September 8, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (09/08) - CA State Assemblyman Stan Ellis comes on the show to talk about how oil refinery closures are going to impact gas prices in the state. Replay of the interview with Border Czar Tom Homan.
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Homan on right at the start of the show, and
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today a rare replay three point thirty right after Deborah's news.
Tom Homan the borders are for President Trump, and we'll
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do that. And if you can't stick around, you got
the iHeart app the podcast for that as well. We
told you months and months ago. We were the first
to tell you that we could be seeing eight to
ten dollars a gallon for California gas prices. I just
spent some time in Florida, North Carolina, drove through South
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Carolina and Georgia, so that's four states for decent sized cities.
I saw gas roughly for two ninety five. Much of
the time I land in La driving down some Pulvita boulevard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Gas is five twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Five twenty nine is going to look so cheap We're
going to talk now with stan Ellis. He's a Republican
Assemblyman from Bakersfield. He's on the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources,
and he was talking today about what's going to make
the price sore to eight to ten dollars a gallon.
That's something we've discussed a number of times before with
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Michael Miche the USC professor. Let's get let's get stan
Ellis on. How are you, Hi?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hi, John, Thanks for having me on the show. I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, thank you. You're going on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, I'm just telling you you're listening to your introduction there.
We are going to see eight to ten dollars a gallon,
and nobody wants to seem to listen. I've been in
the oil and gas in the three for fifty years,
and I've seen the ups and downs, and I see
what's going on, and I'm telling you we have some solutions,
but nobody wants to seem to listen, especially our governor.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You are a quantum physics expert, that's your background before politics,
with fifty plus years experience, as you said, drilling, engineering,
chemical processing, so you know what you're talking about here.
Why don't you diagnose the issues that could lead to
eight to ten dollars a gallon just in the next
six months or so.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, just so you know, everything is about supply and demand,
and we have the oil in Kerrn County in California
that could actually bring this bring us out of this crisis.
But here's what we're doing because cal JIM, who is
the permittee agency for Oil and Gas, has not any
issued any permits because of political pressure. Are when you
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don't rework a well every few years, you have to
rework that well and then you also have to drill
new wells to maintain production. Well, when that starts declining,
guess what happens. Your pipelines get less full. As your
pipelines get less full, unless they're turbulent, you have to
shut them down. So we're on the verge of a
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major pipeline out of Bakersfield, Kern County to Los Angeles
PBF refinery that will come out of flow within the
next six months. If it does, that refinerent will shut
down because it doesn't have a port where it can
take international cruit. You have Valero who is going to
shut down in the Bay Area shortly in six months.
You have p sixty six refinery that's already shut down.
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You have another P sixty six refinery. So guess what
we're bringing in a million barrels a day of crude
oil forty two million gallons a day of crude oil
from Ecuador and from other countries in the world. Do
you know that that crude is being brought in by
ships that burn what's called funk their internal combustion engines
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burn number six fuel oil, which puts which poly nuclear
aromatics into our atmosphere and not JEP stream for three
or four weeks at a time. As they're coming across
the ocean, they get twenty miles out and they kick
over the low sulfur diesel like, oh wow, we're clean now,
all all of a sudden. And so then then we
take that oil from third world countries they don't have
any human rights, and we're buying that. Furthermore, the refined
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product that we're bringing in doesn't necessarily meet our carbon standards.
Where refined we've put millions of dollars into upgrades for
reformulated fuel. We're buying that from India, which gets recrued
from Russia. All we have to do is simply have
calcium issue permits and get the current county EIR in
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gear and start drilling and drilling. We produce the cleanest
oil and gas in the world. We put out we
have the air district from from the wellhead to the tank,
to the pipeline to the refinerly. We have the air
under the toughest air district regulations in the world, and
we have very very little emissions coming from those sources.
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We put out the cleanest in the world. So why
aren't we drilling. It's because it's political. He wanted this
electrical agenda. Well, guess what it's failing. Electrical cars. You
got to drive them one hundred and twenty two miles
before twenty two thousand miles before they're carbon neutral. Anyway,
So they answer, and I'm sorry, I'm rambling here.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, no, you're nine.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, I'm fascinated by this, and you're laying us such
a great case. And the question in my head is
why are they doing it? They know this, don't they?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yes, let me tell you something this. There are yes,
they do know this. There are two things. There are
two things. One consumer affordability. Do you know that we
have thirty million cars in this state on gas and diesel.
And that doesn't count the millions of farming vehicles, only
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gas and diesel. Do you know what that price or
transportation of all that foreign oil does to our price
of gas? It drives it to eight dollars a gallon.
We're we're guilty, We're hip, We're hypocrites. We're hypocrites. We
sit there and talk about clean, clean, clean, and yet
we're bringing in these ships that put are out put
in calling nuclear aromatics in the atmosphere into the EPA.
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It's regularly hazardous. What are we thinking? So? So I'm
telling you the solution is issue deliver permits immediately, get
the air boards, issue permits immediately, and start drilling. And
also one more, one more side note, fracking is a misnomer.
Fracking in California is not like cracking in Texas. In
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fracking they use the fract for seven days, using millions
and gallons of water and and frack fluid and sand.
In California, will you do you just pressure up the
formation for like a few thousand psi. So they're saying
cracking is bad here in California. No, it's not. It
doesn't even get near the fresh water table. We are
so uninformed and so politic if we're letting politics drive
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our economy. I'm sorry, this is a matter of national security.
Do you know what's going to happen if those ships
coming in from India that there's a tsunami, or what
if there's a war somewhere and we can't get this
crude oil one we're in, We're in gas lines. I'm sorry,
Can you hang on the line, I'll talk more about this.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
This is Assemblyman stan Ellis. He's with the Assembly Committee
Natural Resources. He's been in the oil business for over
fifty years, and he is saying something that we've talked
about for months now is we're looking at gas prices
eight to ten dollars a gallon because of an absolutely
long list of insane policies from the News of administration
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that are counterproductive to their own stated goals. You heard
that shipping into all this oil from foreign countries is
putting far more pollution into the air than some claims
he's saving by shutting down and keeping our oil industry
shut down. Here in California, you're listening.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
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Speaker 3 (08:14):
Forty moistline is Friday, eight seven seven Moist eighty six
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. We've had about a week worth,
a week's worth of news events just today alone. We're
going to have We're going to replay the interview we
did with Tom Homan the Borders are for Donald Trump,
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and that's coming up at about three thirty five, right
after Debra's news. So if you missed the live interview
at one o'clock, we're replaying it at three thirty five today.
