Steve Bannon calls for Trump to “raise the temperature” in Minneapolis: “You're gonna have to round up some 5-year-olds with their parents”
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From the January 28, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): It's quite simple. In the fog of war, right, just look through it. We have to hold the line. There can be no de-escalation at all. You don't need to bring down the temperature. Raise the temperature. Put them under pressure. They're the ones that are cracking. They're fighting. The whole nation sees it. The polling's still there.
The Washington Post said today, oh, Trump did so good on the border and closing the border, but he bit off more than he can chew. He's the author of his own problem because he said he was going to deport everybody and that's impossible. It's not impossible. It's going to happen.
The Democratic Party business, the Red-Green Alliance business model, is to flood the nation with the illegal aliens and just say, oh, it's too hard to get them out. It's too bad. Let's have them vote. Let's get them on welfare. Let's do it all.
It's not gonna happen. That's why lance the boil in Minneapolis. Frye's a weakling. Walz is a clown. We couldn't get better casting. You have a weakling and you have a clown.
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And Stephen Miller, let me be blunt, you can't send 300 Customs and Border and ICE and not have a whole of government approach. You have to have DOJ. You have to have tiger teams and prosecutors. I think they've had 12 prosecutors quit the Minneapolis office. That's fine. Nobody's forcing you to work. But surge other prosecutors, the FBI. Where are the pipe hitters? Where's the Department of War? Where's an entire full — whole of government approach?
You can't put a handful of Customs and Borders and ICE agents there and let them be surrounded every night by domestic violent terrorists.
This is an inflection point. You blink now and you're gonna blink forever. You bend the knee now, you'll bend the knee forever. If we stand in the breach and say, screw you, we're fighting for the country, right?
And I don't care how many people I got to deport. I don't care if you got, if the families are there and they're there illegally, and we want to keep them together, guess what you're gonna have to round up some 5-year-olds with their parents. But they're going home. And home ain't the United States.
I don't care how long they've been here on Biden's watch, law-abiding. That's not the point. They're here illegally. We can't afford it. African Americans, Hispanic American citizens, the white working class. Their lives are being destroyed. Their education systems, their healthcare, their jobs are being taken. Their wages are being driven down.
They're American citizens. And illegal alien invaders are not American citizens. That's a bright line. And somebody's got to be clarifying that. Because MAGA ain't backing down. We're not in the backdown business.