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F-35 Stealth Fighters in the Caribbean as Millions of Illegal Immigrants leave Labgor Force · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: In some big news. President Donald Trump, with the Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: doing what he said to do, have now deployed F
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  Speaker 1: thirty five stealth fighters to the Caribbean for counter narcotics operations.
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  Speaker 1: Axios freaking out because that's what the media does when
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  Speaker 1: you have a strong president that is protecting American lives.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what their headline reads, quote, We've never seen this before.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's drug war looks like a real war again. They're saying,
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  Speaker 1: in a negative connotation. I'm thrilled by it, and so
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  Speaker 1: are most Americans because it's exactly what they voted for.
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  Speaker 1: Now the media, Axios is the great example of that.
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  Speaker 1: Today they're wanting you to be terrified that the President
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  Speaker 1: is wanting to go after narco terris. Their first line
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  Speaker 1: of the article says this, more missiles, fewer arrests. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's war on drugs officially a war law enforcement action.
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  Speaker 1: And then they say why does this matter? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: US has entered a new era in which narcotic traffickers
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  Speaker 1: are classified as terrorists and Trump is claiming the right
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  Speaker 1: to kill them before they or their drugs reach this country.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you need to know. The difference between Republicans
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  Speaker 1: and Democrats on this issue. Democrats want to like hand
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  Speaker 1: out due process to these terrorists. Republicans are saying, let's
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  Speaker 1: kill them and stop their drugs before they kill Americans.
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving this article. The President's overall perspective, they write,
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  Speaker 1: is that if there's a terrorist threat to the homeland
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America, he trusts the military
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  Speaker 1: to take that threat out, whether it's a drug boat
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  Speaker 1: off the coast of Venezuela or an Alcata terrorist in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East. That is what a senior Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: official said to Axios Now. On Tuesday, the US Navy
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  Speaker 1: blew up a suspected drug running boat off Venezuela, killing
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  Speaker 1: its crew of eleven. According to Trump and Pentagon officials.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the video it's glorious and I put
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  Speaker 1: it up on my social media accounts. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen it yet, go check it out at Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: podcast on Instagram Now. The attack marked the first time
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  Speaker 1: a suspected go fast drug running boat was destroyed by
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  Speaker 1: a military missile that, according to officials and drug war experts.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, the President saying, I'm not screwing around quote
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  Speaker 1: there's more where that came from, is what Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: said in announcing the strike. All other details of the
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  Speaker 1: shocking caught on video missile attack are classified. Officials said.
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  Speaker 1: I also laugh about that, because it was very clear
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  Speaker 1: the President wanted the narcotras to see what happens if
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  Speaker 1: they keep running their drugs to America. Now, the attack
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  Speaker 1: was denounced by critics accustomed to the US conducting the
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  Speaker 1: drug war as a law enforcement matter and in which
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  Speaker 1: I see interactions mainly involved the Coast Guard and not
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  Speaker 1: actually blowing the boats up. Well until now, the goal
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  Speaker 1: was to try to capture drug runners and their narcotics
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  Speaker 1: to build a case for federal prosecution. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is trying to do. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that policy has been a failed policy now for decades,
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  Speaker 1: dating all the way back to Ronald Reagan and the
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  Speaker 1: just Say No campaign to drugs with the first Lady.
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  Speaker 1: What happened Tuesday was a murder anywhere in the world,
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  Speaker 1: is what Columbia's NARCO president wrote on acts, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we have been capturing civilians who transport drugs for decades
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  Speaker 1: without killing them. Those who transport drugs are not the
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  Speaker 1: big narcos, but the very poor young people from the
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  Speaker 1: Caribbean and the Pacific. Well, if you're one of the
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  Speaker 1: poor young people, as he described it in the Narco
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  Speaker 1: terrace trade, maybe after seeing some boats being blown up
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  Speaker 1: from drones or airstrikes, you might think twice about taking
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  Speaker 1: the job. And that's exactly what Donald Trump is trying
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  Speaker 1: to do now. The laugh by the way, they're fighting back.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a great example, the former Human Rights
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  Speaker 1: Watchdog executive director Kenneth Ross saying this on acts quote,
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  Speaker 1: Trump admits he ordered a summary execution the crime of murder,
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  Speaker 1: then went on to say drug traffickers are not combatants
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  Speaker 1: who can be shot on site. There are criminal suspects
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  Speaker 1: who must be arrested and prosecuted. By the way, in
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  Speaker 1: the past, that would technically be true. That's exactly why
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump changed the designation to name them as terrorists organizations.
