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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, they're not working on classroom sizes anymore. They're working
on circumventing Trump's immigration policies. Seven twenty two is their time.
The NEA, National Education Association and the AFT the American
Federation of Teachers have guides showing school staff how they
can help illegals. Have ad ice join us to talk
about Ronald Hottello. He's senior advisor to Customs and Border Patrol.
(00:23):
I'm not surprised, ron but I guess the question becomes,
you know, are all schools subject to following the guidelines
of the National Education Association and the American Federation of
Teachers or do you think we have, especially here in Texas,
that we have you know, teachers and staff that understand
the problem and would not want to participate in something
(00:44):
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, we just wonder like what they're spending their time
and their effort on. You know, this is this is
federal law. You know, enforcing immigration is good. Enforcing immigration
and having a system with integrity is good for all Americans.
You know, many of us have an immigration background that
we were allowed in the United States through the generosity
of Americans, and that system is supposed to work for
(01:08):
the people of the country, not for those that are
coming in. And so these teachers, these unions should focus
more on their own performance. They should focus more on
what they're doing for their children, versus trying to push
back on the legal implementation of immigration enforcement across the
United States. President Trump promised the American people that he
(01:31):
was going to secure the border and make our streets
safer and deport millions of people who were let in
during the previous administration to the tune of over eleven
million by government records. That doesn't count the people we
know who entered the border, who came uninvited to the
United States and were never seen by law enforcement. So
(01:52):
there's a lot to do on the deportation front. There's
a lot to do on our southwest border. And these
teachers should be considering how well their kids read, how
well they do math, and how they can be productive
members of our society through the public education system. That's
why parents in Texas, Florida and other red states are
(02:14):
moving away from public schools and encouraging their governments to
provide portability for the tax money that we give to
schools so that these kids can go to places that
focus on education and not rhetoric or political ideology.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Ron if you are let's say you're a teacher and
you just decide to participate in this and you are
following this little handbook and you are in contact with
a parent that you know to be an illegal alien
regarding their school child, and you're passing this information along
to them. Are you breaking federal law by doing that?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, you're right up to the line against it. I mean,
if you take physical action in that regard, then you
are breaking the law. And it is it's important for
people to know that the laws that ICE is enforcing,
the arrests that they're making, are people who are criminals
in the United States are also in the country illegally.
I'm not sure why teachers, mayors, and jurisdictions would care
(03:17):
to protect people who have come to the country uninvited,
committed crimes in their own jurisdictions, in their own neighborhoods.
It is destructive as public policy. And to your point,
it's running right up against the aiding and am betting
statutes again that are bipartisan in the Immigration and Nationality Act,
(03:37):
in our criminal code.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And unfortunately, I think the only way you prevent people
from participating in something like that is if you're willing
to bring those charges, and of course that's not likely
to happen. Do you think there's any chance. I mean,
I can understand if a school is concerned that there'd
be an ice rate on their school. I mean, nobody
wants that going on, I would think in the public
school system. But I don't think we would ever see
(03:59):
that Anyways, you've already illustrated, as we've already found out
here in Houston, they're resting gang members and known people
with terrorist ties. Those are the people that are going after.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And we've had brief periods of history of immigration enforcement
over many presidents. I started when President Reagan was the president.
And we've never seen, and we don't know of hear
tell of school raids or sweeps or arrests in mass
(04:31):
at public schools in the United States. It doesn't happen.
The Left has succeeded in a number of things. They
traffic in fear and outrage, and they've succeeded in convincing
a significant number of Americans that coming into the country
without being invited, without being inspected, and without being let
in therefore illegally, it's not a crime. It certainly is
(04:52):
a crime. It's a federal crime, and it's a violation
of the administrative statues in the Immigration and Nationality Act,
which was passed many decades ago bipartisanly through the Congress
and signed by a president. Those laws exist on the books,
and failure to enforce them gives us the kinds of
things like this radical gang trend Aragua from Venezuela, which
(05:15):
wreaking havoc all over the United States, and they have
not been in the United States for more than a
couple of years. This is a phenomenon that started under
the last administration and is putting us all at risk
at every city in town in the United States. And
these folks are very vulnerable to removal from government enforcement.
We saw this raid near Denver, Colorado, where they were
(05:38):
just out in the middle of nowhere partying. There were
fifty people arrested. Forty of them were in the country
illegally and all been here from Venezuela. We're at great
risk from what happened over the last four years. And again,
these teachers and even students in some parents, they need
to focus on making their kids productive members of society.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Do your day trafficking in this spear.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's not education.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Do your damn job, Ronald. Thank you. Ronald Vatello, Senior
Advisory to Customs and Border Patrol, seven twenty eight
Well, they're not working on classroom sizes anymore. They're working
on circumventing Trump's immigration policies. Seven twenty two is their time.
