Strengthening Border Security. We will hear from Thomas Holman homan. Spoke earlier today. This is an hour and a half. Quest good morning. We welcome those who are joining occasions forhese those inhouse, we would ask that your mobile devices have been turned off 10 for those watching online, youre welcome to send questions and comments on time. Waiting our discussion, a visiting fellow from the Heritage Foundation. Of redlso the Founder Branch consulting as well as a senior advisor. He served as a professional lecturer at George Washington of theity and an advisor american bar association. Please join me in welcoming paul. [applause] paul thank you very much. It is an honor to be asked to post event. Immigration had a story history in American Life beginning back with the founding and continuing this day. It has at many times been a contentious subject. Immigration,bout we could probably identify three basic things that have animated the debate. Some look at immigration and see it through the prism of commerce. They see borders on the plea for oil control of labor and they see immigration issues as ways of resolving what, if any, should be the appropriate way of managing the flow of labor across the borders. Others look at immigration and see it through the prism of. Ultural significance a nation is defined by those who live within it and Border Control and immigration control more or less allows a country to are andho its citizens defined the nature of the culture that destination expresses. The third prism is one of National Security. As defining ars events of defensible space. It is, i think fair to characterize a debate between immigration as an ongoing one, certainly since the last reform in congress in the 1980s, we have engaged in a vigorous debate as to which of these conceptions are prominent. The Obama Administration is widely characterized as immigrag heavily on questions of commerce and culture, advancing them over issues of National Security and the Trump Administration is i think rightly seen as reversing some of those trends and putting a greater emphasis on National Security issues. Is simple. Re we will begin with two of my colleagues from heritage and follow that with an address from introduc. , who i will later. Introduce later. David joined heritage than 2012. He holds a ba in government and economics from the college of williams and mary and a masters mason. Orge a Senior Leader fellow legal fellow. He is the coauthor of the book who is counting . Enforcer, eric holders justice department. Lets begin with you, david with some introductory remarks. David i want to focus on some of the problems and issues around Immigration Enforcement and provide some solutions along the way. Dhs has many responsibilities with regarding immigration, but too notable ones on to point out and interiorurity enforcement. Gets a lot of talking in the United States. , these areof agents the types of things we have heard during campaigns and it makes sense we should talk about these things. It makes sense it is really the start to good enforcement. Currently, the United States has around 600 miles of fencing of only 37d 300 54 miles have a second layer in the same place. In terms of staffing, at the end of 2016, Border Patrol agents had just under 20,000 agents. While there are many important , i think it is and see to step back how Border Security investments are part of a larger enforcement system. Walls inriers many cases Border Security alone is not a deterrent. Many illegal and brent are going across the border in many cases Border Security ille. If they think once they get past the border they will be allowed to stay. A border wall is several daylong trek and a to get to city or town so the best way to stop this is to intercept these folks using technology. Technology is essential to find these people were border barriers and other walls and fencing are in areas near towns or cities. In these areas, Illegal Immigrants can cross the border and disappear or melt into the regular hustle and bustle of businesses and houses. Thus, the best Border Security is built around technology and that looks different in different places. Kellys endorsed by john fencing will make sense over there. Costeffective approach is the way forward. Reason i went beyond Border Security is our argue the most one part of this important puzzle as the interior enforcement being done by ice. Immigrant is picked up by Border Control, what happens . Patrol or they overstate a visa, what happens . I would argue these questions are some of the questions we need to answer in this debate. If an individual believes they are unlikely to get deported, then fences and Border Patrol are small obstacles. Even horse, if not legal in believes they can turn himself in, they will definitely view a trip to the United States is having a high likelihood ultimately, there facilitating the movement of this into the interior of the United States if we continue with the policy of catch and release. Border security must be backed up. Truly powerful Border Security look good more space, funding and authority for these agencies to the Illegal Immigrants can have their caseys test cases adjudicated quickly. This ensures most Illegal Immigrants are not being released, but being move as quickly as possible to not overwhelm the courts. For immigrants that make it into the interior by crossing the border or overstaying legal fees , interior enforcement is not an azeri tobacco. For an be difficult illegal immigrant to work in United States unlawfully. This includes expedited removal, which i know the Trump Administration has are to started to do, expanding a program which trained and local federalrcement to help Immigration Laws. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration did the opposite. Enforcement i would argue was weakened under the Obama Administration. Removed or return 450,000 individuals. 