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  Speaker 1: Now that thinking is no longer operative. Is how a
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration official put it. In fact, on his inauguration day,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring certain drug cartels,
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  Speaker 1: including Venezuela's trained Aragua Gang, as a foreign terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 1: They were put on notice. So none of this should
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  Speaker 1: be shocking that the president is actually doing this right
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  Speaker 1: now now. Under US law, this gives the president the
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  Speaker 1: authority which he's using to employ the military. Administration officials
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  Speaker 1: say in the same way, the President Obama authorized a
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  Speaker 1: drone program that killed three thousand, seven hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven people and five hundred and forty two strikes aimed
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  Speaker 1: at suspected terrats. By the way, the left didn't freak
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  Speaker 1: out when Barack Obama was doing that, but since Trump's
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  Speaker 1: doing something like it now, they're all losing their minds.
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  Speaker 1: Trump also loosened internal rules that slowed military officials from
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  Speaker 1: conducting lethal operations against alleged terras. The National Security Council
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  Speaker 1: has taken out nearly one hundred terrists, the senior official
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  Speaker 1: hast said, saying, quote, we are conducting strikes against terras
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  Speaker 1: weekly that no one even knows about now. Former US
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Patrick Sullivan, who successfully prosecuted former Panama President Noriego
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  Speaker 1: for drug crimes after he was snatched in a ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight nine US military invasion, said Trump's military rization of
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  Speaker 1: the war on drugs, he says, is a quote surprise,
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  Speaker 1: saying we've never seen this before. This is a totally
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  Speaker 1: different approach. No one fired a missile at a go
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  Speaker 1: fast boat and just destroyed it. It's just totally unheard of,
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  Speaker 1: yet again making me laugh that the media and the
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  Speaker 1: left are shocked by the President paying off on what
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  Speaker 1: he said he was going to do. Defend Secretary Pete
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  Speaker 1: headsays saying this on Wednesday, quote, anyone else trafficking in
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  Speaker 1: those waters who we know is a designated narco terrace
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  Speaker 1: will face the same faith as the eleven that were
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  Speaker 1: on board that first go fast boat that was blown
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  Speaker 1: up from the sky. Senator Ran Paul, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: expressing misgivings about the operation, saying on Newsmax that Congress
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  Speaker 1: needs to declare war before the administration wages full scale
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  Speaker 1: war on the cartels. Just for the record, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: disagree with Senator Paul Moore. Trump's new drug war isn't limited,
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  Speaker 1: by the way we're being told, just to Venezuela. In
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  Speaker 1: the short term, it could double as a regime change operation.
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  Speaker 1: The left is now saying to dispose of the Venezuelan
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  Speaker 1: dictator Maduro, who's accused of sealing last year's presidential election,
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  Speaker 1: with a ton of evidence to support that fact. But
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  Speaker 1: this is how the left tries to undermine the president
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  Speaker 1: after Narrega, by the way, Maduro became the second sitting
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  Speaker 1: Latin American head of state to be indicted on narcotic
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  Speaker 1: charges in twenty twenty, during Trump's first term. Maduro, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, now also has a fifty million dollar bounty
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  Speaker 1: on his head, which the Department of Justice has doubled. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: the only person who should be worried is Maduro, who's
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  Speaker 1: running effectively as a kingpin of a narco state. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the DoD administrator said, and we know that he's
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  Speaker 1: been involved in this type of drug running that has
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  Speaker 1: affected the American people directly. Put another way, Maduro can
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  Speaker 1: be targeted for assassination, including by drone strike, under the
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  Speaker 1: new US policy. I have no problem with that either.
