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ICE Crackdown nabs Illegal Alien Child Sex Offenders in 6 Months · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about some new news and data
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Speaker 1: that is coming out that is going to shock or
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Speaker 1: should shock every American. Unfortunately, the media is refusing to
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Speaker 1: cover it. ICE arrest are happening at record pace, and
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Speaker 1: it's not just random people. ICE has now arrested over
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Speaker 1: two hundred illegal alien child sex offenders in the Houston,
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Speaker 1: Texas area alone.
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Speaker 2: I want to say that again.
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Speaker 1: ICE has arrested over two hundred illegal alien child sex
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Speaker 1: offenders in Houston alone, not the country, not the state
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Speaker 1: of Texas, in one city. This coming from US Immigration
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Speaker 1: and Customs Enforcement saying it this way. US Immigration and
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Speaker 1: Customs Enforcement has arrested two hundred and fourteen illegal aliens
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Speaker 1: for immigration offenses in the Houston area who have been
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Speaker 1: charged or convicted of a sex offense involving a minor.
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Speaker 1: The two hundred and fourteen arrests were more than the
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Speaker 1: Houston Field Office arrested during the entire twenty twenty four
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Speaker 1: fiscal year when officers they are arrested two hundred and
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Speaker 1: eleven illegal aliens charged or convicted of child sex offenses.
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Speaker 1: The surge and arrests over the last six months of
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Speaker 1: illegal aliens charged with theyre convicted of child sex offenses
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Speaker 1: a direct result of a whole of government approach implemented
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Speaker 1: under the Trump administration that has now led to the
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Speaker 1: establishment of multi agency targeting teams in each area of responsibility.
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Speaker 1: Now these teams conduct daily enhanced immigration enforcement operations targeting
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Speaker 1: the worst of the worst criminal aliens, something that the
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Speaker 1: President promised when he was running for president, and yes,
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Speaker 1: making good on that promise. They are targeting the worst,
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Speaker 1: the worst criminal alians for one reason arrest and then
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Speaker 1: the second reason is removal. In Southeast Texas, those efforts
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Speaker 1: have resulted in an increase in arrests of all quote
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Speaker 1: dangerous criminal aliens, leading to safer communities, stronger national security,
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Speaker 1: and enhance border security as well, saying this, bringing together
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Speaker 1: the resources and expertise of the entire federal law enforcement
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Speaker 1: community to confront the overwhelming surge of illegal immigration that
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Speaker 1: we saw over the past four years has resulted in
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Speaker 1: the arrest and removal of historic numbers of violent criminal aliens,
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Speaker 1: transnational gang members, and child sex offenders. That is what
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Speaker 1: ICE enforcement and remove operations, Houston Acting Field Director Paul
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Speaker 1: McBride said in his statement. He continued by saying this,
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Speaker 1: while we still have a long way to go to
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Speaker 1: truly get this crisis under control. The strides we have
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Speaker 1: made in just the last six months to make our
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Speaker 1: local communities safer are substantial, and our officers continue to
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Speaker 1: work tirelessly every day to get the worst of the
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Speaker 1: worst criminal aliens out of Southeast Texas to return our
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Speaker 1: communities to places we can all enjoy.
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Speaker 2: Now. Among the illegal aliens that we're charged.
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Speaker 1: Or convicted of a child sex offense who were arrested
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Speaker 1: by the ICE Houston Field Office in the past six months,
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Speaker 1: here are some of the worst.
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Speaker 2: A man by the name of Jesus Coutierrez.
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Speaker 1: He was a sixty seven year old three times deported
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Speaker 1: criminal alien from Mexico. He was arrested in March of
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth and has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault
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Speaker 1: of a child. He's also been convicted of while intoxicated.
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Speaker 1: ICE removed the man to Mexico April the fourth. George Zebra,
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Speaker 1: a forty eight year old criminal alien from Mexico, was
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Speaker 1: arrested March to twenty first. He's now been convicted of
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Speaker 1: not one, but two counts of aggravated sexual assault of
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Speaker 1: a minor in sexual indecency with a miner. ICE has
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Speaker 1: removed him to Mexico March the twenty fourth as well.
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Speaker 1: Manuel Antonio Castro, a thirty seven year old, has also
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Speaker 1: a rap sheet twice deported criminal alien, this time from
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Speaker 1: Al Salvador.
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Speaker 2: He was arrested July.
