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marked unsafe from Operation Charlotte's Web. Okay, there we go. Yeah,
I just have to make that clear because apparently the
Customs and Border Patrol operation that has created such outrage
over the last week is not over. Well maybe it
is not really sure. Everybody was very happy yesterday. We
had all of the press releases from the Democrats in
local government and even state government. They're all very very
happy celebrating that it's over and you know, calling for
unity and all of us to be inclusive. And by
the way, there is a reason why all of these
messages sound the same. I did a little bit of
research early this morning based off of this, and this
is called lateral research. Is the name for it where
you read a story, and as you read through a
news story, you start whenever you come across something that
the report is citing, you then open up another browser
tab in your Internet and you search for that and
then you start looking into that component of the report.
And so by the end of a report, I'll have
five or six tabs open because I've I've gone down
a rabbit hole based on what the news report is right.
And then you know, when you're done with the other tabs,
just close them all out, move on to the next story.
And that's why I say it takes about two hours
of prep time for every one hour on air. So
the story that was reported, I guess this was yesterday
at WBTV and among other news outlets, they were all
reporting the same thing that first off, homeland Security was done,
they were wrapping up. We got all the press statements.
But then yesterday evening we get new reports that know
they're actually not done with Charlotte's Web the CBP operation.
I just heard at the top of the hour newscast
there before the show began that our own breaking Brett
Jensen filed a report saying that his sources say that
the CBP folks were so angry at the way that
Charlotte teans behaved and the way the operation went down,
that they're now going to send a different unit down
to New Orleans. Because the original story was a week
ago that they were going to come through Charlotte, they
were going to run an operation, a brief stint is
what they called it, and then they were going to
head on down to New Orleans. And then about halfway
through the operation, they were like, we're going to go
up to Raleigh too, and we're going to hit some
places in Raleigh. And we keep asking, why do they
keep telling us this stuff? Why are they telling us
this Why are they giving people a heads up to prepare, unless,
of course they want that they want to see what
you're doing. And while I thought that was a far
fetched theory a couple days ago after yesterday Senate Judiciary hearing,
I'm not so sure anymore. Which, by the way, I
didn't even know that the hearing occurred, but for a
passing reference in a Charlotte Observer story. They didn't cover
the actual substance of that hearing. Had they done that,
I think people would have a better understanding of what
we're actually dealing with, and what Customs and Border Patrol
is actually dealing with, what ICE is dealing with, and
why it is so outrageous that local law enforcement like
our Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden, is
refusing to cooperate specifically with the two eighty seven G program.
I'm going to get into all of this. You will
have new insight about the threat that is actually existing
right now but nobody talks about. And what I would
say is darn near if not actual collusion between the
Democrat Party, these NGOs and yes, the cartels. Like this
is like, I don't know who understands what's actually going on.
I didn't really like I knew these pieces. I didn't
think they were connected. And now I have a lot
of questions and local reporters. You guys better figure this out.
You better make these connections. There's no excuse anymore, all right,
So let me start here. Federal officials. This is from WBTV.
Federal officials said Thursday that the US Border Patrol operation
in Charlotte was not over, despite earlier reports that it
had concluded. Now, remember all of those reports were just
based on secondhand hearsay, right, you had Not my Fault
McFadden coming out like, oh, they told me that they're done,
And you had of of people a news reporters saying,
my sources say that they're done. They're they're they're wrapping
it up. So either their sources were incorrect, there was
a change of plan, I don't know. So on the
morning of Thursday yesterday, WBTV independently confirmed with federal and
law enforcement sources that Border Patrol agents had left Charlotte.
The Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Charlotte's Web and
Charlotte November fifteenth to target undocumented immigrants in the city.
It was believed that the Charlotte operation was tied to
US Border Patrol specifically, but that was no longer the
case as of this publication. At around noon yesterday, Sheriff
Not My Fault McFadden explicitly said that the border patrol
operation had quote officially concluded. The sheriff noted that US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE was still in the
area and would continue its work in the county. But
hours later, officials with the US Department of Homeland Security,
which is that's the one that oversees Border Patrol directly
contradicted the sheriff. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trisha
McLaughlin said Thursday that Operation Charlotte's Web is still active. Quote.