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  Speaker 1: Administration officials say the possibility hasn't been seriously discussed, but
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  Speaker 1: Trump is keeping it as an option now. When asked
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  Speaker 1: whether regime changes a US goal, headse said the call
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  Speaker 1: wasn't his. What his job is is to do what
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  Speaker 1: the President says, and that is to go after the
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  Speaker 1: narco terrorists because clearly they're not going to stop killing
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  Speaker 1: Americans until we stop them, which brings us to the
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  Speaker 1: bigger point. Why is it that there's so many Democrats
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  Speaker 1: in America right now that are refusing to admit just
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  Speaker 1: how bad the drug problem is. We know that fetnol
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  Speaker 1: is the number one killer of younger Americans right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's truly sad and shocking. And many of the accidental
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  Speaker 1: overdoses that are causing their deaths are clearly not intentional.
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  Speaker 1: Many kids think that they're taking a legitimate pill like
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  Speaker 1: a Ritlin or an adderall and then drop dead from fetnyl.
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  Speaker 1: DEA agents have said they can't even tell the difference
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  Speaker 1: between the real pill from a pharmacist and the narco
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  Speaker 1: terrorist pill that is laced with fetanel that can easily
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  Speaker 1: kill you. So here we are, we're in a moment
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  Speaker 1: where Donald Trump has made it clear he may direct
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  Speaker 1: more strikes against the narco terras. As it's been put
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  Speaker 1: by Marco Rubio. He said, quote blow them up. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Rubio says. Trump will direct more strikes. The president
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  Speaker 1: of United States America is going to wage war on
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  Speaker 1: the narco terrorists organizations. So from the State Department to
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon, to the FBI to the White House, one
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  Speaker 1: thing that is sure the President said he was going
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  Speaker 1: after the drug traffickers, and that is exactly what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, even as they're shocked to write it, it's
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  Speaker 1: maybe one of the best well articles I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: where they're saying that the president is actually not just
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  Speaker 1: talking about going to war with the terrorists, he's actually
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  Speaker 1: starting a war take them out. President Donald Trump promised
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  Speaker 1: that if you elected a president, he was going to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of illegal immigrants, especially the worst of them
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  Speaker 1: that were in this country, those that committed heinous crimes,
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  Speaker 1: violent crimes, those had gone after children, those have been
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  Speaker 1: convicted of murder and rape. Well, the President has made
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  Speaker 1: good on that promise. But there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work to be done. How do we know this Because
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  Speaker 1: of the backlock, there are not enough immigration judges to
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  Speaker 1: deal with all of the cases. Well, the President said
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to stop him from moving forward, and
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  Speaker 1: now we know what the plan looks like. The Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: has authorized up to six hundred military lawyers to serve
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  Speaker 1: as temporary immigration judges. This could speed things up significantly.
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  Speaker 1: And not only has the President said this is important,
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  Speaker 1: but the Defense Secretary Pete Headseth approving the deployment of
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  Speaker 1: up to six hundred military judges makes it a reality.
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  Speaker 1: The Justice Department is where they're going to be working.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to act as quote, temporary immigration judges. The
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  Speaker 1: directive follows a request from the DOJ to deliberately help
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  Speaker 1: alleviate a overwhelming backlog in immigration courts. Why is this happening,
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  Speaker 1: because we're actually prosecuting people that need to be prosecuted
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  Speaker 1: for the crime of being in this country illegally, along
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  Speaker 1: with other crimes as well. Now, the deployment timeline is
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  Speaker 1: also very important. It will begin as soon as possible,
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  Speaker 1: with groups of one hundred and fifty attorneys being sent
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  Speaker 1: at a time. The first round of personnel is actually
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  Speaker 1: expected to be identified by this next week, and then
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  Speaker 1: they will be put out into the court system. Now,
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  Speaker 1: their initial term will last no more than one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy nine days, with the renewals possible under the
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  Speaker 1: current directives. Why one hundred and seventy one days, It's
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  Speaker 1: because how the law works. Right now for these temporary judges,
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  Speaker 1: the Justice Department has faced a dramatic shortage of immigration judges.
