July 9, 2026 • 32 mins
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis guest hosts and opens by reflecting on America’s 250th anniversary, the founding fathers, and the principles behind the Declaration of Independence. He discusses the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, including rulings on women’s sports, mail-in ballots, executive power, and birthright citizenship. DeSantis criticizes the birthright citizenship ruling and argues that it does not reflect the original purpose of the 14th Amendment. Tom Homan joins to discuss the Trump administration’s border enforcement record, deportations, birth tourism, H-1B visa fraud, and Florida’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The hour also focuses on illegal immigration, national security concerns, and DeSantis’s limited reprint of Dreams from Our Founding Fathers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be with you.
Sean Hannity has taken a big risk with his career.
He's got this very successful show and he's turning the
reins over to us for today. So I'm going to
be in the captain's chair. I'm proud to be Sean's governor.
I've known him for a long time. I was really
excited when he finally pulled the plug on New York
and moved down to the Free State of Florida, and
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he has not looked back since. We got a lot
of great issues we're going to talk about today, including
the America two fifty. We're going to talk about the
Supreme Court decisions, immigration, We're going to have Tom Homan on.
We're going to talk about some of the things we've
done to beat the left in Florida, and then artificial
intelligence and how that could represent a threat to our
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individual freedom. So it's going to be a good show.
I happened to be with Sean in Mount Rushmore for
America two fifty. We were there on the third, and
then my family and I we were there on the fourth.
I did his show with him. President Trump spoke gave
a great speech, they did fireworks over Mount Rushmore. Was
a really cool thing, and it was kind kind of
a culmination of a run up to something that I've
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been very vocal about is celebrating this really historic anniversary.
We have commissioned in Florida over the last year statues
for counties that bear the names of the Founding fathers.
It's kind of a buyer's market because the Blue States
are taking down, so they take down Madison, I get
them at a discount. We're able to put them up
and do all these things. But we're very proud that
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as you see the left trying to tear down our
history in Florida, we really wanted to build it up
something that we're proud of, and particularly this Founding generation.
And there's a reason for that is because if you
look back to what happened two hundred and fifty years ago,
it really began something that has been the most consequential
movement and certainly in the last thousand and certainly since
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the birth and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and
that is the founding of this republic. And it's a
real paradox how this came to be because if you
look back at the seventeen sixties seventeen seventies, this was
like the most conservative rebellion in history. The colonists were
not trying to remake the world. They didn't want a
French Revolution. What they wanted was to be respected and
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have the rights of Englishmen upheld in the colonies just
like they were in the mothern country. And they revered
the English constitution, common law, all these different things. So
they just wanted to be treated equally to what they
would have been treated if they were living in London.
And they fought this for a series of years, and
eventually it culminates into this statement and the Declaration of
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Independence that has had transformational consequences not just for the
United States, but for.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
All over the world.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And what began as just more of a defensive struggle
to say, hey, give us the rights of Englishmen turned
into hey, we have to think deeply about where do
our rights come from, how it was government instituted. And
that's when you have We hold these truths to be
self evident, that all men are created equal, that we
are endowed by our creator, dowed by God with certain
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inalienable rights, and the role of government is to protect
those rights that we already possessed. And the founding fathers
had a lot to lose. These were all very influential people.
Most of them were very wealthy, and they knew that
when they signed their name on that declaration, they were
effectively signing their death warrant. If the revolution failed, they
all would have been hung for treason and that just
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would have been that. So they had an awful lot
to lose. And the things they were complaining about today,
we wouldn't even notice some of this stuff we put
up with so much more. They were very sensitive about
if they gave an inch, then they would basically end
up living under a despotism in due time, and so
they were willing to lay it out on the line
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to stand up for a new way, a free society.
And this really was a decade plus of struggle because
they had to fight the revolution.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
That was tough.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They were the underdogs, and then they had to try
to figure out how do you govern or republic and
eventually led to them going to Philadelphia in seventeen eighty
seven and crafting the constitution, and that was something that
was very difficult. There was a lot of ups and
downs on that. Finally they end up coming with a constitution,
and Benjamin Franklin walked out of that convention in seventeen
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eighty seven. He was asked, doctor Franklin, did you give
us a republic or a monarchy? And his answer was
a republic if you can keep it. They understood, you
can have the best declaration of independence in the world,
the best constitution in the world. They do not run
on autopilot. They require every generation of Americans to step up,
defend freedom, sometimes even put on the cloth of your country,
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risk your life, and give your give that last full
measure of devotion for service in something bigger than yourself.
But they understood every republic throughout history had one thing
in common.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It was this.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Every one of them had failed. And so they understood
it fell to them and to us, the United States
of America, to answer us are the question, once in
for all, Can people actually govern themselves? Can you have
a society based on the idea that our rights are
God given, not government granted? Can you have a society
which the rule of law prevails over the whims of
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individual men. Can you have limitations on government or are
we just destined to live under various forms of tyranny,
and they believed and I believe that ultimately the United
States of America was the one that is going to
answer that question once in fra all. So one of
the things I'm proud of, proudest of as governor. I
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can talk about a lot of the issues we've succeeded on,
and we'll talk about a little bit of that, but
at the outset, we are answering a question every day,
can we govern ourselves? And in Florida we're showing that, yes,
you can successfully govern yourselves. If you look at leftist
jurisdictions like like Chicago, California, New York City, you question
whether you can actually govern yourselves. And these are perennial
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issues that the Founding fathers, and I think what you're
seeing on the left basically attacking the American Founding shows
that what they're doing is recycling.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Ideas that have already failed.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And if you go back to one hundred years ago,
we had a great Republican president then Calvin Coolidge. He
was speaking on the anniversary the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and he's talking about
the Declaration of Independence, and he said this. It's often
asserted that the world has made a great deal of
progress in seventeen seventy six, that we've had new thoughts
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and new experiences which have given us a great advance
over the people of that day, and that we may
therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern.
But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great Charter.
