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that is funded by the Just Trust Foundation, nonprofit lefty.
But the Observer maintains full editorial control of its journalism,
they say, But story by Ryan Orley immigration and Customs
enforcement activity in the Charlotte area spite last week according
to Carolina Migrant Network. I don't know what the Carolina
Migrant Network is. Maybe they will explain what this is
in the story. I'm just kidding. They probably won't, but
that would be helpful context. The nonprofit runs a hotline
community members can call to report suspected ICE activity. Is
that all it does? So okay? The Carolina Migrant Network
runs a hotline that community members in Carolina. Both Carolinas
one just Charlotte. What they run a hot line for
people to avoid law enforcement detection. Right, that's what you're saying.
That's what they're doing. ICE is going around picking up
people that have been arrested for violent offenses, and you're
running a hotline to let people know where ICE is
so they can avoid ICE. Okay. On a typical week,
they say there may be two to four phone calls,
the co founder, Stefania Artega said at a press conference
Monday at the nonprofits office in Charlotte. I wonder where
they get their funding from they can afford an office,
she said. Since last Monday, her staff has received one
hundred and thirty three calls, so way more. Okay, Yes,
that seems like it would indicate that there is a
stepped up ICE operation in progress. Now, I know this
might be a bit unusual because for the last four years,
ICE hasn't been doing really any of this at all, Right,
she said, these are just the phone calls. That doesn't
include the Facebook messages, WhatsApp messages, individual direct messages that
we have received reporting ICE activities, ICE and ICE detentions
in our community. By the way, this is why I
mentioned this before. This is why the ICE agents and
the other law enforcement officers that are coordinating and working
with ICE on some of these arrests. This is why
they wear masks. They what do they call them, the gators.
They pull them up over the it's a it's like
a little neck scarf thing and they pull it up
over their their nose. It's not because their COVID afraid. No,
they don't want to be docksed. They don't want to
be threatened. Their homes address put out on the internet
so people can then go and attack them, attack their family,
attack their home, because that's what's occurred. So that and
that's why they wear the masks, which of course then
the height of hilarity with the leftists saying you should
not be wearing a mask as they parade around towns
torching things and masks, right, okay. Arrests have been mainly
in Charlotte, and in particular near Central Avenue, Albemarle Road
and North Tryon Street. Other arrests happened in the South Boulevard, Pineville, Connapolis, Concord,
and Monroe areas. She did not have exact numbers for
how many people have been detained, but said they were
high and unusual. The way ICE carried out arrests last
week was also quote extremely concerning. We have seen detentions
in close proximity to schools, not just one, but a couple. Well,
the schools are kind of all over the place, you know,
so and there isn't any rule or law against picking
somebody up outside of a school. Even under the sensitive
location policy, you could still pick people up outside of
a building. Work vans and vehicles have also been targeted,
and agents have been aggressive. She said, ICE's arrests in
Charlotte have become increasingly public and that's because of Sheriff Gary.
Not my fault, mcfannin, that's his fault. If you are
worried about the site of these detentions, these transfers could
occur in the jail, but our sheriff doesn't want to
fully cooperate with ICE, and so ICE is forced to
go out and send teams of you know, five, six
seven agents out there and to track people down and
arrest them. That's how they have to go about doing
their arrests to get these people deported because the sheriff
is not fully cooperating. In fact, the other day somebody
said I should watch the Sean Ryan Show. It's a podcast,
and I have seen several episodes of his program. It's
on YouTube. He's a former Navy seal guy, and he
does long form interviews, like he sits down with people
for three hours. It's a three hour podcast. And I
was talking actually with Brett Winterable about this. Brett's on
three to seven here on WBT, and you know, during
the studio handoff, I was telling him yesterday about this
this show, and I'd watched it over the weekend, and
you know, we were talking about the length of that
podcast being three hours, Like, what kind of a monster
does a three hour show? Right? That's uh? But but no.