2008, 1. 2 million actions returned. As a mentioned, the policy was to be them released into the interior. The result is we have to wait times in our courts that have tripled under the Obama Administration. I think it is upwards of two years now. Together with daca which has incurred more ilLegal Immigration, the Obama Administration failed to deter more ilLegal Immigration. Thankfully, the trump and menstruation begun to reverse many of these policies. Im looking forward to hearing the directors remarks on this and see what the ministration will be doing moving forward and all close with saying it is important to discuss the Legal Immigration and how it can be ntivized to thank you. There were two webers handed out to people of the audience who came in and i want to quickly mention them. One is a paper i wrote a couple years ago and on the steps it states given the Supreme Court without their assistance, it is very stuff very tough for the department of Homeland Security to do its job. Releasedpaper i just and wrote about how the Immigration Courts should be streamlined. I dont think a lot of people relies illegal aliens have very toensive Due Process Rights most of the same rights that we enjoy. There are a lot of things that could be done to streamline the court system. What im going to comment in on his sanctuary cities. Is me say this false claim consummate that if youre against ilLegal Immigration, then you must be racist. That is simply not true. No nation does not exist if it does not control its borders. Where the most generous country in the world when it comes to Legal Immigration. More that is more than any country in the world. Statement best made was by obligor barbara jordan. Clinton put her in charge of his admin immigration reform. This is both a right and responsibility for Democratic Society to manage immigration so it serves in national interest. Unless this country does a better job at curving gration Trump Administration has says they are going to not allow cities and counties to have totury policies in place apply for and receive grants from the department of justice. What are sanctuary policies . Counties thats in due to things. One, they forget their local lawenforcement from exchanging information with the federal government on the immigration status of individuals interest for committing crimes and second, they refuse to honor federal detainer warrants. Orders issued by the department of Homeland Security may learn local lawenforcement has them so the feds can pick them up. There is a federal provision that visitor says no local entity can prevent its officials citizenshiping information so when the city of chicago tells the law dhsrcement you cant notify when you have arrested an illegal alien for local crime such as rape, sexual assault, burglary, that is against federal law and we know that is legal because when the law was first passed, the city of new saidrudy giuliani sued and the feds cannot do that because it was unconstitutional. In a case that went to the Second Circuit, the Second Circuit throughout the city of new yorks case and said this law is not commandeered local resources because the federal citiesent isnt telling you have to call the feds. There does saying you cannot tell your local sheriff that he is forbidden from calling if he is want to if he wants to. We are having a legal discussion note iut on a personal get really annoyed and tired of officialsciencies as if they are on a moral high ground with their policy. What they are doing is creating sanctuaries for criminals. They are saying if an illegal ,lien commits a local crime lets say robbery or salt, and they are sentenced into six months in jail, at the end of that time, they would rather the criminal be released back into the local community where they can become a is more individuals. That is better than calling the department of Homeland Security so dhs can pick them up and remove them from the country and are americans victimized by this . Yes, they are. In 2005, the home and Accountability Office did a study in released to or. They look to the criminal 55,332 of individuals that entered illegally. These are d5000 illegal aliens were arrested almost 400 and 60,000 times. They committed almost 700,000 averaging 13nses, per alien. 15 were for burghley, larceny, and theft. None of these crimes would have occurred if these individuals were not in the United States and many of them would not have occurred if after they served dhs had beene called and they were removed from the country. In 2011, they did an updated theyoking at 200 were arrested seven point one times for committing 3 million criminal offenses. Refusalnd policy the to honor detainer warrants, these local jurisdictions are betterg illegal aliens than your citizens. What a mean by that is if you are stopped on the side of a road by estate drupal because , what is theing state trooper do after you hand him your drivers license question marks he goes back to his car and check to make sure it is a valid license. They checked to see if there is an arrest warrant, but the other thing he does is checks the system maintained by the fbi. They put their arrest warrants into it and if im stopped in virginia for speeding and theres an arrest warrant in california, im not just going to get a speeding ticket, i will be detained so california officials can come and make arrangements to pick me up. Same thing if there is a federal or. Are saying if im an illegal alien, theyre not going to honor that. Kate steinle is dead. She was murdered in San Francisco a couple of years ago. The cityad because of of San Franciscos policy. The individual was a seventime prior felon. Detainer warrant was filed with the city of San Francisco and they decided not to press doug charges and decided not to honor the detainer or. They