Greg Bovino: “The threat to your nation is your run-of-the-mill illegal alien,” not “the worst of the worst”
Bovino: “The 105 million that don't share your cultures, your values, that don't care about anything related to America, ... that's far more of a threat. ... We can get those criminal aliens anytime.”
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From the August 26, 2026, edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, posted on YouTube
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): So how did, when Kristi Noem left, was forced out, and then replaced by one of the slowest, famously one of the slowest, but certainly one of the most liberal members of the United States Senate, Markwayne Mullin, which he is. He's extremely liberal and because he's from Oklahoma, like, nobody seems to get that, but he is, particularly in immigration and foreign policy. I mean, it's like giving it to Lindsey Graham. How did that — why would you put Markwayne Mullin, a liberal, a Kamala Harris liberal, in that role?
GREG BOVINO (GUEST): Exactly. I think when we talk about those donors, that donor class, getting someone confirmed, why would you not put a liberal in? You're going to get enough votes from the crazy Democrats. And then you're going to get the support from the big labor RINOs, just like they did with Commissioner Rodney Scott. He sailed through the confirmation.
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BOVINO: So, that's how, that's how someone like a Mark Mullin is put into a position like that. There are a certain class of people that love a Mullin. Hey, you know, Mullin, what is he listening to? He's listening to Tom Homan, Rodney Scott, worst of the worst in targeting. That's really all he can, that's all he can regurgitate is that --
CARLSON: And so that, for people who haven't heard that talking point, that means we're going after the really bad ones.
BOVINO: The really bad ones. Worst of the, the criminal aliens, the terrorists, child molesters, you know, folks that have committed murder, whatever. The worst of the worst.
CARLSON: People who have criticized Israel, stuff like that. Really, the really bad. The ones who deserve the death penalty.
BOVINO: And, and, and, I will say that that is the opposite of what we should be doing. That is not a threat to your nation. Let me say this again. A lot of people think I'm crazy. That's not the threat to your nation is the worst of the worst.
The threat to your nation is your run-of-the-mill illegal alien that we've just said, the 105 million that don't share your cultures, your values, that don't care about anything related to America, that have been given, that want to be given citizenship. That's far more of a threat. Hey, we can get those criminal aliens anytime. That record's not going away. We can get them anytime. Anytime.
Right now, we've got that window to get that regular run-of-the-mill illegal alien, maybe a landscaper, maybe he doesn't have a criminal record in the US, even though he's still a criminal because he crossed the border illegally, they're all criminals. Probably does have a criminal record in a foreign country that we won't know about. But that is far more of a threat to you, me, and our values, than an MS-13 gang member.