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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It makes me really happy seeing all these people come
together and write a lot of nice things down say,
a lot of nice things just shows that a lot
of people really care for him and loved it, and
just like he loved everyone.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Friends there reacting on the University of South Carolina's campus
to a junior business major Nate Baker's tragic death on
his motorcycle twenty one years old. I mean, he's broad
daylight in downtown Colombia, all the hands of a twenty
four year old illegal immigrant in our country. He's now
behind bars in Colombia. South Carolina is Attorney General Alan Wilson. First,
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your reaction.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To this, well, First, as a parent of two teenagers,
it just really hits close to home. The accident, this
traffic fatality, it literally occurred two blocks from my office,
and so this really really hits close to home. I mean,
any parent you know can't even imagine what this family
is going through. So our hearts and prayers go out
to the Baker family and in the at large University
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of South Carolina campus family. I mean, this is this
is a tough one, and no matter what people think
about various political issues on immigration, there is a young
man who lost his life and that is something we
need to always bear in mind.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So let's break down a couple of things here. He
was currently wanted by ICE. He failed to deport after
a North Carolina judge under Trump ordered him out of
America back in twenty eighteen. It's twenty twenty five. That
was from a Christmas Eve arrest in Texas in twenty sixteen.
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Happened to be during the Obama presidency. But I was
doing you know, do the mass Attorney General Wilson. The
guy was fifteen years old at the time, So I
know ICE in this current case is offering condolences as
we all are. The ICE acting director said, we've got
to promote the cooperation between federal and local law enforcement
to prioritize the safety and well being of all residents
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and work together to address the risk before they escalate. Well,
two times a guy. It seems like the system has
failed to protect Americans, clearly Nate Baker in this case
because in a way he was in custody. Yet we
are here today talking about this case, and there are
many others across the country.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Sadly, what I can tell you that I know about
the defendant in this case, he did come in twenty sixteen,
as you said, he came across as an unaccompanied miner
at the southern border. He was apprehended and pursu into
policy at that time, he was released to the custody
and care of a family member who we also believe
was here illegally. Twenty eighteen, he was issued in order
of removal by an immigration judge as you said, and
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then after that he kind of went under the radar.
And what people need to understand, rightly or wrongly, immigration
or ICE agents, they don't have the bandwidth to just
go find every single teenager or illegal alien who is
here illegally but not causing a threat to the community. So,
as it was explained to me, he flew under the
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radar and there was no way to go identify where
he was or where he was living. So until this
traffic accident occurred, he was under the radar. And so
our office took a special interest in this case. Obviously,
you know people like, why are you taking this case? Well,
it's very simple. Our office has already involved in ongoing
state investigations of a broad nature into legal immigration matters
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here in South Carolina, and due to the nature of
this particular case, we thought it was appropriate, in light
of what we were already doing, to go ahead and
take this case and handle it. The local Solicitor's office,
the City of Columbia Police Department have been very cooperative.
We've been in touch with ICE agents, We've been in
touch with our federal partners. That everyone has been incredibly cooperative, Kelly,
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and so my number one priority and all of this
is to protect the health and safety of South Carolina citizens.
And while this case is very distinguishable from some of
these other national cases like Hungary and Lake and Riley
and others, it has brought to the forefront the concern
about illegal aliens. And there are a number of people
who have used the policies of the pre administration where
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tens of millions of people have come into the United States.
Many of them are harmless people who want a better life.
They're coming here illegally, nonetheless, but buried in that wave
of illegals are people who represent terrorist organizations like Hesbalah
or ISIS, or maybe even the Chinese government Trendy Arragua
and MS thirteen, and Mexican cartails are using that wave
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of illegals coming into the United States to traffic in
all kinds of things, fentanyl, human trafficking, methanmphetamine, I mean, drugs, guns,
And it's all winding up here in South Carolina. And
so our job is to try to nip that in
the bud and go after the worst of the worst
and make it difficult for violent legal aliens to be
here in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We have activist judges now to pile on top of
the millions who have come into our country illegally, and
that of course includes this guy who is here nine
years flying under the radar. Now we throw the Supreme
Court case. We talked about this all week Attorney General
Wilson on the program. It seems for whatever reason they
kind of toss the political hot potato or whatever you
want to call it, because I don't consider in giving
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due process to illegals even common sense under our constitution.