The operation is not over and it is not ending
any time soon end quote. Homeland Security has not said
how long the operation was expected to last.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: WBTV reached out to Sheriff McFadden following this new statement
from Department of Homeland Security, and the Sheriff's office said
it was standing by their initial report of the operation
coming to an end. See if if he relayed any
false information, that's not his fault. That's why we call him,
not my fault, McFadden. Okay, so just get that out
of your head right quick, because he nothing is ever
his fault. So this is not his fault. Somebody must
have lied to him. While McLaughlin insisted that the Charlotte
operation was ongoing, it was unclear what exactly that meant.
Why won't you give us the operational details? A separate
statement from Homeland Security said federal agencies were continuing to
target undocumented immigrants with criminal histories as Operation Charlotte's Web progresses.
It was still believed that the surge of Border Patrol
agents who arrived in Charlotte last weekend had left the
city on Thursday. It was still believed. I don't know
what that means. That's not quoted that there's nobody, there's
no source attributed to that. Sheriff McFadden told a WBTV
reporter that on Thursday morning, federal officials told him Border
Patrol agents were gone from the city. Okay, so maybe
they left and maybe they're going to come back. I
don't know. Homeland Security, by the way, reports that they
arrested about three hundred and seventy people in Charlotte as
part of Operation Charlotte's Web. It was not immediately known
how many of the arrests may have involved criminal offenses.
Federal officials continue to identify all of the arrestees as
undocumented immigrants, but have not gotten more specific about most
of the arrests pending charges.
Speaker 2: Or the like.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, we don't know at this point. We don't
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We got some kids protested outside the studio. They hate ice,
I mean, at least that's what they keep screeching. They're
very young. I think they're from the school a block
away and they walked out. That'll show you ICE, which
isn't even actually running any of the operation Charlotte's Web
Customs and Border Patrol which actually kitties. You can actually
rhyme CBP with a lot of stuff. I'm not going
to give you any help here. Okay, this isn't like
an open book quiz, but I'm guessing they walked out
of that school and they're walking around what we used
to call Needle Park, but now thanks to gentrification, now
it's Bryant Park. I mean, honestly, that was always the
name of it. But they're walking out over there along
Moorhead and apparently I have it on I have a
witness account that they started screeching at the CMPD officer
who drove by, who probably had no idea that that
was occurring, drove past, and they just like lost their minds.
Because I guess the kids think that that's ICE too
or something. I don't know, not really sure, but yeah,
so the Customs and Border Patrol maybe circling back to Charlotte,
or as we like to say, pasaki back. They're going
to pasaki back, circle back to Charlotte. They were not
happy with the way things went.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I did get a very insightful email here from Jan
who said, maybe ICE is upset about Charlotte drivers ramming
all their cars all the time. But Jan points out,
this is Charlotte, Like, if you people can drive like
Pam would have nothing to report on for a traffic report.
That's like, that's a fair point. And I hadn't even
really considered this, But is it possible that these people
were not actually trying to ram all of the ICE
vehicles after circle them and videotaping and honking at them
and yelling epithets at them. But they're just really bad drivers?
Because like I can I can confirm that, Okay, we
have some really really bad drivers in Charlotte. So that's
that could be it. From the WBT text line driven
by Liberty Buick GMC. This morning, WSOC was giving out
a phone number to report ice unbelievable. I've had a
police officer tell me that WSOC stands for we Scare
our community, right, well, okay, look to be fair, that's
all media. Okay, it's not just WSOC. I mean they
are kind of the leaders in the if it bleeds,
it leads, if it secks its next kind of model,
and they have been for you know, twenty five years.
But you know, the motto of the media is if
you're not scared, I'm not doing my job. Like That's
what most media functions off of. And I've said this
many different ways over the years. But the best example
or analogy is, you know, back in the olden times,
when you had the paper boy standing on the corner
and he'd be holding the papers out trying to get
people to buy the papers, extra extra, read all about it.
You wouldn't be saying absolutely nothing happened today, No one's
going to buy that paper.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Let me get Phil, Hello, Phil, Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2: How are you, honey?
