Speaker 1: It is Kentucky and this morning news Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: here on News Radio eight forty whas Happy Friday, everybody.
Speaker 1: That's right, it is Friday, best day of the week
Speaker 1: in my opinion. We've got LMPT Spokesman Dwight Mitchell with us.
Speaker 1: Happy Friday. How are we feeling?
Speaker 2: Everything's going well? Nick.
Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure to be in your presence, and
Speaker 3: especially today for a simple fact. I noticed that the
Speaker 3: T shirt you had on came in of the room
Speaker 3: this morning is very near and dear to my heart,
Speaker 3: and that's a dare T shirt which stood for Drug
Speaker 3: Abuse Resistance Education, one that I was very much a
Speaker 3: part of in the beginning here in Lowland, Jefferson County,
Speaker 3: and I'm very proud of that to this day. And
Speaker 3: I'm glad that you're downing that particular show and.
Speaker 1: It worked out well because this is a a vintage
Speaker 1: old shirt. And again, I'm sure a lot of people
Speaker 1: know exactly what Dwight Mitchell's talking about when he mentions there,
Speaker 1: but if you saw the logo on the shirt, I
Speaker 1: think it would take you back in time because when
Speaker 1: I was growing up and I hate to make myself
Speaker 1: always sound so young to an audience that probably thinks
Speaker 1: I'm young and childish anyway. But in the nineties this
Speaker 1: a big deal. I mean, it became a cool thing
Speaker 1: for kids to just embrace. And clearly the motivation was
Speaker 1: good to again keep kids away from drugs. But you
Speaker 1: shared something with me when you saw the shirt that
Speaker 1: I thought was fascinating, and I just I know people
Speaker 1: will appreciate this story. There are kids at the time
Speaker 1: who were a part of the DARE program with you
Speaker 1: that ended up following a path to law enforcement, many
Speaker 1: of them right, well.
Speaker 3: Yes, and there's about five or six of them that
Speaker 3: are on the police department now and may be more,
Speaker 3: but several of them are in our upper command. In fact,
Speaker 3: the Deputy Chief of Police, Emily McKinley was one of
Speaker 3: my DEARE students in a few years ago. My direct supervisor,
Speaker 3: Lamont Washington, was the sergeant of the Oh yes and uh.
Speaker 3: He was part of the DARE program as well as
Speaker 3: as many others that are there. And it does my
Speaker 3: heart well, not so much that they came into law enforce,
Speaker 3: but the fact to see them grow and mature and
Speaker 3: become the responsible adults that they had. We had any
Speaker 3: small part roll in that at the time we did that,
Speaker 3: What a great testimony that is.
Speaker 1: Well, there's no doubt there was clearly some level of
Speaker 1: an impact as far as making an impression to where
Speaker 1: they they've grown to be not only very productive human
Speaker 1: beings but also clearly working in a profession that we
Speaker 1: need people like them. So that is that is awesome
Speaker 1: to see. And I guess when I don't want to
Speaker 1: sound like I'm some young kid, I don't want to
Speaker 1: make you sound like you're some old ancient dinosaur. But
Speaker 1: he said it not me. You've you've done this a
Speaker 1: long time. You've been in this community a long time
Speaker 1: with LMPD in some form or fashion. What is it
Speaker 1: like to see those that that sort of kind of
Speaker 1: climb within that profession. And I mean, it's got to
Speaker 1: make you proud.
Speaker 3: Oh, it makes me a static because here's the thing
Speaker 3: in life. You know, as you grow and you mature,
Speaker 3: you don't necessarily know what you're going to do. But
Speaker 3: it's just one of those things that once you figured
Speaker 3: that out and then you do it to the best
Speaker 3: of your ability and you're able to make a career
Speaker 3: out of it and then to affect someone else's life,
Speaker 3: and I just call that just paying it forward. You
Speaker 3: just one thirsty man telling another thirsty man word to
Speaker 3: get water. And I think that's great. And if again,
Speaker 3: if we had some small impact on that at the
Speaker 3: time that they were growing and maturing, then to God
Speaker 3: be the glory.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that that line you said about one thirsty
Speaker 1: man to another thirsty man. I will tell you those
Speaker 1: kind of lines from Dwight Mitchell are getting a lot
Speaker 1: of praise. People seem to like those. So you bring
Speaker 1: a lot of wisdom and you say you've shared some
Speaker 1: things that I'm not sure people have heard, and they say,
Speaker 1: you know what. I like that people are putting those
Speaker 1: in their pocket and running with them. I hope they
Speaker 1: credit you when they share those those type of lines.
