Joey Chester - Communications Director, F.A.I.R. Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, even in San Francisco, the citizens pretty much have spoken,
which means that they're tired of illegal immigration. They don't
necessarily want a sanctuary city or there to be sanctuary cities.
They don't want government to hide the illegal aliens who
should be back in their country of origin. Joining us

(00:21):
to talk about Joey Chester, communications structor at Fair. You know,
it was pretty overwhelming. The immigration was, if not the
top issue, certainly number two to the economy in the
presidential election. And I think the election results speak for themselves.
So how how much longer can these sanctuary cities ignore
all this joy?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, it totally was a mandate for both President Trump
and Congress. And look, President Trump ran on this idea
of mass deportations, and so this is no surprise to
the American people or the sanctuary leaders. This is what
people voted for. They want to see people removed from

(01:03):
the country. And now we're seeing a resistance movement pop
up across the country. I believe it was San Diego
last night that voted to codify its sanctuary policies and
refuse to work with the Trump administration on deportations. You've
got Massachusetts and then the city of Boston, You've got Chicago,
You've got people in Philadelphia pushing for the mayor there

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to reaffirm its sanctuary status. So it's all across the
country these sanctuary leaders, save for Mayor Adams in New
York City. Surprisingly, they're doubling down on their sanctuary policies.
But here's what's going to happen is Tom Homan has
said that these sanctuary cities are not going to stop
the Trump administration from doing its job to remove the

(01:48):
gal aliens from the country. Now, the best way to
do that when you're dealing with a criminal legal alien
getting out of jail is you send ice into the
jail where they can arrest the bad guy in the
jail in the safety and security of that jail and
easily make that transfer. Doesn't put the community at risk
at all, doesn't put officers at risk, it doesn't put

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the illegal alien at risk. It's a nice, peaceful transfer. Well,
what happened if you don't comply is home and will
just send a team into the community to find these
illegal aliens. And that means that if you're searching for
one guy, well, that one guy may be hold up
in a house and say there's five other illegal aliens
living in that house. Well, now, Ice isn't just going

(02:32):
to take that one illegal alien, They're going to take
the others that are living there too, which actually goes
against what these sanctuary jurisdictions are trying to do. So
I think we may actually end up seeing a shift
as these immigration agents are in the communities and they
are conducting these searches for illegal aliens. So be very

(02:53):
curious to see how it plays out. But I think
it's clear that voters rejected these policies.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh no, no doubt about it. I guess the question
would be is does there need to be more of
a character stick approach? In other words, we're the federal government.
These people are breaking, you know, federal law. We have
every right to come in here and arrest them for
breaking federal law, assuming you know that they're in there.
I'm sure the local authorities will do their best to
keep that information from the Feds. But at the end
of the day, do federal tax dollars need to be involved?

(03:19):
In other words, We're not going to be sending any
more federal funds to you until you cooperate.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I would not be surprised if we see that effort
in Congress to restrict federal funds for sanctuary cities, trying
to force their hand for them to cooperate. You know,
one of the big funders that's been an issue under
the Biden administration is the FEMA Sheltered and Services funds.
It's like a flush fund for sanctuary cities, and you know,

(03:48):
you could see the next Congress pass an appropriations package
that restricts those funds, helps get them comply. The other
thing that I think that we could see happen is,
you know, sanctuary cities really go against the rule of
law and undermine federal immigration law. So it would be
interesting to see a lawsuit happen where eventually the whole

(04:09):
idea concept of sanctuary cities ends up in front of
the Supreme Court, where hopefully the Trumpe administration could build
a rock solid case and maybe we'd get the Supreme
Court to rule on it and outlaw them once and
for all.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, there's likely to be federal cases in both directions, Psyche,
so I appreciate it. Joey Chester, communication director at Fair