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Trump's Trade Tactics, Sanctuary Cities Brace for ICE plus Fentanyl Bust Largest in US History · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well, I can announce all of them now. I could
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  Speaker 1: announce fifty to one hundred deals right now, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the shopkeeper and I keep the store. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know what countries are looking for, and I know
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  Speaker 1: what we're looking for, and I can just set those
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  Speaker 1: terms and they can go shopping, or they don't have
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  Speaker 1: to go shopping, because everybody wants to shop.
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  Speaker 2: Here, you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson with you, and
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  Speaker 3: these are some of the stories that you may have
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  Speaker 3: missed that we talked about this week on the forty
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  Speaker 3: seven Morning Update. First up, Donald Trump has a big
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  Speaker 3: week at the White House, meeting with Canada as well
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  Speaker 3: as talking with China on trade negotiations.
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  Speaker 4: Up next, in.
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  Speaker 3: Another massive win, the cinelo At cartel was behind the
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  Speaker 3: largest veetnyl seizure in US history, and the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: is letting Americans know to be careful of the pills
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  Speaker 3: on the black market as the cinelo At cartel is
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  Speaker 3: flooding America at record rates with drugs that are killing Americans.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, Tom Homan making.
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  Speaker 3: It very clear after police officers were attacked by illegal
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  Speaker 3: immigrants in New York, that we are going to flood
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  Speaker 3: sanctuary cities with ICE agents and we will go after
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants at their places of work. How big of
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  Speaker 3: an impact we us have. You'll hear from Tom Homan
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  Speaker 3: in just a moment. It's the forty seven Morning Update
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  Speaker 3: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump is fresh office, hundred days in office,
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  Speaker 3: and now we are getting worried that his administration has
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  Speaker 3: no plan to slow down in the coming weeks, months,
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  Speaker 3: or even years. This week, we're celebrating the most successful
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  Speaker 3: first one hundred days of any presidential administration in the
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  Speaker 3: history of our country. Is what Trump had to say
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  Speaker 3: is he was addressing the University of Alabama on Thursday
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  Speaker 3: at his commencement speech. Fast forward to week sixteen, back
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  Speaker 3: in the oldfe and we now know what's happening when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to the issue of trade with The President
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  Speaker 3: is meeting with Canada's new leader and having ongoing talks
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  Speaker 3: as well between Russia and Ukraine, and trade negotiations with
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  Speaker 3: foreign nations are also expected to continue heating up.
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  Speaker 4: At the White House today now.
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  Speaker 3: The Canadian Prime Minister to visit the White House, and
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  Speaker 3: a major point that they will be speaking about will
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  Speaker 3: be how they can work on their trade deal. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Carney's Liberal party emerged victorious in the nation's federal elections
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  Speaker 3: last week, and now they will discuss the twenty five
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  Speaker 3: percent tariff imposed on goods from the nation sent to
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  Speaker 3: the US, and Trump's repeated urging that the US northern
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  Speaker 3: neighbor become the fifty first state. Yes, it's still kind
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  Speaker 3: of a joke. We are meeting as heads of our government,
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  Speaker 3: Carney said Friday of the upcoming meeting. And I'm not
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  Speaker 3: pretending that those discussions will be easy, he said.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Trump added during his Cabinet meeting with members on Thursday
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  Speaker 3: that he said it was important that America get a
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  Speaker 3: fair trade deal with Carney after Canada's elections, and predicted
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  Speaker 3: they would have a quote great working relationship, saying He's
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  Speaker 3: going to come to the White House very shortly, within
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  Speaker 3: the next week or less, and everything will be on
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  Speaker 3: the table. We also are finding out there's some movement
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  Speaker 3: with China, as Beijing is evaluating trade negotiation offer as well.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, China's Commerce ministry is now said publicly that
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  Speaker 3: they are in negotiations with the US, and that officials
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  Speaker 3: are quote evaluating an offer from the Trump administration to
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  Speaker 3: hold trade talks on the one hundred and forty five
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  Speaker 3: percent US tariffs on Chinese goods. This is signaling it
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  Speaker 3: could be a very busy week of discussions if China
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  Speaker 3: accepts the offer.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: The US has recently taken the initiative on many occasions
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  Speaker 3: to convey information in China through relevant partys, saying it
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  Speaker 3: hopes to talk with China. That coming from a new
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  Speaker 3: report from Reuters. So what is the President doing, Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's the art of the deal. He's attempting to use
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  Speaker 3: the talks to get a better deal for American taxpayers
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  Speaker 3: and also so that the world can go back to
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  Speaker 3: more of a normal trading capacity. Back and forth, Trump
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  Speaker 3: and the administration made it clear we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: be taken advantage of, and neither will American workers. But
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  Speaker 3: we're willing to hold trade negotiation with China, including the
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  Speaker 3: President saying on April to eighth that we are waiting
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  Speaker 3: for their call.
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  Speaker 4: It will happen now.
