00:00Well, I'd like to just thank everybody for the incredible job they've done.
00:06I love the state.
00:08As you know, Ron and I have had a really great relationship for a long time.
00:13We had a little off period for a couple of days, but it didn't last long.
00:17It didn't last long.
00:18A lot of respect for each other.
00:20And it's a great honor to be deep in Florida, the Florida Everglades,
00:26to open America's newest migrant detention center.
00:30It's incredibly built, and you're seeing that yourself.
00:32That's why I said let the press join us on our walk so they can see what's happening.
00:37It's known as Alligator Alcatraz, which is very appropriate because I looked outside,
00:43and it's not a place I want to go hiking any time soon.
00:47But very soon, this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants,
00:51some of the most vicious people on the planet.
00:54We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland,
00:57and the only way out is really deportation.
01:01And a lot of these people are self-deporting back to their country where they came from.
01:05Quite a few were amazed at actually the number.
01:08We took the FEMA money that Joe Biden allocated to pay for the free luxury hotel rooms,
01:14where he's paying hundreds of millions of dollars in New York City,
01:17and we used it to build this project.
01:20And, my honor, it was just a little fraction of that money,
01:22the money they spent on that project.
01:25I happen to know the real estate developer.
01:27He's a very real—he never really made that much, but he became very wealthy.
01:32With luxury, he didn't do well.
01:34With people that are not exactly luxury, he's made a fortune.
01:39I want to thank Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Secretary of Homeland Security,
01:45Kristi Noem, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer.
01:49Where is James?
01:50Where is he?
01:51You do a very good job.
01:52I hear good things—I hear good things about you from Ron, too.
01:56No, you really do.
01:57He's even a good-looking guy.
01:59That guy's got a future, huh?
02:01Good job, James.
02:01I hear you did really, really fantastic, worked hard.
02:05You're like in the construction business for a few days, right?
02:08Huh?
02:09Congratulations.
02:11For all the hard work to make this facility possible.
02:14It's amazing.
02:15Thanks as well to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.
02:20Where is Wilton?
02:22Where are you?
02:23Hi, Wilton.
02:24It's been a long time.
02:26Congressman Byron Donalds.
02:28Where's Byron?
02:29Hi, Byron.
02:30How are you?
02:31Good.
02:33Florida Speaker of the House Daniel Perez.
02:36Yes, Daniel.
02:39Daniel.
02:39Thank you, Daniel.
02:40Boy, you didn't want to sit up here with us, Daniel.
02:44Executive Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthrie.
02:51Hi, Kevin.
02:52Good job.
02:53Acting Director of ICE, Todd Lyons.
02:57Todd.
02:58Great job.
02:59And Senator Joe Gruters, he is a great guy.
03:03Where is Joe?
03:04We love Joe.
03:05Thank you, Mr. President.
03:06We love you.
03:06Thank you very much.
03:07Welcome home.
03:07Thank you, Joe.
03:08Joe is great.
03:10With the help of those incredible border patrol agents, we now have the lowest level of daily
03:15border crossings ever recorded.
03:17As you know, last month, the month of May, just got released two days ago.
03:22The number of illegal aliens into the United States was zero.
03:28Zero.
03:29Even I find that hard to believe that.
03:31Somebody must have gotten it, I think.
03:34I don't know.
03:34But they say zero.
03:35And the people that count them are radical left Democrats.
03:40So when a radical left Democrat tells me it's zero, I believe them.
03:45But there's still much work to do.
03:47In the four years before I took office, Joe Biden allowed 21 million people.
03:51That's a minimum.
03:52I think it was much higher than that.
03:53Illegal aliens to invade our country.
03:56He invaded our country just like a military would invade.
04:00It's tougher because they don't wear uniforms.
04:02You don't know who they are.
04:03More than the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia combined.
04:11That's what came into our country from prisons, from mental institutions, from street gangs, drug dealers.
04:19Disgusting.
04:21This enormous country destroying invasion has swamped communities nationwide with massive crime, crippling costs,
04:27and burdens far beyond what any nation could withstand.
04:32No nation could withstand what we did.
04:35And we're in the process of doing it.
04:36But we have some great people doing it now.
04:39And you see them up here with me.
04:40But it's, I'd call it like an unforced error.
04:45It's sort of like men and women's sports.
04:47It's sort of like transgender for everybody.
04:50How could they have done this to our country?
04:53And we're never going to forget it.
04:55Last year, 15% of all the hotel rooms in New York City were used to house illegal aliens at costs that they never got for luxury.
05:03They never got, they never got this much for luxury people coming in from, from the wealthiest places on earth.
05:11They made more money with the illegal immigrants.
05:14With many rooms costing more than $300 a night, six times the rent of a typical American family.
05:20In Denver, Colorado, the city was forced to cut $10 million from its police and fire department budget as part of a $90 million plan to house illegal aliens.
05:30And it's a population that's growing and growing and destroying Denver and growing.
05:36And, and again, it's destroying Denver and it's destroying many other cities too.
