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Go check it out, Go subscribe Ap. How are you today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, P How are you?
Speaker 1: I am doing well as well. So just before we
brought you on here, I got a message from the
text line and now I've got somebody else confirming or
saying the same thing. And I noticed it as well.
But the traffic in Charlotte today was really good, Like
it wasn't. It wasn't congested on my way into work
for the first time, and I don't know how long.
It was like smooth sailing all the way in. I'm
getting other people that have noticed the same thing and
the connection that we are making. I don't know if
it's provable, but it might have something to do with
Operation Charlotte's Web that's going on today. What do you
think it could be.
Speaker 2: I had seen some reports that a lot of businesses
in the area had closed over the weekend, and maybe
you're remaining closed, so maybe that's also cutting things down.
But yeah, there's the customs and more controls in Charlotte's
Web seems to be catching things over the weekend. The
CPB had the head of the CBB there, mister Raveno.
I made a Raveno said that there were eighty one
arrests and I know the operations are still going on today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're at one hundred and thirty four now.
There were four more arrests this morning, that's the latest.
There was one hundred and thirty before this morning, so
I think we're up to one thirty four now. Wow. Yeah.
And they've been compiling the list of the people that
they've picked up, and you know, some of the names
that they've identified in some of the press releases, and
you know, in some of their records are you know,
as one might expect, these are criminal, illegal aliens. They've
got rap sheets. And I've been saying this, this is
the response. This is the reaction the ramifications of the
policies that these Democrats who have been running Charlotte Mecklenberg
for you know, the last ten fifteen years. Now, this
is the this is the ramification. Like you said, this
is a federal issue. And you know we have our
sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden, where nothing is ever
his fault. And he said, you know, we're not going
to enforce federal immigration law. That's on them to do. Okay,
Well here they are now they're doing it right. And
you've got up in your neck of the woods in Raleigh,
you've got a sheriff that has a similar view. Right.
Didn't you guys scraped the two eighty seven g cooperation too?
Speaker 2: I believe it one time they did. I'm not sure
if they entered into it or not. The previous sheriff
definitely ended that. But oh and he took his place.
Not so sure about that. I would have to actually
go look, I don't know, off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: Who was that? Gerald Baker was at the old sheriff
and so he's not there anymore. No, oh, you guys
got did he lose an election? Yeah? Oh nice, good
for you. Yeah, we can't our guy just he actually
gave a quote to the media two weeks ago where
he said that he doesn't enjoy being sheriff, and then
he announced his reelection. That's the kind of guy we
got here. It's most amazing.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The guy who's here in McKenny now it's a sheriff.
Willie Rowe was He worked underneath Baker and apparently the
two of them heads at some point and there were
firings and accusations, retaliation and that sort of thing that
went on.
Speaker 1: Oh we've got all that too. Yeah yeah, yeah, we've
got all of that going on too. We've had like
multiple chief deputies resigned and write public letters calling our
sheriff a narcissist, a sociopath. Oh yeah, that's like. Yeah,
he fires a lot of.
Speaker 2: People here, well, at least in a splinging f bombs
at federal officials.
Speaker 1: No, that's true. He's not quite Breezy Clayton level, but
he does call he does call white employees crackers. So
he has done that on a recording. Yeah, yeah, on
a recording. So that's what I mean, Like people really don't.
It's like people who don't follow Mecklenburg Sheriff McFadden and
this stuff. Like I hear stories of other sheriffs and
it's like McFadden did that too, and it's like so
like all the worst behavior from all the state sheriffs
just take the worst pieces, and mc fadden has done
like the identical thing. Anyway, let's talk about Breezy a
little bit. This is Anderson Clayton, she's the chair. I
read her Twitter exchange. I don't know, are there any
updates to this? Like she just dropped the F bomb
on Greg Bovino told him blend you.
Speaker 2: I didn't see any new updates. Her first post on
x was on the fifteenth, and it was saying that
border patrol on ICE are arresting in quote stealing our
community members off the streets of Charlotte and that Donald
Trump is single handedly responsible for this haint, for these
heinous actions. Please report any activity you see and know
that that our party will stand them with all immigrant communities,
to which she responded Commander Bravina responded, wrong, US Spirit
Control is busy arresting criminal aliens who are walking your
streets with immunity. We arrested so many criminals that we
had to ex sign extra agents to the process. We
begin putting these dozens of criminals on social media so
that you won't be mistaken again, to which she replied,
f you, and he responded with truth could be a
hard thing.
