01-28-25 YMS Colombia blinked. More undocumented migrants are being rounded up. What is next in President Trump’s plan for mass deportation? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL with the story.

Colombia blinked. More undocumented migrants are being rounded up. What is next in President Trump’s plan for mass deportation? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL with the story.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil choonho.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I called it the fast fold. But Columbia certainly blinked.
And not only do they go from we're not going
to cooperate to here comes our plane with our gas
to pick them up. That was a quick turnaround for
the Colombian government. Yeah, it certainly was.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As Donald Trump, I think, as we've heard, is using
the threat of tariffs much more effectively than actually imposing tariffs.
And we'll see if other countries want to follow suit.
Heard some rumblings from some EU members last night. You know,
if Donald Trump wants to impose tariffs on us, we'll
do the same. Blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
But let's see what happens when the lot that's been
the negative narrative against Trump is these tarriffs are going
to drive up cost of living. He's supposed to be
bringing the cost of living down. That's assuming he ever
will impose the tariff. It's the art of the deal,
and he might be negotiating. This could add to that, right,
the credibility of you want to play this game, Columbia,
because they ended up setting their planes with their gas

(00:59):
to pick these people up. So it kind of shows
you he uses it more as an art of the
deal than a that's a caroten a stick, right, right,
but at some point do you have to use the stick?
Could kind of look like yep, but this could help
avoid the stick by having done it with Columbia and
Columbia caving, and now the plans continue to move on.

(01:22):
We definitely I know there's the famous video of Seling
Gomez crying, we're basically targeting felons first, right.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Not entirely, but yes, what's happening is, yes, we are
targeting the felons, and then we're picking up people collaterally
as well who may not have the same kind of
criminal record. So there was someone who was picked up
yesterday or maybe it did before, but you know, I
think they were arresting someone who had been convicted of
a crime, even paroled, but then he was staying with
someone else who was also not in the country legally

(01:53):
and had a traffic ticket like six years ago, but
otherwise hadn't been violent. But they said, nope, you qualified too.
This is all about messaging, because I mean they're going
out there with the full news cruise and even doctor
Phil had access to some of the sweeps that were
happening this week.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, and again, the president has a lot of support
of the American people. If you're dealing with somebody that's
committed a felony or a violent crime, after committing the
crime of breaking into the country early, he's got anywhere,
depending on what survey you look at, anywhere about eighty
percent of the American people behind him. What shocked me
was even those with no criminal record after breaking into
the country, he's got high fifty percent or higher depending

(02:31):
on what survey of the American people behind him for deportations.
So he's got a lot of support of the American people.
Even Fetterman's on the view yesterday saying, look, he's not
doing anything he didn't promise he'd do, and the American
people elected him. So this is the process. It's in
full swing. And what a difference. You know, I just
shared that stat only five hundred and eighty two people

(02:52):
crossed illegally into the United States on January twenty sixth.
Those numbers were as high as four thousand in the
height of the rush at the border. So certainly, if
sealing the border was goal number one, that seems to
be his priority, and it seems to be working. If
getting these dangerous elements out of our country was priority
to that seemed to be his goal, and it seems

(03:12):
to be what he's very busy doing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I talked to a reporter at the border who said,
with some of those border crossings falling off in the
week leading up to the inauguration or weeks leading up
to the inauguration as well, it's not that anything was
done specifically, but it's just the messaging that's going out
there saying don't.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Come well and you remember, and this was my first
sign that I thought, well, Joe Biden isn't playing the
Dave game. They may have used him as a trojan
horse to get the White House, but they might have
had a handoff to Kamala planned in his first news
conference sixty four days in, he hands the border to

(03:50):
Kamala Harris like he's handing her the poison apple, and
in that she ended up having to apologize to everyone
and then beg people not to come. But they had
no credibility and they kept coming. Apparently Donald Trump has credibility,
and the numbers have cut off rather immediately. Great reporting,
as always, we're able to talk again tomorrow. Have at Golodlin.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael del
Churno