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the air, the US Attorney in the Western District of
North Carolina, based out of Charlotte, made the announcement at
a press conference that the Honduran man accused in Charlotte's
latest light rail attack faces a rare federal charge which
could lead to a lifetime prison sentence. Mark Price and
Julia Coin at the Charlotte Observer reporting, federal prosecutors filed
a complaint accusing thirty three year old Oscar Gerardo Solarzano
Garcia of illegally re entering the country for the third
time after being deported twice and committing a quote terrorist
attack or other violence against a mass transportation system. That's
the charge. He had already been banned from Charlotte's public
transit system when he was arrested on December fifth and
charged with stabbing another passenger in the chest with a
twelve inch knife whilst drinking wine coolers. This occurred once
again on the Lynx Blue Line, the Charlotte light rail system,
the original light rail line. Solarzano Garcia is the second
person to face this terrorism charge in Charlotte in the
last four months. The man who murdered Arena Zerutzka on
the same light rail line, also by stabbing her to
Carlos Brown Junior, He is also facing this same charge,
although for him, because his victim died, he is facing
the death penalty as a potential sentence, whereas Salzano Garcia,
he did not kill his victim, so that apparently is
not on the table for him. Until this year, the
US Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina
had never filed this charge against anybody. It stems from
a law that was passed after the nine to eleven
terrorism attacks. Spokesperson for US Attorney Russ Ferguson says that
he first applied it to Carlos Brown Junior in the
August light rail stabbing death of Zerutzka. If found guilty,
Dollis Brown Junior could face the death penalty. As I said,
the immigration charge that that Solarzano is facing, that carries
because he's also looking at a illegal re entry charge
that could be a ten year sentence for him. He
has a lengthy criminal record, as I mentioned, he had
been caught in the country illegally, he had been deported.
He then tried to cross back in he was caught
and he was arrested. Actually at that point. A twenty
twelve robbery charge up in New Jersey, conviction a twenty
sixteen battery with a deadly weapon charge in Florida. He
stabbed a victim multiple times with a large knife. It's
unclear if he was convicted for that. He was deported
in twenty eighteen, so that would be in Trump's first term.
Then about a year and a half later, December twenty nineteen,
he comes into the country again. He gets caught, he
serves an eighteen month prison sentence for that, and then
he gets deported at the end of that of serving
that sentence. James Barnacle Junior, the Special Agent in charge
locally here at the FBI. He's quoted in the press
release from the Department of Justice. On this quote, Oscar
Solarzana Garcia should not have been on the Charlotte light
rail last Friday. In fact, he should not have been
in our country. He has a violent criminal history and
was deported twice. These two recent attacks on the city's
light rail system make one thing clear. Safety measures on
public transportation in our city must be strengthened. People deserve
a secure and reliable transit system where they make it
to work and back home unharmed. The criminal complaint alleges
that Solarzano Garcia, because these are federal charges now, they
allege he is an alien unlawfully present in the United States.
It further alleges that in twenty twelve, he was arrested
in the Union County Police Department or by the Union
County Police Department in New Jersey, not here in Charlotte,
not Union County, North Carolina, but up in Jersey, convicted
of robbery. He was then arrested in Florida for aggravated battery.
He was removed. Nine months later, he was arrested by
US Border Patrol convicted of illegal re entry. Did eighteen
months in prison, and then he was removed from the
US out of Alexandria, Louisiana on June ninth, twenty twenty one. Okay,
so they've now hit him with not just the terrorism
charge but also the re entry charge. Now that's in important.
Keep that part in mind, because once again we have
a statement, a very lengthy statement, a press release that
I had to once again download and crop out the
photo of the agency that issued the statement. That agency
is the Mecclimber County Sheriff's Office, and for some reason
that I cannot fathom. Well, that's not true. I actually
can fathom a reason, but it's not it's not very charitable.
This is a bit I know it's petty, but I
don't care. It's annoying, and I think it speaks to
something deeper. The press releases began about, i want to say,
within the last year from the Mecklimburg County Sheriff's Office.
They started including on like the top third of the page.