Speaker 3: Oh hey, I want to try then get your take
on it. I'm voted for Trump's muck, but I didn't
vote for all of this in a sense that this
is just a theater. If you ask me, it's first
fifty thousand projective, fifty thousand illegals. Then we've got about
three hundred and fifty round up.
Speaker 2: You know that.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're really trying. I think it's just
for shows, because.
Speaker 1: How would you prefer they get to that? How would
you prefer they get the fifty thousand?
Speaker 3: Well, number one, a lot of the guys that come
and working, you know, they use fake social Security cards
and all this other stuff. There's got to be a
way to run all of this. You could show up.
I know plenty of businesses where you could show up
and pull off with thirty five people if you're really
serious about it, pull off with thirty five at each
pop and that would be what two hours.
Speaker 1: So they have done some of them. I mean they
have hit a couple of workplaces.
Speaker 3: And so when it first started, it was defined as
you know, you said, we're going to run up the criminals.
Speaker 1: That's the primary target.
Speaker 3: They would ask anyone who came in illegally is considered
a criminal. Now they're moving the needle where well only
people would be UI's and all this other No, if
you're here illegal, no, no, no, no, I was expecting a.
Speaker 1: Large round up, okay, Phil, So they said, our targets
the first the first target is the worst of the worst, right,
because look, you can't let in what do we have now,
twenty thirty million illegal aliens? The Biden administration let in
over ten million, right, So you have to prioritize how
you use your limited resources to start getting them right.
So that's why they said, the primary target then has
got to be the ones that have the criminal records,
the ones that are pending charges, the worst of the worst,
quote unquote. But they always said, well, while we're running
those ops, if we encounter anybody who is also illegal,
we're taking them into So that was that was always
a secondary priority. But the first priority was, you know,
go after the worst because you don't have the resources
to do the kind of operation you're talking about doing.
Speaker 3: Well, that's true, and I hope there is a plan
to increase, you know, increase funds for you know, all
this USA. Oh they've been hiring and all you know,
it's it's it's really got. All these companies that don't
want this happening in Charlotte are companies who are benefiting
hugely from having this cheap labor and taking jobs and
keeping everyone at such low rates. Yeah, appreciate your take
on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate it. Phil, Thanks for the call. Have
a good weekend. No, look, I get it there. You know,
people are frustrated by the operation and they're frustrated by
it not being large enough. Others are frustrated that is
not large enough. There is there. There are also sort
of downstream impacts, which I've got in a story here
from the Associated Press that talks about that people are
now because this is like this is one aspect to
a multi pronged operation right under the Trump administration. One
is this kind of visible operation right to go target
the worst of the worst, right and pick up anybody
else along the way. If they encounter you, if you're
out there protesting, if you're at the house or something,
when they pick up this criminal like you're going to
that's that's the That's one prong of it. Another prong
is what happens in the court system, in the immigration
court system, and you've got people that are getting deported
immediately out of their hearings and stuff when they show up,
and what is what is happening then is the downstream impact.
People are self deporting, they're leaving. There was a net
for the first time I think in history there was
a net loss. We have fewer foreign born people now,
so people are leaving because they're afraid of being deported,
So better to do it on your own terms. In fact, CBP,
Department of Homeland Security will assist you in leaving. They'll
give you money to leave, So that's another prong. You know,
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Duddle up, dundle up. The The kids have now gone
back to class. They did a lap around the park
there and they went back to class. Which, by the way,
it's nice to be able to just walk out of
a school, walk around more Head Street here and you know,
protest in the middle of the day without having to
worry about, you know, being assaulted or robbed or anything
like that. And kids, this is a good lesson. See
the umbrella of protection that allows you to do what
you just did. That's provided to you by a thing
called law or the rule of law. So you write
down the laws and you say you're not allowed to
do these things, like you know, rob people or assault them.
And then if somebody breaks that law, then the society
has employed people to go out and enforce that law
against your your offender. See in that nice it's a
nice it's a nice model when it works, you know,
and everybody has buy into this sort of thing. So there,
I think there's a larger lesson. Let me jump over
to the text line Jim with a story out of
the LA Times. Protesters also targeted hotels where federal agents
are staying, a tactic seemingly borrowed from Los Angeles area demonstrators. Yes,
and there's a reason why these tactics are being replicated.
