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Speaker 1: It's the week of June twenty eighth, twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: and this is what's on the People's news. The Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court removes tps from vass swaths of legal immigrants. The
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Speaker 1: Texas Republican playbook finds something impossible and obscure and attack it.
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Speaker 1: The current target islam. Black smoke over Houston East Side
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Speaker 1: for twenty four hours. The community is concerned. This Democrat
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Speaker 1: wants to be the new Texas ag Does he have
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Speaker 1: a chance? Small African nation shows up in Houston for
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Speaker 1: the World Cup, Felons given a second chance, Houston Boxing's
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Speaker 1: legend long road back. All that and more on the
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Speaker 1: People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is the People's News,
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Speaker 1: and the People's News US starts now. Just as Haiti
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Speaker 1: wrapped up their first ever Men's twenty twenty six World
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Speaker 1: Cup appearance, it was announced that over three hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand Haitians living and working in the United States
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Speaker 1: under temporary protected status lost that status. The conservative majority
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Speaker 1: of the U. S Supreme Court ruled in a six
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Speaker 1: to three decision that the President has the right to
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Speaker 1: revoke temporary protected status. Haiti is the poorest country in
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Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere and has armed gang's battling for control
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Speaker 1: of the country. Tirana Hassan, CEO of Doctors Without Borders USA,
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Speaker 1: stated that more than three hundred and thirty thousand Haitians
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Speaker 1: could now face being returned from the US to a
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Speaker 1: country where there is widespread violence, displacement, and a collapse
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Speaker 1: in healthcare. It is so bad in Haiti right now
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Speaker 1: that Doctors Without Borders have suspended medical activities. Jeene Michael
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Speaker 1: is with Houston Haitians United. We spoke with him on
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Speaker 1: how the community is coping.
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Speaker 2: And the Supreme Court decision of yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unfortunate, Richard. It's one of those, uh.
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Speaker 4: It was. It was.
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Speaker 5: We were happy for a while with the you know,
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Speaker 5: with our qualification in the World Cup, you know, even
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Speaker 5: though we didn't perform as well as we would like to.
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Speaker 5: And then of course immediately after that that's a great,
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Speaker 5: uh opportunity to perform in the World Cup, and then
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Speaker 5: we hear about this news and you know, it's not
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Speaker 5: it's not something that's uh, it's gonna definitely impact the
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Speaker 5: community as a whole. I think it's gonna impact definitely
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Speaker 5: some states more than ours. As you know, like Miami
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Speaker 5: and the East Coast area more. But yeah, it's just
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Speaker 5: it's it's gonna be a it's gonna make a major impact,
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Speaker 5: especially these mind you, Richard, this is Patians, for example.
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Speaker 3: I said, you don't hear.
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Speaker 5: Much more about these guys that come here because they
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Speaker 5: come here, they look for work, they want.
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Speaker 3: To be able to provide their families.
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Speaker 5: They're not on the street causing habit and causing problems,
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Speaker 5: like I think our administration is thinking because even though
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Speaker 5: there's a few backup balls in the country causing problems,
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Speaker 5: apply to everyone. That's unfortunate misunderstanding. I believe that's out
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Speaker 5: there that you just assume that everybody is here to
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Speaker 5: do a bad thing.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, I totally agree.
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Speaker 5: If they have a bad record or if they out
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Speaker 5: there doing bad okay, yeah, let's let's let's take care
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Speaker 5: of that.
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Speaker 3: Let's let's let's get them. Let's get them wherever they
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Speaker 3: need to go, at least out of here if they
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Speaker 3: causing problems here. But that's not the case. You know,
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Speaker 3: all these guys want to do is be able to
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Speaker 3: come work, Uh, pay taxes and and then and and
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Speaker 3: be good citizens. Go be but be good in our community.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's just unfortunate that they haven't the deal
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Speaker 3: with the you telling them that they have to go
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Speaker 3: to a country that is not ready to receive them.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of the in danger, and you know,
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Speaker 5: where's the human rights the human thinking here? It's like, look,
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Speaker 5: that's that countries and Coq is a war, right. A
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Speaker 5: lot of them abandoned their households, sold everything they have, looking.
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Speaker 3: For atter opportunity. And now you're telling me.
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Speaker 5: Come here, which is looking for the pilum and they're
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Speaker 5: able to find a little peace. Who knows what they
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Speaker 5: went through to get here, and now you're telling me that. Okay, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 5: even though.
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Speaker 3: We said you were legal, now you're no longer legal.
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Speaker 3: You gotta go back. Oh my goodness. Right, these there's
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Speaker 3: so much for them to handle, you know, very unfortunate.
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Speaker 2: Doctors with our boughts said yesterday that they were closed.
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Speaker 2: They had to close even more hospitals and in for
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Speaker 2: the prince in Haiti because of the violence.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, so just imagine that, you know, uh, there
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Speaker 3: was already it's already.
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Speaker 5: A big infrastructure issue, not the hospitals, the roads, gas
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Speaker 5: situation with the war that's happening so now, and then
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Speaker 5: with all the.
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Speaker 3: Bloodshed with these these these back upon that are up there. Uh,
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Speaker 3: it's just it's just it's just a catastrophe unfortunately, which
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Speaker 3: it really is.
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Speaker 5: Man, And it's sad to see these good people that
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Speaker 5: will try to be do the best that they plan
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Speaker 5: to provide for the family having to experience that.
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Speaker 3: It's so sad.
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Speaker 5: They remind me of the time during the Ronald Reagan era, right,
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Speaker 5: I remember when I was a kid at the time. Uh,
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Speaker 5: but they had a he had a similar issue. You
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Speaker 5: know what was Do you remember what the resolution was
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Speaker 5: that he during that time. Do you remember what the
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Speaker 5: resolution was?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So actually the point that I was gonna get to
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Speaker 5: is that because the reason I know this very well
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Speaker 5: is this.
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Speaker 3: Was a little bit I was still a kid at
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Speaker 3: the time.
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Speaker 5: But but my father kind of told him, well what
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Speaker 5: he did because he ended up benefiting for that is
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Speaker 5: everybody that was here working legally and had not caused
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Speaker 5: any problems.
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Speaker 3: He granted asylum to Uh.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 3: He he granted approved.
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Speaker 5: Their asylum and all of them was able to get
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Speaker 5: their legal status.
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Speaker 3: In this country and continue working.
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Speaker 5: So instead of spinning our heart, ear and tax money
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Speaker 5: to who knows to try to get all these people back,
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Speaker 5: look for them, hunt them down, whatever that they do.
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Speaker 3: He just went in there said, okay, well if you.
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Speaker 5: Have if you have a legal status, do you have
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Speaker 5: a legal status, then you are you are able to
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Speaker 5: stay here.
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Speaker 3: And that's how he was able to solve that problem, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, for every single immigrant in the US, already in
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Speaker 6: the US where your paper was already with the immigration
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Speaker 6: orre you getting processed.
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Speaker 5: He approved all those guys to have uh to be
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Speaker 5: legal in the country so they continue to be able
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Speaker 5: to work and provide for the company.
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Speaker 2: How is it that how is it that this whole
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Speaker 2: negative aspect of Haitians. Haitians have been in the United
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Speaker 2: States for since the founding of this country of you,
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Speaker 2: you know, and how is it that it's becomes such
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Speaker 2: a negative aspect.
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Speaker 3: I heard the lady, the.
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Speaker 2: Lady telling them the saying that Haitians should go back
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Speaker 2: where they came from. They they don't they don't provide
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Speaker 2: any type of health to the United States and they
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Speaker 2: just take.
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Speaker 5: True And I look at people like that has been ignorant, right,
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Speaker 5: Like what lens are you looking at?
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Speaker 3: Right when you look at you.
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Speaker 5: Hear of the people officials in Ohio for example, right Springfield,
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Speaker 5: they telling you the mount of benefit that these Patians are,
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Speaker 5: the support that they get, these Haitians are bringing right
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Speaker 5: where the low jobs working in the hospitals, the dish
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Speaker 5: washing dishes in the in the restaurants.
