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Workhorse in DC—Mullen Channels Relentless Pace at DHS, already Ahead of 2025 · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Secretary and the man who's in charge of the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Homeland Security, former Senator Mullen. It says at the
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  Speaker 3: one hundred day mark, as the man in charge, the
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  Speaker 3: Secretary of the Department Home in Security, the deportations are
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  Speaker 3: way up. Twenty twenty six stats set to outpace. He says,
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  Speaker 3: well paid passed the twenty twenty five numbers. That obviously
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  Speaker 3: is good news if you are in favor of law
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  Speaker 3: and order. Now, the Secretary of Homeland Security Mark Waynmullen
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  Speaker 3: saying exclusively to Brightbart News the deportation numbers in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six will very soon outpace all of twenty twenty five. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: look at your calendar. You can see that. You better
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  Speaker 3: believe it. This is more than last year. Basically halfway
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  Speaker 3: through the year. He also went on to say that
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  Speaker 3: agents from across the Department of Homeland Security are removing
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens from the United States Interior at a record
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  Speaker 3: rate we've never seen. Quote, we are on a path
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  Speaker 3: this year twenty six to well pass what we did
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  Speaker 3: in twenty five. I mean, our numbers are in fact
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  Speaker 3: within I'd say probably within the next six weeks, will
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  Speaker 3: probably pass what we deported in all of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: What we're going to do in twenty twenty six, maybe
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  Speaker 3: two months, I think will definitely do it within two months,
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  Speaker 3: but should well probably be six weeks at the current rate.
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  Speaker 3: Now this is incredible. As for how the DHS is
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  Speaker 3: accomplishing this, Mullen said, is by focusing on those who
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  Speaker 3: have criminal records or final orders of deportation from judges,
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  Speaker 3: and oftentimes, he said, the federal agents will find several
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  Speaker 3: other illegal aliens being harbored in the same homes and
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  Speaker 3: they arrest them and deport them too. So what we're
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  Speaker 3: what we're going to do, and what we're doing is
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at the worst of the worst, Mullen said.
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  Speaker 3: We're going after people that have already had final orders,
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  Speaker 3: meaning they've already had final orders from a judge that says, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you got to go. You've already went through the appeal
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  Speaker 3: process and you didn't show up for your last court appearance,
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  Speaker 3: so you've got to go. We're going after people that
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  Speaker 3: have felonies, that have active felonies on them. We're going
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  Speaker 3: after individuals that have been released from state penitentiaries and
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  Speaker 3: that had already served their time, but they're still in
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  Speaker 3: the country illegally. So now we're getting a warn out
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  Speaker 3: for their rest because they're no longer allowed to stay
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  Speaker 3: inside the country because they violated either their parole or
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  Speaker 3: they violated their agreement with the United States by allowing
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  Speaker 3: them to come in through the visa program. And then
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  Speaker 3: we're going after the individuals that have claimed asylum cases.
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  Speaker 3: And asylum cases are the ones they said that they
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  Speaker 3: need asylum because they're not because they're scared of their
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  Speaker 3: own country. Now the case went in front of a judge,
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  Speaker 3: a judge says, no, you don't comply, or they just
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  Speaker 3: flat out didn't show up. When you're going after these individuals,
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  Speaker 3: we have warrants for them, we're serving them when we
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  Speaker 3: find them. Very seldom are they ever by themselves. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: usually there are three or four other occupants individuals with
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  Speaker 3: them that are also illegal. So we're picking up the
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  Speaker 3: one and we run into them having three or four others.
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  Speaker 3: Actually it's just an average of over four with them
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, and we arrest those individuals too.
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  Speaker 3: So our rest are on track, our deportations are way up,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to continue to go after the worst
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  Speaker 3: of the worst. That's our focus. We're trying to get
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  Speaker 3: the criminals off the streets now. Mullen's interview came just
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  Speaker 3: ahead of his hundred day mark as the Secretary of
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  Speaker 3: Homeland Security that is happening on Thursday. He was thrown
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  Speaker 3: into the job after President Donald Trump reassigned the now
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  Speaker 3: former Secretary Chrissy Nome to focus on Latin American affairs. Mullen,
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  Speaker 3: a former US Center had a quick confirmation for the
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  Speaker 3: job from the US Senate and started earlier the spring.
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  Speaker 3: A previously published portion of that interview on Mullen's efforts
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  Speaker 3: to also secure the World Cup soccer tournament, and there's
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  Speaker 3: a deeper interview, and it was talking about how he
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  Speaker 3: was going to specifically deal with immigration enforcement matter. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 3: I still love it. I still every single day I
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  Speaker 3: walk in I think I'm still the luckiest man in
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  Speaker 3: the world, referring to what it's been like in the
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  Speaker 3: first hundred days looming. I wouldn't trade my position with anybody,
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  Speaker 3: not another Cabinet member. I really legitimately enjoy it. I
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  Speaker 3: get to protect the homeland.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's a mission that every day that works works well
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  Speaker 3: that you can get behind it as you describe it now.
