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your support. All righty, so let me get into some
of the more insightful connections here with the operations we're
seeing on immigration enforcement. So the Charlotte Observer runs a
story written by Danielle Battaglia. She was Theleigh. She was
out of Raleigh, I believe, out of the McClatchy paper
of the News and Observer up there. She's now gone
up to Washington, DC. She covers Congress up there, and
she had a story headlined Tom Tillis wants answers from
Homeland Security on Operation Charlotte's Web. It says Senator Tom
Tillis called for oversight of the case of the US
Border Patrol in Charlotte during a Senate hearing Thursday, and
so that was my first the first time I knew that,
Oh there was a Senate hearing yesterday about this. I
did not know that, and so I did a search
for that, put it into my next browser tab, and
I was like, I'm gonna come back to that. I'm
gonna circle back. Jen Psaki style border patrol agents began
appearing throughout Charlotte's Saturday, near places like grocery stores, schools,
and churches, rounding up Hispanic residents, often forcefully and with
little information about what happens next to the people detained.
The agents have since expanded throughout North Carolina to other
cities including Raleigh, Winston, Salem, and Hickory. And so what
Tilla said during this hearing, or I think it was
actually before the hearing because they were waiting for Democrats
to show up so they could hold the hearing. So
he says, I want to make sure that Homeland Security
can provide me with the definitive list of people who
were detained, how long they were detained, whether or not
they were released, and when property was damaged, whether or
not they've been provided proper restitution. We are the party
of law and order, and I want to make sure
that we're also orderly in the process of enforcing it,
his staff. Tillis's staff said his office is formally asked
for this information from DHS. Now here's the thing. I'm
fine with that. I agree with that. That's the proper
role of a US senator. That's the point. That's why
we send them up there, is to provide oversight, check
and balance on the executive branch authority and what they're doing.
So it's totally fine, and I want to know that too.
And I approach this. I'm going to use the analogy
of the body worn cameras for law enforcement. Remember when
the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful riots occurred and
you had, you know, the left wingers saying we want
body cams on all the cops, and the cops were like, yeah,
we agree, we would like that too, And so you
got body cams on all these police officers. Now, of
course you got lefties that are like, maybe that was
a mistake because these juries are acquitting cops in a
lot of the cases. Well yeah, when you get the
video proof of what actually went down, it doesn't support
your narrative. So anyway, that's my approach on this. I
want the information because just like the cops wanted the
video to clear themselves of the false accusations, and the
you know, community members wanted the body cam to try
to prove police malfeasans like, they both agree, but they
want it for different purposes. So I think this is similar.
I want the information too. I don't know what it's
going to say, but if it says that they've been
picking up people. I saw the Cato Institute. They just
put out some analysis post shutdown arrests. They're like, forty
percent have been of illegal aliens that have committed no
crime and they're not. They're not they don't have prior
convictions in there, or they don't have pending charges. Forty percent,
And that's the way they framed it. See now I
see the data, and I say, sixty percent of the
people they picked up have been convicted of a crime
or have pending charges. So the majority that's yeah, sixty
percent have charges pending or were convicted already criminal illegal aliens.
So I would like to see the data. Two On Thursday,
he said during a hearing of the Senate Committee on
the Judiciary that he believes border patrol is now in
his state because Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden used
sanctuary city policy. There have been people released, he said,
there have been bad outcomes. So a part of the
reason that we're here is because of those bad decisions. Correct,
exactly right. We are here because of Democrat policies, Democrat decisions,
Democrat politics. That's why border patrol came to Charlotte. These
are the ramifications of your choice's Democrats. So then Danielle
Battaglia does some cleanup because he said sanctuary city policy,
and so now she has to do the Actually, we're
not a sanctuary city. Sanctuary cities are banned under state law,
and North Carolina lawmakers recently passed a bill that requires
sheriffs to comply with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Why why are sanctuary cities banned under state law? Why
are sheriffs now required to cooperate with ice? Why? Because
they weren't cooperating. Just a couple, McFadden being one of them,
the most prominent one, I would suspect, and they were
running and cities were running sanctuary city policies. That's why
the state legislature stepped in and said stop it. Now,
McFadden has argued for years that holding defendants at the
request of ICE after they have posted bond and complied
with court ordered terms of release is unconstitutional, which, by
the way, never tested, never been sued, never proven to
be the case. That was just what the left wing
lawyers put out there as talking points to rationalize these
policy preferences. But then she says something else at the
end of the article. Charlotte is considered by the nonprofit
Welcoming America is the name of the nonprofit Welcoming America.