released him and he was killed. What is so tragic is that is not the first time it happened in San Francisco. In 2008, another family had their father into teenage sons a gang member who had previouslyed twice and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman and in both instances because of the century , hecy refuse to notify dhs able to killreets three members of his family because of the century policy of the city of San Francisco. Thisey had informed dhs, would not have happened. Let me end with one story which tells the results of states refusing to assist the federal government and try to instruct enforcement of of struct orcement Immigration Laws obstruct federal enforcement of Immigration Laws. On a saturday morning, he was stopped by a maryland state trooper for driving 90 miles per hour. The trooper neither asked him any questions about his heigration status, nor did check with the federal governments Law Enforcement support. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week so officials can call dhs and check the immigration status of arrest. Als they he could have been detained, picked up and removed by the country. Notead, since maryland is just break him of the trooper gave him a 270 speeding ticket and let him go. That ticket was found in the glove compartment of his car at airport. Two days later he flew united 93 into the ground. Favoring the rule of law is not meanspirited or races, it is the foundation of what the u. S. Was founded on and i will end with this. This sums up what our immigration policy should be. It can be summed up in one sentence. Those who should get in, get in not are kept are up. Kept out. I will ask a couple of questions. You david. T with your discussion was rather critical of the Obama Administration. Is there anything that the Obama Administration did write right . Yes. Wasof the things they did removing more people caught at the border. Traditionally, when people are caught, they were returned to their home country. Most americans would think or turn and removal are the same thing. They are two different things. Traditionally, immigrants who returned. , most were what president obama started doing is he started removing people. People were removed if they reentered the United States, there is a penalty attached to it and if you remove someone you are distance in devising them to legally. They stop removing people from the interior and all his people use the return are now being moved to the border which is why the net some of people are being removed it was a good thing to remove people are caught at the border, but because of the legal consequences, but there was also other areas that were harmed. Im going to give you a magic and yout you may waive may get congress to pass any single change in Immigration Law that you wish. What is it . Two things. O i give you one. I will give you to ones wands. Dry up their ability to work and when the ways to do that is to make everify mandatory. That is what arizona data on a state basis. Explain what everify explain. If you want to get a job United States, the oracle or your employer is required to check your documents for your worktizens that you have a verification to do that. They can easily call and check are dhs to see if you entitled to work in the United States, but is it voluntary system. The state of arizona made it mandatory can said that any employer who after using the hired an illegal alien they could lose their business license. The u. S. Chamber of congress sued over that. The they said it was legal for them to make it mandatory. That system would help drive jobs and large people would selfsupport if they cant earn money. The other thing i would do is correct the misinterpretation of the 14th amendment which has caused the United States to legalize birthright citizenship. We are one of the few countries. N the entire world it makes no sense that the misinterpretation of the 14th minute amendment. Was born your parents here then of course, if both were here illegally, then david, i will give you the wand. Do you want to use it . Wand, iwere to use the would probably change some of the things along the lines of what hans was talking about. I would make it that you did not require your insurance to the program, but if they wanted to enforce federal Immigration Laws been dhs would be allowed to. With the schedule i have come up we have about five minutes more before we are going to turn to the keynote address. I have lots of questions. Im happy to open it up to anyone in the audience. Microphoneait for and tell us who you are . My name is john redman and im a member the question i really when an illegal , quarterlytained basis of the law that gives them due process . That is a good question. Ist the courts have said when the United States is going toough the removal process try to take some an out who has been detained, the amount of due process they get is only what congress decides to give them. That is basically what the courts have said. Did the extent that Congress Wants to limit that Due Process Rights, they have the ability to do it. Congress some years ago said hadgal aliens being removed to go to Immigration Courts. Bordern feel it really theymigration appeals, but can only go to federal courts of appeal. I dont see any reason. I think congress should take away the ability to go to federal courts of appeal which are being flooded. Meatball question is, how many other countries provide the process that the United States provides . Is a great difference in what they provide. I think again, the United States which is one of the most general kind generous countries when it comes to Legal Immigration. One of the best things the magician did was and the catch and release policy. When and ay said little one an illegal laying the most caught, they would give them a day to appear before judge and