But with Trenda I Ragua, MS thirteen and all that, So,
how in the world do we see the idea of
the massportation agenda that the president was elected on truly
play out in your mind, with the political lawfair, the
judicial lawfair, all at play.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, Look, our office is doing our part. We led
a twenty seven state coalition to the US Supreme Court
and defensive President Trump's executive order to deport these trendy
Arragua violent extremist individuals under the Alien Enemies Act, which
is a seventeen ninety eight law that allows the presidents
to convent certain procedural matters to get the worst of
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the worst out of here in the event that there
is an invasion or a war, or an incursion. In
this particular case, it's an incursion. As I said earlier,
Trende Ragua is a volent erist organization being stood up
and supported by the Maduro regime in venez Wala. It
was born in a gang and it's being used to
facilitate all types of criminal activity, to include human trafficking,
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drug trafficking, in support of the Mexican cartels operating south
of the border. They're here. When I was at the
southern border last summer, they told us that there were
no trendy Arrouagua in South Carolina at this time. That
is not the case. Eight months later, trendy Aragua is
here in South Carolina along with MS thirteen and other
violent extremist groups, and as they are in every state,
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and so we are committed to working with local law enforcement. Kelly,
I don't know if you're aware of this, but I
been working with your local sheriff in the sheriffs in
the Tri County area. These are great gentlemen of other
sheriffs around the state to get them signed up for
the two to eighty seven G program. I don't know
if you're aware of what that program is, but in short,
but a lot of people are not well. I will
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explain it is succinctly as I can. It's named after
a federal statute that allows local law enforcement to be
basically deputized and under the supervision of ICE, are allowed
to support ICE in its enforcement operations to mean to
include detaining, deporting, processing illegal aliens when they are caught
or captured. During the Biden administration, the two eighty seven
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G program was basically made defunct and unworkable. They didn't
want local law enforcement engaging in ICE operations. In fact,
they didn't want ICE engaging in ICE operations to remove
illegal aliens. But now under the Trump administration, they have
revamped that program. They've stripped it down, they've made it workable,
and now I have sent letters to all forty six sheriffs,
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met with nearly every sheriff about this program. Most are
going to be joining the program. We only had three
sheriffs before this January, and we're going to have a
lot more moving forward who will be able to support
ICE in its processing, detention, and deportation operations of illegal
groups like this. So that is something that I've been
working on. Obviously, our drug trafficking issues in the state,
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a lot of it's coming and driven by the Mexican cartels.
The last four years, we've seized one hundred and forty
four kilos of fentanyl through these Mexican cartail driven drug
trafficking operations. Kelly, one kilo of fentanyl, which is about
the size of a VHS tape, is enough to kill
half a million South Carolinians one kila, And we've seized
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one hundred and forty four kilos over the last four years.
And it's all coming from south of the border, and
that is being piped into this country. And so we
have been working with local, state and federal law enforcement
agencies to go aggressively after these gangs, after these violent criminals,
after these drug trafficking operations, and yes, possibly even human trafficking.
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They can't locate three hundred thousand unaccompanied miners that crossed
over under the Biden administration. We don't know where these
children are. They were used by the gangs. Many of
them were used to give the perception that these were
families coming across, but they were just single individuals using
the using these children that they took from another family
as cover. So this is a very insidious, evil operation.
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These people are add people, and we're going to go
after him hard.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
South Carolin is a turn. General Alan Wilson. Here a
few things that you mentioned there I want to talk about.
One is back to the Nate Baker case of junior
business major at the University of South Carolina. This loss
his life at the hands of an illegal immigrant, horrific case.
I know the driver who fled the scene wasn't the
only one involved. There were two others in the in
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the vehicle. What's their immigration status do we know? And
why are there no charges pending against them?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So what you need to understand is, and I can't
comment specifically on all the facts of this particular case
involving mister Baker, because it's obviously in our office and
you know, we'll be prosecuting the case. But what I
can tell you is the individual was charged with a
number of things. He was charged with hit and run
involving a fatality. That's the felony part. He was driving
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without a driver's license, that's the and that's the uniform
traffic ticket. He was also dry he failed to yield
the right of way to oncoming traffic. That's what led
to you know, that that's what allegedly led to the fatality.
