1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. While you guys know, 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: we've been talking about the border for gosh, it seems 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: like two years now, but really four years now, because 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: it's been such a disaster. And I really do believe 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: that it was the economy and the border that had 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: the biggest effect in this election, and that's the reason 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is in office or will be in 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: office in January. On January twentieth. But interestingly, behind the scenes, 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: Texas has been working incredibly hard to try to stop 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: the invasion at the border and one of the people 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: who has stepped up is Commissioner Don Buckingham. Commissioner, thank 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: you so much for joining me today. 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: Hey, it is great to be on with you. 14 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: I'm really excited about everything you're doing. I think that 15 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: you know, a land commissioner is something I'm learning about. 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, what is a land commissioner and what 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: does a land commissioner do? But you've offered land to 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: the Trump administration to go in and get these bad 19 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: guys and take them out of the country and kind 20 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: of organize things there, of which there are many, and 21 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: I think the numbers are sort of shocking. But you 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: recently had an op ed where you detailed all the 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: numbers of people who should actually be taken out of 24 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: the country for committing crimes. It's just stunning, It is amazing. 25 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 3: And you know, in general, no one knows what the 26 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: General Land Office Commissioner in Texas does. So just for 27 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 3: a little background, we take care of veterans, We do 28 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 3: everything coast to do the disaster recovery, We run the Alamo, 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 3: We do a lot of different things. But of course 30 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,959 Speaker 3: we stored thirteen million acres and that revenue from that 31 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 3: land fund's education and that's kind of how we acquire 32 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: and run property. And you're exactly right. We are talking 33 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 3: about hundreds of thousands of criminals who have been released 34 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 3: multiple times under similar charges for hurting our sons and daughters, 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 3: and we're just not. 36 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 2: Going to tolerate it anymore. You know. 37 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 3: I look at Alexis, who is Jocelyn Nungery's mother. She 38 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 3: is such a strong lady, and she's like Jocelyn's voice 39 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 3: was taken from her, Joscelyn was tak and for me, 40 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 3: but my voice will speak for Jocelyn, for justice for Jocelyn. 41 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 3: And I don't want another child to have to die 42 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 3: in that manner. I don't want another parent to have 43 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: to suffer that pain. So anything that we can do 44 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 3: to help the Trump administration get these violent criminals off. 45 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 2: Of our soil, we are all in to be a 46 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: good partner. 47 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: You've talked about the fact that you don't want people 48 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: to have to suffer that and as a parent, I mean, 49 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: we both know that's a terrifying thought of losing your child. 50 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: And I can't imagine what Jocelyn's mom is going through 51 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: when you've talked to her. How I mean as a parent, 52 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen Lake and Riley's mom come out. 53 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: We've seen Jocelyn's mom come out. These parents they don't 54 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: stop though. That to me is the most impressive thing. 55 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: She's not stopping, and she wants the story told. And 56 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: it's such a sensitive thing because when we hear it 57 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: on the news, the leftist media always comes out and says, 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: stop talking about it because you're using it for a 59 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: political advantage. But if you don't talk about tragedies like this, 60 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:07,399 Speaker 1: they recur. And we've and we saw that in very 61 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: short a short amount of time with Lake and Riley, 62 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: with Joscelyn, with Ruby Garcia here in Michigan, a constant 63 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: array of crimes that are against women. So when you 64 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: talk to these parents, how do they keep going? How 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: do they keep it keep staying out there in the public. 66 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 3: You know, Honestly, I think the pain of their loss 67 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: fuels them and they have to they have to use 68 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 3: it in a positive direction. I've actually had three really 69 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 3: close friends lose their children through various various accidents or 70 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 3: ventanyla or whatever it is. And I mean, there's a 71 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: pain there that never goes away. There's a holownist part 72 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 3: of you. It's like it's like losing an arm, It's 73 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 3: like losing a leg. You know, You're just there's part 74 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,119 Speaker 3: of you that is just missing. And so I think 75 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 3: these moms in particular are just really strong. And I 76 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 3: think the leftist media is trying to change this story 77 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 3: because they don't want to be honest about the effects 78 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 3: of the Biden administration when they're abdicating their duty to 79 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: protect our border and letting these criminals in. They also 80 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: don't want to talk about the effects of the sanctuary 81 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 3: policies that have let these criminals out over and over 82 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 3: and over again. And just imagine the person you love 83 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 3: most in the world and imagine they have a terrible death. 