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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined One Nation with Brian Kilmeade to discuss the issue of illegal immigrant crime and the extent of Communist China’s influence in the United States. See below for highlights and watch the full interview on YouTube and Rumble.

On the issue of illegal immigrant crime: 

“[Illegal immigrant crime is an increasingly important issue], especially if you live in these cities where the federal government has brought people into this country and literally dumped them on you. That’s what they’ve done in a number of places. It’s no longer just Chicago. It’s no longer just New York. You’re seeing it all over the country, in places like Aurora, Colorado. Some of the places you see it happen are cities that proudly bragged about how they were sanctuary cities and would welcome everybody. Not so much anymore.” 

On the extent of Communist China’s influence in the United States: 

“[Communist China] is the single biggest geopolitical challenge America faces in the 21st century. The Chinese have figured out that the way to influence America is not necessarily at the federal level, where there’s a lot of scrutiny. They’re aiming at local governments, state government officials, the business class, and universities. They’re focusing very heavily now on local and state government—mayors, commissioners, people at the county level, employees of local government—because there’s not nearly enough scrutiny.

“I think China is trying to infiltrate every aspect of our life. More importantly, they want to message anyone who has links to China. Your relatives might still live there. They want you to know that their arms are very long, and that if you are here [in the United States] talking bad about China, they can reach out and touch you. These police officers they have over here are actually going to people’s homes and saying, ‘If you don’t come back to China or don’t stop talking bad about us, your relatives—your parents, your cousins, your brothers or sisters in China—are going to have a very hard time.’ 

“They’re using that to try to coerce people to come back to China. They’ve used that against people speaking on Tibet, Uyghur issues, and China issues more broadly. It is very concerning, because I just don’t think there’s enough awareness about how much they’re doing that at the state and local level. We need to really ramp that [awareness] up.” 

On how to increase awareness of Communist China’s influence:

“I think [Communist China’s influence] is one of the things the FBI should be focused on, like a laser. Every FBI field office in America has to become much more aggressive about interacting with local government officials—not just elected officials, but bureaucrats and so forth—about Chinese practices, things to look out for, how they try to influence local government decisions on everything from contracting who it is we hire to build a train system or a road, all the way to this notion of some local law enforcement agency being encouraged to do the Chinese government’s bidding for them. I think the FBI field offices need to be all over that, more aggressively than they are right now.”