Speaker 3: They shouldn't credit me because I got it from someone
Speaker 3: else and just smart.
Speaker 2: Enough to say it.
Speaker 1: There you go, all radio is. It's just recreating something
Speaker 1: else as somebody else said.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm under a lot of great wisdom, mainly
Speaker 3: my great mother, my minister, and some other people in
Speaker 3: my life that have helped steer me. And you know,
Speaker 3: when you hear something you stored in your memory. Brank
Speaker 3: and when you have an opportunity to use it to
Speaker 3: give it to someone else, why wouldn't you do that?
Speaker 1: No doubt, things stick with you for a reason. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. But Dwi Mitchell LL ANDPD spokesman's
Speaker 1: with us here on news radio eight forty Whas obviously,
Speaker 1: crime in the community, crime in Louisville, gun violence, that's
Speaker 1: been a talking point for quite some time and always
Speaker 1: will be, just as far as that's news, it's stuff
Speaker 1: that people need to know about. But what I think
Speaker 1: should be emphasized more than it is is just that
Speaker 1: we are seeing a drop in the number of these
Speaker 1: types of crimes right now. Homicides down thirty four percent,
Speaker 1: non fatal shootings are down thirty one percent, carjackings down
Speaker 1: thirty six percent. And obviously it goes without saying you
Speaker 1: want those to be at zero percent. As far as
Speaker 1: just them happening, that's not reality. But this is good progress,
Speaker 1: and I'm just curious your thoughts on the progress itself
Speaker 1: and maybe some factors that have led to this, because
Speaker 1: clearly things are heading in the right direction here.
Speaker 3: Well, I think getting the message out and officers are
Speaker 3: returning back to doing good groundwork policing. You know, the
Speaker 3: backbone of the police department are not detectives or things
Speaker 3: like that. It's the men and women on the street
Speaker 3: that ride those cars that you see that are very visible,
Speaker 3: are working those streets, are being aggressive when they're seeing things.
Speaker 2: And I think that's helped mitigating some of it.
Speaker 3: Now, if I had the civil bullet to say, if
Speaker 3: we keep doing this, then it'll keep going down. And
Speaker 3: I don't know that there's any rhyme or reason, and
Speaker 3: I don't care as long as it as it is
Speaker 3: going down. And that's the trend that we hope that
Speaker 3: continues to do. But I think a lot of the
Speaker 3: programs that that Metro government under Mary green Bird's leadership,
Speaker 3: putting those in place, having good continuity within the police
Speaker 3: department and having one mission, one goal, and that is
Speaker 3: to help eradicate crime. Now, you know, we've been a
Speaker 3: police department of some sort, whether it was the city police,
Speaker 3: County police, and now LMPD and the other agencies that
Speaker 3: we have other law enforcement agencies we have in our
Speaker 3: community been doing this for over two hundred years. And
Speaker 3: you know, now we're seeing a downward trending and I
Speaker 3: hope that it continues that way. Not to some people,
Speaker 3: perception is reality because on the news, you know, in
Speaker 3: the media, that's what you hear is when something goes
Speaker 3: wrong or if there's a tragedy and the should be reported.
Speaker 3: Nobody's not saying that. But I do want to tap
Speaker 3: the fact that crime is going down. But there's no
Speaker 3: simple saying solution to say that if we just because we.
Speaker 2: Did this, it's going down.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that would be wise to do either,
Speaker 3: because we're just going to keep doing what we're doing
Speaker 3: and hope the results continue the way that they are.
Speaker 1: You mentioned continuity. That's something that I would say maybe
Speaker 1: the average citizen doesn't really think about as far as
Speaker 1: what is important when it comes to the police department.
Speaker 1: You guys are a huge team, one big family, really
Speaker 1: a fraternity, and you see it often when you know,
Speaker 1: for example, Bear knows pizza had a benefit right for
Speaker 1: the officer who recently had passed away and for her family,
Speaker 1: and just to see the army of law enforcement and
Speaker 1: first responders really that are there. That was a reminder
Speaker 1: to me that you know, if they are they're brothers
Speaker 1: in arms. I mean, that's that's brothers and sisters in arms.
Speaker 1: I should say so continuity when it comes to just
Speaker 1: you know, having that that could that could go a
Speaker 1: long way. As far as just improving.
