Former community information star Katie Couric really interviewed a Republican – Sen. Rand Paul – on her YouTube present, and the senator tried to take a average tone in distinction to Couric’s extremist DNC speaking factors. Couric cited a CBS Information quantity.
“Senator, if ICE brokers had been really speaking concerning the worst of the worst, because the president likes to say,” she started. “Lower than 14 p.c of practically 400,000 immigrants arrested by ICE in President Trump’s first yr again within the White Home had costs or convictions for violent felony offenses, in response to an inside Division of Homeland Safety doc obtained by CBS Information.”
Liberals cannot do the maths that even should you settle for this declare, that is 56,000 violent criminals.
Many community studies (along with CBS) have tried to harp on the notion that Trump is in some way failing if violent criminals aren’t 100% of the deported. Then they play video games and do not depend individuals charged with violent crimes, or convicted in different international locations of violent crimes. Paul stated “the info make a distinction.”
Jesse Watters identified how Katie Couric pushed Sen. Rand Paul on CBS’s report that solely 14 p.c of 400,000 migrants arrested in Trump’s first yr again had been violent criminals. Paul factors out that issues if your loved ones is victimized by somebody who ought to have been eliminated. pic.twitter.com/isr6wfG38x
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 14, 2026
COURIC: So is not all this discuss ridding the nation of violent criminals an enormous overstatement, if lower than 14 p.c, once more, of the 400,000 immigrants being arrested had costs or convictions for violent felony offenses?
SEN. RAND PAUL (R-Ky.): Properly, I believe the info make a distinction. And in order that’s one of many questions we are going to ask. And so if you come to Minneapolis, if they’ve a coverage that claims, oh, we’re not going to show over from our jails nonviolent prisoners, people who find themselves, I do not know why you are in jail should you’re nonviolent, however possibly you may have a drug crime that is a nonviolent.
COURIC: I believe there are many nonviolent individuals in jail.
PAUL: However the factor is, that is not their coverage. Their coverage is we are going to flip nobody over. So that you could be, you beat anyone half to loss of life, you get an assault cost, and also you’re in jail for a pair years, and in some way you are getting out on parole, and you are not going to be turned over and also you’re unlawful….
I’ve acquired an issue with that, and so do most likely most independents and Democrats. However that is what we have now to determine. And the factor is, is that is not the coverage of Mayor Frey. He didn’t come ahead and say, we’re not going to show over nonviolent prisoners. He simply merely stated, we’re not going to cooperate in any respect.
Paul mentioned his sense of the polls: “I believe most individuals are within the center. I believe most individuals really hate what using drive that they noticed with Alexander Pretti. However I believe should you ask them, if a man’s dedicated rape and he is in jail, and he will get out, would you like him deported? I believe individuals would say, hell sure, he must be deported.”
Couric could not settle for this commonsense majority place — maybe in deference to her liberal followers — so Paul saved bringing the frequent sense.
COURIC: Let me say that although, what concerning the 14%? Such a low proportion of 400,000 individuals.
PAUL: In case your daughter will get raped by the man that will get again out and he is one of many 14%, I do not suppose you are going to quibble about whether or not it is 14 or 64. What I am saying is, should you’re not going to show over anyone, then that is 0%. I do not suppose the share, it makes a midway argument to how a lot effort we have now.
But when Minnesota just isn’t going to show over anyone, the entire argument, whether or not it is 14 or 86, does not imply something. So if they don’t seem to be turning over anyone, then inevitably there are, and there are numerous emotional circumstances. The Laken Riley case of a man that had been arrested, ought to have been deported.
He was a thug, he was arrested a number of occasions up in New York. The federal government paid to ship this thug to search for a job in Atlanta. It was virtually like, we’ll offer you a bus ticket so your crime committing particular person will ship you to another state.
However to Laken Riley’s household, it was a giant deal, and it’s a large deal to individuals who care about what occurred to her, that if that particular person had been deported. Now you may inform me that particular person’s an anomaly, he is just one in 100, however up in Laken Riley’s household, I do not care if it is one in 100. The one in 100 people who find themselves violent, if that is a quantity, or if it is 14 in 100, we wish them deported.
