June 5, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show—hosted solo today by Buck Sexton—delivers a powerful and in-depth analysis of President Donald Trump’s latest policy moves and national security priorities. Buck opens the hour by highlighting President Trump’s Oval Office discussions, focusing on a renewed travel ban targeting high-risk countries and proposed restrictions on foreign nationals attending U.S. colleges. These measures, Buck argues, are part of a broader America First agenda aimed at protecting national interests and restoring order to immigration policy. A major segment of the hour is dedicated to Trump’s recent call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Buck breaks down the administration’s efforts to renegotiate trade terms, particularly around rare earth materials, and praises Trump’s strategic clarity and leadership—drawing a sharp contrast with the previous Biden administration’s perceived indecisiveness and lack of coherent China policy. Buck also explores the evolving dynamic between President Trump and Elon Musk, noting some recent friction but expressing hope that their shared goals will keep the relationship productive. He uses this moment to underscore the importance of unity among influential figures who support American innovation and economic strength. Immigration and border security dominate the latter half of the hour, with Buck welcoming Ron Vitello, Senior Advisor to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Vitello details the dramatic improvements at the southern border under Trump’s leadership, including a 90%+ drop in illegal crossings, increased prosecutions, and the deployment of 10,000 troops. He credits this success to strong leadership, clear policy enforcement, and international cooperation with Mexico and Canada. Vitello also updates listeners on the status of the border wall, revealing that over 100 miles have been constructed using remaining funds from Trump’s first term, with plans for 700 additional miles underway. He emphasizes how the administration’s use of tariffs has pressured neighboring countries to step up their border enforcement, contributing to a significant reduction in fentanyl trafficking and cartel activity. Buck passionately defends ICE and Border Patrol agents, pushing back against political attacks and media narratives that undermine their work. He highlights the dangerous conditions these agents face and the critical role they play in protecting American communities from cartel violence and illegal immigration. Throughout the hour, Buck reinforces key themes of national sovereignty, law and order, and the importance of strong leadership under President Trump. His solo hosting brings a focused, hard-hitting tone to the discussion, making this hour a must-listen for anyone following U.S. immigration policy, border security, and international trade developments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Show YouTube channel. Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off. Now,
we were talking the last hour a bit about some
of the big things Trump is discussing or was discussing
in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I want to bring you some of those highlights.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We've got stuff about restricting foreign foreigners from going to
US colleges and universities. We've got the foreign nationals from
high risk countries that are banned.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Travel band, if you will, Lisa.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They're not calling a Muslim band this time because Cubaezuela
not necessarily thought of as you know, the Islamic world.
I mean, some of the countries that are on there
are clearly, it's not that I remember the first Trump administration,
they're all saying it's a Muslim bands and then they
had to add like North Korea onto and they said, look,
these are just countries that are messed up. It wasn't
Trump's fault. There are a lot of messed up countries
that are Muslim majority. And then there's also some stuff
(01:20):
on the call with she and and and Trump's relationship
with Elon.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
This is hitting a little bit of a speed bump.
You could say the.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The self driving of the Trump Elon relationship is having
a couple of bugs in the system. We'll talk about this.
It is not a surprise to me that this is
where things are right now. But I I you know, wait,
I'm just gonna say this. When Trump and Elon, when
I see there's a little static with Trump and Elon,
it's like.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Watching my parents fight.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm like, no, come on, you guys are the good guys.
No fighting, It'll be it'll be fine. It'll be fine.
My parents like never fought, so that was very nice.
But you know what I'm saying, let's see here we
have I saw other.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
People's parents fights. I'd be like, oh, that's not fun.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Uh, let's do do do first? The Trump call with
ELM this is this is a big deal because all
the tariff stuff with all these other countries, we all
know that can get negotiated. I think we're quite clear
that EU stuff, Canada stuff Canada.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know we love Canada.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You know Trump gives you some Trump gives you a
hard time a little bit, but you know we love
you Canada. China is a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's a different that's a different thing, right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
The China is a is a an issue for the
United States and is doing bad things, particularly on trade
and taking a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of our trade secrets and exploiting.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think the good faith of the American capitalist mindset
and system, and and so we got to take a
different approach with them. This was Trump just now in
the Oval Office. He had a chat with a president
Shei Jinping of China, and here is what he had
to say about it, Play twenty five.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
We had a very good talk and we've straightened out
any complexity.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's very complex.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Stuff, and we straightened it out. The agreement was we're
going to have Scott and Howard and Jamison will be
going and meeting with their top people and continued forward.
But no, I think we have everything. I think we're
very good shape with China and the trade deal. We
(03:37):
have a deal with China, as you know, but we
were straightening out some of the points having to do
mostly with rare earth magnets and some other things.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So it's produced trade tariff rates.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
They remain in effect.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
We have the deal.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I mean, we've had a deal, we announced the deal,
and it will be I guess you could say I
wouldn't even say finalized that Scott. I would say, we
have a deal, and we're going to just make sure
that everybody understands what the deal is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
We have a deal, and he wants to get more
clarity on the deal. You know, what's one big difference
between this Trump administration that you're already seeing and the
Biden administration. Stuff actually happens with this Trump administration. There
are things in motion that are to the benefit of
(04:27):
the American people. Think about so much of what was
going on with Biden. What was the Biden What was
Biden's trade policy? What was Biden's China policy? Biden didn't
know that much is clear. So if the guy who
is named for the policy isn't even aware of the policy,
and we all understand why. It's pretty clear that there
(04:49):
would have been some gaps. You could say there would
have been some shortcomings in Biden China trade relations and
dealing with them in the economy. I mean, I'm sure
think about this. If you were putin and well you
can't be putin and she's in Ping, I mean, that
would be interesting, right, But if you were Vladimir Putin.
(05:12):
This is one of the problems I have now when
I do radio, is that Ginger the baby. She Ginger
is very good with the baby, so that's good news.
But Ginger is more attention starved than she's ever been.
So now she used to always leave me alone during radio.
Now she runs over to me, and because she has
free reign of the house, of course, because she's spoiled,
and she drops her fetch ball at my feet during radio.
(05:35):
So if it ever sounds like I'm like, wait, what's
going on, it's because the dog and she she holds
me hostage because if I don't play fetch at least
in the commercial breaks, then she starts to whine, and
you'll hear all across the country. They'll hear my little
Australian labradodal whining. But you know, such such as life
and it's I'm telling you because the little baby gets
so much attention. She's more than ever now she's she
(05:56):
makes these little noises and stuff. Anyway, she loves the
baby though. She's very sweet to the baby. So at
least I'm very grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So Trump and Xijin Paying are squared off against each
other on this trade issue. And let's just take a
moment to recognize if you were Xijin Paying, or you
were Vladimir Putin, or really any world leader, because we
all operate. You and I operate in the real world,
which is other countries, whether it's China or France, or.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The UK or Guatemala.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Other countries want to get the best they can for
their people when they interact with us. And you know what,
that's fine. That's how we would expect it to be.