Speaker 1: Their partner, Yeah, Pardner, he did it. He spelled it
with a D two Pardner. So, uh yeah, so and
that's but look, that's what that's how she's going to
get the rural Trump voters to consider voting for Democrats again. Cussin, right,
cussin and saying, y'all a lot. That's I think the strategy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, somebody really ought to do accounts
how many F bombs she's up to at this point,
it's almost a DA occurrence.
Speaker 1: It feels like, yeah, yeah, definitely, Well it shows that
they're fighting, you know, and what's really at the heart
of all of this. And I mean I played an
audio clip from our County Commission Chairman Mark Durrell where
they're like, on Friday, they did this press conference where
they're standing shoulder to shoulder with these activists, right, and
they're like, I don't know why the federal government wouldn't
include us in their planning and tell us what's going on, Like,
we don't know what's happening. They're keeping us in the dark.
It's like you're literally standing next to the people that
would then broadcast out all of those plans to the people,
the very people that ICE is trying to come and get.
So why would they tell you this stuff? It's It's
just at the heart of all of this.
Speaker 2: Is have they ever told them in the past?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, right, never, Right, Like now.
Speaker 1: They gave you a heads up that they're going to
be in town. That's what they gave you, Right, They're
going to be in town, and you know that's it.
Speaker 2: Well, didn't the sheriff make that letter public?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: I think I think your counterparts, Brett Jensen or maybe
it was Joe Bruno at w SCU TV, I think
one of the two of them have posted out that
mcfeddon had issued of tweets or a post to the
head the letter from CPB saying that they were going
to be doing operations. Yeah, yeah, And I think you
made that public. So I mean if they were told.
Speaker 1: Right, but they want to know, like, what what neighborhood
are you going into? What store?
Speaker 2: Let's get everyone that heads up because we always tell
people we're servant warrants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the other thing is yeah, and they're like, oh,
they're just going to you know, this grocery store. Yeah, Well,
criminals also go to grocery stores. I'm not sure who
needs to hear that, but you know, people who engage
in criminal activity.
Speaker 2: Weird that they're showing up at home depots and grocery stores.
But it's really not because they've already identified these individuals.
They figured out what their phones are, and they've got
the warrants on the phone, so they can find them
where they are by location, right. I mean, you know,
if they're not home, they're somewhere, so let's find where
his phone is. Right, You're gonna take your phone everywhere?
Speaker 1: Right? Right? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Is the rocket science?
Speaker 1: No, It at the core of it is an amnesty viewpoint. Right.
These democrats are playing dumb. They're saying this stuff and
they're all outraged about it because they believe and when
you read their statements, they talk about you know, residents
in Mecklenburg County. They make no differentiation between legal and
illegal aliens, nothing like that. It's all just about you know,
people and residents and stuff. It's because at the core
of it is they want the people who are here
illegally to stay and get citizenship. That's why they object
to anything like this. That that makes you know, people
afraid of enforcement.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh yeah, that and their draining city resources.
Speaker 1: So yes, you know, yeah, well, and also.
Speaker 2: How much of their budget issues are tied into that.
That would be an interesting thing to for maybe, say
the state auditor to look at.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, think about all of the schools
that Charlotte Mecklenberg has built right in order to educate
all of the children, and the emergency rooms. Like the
costs of health insurance and health care and all of yeah,
there are there are costs associated with any population. This
is no different and so yeah, they very well might
end up with with smaller budgets. And the activist groups
and the grassroots organizations and such, and the votes, you know,
because this always ties back to the census counts, which
dictate you know, congressional districts and electoral votes. For president.
And if you can pile a bunch of people that
get counted for the census but they can't vote, that's
fantastic for Democrats. If you pile them into blue states,
they can puff up their numbers, they can get more
congressional seats. Like, there are so many different angles on
this on the story, and it's like that is something
that these enforcement actions are exposing, is the extent of
the problem. And I think the Democrats, you know, unable
to address out there.
Speaker 2: If the census hadn't included certain populations like the legal
aliens or non citizens, that it would have shifted to
something like thirteen more seats for Republicans in the House
and at least two in the Senate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I doing like that. I do recall there was
some analysis along those lines.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then of course the problem with the census where
they undercounted six states and five of the six were
Republican states, and they overcounted six states and five of
those six were Democrat So like just coincidence.
