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your support. Real quick, this is an update that Charlotte
City leaders last night pledged to look for short term
money for groups helping people affected by US border patrols
operations in the city. A Charlotte City Council committee voted
unanimously to direct the city manager, Marcus Jones, to collaborate
with Mecklenburg County to find money in the next week.
The commit The also unanimously directed city staff to work
on a public education campaign about available resources for immigrant
communities and people's rights when interacting with border patrol and
other federal immigration officials. See here's the thing. If you
are here illegally and you're looking face to face with
a border patrol or ice agent and they are asking
you and you know, like they're already asking you questions.
This is really only going to go one way because
you're here illegally, right, that's like how you end up
at the endpoint there. That could go a whole bunch
of different ways, but the end result will be the
same under this administration. Right, they're going to send you
back to your home country. And then if you try
to come back in, if you haven't already done that
multiple times, right, then you'll you come back in and
get caught. You'll be charged with a felony. And by
the way, a lot of this is also meant to
send a message, which is you should make arrangements to
leave on your own. And in fact, if you go
to the CBP app Customs Border Patrol their app, they've
got a program there to help you resettle back into
your home country because it costs less money to write
you a check basically to send you away, pay for
your flight, get you out of here, and then they
don't have to worry about tracking you down and the
expense of deportation. So maybe something to consider, right, if
you're living in fear and you're terrified of walking out
the front door, and by the way, that's the other
thing too, Like I'm not sure what the left wants
the border patrol agents and ICE agents to do. It
sounds like they're demanding that you don't pick them up
off the streets. You don't confront these illegal aliens. You
don't do that in their place of business. You don't
do it at their work site. You don't do it
while they're you know, walking down the street or shopping.
You can't do it in any of those locations. So
I'm assuming you mean go to their homes. So you
want so what you want ICE agents to go to
people's homes so then we can have another like another
barricaded person shooting at law enforcement because they don't want
to get deported. Is that the scenario? Or do you
know that they don't have unless they have a warrant,
they don't have the right to come into your house.
And that's why they want people to stay home and
don't answer the door for ICE because then they can't
get you. That's what they're that's what they're telling people.
That's why people are staying home. It's not because it's
just fear. I'm here legally, I'm just afraid. No, no, no,
they're staying home because that's that's all the ali oxen free.
If I could just lay low for long enough, Democrats
will come back in power and we can go back
to the way things work, where I'm allowed to live
in the shadows. I'm allowed to undercut American workers. I'm
allowed to be, you know, working off the books, right,
that's the whole economy. By the way, how are people
able to work off the books? How are they able
to work with you know, documents required if they are
on the books? How much fraud exists? They're like this
whole cottage industry of identity theft surrounding this issue. I've
covered this stuff for twenty five years. Okay, there are
so many problems because of the lack of enforcement of
immigration law. And now everyone's freaking out when this is
what it looks like. And maybe you don't have any
experience ever seeing it, but this is what it looks like.
Worksite raids. It's what it looks like. And I want
you catch people working like this like they need to
go after the employers too. So anyway, the city of
Charlotte in Mecklemburg County, they want to take taxpayer funds
and use that money to somehow help people affected by
the operation. Don't have any idea what that means. The
committee unanimously directed city staff to work on a public
education campaign as well. The committee is focused on budget,
governance and intergovernmental relations. Also, it discussed proposals by the
progressive group Action and See, including denying border Patrol access
to city property. Members of the group and other organizations
including Indivisible Charlotte as well as Charlotte East Pack. The
committee meeting after a social media call out, but city
staff said Charlotte is legally limited in what it can
do to limit federal officials reach. This is a nullification argument.
You are making democrats. I know you know what that
means because the last time you tried this, we had
a civil war over it. Okay, dimple Azmira City councilwoman.