This morning, the Supreme Court voted six to three and
said the raids that LA was doing are constitutional. They
are legal. You can look at someone's race, their ethnic background,
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their job that they have or that they're trying to get.
When they gather together in a home depot parking lot
looking for day labor, that's all fair game. That is
the sign of a likely illegal immigrant. And ICE can
stop these people and we request identification, detain them if necessary,
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eventually leading to deportation. So yeah, the way they look,
their actions, where they are, the kind of jobs they have,
that's all fair game. Six to three, says the Supreme Court.
Karen Bass wrong, Gavin Newsom wrong, Rob Bonta, the Attorney
general wrong, They were all wrong. They were making stuff up.
This is all just basic federal law enforcement. We'll get
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to Tom Homan with the replay coming up after three
point thirty five. We continue here with stan Ellis. He's
an assemblyman at a Bakersfield which is so rich in oil.
He's a member of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources,
and as I mentioned before, he's got a fifty years
in the oil industry, drilling, engineering, chemical processing, and he
is now saying what Michael miche the USC professor said
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on our show several times, is we're headed to eight
to ten dollars a gallon gas because of a variety
of factors. We're looking at a couple of refineries closing
very soon. We're going to have so little oil coming
into the pipeline the pipeline will cease to function. We're
going to be importing a lot of dirty far and
oil where we're drilling next to nothing. And you have
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all the carb regulations.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Stan you serve.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
On this committee obviously big majority Democrats. Do you ever
have a rational conversation with them about this? Because there's
no other state in the Union doing this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You know, yes, I do every day. I battle every day.
I fight every day up here, and I communicate every day,
and there are some Democrats that listen. Unfortunately, what I
found here is that they vote the party line almost
no matter what. So no matter how you spin it
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or how you educate or how you try to convince,
they understand. But when it comes to the vote, they
vote party lines. And I think that's what's really frustrating
about being the super minority here. You can have a
common sense bill, but unless it's supported by the blue side,
you're not going to get it through. I almost feel
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like the only way they're going to learn if it
does happen, and well, not yet, and when it does happen,
they're going to go, oh no, and then they're going
to try to blame it on Trump.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, like I said, I toured a lot of Trump
country back in the Southeast, and they're paying two ninety
five for gas.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah exactly. Well, you know, we set ourselves up for this,
and I'm telling you it's coming and we better be ready.
I'm I don't think that we can be ready. I'm
worried about the cost of living for a lot of
folks that are barely making it when their gas bill doubles.
And then I remember in nineteen seventy I'm old enough
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to remember that when we had gas lines because we
had shortages and several refineries winning a turnaround at the
same time, and we couldn't get supply, and we had
gas lines, and these gas lines were a mile long.
You had to wait hours get gas, so people were
filling up their extra gas cans. You were actually limited
to what you could fill up. Some people would fill
up a gas can and put it in the garage.
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You would catch on fire. It was all these stories
about garages catching on fires. We cannot afford this, we
cannot afford, But we cannot afford eight dollars a gallon gas.
We cannot afford the problems that are associated with it
and the shortage that shortages that will come with it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well there, it's hardly covered in the media and people
aren't gonna believe it anyway, I guess because it sounds
so outrageous. How com I that's ten dollars a gallon.
There's no way, Well, yeah, there's a way. Because our
supplies dwindling to almost nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's supply and demand. I'm the guy that in science
I say, guess what, guys, we're going to run out
of oil and gas someday in our reservoirs. Okay, we
really are. But is it twenty years forty years to
It's probably fifty eighty years. Shouldn't we for our future
generations transcend and transition into fusion and hydrogen and micronuclear
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and yeah, wind and solar is a little piece of it,
but yeah we should. But you don't do it. The
problem with the new Centement administration is they wanted to
do it overnight. They wanted an all electrical agenda. It
is totally impossible. It was. It was a poorly devised plan.
And here we are now in another six months, going
to be stuck with eight bucks a gallon and guess
who's going to pay for it? The consumer because of
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bad decisions by our government.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And the Democrats think they're so bulletproof that they could
withstand eight to ten dollars a gallon gash and that
they'll all keep their jobs and it's not going to matter.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's We're not in a good position right now.
And I see it. I'm in an industry I see
it every day if we don't get that pipeline and
we start drilling. If we don't, here's the other problem.
We've been declining in our production. We went from one
hundred and sixty eight thousand barrels a day I mean
four hundred and sixt eight thousand barrels a day ten
years ago to one hundred and sixty eight thousand barrels
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a day because Calgium will not issue permits. Okay, well,
that decline is exactly. You just can't go flip on
a switch and get more production. You have to get
drilling rigs, you have to get train drilling personnel. A
lot of that equipment left the state and went to
Texas because there wasn't any work here. So now we're
short of person or trained personnel. We're short of equipment
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and drilling rigs. We're short of the fracking equipment. So
guess what, you just don't go And furthermore, the oil
companies don't necessarily have the budget to go out and
spend on hundre of millions of dollars on drilling now
because they weren't making that much money. So guess what,
we have a perfect storm. We're not prepared to flip
the switch and start drilling. We can't get permits because
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of the political agenda. And guess what, here comes eight dollars.
Here comes eight dollars a gallon gas.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
All right, I want to talk with you further help.
You'll come back on soon.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yes I will.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
All right, i'd me on assemblymen.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Stan Allis, Republican, Bakersfield on the Assembly Committee of Natural Resources.
Over fifty years experience in the oil industry. It's going
to happen when we come back, Tom Homan. The borders
are for the Trump administration. He's going to be talking
to us. Well, we recorded the interview at one o'clock.
