Jessica Vaughan - Director Of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mean money too, as our time here in Houston's
Morning News that we have our own form of self checkout.
Now I'm not talking about the grocery store. I'm talking
about immigration. This is where you listen to the messages
from Christy Nome and you take her advice and you
leave before they come to get you. Jessica Vaughn joins
US director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.

(00:20):
I don't know if her recorded messages are reaching the
right people or not. I've heard them on our airwaves, Jessica,
but the message is pretty clear that the Trump administrations
try to pass along, which is if you leave voluntarily,
if you self deport, then you will have an opportunity
to come back to this country. If we have to
send ICE to get you, you will never come back again.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Good morning. Yes, that message should be heard by everyone.
I think many are hearing it and acting on it.
It's coming in the form not only of these public
service announcements from the Secretary, but also people can see
it happening in their communities around them. That ICE is
not just arresting people who've committed murder or some serious crime.

(01:12):
They're arresting everyone who has no path to a legal status,
and that's pretty much everyone who was allowed in by
the Biden administration and given a work permit. The courts
have allowed the Trump administration to remove those protections. They
are arresting people when they go to their court hearings

(01:32):
and check ins, and people should be able to see
that the best thing for everyone is them to go
home on their own. And what we're hearing anecdotally from
immigrant advocates and some of these migrants who are getting
interviewed in the press is that they are receiving that
message and understanding it and doing the right thing. And

(01:54):
I think we're going to see this amp up over
the summertime after the school year ends. And you know,
it's really a key part of Trump's overall strategy to
address the damage that was done by the Biden border crisis.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The Bidy administrations seem to be a little frustrated there
for a while. They weren't we weren't making as many
arrests as they had hoped that we would be. They
have picked up the pace quite a bit here over
the course of the last week, and I'm sure that
worn't on This is gootten out on the street about
how much these arrests are increasing, and that puts even
more pressure on those who are waffling about whether or

(02:32):
not they want to self deport or not.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's exactly right, and that's part of the point part
of this strategy. They have had record breaking numbers of
arrests in the last two days, more than two thy
three hundred each day, and this is definitely something unprecedented,
but it's being duly noted by people. What I'm concerned

(02:59):
about a little bit it is that they that ICE
is going to actually be able to remove all of
these people, which is different from just arresting. I mean,
some of them are going through immigration hearings, but others
are not qualified for that much due process. So we'll
have to see some follow through and I hope that
the administration can keep up the pace. A lot of

(03:20):
what they need is found in the so called Big
Beautiful Bill that's now before the Senate. ICE needs that
money to finish the job, but it's you know, the
messaging is very important. We saw that's part of how
they were able to shut down the border. So we're
not getting continued influxes of new illegal migrants. But you know,

(03:43):
This is not going to happen overnight. It's going to
take some time, but we're well on the way to
actually restoring integrity in our immigration system, right

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Jessica, Thank you, appreciated, Director of Policy Studies, Center for
Immigration Studies Jessica on