then release them. You talk to other agents they return refer to it as a catch and run policy. The longterm rate that which illegal aliens did not show up for the Court Hearings was over 40 . I was always amazed by that and i wondered about the 60 who showed up. From their perspective it is a questionable decision. If you wait for microphone to come back toif you wait for mico come back to you. One question for hans. Why do mayors of century cities get away with not enforcing laws and kenny speak to that a little bit . I really dont understand that at all. The waypart of it is they try to fool the residence of the city. They try to paint policy as something that protects all of their residence and they say a theyf things that are true really just protect criminal illegal aliens from being removed and the federal government being notified in a think there is a lot of fooling of the public going on in this situation. We will take one more question. With regard to giving the Obama Administration credit for the mexicans, that program basically started by the bush administration, the Obama Administration just gets the credit for continuing it. With regard to the issues of detainers and whether or not they have legal standing, a judge in organ ruled you cannot hold people without having a court order to do so. Therefore, it was illegal to be requests inle under the Obama Administration agreed with the position that detainers were voluntary rather than illegal. Would you agree with that . No, i think that is an they misinterpretation of law. Anthe government holds illegal alien, i dont see what dhs isart is is that the federal government be notified 48 hours before locals are going to release somebody. If an illegal alien is in jail for burglary and they are serving a sixmonth sentence, how is it a problem if the federal government says 48 hours released ave been please notify 40 hours, how could that be a problem. Justifies common sense that somehow it is a problem in the city doesnt want to do that. With that, please join me in thanking our two analysts. Break asl take a 32nd they exit stage left. 32nd break 30 second break as they exit stage left. So, the genesis of this event we the wonderful opportunity had to invite to our podium one of the leaders in the Trump Administrations Immigration Enforcement policies. A 33 year veteran of Law Enforcement and has nearly 30 years of Immigration Enforcement. Morning. The security of their families and homes to defend these countries. Appreciate the invite today. About six pages of things they want me to say. Tangents. Off on i am passionate about what we do. The Heritage Foundation has been a friend and advocate. To thank you for this opportunity to talk to you today. I want to talk about ice enforcement priorities. Hill havents on the been talked about a lot. Director homan said aliens should be afraid, looking over their shoulders. Highway atown the 100 miles per hour, do you were you make it stopped . If you lie on your taxes, are you worried you might get an audit . People that knowingly violate the laws of this country interthis country illegally, which is a crime. When you commit a crime, you should be worried. That is the way it is supposed to be. The messageending its ok to violate the laws of , then we will never solve the border crisis. It will never be solved as long as people think they get a free pass. I heard a lot of good comments here by the panel. Allowed millions of people to enter this country and become citizens and part of our society, and they did it the right way. Stand in line who come you have to admire them. There is a right and wrong way to come into this country. Acceptable. Y is not this president has made that clear. If you enter this country illegally, hide, or have a u. S. Child, you are never going to solve this border crisis. Were is not another Agency People ask them not to enforce the laws. A federal or state or local Law Enforcement agency were politicians say, dont enforce that law. We enacted that law. You are sworn to enforce that law, but ignore it. No other agency has been asked to do what ice has been asked to do. This president signed executive words, a lot of paper, but he could have said that in one sentence. Not create new laws to enforce. This president said im taking the handcuffs off Law Enforcement officers. You can enforce the laws. That is what he has done. This country spends billions of dollars the year on Border Security, detention, Immigration Courts, attorneys, appeals courts, circuit courts, and at the end if a judge issues a final order, they need to be executed. If they are not, there is no integrity to the system. Might as well open the border. You give them due process and a federal judge makes a decision. That decision needs to be ofcuted by the men and women ice or there is no integrity in the system. Why would anybody follow the rules and laws if you dont make a decision. Why dosked all the time, you arrest somebody who has been there for 1015 years . Why . If we dont and send the message into the country illegally, have a u. S. Child, or go to Immigration Court and get an if yound ignore it, but have a u. S. Citizen child, you are off the hook. The law Means Nothing to you. You are exempt from federal law. If that is the message we want to send, you will never solve the border crisis. If people think they come to this country and have a u. S. Kid and now they are immune from enforcement, you will never fix the border crisis. I have been doing this a long time. We have to stop sending that message. Week the administration laid out reforms. Those that like it, those that dont. The white house develop these priorities and policies, certain these policies were written by career Law Enforcement officers peered they were not written by the white house. Officers. They were not written by the white house. Give