We did it live then and we were playing it again.
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There's a lot of good stuff because right, just a
couple hours early earlier this morning, the Supreme Court voted
six to three and said, yeah, what Ice does in
its immigration rates judging people by their their ethnicity, their look,
their job, where they're hanging out, their behavior, off their game,
all the stuff they did in Los Angeles, that is constitutional.
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We'll talk to Tom Homan next.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
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We're on every day from one until four o'clock and
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Speaker 2 (16:27):
So it's good that you're here now.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
If it was any other day, we'd be talking about
Kamala Harris having a police protection pulled that story. We'll
get to that later on. This is even more important.
The US Supreme Court today gave the Donald Trump administration
a huge victory. They they overrode a temporary restraining order
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that stopped the immigration raids that the judge thought was
based on race, ethnicity, language, location, or employment. These are
the raids that were going on in la home depot,
parking lots, for example, day laborers, car washes, garment factories,
and the US District Judge Mami Frimpong had issued a
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restraining order against those immigration raids, and this Circuit Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with her. But now the
US Supreme Court ruled six to three and an emergency
appeal lifting the restraining order. The government can do these
kind of raids, and we're going to talk with borders
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are Tom Homan about this and many other things? Tom?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Doing fine?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thanks for having me your reaction to the Supreme Court
sighting with you and the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's a right call. It's the right call, and I'm
glad they found them right because this. You know, all
these brand and women are Ice and borg Chi, they're
well trained and old jeffs. What they're doing. They follow
the law as laid out the statue and who the arrests,
who to detain what asorder you need to briefly detain
in question. And I believe they're following the rules. So
I'm glad the Supreme Court saw that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And to have all those other judges not see.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That, you know, like I said, every day, not every day,
but at least once a week I see some decision
from some radical judges simply doesn't want to become administration
from force Immigration had where the judge last week says
we can't turn turn over Guatemala and children back to
their parents who want their children back in Guatemala for
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God's sakes. So you know, the Supreme Court got it
right this time.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
What's coming next for Los Angeles? There have been multiple
reports you're quoted in some of them that the major
sanctuary cities are going to get some action very soon.
Is anything you can talk about that's coming to la No.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I think the President had a clear a couple weeks ago.
Each month do he want sanctuary cities prioritize? So that's
where the problem lies, at least the biggest problem. Right
where do we send fireman send fartments are the biggest fires,
and we're going to send agents to the biggest problem,
which are sanctuary cities because we know we have a problem.
We know public safety threats are being released back into
the streets every day. We don't have that problem like
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places like Florida were Chief and Riis's working with us,
they honorary attainers, they've worked with us on task forces. Well,
you know, a bottom line is we know sanctuary cities
are recent criminal aliens. So where should we send our
all law enforcement officers since we're prioritizing public safety threats
to sanctuary city. So yeah, we're increasing the footprint and
the sanctuary cities. We're bringing ten thousand more officers online
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and big part of them when we'll go to sanctuary cities.
That's what the problem, biggest problem is that Loral addressing?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
First, your budget has increased dramatically. You're hiring very rapidly.
I'm amused when Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome protests because
they don't know what's coming. You're only at the beginning
of this, and you're only you're doing this with the
staff you inherited from the Biden administration and the budget
from that administration. You're soon entering a whole new world
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of the enforcement that you're going to be capable of.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, yeah, they're about hanging on tight. So things are
going to get real busy. And bottom line is I say,
joined forces with us. And look, we're not asking anybody
to be an immigration officer. We're asking you, the governor
and you mayor to let your cops work with our cops.
When we have a criminal illego in your county jail,
we know where they're there. They're in the country legally.
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We we got a record of them based on the
fingerprints you just submitted to the nci C. We know
they're sitting in her county jail. So when you're done
with them, and we'll be there when you release them,
we'll take the one a custody. I don't. I just
find it hard to believe that any elected mayor or
any elected governor doesn't put public safety front and center
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and want to protect public safety. And that's all we're
asking them to do.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Why do they want to protect these people? I'm just
promuchs by this whole thing. Why people who are already
in prison, already convicted, already been charged, Why do you
go out of your way to protect them?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I was on every day one of that question. I
know the national I mean, the California Seress Associate was
against that whole FB fifty four. They were concerned about it.
But the politicians too. I don't know why politicians, you know,
want to push back its immigration enforcements. Like right now
there's this whole firestorm over ice operations. We're doing the
same thing we've done for the forty years I've been around.
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It's just that for the last four years the public
got used to immigrants from not being enforced, all of
a sudden we turn it back on. They're all losing
their minds. I can't figure it out. I don't know
whether or just have an opinion they should be open
borders or you know, I don't know. But regardless of
why they had that decision. They'll lose on this issue
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because we're going to increase enforcements sanctuary cities. That's coming
and if they don't want to help, just get out
of the way. We'll make your city safer for you.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You've already deported with three hundred thousand people since the
first of the year.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I looked at the numbers the other day, three seventy
six something like that, one.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Hundred and seventy six thousand.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I've read two studies that said self deportations at least
a million and a half maybe two million.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Does that sound plausible to you.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, that's part of the strategy. That's why another reason
these enforcement operations are important. We're sending message to the
whole world. Every day. We got nearly one thousand enforcement
teams on the street enforcement immigration law. That's another reason.
We have the most secure border in the nation right now.
God bust the men and women of Border Throw. They're
doing excellent job secure in that border. And thanks the
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President come for his executive orders that help us get there.