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  Speaker 3: Mullins also explained how wide ranging the mandate at DHS
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  Speaker 3: really is and how the department has twenty two different components,
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  Speaker 3: all focused on all sorts of security and law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: He said, quote, so yes, we have twenty two components.
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  Speaker 3: Every one of those twenty two components has come has
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  Speaker 3: had some aspect of well protecting our interests, our homelan,
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  Speaker 3: not just the lower forty eight, but all of us,
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  Speaker 3: all the Americans, and so we get the special privilege
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  Speaker 3: of protecting my own backyard and yours, regardless if you
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  Speaker 3: agree with me or you don't agree with me. So
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  Speaker 3: every day we're also looking to prove that there are
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  Speaker 3: some changes that need to be made, and we're working
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  Speaker 3: on those changes. There are definitely improvements. Every single day
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  Speaker 3: we get in here and say how can we do
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  Speaker 3: it better? Every single day we prevent something from taking place.
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  Speaker 3: We work with all of all the other secretaries. There's
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  Speaker 3: not another agency or cabinet position that works across the board.
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  Speaker 3: Because we have twenty two components. We work with the
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  Speaker 3: State Department, We work with the DOW, we work with
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  Speaker 3: a DOJ, we work with the EPA, we work with Agriculture,
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  Speaker 3: have President t which is amazing. Right, There's no one
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  Speaker 3: an able to recruit talent like President Trump can and
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm still growing. In one hundred days,
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I honestly, when I heard it was
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  Speaker 3: one hundred days, when we were walking in about every
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  Speaker 3: ready to do the interview, I thought, wait, it feels
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  Speaker 3: like it's just been a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: This is pretty incredible that the man who's just been
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  Speaker 3: there for one hundred days has already gotten so much done. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Mullens has been very active, by the way, in his
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  Speaker 3: new role. He got in a heated altercation with Democrats
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  Speaker 3: like Representative Rosa Delaro from Connecticut during a congressional hearing
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  Speaker 3: on Capitol Hill. He fought was seen as Jake Tapper
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  Speaker 3: on live television. But again this interview that he did
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  Speaker 3: with Breitbart, he wanted to make it clear that his
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  Speaker 3: main focus. One of the biggest things he's trying to
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  Speaker 3: do at DHS is expand more local and state law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement departments into joining the two eighty seven grams G
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  Speaker 3: program with federal government. He said that two eighty seven
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  Speaker 3: G program says, hey, if you'll help us, just simply
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  Speaker 3: hold the individual when you pull them. I don't need
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  Speaker 3: you to do immigration enforcement. Because you're out there and
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  Speaker 3: you're in the streets, you're in the community. You're going
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  Speaker 3: to run into them anyway, Mullen said, noting that state
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  Speaker 3: and local police departments as well as sheriff's departments nationwide
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  Speaker 3: regularly encounter illegal aliens. If you can just join the
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  Speaker 3: two eighty seven G program, then you can make the
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  Speaker 3: arrests right there on the spot. Mullen said. Cops nationwide
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  Speaker 3: regularly encounter illegal aliens in the course of law enforcement activities,
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  Speaker 3: and by working with federal authorities, they can ease immigration
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  Speaker 3: enforcement significantly. Say they pull over a trap at traffic stop,
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  Speaker 3: or public disturbance or public intoxication, or they just bust
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  Speaker 3: the house because they're serving a warrant and they're some
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  Speaker 3: illegals there. There's a legal activity at a business, just
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  Speaker 3: anything in the day to day operations. There isn't anybody
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  Speaker 3: that touch the public more than the sheriff's department and
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  Speaker 3: local PD and state police right the state police. So
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  Speaker 3: when they're part of the two to eighty seven program,
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  Speaker 3: they can partner with us. And guess what, when they
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  Speaker 3: partner with us, we reimburse. We'll reimburse you for equipment,
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  Speaker 3: we reimburse the time of the officer. You can actually
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  Speaker 3: well you want to help your apartment, you want to
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  Speaker 3: help serve warrants, We'll actually pay for those officers full
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  Speaker 3: salary for you to go through. In small municipalities and
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  Speaker 3: smaller states, they can add officers because they can buy
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  Speaker 3: new equipment, they can buy drones, they can buy vehicles,
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  Speaker 3: and we help them because we've got a huge influx
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  Speaker 3: of illegals that are in this country and some of them, yes,
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  Speaker 3: some of them want to work. But seventy percent of
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  Speaker 3: the individuals we arrest on a daily basis with Immigration
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  Speaker 3: enforcement have either pending felony charges or they've already had
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  Speaker 3: felony charges. And a huge percent of those have been
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  Speaker 3: released already from sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. So just
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  Speaker 3: one hundred days in, it's very clear a man in
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  Speaker 3: charge of DHS is saying we're just getting started, and
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  Speaker 3: he guarantees you this, They're not backing down anytime soon.
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