Hakeem Jeffries Wants DACA Deportees Back & Newsom's Wine Empire Faces Questions | 11.12.26

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The Trump administration is promising zero change on deportations, while the presumptive Democrat Speaker of the House says he's going to push to bring some deported migrants back to the US. Here with more is wired in, host Cabot Phillips. So Cabot, there's been a lot of messaging on immigration, both from President Trump as well as the Democrats. Let's start with the administration. What is President Trump saying his plan is currently since the midterms? Yeah, no doubt a rough week for Republicans. And the midterm wipeout has already started to cause a lot of internal reflection within the GOP. Really, on no issue more than immigration. Let's really came to a head on Sunday when President Trump gave his first post-midterm interview with 60 Minutes. And he said that his immigration crackdown both helped and hurt Republicans. Have a listen to the wording here. I think it both helped and hurt. I think I got an A plus for closing up the border. I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out. But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, were breaking of the law. That was that they came into the country illegally. So you think your deportation policy was too tough? I think it might be too tough yet. Now, following that interview, a number of other senior officials within the administration have gone on air and said, look, the deportations are continuing. Nothing is going to change. We're going to keep chugging ahead with securing the border, keeping it secure and getting the bad people out. But it's worth pointing out that there was a political report earlier this week. The DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen was in support of some form of deal with Democrats that would offer temporary protected status for DACA recipients. Understandably, a lot of folks in the GOP base view that as amnesty and say, hey, this is rewarding people who broke the law, even if they were kids. And Mark Wayne Mullen went for an interview on Fox Tuesday night with Lori Ingram. She absolutely grilled him and let him know the GOP base does not want this. So there's already some division within the Trump administration. It would appear on how they're going to move forward if they're going to moderate at all on immigration. But in light of all that, we're still hearing the predominant message from the White House. We're moving full steam ahead with deportations. Meanwhile, from Democrats, we're hearing a pretty aggressive message about what's going to happen start of next year, particularly from Hakeem Jeffries. What exactly is he saying? Yeah, Jeffries, the presumed next speaker of the House. He appeared to double down instead of coming to the table and compromising on immigration, which politically makes sense. They just had this big victory. This is not a time when you'd expect Democrats to say, let's see ground on any issue. He said in a Tuesday interview, the Congressional Democrats, quote, would not provide a dime to this administration's violent mass deportation machine. Jeffries instead suggested that the president bring back deported DACA recipients and for American taxpayers to compensate them for damages. Again, that's despite DHS saying that the vast majority of those deported DACA recipients had previous criminal records. Jeffries also flat out refused to negotiate or even talk with new White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, who he called a, quote, stone cold racist. Jeffries is clearly facing a lot of internal pressure from his caucus and also this new class of House Democrats. One incoming Democratic socialist congresswoman from New York said Sunday, the Democrats have, quote, a mandate to abolish ICE after the blue wave on Tuesday. So we'll see just how far the left is willing to push on immigration and what it means moving forward for 2028. Yeah. Well, and for the next two years, we're going to have divided government. So what can we expect to see on immigration? Yeah, that is really the big question. The appointment of Stephen Miller asked you for staff to the White House has been a signal that many are interpreting as the White House going full steam ahead on deportations. But the political reality is that Democrats are going to have the power. Will they be able to pick off any Republicans wanting to compromise and would President Trump veto any legislation coming from Capitol Hill? But one thing that's very clear, Republicans are still honing in on the fact that we have a lot of bad people in the country living here illegally who have committed heinous crimes. We need to focus on getting them out no matter what. And they're going to kind of dare Democrats to try and push to keep those people here. And to that point, we just had a story here at the Daily Wire, Jenny Tehrer had it exclusively listened to some of the details on that front. The guy's name is Roni Alexander Gomez Alberto. He's from Honduras. He allegedly tried to storm the cockpit of United Flight 2174 on Monday night and claimed he had a bomb. Federal sources tell me that he first entered illegally in 2011 and was quickly deported. He came back in 2014 and was deported for a second time. And apparently