us what you think you need to enforce the law in a meaningful way. We have made great progress on the border this year. Whether you like this president or not, like his policies or not , you cant argue with results on the border right now. Why . Theuse we are enforcing ale of law and sending strong message. You will get your due process. Once the decision has been made, it will be enforced. The priorities and policy sent to the hill last week were created and written by career Law Enforcement officers, including myself. We put together our wish list of priorities and policies. Ci has to do same. Reflect theties input of Law Enforcement professionals throughout the three organizations. For laid the groundwork serious Immigration Enforcement. This president takes Public Safety and Border Security seriously. We sent up were clear and concise. From a Law Enforcement perspective, they make sense. This president and administration has allowed the ice officers to do what they are supposed to do, enforce the laws. Fact of the matter is you enter the country illegally, overstaying a visa, skipping Immigration Court, committing crimes illegally, if we dont is nos them, then there integrity in the system and we will never fix it. I was here during the last amnesty. Did it work . No. Because as long as people think they can get into this country illegally and be immune from the law, we wont fix it. This president is fixing it. The numbers are at historical lows. We have to continue down the path to we are on the right path. We have made significant progress this year under this president. Both executive orders and priorities announced at the white house include measures to hold sanctuary cities accountable. Monthrnias governor this signed legislation making california a sanctuary state for illegal aliens, including those who have committed additional crimes. That will nearly eliminates all cooperation with with our Law Enforcement partners. It prohibits local Law Enforcement from contacting the federal government to house detainees and refuses the Law Enforcement agencies to contact us. Sanctuary policies are shielding aliens from enforcement. I will give you an example, two months ago in sonoma county, im guy was arrested for domestic battery, triggering an alert to ice. , sonomad a detainer county Sheriffs Department released him on bail before ice could respond. Two weeks later, he murdered that girlfriend. Had we been given time to take custody, most likely he would be in guatemala. Every criminal immigrant tickets released by a sanctuary city that reoffends has committed a crime that is preventable. I will say it again. Are releasinges Public Safety threats back into the public. That does not make sense to me. Even immigrant communities dont want criminals in their communities. If you are a child predator, do you feel the same way . They dont want these criminals back in their community. The irony of the sanctuary explain. Let me i got a letter from 1214 congressman about my reprehensible statements in response to the california sanctuary law. I said i have no choice but to arrest people in neighborhoods and at work sites. Let me explain my statement, which i explained to them. I explained to the people who created the sanctuary policy before they made it a law, when i go to a jail, they are going to arrest a Public Safety threat. That is why they are in the jail. Number one, they are in the country illegally. Yet they commit another crime ins citizens of this country. This is a person in violation of federal law in a county jail come which they are probably not a choir boy. Thee are county officers allow us into the jail. Which means what . He gets released back into the community. My job is to locate him and arrest him. In a countymebody jail is safer for my officers. We know there are weapons. It is safer for the alien to be arrested in county jail because there will not be all this emotion in the street. It is safer for the community because the Public Safety threat is not in the community. That makes sense. Safe, secure. When sanctuary cities release door, the most dangerous part of Law Enforcement, knocking on the door of a criminal on his turf with access to who knows what. These statement by passing this law and not allowing access to jails, what you have done is forced my hand. Now i have to go to their homes, not only a public and officer. Afety issue in a jail, i will arrest the criminal. When i go to the home and find that that guy, he will probably have other people with him who have immigration issues. No one is off the table. Those politicians that shows to a political statement over that of Public Safety that want to tell their communities that sanctuary cities protect their communities, wrong. You have put all these people who were not on my radar, on my radar. We are going to go to a home or business where we find others. That is an intentional mess ismessaging. M there is no sanctuary from federal Law Enforcement. They can call themselves sanctuary cities all they want. My officers are going to do their job. Lets put it this way, more officers in jails means less officers in the community. That is simple math. Thats not something you will read in the media. For me to make a statement that you are forcing my hand to do more operations in neighborhoods , you can call it anything you want. That is just fact. You have forced my hand to do that. Politicians and media stoking fear and immigrant communities . We dont conduct raids. We dont conduct sweeps. We conduct targeted enforcement operations. When they go to arrest somebody, they know exactly who they will arrest and where to find them based on modern investigative work. We dont go into neighborhoods looking for people who look different than us. Over 104 people from countries last year. Many latino, many not. We are enforcing the laws. Out ice