Anthony Aguilar

I will take no money from large lobbyist groups or special interests, nor the military industrial complex.

I have seen firsthand how the military industrial complex stretches its tentacles deep into our domestic policy, where we move weapons facilities, where we move space command headquarters, whether it should be in Alabama or Colorado, Colorado back to Alabama, simply because the president has a friend in Alabama.

Wasting American dollars.

I know that I could look through the NDAA just in that one piece of legislation, document earmarks and save the American taxpayer billions, but also put that money back into things that Americans want in our country.

So first of all, as a candidate in Congress, one of the first things I would get to work on is drafting a resolution to bring to my constituents and caucus on disbanding the BIRD program under the Department of Homeland Security.

And that's the Binational Industrial Research and Development Program.

That is the program that attaches ICE to training with foreign entities such as the Israeli National or Ministry of National Security.

I would sever that program.

That program is nothing more than a program to put Israel in the forefront of our of our domestic agencies.

It serves no purpose.

They are not trained well.

We've seen the result of the training.

Now, when someone says abolish ICE or abolish the Border Patrol or abolish the police, under the current leadership and the current personalities that run those organizations, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, yeah, it's pretty easy to want to say that.

But in this country, do we want a Border Patrol?

Yes, we do.

We share a large border with Canada and Mexico.

do we want an immigration control element for illegal immigrants and so that we have a responsible immigration policy?

We do.

Not under the current way that it's funded, where we have turned the Border Patrol and we have turned ICE and we have turned the TSA and we have heard other components of the DHS

into an internal policing security mechanism against American people funded, as you said, more than the GDP of some nations, and we're turning them into an army.