This is why Trump's America first. The notion of a
government representing the American people that privileges and prioritizes the
interests of the American people over non Americans should be
(06:52):
the basic approach of any administration. But actually Trump, it's
revolutionary because we've gone through so many iterations of well,
what do the Europeans think, Well, what the you know,
what is like the human rights counsel or to the
Hague or whatever the u N what do they think
about this? I don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I frankly don't care what the UN thinks about anything.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So if you were though, picking who to sit across
the table from you as an adversary, which means and
I mean that by any country that's trying to get
more from us, could you have done better than Joe
Biden or or Anthony Blinken. Anthony Blinken really to think
about the people who were We're gonna talk more about
(07:36):
Karina Jean Pierre later. I know she was just a
spokesperson really, but think about those who were supposed to
be making the key decisions around Biden. You wouldn't want
any of these people to work for you at your company.
You wouldn't want any of them as colleagues. They're not dependable,
they're not wise, they're not impressive.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Not stuff matter. It matters with world.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, either either who the president is makes a
difference in foreign policy or it doesn't. And if it
does make a difference, clearly, we're at a huge disadvantage
with Biden as the President of the United States, and
we are seeing something very different now with Trump. We're
seeing something that we should have had all along, which
(08:22):
is somebody who can actually process, negotiate, has a strategy,
understands the interpersonal dynamics of power. Biden's just a graft machine.
Biden's an imbecile.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And I said it all along.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
You knew it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I knew it all right now.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
On the restricting foreign nationals from these high risk countries,
Trump spoke about this as well in the oval with
the Chancellor, not the Prime Minister, with the Chancellor of Germany.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Twenty six. Play it.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Please on your.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
New travel Vanda now and if the Boulder attack was
part of her reasoning, why not include Egypt on that
list where this aspect is.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Front well, because Egypt has been a country that we
deal with very closely. They have things under control. The
countries that we have don't have things under control. And
why now I can say that it can't come soon enough? Frankly,
we want to keep bad people out of our country.
The Biden administration allowed some horrendous people, and we're getting
(09:27):
them out one by one, and we're not stopping until
we get them out. We have thousands of murderers. I
even hate to say this in front of the Chancellor
because you have a little problem too with some of
the people that we're allowed to these country.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's not your fault, it's.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Not your fault. It shouldn't have happened. I told her
it shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What she did, her.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Meaning Angla Angler was like Donald, but we have to
take all of this third world from the warton the
wart on countries into America.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Achtung, I'm sorry, into Germany.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
But into Germany, Tom deutz Land not good, not good,
Angela not helping anybody out, and well helping I guess
the people that are now exploiting their access to German
welfare and the German system.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Isn't it also remarkable how many.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Of these people come to countries, whether it's in Europe
or it's in America, and they and they have complaints,
they want to complain, and we're never allowed to look
at them and say, why does your country suck so much?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I'm just wondering, like you know.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh well, I'm not just talking about countries that have
a war, but it's also worth noting why are these
countries that having civil wars or having these problems. Usually
it's sectarian hatreds, so they hate the people that live
within their country, never mind how they're going to get
along with all the rest of us. But yeah, we
never get to ask that question. I just think that
there should be again. This is one of the reasons.
(10:50):
And I say this, and it's not just because I
love getting high fives from my South Florida Latinos and
Latinas who listen to this show, but it's really true.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
My South Florida Latinos and Latinas or a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Of them, Cuban Americans, Venezuelan Americans, they freaking love this
place and they appreciate it. And they're also voting Republican
as they have for Cubans have for a long time,
and more and more Venezuelans are. They appreciate this place.
They come here and they say, wow, America is awesome.
(11:28):
The communist hellhole I left is a warning to the
rest of the world. This is why they're so great.
When you get these people who show up from some
other country, they come in illegally.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They're being told by the NGO.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, America did your people wrong, and you know
you should get all of the welfare you want.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And you should. That's not good. That's not good.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Anybody who comes to this country should be thrilled to
be in this country and should be working on their
americanness from a one. And we see what happens in
Europe and that's not the case. When I say working
on their americanness, you know, becoming productive, law abiding English
speaking members of their community, their society and all of that,
(12:13):
and that's that should be the expectation in Europe.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was like, uh self hatred on display.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well, never forget, I was talking to the equivalent of
the Swedish kind of like the Swedish FBI. I forget
what they berd uh. I was there years ago at
the CIA and we're helping them with some terrorism issues.
Oh why did Sweden have terrorism issues? Any anyone want
to guess? Anyone want to take a stab at that one.
You know, was spent all off all of a sudden,
so upset about uh, the state benefits for his free
(12:44):
health care or whatever. You know, He's like, no, no,
they brought in a bunch of Middle Eastern Muslims from
war charned countries who guess what, hate the West, that
hate Europe and started doing really bad things. Started going
back and forth also between the country that they say
they had to flee for their lives and the country
that had taken them in. They arrive in many cases
(13:05):
in these countries and they think that we are suckers.
They are taking us for a ride. And you see
this with some of the emoms, for example, who have
been very much on the radar of mi I five
in the UK, which is their domestic intelligence service, and
you're trying to expel some of this. Some of them
are so bad, We're like, look, you got to go
(13:25):
back to wherever you came from. That's actually happened in
Europe in some cases, but in Sweden I remember talking
to them. I said, you guys have brought in a
million Middle Eastern refugees. What do you think is going
to happen with this? And they because these weren't politicians,
these are people that were dealing with the counter terrorism side.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Like we have a big problem, we have a big challenge.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And he didn't just mean stopping terrorism attacks. He meant
they move into neighborhoods outside of some of the major cities.
They don't they don't want to learn the language, they
don't want to adopt the culture.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They want to set up Sharia courts.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
They want their own way, and they want to be
able to advocate for the slow but certain overthrow of
the culture and the rule of law and the nation
that they have come to imagine that. You know, it's
like it's like I said before these when you're talking
about people that are coming from these countries.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Uh. And you know we.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Saw this with the Boulder attack. This guy's comms here.
