Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to
this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon
to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you
want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream,
my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron,
go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the
subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your
smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for
your support. All right, So, the North Carolina Senate has
now filed a bill and actually one of the primary
sponsors of the bill is Senate Majority or Senate President
pro Tem Phil Berger, sometimes called the fifty first Senator. No, no,
he's not. I think that was actually one of his advisors,
Jim Blaine. But anyway, Sena Berger is the leader of
the Republicans, the leader of the Senate, and he has
been in the office I don't know. I think now
he's going on almost thirty years. There, very powerful leader
in North Carolina politics. So the fact that his name
is on this bill as a primary sponsor means this
bill is probably going to pass. Now, what happens to
it over in the House, I don't know I would
suspect it also passes. Maybe they want to make some
changes to it. I don't know. My only advice not
that anybody is asking for it, nor would they probably
ever hear me say this, nor would they probably listen
to me if they did. But for whatever that's worth,
let me just make one minor recommendation on the bill,
which is, make sure that Gary McFadden, the sheriff of
Mecklenburg County, make sure that he does not have some
kind of loophole to wiggle himself through, because he will
find it. He will look for it. God knows how
much staff time he devotes to finding ways not to
cooperate with Ice. Right, Sheriff Gary, Not my fault. McFadden
has now prompted yet another rewrite of a law because
he is an obstinate, arrogant man. He refuses, refuses to
cooperate with Ice, and I know he says that's not true.
He does cooperate when you know you spell it out
in explicit detail. You are required to notify them via
an email with a subject line like you have to
spell this thing out for him in law, so there
is no way that he can wiggle out of it
because what he is doing now, which is what he
did with the concealed carry permit issue, it's what he
did with the the notification of ICE before they passed
the first law last session to try to clamp down
on his dumb ass behavior. Right then he finds another loophole,
which is I don't have to call ICE because see
the detainer request that comes from ICE. The detainer request says,
notify us preferably within forty eight hours before you're about
to release somebody from your jail. Right, you have an
illegal alien in the jail. They have been identified, right,
let us know that they're there, and let us know
that if we put a detainer on somebody, let us
know if you're fixing to get they're fixing to get out.
And that's not in the law. See that's in the
detainer request. That's an ICE detainer. And because it's an
ask and it's not mandated, he doesn't do it. He
doesn't call them, he says, so he says, I don't
have to call them. And then remember his spokesperson last
week said something, oh, what do they want a two
minute warning or something? Just any warning, any warning whatsoever. Right,
if somebody is being held in the jail under a bond, right,
and you find out that, oh, they're an illegal alien.
So Ice says, hey, we see they're an illegal alien.
We want to put a detainer on them so then
we can come get them before they get released back
out into the community. That's the whole point that Ice
wants to take them into custody, before they are released
back out into the society where they will either flee,
they will disappear right or they will commit more crimes.
They're not supposed to be here. Ice wants to take
them into custody. And it is are safer for the
community if that transfer of custody is done inside a
secure environment like a jail. Like a jail, you already
have the bars on the doors and the windows, you've
got keyed access, you have guards, you have all of
the things necessary to effect a safe and peaceful transfer
of power from one entity to another. And so Ice
is simply saying, before you let the guy out, right,
when the guy posts bail and he's about to be released,
please let us know, preferably within forty eight hours. But
let Ice know this guy's getting ready to be released. See,
and if you tell Ice. Hey, this guy posted where
we're doing the paperwork. He's about to be let go.
Then it's on Ice. See that's the thing. Then this
is no longer your problem anymore. And if ICE fails
to come and get him, that's not your problem anymore. Gary,
You're done. Your hands are clean. But see Gary doesn't
want them to actually take custody of the offender, sorry,
the resident of the jail, as he likes to call them. Right,
they're not inmates. You don't call them inmates now, they're residents.
He likes to call them residents. So he doesn't want
them released. How do I know this? He said so.
