22 JAN 2026: Listener Special: Your Questions About ICE Training // New Cash for Illegals // China Steals Elections // No MN Arrests // Greenland Deal // Europe Falls // What Makes Trump Tick? Hint: The Year 1845
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Special Brief edition of The Wright Report, Bryan answers listener questions on ICE training standards, self-deportation incentives, birthright citizenship abuses, and the massive fraud cases unfolding in Minnesota and beyond.
He explains why claims that ICE officers are poorly trained are misleading, breaks down the cost-benefit math behind paying illegal aliens to self-deport, and exposes how birth tourism has allowed foreign nationals to exploit American citizenship and voting rights. Bryan also offers a candid assessment of why arrests in Minnesota are slow, pointing to internal resistance within the DOJ and FBI, and urges patience as federal authorities work through what he calls industrial-scale corruption.
The episode then turns global, with Bryan unpacking the emerging U.S.-Greenland framework, critiquing Europe's political, cultural, and energy weakness, and offering rare insight into how President Trump thinks and negotiates. Drawing a historical parallel to President James Polk, Bryan explains why Trump's aggressive style may be deliberate and effective, even when it unsettles allies.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
Keywords: January 22 2026 Wright Report, ICE training facts DHS, self-deportation incentive cost savings, birthright citizenship birth tourism China, Minnesota fraud DOJ FBI resistance, Pam Bondi Kash Patel investigations, Greenland U.S. military framework, Europe energy weakness NATO critique, Trump leadership style James Polk, Peace Board Davos reactions
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| 0:00.0 | It's January 22nd. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily Knows podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | I've got a special brief for you this morning that, as ever, is still shaping America and the world. |
| 0:28.3 | We've got a bunch of great listener questions today to cover that y'all have been asking over the past few weeks because we have had so much news both here and abroad that has prompted some great |
| 0:38.1 | follow-on questions and a few critiques as well. So let's dive into those questions and let's do |
| 0:43.3 | this unscripted this morning, which as ever is going to sound a little bit different. |
| 0:48.0 | Starting this morning with domestic news and some related follow-up. Our first question is about |
| 0:53.3 | ICE and deporting illegal aliens. We've got |
| 0:55.8 | Christopher from Perry, Florida, who wrote in asking Brian, when I argue about this with my father-in-law, |
| 1:02.1 | he swears that ICE is deploying agents into the field that aren't trained or don't have hardly |
| 1:08.0 | any training. Do you have any facts and data for me on that? |
| 1:11.6 | Christopher, yes, I do. |
| 1:12.9 | Great question. |
| 1:14.0 | And this is really important to debate. |
| 1:16.2 | Let me bring in some pretty good fact-checking that was done by the folks at Houston Chronicle on this. |
| 1:22.2 | Your father-in-law probably knows about some Democrats like a Senator Warner of Virginia and others saying on places like |
| 1:28.8 | CNBC or CNBC, MS Now, I think it's called, that about 100,000 ICE officers are not getting |
| 1:35.5 | the standard five months of training. Instead, according to the allegation, they are only |
| 1:39.9 | getting 47 days. Okay, why? Because Trump is the 47th president. It's all a vanity project. |
| 1:46.6 | That is what Democrats are arguing this morning on CNN and MSNBC and such. Well, that would be a |
| 1:52.0 | scandal, if true, it's not. And Mark Warner and others like him are just silly people. So here's what's |
| 1:58.8 | true. DHS and ICE have cut back on training to get more |
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