third times a charm because in 2019, he came back, said he needed asylum in the United States, made his claim that he was persecuted in his home country for being transgender and then was granted asylum in 2020. And now he's facing criminal charges in Louisiana for the alleged hijacking attempt. So when you hear just horrific details like that from Jenny and some of the individuals, the Trump administration is trying to get out of the country. You can see why the White House is confident that their messaging on deportations is still a winning issue with the American people. Right. And Democrats do risk overplaying their hand at some of these things. Cabot, thanks for reporting. Absolutely. Owning a home is great until something breaks and somehow it's never the inexpensive stuff. The water heater stops working. The furnace gives out on the coldest morning of the year or you discover a plumbing problem that definitely wasn't in the household budget. And suddenly you're trying to find someone who can fix it while wondering just how expensive this is going to get. That's why I think home serve is worth looking into. Most homeowners insurance policies don't cover everyday wear and tear on things like plumbing, heating, or electrical systems. Home serve offers affordable home protection plans starting at just $4.99 a month with different options depending on your home's needs and your budget. 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In Arizona, it was building on their existing law to ensure that the, it protects girls privacy in locker rooms and restrooms, but I think the most important ones are Colorado and Washington state. They had no protections for girls sports, resulting in countless young women losing out on opportunities. And so both of these states took bold steps to ensure that men cannot compete on girls sports throughout the state. Now voters approved Washington's initiative last week, pretty decisively, it was 56 percent of the vote. But the ACLU and some other organizations are now challenging that measure under state law, they're arguing that requiring female athletes to provide this medical verification of their sex, violates their privacy and their equal rights. Can you break down their argument and what the exact law is? Well, the law itself is pretty straightforward. It says that men are not eligible for women's teams and it allows for athletes to use the exact same form that they're already using, which is like a sports physical form, that that becomes the evidence of what their biological sex is. So under these scenarios, the athlete that already has to do a sports physical is going to their personal physician, they're checking for their height, their weight, to make sure their heart's healthy. And as part of this, their physician can verify your male, your female, and then that determines what teams they're eligible for. So these arguments from the other side that this in some way targets certain students because of their identity is just simply nonsense. Because when you look at all of these laws, they operate in the same way. Your identity is irrelevant, all that matters is your biological sex. So do you believe the ACLU will be successful in pushing back against this law? Not at all. Because we've seen from the Supreme Court's case earlier this year where it upheld nearly identical laws from Idaho and West Virginia. The Supreme Court doesn't view these as violating constitutional rights. It actually views them as consistent with Title IX because it is the state recognizing their strong interest in giving equal opportunities to women and girls. If the ACLU is arguing that it violates equal opportunity, whose opportunities do they think is violating if it's not men? Their argument is it's somehow disadvantaging students based on their gender identity, how they perceive themselves. But again, that's simply false. Every student in Washington state, every student in Colorado, every student in all of the states that have passed these laws have the exact same opportunities. They can compete on teams consistent with their biological sex, or they can compete on co-ed teams. What we're doing is simply saying, what is the most fair way to organize teams? And we know from common sense and science and thousands of years of human history that men and women are different, and that allowing a man on a woman's team is unfair and actually taking away those opportunities for her. Now, we've also seen the school board in Seattle vote to basically try to block the implementation of this. I think the mayor of Seattle is also backing that effort. Can local districts do that, can they just defy the will of the voters? No, not at all. I mean, the Washington voters were very clear. I think as you mentioned earlier, pretty outstanding that at the same day that we saw a blue tsunami, you had voters in Washington state by 12, 13 percentage points saying, we don't want men in girl sports. So the law on its face is very clear. We think Seattle Public Schools is simply wrong to challenge this and to refuse to follow the law because the voters have spoken and what they want is men out of girl sports. Now, I want to ask you about your case that's going in front of the Supreme Court. That's Callie Keeler's case. She's a teenage wrestler. Can you tell us about that