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Speaker 1: The eighteenth and has been convicted of sexual assault of
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Speaker 1: a minor and twice for I legal reentry. He remains
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Speaker 1: in ICE custody, pinning his third removal to El Salvador.
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Speaker 1: Jose Mesa is a forty year old four time deported
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Speaker 1: criminal alien from Mexico who is yet again arrested said
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Speaker 1: June the twenty fourth. He's been convicted of He's been
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Speaker 1: convicted of theft and sexual assault of a child. Ice
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Speaker 1: removed the man to Mexico June the twenty fifth. Sergio Rolando,
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Speaker 1: a forty five year old three time deported criminal alien
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Speaker 1: from Mexico who has arrested June the twelfth, has been
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Speaker 1: convicted of DWI and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
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Speaker 2: He's been removed to Mexico July the fourteenth.
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Speaker 1: Now you look at the difference now between what's happening
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Speaker 1: and over the last four years, federal law enforcement agencies
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Speaker 1: have been contributed to the multi agency targeting teams, including
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Speaker 1: the Houston Office of the FBI, the Houston Office of
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Speaker 1: the ATF, the Houston Office of the DA, and the
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Speaker 1: US Customs and Border Protection, as well as the Diplomat's
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Speaker 1: Security Services and the US Marshall Service. You add in
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Speaker 1: state and local law enforcement agencies that have also asses.
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Speaker 1: You look at this and this I go back to
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Speaker 1: what I said is just in one city, two hundred
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Speaker 1: and fourteen illegal aliens have been arrested for immigration offense
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Speaker 1: in the Houston area in the past six months, and
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Speaker 1: they've been charged or convicted of sex offenses involving miners.
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Speaker 1: to two Patriot. This is who the Biden administration was
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Speaker 1: allowing into our country on purpose.
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Speaker 2: They knew that these people were in this country.
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Speaker 1: They knew that they were flooding our cities, and they
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Speaker 1: knew that sanctuary policies and sanctuary cities were actually protecting
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Speaker 1: that's right, protecting these individuals from accountabil.
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Speaker 2: And also deportation.
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Speaker 1: These two hundred and fourteen illegal alien child sex offenders
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Speaker 1: knew they were safe in the United States of America
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Speaker 1: under the Biden administration.
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Speaker 2: I want you to think about what that means.
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Speaker 1: The worst of the worst is who they're going after
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Speaker 1: not just in Houston, but also around the country. The
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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security is also doing things like Alligator Alcatraz,
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Speaker 1: the migrant facility, talking about opening up Alcatraz again.
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Speaker 2: And why are they doing this.
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Speaker 1: They're doing it for one reason, as a deterrent, to
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Speaker 1: make it very clear that in this country right now,
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Speaker 1: if you are an illegal immigrant, especially an illegal immigrant
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Speaker 1: that is abusing children or any other human being, we
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Speaker 1: are coming after you. The other thing the President has
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Speaker 1: said is we need to well turbocharge ICE arrests and deportations.
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Speaker 1: The left here is that and they lose their mind.
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Speaker 1: They say it's insane. Well, ICE is now revealing many
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Speaker 1: of the worst of the worst I legal immigrants arrested
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Speaker 1: in cities all over the country, including convicted child rapists, arsonists,
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Speaker 1: and human smugglers. The President of the United States of
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Speaker 1: America making it clear this is why he was elected
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Speaker 1: and he's going to stop at nothing to protect you
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Speaker 1: and your families from these monsters.
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Speaker 2: I want you to listen to part of the plan here.
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Speaker 1: The Department of Home and Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin
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Speaker 1: went on Fox News to talk about in US since
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Speaker 1: Phase two now what is phase two.
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Speaker 2: Phase two is.
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Speaker 1: Doing everything we can to get these violent criminals off
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Speaker 1: the streets. Listen carefully, Let's let's bring in Tricia McLoughlin.
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Speaker 3: She is the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary. So
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Speaker 3: I've got some pictures of Alligator Alcatraz that we want
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Speaker 3: to put up here because it's fast under construction. DeSantis
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Speaker 3: was saying this morning on Fox and Friends. They hope
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Speaker 3: to have it done by Tuesday. This is a facility,
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Speaker 3: it's being partially funded by the federal government. A lot
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Speaker 3: of cooperation between Florida and the Feds. How does this
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Speaker 3: facility fit into everything that you're trying to do on
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Speaker 3: a national level.
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Speaker 4: Well, since day one, Secretary Noome has called on the
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Speaker 4: state and local governments, Hey, we need help with detention beds.