story is conducts raids and does a neighborhood sweep know we conduct a targeted enforcement operation. We dont arrest people at churches, hospitals, or schools. We arrested somebody dropping their daughter off at school, several blocks from the school, after he dropped his daughter off and officer verify there is a mother there. Officers take great care in what they do. When you have a century city policy, then you get these groups like the aclu and others who want to tell people dont open your doors to ice. Dont cooperate. Dont answer the questions. E cant arrest them in jail we can arrest them in their homes because they have been trained not to. What option does that leave us . When you are in new york, los angeles, chicago, and when you pull the car over, you are within a block or two from a church, school, or hospital. We can arrest them without approval. That is a fact. You wont read that. It is a continued vilification of what we do. Are right to your opinion, but dont vilify the men and women of ice who are following their oath to enforce the laws of this great nation. This is the greatest country on the face of the earth. Part oft want to be a this country and not respect its laws. You cannot have it both ways. Century citys are not the america i grew up in. Sanctuary cities are not the america i grew up in. To intentionally shield those in the country illegally and committed another crime and they are sitting in a tax payer funded jail, to not get access to a Law Enforcement officer is unamerican. It is not the america i grew up in. No matter how they want to spin , releasing opeds Public Safety threatstis not make sense and increases the Public Safety threat. Does not make sense and increases the Public Safety threat. Cities are a human smugglers best friend. What a sales pitch. I will get you into chicago or los angeles and you can get arrested and they will not work with ice. Sanctuary cities are a danger to Public Safety. They are a violation of federal law. They entice more illegal occuror, more deaths because of this. People are dying to enter this country. Want tosk why you arrest all these people. Issue, talk about this emotion. Understand my the smugglers dont care. They are out to make a buck. They dont care about the health and wellbeing of these people. Detailn headquarters on when we found 19 dead aliens in the back of a tractortrailer in dallas. I got a phone call to lead the investigation, 19 dead aliens in the back of a tractortrailer. I went down there. The crime scene was kept secured. I walked into the back of that tractortrailer. I was surrounded by 19 dead aliens around me. They suffocated in the tractortrailer. One was a fiveyearold boy. That haunts me to this day. I had a fiveyearold boy at the time. What do you think that fiveyearold child went to the last 30 minutes of his life . What do you think the father who was holding that child went through in the last 30 minutes of his life knowing that he put that child in that position and could not change it and they are suffocating in the back of this tractortrailer . What do you think they went through . Was in phoenix, arizona, we rescued hostages all the time. When men were raped, children were molested. We rescued a hostage and got into the house and he was in a closet wrapped up in duct tape. He had a whole and a straw so he could breathe, for days. When people say i am cold and heartless, you have not seen what i have seen. We have to end this stuff here it this president is taking it seriously. Call us anything you want. I have thick skin. We will not be bullied and not enforce this law. It is working. The numbers dont lie. System need fixed . Absolutely. That is congresss job. It is working. We need to stick with it. The policies we are asking for to continue doing what we are doing our something we think we need to fix this entire system. When you talky about sanctuary cities not only does it entice these organizations, put people at you are bankrolling the criminal organizations that smuggle these people. These are organizations that smuggle weapons, dope, do drugs, and people who want to do harm to this country. Mexicog cartels in control their pathways and their areas. In not going to do anything that area unless you pay a tax. They control all that. By sanctuary cities putting people in more danger in making this dangerous journey, enticing people to make that journey, putting the Public Safety at risk. You are also bankrolling criminal organizations that want to do harm to this country. Say they want us to focus on the criminals. Ok. , but dontiminals allow me in your county jails. Right . Think about it. Are suing theans Trump Administration for threatening to withhold funding from sanctuary cities. They dont want to fund the border wall to keep them out, but they want to fund sanctuary cities to keep them in. That is backwards. As you can guess, i am passionate about sanctuary cities. The refusals of some politicians to work with us, we will have a positive affect. January 2017, we have arrested more than 100,000 illegal aliens in the United States, a 42 increase over last year. Of detainers is over 80 . We are now enacting the laws we were sworn to enforce. Churches, schools, and people want to missmessage. The jurisdiction is passing laws that we can arrest people at school. That stokes fear. We dont do it. There is a message behind all that. Arrest a criminal alien in a criminal court house . Inc. About that. Think about that . I have seen fathers arrested for failing to pay child support. Ive seen people taken into custody in a courthouse for failing to pay child support. You telling me that a federal Law Enforcement officer cant take a custody of a criminal inside a criminal courthouse . He has due process. He has an obligation to that local court to move it also to a federal court. When you arrest somebody