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Speaker 3: They're enable these restaurants to keep their business flowing.
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Speaker 5: Now you're getting ready to remove all these guys and say, okay,
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Speaker 5: you know you are now legal.
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Speaker 3: You got to go back to this country. What happened
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Speaker 3: to these restaurants?
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Speaker 5: You know, the common pop shops that have been staying
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Speaker 5: alive and they're barely surviving and not but due to
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Speaker 5: these population that's there that's working, these shops are able
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Speaker 5: to work.
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Speaker 3: Now he's saying to these.
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Speaker 5: Visits, sorry, farmers, all the farmers, sorry, we have to
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Speaker 5: take all these resources.
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Speaker 3: Mean, it's not a it's not a it's not a solution.
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Speaker 5: It's like, Okay, if these guys are criminals, if they're
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Speaker 5: doing bad things in this country, by all means.
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Speaker 3: Get rid of them.
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Speaker 5: But if they're all working, they are paying taxes and
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Speaker 5: they're trying to uh, they are here, they are here
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Speaker 5: with the TPS certain you have all information, you know
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Speaker 5: where they are, so you have established them to be
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Speaker 5: here with the TVs.
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Speaker 3: Allow them to go to the.
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Speaker 5: Process right and do it legally. I don't just you know,
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Speaker 5: you just keep pulling the rug from underneath them. At
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Speaker 5: what point, like what do we what message we're delivering you?
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Speaker 5: Americans looked at as a safe as a safe spot,
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Speaker 5: like if their country, other European countries that are having
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Speaker 5: a problem South Africa, the wold on a music.
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Speaker 3: A lot of these guys were moved here.
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Speaker 5: There wasn't no concerns then, right while we judging the
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Speaker 5: vagabonds that are causing problems in for the precis's mind,
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Speaker 5: you this is one system right.
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Speaker 3: They're happened to be the capitol of Haiti.
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Speaker 5: That's why these guys up. But don't judge all Haitians
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Speaker 5: because you see a few vagabon cause the problems. Don't
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Speaker 5: judge are Asians. If this is who we are, that
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Speaker 5: is completely the opposite. If you study here in Houston,
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Speaker 5: for example, it's a big Christian population here. All of
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Speaker 5: them come here. If they were able to make it
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Speaker 5: here through the TPS process. You know, all they want
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Speaker 5: to do is be able to work, to provide for
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Speaker 5: their family, go to school.
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Speaker 3: Send that kids to school, and be good citizens. We
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Speaker 3: don't have we don't have any issues with with Haitians
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Speaker 3: causing problem in our society.
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Speaker 5: So I don't know why it hasn't been looked at
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Speaker 5: into this bad lens like we are trouble making, which
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Speaker 5: is quite the opposite.
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Speaker 2: We can go back to the Haitians foundation, or we
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Speaker 2: can go even now with Haitians. Haiti qualifying for the
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Speaker 2: World Cup but denied, but denied to bring any type
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Speaker 2: of the uh they talked about the Iranians, but the
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Speaker 2: Haitians were not allowed to bring their support crew, their
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Speaker 2: support group to support the team, so.
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Speaker 3: They would get the right, we get to get left
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Speaker 3: and right. It's like it makes me wonder here. And
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Speaker 3: I love history. I'm a history I love to study history.
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Speaker 5: And I feel like if I don't, I need to
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Speaker 5: understand history to be able to kind of understand where the.
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Speaker 4: Future is going.
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Speaker 5: Right, And I look at what Haiti has done for
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Speaker 5: here in America. Well you know you know the story, right,
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Speaker 5: We've we've done good to the rest of the world. Right,
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Speaker 5: Why can't we get opportunity get the same same support
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Speaker 5: that we're giving back back, then, why can't we be
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Speaker 5: provided a being allowed the opportunity to be a sovereign state,
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Speaker 5: to be able to work together with with with the US.
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Speaker 5: Right instead, in the part right, it's an island right
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Speaker 5: next to Dominican Republic.
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Speaker 3: Dominican republicy is flourishing. We have the same same same
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Speaker 3: resources that they have. We probably have going outside from
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Speaker 3: when I'm reading right, we have opportunities that the US
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Speaker 3: can take your rent. But let's work together and where
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Speaker 3: both sides confitencies.
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Speaker 5: Don't you humanize heity, don't demonize heity if we're the
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Speaker 5: worst people in the world, because that is not true.
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Speaker 2: The US is also supported not even giving any type
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Speaker 2: of military aid to the to the country or to
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Speaker 2: the police.
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Speaker 3: Force and army.
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Speaker 2: Uh, it's nothing that's been done except the Kenyan, the
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Speaker 2: Kenyan soldiers or the Kenyan police.
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Speaker 5: And I don't believe personally, I don't believe that's the solution.
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Speaker 5: We have plenty of young young people in Haiti that's
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Speaker 5: perfectly capable to do this kind of work, but provide
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Speaker 5: them to trade. We don't need anybody to do anything
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Speaker 5: for us, Richard. We don't need no handouts. Just give
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Speaker 5: us the opportunity to do it ourselves. Provide us to
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Speaker 5: training the support we have. It's it's it hurts my
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Speaker 5: heart because I see the modern young population that's in
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Speaker 5: Haiti right now in school, you know, finishing school. Some
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Speaker 5: of them are finishing school or finishing university and they
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Speaker 5: don't have They don't know what the future holds to them.
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Speaker 5: So why don't we use some of this resources available
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Speaker 5: and allow them to make that make that country better.
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Speaker 5: We don't need no foreign ages coming into the country
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Speaker 5: helping us. No, that is not the solution, because can
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Speaker 5: you have the help problem? Even Kenya will tell you
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Speaker 5: the oself. They don't know why these soldiers are in Haiti.
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Speaker 5: Can you have the hell problem to deal with? Allow
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Speaker 5: the citizens of Haiti, the jaf Or that are connected here,
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Speaker 5: allow us to fix.
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Speaker 3: To fix the country.
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Speaker 5: We are propertly capable to do this, but provided that support.
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Speaker 3: Some people have also said that I was just gonna
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Speaker 3: say that. Some people have.
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Speaker 2: Said that, uh do medical Republican was respond with some
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Speaker 2: of the things that's going on there.
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Speaker 5: Well, there's a lot of rumors that says a lot
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Speaker 5: of different people, different countries or might be behind this
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Speaker 5: and involved. Right, but you know, just like you know
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Speaker 5: rumor circulating. I mean, it could be some shoots in it.
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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe not for me. I'm not focusing on these
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Speaker 5: type of people that might because I'm just trying to
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Speaker 5: figure out how do we solve the problem with what
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Speaker 5: was what we got?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 3: Uh? And I see a huge young population that's.
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Speaker 5: In Haiti, that's gonna, that's looking forward, that could parwell
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Speaker 5: be put in place to provide the security that the
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Speaker 5: country needs, you know. And all the guns out a
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Speaker 5: picturingions Haiti. These guns weren't there before. Who I didn't
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Speaker 5: get there.
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Speaker 4: The US?
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Speaker 5: Okay, they all came here. Why are we not stopping
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Speaker 5: this quite from happening? I always say, I look at Texas.
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Speaker 5: I love text stop.
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Speaker 3: I grew up here for the question.
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Speaker 5: And I see the benefits that we have with the
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Speaker 5: Second Amendment of Amendments, we all are able to carry
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Speaker 5: and protectile happlis. Right could they imagine if Haiti has
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Speaker 5: the same issue, these little young these poor people that
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Speaker 5: are saying they.
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Speaker 3: All had some kind of rifle in their house to
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Speaker 3: defend themselves.
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Speaker 5: If we wouldn't be talking the same lapers right now?
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Speaker 5: Because Haitians are good people. We are good people. We
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Speaker 5: just get to keep getting the bad hand of the
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Speaker 5: sick each and every single time. And they just make
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Speaker 5: me wonder, at what point is this gonna stop?
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Speaker 3: What happens with all these people coming back though?
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Speaker 2: I mean you, it's three thousand Haitians on this list
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Speaker 2: to be on the list of trying to be deported.