I will get into this. There's a there's a nexus
point here. Here's welcoming the federales to say for as
long as it takes to clean up the city. So
I'm guessing forever, right. And I had a report or
I saw a report that people were texting uh. I
think it was out of Rock Hill. They were texting
their uh, their fellow illegal aliens in Charlotte, telling them
where border patrol was staying, like they got the rest
they saw the reservations or something like that, and so
they and then people at the hotel were alerting their
friends and family and spreading the word this is where
the agents are staying, because they rented a block of
hotel rooms while they were in town. I think they
were up in the University City area and again not
a new tactic. Let me see here, I'm trying to
find this other message here. It is from seven oh
four number, don't know who it is. Last week I
purposely left an opposing comment on one of Josh Stein's
posts Governor of North Carolina, regarding Charlotte's Web. He was
his usual milk toast self, short on facts, long on
gas lighting to your point. My feed was immediately flooded
by posts from Democrat politicians across the country, all using
identical language. The speed and frequency in which they have
sent out this past week makes it clear there is
a central propaganda center putting this stuff out. I haven't
seen an inkling of original thoughts or ideas from anyone
on the Democrat side except for Senator John Fetterman. I
have to say I admire his courage to stand up
to the incessant bullying that he has been subjected to. Yeah,
I saw an interview with him the other day where
he was saying, like, when Republicans and maga peeple will
come at him, you know, they're just like, oh, you're stupid,
you got a dumb idea, you said something stupid. We
disagree with that whatever. And when he crossed his fellow
Democrats though he was getting death threats from them. They
were like, I hope you die, hope you get another stroke,
like all of these really terrible things. So he recognizes there, like,
I would not be surprised if that guy flips Republican
at some point or just gets out of politics altogether.
I could see that. Let me get Ralph on. Hello, Ralph,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, over a month ago, Pete, you had
a shootout right at your stations, which a couple people died,
I think one all the scene and you know one
later in the hospital.
Speaker 1: Well that was well, hang on, hang on, Ralph, But
let me defend my turf. Here there was the suspect
was killed by cop a block away from the studio.
That is true. He thee the woman he had kidnapped
and carjacked. She survived, so she was fine. But she
was also at the scene of the crash where he
wrecked the car and then he ran and then he
turned the gun on the cops and they killed him.
He murdered two other people, but that was farther up
Freedom Drive. Okay, it wasn't right here Okay, so like
we only had one we only had one body here.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, and my point is why not welcome
I So, you know, we had the what twenty percent
increase that mervs in downtown Charlotte, you know. And I
worked in proximity of the government building in between those
three buildings of the government building and the courthouse down
at McDowell, and I called in the Bread show. One
day we had a shootout at McDowell by road rage
people and right at the courthouse. And did any the
mainstream media, our local stations reported no, not until I
blasted it out on the fifty thousand watch. They did
have a little bleep the next day in everything. But
you know, Charlotte, you know a lot of people don't
know what's going on downtown. A guy about ten years
ago that started a finol type foundation because his die
son died from it. He was shot on College Street
and died during the mill of day, you know, and
everything that. You know, people need to wake up these democrats.
They are a machine and it's for destruction of society
so they can have socialism and everything. And it's just
so frustrated. I do not live at Metemburg County. I
moved out a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not alone, and that's on that front, Ralph,
I appreciate the call. Have a good weekend. Yeah, And
that's why it's now. It is impossible basically for repub
Bligans to win any elected races here because Republican voters fled.
I think there are a lot of Democrats that don't
understand the game they're playing. I do believe this. I'm
not saying all of them, and I don't know which
ones know and which ones don't. I think that they
just want, like if I'm giving them benefit of the doubt,
they want change, quote unquote. They are racked with suicidal
empathy because they order in their priorities, in their culture,
they order empathy above all else. And when you order
something as the highest principle by which to live and
that then you are willing to die for that highest principle.
And that's where you get suicidal empathy from. This is gad,
said the evolutionary psychologist Guy. He wrote a whole book
about it, suicidal empathy. And it makes sense if you
think of like an honor society like the Japanese would commit.