in a courthouse, you are arresting them outside. You do your business and we will be here waiting on you. It has to be a last option. They have to be a Public Safety threat. We cant get in any place else because we tried. Will we continue to arrest people at courthouse is . Absolutely i will. It is a Public Safety threat. Im not going to let him walk out of a criminal courthouse back into the public. That is not what we do. That is not what this country is about. I testified on the hill and people want to beat me up, why do arrest people and courthouse is . When i went to the hill, i walked through security, metal detectors, security guards everywhere to protect congressman and their staff. , metalto the courthouse detectors and security guards, why . To protect the judge and his staff. Why would i not want the same thing for the men and women of ice . They already put themselves in harms way every day, but we want to increase it now . We want you to arrest people where it is more dangerous. Sense. As far as courthouse, i want apologize. We will continue to do that. Combined with border apprehensions, data show priorities are working. We also made it a priority to enforce laws against ms 13. Criminal gangs are a priority. In mess 13, we will take them out. I went to the president in new york city to do a presentation there. We arrested 1400 gang members already, in many ms 13. Ngs focus on criminal ga is a higher priority because they are vicious. We will arrest them send them to and when they are done there, we will send them back to where they are from if they are here illegally. If there is not enough evidence to prosecute them criminally and they are here illegally, we will still send them back. It is the right thing to do for the safety of this nation. We are not looking to arrest them and remove them, we want to dismantle the entire organization. We have officers in 40 countries across the globe. With officials. We will dismantle those organizations. Are not just talking about arresting them. We are talking about doing away with ms 13. The street officers, Law Enforcement officers, on the front line, they want to work with us. Believe me. I have talked to many of them. These are politicians making these decisions. The California Sheriffs Association came out against the latest sanctuary law in california. Chicago, illinois, highest crime rate in the history of that city. More gun deaths in the history of that city. Its a plague, right . Are they doing everything they can to protect the citizens of that city . No, because ice officers arent allowed in county jail. They dont share information or honor retainers. The percentage of criminals in the country illegally will get released right back into the community to reoffend. ,0 of those released criminals, will commit another crime in the first year. Three quarters will reoffend within five years, so chicago has chosen politics over Public Safety. They are at war they declared on Immigration Enforcement. They want to release criminals back into the community rather than work with the department of Homeland Security. I have been doing this a long time, to be at a place where a sworn Law Enforcement officer cannot walk into a county jail to talk to somebody in the United States illegally and committed another crime in a facilityfunded does not make sense to me. That law tell you enforcement as sheriffs want to work with us. I am not here to vilify the fine men and women that strap a gun to their hip every day and enforce the laws. Their hands are being tied in many areas across the country. One of the presenters talked about a program where Law Enforcement agencies come to us and want to help us. Howrain them and teach them to process people and identify people. We do it in a jail setting. It is like a force multiplier. , andwill screen everybody once they find someone here illegally, they will process them. They are supervised by a nice officer. It is a force multiplier. They want to work shoulder to shoulder with us. Triple it by the end of the year. That has been a meaningful positive under this president. Numerous positives as far as Public Safety and this president. Ask us toive orders expand these agreements. We will triple them by the end of the year. I signed 18 agreements in one day, 18 sheriffs. Want to work with you all i want some immigration authority. California wants to stonewall you doing your own job. That is the dynamics we are looking at. As far as detainers legality and nonlegality, there was a Court Decision on the fifth circuit saying they are legal. Courtsnt to argue in the over a retainer. I wont hold them a minute passed i would normally hold them, but we will let you know when they are going to be released so you can arrest them. Sanctuary cities refused to do that too. I am almost done. We are working with the doj on a lot of things. Again, sanctuary cities. I think we should file suit. Attorneysing more come immigration attorneys, to make the system go faster. We are increasing ice personnel in foreign countries, Central America, europe. We want to push the borders back. I would rather play the away game rather than the home game. It. All for lets stop these criminal organizations where they start. If we can start an organization in san salvador or mexico before it gets to our shores, because once it crosses our border, they are here for a long time. If you look at the numbers in Central America in the last couple of years, it has skyrocketed. What is a shame is most of them wont get it. They are taking advantage of the system. The backdrop is there are people in this world that really need our sanctuary, that are really asylum andpolitical they get caught in the sole process where people are clogging the system. Thats part of the policies on the hill also. We have to look at the whole political asylum spectrum and have meaningful