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Speaker 4: That is a key operational lynch pin and getting these
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Speaker 4: arrests and deportations turbocharge, because we need somewhere to house
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Speaker 4: these aliens until we can actually get them out of
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Speaker 4: the country. So this will give us up to five
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Speaker 4: thousand new beds. Florida has been a fantastic partner in
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Speaker 4: this incredibly innovative and we hope to see more of
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Speaker 4: this from our state and local partners. But we also
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Speaker 4: have to get that big beautiful bill pass because that's
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Speaker 4: going to give us over one hundred thousand detention bed capacity,
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Speaker 4: and that doubles what we can do really turbo charge
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Speaker 4: those arrest numbers.
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Speaker 3: So this is this facility is being built out at
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Speaker 3: a training airport, which is right along the day Call
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Speaker 3: your account line. I've driven past it many times on
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Speaker 3: the Tammiami Trail. Here's what Ron Desanta said. This facility
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Speaker 3: is capable of listening here.
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Speaker 5: This is going to be able to have more than
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Speaker 5: three thousand illegals.
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Speaker 2: It can be processed through here. We've got a.
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Speaker 5: Massive runway right behind us where any of the federal
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Speaker 5: assets that they want to fly these people back to
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Speaker 5: their home country, they can do it.
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Speaker 3: One stop shop, one stop shop.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 3: You get it all. You've got the detention facility, you've
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Speaker 3: got the airport. Can the federal government make good use
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Speaker 3: of this?
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Speaker 4: We sure can talk about efficiency right then and there,
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Speaker 4: But also I want to talk about the funding for this.
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Speaker 4: Some of it will be paid by the State of Florida,
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Speaker 4: but a lot of it will be paid by the
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Speaker 4: federal government. We're actually looking at a FEMA to fund
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Speaker 4: this through the Shelter and Services Program, which we saw
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Speaker 4: in the Biden administration, that funding was bastardized to use
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Speaker 4: for places like the Roosevelt Hotel, which is the place
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Speaker 4: that housed trend A Rago is really the base of
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Speaker 4: operations there as well as Lake and Riley's Killer. So
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Speaker 4: we're going to take that funding and actually house these
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Speaker 4: illegal aliens before we get them out the door and
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Speaker 4: out of our country, all right.
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Speaker 3: Not not everybody's looking at his facility. Is the great
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Speaker 3: thing that Ron de Status believes that it is. Alejandro Frost,
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Speaker 3: Democrat from Florida, said this, They target migrants, rip families apart,
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Speaker 3: and subject people to conditions that amount to physical and
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Speaker 3: psychological torture and facilities that can only be described as.
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Speaker 2: Hell on earth.
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Speaker 3: Now they want to erect tents in the blazing Everglades
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Speaker 3: sun and call it immigration enforcement. They don't care if
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Speaker 3: people de live or die. They only care about cruelty
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Speaker 3: and spectacle. Now we should put out that Rod de
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Speaker 3: Status today, when he was talking to Steve Doocey said
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Speaker 3: that that airport and facilities just like it are often
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Speaker 3: used to stage first responders during hurricane emergencies, So I'm
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Speaker 3: not quite sure what the good congressman is doing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, our ice facilities have higher stanierds than a lot
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Speaker 4: of US detention facilities for actual American citizens, so that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't know what the heck he's talking about. But oh,
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Speaker 4: by the way, Americans should know that seventy percent of
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Speaker 4: illegal aliens who have been arrested under this administration actually
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Speaker 4: have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. So this is
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Speaker 4: all just himplying gutter politics and can continuing to villainize
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Speaker 4: our ice enforcement officers is contributing to the fact that
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Speaker 4: five hundred percent increase in assaults against our brave men
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Speaker 4: and women in law enforcement.
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Speaker 3: I also want to ask you about this because last weekend,
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Speaker 3: DHS put out a warning about possible threats to the
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Speaker 3: homeland from Iranian sleeper sales or people affiliated with them.
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Speaker 3: With the ceasefire, now in places that threat diministers is
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Speaker 3: still out there.
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Speaker 4: It's still out there, but there's not an active alert.
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Speaker 4: So we just want people to stay vigilant. We want
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Speaker 4: our law enforcement to be vigilant. But as we enter
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Speaker 4: the July fourth holiday, people should be enjoying celebrate this country.
