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apparently we have a leak problem inside the Department of
Homeland Security. Somebody is leaking right about the locations of
ICE operations.
Speaker 1: So this is the resistance.
Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security as a leak problem. It
marks now the second time might actually even be the
third that an ICE raid has been revealed to the
public beforehand. So there was first an ICE raid in Colorado, Aurora,
Colorado that was leaked last week. Now the Los Angeles
Times is reporting on another operation that is in the
works for Los Angeles and they got the documentation to
prove it. So somebody has leaked the operational documents to
the LA Times and they published them. So this gets
into a lot of different things. But like the the
media side of this, like, what is the news value
of reporting that an ice operation is going to occur? See,
that's the kind of discussion that would occur, and I
would like to believe did occur, but I have no
idea if it did or not. And if it did,
how long did it occur? Was there anybody taking a
position that said, no, we should not publish this right
just like, and this may come as a surprise to you,
but we get informed in the media. We get informed
a lot of times in advance of a traffic enforcement operation.
So if they're going to be running dui checks or
something like that used to happen a lot more.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do so much.
Speaker 2: I don't like I don't get a lot of the
emails on this stuff from law enforcement agencies and the like,
but they used to keep like we would get regular
bulletins basically, and they would be embargoed. You know, Hey,
here's some information, there's going to be this checkpoint. It's
going to be set up here at this day in time.
Do not publicize and you would not publicize. And then
I think at one point some outlet did publicize it.
And maybe that's why they quit doing it or something,
but they used to do it all the time, and
there was always this understanding that they are letting us
know ahead of time. So when we in the newsroom
are sitting there monitoring radio traffic and we start hearing
all of the you know, people talking over the walkie
talkies on the channels about whatever's going on out there,
we don't dispatch seven different news vans to the scene
to find out what's going on, and you know, police
don't have to take a dozen calls from all these
different you know, assignment desk editors and news reporters trying
to find out what's going on. Why are we hearing
all this scanner traffic. So they just tell you ahead
of time, Hey, we're doing this thing. It happens a
lot with training as well, right if they're going to
be running some sort of a training thing, you know,
kicking in fake doors and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: They don't want people to freak out. They will tell
media ahead.
Speaker 2: Of time because we sitting back listening to the scanner
won't know that it's not real. So, and this has
you've probably heard stories about this where you know, there's
some sort of police incident and then maybe a little
bit later, like within an hour, it's like, oh, it's
a training operation, and then it doesn't get reported on anymore.
There are reasons why you don't do those things. Also,
media doesn't generally report on suicides unless they impact people
in some way, Like if somebody were to commit suicide
in a way that you know, impedes traffic and now
there's a big traffic jam. That's why you'll hear sometimes
on the traffic reports it'll be something like, you know,
a police situation, and they won't say what it is.
Why because there are copycats and people will then try
to get their own fame. So we rob that of
that in order to I don't say we rob them,
but we withhold that kind of publicity so as to
not encourage more people to do it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So those are the kinds of ethical questions that these
newsrooms la times in this case, are supposed to be undertaking.
They're supposed to be talking about, Okay, what is the
impact of us reporting this story? So what is the
news value? Is it news?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yes?
Speaker 2: I think it does count as news that ICE is
going to be doing these operations. I don't know who
they're targeting. I don't know if it's an industry or
a business or people's homes or whatever. But what is
the impact of us reporting this? And one of the
big impacts is officer safety, agent safety, innocent bystander safety.
So when you report that this thing is going to
have and if ICE carries out the raids or the
operations or whatever they may be, if people know they
can arm up, they can flee, they can take hostages,
they can do all sorts of things that jeopardize a
lot of people's lives. And so you don't report on that.
It would be like saying, hey, the you know, Violent
Criminal Task Force is about to go serve a warrant
on Joe Smith living at this address at two o'clock
in the afternoon. Here are the orders. You would not
report that. You would not report that. This is why
you don't. Also, you know, show images when you're flying
overhead in a chopper or you've got a drone over
a hostage standoff situation. So you don't show police positions,
right because it gets people killed. That's why you don't
do that. So why are you reporting this ahead of time? Well,
precedent now has been set after the Aurora, Colorado won
because what happened in Aurora they called off the operation.
Think about that, they called off the operation in Aurora, Colorado.
What happened in Aurora immigration related? What was the deal
with Aurora, Colorado?
