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your support. So last hour we started talking about the

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Mecklemburg County Sheriff, Gary not my Fault McFadden, although I'm

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wondering should we include dj DJ not my Fault McFadden

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because of the whole recording studio that he built in

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the jail, which, in case you aren't aware of that,

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he had this recording studio built and then he brought

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in the media to do like a campaign event, I'm sorry,

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a an announcement right to show the community all of

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the good work that he's doing and why he should

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get re elected. As far as I know, he has

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not announced his re election plan because he's up for

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reelection next year. I'm not aware if he has indicated

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that he is going to run again. I pray that

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he does not, Please don't run. But they do the

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big press event, and the guy that they use to

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hold up as the example of how the inmates are

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sorry the residents, as he calls them, how the residents

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are benefiting from the recording studio, was a guy who's

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in the jail on a murder count. And the Sheriff's

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office never told the victims family that they were going

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to be highlighting their son's murderer alleged murder in this

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puff piece for McFadden, So they happened to turn on

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the TV and see their son's alleged murder on TV

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being celebrated and you know, showing off his skills as

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a rapper or something. And then of course the Sheriff's

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office had to apologize there was no big fat head

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shot of not my fault McFadden on that press release. See,

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they don't put his head shot on the bad when

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they have to respond to bad press release or have

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to respond to things with a press release, bad things

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that they don't put his face on those. But when

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it's something he wants to tout, like the recording studio,

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then yeah, he gets the top third of the of

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the press release with his with his face on it.

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So now he has another chief deputy who has quit.

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This guy's name is Chris Allen. He resigned Monday morning.

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He had replaced Kevin Canty as the second in command

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after Canty resigned less than a year ago, and Canty

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called Sheriff Gary McFadden unfit for office. He said he

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had created a third World dictatorship in the sheriff's office.

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In his letter, Alan also alleged a hostile work environment,

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as well as harassment and bullying. I read the resignation

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letter in the last hour, So if you didn't catch

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the letter, you can get the podcast in you'll hear

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what he had to say. It's brutal what he outlines.

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So McFadden had hired Allan as chief of staff in

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July twenty twenty four, according to a Facebook post from

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the Sheriff's office. Allan came from the Union County Sheriff's

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Office and then he was promoted to interim chief deputy

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in November after Canty's resignation. So Alan was the chief

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of staff. So I'm struggling to understand how he did

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not know that this was the environment when he was

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there since July of twenty four and then took the

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promotion Canty's resignation and that eil or that letter. Obviously,

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everybody in the Sheriff's office has seen that thing. Everybody

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knows what Kanty was doing. He was doing interviews all

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over town about it. So you know, this one Texter

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in the last hour says, this is just disgruntled employees.

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And I have no doubt that they are disgruntled. The

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question is are they legitimately disgruntled? Right? Do they have

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a legitimate reason to be mad at McFadden and the

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culture of that sheriff's office And not just Canty and

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not just Allen, but also Maddox, Gina Hicks. Right, there

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is a whole slew of these former deputies that have

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all been saying the same thing, and they've been saying

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it from the very beginning. Remember, McFadden fired people before

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he even actually took the oath of office. He fired

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Gina Hicks, who was running the jail Gaston County. Was like, hey,

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come work for us because she was running the jail. Well.

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She then ran against him a couple of years later

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when he was up for reelection and she lost in

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the last cycle in the Democrat primary. There was another

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candidate also in that primary, and that's a problem, and

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the same thing is going to happen here again. I

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got a text regarding this from JR. You're exactly right.

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There are currently three other Democrats who have announced that

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they will be running against McFadden in the Democrat primary

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election for Mecklemburg County Sheriff. That plays right into McFadden's

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hands because that will split the vote and McFadden will

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be elected for a third term. The only way to

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beat him is to have one very strong candidate to

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run against him, and it would still be tough to

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beat him. Yeah, Like, that's the problem is that you've

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got too many people that keep running, and so you

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can't have just a one on one race because it's

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a Democrat primary and you get to have all of

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these different candidates in the Democrat primary, and then when

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they go to the general, the Republicans rarely even put

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somebody up, and if they do, Democrat voters would rather

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a felon. Not that McFadden's a felon, but this is

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to the point that Chris made before the newscast. There

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at the end of the last hour that Democrats elected

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Jim Black, re elected him despite the impending indictments. Like

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Jim Black was at the center of several scandals, he

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went to federal prison, and voters in his district he

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was from Matthews, I believe, and they still sent him back.

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Democrats still re elected him rather than elect a Republican.

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They preferred to have the guy that went to federal prison.