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Speaker 2: What happens wrong that many people come back to Haiti
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Speaker 2: with nothing?
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Speaker 3: For God? You see the point? You see the problem right,
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Speaker 3: there's nothing established there. What what are you sending these
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Speaker 3: people to do? I was reading this one article and
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Speaker 3: it hurts my heart.
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Speaker 5: This young guy was was getting interview that He's like,
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Speaker 5: I just ran for my life and I was able
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Speaker 5: to get here, and I was.
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Speaker 3: Able to block the TVs and I I was grading
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Speaker 3: the TVs, and now you're telling me I have to
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Speaker 3: go home. He's like, there's nothing to go back home to.
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Speaker 3: I've sold everything I have and it's it's uh. I
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Speaker 3: guess he lives in the.
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Speaker 5: Capital, so he's just warn't for his life. He's like,
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Speaker 5: he would rather starve to death here, start the death
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Speaker 5: here instead of going back and where every day he
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Speaker 5: doesn't know where's.
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Speaker 3: The good that's gonna where's the bullet that's gonna come
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Speaker 3: and hit him?
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Speaker 5: He could be in his house and these guys just
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Speaker 5: started to start shooting and some random bullet come and
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Speaker 5: hit you, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: So this is the kind of danger that these people are.
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Speaker 3: It's like, how how do you?
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 3: Who? What kind of people come up with these ideas? They?
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Speaker 3: Oh the hell with these people.
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Speaker 5: They don't deserve to have a good life. Let's the
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Speaker 5: centerm to where they are. And then in the meantime,
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Speaker 5: Americans there. Did you know that America has one of
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Speaker 5: the biggest uh uh uh what did they call it?
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Speaker 5: That one of the biggest embassies in uh in the
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Speaker 5: Western industry.
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Speaker 3: Is right then Haiti. I'm sure they have power. I'm
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Speaker 3: sure they have water, running water and typeral building.
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, why can't.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, why can't the rest of Haiti be benefited with
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Speaker 5: the same kind of opportunity to be able to have
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Speaker 5: running lights and running water.
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Speaker 3: It was a huge building right there in the capital
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Speaker 3: city that belongs to the UN And every time I
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Speaker 3: got there and I visited there, I'm like.
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Speaker 4: What is going on here?
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Speaker 5: We are your friends of America? We are friends of Omer,
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Speaker 5: not enemy to America. I mean, Haye is not enemy
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Speaker 5: to America. Why can't we work together and make this
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Speaker 5: thing happen to like the guests for we get to
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Speaker 5: a point where after you know, seeing how Hong Kong
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Speaker 5: did it and all these countries that were worse off
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Speaker 5: than us back in the day, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 5: these guys are moving up, stepping up the society or
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Speaker 5: you know, getting figs there.
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Speaker 3: The infrastructures are getting put in place.
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Speaker 4: This is what we want for Haiti.
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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, how proud of you of the
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Speaker 2: Haitian Ta Haitian national team playing?
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Speaker 5: Oh I am super proud, man. I think all of
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Speaker 5: us are super proud. Yes, we didn't make it, but.
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Speaker 3: Just the fact that we were able to get involved,
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Speaker 3: to reach this far.
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Speaker 5: Because take it on a global aspect, that everybody in
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Speaker 5: the world could see Haiti in a different light.
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Speaker 3: Oh man, that was to me, that was the biggest
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Speaker 3: lesson that those guys gonna give them.
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Speaker 5: And they made us super proud because we were you know,
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Speaker 5: to see them, you know, and then you know the
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Speaker 5: story how they didn't even have a hunds depressive inn
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Speaker 5: but somehow those guys still qualified. Think about that their
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Speaker 5: homeland is in complete disaster, they have to travel to
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Speaker 5: other people's country, just still allowed this to be.
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Speaker 3: Able to practice.
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Speaker 5: The coach couldn't even enter Haiti because Haiti was such
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Speaker 5: a desperate situation where you know he was in faith,
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Speaker 5: so he couldn't even go in with.
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Speaker 3: Them and to autumn to all of these these heart
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Speaker 3: aches and problems, they were still able to qualify it.
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Speaker 1: That was Jean Michael with Houston Haitians United. They can
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Speaker 1: be reached at Houston Haitians United, All put together dot org.
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Speaker 1: Haitians have been part of the United States since the
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Speaker 1: American Revolutionary War. As Haiti played in their first Men's
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Speaker 1: World Cup, they were bombarded with problems. Their supporters were
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Speaker 1: not allowed into the US by the Trump administration. They
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Speaker 1: were to practice in the US, but that was denied.
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Speaker 1: Texas Republicans continue to run the standard Republican playbook. Find
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Speaker 1: a group that's unprotected and small and attack them. The
18:10
Speaker 1: current target right now is Islam. Coming out of the
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Speaker 1: Republican State Convention with new language that condemned sharia law
18:20
Speaker 1: and the practice of Islam in Texas, the Texas Education
18:24
Speaker 1: agency has come up with a new curriculum that will
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Speaker 1: favor one religion, Christianity. This comes as two Muslim women
18:31
Speaker 1: were confronted and harassed with racist remarks while shopping at
18:35
Speaker 1: HB and Conroe. The lady confronting them has been defended
18:39
Speaker 1: and a go fundme for was set up. Republicans across
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Speaker 1: the nation have said sharia law is a threat to
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Speaker 1: the US, not knowing what that even means, it's just
18:50
Speaker 1: a convenient scapegoat the Republican Texas governor. Governor Abbott also
18:56
Speaker 1: called CARE the Council on American Islamic Lads, a terrorist group.
19:02
Speaker 1: Mustafa Carroll is the executive director of CARE DFW Texas.
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Speaker 1: He spoke on the situation in Frisco, Texas and attacks
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Speaker 1: on Muslims which have been higher in Texas than anywhere
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Speaker 1: else in the country.
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Speaker 5: First of all, you've seen it seems it seemed like
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Speaker 5: this is a epidemic right now for people to attack Islam.
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Speaker 3: We saw that.
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Speaker 2: We saw the footage of a woman in a store
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Speaker 2: attackling attacking Muslim women, telling.
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Speaker 3: Her that you know, this is America.
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Speaker 2: We saw other attacks across across the state of Texas.
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Speaker 2: With we have politicians going out on a whim saying
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Speaker 2: that not knowing, not knowing what law is, but saying
19:49
Speaker 2: they're gonna they're gonna use that in their platform to
19:52
Speaker 2: get get rid of Muslims.
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Speaker 3: And then we have a situation in Dallas.
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Speaker 4: Can you talk about this for a minute. Yeah, you know,
20:01
Speaker 4: every so often, you know, we have this this tide
20:04
Speaker 4: of anti Muslim sentiment ebbs and flows. If anything happened
20:08
Speaker 4: anywhere in the world, then you see sometime it will
20:10
Speaker 4: ramp up. The thing that has ramped it up. This
20:13
Speaker 4: time started back in October seventh, when you know, you
20:17
Speaker 4: had the attack on the Israelis and then the whole
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Speaker 4: thing with gods and all of that Israeli Palestinian conflict,
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Speaker 4: I would say is at the core of the anti
20:30
Speaker 4: Muslim sentiments. At this point, there's also it's actually and
20:37
Speaker 4: I guess it's a kind of a perfect storm because
20:40
Speaker 4: this is an election here. We got the midterms, and
20:43
Speaker 4: so a lot of the folks have coalesced around this
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Speaker 4: idea of Sharia, and the Muslims are trying to change
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Speaker 4: the Constitution, and they want to change the you know,
20:54
Speaker 4: all the laws. They don't believe in our laws and
20:56
Speaker 4: they're invaders, and all this proper gam that that they've
21:00
Speaker 4: been spreading is the reason for a lot of the
21:04
Speaker 4: angst that a lot and this is coming from the leadership.
21:07
Speaker 4: This is not just regular people. Anytime the governor of
21:10
Speaker 4: the state makes a statement, he's the leader of the state.