But a part of that credit goes to Ice because
we're showing the world there's consequences. You're not going to
walk the street free. There's no secretary telling you that
you can't arrest an illegal alien nless they're committed of
a crime, which was the last four years. So what
we're doing on the interior enforcement is sending a strong
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message people don't make that they know there's no more
catching release. They know that if you're in the country
that we're looking for you. So I think that's a
big part of why we have the most secure border
in history of this nation.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
City that's just a staggering number that one and a
half to two million have already decided to leave on
their own, just by watching television, just by looking at
their sociality.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
On their own, they can leave on their own lead,
they can leave on the loan, leave options open to
them in the future, whether they can be formally deported,
depending on their case, they'll be barred from ever coming
back from a minimum of five years, so lifetime depending
on what the specific case is. But you know, the
president made clear, you know he's going to increase illegal immigration,
and you know, take a shot of that. But if
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we have to formally find you, informally deport you, there's
a statutory bar from you ever coming back. I think
people are realizing this consequences. Look, if you have a
US citizen guald, that child can petition for you someday.
But if you get formally deported, that's not happening. So
you know, I'm glad that making the choice leave on
their own for the people says, this is really sad
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what's happening. I want to remind every everybody about what
happened one four years where millions came across the border
that competed the system and putting themselves in front of
the line un lawfully. There are millions of people today
standing in line taking her tests, getting their background investigation,
paying their fees to be part of the greatest nation
on Earth. Meanwhile they're sitting in the back seat. Well,
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the teeters got through, and when we're looking for the
shooters and we're removing them. So this is the right
thing to do, especially for the millions who are following
the rules and want coming here legally and going through
the process.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
When ICE came in June, big ruckus right when they
started doing some of those sweeps. Now that you've gotten
the Supreme Court decision, I assume you're coming back soon
and you're going to do more of these sweeps, raids,
whatever you call them. And Alley has been the center
of resistance in the country and it's there fueled by
Newsom in Bass and all these nonprofit groups that have
their networks to send out people to disrupt your operations
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you have. Are you going to have a whole new
way of approaching Los Angeles based on what you went
through in June?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Nope, Nope, we'll.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Come out of They want to force law, they can
protest all they want, they had their first member rights.
But if they cross that line turning from protester through
the criminal, there's zero talent who will be arrested and
prosecuted by the federal law enforcement. If you throw stone,
you're going to jail. If you put hands on ice officer,
you're going to jail. If you impedal ice officer, you're
going to jail. So we're gonna do the same thing
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to before. We did nothing wrong the first time. We're
gonna go and force law. Protest all you want, but
don't cross that line.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
It's hard, I guess for a newsment.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Best realize they don't have a vote in this, that
this is federal law, that you're enforcing and they don't
get to They don't.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They can object, but they can't change a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
No Ja.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
They can protest all they want. The other day, well,
each of them should be thanking President Trump for taking
criminals off the streets. We're making La safeer. We're making
California state for every public safety trip we take off
the street and deport is a rocket science. We're making
that community safe and they won't keep going it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Are you going to have the National Guard available as
back up if needed?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
National Guard is always on the table. Well, again, it
depends on the circumstances, depends what's happening, but they're always
on the table. A lot of the National Guard already
have twenty seven G authority, So when you know, I
mean you know, if if we need them, we know
where they are. So we'll see.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Now, I see reports that you're launching Operation Midway Blitz
in Chicago to go after illegal aliens also to fight
fight violent crime. What can you tell us about that operation?
Is that going on now as we speak or very soon?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
We already have resources there and I don't want to
give it too much away, but it's coming not just
Chicago either. We're increasing operations and everything. Square City. It's
some cru Chicago.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You said the other day that Trump's not war with
not at war with Chicago, but with the drug cartels.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah. I said that this week. You know, I did
an interview. I see and analymics a big deal and
comes from an a war priture. That's not what he
meant that. Sure, we're going at war with criminal cartels
and public safety. So that's a great children we have
illegal as, there are sexual child sexual produce. We're going
to warld to anybody going to war with them. We're
not going to war with any government official. We're going
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to war the people that a serious public safety violations
in these communities and we're looking for them. So that's
what we're going to war with.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
There's there's a bit of a controversy over what I
stayed at the Hundai plant in Georgia. There were hundreds
of illegal alien Korean workers who were being sent back
and they were helped building I guess a battery factory there.
And Trump said, well, if we're going to get people in,
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they have to come legally and they have to teach
Americans how to do that work. But you're just not
going to have people come blindly by the hundreds or
thousands just because a company is building something new. So
I guess there's just going to be no tolerance at
all for illegal immigration.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I've said from day one, we're going to increase work
side enforcement operations. We're doing it. We're doing a lot now,
we're going to do We're going to increase the temple
in the future. I mean, if I mean it's it's
it's illegal. First of all, it's illegal. Interest country illegal,
it's a crime, and it's illegal. It's a crime to
knowingly hr an illego had, and that is a big magnet.
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Why why illego ads come this country for a job?
So you know, we're going to force laws. So work
started enforcement operations are going to get a lot more
of You're gonna see it happen a lot more often,
a lot more cities. And you know that's that's what
we're going to do it again, We're going to force
the laws of this country. Laws are enacted by Congress,
laws we get budgeted to enforced, and that's what we're
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going to do. So works enforced ration are always already
about ten photo lasts administration. We're going to increase them
beyond that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Also, I know you got to go in a minute,
but I just want to go back to something you
said before, because I think that's at the heart of
all the controversy is that people are not used to
seeing federal immigration law being enforced.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
This is all.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This stuff has been on the books since forever. Just
nobody did it, either Republican or Democratic administrations. Now Trump
and you are leading the charge, and it's all. Everything
you're doing is legal, and it's the Supreme Court is
sided with you on every major issue.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So far. No one's seen it before, and they can't
believe that this.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Is this is but this is real, this is this
is what federal law has always been.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
We're not making this up. We're enforcing laws on the books.
Unlike the last administration, We've not only ignore the law,
they actually vi it lated to the law. We're enforcing
laws on the books. So if anybody has a problem
with ices doing, go press, go protest members of Congress,
they are the ones who wrote the law. You don't
like what we're doing, go protest Congress. We're doing exactly
what Congress passed. The laws you passed, they gave us
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a huge budget to do it with, and we're doing
it so if you don't like what Ice does, Billy
all Congress.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
All right, Tom Holman, Orderazar, thank you for coming on.