It's considered to be a certified Welcoming city. This distinction
means it's known for policies and programs surrounding immigrant inclusion.
What the hell does that mean? So I opened another
browser tap and what did I find? Welcoming America dot
org and I went through their website and I found
what it takes to become a certified Welcoming City and
they have seven framework areas. This thing runs eight pages long,
filled with all of the things that local gov. Co
and agencies are supposed to do. They fall under the
seven areas of civic engagement, connected communities, economic development, education,
equitable access, government and community leadership. And safe communities, welcoming communities,
ensure that all residents, including immigrants. And remember when they
say immigrants, they mean illegal immigrants. Okay, they conflate illegal
with legal purposefully so as to deflect from the actual
issue at hand. So they just say everybody's an immigrant,
but not everybody's a legal immigrant. But they don't care,
because they want all of these things for illegal aliens
to be able to fully participate in civic life, a
thing that, by the way, you would not be permitted
to do if you were an illegal alien in another nation.
Immigrant residents have access to democratic spaces and shape community
priorities and policies. Immigrants hold leadership roles in the community,
and local institutions are invested in increasing access to leadership
positions for immigrant residents. And all of that is a
fancy way of saying de facto amnesty to make them
full participants as if they were citizens illegally here they
are on equal footing. That's the point. And again eight
pages then, of all of the recommended policies and proposals,
I'll give you a smattering, all right, if you're listening
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According to the website, the way you get certified as
a Welcoming city, which Charlotte is. I double checked. Charlotte
is still a certified Welcoming city, and according to the website,
you have to do some stuff to get certified. And
they have standards here under seven framework areas, a grand
total of one hundred and six standards across these seven
framework areas. The first under Civic Engagement. I'm just going
to give you a couple of them, because again there's
one hundred of them, one hundred and six, but basically
programs to support ieligible immigrants in voting, that's one of them,
support them in obtaining US citizenship, developing civic leadership skills,
and are accessible to speakers of languages other than English,
so you get the flavor for the things that they're doing.
Build up immigrant youth leadership, like the guy that's on
the city council now, right. So that's under civic engagement.
Next up is connected Communities. A couple of those from
this category. Local government leadership does not make public statements
discouraging immigration or immigrant inclusion, so they're telling our elected
officials what to say. You cannot make public statements discouraging immigration.
There is ongoing public communication from local government leadership about
its commitment to welcoming immigrants. Think about every statement you
have heard from Democrat officials over the last week. That's
CC one dot one standard on going public communication from
local government leadership about its commitment to welcoming immigrants. How
about this one? The local government participates in celebrations of
immigrant cultures, customs, and beliefs. I am looking forward to
the Charlotte City Council's celebration of female genital mutilation. Can't
wait for that event to occur. That should be fun.
Next up the area of the economy, programs support immigrant
job seekers in finding and obtaining employment. Again, this is
for legal and illegal, So you got to have programs
in your local government to help illegal aliens find work.
Also to have programs to support immigrant adults in accessing
additional education to obtain the skills and degrees required to
meet their employment goals. How about this one. Chambers of
commerce and or economic development agencies are engaged in immigrant
inclusion work also support immigrants when they try to get
occupational certification and or credentialing requirements. Might that explain some
of the driver's licenses being handed out like candy to
people who can't pass the road tests. Programs support immigrant
business owners in accessing capital to start, sustain, and grow
their businesses. How about occupational licensing assistance as well. Let's
move on to the next category. Education. Just a couple
from here, although it's a very lengthy list, but you'll
get the flavor. Programs to address barriers to navigating local
K through twelve school districts for immigrant families. Programs to
train K twelve educators and staff on teaching and supporting
diverse student populations, including immigrant students. Didn't we see a
statement from CMS when all of this started. They're checking
a box in a checklist to maintain their status as
a certified Welcoming city. That's why they're putting out these
statements saying this stuff, and it all sounds the same.