Speaker 2: That they that's just crazy that that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so hence the need to redistrict mid decade.
So anyway, AP, thanks for your time as always appreciate.
Speaker 2: It absolutely, all right, take care good traffic this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm going to monitor when I when I
leave the studio, I'm gonna, like, I'm gonna pay attention
now to see if it's actually better. So because we
have a school day, so it's the kids are in school,
all right, Thanks AP, Thank you. All right, that's ap Dylan.
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so that's that's all you get, That he collapsed. Well,
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claim the man who was arrested was either shot or
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said the man is from Mexico and is in the
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gotten to the real story of the immigration enforcement operation
in Charlotte. The real star, like the real, the important,
the most offensive part of this operation. CNN is on it.
It's the name.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: It's the name Charlotte's Web.
Speaker 3: HM.
Speaker 1: Two reporters worked on this story. It runs four pages.
In the popular children's book Charlotte's Web, the title character,
a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good
to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on
her farm. Federal immigration officials used the book's title to
name their latest crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, Operation Charlotte's Web.
The author of that book, eb White, He's long dead,
but his granddaughter drew a sharp contrast between the federal
raids and the ideals of eb White, highlighted in The
Beloved Book in a statement that she shared with CNN
that Martha White is her name, Martha White, her grandfather.
Quote certainly didn't believe in masked men in unmarked cars
raiding people's homes and workplaces without IDs or summons. He
didn't condone fear mongering. H That's the real story here.
I don't know what we would have done without CNN
reaching out to I mean, think about that. Did Martha
White just send it over, send out this statement to CNN,
or did somebody at CNN track her down and be like, so,
what do you think of them using the name Charlotte's Web. Huh.
The move into North Carolina comes as agents have arrested
thousands across the nation, including dozens in Charlotte, in immigration raids,
and deported nearly two hundred thousand people as of late August.
The controversy highlights the tension between the Trump administration efforts
to arrest and deport immigrants it deems criminals, and the
work of civic and community groups highlighting residences' rights. So,
once again, what is missing any kind of a delineation
between legal and illegal aliens? Once again, now the guy
who's leading these operations, Bovino. Bovino. I don't know how
he pronounces it, but he put up a post on
Twitter and he quoted the book quote, wherever the wind
takes us high low, near, far east, west, north south,
we take to the breeze, we go as we please.
In the book, that's when all of Okay, I'm about
to give a spoiler here. So if you're not aware
of Charlotte's webb and how it ends here, boiler alert. Okay,
so this is what the little baby say in the book.
That's when Charlotte's babies hatch and fly off, leaving Wilbur
to cry himself to sleep, only to find out the
next morning that three spiders stayed to keep him company.
Martha White highlighted the message of generosity and inclusion that
permeates the Children's tail quote by helping you. Perhaps I
was trying to lift up my life a little. That's
what Charlotte says in the book. Heaven knows anyone's life
can stand a little of that. CNN reached out to
the DHS for comment. Right, okay, you reached out. Could
you imagine fielding that call? You're at DHS. You're in
the comms shop and you're getting all sorts of media
requests from all over the country for all of these operations,
and CNN calls you or emails you with this. Yeah.
Oh that's good. I needed to laugh. Thank you for that. Yeah.
By the way, I think you could actually make the
argument here that the name Charlotte's Web and the all
of the spiders when they when they all fly away,
you know, take to the wind and go wherever. Those
are like the immigrants, Those are like the Yeah, you
can't stop us. We're gonna go wherever we want. All
over social media calling out mister Hendrick for selling vehicles
to ice is a wonderful business decision, surpassed only by
bud light. Oh my gosh, are they really they're attacking?
They're attacking where the dealership that sold them the cars? Really?
These people are just unhinged, just unhinged. And then there
is this the super g Mart super g Mart in Pineville.
Border patrol agents with rifles chased after employees at a
super g Mart in Pineville Saturday went into the store
and dragged a teenage employee out before arresting him. That's
according to one of the store's owners. At least part
of it was caught on video. It happened at about
two in the afternoon, said Peter han or Han, whose
family owns the International supermarket chain. So wait a minute,
you were employing an illegal alien supermarket chain owner. Really,
that's quite the admission. It started when scared employees saw
border patrol agents in the parking lot and ran. He
said about half of his employees didn't come to work
the next day on Sunday, which again, like I think
you might be in a bit of trouble, you know,
for hiring illegal aliens. The person arrested was a teenager.
