody in order for ICE to come get them out of the jail before we release them back into the community where they will re offend, because obviously they've done something to arrive in the jail, right, They've committed some criminal act allegedly. That's why they got arrested, and that's why they're in the jail. And he says, we can't release them because we could get sued. And they've been saying this for eight years. Nobody's ever been sued over this, though, but he keeps saying it. He keeps saying it, and now I would submit if you don't cooperate with ICE. Now, if LA is your example, you're gonna get sued. So now you risk being sued by the DOJ for not cooperating with ICE, for discriminating against this federal agency. California sanctuary state law passed in twenty seventeen. The first Trump administration sued the state over portions of that law, arguing it violated the supremacy clause. They lost at the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court declined to take up that case at the time, so we'll see what happens this time around. Meanwhile, Guatemala and Honduras have signed agreements with the United States to potentially offer refuge to people for from other countries who otherwise would seek asylum in the United States. One of the other major questions, right, when people are actually fleeing violence in their home country and they claim asylum, they pass through three, four or five other countries to get to America before they claim asylum. If you are actually fleeing violence, why wouldn't you claim asylum at the very first opportunity you had to do so? Right? Why wouldn't you go as soon as you cross over the border and you get to that other country where you are ostensibly theoretically not at threat anymore. You're no longer at risk of being murdered by whatever cartel was running your neighborhood. You're now in another country, Why wouldn't you seek asylum there? But they don't. They travel through many other countries undergoing hardship, abuse, assaults just to claim asylum in America. It's almost as if the original as asylum claim probably wasn't meritorious. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So if you'd like Please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.