He said it last week. He said, you know, deportations
don't make the community safer, and we can't arrest our
way out of this. We can't deport ourselves out of it.
And actually, yes you can. That's the whole reason why
you have a jail is to remove people who cannot
live peaceably in a society. It's to get them out
of the society where they are victimizing other people. I
was watching well, I saw a video clip. I think
it's the president of I think it's El Salvador. I
think that's the country where the guy has been like
cracking down on crime. I forget his name, And it
was a couple of weeks ago and some economists put
out some report and they were like, you know, if
you if you crack down on crime, you're going to
see a hit to the economy, which I'd never heard
this argument before, but apparently like there is a like
if you start cracking down on crime, people go to jail,
there is a there was a decline in the economy.
And he says, yes, that's true, but that's at first
because what you're not capturing is the fact that he
gives an example this analogy where you know you've got
like you got Pedro, me right, you got Pedro. And
Pedro is out there selling tomatoes in the market. And
Pedro works all day at the market selling tomatoes and
he makes five dollars a day. And then on the
way home and it's long, hard work, right, long hard work,
all day long, twelve fourteen hours in the day, and
you make five bucks. And then on my way home
from work from the market, going to my house, I
am jumped by a couple of gang members and they
steal my five dollars and maybe all of my tomatoes too.
What signal does that send to me? It says I
can be a gang member and make five dollars for
ten minutes worth of work and get a bunch of
tomatoes two. Right, So I can just steal from somebody
else and have way more time to steal other things,
and I can make way more money. That is a
rational decision if you are willing. If the society right
has gone down this path and has just accepted this
as the status quo, then you will have more people
that in gat and that behavior. It becomes a rational choice.
And that's the same thing going on here. Right. If
you don't send the signal, Look what's happening on the
southern border. The signal has been sent. If you come here,
we will deport you. The new sheriff in town Trump
is going to deport a whole bunch of people. And
the border crossings are down like ninety percent because the
message has been received. Signal received. That's the point. And
it allows for the people who are more interested in
living in a peaceful, high trust society, it gives them
the superior position, and then you have more peace loving
people engaged in productive pursuits. Right, this is basic societal
level stuff and somewhere along the line, the purveyors of utopia,
aka these Marxists aggressives. These folks have lost sight of
what it takes to actually have a functioning free society.
Well probably because they're Marxists, now, that would explain it.
You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense
of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the
people of our past while transcending generations. They help us
process the meaning of life, and our stories are told
through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video
started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. It
was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images,
photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos
and albums. The trusted, talented and dedicated team at Creative
Video will go over all of the details with you
to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. Drop them off
in person or mail them. They'll be ready in a
week or two. Memorial videos for your loved ones, videos
for rehearsal, dinners, weddings, graduations, Christmas, family vacations, birthdays, or
just your family stories all told through images. That's what
your photos and videos are They are your life told
through the eyes of everyone around you and all who
came before you, and they will tell others to come
who you are. Visit creative video dot com. Alrighty, so Gary,
not my fault. McFadden, the sheriff of Mecklenburg County, has
found another way to try to not cooperate with Immigration
and Customs enforcement. When illegal aliens accused of violent defenses
or have deportation orders on them and all of that,
they end up in the jail. They get arrested for something.
They end up in the jail and ICE sends over
a detainer. They you know, they put it into the
system and they're like, Okay, we got this guy in jail,
and ICE is like, hey, put a forty eight hour
detainer on the guy and so and this came up
two weeks ago. I want to say, where the very
this very situation occurred and the guy got let out.
And this guy was a bad ombre. Right, he had
whipped up on his spouse or something, and these were
violent charges ICE asked for. They put a detainer on
him and then he posted bail and got out and
the Sheriff's office never called Ice to tell Ice that
he was getting ready to be released, and so Ice
took umbradge at that and then Sheriff, not my fault, McFadden,
it's like, not my fault, very on brand, it's not
my fault, and the like, well, the detainer we gave
you says very clearly, let us know if the guy's
about to be released from your custody. And that's not
in the law. See, that's just on the detainer form.