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  Speaker 1: Over one hundred, by the way, have been fired to
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  Speaker 1: resign after the deferred resignation offers, cutting the bench roughly
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  Speaker 1: in half from about twelve hundred to six hundred judges.
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  Speaker 1: The AP is now reporting simultaneously, the immigration court system
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  Speaker 1: faces a massive backlog of approximately three point four to
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  Speaker 1: three point five million pending cases. How do we get
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  Speaker 1: to the point where there were this many cases backlog?
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  Speaker 1: It was all by design by the Biden administration so
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  Speaker 1: that illegal immigrants could overflow the country and stay here
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  Speaker 1: and not actually have to worry about getting in any
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  Speaker 1: trouble or being held accountable for breaking into the country.
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  Speaker 1: It was also part of the game plan. Democrats wanted
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  Speaker 1: to overrun the country, so the only way that seemed
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  Speaker 1: possible to deal with the issue was to offer some
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  Speaker 1: sort of amnesty, to basically say that if, well, you're
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  Speaker 1: here already, we'll just let you stay and we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a pathway to citizenship. Well, Donald Trump ran on
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  Speaker 1: doing the exact opposite of that, and he's now saying
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  Speaker 1: we've got to clean up the backlog, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: long it takes, and adding the up to six hundred
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  Speaker 1: military lawyers to service temporary immigration judges is a massive
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  Speaker 1: step in the right direction. Now, the administration's broader context
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  Speaker 1: includes increased immigration enforcement as well, and the White House
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  Speaker 1: said the deployment of troops to the border and different
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  Speaker 1: major cities, and also the use of military resources in
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  Speaker 1: domestic immigration operations. Now you're gonna hear a lot from
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  Speaker 1: the media, and you're gonna hear a lot from the left.
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  Speaker 1: Their argument about why this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: quote disaster is this. They're claiming already that the military lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: who haven't even been named or been in the court yet,
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  Speaker 1: typically they say, lack training and immigration law or procedure
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  Speaker 1: and due process considerations. The American Immigration Lawyers Association coming
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  Speaker 1: out with a full court press condemning what they say
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  Speaker 1: is the shift, likening assigning the DOJ attorneys to immigration
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  Speaker 1: judges is to asking a cardiologist, they say, to do
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  Speaker 1: a hip replacement, thus highlighting the mismatch in expertise, and
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  Speaker 1: running to the news to put out that propaganda. I
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  Speaker 1: just told you, where do they put it first? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the mainstream media, and they started with CBS News, And yes,
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  Speaker 1: there was also a Reuter's report echoing the same exact
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  Speaker 1: verbiage as CBS News and same concerns, noting that even
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  Speaker 1: with additional training Jags may struggle with the complexities of
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  Speaker 1: immigration proceedings due process, they say, and judicial integrity is
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  Speaker 1: also a major problem. Right critics are now saying that
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  Speaker 1: this measure prioritizes speed over the fairness of the law
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  Speaker 1: breakers of the illegal immigrants. They say that potentially is
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  Speaker 1: going to undermine due process and increase the risk of
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  Speaker 1: flaud or appealable they claim decisions. Democratic legislators and immigration
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  Speaker 1: rights advocates have already joined together and they're condemning the
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  Speaker 1: move and also saying that it is reckless and not
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  Speaker 1: putting people where they should be first. So here we are.