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  Speaker 3: The President said on NBC News Is Meet the Press
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday that he will not drop the tariffs to
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  Speaker 3: bring China to the negotiating table. He said that is
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  Speaker 3: a non starter. So the President still holding firm but
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  Speaker 3: saying we're more than ready to have a real talk
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  Speaker 3: about changing the way that America has been taken advantage of.
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  Speaker 4: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 3: The Trump administration has announced a significant escalation immigration enforcement
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  Speaker 3: targeting sanctuary cities, Tom Homan stating that if local jurisdictions
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  Speaker 3: continue to resist cooperation with federal immigration authorities, the federal
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  Speaker 3: government will respond by increasing the presence of ICE agents
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  Speaker 3: in these areas. Homan emphasized that sanctuary cities are quote
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  Speaker 3: going to get exactly what they don't want, more agents
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  Speaker 3: in their community, and warned that ICE is prepared to
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  Speaker 3: double the man force if we have to to carry out.
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  Speaker 4: The enforcement actions now.
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  Speaker 3: This intensified approach includes a focus on work site enforcement,
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  Speaker 3: the White House, says. Homan indicated that if ICE agents
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  Speaker 3: are unable to make arrests in jails or on the
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  Speaker 3: streets due to local non cooperation with law enforcement in
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  Speaker 3: the court systems, then they will increase operations at workplaces.
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  Speaker 3: He stated, if we can't do it in the streets,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to increase work side and enforcement operations. In
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  Speaker 3: those sanctuary cities, and we're going to flood work site
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  Speaker 3: enforcement operations. Now, these statements have sparked quote controversy, the
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  Speaker 3: media claims and immigration advocacy groups are fighting back, arguing
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  Speaker 3: that such aggressive enforcement tactics could quote strain community relations
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  Speaker 3: and lead to the targeting of non criminal undocumented immigrants.
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  Speaker 3: Now this comes as the media also freaked out saying
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  Speaker 3: that Donald Trump took all of the fun out of
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  Speaker 3: Cinco de Mayo. Why because many cities canceled or downplayed
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  Speaker 3: their Singo Demyo events for fear of ice raids and deportations.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago residents and the president of their local community group
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  Speaker 3: said that people in the Hispanic community are quote very
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  Speaker 3: scared of gathering in public, with some even considering going
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  Speaker 3: back to Mexico on their own. By the way, that
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  Speaker 3: is absolutely what the Trump administration is saying they want
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  Speaker 3: to happen. Quote our people of very scared. Honestly, they're
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  Speaker 3: saying they don't want to go to work. They have
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  Speaker 3: to go to work because they have to feed their families.
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  Speaker 3: So if they both were working. Now one person is
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  Speaker 3: working as to why they canceled the Singo Demio parade
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  Speaker 3: in Chicago's Little Village, which attracts up to three hundred
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  Speaker 3: thousand people annually. Escobar said that too many people are
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  Speaker 3: just afraid. How about the parade, how about the festivities?
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  Speaker 3: And they say, well, if we're scared to go to work,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's nothing to celebrate. So that took
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  Speaker 3: us to the decision over money. We all see this
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  Speaker 3: country as picking up people with no criminal records, he claims,
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  Speaker 3: which is actually not true. If you come to the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America illegally, you are a criminal. Back
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  Speaker 3: to the statement, and honestly, it's a horrible way we
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  Speaker 3: have seen in my last forty five years I've been
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  Speaker 3: living here in the US, nothing like it.
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  Speaker 4: And so let's just be clear.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly what the President of the United States
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  Speaker 3: of America wanted. He wanted illegal immigrants to not feel
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  Speaker 3: safe staying in the US. He wanted them to be
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  Speaker 3: looking over his shoulder, and is hoping that many will
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  Speaker 3: be deporting themselves, whether it's Chicago or Philadelphia, many other cities,
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  Speaker 3: even in Oregon. The Latino Fests was also canceled there
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  Speaker 3: as the executive director of the Latino Community Association said
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  Speaker 3: there's just too much fear among illegal immigrants, or has
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  Speaker 3: he described them migrants of being identified or detained simply
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  Speaker 3: for participating in our cultural celebrations of Cinco de Mayo.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are also blaming Donald Trump for the quote economic impact,
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  Speaker 3: saying the cancelations have had significant economic repercussions. In Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: the Chamber of Commerce put out a statement estimating a
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  Speaker 3: loss of approximately one point five million in direct income
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  Speaker 3: for the city, in between five and six million for
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  Speaker 3: local businesses due to the parades cancelation on Cinco de Mayo. Now,
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  Speaker 3: all of this complaining comes at a time whether a
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  Speaker 3: shocking video has come out showing illegal immigrants at hacking
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  Speaker 3: police officers in New York. Tom Homan sitting down with
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  Speaker 3: Laura Ingram on Fox talking about this attack on these
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  Speaker 3: police officers and his plan to flood ice workforce in
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  Speaker 3: sanctuary cities.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen, Jame's over.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to look for these public safety threats and
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  Speaker 5: we're going to take them off the streets in New
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  Speaker 5: York and every other sanctuary city. A matter of fact,
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  Speaker 5: every sanctuary theority city. We're going to triple the workforce.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna flood the zone with officers, and we can't
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  Speaker 5: wrestle in the jail, we'll ar wrestling in the community.