Harry Carey in order to preserve their honor, right if
they were shamed or something, because that's the highest principle
of the society. And if you have a society that's
highest principle is empathy, then you will lay down your
life for that thing. You will be so inclusive that, yes,
you can murder me or I'll just murder myself. So
I think there are some that I like that. There
are others, though, that are actively trying to dismantle the
quote unquote systemic oppression of the West. There are people
that are like that as well, and the people who
are funding these operations and the people who are you know,
getting votes and support from those from those organizations. Right,
they may not even realize. But I heard a great
point that was made in that Senate Judiciary Committee which
was virtually all crime can be traced in some way
to the cartels. Right, even like your home breaking, why
are they breaking in? Feeding an addiction? Maybe? Okay, well
what hooked them?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: The drug use? Where do the drugs come from?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: When you step back and you think about the cartel
as sort of a Starbucks operation, a lot more of
what we see here makes sense. You got franchise, It's
a franchise model, right, and they have enforcement mechanisms, and
they have spread out they over the years, over the
last ten years, they have spread out all across the country.
They're here, they're operating here. And a lot of the
people that the suicidal empathy folks point to, as the
poster child said, case, oh, this poor person, this the
Maryland man, right, the Charlotte mom or whatever it is,
you don't understand that they may actually be against their
will even but they may be a part of that
cartel franchise model. How did they get here? Who do
they owe? See, in order to run the kind of
operation the cartels are running, you need a lot of
logistical support. You need a lot of people on the ground.
And if you know, innocent person wants to come into
America pays off the cartel which controls all of the
human smuggling corridors. Right, you don't get through unless you
pay the toll. And just because you pay some upfront
price to the cartels doesn't mean that they're done collecting
from you. You may be paying them back for years
and so what so like you don't know, you don't
know the extent of these of this web. If you
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at large in charge of the Homeland Security or the
Border Patrol Operation. Charlotte's Web tweeted out a report. Homeland
Security actually tweeted it out initially because one of the
people that was rounded up in Charlotte's Web was Jordan
Renato Castillo Chaves. Okay, and here is the report from WSOCTV.
Speaker 5: She didn't know until this week that the suspect was
not a US citizen. Now that she does, she believes
justice is deportation.
Speaker 1: It's hurtful.
Speaker 4: Then my child is the victim, and they have this
person and let him go for me.
Speaker 5: Sha Rose says her daughter was thirteen years old when
she met this man, twenty nine year old Jordan Castillo Chaves.
Rose found out when she looked at her daughter's phone.
Speaker 4: And then there was this message from this guy. I'm like,
who's the and she's like, oh, that's my friend. I
just met them on line and I looked at the messages.
There were photos, there were messages that indicated like he
was coming to pick her up, and I immediately just
like dropped, like I feigned like this is not happening
right now.
Speaker 5: In march Pineville police charged Castillo Chavez with indecent liberties
and other sex related charges. He has since bonded out.
This week, Customs and Border Protection named Castillo Chavez of
Costa Rica as one of the worst of the worst
criminal legal aliens, blaming his release on a failed ICE detainer.
I asked the Melckhamberg County Share Office to respond. They
said ICE made a request for advanced notification of his release,
but said the agency did not issue an ICE detainer.
The Sharre's office said they did not notify ICE when
Castillo Chaves bonded out because they weren't legally required.
Speaker 1: There you go, We're not legally required to let you
know that this illegal alien, if he even is one,
we don't know because we scrapped two eighty seven, so
we have no idea who's an illegal alien inside of
our jails. But I said, hey, give us a heads
up when this guy gets ready to bond out. You
have him right now where we want him. Well, I'm
not legally required to call you. The guy molested a
thirteen year old Gary.
Speaker 4: This is serious.
Speaker 5: Roe says her own father had committed a crime in
the US and was deported back to his country years ago.
So she understands the impact and believes it's what Castillo
Chavez deserves too.
Speaker 1: So there you go. And the Gregory Bovino from Border
Patrol said quote and this, folks, is why we are
in North Carolina. All right. That'll do it for this episode.
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