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: It was where trend de Arawah went and took over
an apartment building. There's not that many, right, according to
one of those who was that Margaret Brennan. Was that
Margaret Brennan, I forget who it was, Leslie Stall maybe, Oh,
it's not that many apartment buildings.
Speaker 1: Vice President Vance remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So you leak the information, it gets publicized, and then
the operation gets called off, and so what does that
mean the result is that violent gangbangers get away. That's
what you've done by reporting this, That's what you've done
because the agents can't very well go carry out the operation.
And so now the media knows, and the people who
are leaking the information, they know that if I inside
Department of Homeland Security, if I leak the orders and
the battle plans, basically, if I give them to a
media outlet, they also know if they report it, then
it short circuits the operation from occurring. So that is
a politically motivated thing to do. There's only one reason
why you would be publicizing this information ahead of time.
It's to stop the operation from happening, which means you
have people inside DHS that are acting in subordination and
or in in subordination, and you have media that are
acting with a political agenda to thwart immigration enforcement law enforcement.
You're aiding and abtting criminal activity, gang, criminal life activity.
By the way, home invasions, robberies, and such. You are
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has a leak problem leaking information about operations for ICE.
Speaker 1: First it was Aurora, Colorado.
Speaker 2: Now the latest is Los Angeles County, home to more
than eight hundred thousand undocumented residents. All their lacking is documents.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing. Federal law enforcement agents were planning
a large scale immigration enforcement action by the end of
the month. LA Times reporting the operation would be spearheaded
by ICE and would focus on people who do not
have legal status or who already have pending orders of removal.
So again, think about that. The LA Time is telling
people who have been told to leave the country. They're
giving them a heads up that hey, they're going to
come and try to get you to leave the country,
which is what a court told you to do. A
federal law enforcement source who spoke on the condition of
anonymity for fear of you know, being fired, or as
the LA Times calls it, reprisals, said, agents, look, this
is not whistleblower stuff. Okay, this is not whistleblower stuff.
This is insubordination at minimum, and this is a fireable
offense and quite possibly criminal. You have access to information
about an operation that is going to put people's lives
in jeopardy. Whenever you're going after people, especially like the
hardcore criminals that have been ordered to be removed, and
you start alerting those criminals, that's like conspiracy. No agents
with the FBI and the DEA, LA Field offices are
also being called in to assist. According to Matt Vespa's
article at town hall dot com, most federal law enforcement
agencies have deportation powers. The US Marshall Service for example,
the DEA, the ATF, they all have the power to
deport illegal aliens along with ICE, and soon local law
enforcement through their agreements with the Department of Homeland Security
will also have that same power. Right and this is
necessary because the number of illegal aliens allowed to enter
the country under the Biden administration is so large that
ICE cannot possibly do it all by themselves. They need
the cooperation of other law enforcement agencies to help them
on these operations. They need the manpower. And so because
you don't need, we don't need to staff up ICE
to some you know, massive bloated agency that like, you know,
you think it through, you game it all out and say, okay,
let's say they they complete the mission, they they get
rid of everybody they're supposed to get rid of. Then
you can't then you can't ever downsize ICE again, right
because now you're going to have an entrenched employee base
that's not going to want to get fired.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to, you don't want to, you know.
Speaker 2: Staff up this agency to the to the point where
it becomes a behemoth. You just because for normal circumstances,
you don't need as many agents as we need we
need right now. So the idea is you bring in
the other agencies, You get these other officials to help,
and then once the mission is accomplished, everybody goes back
to doing what they were doing before. They're just there
as a port function, and so maybe some of these
people are leaking the information. So now you're going to
have to run sort of a counterintelligence operation inside Department
of Homeland Security. You're going to have to put out
some you know, fake orders basically like we did with
D Day, right where you create all these maps and
plans and some of them are fake, and you do
that so not only if it gets into the enemy's hands,
they're planning for an operation that's actually not going to happen,
and you're able to identify people that had that information,
you can narrow the search down to the people that
had those maps those orders, right. So, like to me,
that's a way to get at the mole, because that's
what you got. You've got a mole inside the government
that's giving this information to a complicit media that sees
its role apparently in Aurora and in Los Angeles as
to aid and debt people who have been ordered out
of the country to evade removal. The La Times. This
is from Bill Malugin. He's a Fox Local reporter in
Los Angeles and he's done a ton of work on
the immigrations situation. He says the Aurora operation was leaked
with CBS and NBC and that forced ICE to reschedule
it last week, and when they rescheduled it, the op
was a failure. A large scale Chicago operation was also
leaked to the media during Trump's first week in office,
leading to a canceling and rescheduling of that op as well.