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Speaker 4: We have a wonderful, safe country, and we encourage people
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Speaker 4: to go out and celebrate, and our law enforcement, homeland
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Speaker 4: security investigators. You know, it wasn't just June twenty first
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Speaker 4: without operation in Iran. We have been on top of
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Speaker 4: it from the start making sure these Iranian sleeper cells
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Speaker 4: are caught, arrested, and removed from this country.
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Speaker 2: You listen to all that she was saying there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we're not just talking about national security issues
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Speaker 1: from the human t akers, the sex traffickers, the list
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Speaker 1: goes on and on. We're also talking about these Iranian
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Speaker 1: sleeper cells that are a threat to our national security.
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Speaker 2: I'll go to another story that came out this week.
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Speaker 1: There was a Biden era missing migrant children hotline that
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Speaker 1: were now finding out apparently went unanswered. Largely when people called,
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Speaker 1: they had children that they released to non family members,
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Speaker 1: and then when they would go to check on those children,
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Speaker 1: they were.
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Speaker 2: Nowhere were to be found.
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Speaker 1: This is the Democratic Party because they wanted to flood
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Speaker 1: this country with illegals.
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Speaker 6: The DHS finding more than thirteen thousand unaccompanied migrant children
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Speaker 6: that were placed with unvetted sponsors throughout the US. This
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Speaker 6: comes one week after a witness in a household land
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Speaker 6: security hearing described just how little help those children received
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Speaker 6: under Joe Biden.
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Speaker 7: There was also a Notice of Concern hotline where people
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Speaker 7: could report concerns about the unaccompanied child's safety. But what
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Speaker 7: this administration found was from August twenty twenty three to
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Speaker 7: January of twenty twenty five, sixty five thousand calls went unanswered.
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Speaker 6: That witnesses Ali Hopper, founder of Guard Against Trafficking, and
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Speaker 6: she joins us. Now when I saw this, I wasn't surprised,
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Speaker 6: but I was enraged Ali. How could they not answer
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Speaker 6: calls from children? They gave the number two in case
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Speaker 6: you're exploited, and they called and said I'm being sexually exploited,
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Speaker 6: and no one answered their messages.
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Speaker 2: Rachel, You're exactly correct.
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Speaker 7: This hotline was set up as one of the many
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Speaker 7: safeguards that were put in place, and unfortunately, when the
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Speaker 7: policy on paper, when these safeguards are put in place
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Speaker 7: on paper only, but they're not intended to be followed
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Speaker 7: up on or function per operly, this is what happens.
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Speaker 7: And what's more horrifying is that these calls wouldn't have
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Speaker 7: been even responded to, like the call that I mentioned
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Speaker 7: in my testimony where a child called saying that grown
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Speaker 7: men were coming into his room at night and they
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Speaker 7: were touching him. This administration went through every single one
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Speaker 7: of those calls, and that child was rescued and that
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Speaker 7: sponsor was arrested. But if we hadn't had this administration
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Speaker 7: win take over and try to undo what the past
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Speaker 7: administration did, those calls would have remained unanswered.
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Speaker 6: Well, God bless everyone who's going through that list of calls,
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Speaker 6: those unanswered calls and trying to do something about it.
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Speaker 1: I want you imagine you're in the government and now
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Speaker 1: your job is to try to go back and track
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Speaker 1: down the kids that were trying to call telling you
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Speaker 1: that they were being sexually assaulted. They were given a
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Speaker 1: number to call if they needed help. They called the
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Speaker 1: damn number they were set up by the Biden administration,
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Speaker 1: and no one was there to answer their calls.
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Speaker 2: Can we just think about what that means.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine being a kid and you get into
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Speaker 1: the US government custody right like we've found you, and
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Speaker 1: then we release you to someone that's not a family member,
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Speaker 1: and we give you a number and we tell you
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Speaker 1: to call this number. If there is a problem. If
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Speaker 1: there is an issue, just call this number. If there's
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Speaker 1: something happening we need to know about, just call this number.
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Speaker 2: And you call it.
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Speaker 1: And you're needing help. You're a child, you're being sexually assaulted.
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Speaker 1: You need a child. Like you're a child, you need help.
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Speaker 1: You're calling an adult. You're not an just adult. You're
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Speaker 1: calling the government that gave you the number that's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be protecting you.
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Speaker 2: And no one's answering the phone.
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Speaker 1: And now there's somebody out there who's having to try
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Speaker 1: to find you.