She said that Border Patrol's actions in Charlotte are causing
community chaos.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: No, see, the chaos is created with the breakdown in
law and order. The first part of that phrase, law
and order law the breakdown in law because you guys
don't want to enforce the law and havn't for twenty
five years. Monday's committee vote gave city staff until honor
before November twenty fourth to work with the county to
identify and deploy short term funding to organizations actively supporting
individuals and neighborhoods affected by recent events. No idea what
that means, no idea how much it's going to cost us.
But this so, this is what democrats are doing. They're
going to take taxpayer funds from citizens and they're going
to funnel that money into these left wing, Democrat aligned
nonprofit groups. Right to offer whatever services, whatever support, whatever
that means, No idea. Action NC political director Robert Dawkins
said he's grateful city council moved forward with emergency funding,
but he added many activists are just burnt out on
city leaders, citing North Carolina's Dylan rule status. When they
ask Charlotte for something means it means you got to
ask the state legislature for permission to do a lot
of stuff. You're not You're not a home rule state.
We are not a home rule state where cities get
to set their own course, where a sort of a
mother may i. You have to ask the state legislature
because cities and counties are administrative units of the state.
The state is the seminal authority. Okay, cities are chartered
by the state. They exist at the pleasure of the state.
So no, you don't get home rule Charlotte, he says.
I think we need to work on some way to
get around that excuse by trying to get a home
rule exemption for Charlotte. Yeah. First off, good luck with that. Secondly,
that's my queue to leave very quickly, because imagine what
Charlotte would do, what these Democrat leaders would do completely unchained. Ah,
I can't even imagine.
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Speaker 4: Hello Sharon, Hi, thank you so much for taking my coffee. Sure,
I'm just calling because yesterday I was falling on my
rain camera where I saw a lot of people posting
where the agents were posted, what they were wearing, what
type of vehicles they were driving, alongside the actual license place.
I thought was very dangerous because someone could follow them
to where are they are lodging. And then today I'm
seeing where people are posting how to how they can
use appliances in their home to block drone seles because
they were drones flying around. So I'm wondering is this
an obstruction of justice with even though they're doing it
on this ring the ring app and telling other people
to post all of this in their social media account.
Is this considered an obstruction of justice? I don't think
they are not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a lawyer. I don't think so. Like
this is it's the same thing like years ago before
everybody had a camera and their own you know, publishing
platform on YouTube or something or Facebook. They like media
would you know, send up their helicopters and let's say
you had a police stand off outside of a house,
and the trappers would go up and they would be
shooting video down and then you know, law enforcement realized, hey,
the guy inside the house is watching the news, and
so they would ask the media please do not show
you know, law enforcement officer positions, do not show the
guy inside anything that can help him, right, And media
complies with those requests. Media doesn't do that. But everybody
with their own cameras now and their own publishing platforms,
they don't know any of these rules that journalists and
media companies generally try to follow. And so it's a problem.
But I don't think it's I think it would be
covered under First Amendment protections. You can you can shoot
the video.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I try to do my little due diligence
by telling them that they're following the laws or the land.
They have nothing to work out.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean if they're here legally, then then
they have the documentation to show. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I found that we were a sanctuary city, which is
very depressed, which was was disgusting actually to me because
I didn't know that. I really didn't And I'm praying
and hoping that South Carolina doesn't turn into that because
I really want to move.
Speaker 1: Therena head south. Yeah, that's a lot of people are
doing it from Mecklamurre County sharing it. Yeah, I appreciate
the call. Good to hear from you.
Speaker 4: Thanks, all right, take care, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, jump over here and get Smiley.
Speaker 2: Hello Smiley, Hey, hey are you what's up?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good man, how are you?
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for taking the time to listen
to me. But I have one question, and I'm not
going to take much of your time, okay, But what
I want to know is why is it that we
advertise the fact that ice is coming to town when
you know you're trying to stoop up people. Why do
you let them know you're coming?