If all men are created equal, that's final. They're endowed
with inalienable rights, that's final. Governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the government. That is final. No advance,
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no progress can be made beyond these propositions. And if
anyone wishes to deny their truth or their sound, the
only direction in which he can proceed historically is not
forward but backward, toward the time when there was no equality,
no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
Those who wish to proceed in that direction did not
lay claim the progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are
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not more modern, but more ancient than those of the
revolutionary fathers end quote. And that's what you're seeing today
with these Marxist driven politicians. They are regressive. They are
not progressive. They are repackaging failed policies. These policies rest
on an inaccurate understanding of human nature, and there are
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things that the Founding Fathers already rejected, and so what
the Founding Fathers lay down were not time pieces for
seventeen seventy six or seventeen eighty seven. These are enduring truths.
They're enduring principles about rights, about human nature, and about
the proper role of government. And the key to successfully
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governing now, I believe, is to apply those principles too
new issues that are before us. And that's what we've
done in Florida. That's why I think we're doing the
best at carrying the torch of that spirit of seventeen
seventy six. And one of the things I did was
fifteen years ago I wrote a book I was not
intellected office at the time called Dreams from our Founding
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Fathers First Principles in the Age of Obama that contrasted
those enduring principles from the Founding with the modern leftism,
the aggressive leftism that Obama really started when he became president,
and I think has grown exponentially since then. And it
was something that over the years people have asked me like,
why don't you do another copy? I can't find it anyway.
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Sometimes people were paying thousands of dollars on eBay ford
in the past and all this, and so what we
decided to do was, I didn't want to mass market
another book. I mean, I've been there, done that a
couple of times. What we did is we republished it
this last month with a new introduction that kind of
outlines everything we're dealing with and all these different issues.
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But we're limiting it to seventeen one hundred and seventy
six copies, and every copy is signed and numbered by me.
And so if you're interested in that, you can go
to DeSantis seventeen seventy six dot com get it to you.
Shipped out pretty quickly. But that will be a good
look back at these underlying principles, which don't change. They
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don't change. We have to figure out ways to apply
those intelligently. But ultimately, what the left is selling it's
just a repackaged form of failure. So I'm looking forward
to being able to talk a little bit more about that,
how that's impacting how we view the courts, how we've
beaten the left in Florida, the implications that these principles
have for artificial intelligence. Our founding fathers were very concerned
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about a concentration of power. They did not want a
lot of power to be in a few hands. Now,
they were primarily concerned with government power. But if you
think about these big tech companies, they have huge, huge
influence over your life and society. And even like me
is as governor, it's like to just do normal things.
You have to engage in this technology. It's just the way,
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and it's likely to get even more and more pervasive.
So we got an awful lot to talk about with that.
But again, if you want to go check out the book,
it's DeSantis seventeen seventy six dot com. Copies are limited
to seventeen hundred and seventy six copies, all signed an
individually numbered by me. And you know, when we come back,
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we're going to talk about some of the things that
the Supreme Court has just done in the most recent term.
They did the birthright citizenship ruling, the ballot harvesting mail
ballot ruling, executive power ruling, as well as the transgender
athletes and so stay tuned. We'll be back after the
break and dive into that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Entertaining Americans coast and ghost Sean Hannity is on writing
it down.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, greetings, Governor Ron DeSantis here substituting for Sean Hannity.
So the Supreme Court finished its term at the end
of June, and there were a number of blockbuster decisions.
One was on transgender athletics and protecting women's sports, which
was the right decision. They said that a state can
ensure that girls play against girls and boys can't claim
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that they're girls and then go into that. But it's
kind of sad that that would even get to the
Supreme Court. I mean, like, yeah, that's pretty obvious that
that was the case. You also had the ruling on
the ballots that arrive after election day. We don't allow
that in Florida. The election ends at seven o'clock. If
you have an absentee ballot that's arrived by then it counts.
If it doesn't, then it doesn't count. And so we
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know how many votes have been cast, we count and
we produce the results in like an hour. To imagine
that it can be done California, it takes a month
to be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Bad ruling.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But honestly, these states can change the law, Congress can
clarify the law. That's something that's addressable. So I think
the two most important were the birthright citizenship and the
executive power ruling that overturned Humphreys exeter. So on the
latter that was the right decision. These independent agencies, so
to speak, are constitutional anomalies. The Founding Fathers created three
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branches of government. All power must be in one of
those three branches, and so if it's legislative, then that's Congress.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
If it's executive, it's judicial then the courts.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
If it's an executive agency, then the president has the
executive power, and he has the ability to clean house
and make sure that he has folks in there that
are going to actually pursue the agenda. And President Trump's
first term, as you remember, the deep state revolted against
his election and they tried to decap his presidency anyway
they can with the Russia hoax all these other things.
But the idea that we just have this separate power
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of bureaucrats that are immune to election results is not
what the Founding fathers and visions. So that was a
good decision. The birthright citizenship was a real punch to
the gut, and there were ways this case could have
been resolved short of what the court did, but you
had five justices, the three liberals, Roberts and Barrett, said
that no matter what, you're born on US soil, someone
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can come for China from two weeks, have a kid,
and then leave. That's an American citizen under the fourteenth Amendment,
which is not how that amendment was originally understood. Kavanaugh
concurred and descended in part basically said that that wasn't
the case, but the President couldn't do it by executive order,
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had to be done by Congress. And then the three
more conservable, the two conservatives Alito and Thomas Descendant and
Gor Saitues more libertarian, they dissented from that. But what
that basically means is you need to get that decision overturned.
You need to fight it in the legislatures effectively federal state,
maybe even a constitutional amendment. It was probably the worst
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outcome that you could have, and you know, it raises
the question about and we're going to talk more about
birthright citizenship with Tom Homan and we'll go through that. Obviously,
I disagreed with the decision I don't think that amendment
was originally understood by the society that ratified it that
someone that just was an interloper could have a kid
and be a citizen. I also don't think they meant
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that someone that comes in violation of the laws could
just have a kid and be a citizen. I think
it was meant to ensure that black Americans were citizens.
And there are situations where people immigrate in their permanent
residents and then have an American citizen child the Wonkim mark.
But that's different from what we're talking about with the
illegal migration and the birth tourism. So I don't think
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that decision is going to stand the test of time.
But it raises the question about the proper role of
the judiciary. The judiciary supposed to be the least dangerous branch.
