Enforce the Law or Embrace Chaos National Guard ICE Raids and the Crime Debate
Why do some leaders reject help when crime is hurting their own residents? Today’s show makes the conservative, not bitter case for coordinated enforcement: ICE focusing on criminal illegal aliens; National Guard in support roles; and local cops finally backed to do the job. Todd separates propaganda from reality—Guard units aren’t roaming for arrests, and Posse Comitatus still limits federalized forces. We revisit CHAZ/CHOP and the extremely costly experiment with “police-free” zones. We also discuss DC’s experience with more visible law enforcement and the brutal Charlotte stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska—asking why repeat violent offenders keep getting released. Then, Todd outlines legitimate objections we must take seriously (militarization optics, civil liberties, and mission creep) and answers them like adults in the room.
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Todd Huff Show – September 9, 2025
TODD: Attention! You're listening to the Todd Huff Show, America's home for conservative, not bitter talk and education. Be advised, the content of this program has been documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to the right. And now, coming to you from the FullSuiteWealth.com studios (Sponsor), here's your conservative, but not bitter host, Todd Huff.
Ah yes my friends, you have tuned in ever so successfully, ever so wisely to America's home for conservative, not bitter talk. I'm your host, the one, the only, the ever so beloved Todd Huff, even out there on social media, on TikTok. You know what I'm gonna do today? I'm gonna take some time. I'm gonna take some time to express some concerns that people on the left have.
There are some legitimate concerns, but I gotta tell you, they're not capable. Nine out of ten of them are incapable of expressing their concerns without making it some sort of a personal attack. And listen, I don't care. I got broad shoulders. It doesn't matter to me what these people say about me. I do find it interesting that this is, I mean look, from the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. The amount of anger and rage coming out of these individuals is, it is unbelievable to me.
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I'm going to play a clip of the program, this program that I posted to TikTok. We post short clips onto TikTok of the program to promote the show to, you know, to try to reach people on that platform.
I don't have a ton of, listen, this program was built to be first and foremost, a talk radio program. We're on 21 stations now, um, estimated to reach several hundred thousand people every day. And, but we haven't had a lot.
Listen, I, we haven't spent a lot of time on certain places like social media. TikTok is one that, you know, for a while we were getting a lot of traction. I don't know if we've been shadow band or whatever on, I don't know.
I don't know, but I do know that we get, I'm on the liberal side, the left side of TikTok right now. So I posted this clip from, I think this was from yesterday's show. If it wasn't yesterday's show, it was Friday's show.
I believe it was from yesterday's show. So let's Let's listen to what I have to say here and I want to read you some of the comments I'm gonna tell you what they say to me when I make a comment like this is a 28 second clip What's that something else?
I don't think that these folks understand This is a clip from a an hour-long podcast radio show every day This is this is not designed to have all the answers this is designed to give you a feel of what we're talking about on the program a Feel of the way that I talk about the issues It'll hopefully cause you to have questions or a response engage with you.
I welcome I welcome you on any platform that you find this These videos to engage with us. I don't even care if you disagree I don't cut I don't even care if you get a little bit Fired up at me what I do and I don't personally care, but I just don't take people seriously who say so Some of these things, I just, it is remarkable to me.
Where we have devolved as a society, when I tell you this is a fight against good and evil, I mean that. Listen, not everything is black and white. There are things that, you know, perspective or preference come into play.
But there are right and, there is right and wrong in this world. There is black and white, there is good and evil, there is up and down, however you wanna differentiate between these things. And so, you can challenge me, but I just, I don't understand the immediate need to do some of the things that these clowns and jokers do.
It entertains me. I know that they think it like hurts my feelings, but it literally, I just, I get a kick out of this. I don't care. And to boot, every time they comment, they're helping us reach more people by telling the algorithm that this is content that people are engaging with.
So, I wanna play the sound bite of me, little old me on this program yesterday, talking about, well, this very issue that we're gonna continue talking about here today, about governors. Why would a governor oppose the National Guard being sent in to his or her state?