Part of it is that when you sit for some
for so long in a conversation, especially with like politicians
who are very usually skilled at tap dancing around a
question and not answering it. You know, when you sit
for a three hour conversation, eventually those defense mechanisms they
break down. It's just so hard to keep that up
for three hours. So I watched this interview that that
Sean Ryan did with Tom Holman The Borders Are and
I have pulled some of the highlights from this three
hour conversation, and he talks about a whole range of things,
but he also talks specifically about sanctuary cities. He's talking
about mayors and governors, cities and states, but also sheriffs.
Holman said he has been clear about his position regarding
sanctuary cities, and he has been clear from day one. Oh,
that's not the right sound bite.
Speaker 2: This is it the sanctuary cities and the governors, the mayors,
And if you want to support sanctuary cities and that's
what you want to do, then go ahead. Just don't
get in our way if you don't want I would
think every governor, every mayor, any city council person more
responsibilities protection of the communities. I've already been clear, and
President Trump's been clear from day one. We're prioritizing public
safety threats and national security threats. They should be shoulder
to shoulder with us on this. But their hatred for Trump,
there's a portus sanctuary cities and the politics. Putting politics
over public safety means more to them. I wish they'd
love their communities more than they hate Trump, because we
can make a difference. Bive Seid, from day one, you
can now support us, you can protest us. But if
you cross the line, we'll seek prosecution. If you cross
the line of impeding us, that's a family. If you
knowingly harbor and conceal it, it will go ailing from us.
That's a family. If you interfere, we won't seek prosecution.
And it's already happened to one judge, three judges.
Speaker 1: Right, two judges. Charlotte City Council and Mecklenberg County's Board
of Commissioners have been largely silent on recent arrests. Earlier
this month, Mayor vy Lyles declined to comment on the
first arrests reported outside the county courthouse. According to the Observer,
the activist crowd said that ice enforcement near schools, not
in them, but near a school needs to end. Yeah,
that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen.
I've got more audio, ton of audio, like three hours
worth of all No, I'm kidding, not fully three hours,
but like two and a half. So I'm gonna try
to limit my chatter and play more of the soundbites
from Homan because it was a phenomenal interview. All right,
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held a news conference yesterday because they're so angry that
we're deporting people with criminal records and uh, national security
threats and uh you could see one of these detentions
that occurred from a school, So simply seeing it off
in the distance that was traumatic. They called on local
officials to do what to provide clear compassionate communication about
immigration rights and resources to all CMS families. Okay, like
that's you got to have like two word logo here
branding people. Come on, Yeah, the clear compassionate communication about
immigration rights is that you do not have a right
to be in the country illegally, particularly if you have
been arrested or if you've been ordered deported and then
you re entered. That's a felony. They said, no child
should fear coming to school and losing a family member
at drop off. What if dad's a murderer? Like what
a dad is a citizen, He's an American board citizen.
It's me, okay, what if it's me, I'm dropping the
kid off at the school and I I'm wanted for
murder and CMPD knows that I dropped my kid off
at the school, And so they're like, hey, let's bust
Pete in the drive in line or the drop offline,
and can they do that? Are they allowed to do
that if they're looking for me and they don't know
where to find me, and they know that I'm going
to be dropping off the kid at the school and
I'm wanted for murder, can they do that? Is that acceptable?
Or does this only apply to people who are not
in the country legally. Tom Holman appearing on the Sean
Ryan podcast, he said the Trump administration will not tolerate
the sanctuary cities and these officials that are impeding or
obstructing their ability to do their job. And so they
are now what he says, flooding the zone.
Speaker 2: What sanctuary city is going to get. We're going to
flood the zone. If one agent can't arrest a bad
guy in the jail, I guy to sign the whole team.
U see five or six guys that go ar restless persons,
five or six agents to rest this person because who
knows what weapons has access to rest at his turf.
So if I can't arrest them in the jail safety
and security of the jail, which is safe for everybody,
then I got to sign a whole team in the neighborhood.