People say that we have a three coequal branches of government,
But if you look at the founding fathers, they gave
Congress huge power, they gave President certain power, and they
gave the judiciary very little power. And what's happened over
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the years is the judiciary has kind of took for
itself the sole ability to interpret the Constitution, and that's
not what the Founding Fathers and vision. They thought each
branch had a responsibility because they swear an oath to
the Constitution to interpret that document as well. And so
we need to do a better job of having checks
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on the courts, and the Founding Fathers provided tools. You know,
you can take jurisdiction. Congress can do it now. The
Republicans haven't been willing to do it, but ultimately Lincoln
is right. You know, we cannot let the court just
define every exis sample of policy. So we'll be back
and talk a little bit more about that after the break.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
He gives you the latest breaking news when he hits
the air. This is the Sean Hannity Show. Well, welcome back, everybody.
This is Governor Ron DeSantis from Florida filling in for Sean.
You know, I think back to when Biden first got.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Into office, and he obviously did a lot of a
lot of things that were less than ideal, a lot
of destructive policies. But when he opened the southern border,
it's got to be one of the most outrageous things
any president has ever done. You start seeing people just
flooding across Florida. We were the first ones to send
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some of our highway patrol and National Guard to the
southern border to help Texas. Other states did, But the
reality was, even when you would apprehend somebody, you turn
them over to DHS and Biden they would just release
them right back into the community. And that was an
intentional policy. Part of it, I think was ideological, part
of it was political. They thought that they could import
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a new voting base, but it was a very destructive
four years. And so when President Trump got elected in
twenty twenty four, this issue of the border and immigration
was front and center, and I think probably ended up
being the most important issue in many respects. The economy
is always an important issue in elections, but the border
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and immigration were a huge, huge issue. And not just
because the border wasn't secure that was important, but then
the effects that you had of having all these people
at taxpayer expense put into communities, healthcare system, stress, education,
all these different things, and people wanted the rule of
law to prevail. So I knew going into this that
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the federal government, what Biden was turning over to Trump
with DHS was not enough to get the job done.
I mean, you can't have a situation where one president
lets in ten million, and then the next president's not
able to remove those people. That's like heads they win,
tails we lose. And so we knew that in the
state of Florida we had to step up and be there.
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So my first year's governor, I signed a law banning
sanctuary cities. We obviously weren't a sanctuary state, but it's
a difference between being California, where they actively try to sabotage,
or a lot of these red states which they just
don't do anything, so they're not sabotage, but they're not
actually out there assisting. So what I did when President
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Trump took office January twenty twenty five, I called the
special session of the Florida Legislature and we requested legislation which,
among other things, required all state and local law enforcement
agencies in the State of Florida to actively participate with
DHS for the apprehension and removal of illegal aliens from
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the state of Florida. So not only were we not
going to allow any of these guys to be sanctuary,
we were imposing a duty on them to be part
of the solution. And why would you do that? We'll
think about it. The Highway Patrol. They're going to go
and apprehend somebody. Someone is driving illegally. Some of these
guys drive drunk. You get them, they don't have license,
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they don't have they're obviously not here lawfully. Don't just
release them back on the street, turn them over to DHS.
And so we got into that rhythm in Florida, and
we do these agreements with the law A law enforcement
agencies in DHS called two eighty seven g agreements, and
we've done more to eighty seven g agreements than any
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other state by a country mile. And we've been able
to do tens of thousands of additional apprehensions and eventually
leads to DHS supporting these illegal aliens because we're actively
part of the solution. We're also do maritime interdictions. Now,
the Coast Guard does a good job, but Biden kind
of wean them down. So I've had for the last
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few years, I've had boats down in the Florida Straits
off the coast in southern Florida. You have a boat
from Haiti, you stop them and then turn them over
the Coast Guard. They take them back to Haiti. So
we've stopped twenty thousand illegal aliens at sea and return
them back to their home country with the help of
the coast Guard, you know, over the last few years,
and just think about had we not done that, what
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that would have happened for this And now you know
we're I don't know if we have Tom home, and
yet I know he's standing by or is going to
call in. But I've been working a lot with Tom
Holm and Tom are you there?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, I'm here. How are you going? Governor?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay? Good? Good? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well thanks, So you know you and I have been
working together on this. You are one hundred percent on
board with the President's policies and his campaign promises. Not
all states are Florida is. We want to be part
of the solution, and you know, we've had a lot
of successes. But I think some people are looking at
the posture now and they're asking, well, is the administration
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retreating from the promise of mass deportation? And so when
people raise that with you, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Absolutely not. Look here, here's a fact that people need
to take in consideration. Did the members drop a few
months ago? Yeah? And why was that? Because they shut
the Democrats shut down the Department of home race security,
which meaning solficers want get overtime paid travel document. When
officers travel to do operations, their credit cards are max style.
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We have great companies, really smart people that do targeting
for us, right. They help with find people that we're
looking for that don't want to be found, right, and
they do use all these you know, state of our
databases to find people. They weren't working because they weren't
being paid. So, yeah, the Department Homeland Security shut down,
so arrests reduced slightly. But guess what. In the last
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two weeks, Ice is arrested a record, a record, broke
all agency records last two weeks. Matter of fact, a
couple of days ago numbers within five days the rest
were ten thousand illegal handlings. So they're hitting on all cylinders.
So if anybody says that you know, the administration back
away from deportations are wrong, Ice is rested over ten
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thousand people in less than five days, which is a
record never done before. And think of this, that's even
more aliens than were arrested when BORD patrols out there
in ATF and FBI and DEA, when everybody's out there
helping them. They even brew that record out of the water.
So now there's no retreating here. The President Trump serious
about mass deportations, and DAT approves it.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'll tell you the border and how that's been secured.
I mean, I had no doubt that that would get done.
Obviously the President was committed to it. I knew you
were committed to it. I knew you guys would find
a way to do it. But how quickly that was done,
you know, it was very, very impressive. I think it
was within like a month of taking office. You basically
have had from the very beginning of the Trump administration
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to now a little more than a trickle here and
there of people getting across the border. Has it ever
been that secure since you've been in this business?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
No, I started in nineteen eighty four, and I've never
seen the border that we had more secure border in
the history of this country, based on data even before
my time. And I've been doing this for a lot
forty two years. But no, you know, we're able to accompresent.
Seven weeks, seven weeks when President Trump called me and
asked me to come back and work from again. He
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asked me, you know you've got a security border, run
a deportation operation to finding these missing children. Right, So
I told them that the security border, we don't before
or Trump forty five, you know how to do it.
