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a message here from Andy. All right, we'll start with
a Pete tweet. It is Andy who says, hey there, Pete,
love the show, Thank you sir. With usaid running shadow
projects all over the globe with no government oversight, why
exactly couldn't they get the interpreters and other allies out
of Afghanistan and Iraq? What a great question after all
of the money going for these various international and NGOs,
Like why why was that such a Charlie foxtrott. It's
a good question. But wait, there's more. Glenn Beck posted
this on Twitter, founder of Blaze Media and talk show
host Glenn Beck. He says, under Biden, agencies like FEMA, USAID,
Health and Human Services DHS, and the State Department paid
billions of taxpayer dollars to NGOs to fund the Illegal
Immigration Industrial Complex or the IIIC, or as I call it,
the I one NGO. Global Refuge that's its name. Global
Refuge made two hundred and seven million dollars in revenue
in one year twenty twenty two, and virtually all of
that eighty seven percent of it was taxpayer funded, US
taxpayer funded. There's another one called Southwest Key. They got
seven hundred and ninety million in government grants in twenty
twenty two, despite records of financial scandals and misuse of
federal funds. Starting in twenty twenty one, Biden approved one
point six billion dollars in FEMA funding to go toward
immigrant care expenses, and this paid for, among other things,
booking fourteen thousand hotel rooms over the past two years
for illegal immigrants in New York City. Also in twenty
twenty one, Biden moved two billion dollars from HHS to
help pay for the illegal immigrant crisis. Of the two billion,
eight hundred and fifty million, so just under half the
money that Congress had intended to rebuild the US strategic
National stockpile of emergency medical supplies that were deleted or
depleted during the pandemic instead went to the illegal immigrant crisis.
Five point five billion dollars total from State Department, USAID
and FEMA just in the last two years have been
funding the NGOs that have been driving the flow of
illegal immigration into our country. It is a scandal of
epic proportions. Yeah, USAID and the charities that they have
been quote unquote charities, many of whom have this facade
of some affiliation with a religious organization, right, or that
charity has been corrupted from the inside. They have been
actively engaged in the human trafficking industry, because that's what
that is. When you are organizing caravans of people to
walk across dangerous areas, hooking them up with coyotes from
the drug cartels, coyotes who then take as payment, you know, money,
they shake down people on that are making the journey,
they collect extra money from them. They murder people, They
rape the women, right, that's what you are helping them do.
And if the cartel sees some girls that they think
would be good for their sex trade, their sex slave industry,
they will take them too. And that's what these so
called religious organizations have been helping. I have been saying
this for twenty years when I first started looking at
the immigration issue, and it all my interest in it
started in when Pat McCrory was the mayor of Charlotte.
He organized an immigration task force. I forget what the
exact it may have been just a commission or something,
and he brought together all of these different people from
different industries. He brought law enforcement, the hospital people, the
school people, he brought all these different representatives into the mix,
and they put out a report on the impacts of
illegal immigration, not legal, illegal immigration. And when I started
hearing the stories back in the early two thousands about
what was going on, the thing that stood out to
me was this is indefensible when you hear of the
human wreckage that is left in its wake. Right. I mean,
I knew about the quote unquote rape trees. I heard
about those things twenty years ago. It hasn't stopped. It
continued to this day. And if you are endorsing or
supporting or defending a system that allows that to occur,
you do not occupy a moral high ground. You do not,
in fact, you have the opposite. You are the opposite.
You are defending a barbaric, inhumane system, and now the
borders are Tom Holman. I saw this former Fox News
host Megan Kelly her podcast. She just did a one
thousandth episode celebration. I didn't realize that she started her
podcast like right after I did. I'm not saying she
did it because I did. I'm just saying it. It's
just fairly coincidental. But she has like a thousand episodes
now in her podcast, like an hour and a half long,
every single weekday, and started on audio only, but now
then they did the YouTube version as well. I think
there are at like eight hundred something episodes there, she said.
But she said I would not cross Tom Holman. She
had Tom Holman on a couple of weeks ago, and
she's like, Tom Holman is a scary guy. Like it
makes you wonder, like, am I illegal? I'm legal? Right,
I'm a legal resident. Just being in his presence, you're like, oh, hey,
am I legal? I just want to make sure I
think I'm a legal resident. Yeah. So Tom Holman now
says that Trump is not going to hesitate to use
the US military if Mexican cartels target American troops on
the southern border, He says, do I expect violence to escalate, Absolutely,
because the cartels are making record amounts of money. He says,
we're taking the money, or we're taking money out of
their pocket. Homan said the troops need to protect themselves
and that he would send a warning to the cartels
if any US soldiers are harmed. Quote, the wrath of
President Trump's going to come down. He has the ability
to wipe them off the face of the earth. On
his first day in office, you'll recall Trump declared a
national emergency at the southern border that allowed the Department
of Defense to deploy armed forces to the region. I
would submit this is twenty years overdue, twenty years overdue,
even if illegal immigration wasn't a problem that we know.