Why would a mayor oppose this if you have a legitimate crime problem? Why would you, just tell me. I understand that there's questions. I'm not just saying, hey, let's just haphazardly do this. I'm saying that we have accepted a high crime rate in this country for a long time.
I'm saying cities like Chicago, and by the way, a lot of these folks will comment and say, well, it's red cities too. Why doesn't he send it to the red cities? Well, it's very rarely is it a red city.
It might be a blue city in a red state, but I don't care. None of that makes any difference to me. Why, I just, why do people only care about politics when this is an issue that is literally impacting the world?
lives of people in a very negative way. People that are being physically harmed, emotionally harmed, from the physical harm, some people dealing with psychological outcomes, consequences of this sort of violence and behavior.
You saw the video, which is in my stack to get to later today, the video of the Ukrainian refugee who was brutally attacked and murdered on public transportation in Charlotte from an individual that was behind her that had a violent criminal, why was that guy even on the streets?
There are so many questions, but people want to see red and blue instead of saying right and wrong, instead of saying, let's protect people like that young lady. Look, you can't prevent every atrocious crime from happening, but if there are people who are on the streets, who clearly should not be on the streets for breaking the law in the past, why are ...
and they still should be paying a consequence for ... I'm not saying people should be locked away forever, but why are they getting let out early? Why was there a movement a few years ago that was defund the police?
Why were people on the left telling us not that long ago, metaphorically five seconds ago, that we need fewer law enforcement officers on the streets and more people answering 911 calls who are like counselors, people who can counsel people?
What does it count? Listen, I'm not here to bash counseling, but counseling is after the immediate harm. Counseling is what you deal with in the aftermath. If you need to seek professional help in counseling, you deal with that after you are secure and safe from the immediate harm that is around you, that may befall you.
That is when counseling comes. What are these people? We had Chaz and Chop, who I joked about on this program several years ago. They overtook part of the city of Seattle. They took over several blocks downtown.
I remember telling you on this program, because it's absolutely insane and crazy, but there was quite literally, quite literally, travel sites had destinations that they had put to Chaz and Chop. I don't know if it was sites plural, but I know that it was one of them because I talked about it on this program, and those lunatics, those leftist lunatics, they had taken over the city or part of the city of Chaz,
well, of Seattle, they called it Chaz or Chop. They couldn't even agree on the name of the place, this great empire of Chaz and Chop. The empire lasted, we had to measure it in hours. I remember it was measured in hours, barely in days, and the empire lasted as long as the orange wedges and the Capri Suns were in the coolers that Mom packed for them.
They had to run back home when it was time to do a load of laundry, which we know, we know that it took a little time. They wore the same underwear a couple of times, but you get the idea why why do we have that this sort of stuff is happening?
This is this is completely inexcusable behavior. Why did we have in the wake of Ferguson, Missouri? Michael Brown officer Darren Wilson. Why did we have justification for violence in the city? Why? When we got the full story, it was nothing like we were told hands up.
Don't shoot did not happen. I Don't tell me I got comments of people telling me that everyone wants to stop crime. What are you talking about? I literally see people pushing things like cashless bail and they want to see leniency given to people who are violent offenders They they if someone is here illegally and they've been charged with the crime there are people who are quite literally Blocking ICE agents from being able to apprehend them.
Why what is wrong with people? What is wrong with people? Here's what I said yesterday on the program. They got some comments that I'm going to share with you and then I'm going to give you. I'm going to do my best to actually tell you what the real objections and questions are since these folks, there's not, I'm telling you I'm conservative, not better.
There is not the, there is not a comparable leftist, not bitter out there. Left has come to mean incredibly bitter and full of rage. And it's because it is built upon, the radical left's worldview and ideology is built upon a morally bankrupt system.
I will stand firmly on saying that. That is what they are, that is what they're built upon, that is who they are, what they believe. They are built upon a morally bankrupt system and they're angry, they're infuriated.
They can't find a way to be unbitter or not bitter as we are here. If you're a leftist and you think that you can be not bitter, I welcome you. I welcome you to have discourse with me on social media.
