Congressman Andy Ogles
Appearances
Morning Wire
Nashville Mayor Investigated & Europe’s Speech Police | 5.29.25
We are facing something of a novel situation. Because the first time ever, the Government Accountability Office has decided to insert itself into the process and affirmatively declare that an agency rule submitted to Congress as a rule is not a rule. It's an extraordinary deviation from precedent for an agency that should be defending Congress's power instead of constraining it.
Morning Wire
Nashville Mayor Investigated & Europe’s Speech Police | 5.29.25
And frankly, Mr. President, I think we need to act to ensure that this intrusion into the Congressional Review Act process doesn't become a habit and that the Senate doesn't end up transferring its decision-making power on CRA resolutions to the Government Accountability Office.
Morning Wire
Blue Cities Clash with ICE
So there's this community oversight board. He said, hey, if you see Metro Police helping law enforcement, federal law enforcement, we want you to file a complaint against them. So the mayor of Nashville is making local PD, who are just trying to do their jobs, the bad guy.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
And the problem with that aside from aiding and abetting and impeding federal law enforcement is we've had a 400% increase in attacks against law enforcement across the country. So when these mayors are making local law enforcement the bad guys, this feeds into that loop where you see more violence against our law enforcement.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
And as someone who's on the Homeland Security Committee, I just received a classified briefing. And what I can tell you is that MS-13 and Trinidad and Tobago, they're all over the country. They're in Nashville. They're in our small cities like Columbia and Tullahoma.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
And so if we don't fight back, if we don't take our cities and our streets back, you're going to wake up and you're going to see those gang members on the street corner in front of your elementary and middle schools, and then it'll be too late.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
Absolutely. So that's one of the things we're going to be looking at. So we're looking at the city of Nashville and the mayor to see if there's been actual actions or federal monies that have flowed through the city to illegals. Then also you saw the state rep, Afton Benn, who used her vehicle. She recorded herself. And she put it on social media where she was blocking ICE vehicles.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
You can have a woke mayor who wants to cry and whine in his Cheerios about it, but I'm going to say we're going to stand with the president. We're going to stand with Pam Bondi. We're going to stand with ICE.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
She even admitted to blocking four different delaying. Delaying was the word she used, ICE vehicles as they were trying to conduct operations. And so that's a crime, ladies and gentlemen. And so the homeland Security Committee, which I'm on, and the Judiciary Committee, that's Jim Jordan, will be launching a joint investigation into Nashville, the mayor.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
But then also, this is a message to cities and mayors across the country. If you impede federal law enforcement In their duties, in their directive to follow the President, President Trump to say, it's time that we start deporting these folks. We're going to be looking into your city and where applicable, we're gonna hold you accountable. So there's a lot of work to be done here.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
What I can say is Senator Marsha Blackburn is doing something similar in the Senate. So you're gonna have the House and the Senate both working on this. Obviously, I'm the one who called for the investigation in the House. And the other thing to keep in mind is Nashville is a through city.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
So whether it's human trafficking, whether it's drugs, whether it's guns, geographically, we're about six hours from most of the population in the country. So if you look at a map and you draw a big ring, with the exception of the West Coast, Chicago, New York, You can get almost anywhere in the country from Nashville.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
So the gangs, the violent gangs in Central and South America, they want strongholds in Nashville. They want to take over Nashville. And the more competition and the more fighting, the more violence you're going to see on our streets. And I'm not going to stand for it. Heck, I'll go out there and I'll help ICE. But we're going to find these people. We're going to get them off our streets.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
Oh, absolutely. Under the Biden administration, there was a whole economy essentially set up by nonprofits who were making money off bringing people into this country. So Someone would come across the border, then they would swoop in, get them housing, get them benefits, and then they would profit off of it from the federal government. President Trump is putting an end to that type of nonsense.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
And literally, you have these nonprofits, whether they mean to or have ill will or not, they're literally undermining our cities and our communities. And I go back to that classified briefing, which I can't give great detail on, but I can tell you that these gangs are sophisticated. They're in every city in our country. They have very sophisticated surveillance equipment, tactical equipment.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
I mean, this isn't just some thug on the street selling drugs. These are cartels and criminal enterprises that are moving and sweeping across our country. And so this idea that they're just, the Brego case, he's just a father of three. No, he's a member of a gang. I was just invited by the president of El Salvador to come to El Salvador to see the notorious Seacock prison.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
And the folks that are being deported that are going to that prison are the worst of the worst. I literally talked to one of them. By the way, one of them was from Nashville, but I talked to another individual. He said, why are you here? He said, homicide. Just as you and I are talking, just very plain, not animated. He said, homicide. How many people did you kill? He said, 50.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
So this is a young man. He came to this country at 13. He joined the gangs. He was moving in between like Virginia and New Hampshire. And in that time, he had killed 50 people. And this is who we're deporting. And so when the mayor of Nashville, when this state rep in Nashville is standing up and defending these people, we literally caught rapists.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
and murderers and child traffickers and human smugglers and drug dealers. This is who was caught up by ICE. This is who we're trying to deport. And I, for one, am going to stand with my community, my state, my country, and these people should not be in our communities.
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Blue Cities Clash with ICE
Yeah, well, so what you've seen across the country is an increased activity and deportations by ICE and Homeland Security. And the mayor of Nashville came out with this executive order, and he's requiring law enforcement to report any interactions with federal, so local law enforcement with federal law enforcement. But he's also encouraged citizens or civilians to report