And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle,

Senior Elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for

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Our guest today is Trisha McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, as you can well imagine.

Trisha has been quite busy this week and over the last

several months in the Trump administration dealing with, I don't know of a more important area

to deal with, and that is homeland security after four years of an invasion of this country by a massive amount of

illegal immigrants. Tricia, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist

Radio Hour.

Matt, it's an honor. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. You have been working overtime, obviously, and that's what the job entails, for the most part, no matter what.

But these are crazy times.

What's the latest at this point on the, as the accomplice media likes to call it, the civil unrest in Los Angeles, which we know, a riots from anti-ice officials

who have made the job of federal law enforcement extremely difficult, to say the least.

Yeah, extremely difficult, Matt, is right.

I mean, we've had rioters throw Molotov cocktails at our ice enforcement officers.

They've thrown and pummeled our officers with rocks. They've let fires. They've, you know,

been burning American flags, taunting them, threatening them. We've had them being other weapons being used against them.

So any of these politicians who are trying to force feed down the throat to the American people

that in any way these riots are peaceful or just lying straight to the American people's faces.

As a lot of listeners probably heard last night, Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles,

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