Paul Gosar Confronts Hochul, Walz, And Pritzker At Hearing On Sanctuary State Policies

Forbes Breaking News

At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) questioned sanctuary state governors.

Transcript

00:00Arizona. Governors, good afternoon. Would you agree that good process builds good

00:06policy, builds good politics? Pretty normal, right? Would you agree, Governor

00:12Pritzker? Yes, sir. How about you, Governor? I would agree. I would agree with that. Good.

00:19Now, would you support the disclosure of federal fundings to nonprofits,

00:23that's either directly or indirectly? Governor Pritzker? Federal funding of nonprofits just

00:31generally, there is actually nonprofits do report there. Well, they do kind of, because we don't

00:37get that. It's all blocked out, okay? But you can't make good decisions if you don't have that. Would

00:42you agree? All of it is available, as I understand, publicly, yes. Now I'm going to quote U.S. Supreme

00:49Court Associate Justice Luis Brandeis. He said, in a government of laws, existence of the government

00:55will be imperiled if it fails to uphold, observe, and uphold the law scrupulously. Our government is

01:01that, is potent, the omnipresent teacher, for good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its

01:08example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it invites contempt for the law, it invites every man

01:16to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy. So do you agree with, Governor Pritzker, do you agree

01:23with Luis Brandeis on this quote? How about you, Dr. Walton? I do. It's what the President Trump

01:30has done, though. He is the one who has broken the law and the United States government.

01:34Governor Hochul. We follow all the laws, federal and state. Okay. So,

01:40so why would I ask you about non-profits financing and this quote from Luis Brandeis? What if I were

01:50to present you evidence that U.S. citizens and even foreign citizens on foreign soil were coaching

01:58illegal aliens how to bypass U.S. immigration law? Hmm. Now let me remind you, as soon as an alien crosses

02:07the border illegally, they become criminals under the federal law. Governors or sanctuary

02:12policies blatantly ignore the supremacy clause, as Mr. Palmer expressed, of the U.S. Constitution,

02:19and it circumvents federal immigration laws to harbor criminals. As of July 2024, under the Biden-Harris

02:25administration, there were over 660,000 illegal aliens with criminal histories in the United States.

02:32But I'm talking about everyone, not just criminals, once you violate the law by entering our country

02:38illegally. Let me be clear. You're aiding and abetting criminal illegal aliens, which is a felony

02:44under Title 8, U.S. Code 1324, punishable up to 20 years in prison, or life in prison, or even the

02:52death penalty, seems kind of weird, but if this aiding and abetting results in someone's death,

02:57which this committee and all Americans know has happened, wouldn't you want to even err on the

03:07aspect of caution? I would. I really would. Now, Governor Hochul, do you consider yourself,

03:15do you like nature, and do you consider yourself a conservationist? I do. I am one of those.

03:20I'm particularly fond of New York State's great state parks. Of course, I love nature.

03:24Good. So why would you allow illegal aliens to destroy a National Park Service land at Floyd

03:29Bennett Field? Yes, I was there. I got to see it all. But, I mean, even putting people

03:34in that process.

03:37I would hardly call it a park. It was a place that people used to train for military exercises.

03:44But, you know what? Somebody found it as a park, right? Did they not? They're considered

03:46a national park. It's a park. Okay.

03:48Technically, it's not in the Department of Interior.

03:50Okay. Governor Walz, do you know the estimated size of a milligram, of two milligrams?

03:59I think generally, yeah.

04:01You can barely see. It's the tip of a pencil, sharpened pencil at that. And that's a lethal

04:06dose of fentanyl, which your running mate, Harris, open border policies welcomed to the

04:10United States. Similarly, your sanctuary policies are playing games with American lives. Do the

04:16millions of lives lost to fentanyl constitute an all-out assault on our broken borders? They do.

04:24Yes or no, do you support tribal communities, Governor Walz?

04:28Do I support tribal communities?

04:30Yeah.

04:30Under PL 280 or?

04:31Oh, do you support tribal?

04:33Yeah, I certainly do.

04:34I do.

04:35Okay.

04:37What about the transnational criminal cartels trafficking drugs and people across our tribal

04:40lands?

04:41Next, this is epidemic. Epidemic. So I'm going to finish up by this. Governors, this is my

04:46promise to you. I will work tirelessly with President Trump to secure the border, build

04:50the wall, stop the flow of fatal fentanyl into our nation, and I will see that you are held

04:54accountable for the violations of our crimes against the people of the United States. Our

04:59immigration system is not broken. We just needed somebody like Donald Trump to uphold

05:02the rules of law. I pray for the safety of our immigration, ICE officers, and all the

05:07officers, and I yield back.

05:09Gentleman yields back. Ms. Crockett has a unanimous consent request.

05:14Yes, Mr. Chair. I'd like to submit a unanimous consent request for, this is from the Alabama

05:21Reflector. It says, study says undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion in taxes.

05:27Without objection to order.

05:29And my second one is from Reuters. White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S.

05:36murders in 2022.

05:37Without objection to order. Now recognize Mr. Lynch.

Category

Transcript

Recommended