21:15
Speaker 4: He's not just Joe blow off of the street. And
21:18
Speaker 4: so when he makes a statement, or Ken Paxon or
21:22
Speaker 4: Dan Patrick or anybody, or even their president, when they
21:25
Speaker 4: make statements like that, the common folks believe their leadership,
21:31
Speaker 4: and therefore they they take whatever they say to the bank.
21:35
Speaker 4: So a lot of it is that all they and
21:37
Speaker 4: there's a lot of propaganda out about Muslims. It seems
21:41
Speaker 4: like we always have to have an enemy in the
21:43
Speaker 4: United States. We can't never get be at peace with people.
21:46
Speaker 4: We just you know, whoever we can, we think we
21:49
Speaker 4: can get away with it. That's what we do. And
21:52
Speaker 4: so that's that's the crux of what's going on right now,
21:55
Speaker 4: is that people are getting their rewards underneath it. You know,
22:00
Speaker 4: people can get elected by being anti musclem. People can
22:04
Speaker 4: get more money from the government by being anti muscle
22:08
Speaker 4: So you know, that's that's what we're seeing right now, people.
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Speaker 2: Don't understand Islam. You know, for one, you know, you
22:16
Speaker 2: know it's not a Christian country. You know, people that
22:20
Speaker 2: know the history of this country. It's not a it's
22:23
Speaker 2: not a it's not a Muslim country or a or
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Speaker 2: a Christian country. Is a country that was that was religious,
22:29
Speaker 2: was had religious.
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Speaker 3: Freedom, the practice whatever. Really do you want to practice.
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Speaker 4: Exact or none or no religion? Right go ahead.
22:39
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, how scary is it because now
22:42
Speaker 2: I know and in Texas they're trying to change laws
22:45
Speaker 2: so that Christianity is taught in the schools.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, definitely I'm against that. But I'll go as
22:53
Speaker 4: far as to say I'm against Islam being taught in
22:55
Speaker 4: the school. I don't think the school is the place
22:58
Speaker 4: for it. I think if you want your kids to
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Speaker 4: be Christians or Muslims or Buddhists or Jews or whatever,
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Speaker 4: teach them at home, or send them to a parochial school,
23:07
Speaker 4: some to an Islamic, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, zay et cetera.
23:13
Speaker 4: Send them to that school if that's what you want.
23:15
Speaker 4: It's private, they can do what they want in a
23:17
Speaker 4: private school, but in public schools, I don't think religion
23:21
Speaker 4: should be taught. I don't think if you know, they
23:24
Speaker 4: keep putting they wanted to put up the King Commandments
23:27
Speaker 4: in the school rooms and all that. I would suggest
23:30
Speaker 4: that they if you want to put them somewhere, put
23:31
Speaker 4: them in the state House where the politicians are.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
23:34
Speaker 4: They probably would benefit more from that than our children.
23:38
Speaker 4: Our children don't need to be you know what you
23:42
Speaker 4: call indoctrinated with a lot of propaganda. And I'm not
23:46
Speaker 4: against Christianity. You know, my early teachers, I learned whether
23:50
Speaker 4: don't still don't lie on seats. All that came. You know,
23:53
Speaker 4: I grew up Christians, So I don't have an issue
23:56
Speaker 4: with Christianity, but I got an issue that you wanted
23:58
Speaker 4: to put it in the public school system.
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Speaker 2: How things change in Dallas, in the Dallas area, because uh,
24:06
Speaker 2: you guys were able to Frisco. You guys were able
24:09
Speaker 2: to fight back with the religious extremism that was it
24:12
Speaker 2: was trying to change change the uh the mayor ol
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Speaker 2: race there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we still got a ways to go. I mean,
24:19
Speaker 4: you know, that's just one sign that the people and
24:23
Speaker 4: it wasn't just the Muslims. There were a lot of
24:26
Speaker 4: people of non Muslims who were against what was being
24:29
Speaker 4: done in Frisco, and it's being done all over all
24:33
Speaker 4: over the state. It's being done in Congress where you
24:36
Speaker 4: have the anti Sharia group. They don't know what they're
24:38
Speaker 4: talking about, but they know that people don't like Sharia
24:41
Speaker 4: and they don't like Muslims. So instead of leading the
24:44
Speaker 4: people and bringing folks together, their demagogues their people, they're
24:47
Speaker 4: they're trying. They're tearing the people apart. They're making it worse,
24:51
Speaker 4: and they're making it worse by making it sound like
24:54
Speaker 4: the Muslims are invading us. They're trying to take over
24:57
Speaker 4: the age old propaganda. We've heard before in other in
25:02
Speaker 4: the other with other people.
25:04
Speaker 2: So especially, I would say, especially with with other races
25:09
Speaker 2: of people, black and brown.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, with black and brown, everybody's invade and everybody trying.
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Speaker 3: They go, oh, they don't love America like we do.
25:18
Speaker 4: They're blah blah blah.
25:19
Speaker 3: They are the want, they're the Americans.
25:21
Speaker 4: They're the ones that get to criticize or to make
25:24
Speaker 4: statements or anything, and everybody else just needs to be
25:27
Speaker 4: hand followed and just following place where you're supposed to be.
25:31
Speaker 4: So you know, it's uh the thing is that, you
25:36
Speaker 4: know with the scary part about.
25:38
Speaker 3: That, there's an old saying that the illusion.
25:41
Speaker 4: Of knowledge is worse than knowledge itself. Many of these
25:44
Speaker 4: folks really believe what they what they're hearing. And I
25:49
Speaker 4: think doctor King said it best. He said, there's nothing
25:51
Speaker 4: more frightening, and I'm quit I'm paraphrasing, there's nothing more
25:55
Speaker 4: frightening than the sincerely ignorant and conscientious to then sincere
26:03
Speaker 4: ignorance and conscientious stupidity. And when I see people making
26:07
Speaker 4: these statements, I kind of feel sorry for them because
26:10
Speaker 4: they are sincere. They really believe that three percent of
26:15
Speaker 4: the population in Texas is going to change the laws,
26:18
Speaker 4: implement your real take over, etcetera, et cetera, et cetera.
26:22
Speaker 4: This is what they believe. So it's not like they
26:25
Speaker 4: don't believe it. They really believe that stuff, and it
26:28
Speaker 4: doesn't It doesn't there's no rationale for it. I mean,
26:32
Speaker 4: they're just saying we did it. Like I'm like, I'm
26:35
Speaker 4: just getting there. I've been in this country all my life.
26:37
Speaker 4: I got kids and great grandkids, and this I got
26:40
Speaker 4: grandkids and great grandkids in this country, in the great
26:44
Speaker 4: state of Texas. Going to Texas schools. So I don't
26:47
Speaker 4: have to take over anything. This is my country, period.
26:51
Speaker 4: And so you know, I think that what they do
26:54
Speaker 4: is trying to make it sound like we're all invaders
26:56
Speaker 4: or we all you know, I've been here all my life.
26:59
Speaker 4: I'm like or five generations deep. Now. Uh So, it's
27:04
Speaker 4: just propaganda. It's scary because it impacts the community. It
27:09
Speaker 4: creates angst in the community. Uh So that's I was
27:14
Speaker 4: gonna say.
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Speaker 5: I was I was adding the gullible, but yeah, that's
27:19
Speaker 5: their leaders though they're gullible because that's their leader.
27:22
Speaker 4: The leaders, well, they they think he's above the law,
27:26
Speaker 4: he speaks with integrity. People are assuming that the government
27:29
Speaker 4: Texas is not gonna lie. They're not. They're not gonna
27:33
Speaker 4: think that that's the first start coming in mand especially
27:35
Speaker 4: if they're in the party with the government. But but
27:39
Speaker 4: that's that's natural for people to believe their leaders. It's
27:42
Speaker 4: why you have you know, kids will believe bad bad parents.