We want to tweak a few things and make it
even more secure than Trump forty five. But hats off
to the men and women of the United States Borbatrow.
They've got that locked down in seven weeks and no
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illegal alia has been released by the Borbotrow in a year.
In a year. So yeah, there are people still coming
to board. I think numbers right around in one sixty
to one seventy a day coming to the border, but
they're either being detained or they're being turned around and removed.
They're not being released in the United States. And again
that's the first time in history that's happened. So ending
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catch and release was a game changer, and you know
that convinced a lot of people not to make that journey.
Don't make that dangerous journey. Don't give your life savings
to the cartel because you're not going to be released
in the United States like they did under byte administration.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, and then the Supreme Court I think underscored one
of the Trump policies of saying, yeah, you can turn
people away at the border. You know, you just show
up at the border and try to claim asylum. A
lot of those people are get in the system so
you can turn them away. That has removed, I think,
a huge incentive for people to come because they knew
under Biden they could just claim it and they'd basically
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get a ticket to the interior of the country. Now,
we had talked earlier a little bit on the show
about birthright citizenship ruling. I think that was not what
I wanted to see, and I'm sure you and I
know the President wanted to see how much your sense
of this birth tourism and how people are gaming that,
how big of a problem is that, and are their
tools that you guys have to be able to block that,
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because I think a lot of us look at it
and say, well, someone comes from China to like Guam
or something, stays for a few weeks, has a kid
that's a US citizen, they go back to they have
no connection to the United States, and yet somehow you
know they're going to be entitled to an American passport, voting,
even maybe even running for office. It just doesn't seem right.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
It is, and we're all over that. Look, there's a
bad ruin and that's just going to cause an enticement
for more people will do it, you know, and you
said it. They don't have to come to Los Angeles,
New York. They can simply go to Northern Mariana Islands.
They're Guam and which a lot of China are doing.
And but you know, we're we are already investigating birth tourism,
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but now we're going to put a lot more effort
into it because I think what the Supreme Court did,
it's just going to you know, turn turn on the
turn on the speed pump. Right. But what people didn't understand.
I know, people say, well, you know they're born, and
why why would I mess up in the country you
don't want to think about don't think about immigration aspect,
think of a national security aspect. Right, we won't have
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mans of people in the world that that some from
countries that are enemies, whether you like or not. China's
not our friend, Russia is not our friend. Who's the
big two biggest countries for tourism Russian China. So you're
going to have all these people in the Russian China
are citizens of the United States that to them that
will come to this country and make a They're gonna
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make a debt, at least a debt, right because they're
going to be like you said, they're gonna be able
to vote, They're going to run for office. There'll be
influence from our foreign adversaries on how this country's run.
It's what the Supreme Court is just doubled down on,
which I think is one of the biggest national security
vulnerabilities this country has, letting people our adversaries become a
US citizens simply because they gave birth on our soil
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or territory. You know, I'm not a lawyer. I'm not
a constitutionalist, you know, a lawyer, but I think that
the amendment was clear that it's for slaves, and I
hope Congress takes it up. I think the Supreme Court
has left room now for Congress going there and changed
the law. They all to do it for nothing else.
The national security.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Reasons amen to that, I agree. And you know, the
final thing, just briefly is there's a lot of concern
about the gaming of the legal immigration system, fraudulent h
one bvsas some of the things that have come down
to Pike. I know, the administration has done some things
on that. Are we going to see continued progress on
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the one fraud?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yes, the Vice President Advance has put a huge spotlight
on that, so that has quickly become one the major priorities.
So we'll be looking at the abuse of that program.
You know, we can't displace American workers now. President Trump
mentioned the other day during the speech we got more
Americans working right now than any time in history. But
you know, every American needs to have a good job,
and a lot of these h one b jobs, you're
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high paying jobs. We need to make sure that Americans
get the first shot out of them. So JD Vancetown
is running a task for us. Is become a major priority.
But before we hang up, and let me give you
a shout out, Governor, because seven G programs, we have
state and local law enforcements helping us to enforce immigration
law in the fifty states. They got up all the
fifty states. Your state, the state of Florida, accounts for
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over forty percent forty of all to eighty seven grs.
So hats off to you and to your fine officers
over there because they're leading the charge with the nation.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank you for that now absolutely. Look, we're on board.
This is an important mission. If we elete one president
open the floodgates and then the next president runs on
fixing it, it isn't able to do that because of
bad judges or Democrats in Congress or all that, then
we're not going to have a country anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We'll just be repeating this cycle.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And so the state stepping up to help you guys
is the way that it's going to get done, and
I think Florida's led the way very well. Well listen, Tom,
I know you're busy. Thanks for coming and imparting your
words of wisdom. You're doing a great job. I know
the people out there love you, so so keep it
up and we're on board. And if there's more we
can do in Florida, you just give me a call. Okay,
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thanks very much, Okay, god blast.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right, we'll be.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Back unmasking the left and holding the right accountable for
their promises. America needs Hannity now more than ever.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
This is a Sean Hannity show.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Suttles to most folks like a crisis.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Well, look it's way down now. We've now gotten.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Control, precisely that the border is closed.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nor could I have been clearer and continue to be so,
Which is, the border is closed.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
The United States will continue to enforce our laws and
secure our border.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
The border we are working to make the border more secure.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You're confident this border secure.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
We have a secure border, and that that is a
priority for any nation, including ours.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
In our administry, we agree that the border is secure.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Wow, that gives me nightmares, remember in that nonsense. So
the border has now been secured under President Trump and
with Tom Homan, and now you've got to clean up
the mess that Biden created. And that's why we're helping
with the deportations. I think it's really important. It's also
why we're going to fight this birthright citizenship ruling. I
think it's a terrible incentive for people to come to
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this country illegally. But also I think looking at a
larger picture of there's a lot of legal immigration where
there's fraud in these programs. You have h one B's
coming and undercutting American workers.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
That is wrong.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You have people that have been brought in who don't
like this country, who come from hostile cultures. And so
we've got to get away from this idea that says
like Okay, yeah, we're against illegal immigration, but whoever comes
in legally must be good. That's not true because they've
brought in a lot of people who have been hostile
to the country through legal channels, and so that's just wrong.
