Air Force Vet Asks Ron Johnson Point Blank: 'What Are You Going To Do To Help Stop These ICE Raids?'

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During a teletownhall on Monday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was asked about Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.

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00:00Next, we'll go to Steven in Winnebago.

00:02Hello, Steven.

00:03Thanks for being on the line.

00:03What's your question?

00:06Yeah, I believe it might be me, Steve, from Nina.

00:10But my question to you, sir, being a fighter pilot at the U.S. Air Force for many years

00:17and now watching ICE pulling people off the street in masks and street clothes

00:24with the vests that you can buy at the Army Navy store sitting in police on it

00:28and no warrant and no badge number, no way to identify that this person is actually legitimately

00:36somebody from the government pulling people off the street.

00:40I don't like it.

00:41It's un-American.

00:43Most of the people they're going after now are people that have lived in this country for years,

00:49although undocumented, and they're paying taxes and they're part of the community.

00:55And to have people jump out of cars or come up to their house, meet them at school

01:00or at a required court hearing, and having them get arrested and taken away

01:07and having no ability to contact family or friends or anything like that for an

01:14significant period of time is not right.

01:16I don't know what the laws read, but that is not the America I joined the U.S. Air Force to defend.

01:23And as an adjunct, what are we going to do to fix the problem of people coming to this country

01:36and not being able, because the process is so convoluted, not being able to establish legal residency?

01:44Okay, so that's probably the first question.

01:47The second question is, what are you going to do to help stop these ICE raids

01:50that are taking people off the street just because?

01:54I don't like it, and it's not American, and it leads to very bad places.

02:00So, Stephen, I think your perception of this is distorted by what I would consider

02:04the distorted news coverage of this, okay?

02:07I'm not saying there aren't instances that are pretty heartbreaking,

02:11but, for example, the raid on the California marijuana growing operation

02:16where they found 10 unaccompanied children.

02:20They found all kinds of criminals.

02:22I mean, the Trump administration was left with an enormous mess.

02:25The Biden administration opened up our borders, completely unvetted,

02:29and let millions and millions of people, including members of incredibly violent gangs,

02:34drug traffickers, human traffickers, sex traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations.

02:41I could go on.

02:42Very dangerous people, a very clear and present danger of this nation.

02:46Cleaning up that mess is difficult.

02:50Okay, they let him in completely unvetted,

02:53and now we're supposed to give every person that came to this country illegally,

02:56criminals or whatever, full constitutional rights.

02:59They're not citizens.

03:00Now, again, I think that, by and large, the administration does have deportation orders on these people.

03:07They know they're criminals.

03:08That's who they're targeting.

03:09But when you're associated with a criminal like that and you're also in this country illegally,

03:14Tom Holtman's not going to just look the other way and go,

03:16oh, okay, well, you seem to be okay.

03:18We'll let you stay in this country even though you're here illegally.

03:21So, again, it's the cleaning up the mess left by Democrats and President Biden,

03:27and it's a messy process.

03:28But I think a pretty strong majority of the American public supports President Trump

03:33in what he ran on and the promise he made to deport a lot of these people.

03:38Now, I also make the case to the President about the fact that Wisconsin needs workers.

03:43I hope he's not targeting farms and that type of thing unless they are abusing their employees.

03:51Then that's a totally different situation, which is certainly what was happening in the California marijuana grower situation.

03:59But, Stephen, again, appreciate you staying in line.

04:03Appreciate your question.

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