84 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: Imagine being Lake and Riley's mom and listening to that 85 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 3: eighteen minute nine one one call where her daughter is 86 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: being raped and beaten to death. And yet you know 87 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 3: that law enforcement have their hands on that person. They 88 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 3: were detained multiple times, and multiple times they let them 89 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 3: walk right out the front door of the jail. That 90 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 3: is inexcusable. And so there is no excuse for these 91 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 3: sanctuary policies that when we've got someone who's arrested that's 92 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 3: got a nice detainer, that person should go or that 93 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 3: person should be fully evaluated. You shouldn't just let them 94 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 3: walk out the door under a sanctuary policy. 95 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: And they try to cover up what you just said about. 96 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: These people have been arrested multiple times. They the police 97 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: officers have had their hands on them. You talked about 98 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: a friend who lost a child to fentanyl. It's the 99 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: same it's the same thing. It's the open border, and 100 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: oftentimes these people have also been arrested. Now, Donald Trump 101 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: has talked about stiff penalties for anybody who is dealing fentanyl. 102 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: I mean, he's talked about some of the stiffest penalties. 103 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: What are your feelings on this you talk about this land. 104 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: Has he come back to you and said anything about 105 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: what he could do, how you could work together. 106 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 3: Well, I was actually with Ton Homan a few days 107 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 3: ago and he said, they're definitely coming up with what 108 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: their strategic plan is. We've also identified properties, you know, 109 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 3: we have thirty million acres, we have properties all over 110 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 3: the states. We've identified other properties they might be interested in, 111 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 3: you know, and we'll see what they come up with. 112 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 2: But we're just all in. You know. 113 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 3: Texas has been standing in that gap. We've been passing 114 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 3: laws actually that increase all the penalties to the maximum 115 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 3: for selling fentanyl, for trafficking children, for all of those 116 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:05,840 Speaker 3: kinds of things. 117 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: And a lot of people are kind of looking to. 118 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 3: Texas now and going, ooh, there's some things that we 119 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 3: can do as a state to help with this problem 120 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 3: as well. So we're happy to be an example. We're 121 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 3: happy to help any state that needs to stiffen up 122 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 3: their penalties to get rid of these criminals. But we 123 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 3: want these violent criminals off of our soil who are 124 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 3: killing our sons and daughters. 125 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: I think people get nervous when they hear mass deportation 126 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: because they're like, oh, what does that mean are we 127 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 1: use sending families away? Are you tearing people apart? But 128 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 1: you have some interesting numbers. As of July twenty first 129 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: of this year, there were six hundred sixty two thousand, 130 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: five hundred and sixty six illegal aliens in the country 131 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: that we know of with a criminal history, and they're 132 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 1: on ices the ICE docket. I mean, these are people 133 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: that we know of, and we know there's a heck 134 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: of a lot more that have committed crimes that we 135 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: don't know of. Of those, four hundred and thirty five, 136 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: seven hundred and nineteen of them were convicted criminals, two 137 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six eight hundred and forty seven have 138 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: pending criminal charges. Only fourteen nine and ninety four of 139 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: them were in federal custody. When we talk about sending 140 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: ICE out to do their job, man, it's a four 141 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: year catchup. 142 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 2: It really is. There. It's going to take a long 143 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 2: time to round up the criminals. 144 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 3: And you're exactly right, we don't really know how many 145 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 3: there are because so many people came across that weren't counted. 146 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 3: So many people came across that haven't come across law 147 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 3: enforcement yet. But what we do know is that they 148 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 3: are repeat offenders. So the numbers are low. I mean, 149 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 3: it's just what they got caught for. And when you 150 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 3: look at the crime within marginalized communities, if you're a 151 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 3: legal immigrant and someone rapes your daughter, you're probably not 152 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 3: going to report that to law enforcement, right, And so 153 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 3: the when you've got marginalized communities, which is also what 154 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 3: we're trying to fix, then even more bad things happen. 155 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 3: And so we just want people to come here legally. 156 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 3: We want, you know, to enjoy the American dream. We 157 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 3: want to break the chains that these cartels enslave. These 158 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 3: folks that come across the way they came across, I mean, 159 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 3: they are owned by the cartels. They're either going to 160 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 3: be selling their body or selling drugs. There's not a 161 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 3: free person that I know of that has come across 162 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 3: this border. They come across basically owned by the cartels 163 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 3: and the most violent gangs in the country. And we 164 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 3: see these venezualing gangs taking over apartment complexes, We see 165 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 3: all kinds of things happening that are absolutely unacceptable. It's 166 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 3: why we have to eliminate the sanctuary policies. It's why 167 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 3: we have to go aggressively after these criminals, and we 168 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 3: want them off our soil. 169 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: I've got more coming up with Texas Land Commissioner Don Buckingham, 170 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: but first let me tell you about my partners at IFCJ. 171 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: Ristmas and hanka season is a time of hope and 172 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: peace for many of us, but for those in Israel 173 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,719 Speaker 1: facing the ongoing war, it's a time of fear and uncertainty. 