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Trump's Gestapo, AKA ICE, Detain a Pre-Schooler; Epstein Coverup Kills GOP's Midterm Prospects - TPN 2/1/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of February first, twenty twenty six, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. Local Haitians fear
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Speaker 1: the upcoming loss of legal status and incoming ice enforcement.
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Speaker 1: Local leaders of faith want accountability. Update on the five
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Speaker 1: year old detained and locked up in Dilley, Texas. John
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Speaker 1: Mueller profiles the life of the late disability rights leader
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Speaker 1: Bob Kofka, Elections primaries and the convicted felon. The Lone
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Speaker 1: Star Project has predictions. The Dynamo starts their pre season. Swiss,
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Speaker 1: a house founder and Houston legend of hip hop leaves
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Speaker 1: a Houston on point. 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 starts now. Local Haitians fear deportation
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Speaker 1: enforcement as those in the US prepare for the loss
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Speaker 1: of their legal status. The corrupt and criminal Trump administration
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Speaker 1: announced that as of Friday, February fourth, over three hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty thousand Haitians across the US will lose their
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Speaker 1: Temporary Protected Status or TPS that many have lived under
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Speaker 1: four years. In the US. TPS allows recipients to live
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Speaker 1: and work legally in the US and should protect holders
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Speaker 1: from the types of enforcement efforts the Trump administration as
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Speaker 1: used to apprehend undocumented immigrants and US citizens. The program
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Speaker 1: was created in the nineteen nineties to provide a relief
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Speaker 1: to crisis stricken countries. Haiti has been without a running
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Speaker 1: government for years now, and thousands have been killed in
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Speaker 1: the ongoing gang violence that has affected the entire population.
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Speaker 1: In the first two weeks of January, Doctors Without Borders
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Speaker 1: teams in Haiti treated more than one hundred people injured
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Speaker 1: by the violence at the MSF Hospital in the Julan
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Speaker 1: neighborhood of Porta Prince. Since late December, the city has
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Speaker 1: seen a surge and clashes between the Haitian National Police
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Speaker 1: and armed groups, mainly in densely populated neighborhoods under the
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Speaker 1: control of those armed groups. For thousands of civilians, daily
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Speaker 1: life is now marked by gunfire and drone strikes, leaving
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Speaker 1: many trapped in these areas. For local Haitians, fear of
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Speaker 1: the unknown has reached an unbearable level. We talked to
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Speaker 1: mister Richard Alexandra, a member of the Board of Directors
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Speaker 1: of Houston Haitians United to get his perspective on what
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Speaker 1: local Haitians have faced.
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Speaker 2: The settlement of the community is really painful, especially with
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Speaker 2: the constributions the Haitian community has given to America. It's
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Speaker 2: like a stat in the back. As you already know,
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Speaker 2: it was because Haiti is the country to fight Napoleon
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Speaker 2: and his army. Keep in mind, it was a slave
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Speaker 2: army that went against Napoleon and his army and defeated
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Speaker 2: the army, and which helped the United States purchase the
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Speaker 2: Louisiana purchase it was at a reduced price due to
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Speaker 2: the Haitian intervention in defeating Napoleon. And there's many other contributions.
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Speaker 2: As Haitians come to the United States, they helped fight
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Speaker 2: in the Civil War, they participated in the military, and
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Speaker 2: they helped the United States. And all they wanted was
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Speaker 2: to be free. They wanted to become, you know, good
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Speaker 2: members of the community. They wanted to produce, and they
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Speaker 2: also wanted to help build the country. And now on
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Speaker 2: February third, they announcing cancelation TPS its side. And keep
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Speaker 2: in mind too, the United States been to Haiti many
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Speaker 2: times and they had access to the natural resources, the minerals.
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Speaker 2: They benefited greatly from Haitian natural resources and the gold iridium.
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Speaker 2: And you can if you look in uh, if you
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Speaker 2: do some research, if you just google the Clintons and
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Speaker 2: how you know they went to Haiti and benefited from
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Speaker 2: the gold in the natural resource. If you even go
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Speaker 2: back further in history, you would you would find out
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Speaker 2: that the military went to Haiti, special forces went to Haiti,
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Speaker 2: went to the bank and unloaded lots of gold to
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Speaker 2: City Bank. Okay, City Bank has received a lot of
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Speaker 2: go from Haiti and there it's been collecting interest for
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Speaker 2: all these years and we haven't received a diamondant money.
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Speaker 2: So if they want to and in the infrastructure, Haiti
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Speaker 2: is not good. It's been destabilized greatly, especially with what's
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Speaker 2: going on in the Dominican Republic. It's been destabilized with
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Speaker 2: special interest group that comes into Haiti and uh you know,
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Speaker 2: bribe the government and take advantage of the it's the
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Speaker 2: busy that they created over there in Haiti. And then
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Speaker 2: one thing we have to ask ourselves too, how are
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Speaker 2: these weapons getting into Haiti. You know a lot of
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Speaker 2: drugs get into Haiti and a lot of the weapons
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Speaker 2: that we find in Haiti they come righting from America,
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Speaker 2: so we too have a border problem.
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Speaker 3: Is how hard is it because the things like the
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Speaker 3: United States has tried to uh fix everybody else's problem
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Speaker 3: with Haiti has not never talked about or never in
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Speaker 3: the picture of US security.
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Speaker 2: Well that's that's a good question. Uh. They they the
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Speaker 2: reason why there's not much being said about what's going
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Speaker 2: in Haiti because you know, Haiti is exactly where it
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Speaker 2: needs to be at according to the United States. You know,
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Speaker 2: keep in mind, uh, every time I'm gonna share this
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Speaker 2: with you, anytime there's an exploration that needs to take
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Speaker 2: place in Haiti as far as uh looking for oil
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Speaker 2: or drilling oil in Haiti, somebody from the United States
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Speaker 2: who come in and stop that, stop that project immediately.
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Speaker 2: So basically what's going in Haiti right now has a
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Speaker 2: lot to do to control the United States have over
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Speaker 2: the country.
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Speaker 3: What are some of the what is what are some
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Speaker 3: of the things that as far as the community goes,
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Speaker 3: How many people are event in the Houston area or
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Speaker 3: Harris County area.
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Speaker 4: Will be affected.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's gonna be quite a lot of people that's
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Speaker 2: gonna be affected because for what we're seeing with ice
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Speaker 2: going into churches and pulling people out of churches right now.
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Speaker 2: The community is in fear would they be able to
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Speaker 2: practice their religious hite to worship and and you know,
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Speaker 2: and the sad thing about it is that you know,
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Speaker 2: Don Lemon and UH four other individuals was arrested because
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Speaker 2: of that protest that took place in Indianapolis, Minnesota, that
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Speaker 2: church over there where we found out one of the
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Speaker 2: head preachers in that church was actually an ICE officer,
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Speaker 2: a masked ICE officer. So now they were quick to
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Speaker 2: arrest Don Lemon. But what about the protection that the
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Speaker 2: other churches need in regards to ICE coming in and
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Speaker 2: pulling people out the church, arresting them, destructing services. You know,
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Speaker 2: we would be able to see a double standard.