It is right that wide open border has been traversed
by the cartels for decades. You cannot control an unpatrolled
border when your neighbor is basically a narco state. And
I don't understand the hesitancy to recognize this fact. It
is well known. We've all seen documentaries and movies about
the drug trade and all this stuff. Mexico is always
part of the problem. Okay, not all Mexicans, be clear,
but the country itself, the number of people, the number,
let's just say, the number of politicians and journalists who
are murdered by the cartel is all the proof you
need that Mexico is hanging on by a thread. It
is essentially a failed state. It is a narco state.
You cannot have an unpatrolled border along that line. So
now they're going to send some troops down there. Seventy
six percent of the fourteen thousand migrants so far who
have been arrested are criminals. Did you know that? So
fourteen thousand migrants that have been arrested so far, three
quarters of them are criminals. And the fact that this
wasn't done before Trump came into office is all the
proof you need that Biden did not need any special
authorization or more authority to enforce border security. It was
a choice. All right. If you're listening to this show,
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So Trump declares a national emergency at the southern border,
allowing the DoD to deploy armed forces there. He also
signed an executive order to designate drug cartels and other
criminal organizations there as foreign terrorist organizations or specifically designated
global terrorists. What does that mean, Well, drone strikes. That's
drone strikes, that's what because like Donald Trump is not
going to send troops. I don't think to invade Mexico unless,
of course, they wanted to be our fifty first state. Sorry,
I was just thinking through how that would work. But
would they be fifty one or fifty two after Canada,
but maybe fifty three after Greenland? No, because Guam, Iu
and Puerto Rico maybe. So whatever it means drone strikes,
it means targeted assassinations, targeted operations, right black ops into
your country, Mexico to take out cartel leaders in very
you know, effective and brutal ways. So maybe they get
the message here, Maybe they think the juice isn't worth
the squeeze. Maybe they just kind of go into hiding
for a couple of years and wait out Trump. I
don't know, we're going to see. Holman said, people need
to understand what is asylum, right, because there's this narrative
that was created in the Biden administration purposefully and then
amplified by the you know, the legacy media, which is
basically the you know, the communications arm of the Democrat Party,
which is that no, no, no, they're allowed to be here.
So they're not illegal immigrants, it's different. They are asylum seekers.
And what Holman is saying, which he is absolutely correct,
and I've covered this as well, which is that asylum
is a specific process. And when the Biden administration created
that stupid app, which Trump immediately shut down, right, the
creation of that app was the smoking gun because you
could just log into an app say I'm an asylum seeker.
I check the box, so you say the right words.
And by the way, the coyotes would tell the the
illegal immigrants, they would tell these people, this is what
you say. I am fleeing oppression. I fear for my life. Right,
they gave them the language to say so they could
claim asylum. And what he's saying is like, well, you're
saying you're coming from a dangerous country. So what country
is dangerous? Like why are you fleeing? And people need
to understand that asylum, he says, is you're escaping fear
and persecution from your home government because of race, religion,
political affiliation, and participation in a specific social group. He said,
there are many fraudulent asylum claims, like I would venture
to guess it's about ninety percent of them, because you
just log in click the boxes and then they're like, okay,
you have an appearance in front of an asylum judge
in eight years because we're so backed up because so
many people have downloaded the app and so many people
are claiming asylum. So he says, there are many fraudulent
claims which have overwhelmed the system. And once again, what
does that do. It makes it difficult for the actual
people who are legitimately seeking asylum. It makes it difficult
for them. Again, this is the human cost of what
these leftists have been doing through these agencies like USAID
and the various charities that have been engaged in this
massive global human trafficking operation, which has by the way,
been enriching the cartels. He says, what you don't do
is claim asylum by entering the country illegally. Right, That's
the first red flag, and that's why they did the APP.
That's why I say it's the smoking gun, is that
you're not suppose if you're seeking asylum, there is a
process for doing that and you go to a port
of entry to do so. But they don't do that.
They do the APP and then they cross illegally at
some other part to evade detection and if they can
get across without detected, they don't even do the app
I saw or heard rather on the top of the
hour newscast there that our local hospital Atrium, they sent
out some guidance to their employees saying don't break the law.
That's essentially what it was, all right. They told their
employees that you are not to obstruct ice. If they
come in to do whatever it is they're trying to do,
do not obstruct ice. Charlotte Meckleberg Schools, they put out
a policy directive if you will, or just or directions.