He says he wants asylum. He's got a he's got
a wife and children.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They're here now. And and he goes and.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He lights Jews on fire. He creates a flamethrower and
malts off cocktails. He's trying to light Jewish people, Jewish
Americans on fire, instead of thinking about how lucky and
grateful he is to be in America. That's what he does.
This is this is as I was saying, somebody running
up to says, I'm I'm there's there's a tornado coming.
(14:55):
Please take me into your house or else I'm going
to die. And you out of the kindness of your heart,
say yes, sure, here, come into my cellar with me
and my family. And then as the tornado passes, they
look at you, they go, it's my house. Now, that's happening.
That has happened, and it is time we woke up
(15:15):
to this and said enough, no more of that.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I'm glad to see the Trump administration recognizes that we
don't have to take people in from countries or we
cannot trust that they will be safe, that they will
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Coming up here in a second, we'll be talking to
somebody who can speak very much to what's going on
here with immigration effort. Bron Vittello, US Customs and Border
Protection Senior Advisor. I want to dig into some of
the details, but let me just say this. I mentioned
the Boulder, Colorado terrorist, this anti Jewish, anti Semitic lunatic
(17:15):
lightning people on fire. This is a headline I actually
was I was hoping. Rather, I was making sure it
wasn't Ai. This is a headline from USA Today from
a couple of days ago. Bolder suspect's daughter dreamed of
studying medicine. Now she faces deportation.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
She's illegal, and what do you we're supposed to They're
doing sympathy stories for the terrorists family.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
This guy lit a.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Holocaust survivor you know, in your in her like eighties
on fire, and we're worried about this guy's family having
to go back to the countries they're legally supposed to
be in, or the country.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I mean, I've read this headline a few times. Really,
the Boulder suspect's daughter dreamed of studying medicine. Oh boo hoo,
that's who.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But that's who they're concerned about, you know, you know,
it's like the.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Big concern that I remember Norm mcdonaldy said, Imagine that
the Jie hottists hit us with nuclear weapons and kill
tens of millions of Americans. Think about all the Islamophobia
that would be out there.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
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buck Sea representative. For warranty details, we're talking to Ron Vitello,
US Customs and Border Protections Senior Advisor.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Ron.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Thanks for making the time for us. Let's just start
with this.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
How is it that Trump is able to secure the
southern border almost at a one hundred percent level? I mean,
it's in the ninety something percent drop so quickly. How
do you do it?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Leadership matters? He's got a good team in place with
the likes of Secretary Nome, and there are now consequences
unlike anything I've ever seen on the Southwest border.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
So the rhetoric that says we're.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Going to do this, the American people gave him that
mandate action by the front line, you know, directed by
the lead ship, and actual consequences to the event of
crossing the border illegally are now in place in a way.
Like I've said, Like you know, I've been in and
out of this business for forty years and I've never
seen anything like it. It was so rapid the change
(20:15):
at the Southwest border it even surprised me.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But so I think this would be really interesting, Ron,
if I could just ask you, because I had seen,
unfortunately in the bad old days of the wide open border,
what happens. People would would walk up to border patrol.
I mean they would walk across where there wasn't a
wall or there wasn't barrier, which there's a lot of
places where that's still the case. They'd walk up and
they would wave border patrol down. They would say here
(20:40):
I am, and sometimes through a translator, or sometimes they
would say it in English some version of I have
a credible fear of violence in my country, and they
would be processed and let into America sometimes with a
like a ticket to a peer, or turn and show
up somewhere in the system later on. I mean, the
whole thing was just a joke. What happens now if
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you show up and you just want to come into
America illegally, well.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
It's a high likelihood that when you're arrested, even if
you gave up, or if you were trying to evade,
there's a lot of that's still going on. You're taking
into custody like before, you're put into the system like before,
and then.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
You referred for prosecution.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
The acceptance right from the US Attorney's.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Office all across the southwest.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Border and the northern border in some places as well
as over ninety percent. And so I'll just give you
an example of what that means. When I was a
second line supervisor in Nogallas, Arizona, we could not present
a smuggling case, a criminal felony smuggling case to the
US Attorney's office unless there were fifteen smuggled aliens in
the vehicle that we were trying to prosecute. The smuggler
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for driving right now they're taking first time entrants who enter.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
The border illegally as a case.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
It's dramatically different than it's ever been. And so the
high likelihood is after your process and put into the system,
you're going to be referred and then accepted for prosecution
and you'll have to see a judge for the crime
committed crossing the border illegally when that process is over,
and that was individuals sentenced, regardless of what country they're from,
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they're sent back very rapidly. The average time and custody
for folks that are in ice attention is very, very low,
lower than it's been in a long time. And so
people are being removed from the US all over the
world and very short order.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And also I'm seeing a lot of confusion ron from
some parts of the media, maybe confusion, surprise, astonishment that
there's such a drop in sentinel at the border that's
crossing what's going on there? Because I think, I think
our audience, I think everybody right now, they listen, they go, oh,
(22:53):
I think I know what's going on.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Yeah, of course they know that this has been a
problem for many, many years. The President engaged worldwide, specifically
in Canada, and Mexico the threat of terraces tariffs just
to make sure that they weren't allowing precursors to come
into the country from China, and that they had to
(23:16):
do more on the border, on the physical border, to
protect that border. And so both of those countries engaged
again in ways I've never seen. Right, ten thousand troops
from the Mexican National Guard deployed on their northern border,
our southern border. Canada has done more to protect their
physical border than I've ever seen. Helicopters, night vision equipment,
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dedicated patrols from state, local, provincial, and the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. And so everybody is doing their part to
help protect those borders and the sovereignty of each of
their countries, thereby giving us a better chance at the
physical border to find this stuff, and then the cartels
know that it's just not a walk in the park
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as it was for the four years of the Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That's that's remarkable. I just to make sure that everyone
is is clear on this one. What you're telling me
is that on tariffs alone, there has been a big
victory for the border, so that the tool of tariff
negotiations to get US border security. That's already a win,
is what I'm gathering from what you're saying, especially with
(24:25):
you know, or rather with Mexico and Canada one percent.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
There is no question that Canada and Mexico are doing
more than they have ever done in the history of
the relationships of these three countries than they are doing
right now today. And recognize, you know, Canada put together
legislation to spend millions of dollars on their border to
help us to help identify the threats that are there.
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They now have a fentinyl Zar, which they didn't have before.