Speaker 1: We were talking about this, Uh, what was it on
Friday when this news first started breaking, and one hypothesis
is that they're already here. ICE has already been operating
in Charlotte. So one one theory is that they're that
they were already here and they were monitoring people and
organizations for the response. Right, So when you say, hey,
we're coming, and then if you get people that start leaving,
now they can now they can trace them, they can
follow them. That's that's one theory. I have no idea
if that's true. But yeah, because I asked the same
question on Friday, like why would you be advertising that
you're coming?
Speaker 3: And that makes good sense. Another one of my friends
brought that same topic, cup that they wanted to watch
their movement. Yeah, and so I guess we're monitoring it.
But man, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, all right, I appreciate it, thanks Miley. Yeah,
And that's just a theory, you know. One of the
other ideas is that you do it so this way
people may they may leave and they may try to
go home, they may try to go back to their
home countries. Right, Like, I don't know, I'm not sure
you know what the pr effect or advantages by letting
people know ahead of time. This from WBTV. Nearly twenty
one thousand students in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools were absent yesterday.
Actually that number has now been updated. Thirty thousand, three
hundred and ninety nine absences. Thirty thousand, that is, twenty
one percent of the student population was out yesterday, So
one out of five students not in class. Do you
know what the CMS budget is nowadays? Isn't it like
somewhere around two billion dollars? One out of five students
not in class? I mean, that's just Charlotte is now
the fourteenth most populous US city. It's share of the
population that is Latino. According to this is Greg Greg
LaCour over at the Assembly NC dot com. It's Latino
share has grown from six and a half percent of
the total population back in two thousand and in twenty
five years, it's now fifteen point two, so fifteen percent
in twenty sorry, twenty years, twenty twenty, it's now fifteen percent.
Border patrol agents and Charlotte also involved in a vehicle
ramming incident yesterday when a driver attempted to bock them
in in a parking lot, rammed the car jump the
curb entered the parking lot, sped towards the officers. Driver
was warned to stop and back up, but instead drove
toward the exit of the parking lot, trying to trying
to box them in. Agents approached the vehicle, the driver
rammed a law enforcement vehicle, fled the scene, led them
on a high speed chase, eventually stopped in a cul
de sac, where the driver was arrested. Didn't want to
identify what local organization he or she was with. I
do not know. I've heard this person referred to as
a woman as well as a man. Read between the lines.
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Just as a recap. The Charlotte City Council has a
committee of the Council has unanimously voted to approve an
undefined amount of money to be paid an unidentified group
or groups who are claiming to be helping people that
have interactions with border patrol guys. Do you understand that
you are funding the freaking problem? By doing this. This
is like the dumb ass idea in San Francisco to
pay homeless people a stipend. What did you end up
getting more people coming to the city to collect the stipend.
This it's just such a dumb idea. So dumb. Okay,
let me go to the phones here, Dave, Welcome to
the show.
Speaker 5: Hey Dave, Hey, thanks for taking my class. Sure, it's
just a couple of things. And the guy John who
was worried about, you know, the Fourth Amendment or everything.
I think maybe he's confused about being asked about your citizenship,
comparing it to Nazi Germany's when they asked you where
your your papers were to prove whether or not you
were Jewish. Yes, so there's a big difference.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: And then the officer who was on you don't have
to answer. I mean, you have that right of free speech.
They're going to detain you for a period of time
until they you know, how much time is the government
going to try to confirm your identity? Right, that's but
you're still going to bring a lot of heat on
yourself for no reason, especially if you are a citizen, right,
and just just I don't know if many people are
aware of this. But when you travel to Canada via
car and you are across the border, they ask you
if you own any weapons. You better answer that question
honestly because they know if you're US citizens, if you
own any weapons, because that information is changed between the
two countries.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm aware of that. I've never been to Canada.
Speaker 5: And then one last thing. When you travel to Mexico
and you're on the plane before touchdown and you're filling
out the paperwork, if you read it real closely, it
says specifically on there you cannot stay any longer than
one hundred and eighty days. If you stay longer than
one hundred and eighty days in Mexico, you are going
to be subjected to either being fined or incarcerated or both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, other countries have a much hip, they have a
much higher standard, way higher than we do.