I would not be surprised if they got a toolkit
of some kind with this kind of language in it.
Programs support immigrant students and accessing a whole bunch of services.
They got various bullet points on that local government departments.
Oh sorry, this is now the next category of equitable access.
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More than one hundred of these standards in seven categories.
You have to meet them in order to be certified
as a Welcoming city. Charlotte has been so certified. Okay,
I've gone over. Let's see one, two, three, four of
the seven areas. The fifth is the economy. And again,
I'm not going to read all of these standards to
you because there's a lot of them and that would
be boring radio. And they're kind of like repetitive in
their phrasing, but again a smattering so you get the flavor.
Programs support immigrant job seekers in finding and obtaining employment.
Programs support immigrant adults in accessing additional educator. I think
I already read this. No, No, I did it. Yeah, access
in and accessing additional education to obtain the skills and
degrees required to meet their employment goals. Programs to support them, oh,
I said, Oh, I did this already. The Chambers of Commerce, Certification,
Occupational Licensing. Yes, I did all of that. I'm sorry.
So the next one is I did not check off.
Let me check equitable access. Okay, under the education category
Programs addressing Barriers to navigating local K twelve. Oh I
already did this one too. Oh oh, I see what
it is. Their framework areas are not in the same
order as all of the standards. Why would you do
it that way? That's stupid. All right, well, let me
just go to the next section here. This is where
I was. This is under Welcoming Communities and short local
services are acceptable to all residents, including immigrants. And again
when they say immigrants, they mean legal and illegal. So
they want to ensure services are available. For example, local
government departments disseminate information on government services, resources, and public
benefits with the goal of expanding access to immigrants. They
want to address barriers to healthcare, legal services, mental health services,
rental housing, home ownership, transportation, also to inform immigrants of
workers' rights. Okay, So these are some of the areas
that local governments have to provide. They have to set
up systems to provide this stuff in order to get certified.
Next up, this is on inclusion, participation, and equity. The
local government has one or more st F positions whose
responsibilities include advancing immigrant inclusion. So taxpayers are funding somebody
in government to do this. To maintain compliance with the
Certified Welcoming City Standards, which includes public libraries to implement
an immigrant inclusion strategy, the local government leadership has an
immigrant inclusion strategy for all of its departments and agencies.
Participants of the group advancing Immigrant inclusion has to also
reflect the diversity of the community in demographics, constituencies and
sectors minus Republicans, right. I mean it doesn't say minus Republicans,
but I'm sure that's not required, much like Republican representation
on the Charlotte City Council, County Commission, and school board.
So you have to what do quotas you have to
make whatever this group is that you have to assemble,
you have to have a group of leaders and residents
that regularly convenes to advance immigrant inclusion efforts. So, like
this is also another one of these examples of these NGOs,
these non government organizations, right that just like attach themselves
like a barnacle onto government and then they just feed
off of the taxpayer trough. I know I'm mixing some
metaphors there, but you get the idea, right, they're plugged in.
They're like, well, you know, as if you want to
be a welcoming city, which of course the suicidally empathetic
must have this standard, like we have to have this certification,
we have to be a certified welcoming city. We'll do
anything to get at this status. So we can then
signal it out that I'm better than you. I care
more about these other people over here than you do.
I'm better. You're terrible, You're a Nazi, you're a fascist.
So then you have to set up this group. Now,
maybe you could have the group be I don't know,
not all say led by, but you know, a liaison,
like a facilitator if you will, somebody who could come
in with the big sticky pads, have people brainstorm with
a charette or something, break out into discussion groups, and
then you know, write all of your thoughts on the
sticky pads and post it all around the walls, and
then then cull all of that stuff and collate it
and then put it into a fancy report and then
check the box and pay me a check as well.