January twentieth, twenty twenty five, ten thousand troops on the
Mexican border. And you'll remember the rhetoric when Trump got elected,
Claudia Scheinbaum the president in Mexico, all due respect, she
was saying terrible things about how she wasn't gonna work,
she wasn't going to do the bidding of the United
States or this president. She deployed ten thousand troops. No
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one has ever done that before her or since, and
so that has led to a huge reduction in illegal
activity across the Southwest border, including fentanyl precursors into their
country and then fentanyl across our border.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We're talking to Ron Vitello, US Customs and Border Protection
senior advisor for this administration. Bron, let's talk about big
beautiful wall, major promise from Trump in the first term.
He has returned to this issue now in his second term.
I know that one of the ways that Steven Miller
and others are really trying to get people focused in
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on the need to pass this big beautiful bill is
saying that there's ample funding for border patrol, including for
wall barrier actually securing it. What can you tell us
about that and the status of the wall right now?
How long would it take if we had the funding
to get a lot more of it in place.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's do a little wall deep.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Dies well to get the requirement that's identified by the
border patrols supported by the president. Right, he built a
lot of wall in the first term Trump won, and
we expect to build a lot more in Trump two.
And so what we're doing now, with the help of
the Department of Defense, we have ten thousand of our
own troops on the Southwest border helping the border patrol
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side by side. Part of what they're doing is giving agents.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Better access to the border.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Fortifying the wall, and increasing the infrastructure that prevents people
from entering at the border. About one hundred new miles
of barrier placed either by DoD or buy the border
patrol itself, with the existing contracting and the funding left
over from Trump one. So Biden comes in, he puts
a moratorium on all border construction, and so it froze
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the activity for a while. And now we're in the
We have the ability for the next year or so
to spend the little money that's left from Trump one
on wall, and that's equated so far to about one
hundred miles, and then there'll be new wall constructed using
the funds from Trump one. And then we're hopeful that
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when the reconciliation passes, there will be a huge investment
in infrastructure, including wall and tech that supports the wall
and the agents on the ground access to the border,
to give us about another one hundred about another seven
hundred miles. Some of that will be dual barrier. We'll
have some stuff in the river and on land in
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places like Texas where the river is actually the border,
and in other places will fortify what exists, an increase
wall to about seven hundred new miles under Trump two.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Is there a sense and I know from just law
enforcements sources down along the border, border patrol sources, and
the various collection platforms that we have, is there a
sense from the the narco terrorist cartels on the other
side of the border that, oh, there's definitely a new
sheriff in town.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
You know that there's pressure from the Mexican government, which
is as effective as it can be given the circumstances.
The military to military relationship is producing results, including US
helping target known cartel members both sides of the border,
and it's just really hard now to cross.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
The border versus the way it was.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Before January twentieth, twenty twenty five, and so they are
not being as successful.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
We're watching the reaction from the cartels.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
We had a really good intercept in Laredo yesterday of
unmanned aerial systems small drones if you will, one of
those yesterday.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Wait, so they're using drones to try to drop off
product drugs.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
We believe this one was counter surveillance. Ah okay, but
it remains to be seen. We're going to try to
exploit that the media that's in there to figure out
exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But but so they're using drones to watch you guys
or your guys at border patrol.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Correct, correct, that's that's they're using them mostly for that,
But there it's not unheard of for them to bring
small packages, I mean fentanyl. You know, the profit margin
on fentanyl is huge in Mexico, and so they use
it for those things as well. But again, giving agents
time and ability, this was something that wouldn't have happened
seven months ago because they were too distracted with the
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mass of humanity that was coming into the border every
twenty four hours. Now we have the ability when those
sensors go off and when we can deploy against those
active threats.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
They did, in fact.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Caesar drone in Laredo yesterday, and that's what the cartel
is capable of, and so we'll see more of that.
You know, there was a seizure in San Diego of
about seven thousand pounds of meth aanthetamine in California, which
which you know, we haven't seen a seizure in that
size in probably over a year, and it was because
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the agents on the ground, the front line, has the
time and ability to do the work. You know, using
the shoe leather, using their brains, using the intelligence holdings
that exist in the United States to track that seven
thousand pounds. We probably would not have gotten that pre
Trump because we're just too busy with the legal activity
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that was coming across the border. So yeah, the cartels
have reacted. We're seeing increases on the coast near San Diego.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
We expect that to be the case.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
In near Brownsville as well. The subterranean threat has now
been magnified in the sense that the land border is
much harder to cross, and so all the alternative routes
of entry are going to start to be used and exploited,
and so we need to be vigilant. That's why we
need to backstop what the frontline can do with policy
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and rhetoric and consequences. With more resources as wall as
an infrastructure, as in boots on the ground, that all
has to be fortified and sustained if we want to
keep the promise of making America safe again.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Wondering if you could just speak to the morale of
the men and women of border patrol now and what
it feels like to have the mission and resources squared
away like they have been so far in this administration.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Yeah, no, the morale is very high. Lots of smiles
on the faces of the men and women who now
have the tools and the support that they require to
be successful. You know, agents are recruited because they are
interested in a career that is mostly outdoors, that mostly
protects the country, that mostly is involved in activity designed
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to protect us all. And they weren't able to do
that for the last for the last administration, for the
entirety of Biden administration, they are back in business. The
nonsense is over. They have support all the way to
the old office. You have the Secretary gnome out there
visiting face to face with the front line, asking them
what they need, ensuring they have those tools and watching
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them be successful. And it's not just the incumbent agents,
but it's also recruitment is off the charts, doubled since
before Trump. And so yeah, it's all going in that
right direction as it relates to them being successful, which
is why most of them are there. That's why they
take the oath, because they want to protect us all,
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and now they have an opportunity to succeed as well.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Ronvitzelo, advisor to CBP, Thanks for the good work.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So I appreciate you being here, Thanks for inviting me.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You consider yourself pro life like I am. Here's a
wake up call. Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade
a few years ago, the number of abortions increased this
past year. It's a tragedy that means the lives of
more than a million babies were lost last year to abortion.
And there's no way this is going to stop on
its own. We have to step up. We the pro
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life community have to give women the support, the love,
and the clarity that they need for life. And that's
where preborn comes in. Preborn's clinics are located in areas
around the country with the highest abortion rates, and they
do this on purpose. There are a frontline organization saving
the lives of tiny babies in the womb, day in
and day out.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Just imagine.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I was at a preborn clinic here in Miami and
I got to meet a little three year old girl,
and she was there because her mom, who's now very
involved with preborn and appreciates preborn, went to one of
those clinics three years ago and had an ultrasound, and
that mom saw the little heartbeats, saw the little baby
in her womb and realized this is a beautiful, precious life,
and I'm going to bring this life into the world.