case and how the Washington vote affects it? Well, her case illustrates why Washington needed this law. So Callie was a middle school student. There was a wrestler and unbeknownst of her. She was assigned to wrestle against a male. During the match, he, this male sexually assaulted Callie. This is the harm to what happens when we allow men to compete in women's sports. It's not just girls losing a spot on a team. It's them getting harmed. It's them being sexually assaulted. And so it's stories like this that we believe motivated Washington voters to do this. So right now the law has not taken effect. And so it's one of the reasons we're asking the US Supreme Court to intervene. Callie's season starts in just a few weeks and we want to make sure that she's not at risk of forcing to having to be forced to wrestle against a male or suffer the same harm and injury that she did before. Oh, we'll see what happens. Thank you so much for coming on. Yep. Thanks for having me. California Governor Gavin Newsom's so-called wine empire might be built on a legal immigrant labor. That's according to a new investigation by City Journal into the vineyard industry in Napa Valley. Joining us now is Ryan Thorpe, Senior Investigative Reporter and co-author of the reporting question. So Ryan, can you walk us through what you've uncovered? Absolutely. The headline here is that California Governor Gavin Newsom has an illegal labor problem on his hands. So Newsom owns a number of properties, wineries and vineyards in the Napa Valley region. One of them is called the Oso Vineyard and the longtime vineyard manager at that property is a company called Rentary of Vineyard Management. This company has a very long history of employing a legal labor. He spoke with one former employee who is himself an illegal immigrant who estimated that 80 percent of his colleagues at the company were also illegal immigrants that management was aware of their undocumented status while they worked there and that they use this in effect to exploit them and violate California labor law. What this means for Newsom is that he is profiting off of exploited illegal labor and at the same time as governor, he is leveraging billions of tax dollars to facilitate the presence of illegal labor in California to expand welfare programs for them to fight deportations, all of which in turn prop up the struggling Napa wine industry that he profits from. Now were you able to connect workers directly to Newsom's vineyards or just the subcontractor that he uses? So we connected them to the subcontractor but our whistle-lower within the company says that given the percentage of the workforce that is illegal and the presence of illegal on every job site and every work grow, that this would also include Gavin Newsom's property itself. I think that there's no doubt about that. Now you mentioned the exploitation of these migrants. You also documented labor violations and herd allegations about how workers were treated. What did they tell you and what could you independently corroborate? So in terms of what we heard directly from workers was things like not paying overtime wages, not being paid for transport to and from job sites, being paid below minimum wage, things along those lines. This also fits with documented findings from the Department of Labor which previously fined rentary of vineyard management for wage and hour violations. In addition, two former employees in the past couple of years launched lawsuits against the company alleging these same types of practices. So for multiple different sources from speaking directly to employees, to the Department of Labor findings, to lawsuits, they're all saying the same thing. Now has Newsom or his businesses responded in any way and if so, what they say? So Newsom's wine business in Napa is called Plumpjack. This is the parent company. When we reached out to them for comment, their response was that they expect all contractors to follow the law and that the internal practices of contractors should not be conflated with Plumpjack's internal practices. When we reached out to Newsom's political team for comment, they noted that he had placed his business in a blind trust when he became governor and also said that any decision he makes as governor is solely in the best interest of Californians and not for his business. One thing to note about this blind trust is that Newsom remains aware of what his financial holdings are. So it's a bit of a misnomer. It's not as if he doesn't, he's not aware of the businesses that are in his portfolio. We certainly many of the moves he has made as governor have directly benefited his business. Well, and certainly anyone in the wine business in this region is well aware of what's going on. They have to be Ryan. Thank you so much for reporting. Of course, thanks for having me on. Before we go, a big thank you to all the people across the country who showed up last night for the exclusive screenings of Confession. I know we had a great time here in Nashville and it's now available to stream for members on Daily Wire. Thanks for waking up with us, and to enjoy the show, add free and join our mission, become a member at DailyWire.com. We're going to be back later this evening with more news you need to know. 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