If you want to go for our book, Dreams from
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our Founding Fathers Desantas seventeen seventy six dot com. Only
seventeen hundred and seventy six copies, all signed an individually
numbered by me. It's a republication from my first book
fifteen years ago. But we do have a new introduction
that surveys a lot of the issues that we're facing
here in the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of our country. We're going to be back at
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the top of next hour. We're going to talk about
how I'm helping President Trump fix college sports. We're gonna
have co Jerman Meyer. You don't want to miss that.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be with you.
Sean Hannity has taken a big risk with his career.
He's got this very successful show and he's turning the
reins over to us for today. So I'm going to
be in the captain's chair. I'm proud to be Sean's governor.
I've known him for a long time. I was really
excited when he finally pulled the plug on New York
and moved down to the Free State of Florida, and
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he has not looked back since. We got a lot
of great issues we're going to talk about today, including
the America two fifty. We're going to talk about the
Supreme Court decisions, immigration, We're going to have Tom Homan on.
We're going to talk about some of the things we've
done to beat the left in Florida, and then artificial
intelligence and how that could represent a threat to our
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individual freedom. So it's going to be a good show.
I happened to be with Sean in Mount Rushmore for
America two fifty. We were there on the third, and
then my family and I we were there on the fourth.
I did his show with him. President Trump spoke gave
a great speech, they did fireworks over Mount Rushmore. Was
a really cool thing, and it was kind kind of
a culmination of a run up to something that I've
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been very vocal about is celebrating this really historic anniversary.
We have commissioned in Florida over the last year statues
for counties that bear the names of the Founding fathers.
It's kind of a buyer's market because the Blue States
are taking down, so they take down Madison, I get
them at a discount. We're able to put them up
and do all these things. But we're very proud that
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as you see the left trying to tear down our
history in Florida, we really wanted to build it up
something that we're proud of, and particularly this Founding generation.
And there's a reason for that is because if you
look back to what happened two hundred and fifty years ago,
it really began something that has been the most consequential
movement and certainly in the last thousand and certainly since
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the birth and death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and
that is the founding of this republic. And it's a
real paradox how this came to be because if you
look back at the seventeen sixties seventeen seventies, this was
like the most conservative rebellion in history. The colonists were
not trying to remake the world. They didn't want a
French Revolution. What they wanted was to be respected and
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have the rights of Englishmen upheld in the colonies just
like they were in the mothern country. And they revered
the English constitution, common law, all these different things. So
they just wanted to be treated equally to what they
would have been treated if they were living in London.
And they fought this for a series of years, and
eventually it culminates into this statement and the Declaration of
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Independence that has had transformational consequences not just for the
United States, but for.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
All over the world.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And what began as just more of a defensive struggle
to say, hey, give us the rights of Englishmen turned
into hey, we have to think deeply about where do
our rights come from, how it was government instituted. And
that's when you have We hold these truths to be
self evident, that all men are created equal, that we
are endowed by our creator, dowed by God with certain
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inalienable rights, and the role of government is to protect
those rights that we already possessed. And the founding fathers
had a lot to lose. These were all very influential people.
Most of them were very wealthy, and they knew that
when they signed their name on that declaration, they were
effectively signing their death warrant. If the revolution failed, they
all would have been hung for treason and that just
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would have been that. So they had an awful lot
to lose. And the things they were complaining about today,
we wouldn't even notice some of this stuff we put
up with so much more. They were very sensitive about
if they gave an inch, then they would basically end
up living under a despotism in due time, and so
they were willing to lay it out on the line
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to stand up for a new way, a free society.
And this really was a decade plus of struggle because
they had to fight the revolution.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
That was tough.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They were the underdogs, and then they had to try
to figure out how do you govern or republic and
eventually led to them going to Philadelphia in seventeen eighty
seven and crafting the constitution, and that was something that
was very difficult. There was a lot of ups and
downs on that. Finally they end up coming with a constitution,
and Benjamin Franklin walked out of that convention in seventeen
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eighty seven. He was asked, doctor Franklin, did you give
us a republic or a monarchy? And his answer was
a republic if you can keep it. They understood, you
can have the best declaration of independence in the world,
the best constitution in the world. They do not run
on autopilot. They require every generation of Americans to step up,
defend freedom, sometimes even put on the cloth of your country,
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risk your life, and give your give that last full
measure of devotion for service in something bigger than yourself.
But they understood every republic throughout history had one thing
in common.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It was this.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Every one of them had failed. And so they understood
it fell to them and to us, the United States
of America, to answer us are the question, once in
for all, Can people actually govern themselves? Can you have
a society based on the idea that our rights are
God given, not government granted? Can you have a society
which the rule of law prevails over the whims of
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individual men. Can you have limitations on government or are
we just destined to live under various forms of tyranny,
and they believed and I believe that ultimately the United
States of America was the one that is going to
answer that question once in fra all. So one of
the things I'm proud of, proudest of as governor. I
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can talk about a lot of the issues we've succeeded on,
and we'll talk about a little bit of that, but
at the outset, we are answering a question every day,
can we govern ourselves? And in Florida we're showing that, yes,
you can successfully govern yourselves. If you look at leftist
jurisdictions like like Chicago, California, New York City, you question
whether you can actually govern yourselves. And these are perennial
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issues that the Founding fathers, and I think what you're
seeing on the left basically attacking the American Founding shows
that what they're doing is recycling.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Ideas that have already failed.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And if you go back to one hundred years ago,
we had a great Republican president then Calvin Coolidge. He
was speaking on the anniversary the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and he's talking about
the Declaration of Independence, and he said this. It's often
asserted that the world has made a great deal of
progress in seventeen seventy six, that we've had new thoughts
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and new experiences which have given us a great advance
over the people of that day, and that we may
therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern.
But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great Charter.
If all men are created equal, that's final. They're endowed
with inalienable rights, that's final. Governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the government. That is final. No advance,
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no progress can be made beyond these propositions. And if
anyone wishes to deny their truth or their sound, the
only direction in which he can proceed historically is not
forward but backward, toward the time when there was no equality,
no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
Those who wish to proceed in that direction did not
lay claim the progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are
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not more modern, but more ancient than those of the
revolutionary fathers end quote. And that's what you're seeing today
with these Marxist driven politicians. They are regressive. They are
not progressive. They are repackaging failed policies. These policies rest
on an inaccurate understanding of human nature, and there are
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things that the Founding Fathers already rejected, and so what
the Founding Fathers lay down were not time pieces for
seventeen seventy six or seventeen eighty seven. These are enduring truths.