threshold so people can take advantage of it. Thing this president has done, we used to have 26 recalcitrant countries the refused to take back their people. A Supreme Court ruling that we can only detain for six months. These are some serious criminals. The 26 are down to 11 or 12 now. We just sent notices to these countries and you Better Change your ways or there will be visa sanctions. Taken this on has headstrong and we are making progress and doing fees sanctions against countries that dont cooperate with us. They have a responsibility to take them back. This president takes that seriously. We have to change certain Court Decisions in the ninth court. Illegal activity will decrease if there is a consequence and deterrent to that activity. We all learned that has kids. When we had the searcher families in any 14 coming across in 2014 coming across the border, once we built family detention, we had a Court Decision that you can only hold them for 20 days. We will feed you, give you clothing, give your vaccination, what would stop it . Targeted those families and had a final order to remove them. Its a family. I get it. We have to execute those orders. When we did that, guess what . Those numbers were down again. My overall message today is that under this president we are enforcing the laws the way they were meant to be enforced and have had a Significant Impact on crossings across the border. The families and children are still higher than we want them to beat want them to be. The traffic and victims protection act has good intent, but that is being abuse now by people who want to come and claim they are escaping violence. If you are a parent or sponsor that pays a criminal inanization, put your child the hands of a criminal organization, and you can hide in the showers shadows, we will put them in immigration proceedings. The first phase of it just finish. We will prosecute them first of all, we willnd of put them in Immigration Court and take them out of the shadows. If this eight year old port nineyearold is truly escaping persecution, that parent should be Standing Shoulder to shoulder with him. I call that parenting. As far as the family units, we are looking for some good judicial rulings on that. Again, let me explain something. I want to be clear. Do i feel bad about the plight of some of these people . Absolutely we do. Law enforcement, i shared a few things with you, but every state, local Law Enforcement officer sees terrible things every day. Whenever they take a child away get the parent, families destroyed over that and an officer has to arrest somebody, officers feel bad. They have hearts. I am a father. Do i feel bad about these people . Yes, i do. I have a job to do. If we dont do that job, it will get worse. Ice officershink are heartless. Shame on them. Formen and women who work me our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. Anybody to cut us slack. I am asking for recognition for the men and women of ice who have a difficult job and put their own safety at risk every day for this fine nation. Thank you. Without that i will end. Thank you. [applause] maybe 12 time for questions before we have to run. Which you raise your hand . Lots of hands. Where are the microphones . I dont know right here in the front. If you would tell us who you are, please. I wanted to ask you about unaccompanied minors and the family units, the numbers have come up. You addressed it a little bit with the antitrafficking, but until a congressional change takes place, is there anything you can do . I know that especially the unaccompanied Minor Program is recruitings a platform for ms 13 in particular. They will get their due get orders, when we we will execute orders. We have a search operation we just finished where we arrested 600. We will continue that. Once you have had your due hasess and a federal judge ordered you removed, we will take those orders seriously and take people into custody and remove them. Thats what we do. Hopefully they wont sell their ranch and everything they own to pay a criminal organization money to get here only to be sent back home. That weenforcement here are stepping up to send a message that there is no free pass. You are going home. We have messaging in Central America on just that. Secretary kelly had a seminar in miami and invited officials from Central America, big businesses that invest in Central American companies for more opportunities down there, so hitting them from both sides. That is what we are doing. When there is a consequence and planeence and we put a full of families on a plane and return them, it is meaningful. People will think about it before they put themselves in harms way and give their life savings to a criminal organization. We have time for one final question in the back. Center for immigration studies. The one thing you did not talk about was workcenter enforcement. I know there are bureaucratic issues in ice about that sort of thing. Are we going to see her resumption of worksite enforcement . I am glad you mentioned that. I have eight pages of stuff here. Yes, the panel is right. ,nless you remove the magnets they will keep coming. As long as they get jobs, they will try to come. I recently looked at how much time, what percentage of time is spent on worksite enforcement, i will increase that by four or five times. We are taking worksite enforcement very seriously. You will see that significantly. Ncrease we will do it different. We will prosecute, detain, and remove workers. Reachedthat, we have the in of what i trust you will of three was both an informative and engaging discussion on Immigration Enforcement. Thanking,n me in follmann for coming and sharing the stay with us. Mas holman for coming and sharing the day with us. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. 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