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  Speaker 1: The Pentagon is authorized up to six hundred military lawyers
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  Speaker 1: to serve as temporary judges. The left is saying, yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a disaster and that these
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants deserve a better system. So here's my response.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's time for us to stop caring so much
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  Speaker 1: about people that break into this country and start protecting
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  Speaker 1: their victims and American workers. And that's exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: voted for, and it's exactly what Donald Trump is doing now.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the local media, they do have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a different spin on this, especially in
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  Speaker 1: cities that have been affected by so many illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 1: and much of the violent crime. Let me give you
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  Speaker 1: a perfect example of that. The report that played on
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  Speaker 1: Fox ten, the local affiliate in Phoenix, sounding very different
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  Speaker 1: than what I read you from the big boys at
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  Speaker 1: CBS and at the other news media outlets that are nationwide.
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  Speaker 2: New at six, the military could soon be running some
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  Speaker 2: immigration courts across the US. Today, the Pentagon issued new
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  Speaker 2: orders to six hundred military lawyers to serve as temporary
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  Speaker 2: immigration judges. The first round of attorneys are heading to
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  Speaker 2: the Justice Department next week. The Trump administration says that
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  Speaker 2: this will help expedite immigration cases, as the country has
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  Speaker 2: long dealt with a shortage of judges. Arizona attorney Nick
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  Speaker 2: Suriel says that the decision will only bog down an
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  Speaker 2: already broken legal system.
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  Speaker 3: I've been doing this thirty three years and least six
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  Speaker 3: hundred pages of immigration law.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: These things are not you know, for the casual observer,
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  Speaker 3: these these people being being proposed have is again one
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  Speaker 3: week of training. Uh, you know what we're asking for.
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  Speaker 3: We're asking for all the appellate courts to be clogged,
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  Speaker 3: clogged up with cases.
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  Speaker 2: The judge advocates have a range of different responsibilities like
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  Speaker 2: their civilian counterparts, including carrying out prosecutions, acting as defense
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  Speaker 2: attorneys for service members, and offering legal advice.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, so let's just be real. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: different from the mainstream media.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost good, but then you hear it the
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  Speaker 1: way that it was just described, and yeah, guess what,
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  Speaker 1: the media still wants you to think this is some
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  Speaker 1: sort of terrible idea. Well, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: the President United States of America says we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do this. The Pentagon says we're going to do this.
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  Speaker 1: The man in charge of the Pentagon says, we're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And the most important part is this. When you have
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  Speaker 1: a system that was deliberately backloged, like the Democrats did,
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  Speaker 1: to the point where we have a million and a
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  Speaker 1: half people waiting for a date, the president had no
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  Speaker 1: choice but to take that disaster and try to get
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  Speaker 1: it back to something that's manageable. This is why it's
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  Speaker 1: so important moving forward that the president has these judges
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  Speaker 1: and maybe others that get in the game and get
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  Speaker 1: this country back on track when it comes to our
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  Speaker 1: immigration laws, policies, and enforcement. It was a prediction that
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump made when he was running for president. He said,
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  Speaker 1: if you elect me, guess what's going to happen. There
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: are going to be people that are going to self
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  Speaker 1: deport because I'm in charge, and they're going to realize
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  Speaker 1: that it's just not worth staying here. Wow, we have
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  Speaker 1: actual law and order. Well that became a reality, and
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  Speaker 1: the Associated Press is now running this headline, one point
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  Speaker 1: two million immigrants are gone from the US labor force
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  Speaker 1: under Donald Trump. Preliminary data is now confirming it's tomato season.
