Trump should debate again.

0:00 Speaker 1 It’s Sunday morning with us. This morning is Congress Morman Nicole Mayo Takis and she represents the island of Staten Island and also parts of Brooklyn. Well, Nicoles was an interesting seat. Well, there was an interesting week. And where do you want to begin. First of all, we had nine to eleven and I saw you were there. Give

0:25 us your feeling on nine to eleven. Do you still feel it in your heart every day? Yeah?

0:31 Speaker 2 John, I think like most New Yorkers, it feels really raw. Right, It feels like it just happened yesterday, and we cannot believe that twenty three years has gone by. But you know, it is a solemn reminder that we must be vigilant, that we cannot allow for our national security to be lax.

0:50 And I do get concerned. I do get concerned because we have an open border. They’ve caught hundreds of people crossing, either crossing or in our interior that are on the terror watch list. And after the Afghanist stand withdrawal in twenty twenty one, there were thousands of people that were released from that Bogrum airbase because they they were evacuating

1:13 after they closed that base. They didn’t evacuate the citizens first. So that is really concerning that there are thousands of prisoners that are were let loose by the Taliban. We don’t know who they are, where they are specifically, and with that wide open border, I think it’s a very nonsensical policy, and we continue to push for the reversal

1:32 of the sixty executive orders of this administration that led for this order to be open. We also need to make sure that we are caring for those nine to eleven first responders. John, As you know, being in New York, we are seeing firefighters, police officers, rescue workers dying from nine to eleven related illnesses. In fact, we’ve lost more

1:56 firefighters since nine to eleven from those related illnesses than we did on that horrific terrorist attack day. So what I’ll say is we’re fighting in Washington to make sure their healthcare program is fully funded. This is a droga as we see more people come down with these ailments that we’re working at the sites in the months after

2:18 the terrorist attack, So we’re working on that. We’re working on with widows and children. We continue to do a lot with them because they have been owed money from the state’s sponsors. Of terrorism. We have a fund that is based on c’s assets. We need to make sure that those assets are going to the victims who lost

2:40 loved the one who had their loved one’s murders. And lastly, we fight for a trial. We want the administration to set a trial date and pursue the death penalty. A lot of outrage over the plea deal that they try to make. I’m glad they rescinded it, but we had a trial date set under the Trump administration and that changed.

3:02 We need to get that back on the schedule, and we expect this administration to do that now that they’ve decided to drop this plea deal.

3:10 Speaker 1 Well, I think you are correct on that and it should be taken care of. Tell us we talked about nine to eleven crime in our city. We live it day to day. I even spoke to your borough president in Staten Island. There’s a lot of crime in Staten Island.

3:33 Are the people revolting? Do people realize it?

3:38 Speaker 2 Well, you know, I think that people do need to recognize that we are not as safe as we were before the state’s radical bail law took effect that released dangerous people over and over and over again. That bill has passed in twenty twenty, and we’ve seen crime much higher today than it was before that law went to

4:01 an effect. We’ve pushed the Democrats in Albany, you try to fix that. They haven’t made the necessary changes to make sure that repeat offenders are put behind bars. And one of the biggest things that we’re seeing are drug traffickers, drug dealers being released onto our streets. They’re poisoning our children.

4:19 They’re being caught with millions of dollars of whether it’s fentanyl or mess and they still being released back onto the streets even when they’re in the country illegally. John and so it’s been a combination of this open border that the President and Kamala Harris sixty executive orders that they put in place. As I said, they’ve allowed murderers, rapists,

4:43 gang members, drug dealers into our cities across America, and in New York, well, no right, they’re reading in the paper thirteen year old girl raped in Queens, a woman raped in Brooklyn under the Coney Island boardwalk. Cops shot at people, murdered, people actually been murdered in this city by legal immigrants, and cappens oftentimes you know, somebody killing

5:07 somebody outside of one of these migrant shelters, and it’s unfortunate and it is scary, and we need I.

5:13 Speaker 1 Mean, everybody’s saying there’s a reduction in crime, but I don’t see the reduction.

5:18 Speaker 2 Well, some categories are have reduced, but when it comes to rapes and assaults, those have still increased. But it’s not year over a year we should be looking at. We should be looking at this year versus three years ago or five years ago, and it is. The crime rate is much higher today. And we’ve just in the

5:38 city has done two things. One, they’ve diminished out police department. We used to have forty one thousand officers on nine to eleven. Now we have thirty three thousand. So they did defund the police, right, they did physically cut one billion dollars from the NYPD in twenty seventeen with Bill de Blasio. But what they also did was tie the

5:58 hands of or cops. They can’t cooperate with ICE to deport criminals. So we’re paying John the taxpayers to house these people in hotels, sometimes as high as three hundred and seventy five dollars a night per room. And then some of them are wreaking havoc on the city and instead of being deported and put in jail, they’re going

6:22 right back to the hotel. So we’re paying to attract this type of crime into our city. That’s what’s really terrible by what this city is doing.

6:30 Speaker 1 That is so great. So we should take care of our poor New Yorkers are poor Americans before we spend all that money taking care of the South Americans or Central Americans.

6:45 Speaker 2 That’s right. You have seniors struggling to pay for their prescription drugs or put food on the table. You have families. You know, I went to I go by the way, I go to the New York City Housing Authority, right the public housing where these New Yorkers they’re paying rent.

7:00 They’re paying a portion of rent, it’s subsidized, but it is they are paying their rent and they are living in oftentimes terrible conditions in New York City public housing. So the city should be putting money to help those people to improve their quality of life instead of five billion dollars being used for people who are in the

7:20 country illegally, and even the ones that are here legally and committing crimes, and so I urged the city once again to repeal its law that allows for us to be a sanctuary city where we cannot cooperate with ICE when there is a toteener request to deport somebody who’s committed a crime and is a danger to our fellow

7:41 New Yorkers.

7:42 Speaker 1 And that’s what I said to the President tonight. I got together with him a few weeks ago. Forget about deporting twenty million people to port the criminals f us. You could do that right away.

7:54 Speaker 2 And sadly, John, there are a lot of them to be deported if you’re just focusing on the criminals. As a matter of fact, we’ve seen thousands of arrests in New York City. I’m actually trying to get to the bottom of the data, the real data. How many of these migrants by shelter are committing crimes. We know it’s

8:12 in the thousands, because it was twelve hundred arrests about a last February at the beginning of the year. In February, it’s got to be three or four thousand now. But I’ve had to do a feedom of information law request and the city has been stonewalling me. They told me I was going to get the information back in May.

8:28 Then they pushed it to August. Now they’re pushing it to November. They’re not being transparent with the people, and they have the purpose addressed listed as the migrant shelter. It’s easy for them to pull and give me this information.

8:41 They just refuse to do it, and they’re violating law by not cooperating.

8:45 Speaker 1 Nic Congresswoman Nicom my attackers. Thank you Sunday morning. Thank you for coming on and giving all listeners and a heads up on what’s going on. And we’ll catch up again real soon.

8:58 Speaker 2 Thank you very much. John