I hope we can talk again sometime.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All right, Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
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Until four o'clock. After four o'clock it's John Cobelt Show
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Tom Homan the borders are for President Trump, and we'll
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do that. And if you can't stick around, you got
the iHeart app the podcast for that as well. We
told you months and months ago. We were the first
to tell you that we could be seeing eight to
ten dollars a gallon for California gas prices. I just
spent some time in Florida, North Carolina, drove through South
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Carolina and Georgia, so that's four states for decent sized cities.
I saw gas roughly for two ninety five. Much of
the time I land in La driving down some Pulvita boulevard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Gas is five twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Five twenty nine is going to look so cheap We're
going to talk now with stan Ellis. He's a Republican
Assemblyman from Bakersfield. He's on the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources,
and he was talking today about what's going to make
the price sore to eight to ten dollars a gallon.
That's something we've discussed a number of times before with
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Michael Miche the USC professor. Let's get let's get stan
Ellis on. How are you, Hi?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hi, John, Thanks for having me on the show. I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, thank you. You're going on.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, I'm just telling you you're listening to your introduction there.
We are going to see eight to ten dollars a gallon,
and nobody wants to seem to listen. I've been in
the oil and gas in the three for fifty years,
and I've seen the ups and downs, and I see
what's going on, and I'm telling you we have some solutions,
but nobody wants to seem to listen, especially our governor.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You are a quantum physics expert, that's your background before politics,
with fifty plus years experience, as you said, drilling, engineering,
chemical processing, so you know what you're talking about here.
Why don't you diagnose the issues that could lead to
eight to ten dollars a gallon just in the next
six months or so.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, just so you know, everything is about supply and demand,
and we have the oil in Kerrn County in California
that could actually bring this bring us out of this crisis.
But here's what we're doing because cal JIM, who is
the permittee agency for Oil and Gas, has not any
issued any permits because of political pressure. Are when you
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don't rework a well every few years, you have to
rework that well and then you also have to drill
new wells to maintain production. Well, when that starts declining,
guess what happens. Your pipelines get less full. As your
pipelines get less full, unless they're turbulent, you have to
shut them down. So we're on the verge of a
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major pipeline out of Bakersfield, Kern County to Los Angeles
PBF refinery that will come out of flow within the
next six months. If it does, that refinerent will shut
down because it doesn't have a port where it can
take international cruit. You have Valero who is going to
shut down in the Bay Area shortly in six months.
You have p sixty six refinery that's already shut down.
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You have another P sixty six refinery. So guess what
we're bringing in a million barrels a day of crude
oil forty two million gallons a day of crude oil
from Ecuador and from other countries in the world. Do
you know that that crude is being brought in by
ships that burn what's called funk their internal combustion engines
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burn number six fuel oil, which puts which poly nuclear
aromatics into our atmosphere and not JEP stream for three
or four weeks at a time. As they're coming across
the ocean, they get twenty miles out and they kick
over the low sulfur diesel like, oh wow, we're clean now,
all all of a sudden. And so then then we
take that oil from third world countries they don't have
any human rights, and we're buying that. Furthermore, the refined
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product that we're bringing in doesn't necessarily meet our carbon standards.
Where refined we've put millions of dollars into upgrades for
reformulated fuel. We're buying that from India, which gets recrued
from Russia. All we have to do is simply have
calcium issue permits and get the current county EIR in
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gear and start drilling and drilling. We produce the cleanest
oil and gas in the world. We put out we
have the air district from from the wellhead to the tank,
to the pipeline to the refinerly. We have the air
under the toughest air district regulations in the world, and
we have very very little emissions coming from those sources.
(05:04):
We put out the cleanest in the world. So why
aren't we drilling. It's because it's political. He wanted this
electrical agenda. Well, guess what it's failing. Electrical cars. You
got to drive them one hundred and twenty two miles
before twenty two thousand miles before they're carbon neutral. Anyway,
So they answer, and I'm sorry, I'm rambling here.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, no, you're nine.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, I'm fascinated by this, and you're laying us such
a great case. And the question in my head is
why are they doing it? They know this, don't they?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yes, let me tell you something this. There are yes,
they do know this. There are two things. There are
two things. One consumer affordability. Do you know that we
have thirty million cars in this state on gas and diesel.
And that doesn't count the millions of farming vehicles, only
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gas and diesel. Do you know what that price or
transportation of all that foreign oil does to our price
of gas? It drives it to eight dollars a gallon.
We're we're guilty, We're hip, We're hypocrites. We're hypocrites. We
sit there and talk about clean, clean, clean, and yet
we're bringing in these ships that put are out put
in calling nuclear aromatics in the atmosphere into the EPA.
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It's regularly hazardous. What are we thinking? So? So I'm
telling you the solution is issue deliver permits immediately, get
the air boards, issue permits immediately, and start drilling. And
also one more, one more side note, fracking is a misnomer.
Fracking in California is not like cracking in Texas. In
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fracking they use the fract for seven days, using millions
and gallons of water and and frack fluid and sand.
In California, will you do you just pressure up the
formation for like a few thousand psi. So they're saying
cracking is bad here in California. No, it's not. It
doesn't even get near the fresh water table. We are
so uninformed and so politic if we're letting politics drive
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our economy. I'm sorry, this is a matter of national security.
Do you know what's going to happen if those ships
coming in from India that there's a tsunami, or what
if there's a war somewhere and we can't get this
crude oil one we're in, We're in gas lines. I'm sorry,
Can you hang on the line, I'll talk more about this.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
This is Assemblyman stan Ellis. He's with the Assembly Committee
Natural Resources. He's been in the oil business for over
fifty years, and he is saying something that we've talked
about for months now is we're looking at gas prices
eight to ten dollars a gallon because of an absolutely
long list of insane policies from the News of administration
(07:48):
that are counterproductive to their own stated goals. You heard
that shipping into all this oil from foreign countries is
putting far more pollution into the air than some claims
he's saving by shutting down and keeping our oil industry
shut down. Here in California, you're listening.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Forty moistline is Friday, eight seven seven Moist eighty six
eight seven seven Moist eighty six. We use the talkback
feature on the iHeartRadio app. We've had about a week worth,
a week's worth of news events just today alone. We're
going to have We're going to replay the interview we
did with Tom Homan the Borders are for Donald Trump,
(08:37):
and that's coming up at about three thirty five, right
after Debra's news. So if you missed the live interview
at one o'clock, we're replaying it at three thirty five today.