If we can in wrestauran at home, they'll rest my
placement employment. So we're going to blood the zone with
agents and communities. We're going to increase work law enforcement
operations tenfold. We're going to get them. So sanctuarous City
is going to get what they want. Don't want more
agents in your communities, more colla arrested, and we find
a bad guy. Like I said before, we're going to
wrest anybody we find during while we're looking for that guy.
If we find an illegal alien and exercise that operation,
they're going to go too. Because under the last administration,
they told ICE immigration officers who took an oath to
enforce immigration law. My orcers told ICE, you can't arrest
buddy for being here illegally. They have to be arrested
for a serious crime, victive a serious crime before you
can take action. Maybe he wrote immigration law. Well, no,
the statue is clear. We told iceations you will, I'll
pull the ultry tuck. You will enforce the laws you
took them all to in the forest. So if you
find an illegal alien while you're looking for that bad guy,
take them into custody. So again, sanctuious cities, everybody said,
why are there's so many cloud arrests? Because you forced
me in the neighborhood. So we're going to flood the.
Speaker 1: Zone collateral arrests. Oh the irony, right, all you activists
and sanctuary city proponents. Gary McFadden, our sheriff who said,
you can't you know, deportation doesn't solve the illegal immigration issue, right,
You are now going to get more collateral arrests of
people who are here illegally but have not been convicted
of a crime or charged with a crime, or illegally
re entered after being deported one time in the past
or something. Because the agents are going out into the
field looking for the worst of the worst, and if
they come across others, they will uphold their oath, they
will make arrests of other illegal immigrants. And so the
very sanctuary policies that you guys have been doing is
actually opening up more of the people you claim to
protect or want to protect. You're opening up more of
them to apprehension and deportation. Once again, it's like what
is it with the lefties where it's like they say
that they are for some population and then their policies
and actions actually harm the people they claim to be
trying to help. So when the East Charlotte PTA members
get mad at Ice for arresting a guy in the
child drop offline or outside the school or within a
sightline of a school. Blame Sheriff Gary. Not my fault, McFadden,
Blame him because had he released that person into the
custody of Ice, as Ice asked, then you wouldn't see it.
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have traumatized any of the school personnel, or any of
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News Cameron Arcand and Bill Malugin. United States Attorney for
the District of California, Bill Asili is taking major action
to crack down on sanctuary policies in the Golden State.
He has launched Operation Guardian Angel, which is a task
force made up of assets from ICE, HSI, DEA, FBI,
atf Border Patrol and they're scanning criminal databases every single
day to identify arrested illegal aliens in the local jails,
so DOJ can charge these aliens with felony illegal reentry.
Sheriff Gary now my fault. Macfadden is going to be
so happy to hear this. This is what he has
been demanding. He has been demanding that they come to
him with a judicial warrant. So guess what, here they come.
It's a pilot program, but according to Assie, the US
Attorney in California, they've made it almost impossible for ICE
to do their job issued detainers and get criminal illegal
immigrants out of jails. So what we're doing instead is
we're going going to start issuing warrants. We're going to
flood the system with warrants for criminal illegal immigration that
are in county jails. They can ignore the detainer, they
cannot ignore a criminal arrest warrant. As soon as an
illegal immigrant is booked into a county jail, we are
reviewing their file and if they meet the elements of
illegal re entry, which is a federal crime, we are
filing a complaint and getting an arrest warrant issued before
they are released from state custody, as Salee said that
the first of its kind program will make the Golden
State a testing ground for other sanctuary jurisdictions throughout the country,
as the administration aims to get illegal aliens with criminal
charges and convictions swiftly out of the United States. In
that interview on The Sean Ryan Show, Tom Holman explained
how the Biden administration hid the record illegal immigration. They
did it by manipulating the reporting sets.
Speaker 2: Stem what the Biden administration did towards the end. They
knew that immigration was a big issue in the election, right,
so they try to claim that border numbers are way down.
