jonathan fahey will be testifying today and joins me now.rs of congress? >> two biggest points i want to get across, with this weaponization of the doj during the last administration and democratic party, not only how the people, the attention was taken from far more important issues like violent crime. violent crime went up dramatically while biden administration focused on these political issues. weaponization is harmful, there were other harms, as well. as federal prosecutor, what you had to do, intake cases and decide between one case and another case, not one case or nothing at all. that is the biggest harm. we suffered in terms of public safety and public confidence because of this weaponization. >> todd: i know focus is regaining that trust going forward and making sure doj does what it is supposed to do. can anything done to hold wrongdoers from previous administration accountable? >> it needs to be looked into and people were doing something wrong in terms of violating the law, should be held accountable. moving forward, how do we m

thank you, jonathan fahey, former acting i.c.e. director and secretary running as from d.c.u in new york today. what about the fentanyl crisis in the present as clearly as we continue to hear prioritizing, are they going about this the right way and are we seeing improvement in the situation? >> 30 days we see tremendous amount of improvement because the illegal immigration as well as fentanyl both controlled by cartels. so we are taking money from the cartels by stopping illegal immigration, that we are also doing things because less people coming across the border. border patrol agents and law enforcement able to focus on drug interdiction which they haven't been able to do enter the last administration. dhs and border patrol agents doing something as silly as babysitting migrants instead of going after drug traffickers. what is shameful, the last four years under the biden administration we have had 400,000 americans die mostly from fentanyl but other drugs as well. they have been totally derelict in their duties and impact the border crisis was intentional to bring an il

i want to bring in jonathan fahey. >> good morning with 100,000 people a year dying from drugs in thisfor fentanyl in particular that is leading to most of that coming from china could china stop this if they want to entirely from coming over and if so what would they have to do. >> they could stop it immediately remember this is a total surveillance or near-total surveillance state, they know exactly what's going on some of the fentanyl producers are state owned, the fentanyl gang laundry their proceeds from the chinese state banking system every container that is inspected by chinese officials, the list goes on and on. if xi jinping wanted to stop fentanyl precursors from going to mexico or stopping fentanyl and mail to the u.s. it would happen immediately. cheryl: also marked temperament to bring you into this looking at the issue with the tariffs one of the things that we see the goods under $800 that the u.s. postal service were stopping all ship mentor parcels and they went back on that but that is the backbone for a company like amazon, there are business applications. >> withou

manager adam johnson is here wealth management president rebecca walser and acting ice director jonathan fahey. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ he. maria: let's get to breaking news lows fourth-quarter crossing the tape, cheryl casone with the numbers. >> a double a dollar 93 the street was looking for a dollar .8418.6 billion the street was looking for 18-point to 9 billion same-store sales up point to percent and as far as the guidance that is where investors are going to be focused especially after home depot yesterday, sales for 2025 forecasting to be flat is not a negative number it is flat and they also say that they believe there will be home depot macro economic uncertainty and they believe they will see rebuilding efforts mostly professional contractors walking into lows not necessarily do-it-yourself consumer, double beeper lows back to you. maria: a nice little rally up three and half% let's get to the hot topic of hour major victory for president trump's agenda house republicans narrowly passed a budget blueprint yesterday that addresses tax cuts, border security, cuttin

joining me now jonathan fahey former acting i.c.e. director. good to see you tonight.esterday today i guess and said we will not tolerate this being used as a pretext for any type of military action by the united states inside our country. your reaction tonight. >> i think mexico really needs to change its tune because they are dealing with donald trump and now this is not the budget administration. what he did today made it abundantly clear we are treating this seriously and it sends a strong message. a couple things you know that will be done with this, wand, people helping these cartels in any way can be charged with material support so criminal charges. this will also cut them down from banking and things like that because banks can face sanctions and money can be frozen. two ways to get at the cartels but i think mexico really ought to rethink their position and i know it is probably a tricky position because drug cartels have so much control of there but they need to really cooperate because donald trump is taking this seriously, putting the lives of americans a

blustery and former acting isa director and former federal prosecutor jonathan fahey now a partner. homan have a point here? aoc office providing tips as to how to avoid ice arrests. is there any kind of legal action that the federal government can take because of this? >> he does have a point here. just sort of for the big picture here when you compare what he is doing which is trying to get rid of most serious criminals that are also illegal aliens and fighting tooth and nail to keep them in here. where she's really skirting the line is on a couple of things for this obstruction of justice, are these webinars designed to truly educate people or are they a ruse designed to keep illegal aliens in the country. it's quite interesting. as every day american something as if they have a right to be here. when she is mocking tom homan she is incorrect on the law when she is saying is not a crime to be here illegally. most of all entered illegally and that is in fact a crime. the other thing she skirting the line on and many of the sanctuary cities are is the federal harboring statute if y