174 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: The hardships are felt by everyone, with many people struggling 175 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: to afford food and basic necessities during this holiday season. 176 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: Many living through the war in the Holy Land are 177 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: grieving the loss of loved ones while also enduring isolation 178 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: and hunger. 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They come across owned by the cartel. 196 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: They are now forever beholden to the cartel. And as 197 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: much as we as Americans and the American government may 198 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: not know where they are, the cartel always does, and 199 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: they will find them, and they will use them, and 200 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: they will abuse them. This is a very nasty situation 201 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: to have an open border. It's very cruel. It's not humanitarian, 202 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: it's quite the opposite. It is very abusive to children. 203 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: It's very abusive to all people that come across. And 204 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: I think like when we talk about it, we try 205 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: to explain to people, these are kids they're coming across, 206 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 1: but sometimes sometimes they're kids that are horribly abused, and 207 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: sometimes they're kids who are abusers themselves, and we don't 208 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: think of that because there are not many children that 209 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: grow up and have the life that some of these 210 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: kids that come from these horribly dangerous countries come from. 211 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: So you may have a fifteen year old that comes 212 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: across the border. I have a fifteen year old, my daughter. 213 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: I can't imagine committing crimes or doing any of these things. 214 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: She's not had that life. You know, I could mistakenly 215 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: have her date a fifteen year old boy thinking that 216 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: they've had the same life, and he's in a gang. 217 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: You know, this is the danger of this open border. 218 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: You are owned by someone else, and no matter where 219 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,439 Speaker 1: you are in the country, you're owned it by someone else. 220 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: I think you obviously see it in a greater number 221 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: in Texas than we see in Michigan, but it is 222 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: increasing in Michigan. It's hidden here. I think that's the 223 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: difference is here there's nooks and crannies, and the government 224 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: has offered hotel owners in the state of Michigan money 225 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 1: to house them. They've offered hotel owners, they've offered churches. 226 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: We've had people come to us and say we were 227 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: offered a massive amount of money to shut our hotel 228 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: down and take migrants in. I mean, you look at 229 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,560 Speaker 1: the situation in New York where you have the Roosevelt 230 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: Hotel that's completely filled with migrants now and the government 231 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: is paying, and all of this money is changing hands. 232 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: And now we find out this hotel is owned by 233 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: someone in another country, and we're paying that country money 234 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: to house these migrants. I mean, the whole thing is 235 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: bananas when you break it down. But you said something interesting. 236 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: These communities become very dangerous because these people, the women especially, 237 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: feel they can't go to the government and say I've 238 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: been attacked, I've been raped, I've been I mean, and 239 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: I imagine the men the same are being extorted and 240 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: everything else because they cannot go to the government and 241 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: say I need help because they would get deported. So 242 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: how is it safe to have a Roosevelt Hotel that 243 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: is filled with people who are committee crimes and holding 244 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: people people hostage, or raping people or beating people or 245 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: whatever they're doing, and no one can speak out against it. 246 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,839 Speaker 3: Well, I think you make an exceptional point. I've also 247 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 3: heard stories that if a migrant comes here and they 248 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 3: do try to thwart what the cartels want them to do, 249 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 3: they go back to their original country and kill their 250 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 3: whole family the cartels do. And then you talk about 251 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 3: the hundreds of thousands of missing children, Why is that 252 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 3: not being shouted from the mountaintops. It is inexcusable to 253 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 3: have hundreds of thousands of children who are missing. And 254 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 3: I can probably tell you why they're missing. They're missing 255 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 3: because they're tucked in some corner, some awful place, being traffic. 256 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 3: That's why they're missing. It's unacceptable to lose that many children. Ironically, 257 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 3: I'm happen to be at a conference with elected officials 258 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 3: from across the country and I am telling these stories 259 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 3: to these elected officials and they're looking at me in disbelief, 260 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 3: and I'm like, I feel like we have been shouting 261 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 3: this for years. This is not new news. And yet 262 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 3: just people in our country just don't know. They just 263 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: don't understand the depth and the breadth of the problem. 