And then of course you know, didn't stay and render aid.
Most of these charges would be uniform traffic tickets or
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just traffic violations that obviously you know, hit and run,
failure to render aid, you know, resulting in death is
a felony. That's what upgraded this issue. So this is
a traffic accident, you know, based on the charges by
the City of Columbia. That's really all I can say
about the case at this time until we flesh it out.
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But as to other individuals who would not have been
driving the truck, they would not have if the facts
are what they are. You know, they weren't driving the truck.
They were riding in the truck, so you can't charge
someone with causing a fatality if they're not in the
driver's seat. But that that is about as far as
I can go on the facts of the case. Just
wanted y'all to understand that, you know, as we look
into this, we're going to evaluate the full scope of
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what laws that have been broken are available to us
to charge, and we will charge every law that we
can or every violation that we can and move forward
from there.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
The other part of that, Attorney General Alan Wilson, I
wanted to address that you spoke of TDA and MUS
thirteen being in our state. You talked about human trafficking
and a lot of other things. I noticed Representative Nancy
Mace of the Low Country here on social this week
called you and Lieutenant Governor Pam Evatt the king and
Queen of the South Carolina establishment, stating sanctuary sheriffs have
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thrived under both of your watch. Quote, they've had years
to fix this problem and haven't done anything to get
illegal aliens off our streets. It will be no surprise
likely if the three of your names show up on
a Republican primary ballot for governor here in South Carolina
in the near future. So your reaction.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Until you read me that statement, I did not know
what was out there. I do not follow that individual.
I do not read that individual. I do not think
about that individual. I don't have the time to go
to social media to the things that are being said
about me, especially by people like that. So I really
don't need to comment on it other than I'm too
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busy doing my job. As we've just talked about over
the last ten or so minutes. You know, the number
of drug trafficking cases we've been involved in, our work
with getting sheriff signed up under the two eighty seven
G program, our defense of Donald Trump's executive orders that
have successfully gone to the Supreme Court, and you know,
allowed the President to continue deporting these violent criminals. I've
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been involved in all of these lawsuits with states around
the country. Our growth of the Human Trafficking Task Force,
our you know, engagement and growth of the Internet Crimes
Against Children's Task Force, prosecuted over fifteen hundred predators and
pedophiles against kids. I mean, I could go on and
on and on and we'll run out of time before
I get to the end of what I've accomplished. I'm
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going to let my record as Attorney General stand on
its own, and I'll let the people out there on
social media say whatever they're going to say. Again, I
don't have the time to read it or to think
about it because I'm simply too busy.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So Attorney Jaral Alan Wilson to close, Is there anything
you want to add moving forward with the cases that
are getting pushed up to the Supreme Court and these
activist judges that aren't going to quit for whatever reason. Yeah,
to stand up for illegal immigrants to have some kind
of due process in our country, which makes zero sense
to me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Well, look, we are involved in probably half a dozen
cases right now defensive President Trump and his agenda. Obviously,
we were successful. I led a twenty seven state coalition
to defend the President's right under the Alien Enemies Act
to deport criminal aliens like Trendy Arragua, and we were
successful with that. We're also on a number of brief
supporting the president's decision to not support birthright citizenship under
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the fourteenth Amendment. We're trying to get that overturned. That's
going to go to the Supreme Court. We've been in
supportive of the presidents a number of his executive orders
involving DEI as well as removal of executive officers and
executive branch of government and the authority of the president
to do that. We're going to continue to defend the
lawful and constitutional right of the president to run the
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executive branch of government. And we're going to continue to
support our efforts on the ground with law enforcement and
other adjacent groups that are supporting public safety and national
security at the ground level. Like I said, our office
is busy. We're in almost every level of law enforcement,
from your local town police all the way up to
the FBI and beyond. So we're going to continue to
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fight these folks, lot these thugs away in prison where
they belong, and we're going to support the President and
his agenda, and I look forward to coming back on
to talk about all the other things we're going to
be doing in the weeks and months to come.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
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