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Speaker 1: a big scam, and a Florida ceo is now headed
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Speaker 1: to prison and has been ordered to pay one hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty eight million dollars in fines after quote defrauding
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Speaker 1: the government. And we're also being told this may be
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Speaker 1: the tip of the iceberg. The owner of a Florida
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Speaker 1: telecommunications company will spend the next five years in prison.
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Speaker 1: That's it, only five years, and his firm must pay
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Speaker 1: a hefty fine.
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Speaker 2: Regarding the Obama phone scam.
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Speaker 1: Q Link Wireless LLC and its owner identified as a
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Speaker 1: CEO isa Asad previously pled guilty to conspiring to commit
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Speaker 1: wired fraud and still federal funds from the Lifeline program
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Speaker 1: that originally began in the nineteen eighties to offer home
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Speaker 1: phone service to those that were in need so they
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Speaker 1: could call nine one one. Well, the program offered subsidized
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Speaker 1: cell phone service, then to lower income.
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Speaker 2: People, and then free phones.
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Speaker 1: And in that twenty twelve video, you had that protester
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Speaker 1: emerging outside of Mitt Rodney event who claimed her neighborhood
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Speaker 1: received the an Obama phone.
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Speaker 2: Everybody's got one. Every minority.
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Speaker 1: When asked why don't you supported Obama, the woman said,
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Speaker 1: everybody in Cleveland, low minority got Obama phones.
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Speaker 2: Keep Obama in president. You know, he gave us the phone.
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Speaker 2: He's going to do more now.
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Speaker 1: This clip was really the first time many Americans ever
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Speaker 1: heard about the abuse in this program, and the name Obama.
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Speaker 2: Phone caught on.
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Speaker 1: After the video went viral, some telecommunications companies with Lifeline
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Speaker 1: contracts embraced the term as a marketing The government, by
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Speaker 1: the way, did not go back to twenty thirteen, Breitbart
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Speaker 1: News reported the opposition to the Lifeline program was growing,
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Speaker 1: as Track Phone Wireless, the company that most benefited from
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Speaker 1: the government's upse is now advertising on the inside the
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Speaker 1: beltwagh news websites in an effort to quote unquote save it.
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Speaker 2: You go to the Fox article and it now says
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Speaker 2: that a Side was sentenced.
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Speaker 1: To prison and he along with his company, must pay
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight million dollars in fines. In
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Speaker 1: a press release on Friday, the US Attorney's Office for
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Speaker 1: the Southern District of Florida shared more details about the
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Speaker 1: case and just how bad the fraud may be. Aside
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Speaker 1: to fraud in another federal government program that states the
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Speaker 1: Paycheck Protection Program, also known as PPP by making false
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Speaker 1: statements about q Link's business. You may remember created PPP
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Speaker 1: and it was filled with waste, fraud, and abuse during
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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen pandemic to authorize forgivable loans to small
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Speaker 1: businesses for job retention as well as quote other expenses aside,
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Speaker 1: the q links name executive executed a fraudulent scheme to
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Speaker 1: obtain and.
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Speaker 2: Keep PPP proceeds.
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Speaker 1: To further the scheme, aside mays false statements about q
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Speaker 1: Link's business, including a false claim that q Link's lifeline
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Speaker 1: reimbursement substantially decrease because of the pandemic. Aside then in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, engaged in an unlawful financial transaction involving
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Speaker 1: approximately three hundred and eighty nine thousand of those proceeds
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Speaker 1: aside spent PPP loan proceeds on a land rover payment,
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Speaker 1: his personal AMEX card, jewelry, and personal property taxes. Was
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Speaker 1: reportedly charged with murder several years ago in connection with
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Speaker 1: driving over a grounds keeper at his business.
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Speaker 2: Per another Fox article.
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Speaker 1: He later pled note pleaded no contest to misdemeanor culporable
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Speaker 1: negligence and was slapped with one year of probation in
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Speaker 1: order to pay just.
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Speaker 2: A one hundred and twenty five dollars fine.
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Speaker 1: The outlet said, proof if you've got really good lawyers,
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Speaker 1: you can get away with a hell of a lot.
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Speaker 2: As for the Obama phone scam.
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Speaker 1: The four to CEO at least is headed to prison
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Speaker 1: and we'll pay, in theory one hundred and twenty eight
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Speaker 1: million dollars in fines for defrauding the American taxpayer. But
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Speaker 1: is this program still going yes? Is the program still
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Speaker 1: corrupt as hell?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 1: And is it time that the Trump administration look into it?
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