264 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 3: And again, we want safe communities. The basic function of 265 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 3: government is to defend those that cannot defend themselves. That 266 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: is the fundamental function of government. When you are allowing 267 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 3: violent criminals, repeat offenders, back out on the street with 268 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 3: no consequence, that is absolutely unacceptable. It is the worst 269 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 3: thing you could possibly do. So you're right, I mean 270 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 3: we cannot shout from the mountaintops enough what's happening here? 271 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 3: But we need these violent criminals who are hurting our 272 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 3: sons and daughter off of our soil. 273 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: We saw the two year old a few days ago 274 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: who came in and they asked where mommy and daddy, 275 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: and she just said, somewhere in the United States. How 276 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: does that happen? How and how often does that happen? 277 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: How can you possibly have a toddler across the border alone? 278 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: Where as a mom, I just cannot understand it. And 279 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: I cannot understand it because if those parents were found, 280 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: they would be put in jail in the United States. 281 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: Because if I put my two year old on a 282 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: train and said, hey, go to Florida, I'll meet you 283 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: there in a few days, I would be put in prison. 284 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: I mean, these are criminal offenses. This is this is 285 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: it's so beyond what you could even imagine as a parent. 286 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: I just I look at it and I go, we 287 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: are so used to this now that people go, oh, yeah, 288 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: that's sad, No, what how does it happen? 289 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 2: Well, I think you bring up a really good point. 290 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 3: She obviously wasn't changing her own diapers as she was 291 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 3: making her track. She was obviously in the hands of somebody, 292 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 3: probably not an upstanding person. But it's heartbreaking what's happening 293 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: to these children, And who would want children brought into 294 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 3: the country marginalized like that. That's not the way to enter, 295 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 3: That's not how to have a part of the American dream. 296 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 3: The way to have a part of the American dream 297 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 3: is to come here legally and safely. And you know, 298 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 3: what has been happening is so unacceptable. You know, ironically, 299 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 3: this ranch that we are, the initial property that we've 300 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 3: offered the Trump administration is in a county called Star County, 301 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 3: right obviously right on the border. That county, for the 302 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 3: first time in one hundred and fifty years, voted Republican. 303 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 3: It voted for Donald Trump. And so that speaks to 304 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 3: the fact that the people along the border, and I 305 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,119 Speaker 3: always like to remind everybody the border towns are lovely communities. 306 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 3: The people who live there are amazing. 307 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 2: The valley in. 308 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 3: Texas actually has a hospitality exceptional even for Texas. They're 309 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 3: wonderful people, but they are sick and tired of their 310 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 3: communities being marginalized. They are sick and tired of people 311 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 3: getting put in front of them who came here later. 312 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 2: If you're in. 313 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 3: Line right now trying to immigrate legally, you're waiting a 314 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 3: really long time because the system is so clogged with 315 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 3: everybody who came here illegally that it's blowing down all 316 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 3: the people who've already been waiting years for their Green 317 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 3: cards or whatever it is. 318 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 2: And so. 319 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 3: You know, all we're doing is hurting the people who 320 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 3: are trying to do it right. 321 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 2: All we're doing is rewarding bad behavior. 322 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 3: All we're doing right now with the Biden administration is 323 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 3: enriching the cartels and the most violent gangs, and that 324 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 3: is just not the path that this country needs to 325 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 3: be on. 326 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: It's interesting because it seems like some Democrats are reluctantly 327 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: on board. I think they're actually less than reluctantly. I 328 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 1: think they're enthusiastically on board. They don't feel like they 329 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: can say it. We've heard some Democrats come out and say, well, 330 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: I didn't think I could say this during the campaign 331 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: or that during the campaign, and now I feel comfortable 332 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: saying this. Just this Earlier this week, we heard Mayor Adams, 333 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 1: a mayor Matt Mayor Eric Adams in New York City 334 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: come out and say, I don't care if you're going 335 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: to try to cancel me. I'm going to make sure 336 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,640 Speaker 1: that the people of my city are safe. Went on 337 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: to say there has beenzing an amazing amount of crime, 338 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: that people don't feel comfortable, that he has a serious problem, 339 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: and he is going to work with ICE to make 340 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: sure it is taken care of. Do you think that 341 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: they're I mean, you talked about this county that just 342 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: went red. Do you think that there is a huge 343 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: change in this country to say, man, we've been tricked. 