We fix this problems down seventy percent.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: They created two programs on of thin air, call them
legal pathways, and they weren't legal pathways. The border numbers
didn't really go down. They went down maybe seventeen percent
if you count all the programs they created us. What
they did was, Okay, we got millions of people come
across the border illegally, so let's create the CBP one
app that same illegal alien population can simply go to
an app make an appointment, come to a port of entry.
They won't call that a legal entry though, same population
of the illegal they just bring them through the port
of entry. Oh, this is a legal pathway. Thousands of
people come to the port of entry. Then they created
the CHNB, Cuba, Haiti, Nicarago, Venzuela. If you from those
four countries, we're going to fly you straight into our airport.
You don't have to go to the border. We'll fly
straight into our major airport. In nineties in the United States,
thirty thousand a month of those.
Speaker 1: Thirty thousand a month, Yeah, thirty thousand a month. So
they create these two pathways and then they wash those
numbers off of the illegal crossings so it shows, oh,
look at that, it's down. It's not down. They just
did it through an app in Los Angeles. They plan
to file up to fifty warrants a week in that jurisdiction.
They have already filed three hundred and fifty since Trump
took office, and the US Attorney says they'll have no choice.
They will comply, and if they don't comply, if they
interfere in our ability to arrest a federal felon, they
can expect to face consequences for that felony. Re Entry
was largely not prosecuted during the Biden administration. Right, McFadden
has always said this. He has always said that this
is the only way he'll comply. Right, show me a warrant.
If you have a writ or a warrant from a
judicial official, from a judge, then absolutely well we'll hand
them over to you. But ice detainers are administrative, not judicial,
and that was his little loophole. And so the faster
they roll this out, then the less likely you're going
to see the apprehensions occurring out in the public. Homan
said that on an average day under Joe Biden, border
patrol saw eighteen hundred godaways per day, eighteen hundred a day,
and those are the known god aways. These are the
ones that you see them, but you can't get to them,
and so they get away. Eighteen hundred a day. Now,
Holman says forty not forty thousand, forty four zero, that's it. Apprehensions.
Under Biden, it was about ten to twelve thousand apprehensions
a day, but then they were released. In Trump's first
one hundred days, the administration has released nine. Four were
witnesses that they specifically were allowed in so they could testify.
Four were medical cases where they had to take them
for treatments and stuff, and one was a discretionary release
for a humanitarian reason. Nine By comparison Biden's first one
hundred days one hundred eighty four thousand and again they
got released into the country. And that's why the deportation
operations are so massive. There were so many people that
were permitted to come in under the last four years
the Biden administration. That's why you're seeing what you're seeing now.
Speaker 2: The left so out they're saying, well, now we're raiding
schools and churches and in hospitals because we did away
with a sense of location policy. We did away the
sensitive location policy of the companies number were there only
enforcement agency that had such a policy? Did you know
that FBI don't have that policy, DA don't have that
policy atf None of these federal agencies have a policy
where you can't arrest somebody on a school ground or
a hospital or someplace else. And why do we do
away with it? Because there is no sanctuary on the
President Trump, there's no sanctuary for criminal islands, public safety threats,
or national security threats in this country. And those are
mean we're going to raid a school. But if we
have an MS thirteen gang member that's a senior at
this high school over here, and we've been looking for him,
we can't find, But all of a sudden, we know
that he's attending class here right now. Significant public safety threat.
We're going to go arrest that guy with the assistance
of the local authorities. Doesn't mean we're sweeping the school.
Means we're taking one bad guy out, and more than
likely we're gonna wait from the lead class. But the
left takes it all. They're going to sweep schools, they're
going to sweep hospitals, they're going to sweep you know, churches.
It's ridiculous. But if there's a national security threat mass
right now that we've been looking for, we know he's
right now in a mass, we're going to arrest them.
There's no sanctuary for public safety threats or national security
threats in this country under President Trump. So that's why.
But again the media takes that so and I'm reading
stories about you know, teachers, you know, elementary school teachers
no teaching their children, and other school school board members
and other teachers how to defy ice they show for
your school. It's just a vilification and we know it's coming.