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  Speaker 1: The article begins, and Lydia is harvesting on farms in
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  Speaker 1: California's Central Valley. She is also anxious attention from US
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  Speaker 1: Immigration and Customs enforcement could up in her life for
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty three years after she illegally crossed the
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  Speaker 1: US Mexico border as a teenager. The worry is they
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  Speaker 1: will pull you over when you're driving and ask for
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  Speaker 1: your papers, is what Lydia said the Associated Press don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: She's not using her last name because the APS will
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  Speaker 1: protect her. She went on to say, we need to work,
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  Speaker 1: we need to feed our families, and we need to
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  Speaker 1: pay our rent. Well, there's also Americans that need the
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  Speaker 1: exact same thing, and what we're witnessing is many Americans
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  Speaker 1: are saying we should put American workers first. Well, here's
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  Speaker 1: the reality. More than one point four million immigrants have
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  Speaker 1: disappeared from the labor force from January through the end
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  Speaker 1: of July, according to the Census Bureau data analyzed by
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  Speaker 1: the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in
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  Speaker 1: the country illegally as well as legal residents, but the
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  Speaker 1: majority are illegals. Immigrants make up almost twenty percent is
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  Speaker 1: the claim of the US workforce, and data shows forty
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  Speaker 1: five percent of workers are in farming, fishing, forestry they
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  Speaker 1: are immigrants. According to the Pew Senior researcher Sephanie Kramer,
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  Speaker 1: about thirty percent of all construction workers are immigrants and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four percent of service workers or immigrants. She went
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  Speaker 1: on to add the loss of immigrant workers comes as
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  Speaker 1: the nation seeing the first decline and the overall immigrant
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  Speaker 1: population after the number of people in the US illegally
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  Speaker 1: reached an all time high they claim of fourteen million
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. Many believe that number is off
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  Speaker 1: by as many as ten to twelve million. It's unclear
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  Speaker 1: how much of the decline we've seen since January is
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  Speaker 1: due to voluntary departures to pursue other opportunities and avoid
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  Speaker 1: deportation removals under reporting of other technical or other technical issues.
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  Speaker 1: Kramer said, However, we don't believe that the preliminary numbers
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  Speaker 1: indicate net negative migration are so far off that the
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  Speaker 1: decline isn't real. So what are they saying? Yes, it's real.
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  Speaker 1: People are leaving on their own. Trump campaign, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: on the promise to deport millions of immigrants working in
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  Speaker 1: the US illegally, and he said he is focusing on
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  Speaker 1: deportation efforts also of dangerous criminals first. But most people
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  Speaker 1: detained by ice have no quote, criminal convictions, is what
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  Speaker 1: the left said. So they believe they should all take
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  Speaker 1: away American jobs, which brings me to part two of
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  Speaker 1: the story. Guess what's happening. Americans are actually now making
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  Speaker 1: more money because of these self deportations. That's right. We
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  Speaker 1: are seeing a rise in pay which is helping American families.
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  Speaker 1: The broader economic research is consistently finding that right now
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  Speaker 1: we are seeing more Americans are making more money than
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  Speaker 1: they did before. The National Employment Law Project its study
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  Speaker 1: found that if eight point three million undocumented immigrants were deported.
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  Speaker 1: The resulting economic impact could lead to seven percent increase
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  Speaker 1: in pay instantly. The Baker Institute also reports that pass
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  Speaker 1: mass deportations, they claimed lower wages and caused job losses.
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  Speaker 1: But what we're witnessing right now is the opposite of that,
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  Speaker 1: because the unemployment rate has actually gone down over the
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  Speaker 1: same period of time, not up. So what does it mean.
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  Speaker 1: It means that Donald Trump and what he is saying
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  Speaker 1: is actually working. Quote average hourly wages have not decreased
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  Speaker 1: the left promise and the media said was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, they have accelerated, rising by zero point four
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  Speaker 1: percent over the last month. Yes, in May, for example,
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  Speaker 1: it went up zero point four percent to thirty six
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  Speaker 1: twenty four in May as businesses adjusted to a tighter
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  Speaker 1: labor supply as many were self deporting. Now this also
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  Speaker 1: goes in the face of the argument that there would
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  Speaker 1: be fewer jobs Americans would take than Americans would do
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  Speaker 1: the jobs illegal immigrants are doing. All of that has
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  Speaker 1: also now been a lie. A Labor economists of the
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  Speaker 1: Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas said immigrants normally contribute at
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  Speaker 1: least fifty percent of job growth in the US. But
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  Speaker 1: what we're seeing now is Americans coming out of the
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  Speaker 1: woodwork for the jobs that they couldn't get before because
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  Speaker 1: they were taken by illegal immigrant labor. Quote. The influx
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  Speaker 1: across the border, from what we can tell, is essentially stopped,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where we were getting millions and millions of
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  Speaker 1: migrants over the last four years. That has a huge
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  Speaker 1: impact on the ability to quote create jobs now. You
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  Speaker 1: can also go back to the fear mongering story from
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  Speaker 1: the AP Their sub headline was crops did go to waste.
