Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" - Transcript: Interview with Lt. Governor Dan Patrick

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INGRAHAM: Others have been gunned down in the prime of their lives. The horrific rape of a young teen by an immigrant who was arrested twice for illegally entering the country. But California's Democrat leadership doesn't like talking about those victims, instead they focus their time on vilifying our Border Patrol and ICE. Now these California Democrats and those seeking national office need to recognize that they were elected to represent the American people and this country, not the people from elsewhere who violate our laws to enter our country. And that's part one of my “Angle.” Joining me now with reaction is Dan Patrick, Texas Lieutenant Governor. Dan, your state has been completely overrun by this illegal invasion.

DAN PATRICK, TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: Yes.

INGRAHAM: I think calling anything but an invasion at this point is just not being honest with people. So, what would you say to Governor Newsom tonight given you know it's a done deal? The ink is dry.

PATRICK: I guess he's going to change our state motto to illegal immigrants first and Americans last. First of all, are we are one of 14 states that did not expand Medicaid for American citizens under the Affordable Care Act, which was anything but affordable for Americans. Obamacare.

Secondly, what he is doing Laura is actually using some of your tax money and my tax money and everyone watching because most of Medicaid dollars, they're organized by the state, but the money comes from the federal government. So, the more they expand Medicaid Laura, the more they're actually having 40 other nine states support their liberal policies. This is financial suicide. It's fiscal insanity. They lead the nation now and people on Medicaid over 12 million. They lead the nation in illegal immigrants and think about this Laura. Think about this.

He says, this policy is for - he's expanding it from under 18, which they now give to illegal immigrants under 18 in California.

INGRAHAM: 25.

PATRICK: 18 to 25.

INGRAHAM: Yes.

PATRICK: Yes. So, now he's expanding this to 25 and under, under this new law. And guess who - no, I'm not suggesting everyone who is 20 years old is an MS-13 in California, but that means a lot of these gang members in California with MS-13, they're illegally under the age of 25 who are stealing for a living and not working qualify for Medicaid. Thank you very much, Governor.

INGRAHAM: Well Dan, I also want to get to the debate over this citizenship question on the 2020 census.

PATRICK: Yes.

INGRAHAM: Because Democrats are just adamantly opposed to it. A new poll, this was fascinating. Five out of nine Hispanics and six out of 10 African American voters want a citizenship question on the census. So, Dan can the Democrats still argue--

PATRICK: Of course.

INGRAHAM: That this question, are you a citizen of the United States? That this is somehow a racist question given those poll numbers.

PATRICK: Of course, common sense Americans, whether you're white, black or brown, all know we should have that question. And you know Gavin Newsom said today, this adds 90,000 people to the rolls. How does he know that if he's not counting? I mean how do they have any idea of how many are between 18 and 25, because he doesn't want to count them. But he's counting that to make this budget work.

And in terms of the citizenship question, I heard you know in that clip a moment ago, the Mayor from South Bend, Pete Buttigieg, he said, 11 million people. And as you know, I've said time and time again when I'm on Fox, it's not 11 million people, Mayor Pete, it's about 30 million people. It'll be a million just this year.

INGRAHAM: They don't want anyone to know.

PATRICK: So, of course, we should know who's here. No, they don't want that.

INGRAHAM: They want more money to the states. They want more money, more representation for the states that have big illegal populations. That'll be yours included. But they really don't want the American people to know the extent of this complete lawlessness at the border and the dereliction of duty that we've seen frankly before Trump came along, you and I've talked about this Dan for what 20 years, you and I.

PATRICK: Yes. 20 years.

INGRAHAM: This has been going on for the Bush's, the Clinton's. This has been going on forever and ever it seems. And Trump is the only one to come on and says, I want to clean this up and they vilify him. He said, if anyone should be vilified, it's the predecessors who didn't take this seriously, at least on the asylum reform issue.

PATRICK: Yes. Look, both parties, you have to blame over the last 20 or 30 years of allowing us to get here. Trump is really the first person trying to stop illegals from crossing the border and come to a consensus with the other side on illegal immigration reform, asylum reform that we need in this country. But Laura, they don't want you to know, because the idea that 11 million are here, people say, well it's 11 out of 30. You know 330 million but it's now really over 10 percent of our population according to the MIT study besides my own numbers.

INGRAHAM: All right, Dan. Thanks so much. Great to see you tonight. And now--

PATRICK: Great to see you.

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