27:46
Speaker 4: Parents will give false information. The kids will still believe
27:49
Speaker 4: them because that's their leader, that's their parents. And so
27:52
Speaker 4: it's the same.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, you see that, you see
27:57
Speaker 2: the danger in all this is what we saw in
28:00
Speaker 2: San Diego and how how we get how that how
28:04
Speaker 2: that that that anger and that that that hostilogy can
28:10
Speaker 2: go towards uh acting out in reality?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely? Well, you know, we're in the state with the
28:16
Speaker 4: the most we have that we're leading the country in
28:20
Speaker 4: mass killing us in the great state of Texas. So
28:24
Speaker 4: it's not unthinkable that people won't do stuff like that.
28:28
Speaker 4: And we've seen in San Diego and we've seen in
28:30
Speaker 4: other places too. I mean, this is not not the first.
28:32
Speaker 4: I'm praying it will be the last, but you know,
28:35
Speaker 4: we keep seeing it over and over again. And by
28:38
Speaker 4: the way, it's not Muslims doing it, Yeah, it's there's
28:43
Speaker 4: other people. What's going on?
28:45
Speaker 2: So what So what's the situation now in the in
28:48
Speaker 2: the area? All they go, we're only gonna be able
28:51
Speaker 2: to build a community.
28:55
Speaker 4: As far as I know that that that that project
28:57
Speaker 4: is stilled underway, that every all the DJ dropped the case,
29:04
Speaker 4: they're still trying everything they can. I mean, it's just
29:07
Speaker 4: it doesn't make sense. I mean, we got other developments
29:10
Speaker 4: in the same area. You know, they have Christian developments,
29:14
Speaker 4: you got Catholic development, you got I think I saw
29:16
Speaker 4: one where the either the Mormons h were doing a development.
29:21
Speaker 4: But you know, my brother was a deacon at a church,
29:26
Speaker 4: not in Texas, but he was a deacon at a
29:29
Speaker 4: megachurch who had an apartment complex that they built or
29:34
Speaker 4: had just poor, poor people in these areas. So it's
29:38
Speaker 4: not uncommon for people to have housing developments. It's not
29:42
Speaker 4: discriminatory if you want to live there, if you want
29:44
Speaker 4: to go there, they're not discriminating. In fact, when they
29:48
Speaker 4: start making accusing them of discrimination and all that other stuff,
29:52
Speaker 4: they hadn't even broke ground. You said, oh, they're building
29:56
Speaker 4: a development, were gonna stop it. We don't want the
29:57
Speaker 4: Muslims out there. But it wasn't they did anything wrong.
30:01
Speaker 4: They had not even broke ground. All they did was
30:04
Speaker 4: put out a video saying that they were gonna have
30:06
Speaker 4: build a university, they're gonna have homes, they're gonna have houses,
30:10
Speaker 4: they're gonna have schools. They're not that. And instead of
30:13
Speaker 4: them saying, oh, it's a it's gonna be a great development,
30:16
Speaker 4: they said it's gonna be a Muslim no go jone.
30:19
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a what do they call them when
30:21
Speaker 4: it's a compound? All that kind of that that garbage
30:25
Speaker 4: that that you heard, and so that was that was
30:28
Speaker 4: what they said, because you know, they that affects, that
30:31
Speaker 4: affects their community, their constituents, ain't nobody got no compound.
30:35
Speaker 4: These Muslims don't have to live in a compound. You know,
30:38
Speaker 4: this is crazy, but people believe it.
30:44
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, muss are living in in in cooperation,
30:48
Speaker 2: in piece with with Christian and Jewish people for years,
30:52
Speaker 2: for years.
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Speaker 4: This is not even new. I mean, you know, even
30:54
Speaker 4: look at us. We in Iran right now fighting and
30:57
Speaker 4: Iran has the largest Jewjewish populations short of the state
31:03
Speaker 4: is they have the largest Jewish populations been there for centuries.
31:08
Speaker 4: Of Morocco. I spoke to the Moroccan Association back in
31:13
Speaker 4: maybe several years ago. I was in DC, spoke to them.
31:17
Speaker 4: They brought one of the rabbis from Morocco who was
31:20
Speaker 4: there talking about the Jewish community in Morocco. Iraq has
31:25
Speaker 4: a Jewish community and a Christian community, Scheria, all of
31:28
Speaker 4: those places had a very diverse religious community. They've been
31:33
Speaker 4: living together forever. Now the propaganda is all the must
31:39
Speaker 4: wanted to kill Christians. Well, my whole family of Christians.
31:43
Speaker 4: You know, this is how blatantly ignorant, and how these
31:47
Speaker 4: people are just putting out lives, want to marry the
31:51
Speaker 4: kids and stuff like that, want to hurt that. Yeah,
31:53
Speaker 4: well they've been saying that about black folks too for
31:56
Speaker 4: a long time. Oh, they just said, don't marry your
31:58
Speaker 4: daughters and they gonna do that. And they're gonna do that.
32:01
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we gotta stop it and get all
32:04
Speaker 4: this propaganda and it all it does is gin up
32:06
Speaker 4: hatred and ultimately what it does is it creates an
32:11
Speaker 4: atmosphere that could be violent, you know. So those are
32:15
Speaker 4: the types of things we're dealing with, and it's so
32:18
Speaker 4: it's so it would be comical if it wasn't so dangerous.
32:22
Speaker 4: The ignorance would be something to laugh at. But it's
32:25
Speaker 4: not funny because those people are sincere. Uh they really
32:30
Speaker 4: believe it's coming and that, you know, then they can
32:33
Speaker 4: claim to be really patriotic. So it's their patriotic duty
32:38
Speaker 4: to stop these muslins and all that other propagand that
32:41
Speaker 4: it goes with it. So, so even though it sounds
32:44
Speaker 4: ludicrous or crazy or whatever, it's real. This is a real,
32:48
Speaker 4: uh situation. People really do feel this, really believe it.
32:53
Speaker 1: That was Mustapha Carrol, who's the executive director of care
32:57
Speaker 1: DFW Texas.
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33:01
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33:26
Speaker 1: dot com. The Mammoth Metal recycling facility near the Houston
33:31
Speaker 1: Ship Channel caught fire on Monday, leaving thick black smoke
33:36
Speaker 1: seen all over the city. The fire involved tires and
33:39
Speaker 1: recycling debris and raises concerns about the air quality in
33:44
Speaker 1: this highly populated, predominantly low income area of Houston. There
33:50
Speaker 1: are multiple schools, childcare centers, parks, and churches in the area.
33:55
Speaker 1: The fire lasted twenty four hours and raises concerns over
33:58
Speaker 1: who is responsible for regulating these types of companies. Air
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Speaker 1: Allines Houston air monitors recorded elevated levels of fine particular
34:08
Speaker 1: matter known as PM two point five. Air Alliance Houston
34:12
Speaker 1: brought and represented ives from the community in public health
34:16
Speaker 1: to speak on the ongoing air pollution.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Thank you for coming out to hear from
34:22
Speaker 7: us today. My name is Jennifer Hedaiah. I'm the executive
34:24
Speaker 7: director of Air Alliance Houston. We are the longest running
34:29
Speaker 7: advocacy nonprofit in the Houston area that is singularly focused
34:34
Speaker 7: on air quality. Like all of you, on Monday, we
34:39
Speaker 7: watched in disbelief as a massive fire burned in this
34:44
Speaker 7: neighborhood and across our city for twenty four hours. It
34:49
Speaker 7: was shocked disbelief that we were again watching this kind
34:54
Speaker 7: of event happen one more time. The day before on
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Speaker 7: there was a fire at the Marathon refinery down the
35:03
Speaker 7: road in Texas City. About three months ago, there was
35:07
Speaker 7: a fire at Lyondell in Pasadena around the same time
35:11
Speaker 7: the Ballero plant in Port Arthur exploded. And every single
35:17
Speaker 7: time we are told that there is no concern for
35:21
Speaker 7: the community, let me be the first to say, the
35:26
Speaker 7: community is concerned. The community is concerned about what these
35:32
Speaker 7: events do to Houston's already compromised air quality. The community
35:38
Speaker 7: is concerned about the ongoing threat of fires, chemical leagues, flares.
35:43
Speaker 8: And even permitted air pollution.
