Ron Vitiello - Former Chief U.S. Border Patrol, Retired Acting ICE Director Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we got soldiers right now in Los Angeles, not
exactly welcomed with open arms. Ron Vottello Joints is former
chief US Border Patrol, retired acting ICE director, current CBP
senior advisor. Welcome to the show, Ron, Welcome back to
the show. I should say, thanks for coming on here today.
You bet appreciate. So the National Guard is there. It's

(00:22):
under the direction of the federal government because evidently the
mayor of Los Angeles and the governor of California doesn't
want the National Guard there. They'd rather left the city burn.
I guess.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah. It's they've not taken the responsibility that they are
are sworn to out pold to protect the citizens of
Los Angeles. They would rather coddle these protests. And let's
just face it, it's not a protest when you burn
down cybercabs or whatever the heck those things are out
there that are torched last night that we all saw.

(00:53):
It is not a protest when you throw fireworks or
rocks at police or police cars. And so that the
city and the state and we will all watch them
circle the drain for the last decade or so. And
now this is another opportunity for them to step up
and show leadership. And what do they do. They complain
about Donald Trump. They complain about the lawful activity performed

(01:16):
by federal offers is in the form of ICE, the
DEA and the FBI, who are in Los Angeles for
one purpose, to meet the mandate that the voters voted
for in this last election to remove criminal aliens from
cities like Los Angeles and other cities and towns all
over the United States. And so Los Angeles had a

(01:37):
chance here to show the world they weren't as terrible
as they look mostly on television, but they didn't take it.
And Gavin Newson wants to blame Donald Trump for the
chaos while he's asking these renom obs, you know, the
Antifa types, he's asking them to stand down. At the
same time he's ridiculous, and his public comments and his

(02:02):
action as a leader prove it.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, he's calling it a manufacturing crisis by the federal government,
you know, because of our immigration policy. Virtually everybody who's
been arrested. There's been been quite a list of people
who've been arrested during this ICE operation in Los Angeles,
and most of them have a rap sheet longer than
both both of our arms. So we're not we're arresting
it again. We're arresting people you would like to think

(02:25):
that the people of Los Angeles would not want to
have on their streets. And of course the result of this,
as you said, is you've got a basically a bunch
of anarchists who are being paid off by socialists to
show up in to write and to set things on
fire in the city that had a wildfire that did
great damage to it not that long ago. You would
think the last thing they want to see in Los
Angeles right now is more fires.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, no doubt. And like I said, you know, this
is an opportunity for the leadership in Los Angeles and
California at large to step up. They didn't do it.
And let's face it, you know, like where you're at
in Houston and most cities and towns in America, including
Los Angeles, the hard working folks that get up every day,
you know, and put their eight or nine or ten

(03:09):
hours in and grind away so they can put food
on the table, send their kids to a decent school
in a decent neighborhood. They're not out there doing They're
not protesting. Isis presence in LA This is a manufactured
crisis by the left of people with masks on who
want to burn things down, who want to torch our
cities and towns, not because you know, they're trying to

(03:32):
protect illegal alien criminals, which is what they're kind of
actually doing, but just because they believe in chaos. And
obviously Gavin Newsom hates Donald Trump more than he loves
the people of Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, no doubt. I mean that there's an attempt to
overthrow the government. That's all there is to it. That's
why these these protests are continuing. That You're right, it
has nothing to do with protecting illegal alien criminals. It
has everything to do with creating chaos, that's right.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And let's face it, you know, the activity that ICE
and other federal agencies are engaged in is designed to
protect all of us, to take these criminals off the
street and send them back from where they came. And
people like Karen Bass who want to denounce the president
and the policy, people like Hakeem Jeffries who want to

(04:21):
go out and call the President all kinds of names
and talk about you know, dosing and identifying the ICE
agents who are doing lawful activity, both of which Hakim
Jeffries and Karen Bass when she was in the House,
funded as part of their responsibility in the legislature of
the three branches of government. She funded ICE detention, she

(04:41):
funded ICE positions, she funded ICE fugitive operations. And so
for her to now come out and say this is
unnecessary or it's an unnecessary escalation, it's just hypocritical on
the largest scale.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
All right, Ron, thanks as always, good to talk to you, sir,
appreciate it. Former Chief US Border Patrol, retired acting ICE actor,
current CBP and Senior Advisor, Ron Vatello