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And now I got to see this beautiful little three
year old girl running around her mom full of smiles
and also helping more and more moms to be just
like her make the decision for life. This is what
Preborn does. They rely on your donations. They rely on you.
They get no government money. Yes, we have to vote
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Speaker 5 (34:25):
Say baby.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
A couple of you out there had a great year
so far. This year.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You've made a lot of money. Your business is doing
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Speaker 2 (34:33):
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Speaker 3 (34:33):
It's tax deductible, by the way, But you could afford
one thousand dollars donation right now to Preborn. I know
there are a few of you who can right now
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Speaker 2 (35:06):
That's incredible. Few you you're fortunate.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
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five zero, say the keyword baby, sponsored by Preborn. All right,
welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Let's take a.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Call here from Lannie in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
What's going on? Lonnie?
Speaker 8 (35:32):
Hey, I'd just like to make a comment about the
Democrats who are condemning the ICE agents for wearing a mask.
They are coming ru out and saying that's because they're
ashamed of what they're doing. They're trying to hide their
names because of the horrors that they are creating by
arresting the illegals. The truth is they are now the
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front line against the cartel in our country. Every in the.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
World where the cartel has been battled.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
The police officers have to cover their faces, and that's
what we have right now in America. What happens is
the cartels offer the plata or pluma, the silver or lead,
and they are They go after the politicians, the.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
Journalists, and the law enforcement. We've seen them.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Now compromising different judges and now we're seeing them attacking
the police by doxing them and putting their families out there.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
They are no different than Hamas. They are all in
this together, and they are in the.
Speaker 8 (36:42):
US, and it's the ICE agents that are on the
front line. And for people like Carkam Jeffries to insinuate
these people are ashamed of what they're doing and are
hiding from the American public when they're the ones protecting us.
We need to be aggressively coming after.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Lonnie. Excellent insights. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You're right coming back with more here in just a minute.
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Show YouTube channel. Second hour of Clay and Buck kicks off. Now,
we were talking the last hour a bit about some
of the big things Trump is discussing or was discussing
in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I want to bring you some of those highlights.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We've got stuff about restricting foreign foreigners from going to
US colleges and universities. We've got the foreign nationals from
high risk countries that are banned.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Travel band, if you will, Lisa.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They're not calling a Muslim band this time because Cubaezuela
not necessarily thought of as you know, the Islamic world.
I mean, some of the countries that are on there
are clearly, it's not that I remember the first Trump administration,
they're all saying it's a Muslim bands and then they
had to add like North Korea onto and they said, look,
these are just countries that are messed up. It wasn't
Trump's fault. There are a lot of messed up countries
that are Muslim majority. And then there's also some stuff
(01:20):
on the call with she and and and Trump's relationship
with Elon.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
This is hitting a little bit of a speed bump.
You could say the.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The self driving of the Trump Elon relationship is having
a couple of bugs in the system. We'll talk about this.
It is not a surprise to me that this is
where things are right now. But I I you know, wait,
I'm just gonna say this. When Trump and Elon, when
I see there's a little static with Trump and Elon,
it's like.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Watching my parents fight.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm like, no, come on, you guys are the good guys.
No fighting, It'll be it'll be fine. It'll be fine.
My parents like never fought, so that was very nice.
But you know what I'm saying, let's see here we
have I saw other.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
People's parents fights. I'd be like, oh, that's not fun.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Uh, let's do do do first? The Trump call with
ELM this is this is a big deal because all
the tariff stuff with all these other countries, we all
know that can get negotiated. I think we're quite clear
that EU stuff, Canada stuff Canada.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know we love Canada.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You know Trump gives you some Trump gives you a
hard time a little bit, but you know we love
you Canada. China is a problem.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's a different that's a different thing, right.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
The China is a is a an issue for the
United States and is doing bad things, particularly on trade
and taking a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of our trade secrets and exploiting.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I think the good faith of the American capitalist mindset
and system, and and so we got to take a
different approach with them. This was Trump just now in
the Oval Office. He had a chat with a president
Shei Jinping of China, and here is what he had
to say about it, Play twenty five.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
We had a very good talk and we've straightened out
any complexity.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's very complex.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Stuff, and we straightened it out. The agreement was we're
going to have Scott and Howard and Jamison will be
going and meeting with their top people and continued forward.
But no, I think we have everything. I think we're
very good shape with China and the trade deal. We
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have a deal with China, as you know, but we
were straightening out some of the points having to do
mostly with rare earth magnets and some other things.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So it's produced trade tariff rates.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
They remain in effect.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
We have the deal.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I mean, we've had a deal, we announced the deal,
and it will be I guess you could say I
wouldn't even say finalized that Scott. I would say, we
have a deal, and we're going to just make sure
that everybody understands what the deal is.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
We have a deal, and he wants to get more
clarity on the deal. You know, what's one big difference
between this Trump administration that you're already seeing and the
Biden administration. Stuff actually happens with this Trump administration. There
are things in motion that are to the benefit of
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the American people. Think about so much of what was
going on with Biden. What was the Biden What was
Biden's trade policy? What was Biden's China policy? Biden didn't
know that much is clear. So if the guy who
is named for the policy isn't even aware of the policy,
and we all understand why. It's pretty clear that there
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would have been some gaps. You could say there would
have been some shortcomings in Biden China trade relations and
dealing with them in the economy. I mean, I'm sure
think about this. If you were putin and well you
can't be putin and she's in Ping, I mean, that
would be interesting, right, But if you were Vladimir Putin.
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This is one of the problems I have now when
I do radio, is that Ginger the baby. She Ginger
is very good with the baby, so that's good news.
But Ginger is more attention starved than she's ever been.
So now she used to always leave me alone during radio.
Now she runs over to me, and because she has
free reign of the house, of course, because she's spoiled,
and she drops her fetch ball at my feet during radio.
(05:35):
So if it ever sounds like I'm like, wait, what's
going on, it's because the dog and she she holds
me hostage because if I don't play fetch at least
in the commercial breaks, then she starts to whine, and
you'll hear all across the country. They'll hear my little
Australian labradodal whining. But you know, such such as life
and it's I'm telling you because the little baby gets
so much attention. She's more than ever now she's she
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makes these little noises and stuff. Anyway, she loves the
baby though. She's very sweet to the baby. So at
least I'm very grateful for that.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So Trump and Xijin Paying are squared off against each
other on this trade issue. And let's just take a
moment to recognize if you were Xijin Paying, or you
were Vladimir Putin, or really any world leader, because we
all operate. You and I operate in the real world,
which is other countries, whether it's China or France, or.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The UK or Guatemala.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Other countries want to get the best they can for
their people when they interact with us. And you know what,
that's fine. That's how we would expect it to be.