And so you know, I don't have to call you.
Ice is like, yeah, you should call us. You have
to call us. He's like, he doesn't say that in
the law, so I don't have to do it. See,
so this is yet another loophole. So now you've got
the North Carolina Border Protection Act, filed by Senators Berger
along with Warren Daniel and Buck Newton, the three primary sponsors,
all of whom are powerful senators in the state legislature.
They've got a bunch of whereases in the bill. This
is Senate Bill one fifty three. While the federal government
is ultimately responsible for the enforcement of our nation's immigration laws,
states and local governments have a critical role to play
in upholding the rule of law, fighting illegal immigration and
protecting the safety of our citizens. And they point out
whereas Trump issued executive orders, one of which was to
declare a national emergency on the southern border of the
United States, Right, why is our sheriff acting like that
did not happen. There was an emergency declaration. Why are
you pretending that that did not occur, Sheriff. They go
on to say Article five, sorry, Section five of Article
three of the state Constitution charges the governor with taking
care that the laws are faithfully executed. And whereas, to date,
Governor Stein has not directed the agencies, law enforcement officers,
or other agents of the state to take actions to
one support or participate in the initiatives to accomplish these
goals of securing taxpayer dollars for American and state citizens,
or two, to prevent actions by agencies or political subdivisions
like the Sheriff's office that may frustrate those purposes. So
they take aim. They're pointing out that the governor has
the power to apply why pressure on McFadden, and he's
not doing it. Nobody's doing it, by the way, nobody
in the Democrat Party is doing it. Nobody is saying, hey, Gary, Hey, moron,
you might want to not release the violent offenders. Maybe. Okay, Look,
if you got somebody who has got an ICE detainer
on them and they're not a violent offender, Like, if
you don't want to call Ice and let Ice know
that they're about to bail out, that's one thing. But
when you got a guy who is a violent offender,
it's probably not a good idea. It's not good optics
to let him out. This has happened now so often, right, Like,
I don't understand why, just from a political pragmatism point
of view, why his fellow Democrats have not come to
him and said, dude, don't release the violent ones. Because
it makes headlines. Moron, It makes headline. It makes all
the Democrats look bad, and it makes the sheriff look
really bad. And then he goes out and has to
do these sit down interviews and maybe that's really what
the whole thing is about for him. I don't know.
But he goes and does the sit down interviews and
he says more stupid stuff, and that makes Democrats look bad.
You guys got a problem, Democrats. You have a problem
with this sheriff. You need to address it. You guys
need to be calling this out in public. And I
know the media is not going to ask you to
play defend or disavow with this, Sheriff. I know that
that being said, you can do it on your own.
You can actually come out and say, hey, you know what,
we should not be releasing these violent offenders back out
into the streets where they prey upon the very community
that you claim you're trying to protect. Protect them, take
a stand for what is right. Here's a great idea.
How about making an escape to a really special and
secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a drive up
the mountain and Cabins of Ashville is your connection. Whether
you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to
plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together
for a big old reunion, Cabins of Ashville has the
ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your
loved ones and the things that truly matter. Nestled within
the breath taking fourteen thousand acres of the Pisga National Forest,
their cabins offer a serene escape in the heart of
the Blue Ridge Mountains. Centrally located between Asheville and the
entrance of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. It's the
perfect balance of seclusion and proximity to all the local
attractions with hot tubs, fireplaces, air conditioning, smart TVs, Wi
Fi grills, outdoor tables, and your own private covered porch.
Choose from thirteen cabins, six cottages, two villas, and a
great lodge with eleven king sized bedrooms. Cabins of Ashville
has the ideal spot for you for any occasion, and
they have pet friendly accommodations. Call or text eight two
eight three six seven, seven sixty eight or check out
all there is to offer at Cabins Offashville dot com
and make memories that'll last a lifetime. I have a
message here from Dennis who says you've made me think
of a new nickname for Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden.