344 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 3: I hope so, because the country has been tricked. The 345 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 3: talking points, I just call it laughable hypocrisy. When Kamala 346 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,959 Speaker 3: Harris during the campaign said she secured the border and 347 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 3: shut down the cartels, I almost fell out of my 348 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 3: ch air. 349 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm glad we haven't. 350 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: It's just lies. But that's the bizarre part about what's 351 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: happening in elections, and I think that has been sort 352 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: of eye opening as well. They've used all of these 353 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: lies and these manipulations and these scare tactics, and I 354 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: mean in Michigan in the past, it was like, if 355 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: you don't come out and vote for us, you're not 356 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: going to get marijuana. That's the way we're going to 357 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: get you out, and it's abortion. And then it was 358 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 1: you're a horrible person if you don't accept an open border. 359 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,479 Speaker 1: And then suddenly it was like people went, we're just 360 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: being lied to because ultimately they get back in power. 361 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: We have a dangerous border, we have a terrible economy, 362 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: we have a population disaster. Everything is going to hell. 363 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: And I think the American people had to see a 364 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden administration for four years to see we have 365 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: got to make a serious change. Do you think that 366 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 1: change is permanent? 367 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 3: You know, I think there's In a way, it's a 368 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 3: blessing that there was a gap between the two Trump 369 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 3: administrations because people got to see a direct contrast between 370 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 3: the two. The numbers are amazingly different between where we 371 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: were four years ago when Trump was leaving office and 372 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 3: where we are today where Biden is leaving office. And 373 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 3: let's remember that Biden actually called the majority of Americans 374 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 3: trash not too long ago. And it's amazing to me 375 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 3: that and I'm glad, but it's amazing to me that 376 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 3: people saw through the hypocrisy because the mainstream media and 377 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 3: how they portray and what they don't talk about and 378 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 3: how they want. 379 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 2: To squelch what the real story is. 380 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 3: Was pretty impressive, and obviously, you know, the message wasn't 381 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 3: getting out fully, but at least it got out enough 382 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 3: that the American people could stand up and go, Look, 383 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 3: these policies are not for me. Look these policies are 384 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 3: hurting my community. 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Well, 410 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: even as a state senator, you were elected in a 411 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: very blue area as a Republican. I mean, obviously we've 412 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: been watching Texas for years because we've seen this mass 413 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: migration from California to Texas, like this movement to get 414 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: out of California, and everybody's like, okay, but don't bring 415 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: those politics to Texas. And we've been hearing Texas is 416 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: going blue, Texas is going blue. Obviously, there was a 417 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: kerfuffle or blow up Oh, Senator Cruz is not going 418 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: to win, and he won overwhelmingly. So do you think 419 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: that this has held off a lot of what they 420 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: thought was going to be a blue wave in Texas 421 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: and now it's actually shifting more to the right again. 422 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 2: Absolutely. 423 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 3: You know, it was victory chair for the Republicans of 424 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 3: Texas in twenty eighteen, which was Senator Cruise's race against Beto, 425 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 3: and we averaged five hundred miles day, kicked off multiple 426 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 3: rallies for him today. 427 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 2: I mean, it was a full court press. 428 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 3: And it was great to see him come back even stronger, 429 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 3: and when honestly against a better candidate. Colin Alred is articulate, 430 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 3: you know, former professional athlete, a real a real life 431 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 3: of service in Congress. So uh so it was good. 432 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 2: I think. I think you know, as. 433 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 3: We see consistently the cities outvote the rural areas. You know, 434 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 3: the there aren't there aren't very many blue states. There 435 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 3: are a lot of states that have some big red 436 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 3: dots that I mean, I'm sorry, some big blue dots 437 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 3: in the cities that outvote the rural areas. But but yes, 438 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 3: I think with the mass migration of the Californians coming 439 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 3: in with Texas shifting just our various population percentages of 440 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 3: various ethnic groups, I think everybody assumed. 441 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 2: That that it was going to flip. 442 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you that the Hispanic community has 443 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 3: conservative values. Naturally, they've just been told their Democrats their 444 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 3: whole life. But generally they believe in Jesus, their family oriented, 445 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 3: their entrepreneurial, hard working, and so when we go we do. 446 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 3: I kind of consider it my evangelical work. I walk 447 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 3: a lot into non traditional communities and just be present, 448 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: and sometimes I'm the first Republican that they've met. Sometimes 449 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 3: definitely the first Republican who's asked for their vote. I 450 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 3: was endorsed in my race by several entities, and I 451 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 3: was probably in one entity, I was the first Republican 452 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 3: they had ever endorsed, and then the other one, I 453 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 3: was the only one out of about four hundred races 454 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,239 Speaker 3: that was a Republican that they endorsed. And so I 455 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 3: just walk into these communities just I kind of lose 456 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 3: the tags a little bit, but represent just our fund 457 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 3: you know, our beliefs and what we stand for, and 458 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 3: let them know we're bringing solutions for their communities. 