00:00Twenty-one Democrats-led states are suing the Trump administration in a push to restore
00:04taxpayer funds, funded benefits, I should say, for illegal migrants.
00:09Borders are Tom Homan is here and he'll react to that in moments.
00:13But first, Griff Jenkins has more on this from the White House.
00:17So Griff, what is their plan exactly?
00:19Well, so Sandra, these 21 AGs, all from Democrat-led states, are suing the Trump administration
00:25to restore taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens.
00:29Benefits, by the way, paid for by you, the American people.
00:33Now, this lawsuit, led by New York's Letitia James, comes after several federal agencies
00:39announced earlier this month they're cutting undocumented immigrants' access
00:43to more than a dozen health and education programs.
00:46It's nothing more than an attempt by this administration to terminate programs
00:51that millions of individuals have relied upon in order to advance his cruel immigration policies.
00:57It is unconscionable.
00:58It's unconstitutional.
01:00It's in violation of the law.
01:02And that is why we are seeking an injunction against the implementation of this.
01:10Now, the Trump administration claims by barring access to programs like Head Start,
01:15food aid and job training for illegal aliens, they are preserving nearly $40 billion
01:19in benefits for American citizens.
01:22But these states argue the changes are causing significant disruptions already
01:26and that providers could struggle to verify the citizenship status of recipients.
01:31The National Republican Congressional Committee is blasting this lawsuit, saying, quote,
01:36let that sink in.
01:37Democrats are fighting in court to take your money and give it to criminals who broke our laws.
01:42But as Democrats push to restore access, they argue most federal benefits are already off limits
01:48to illegal aliens.
01:50Meanwhile, in some progressive states like California and Illinois that have state-funded
01:55health benefits for illegal aliens, they're now starting to scale those programs back due
02:00to budget shortfalls.
02:02Sandra?
02:03All right.
02:03Griff Jenkins live at the White House on that for us.
02:05Griff, thank you.
02:05John?
02:06All right, Sandra, for more on this, let's bring in Tom Homan.
02:08The Trump administration borders our Tom.
02:11A lot to get to in the next few minutes.
02:13But let me get you, first of all, to comment on this lawsuit brought by Letitia James and
02:18attorneys general from 20 other states.
02:21Look, it's ridiculous.
02:22Trista James, I mean, she's the attorney general of the state of New York.
02:25She's the chief law enforcement officer.
02:27She's an officer of the court.
02:29She should want ICE out there enforcing the law.
02:31And as far as, you know, I've heard for decades from the Democrats that illegal aliens don't
02:36take advantage of our social services programs.
02:38They have.
02:39I've been around a long time.
02:40This is a great move by President Trump.
02:42Number one, it ends in enticement for a lot of people to come here.
02:45And number two, taxpayer benefits should go to the United States taxpayers, not those
02:49who are in the country illegally, who enter the country illegally, which is a crime.
02:54So this is the exact thing we should be doing.
02:57I salute President Trump for personness.
03:00I know, Tom, that you are very frustrated with the lack of cooperation that you're getting
03:04from law enforcement officials in New York State, in particular New York City, when it
03:07comes to ICE operations.
03:10Letitia James had this to say about New York's support for ICE operations.
03:14Listen here.
03:15New York State and other Democratic states cooperate with ICE when it comes to criminal convictions.
03:22But when it comes to innocent individuals, individuals who serve as your nanny, who clean
03:27your home, individuals who are our neighbors, individuals who unfortunately are just trying
03:32to make ends meet each and every day.
03:35So she's saying it's a different thing, that they're cooperating with you on criminal convictions,
03:39but other folks, not so much.
03:41But are they cooperating with you on criminal convictions?
03:44No, they're not.
03:45You know what she's talking about.
03:46Bottom line is, we are prior to criminal threats and public safety threats and national security
03:52threats.
03:54We had an agreement to get into Rikers Island.
03:56Mayor Adams, you know, signed an executive order to get into Rikers Island.
04:00Of course, the governor came down, you know, totally against it.
04:03City council soon kept us out of there.
04:05We're on our way to some collaboration on criminals in Rikers Island, but that was shut
04:10down.
04:10But, you know, they keep pushing this issue.
04:13They're helping us.
04:14No, they're not.
04:15New York City, matter of fact, the two men who were involved with shooting the off-duty
04:20CBP officer, they both were released from NYPD precincts many times, several times.
04:27So, and look, NYPD wants to help us.
04:30The officers on the ground want to help us.
04:31But it's a sanctuary city that was created by Bill Bellagio and supported by the city council
04:39that has shut us out.
04:40So, Letitia's James is wrong.
04:41New York is not helping us with criminals.
04:43All right.
04:44A shining example of that might be what happened with the CBP officer who was shot by an illegal
04:50alien in Fort Washington Park.
04:52Here's the rap sheet of one of the people under arrest, Christian Ayabar Baroa, headed the
04:57U.S. illegally in June of 2022.
05:00New York City ignored a detainer against him.
05:03He was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, grand larceny, pedant larceny a couple
05:07of times despite an ICE detainer.
05:08He was released back onto New York City streets.
05:10Also charges of reckless driving, driving without a license, a final removal order of
05:14January 3rd, 2023.
05:16Yet he was still out in the streets.
05:18His alleged accomplice, Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, entered the U.S. illegally April 4th,
05:232023.
05:24Charged with grand larceny, pedant larceny, reckless driving, second and third-degree
05:28assault, criminal contempt a couple of times, robbery with a firearm in Massachusetts.
05:33Final order of removal November 6th, 2024.
05:36Yet he was still on the streets as well.
05:38So what does that say about this vaunted cooperation that Letitia James is talking about?
05:43There is no cooperation.
05:45I'll use Lake and Riley, for example.
05:47She may be alive today if NYPD would work with ICE because he was arrested and charged
05:51with a crime in New York City and simply walked out of precinct.
05:54The illegal aliens who attacked NYPD officers in Times Square, they were arrested.
05:59No one called ICE.
06:01And so it goes on and on and on.
06:03So I blame several people.
06:05I blame the governor of New York, Governor Hochul, who pushed bail reform so people are
06:11being released right straight from the precincts.
06:13And I blame the city council to New York City because they are shutting down any cooperation
06:19with ICE.
06:20Again, we're so close to getting to Rikers Island so we can arrest a bad guy in the safety
06:25and security of a jail rather than release him in the community, which is going to be
06:28another community threat.
06:30City council shut it down through lawsuits.
06:32So Letitia James, dead wrong on this.
06:34Yeah.
06:35And, you know, a CBP officer lucky to be alive, thanks to New York City policies after he was
06:41shot by that illegal alien.
06:43Tom, I know that you've vowed to flood the zone there in New York City.
06:48We'll keep an eye and see what happens.
06:49Appreciate your time, sir.
06:51Appreciate it.
06:52And yes, we are going to flood the zone.
