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Omaha meat packing plant loses 70% of workforce after ICE raid · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations of welcome my friends drew An their edition
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  Speaker 1: of The Power Hour, our final Power Hour.
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  Speaker 2: For this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm struck them as you know who you are, and
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  Speaker 1: we take it from there. I talk really fast, so
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  Speaker 1: you have to listen faster. We only get an hour together.
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  Speaker 1: My number eight two one nine, eight eighty six a
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  Speaker 1: two to one WTV. And I was just telling Zach
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  Speaker 1: during the break. You know, there are people, there are
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  Speaker 1: people who achieve great things, or maybe just mediocre things,
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  Speaker 1: but they do a great number of mediocre things during
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  Speaker 1: the course of their life. But they do it under
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  Speaker 1: the radar. You don't notice them, you don't see them.
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  Speaker 1: Especially true in the entertainment industry. This guy, this guy died.
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  Speaker 1: He was ninety years old. He lived a good life.
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  Speaker 1: He was in everything ever I mean he was in
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  Speaker 1: more Con Mendy's and Blazing Saddles, used cars, eating Raoul,
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  Speaker 1: all of the Police, Academy of Movies, The eight is Enough,
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  Speaker 1: just everywhere everywhere. His name was Beans Morocco. Character actor
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  Speaker 1: Beans Morocco small Guy, usually played some diminutive type character,
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  Speaker 1: and while he worked for forty five fifty years in
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood and was in everything, if you google his name,
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  Speaker 1: you will actually get pictures of various bean dishes. That's
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  Speaker 1: I guess. That is the essence of being a character actor.
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  Speaker 1: He was never the star. He was always just he
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  Speaker 1: was there. His film debut was back in nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: one with Tom Laughlin. He was in Billy Jack. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember the little guy in Billy Jack? The Little Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy one, Almost one hundred credits as an actor afterward,
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  Speaker 1: some of the most famous movies of the eighties and nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Along with his acting career, a former US Navy pilot,
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  Speaker 1: spent time doing local theater dressed as Sanna for kids
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  Speaker 1: in his hometown. Even elected honorary mayor of Pine Mountain Club, California,
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  Speaker 1: where he lived. Unfortunately, they said he was quickly impeached
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  Speaker 1: and convinced everyone to storm the gazebo. Was a joke
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  Speaker 1: that he used to tell Beans Morocco. You probably never
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  Speaker 1: heard of him, but I guarantee you you saw him
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  Speaker 1: dead at ninety. That's just I don't know. You get
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  Speaker 1: into that line of work to be noticed most people,
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  Speaker 1: I guess do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look at his dukes of Hazzard, then used cars,
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  Speaker 3: then w k RP and Cincinnati, then Archie Bunker's Place
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  Speaker 3: and eight is enough. Then he was in any which
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  Speaker 3: way you can?
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  Speaker 4: The movie, right, I love that movie? Right Turnclyde and
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  Speaker 4: Stelle What's what was her face?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? The old lady in every which way but lose
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  Speaker 1: and every which way you can? Was it a Stelle Getty?
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  Speaker 1: That was the old lady?
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  Speaker 3: It?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh to hear some of that language coming
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  Speaker 1: out of an old lady's mouth. But that was back
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  Speaker 1: when we weren't offended by everything. You see, we actually
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  Speaker 1: laughed at stuff. And uh, anyway, Beans Morocco has exited
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  Speaker 1: the stage one final time. The the Los Angeles garbage
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  Speaker 1: is kind of overshadowing what is uh, you know the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of the whole argument, which is immigration enforcement. And
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  Speaker 1: I came across the story today and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: chuckled because I thought that. My first thought was, this
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  Speaker 1: guy needs reparations. He has a meat packing plant. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's in Oklahoma, I'm sorry, in Omaha, Nebraska. They had
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred people working there and ice raided the place.
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  Speaker 1: And out of the one hundred people that were working there,
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  Speaker 1: seventy of them are now not working there so he's
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent reduction in workforce because they were here illegally.
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  Speaker 1: Now you might be thinking, well, good, they need to
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  Speaker 1: be caught. Okay, that's fine, And you might be thinking, well, good,
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  Speaker 1: he shouldn't have I've been hiring illegals. Okay, that's where
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  Speaker 1: we part ways. Because this guy played by the rules.