459 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: And I think it helps. It helps for. 460 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 3: Them to see, you know, it helps the horns fall off. 461 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 3: They can't the media paints all of us as being 462 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 3: so terrible, and so we just kind of get those 463 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 3: horns off. We come and be present, we're friendly, and 464 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 3: we're just going to keep doing it. But I think 465 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 3: I think this showed that Texas is strong. Texas is 466 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,479 Speaker 3: going to continue to be strong, but we're also going 467 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 3: to have to keep working and being sure that as 468 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 3: people move in, they don't bring some of their politics. 469 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 2: There's a reason they. 470 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 3: Left those other states, so they should probably not try 471 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 3: and turn us into that. 472 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: I think there's a real movement among Republicans in the 473 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: last few years to say we're going into the areas 474 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: we haven't historically gone into. And I mean even when 475 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: I was running, there was this discussion of all, you 476 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: can't win there, don't waste your time, you can't win here, 477 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: don't waste your time. And I think that's not been 478 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: you know, that's changed in such a short period of 479 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 1: time where Donald Trump's like, I'm going into any area, 480 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm going to step in. And we were fortunate when 481 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,439 Speaker 1: I was running that we had some of those groups 482 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: come to us. But now it's time to open our possibilities, 483 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: open our minds to going out and meeting the folks 484 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: who we think hate us, and they've tried to convince 485 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 1: us that they hate us, and yet they don't hate us. 486 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: In fact, we share more in common and with the 487 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: majority of America that I think that the Democrats do 488 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: by far. I mean, you see a real unity coming 489 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: together around Donald Trump. See Democrats saying, ah, you know, 490 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: I'll work with him if he's willing to do this, 491 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: and he's willing to do that. That is not how 492 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was acting. I mean, the funny thing is, 493 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was the one that was like, I'm not 494 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: going to work with anybody that's Trump, anybody that's Mega, 495 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: anybody that's Republican. So I think that we're seeing a 496 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: whole new United States of America and actually coming it's 497 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: reminiscent of old times. So it's bringing the country back together. 498 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: Before I let you go, just explain a little bit 499 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 1: about the Joscelyn Initiative. What people out here can do 500 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: to kind of support you in that. 501 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 3: Well, the joscell Initiative was just taking it that extra 502 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 3: step further. We had originally identified that fourteen hundred acre 503 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 3: property that we literally just acquired a month ago, and 504 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 3: we're going to have that wall finished probably next week, 505 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: which is super exciting to move it that fast. But 506 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 3: I reached out to Alexis Jocelin's another because I want 507 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 3: to be really careful and protect them, and I said, 508 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 3: you know, i'd like to name this initiative after Jocelyn. 509 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 2: I would like to do, you. 510 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 3: Know, I want I want to keep her at the 511 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 3: forefront of people's memory so that we know her story 512 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 3: so it hopefully never repeats again. And it was great 513 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 3: having her with me at the press conference. But basically 514 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 3: we're just aggressively looking for properties all around the state, 515 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 3: anything the Trump administration might need. We're partnering with them 516 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 3: and saying, look, how can we be helpful. How can 517 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 3: we help these violent criminals get off of our soil. 518 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 3: Our jails are fully overcrowded with them. To get that 519 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 3: burden off the local officials, and so we're just it's just. 520 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 2: Us saying we're in. 521 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 3: We're doing whatever we can, whatever property I have, whatever 522 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 3: you need from the General Land Office. We are here 523 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 3: to help these get these violent criminals off our soil 524 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 3: who are raping and murdering our sons and daughters. 525 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And you're also talking about land that will 526 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: be available for border wall construction. And we know the 527 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: border wall was the big issue in twenty sixteen. Joe 528 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: Biden sadly through all of that border wall construction material away. 529 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: So here we are starting at square one again. But 530 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: it sounds like you've been working behind the scenes very 531 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 1: hard on this, so we appreciate everything you've done, and 532 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: I appreciate you being here today. 533 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much for having me on. Its great 534 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 3: being on with you, and you have a great day. 535 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: Absolutely, everybody check her out. She is Commissioner Don and 536 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 1: Buckingham in Texas. 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