Speaker 3: Everything, well, yes, I think when you have clear cut,
Speaker 3: defined goals, whatever organization you and your chances of succeeding
Speaker 3: are good because everyone knows the mission and as long
Speaker 3: as we're working in that same direction, change is inevitable.
Speaker 2: It's going to happen if you do that.
Speaker 3: But if you're going this way and that way and
Speaker 3: this way and that way, then you're going to have
Speaker 3: that what I just said, chaos without using the term.
Speaker 3: But that's what we're what we're striving for, will continue
Speaker 3: to do and I see a great, great future that
Speaker 3: we have and I hope that it continues and gets better.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask, are you going to be out at
Speaker 1: Freedom Hall any over the next few days to watch
Speaker 1: the former Cardinals play.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be there tomorrow at twelve thirty gap my
Speaker 3: TV ticket, there we go, and TBT ticket and I'm
Speaker 3: ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's been such a treat for fans to see former
Speaker 1: players play again, but just seeing guys play together that
Speaker 1: clearly were many years apart during their time. I'm envious
Speaker 1: of you because you got to experience the era that
Speaker 1: made Louisville basketball what it is. It kind of became
Speaker 1: my religion growing up. I know a lot about it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get to experience it. I was born
Speaker 1: into this, didn't have any didn't have any options. In
Speaker 1: my son, he's the same way. He's excited about going
Speaker 1: and watching him play, and he's getting to see guys
Speaker 1: play that he wasn't even alive when they were playing
Speaker 1: for Louisville. But because of this event, he's watched them,
Speaker 1: he knows of them, and he's super excited. But imagine
Speaker 1: if this would have been a thing back in the eighties,
Speaker 1: some of the teams they could have put together with
Speaker 1: Dinny's teams then just loaded rosters, good stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, there was a game that took place and
Speaker 3: it was I guess it was in the late eighties
Speaker 3: that took place, but the nineteen eighty National championship team
Speaker 3: played the nineteen eighty six National championship team, which I
Speaker 3: was there, and it was the first of It's kind
Speaker 3: of like that, so you did get to see that
Speaker 3: ear again.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing a clip on YouTube of somebody showing
Speaker 1: like highlights of it, and I remember thinking, like, I
Speaker 1: didn't know this happened. That was crazy. Griff played too,
Speaker 1: didn't he?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, and I mean tore them up.
Speaker 1: And those are the two. Those, of course, are the
Speaker 1: first two national championship teams. And back then was there
Speaker 1: was there a back and forth between hey, we're better
Speaker 1: because fans don't care. They love both teams. They love
Speaker 1: all the teams, especially those that want a title. But
Speaker 1: I could see some competitiveness of from the eighty guys
Speaker 1: in the eighty six guys.
Speaker 3: Well, one of the best competitors of it all was
Speaker 3: Derek Smith. And even though he had gone up because
Speaker 3: actually the freshman purpose of nineteen eighty six, we had
Speaker 3: like five or six of them that came in and
Speaker 3: they were playing a summer league. We should have a
Speaker 3: summer league that many of the UFL players played in.
Speaker 3: And I remember Derek being really really tough on them,
Speaker 3: but I think it actually tough in them.
Speaker 2: Of course it did to win that championship in six.
Speaker 3: So it's Louivell basketball has always been a part of
Speaker 3: the factory. I've been here my whole life and been
Speaker 3: a Louisville fan. My whole time. And I even go
Speaker 3: back to Junior Bridgeman and Alan Murphy days and Jim
Speaker 3: Price and when Denny first got here.
Speaker 2: So it was all good.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Those guys arriving as freshmen. It
Speaker 1: was important for those that were either finishing up their
Speaker 1: career or were that had an impact on being what
Speaker 1: it is. They're gonna let them know. Look, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna wear this shootiform and we're gonna keep this thing going,
Speaker 1: you gotta be tough. You gotta be ready.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, you gotta be ready, ready to go. And uh,
Speaker 3: you know Louivelle basketball in the eighties, we were the
Speaker 3: team of it.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Yeah, And I'm still jealous as hell,
Speaker 1: but I didn't get a chance to experience them.
Speaker 3: Don't be jealous. Here's what you do. At least you
Speaker 3: had somebody to tell you your hostory. And any time
Speaker 3: you know your history, even if you weren't there, you'll
Speaker 3: have a better appreciate for to push it forward. And
Speaker 3: that's what you're doing now.