They're enduring principles about rights, about human nature, and about
the proper role of government. And the key to successfully
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governing now, I believe, is to apply those principles too
new issues that are before us. And that's what we've
done in Florida. That's why I think we're doing the
best at carrying the torch of that spirit of seventeen
seventy six. And one of the things I did was
fifteen years ago I wrote a book I was not
intellected office at the time called Dreams from our Founding
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Fathers First Principles in the Age of Obama that contrasted
those enduring principles from the Founding with the modern leftism,
the aggressive leftism that Obama really started when he became president,
and I think has grown exponentially since then. And it
was something that over the years people have asked me like,
why don't you do another copy? I can't find it anyway.
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Sometimes people were paying thousands of dollars on eBay ford
in the past and all this, and so what we
decided to do was, I didn't want to mass market
another book. I mean, I've been there, done that a
couple of times. What we did is we republished it
this last month with a new introduction that kind of
outlines everything we're dealing with and all these different issues.
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But we're limiting it to seventeen one hundred and seventy
six copies, and every copy is signed and numbered by me.
And so if you're interested in that, you can go
to DeSantis seventeen seventy six dot com get it to you.
Shipped out pretty quickly. But that will be a good
look back at these underlying principles, which don't change. They
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don't change. We have to figure out ways to apply
those intelligently. But ultimately, what the left is selling it's
just a repackaged form of failure. So I'm looking forward
to being able to talk a little bit more about that,
how that's impacting how we view the courts, how we've
beaten the left in Florida, the implications that these principles
have for artificial intelligence. Our founding fathers were very concerned
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about a concentration of power. They did not want a
lot of power to be in a few hands. Now,
they were primarily concerned with government power. But if you
think about these big tech companies, they have huge, huge
influence over your life and society. And even like me
is as governor, it's like to just do normal things.
You have to engage in this technology. It's just the way,
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and it's likely to get even more and more pervasive.
So we got an awful lot to talk about with that.
But again, if you want to go check out the book,
it's DeSantis seventeen seventy six dot com. Copies are limited
to seventeen hundred and seventy six copies, all signed an
individually numbered by me. And you know, when we come back,
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we're going to talk about some of the things that
the Supreme Court has just done in the most recent term.
They did the birthright citizenship ruling, the ballot harvesting mail
ballot ruling, executive power ruling, as well as the transgender
athletes and so stay tuned. We'll be back after the
break and dive into that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Entertaining Americans coast and ghost Sean Hannity is on writing
it down.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, greetings, Governor Ron DeSantis here substituting for Sean Hannity.
So the Supreme Court finished its term at the end
of June, and there were a number of blockbuster decisions.
One was on transgender athletics and protecting women's sports, which
was the right decision. They said that a state can
ensure that girls play against girls and boys can't claim
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that they're girls and then go into that. But it's
kind of sad that that would even get to the
Supreme Court. I mean, like, yeah, that's pretty obvious that
that was the case. You also had the ruling on
the ballots that arrive after election day. We don't allow
that in Florida. The election ends at seven o'clock. If
you have an absentee ballot that's arrived by then it counts.
If it doesn't, then it doesn't count. And so we
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know how many votes have been cast, we count and
we produce the results in like an hour. To imagine
that it can be done California, it takes a month
to be able to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Bad ruling.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
But honestly, these states can change the law, Congress can
clarify the law. That's something that's addressable. So I think
the two most important were the birthright citizenship and the
executive power ruling that overturned Humphreys exeter. So on the
latter that was the right decision. These independent agencies, so
to speak, are constitutional anomalies. The Founding Fathers created three
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branches of government. All power must be in one of
those three branches, and so if it's legislative, then that's Congress.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
If it's executive, it's judicial then the courts.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
If it's an executive agency, then the president has the
executive power, and he has the ability to clean house
and make sure that he has folks in there that
are going to actually pursue the agenda. And President Trump's
first term, as you remember, the deep state revolted against
his election and they tried to decap his presidency anyway
they can with the Russia hoax all these other things.
But the idea that we just have this separate power
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of bureaucrats that are immune to election results is not
what the Founding fathers and visions. So that was a
good decision. The birthright citizenship was a real punch to
the gut, and there were ways this case could have
been resolved short of what the court did, but you
had five justices, the three liberals, Roberts and Barrett, said
that no matter what, you're born on US soil, someone
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can come for China from two weeks, have a kid,
and then leave. That's an American citizen under the fourteenth Amendment,
which is not how that amendment was originally understood. Kavanaugh
concurred and descended in part basically said that that wasn't
the case, but the President couldn't do it by executive order,
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had to be done by Congress. And then the three
more conservable, the two conservatives Alito and Thomas Descendant and
Gor Saitues more libertarian, they dissented from that. But what
that basically means is you need to get that decision overturned.
You need to fight it in the legislatures effectively federal state,
maybe even a constitutional amendment. It was probably the worst
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outcome that you could have, and you know, it raises
the question about and we're going to talk more about
birthright citizenship with Tom Homan and we'll go through that. Obviously,
I disagreed with the decision I don't think that amendment
was originally understood by the society that ratified it that
someone that just was an interloper could have a kid
and be a citizen. I also don't think they meant
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that someone that comes in violation of the laws could
just have a kid and be a citizen. I think
it was meant to ensure that black Americans were citizens.
And there are situations where people immigrate in their permanent
residents and then have an American citizen child the Wonkim mark.
But that's different from what we're talking about with the
illegal migration and the birth tourism. So I don't think
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that decision is going to stand the test of time.
But it raises the question about the proper role of
the judiciary. The judiciary supposed to be the least dangerous branch.