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Speaker 3: And the aspect you mentioned, you mentioned the guns and
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Speaker 3: the guns and the drug trade that that has used.
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Speaker 2: That has used Haiti.
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Speaker 3: Uh. Why isn't it anything being done about that?
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Speaker 4: And they know that. I know that.
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Speaker 3: I just got to report from uh uh doctors on
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Speaker 3: Doctors without Borders saying that more and more, more and
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Speaker 3: more hospitals are being closed in Haiti because of because
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Speaker 3: of the gangs problems.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and and for the gangs to function then Haiti
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Speaker 2: they have to have money that comes from outside sources
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Speaker 2: because nobody's working. Nobody's working, you see. So you got
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Speaker 2: gangs and uh, they have ammunition, they got they got
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Speaker 2: access to two bullets and you know, all types of guns,
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Speaker 2: even drones. They have access to drones as well. So
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Speaker 2: somebody's financing these these weapons. And and what we find
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Speaker 2: out is that a lot of these uh people that
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Speaker 2: using these guns, they have training and the training that
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Speaker 2: that you know parami param uh you know, militia training
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Speaker 2: that that that you see on the videos that I've
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Speaker 2: been watching, you know, Uh, these are trainings that is
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Speaker 2: that's consistent with paramilitary right here in the United States.
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Speaker 2: You see. And then when we when when then when
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Speaker 2: when the guns are found, it's U West guns. So
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Speaker 2: I believe that right here in the United States there
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Speaker 2: are special interest group that's here that's funding this operation
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Speaker 2: going and hated And keep in mind, as long as
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Speaker 2: the people are fighting and dying, what is going to
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Speaker 2: be left for the country is the land. And who's
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Speaker 2: going to come in after they take the land once
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Speaker 2: everybody dies.
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Speaker 3: What happened to the Kenyan forces that were there?
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Speaker 2: The Kenyan forces, Unfortunately I haven't heard much about them.
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Speaker 2: And if now that we have this new administration, I
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Speaker 2: believe in my opinion that they are gone. And they
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Speaker 2: are gone, but they were definitely inaffected over there because
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Speaker 2: the bureaucracy, right, and uh, you know, outside intervention. So
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Speaker 2: basically the reason why nothing can be done in Haiti
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Speaker 2: is due to outside intervention.
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Speaker 3: Where up into you mentioned a democratic group. Uh, you
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Speaker 3: mentioned a Dominican Republic. What's the what's the status of
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Speaker 3: the Dominican public, you know, and how is that? How
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Speaker 3: is that affecting lady, besides them deporting more people to you,
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Speaker 3: lady from the from of the r.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, the Dominican Republic. What they do over there,
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Speaker 2: a lot of instability stems from them as well. A
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Speaker 2: lot of the weapons that get into heady, it comes
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Speaker 2: from the Dominican Republic, all right, and it goes to gangs.
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Speaker 2: Because as long as the gangs are killing Haitian civilians,
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Speaker 2: got solved them. The Dominican Republic's problem issue with Haiti.
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Speaker 2: That also solves other interests with right in the United
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Speaker 2: States that has an interest in Haiti, right, And of
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Speaker 2: course there's a lot of Haitians over there and a
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Speaker 2: lot of the you know, immigration playbook that you see
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Speaker 2: that's taking place to the United States, they following the
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Speaker 2: same paybook that they're using. The Dominican Republic, they follow
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Speaker 2: the same playbook because you have people that's born in
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Speaker 2: Dominican Haitians born over there. They build infrastructure, they have homes, property,
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Speaker 2: and then they get kicked out of the country. Someone
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Speaker 2: will even die. And then in the government sees their property,
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Speaker 2: sees all of their belongings and assets. So once again
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Speaker 2: right there in the Dominican public, all the contributions that
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Speaker 2: Haitians has, But the Haitians for us built the country, right,
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Speaker 2: they built the country because the Dominicans they don't want
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Speaker 2: to do the construction over it. They don't want to
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Speaker 2: work in the farms because the Haitians been of all
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Speaker 2: these years for so long, for a lifetime. So now
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Speaker 2: they kicked the Haitians out. Now who are things going
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Speaker 2: to do all the infrastructor work over there.
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Speaker 1: That was Board of Director member of Houston Haitians United,
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Speaker 1: mister Richard Alexandra. Again, you can reach Houston Haitians United
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Speaker 1: at HHU dot com or you can call eight three
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Speaker 1: two nine four five one four four eight. They're also
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Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook. Local community leaders of faith gathered
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Speaker 1: to call attention to the killing of Alex Pretty and
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Speaker 1: Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota by ICE agents. This
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Speaker 1: gathering was called by Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia of Houston, who
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Speaker 1: has introduced a bill that would stop the federal government
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Speaker 1: from forcing state and local governments from acting as an
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Speaker 1: extension of immigration and customs enforcement. Also, it would make
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Speaker 1: ICE more accountable for their actions. She spoke on the bill,
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Speaker 1: the need to pass it, and what was explained to
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Speaker 1: her about how local law enforcement currently is forced to
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Speaker 1: involve ICE.
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Speaker 5: You must execute on all of them, else you lose
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Speaker 5: the federal funding. That's that's that's the big stick, UH.
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Speaker 5: And they're obligated to to then ask. But it's only
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Speaker 5: traffic stops, UH. And the way the chief explained it
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Speaker 5: to me that they make the stop and if they
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Speaker 5: see you because you were running a red light, and
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Speaker 5: they put your name in the system and it comes
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Speaker 5: pops out. Officer then calls a hotline UH with the
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Speaker 5: data center that you know, that Miss Winday Data Center,
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Speaker 5: West Virginia, and then they confirm that there's a removal
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Speaker 5: order and send a picture to the officer. Then the
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Speaker 5: officer can say okay, I be like, okay, that's we've
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Speaker 5: got the right guy. Then the officer calls ICE to
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Speaker 5: come pick the guy up. And he told me that
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Speaker 5: they wait thirty minutes. If they're not there in thirty minutes,
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Speaker 5: then they just let the person show.
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Speaker 6: Can they the tenement?
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Speaker 7: Although even if it's just I mean, if.
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Speaker 6: There's no suspicion of committing an actual.
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Speaker 5: Criminals, well, if they do have a traffic case, you
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Speaker 5: know they probably can because but but they're waiting because
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Speaker 5: of this mandate. Uh, and then they should issue the
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Speaker 5: ticket and release them. Ordinarily, that's what they would not
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Speaker 5: issue the tickets unless there's another war. Now, if there's
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Speaker 5: another warrant, then you know they've got authority to stop.
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Speaker 5: But remember ICE is not immigration law, is not criminal law.
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Speaker 5: They have no authority to arrest. That's why they always
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Speaker 5: have other people there with them. Some of those people
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Speaker 5: that mask are you contractors, some of them are ICE officers.