This is why Trump's America first. The notion of a
government representing the American people that privileges and prioritizes the
interests of the American people over non Americans should be
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the basic approach of any administration. But actually Trump, it's
revolutionary because we've gone through so many iterations of well,
what do the Europeans think, Well, what the you know,
what is like the human rights counsel or to the
Hague or whatever the u N what do they think
about this? I don't care.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I frankly don't care what the UN thinks about anything.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So if you were though, picking who to sit across
the table from you as an adversary, which means and
I mean that by any country that's trying to get
more from us, could you have done better than Joe
Biden or or Anthony Blinken. Anthony Blinken really to think
about the people who were We're gonna talk more about
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Karina Jean Pierre later. I know she was just a
spokesperson really, but think about those who were supposed to
be making the key decisions around Biden. You wouldn't want
any of these people to work for you at your company.
You wouldn't want any of them as colleagues. They're not dependable,
they're not wise, they're not impressive.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Not stuff matter. It matters with world.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, either either who the president is makes a
difference in foreign policy or it doesn't. And if it
does make a difference, clearly, we're at a huge disadvantage
with Biden as the President of the United States, and
we are seeing something very different now with Trump. We're
seeing something that we should have had all along, which
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is somebody who can actually process, negotiate, has a strategy,
understands the interpersonal dynamics of power. Biden's just a graft machine.
Biden's an imbecile.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And I said it all along.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
You knew it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I knew it all right now.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
On the restricting foreign nationals from these high risk countries,
Trump spoke about this as well in the oval with
the Chancellor, not the Prime Minister, with the Chancellor of Germany.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Twenty six. Play it.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Please on your.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
New travel Vanda now and if the Boulder attack was
part of her reasoning, why not include Egypt on that
list where this aspect is.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Front well, because Egypt has been a country that we
deal with very closely. They have things under control. The
countries that we have don't have things under control. And
why now I can say that it can't come soon enough? Frankly,
we want to keep bad people out of our country.
The Biden administration allowed some horrendous people, and we're getting
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them out one by one, and we're not stopping until
we get them out. We have thousands of murderers. I
even hate to say this in front of the Chancellor
because you have a little problem too with some of
the people that we're allowed to these country.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's not your fault, it's.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Not your fault. It shouldn't have happened. I told her
it shouldn't have happened.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
What she did, her.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Meaning Angla Angler was like Donald, but we have to
take all of this third world from the warton the
wart on countries into America.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Achtung, I'm sorry, into Germany.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
But into Germany, Tom deutz Land not good, not good,
Angela not helping anybody out, and well helping I guess
the people that are now exploiting their access to German
welfare and the German system.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Isn't it also remarkable how many.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Of these people come to countries, whether it's in Europe
or it's in America, and they and they have complaints,
they want to complain, and we're never allowed to look
at them and say, why does your country suck so much?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I'm just wondering, like you know.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh well, I'm not just talking about countries that have
a war, but it's also worth noting why are these
countries that having civil wars or having these problems. Usually
it's sectarian hatreds, so they hate the people that live
within their country, never mind how they're going to get
along with all the rest of us. But yeah, we
never get to ask that question. I just think that
there should be again. This is one of the reasons.
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And I say this, and it's not just because I
love getting high fives from my South Florida Latinos and
Latinas who listen to this show, but it's really true.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
My South Florida Latinos and Latinas or a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Of them, Cuban Americans, Venezuelan Americans, they freaking love this
place and they appreciate it. And they're also voting Republican
as they have for Cubans have for a long time,
and more and more Venezuelans are. They appreciate this place.
They come here and they say, wow, America is awesome.
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The communist hellhole I left is a warning to the
rest of the world. This is why they're so great.
When you get these people who show up from some
other country, they come in illegally.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They're being told by the NGO.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You know, America did your people wrong, and you know
you should get all of the welfare you want.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And you should. That's not good. That's not good.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Anybody who comes to this country should be thrilled to
be in this country and should be working on their
americanness from a one. And we see what happens in
Europe and that's not the case. When I say working
on their americanness, you know, becoming productive, law abiding English
speaking members of their community, their society and all of that,
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and that's that should be the expectation in Europe.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It was like, uh self hatred on display.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well, never forget, I was talking to the equivalent of
the Swedish kind of like the Swedish FBI. I forget
what they berd uh. I was there years ago at
the CIA and we're helping them with some terrorism issues.
Oh why did Sweden have terrorism issues? Any anyone want
to guess? Anyone want to take a stab at that one.
You know, was spent all off all of a sudden,
so upset about uh, the state benefits for his free
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health care or whatever. You know, He's like, no, no,
they brought in a bunch of Middle Eastern Muslims from
war charned countries who guess what, hate the West, that
hate Europe and started doing really bad things. Started going
back and forth also between the country that they say
they had to flee for their lives and the country
that had taken them in. They arrive in many cases
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in these countries and they think that we are suckers.
They are taking us for a ride. And you see
this with some of the emoms, for example, who have
been very much on the radar of mi I five
in the UK, which is their domestic intelligence service, and
you're trying to expel some of this. Some of them
are so bad, We're like, look, you got to go
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back to wherever you came from. That's actually happened in
Europe in some cases, but in Sweden I remember talking
to them. I said, you guys have brought in a
million Middle Eastern refugees. What do you think is going
to happen with this? And they because these weren't politicians,
these are people that were dealing with the counter terrorism side.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Like we have a big problem, we have a big challenge.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And he didn't just mean stopping terrorism attacks. He meant
they move into neighborhoods outside of some of the major cities.
They don't they don't want to learn the language, they
don't want to adopt the culture.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They want to set up Sharia courts.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
They want their own way, and they want to be
able to advocate for the slow but certain overthrow of
the culture and the rule of law and the nation
that they have come to imagine that. You know, it's
like it's like I said before these when you're talking
about people that are coming from these countries.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Uh. And you know we.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Saw this with the Boulder attack. This guy's comms here.
He says he wants asylum. He's got a he's got
a wife and children.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
They're here now. And and he goes and.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He lights Jews on fire. He creates a flamethrower and
malts off cocktails. He's trying to light Jewish people, Jewish
Americans on fire, instead of thinking about how lucky and
grateful he is to be in America. That's what he does.
This is this is as I was saying, somebody running
up to says, I'm I'm there's there's a tornado coming.
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to die. And you out of the kindness of your heart,
say yes, sure, here, come into my cellar with me
and my family. And then as the tornado passes, they
look at you, they go, it's my house. Now, that's happening.
