00:07First of all, I want to thank you for putting the safety and the security of the American people first.
00:12And the way that you never lose focus on making sure that America stays our priority
00:17and that the families that live here get the chance to grow up
00:20and to raise their children in communities that are safe
00:23and that give them an opportunity to pursue the American dream.
00:26This facility here is a fantastic representation of what can happen when all of government works together
00:33and when it's accountable to the taxpayers and to the citizens that live here.
00:37The president signed an executive order that allowed us to build partnerships with states
00:42and with local law enforcement officers, which is exactly how things should function in this country.
00:48More power, more authority given to people locally so that they can take control of their own destiny.
00:54And so we have already been working under the 287 program to deputize law enforcement officers,
01:00whether they be State Highway Patrol, local sheriff's departments in all of our states,
01:05and allow them to go out with our ICE officers, our Border Patrol officers,
01:09and make sure that we're getting the worst of the worst off of the streets.
01:12We also recognize that as we've been doing that and returning people back to their home countries,
01:16that we need detention facilities.
01:18We need beds to put them in place so that they can have their due process before they return home.
01:23And this facility is exactly what I want every single governor in this country to consider doing with us.
01:29What happened to start this conversation was that a young man named Jimmy Percival in my office,
01:36my general counsel who came from Florida and used to work here, called up the attorney general and the governor and said,
01:41hey, what do you think about partnering with us on a detention facility that we could put in place that would allow us to bring individuals there.
01:50There's an airstrip close by.
01:52You guys volunteered the assets that you have and the connections that you have and worked with Kevin extensively so that we could come here,
02:00have their due process given and return them home to their countries.
02:03And in eight days, this facility has been stood up.
02:06And I want everybody to recognize that detention facilities that ICE adheres to is a higher standard than is required at state levels,
02:15at local Department of Corrections facilities, sheriff's offices.
02:19This is a state-of-the-art facility, air-conditioned, isolated, though, for security purposes, which is very helpful.
02:26And I appreciate so many people being willing to work together to make a project like this happen.
02:31Right here on this location, we'll have about 3,000 beds.
02:34Other location, we'll have another 2,000 beds that will allow us to bring individuals across the country
02:40that we are bringing in and incarcerating for violating our laws
02:45and immediately get them out of the country as soon as we possibly can.
02:48It's exactly what we need to be perpetuating in other states.
02:52And what I would say is I want all of you to notice these flyers that we've got.
02:56Is that everybody who sees these flyers or anybody who sees these news clips should know you can still go home on your own.
03:04You can self-deport.
03:05If you go on the CBP Home app and go home now, you will get the chance to come back to the United States legally.
03:11You will get the chance to come back and do it the right way.
03:15If you don't, you may end up here.
03:17And you may end up here and being processed, deported out of this country and never get the chance to come back.
03:23That is the consequences of breaking the law in the United States of America.
03:26Listen, our job is to uphold the law.
03:28This is a country of laws.
03:30We have a border now.
03:31And because we have a president that cares and recognizes that we need to be a nation of borders and a nation that upholds the law.
03:39If you break the law, there's consequences.
03:42We will deport you and you will never get to be a United States citizen.
03:45You'll never even get to come back here and work and to pursue the American dream.
03:49But if you decide you want to go home now, go home.
03:51And we'll help facilitate it.
03:52We'll buy your plane ticket.
03:53We'll get you there.
03:54In fact, I just got back from Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras.
03:59Those countries are excited to get their citizens home.
04:02They're setting up programs to loan them money to buy houses when they get there, help them with food assistance, get their children educated, scholarships.
04:11They want their citizens that are living here in the United States illegally to come home and to be a part of their economy and help their countries grow.
04:19So this is a win-win for everyone.
04:21And I just want to end, Mr. President, by thanking our law enforcement officers, by thanking our ICE officers and our Border Patrol officers for what they do every day.
04:30They are out on the streets and violence against them has increased over 500% since Trump has gone back into the White House because he's upholding the law and because a bunch of liberals, socialists and Marxists are out there lying about what President Trump is doing.
04:48President Trump is upholding freedom by what he is doing, the freedom to live safely in this country and to do things legally and to have justice.
04:57And because those liberals, and I'm calling out you CNN, I'm calling you out because you lie every single day about what these operations are.
05:05We are going after murderers and rapists and traffickers and drug dealers and getting them off the streets and getting them out of this country because Joe Biden let the worst of the worst come in here.
05:16The other day, I was talking to some marshals that have been partnering with ICE.
05:19They said that they had detained a cannibal and put him on a plane to take him home.
05:24And while they had him in his seat, he started to eat himself and they had to get him off and get him medical attention.
05:29These are the kind of deranged individuals that are on our streets in America that we're trying to target and get out of our country because they are so deranged they don't belong here.
05:40And they shouldn't be walking the streets with our children and they shouldn't be living in the communities with our families who just want to grow up, go to job, raise their children to grow up and get a job and to live the American dream.
05:52So thank you to all of our law enforcement officers, those in our military that have been helping our National Guard.
05:59Thank you to Governor DeSantis for stepping up and being an example to other governors.
06:03I hope my phone rings off the hook from governors calling and saying, how can we do what Florida just did?
06:09How can we do exactly what they did? Because we need this big, beautiful bill.
06:14We absolutely have to have this big, beautiful bill that has the funding so that we can continue this operation.
06:21And we can get those bad criminals off of our streets and have the officers to do it so that when they go out on an operation, somebody's got their back.
06:30Somebody's got their back. They can do it safely and they can go home to their families at night, too.
06:34So this bill needs to pass through Congress.
06:37So we have the resources at the Department of Homeland Security to make sure that our homeland truly is secure.
06:42And Mr. President, thank you for Stephen Miller. I just want to thank you for him.
06:46This guy calls me night and day and tells me all of his wise advice and wisdom.
06:52But he's a rock star because he loves this country and he's passionate about making sure that nobody is prioritized over an American citizen.
07:00We love everybody. We do. We love everybody.
07:05Not everybody. A lot of people. Not everybody.
07:09But we shouldn't be putting people illegally above citizens. We should be making sure that we do things right.
07:16And that's what America has always stood for. And we're an example to the rest of the world because we do it right.
07:20So, Mr. President, you surround yourself with great people.
07:23And I think that's because everybody wants to work for the greatest president that the United States has ever had.
07:29And that's President Donald J. Trump. So thank you, sir.
07:31Thank you very much, Chrissy. That's so nice. Thank you.
07:38Thank you very much. And I have to say that...