Here's how the story was reported by the local NPR
affiliate by Julian Berger. After the Trump administration reversed a
policy that limited immigration enforcement in sensitive areas like schools,
that was one of the things that the Democrats did.
They're like, you can't do immigration enforcement in these sanctuary buildings.
Basically it's what they were essentially reserved as. You can't
go to schools or churches or like any of these
other places, you can't go there. Charlotte Mecklenberg Schools released
a directive last month stating that immigration officers have a
right to enter schools with a valid warrant. If they
are looking for somebody, think of like a seventeen year
old member of Trende Arawa, right, some gang banger thug
who came into the country illegally filled out the CPB
asylum app and is now in the country and he's
sitting next to your kid in high school. And Ice
knows that kid is going to be there, that criminal
kid is going to be there, and so they want
to get him and ship him out. And I think
now they're like they're going to start moving these deportees
down to Gitmo. So it used to be you can't
go into the school to do it. I mean, think
about think about what think about what the mindset must
be for a teacher or an administrator to like block
federal law enforcement from removing a violent gangster from their classroom.
It's sick. It's sick because that kid, that gangster will
likely victimize the people that are around him, because they
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it's like we've got a president again or something. Seven
four five, seven eleven ten. Email is Pete at the
Pete calendarshow dot com and on Twitter at Pete Calendar.
I have a message. It's a Pete tweet from the
last six months. Like, that's the user's name, the last
six months. I'm not saying that this tweet is from
the last six months, although it is from the last
six months. Nevermind. This person on Twitter says Pete sanctuary
structures for illegal aliens, but not for those who failed
to follow the science right, So you're safe if you
go into the school or the church. But if you
wanted to go to the school or the church during COVID, no,
you are arrested. Charlotte Meckleberg schools told their employees don't
obstruct ice follow the law. The directive is the only
official guidance sent to teachers and staff since the policy
change at the federal level. It says that public schools
cannot deny education to undocumented students. Well, oh you sure
you can't you do it if they don't have the
documents for the vaccines?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Like, don't they prevent students from taking classes if they
don't get their shots in kindergarten that sort of thing. Right,
Don't you have to be immunized before they let you
into the schools? That used to be the case. I
don't know. Don't you have to do that now? Or
you have to produce what would I call it, a
document from a doctor that says like they're not or
like an exemption of some kind religious exemption. Right, don't
you have to show them like the kid's birth certificate
or something, or like, hey, this is my kid. I'm
enrolling them in school. So don't tell me that this
is like it is merely a lack of documentation or something.
This is what I mean when you corrupt the language.
Things like this don't make sense in your news stories
because schools do, in fact prevent students from enrolling if
they don't have documentation. It's only citizenship that we're talking about.
That's what you really want to get to, and that
is a more precise word. But you don't want to
use that word because you are woke, I guess, right,
The directive also tells school employees not to interfere if
immigration officials present a search or arrest warrant. Got a
tweet here Also another peet tweet from Moral Compass, who says,
I work at a school and an email was sent
out by our administration. In the email, it was emphasized
three times to not have an altercation with law enforcement.
And I kind of low key wish somebody would actually yeah.
And then the local NPR station that did this story,
Julian Berger at WFAE reports with a quote from Justin Parmenter.
Does that name ring a belle? It should? We've quoted
him several times over the years, many times over the years,
because he is the radical Marxist who is with the
NCAE leadership, the union, the teachers union guy. He's a
teacher at South Academy of International Languages specializing in COMI.
And he says the lack of follow up community And look,
I say that because I follow the guy on Twitter,
Like I know what the guy is about. He's very
he's very clear about his politics on this stuff. So
he says the lack of follow up communication or training
has left many educators and families uncertain. Oh my gosh, dude, really, like,
you're not serious right now, are you. I haven't a
make ups at the glasswer of it. Really you need
training for this. They just gave it to you, dude.
They just said, well, look see, here's my problem with
this is that I'm treating this right now as if
it is a good faith argument. And it is not
a good faith argument. This is just the calm strategy,
which is like, we just need some follow up communication.
I just need him to talk to me some more
about the policy. Just can we really go over this?
And what they really want is a bitch fest. That's
what they want. They want to be able to stand
in a room and scream and yell and maybe get
some cameras in there for a pr op. Our responsibility
as educators is to provide a safe and nurturing environment
for students and to consider the whole child's needs, not
just their academic needs. Once again, I will point out
because some people who are in education do not understand this.
They are not your kids period. You may be their
teacher for eight or nine months, but that's the extent
of your relationship with that child. It's not yours. I understand.