That has happened, and it is time we woke up
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Speaker 2 (15:18):
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somebody who can speak very much to what's going on
here with immigration effort. Bron Vittello, US Customs and Border
Protection Senior Advisor. I want to dig into some of
the details, but let me just say this. I mentioned
the Boulder, Colorado terrorist, this anti Jewish, anti Semitic lunatic
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lightning people on fire. This is a headline I actually
was I was hoping. Rather, I was making sure it
wasn't Ai. This is a headline from USA Today from
a couple of days ago. Bolder suspect's daughter dreamed of
studying medicine. Now she faces deportation.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
She's illegal, and what do you we're supposed to They're
doing sympathy stories for the terrorists family.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
This guy lit a.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Holocaust survivor you know, in your in her like eighties
on fire, and we're worried about this guy's family having
to go back to the countries they're legally supposed to
be in, or the country.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I mean, I've read this headline a few times. Really,
the Boulder suspect's daughter dreamed of studying medicine. Oh boo hoo,
that's who.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But that's who they're concerned about, you know, you know,
it's like the.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Big concern that I remember Norm mcdonaldy said, Imagine that
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tens of millions of Americans. Think about all the Islamophobia
that would be out there.
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Speaker 5 (19:25):
Ron.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Thanks for making the time for us. Let's just start
with this.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
How is it that Trump is able to secure the
southern border almost at a one hundred percent level? I mean,
it's in the ninety something percent drop so quickly. How
do you do it?
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Leadership matters? He's got a good team in place with
the likes of Secretary Nome, and there are now consequences
unlike anything I've ever seen on the Southwest border.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
So the rhetoric that says we're.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Going to do this, the American people gave him that
mandate action by the front line, you know, directed by
the lead ship, and actual consequences to the event of
crossing the border illegally are now in place in a way.
Like I've said, Like you know, I've been in and
out of this business for forty years and I've never
seen anything like it. It was so rapid the change
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at the Southwest border it even surprised me.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
But so I think this would be really interesting, Ron,
if I could just ask you, because I had seen,
unfortunately in the bad old days of the wide open border,
what happens. People would would walk up to border patrol.
I mean they would walk across where there wasn't a
wall or there wasn't barrier, which there's a lot of
places where that's still the case. They'd walk up and
they would wave border patrol down. They would say here
(20:40):
I am, and sometimes through a translator, or sometimes they
would say it in English some version of I have
a credible fear of violence in my country, and they
would be processed and let into America sometimes with a
like a ticket to a peer, or turn and show
up somewhere in the system later on. I mean, the
whole thing was just a joke. What happens now if
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you show up and you just want to come into
America illegally, well.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
It's a high likelihood that when you're arrested, even if
you gave up, or if you were trying to evade,
there's a lot of that's still going on. You're taking
into custody like before, you're put into the system like before,
and then.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
You referred for prosecution.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
The acceptance right from the US Attorney's.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Office all across the southwest.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Border and the northern border in some places as well
as over ninety percent. And so I'll just give you
an example of what that means. When I was a
second line supervisor in Nogallas, Arizona, we could not present
a smuggling case, a criminal felony smuggling case to the
US Attorney's office unless there were fifteen smuggled aliens in
the vehicle that we were trying to prosecute. The smuggler
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for driving right now they're taking first time entrants who enter.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
The border illegally as a case.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
It's dramatically different than it's ever been. And so the
high likelihood is after your process and put into the system,
you're going to be referred and then accepted for prosecution
and you'll have to see a judge for the crime
committed crossing the border illegally when that process is over,
and that was individuals sentenced, regardless of what country they're from,
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they're sent back very rapidly. The average time and custody
for folks that are in ice attention is very, very low,
lower than it's been in a long time. And so
people are being removed from the US all over the
world and very short order.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
And also I'm seeing a lot of confusion ron from
some parts of the media, maybe confusion, surprise, astonishment that
there's such a drop in sentinel at the border that's
crossing what's going on there? Because I think, I think
our audience, I think everybody right now, they listen, they go, oh,
(22:53):
I think I know what's going on.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Yeah, of course they know that this has been a
problem for many, many years. The President engaged worldwide, specifically
in Canada, and Mexico the threat of terraces tariffs just
to make sure that they weren't allowing precursors to come
into the country from China, and that they had to
(23:16):
do more on the border, on the physical border, to
protect that border. And so both of those countries engaged
again in ways I've never seen. Right, ten thousand troops
from the Mexican National Guard deployed on their northern border,
our southern border. Canada has done more to protect their
physical border than I've ever seen. Helicopters, night vision equipment,
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dedicated patrols from state, local, provincial, and the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. And so everybody is doing their part to
help protect those borders and the sovereignty of each of
their countries, thereby giving us a better chance at the
physical border to find this stuff, and then the cartels
know that it's just not a walk in the park
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as it was for the four years of the Biden administration.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
That's that's remarkable. I just to make sure that everyone
is is clear on this one. What you're telling me
is that on tariffs alone, there has been a big
victory for the border, so that the tool of tariff
negotiations to get US border security. That's already a win,
is what I'm gathering from what you're saying, especially with
(24:25):
you know, or rather with Mexico and Canada one percent.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
There is no question that Canada and Mexico are doing
more than they have ever done in the history of
the relationships of these three countries than they are doing
right now today. And recognize, you know, Canada put together
legislation to spend millions of dollars on their border to
help us to help identify the threats that are there.
(24:50):
They now have a fentinyl Zar, which they didn't have before.
January twentieth, twenty twenty five, ten thousand troops on the
Mexican border. And you'll remember the rhetoric when Trump got elected,
Claudia Scheinbaum the president in Mexico, all due respect, she
was saying terrible things about how she wasn't gonna work,
she wasn't going to do the bidding of the United
States or this president. She deployed ten thousand troops. No
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one has ever done that before her or since, and
so that has led to a huge reduction in illegal
activity across the Southwest border, including fentanyl precursors into their
country and then fentanyl across our border.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
We're talking to Ron Vitello, US Customs and Border Protection
senior advisor for this administration. Bron, let's talk about big
beautiful wall, major promise from Trump in the first term.
He has returned to this issue now in his second term.
I know that one of the ways that Steven Miller
and others are really trying to get people focused in
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on the need to pass this big beautiful bill is
saying that there's ample funding for border patrol, including for
wall barrier actually securing it. What can you tell us
about that and the status of the wall right now?