Who knows? I might even bring you on this program and have something discussed here on the show. I don't know. We'll have to see. I don't, I don't have, I don't have bleep buttons that are as, that I could trigger quickly enough for how some of these lunatics behave.
But I want to play this clip and I want to read some of the comments and then I'm going to tell you what the real objections and questions are, which I fully recognize. I fully recognize and am willing to talk about with any adult in the room.
Here are my comments from yesterday. And there they go. Bear with me here. I'm connecting. Let's, I, the amount of times, the amount of times that I do this and I check this before the show and then it doesn't work when I need it.
Let's try this again. It's not working again. I tell you what. So as I'm trying to figure this out in the background here, let me remind you, let me remind you here, give you a word from one of our partners here at the Todd Huff Show, and let's talk about something important.
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I mean, it literally is connected here to my sound device and it just doesn't want to cooperate. So I'll have to probably address this after the break. But so what I said was, let me give you a summary of what I said since I can't play this.
I said, why in the world would governors, why in the world would governors not want to have support from the National Guard if violence in their cities is bad, needs to be reduced, is out of control?
Now I get politics. I understand. You know, my son asked me, I shared this on this program. My son asked me some time ago, dad, what is politics? And I thought about it for a minute and I said, you know what son, politics is the art of taking credit for everything that your constituents like that's happening in the world around them.
And it's the art simultaneously of assigning all of the blame for everything your constituents don't like to your political opponents and political adversaries. It's about posturing. It's about, It's about perspective, it's about determining an image, trying to create a brand, so to speak.
It's doing actually very little, but it's the art of taking the credit for the good things. And it's the, what I want to say, the art of passing the blame on the bad things. It reminds me of the clip from the office when Michael Scott, Michael Gary Scott, tells David Wallace, who is the, what is he?
The CFO. At one point he was the owner of Dunder Mifflin. He started the CFO. Anyway, he told David Wallace, when he got into trouble, David, I want, I'll be honest, I want all the credit and none of the blame.
That's what politics is, my friends. And so I get that. I get that there's a danger in being caught saying, we need the federal government to come in here. I get that, especially when the federal government is controlled by the party who is in opposition.
to you, who is your political adversary. I get it. I also get that the left doesn't want to have what I just did. They don't want to rehash how many things that they have done that have stood in the way of actual law enforcement and the reduction of violent crime.
They were the ones, no matter how many times they try to tell you that it's not the case, the left absolutely, positively, unequivocally is responsible for the concept of the concept of, sorry, one of my tech things just shut down here.
No, it didn't. I don't know if it did or not. I'm having technical problems all around here, but they are the ones, the left are the ones who shut down or had the, I guess, had the intention of shutting down law enforcement or revamping them tremendously.
They're the ones who started the movement that was defund the police 100%. They come up with this. They came up with this. This was something that they were saying back in 2020. They act like they weren't, but they did.
They're the ones who want less enforcement. They're the ones who create excuses. They're the ones who are on the side of defending the criminals more often than not. The only quote unquote criminal they seem interested in getting equal or getting even with getting back at is president Donald Trump, who again, asked them to explain to you the 34 felonies he was supposedly allegedly convicted of asked them to do that.
They can't explain what happened. They can't explain why it was applied to him, why he was basically the first person in history to be tried even for these things. And they also, they want to say the number 34 because it seems overwhelming when you realize it's really one accusation, one charge that was repeated 34 times by statute, then you'll understand there's one thing.
I mean, it quickly comes apart here. Anyway, so here we are, my friends, trying to deal with this conversation about crime and the left doesn't want to politically take it on the chin. So they've been telling us that crime is improving in their cities.
I have a lot of doubts about these numbers. I do. I have a lot of doubt about these numbers. Now, people seem to only want people on the left anyway. We only have questions about the numbers when Trump is in charge.
In fact, I had someone on social media say to me when I said, I don't understand how someone could see the success that we've had in Washington, D.C. when Trump has taken over federal law enforcement there, D.C.
law enforcement, and sent in the National Guard. I don't understand how you could look at that, at those results. Remember, this is a city that is occupied by huge numbers of people who are on The left, huge numbers of people on the left.
