20,000 migrant school children. Can schools cope?

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is former Congressman Peter King, and he’s with us every Sunday to tell us what the heck is going on in our city or state of country. And Congressman King, what’s on your mind this Sunday morning, John.

0:15 Speaker 2 I thought the debates the other night on Wednesday night, the Republican debate was really full of energy. I mean, Donald Trump wasn’t there, and I think that was a smart decision on his part. I think he had not in the game by being there. But what it also did, it gave the candidates some oxygen. Excuse mely, with Donald

0:32 Trump’s in the room, all the oxygen goes with him. And I thought, again, it was very lively, very energetic. I thought the person who to me made the best impression certainly for the general election was Dicky Hewing. She seemed to have a good mastery of foreign policy. She was addressing the abortion issue in a way that I

0:52 think is potrol life and yet it’s not going to get people as excited as they may. But otherwise I think she showed herself able to handle herself on the stage, and she had a very attractive way about her. So I as getting the argument out he was forceful and she had to be if she smiled when it was appropriate.

1:10 So I think Nikki Haley emerged if for some reason, Donald Trump does not the nominee. And you know, we don’t know, even though he’s way ahead right now, we don’t know what the humative cumulative effects of all of these indictments is going to be. So far, each indictment has made him stronger. Whether that prevails over the next

1:27 six to eight months, we don’t know. And I think of anyone who else they showed themselves ready to break away from the packet was Nicki Harley. But anyway, I just thought it was a very lively and very informed debate.

1:41 To me, they all acted in a very respectable way, respected way, and even Aster Hutchinson, who’s down the bottom, and the governor of North Dakota, all of them showed, you know, to me, they show there are quality of people.

1:54 But the other is.

1:55 Speaker 1 Who would you think? Who would you think is a top three of four.

2:02 Speaker 2 I thought Mike pins it very well, but I don’t think he’s going to go anywhere. I think there’s so much opposition from the Trump camp. So even though I think he did well, I don’t think he’s going to help him much. I think uh vervec whoever he pronounces his name, Ramaswami. I thought he did well. I think

2:20 he maybe though like more of a flash in the pan, the way Budageg was or Ben Carson was several years ago. Longer he’s out there. What’s that?

2:30 Speaker 1 He reminded me of Anguillan.

2:33 Speaker 2 Yeah, okay, that’s it. That’s the example. Yeah. I mean he’s obviously a smart guy and you know the very strong dream. You know, he’s an immigrant who is now a incredibly rich and uh young guy. So no, he’s a lot going for him. But I think that as the longer he’s there, I think his position can fade

2:50 a bit. But he definitely showed himself. You know, he deserved to me on the stage. I thought Ron DeSantis was going to do more if he didn’t know who he was, how much attention he would have paid to him last night. He was kind of robotic. I thought he wasn’t bad. He didn’t make any mistakes. He didn’t

3:06 show any reason that you that he would break away from the pack. And so even though he’s probably running second to most of the polls, I don’t think he added to any of that. Last night, Chris Christy. Again, I was expecting more from Chris Christy. He I thought he was going to be more energetic coming out. I

3:22 think Kim Scott looked good in the way he handled himself, and he’s a very smart guy. And I have a great regard to Tim Scott. I worked with him when he was in the House, and I really admired the work he’s done in the Senate. He’ll do great. It’s hard to drudge the government of Northzakota. He’s really debating

3:39 on one way he seemed to do seems to do pretty well. And I think, I said Chris Christie, he seems to be in this mainly to bring down Donald Trump. He’s a smart guy, he can handle himself. He knows what he’s talking about. But it seems as comes across that his real reason for running is to stop Donald Trump.

3:59 And I don’t think that’s gonna work in the Republican primary.

4:02 Speaker 1 Understood Sunday morning. What else is bothering you besides who’s going to be the next president? I mean the migrant situation in Long Island in New York City. Now there’s a rumor there’s a rumor around that they’re trying to get people to Westhampton Airport.