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So yeah, chances are not good that McFadden can be

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defeated at the elect at the ballot box here, unless,

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of course, Democrats are able to clear the field for

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a strong opponent and then rally around that one opponent,

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that one candidate to unseat him in the Democrat primary.

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That's the only way that I think you're going to

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be able to knock him off. Here's what McFadden stated

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in a statement that was released following the announcement of

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this resignation by Chris Allen. Quote. I want to reassure

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our staff and community that the Mecklimburg County Sheriff's Office

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remains strong and is committed to its mission. I don't

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believe you your reassurances don't mean anything. Just by saying

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that you want to reassure us despite all you're like,

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you're the meme of the dog sipping coffee in a

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burning room saying this is all fine. It's not fine.

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This is not all fine. This is maladministration. I use

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that word for a reason. The statement then says mcso

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Metclimber County Sheriff's Office will stay focused on what matters most,

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serving with integrity, keeping our community safe, and working hard

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for the people of Meclaburg County. Right, So we can't

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address any of the stuff personnel matters. We're prohibited by

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law from discussing any of this stuff. But even after

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Canty's resignation, McFadden did a couple of interviews. He talked

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with Brett Jensen from Breaking with Brett Jensen here on WBT,

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and he's still just not my fault, not my fault.

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So this doesn't change unless people, specifically Democrats, want this

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to change. But y'all have to want this to change,

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and y'all have to do something about it. All right,

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as they make the media landscape more transparent. Gary McFadden,

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Mecklemburg County Sheriff, Not my fault. McFadden is up for

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reelection next year twenty twenty six. Several candidates have already

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announced campaigns against him. This is according to wbtv dot

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com story by Naomi Coles. The the challengers include retired

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Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Rodney Collins, CMPD Sergeant

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Ricky Robbins, and a former detention officer named Antoine Nance.

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This from the Charlotte Observer. Allan made several allegations in

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his letter, including that McFadden used his position for personal gain.

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Might want to, uh send a tip to the North

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Carolina State Auditor, just a heads up on that. Make

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an anonymous complaint or a tip to the auditor's office,

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and maybe they could come in and take a look

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to see if McFadden is requiring staff to go on

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what are ostensibly campaign events right to improve his standing

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in the community and look probably nothing to it, but

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you know, maybe get a set of eyes on it,

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see what he's actually doing. If there's some actual wrongdoing,

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then the auditor may be able to sniff that out.

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But elected officials do this stuff all the time, right,

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Josh Stein did it with what was it? I'm trying

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to remember the different campaigns there was like the I

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think Roy Cooper's deal was the online scams and stuff

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like that price gouging, right, So they always put out

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these you know, public service announcements, but they're they're basically

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campaign material. It's you know, it elevates your profile and

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you get to use taxpayer funds for the public service campaign, right,

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to make people aware of scams or whatever. And so

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maybe that's you know, this what he's going to be

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able to claim, and that would not surprise me. Alan

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said that McFadden demands staff attend many events to promote

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his own agenda and takes people away from their families.

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He also alleged McFadden asked him to target employees that

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he had supervised and that he experienced constant bullying when

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he refused to do that. Okay, So I use this

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term earlier maladministration, which means bad administration, right, And the

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reason I use that term is because it is the

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legal term. According to Article two, Section one twenty eight

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Dash sixteen North Carolina State law, officers subject to removal

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any sheriff or police officer shall be removed from office

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by the judge of the Superior Court. Charges have to

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be made in writing and then a hearing would be held,

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and then it lists six call for the removal of

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any sheriff or officer. Number one wilful or habitual neglect

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or refusal to perform the duties of the office. I've

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not heard that as any allegation against macfadden. But number

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two for wilfulness, conduct, or maladministration in office. Number three

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is corruption, four is extortion, five is conviction of a felony,

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and six is for intoxication or upon conviction of being intoxicated.

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So I don't think any of those other ones apply.

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I think the only one that you could possibly try

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to remove him for is maladministration. How do you go

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about doing this? Well, you can do a petition for removal.

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The complaint or petition shall be entitled in the name

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of the State of North ca Carolina, and maybe filed

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upon the relation of any five qualified electors of the

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county in which the person charged is an officer. What

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are five qualified electors? Voters? Those are just voters upon

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the approval of the County Attorney of such county, or

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the district attorney of the district, or by any such

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officer upon his own motion. So you can, I guess,

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file a complaint against yourself. I don't know why you

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would do that, but best to cover all the bases.

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I guess they were thinking when they made this law.