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Speaker 5: And then they have other people there DA or other
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Speaker 5: tederal agencies that have arrest power because they don't you
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Speaker 5: know again nine eleven after that, they just wanted someone
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Speaker 5: to take the remoral orders and go find the people,
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Speaker 5: kind of like a constable. You know, you've you've got
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Speaker 5: to warrant that you go out and find the person.
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Speaker 5: It was never meant for them to have to carry
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Speaker 5: guns and be police. That's the concepts, thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 5: you know we want And I told them, and I
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Speaker 5: was assured by the chief that they don't do that
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Speaker 5: in any other scenario if it's a robbery or something,
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Speaker 5: unless they take the time to enter your name, than
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Speaker 5: they would. But it's mostly a traffic stop issue. And
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Speaker 5: now and now with this before, the state is saying
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Speaker 5: the same thing that they cannot not cooperate with ICE.
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Speaker 5: So I know that Austin, San Antonio, a number of
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Speaker 5: cities are going through this issue right now.
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Speaker 8: You're talking about the twenty seventeen that's before, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 8: And I mean technically letter law is that you have
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Speaker 8: to comply with ICE detainers in the jail. It doesn't
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Speaker 8: really address.
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Speaker 5: Like well, and remember that's where you and I got
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Speaker 5: started on a lot of this. You know, I'm the
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Speaker 5: commission who put a hold on icy tainers at jail
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Speaker 5: and I kept it higled for a month and eventually
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Speaker 5: I got voted voted down, and I was the only
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Speaker 5: one who voted against twenty seven g But the jail
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Speaker 5: has ICE in the jail, so I've always disagreed with him.
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Speaker 5: That's something that I disagreed with Adrian Garcia when he
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Speaker 5: was there, I disagreed with but I disagree with Gonzalez now.
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Speaker 5: ICE has no business being in the jail.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the horrific murders of US citizens by
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Speaker 1: ICE agents in Minnesota, another horrible story out of the
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Speaker 1: area is that ICE agents detained a five year old.
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Speaker 1: A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of a
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Speaker 1: five year old boy who was detained by ICE authorities
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota last week. US District Judge Fred Berry said
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Speaker 1: in a scathing court order that the Trump administration must
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Speaker 1: release Liam kun Jao Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander
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Speaker 1: km Jao Arias, by Tuesday. The father and the son
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Speaker 1: were taken into custody by immigration authorities on January twentieth,
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Speaker 1: as the child was on his way home from preschool.
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Speaker 1: The pair has since been detained in an ICE facility,
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Speaker 1: the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. A
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Speaker 1: protest was held in front of the detention center with
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Speaker 1: community and elected officials Jasmine Crockett and Mokum Castro also
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Speaker 1: went in the facility.
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Speaker 9: Right now, ies are on the national spotlight, but we
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Speaker 9: want and also bring the spotlight to Bear County. Bear
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Speaker 9: County is one of the counties with the highest number
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Speaker 9: of is attainers in Texas. San Antonio now ranks ninth
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Speaker 9: in the country for the highest number of isirests. Our
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Speaker 9: city has also become one of the worst places in
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Speaker 9: the nation for immigration courthouse arrests, with nearly one hundred
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Speaker 9: arrests in just.
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Speaker 7: Three months, including fourth children.
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Speaker 10: I hears a lady held the bid highest member of
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Speaker 10: immigrants so far and lets go You're twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 10: averaging one thousand, seven hundred and thirty two per day.
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Speaker 9: Our demands, essays stands, are the immediate release of Leon
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Speaker 9: and his father and the reunification of all families impacted
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Speaker 9: by immigration detention. An immediate end to family detention at
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Speaker 9: DILI and all detention facilities, an immediate end to unlawful deportations.
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Speaker 9: We demand all funds being sent to EYES for these
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Speaker 9: highness enforcement actions be ceased immediately, and we want the
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Speaker 9: renewal of the Immigrant Legal Defense Fund. Here in our county,
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Speaker 9: so families have access to legal representation and do process
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Speaker 9: with this.
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Speaker 7: I turned it over to Congressman Wucky Customer.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, Good afternoon everyone.
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Speaker 12: I'm Walkie goss through a very proud to represent our
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Speaker 12: hometown to San Antonio. And this afternoon myself and Jasmin Proett,
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Speaker 12: congresswoman from Dallas, along with members of our staff, had
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Speaker 12: a chance to go inspect the Dley Detention Center in Dilley,
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Speaker 12: Texas and visit with Liam Ramos and his father, as
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Speaker 12: well as hundreds of other detainees in that facility. Liam
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Speaker 12: Ramos should be released immediately. I would first like to
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Speaker 12: describe to you our meeting. We met with you and
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Speaker 12: his father for about thirty minutes.
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Speaker 13: How that meeting went. We sat in what was the courtroom.
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Speaker 12: You can see from the picture that I posted that
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Speaker 12: he was lying in his father's arms. His father said
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Speaker 12: that Liam has been very depressed since he's been at Dilly,
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Speaker 12: that he hasn't been eating well. I was concerned with
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Speaker 12: you see how he appears in that photo with his energy.
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Speaker 12: He seemed lethargic, he said. His father said that Liam
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Speaker 12: has been sleeping a lot, that he's been asking about
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Speaker 12: his family, his mom, and his classmates, and saying that
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Speaker 12: he wants to go be back in school with his classmates.
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Speaker 12: He's asked about his backpack and his cap that he
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Speaker 12: was wearing when they picked him up in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: I let him know.
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Speaker 12: That his school and his community, his family, and our
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Speaker 12: country love him and were praying for him. I told
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Speaker 12: him that we would do everything that we could to
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Speaker 12: get him out of there. I demanded from ICE that
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Speaker 12: they release him. I told them that most of America
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Speaker 12: wants Liam released and that he should really be released immediately.
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Speaker 13: But the sad tragedy of all of this is.
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Speaker 7: That Liam is emblematic.
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Speaker 12: Of the inhumanity of our detention system and ICE operations.
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Speaker 12: There are many other kids just like Liam who were
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Speaker 12: in attention as well, and Jasmine and I met with
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Speaker 12: many of them and their family. There's a two month
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Speaker 12: old baby who's been there for four or five days.
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Speaker 12: There are kids under five years old. There are folks
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Speaker 12: who are eight, nine, ten, up into the teenage years.
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Speaker 12: There are folks who are mentally broken because of the
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Speaker 12: trauma that they're experiencing in Delhi. A few things to
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Speaker 12: remember first about.
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Speaker 11: Liam and his family.
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Speaker 12: They came to the United States. Legally, they had permission
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Speaker 12: to wait for their asylum case to be processed here
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Speaker 12: for the cd he want out. When people talk about
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Speaker 12: an orderly and efficient immigration system, they followed the rules.
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Speaker 11: The second thing is that there are no criminals at DILI.
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Speaker 12: Donald Trump talked about arresting in his own words, criminal
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Speaker 12: illegal aliens. You don't go to DILI, a facility that
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Speaker 12: right now has eleven hundred people in it, if you've
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Speaker 12: committed a crime. All of those people suffering there and
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Speaker 12: languishing there in that trauma, in that uncertainty because ICE
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Speaker 12: won't tell them sometimes when their next court date is,
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Speaker 12: Ice won't tell them what's going to happen to them.