It is extremely dangerous for ICE officers to have their
plans leaked and for their targets to know they are coming.
Malujian says somebody either does not want these operations to
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Here was another tweet that he sent. I believe this
was not last night, maybe like two nights ago, he said.
In response to Trump's executive orders, the Coast Guard announces
it'll immediately surge boats, cutters, aircraft. Sorry, no, this is
actually from like two weeks ago, a week or so ago,
But the Coastguard is going to be surging boats, cutters,
aircraft and specialized forces to the southeast border around Florida
to prevent mass illegal migration from Haiti and Cuba, and
will also urge resources to the maritime border around Alaska, Hawaii,
and the US territories of Guam Wait has that not
capsized yet, Also the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The
maritime border is well between the Bahamas and South Florida,
the southwest maritime border between the US and Mexico in
the Pacific, the maritime border between Texas and Mexico in
the Gulf of America. So that's the thing now, and
support to customs and border protection on maritime portions of
the southwest US border. Coast Guard says quote, together, in
coordination with our Department of Homeland Security and Department of
Defense teammates, we will detect, deter and interdict illegal migration,
drug smuggling, and other terrorist or hostile activity before it
reaches our borders. Luke Rosiac an investigative reporter for The
Daily Wire reported also that Fairfax County, Virginia, is facing
a three hundred million dollar budget deficit, right for its schools.
Three hundred million dollar deficit for schools Fairfax County. They
spent one hundred and forty two million teaching migrant children
English last year. So they're running a three hundred million
dollar deficit and almost half of it could be attributed
to speak to teaching migrant children English. Consultants have now
been hired to ask if people would rather have police,
fire or parks cut to resolve the county deficit. These
are the real world implications, right, These are the trade offs.
As you know, Thomas soul has said, I quote them frequently.
There are no solutions, There are only trade offs. And
you have a county three hundred million dollars budget deficit.
And so now they're going to people and saying which
do you want cut? Police, fire or parks. I have
talked about this tactic many, many times. The core functions
of government, police and fire. I'm not so sure about
the parks, but police and fire are core functions, and
that's what they lured over people. That's the thing that
they use to get people to acquiesce, to surrender to
tax increases, like, we can't possibly keep funding the local government,
and so we're going to have to make cuts. So
where do you want it to get cut? There, you
stingy taxpayers. Huh huh, No, no, no, these are your options, police, fire,
and parks.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: Those are the only very options because we just cut
to the bone on everything else, and everything else is
not actually cut to the bone. Cutting to the bone
would mean getting rid of some of those other expenditures.
But they don't want to do that, so they offer
you this quote choice, a false choice, that it's either
tax rate increases or no police. There's an email from Kevin.
He says, I sent you the below comments a little
while back, but I didn't get a counter argument from
you on why it would be a bad thing. Well,
I don't know if I said, I don't know if
I've read this or not, So I don't know if
I don't. Necessarily I don't counter every argument. I mean,
I can offer you some ideas about what others may think.
I haven't even read the idea yet. Thinking along the
lines of those who once or who one second say
defund the police until they get robbed and then they say,
where are the police when we need them. Kevin's idea
is to not go into cities and states that say
they will not cooperate with ICE, being sure to make
it public knowledge you are doing this, so like visiting.
Speaker 1: Hang on, there's more.
Speaker 2: This will encourage all those illegal immigrants with a criminal
record to go to those places. Then just give it
time and let that work. It's magic on those cities, drugs, crime,
et cetera. And then see how long it takes for
them to say, well, maybe this wasn't such a good idea,
like what happened with Oregon making illegal drugs legal and
then saying, oh crap, we made a mistake. So maybe
you're talking about ICE going.
Speaker 1: Into those states. Is that?
Speaker 2: So if a city, let's say a city, because a
state is a harder thing because you've got people in
different parts of the state that you know may be
supportive of what you want as far as enforcement, but
they don't live in the city, and the cities dictate
the legislative outcomes, and so these people they have no say,
so they want increased enforcement, but they're not getting it.