Speaker 1: And even though I didn't get to experience it, it
Speaker 1: happening sort of created it becoming such an important thing
Speaker 1: around here. Not that it was not that it wasn't
Speaker 1: prior to that era, but yeah, we are the community
Speaker 1: where this kind of an event can thrive because man,
Speaker 1: we care about this stuff more than a lot of fans.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're crazy for college troops.
Speaker 2: We are.
Speaker 3: And I think what now, three years ago when we
Speaker 3: first were in this, you know, when we're at a
Speaker 3: long time in the basketball ye, little athletics.
Speaker 1: We needed that as a fan base.
Speaker 3: We did, and I think it was a good rallying point.
Speaker 3: And you know, that's the thing about it. When you're
Speaker 3: down and you're lying on your back, the good thing
Speaker 3: about it is you're looking up. And that's what we
Speaker 3: saw and we had hope. And then you know what
Speaker 3: last year with a new revitalization that the program needed. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just fantastic what we're experiencing today.
Speaker 1: So brought us back to life, right that one down, Folks,
Speaker 1: when you're lying on your back, you're still looking up.
Speaker 1: I like he's providing wisdom. That's what he does. He's
Speaker 1: LMPT spokesman Dwight Mitchell White has always appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Always good to see you, and I may run into
Speaker 1: you tomorrow at the game.
Speaker 3: Well I'm when we're off there to exactly where I'm sitting,
Speaker 3: so we make sure that we connect.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome. I got to introduce you to my son.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a super fan of law enforcement and firefighters.
Speaker 1: And I told him I get to talk each week
Speaker 1: to Dwight, Mitchell, Bell and PD. He's he's gonna be
Speaker 1: he's gonna be starstruck. You and Mantres Harrel are probably
Speaker 1: going to be the two he's the most excited to see.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Thanks to right take care.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a quick update on traffic
Speaker 1: and weather. Keep this thing rolling along again. And it's
Speaker 1: Kentucky and this morning News Coffee and Company here on
Speaker 1: news radio waight forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon,
Speaker 1: it is Kentucky and his morning news Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: here on news radio eight forty w h as, Nick Coffee.
Speaker 1: That's me the company man, John all on alongside John.
Speaker 1: Have you ever checked out at a store gas station,
Speaker 1: maybe you were settling up at a fast food spot
Speaker 1: and the total ice be six dollars and sixty six cents.
Speaker 4: You know, I think I have done that, yes, And
Speaker 4: do you think.
Speaker 1: About like it does it bother you at all. Do
Speaker 1: you add something to the menu.
Speaker 2: No, I do.
Speaker 4: It does pop in my head like, oh, that's the
Speaker 4: Devil's number or whatever it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1: This morning, I was doing the self checkout at Thornton's
Speaker 1: because you guys know, I'm fueled by Thornton's. And I
Speaker 1: stopped in to get my Monster Energy drink, and then
Speaker 1: I also got a sprite and something else. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what it was. Oh little, yeah, a little piece
Speaker 1: of candy. Little it wasn't it. It was an airhead
Speaker 1: and I just wanted some sugar. In fact, if I
Speaker 1: get a little sugar in my system early on when
Speaker 1: I take meds that I take in the morning, that
Speaker 1: usually keeps me from getting nauseous. So anyways, long story short,
Speaker 1: the total was six dollars and sixty six cents. And
Speaker 1: because it was a self checkout I had I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't risk it. I mean, I wouldn't have thought
Speaker 1: about it another second had I walked out and it
Speaker 1: not been self checkout, meaning I would have to then
Speaker 1: have her rerun something if that makes sense, meaning like
Speaker 1: the cashier. But because all I had to do was
Speaker 1: pick something up, scanned again to not make it six
Speaker 1: dollars and sixty six cents, but make it just a
Speaker 1: little bit more expensive. And I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: done that before. As far as being fearful of like that,
Speaker 1: being a bad luck, or being superstitious about those kind
Speaker 1: of things, I don't think I am superstitious at all
Speaker 1: compared to I guess the average. But for some reason
Speaker 1: today I did that, and I'm having a great Friday,
Speaker 1: So maybe the friday wouldn't be so good had I
Speaker 1: checked out and paid six dollars in sixty six cents.