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Speaker 13: None of those people has committed a crime.
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Speaker 12: And so I would ask President Trump, who himself has
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Speaker 12: grandkids who were of the age I know young of
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Speaker 12: some of the kids that we met with today, to
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Speaker 12: think about what it would be like if his grandkids
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Speaker 12: were behind bars we're in this kind of prison, the
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Speaker 12: trauma and the impact that it would have on them.
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Speaker 12: And for Steven Miller, who is the father himself with you,
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Speaker 12: like myself, I have a twelve year old, a ten
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Speaker 12: year old, and a three and a half year old.
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Speaker 12: If you're going to be an architect of this kind
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Speaker 12: of viciousness and brutality and inhumanity, then you should have
24:13
Speaker 12: the guts to go to these facilities like Dilly and
24:18
Speaker 12: sit face to face, eye to eye with these kids
24:22
Speaker 12: and tell them why you believe they belong there.
24:28
Speaker 2: I believe that we.
24:29
Speaker 11: Should disband NICE.
24:32
Speaker 12: I support the impeachment of Christy Nome, and I don't
24:36
Speaker 12: believe the Senate or the House or Congress should give
24:38
Speaker 12: another dime to ice misappropriations law. With that, I would
24:45
Speaker 12: like to introduce an incredible colleague of mine who represents
24:50
Speaker 12: part of the city of Dallas, who served in the
24:53
Speaker 12: Texas legislature before, just as I did. That's my colleague,
24:58
Speaker 12: Jasmind Crockett.
25:05
Speaker 7: I just want to paint a picture.
25:08
Speaker 9: Imagine being a free, willed, loving kiddo, and all of
25:14
Speaker 9: a sudden, one day you're thrown on a plane. You're
25:17
Speaker 9: sent fifteen hundred miles away from home, and you don't
25:21
Speaker 9: understand what's going on. All you know is that your
25:23
Speaker 9: friends are gone. You have one set of pants, one shirt.
25:29
Speaker 9: Your dad washes your pants and your shirt out every
25:32
Speaker 9: single day and then hangs it by a unit to
25:36
Speaker 9: try to try it overnight. You don't have your mom,
25:41
Speaker 9: who is currently four months pregnant with your sibling, and frankly,
25:48
Speaker 9: at this point in time, you've gotten depressed to the
25:52
Speaker 9: extent that you've stopped eating. This is the story of Liam,
25:57
Speaker 9: the sad reality of what we found when we went
25:59
Speaker 9: to Dilli that Liam was not the only one. You
26:02
Speaker 9: have so many mothers in this facility. They didn't care
26:07
Speaker 9: about themselves. I'm gonna be perfectly honest. They were concerned
26:10
Speaker 9: about their children. We heard the same story over and
26:13
Speaker 9: over and over about how they were depressed, about how
26:16
Speaker 9: they weren't eating, about how children were throwing up.
26:20
Speaker 7: We went into a housing facility because I don't.
26:23
Speaker 9: Know that they were really trying to take us into one,
26:25
Speaker 9: but we went and there was an area that was
26:28
Speaker 9: almost set up like a kid's play area, and we
26:31
Speaker 9: walked in and as soon as we walked in, everyone
26:34
Speaker 9: kind of flooded towards us. And at some point in time,
26:38
Speaker 9: it seems like they told us that they were actually
26:41
Speaker 9: educating these kids, and the kids were like, no, we're
26:45
Speaker 9: not in school, we're not getting anything. And so my
26:49
Speaker 9: staffer is like, what's up. Because y'all told us they
26:52
Speaker 9: were getting this. They reopened this facility that had been
26:55
Speaker 9: shuttered under the Biden Harris administration. They reopened this facility
27:00
Speaker 9: back in April of last year. They continue to house
27:04
Speaker 9: children there and they are not getting any education. Their
27:07
Speaker 9: education is being forwarded. And then when pressed about it,
27:11
Speaker 9: they said, well, we're working on it, and I said, well,
27:13
Speaker 9: what exactly are you doing? They said, well, we're going
27:15
Speaker 9: to get some packets in here. And I said, what
27:17
Speaker 9: are the packets gonna do? Are you gonna have teachers? Well,
27:20
Speaker 9: we have somebody that has an educational background. Listen, I
27:24
Speaker 9: did criminal defense work, y'all. I'm here to tell you
27:27
Speaker 9: that the treatment that these people are suffering under right
27:30
Speaker 9: now is worse than those that are accused and sometimes
27:33
Speaker 9: even convicted of crimes.
27:36
Speaker 11: That's how bad it is.
27:38
Speaker 7: So people wonder like, why is it that people are outraged?
27:43
Speaker 9: Why is it that the people in Minneapolis have taken
27:47
Speaker 9: to the streets because they are kidnapping their neighbors. We
27:51
Speaker 9: know that Trump lied, We know that all he does
27:54
Speaker 9: is live Because the first thing I wanted to know
27:56
Speaker 9: was how many criminal convictions do y'all have? How bad
28:00
Speaker 9: are these folk, oh, no, no, no, you can't be
28:02
Speaker 9: here and have a record, y'all. I can't tell you
28:06
Speaker 9: how many innocent, precious children we talked to. We talked
28:12
Speaker 9: to a sixteen year old, and one of my staffers says, man,
28:16
Speaker 9: the level of maturity on that kid.
28:18
Speaker 7: That kid had about four younger siblings and his mom.
28:23
Speaker 7: They have been there for eight months.
28:25
Speaker 9: When we walked in, they gave us a packet and
28:28
Speaker 9: it said the average detention time was.
28:30
Speaker 7: Twenty eight days.
28:32
Speaker 11: We didn't meet anybody who had been.
28:34
Speaker 7: There for less than probably two months.
28:38
Speaker 2: This is not right.
28:39
Speaker 9: And when I asked the person that is over the
28:43
Speaker 9: attorneys that are there to represent the government, I asked them,
28:47
Speaker 9: I said, you know what is happening.
28:50
Speaker 7: You've been here long enough. You're a government employee.
28:54
Speaker 9: You've been here through various administrations, and frankly, he said,
29:00
Speaker 9: the difference is somehow they're trying to prosecute these cases
29:04
Speaker 9: while keeping people in custody. That is not what they
29:08
Speaker 9: normally would do. That is what this administration has decided
29:12
Speaker 9: to do. They have decided to play with people mentally.
29:15
Speaker 9: They have decided to tell people things like, well, you're
29:18
Speaker 9: not going to be able to see your kids if
29:19
Speaker 9: you do this, or we're not gonna do this if
29:21
Speaker 9: you do that, or we're not gonna give you your
29:23
Speaker 9: court dates. This is terrible what is happening. And I
29:28
Speaker 9: really don't know what it's going to take for there
29:30
Speaker 9: to be a wake up call in this country. But
29:32
Speaker 9: I am here to tell you that we are supposed
29:35
Speaker 9: to be better than this. We talk to people that
29:38
Speaker 9: are saying, you know what, I'm from Cuba, as one
29:40
Speaker 9: woman said, and she was crying profusely, saying, and they
29:44
Speaker 9: are sending me to Ecuador.