So you get this press release and it's got this
big thick green border around the image, and it's always
in the form of like a PDF or yeah, like
a PDF, or maybe it's a jpeg. It's a it's
an image, And so you open the image up and
the page is taken up by this like probably one
to two inch thick green border around the edge of it,
and then the top third of it is a picture
of the sheriff. So if I want to print this
thing out, like I don't care about the image of
the sheriff, I don't care. In many ways, I don't,
but I don't care about the seeing his big face
on this piece of paper. I want. I want the words,
like what is the press release saying? Right? What is
the message you're trying to communicate? And when you put
your own mug up on the top third of the
press release, not only are you conveying the sentiment that
you want me to look at you, that you're the
top of the page. Look at my big picture standing
in my uniform with all my metals and all this stuff,
and look at me. I'm the top guy. I'm awesome.
Look at me, Look at me, Look at me. But
more importantly, it makes me wiste ink when I print
this thing out or I have to go through all
these steps to get the text off of the page. Right,
I got it. It's just annoying, and then it never because,
as you might imagine, when you issue a lengthy press release,
they shrink the text down. So now like I'm looking
at like a like a four point font because they
have to squeeze all of this text, this wall of text,
into only two thirds of the page because we have
to see Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden. We got
to see his big picture on every press release, every
press release, well except the bad ones. Actually when someone
dies in the jail, they don't put his face on those.
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to the incredibly ridiculously small text of the sheriff's press release.
Speaker 1: Here. If I read it in a halting fashion, unlike
the normal, smooth, professional delivery that I normally do, it's
because the text is so ridiculously small. Okay, headline, this
one's pretty big. I can read this headline Sheriff McFadden,
which Okay, of course it's gonna say Sheriff McFadden. It's
a press release from the sheriff's office. You don't need
to put your name in the title too. Oh my gosh, okay,
Sheriff McFadden. If this is the worst first, I'd hate
to see the second. Oh oh, my side, it's splitting.
So here we go. As I have said repeatedly, the
current immigration and civil deportation process as it is currently
designed is not working well, Sheriff. It might not be
working because you have been thwarting it. People like you
have been standing in the way of federal immigration enforcement efforts.
You refuse to help, right, You send out messages all
the time about how you won't honor the detainer requests
from ICE, and then you had to get state legislature
approval for law changes, multiple law changes to drag you
kicking and screaming and whining to assist in the immigration
enforcement efforts. And now it's like, ah, man, this whole
thing doesn't work. Yeah. I wonder why he says the
process is unreliable, inconsistent, and deeply flawed, which, by the way,
that is it's one of his patterns that he does
in his speech as well as his writings. It's always
in groups of three. He does the process is unreliable, inconsistent,
and deeply flawed. Now, I will say I give them credit.
They did use the Oxford comma in that list, so
I do appreciate that these failures have led to actual
United States US citizens and documented immigrants being detained, arrested,
and terrorized. There it is again groups of three. The
political slogan worst First appears to be nothing more than
a talking point, much like making our city safe, because
we have not seen evidence of either promise being fulfilled
city after city, neighborhood after neighborhood. By the way, there
was an analysis run I saw the other day that
found two thirds of the people who have been picked
up by Customs and Border Patrol agents during these sweeps
throughout the country, two thirds of them have criminal records. Now,
I guess unless for leftists like our sheriff, unless you
have one hundred percent have criminal records. But CBP has
said from the beginning, DHS, the Department of Homeland Security,
has said that they are targeting the worst first. They're
targeting those with that have criminal backgrounds. But if you
are in their way, if you are present around these
people whatever, and you are here illegally as well, they're
not going to turn a blind eye. And that's what's
really got McFadden upset. That's what he's arguing against, is
deportation for anybody that's here illegally. They will use the
cover of oh my gosh, a US citizen was detained.
I have a story about one of these videos that
went viral of this woman screaming and crying on the
side of the road as they coffer, Yeah, because she
refused to tell them who she was, and she was driving.
