And say if you are in our country illegally, a single crime is too many. Talk about adding outrage to insults. Already breaking our laws, and then committing crimes. And there are an awful lot of crimes committed by people here illegally, and by noncitizens more broadly. The u. S. Sentencing Commission Says 44 of all federal inmates are noncitizens. Thats a huge number. Why wouldnt we be upset by that . Yeah, so, that federal data is only for federal prisoners, as you probably know. Tucker thats right. Federal prisoners account for fewer than 10 of all prisoners in the United States, and thats not representative of other crimes. Ill give you an example in 2016, almost 18,000 Homicide Convictions in the United States, but only 85 through the federal court because they simply dont prosecute homicide. So if you want to take a look nationwide at convictions and incarcerations of people by Immigration Status, thats a much better way to do it. Tucker well, you cant. No. It would be. Hold on,
but does that mean that we have to penalize him for the rest of his life because he made that bad judgment? or do we want to try to give him a hand up to say, here is the way we can help you and you can help yourself. we had 110,000 americans die last year of opioid overdose. it is the leading cause of death in 18 to 34-year-old men. it s unacceptable. and, you know, my mother was an addict. she was addicted to nicotine. she started smoking with she was 16, and she died at 71 of lung cancer. and when she got diagnosed, no one came to me and said, well, she s known since 1964 it could cause cancer. she got what she deserved. and i never tried to hide my mother s illness from anybody. i wasn t ashamed. but what if my mother was a heroin addict rather than a nicotine addict, do you think i
polling here are the numbers, 67% of americans disapprove of the president s handling of the border crisis. this comes as a new caravan of more than 60,000 people making their way we found this out from panama officials, all the way north through several countries to get to our southern border. senator. these governors are rightly frustrated because it is the federal government s responsibility to protect our nation and to secure our borders. yet joe biden has opened our borders from the beginning. early reports in october suggest october could be the biggest month yet. maybe more than 300,000 migrants crossing our border who have no legal right to stay here and coming here not vaccinated and americans are being told they have to get the vaccine and americans flying into our country are told they have to be vaccinated as well. i know not all these governors come from the border state but at a time when we had 100,000 americans die last year from
native-born americans in 2016. tucker: i understand that, and i m glad, but, hold on. murder is not the only crime. so you had 71,000 americans die last year of drug ods. the majority of opiates, heroin, come through mexico. so, mexican drug trafficking, conducted largely by people here illegally, is not a small thing at all and results in a lot of deaths. they re not counted as homicides, but they are, in effect, homicides. to listen to you, it s like we don t have a right to be worried about that. there are people who are dying as a result of prohibition. they absolutely do, but a lot of those problems are as a result of prohibition, just like people who died from alcohol poisoning during the prohibition in the 1930s. tucker: actually, they are dying because of the drug ods. actually, alex, people still die of cirrhosis and alcohol is legal. if you get so libertarian that you get demented so are you in favor of prohibition? tucker: okay, i m not in favor of prohibition. i
circumstances that rivaled those, let s be real here. if we really cared about american citizens. we absolutely should have a better system. tucker: we don t have a system. we have the foster care system if you want to talk about the crisis and the children in this country, the foster care system is riddled with corruption, it s crying out for reform. it s one of the many things we could come together on on a bipartisan basis but people are too interested in stoking fear around immigration and issues like this. tucker: i see it a little differently. here i am reminding you that the crime that you re so upset about is taking place and hurting americans. you have 60,000 americans die last year of drug o.d. that is a devastating fact. tucker: we don t care about fentanyl coming over the border.