Taxpayers are funding this kind of stuff. And then there
was this for government and community leadership criteria that is
designated in this list, all of the following local government
departments are expected to meet these criteria. So they have
all the criteria, all the standards, and then they put
little stars or asterisks next to all or several of
these standards. And if there's a star next to it,
that means that all of the following local government departments
are expected to meet the criteria. And those these agencies
include child protective services, communications, departments that enforce building construction, fire,
health and housing codes, economic development, emergency dispatch, emergency management,
emergency medical services, fire, human resources, law enforcement, neighborhoods, planning, purchasing,
public health, and zoning, all of them basically everything that
the city does basically. And then the final category law enforcement.
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Welcoming America dot org website. In order to get certified
as a Welcoming City, which Charlotte is final category law enforcement,
local law enforcement agencies must have programs in place to
build trust and mutual understanding with immigrant communities and immigrant
serving organizations. Right, so this is making your local police
department sticky with these activist groups. And then you can
check a box. And this is why you keep hearing
these local leaders saying the same thing about you know this,
this is how you build trust in these communities, and
we're trying to maintain trust and all that, Or how
about this one. Local law enforcement agencies cannot have policies
in place where the primary purpose is to detain or
deport immigrants. That's the two eighty seven G program. That's
what that is. So it's saying you can't be certified
as a welcoming city if you have two eighty seven G.
That's why they scrap it. Programs that also inform immigrants
of their rights and responsibilities when interacting with local law
enforcement and the legal system. Programs to inform immigrants of
their rights and responsibilities when interacting with immigration enforcement and
the detention system have to have a policy in place
that clarifies the jurisdiction and separation between local law enforcement
and federal immigration enforcement agency. So I'm curious, like, who's
monitoring all of this or is this a self reporting
kind of a thing, Like does Sheriff Gary not my
fault McFadden send over all of his interview clips and
his press briefings or his press releases rather send them
over to the city so they can comply with these standards.
And again, like, taxpayers didn't vote for this, You didn't
ask us if we wanted to do this. You got
one hundred and six standards that you've committed to doing. Charlotte,
did you guys discuss all of this stuff? Did you
talk about how you're going to somehow direct the local
law enforcement to not have any policy whose primary purpose
is to detain or deport immigrants? Is that why you
keep saying we have nothing to do with immigration enforcement.
That's not us. We're not going to deport you because
you have to check the box, right, Or how about
the local government has to have a process in place
to identify the priorities and goals of immigrant residents for
creating a safer community. It's like, first off, no deportation,
and law enforcement has one or more staff positions whose
responsibilities include advancing immigrant inclusion, so they too have to
have staff. So we're paying for this, So that again
I gave you probably I don't know, thirty out of
the one hundred and six standards. They then say on
their website communities can use the Welcoming Standard to guide
their next steps in building a Welcoming Community. For example,
advocates can use it to shape their policy agenda. States
can use it to inform the assistance and resources they
provide to communities. Local governments and community based organizations can
use the Welcoming Standard as evaluation and planning tool. Nonprofits
and local government entities can also join the Welcoming Network
as a member, and then you'll receive technical assistance and
resources that assist communities working to meet this standard. What
do you want to bet that these activist groups that
are now part of these demonstrations against the immigration enforcement operations,
what do you want to bet that they've got people
that have these Welcoming City standards that they're members, that
they know what these things are. Then that's why they're
saying these things the way they're saying them. Local governments
can be assessed against the Welcoming Standard to become certified,
and Charlotte has done exactly that. Now when they talk
also about due process, you've heard a lot about that,
all the due process stuff, and I'm going to get
into this in the next hour. Along with the audio
from the Senate hearing. I want you to keep in
mind Saulolenski's fourth rule for Radicals right from his book
Rules for Radicals, and the fourth rule says that activists
need to make the enemy live up to its own
book of rules. This tactic involves forcing the enemy to
strictly adhere to their own established standards, procedures, or policies,
which will then overwhelm them due to the sheer volume
or impracticality of compliance. For example, if they have a
rule that says we will reply to every letter, well
then you just swamp them with a million letters, and
then that's an insurmountable workload, and then that they're unable
to fulfill what they promised to fulfill, and then you
can accuse them of lying and you can damage their credibility. Right,
that's the immigration court system after you've allowed in ten
million illegals in four years. All right, that'll do it
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