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  Speaker 1: Just across the border from Mexico and Mcowan, Texas, corn
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  Speaker 1: and cotton fields are about ready to harvest. Elizabeth Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: worries there won't be enough workers available to deal with
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  Speaker 1: the gens and other machinery once the fields are cleared.
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  Speaker 1: They say immigration enforcement actions at farms are hurting them,
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  Speaker 1: businesses and construction sites. They say it's bring everything to
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  Speaker 1: a standstill. Rodriguez, by the way, is the director of
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  Speaker 1: farm worker Advocacy for the National farm Worker Ministry that
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  Speaker 1: loves illegal immigrant labor. So there is two sides the story. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's not good for illegal immigrants right now, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to fearmonger you that you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: have anything on the shelves. You may remember, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's the exact same fear mongering they said when they
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  Speaker 1: said Donald Trump was going to ruin our economy with
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  Speaker 1: a terrified that he was willing to take to other
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  Speaker 1: countries that were taking advantage of the United States of America. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what they lied to you then, and they're lying
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  Speaker 1: to you now. In fact, in May, during the peak
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  Speaker 1: of our watermelon and cantalop season, it delayed it. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of crops did go to waste, is the new
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  Speaker 1: claim from the Associated Press. When asked to back it up.
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  Speaker 1: What are we actually seeing, Well, not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: data to back that up at all. In fact, there
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  Speaker 1: were plenty of Americans that had no problem finding a
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  Speaker 1: water melon, that's right. So what's going to happen next.
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  Speaker 1: It is clear that the President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America is going after illegal immigrant laborers, and many
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  Speaker 1: of them are saying it's just not worth it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Business is not good in America if you're an illegal immigrant,
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  Speaker 1: because Donald Trump is actually enforcing the laws and most
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  Speaker 1: of the men and women who work in the farms.
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  Speaker 1: For example, in California, our contractor provided day laborers. There
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  Speaker 1: were days earlier this year, they say, when crews would
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  Speaker 1: be smaller. One of those, Lisa Tate, manages her family
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  Speaker 1: business that grows citrus, fruits, avocados and coffee on eight
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  Speaker 1: ranches and eight hundred acres. And what did she say, Well,
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  Speaker 1: she's concerned. She said there were days this year when
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  Speaker 1: the crews were just smaller. She's hesitant to place the
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  Speaker 1: blame on immigration policy, but she fears that ice raids
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  Speaker 1: spread quickly. So what is she actually doing. She knows
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  Speaker 1: what she's doing. It's very clear that the labors that
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  Speaker 1: she is using for day labor are probably you guessed it,
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. And dozens of area farm workers were arrested
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  Speaker 1: late this spring, sending another message the present is not
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  Speaker 1: messing around. Quote. People are being taken out of the
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  Speaker 1: laundry mats off the side of the road. Tait said. Lydia,
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  Speaker 1: the farm worker who spoke to the AP by the
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  Speaker 1: way through an interpreter, cent her biggest fear is being
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  Speaker 1: sent back to Mexico. Now, at thirty six, she's married
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  Speaker 1: with three school aged children who were born in the US.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting, by the way she's been here for so
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  Speaker 1: long but still has decided not to learn English. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll be able to bring my kids,
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  Speaker 1: said Lydia. I'm also very concerned. I've had to start
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  Speaker 1: from zero if I left. My whole life has been
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of America. So there's the fear
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  Speaker 1: mongering for the ap but if you look at the reality,
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  Speaker 1: more Americans now are able to provide for their families,
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  Speaker 1: and they're also making more money now than they've made
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