How about Gary loophole McFadden, Gary loophole McFadden. I don't know.
You gotta have I think you've got to have some
sort of alliteration in the nickname for it really to land.
So the m and not my fault McFadden, that's what
helps it. I'm not saying it's the best nickname. I
am open to others, but it's got to be descriptive.
And look when you it captures McFadden's response to literally everything,
everything that goes wrong under his command is not his fault.
He'll tell you every time the state comes in and
dings them for not complying with some rules or whatever.
Not my fault, not our fault. It's the racist jail
inspectors hired by the state. That's what he said. Nothing
is ever his fault. And then a message from Mark,
who says, Pete, we need to pick up the tradition
of naming a law for a person involved in a
preventable tragedy. I propose we call this latest legislation Gary's Law.
I like it. Although there are two ares in Gary.
I don't know why. That's how he spells it. So
I'm fine, Well, I'm gonna write it down right now,
Senate Bill one fifty three Gary's Law. I wrote it down.
I'm going to refer to it as Gary's Law from
now on. Mark, I like that idea. So this is
a six page bill, right I've highlighted parts of it,
I've read through it all, and so the part one
says cooperation with federal immigration officials. Says the Secretary of
the Department of Public Safety, shall do so. That's not may,
that's shall. That is a directive. Okay, you have to
do this. Shall do each of the following, and then
it has a list of four items. The first one
is I think probably the most important, which is enter
into a memorandum of agreement with the Director of US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement pursuing two two eighty seven G
of the Illegal Immigration Reform Immigrant Responsibility Act of nineteen
ninety six two eighty seven G. See Gary, Now, the
state's gonna make you do it right. This is the
find out part. Okay. We're in the find out stage
of the equation. You are now finding out, okay, or
if you prefer from a bronx tale. Now you just
can't leave right. You're in here with us. See I'm
not in here with you, You're in here with me.
That's where you are right now. That's where you find
yourself with the state legislature. You are on their radar,
my friend. They are aware of your shenanigans. Not just you.
There are a couple other sheriffs around the state that
are still trying to weasel out through these loopholes too. Sure,
but now the state's going to mandate two eighty seven
G for all of these, for the Department of Public Safety,
also the Department of Adult Correction, also the Highway Patrol,
also the sb I, State Bureau of Investigation. So now
everybody goes to two eighty seven G. Congratulations, Gary, good job.
The thing that you refuse to participate in that was
so egrageous and offensive to you and your voting base
in the Democrat primary, now shall be mandated across the
entire state. Give it up. Gary's law mandating two eighty
seven G. I love it. Gary got the thing imposed
across the state that he ran a campaign on and
won to get rid of in Mecklenburg County. Oh sweet irony.
So that's the first thing that it does. It also
says that in this so they just they replicate all
four of these bullet points basically through all of the
legislation or proposal the bill for you know, adult Correction,
the SBI, and the Highway Patrol. So this is all
the same language for each of these different divisions. They
have to develop to art mental policies requiring that employees
of the department shall attempt to determine if any person
is in custody or under the supervision of the department
is a legal resident or citizen. When employees are unable
to determine, then they shall not may shall make a
query with ICE, So they have to ask. And then
when you determine that a person is not a legal
resident or citizen, they shall provide requested information regarding that
person to ICE. They also have to cooperate to the
fullest extent allowed by law, the fullest extent allowed by law,
and that goes for all of the departments. Then in
Part three, get this, we can sue. Yeah, a county
and violation of this section shall have waived its governmental immunity.
A county shall have waived its immunity from civil liability
in tort if it does not comply with this statute
and an unauthorized alien commits a crime against a person
or property within the corporate limits of that county. That
tells me that Mecklinber County Commissioners, y'all just got tagged
into the game. Welcome, Welcome to the party, Mecklimber County.