35:45
Speaker 7: From metal recyclers, concrete batch plants, and the petrochemical plants
35:50
Speaker 7: that are located right in our neighborhoods. The community is
35:55
Speaker 7: concerned that our state regulator, the TCQ, and even the EPAS,
36:00
Speaker 7: means to be looking the other way. Actually, it's worse
36:04
Speaker 7: than that. The TCQ and the EPA are giving these
36:09
Speaker 7: facilities permission to pollute and to continue operating even when
36:15
Speaker 7: they catch fire or explode. Today we gather to issue
36:20
Speaker 7: a call to action to those regulators and other public
36:24
Speaker 7: officials in the hope that we can make real change
36:27
Speaker 7: to protect our communities and their right to breathe clean air.
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Speaker 7: We have several speakers here to talk to you today
36:35
Speaker 7: about the event, what it was like to live through
36:38
Speaker 7: the event, about the air monitoring data that we have analyzed,
36:42
Speaker 7: and about the health issues going forward. To begin, I
36:45
Speaker 7: would like to welcome the Air Alliance Houston director of
36:49
Speaker 7: Government Affairs and Community Outreach, and also enighbor the Ticia Gutiras.
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Speaker 9: Goodness warning everyone. My name is Latici Gutierres, and I
37:03
Speaker 9: am the government relations director in Community Outreach. I'm also
37:07
Speaker 9: a community member. I live approximately two miles away from
37:11
Speaker 9: the site. My parents live a little closer in Pecon Park,
37:16
Speaker 9: and we are exhausted from these types of events becoming
37:23
Speaker 9: the norm and almost seeming as if we are to
37:27
Speaker 9: be desensitized by the continuing pollution and having to breathe
37:33
Speaker 9: the smells, the nausea, the headaches. As someone who raised
37:39
Speaker 9: a child with upper respiratory issues, there's parents in the
37:42
Speaker 9: area that are concerned that are having to take their
37:45
Speaker 9: children to urgent care at a time when right now
37:50
Speaker 9: the economy is not the best. People are struggling to
37:53
Speaker 9: put food on the table. This community here is underserved,
37:59
Speaker 9: under presented, and in dire need. And to add on
38:04
Speaker 9: top of everything else that's going on, yet another disaster.
38:09
Speaker 9: This is a climate vulnerable area where we experience floods,
38:17
Speaker 9: freeze storms, and on top of everything else, having to
38:23
Speaker 9: deal with yet another disaster that is becoming the norm
38:26
Speaker 9: is not okay. We have been pulling on our elected officials.
38:30
Speaker 9: We have been going up to our state legislators, going
38:35
Speaker 9: up to also DC to ask to make sure that
38:39
Speaker 9: if we can at least get these industrial facilities to
38:44
Speaker 9: at least abide by the rules on the books. And
38:48
Speaker 9: that's even hard enough. TCQ, the Texas Commission on Environmental
38:52
Speaker 9: Quality is severely underfunded, and now, unfortunately, this administration has
38:58
Speaker 9: gutted our EPA, the very agency that is supposed to
39:03
Speaker 9: protect our community from industrial facilities and these types of events.
39:09
Speaker 9: We are in a very vulnerable situation right now, and
39:14
Speaker 9: we're asking for help again. I plead with everyone who's
39:18
Speaker 9: watching this to please pull on your representatives on every level,
39:23
Speaker 9: and to please make sure that you seek medical attention
39:28
Speaker 9: if you sense or feel anything, because you will be
39:33
Speaker 9: hearing some data here today, but at the end of
39:35
Speaker 9: the day, it's up to you to make sure that
39:37
Speaker 9: you stay protected.
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Speaker 4: So thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: This is not an isolated incident. The Marathon Petrochemical plant
39:44
Speaker 1: had a fire past weekend, and there was a fire
39:47
Speaker 1: at another Marathon plant last month. In every instance, officials
39:52
Speaker 1: have told the public there is no air quality problem.
39:56
Speaker 1: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has the response it's
40:00
Speaker 1: ability to protect the public and has stated throughout all
40:03
Speaker 1: these incidents that there is no danger to the public.
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Speaker 1: Their department has faced budget cuts, and the Texas GOP
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Speaker 1: governor has called for less restrictions on plants. Doctor Sergio
40:15
Speaker 1: Lira with lou LAC spoke on the harm to the community.
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Speaker 10: You know, you say, you say in the community, I'll
40:21
Speaker 10: stay in the community also, you know, and uh, we've
40:25
Speaker 10: seen these you know we call it, well, we call
40:27
Speaker 10: it environmental racism. Oh yeah, you know that's a good
40:30
Speaker 10: way show. And it seems like nothing's being done. What
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Speaker 10: is lu LAC and what you know, what you've seen
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Speaker 10: being done here.
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Speaker 11: I think what Greater.
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Speaker 12: Houston LULAC can do is be a voice for those
40:42
Speaker 12: who do not have a voice. As you know, this
40:45
Speaker 12: is an immigrant community that's evolving, and a lot of
40:48
Speaker 12: the folks are afraid to come out and speak.
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Speaker 11: So we're here to try to speak on their behalf.
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Speaker 12: But what locally we can do is to have that
40:57
Speaker 12: relationship with city officials, city elected officials.
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Speaker 11: Council members, and mayors to.
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Speaker 12: Advocate for more funding and better protection and stronger permitting.
41:09
Speaker 12: If you're get them in a citation once or twice,
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Speaker 12: you know, the state legislature should pass a law if possible,
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Speaker 12: to shut them down after the second citation. Uh, there
41:20
Speaker 12: has to be some stronger parameters, but also some active monitoring.
41:24
Speaker 12: They would just drive around here, you would see that
41:27
Speaker 12: there's a lot of city state code violations folks or
41:32
Speaker 12: you know, you can just tell. And I think the
41:35
Speaker 12: battle becomes about jobs also profits, and but you know,
41:41
Speaker 12: unfortunately haven't been able. There was no tragedy. But we're
41:45
Speaker 12: not gonna wait for a tragedy to happen. So let's
41:48
Speaker 12: not put profit over people. You know how we used
41:51
Speaker 12: to call it chemical valley and yeah, cancer clusters. You know,
41:55
Speaker 12: we always seem to be getting the brunt of of
41:58
Speaker 12: you know, our communities are poor community to get the
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Speaker 12: brunt of adult actions, corporate actions that are harmful to
42:05
Speaker 12: our poor communities. What happened to when one of the
42:08
Speaker 12: one of those companies is going to close down even
42:10
Speaker 12: still the waste that's going to be left from those places. Yeah,
42:15
Speaker 12: they can shut down some companies, but they should be
42:17
Speaker 12: given a straight guideline to clean up before they shut down.
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Speaker 11: And again, active monitors.
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Speaker 12: We have staff, We have staff in the City of
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Speaker 12: Houston Harris County that can monitor and say, listen, you
42:30
Speaker 12: might be shut down, but you got to clean all
42:31
Speaker 12: that up, or we can clean it up, just use some.
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Speaker 11: General funds or find another revenue stream.
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Speaker 1: Civil rights lawyer Randall Callanan spoke on the legal ramifications.
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Speaker 13: Well, what needs to be done.
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Speaker 14: Is we need to act and by any means necessary,
42:51
Speaker 14: any legal means, of course, except maybe for social for no,
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Speaker 14: not not Yeah, what's the word for it?
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Speaker 13: Okay, anyway, now let me start off. Okay, Yeah, we
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Speaker 13: need to do everything possible to prevent this. What has
43:08
Speaker 13: happened here is a disaster. When it comes to the
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Speaker 13: pollution that has been put out in the air, the number,
43:14
Speaker 13: the amount of particulate matter was tremendous. We could all
43:17
Speaker 13: see it. And those particles get into your lungs and
43:21
Speaker 13: they stay there and they can cause cancer and many
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Speaker 13: other problems. Now they the news media talked about how
43:30
Speaker 13: it wasn't that bad. However, for one thing, the particulate
43:34
Speaker 13: matter is what's visible. When tires burn, they give off
43:37
Speaker 13: benzene and other host of chemicals, and many of those
43:41
Speaker 13: are colorless, and even some are even odorless. You can
43:44
Speaker 13: have a deadly chemical that you cannot smell and you
43:47
Speaker 13: cannot see, and some of many of those can be hot,
43:52
Speaker 13: heavier than air, so they can hug the ground. So
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Speaker 13: when you see the black smoke, that's only one thing.