29:48
Speaker 4: What are we doing?
29:49
Speaker 9: So I'm here standing with my colleague because no, we
29:53
Speaker 9: won't fund this nonsense. We both voted no on that bill.
29:58
Speaker 9: We are asking our colleagues in the Senate to do
30:02
Speaker 9: their parts. Stand up for people, stand up and show
30:05
Speaker 9: them what humanity looks like.
30:07
Speaker 2: We know this.
30:08
Speaker 9: Administration doesn't care about us, but frankly, when people literally
30:12
Speaker 9: are talking about the water that they are drinking is
30:14
Speaker 9: not safe. If you allow this to continue to happen
30:20
Speaker 9: and you are complicit, we have to do our parts.
30:23
Speaker 7: As the legislative branch. We have the power of the purse,
30:26
Speaker 7: not the president. It is time for us to flex
30:29
Speaker 7: our power.
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Speaker 1: Gallington dot com. As the battled seventy nine year old
31:02
Speaker 1: convicted felon in the White House and its criminal administration
31:06
Speaker 1: continue to run roughshod over our constitution and our rights,
31:11
Speaker 1: with the Republican Texas governor and the Republican legislature in
31:15
Speaker 1: Texas following along in lockstep, and with all of the
31:19
Speaker 1: deeply unpopular actions by Trump's gestapo ice. How is this
31:25
Speaker 1: going to affect the upcoming primaries and midterms in Texas.
31:31
Speaker 1: Matt Angle with the Lone Star Project spoke on this
31:34
Speaker 1: topic and about the primary's upcoming in the state.
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Speaker 4: It is beyond shameful. It's unpatriotic. It is dangerous that
31:46
Speaker 4: Texas Republican leaders they are not only aren't sympathetic with
31:52
Speaker 4: the abuse of civilians in Minnesota, their accomplices. Greg Abbott
31:58
Speaker 4: is housing right now uh a five year old that
32:02
Speaker 4: was kidnapped and used as bait uh and just an
32:06
Speaker 4: unforgivable uh human rights abuse. And uh Greg Abba is
32:12
Speaker 4: a full partner in that. He uh is uh been
32:19
Speaker 4: uh supporting uh in every possible way.
32:23
Speaker 14: Uh.
32:24
Speaker 4: The Trump administrations just assault on democracy and assault on
32:27
Speaker 4: human rights and literally uh the uh fatal or lethal
32:33
Speaker 4: assault on individuals. I mean, we've had two people shot
32:36
Speaker 4: in the streets in Minnesota. Uh not an ounce of
32:40
Speaker 4: of of authentic sympathy uh coming from uh Texas Republican leaders,
32:46
Speaker 4: from Greg Abbott all the way down. And that's just
32:48
Speaker 4: part of it. I mean, uh everything that the Trump
32:52
Speaker 4: administration is doing that is uh intended to tear democracy
32:58
Speaker 4: apart and intended to do uh uh install authoritarian uh
33:03
Speaker 4: uh regime.
33:05
Speaker 3: Uh.
33:06
Speaker 4: Texas Republicans not only go along, but they enthusiastically support it.
33:11
Speaker 4: We have a huge, huge job here in Texas uh
33:15
Speaker 4: to finally turn the tide and bring new leadership.
33:19
Speaker 2: What are we going to do?
33:20
Speaker 4: What have you seen so far?
33:22
Speaker 3: As far as uh we see Democratic lawmakers today go
33:28
Speaker 3: up to deal with Texas prison that has been housing
33:31
Speaker 3: the five year old?
33:33
Speaker 2: What what about Houston?
33:35
Speaker 4: Houston has.
33:38
Speaker 3: Easton has ice going into the schools and stuff here
33:41
Speaker 3: here here locally, and it seems like the mayor is
33:46
Speaker 3: doing nothing about that. That's why you saw the big
33:48
Speaker 3: protests and at city council City Council session Tuesday and
33:56
Speaker 3: thirties Tuesday and Widdy, Well, uh, it's a fair observation
34:03
Speaker 3: that the Houston Mayor, John Whitmyer has really not stepped
34:08
Speaker 3: in and stepped up to protect his own citizens. That
34:12
Speaker 3: is really doing nothing while you've got ice abuse on
34:18
Speaker 3: the streets, and I think it is going to be
34:21
Speaker 3: up to the city council and other leaders. I am
34:25
Speaker 3: glad that you've got some county leaders. I know both
34:29
Speaker 3: Leslie Brionaz and Adrian Garcia.
34:32
Speaker 4: Have really stepped up. And I know that there's some
34:36
Speaker 4: really good candidates who are seeking office. One i'ms on
34:39
Speaker 4: the city councilor a are Abbey Kayman who's running for
34:42
Speaker 4: county attorney. I think it's important that those primaries turn
34:46
Speaker 4: out well so that we can get the strongest people,
34:48
Speaker 4: because with a county attorney sounds like kind of a
34:53
Speaker 4: non descript office, but it's really really important. We saw
34:57
Speaker 4: with Christian Menifee when he was County of Attorney how
35:01
Speaker 4: strong he was, and that's so I think it's important
35:03
Speaker 4: that you have somebody like Abbie Cayman when's that primary,
35:06
Speaker 4: so you've got another strong county attorney because the mayor
35:10
Speaker 4: is not going to do it.
35:11
Speaker 3: It's going to take other people in Houston and Harris County.
35:15
Speaker 3: You mentioned Christian Verfrey disigae for progress we've had. We
35:22
Speaker 3: had the primaries going on right now, which which is
35:25
Speaker 3: a lot of people are paying attention to is including
35:27
Speaker 3: Al Green dependsing now Green who stated that the Houston
35:30
Speaker 3: Chronicle local paper has kind of over skepped their vowels
35:34
Speaker 3: where we were talking about him.
35:38
Speaker 4: Well, uh, I think the most important thing that keep
35:41
Speaker 4: in mind is the rivalries, for lack of a better word,
35:44
Speaker 4: that have been created there in Houston among some of
35:46
Speaker 4: the most outstanding African American leadership in the country. Is
35:51
Speaker 4: not the fault of the any of those representatives. It
35:54
Speaker 4: is the result of a gross gerrymander imposed by Greg
36:00
Speaker 4: Abbott and who is just following orders from Donald Trump.
36:05
Speaker 4: And so I think it's very important that we not
36:07
Speaker 4: get lost in rivalries between particularly effective minority leaders.
36:13
Speaker 2: And I.
36:17
Speaker 4: Al Greene, excuse me, just a sick sorry about that,
36:21
Speaker 4: Richard Well, but al green is an outstanding representative who
36:27
Speaker 4: got a really really unfair treatment in the redistioning map.