Speaker 4: I remember one time when it happened to me. I
Speaker 4: didn't say anything about it, but the person who wrung
Speaker 4: me up said, oh no, I've got to add a
Speaker 4: penny to this because they were worried that something was
Speaker 4: going to happen because of it.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's really anybody who's chucked
Speaker 1: up a bad life experience because they you know, and
Speaker 1: they think it's because they paid a total of six
Speaker 1: dollars and sixty six cents. But I'm thinking, look, if
Speaker 1: I add another airhead to the mix, it's another forty
Speaker 1: none sense and it's there's no reason to not, you know,
Speaker 1: avoid that potential risk. But yeah, I'm glad I'm not superstitious,
Speaker 1: which I'm just kind of knowing how I'm wired. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of surprised that I'm not. But anyhow, I don't
Speaker 1: remind you. When it comes to Thornton's. You could take
Speaker 1: advantage of the Frequency Club. If you purchase purchase something
Speaker 1: so frequently, eventually you get a free one, hence the
Speaker 1: name Frequency Club. For example, if you get let's say
Speaker 1: your routine is every day you stop in and you
Speaker 1: get yourself a twenty ounce bottle of Coca Cola, maybe
Speaker 1: a twenty ounce bottle of Sprite. Well, if you've purchased nine,
Speaker 1: the next one is ten. And look, I know, buying
Speaker 1: nine of them to get the tenth one in one
Speaker 1: visit is not ideal. But if it's part of your
Speaker 1: routine every now and then, you're going to be checking out,
Speaker 1: put that refreshing rewards membership in and boom, you get
Speaker 1: it for free. So again, you guys know the drill.
Speaker 1: I'm fueled by Thornton's love Thorton's. All right, so let's
Speaker 1: see where do we want to go here? Obviously I
Speaker 1: want to reset some things before we get to Mayor Greenberg,
Speaker 1: who's going to join us coming up around around eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: But I guess just to kind of keep folks caught
Speaker 1: up with really where we've been today, to kind of
Speaker 1: give you give you a rundown of things we've discussed. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we did talk about the cold Play concert leading to
Speaker 1: an affair getting exposed with a CEO and his HR
Speaker 1: chief of staff. That is an example of things just
Speaker 1: going viral because of everything involved. It's the satisfaction that
Speaker 1: I think people get by seeing two people doing something
Speaker 1: that they're not supposed to do get caught. But I
Speaker 1: tell you the reaction from them making it quite clear
Speaker 1: that it was a nightmare scenario for them to be
Speaker 1: up on the screen, that was the real giveaway. And
Speaker 1: I will say, you got to keep in mind the
Speaker 1: world we live in now, there is so much fake
Speaker 1: news that is generated. And I'm not talking about like politics,
Speaker 1: certainly it exists there, but there's been like this press
Speaker 1: release that's been put out by supposedly this guy and
Speaker 1: his company about the situation. I think you might have
Speaker 1: even referenced it earlier. John, It's not real. There's been
Speaker 1: no there's been no confirmation from like the statement where
Speaker 1: he released, you know, kind of playing victim or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's not real. And I would have believed it. I
Speaker 1: did believe it until you know, you do a little checking.
Speaker 1: And again, because my whole thought is if if you're
Speaker 1: this guy, you just mean you don't say anything publicly,
Speaker 1: you just try, it's worse. But if you didn't say anything, no.
Speaker 4: If he yeah the statement, yeah, I mean because it
Speaker 4: just because and he put that little the in the
Speaker 4: you know, the fake thing. It had like a lyric
Speaker 4: at the end of.
Speaker 1: Y it was like super So you know, I'm amazed
Speaker 1: and also scared at how real fake things appear. And
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not programmed yet, but I'm sure eventually
Speaker 1: I will be programmed to where at all times you
Speaker 1: just have to make sure what you're seeing despite how
Speaker 1: look how it looks or even how it reads it.
Speaker 1: It may be doctored. And there's certain things that people fake,
Speaker 1: like but for for what like it's not even like
Speaker 1: that big of news. It wouldn't even generate much interest
Speaker 1: if it was in fact real, So it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's wild. But yeah, that whole that whole situation at
Speaker 1: the Coldplay concert. It Uh, it's made its way national,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there's a lot of folks that are thinking, well, good,
Speaker 1: They're going to get what they deserve, I will say.