This morning, the Supreme Court voted six to three and
said the raids that LA was doing are constitutional. They
are legal. You can look at someone's race, their ethnic background,
(09:02):
their job that they have or that they're trying to get.
When they gather together in a home depot parking lot
looking for day labor, that's all fair game. That is
the sign of a likely illegal immigrant. And ICE can
stop these people and we request identification, detain them if necessary,
(09:23):
eventually leading to deportation. So yeah, the way they look,
their actions, where they are, the kind of jobs they have,
that's all fair game. Six to three, says the Supreme Court.
Karen Bass wrong, Gavin Newsom wrong, Rob Bonta, the Attorney
general wrong, They were all wrong. They were making stuff up.
This is all just basic federal law enforcement. We'll get
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to Tom Homan with the replay coming up after three
point thirty five. We continue here with stan Ellis. He's
an assemblyman at a Bakersfield which is so rich in oil.
He's a member of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources,
and as I mentioned before, he's got a fifty years
in the oil industry, drilling, engineering, chemical processing, and he
is now saying what Michael miche the USC professor said
(10:07):
on our show several times, is we're headed to eight
to ten dollars a gallon gas because of a variety
of factors. We're looking at a couple of refineries closing
very soon. We're going to have so little oil coming
into the pipeline the pipeline will cease to function. We're
going to be importing a lot of dirty far and
oil where we're drilling next to nothing. And you have
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all the carb regulations.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Stan you serve.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
On this committee obviously big majority Democrats. Do you ever
have a rational conversation with them about this? Because there's
no other state in the Union doing this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
You know, yes, I do every day. I battle every day.
I fight every day up here, and I communicate every day,
and there are some Democrats that listen. Unfortunately, what I
found here is that they vote the party line almost
no matter what. So no matter how you spin it
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or how you educate or how you try to convince,
they understand. But when it comes to the vote, they
vote party lines. And I think that's what's really frustrating
about being the super minority here. You can have a
common sense bill, but unless it's supported by the blue side,
you're not going to get it through. I almost feel
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like the only way they're going to learn if it
does happen, and well, not yet, and when it does happen,
they're going to go, oh no, and then they're going
to try to blame it on Trump.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well, like I said, I toured a lot of Trump
country back in the Southeast, and they're paying two ninety
five for gas.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah exactly. Well, you know, we set ourselves up for this,
and I'm telling you it's coming and we better be ready.
I'm I don't think that we can be ready. I'm
worried about the cost of living for a lot of
folks that are barely making it when their gas bill doubles.
And then I remember in nineteen seventy I'm old enough
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to remember that when we had gas lines because we
had shortages and several refineries winning a turnaround at the
same time, and we couldn't get supply, and we had
gas lines, and these gas lines were a mile long.
You had to wait hours get gas, so people were
filling up their extra gas cans. You were actually limited
to what you could fill up. Some people would fill
up a gas can and put it in the garage.
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You would catch on fire. It was all these stories
about garages catching on fires. We cannot afford this, we
cannot afford, But we cannot afford eight dollars a gallon gas.
We cannot afford the problems that are associated with it
and the shortage that shortages that will come with it.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well there, it's hardly covered in the media and people
aren't gonna believe it anyway, I guess because it sounds
so outrageous. How com I that's ten dollars a gallon.
There's no way, Well, yeah, there's a way. Because our
supplies dwindling to almost nothing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's supply and demand. I'm the guy that in science
I say, guess what, guys, we're going to run out
of oil and gas someday in our reservoirs. Okay, we
really are. But is it twenty years forty years to
It's probably fifty eighty years. Shouldn't we for our future
generations transcend and transition into fusion and hydrogen and micronuclear
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and yeah, wind and solar is a little piece of it,
but yeah we should. But you don't do it. The
problem with the new Centement administration is they wanted to
do it overnight. They wanted an all electrical agenda. It
is totally impossible. It was. It was a poorly devised plan.
And here we are now in another six months, going
to be stuck with eight bucks a gallon and guess
who's going to pay for it? The consumer because of
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bad decisions by our government.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
And the Democrats think they're so bulletproof that they could
withstand eight to ten dollars a gallon gash and that
they'll all keep their jobs and it's not going to matter.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's We're not in a good position right now.
And I see it. I'm in an industry I see
it every day if we don't get that pipeline and
we start drilling. If we don't, here's the other problem.
We've been declining in our production. We went from one
hundred and sixty eight thousand barrels a day I mean
four hundred and sixt eight thousand barrels a day ten
years ago to one hundred and sixty eight thousand barrels
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a day because Calgium will not issue permits. Okay, well,
that decline is exactly. You just can't go flip on
a switch and get more production. You have to get
drilling rigs, you have to get train drilling personnel. A
lot of that equipment left the state and went to
Texas because there wasn't any work here. So now we're
short of person or trained personnel. We're short of equipment
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and drilling rigs. We're short of the fracking equipment. So
guess what, you just don't go And furthermore, the oil
companies don't necessarily have the budget to go out and
spend on hundre of millions of dollars on drilling now
because they weren't making that much money. So guess what,
we have a perfect storm. We're not prepared to flip
the switch and start drilling. We can't get permits because
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of the political agenda. And guess what, here comes eight dollars.
Here comes eight dollars a gallon gas.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
All right, I want to talk with you further help.
You'll come back on soon.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yes I will.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
All right, i'd me on assemblymen.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Stan Allis, Republican, Bakersfield on the Assembly Committee of Natural Resources.
Over fifty years experience in the oil industry. It's going
to happen when we come back, Tom Homan. The borders
are for the Trump administration. He's going to be talking
to us. Well, we recorded the interview at one o'clock.
We did it live then and we were playing it again.