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It shall be the duty of the county Attorney or

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district attorney to appear and prosecute this proceeding. See there

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is a mechanism here. There are several mechanisms. Right. You

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can go through the judge of the Superior Court, and

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you can do it after complaints by or petitioned by

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five qualified electors, and then the county attorney or the

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district attorney would then have to approve it. Upon the approval,

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they would then have to appear and prosecute the proceeding.

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And the judge may suspend the accused from office if

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in his judgment, sufficient cause appeared from the petition in

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affidavit which may be presented in support of the charges

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contained therein. So there is a mechanism if people actually

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want to try to effect this change. And I like,

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if you want to start something like that, you would

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only really need to get four because I'd probably sign it.

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Not for nothing, I mean, I'm not saying I would

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charge you for that, like I wouldn't charge you a price.

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I'm not saying not for nothing, like no price. I'm

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sheriff not my fault McFadden cooperating with ICE now per

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the new law. Well, it's funny you mentioned that because

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the other day we got a press release from the

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Sheriff's office, and this one has his face on it.

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So it's something that he wants coverage for in a

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positive way, because if it's a negative story that he's

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responding to, then they don't put his face on those.

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They put his big face on like the top third

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of the sheet. Anyway, they put out this press release,

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and you'll forgive me if I read it sort of haltingly,

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because it's not like a document where you can just

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print it and read it. It's an image. So they

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type this thing up and then they send it as

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an image because again, the top third of the page

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is his face and then the next part is text,

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but you can't just capture the text. I'm not going

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to print his face out. I'm not doing it. I'm

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not printing out a page with the black background and

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the green and all the colors and stuff in that

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huge photo of him. Like, I'm not going through Toner

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just to print out this press release. And if you try,

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the text is super small. So that's what I did.

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A screenshot of it. I blew it up, and so

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it's kind of anyway. Sorry, I'm just letting you know

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why I'm reading it the way I might be reading it,

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because I'm a professional. I want there to be an excuse,

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I mean, an explanation. Okay, here's what he said about

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the immigration topic. I am publicly reaffirming that Mecklenberg County

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is not classified as a quote sanctuary county. Following the

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Department of Justice's most recent publication of sanctuary jurisdictions on

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August five, twenty twenty five, the DOJ's list published pursuant

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to Executive Order one four two eight seven called the

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Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens Order. The list identifies

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jurisdictions with policies that impede enforcement of federal immigration laws.

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Meckelmberg County's absence from this list confirms its compliance with

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federal standards while continuing to focus on local public safety priorities. Okay,

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number one, the reason why he is now in compliance

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is because the state legislature has had to pass I

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think now at this point we are up to three

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different laws. The General Assembly has had to pass two

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or three three laws over the last three years specifically

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to get these sheriffs that have not been fully cooperating

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with ICE to get them to do so. So now

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he benefits by not being on the list because the

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Republican legislature forced him to do what every other sheriff

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in the state had been doing, Like ninety five of

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the one hundred sheriffs were cooperating with ICE fully. He

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and several others like in Wake County, Durham County, oh

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Bunkham County, there's like five of them that have not

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been fully cooperating, and they were turning these illegal aliens loose,

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and they were being accused of being sanctuary sheriffs, and

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he is always very sensitive to that. He didn't like

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that allegation. So now that the list comes out for

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these cities and states and counties that continue to not

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cooperate with ICE. There aren't any North Carolina locations on

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the list because the General Assembly has now made sure

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that these sheriffs have to help with ICE. He goes

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on to say, he has made it his duty to

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ensure the public receives verifiable facts, not assumptions about our

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policies and practices. Okay, they're not assumptions. You ran on

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a campaign of abolishing the two eighty seven G program.

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That was your campaign promise that you were not going

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to cooperate with ICE. And then he kept saying, oh

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that they give me a warrant signed by a judge.

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But a warrant is issued for criminal activity. The ICE

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detainers are specifically for immigration violations, which lead to the

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removal from the country possibly right, So it's a different standard.

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One is civil, one is criminal. And he's demanding a

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criminal warrant for a civil infraction, and he ran again

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on an explicit promise to stop cooperating with ICE. Here

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is what the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Atlanta

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office director John Tucaris told Spectrum News six years ago.

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Criminal federal warrants are only issued in criminal proceedings not

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immigration proceedings, which are civil. So when they ask for

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a criminal arrest warrant to pick up an individual, it

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does not exist in immigration proceedings. So they are really

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asking for something that ICE cannot get, something that there's

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no requirement and no judge can issue for immigration purposes.