manager adam johnson, former federal prosecutor and i entered acting ice directing dhs secretary jonathan fahey wealth management president rebecca walser. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ we kick off our with a hot topic of the hour, president trump cited in executive order yesterday giving the department about government efficiency more power fox news political correspondent brooke sigman with the details. >> good morning, the executive order requires federal agencies to cooperate with doge effort to cut cost and shrink the size of the federal government, this directs agencies to restrict hiring two essential positions specifically agencies must not hire more than one employee for every four that leave their federal post it also instructs the agencies to determine which agency components or the agencies themselves may be eliminated or combined because their functions are not required by law. here's what president trump had to say about all of this yesterday. >> we thought we would not let them do that segment or look in that area. if we thought there was a lack of transparency or co

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director jonathan fahey. great to have you on the show. acting i.c.e.ch. >> we want more arrests and more action and i won't rest, i won't rest until every criminal illegal alien is eradicated from the country. the numbers are looking good but not good enough. i'm not satisfied and will keep pushing. >> trace: can they get the numbers up, to they have the resources? >> they can get the numbers up and they are up drastically in such a short period of time. they haven't really fully implemented all of the resources they have. you saw kristi noem is having 600 department of state agents join i.c.e. to help with arrests. they are going to enlist local law enforcement, state and local law enforcement and possibly deputized them to also help in be a force multiplier because not only will that be additional manpower but they will know the communities much better to find the most serious criminals. overall the big point here is that it shows how committed donald trump is to this issue. it wasn't just a campaign promise, he knows that we need to deport the most

for my ice director jonathan fahey.aid in aurora and denver a little while ago, and now it's spreading across the country. here is what the "l.a. times" wrote. "leaked argument, large scale immigration enforcement action coming soon to l.a. federal law enforcement agents planning to carry out a large scale immigration enforcement action in the los angeles area before the end micah february according to a federal document reviewed by the times." where are these leaks coming from? >> if that's right, they are coming from the government, which is pretty scary that somebody would be putting that information out there. regardless of what you think of trump's immigration policies -- when they are lawful and two you are putting men and women in danger every time they make an arrest. if it's of somebody off that they are about to be arrested, that could put law enforcement in danger, the numbers of the community in danger, and not to mention that it thwarts the ability to deport people. ultimately, i think people are going to r

jonathan fahey former acting i.c.e.n great on the issue. i think your point about american citizens getting treated worse than illegal aliens is absolutely true. i think at this point i don't think anyone can i have any doubt the prior administration was doing this intentionally and not acting in good faith. my question is on the sanctuary cities, i think it's a great move what pam bondi did, withholding doj funding. is there something congress can do more than that to take away other funding from the sanctuary cities if they don't start cooperating with i.c.e.? as you know, illegal aliens, illegal immigration costs the country over $150 billion just in tax dollars per year, not to mention all the quality of life issues so what can congress do specifically with these sanctuary cities? >> well, we have the power of the purse and we should strip any city that claims to be a sanctuary city, no federal funding, zero, nada, none. they should be stripped of any federal funding and what that's going to do is that's going to ca

let's bring in former ice director jonathan fahey.w things are going so far? it's a massive change from one administration to the next. >> it's been so rapid, so effective and serious. so many things that have been helpful to the united states citizens in terms of it's deterred crime from illegal aliens that are already here. we're already getting rid of the most serious criminals, and we're deterring the number coming in, 450, 500 a day down from 12,000 a day under biden. what's important about this. the drug cartels were making significant money from every illegal alien coming into the country, sometimes 7,000 or so per head. when the numbers are cut down they're starving the cartels and allowing border patrol and federal agents to focus on drug trafficking and fentanyl, things like that. the benefits are tremendous and it's only going to get better. it's impressive how fast and effective it's been already. rich: two months, one, it's the border security and second the deportation efforts and there have been challenges for ice. here

interstate is the highway patrol struggled to get a handle on those protesters >> let's bring in jonathan fa fahey. a lot to talk with you about. let's start with this operation in philadelphia. where illegal migrants were picked up at a car wash. the d.a. said this. >> any probably who thinks they can get away with anything because of this. no, you cannot. >> he was talking about i.c.e. agents coming to arrest people. what about the idea has been expanded to include jobsites and should workers and companies be on notice? that if they are employed illegally they can be targets of ice? >> larry's theatrics, it is so deeply cynical what he is doing. what he is going to mischaracterize what the agents are doing and maligned them reminiscent of how kamala harris compared them to kk members -- kkk members. they are trying to arrest the most dangerous criminal and puts his own citizen at greater risk. they always put public safety behind his political agenda and he is willing to do this to increase his status at the expense of the citizens he is sworn to protect. it is a cynical move and abominable he w