During a campaign event on Wednesday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor of South Carolina, promised to deputize officers to allow them to detain undocumented immigrants.
00:00We'll do three more questions because I'm sweating.
00:02I'm sweating and I want to shake your hands and give you a hug and the lady in the back in black right there.
00:10Hey baby, how are you?
00:12You know I ain't seen you since the last time.
00:15Thank you for being here.
00:16This is the question I need to ask you, just for you to let me know who I should be talking to or is you the person that I need to talk to if you get in the seat.
00:24What I'm worried about, I'm running for city council and murder in South Carolina.
00:28What I am definitely number one about is our public safety.
00:32So what about as far as giving the money and helping out, giving us more trainees and giving us an incentive or whatever we can do to make better for our safety for our areas.
00:44Put it that way.
00:49So with regards to public safety and training, we have basically one police academy.
00:55And you have to go to Columbia to train there.
00:58When I was a state lawmaker, I worked with different chiefs of police in South Carolina to get resources to regional areas, whether that was Ory County or the low country, the PD, the low country, the Midlands, the upstate, et cetera, to have regional training facilities.
01:13So we could more quickly train our police men and women that still hasn't happened.
01:19And it doesn't have to cost a lot to do it, but we're not doing it.
01:23And it is something that I would support because we've got guys who signed up to put their life on the line guys and gals to put on the uniform and keep our community safe.
01:31And they can't get trained.
01:33And so they sit there for six months, nine months, however long it is, pushing some paper and a pencil behind a desk, not getting trained and getting out there on the streets and keeping us safe.
01:44And the other thing that we have to do, because I've gone on some ice raids.
01:47I have gone on some drives, some rides, ride-alongs with police.
01:53But we also have to have our community, our business community, also get on board.
01:59We have hotels that they call zombie hotels that you can drive by.
02:04And you can see people high as a kite on drugs and prostitution and fentanyl and human trafficking and all these things.
02:13And where are our municipalities and counties and towns?
02:16Where are the resources to help them fight this kind of thing that's happening right on the streets of South Carolina?
02:23And then we have, we know that there are certain streets in our state that are taken over by the Sinaloa cartel, by the MS-13 gangs, by Train de Agua.
02:37I mean, in my hometown of Goose Creek, like four years ago, like one of the largest human trafficking bus in Goose Creek, 28 people arrested.
02:46We had three Train de Agua members arrested a couple weeks ago for trying to steal from a gun store in Somerville, South Carolina.
02:56It's crazy what's happening, which is why I want our state, but I have Train Long.
03:00I would deputize our police officers to detain illegals.