How long would it take if we had the funding
to get a lot more of it in place.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's do a little wall deep.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Dies well to get the requirement that's identified by the
border patrols supported by the president. Right, he built a
lot of wall in the first term Trump won, and
we expect to build a lot more in Trump two.
And so what we're doing now, with the help of
the Department of Defense, we have ten thousand of our
own troops on the Southwest border helping the border patrol
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side by side. Part of what they're doing is giving agents.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Better access to the border.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
Fortifying the wall, and increasing the infrastructure that prevents people
from entering at the border. About one hundred new miles
of barrier placed either by DoD or buy the border
patrol itself, with the existing contracting and the funding left
over from Trump one. So Biden comes in, he puts
a moratorium on all border construction, and so it froze
(26:55):
the activity for a while. And now we're in the
We have the ability for the next year or so
to spend the little money that's left from Trump one
on wall, and that's equated so far to about one
hundred miles, and then there'll be new wall constructed using
the funds from Trump one. And then we're hopeful that
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when the reconciliation passes, there will be a huge investment
in infrastructure, including wall and tech that supports the wall
and the agents on the ground access to the border,
to give us about another one hundred about another seven
hundred miles. Some of that will be dual barrier. We'll
have some stuff in the river and on land in
(27:38):
places like Texas where the river is actually the border,
and in other places will fortify what exists, an increase
wall to about seven hundred new miles under Trump two.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Is there a sense and I know from just law
enforcements sources down along the border, border patrol sources, and
the various collection platforms that we have, is there a
sense from the the narco terrorist cartels on the other
side of the border that, oh, there's definitely a new
sheriff in town.
Speaker 7 (28:11):
You know that there's pressure from the Mexican government, which
is as effective as it can be given the circumstances.
The military to military relationship is producing results, including US
helping target known cartel members both sides of the border,
and it's just really hard now to cross.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
The border versus the way it was.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Before January twentieth, twenty twenty five, and so they are
not being as successful.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
We're watching the reaction from the cartels.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
We had a really good intercept in Laredo yesterday of
unmanned aerial systems small drones if you will, one of
those yesterday.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Wait, so they're using drones to try to drop off
product drugs.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
We believe this one was counter surveillance. Ah okay, but
it remains to be seen. We're going to try to
exploit that the media that's in there to figure out
exactly what it was.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
But but so they're using drones to watch you guys
or your guys at border patrol.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Correct, correct, that's that's they're using them mostly for that,
But there it's not unheard of for them to bring
small packages, I mean fentanyl. You know, the profit margin
on fentanyl is huge in Mexico, and so they use
it for those things as well. But again, giving agents
time and ability, this was something that wouldn't have happened
seven months ago because they were too distracted with the
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mass of humanity that was coming into the border every
twenty four hours. Now we have the ability when those
sensors go off and when we can deploy against those
active threats.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
They did, in fact.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Caesar drone in Laredo yesterday, and that's what the cartel
is capable of, and so we'll see more of that.
You know, there was a seizure in San Diego of
about seven thousand pounds of meth aanthetamine in California, which
which you know, we haven't seen a seizure in that
size in probably over a year, and it was because
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the agents on the ground, the front line, has the
time and ability to do the work. You know, using
the shoe leather, using their brains, using the intelligence holdings
that exist in the United States to track that seven
thousand pounds. We probably would not have gotten that pre
Trump because we're just too busy with the legal activity
(30:24):
that was coming across the border. So yeah, the cartels
have reacted. We're seeing increases on the coast near San Diego.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
We expect that to be the case.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
In near Brownsville as well. The subterranean threat has now
been magnified in the sense that the land border is
much harder to cross, and so all the alternative routes
of entry are going to start to be used and exploited,
and so we need to be vigilant. That's why we
need to backstop what the frontline can do with policy
(30:56):
and rhetoric and consequences. With more resources as wall as
an infrastructure, as in boots on the ground, that all
has to be fortified and sustained if we want to
keep the promise of making America safe again.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Wondering if you could just speak to the morale of
the men and women of border patrol now and what
it feels like to have the mission and resources squared
away like they have been so far in this administration.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Yeah, no, the morale is very high. Lots of smiles
on the faces of the men and women who now
have the tools and the support that they require to
be successful. You know, agents are recruited because they are
interested in a career that is mostly outdoors, that mostly
protects the country, that mostly is involved in activity designed
(31:47):
to protect us all. And they weren't able to do
that for the last for the last administration, for the
entirety of Biden administration, they are back in business. The
nonsense is over. They have support all the way to
the old office. You have the Secretary gnome out there
visiting face to face with the front line, asking them
what they need, ensuring they have those tools and watching
(32:09):
them be successful. And it's not just the incumbent agents,
but it's also recruitment is off the charts, doubled since
before Trump. And so yeah, it's all going in that
right direction as it relates to them being successful, which
is why most of them are there. That's why they
take the oath, because they want to protect us all,
(32:30):
and now they have an opportunity to succeed as well.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Ronvitzelo, advisor to CBP, Thanks for the good work.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So I appreciate you being here, Thanks for inviting me.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You consider yourself pro life like I am. Here's a
wake up call. Despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade
a few years ago, the number of abortions increased this
past year. It's a tragedy that means the lives of
more than a million babies were lost last year to abortion.
And there's no way this is going to stop on
its own. We have to step up. We the pro
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life community have to give women the support, the love,
and the clarity that they need for life. And that's
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welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Let's take a.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Call here from Lannie in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
What's going on? Lonnie?
Speaker 8 (35:32):
Hey, I'd just like to make a comment about the
Democrats who are condemning the ICE agents for wearing a mask.
They are coming ru out and saying that's because they're
ashamed of what they're doing. They're trying to hide their
names because of the horrors that they are creating by
arresting the illegals. The truth is they are now the
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front line against the cartel in our country. Every in the.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
World where the cartel has been battled.
Speaker 8 (36:02):
The police officers have to cover their faces, and that's
what we have right now in America. What happens is
the cartels offer the plata or pluma, the silver or lead,
and they are They go after the politicians, the.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
Journalists, and the law enforcement. We've seen them.
Speaker 8 (36:26):
Now compromising different judges and now we're seeing them attacking
the police by doxing them and putting their families out there.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
They are no different than Hamas. They are all in
this together, and they are in the.
Speaker 8 (36:42):
US, and it's the ICE agents that are on the
front line. And for people like Carkam Jeffries to insinuate
these people are ashamed of what they're doing and are
hiding from the American public when they're the ones protecting us.
We need to be aggressively coming after.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Lonnie. Excellent insights. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
You're right coming back with more here in just a minute.
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