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  Speaker 5: If we can't arrestle in the community or arrest at
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  Speaker 5: their work site, We're going to triple work side enforcement operations.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to flood the zone.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to take these public safety threats off the streets.
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  Speaker 5: With your help or without your help.
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  Speaker 3: One thanks for sure, law and order is back, and
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  Speaker 3: the President United States of America is encouraging all of
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  Speaker 3: those impositions of power around him to do the will
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  Speaker 3: of the people, which is to get rid of illegal
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  Speaker 3: immigrants in this country.
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  Speaker 4: And finally, story number three.
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  Speaker 3: The White House has made it very clear that when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to law order, they are a full court
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  Speaker 3: press and a team that is working together, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: the Attorney General's Office, the FBI, and local law enforcement.
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  Speaker 3: And now we have the largest fetanyl seizure in US
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  Speaker 3: history tied to the Cineloa drug cartel. The Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: coming out and sang a sell of the Cineloa cartel
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  Speaker 3: operated in four major US cities. The cartel conducted a
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  Speaker 3: large scale drug distribution operation throughout the western part of
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  Speaker 3: the country that led federal authorities to the largest fetanyl
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  Speaker 3: seizure ever. There was an illegal alien from Mexico that
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  Speaker 3: led the group in the US, and the group ran
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  Speaker 3: one of the largest fetanyl and drug distribution networks the
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  Speaker 3: country has ever seen. Documents from the US Department of
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  Speaker 3: Justice are now revealing the Cineloa cartel boss running this
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  Speaker 3: fetanl empire. As it was described today from Oregon that
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  Speaker 3: she tells you everything you need to know. Oregon sanction
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  Speaker 3: wary policies kept this man safe. Pambondi making it clear
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  Speaker 3: in her statements that this is a problem and it's
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  Speaker 3: taking the lives of countless Americans. The number one killer
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  Speaker 3: of fetanyl in this country is those between the ages
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  Speaker 3: of eighteen and thirty four. And she had a warning
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  Speaker 3: for the American people to tell your kids and your
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  Speaker 3: grandkids about fake pills that are hitting the markets at
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  Speaker 3: record pace.
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  Speaker 6: The DEA seized eleven point five kilos of fentanyl, including
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  Speaker 6: an astounding approximately three million fentanyl pills, the largest seizure
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  Speaker 6: in our nation's history. These are the pills in the
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  Speaker 6: valves right there the main bottom right.
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  Speaker 4: The head of.
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  Speaker 6: This organization, Sinaloa organization here in the country illegally. Six
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  Speaker 6: of these guys and women here in the country illegally.
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  Speaker 6: His name is Uberto Salazar Amaya. He is the leader
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  Speaker 6: and he was living in Salem, Oregon. With him. They
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  Speaker 6: got millions of dollars cash, cars, but the drugs were
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  Speaker 6: in Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Utah. That's how insulated these drug
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  Speaker 6: dealer cartel leaders make themselves. This was an incredible operation
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  Speaker 6: and that's why I wanted all of you here behind me.
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  Speaker 6: It took months and months of work, investigation leading up
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  Speaker 6: to smaller buys, smaller cases to get this massive amount
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  Speaker 6: of drugs and guns off our streets. Five million dollars
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  Speaker 6: approximately in cash, thirty five kilos of metha amphetamine, thirty
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  Speaker 6: five kilos of meth seven point five kilos of cocaine,
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  Speaker 6: four point five kilos of heroin, forty nine rifles and pistols,
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  Speaker 6: all shown in the pictures. And then of course the
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  Speaker 6: three million pills. These pills were stamped as oxy codone.
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  Speaker 6: Let that sink in three million pills going on our streets.
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  Speaker 6: Three million pills the streets of our country laced with
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  Speaker 6: fentanyl labeled as oxycodone, and they were in all different
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  Speaker 6: strengths of fentanyl within them. This operation was made possible
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  Speaker 6: by over fifty five thousand hours of law enforcement investigation.
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  Speaker 6: And this is a really dangerous job that these DEA
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  Speaker 6: agents face every day, but they are getting very dangerous
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  Speaker 6: drugs off of our streets each day.
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  Speaker 3: As Pambondi said, this is historic drug seizure led by
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  Speaker 3: the DEA is a significant blow against the Cineloa cartel
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  Speaker 3: that removes poison from our streets and protects American citizens
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  Speaker 3: from the scourge of fetanyl. The Attorney General also making
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  Speaker 3: it clear that he has the Trump administration behind her,
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  Speaker 3: saying that we must continue to fight these cartels that
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  Speaker 3: have been declared by Donald Trump a terrorist organization, a
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  Speaker 3: designation it should have been done years ago by the
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  Speaker 3: Biden administration, but instead Democrats are giving them sanctuary in
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  Speaker 3: their city.
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