Here's the key. She was driving a vehicle registered to
her boyfriend, who is an illegal alien, and when the
tag hit they pulled her over. She refused to cooperate,
so they took her out of the car, and she
made a big deal. They made videos, it went viral,
and then we find out later on, oh, actually she
was released because she is a US citizen. She happened
to be driving her boyfriend's car, who is an illegal alien,
but is somehow able to register a car. Yeah, this
is the problem with the system. Back to McFadden's press release,
and this part is rich and so the blame game continues. Yeah,
there's a reason I call our sheriff not my fault, McFadden,
because all he does is blame other people, other agencies, laws,
other officials. He blames everybody else for any problems that
fall at his feet. When he is caught on tape
using racial slurs, he blames his command staff. He says
they made him so fluss his word, so frustrated that
he just he used these words. Now let's move on.
It's always somebody else's fault. The guy does not take
responsibility for anything. Instead of addressing these systemic failures, he says,
federal agencies attempt to shift responsibility.
Speaker 3: Coming from him, which is all he ever does, and
he's doing it in this press release, which, by the way,
this press release comes what three days after his news.
Speaker 1: Conference where he said all of this already, but now
he's saying it in a statement, in a written statement,
press release, because at the press conference when he was
asked about the stabbing and he was asked about Arena's law,
that now it's going to oh my gosh, we're not
gonna have enough jail bedspace, and woe is me. It's
not my fault, it is your fault closed down Jail North.
You shut down a facility, so now you complain you
don't have the bedspace that was your choice. You did that. Oh,
I can't hire enough staff your fault. People don't want
to work for you. You have a terrible reputation as an employer.
You've got multiple chief deputies that have quit very publicly
in scathing letters calling you a micromanaging, narcissistic tyrant, like
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mister Christmas Hams. He says, I think a big flaw
in the light rail line is the wide open honor
system rather than having closed entry points like most other
light rail lines and subway systems. Indeed poor design at
the very beginning, it's sort of an honor system. Also,
the short distance between all of the stops means that
you can jump on and jump off, like in the
rare event somebody is actually coming through to check your ticket.
You're able to just jump off at the next stop
because it doesn't take very long for it to get
to the next stop. Jamie texts Pete, the word you're
looking for is tacky. Yes, tacky with regard to not
my fault McFadden for a four numbers, suggesting that I
use shift windows s I believe that is for the
snipping tool. And when I try to do the snipping tool,
the brightness of the thing, it doesn't work. So like it,
you know, like it makes the page darker, and then
you highlight the part you want to snip, and when
it highlights that part, it makes it bright and then
you can't read it. See these are my frustrat I
have tried all sorts of ways to get the text
out of these press releases. This is from Eric. You
have to copy and paste just the text out, and
you can't. That's what I'm saying. It's it's a JPEG file.
It's an image. Like I can't highlight the I cannot
highlight the words and bring them over. I've even tried
the word extractor, but it just it doesn't. It doesn't
do a good job. I get crazy misspellings and different
words in place. But yes, I am trying to avoid
the headshot. Jeff says, the sheriff is giving off Ted
Baxter vibes from the Mary Tyler Moore Show. In regards
to the sheriff, the dude had framed portraits of himself
in his apartment, and then Chris asks, can you copy
the file to a word processing program. No, no, I can't.
Like I said, it's an image. It's so annoying. I
think they're doing it now just because they know I
hate it. I think that's what's happening. Alan says. Shirley
McFadden is not happy that Russ Ferguson, the US Attorney,
is bringing federal charges. After all, he wants the jails
vacant at all times. That's the thing this if so
dever says, take a screenshot. I do that, but then
the text becomes so light against the brighterer white background.
It's trust me. This has been going on for almost
a year. I have attempted all sorts of ways to
get this image off of this stupid press release format.
I'm just joining. But if you hit print screen then
open it up, it'll give you an option. Yep, I've
done that too. Doesn't work. Use that yeah again with
the snip tool. I have tried it. It doesn't work.
You can take an image put it in an AI engine.