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Speaker 13: That's the particulate matter, which was bad enough. So we
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Speaker 13: need to ask the District Attorney of Harris County, if
44:03
Speaker 13: there was any crimes committed here by this legal maybe
44:07
Speaker 13: there was some storage of tires that wasn't supposed to
44:10
Speaker 13: take place. And also how did this fire occur? Was
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Speaker 13: there safety issues? We need to get to the bottom
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Speaker 13: of this and see not only whether there was any
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Speaker 13: permit problems, but whether there was actually any crimes committed.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much, thank you for The
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Speaker 1: fire is still under investigation, but Air Alliance Houston continues
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Speaker 1: to place monitors around the Houston area. You can contact
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Speaker 1: them about getting an air monitor in your neighborhood by
44:38
Speaker 1: going to Air Alliance Houston All put Together dot org.
44:43
Speaker 1: As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was known for fraud
44:48
Speaker 1: and suing Democrats. He sued the Biden administration over one
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Speaker 1: hundred times, and as a loyal supporter of the convicted
44:55
Speaker 1: felon Donald Trump, sued battleground states that went against Trump's
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Speaker 1: claim that he won. In twenty twenty, State Senator Nathan
45:03
Speaker 1: Johnson is running for Paxxton's old position as a Democrat.
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Speaker 1: Can a Democrat win in Texas? Johnson thinks he can win.
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Speaker 2: What made you want to run for a Tonny General.
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Speaker 15: You know, I first gave it very, very, very serious
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Speaker 15: thought when I was as a state senator. I was
45:19
Speaker 15: a juror in the impeachment trial of Ken Paxman, which
45:22
Speaker 15: was of course horrifying with the abusive office that we saw,
45:25
Speaker 15: but it also illustrated the power of this office that
45:29
Speaker 15: has an enormous budget, enormous staff, and it can be
45:34
Speaker 15: powerfully good or under the right under the wrong leadership,
45:37
Speaker 15: it's powerfully bad. So I wanted to make sure it
45:40
Speaker 15: was in the hands of somebody who had to go to.
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Speaker 4: The people who mind, how hard is he going to
45:44
Speaker 4: be for you?
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Speaker 16: Running in the state of Texas, which, as we've seen,
45:50
Speaker 16: how is you know, you have the major cities of Dallas, Austin, Houston, which.
45:56
Speaker 2: Were more more neutral and more more liberal minded.
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Speaker 4: But the tough part is.
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Speaker 2: Trying to get those areas outside the major cities, Kerville,
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Speaker 2: Lagrange and that such. How are you going to try
46:11
Speaker 2: to get the word out to those individuals?
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Speaker 15: Wells are the campaigns for you? To your question of
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Speaker 15: how hard is it going to be to win statewide
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Speaker 15: as a Democrat in Texas? Frankly, I don't think it's
46:22
Speaker 15: going to be all that hard. I think people need
46:24
Speaker 15: to start considering what the wind margin is going to be.
46:26
Speaker 15: I know that may sound absurd, but when you look
46:28
Speaker 15: on the ground at what where voters are headed. In
46:32
Speaker 15: every demographic, in every area of the state, from the
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Speaker 15: most rural areas to the most intensely urban areas, voters
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Speaker 15: are rejecting the chaotic, incompetent, corrupt rule that unfortunately has
46:47
Speaker 15: represented the Republican Party for the last several years. It
46:51
Speaker 15: hasn't always been that way. So I don't think we're
46:54
Speaker 15: enough to work too hard to reach voters.
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Speaker 4: Let me rephrase that.
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Speaker 15: I don't don't think it's going to be an impossible
47:03
Speaker 15: task to communicate with voters that there is a viable alternative.
47:08
Speaker 15: You know, how do we do it? That's that's campaigning.
47:10
Speaker 15: That's knocking on doors, it's attending rallies. It's putting paid
47:12
Speaker 15: television commercials up. It's having good interviews with people like you,
47:17
Speaker 15: so that the public understands what their options are, what
47:21
Speaker 15: the risks are, what the benefits are. It's it's just
47:23
Speaker 15: running a campaign and making sure that people understand who's
47:27
Speaker 15: the opposition and who is running on the On the
47:29
Speaker 15: serious side, for me, that means letting letting them be crazy,
47:34
Speaker 15: letting May's Middleton talk about stuff that doesn't actually affect
47:37
Speaker 15: people's lives, whereas I will be paying attention to the
47:40
Speaker 15: things that do affect their lives. That's that's why we organize,
47:44
Speaker 15: That's why we raise money. That's why we try to
47:48
Speaker 15: become very competent about substances, substantive areas, and so much
47:54
Speaker 15: so that we can distill it down to highlight the
47:57
Speaker 15: importance of these issues that people have to pay attention to.
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Speaker 2: We've seen what Ken Paxton's has done in the past,
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Speaker 2: basically demonizing the various communities.
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Speaker 4: How are you going to fight these these.
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Speaker 2: Issues that he brings that he tries to bring out
48:11
Speaker 2: that doesn't affect them, mostly like transgender revvuum laws, And
48:16
Speaker 2: as such.
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Speaker 15: He's been pursuing things for purely political purposes, some for
48:21
Speaker 15: his own ambition and some because he's on puppet strings
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Speaker 15: from Washington, d C. As you observed, he has been
48:29
Speaker 15: really a wrecking ball when it comes to individual rights,
48:31
Speaker 15: political rights, civil rights, economic opportunity. He's demonized people. How
48:36
Speaker 15: am I going to make those issues? I think people
48:38
Speaker 15: are getting sick of it, Richard. I think people are
48:42
Speaker 15: realizing that this has been a distraction and a show
48:48
Speaker 15: and a lie, and to the except there's any validity
48:52
Speaker 15: to what Paxston's been doing. Of course we take seriously
48:56
Speaker 15: election integrity, but his actions have not been about election
48:59
Speaker 15: integrit They have been about demonizing and lying and rigging
49:04
Speaker 15: and distracting from incompetence in other areas. So how am
49:07
Speaker 15: I going to make these electoral issues. I'm going to
49:11
Speaker 15: highlight the falseness of his actions, and I'm going to
49:14
Speaker 15: bring to people's attention to kind of things that Ken
49:17
Speaker 15: Paxton should have been doing with the enormous powers of
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Speaker 15: this office that would make people's lives better, like making
49:23
Speaker 15: markets functions so that prices go up, and that I'm sorry,
49:27
Speaker 15: that's making markets function so that prices go down and
49:30
Speaker 15: quality goes up instead of the reverse. I think that
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Speaker 15: the Attorney General's office should be working with district attorneys,
49:36
Speaker 15: not against district attorneys, to try to keep our streets safe.
49:39
Speaker 15: I think that the Attorney General's office ought to be
49:41
Speaker 15: rooting out corruption instead of participating in it. And he
49:44
Speaker 15: does all those things wrong and pursues all of these
49:47
Speaker 15: culture war distractions and lies about elections in order to
49:51
Speaker 15: make people think that he's protecting them when in fact
49:54
Speaker 15: what he's doing is duping them. And my opponent, Ma's Middleton,
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Speaker 15: has pledged to run it the same way Ken Paxton did,
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Speaker 15: which is to say on puppet strings for political purposes,
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Speaker 15: not to help the people of the state. I think
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Speaker 15: they're going to reject that, and I think I'm going
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Speaker 15: to win.
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Speaker 2: That's what I was going to ask about Man's Middleton.
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Speaker 2: He's running on the same platform or even.
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Speaker 17: More extreme because he's bringing out Shaharia law love from
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Speaker 17: muslim you attacking the Muslims in the community already, or
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Speaker 17: he's trying to be more extreme than Paxston.
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Speaker 2: Do you see that?
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Speaker 7: I do.