You guys are now going to have to take an
interest in this very issue, because now people are going
to be able to sue. Gary lets somebody out and
they go on to reoffend. Now you can get sued,
The county can get sued. See, because the sheriff doesn't
have his own budget, he's got to go to the
county for the funding. And the county probably not going
to look too kindly on having to spend millions and
millions and millions of dollars on all sorts of litigation
because Gary keeps turning violent offenders loose without telling Ice first.
Then it goes on to say, finally, this is Part
four adoption of sanctuary status prohibited. No constituent institution may
have in effect any policy or procedure that limits or
restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than
the full extent permitted by federal law. No constituent institution
shall do any of the following related to information regarding
the citizenship or immigration status lawful, law or unlawful of
any individual. Okay, so you cannot do this. Prohibit law
enforcement officials or agencies from gathering that info. You cannot
direct law enforcement officials or agencies not to gather the info,
and you cannot prohibit the communication of that info to
federal law enforcement agencies. So I like the direction of
this is to button up as much of this as possible.
But I'm sure Gary's already got people on staff looking
into how to skirt this law, because this is a
real priority for him. All Right, if you're listening to
this show, you know I try to keep up with
all sorts of current events, and I know you do too,
And you've probably heard me say get your news from
multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias,
which is why I've been so impressed with ground News.
It's an app and it's a website and it combines
news from around the world in one place so you
can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it
out at check dot ground, dot news slash Pete. I
put the link in the podcast description too. I started
using ground News a few months ago and more recently
chose to work with them as an affiliate because it
lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom.
The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored
by the left and the right. See for yourself. Check
dot ground, dot News slash Pete. Subscribe through that link
and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use
the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature.
Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it
also supports ground News as they make the media landscape
more transparent real quick. This is from the press release
that was issued by Senator Phil Berger's office today. Senate
Leader Phil Berger, along with Senators Warren Daniel and Buck Newton,
filed the North Carolina Border Protection Act, or as we
call it now, Gary's Law to ensure state law enforcement
officials are cooperating with federal immigration laws and that residents
are protected from harmful sanctuary city policies. Further, it protects
the taxpayers by ensuring that only those eligible received state
funded public benefits like low income housing tax credits, childcare subsidies,
and caregiver support Senate Bill one fifty three. Gary's Law
also directs unc system institutions to cooperate with immigration officials.
Those law enforcement agencies will be required to determine the
immigration status of anybody in custody or under its supervision.
The Office of State Budget and Management would be required
to determine whether and to what extent certain state funded
public benefit programs are being provided to unauthorized immigrants and
post their findings publicly. The Office of State Budget Management
would then be required to take steps to ensure that
state funds for public benefits are only being provided to
those who qualify for it. While sanctuary city policies are
already prohibited in the state, municipalities across the state continue
to defy the state law to hold them accountable. Any
county or municipality to create sanctuary cities will have its
local immunity waived, thereby allowing citizens harmed by illegal immigrants
to sue those municipalities. Finally, it prohibits unc system campuses
from adopting any policy that does not cooperate with federal
immigration enforcement and or adopting sanctuary school policies. Now, sheriff
not my fault, McFadden. I think after a couple of
well a couple more weeks of bad press, I think
he was probably interested in polishing up his tough on
crime persona. You know, you gotta gotta kind of nip
that stuff in the bud. If you're the sheriff, you
can't very well be, you know, a soft on crime character.
So you get a bunch of bad press because you
let another violent offender out of the jail and didn't
call ICE and then claimed you don't need to call ICE,
that they should call you, and you didn't call them
even though you knew that you were about to release
this person in. ICE has asked you to let them know,
but you don't technically have to call them, so you're
not going to. So how best to try to counteract
this narrative that maybe calcifying that you are not exactly
serious about keeping violent offenders off the streets and praying
on members of their community. So, well, you rat out
a snitch. That's what McFadden's office has decided to do.
