Jonathan Fahey - Former Acting ICE Director & Prosecutor Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's actually a song about drug trafficking and terrorism and stuff.
Sounds so friendly, though, does the seven to fifty one
is their time here in Houston's Warning News? As I mentioned,
Morgan Latrell, the Texas Congressman, has introduced the Cartel Act
in an effort to increase transparency around border threats. The
bill would require more transparency around terrorist activity around the border.

(00:24):
In the bill, US Customs and Border Protection would release
reports on whether individuals list on the Terrorist Screening Database
have entered the United States, among other things. Join us
to talk about this. As Jonathan Fahey, former acting ICE
Director and prosecutor, I'm all for transparency. Does this make
any real difference in fighting back against the cartel? What
do you think?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
It probably makes a difference one just sort of the
optics of it, which a lot of the you know,
what Donald Trump is doing is just sending the message
that were done with the Biden Majoricas open borders, you know,
putting national security of public stay behind the interest of
you know, illegal immigrants and drug dealers and everything else.
But it is you know, this really stemmed from during

(01:07):
the you know, the may Orcists Biden regime at the
border that hundreds and hundreds of people on the terrorists
watch lists were encountered at the border. And the worst
thing about this is they let ninety nine of them
into the country after they were already encountered on their
terrorists watch lists at the border, which is just stunning
to me. And this doesn't even count the people that

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might be on that list that where they you know,
what they described as the known godaways that didn't come
through ports of entry. And during you know, during the
last administration, when Secretary Mayorcis was asked about this, he
would always give this sort of try to act cooy
and say, well, we know where these people are. And
it's like, well, we shouldn't have to care. They shouldn't
be here regardless, you know, And and it just seems

(01:51):
like we need to I think there's a public interest
in knowing if people are coming to the border that
are on the terrorist watch list, even if they don't
get through. I think there's there's an interest to know, hey,
there are people trying to infiltrate our country. And the
other additional benefit I think of O'donald Trump declearing the
drug cartel's terrorist organizations is a lot of them and

(02:13):
their associates can be put on this terrorist watch list,
which will make it more difficult or hopefully impossible for
them to enter the country, so putting more restrictions on them,
making it harder for them to do business, and reduce
their quality of life. So overall, I think this seems
like a good thing. Transparency is generally always better. You know,
it doesn't mean and you know, there's certain cases we

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don't we don't want it, but generally I think the
public is benefits from it. That increases trust in the
government and also increases accountability for the government. So overall
it's a good thing. But I think the most important
thing is the message being sent with you know, the
Congressman as well as this administration is the game is
up and we're done with these open borders letting drug

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traffickers control our so other border we know.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
CHIP roying also introduce to bill which would require the
Secretary of State to submit a report to Congress on
the designation of the Golf Cartel and several other cartels
is terrorist organizations. So we need to start treating the
cartel like what it is, a terrorist organization, and that
is going to change how we look at law enforcement
and dealing with these people. Doo, don't you think?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I think so. It's really a game changer and
a lot of you know, declaring these organizations, you know,
terrorist organizations, a lot of it gives additional tools for
the government to get after their finances, make it harder
for them to do banking. And ultimately, drug trafficking is
about money. So if you make it harder for them
to make money, that's going to make it harder for
them to get drug They're going to be less drugs

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coming across the border. And then you do other things
to make it even more difficult. But certainly the time
has come on this when we're looking at what one
hundred thousand or so people dying every year from drug overdoses,
and most of it's Sentinel and most of it's coming
through Mexico. So yeah, we don't deserve deserve to that
many people dying every year without without doing something and

(04:01):
fighting back. And unfortunately, the last administration essentially just let
it happen because their open borders agenda seemed to trump everything.
They didn't care about public safety, didn't care about people overdosing,
didn't care about national security. They just wanted as many
illegal aliens to come into the country as possible, and
it's one of the most shameful and unconscionable things that's

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ever been done in this country.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I agree. I wish charges would be brought against Marijorcis
and the other people who instituted those policies because they
were completely illegal. Jonathan Faihey, you have to leave it
at that, but thank you for your time, sir, do
appreciate it. Thank you you bet. Former Acting ICE Director
and prosecutor Jonathan Fahey