This is a very, very, 90 plus percent Democrat, liberal, leftist. They are all, I mean, some of them are protesting, don't get me wrong, but they're not protesting the results, they're protesting the fact that the National Guard is there.
If you ask the people who live there, they'll tell you almost to a person that it's significantly safer. Even people who aren't Trump fans are saying good things about what's happened here. My only question is why?
What is so dangerous? What is the real threat here? And I'm going to go through some of these. Here's what one individual said. Freedom, that's the risk. Armed forces on the streets of our cities and towns.
Perceived liberty isn't actual freedom. What's next? Curfews, posting people at every corner, incentivizing citizens to turn each other in. What else? That's the question. Well, I mean, listen, first of all, National Guard troops are not used to enforce the law in a very limited way.
They're not out there making arrests. They're supporting the local law enforcement, whether that be federal law enforcement with ICE or whether that be local law enforcement in, say, Washington, D.C.
They're supporting them. They have a presence there to deter crime. They have a presence there to support what's happening and to get rid of the people who are causing the violence in the streets. Who said anything about, I mean, there have been curfews, but there's curfews placed on cities when there is a lot of violence in the city.
We're trying to deter that. I don't listen. What is the threat to a person here? No one here that they're not being used outside of the law. They're not being used in a in an offensive sort of way, other than just to regain control of these cities.
So I got more to say about this, my friends, but I got to take a time out. I'm going to try to figure out what's going on with the audio so I can play that after the break, my friend. Sit tight. You're listening here to conservative, not better talk.
I am your one and only Todd Huff back in just a minute.
TODD: Welcome back, my friends. I tell you? I've got just played this sound bite during the break. If it doesn't work. If it doesn't work, that's because something is happening with my new tech configuration. So here we go. I'm going to try this again. If not, don't worry. I'll just move on to some of these other comments and I'll do what I told you I was going to do, which is tell you what the real objections are. The real questions that people have would be.
What those questions would be since they can't express themselves kindly with words. Here we go. And it's not doing it. There must be something. There must be something with my configuration. I've changed some things here, technically, to where I can't play the sound bite. Because I just played it during the break. All right, so we'll live with that. But. Again. What were my comments? My comments were saying I need someone to explain to me what the risk is. What is the real risk here? Some people say freedom is the risk. Freedom. How? I grant you having?
Federal law. The National Guard, but law enforcement supports, anytime there's law enforcement, there's. The possibility that it could be abused, but. What specifically makes this riskier? It seems to me. That. The intended purpose of the National Guard, which is to help clean up violence in our city streets. Outweighs unless you can tell me specifically what it is. What it is that. Is so threatening about having. The national guard there. Here's a comment from a person who's on social media. Says the name is Hennessy Williams. Whatever you want to take from that, America will never tolerate. A police state. He writes full stop.
He's only doing this referring to Trump because of Epstein and the economy that he's tanking. If you can't see that, you need to go into a rest home. Hennessy. Thank you for your concern here. What is a police state? I mean, listen, when I talk about a police state, when I think about a police state. I think of a place that exists where we've lost our civil liberties. I think of laws that. Are invasive, I think. Candidly, I go back to look at the response and how we behaved. As a nation, not you and me, but our government. How we behave during Covid.
You talk about circumventing the law, making up the law. There's plenty of examples of how that was done during Covid by different governors and so forth. Different cities. Mayors, city councils, everything else. Those threats. Those infringed upon people's liberties. What liberties are being infringed? Upon here are people being prevented from going to work? Are they being surveilled by these folks? I don't want to see that. Happening? The National Guard to support law enforcement. I want to see, you know, what really is at stake. Here is you've got a political party who. Has been hell bent on preventing the enforcement of federal law. That's what this is really. The consequence of we've had cities that have created themselves as sanctuary cities, as sanctuary states. For states who say they are not going to cooperate with the federal government. They don't. Have to cooperate. Some of these have gone far beyond.