(15:47):
There's a lot of good stuff because right, just a
couple hours early earlier this morning, the Supreme Court voted
six to three and said, yeah, what Ice does in
its immigration rates judging people by their their ethnicity, their look,
their job, where they're hanging out, their behavior, off their game,
all the stuff they did in Los Angeles, that is constitutional.
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We'll talk to Tom Homan next.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
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Speaker 3 (16:19):
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Speaker 2 (16:27):
So it's good that you're here now.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
If it was any other day, we'd be talking about
Kamala Harris having a police protection pulled that story. We'll
get to that later on. This is even more important.
The US Supreme Court today gave the Donald Trump administration
a huge victory. They they overrode a temporary restraining order
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that stopped the immigration raids that the judge thought was
based on race, ethnicity, language, location, or employment. These are
the raids that were going on in la home depot,
parking lots, for example, day laborers, car washes, garment factories,
and the US District Judge Mami Frimpong had issued a
(17:15):
restraining order against those immigration raids, and this Circuit Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with her. But now the
US Supreme Court ruled six to three and an emergency
appeal lifting the restraining order. The government can do these
kind of raids, and we're going to talk with borders
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are Tom Homan about this and many other things? Tom?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
How are you.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Doing fine?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Thanks for having me your reaction to the Supreme Court
sighting with you and the Trump administration.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's a right call. It's the right call, and I'm
glad they found them right because this. You know, all
these brand and women are Ice and borg Chi, they're
well trained and old jeffs. What they're doing. They follow
the law as laid out the statue and who the arrests,
who to detain what asorder you need to briefly detain
in question. And I believe they're following the rules. So
I'm glad the Supreme Court saw that.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And to have all those other judges not see.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
That, you know, like I said, every day, not every day,
but at least once a week I see some decision
from some radical judges simply doesn't want to become administration
from force Immigration had where the judge last week says
we can't turn turn over Guatemala and children back to
their parents who want their children back in Guatemala for
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God's sakes. So you know, the Supreme Court got it
right this time.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
What's coming next for Los Angeles? There have been multiple
reports you're quoted in some of them that the major
sanctuary cities are going to get some action very soon.
Is anything you can talk about that's coming to la No.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I think the President had a clear a couple weeks ago.
Each month do he want sanctuary cities prioritize? So that's
where the problem lies, at least the biggest problem. Right
where do we send fireman send fartments are the biggest fires,
and we're going to send agents to the biggest problem,
which are sanctuary cities because we know we have a problem.
We know public safety threats are being released back into
the streets every day. We don't have that problem like
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places like Florida were Chief and Riis's working with us,
they honorary attainers, they've worked with us on task forces. Well,
you know, a bottom line is we know sanctuary cities
are recent criminal aliens. So where should we send our
all law enforcement officers since we're prioritizing public safety threats
to sanctuary city. So yeah, we're increasing the footprint and
the sanctuary cities. We're bringing ten thousand more officers online
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and big part of them when we'll go to sanctuary cities.
That's what the problem, biggest problem is that Loral addressing?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
First, your budget has increased dramatically. You're hiring very rapidly.
I'm amused when Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome protests because
they don't know what's coming. You're only at the beginning
of this, and you're only you're doing this with the
staff you inherited from the Biden administration and the budget
from that administration. You're soon entering a whole new world
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of the enforcement that you're going to be capable of.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, yeah, they're about hanging on tight. So things are
going to get real busy. And bottom line is I say,
joined forces with us. And look, we're not asking anybody
to be an immigration officer. We're asking you, the governor
and you mayor to let your cops work with our cops.
When we have a criminal illego in your county jail,
we know where they're there. They're in the country legally.
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We we got a record of them based on the
fingerprints you just submitted to the nci C. We know
they're sitting in her county jail. So when you're done
with them, and we'll be there when you release them,
we'll take the one a custody. I don't. I just
find it hard to believe that any elected mayor or
any elected governor doesn't put public safety front and center
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and want to protect public safety. And that's all we're
asking them to do.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Why do they want to protect these people? I'm just
promuchs by this whole thing. Why people who are already
in prison, already convicted, already been charged, Why do you
go out of your way to protect them?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I was on every day one of that question. I
know the national I mean, the California Seress Associate was
against that whole FB fifty four. They were concerned about it.
But the politicians too. I don't know why politicians, you know,
want to push back its immigration enforcements. Like right now
there's this whole firestorm over ice operations. We're doing the
same thing we've done for the forty years I've been around.
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It's just that for the last four years the public
got used to immigrants from not being enforced, all of
a sudden we turn it back on. They're all losing
their minds. I can't figure it out. I don't know
whether or just have an opinion they should be open
borders or you know, I don't know. But regardless of
why they had that decision. They'll lose on this issue
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because we're going to increase enforcements sanctuary cities. That's coming
and if they don't want to help, just get out
of the way. We'll make your city safer for you.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
You've already deported with three hundred thousand people since the
first of the year.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I looked at the numbers the other day, three seventy
six something like that, one.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Hundred and seventy six thousand.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I've read two studies that said self deportations at least
a million and a half maybe two million.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Does that sound plausible to you.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, that's part of the strategy. That's why another reason
these enforcement operations are important. We're sending message to the
whole world. Every day. We got nearly one thousand enforcement
teams on the street enforcement immigration law. That's another reason.
We have the most secure border in the nation right now.
God bust the men and women of Border Throw. They're
doing excellent job secure in that border. And thanks the
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President come for his executive orders that help us get there.
But a part of that credit goes to Ice because
we're showing the world there's consequences. You're not going to
walk the street free. There's no secretary telling you that
you can't arrest an illegal alien nless they're committed of
a crime, which was the last four years. So what
we're doing on the interior enforcement is sending a strong
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message people don't make that they know there's no more
catching release. They know that if you're in the country
that we're looking for you. So I think that's a
big part of why we have the most secure border
in history of this nation.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
City that's just a staggering number that one and a
half to two million have already decided to leave on
their own, just by watching television, just by looking at
their sociality.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
On their own, they can leave on their own lead,
they can leave on the loan, leave options open to
them in the future, whether they can be formally deported,
depending on their case, they'll be barred from ever coming
back from a minimum of five years, so lifetime depending
on what the specific case is. But you know, the
president made clear, you know he's going to increase illegal immigration,
and you know, take a shot of that. But if
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we have to formally find you, informally deport you, there's
a statutory bar from you ever coming back. I think
people are realizing this consequences. Look, if you have a
US citizen guald, that child can petition for you someday.