4:24 Speaker 2 Brisk Airport, uh the International Guard base out there. As Historian Newsday the other day that the word is that that’s being looked as a migrant location. That will be the east end of Long Island in Suffolk Coalty. And then at the west end we have the thousand persons soil, the tent facility at the Creemoor area which is right

4:51 on the Nastra County border, and the people in those communities Flora Park, New Hyde Park, Lakes Successman has it very concerned about having it thousand men who have done up jobs, who are here illegally. No one really knows their statuses or exactly who they are. Having a thousand people right on the edge of these wonderful communities besides

5:14 Gabreskua Airport and Suffol County. That’s at the east end. Now you’re the west end of well. Now that at the Theiss County border at Queens and theirs are border. You have a thousand ten facilities set up and the people in for a park, the people in the Lake Success, the people in Manhasset, the people who knew Hyde Park

5:34 all wonderful communities along the city border are very concernative of a thousand men there. No one knows what their health situation is, No one knows if they have a criminal record. They’re not going to be working, and they’re going to be roaming around. And there’s a real concern right there, just walking across the border coming into Nessa County.

5:52 And there’s nothing to do with the ethnic back around or anything else. There’s a thousand people who are here illegally and are being basically winding, dying and have time on their hands. When you think, John, of what your parents had to go through when they came here, in fact, you had to go through as a child, what my

6:09 grandparents went through at Ellis Island, how they were checked and they were had to be bettered there for somebody sponsoring them. The whole thing was so detailed that the community had some idea of who was moving in. Now we don’t know who these people are, just a thousand strangers from foreign countries for foreign countries coming again to

6:30 a street next to you. And it’s recently we’ve seen that in the last ten months of this fiscal year, more people on the Terrorists watch list have come across the border, haven’t stopped coming across the border than in the previous five years combined. And for those who were stopped, you imagine how many others were not stopped. So that’s

6:57 again five years. It’s more this year than the five years combined. And so this is really it’s a terrible situation. I know that Curtis is leading the attack in Staten Island and Queens. I mean, this is John, this is just wrong. I am pro immigrant. My grandparents immigrants. I grew up with immigrants. I mean, like g immigrants of

7:20 the lifeblood and the lifeline of this country. That’s what made us different and great, so much better than other countries. But it has to be done in a regulated, vetted way. You can’t just open the doors to everyone not knowing who they are.

7:32 Speaker 1 Everybody has to know who everybody is. They got to be checked for diseases, they got to you know, we can’t just allow the in the kids of these people going to school with our own kids, and they got to be checked and see if they have any diseases before you put them in a classroom.

7:49 Speaker 2 John, I saw that several years ago when I was a congressman and I represented the community is like Central Isicok in Brentwood, and they had the unaccompanied mind us who came across the border and large numbers in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen, and I show what that did to the local schools. They were put in the schools.

8:06 You would have a thirteen year old kid with a first grade education. Of that the school has to try to accommodate that none of them can speak English. They’re staying with relatives now, with parents at all at home, and just so it was so awkward and it was so challenging to the schools. And these are generally schools

8:24 that don’t have a great taxpace to begin with. So this was a real hardship. And also MS thirteen, that’s one of the ways that MS thirteen came into Suffolk County. For these people going to are innocent young kids. Some of them were either operatives of MS thirteen or they had family members back in Central America who were being

8:43 threatened by MS thirteen. And these kids had to do what they were told to do. And teachers were telling me that they were recruiting MS thirteen. Other Central American kids were being recruited into MS thirteen or being threatened by It’s.

8:56 Speaker 1 Crazy, which is que Congressman Peter King, thank you for telling us what the heck is going on, and we’ll catch up with you again real soon, and we’ll see you on Monday tomorrow.

9:07 Speaker 2 I’ll be there tomorrow night, John, I’ll be there with you. Thank you, you Andrisa, thank you.