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I call to respect, this is the United States of America, there are so many people...

Where are you from?

I'm WSBA Channel 7, my name is Vanessa McGruder.

Great, thanks.

The United States of America, so many people are being robbed, they're being processed.

This is wonderful, this Wyoming Tony show, but there's American citizens who are being

deported, they show their birth certificates, they show their passports, they show their

IDs, and a lot of the work being done is a little sloppy.

Well, first of all, I'll let ICE handle that accusation that you're making, that they're

deporting American citizens who are showing birth certificates and all that.

I don't believe that that's true, but I'll let them respond to that.

But you seem to have no sympathy, you seem to have no sympathy for people that have been

victimized by illegal aliens.

What about people, you have someone driving drunk and kills an American citizen.

What about people that have been deported previously and let in under Biden, who then

commit sexual offenses or commit homicides, and then we have more victims as a result

of the federal government's previous inattention and unwillingness to enforce the law.

So there are a lot of people that have been harmed by illegal immigration.

There have been people that have been harmed by Tren de Aragua gang members, who should

not be in this country in the first place.

So let's just be clear, who are you fighting for?

We're fighting for the citizens of Florida.

We want them to be able to live in a society that upholds the rule of law.

We want them to be able to live in a state that is safe.

And we have to take action on it.

I'll let them address your accusation.

But the notion that somehow this is America, therefore we're supposed to have an open border.

We're not supposed to enforce immigration laws.

We're supposed to just sit on our hands.

When Biden let in seven or eight million people illegally into the country?

No, that is not responsible.

That is not what our citizens elected us to do.

So we're in this fight.

I think a lot of these narratives that I hear to me just instinctively, I think they're

fake narratives because I've seen it happen so many times.

But I will let folks at ICE respond to your accusation.

Well, the first thing I'll say is that I think the governor's words really stand on their own.

The men and women of ICE are working every single day to protect the communities, working

with state and local officials to do our very best to protect the communities.

After the Biden administration opened our borders, allowed people to come into this

country that should have never came into this country in the first place, jeopardizing

our families and our communities and putting them in harm's way on a daily basis.

The men and women of ICE are going into those communities to protect the men and women in

these communities, to be able to do the mission that we've been set on every single day that

the president has given us.

349,000 new court cases in 2025 alone.

Only 1% are new cases based on alleged criminal activity.

So a lot of these people don't have criminal past or background.

So who's being arrested and where is this information on ICE's website?

It's on court documents, but we can't get this information.

ICE, quite frankly, isn't being very transparent.

Look, I'll stand by the fact that if you're in this country illegally, you are a criminal.

You will be deported.

You will have the opportunity to be able to come back into this country through the correct

immigration processes.

We're working through those every single day.

But our number one goal is to keep the American people safe from the criminals that are walking

in this country that should have never been let through in the first place.