Not simply. Refusing to cooperate. Some of these folks are actively trying to interfere with these proceedings. You've seen videos all over the place. And again, what is happening? There is an attempt to enforce the law, and it looks crazy to people, some people, because for the first time in a long time. The law. Is actually being enforced and being followed. There are laws on the books. About being in this country. Illegally, and there are clear consequences for what happens. You shall be deported if you're not. Here legally. Yes, you can have a hearing before an immigration judge, but it's pretty cut. And dry. There's not some drawn out process where you need a jury. If you can't. Prove that you are. Legally able to be in this country. You will be deported if you've committed a crime. On top of that, you could face criminal charges in which you get due process rights that criminals would receive here in this country, but.
That doesn't mean that if you haven't committed a violent, heinous crime, that you are somehow allowed to stay in this country. Trump has made it clear from the beginning. That anyone who's here illegally can be deported. He's starting with those who are. The most violent. He's starting with those who. Have questionable connections to gangs and things like that, but he doesn't have to do that. If you're here illegally. Full stop. That's what this comment said. Full stop, America. Will never tolerate a police state. I agree with that. But America will never tolerate a lawless. State either. See, context matters, nuance matters.
If enforcing the law means that we have a police state, help the people who are on the other side of that argument. If enforcing immigration law, if enforcing laws against homicide, murder, if enforcing laws for those things constitutes a police state, then we've lost the ability to have a reasonable conversation. I don't. Want people spying on me. I don't want people. I don't want to be. Spy. Spying on anybody else. I don't want a secret police. I don't want to see the erosion of our liberties. Of our civil rights and things like that. I don't want to see that that's? Not what's happening here.
You have an obvious situation where there's crime in the cities, and it's just candidly being ignored. It's being ignored until they realize that, hey, we've got to win elections, so. Now we got to tell people that we're having some success. As Steven Miller has said, Stephen Miller with the White House has said in Washington, DC, they've been miscategorizing things so as to make the numbers look better than they really are. I would suspect that same thing is happening all over the country. I can't prove that, but I have very good reason to think that. Again. It's an anecdote, it's a story. It's a tragic story. But the individual who murdered, murdered. The. Refugee from Ukraine that was caught on video on public transportation. That individual, why was he out? Why are we allowing. Dangerous people with issues that oppose threats, that have done committed acts of violence, allegedly in the past. Why are they back on the streets? Why?
Aren't there longer and harsher consequences, not to get even, but to protect people from what's going on? This sort of thing. The left is constantly defending the people who are committing the crimes, whether it be the simple crime of coming into this country illegally, whether it be of other heinous crimes. They don't really want to address the problem. Listen. I know regular rank and file people want crime off their streets, but they've bought into these lies into the propaganda that the left is actually trying to do something about it. What are they trying to do about it? Tell me. What are they doing about it? Now they want more. Resources for local law enforcement so they can blow that money as well.
I mean, these folks have not done anything. These are dangerous places, these cities in America. There's. No doubt there's many dangerous cities and the bar that we have set as acceptable. For the amount of violence that exists in these cities. Is entirely. To. There's too much violence that we have been conditioned to accept as a people. And what Trump is doing is absolutely necessary. And the left is forced to have to, I guess, defend. Crime in their cities. I got more to say about this, and I want to actually go through some of the real objections here, which I admit that there are some.
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We're talking about rebuilding our cities and securing these cities. That's what we're talking about here. There are legitimate questions. And concern. Now, there's a term that you will find that you may have heard bantered. About, talked about. Called posse. Commatus comatas. There's two ways to say it. I say. Posse. Comatize. Comatatus. I'm sorry. But. There's another way to say that, but effectively, this is the law that pertains. To how the National Guard. Can be used. If it's under the federal control, under the president. It allows. This law allows for support roles to be allowed. And. Some very limited sort of arrest capabilities and so forth. Otherwise it starts off. The National Guard is under the control of governors. That's why this cooperation. Is ultimately necessary. But if the federal government sends in the National Guard, it can be used in a very limited. Sort of way.