Kids come in, kids are abused, kids are neglected, your
first reporters or mandated reporters, like I understand all of that,
but there is some there are some people that have
this idea that those are your children and they are
not your children. You may not like that, but that
is the truth. Okay, that is reality. And if that
kid is actually a trend a Araguah gangbanger and Ice
comes to get him, unless you are justin parmenter, you
should not get in the way of the Ice. Folks.
I would like to see justin do that. I feel
like that would actually be kind of entertaining for me.
If there's video, Oh okay on if there's video, then
I would I would like to see that. Parliamentary and
other teachers say CMS has not provided additional meetings or
training to help them understand how to support undocumented students.
What other training do you need? They just told you
do not get in the way of Ice if they
come in here answers Ice comes into a school to
do something like this next to zero. Being in a
position to facilitate our students and families knowing what their
rights are could bring some peace of mind. You are
not an immigration attorney. Dude, this is not your responsibility.
They're like, well, what do I do if a kid
asks me? What do they you know? Ask me about
this stuff? You know what you tell the kid the
same thing you tell the kid when they ask about
your your sexual proclivities. It's not your place to say that.
If you have questions about whatever is going on about
the immigration debate, you should probably google that. I'm not
a lawyer. I'm just a teacher of international languages. My goodness.
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one there. The the occrp acker Jan suggested it should
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better year. That would have been a much better thing.
And Ronnie says getting a date before an asylum judge
sounds about as easy as getting an appointment at the
North Carolina DMV. That's funny because it's true. Craig, Welcome
to the program.
Speaker 2: Hello Craig, Hey, how are you today? Hey?
Speaker 1: I'm all right. What's up?
Speaker 2: I was listening to your show. And while I was
listening to your show, my controller from my office sent
me a text. You'll never guess who just walked in
our door?
Speaker 1: Elon Musk Well close, hie, how many.
Speaker 2: So a couple of them, and they came in and
asked us questions about our staff and we alway produced
the proper information about payroll and how we on board everybody,
so you know, we're clean. But it was interesting, said,
they were very polite, nice, They knocked on the door
that you should come in.
Speaker 1: No, wait, they didn't kick it in, no, like exactly. Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, I'll just listen to your show, and
it's all the time, the first time I really had
any thing irrelevant to that, So I figured I would
give a call, and you know, I'm sure there's gonna
be some quote unquote casualties along the way, but I
think they're they're trying to do the right thing, and
you know, and that's just my belief.
Speaker 1: Well, I remember growing up seeing TV shows and movies
where Ice would you know, go into some warehouse operation
or something, and you know, they would go trying and
round up people that were in the country illegally, and
they'd you know, everybody be trying to run out the
back doors and stuff. So you're saying it was not
that kind of a scene at your place today. Do
you mind if I asked, like what kind of like
what industry are you are you in?
Speaker 2: I'm in the furniture industry, okay, all right, so like that.
Speaker 1: And so they just came in asking for the payroll paperwork.
And that's the thing, Like there are people that are
in the country legally and they have the visas to
allow them to be here to work. So if you
got the paperwork, then you're fine.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Greg, I appreciate it, buddy. Thanks. I
have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: I have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: All right, Yes, sir, you too. Now, just for the record,
I did not send Ice to Craig's workplace, Okay, just
want that clear. I didn't do it. Now, I did
apparently start poking around the Governor of New Jersey's house.
I don't know if they actually went to the house.
It may have because the Governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy,
and he went out there and did this virtue signal
flex where he said that there's somebody in his circle
of friends or something who doesn't have their their legal
status where they would like it to be or something.
He used some euphemism like that while on stage at
some sort of public event, and he's using this story.
He's like, well, you know, I talked with my wife
and we said, well, just you know, we'll put her
in the apartment over the garage. And I'm like, well,
they allow apartments of a garages and new I thought
they would have banned those already then. Anyway, the next thing, though,
was like, wait a minute, you're saying you're harboring an
illegal immigrant. A source close to the governor told Newsweek
that he does not have an undocumented immigrant living in
his home, and he was just reiterating a conversation he
had had with his wife about somebody in their orbit.
The person in question, according to the governor, has legal
status and was just feeling anxious about the Trump administration's
immigration agenda. Okay, so all right, Obviously Governor Murphy lied.
Now I don't know which one is the lie. He
either lied about putting her in the apartment above his
garage or he lies about actually, she's here legally. She
was just nervous one of like, only one of those
things can be true when you say that she's here
illegally and your housinger or she's here or yeah, she's
here illegally and you put her up in the in
the in the apartment, or she is here under legal
status and you did not do that. You're not impeding
it they either way, it's a lot, all right. That'll
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