Hands said he was like fifteen or sixteen. It's not
clear where they took the boy. Agents arrived in about
five vehicles and used fake leaves to cover their license
plate numbers. Many of the plates were from Texas. The
most appalling thing was these guys still had the audacity
to smile and wave at the camera. That's that's the
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Speaker 3: Hello John, Hey, Hey, there's a great silver lining to
all this chaos with the border control here and one
day they have managed to cut traffic down quickly. How
many years have we spent widening seventy seven billions of dollars,
the light rail billions of dollars still under construction, for
eighty five still under construction. None of them have had
the impact that the just two hundred agents have had.
I say we keep these two hundred agents around year
round and say billions of dollars and solve the traffic.
Speaker 1: And the fewer cars on the road would also mean
that the roads last longer. The deterioration would not be pollution.
Speaker 3: Isn't that what they're always talking about? You know, they
wouldn't get rid of cars. This is a win win
all around, John.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, sir, Thank you all right, Take care.
Emily writes in on the text line. The narrative is
that Ice is walking around racially profiling brown people and
body snatching. There is no thought to whether they have
criminal records or not. The general libs who aren't too
dialed in really think they're literally driving around and body
slamming anybody who looks hispanic. Yeah, I've seen I have
seen that sentiment expressed as well. Yep, seven oh four
Numbers says, why do we have to keep having the
argument about law abiding illegals? There is no law abiding illegals.
They all have broken the law. Time to go, Jennifer says.
The criminal illegal aliens that are being arrested have some
pretty serious crimes under their belt. We're talking child predators,
chronic drunk drivers, clearly a threat to the legal citizens
of Charlotte. The Democrats argument are disingenuous. Jim In Waxhaw says, Uh,
what do you or your BT colleagues, especially the news
guys here off the record from peers in local media
concerning this big, beautiful illegal immigrants roundup. Is this a
matter of local media just squeezing as much news juice
out of this totally legitimate federal operation for ratings and clicks,
or do you think media folks are actually aligned with
the resistance movement or a little bit of both or
something else. No, I think it is. It is all
of that, right, Uh, local media, I mean for a weekend,
Like they're doing this on a weekend, and staffing in
news departments is always lower, So smaller workforce on the weekends,
slower news cycle, right, not a lot happening. You're usually
going out covering some you know, event that's going on
in town or something you know, or you're out at
chasing an apartment fire or a car accident or something,
or crime homicide, right, something like that. And when you
get protests on the way and by the way, the
protesters know this. These organizers know this. That's why they
do them. They know that. Like it's easy video, it's
easy to get interviews. You just stick a mic in
anybody's face and you have this you know, this tension,
this conflict, tension going on with law enforcement, them chasing people,
and you never know what's going to happen, like, oh
my gosh, look at this, I caught this on video. Yeah,
so they are incentivized absolutely to go cover it, and
look they should though, I mean, is it is newsworthy.
I wish they would try to trace some of this
out like I've been doing. I wish they would try
to connect some of these outcomes to the decisions that
have been made that yielded the necessity for this operation.
I can dream. Come on, the local politicians sound like
the kids at school when they were informed of a
locker check. John in Jersey says Native Americans took slaves
after territorial wars. That's interesting. Yeah, then people say, call
in fake sightings to get the UH to get the
protesters scurrying all over town. As anyone pointed out the
irrational fear the Democrats, news media, school board, and others
are creating by suggesting immigration enforcement is going to take
your kids from school and grab them off the street.
They are creating an irrational fear that only harms the community,
does not help it. Right, correct, Just like the whole
issue of illegal immigration in the first place. Right, they
claim to be the morally superior and ethically superior and
more empathetic people in the art argument, because they're like,
just let all of them in, right, no punishment for anybody,
Amnesty and all this open the borders up. Joe Biden
did it perfectly. And everything meanwhile incentivizing the very human
trafficking and that, by the way, Charlotte is like a
hub now for human trafficking, among the worst in America.
Because we're between the northeast and Texas and Florida, We're
a central location where they traffick people through. Could that
be a reason they're in town? All right, that'll do
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