Speaker 1: The linked end quote from the HR chief, who again
Speaker 1: is clearly having some type of romantic relationship with her
Speaker 1: married CEO on LinkedIn the quote says she's able to
Speaker 1: build trust with employees of all levels. Well, she proved
Speaker 1: that at the highest level of that company. She's seemingly
Speaker 1: having an affair with that guy, Andy Byron, the CEO
Speaker 1: of Astronomer. So all right, let's take a quick break,
Speaker 1: get you caught up on traffic and weather. Also, we
Speaker 1: need to talk about this threat from President Trump, a
Speaker 1: lawsuit that he's threatened he's start in legal action against
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. And also when it comes to
Speaker 1: the clear emphasis on getting legal immigrants out of the
Speaker 1: country ICE, it sounds as if they're going to have
Speaker 1: access to something that might make them much more effective
Speaker 1: at what they want to do, which is get his
Speaker 1: many people out of this country that are here illegally.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that in a lot more as
Speaker 1: we move along. It is Kentucky and is morning news,
Speaker 1: coffee and company right here on news radio eight forty whs.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky and it is Morning News. Coffee and
Speaker 1: company here on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee,
Speaker 1: that's me and we have Mayor Greenberg said to join
Speaker 1: us coming up here at eight o'clock. So stick around
Speaker 1: for that, all right. So we now know that, and
Speaker 1: we've known for a while that there's a clear emphasis
Speaker 1: from President Trump to get illegal immigrants out of this
Speaker 1: country really, regardless of their situation, regardless of their criminals,
Speaker 1: regardless of them potentially working in working in industries that
Speaker 1: the economy clearly relies on. So that's not new information.
Speaker 1: But what is what is new information is the revelation
Speaker 1: that ICE is now going to be granted access to
Speaker 1: personal data of I think it's seventy nine million Americans
Speaker 1: that are enrolled in Medicaid, So they're going to have
Speaker 1: access to names, addresses, ethnicity, these birth dates, social Security numbers.
Speaker 1: And the purpose of this is because it's going to
Speaker 1: help them track down immigrants who may be living in
Speaker 1: the United States illegally. So again this is this has
Speaker 1: been a clear focus for Trump, and this I think
Speaker 1: just gives ICE more information to more so be able
Speaker 1: to do what they're setting out to do, which is
Speaker 1: to just get rid of as many legal immigrants as possible,
Speaker 1: regardless of their situation. And when I think of just
Speaker 1: this whole, this whole, what do you I mean, what's
Speaker 1: the better what's the word to use? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: clearly a task that he has that he's given Ice
Speaker 1: as far as just make it's put it this way,
Speaker 1: it's a big priority for Trump.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But the the inconsistency early on just kind of still
Speaker 1: sticks with me because I don't know how you could
Speaker 1: make this decision without the knowledge that if in fact,
Speaker 1: you get rid of anybody and everybody that's he illegally
Speaker 1: regardless of said situation. There are certain industries that our
Speaker 1: economy depends upon workers who are here I legally. And
Speaker 1: then there was that pause where they weren't targeting those
Speaker 1: that worked in certain industries. I think it was hospitality,
Speaker 1: maybe restaurants, and then within a few days they went
Speaker 1: back to saying, regardless of your situation, they're there, they
Speaker 1: could be coming for you. So I try to at
Speaker 1: times put myself in the shoes of of of people
Speaker 1: in different situations, and it's really sometimes it's silly to do,
Speaker 1: because I mean, I don't think you can truly relate
Speaker 1: to certain things unless you experience those things. But if
Speaker 1: you have lived here your whole life, or maybe just
Speaker 1: lived here a good part of your life, and you
Speaker 1: have been you know, you're not you're not legally necessary,
Speaker 1: You're you're not here legally necessarily, but you've just you know,
Speaker 1: you've you've been off the radar, you've been you've been
Speaker 1: a good contributor to society. I mean, the fear that
Speaker 1: you would have every day, I mean, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: And that's why do you think you have seen some
Speaker 1: just decide to say, instead of ending up in a
Speaker 1: situation where you get pulled from your family or whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, and you don't have any say so
Speaker 1: in said process, maybe that's why there have been more
Speaker 1: people decide to self deport. And I think if I
Speaker 1: was in that situation, that's I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I would do, and I don't even want to
Speaker 1: think about it. That'd be scary for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I think this information that ICE is going
Speaker 1: to have, it's just going to give them again the
Speaker 1: better ability to find who they want to find, which
Speaker 1: is again people who are here illegally, regardless of circumstance.
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