Oh all right, well that's what I will try next. Stephen,
thank you. I will try to use AI. I'm going
to try to use AI. Let me go back to
the Sheriff's very ridiculously small text press release. He says,
instead of addressing these systemic failures, federal agencies attempt to
shift responsibility like I do on everything, using selective language
and political distractions in their own statement. And I read
this statement the other day came from the Department of
Homeland Security and said the heinous stabbing by this twice
removed illegal alien should have never happened. End quote. On
this point, DHS is correct, he says, it should never
have happened. But that is precisely because the same agency,
DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement, relied twice on the civil
detainer process to remove Oscar Girardo Sarlezano and wrong Gary.
Wrong dude went to jail, Sir, he was criminally charged
on the second time he crossed into the country, went
to jail eighteen months, then was deported. That was a
criminal charge against him. So this whole press release is
based on a misunderstanding of the facts of this case.
DHS Immigration, Oh sorry, he says. The civil process is
the very mechanism that allowed him to be deported twice
without judicial oversight, only for him to return, and there
was judicial oversight. He was tried, he was convicted, he
went to prison. Solarzano was never held accountable for his
past crimes because of the civil deportation process, and he
was held responsible. He was criminally charged in New Jersey
and in Florida. He was deported on the second re entry.
He then snuck back in. Therein lies the problem. Let
me see here the stabbing arrest. It was his first
arrest of Mecklinberg County. If deporting Solarzano twice did not work,
then blame for this broken system belongs where it should
with dhs ICE and their continued reliance on a process
that has repeatedly failed. He made it fail. He made
it fail in Mecklenburg County. He has been working since
twenty eighteen to make the process fail. Number one. Number two, No,
the process failed because our border was not secure, which
allowed him to come into the country twice, sorry three times.
That was the problem. This guy McFadden like either he
believes that this is bad for him, but I don't
think that's the case. Like he cannot help himself to
just shift the blame. He thinks this is the pr
win for him. He thinks this is the way. Oh yeah,
here we go. This is a perfect example of why
the process that I have been thwarting, that I've been
working against, that I have been criticizing, that I've been
letting criminal, illegal aliens out of my jail, not holding
them for Ice to deport. This proves that the whole
system doesn't work. The real question, he says, the public
and the media should be asking, is why did Ice
use Why didn't Ice use federal criminal law to begin with,
specifically eight US Code thirteen twenty six re entry after deportation.
This federal law would have brought on judicial oversight and
real consequences. He was convicted, he was imprisoned. There were
in fact criminal charges he was charged under this for
re entry. That's why they held him for eighteen months
in prison and then deported him after that. But again,
the real issue is how did he get into the
country three times? See McFadden never addresses the open border,
never talks about that. That's how the guy got in? Why?
Oh and by the way, the other layer in all
of this is that local law enforcement never asks anybody
when they make a traffic stop or would they have
any kind of an interaction with potential suspect, and they're
talking to the person, they never ask about immigration status,
and so they blind themselves. And that's a policy decision
that McFadden has opted for as has Charlotte Mecklenburg Police
the city. They do not ask anybody's immigration status. They
say that this is the humane thing and it builds
trust to not ask anybody if they're here illegally, which,
by the way, had they asked Solarzano back in October?
On October eighth when he was first sighted on the
Cat's line for having a big blade, and then the
next day when he was cited for being drunk on
the train. Both of those times they had an opportunity
to identify him as an illegal criminal alien twice deported,
but they did not because that's federal immigration, that's their job.
We are not going to participate in any kind of
enforcement against this kind of suspect. Why is this federal
law not being used in countless other cases? Almost no
media outlet has asked this question. Well, because we're trying
to get rid of like ten million illegal aliens that
came over during the Biden administration. The focus has been
to round up as many people as possible and deport them.
That's been the focus very little, if any at all.
Media have challenged ICE on why it chooses a civil process. Again,
like he's hammering away. This is what is argument has been.