36:34
Speaker 4: I don't know what he's going to do, and I
36:36
Speaker 4: don't know whether he'll win the primary. But uh, and
36:39
Speaker 4: it's not Christian Menefee's fault that he's running in an
36:43
Speaker 4: open seat and then by the time that by the
36:47
Speaker 4: time we get around to the next primary, that he'll
36:51
Speaker 4: have to run in under a different map. And so
36:53
Speaker 4: I think it's really important that people pick the candidate
36:56
Speaker 4: that they think best represents them, but not get lost
36:59
Speaker 4: or get angry or make things personal personally.
37:04
Speaker 3: We saw that the Republican on the Republican side is
37:07
Speaker 3: getting pretty nasty with Paxton in west And and you
37:11
Speaker 3: know in that in their reason, oh, it's that's that's
37:14
Speaker 3: very nasty. You're right, people are running against west Or.
37:19
Speaker 3: You know, they're saying that that that area that he's
37:22
Speaker 3: running in, he's gonna have a tough time getting this,
37:25
Speaker 3: he bet, because he doesn't. He's his voter record has
37:28
Speaker 3: been so low.
37:30
Speaker 4: Oh well, Wesley hunts even if you're a Republican. You've
37:35
Speaker 4: got to be disappointed in Wesley Hunt, because, uh, he's
37:39
Speaker 4: a guy who put his own ambition and a long
37:43
Speaker 4: shot and I mean a really long shot race for
37:45
Speaker 4: the US Senate nomination ahead of every one of his constituencies.
37:51
Speaker 4: This is an extraordinary, uh fact, but it's true. And
37:56
Speaker 4: that is that no person of color has ever been
38:00
Speaker 4: nominated for a statewide race as a Republican in Texas
38:06
Speaker 4: unless the primary was cleared for them. If there was,
38:10
Speaker 4: if they were running against an Anglo who was funded,
38:15
Speaker 4: they lost. There's literally no examples. And sou Wesley Hunt's
38:20
Speaker 4: not going to win that nomination. John Cornyn is not
38:23
Speaker 4: going to win that nomination. They are going to nominate.
38:27
Speaker 4: They are going to nominate and elect a a criminal
38:32
Speaker 4: in Ken Jackson. And it's really just a disservice to
38:37
Speaker 4: Wesley Hunt's constituents in Congress that's taken this flyer on
38:43
Speaker 4: an unwinnable Senate nomination.
38:46
Speaker 3: Speaking, there's not passing but recording how he's slip flopped
38:51
Speaker 3: all of a sudden. He used to be a a
38:54
Speaker 3: pre progressive Republican, if you want to say that, and
38:56
Speaker 3: now he's slipped to be.
38:59
Speaker 4: Very vultra conservatives. You might say, yeah, it's really kind
39:04
Speaker 4: of you know, if he was a more sympathetic person,
39:08
Speaker 4: you would feel sad for him. But what he did
39:11
Speaker 4: was voluntarily sell his soul and surrender every ounce of
39:15
Speaker 4: integrity to act like Maga's. He's got a thirty year
39:19
Speaker 4: career in which he's been a pragmatic, kind of button down,
39:23
Speaker 4: old fashioned Republican. I don't agree with him on most things,
39:27
Speaker 4: but his approach for the most part up until recently
39:30
Speaker 4: was responsible. But he surrendered all of that, and the
39:33
Speaker 4: shame of it is, and I'm on record of saying this,
39:36
Speaker 4: I think he's a dead senator walking. I don't think
39:38
Speaker 4: he can win that primary, and so he's going to
39:40
Speaker 4: come away from it as a loser, but not even
39:42
Speaker 4: have the satisfaction of having honored his seat. Instead, he
39:46
Speaker 4: will have dishonored himself in Paxton.
39:49
Speaker 3: With all the baggage he has, these people are still
39:54
Speaker 3: in his favor.
39:56
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well that's where the Republican Party is now.
39:58
Speaker 4: I mean, look at good in his sake. He's got,
40:00
Speaker 4: you know, uh, felony convictions. He's got a long record
40:07
Speaker 4: of abuse. He's a guy can't even not even allowed
40:09
Speaker 4: to run a charity in New York City because he
40:12
Speaker 4: stole from a charity. Uh. And so if we expect
40:16
Speaker 4: Republicans these days to see breaking the law or breaking
40:19
Speaker 4: ethics rules is being disqualifying, we're just going to be
40:22
Speaker 4: disappointed they don't. But it does give us an opportunity
40:25
Speaker 4: in the fall. I think that's why it's very important
40:27
Speaker 4: that after our Democratic primary, which will be competitive and
40:31
Speaker 4: somewhat contentious, that we all come together because we have
40:34
Speaker 4: an opportunity to win that senency.
40:37
Speaker 3: Also, in the same vein, you also have Jasmine Crockett
40:44
Speaker 3: in her run and yeah, and that's it's gonna be
40:49
Speaker 3: another tough for his rule.
40:51
Speaker 4: Absolutely a tough race. You've got two really strong candidates,
40:55
Speaker 4: and Jasmine Crockett and James Tallerico. And I think that
41:01
Speaker 4: what we saw from the debate was that either one
41:04
Speaker 4: of them, if elected, would be an outstanding US Senator.
41:08
Speaker 4: I do think from my own opinion that just in
41:11
Speaker 4: terms of electability, it makes me nervous. It worries me
41:15
Speaker 4: that the Republicans are really really dying to run against Jasmine. Uh.
41:21
Speaker 3: They may need to be careful what they wish for,
41:23
Speaker 3: but it's clear that they believe that that Jasmine would
41:27
Speaker 3: be easier for them to beat and and so I
41:30
Speaker 3: think everybody kind of has to take that into their
41:33
Speaker 3: uh uh and consider that when they're there, when they're
41:35
Speaker 3: casting their vote. I don't think people naturally even thought
41:40
Speaker 3: that you could lose a primary because of the national attention.
41:45
Speaker 2: But I think people are people have slipped on.
41:47
Speaker 4: That one well us as you know Richard, that there
41:51
Speaker 4: is such a real misunderstanding of Texas nationally.
41:57
Speaker 12: Uh.
41:58
Speaker 4: They stereotype Texas and they jump to conclusions and uh,
42:02
Speaker 4: you know, Texas, uh is a very diverse state and uh,
42:07
Speaker 4: and there's big differences between regions and uh. And James
42:11
Speaker 4: tall Rico is a very serious and very capable candidate.
42:14
Speaker 4: And so that's that's a competitive race and either one
42:17
Speaker 4: of them could win. And uh again, conventional wisdom and
42:21
Speaker 4: my gut is that James would be a stronger candidate
42:25
Speaker 4: in the fall. But uh uh, but let me tell you,
42:28
Speaker 4: if Jasmine Crockett wins, I will enthusiastically support her as
42:33
Speaker 4: we all should. That all depends on the city's Austin, Houston, Dallas.
42:39
Speaker 3: If if they can get the malority vote out, Uh.
42:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the thing to remember is again, Texas is
42:45
Speaker 4: a very diverse state and uh uh and the Democratic
42:48
Speaker 4: primary is particularly diverse, and so no one ethnicity controls
42:53
Speaker 4: uh the primary. You have to build a coalition in
42:57
Speaker 4: order to win, and I think the candidate who builds
42:59
Speaker 4: the strongest in the broadest coalition only.
