At the Turning Point Action Conference over the weekend, former President Donald Trump spoke about the southern border.
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00:00Our economy will also seal the border and send Joe Biden's illegal aliens back home.
00:07We have no choice.
00:08It's not sustainable by any means.
00:11We have no choice.
00:14Less than four years ago, I handed over to Joe Biden the strongest, most secure border in U.S. history.
00:22We built 571 miles of border wall.
00:26We ended all tax reliefs.
00:28We shut down asylum fraud like nobody has ever thought even imaginable.
00:34We had to remain in Mexico State third agreements and Title 42, all done and all agreed by Mexico.
00:41You think that was easy? It wasn't easy. It was nasty, actually.
00:45And we paid nothing for it. Nothing.
00:48Just like we gave Monroe nothing, I was going to say.
00:52She was going to put a 25 percent tax on everything, anybody doing business in France.
00:56I said, you can't do it.
00:58He said, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
01:03It was passed by our legislature, our parliament or whatever the hell you call it.
01:08And they said, no, no, no.
01:10So I gave it to him and introduced him to people.
01:12I said, go deal with France.
01:14Tell them they're not going to do it.
01:16And they came back. They couldn't make the deal.
01:18And then they came back again.
01:19I said, you have one word to make the deal.
01:21They called up a girl.
01:22She said, Emanuel, how are you?
01:24How are you, Emanuel?
01:25You saw the way he was toying with Biden two days ago.
01:28He was toying with Biden.
01:29Biden has signed it.
01:31I can't even believe it.
01:32They're signing away.
01:34But he was toying with him.
01:35And I said to him, listen, Emanuel, if you don't drop that tax immediately.
01:41No, no, I cannot do that.
01:42I said, yes, you can.
01:43If you don't tax it immediately.
01:45All wine.
01:46Every bit of wine.
01:48Every bottle of wine and champagne that you send into the United States.
01:52We're putting a 100% tariff on that wine and champagne.
01:57We don't want your wine and champagne.
01:59We make great stuff over here.
02:02And he said, no, no, no, no, that is not fair.
02:05I said, yeah, it's not fair to charge American companies 25%.
02:09I got to stick up for the companies.
02:11They're our job, but listen.
02:14He said that is not fair.
02:15I said, Emanuel, you have 24 hours to tell me 10 minutes would be better.
02:19He calls me up five minutes later.
02:21Don't we have a way to terminate the 25% tax on the wine?
02:26I do things like this.
02:28You have no idea how many deals you can make on a phone.
02:32I don't even have to spend.
02:34How about Mrs. Biden and Joe Biden?
02:36They're back and forth like it's a taxicab from Europe.
02:39We come back.
02:41Let's go to the trial for a day.
02:43Back, back, forth, back, forth.
02:45On Air Force One, like it's a taxicab.
02:49It's not a taxicab.
02:51It's serious stuff.
02:52But that's indefinite of where they come with the country and how they run the country.
02:57They don't know what the hell they're doing.
02:59They really don't know what the hell they're doing.
03:02The entire world is emptying out their prisons and jails, their insane asylums, their mental institutions,
03:10and our country's being turned into a dumping ground, and the entire world is laughing at us.
03:16They say how stupid are the leaders of America, and they are stupid.
03:22Earlier this week, ICE arrested not one, not two, but eight suspected terrorists.
03:28They're pouring them at levels that nobody's ever seen before.
03:32And we're going to pay a big price for getting them out fast.
03:35One of the first things I'm doing, we're getting them out fast.
03:39According to reports, many of these terrorist savages entered through Joe Biden's open border,
03:45and Trump and Joe released them immediately into the United States.
03:50He set them loose and spread their terror network all across America.
03:54Under Biden, there has been a—this is, by the way, Border Patrol.
03:59This isn't me.
04:00Somebody was here.
04:01Oh, that's Trump.
04:02This is Border Patrol.
04:03There has been a 3,000 percent increase in the number of people in the terror watch list crossing the southern border.
04:113,000 percent.
04:123,000 percent.
04:15The choice for every voter this November is clear.
04:19You can have a president who lets thousands of radical Islamic terrorists into our country,
04:24or you can have a president who throws radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country and gets them out fast.
04:33Raise your hand.
04:44Raise your hand.
04:46On day one of my new administration, we will begin the largest deportation operation in American history.
04:54This is not history.
05:12And it doesn't make me happy to say that.
05:14And you know what's going to happen.
05:16We'll get 10 terrorists and then one woman with two children and a beautiful children,
05:21and that will be the front page of every newspaper.
05:24It's never an easy thing to do.
05:26But we have no choice.
05:28Dwight Eisenhower, which people don't think of him as a terrorist,
05:32had the largest deportation effort by far in the history of our country
05:36because he said that they're destroying our country and we can't let this happen.
05:40That was Dwight D. Eisenhower, the president.
05:43Let's storm the president, the people.
05:45Give him credit.
05:47But we have no question that we have no problem.
05:50You know, they wouldn't take, as you know, we have MS-13,
05:54the worst killers of any gang anywhere in the world, and they were pouring into our country.
05:58I said, we don't want to get them out.
06:00I said, I want to bring them back to their country because you don't want to put them in our jails.
06:04It's so expensive, everything.
06:06They killed two girls on Long Island.
06:08They sliced them up with a knife.