People say that we have a three coequal branches of government,
But if you look at the founding fathers, they gave
Congress huge power, they gave President certain power, and they
gave the judiciary very little power. And what's happened over
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the years is the judiciary has kind of took for
itself the sole ability to interpret the Constitution, and that's
not what the Founding Fathers and vision. They thought each
branch had a responsibility because they swear an oath to
the Constitution to interpret that document as well. And so
we need to do a better job of having checks
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on the courts, and the Founding Fathers provided tools. You know,
you can take jurisdiction. Congress can do it now. The
Republicans haven't been willing to do it, but ultimately Lincoln
is right. You know, we cannot let the court just
define every exis sample of policy. So we'll be back
and talk a little bit more about that after the break.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
He gives you the latest breaking news when he hits
the air. This is the Sean Hannity Show. Well, welcome back, everybody.
This is Governor Ron DeSantis from Florida filling in for Sean.
You know, I think back to when Biden first got.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Into office, and he obviously did a lot of a
lot of things that were less than ideal, a lot
of destructive policies. But when he opened the southern border,
it's got to be one of the most outrageous things
any president has ever done. You start seeing people just
flooding across Florida. We were the first ones to send
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some of our highway patrol and National Guard to the
southern border to help Texas. Other states did, But the
reality was, even when you would apprehend somebody, you turn
them over to DHS and Biden they would just release
them right back into the community. And that was an
intentional policy. Part of it, I think was ideological, part
of it was political. They thought that they could import
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a new voting base, but it was a very destructive
four years. And so when President Trump got elected in
twenty twenty four, this issue of the border and immigration
was front and center, and I think probably ended up
being the most important issue in many respects. The economy
is always an important issue in elections, but the border
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and immigration were a huge, huge issue. And not just
because the border wasn't secure that was important, but then
the effects that you had of having all these people
at taxpayer expense put into communities, healthcare system, stress, education,
all these different things, and people wanted the rule of
law to prevail. So I knew going into this that
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the federal government, what Biden was turning over to Trump
with DHS was not enough to get the job done.
I mean, you can't have a situation where one president
lets in ten million, and then the next president's not
able to remove those people. That's like heads they win,
tails we lose. And so we knew that in the
state of Florida we had to step up and be there.
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So my first year's governor, I signed a law banning
sanctuary cities. We obviously weren't a sanctuary state, but it's
a difference between being California, where they actively try to sabotage,
or a lot of these red states which they just
don't do anything, so they're not sabotage, but they're not
actually out there assisting. So what I did when President
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Trump took office January twenty twenty five, I called the
special session of the Florida Legislature and we requested legislation which,
among other things, required all state and local law enforcement
agencies in the State of Florida to actively participate with
DHS for the apprehension and removal of illegal aliens from
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the state of Florida. So not only were we not
going to allow any of these guys to be sanctuary,
we were imposing a duty on them to be part
of the solution. And why would you do that? We'll
think about it. The Highway Patrol. They're going to go
and apprehend somebody. Someone is driving illegally. Some of these
guys drive drunk. You get them, they don't have license,
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they don't have they're obviously not here lawfully. Don't just
release them back on the street, turn them over to DHS.
And so we got into that rhythm in Florida, and
we do these agreements with the law A law enforcement
agencies in DHS called two eighty seven g agreements, and
we've done more to eighty seven g agreements than any
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other state by a country mile. And we've been able
to do tens of thousands of additional apprehensions and eventually
leads to DHS supporting these illegal aliens because we're actively
part of the solution. We're also do maritime interdictions. Now,
the Coast Guard does a good job, but Biden kind
of wean them down. So I've had for the last
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few years, I've had boats down in the Florida Straits
off the coast in southern Florida. You have a boat
from Haiti, you stop them and then turn them over
the Coast Guard. They take them back to Haiti. So
we've stopped twenty thousand illegal aliens at sea and return
them back to their home country with the help of
the coast Guard, you know, over the last few years,
and just think about had we not done that, what
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that would have happened for this And now you know
we're I don't know if we have Tom home, and
yet I know he's standing by or is going to
call in. But I've been working a lot with Tom
Holm and Tom are you there?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, I'm here. How are you going? Governor?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay? Good? Good? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well thanks, So you know you and I have been
working together on this. You are one hundred percent on
board with the President's policies and his campaign promises. Not
all states are Florida is. We want to be part
of the solution, and you know, we've had a lot
of successes. But I think some people are looking at
the posture now and they're asking, well, is the administration
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retreating from the promise of mass deportation? And so when
people raise that with you, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Absolutely not. Look here, here's a fact that people need
to take in consideration. Did the members drop a few
months ago? Yeah? And why was that? Because they shut
the Democrats shut down the Department of home race security,
which meaning solficers want get overtime paid travel document. When
officers travel to do operations, their credit cards are max style.
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We have great companies, really smart people that do targeting
for us, right. They help with find people that we're
looking for that don't want to be found, right, and
they do use all these you know, state of our
databases to find people. They weren't working because they weren't
being paid. So, yeah, the Department Homeland Security shut down,
so arrests reduced slightly. But guess what. In the last
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two weeks, Ice is arrested a record, a record, broke
all agency records last two weeks. Matter of fact, a
couple of days ago numbers within five days the rest
were ten thousand illegal handlings. So they're hitting on all cylinders.
So if anybody says that you know, the administration back
away from deportations are wrong, Ice is rested over ten
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thousand people in less than five days, which is a
record never done before. And think of this, that's even
more aliens than were arrested when BORD patrols out there
in ATF and FBI and DEA, when everybody's out there
helping them. They even brew that record out of the water.
So now there's no retreating here. The President Trump serious
about mass deportations, and DAT approves it.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'll tell you the border and how that's been secured.
I mean, I had no doubt that that would get done.
Obviously the President was committed to it. I knew you
were committed to it. I knew you guys would find
a way to do it. But how quickly that was done,
you know, it was very, very impressive. I think it
was within like a month of taking office. You basically
have had from the very beginning of the Trump administration
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to now a little more than a trickle here and
there of people getting across the border. Has it ever
been that secure since you've been in this business?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
No, I started in nineteen eighty four, and I've never
seen the border that we had more secure border in
the history of this country, based on data even before
my time. And I've been doing this for a lot
forty two years. But no, you know, we're able to accompresent.
Seven weeks, seven weeks when President Trump called me and
asked me to come back and work from again. He
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asked me, you know you've got a security border, run
a deportation operation to finding these missing children. Right, So
I told them that the security border, we don't before
or Trump forty five, you know how to do it.