So let's go like sanctuary city. So if you have
a sanctuary city, you're saying, don't do any raids in
those cities, and then the word goes out that these
are sanctuary cities, and then all of the criminal elements
will basically go into those cities, turn them into hell holes,
and then people will be like, all right, let's stop
the madness. I mean, you could do that, I guess sure,
But I don't think the criminals just stay in those
sanctuary cities, right, I think they I think they also
would leave the city confines, right, they would go outside
city limits victimize a bunch of people out in the
surrounding areas, and so you're forcing them to live under
that kind of policy as well. I mean, if ICE
is going to get thwarted every single time they try
to do these operations sanctuary city, you know, and agents
or officials are leaking this stuff to the media to
thwart the operations, then maybe that's the way to go.
I don't know, apply a bunch of pressure. I still
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of messages here, But first let me get to the
phones and I'll talk with Steve.
Speaker 1: Hello, Steve, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Yes, sir, so, my call is
in regard to USAID and the discovery that they've been
funding NGOs to destabilize governments that are friendly to the
United States.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, no, yeah, we've been covering that story in
depth all last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep, as you usually do. So my question
really is along the lines of we cannot keep flip
flopping between Marxist leadership and free capital Marcus leadership. This
country will never prosper in that way. Any comments you
have to make on that, and what are we going
to start seeing, in your opinion, some arrest with charges
for treason.
Speaker 2: So on the treason thing, I doubt we'll see anything
like that. It's such a it's a shock to the system,
you know, because of the penalties involved. So I would
be surprised if we see actual trees and charges. Now,
there could be other lower offenses that get charged, depending
on what people did and what they could prove and
that sort of thing, but I think it's a pretty
high bar for treason. The although, like I have heard
people make arguments that are compelling to me at least
that certain actions by certain people over the last.
Speaker 1: Decade do rise to that level.
Speaker 2: But but I just I think it's so rare because
it's such a like I said, a shock to the
system regarding the the flip flopping and the Marxists, the
funding of you know, that that comes out of a
Marxist ideo ideology. I would I would simply say that
us A I D has been funding these types of
color revolutions, which, like I am convinced that us A
I D has been operating at the very least in
cooperation with, if not as an outright covert cover for
the CIA, in destabilizing some of these countries with their
you know, with their propaganda efforts and their mobilization efforts
and that sort of stuff. And so I think that
that has been going on for a long time, and
I don't think that there is ever been USAID operating
in a pro free market way with these countries, at
least probably for the last twenty or thirty years, right,
I think that this has been corrupted by the left
in America to act as essentially a jobs program and
to foment upheaval with an eye towards creating more left
wing countries and governments in those countries. So I'm not
sure that there's a flip flop going on. You know,
I think it's all been I think the politicization has
been in one direction.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense, Well, yeah.
Speaker 3: It does. Accept Its kind of like saying there's a
snake without a head and somebody, certainly. I don't think
a free market, capitalist system and leadership would tolerate anybody
doing that. And if we've known about it, they must
have not out for a very long time. And I
suspect that all that stuff is primarily driven by Marxist
ideology and a desire to flip this country. So you know,
there there's a problem to be dealt with there somewhere,
and oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2: Well so see if I think, yeah, I think part
of the issue, and I think it was I think
it was Musk who said this a couple of days ago,
that the technology was not sufficient for them, even going
back like two or three years ago. Is really when
this tech became available for them to essentially collect and
scrape all this data about where the where the grants
are going and to track all of this money. They
were not able to do it because the computing systems
whatever weren't advanced enough at that time in order to
make it a rapid process. You know. Just keep in mind,
USAID was, you know, dolling out the money to these
non governmental organizations who would then distribute below them to
other groups. And so USAID was never was never tracking
what they call the sub awardes once they gave it
to like if you ran an NGO, they would give
it to you and then that was it. That's as
far as USAID would track it. And then you would
turn around and hand it off to you know, a
dozen other agencies or groups or nonprofits and there was
no tracking of that. But now with the tech, they
were able to track it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that leads yeah, no, go ahead, No, I
was done, all.
Speaker 3: Right, So that leads Okay, I understand what you're saying,
and I appreciate that that view. But that leads a
little bit into the conversation about China and AI and
the products they have in the market are coming soon.
And my comment there is I cannot imagine any software
product that China would bring to the world that doesn't
also spy on the user.
Speaker 2: I agree, I completely agree. I don't trust China or
any of their products at all. Don't want any of
them on any phones. Steve, I appreciate the call because
rule number one about communists commis lie. Rule number one
they lie about everything. You can't trust them. All right,
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