Speaker 5: So thanks for taking a call, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good stuff, good work. Yeah, Dave, I appreciate
the call. It's important, you know, a country without borders
is not a serious country. It's not even a country.
What are you define by Jeff, Welcome to the show, Hey, Jeff, Jeff, Hello, Hello, Hello,
Yes you are alive, on the air.
Speaker 2: All right, right, thanks Sarah, thanks for chaking my call.
I've got a little different different take on the whole situation.
I work in the construction area, and I feel like
there needs to be a look introspect, look at who's
doing the work. And I get to hold the legality
of being illegal and so forth and so on. I
understand it. But now that the border is secured, I
think Trump Trump's missing an opportunity to bring these people
in the fold and let them pay taxes. And because
Americans are not going to do the work that they're doing.
They're not going to process our foods our meats, they're
not doing any construction, Hispanics are carrying the load. And
I'm not a bleeding herd level. I voted for Trump
three times. I don't like his style, but I appreciate
what he's done for this country. But I think he
lives in a bubble and he does not understand who's
actually doing the work. And as these people go away,
it's not going to be good.
Speaker 1: Right, so we should we should allow a permanent underclass.
Speaker 2: No, I'm saying, no, you're a path the citizens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, amnesty right, So.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter what. But Pete, you can't. We
can't put our heads in the sand and not realize
who's doing the work. Now these people, let's just say,
hypothetically ten million people leave here that are illegal, that
are and you know, there's some bad apples. Obviously, I
want to get the bad apples out. But I'm just saying,
if we do not understand that these people are doing
this work, we got our heads up our butts because
they're doing all the work. Just to open your eyes. Yeah,
so that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Its possible that they are doing the work at a
price that others won't.
Speaker 2: No, I'm going to tell you in the construction field,
these Hispanics are making lots of money and they cannot
we cannot find labor. You cannot find labor. And if
you're being honest, if you you look at the jobs
the Americans don't want to do, it's Hispanics that are
doing it. And it's it's really why really.
Speaker 1: Why are they Why are they doing those jobs?
Speaker 2: Because there obviously they want a better way of life.
And and by by no means I'm not a liberal,
but I may sound in this in this particular situation,
but I just feel like we are being naive and
I think someone needs to get Trump's here. And there's
a political aspect. I'm telling you he's given the Democrats
if he in his first term, if he would come
up with a program, he would have shot the wind
out of all the Democrats sales. They would not have
a leg to stand on as it relates to this subject.
Speaker 1: Right, So this, uh, this idea is already implemented in
farm workers. We're already do this with farm workers.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You have a you're talking about a work visa program.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, I mean, I know what you're saying
with that it's a temporary thing. People overstay and so forth,
us all on. But I don't understand why if we
need the labor, I don't understand why we can't make
them a legitimate citizen if they're not if they're not
on the dole, if they're trying to work and they've
got a job families, I don't understand why we can't
utilize them, because.
Speaker 1: Why make them citizens? What is the purpose of doing
so if you can have a work visa program.
Speaker 2: I don't know that they follow the rules, to be honest,
because they're scared.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, if they say this is the legal
route to do it, right, if you're saying this is
the legal route to do it, then then more people
would do it. Why not just do that for the
construction industry.
Speaker 2: Right all I'm saying there's that they need. Look, the
Republicans are my people, need to look inward and come
up with a plan to take the wind out of
the Democrats sales, because they're going to use this They're gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I mean, what you're saying is
you're you're you're pitching an amnesty plan before we've even
gotten the illegal alien the criminal illegal aliens identified and deported.
Like we're still in the middle of this operation. It
just started.
Speaker 2: Actually right right, well, let let me let me ask
you this, and I just I know you probably need
to run. But so there's got to be a quota.
These guys are rounding up people that you know. I
know for a fact, there was a guy that was
apprehended that is a citizen. They yanked him up and
he had he was detained for a day and he
and the gentleman and before made a comment about proving it,
and I don't know whether, well, if he said something incorrectly,
but it took him all day, and he was illegal,
he was a legal.