06:09They didn't want to use a gun.
06:10They didn't want to use a gun.
06:12They sliced them up with a knife.
06:14Two young high school girls walked into school.
06:16They killed them, sliced them into pieces with a knife.
06:19They're animals.
06:20And Nancy Pelosi said, you shouldn't call them animals.
06:23These are human beings.
06:24I said, no, they're not human beings.
06:26These are animals.
06:27They sliced them up with a knife.
06:29And by the way, ICE and Border Patrol, you know, ICE came in.
06:33This isn't Long Island.
06:34ICE.
06:35For some reason, they like Long Island.
06:37But ICE came in, and these are great patriots.
06:41I know some of my friends up here in the front rows.
06:43They're tough.
06:44But they're not doing the ICE.
06:45They're not doing that.
06:46And you'll see ICE come in, and they'll run it to what they call a pack.
06:50A pack of industry king tough guys.
06:53And you'll see for two minutes, fists are flying and everything's flying.
06:57Who the hell wants to do that?
06:59Matt Gaetz wouldn't do it.
07:01Byron wouldn't do it.
07:04Byron's tough.
07:05He wouldn't do it.
07:06I wouldn't do it.
07:07I think Mike Lindell might do it.
07:09I don't know.
07:10He may be the only one.
07:12He may be the only one.
07:13I wouldn't do it, Mike.
07:15And they go in there.
07:18The hands are flying.
07:19And then they grab them.
07:21They're all knocked out.
07:24And they put them in petty wagons.
07:26My people told me that we couldn't get them back into their country.
07:30So Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, they come from countries just beyond Mexico.
07:38Some come from Mexico, actually.
07:40But the countries won't take them back.
07:42They clogged up the runway so that a plane can't land.
07:46They blocked all the roads so the buses couldn't get in.
07:50And the generals came to be sure we have a problem.
07:52We have them all, but we can't get them back in.
07:54We haven't been able to get them back in for many, many years.
07:57During the Obama administration, they could never get them in.
08:00That was Obama-Biden.
08:02Biden didn't have a clue there either, by the way.
08:05We cannot get them inside.
08:07I said, Lily, how much money do we pay them a year for their economic development stuff?
08:12She said, I was going to use another word there, but I can't do it because of the man that I respect so much.
08:18You know who it is?
08:21Franklin Gray.
08:23I can say that.
08:24He's a great guy.
08:26You're all good.
08:27President, you don't have to use foul language.
08:32You just don't have to use foul language.
08:36Your stories are so great.
08:37Your crowds are the biggest crowds ever assembled.
08:40Nobody's ever done this.
08:41You don't need foul language.
08:43I said, sometimes you do, for emphasis.
08:46He said, you don't, sir.
08:48So I'm trying it without foul language today for Franklin Gray.
08:53I said that these stories lose 10.2% effectiveness.
09:03But I do it for Franklin Gray because he's a great guy.
09:07Those are great people.
09:09They're great people, what they do.
09:11The pastors, the preachers, the rabbis.
09:14A lot of great people.
09:17We have a lot of great people still doing that.
09:19I said, you know, maybe he's right, but think of it.
09:22So they bring these people out and they can't get them back into their country.
09:28So I said, all the presidents of those three countries, inform them immediately.
09:33They get $750 million from the stupid United States.
09:38Inform them that we're not paying them any longer because they didn't fulfill all of the obligations under the agreement.
09:48You know, they send them because they don't want them in their country because they're smart.
09:52And you know what, if it was me running those countries, I would have done it faster than them.
09:56Why wouldn't you do it?
09:58I would have cleaned out the prisons.
10:00They've only gone down 50, 60, 70%.
10:03Venezuela crimes down 72% because they've taken all of their criminals, most of them, and they've sent them in.
10:11They'll have the rest of them in within a year.
10:13I would have done it much faster.
10:16I would have done it much faster.
10:18I said, tell these countries that we're no longer paying them $750 million.
10:23And they did.
10:25And the next morning I get to the office early at 7.30.
10:28Get three calls separately but simultaneously.
10:31Mr. President, may we speak to you?
10:34I would like to speak to you.
10:35I don't understand the history of some miscommunication.
10:38You stopped paying me when all of the money you sent us.
10:43Can I ask you why?
10:45Because you're not taking your criminals that you sent to us.
10:48By the way, they sent them.
10:50You're not taking them back?
10:52Oh, Sarah, we would be delighted to take them back.
10:56It would be our great honor to take back 400 MS-13 savages.
11:02It would be our great honor.
11:04Sarah, please send them back.
11:05We would love to.
11:06We can fly them in.
11:09Ay, ay, ay.
11:11For years they weren't able to do it.
11:13You know that case?
11:14They weren't able to get it.
11:15I said, we're not going to pay them anymore.
11:17As soon as I said that, they all called at the same time.
11:20I spoke to them separately.
11:21It was like the same conversation.
11:23We would be delighted to take them back.
11:25And that was the end of that.
11:26We sent out thousands and thousands of MS-13 back to their country.
11:31But it's out of control now because whatever we sent back,
11:35they're coming back in at levels that nobody's ever seen.
11:38I won in 2016 because of the border.
11:41We had a really bad border.
11:43But that border was nothing compared to what you have now.
11:46That border was peanuts.
11:48It was nothing.