Now, what are people concerned about? Well, I'm going to get to those things in a moment after the break. They're concerned about three or four or five different things, and I want to talk about these responsibly because I hear their concern when they're able to voice them, or even when they're not able to voice them, which we're going to talk about that again on the other side of the break. Quick time out for me. My friends are listening here to Conservative, Not Bitter Talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff. Back in just a minute.
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All right, I'm going to go. Through some of. The real objections. And these are real concerns and objections. Sending in the National Guard, number one. The risk of just militarization. So the critics would say, look, you're sending in a bunch of people. Soldiers who aren't police. You're sending in tanks, which isn't. Really true. They don't send in tanks, they send in Humvees and. Other equipment like that, but they're not sending in tanks. They're not going to. War. But they say, look, it feels like. It's a war zone. That's what it feels like, so I get that, but. Let me ask you this. What does it feel like when crime is high? What does it feel? Like when violent crime is happening all around you.
What does it feel like? Does it not feel like a war zone when you look in your parking lot in your apartment building. And you see, as I saw the other day on video, that there were five windows busted out of vehicles that were parked. In broad daylight outside their apartment complex. Five vehicles just had smash and grab attempts. All of them were just sitting there, windows busted open. Nothing being done about it. Listen. That's not even the most violent types of crime. I'm saying.
What does it feel like when your city has basically been taken over? You've heard about places around the world. And in certain extremely violent places where there's no go zones where law enforcement doesn't. Even go in certain places. I'm not saying that that's happening in these cities. I'm just simply. Saying that's kind of the worst case scenario. It's become the wild west there's. No law and order there. You're on your own, I guess.
Guard deployments. Are support. That's what this is. They're about building barriers, moving equipment. Watching cameras. They're not patrolling the streets with rifles. In fact, if you've seen the folks in Washington, DC, you see that they're in their fatigues, but they're not strapped with rifles there. That's just not what's happening. They're not going door to door. They're there to support law enforcement and to get a grip on what's happening in our nation's cities. Now there's concerns about. Civil liberties. Listen, I'm concerned about civil liberties all the time. We all should be on the lookout. For risks, against threats, against our civil liberties.
Now. I've been doing some studying. And learning some things about this nation's early founding. Something that's been fascinating to me for a long time. I love the history, American history. I love. And. When we started as a nation, the first attempt at governance was the Articles of Confederation. A lot of people didn't want. And I don't either. They didn't. Want to go from. One tyrannical government to another. They didn't want to go from the monarch. The king of England and then establish for themselves the same sort of oppressive regime. And so the first attempt was actually. Super lenient to where the federal government. Didn't really. Have the authority or the power to do anything.
State's rights were. Two. They had too many rights because the federal government couldn't actually do anything about it. Listen, there is a role for government. And that role. We have given that government through the constitution. We, the people have said. Here is the consent we have given you to do these things. And one of those things in general is to protect people. Now, that doesn't mean that we're here to eliminate all threats. In life. That's impossible. That shouldn't even be the objective, but.
We're here to create a system of law and order, of justice, and to hold people accountable to try to deter people from committing these crimes. And that is not a threat. Again, it can be. You can have people abuse things in any circumstance, but that in and of itself is not a risk.
Troops, they say, might stop the wrong people. They might escalate certain situations. I say keep an eye on that. If that happens, then we need to address that because that shouldn't be. Shouldn't be what we're trying to do here by law. Only the ICE and border agents can make the arrests. Guard support doesn't give them new arrest powers. That's not what this is about. Some people say we're going to have mission creep. The National Guard isn't supposed to be policing our streets, and now suddenly. They're going to change their mission. Listen, I think we should be aware of this. I think we should be mindful of.
This, but until there's any direct evidence that it's happening, it's just. An unsubstantiated fear and concern. Critics say what happens if a governor. Refuses the support. Well. It can be federalized. And if it's federalized, then we have. This posse comatatus come into effect, limiting what can be done with the National Guard there. Are steps and processes here. Listen, I get that there are concerns. I am sympathetic to that. What I'm not sympathetic to is all the hate and the vitriol that's. Out there, just people screaming for no reason.
I got to go. SDG.