The NEA, National Education Association and the AFT the American
Federation of Teachers have guides showing school staff how they
can help illegals. Have ad ice join us to talk
about Ronald Hottello. He's senior advisor to Customs and Border Patrol.
(00:23):
I'm not surprised, ron but I guess the question becomes,
you know, are all schools subject to following the guidelines
of the National Education Association and the American Federation of
Teachers or do you think we have, especially here in Texas,
that we have you know, teachers and staff that understand
the problem and would not want to participate in something
(00:44):
like this.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, we just wonder like what they're spending their time
and their effort on. You know, this is this is
federal law. You know, enforcing immigration is good. Enforcing immigration
and having a system with integrity is good for all Americans.
You know, many of us have an immigration background that
we were allowed in the United States through the generosity
of Americans, and that system is supposed to work for
(01:08):
the people of the country, not for those that are
coming in. And so these teachers, these unions should focus
more on their own performance. They should focus more on
what they're doing for their children, versus trying to push
back on the legal implementation of immigration enforcement across the
United States. President Trump promised the American people that he
(01:31):
was going to secure the border and make our streets
safer and deport millions of people who were let in
during the previous administration to the tune of over eleven
million by government records. That doesn't count the people we
know who entered the border, who came uninvited to the
United States and were never seen by law enforcement. So
(01:52):
there's a lot to do on the deportation front. There's
a lot to do on our southwest border. And these
teachers should be considering how well their kids read, how
well they do math, and how they can be productive
members of our society through the public education system. That's
why parents in Texas, Florida and other red states are
(02:14):
moving away from public schools and encouraging their governments to
provide portability for the tax money that we give to
schools so that these kids can go to places that
focus on education and not rhetoric or political ideology.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Ron if you are let's say you're a teacher and
you just decide to participate in this and you are
following this little handbook and you are in contact with
a parent that you know to be an illegal alien
regarding their school child, and you're passing this information along
to them. Are you breaking federal law by doing that?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, you're right up to the line against it. I mean,
if you take physical action in that regard, then you
are breaking the law. And it is it's important for
people to know that the laws that ICE is enforcing,
the arrests that they're making, are people who are criminals
in the United States are also in the country illegally.
I'm not sure why teachers, mayors, and jurisdictions would care
(03:17):
to protect people who have come to the country uninvited,
committed crimes in their own jurisdictions, in their own neighborhoods.
It is destructive as public policy. And to your point,
it's running right up against the aiding and am betting
statutes again that are bipartisan in the Immigration and Nationality Act,
(03:37):
in our criminal code.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And unfortunately, I think the only way you prevent people
from participating in something like that is if you're willing
to bring those charges, and of course that's not likely
to happen. Do you think there's any chance. I mean,
I can understand if a school is concerned that there'd
be an ice rate on their school. I mean, nobody
wants that going on, I would think in the public
school system. But I don't think we would ever see
(03:59):
that Anyways, you've already illustrated, as we've already found out
here in Houston, they're resting gang members and known people
with terrorist ties. Those are the people that are going after.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And we've had brief periods of history of immigration enforcement
over many presidents. I started when President Reagan was the president.
And we've never seen, and we don't know of hear
tell of school raids or sweeps or arrests in mass
(04:31):
at public schools in the United States. It doesn't happen.
The Left has succeeded in a number of things. They
traffic in fear and outrage, and they've succeeded in convincing
a significant number of Americans that coming into the country
without being invited, without being inspected, and without being let
in therefore illegally, it's not a crime. It certainly is
(04:52):
a crime. It's a federal crime, and it's a violation
of the administrative statues in the Immigration and Nationality Act,
which was passed many decades ago bipartisanly through the Congress
and signed by a president. Those laws exist on the books,
and failure to enforce them gives us the kinds of
things like this radical gang trend Aragua from Venezuela, which
(05:15):
wreaking havoc all over the United States, and they have
not been in the United States for more than a
couple of years. This is a phenomenon that started under
the last administration and is putting us all at risk
at every city in town in the United States. And
these folks are very vulnerable to removal from government enforcement.
We saw this raid near Denver, Colorado, where they were
(05:38):
just out in the middle of nowhere partying. There were
fifty people arrested. Forty of them were in the country
illegally and all been here from Venezuela. We're at great
risk from what happened over the last four years. And again,
these teachers and even students in some parents, they need
to focus on making their kids productive members of society.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Do your day trafficking in this spear.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's not education.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Do your damn job, Ronald. Thank you. Ronald Vatello, Senior
Advisory to Customs and Border Patrol, seven twenty eight
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