05:42Likewise, one of the city's largest hospital system is drowning in unpaid medical bills, unpaid in the billions after their emergency rooms were flooded with tens of thousands of illegals leading to the closure of critical services.
05:57And, and, and, and these are really critical services.
06:01They, they can't even keep them open for American patients.
06:04The American patients were treated worse than any illegal immigrant in Los Angeles.
06:09One in every four students in the public school system is from a household headed by an illegal, and most of them don't speak English.
06:16So they're in a school system and they don't have interpreters.
06:20They don't have anything.
06:21They don't speak English.
06:22What a mess.
06:22What a mess.
06:23Unforced error.
06:24All these people allowed to come in.
06:26The United States is now spending $78 billion a year on translation.
06:33Okay.
06:33Think of that $78 billion a year on translation and smaller numbers on special education programs for non-English speakers in our public school.
06:42So $78 billion.
06:45I think that's not a mistake.
06:48I would say million dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars, $78 billion, Joe, on translators and non-English speaking.
06:56Work.
06:57Federal government, the Justice Department.
07:00It's more than twice the cost of maintaining the United States Justice Department.
07:06What we're spending on translation and other things to help.
07:10In total, the average illegal alien costs to American taxpayers an estimated $70,000.
07:17That's each.
07:18$70,000.
07:20I think that number is even lower.
07:21If you care about balancing the budget, the single most impactful step we can take is to fully reverse the Biden migration invasion.
07:30One of the worst invasions we've ever had.
07:33We've never had an invasion like this.
07:35We've had invasions, but we've taken care of them.
07:38We've never had an invasion like this.
07:40And it's with us.
07:41And we have some very bad people out there looking to do big harm.
07:44That's why the one big, beautiful bill includes funding for 3,000 new Border Patrol officers and 10,000 new ICE agents.
07:53And I've gotten to know the Border Patrol and ICE very well.
07:57Unlike Kamala, she was the border's hour, but she never saw the border.
08:00She never made one phone call.
08:02She was some border's hour.
08:03She would have been some president.
08:05Probably would have been slightly better than Biden, though.
08:08I had to run against both of them, you know?
08:11The one guy, it's like a fighter.
08:13You knock out the one guy who's doing badly, then they put somebody else in.
08:16But fortunately, she was a stiff also.
08:20Otherwise, I would have been very angry.
08:21I would have been extremely angry.
08:23The heroes of ICE will also help round up and remove members of the savage drug cartels, which are coming back into our country.
08:31And we are, we got them out.
08:33Now, some of them came back in.
08:34We just got them out again.
08:35And that's going to be a vicious cycle.
08:37But these are foreign gangs here, horrendous people, killers that have infiltrated our territory, including eight, which we have designated as foreign terrorist organizations, which gives us a lot more power for speed and getting them out much easier.
08:53And we had a great court victory, as you know, on Friday that allows us to do what we have to do from the Supreme Court of the United States.
09:00In five months, my administration has already arrested over 2,700 members of the murderous Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua, including a pack of these sadistic animals arrested last month with over 280 guns.
09:18And these are guns, and these are guns of the latest caliber.
09:22These are guns that were made over the last period of less than a year, getting brand new guns, the latest and the greatest.
09:29Every day, our brave law enforcement officers are hunting down and deporting migrant criminals who have committed heinous crimes, including more than 13,000 murderers.
09:3911,888 to be exact, but I'd probably say the 13,000 is right also.
09:46Think of it, 11,888, and more than half of them, they committed more than one murder.
09:53So, Ron, many of them are out of here already, but it's still a hell of a number to be confronted with.
10:00Just this year, ICE agents in Miami have apprehended illegals with arrests for murder, kidnapping, rape, child sexual abuse, and arson, people of the worst order.
10:12We're getting these monsters out of the United States, out of Florida, out of all the places that they're in.
10:19And on January 20th, I signed an executive order empowering governors and state police to be deputized to enforce federal immigration laws.
10:28And Ron's already taken advantage of it.
10:31It really, it's a tremendous advantage for the states.
10:34Most of them are doing it.
10:36Actually, the blue states tend not to do it.
10:39Even a couple of them have, though.
10:40And I want to express my tremendous thanks to the state of Florida for embracing this opportunity and being a true partner.
10:48They've worked so well with the federal government.
10:51It's been just a beautiful, beautiful partnership.
10:55So, Ron, I'd like to thank you personally.
10:57You are my friend, and you'll always be my friend.
11:00And we may have some skirmishes even in the future.
11:03I doubt it.
11:04But we'll always come back because we just seem to, we have blood that seems to match pretty well.
11:11We have a relationship that's been a very strong one for a long period of time, and I appreciate it, very much appreciate it.
11:18And also, Secretary Noem, I'd like to say, have you say a few words.
11:24You have been unbelievable, the job you've done.
11:26You and our favorite person, Tom, Tom Holman, have done, and your whole staff, because it's a lot of people.
11:34And Tom acknowledges it all the time.
11:36He respects you so much.
11:37He respects the staff that you both built.
11:39And you're really doing one of the great jobs.
11:42And it was great that you could work with Ron in Florida so well.