Speaker 1: Citizen, citizen or resident.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm right, like, is he actually an American citizen or.
Speaker 2: Was he He was legal?
Speaker 1: Got it right, he was legal. He wasn't an illegal alien.
He was a legal alien resident and probably didn't have
his probably did not have his documentation on him.
Speaker 2: And I'm and I don't know this. I'm just speculating. Well,
there's a quota that these people are trying to round us.
Speaker 1: Sure, Trump Trump has said that. Trump has said he
wants to see deportations hit a certain number. I forget
what the number is.
Speaker 2: Right, And I don't know that that's a great policy.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know either. I mean I could see
that going one or two. I mean actually a couple
of differents, And yeah, it could be used for I won't.
Speaker 2: I just want people to understand who's actually doing the
work people. I just drove through downtown some of the
richy neighborhoods in Charlotte, and those people have no clue
who's doing the work in this country. They don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't find that to be a compelling reason
to give everybody that crossed the border illegally. I didn't know,
give them to reward them with citizenship.
Speaker 2: No, there needs to be a process if they have
not if they've been let's be real, if they've been
here for five ten years, okay.
Speaker 1: Right, So as long as you got in long enough ago,
then you get the reward for violating the laws.
Speaker 2: And you get you get you if you again, and
you get.
Speaker 1: To insult everybody, Well, that's just a given. If you
I mean, take all of the criminals out of the equation. Right,
that's just a given. I like what you mean, it's
a given. You're not going to give citizenship to people
who have been breaking the law while they've been here illegally, that's.
Speaker 2: A god not with the last administration.
Speaker 1: No, they didn't give citizenship to them. They gave him
asylum status, which, by the way, that is what happens
all of what you're talking about, like, oh, why don't
we just slow down and help this out and and
you know, help these people out and this and that,
all of this ends as soon as Trump goes lame duck,
all of this ends, because then there will be no
appetite for it. And when a Democrat gets back into power,
everything that was done will be undone. So there are
people that are just waiting.
Speaker 2: That's my point. Yes, that's exactly my point. So just
want him to be a lame duck.
Speaker 1: Want he is going. There's nothing you can do about that.
A lame duck just means he's he didn't have any
more time left on his turn. There's nothing to be
done about that.
Speaker 2: Well, what I'm saying is I want another Republican in office,
and if he doesn't change course, it's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: I don't think citizenship is the way to go. I
don't think it's a good trade off. Jeff, I appreciate
the call. I hear this argument all the time from
people in your industry. I get it. The industry is hurting.
Why because it's been relying on illegal labor. So have
a work visa program for construction workers if no Americans
will do the job. I've heard this from the industries,
from the food processing, from the agriculture. I've heard it all.
I've heard these arguments for twenty five years, and they
are always used as a way to stemy enforcement. So
this is like, so right now, No, I just want enforcement.
I'm not even talking about anything on amnesty or citizenship path,
the citizenship or anything. That's where I'm at. Sorry, Democrats
have radicalized me, particularly in the last four years watching
the asylum corruption going on with the Biden administration. All right,
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Trent says, I work in construction. If the Feds accidentally
scooped me up, why would I be scared? If I
have definitive proof I'm a citizen, They'll just let me go.
All the construction managers complaining about amnesty are just upset
their cheap labor might be taken away. Sarah says, in
addition to working here illegally, tens of millions of illegal
aliens are taking up apartments as well in houses, driving
up the cost. Then there, Trent said, here's another construction
guy with his head someplace. They want to be able
to pay people pennies on the dollar because they refuse
to pay people in normal wage. The Hispanics are getting
undercut with pay I've seen it. These companies know they
have a catch twenty two. They can pay these illegals
whatever they want, and the Hispanics have to live under
fear of speaking up because they are illegal and that
is a key point Trent makes. He is absolutely correct.
That's why I say, you're creating this underclass of people
in our society, and I don't think it's more all right.
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