43:02
Speaker 1: That was Matt Engele with the Lone Star Project. The
43:05
Speaker 1: late disability rights leader Bob Kofka was known in Austin,
43:10
Speaker 1: across Texas and nationwide. John Muller profiles a Texan who
43:14
Speaker 1: made the life of every disabled person better.
43:19
Speaker 13: A memorial for disability rights leader Bob Kofka is being
43:23
Speaker 13: held this Saturday, January thirty first that will be accessible
43:27
Speaker 13: online at two pm Central. You can watch through the
43:31
Speaker 13: Adaptive Texas Facebook or by zoom through Adaptoftexas dot org.
43:38
Speaker 13: The well known disability advocate passed away last month at
43:42
Speaker 13: the age of seventy nine. He survived by his wife
43:45
Speaker 13: of forty years, Stephanie Thomas, an accomplished advocate in her
43:49
Speaker 13: own right. Cofka was the Texan with a products accent,
43:54
Speaker 13: with a curly made of white hair that was instantly recognizable.
43:58
Speaker 13: He also had a special set of talents and qualities
44:02
Speaker 13: that made him a great organizer and leader in the
44:05
Speaker 13: national disability movement. Cofta was born in the Bronx and
44:10
Speaker 13: was a Vietnam veteran. He was a wheelchair user injured
44:14
Speaker 13: in a car crash in nineteen seventy three. The next
44:17
Speaker 13: year he came to Texas, earning degrees at the University
44:21
Speaker 13: of Houston and settled in Austin. There he became active
44:25
Speaker 13: in the direct actually group American Disabled for Attended Programs
44:30
Speaker 13: today known as ADAPT. At the time before the Americans
44:35
Speaker 13: with Disabilities Act, ADEPT worked to make Austin and its
44:39
Speaker 13: public transit system accessible to all, including people with disabilities.
44:44
Speaker 13: Nancy Kroder was a new University of Texas grad at
44:48
Speaker 13: the time who befriended Kafka and became a forty year
44:51
Speaker 13: ADAPT colleague.
44:53
Speaker 15: He loved to use theater when we did protests or action.
45:01
Speaker 6: My favorite one was setting up a disabled or handicapped
45:07
Speaker 6: seating at the time outside a famous restaurant that was
45:13
Speaker 6: known by a famous gentleman who had no access into
45:19
Speaker 6: his restaurant. So we set up our own table and
45:23
Speaker 6: chairs and menus and sorry, no seating inside for the disabled.
45:31
Speaker 6: He was fairly humiliated and angered theon yours and seeing
45:38
Speaker 6: that he was a big guy in the business world downtown,
45:43
Speaker 6: it was the ultimate.
45:45
Speaker 15: Ultimate worst thing that could happen when media showed up.
45:51
Speaker 11: So it was loan behold.
45:53
Speaker 6: He built a ramp and started a and amongst other
46:01
Speaker 6: restaurants because.
46:03
Speaker 15: They figured if this gentleman could be persuaded, perhaps they
46:09
Speaker 15: should follow along.
46:11
Speaker 11: And it was a historical time.
46:14
Speaker 15: It was the hilarious time.
46:17
Speaker 11: But it made such a.
46:18
Speaker 7: Movement that.
46:21
Speaker 15: You know, you would think something like that was small
46:24
Speaker 15: but new. It had its ramifications and from that point on, I.
46:30
Speaker 6: Do believe we helped to pay for that ramp because
46:33
Speaker 6: we ate there all the time.
46:35
Speaker 15: We love the food.
46:38
Speaker 13: That twenty four hour restaurant was Cassa's Delhi, which had
46:42
Speaker 13: a well known.
46:42
Speaker 11: Bottle taxes never closes, but it did.
46:48
Speaker 13: Cougha unadapt used similar tactics to make mass trends. It accessible.
46:53
Speaker 6: One in the weekends, I believe it was we just
46:58
Speaker 6: decided to go to eleventh congresdes and.
47:00
Speaker 13: Stock buses and we did how'd you do that?
47:05
Speaker 11: Hey, just sit in front of line?
47:08
Speaker 6: Are you chain yourself to one or you know, just
47:12
Speaker 6: we had a number of people that wanted to ride
47:15
Speaker 6: but couldn't so steadily, you know, all the buses.
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Speaker 13: Got back to They also attended every meeting and hearing
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Speaker 13: that they could. They even helped test the equipment, which
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Speaker 13: was no easy feedback then, which was relatively new tech.
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Speaker 15: And the rest is history.
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Speaker 6: Everybody and anybody can ride again. Lots of theater, but
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Speaker 6: progressive theater.
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Speaker 13: He and Thomas also organized probably the most famous disability
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Speaker 13: demonstration of them all, the Capitol Krawl at Cofta's Signal.
47:52
Speaker 13: Dozens of babbocats dropped from their wheelchairs and climbed the
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Speaker 13: stone steps of the US Capitol to demonstrate to the
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Speaker 13: just how determined they were to get the ADA. But
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Speaker 13: Kawko was not a simple rabel rouser. He also had
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Speaker 13: a command of issues and helped develop real policies with lawmakers,
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Speaker 13: policies that are in place today, helping people live full
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Speaker 13: lives in the community and not at nursing homes. Alison
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Speaker 13: Barkoff is a professor George Washington University and former head
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Speaker 13: of the Administration for Community Living under President Biden.
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Speaker 11: You know, there's just so much about Bob.
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Speaker 16: I mean, Bob is just such a giant in the
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Speaker 16: disability movement, and he was a force in just so
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Speaker 16: many ways.
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Speaker 11: The couple of things that stand out to me about Bob,
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Speaker 11: who was a mentor.
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Speaker 16: And a colleague and a friend, is he wrote this
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Speaker 16: like manual on disability organizing and had a chapter called the.
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Speaker 11: Pitchfork Strategy of advocacy.
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Speaker 16: When he always talks about the Pitchfork strategy and it
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Speaker 16: really resonates with me and I talk about it all
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Speaker 16: the time. You know, we have to use every tool
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Speaker 16: in our toolbox and advocacy. You know, we absolutely have
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Speaker 16: to be doing advocacy with Congress, with federal federal Congress
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Speaker 16: and state legislatures. We have to be working with the
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Speaker 16: agencies that implement the laws, so the bureaucracy. We really
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Speaker 16: need to think about media and it's amazing you're doing this,
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Speaker 16: and how do we educate the public. How do we
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Speaker 16: tell all our story the way we connected a lot.
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Speaker 16: He understood the role of legal advocacy and bringing lawsuits,
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Speaker 16: and then of course activism was a huge piece for him,
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Speaker 16: and protesting and all of those pieces really mixed together.
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Speaker 16: I mean, Bob was like the perfect mix of the
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Speaker 16: activists with the policy wonk. He would like literally be
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Speaker 16: outside hs protesting and then like roll in, roll up
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Speaker 16: his sleeves and then like you know, be like writing
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Speaker 16: policy like ideas, And I just loved that about him,
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Speaker 16: And I loved how late in life he really took.