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  Speaker 1: Ice shows up with the search warrant focusing on this
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  Speaker 1: glen in Glenn Valley. Foods is what it's called. According
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  Speaker 1: to Ice, some of the illegal aliens had active warrants
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  Speaker 1: prior to UI convictions, previously deported. Many now may face
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  Speaker 1: federal charges fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents,
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  Speaker 1: assaulting a federal officer, resisting of arrest, illegal entry or
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  Speaker 1: re entry, and misuse of social security numbers. There's your
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  Speaker 1: problem right there, Ice, acting Director, said, yesterday an illegal
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  Speaker 1: alien from Honduras brandished a weapon and assaulted federal agents
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  Speaker 1: and officers who were doing their job protecting American citizens,
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  Speaker 1: the public, and businesses who are being victimized through identity fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be clear, this warrant wasn't just someone else out
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  Speaker 1: of status. This was a violent criminal who attacked law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement while they were serving the public, which is why
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  Speaker 1: the term criminal alien is a distraction. If you're here illegally,
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  Speaker 1: you've already broken the law. When you break the law
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  Speaker 1: by coming here illegally and then threaten and assault federal
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  Speaker 1: officers on top of that, you're a threat, plain and simple.
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  Speaker 1: This is what created the warrant. They figured out that's
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  Speaker 1: where this guy was. Work site enforcement remains a priority
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  Speaker 1: for ICE. It seeks to protect the nation's workforce. Employers
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  Speaker 1: found a violation of federal hiring laws may face civil
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  Speaker 1: penalties and in some cases, criminal prosecution. So that is
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  Speaker 1: the way that NBC reported the story in Omaha. But
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  Speaker 1: as Paul Harvey used to say, and now my friends,
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  Speaker 1: your god, jear the rest of the story. The guy
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  Speaker 1: who owns the Glen Valley meat processing place I had
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  Speaker 1: an Omaha said, hold on a second. I have played
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  Speaker 1: by the rules. I have used e verify. All these
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  Speaker 1: people passed the federal litmus test to work here. And
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  Speaker 1: he says, the ICE agent said, yeah, the system's broken
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  Speaker 1: because what they did was use stolen documents, stolen social
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  Speaker 1: Security numbers and so forth, presented themselves as someone else
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  Speaker 1: and got jobs there. So this guy who did play
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  Speaker 1: by the rules, he says, and did follow all the steps,
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  Speaker 1: now has seventy percent of his workforce missing. I this
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  Speaker 1: is a hard one because you know, in my heart
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  Speaker 1: that emotional part of me, I feel like he deserves something. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we bailed out people during COVID. Ever, everything on the
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  Speaker 1: planet had some kind of grant, money or something coming
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  Speaker 1: from Washington, d Z. You drive around on expired license
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  Speaker 1: tags for three years. Nobody said anything to you because
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to inconvenience you with complying with the
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  Speaker 1: law bent over backwards. We give money all the time
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  Speaker 1: to special interest groups and so forth. What about people
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  Speaker 1: who are damaged in this process? American citizens who have
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  Speaker 1: done what they were supposed to do in the legal
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  Speaker 1: way required and still end up taking it up to note,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't they shouldn't they be able to fall back on
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  Speaker 1: some sort of emergency fund or something to keep their
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  Speaker 1: business going. It just that only seems right to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people say, well, you know, whether whether
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  Speaker 1: he knew it or not, the fact of the matter
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  Speaker 1: was they were illegal. Yeah, Well, how many times have
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  Speaker 1: we whether he knew it or not. She was only nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't supposed to be in the bar. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know everything. Sometimes you have to take people at their
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  Speaker 1: word and when they show up apply for a job
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  Speaker 1: and bring you the documentation that says my name is
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  Speaker 1: Manuel Roriquez and it turns out that you know, your
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  Speaker 1: name is actually Jose Martinez, and you've got warrants for
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  Speaker 1: your arrest, but you had papers. It's not like the
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  Speaker 1: employer is going to do a DNA check, is it.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess that's my question to you. Am I
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  Speaker 1: am I being too touchy feely here? Or if ICE
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  Speaker 1: is going to continue doing this, do we perhaps need
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about some sort of some sort of
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  Speaker 1: fund or or you know, like I said, during COVID,
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  Speaker 1: people were running businesses that didn't even exist and getting
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the
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  Speaker 1: government to pay for employees that never existed, companies that
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  Speaker 1: never existed. We were throwing money away at this point. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we would be giving money, but isn't it money that
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  Speaker 1: is being given because we're doing something as a country
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  Speaker 1: that is creating the need for the money. I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to know, seriously, what do you think about this? Because
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of a dilemma for me A two one
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  Speaker 1: nine eight eighty six A two one WTV in or
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred sixty ten double UTV in. And as always, Zachary,
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  Speaker 1: I come to you first because you're a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: You're a pretty good barometer for me. Am I making
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  Speaker 1: any sense? Or am I just? Am I making much
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  Speaker 1: ado about nothing? On that?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have much argument on this one, honestly, because
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  Speaker 3: that's seventy percent.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in this case, he had one hundred employees, so
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  Speaker 1: he lost seventy But what if you had a thousand
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  Speaker 1: and lost seven hundred of his thousand, Right, That's that's significant.