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Speaker 15: I agree with you completely. I think Middleton is trying
50:36
Speaker 15: to be more extreme than Paxton. He might even believe
50:39
Speaker 15: the stuff that he's saying. He's a self funded candidate,
50:42
Speaker 15: which typically is a candidate who's going to lose.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
50:46
Speaker 15: He is putting all of his attention on things that
50:50
Speaker 15: only a billionaire could be worried about, deranged billionaire could
50:54
Speaker 15: be worried about, and not paying attention to the things
50:57
Speaker 15: that the rest of us have to worry about, which
50:59
Speaker 15: is are we being gouged by private corporations. Are they
51:03
Speaker 15: picking our pockets? Is their crime on the streets, that's
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Speaker 15: not being that we're not fighting against. So I think
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Speaker 15: May is going to his message is going to fall flat.
51:14
Speaker 15: I don't know anybody who actually thinks that they are
51:17
Speaker 15: in danger.
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Speaker 4: Well, I take that back.
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Speaker 15: I don't think the public at large feels that sharia
51:24
Speaker 15: law is about to swallow up Texas. Nobody believes that
51:28
Speaker 15: anybody's religious traditions, be they Catholic or Jewish or Muslim,
51:38
Speaker 15: Trump or take precedence over state and federal civil and
51:43
Speaker 15: criminal laws. Nobody thinks that so Middleicin can go out
51:46
Speaker 15: there and you can talk about sharia law, and you
51:48
Speaker 15: can talk about bathrooms and whatever else they're making up.
51:51
Speaker 15: And I'm going to be working on rooting out corruption
51:53
Speaker 15: and keeping our straight streets safe, and making sure that
51:56
Speaker 15: markets are competitive and that consumers are not preyed upon
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Speaker 15: in the corporate space.
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Speaker 4: He said.
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Speaker 15: Richard that his job, the job of the Attorney general,
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Speaker 15: is quote to defeat the left, and he also said
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Speaker 15: that he would use every tool and resource of the
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Speaker 15: Attorney General's office to ensure that Trump's agenda can be
52:16
Speaker 15: enacted and I think May's Middleton is confused about what
52:20
Speaker 15: the job of attorney general is. The attorney general does
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Speaker 15: not work for the President of the United States, whatever
52:25
Speaker 15: party they're in, doesn't work for the governor, doesn't work
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Speaker 15: for the legislature. The attorney general works for the people
52:29
Speaker 15: of Texas and serves as people by upholding the rule
52:32
Speaker 15: of law. He has completely got it backwards. He is
52:35
Speaker 15: acting like the attorney General's office is there to preserve power.
52:39
Speaker 15: But the framers of the Texas Constitution did not trust
52:42
Speaker 15: power in the hands of anyone. That's why they created
52:45
Speaker 15: an independently elected, independently empowered attorney general to act as
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Speaker 15: a check on the abuse of power, not as a
52:53
Speaker 15: conduit for it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and also one thing that was interesting about Milicon
52:59
Speaker 2: needs He says he reject healthcare. What are your jobs
53:02
Speaker 2: on healthcare and how are you going to prove healthcare
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Speaker 2: in Texas.
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Speaker 15: I have spent a lot of my time in the
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Speaker 15: past eight years as a state senator working on healthcare
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Speaker 15: in Texas. I was the lead voice on expanding Medicaid
53:13
Speaker 15: in Texas, which is still an absolutely awful decision that
53:16
Speaker 15: it was an awful decision of this state to reject
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Speaker 15: the billions of dollars we could have gotten our own
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Speaker 15: dollars here in Texas and expanding medicaid. In the meantime,
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Speaker 15: I found other ways to help out, and I passed
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Speaker 15: a law that has been independently estimated to have gotten
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Speaker 15: three hundred and fifty thousand working Texas family members health
53:37
Speaker 15: insurance for the first time in their lives. I think
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Speaker 15: healthcare is essential to a thriving economy, it's essential to
53:43
Speaker 15: individual independence, it's essential to healthy communities. And I think
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Speaker 15: it's been an area of gross neglect by the Republican
53:51
Speaker 15: Party in Texas. Unnecessarily so Republicans elsewhere did it, the
53:54
Speaker 15: ones in Texas don't seem to, and I think we
53:56
Speaker 15: have a.
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Speaker 4: Lot of work to do in that space.
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Speaker 1: That was Texas Senator Nathan Johnson, who is running for
54:02
Speaker 1: Texas Attorney General. You say Cape Verde and most people
54:06
Speaker 1: would say, who's that. Well, this small West African country
54:11
Speaker 1: just qualified for the next round at the FIFA twenty
54:14
Speaker 1: twenty six Men's World Cup. This is somewhat of a miracle,
54:19
Speaker 1: being the smallest nation to qualify to get to the
54:22
Speaker 1: knockout stage with a population of only five hundred and
54:25
Speaker 1: thirty thousand. There have been more fans supporting them than
54:29
Speaker 1: actually live in the country. They drew a zero zero
54:32
Speaker 1: draw against Saudi Arabia and Houston, and this means they
54:36
Speaker 1: will move on and play Argentina on July third.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, and so as is an honor because our country's
54:43
Speaker 18: so small and to see our flag in the stadium
54:46
Speaker 18: means a lot.
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Speaker 8: So we very just to see people wearing blowing me
54:49
Speaker 8: so much supple.
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Speaker 10: To us on a nation also qualify.
54:52
Speaker 18: Yes, yes, because even for Africans, every time I say
54:55
Speaker 18: Cabo Vere, they don't know where it was.
54:57
Speaker 8: So now everyone knows that Cavalvetta is great honor to us.
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Speaker 3: What do you see when you see the team going, I.
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Speaker 8: Don't know, I didn't. They already did a lot. So
55:07
Speaker 8: we are so grateful to where they are.
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Speaker 10: And it seems like the Mexican supporters here have gotten
55:14
Speaker 10: behind the team.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, like my best friends from a Hako Yeah yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 18: and I think so, I don't know, for some reason,
55:20
Speaker 18: we'll become in Mano so brother.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 10: So when people talk about African and conk BERTI always
55:26
Speaker 10: talk about Nigeria.
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Speaker 18: And exactly exactly I was actually Mexico last week and
55:31
Speaker 18: for the first time I was walking around with the jersey.
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Speaker 8: Everyone knew my country. So its absolutely honor.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Bernie, is it is it?
55:38
Speaker 3: Is it a miracle inactional or.
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Speaker 19: What is it?
55:42
Speaker 3: A miracle? Is the team?
55:44
Speaker 19: Is it is a miracle because nobody predicted, No one predicted.
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Speaker 8: But we are strong, we have hope, We always believe you.
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Speaker 3: That's all about for an African nation.
55:58
Speaker 8: Yeah, I come, we're.
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Speaker 13: Fifty years old.
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Speaker 8: Fifty years old.
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Speaker 11: That was get the independence.
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Speaker 19: But we have thrived the good bad. We have been strong,
56:07
Speaker 19: doing things the right way. Always believe, always believe.
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Speaker 2: It's funny how it taught me so small, but you
56:15
Speaker 2: have a supporter of it.
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Speaker 3: It's so large now.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, that's that's you know the world. We are humans.
56:22
Speaker 19: We always like, you know, get together. When you see
56:24
Speaker 19: someone do something so beautiful, you.
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Speaker 13: Want to make part of it.
56:27
Speaker 19: That's why we love and we respect that and we
56:29
Speaker 19: appreciate that.
56:30
Speaker 8: We wanted that embracing us.
56:32
Speaker 5: This is who we are, you guys.
56:35
Speaker 19: Yes, everybody, everybody, and we appreace them.
56:38
Speaker 8: They appreciate everybody.
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Speaker 3: At the end of the day, if you.
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Speaker 19: Take a look, if a deep look, we are brothers.
56:43
Speaker 19: We all come from the same place, everyone to love
56:46
Speaker 19: each other the way that we do and thanks to football,
56:50
Speaker 19: thanks to the world God to bring that to us
56:54
Speaker 19: so we can continue and do the same thing every day.
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