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Speaker 11: That kind of media focus.
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Speaker 16: And I was his number one listener to Barrier Fee
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Speaker 16: to Choosy at that radio shows, and I'm lucky enough.
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Speaker 11: To be on a few times, and I just he was.
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Speaker 11: He really was that mix of like we have to
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Speaker 11: use everything, and I just I loved that about him.
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Speaker 13: The Barrier Free Futures Podcasts features a one of a
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Speaker 13: kind list of people Kaka knows from forty years of
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Speaker 13: disability advocacy. It is a crash course in disability history
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Speaker 13: and issues. The recordings and transcripts are well worth the search.
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Speaker 13: Coca was also involved in many other things, especially growing
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Speaker 13: the disability vote. His disability voters group rev Up Texas,
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Speaker 13: which stands for Register, Educate Vote. Is that all one
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Speaker 13: word r e v up Texas dot org. On the show,
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Speaker 13: he says, don't crawl into the shadows, and he ends
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Speaker 13: every episode with the message, don't more organize for the
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Speaker 13: people's news. This is John Muller reported.
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Speaker 1: In Major League soccer. The Houston Dynamo announced the signing
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Speaker 1: of attacker mattweez Boguez from Mexico City Club cruz Azul
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Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty seven twenty twenty eight season, known
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Speaker 1: for his speed vision and goal scoring ability. The Houston
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Speaker 1: Dynamo defeated the New England Revolution three to two in
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Speaker 1: a preseason match being played at Saint Petersburg, Florida, on Saturday.
51:33
Speaker 1: Head coach Ben Olsen said he had a lot to
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Speaker 1: digest a lot.
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Speaker 8: It's a lot of parents, it's for thirty minute periods,
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Speaker 8: so's there's a lot to digest in that.
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Speaker 2: And that's what pre ss Isner said.
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Speaker 17: Before, is about taking these patures, getting a lot of
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Speaker 17: guys minutes, getting a lot of guys in differentness positions
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Speaker 17: to build relationships, throw some different tactical wrinkles at the players,
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Speaker 17: to see what we can and cannot do, and it's just,
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Speaker 17: you know, this is such a great exercise.
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Speaker 4: On that side.
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Speaker 17: The other side of this is this was this was
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Speaker 17: an emotional and it got intense and there was a
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Speaker 17: real physicality and you know, uh scrappiness to this game
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Speaker 17: that is also a big part of soccer, and so
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Speaker 17: it was nice to see our guys rise to that.
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Speaker 13: Challenge as well.
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Speaker 8: H two teams kind of probably sick a preseason at
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Speaker 8: this point and maybe kind a little heated, and again
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Speaker 8: you want.
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Speaker 17: To see what the team is about it those types
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Speaker 17: of moments too. So overall or get another good exercise,
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Speaker 17: looking forward to going back and looking at this tape
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Speaker 17: with the team, with the staff and just growing. We
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Speaker 17: step away.
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Speaker 3: Now, we go back to.
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Speaker 17: Houston, take an excel for a day or two, and
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Speaker 17: then get back to work.
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Speaker 8: And we got four I think four more games to
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Speaker 8: continue to try some things and collectively build build this team,
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Speaker 8: but also find these little relationships.
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Speaker 11: These guy's in these minutes.
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Speaker 17: Bogush, it was his first minutes, and he's good, he
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Speaker 17: knows what he's doing, he's clean, he's gonna and now
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Speaker 17: it's just about getting him time with his team and
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Speaker 17: make sure he's really clear of what we want out
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Speaker 17: of him and build those relationships.
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Speaker 1: We end the People's News with the death of Michael
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Speaker 1: five thousand Watts, a Houston hip hop legend and founder
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Speaker 1: of the Suisa House record label, who died this past Friday.
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Speaker 1: He was a legend in the clubs and the sound
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Speaker 1: heard round the world, which put Houston hip hop on
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Speaker 1: the map. We talked to Houston legend in the hip
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Speaker 1: hop world, DJ Chill about the man known as Michael
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Speaker 1: five thousand Watts.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, man, I've been knowing him for about thirty years
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Speaker 14: when I'm when I made him, it was just Michael Watts.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't even.
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Speaker 14: So when I made him, it wasn't even push Ajia.
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Speaker 14: So it was just DJ clubs. I was doing club
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Speaker 14: called SoCal Village and turned into Boomerang, and him and
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Speaker 14: and Steve was Walter D brounging myself with Lester Pace
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Speaker 14: and uh and Marcus Love.
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Speaker 2: I know, I know my mistake.
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Speaker 14: It was Walter D and Marcus Love brogging myself to
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Speaker 14: the South Side to a club. And that's why I
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Speaker 14: made him an I mean, after that, I know, he
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Speaker 14: was doing clubs and then the mixtape game started getting heavy.
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Speaker 14: Screw was doing this thing out here, and so when
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Speaker 14: he created Swisher House, he created it for a lot
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Speaker 14: of artists on the North Side that wasn't coming on
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Speaker 14: the South Side, and and then it just blew up.
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Speaker 14: I mean, he created artists like Slimp Thugs to me now,
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Speaker 14: for a while, yeah, help for them, all that stuff
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Speaker 14: from from the North Side.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, put it on the map too, Yes, definitely, definitely yeah.
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Speaker 14: I mean because at one time I saw you heard
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Speaker 14: it was, you know, order from the South Side, you know,
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Speaker 14: on mixtape stuff like that. And when he did two House,
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Speaker 14: he opened up a whole situation for the guys out
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Speaker 14: here on the off side. Yeah, I mean really it
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Speaker 14: was a worldwide brand, really, yeah, because you don't can't,
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Speaker 14: you can't go nowhere with our people talking about Houston House. Yeah,
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Speaker 14: for sure, our d J screw wanted two Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that leg legacy gonna live on, I mean.
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Speaker 13: Gonna do it.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean from the from out of artists that
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Speaker 14: he created that that keeps it going on, and all
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Speaker 14: the hit records that they made that keeps it going on.
55:51
Speaker 14: And his wife telling me she's gonna make sure that
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Speaker 14: his legacy stayed song because they had already.
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Speaker 2: Was doing social house stuff like that.
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Speaker 14: So yeah, it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna forever be
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Speaker 14: uh switch House for show.
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Speaker 3: Right right, and nobody can forget what they did as
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Speaker 3: far as even the club.
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Speaker 2: Scene here, you know. Yeah, yeah, I was from the
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Speaker 2: radio to clubs.
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Speaker 14: I mean just the whole culture and he stood for
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Speaker 14: the culture of Houston.
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Speaker 4: M hmm.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was that was this thing. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: well man, I'm gonna let you drive.
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Speaker 14: Bro Well once again, I want to I do want
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Speaker 14: to say this that liked He was very, very wonderful dude.
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Speaker 14: You know, even besides music, he was.
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Speaker 4: He was amazing DJ.
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Speaker 2: He's a he was, you know, it was. It was
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Speaker 2: a lot for the city and recipes Michael Watson.
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Speaker 1: That was DJ Chill talking about the death of Michael
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