Clearly from a security perspective, if someone escapes, there’s a lot of alligators you’re going to have to contend (with).
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Alligator Alcatraz will be funded largely by FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program, which the Biden administration used as a piggy bank to spend hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to house illegal aliens.
We’re going through the data, but there’s no question a fall campaign needs to be a different effort informed by the lessons of this one.
I should have focused on a simpler affordability message even in these complex times.
I’m highly confident we’ll find our way through this.
It goes with the territory if you’re in North America in early to mid-summer, playing a lot of late afternoon [and] early evening matches.
I think we’ve managed it very well in New Jersey.
Heat has been a concern across the tournament, no question about it.
That is the consequences of breaking the law in the United States of America.
If you wait and we bring you to this facility, you don’t ever get to come back to America.
If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally. We will let them come back.
So right when you do the intake, they have the information about voluntary departure. They have the ability, obviously, you guys are funding that, because it’s a lot cheaper to do it that way.
The Department of Homeland Security has authorities that have never been utilized before, and I’m going to need some good minds on how to use those authorities.
I’m focused on affordability, and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that.
They’re going to sweep this six times to make sure there’s nothing that could be used as contraband, as weapons.
To me, the biggest objectives were no taxpayers' dollars used for this, in the sense of nothing coming out of general fund—nothing competing against education, and it couldn't just be about the Browns, it had to be universal.
I signed a law authorizing Texans to use gold & silver as legal tender in day-to-day financial transactions. It fulfills the promise of Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution.
Alligator Alcatraz is a milestone in our effort to help the Trump Administration fulfill its mandate to the American people and restore our nation's sovereignty.
I urge you to press pause on this bill because of the immediate and long-term threats it poses.