We want to tweak a few things and make it
even more secure than Trump forty five. But hats off
to the men and women of the United States Borbatrow.
They've got that locked down in seven weeks and no
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illegal alia has been released by the Borbotrow in a year.
In a year. So yeah, there are people still coming
to board. I think numbers right around in one sixty
to one seventy a day coming to the border, but
they're either being detained or they're being turned around and removed.
They're not being released in the United States. And again
that's the first time in history that's happened. So ending
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catch and release was a game changer, and you know
that convinced a lot of people not to make that journey.
Don't make that dangerous journey. Don't give your life savings
to the cartel because you're not going to be released
in the United States like they did under byte administration.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, and then the Supreme Court I think underscored one
of the Trump policies of saying, yeah, you can turn
people away at the border. You know, you just show
up at the border and try to claim asylum. A
lot of those people are get in the system so
you can turn them away. That has removed, I think,
a huge incentive for people to come because they knew
under Biden they could just claim it and they'd basically
(25:08):
get a ticket to the interior of the country. Now,
we had talked earlier a little bit on the show
about birthright citizenship ruling. I think that was not what
I wanted to see, and I'm sure you and I
know the President wanted to see how much your sense
of this birth tourism and how people are gaming that,
how big of a problem is that, and are their
tools that you guys have to be able to block that,
(25:32):
because I think a lot of us look at it
and say, well, someone comes from China to like Guam
or something, stays for a few weeks, has a kid
that's a US citizen, they go back to they have
no connection to the United States, and yet somehow you
know they're going to be entitled to an American passport, voting,
even maybe even running for office. It just doesn't seem right.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
It is, and we're all over that. Look, there's a
bad ruin and that's just going to cause an enticement
for more people will do it, you know, and you
said it. They don't have to come to Los Angeles,
New York. They can simply go to Northern Mariana Islands.
They're Guam and which a lot of China are doing.
And but you know, we're we are already investigating birth tourism,
(26:15):
but now we're going to put a lot more effort
into it because I think what the Supreme Court did,
it's just going to you know, turn turn on the
turn on the speed pump. Right. But what people didn't understand.
I know, people say, well, you know they're born, and
why why would I mess up in the country you
don't want to think about don't think about immigration aspect,
think of a national security aspect. Right, we won't have
(26:35):
mans of people in the world that that some from
countries that are enemies, whether you like or not. China's
not our friend, Russia is not our friend. Who's the
big two biggest countries for tourism Russian China. So you're
going to have all these people in the Russian China
are citizens of the United States that to them that
will come to this country and make a They're gonna
(26:56):
make a debt, at least a debt, right because they're
going to be like you said, they're gonna be able
to vote, They're going to run for office. There'll be
influence from our foreign adversaries on how this country's run.
It's what the Supreme Court is just doubled down on,
which I think is one of the biggest national security
vulnerabilities this country has, letting people our adversaries become a
US citizens simply because they gave birth on our soil
(27:19):
or territory. You know, I'm not a lawyer. I'm not
a constitutionalist, you know, a lawyer, but I think that
the amendment was clear that it's for slaves, and I
hope Congress takes it up. I think the Supreme Court
has left room now for Congress going there and changed
the law. They all to do it for nothing else.
The national security.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Reasons amen to that, I agree. And you know, the
final thing, just briefly is there's a lot of concern
about the gaming of the legal immigration system, fraudulent h
one bvsas some of the things that have come down
to Pike. I know, the administration has done some things
on that. Are we going to see continued progress on
(27:59):
the one fraud?
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yes, the Vice President Advance has put a huge spotlight
on that, so that has quickly become one the major priorities.
So we'll be looking at the abuse of that program.
You know, we can't displace American workers now. President Trump
mentioned the other day during the speech we got more
Americans working right now than any time in history. But
you know, every American needs to have a good job,
and a lot of these h one b jobs, you're
(28:23):
high paying jobs. We need to make sure that Americans
get the first shot out of them. So JD Vancetown
is running a task for us. Is become a major priority.
But before we hang up, and let me give you
a shout out, Governor, because seven G programs, we have
state and local law enforcements helping us to enforce immigration
law in the fifty states. They got up all the
fifty states. Your state, the state of Florida, accounts for
(28:45):
over forty percent forty of all to eighty seven grs.
So hats off to you and to your fine officers
over there because they're leading the charge with the nation.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Thank you for that now absolutely. Look, we're on board.
This is an important mission. If we elete one president
open the floodgates and then the next president runs on
fixing it, it isn't able to do that because of
bad judges or Democrats in Congress or all that, then
we're not going to have a country anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
We'll just be repeating this cycle.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And so the state stepping up to help you guys
is the way that it's going to get done, and
I think Florida's led the way very well. Well listen, Tom,
I know you're busy. Thanks for coming and imparting your
words of wisdom. You're doing a great job. I know
the people out there love you, so so keep it
up and we're on board. And if there's more we
can do in Florida, you just give me a call. Okay,
(29:35):
thanks very much, Okay, god blast.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right, we'll be.
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Speaker 4 (30:00):
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Speaker 5 (30:24):
Suttles to most folks like a crisis.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Well, look it's way down now. We've now gotten.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Control, precisely that the border is closed.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nor could I have been clearer and continue to be so,
Which is, the border is closed.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
The United States will continue to enforce our laws and
secure our border.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
The border we are working to make the border more secure.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
You're confident this border secure.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
We have a secure border, and that that is a
priority for any nation, including ours.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
In our administry, we agree that the border is secure.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Wow, that gives me nightmares, remember in that nonsense. So
the border has now been secured under President Trump and
with Tom Homan, and now you've got to clean up
the mess that Biden created. And that's why we're helping
with the deportations. I think it's really important. It's also
why we're going to fight this birthright citizenship ruling. I
think it's a terrible incentive for people to come to
(31:26):
this country illegally. But also I think looking at a
larger picture of there's a lot of legal immigration where
there's fraud in these programs. You have h one B's
coming and undercutting American workers.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
That is wrong.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You have people that have been brought in who don't
like this country, who come from hostile cultures. And so
we've got to get away from this idea that says
like Okay, yeah, we're against illegal immigration, but whoever comes
in legally must be good. That's not true because they've
brought in a lot of people who have been hostile
to the country through legal channels, and so that's just wrong.
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