And I've dissected this over the last five years. Okay,
McFadden has been trying to make this argument that it's
a civil thing and you need to get a warrant
from a judge and then I will hold him. Otherwise
I'm gonna get sued. Nobody's ever been sued. Nobody's ever
been sued for this right. The constitutional scholars and the experts,
they're like, no, you can do this. You can hold
somebody with an ICE detainer. They're in the country illegally,
and ICE is like, we're gonna come pick them up,
so don't release them. Mcfaddin's like, I have to let
them go. I don't have a bench warrant for them. Yeah,
you don't actually need that. They're in the country illegally,
and the law is it's a civil process. But so, McFadden,
what you want criminal You want the immigration laws to
be criminal laws. I'm okay with that. I am totally
fine with that. I don't actually think you are. He's
making this argument because it allows him to shift the
blame away from himself, because it's never Gary's fault, hence
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that really is the point of my ire today, well
one of them. I don't limit myself to one single
point of ire, he goes on to say. And this
gets to I think the reason why he put out
this lengthy, but ridiculously small typed press release. He says,
the Meckelberg County Sheriff's Office is routinely positioned as the scapegoat. Yes,
because you refuse to cooperate with ICE to the point
where the state had to pass multiple laws to force
you to do so. Anyway, a convenient distraction from federal
agency's own failures. Why it's again, these aren't agency failures,
if anything. You're talking about a failure in the way
Congress constructed the law, the immigration law, if anything. He says,
Why has the media not pressed this issue? Why is
the Sheriff's office the only agency asked to explain to
decisions we did not make. Nobody has asked you to
explain anything with regard to this latest stabbing. When when
it was discovered that this individual, the attacker, had never
been through the Mecklelberg County Jail. Then there was nothing.
There was no connection to your office. So why do
you think people are scapegoating you in this scenario? They're not.
Nobody is except here's the key one, two, three, four
or five paragraphs in I think we get to the crux.
DHS's recent statements clearly show a misunderstanding of North Carolina
House Bill three eighteen. Under House Built three eighteen, sheriffs
must hold undocumented individuals for forty eight hours after they
would otherwise be released so ICE can assume custody. Right,
this is Gary's law, as I called it Gary's law
because Gary kept finding ways to release criminal illegal aliens
and ignore the detainer requests from Ice. He says the
law is explicit. So now he's claiming, like I'm following
the law. Look at me. You don't understand the law.
Ice does understand the law. They lobbied for the General
Assembly to pass it because of you. For DHS to
suggest the sheriff's office won't hold them is simply inaccurate.
Inaccurate now, see because DHS put out a statement that said,
like now that he's being charged by the Feds, like
luckily now we won't be there's no possibility for him
to be released as has been going on, and that's
what stuck in his craw that's what got him. He's
so thin skinned, that's what got him riled up to
put out this massive press release to claim nothing is
his fault here. It's inaccurate to suggest that I want
don't hold them. You haven't been holding them for eight years.
That's been your policy. You ran on a platform in
twenty eighteen saying you were going to scrap the two
eighty seven g program, which identifies illegal aliens that get
processed into the jail. You chose to blind yourself to
immigration status. You did that, you ran on that, you
won reelection on it. This is this is all you're doing,
the lack of cooperation, that's all you're doing. But in
this case, no was there's no connection to the county jail.
There's no connection to McFadden. But DHS took a swipe
at him, noting that well, at least he's now going
to be held. He's not going to be released out
into the community to terrorize people. No, No, that's too
much for Gary to He's got to put out the
press release to defend him himself. I'm the victim here. See,
he's always the victim or the hero. He's never the villain,
he says. It's another effort to mislead the public and
divert attention away from a broken federal process that DHS
continues to defend rather than fix. I don't know. They
seem to have fixed it pretty well now, but you
don't like the way it's being used, which is the
way the law was intended to be used. The consequences
of this broken civil deportation process are real now again,
if you would like to turn this from a civil
process into a criminal process, I mean, I guess I'm
open to that. You can start laying all sorts of
charges on people, but I suspect that he's just doing
that to blow smoke, to deflect away from his argument
that you know, oh, I need a judicial warrant. It
brings violence, fear, mistrust, and instability into our communities. It
results in the arrest of individuals, and then here you go,
this is just the same all about opt Charlotte's Web
and they shouldn't be running around picking up people. But
that's the law. Gary, That's what the law calls for
so this is why I keep saying this is nullification.
You have local and state officials who are attempting to
nullify federal law. And we do have examples of this
in American history. The Civil War comes to mind. That
was a big one. All right, that'll do it for
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