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  Speaker 1: Especially you know, a small town thing processing plan in Omaha, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're gonna have to shut it down if
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  Speaker 3: he can't. You know what, they can't even hire beans.
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  Speaker 1: Morocca beans is not available any longer. Yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not a bean processing plant anyway. I'm just like I say,
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  Speaker 1: it's I don't want to throw away money for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of throwing away money. But with the enforcement of
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  Speaker 1: the law, there does come a cost no matter what
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  Speaker 1: the even if you're just throwing somebody in the County
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  Speaker 1: jail for a drunken disorderly there's a cost the officers
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  Speaker 1: that make the arrest, the officers that process, the jailers
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  Speaker 1: that hold them, the food that they are given, the
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  Speaker 1: clothes that they wear, and the laundering of those clothes
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  Speaker 1: once they are out. There is a cost that is
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  Speaker 1: incurred by society when law is enforced. And I, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: heart of hearts, just don't feel like it's out of
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  Speaker 1: the question that we at least have a legitimate and
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  Speaker 1: sincere discussion, preferably at the congressional level. And I'll likely
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  Speaker 1: send this to to our members of Congress about somehow
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  Speaker 1: making these these people whole, at least until they can
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  Speaker 1: find a way to hire replacements for the people that
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  Speaker 1: were taking away in the raids. A two one nine
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  Speaker 1: eighty six eight two one WTV and Pat, you're on
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  Speaker 1: the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines hy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Chuck, listen to you a lot. You are out
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  Speaker 2: of your wheelhouse because for probably forty years or more,
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  Speaker 2: they went to illeguo aliens in the meatia industry. They
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  Speaker 2: only checked to see if the SoC security number is valid.
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  Speaker 2: They do not check to see if it's hot works
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  Speaker 2: You can get online and check where they've gone into
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  Speaker 2: packing houses and cleaned out one hundred percent of them,
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  Speaker 2: and now they're getting into construction doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: There used to be a fine for ten thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: when they first passed the law. You couldn't employ these
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  Speaker 2: guys when they gave amnesty, which was like under Reagan,
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  Speaker 2: and it should be one hundred thousand dollars per head.
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  Speaker 2: It's because ice. This is no joke as called. The
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  Speaker 2: employer says, you got five or six of these guys in.
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  Speaker 2: They're here's so surety numbers. The numbers no good. They
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  Speaker 2: come the next morning, they're gone. This is the way
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  Speaker 2: the system's been working for years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now, if they went to him and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you've got bad Social Security numbers or whatever, that's a
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  Speaker 1: different matter. But this came from one guy who assaulted
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  Speaker 1: a federal officer. The war was because they knew he
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  Speaker 1: was there, and they caught seventy when they went there
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  Speaker 1: who were there illegally. If this owner had been warned
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  Speaker 1: ahead of time, that's a different matter. But if he
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  Speaker 1: legitimately followed all the steps required by law. Unless you
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  Speaker 1: know somebody can show me, God rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've been around it. They don't want to know that
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  Speaker 2: that person's illegal. They want to get enough information to
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  Speaker 2: say it's a good social security number. They'll hire anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys all standing there and go I didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I believe Momford, which is I don't know what it
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  Speaker 2: is now. They closed down one whole plants and they said,
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  Speaker 2: where are people going to do to eat meat? These
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  Speaker 2: guys are pocketing in the money. The meat industry has
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  Speaker 2: been dirty the whole time it's been out there. Read
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  Speaker 2: the book The Jungle.
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  Speaker 1: I read The Jungle when I was in seventh grade.
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  Speaker 1: Man good, and I still like sausage.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I do too. But look at how many plants
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  Speaker 2: that they open, they closed, they leave them shuttered for
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  Speaker 2: a while, they open them, back it up to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of the unions. Believe me, the meatpackers are dirty.
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  Speaker 4: Bunch, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, pat. I'm not that familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the meat packing industry, and especially in Omaha. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if we were talking about up to in Sinclair's but
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  Speaker 1: you know, Chicago slaughter houses and so forth. Of the
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  Speaker 1: turn of the century, I'm sorry, the turn of two
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  Speaker 1: centuries ago. Now, yeah, that's more of a vivid picture.
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  Speaker 1: But Omaha, I don't know. Just for some reason, I
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's the idealist in me. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to believe this guy in Nebraska is just
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  Speaker 1: trying to run a small business. Pat could be right,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he was as crooked as everybody else. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to believe he was just trying to run a
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  Speaker 1: small business and trying to play by the rules and
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  Speaker 1: got caught up in something here that he wasn't expecting.
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  Speaker 1: Because some idiot goes out and assults a federal office