It's a bold strategy. I don't know if it'll work,
but we'll see. Got the press release yesterday headline, Mecklenberg
County Sheriff's Office deputies safely arrest carjacking suspect. Oh did
you know the Mecklinberg County Sheriff's Office doing door kicking
operations on their own? I wasn't aware of that. I
guess it's kind of like their speed trap that they
ran up in the white part of where was it
a Huntersville or wherever. When he first took over. It's
one of the first things he did was right up
on there on Chiton Road, like to try to, you know,
get a bunch of tickets for the whities. That's what
he said. I mean, he didn't say that, but he said.
I mean, he basically said, like, oh, they live in
privilege and all this, and so, I mean it was
in the fever of you know, Saint George Floyd days,
so like that's that's what he did. So I don't know,
I wasn't aware that they were doing these types of operations,
and maybe they always have. I just always thought that
this was more of a CMPD kind of a thing, right,
But here's the press release. On the morning of Friday,
February twenty first, Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office deputies successfully arrested
Quentin Walsh and then they gave his prisoner ID number,
which is weird because I thought he called them all residents.
So you haven't changed the code yet to rid. Anyway,
this is a suspect that was involved in a carjacking
out of Huntersville. Now listen to this next part. I
find it to be a tab unusual. Mecklenburg County Sheriff's
Office deputies received information from a prior arrest tied to
the carjacking, which the arrested individual provided a tip on
Walsh's whereabouts, and then they went and arrested the guy.
Acting on the information, deputy set of surveillance outside the
home where Walsh was known to be. They identified him,
a perimeter established, and within ten minutes of the initial identification,
a search of the home was conducted. Walsh was found
under a mattress in a back bedroom, taken into custody
after briefly resisting, and the guy had apparently spray painted
the vehicle that he had stolen, spray painted at black
to try to conceal it. Well, just let me go
back to that first. The first part that I said
to listen to, which was deputies received information from a
prior arrest tied to the carjacking, which the arrested individual
provided a tip on Walsh's whereabouts. Well, now you know
who snitched. Why would you put that in a press release?
What are you doing? Are you trying to get this
guy shanked? Are you trying to get this guy murdered?
When he goes back out on the street. You're trying
to get him like in trouble with the neighborhood. You know,
snitches get stitched in all of that. Why would you
put that in a press release? Probably because you don't
write a lot of these types of press releases. I
can only assume. And so you were just trying to,
you know, make the press release be more than like
six sentences or something. I don't know, but you shouldn't
put that in the press release. You know, you wait
until the thing gets to trial, if it goes to trial,
which I mean, this is Mecklenberg County, so it's probably
not even going to go to trial. You know, it's
probably gonna be a plea agreement. You don't need you
don't need to put this out there. Why would you
do that. This is a prior arrest tied to the carjacking,
so I guess this was another It's like they carjacked somebody,
they stole the vehicle, they committed some other crime. CMPD
caught that guy, put him in the jail, and then
that guy ratted out this dude, Walsh. And now you've
just literally put out a press release identifying the informant
I'm no, you know, policing expert, but from all the
TV shows and movies that I have seen, and of course,
you know, covering the crime beat in Charlotte for the
better part of twenty years, like, I kind of feel
like I know what the next story in this or
the next chapter in the story might very well be.
Russ says, It's curious. Is there a way to get
a number for how many times US Marshals or other
FED swat Violent Offender Task Force or even multiple patrol
units have been deployed to arrest somebody after McFadden ignored
a detainer. Yeah, there, I mean, there's I think there's
three that I'm aware of at this point. Also, was
there a connection with McFadden and the incident where the
marshals and officers were shot last year? There was not
in that one that I'm aware of. Oh my goodness.
So apparently Deb Butler she's the uh we well not
yet speaker, Remember that woman, the crazy state representative. Yes,
apparently she's got another bill telling locals not to comply
with ICE. Ah. Maybe we live in stupid times. All right,
that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much
for listening. I could not do the show without your
support and the support of the businesses that advertise on
the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too
and tell them you heard it here. You can also
become a patron at my Patreon page or go to
thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening,
and don't break anything while I'm gone.