But if you get formally deported, that's not happening. So
you know, I'm glad that making the choice leave on
their own for the people says, this is really sad
(24:01):
what's happening. I want to remind every everybody about what
happened one four years where millions came across the border
that competed the system and putting themselves in front of
the line un lawfully. There are millions of people today
standing in line taking her tests, getting their background investigation,
paying their fees to be part of the greatest nation
on Earth. Meanwhile they're sitting in the back seat. Well,
(24:23):
the teeters got through, and when we're looking for the
shooters and we're removing them. So this is the right
thing to do, especially for the millions who are following
the rules and want coming here legally and going through
the process.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
When ICE came in June, big ruckus right when they
started doing some of those sweeps. Now that you've gotten
the Supreme Court decision, I assume you're coming back soon
and you're going to do more of these sweeps, raids,
whatever you call them. And Alley has been the center
of resistance in the country and it's there fueled by
Newsom in Bass and all these nonprofit groups that have
their networks to send out people to disrupt your operations
(24:58):
you have. Are you going to have a whole new
way of approaching Los Angeles based on what you went
through in June?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Nope, Nope, we'll.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Come out of They want to force law, they can
protest all they want, they had their first member rights.
But if they cross that line turning from protester through
the criminal, there's zero talent who will be arrested and
prosecuted by the federal law enforcement. If you throw stone,
you're going to jail. If you put hands on ice officer,
you're going to jail. If you impedal ice officer, you're
going to jail. So we're gonna do the same thing
(25:30):
to before. We did nothing wrong the first time. We're
gonna go and force law. Protest all you want, but
don't cross that line.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
It's hard, I guess for a newsment.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Best realize they don't have a vote in this, that
this is federal law, that you're enforcing and they don't
get to They don't.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
They can object, but they can't change a thing.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
No Ja.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
They can protest all they want. The other day, well,
each of them should be thanking President Trump for taking
criminals off the streets. We're making La safeer. We're making
California state for every public safety trip we take off
the street and deport is a rocket science. We're making
that community safe and they won't keep going it.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Are you going to have the National Guard available as
back up if needed?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
National Guard is always on the table. Well, again, it
depends on the circumstances, depends what's happening, but they're always
on the table. A lot of the National Guard already
have twenty seven G authority, So when you know, I
mean you know, if if we need them, we know
where they are. So we'll see.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Now, I see reports that you're launching Operation Midway Blitz
in Chicago to go after illegal aliens also to fight
fight violent crime. What can you tell us about that operation?
Is that going on now as we speak or very soon?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
We already have resources there and I don't want to
give it too much away, but it's coming not just
Chicago either. We're increasing operations and everything. Square City. It's
some cru Chicago.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
You said the other day that Trump's not war with
not at war with Chicago, but with the drug cartels.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah. I said that this week. You know, I did
an interview. I see and analymics a big deal and
comes from an a war priture. That's not what he
meant that. Sure, we're going at war with criminal cartels
and public safety. So that's a great children we have
illegal as, there are sexual child sexual produce. We're going
to warld to anybody going to war with them. We're
not going to war with any government official. We're going
(27:24):
to war the people that a serious public safety violations
in these communities and we're looking for them. So that's
what we're going to war with.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
There's there's a bit of a controversy over what I
stayed at the Hundai plant in Georgia. There were hundreds
of illegal alien Korean workers who were being sent back
and they were helped building I guess a battery factory there.
And Trump said, well, if we're going to get people in,
(27:53):
they have to come legally and they have to teach
Americans how to do that work. But you're just not
going to have people come blindly by the hundreds or
thousands just because a company is building something new. So
I guess there's just going to be no tolerance at
all for illegal immigration.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
I've said from day one, we're going to increase work
side enforcement operations. We're doing it. We're doing a lot now,
we're going to do We're going to increase the temple
in the future. I mean, if I mean it's it's
it's illegal. First of all, it's illegal. Interest country illegal,
it's a crime, and it's illegal. It's a crime to
knowingly hr an illego had, and that is a big magnet.
(28:34):
Why why illego ads come this country for a job?
So you know, we're going to force laws. So work
started enforcement operations are going to get a lot more
of You're gonna see it happen a lot more often,
a lot more cities. And you know that's that's what
we're going to do it again, We're going to force
the laws of this country. Laws are enacted by Congress,
laws we get budgeted to enforced, and that's what we're
(28:55):
going to do. So works enforced ration are always already
about ten photo lasts administration. We're going to increase them
beyond that.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Also, I know you got to go in a minute,
but I just want to go back to something you
said before, because I think that's at the heart of
all the controversy is that people are not used to
seeing federal immigration law being enforced.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
This is all.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
This stuff has been on the books since forever. Just
nobody did it, either Republican or Democratic administrations. Now Trump
and you are leading the charge, and it's all. Everything
you're doing is legal, and it's the Supreme Court is
sided with you on every major issue.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
So far. No one's seen it before, and they can't
believe that this.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Is this is but this is real, this is this
is what federal law has always been.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
We're not making this up. We're enforcing laws on the books.
Unlike the last administration, We've not only ignore the law,
they actually vi it lated to the law. We're enforcing
laws on the books. So if anybody has a problem
with ices doing, go press, go protest members of Congress,
they are the ones who wrote the law. You don't
like what we're doing, go protest Congress. We're doing exactly
what Congress passed. The laws you passed, they gave us
(30:00):
a huge budget to do it with, and we're doing
it so if you don't like what Ice does, Billy
all Congress.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
All right, Tom Holman, Orderazar, thank you for coming on.
I hope we can talk again sometime.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
All right, Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
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