The vilification of Ice, vilification of Trump, vilification of me,
which I don't care. I mean, I really don't care
what people think about me because I know I'm doing
the right thing. So you can hate on me all
you want. Matter of fact, I get disappointed when an
event there's not protesters. I'm a little disappointed.
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of the latest developments on the immigration front. Out in
Los Angeles, California, there is an operation being run called
Operation Guardian Angel Task Force, where they are various law
enforcement agencies. Federal agencies are going through all of the
local criminal databases every single day, identifying illegal aliens that
have been arrested and then putting out arrest warrants, getting
the warrants from judges. If they have been deported already,
they're re entering right, so they're targeting the ones who
would be exposed to felony charges, and so it's like
this is a stepped up level of enforcement. According to
Fox News, if you've previously been deported, you come back
right then you've committed a federal felony under eight USC
thirteen twenty six, known as illegal re entry. As soon
as the task Force identify if an alien booked into
a local jail who has a previous deportation, they seek
a federal criminal warrant on them for a felony re
entry signed off on by a federal judge. Unlike an
administrative ICE warrant or ICE detainer request, these criminal judicial
warrants cannot be ignored by sanctuary jurisdictions. California's sanctuary state
law cannot shield aliens from these criminal warrants. Instead of
releasing the alien inmates and ignoring ICE detainers, jails must
hand the aliens over to the Feds, regardless of any
sanctuary policy that exists at the local or state level.
The task Force says, once they're at full steam, they
project they will be arresting forty to fifty aliens from
local jails every week, and that if it's successful in
la US, attorneys can use it as a model to
neutralize sanctuary jis jurisdictions in other parts of the country
like Mecklenburg County, bunkhom County, Wake County, Durham County, et cetera,
et cetera. Tom Holman again on the Sean Ryan Show podcast.
He said that it is irritating and insulting that the
media is lying to the public about this topic. Well, now,
hang on a second, it's possible that the media people
that are reporting on this stuff they just are ignorant. Like,
that's possible too. They just don't know what these various
rules are. And so when you get in front of
somebody like Gary McFadden and he tells you, I'll cooperate,
just give me a judicial warrant, and like, oh, okay,
So he's cooperating because they don't know that the detainer
requests are administrative. Last week, there was a report that
the US is now deporting fewer people than under Joe Biden.
Tom Holman pointed this out. He's like, well, okay, but
why why are we boarding fewer people than under Biden?
Because the border is shut down, so there are fewer
people to deport by border patrol. See, by border patrol,
people aren't coming. The border is shut down, they don't
get in, so they're not getting deported by border patrol.
Now what about ice ice removals, Well, now those are
way up.
Speaker 2: They fudge numbers on purpose. It looks like we're doing
lesson We're not ICE is restling and deporting on a
lot more people. Under Joe Biden, you had ten point
five million people come to the border, historic numbers every
year to four years. Every year's historic number. He kept
breaking his own record every year. Same time you have
historic illinomigration and southern border. ICE under Biden had the
lowest numbers or removals, arrests that they arrested, not border Joe,
lowest number of rests and removes by ICE and the
history of the agency. At the same time he had
unprecedented crossing on border. We've turned that around. We got
the most secure border in the history of this country
right now. IS's rest wealt three times more criminosm by
never thought arrested.
Speaker 1: Those are the numbers. Some more numbers Washington times at
the border. The rate of prosecutions for illegally entering the
US is it's a misdemeanor illegally entering. The rate of
prosecutions is up four thousand, five hundred percent from one
year ago. Felony cases against illegal immigrants who sneak back
into the US after they were already deported, those cases prosecutions,
those are up one hundred and forty percent over last
year in the Los Angeles area, which has a large
population of illegal aliens. Federal prosecutors under Biden would go
months without bringing a single illegal reentry case. Under Trump,
they're averaging three dozen cases a week. You just needed
another president. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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