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That's the game that McFadden was playing until the state

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legislature closed these loopholes. He goes on to say, for years,

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lawmakers and certain media outlets have tried to paint Mecklumberg

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County as a so called sanctuary jurisdiction, repeatedly using the

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word cooperation with Immigration and Customs enforcement almost exclusively in

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reference to the Mecklinberg Sheriff's office, and not when I

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am seeking that same level of cooperation from ICE, as

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if it were a label meant only for Mecklinberg. Yes

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see again, he's the victim. He refused to call ICE.

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That's why they just did the last law. They just

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did a law saying you've got to contact ICE, because

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this was his latest loophole he was exploiting, where it's like, well,

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you know, it just says, you know that we got

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to let you know that the person's in the jail,

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but we didn't have to give you the call when

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when they're bailing out, and now it's like, Okay, Gary,

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now you have to call. Okay, you got to do this. Yeah,

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full cooperation with ICE, but he's always demanding that ICE

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fully cooperate with him by giving him if a federal

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warrant or something like. Guys, you ran on a campaign

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of not cooperating with ICE. You can't be all butt

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heard when people say you're not fully cooperating with ICE.

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All right, you hear me talk a lot about incentives, right, Well,

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let's talk about incentive trips, the kind that companies offer

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employees to fire them up and reward their teams. If

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better returns. Somebody with deep pockets is behind McFadden's game.

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I don't think he's smart enough to come up with

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these plans for twisting the laws. They pay him and

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then write these statements. Well I know, I think yes

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and no. I think that there are attorneys that are

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working behind the scenes. I have no proof of this,

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but this is my guess that have been advising different

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law enforcement agencies on how to not comply with the

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immigration laws. Right, So they I'm sure that they are

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giving them the guidance that they then rely on to

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obstruct right, and they may have exhausted all of those options.

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I don't know. I asked when we had Destin Hall,

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the Speaker of the House, on and I asked him,

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are we sure that you guys closed all these loopholes now,

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and he seemed confident that they had. So we shall see.

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As for the statements the press release stuff, I think

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that is his office that writes this stuff up, and

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they probably rely on some guidance from those attorneys. Related

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to the illegal immigration topics, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassly

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yesterday released new data from the Department of Health and

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Human Services which confirmed his concern that the Biden administration

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placed more than ten thousand migrant children with unvetted sponsors.

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These requests for the data were ignored or stonewalled by

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the previous administration, which should come as a shock to

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exactly nobody. The data shows that the Office of Refugee

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Resettlement between January twenty twenty one through January twenty twenty five,

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so Biden's term is four years, this office placed eleven thousand,

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four hundred eighty eight unaccompanied migrant children with unvetted sponsors

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who were not their parents and were not their legal guardians.

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During that same four year period, the department also declined

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to conduct home studies for over seventy nine thousand migrant

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children under the age of twelve, including in homes where

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a study was actually recommended, but they didn't do it. Obviously,

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to anybody with half a brain sees the implications here

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that you can have human traffickers taking guardianship of these

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kids because the guardians have not been vetted. Grassley said,

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it's appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety

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and well being of children. He's exactly right. The Trump

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administration has since moved to reform the unaccompanied minor program,

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including launching an interagency initiative and investigation back in February

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into the suspected fraud and trafficking of the program. Also

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Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy out with a statement. He

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posted this up on Twitter formerly known as x This

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is about the launching of an investigation into the White

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Hawk carrier accident. This illegal alien driver of a semi

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who made an illegal U turn in the middle of

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an interstate. He used one of those emergency turnoff lanes

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or where cops can make the U turn, and he

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he just hung a left and like went to turn

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the truck around, and he's got a like we've seen

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the footage from inside his cab and he makes the

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turn and you know, a car traveling at you know,

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seventy miles an hour right behind him plows into his

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UH into the trailer because you don't expect to see

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a tractor trailer just hang a left across the interstate

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and it killed the three people in the car. And

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according to Duffy, Washington State improperly issued this driver a

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full term CDL. Asylum seekers or illegal aliens are not

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allowed to receive a full term CDL. New Mexico failed

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to conduct an English language proficiency test when they pulled

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him over for speeding. Had they done this, the driver

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would not have been on on the road, and the

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Transportation Department is also looking into California's issuance of his

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CDL as well. He says states must follow the rules.

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If they had, this driver would never have been behind

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the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us.

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The failures here are despicable. Non enforcement and radical immigration

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policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier,

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resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate

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forty ton vehicles. The President and I moved quickly to

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require drivers to speak English national language and launch a

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full scale audit of how these licenses are doled out.

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All of this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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We'll have more updates to share soon. All right, that'll

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do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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