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Screw the American Worker Act · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  On in the grip of oppression.
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  I fought for my liberty.
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  I paid with the blood of my people.
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  Freedom has never been free.
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  Now my doors always open.
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  To dreamers and friends.
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  When I'm attacked, I protect NDP.
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  Because my name is America.
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  I stand for everyone and welcome.
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  This is Karen Schoen.
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  You're listening to the Prism of America's Education, brought to you on the America Outlaw.news network.
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  Uh, folks, my focus right now is on the Supreme Court and what the Supreme Court is about to rule on, and that's called birthright citizenship.
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  And I don't believe that people realize how connected this is to our poorest borders and illegal immigration and the destruction of the systems that we have in place for American citizens.
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  Our problems that we have are not new.
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  They've been going on for years.
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  I remember even around 2001, after 9 11, the cry was exactly the same as what we hear today.
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  We're not funding ICE.
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  We have too many illegals coming in over the poorest borders.
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  And guess what?
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  We're having the same conversations today.
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  Something is wrong with this picture, and I happen to feel what's wrong with the picture is we the people, we are not being educated properly on what illegal immigration is doing to our country.
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  And yes, we are a country of immigrants, but our immigrants came in legally.
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  They helped us, we helped them, they were successful, we were successful.
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  That's not what's happening now.
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  So I have a very important question I want to ask you, which is what is your citizenship worth to you?
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  And are you willing to throw it away?
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  Because if we don't understand this, and the Supreme Court rules against America, not against Trump, against America by allowing birthright citizenship, the only thing that will fix it would be a law from Congress.
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  And if we don't get a handle on Congress, that's never going to happen.
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  So I have asked my friend, Michael Cutler, who is an expert in immigration, because he has been in the immigration in the intelligence field and the immigration field for a very long time.
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  And he understands, Michael, is everything connected?
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  Does everything depend on everything else?
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  What's going on in our country?
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  And why won't our legislators do the right thing?
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  Well, they're bought and paid for.
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  Thank you for having me.
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  I hope that uh everybody had a happy Easter, happy Passover.
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  It's a joyous time of the year.
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  But it's not joyous when you look at what the politicians from both parties are doing.
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  This isn't a left-right issue.
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  Both parties are all in on going after opening up the borders and providing an unlimited supply of clients for the NGOs, clients for immigration law firms, um, cheap exploitable labor, and it's not just the illegal aliens.
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  We're doing it with H1B visas.
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  You know, the former head, former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatt, um, Republican.
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  I had a meeting with him that lasted a half hour, and this was more than 10 years ago.
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  He was pushing H1B visas.
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  And why was he doing it?
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  Well, he himself is an immigration lawyer.
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  And when you check out who Bob Goodlatt is, uh, his big deal was the H1B visas.
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  He had a multi-state immigration practice, and then he bragged to me about how his son wanted to see thousands upon thousands of brilliant Indian programmers admitted to the United States.
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  His son, by the way, you can look it up as Bobby Goodlat.
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  Bobby Goodlat got a start with Zuckerberg at Facebook, where he made millions of dollars providing a labor force for Facebook.
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  So please understand what we're looking at.
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  Immigration needs to be seen as a follow-on to what our military does.
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  The shared mission of all branches of the U.S.
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  military is to keep the enemies of our country as far from our borders as possible, as far from our shores as possible.
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  But guess what?
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  Up close and in person, who gets that assignment?
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  It's the Coast Guard, which by the way is not being paid.
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  Thank you, Democrats.
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  It's the uh border patrol, and it's the men and women of ICE, immigration and customs enforcement.
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  Immigration has always been defunded.
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  You know, you mentioned my career.
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  I spent 30 years with the INS, and that's the predecessor to DHS.
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  Uh, I spent four years as an immigration inspector assigned to Kennedy Airport.
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  I spent one of those four years as an adjudicator doing those marriage interviews you've seen in all these movies.
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  And then I spent 26 years as a special agent.
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  I rotated through all the branches.
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  I was the first INS agent assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of DEA, and then I became a member of the OCDEF group, the organized crime drug enforcement task force as an immigration agent.
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  So I had desks at the FBI, DEA, ATF, I worked with multiple foreign governments, Canada, England, uh, Israel, and the mission was to prevent the entry of criminals and terrorists into the United States, but more than that, also protect jobs and wages for Americans.
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  You know, during the Great Depression, that wasn't so great if you suffered through it as my parents did.
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  Um, Roosevelt revved up, FDR revved up immigration law enforcement to make certain that no American worker would have to compete with a foreign worker.
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  So when Donald Trump says we're going after the worst of the worst, and then Bill Mark throws a curve at Tom Holman.
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  Then I like Tom, I've met him a number of times.
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  I think he's terrific.
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  And and so Bill Maher asked him, he said, Well, Tom, I understand getting rid of rapists and murderers.
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  I don't know what's wrong with the Democrats because they love these people, it doesn't make sense.
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  But if Alice, the waitress in the coffee shop was no criminal history, it's been living here for 10 years.
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  Are you gonna deport her?
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  And Tom's answer was flat.
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  He said, Well, if she's here, someone else from her home country will have to wait that much longer for a visa.
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  Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, that doesn't keep me or too many Americans awake at night.
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  But with what's going on in the Middle East right now, I am very much concerned about sleeper agents in the United States being activated, and this is not a new concern.
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  There was a hearing back in 2018 about how Iran was pumping drugs and aliens into the United States using human traffickers, drug smugglers, often one and the same, and among them were sleeper agents.
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  Uh, there's a woman in Brooklyn uh who was an activist, Alina Jad, who Iran tried to kidnap three or four times, okay, in our country.
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  Their operatives working here to to grab her and send her back to Iran to either be imprisoned, tortured, or killed.
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  So we know that this is a problem.
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  If you look at the 9-11 commission, and I provide a testimony to the commission, interior enforcement of the immigration laws is critical to uncovering terror plots.
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  This isn't new.
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  I've arrested terrorists.
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  One of my first investigations led me to a terror plot in Israel.
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  We prevented the bombing of an oil refinery.
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  So it's not conjecture or hypothetical.
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  9-11 was only possible because of multiple failures of the immigration system.
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  Think back to 1993, the bombing of the trade center.
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  Same story.
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  Immigration failures enabled these attackers, these thugs to come to our country and set off a bomb that killed over a thousand people, killed six, and almost brought the tower down.
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  As it was, that bomb created a half billion with a B billion dollars in damages in 1993 money.
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  What is that today?
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  A billion, a billion and a half in today's money.
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  So we've seen this play out time and again.
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  There have been other attacks since 9-11.
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  And you have the Democrat Party fighting with the Republican Party to not fund DHS.
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  Let's be blind in a snowstorm.
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  Are you out of your mind?
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  Now, if you look at what happened in Minneapolis, and I I would take issue with the approach that the administration took because they played into the hands of the adversaries of immigration law enforcement, enabling them to create images that were you know disturbing to a lot of people.
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  Americans don't want to believe that law enforcement is going to be brutal.
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  The agents weren't being brutal, they were being attacked and they were trying to defend themselves, but the camera footage selectively showed what they wanted.
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  They, the open border nuts in the Democrat Party, wanted to show the public.
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  So it created outrage.
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  And then they said, we need to fix immigration.
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  We need to end ice.
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  They've been talking about ending interior enforcement going back 20 years.
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  Now the irony is I did a number of congressional hearings, 17 in all.
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  For three of those hearings, I was invited by none other than Sheila Jackson Lee.
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  And then she switched.
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  In March of 2010, I testified at a hearing about resources being allocated to immigration law enforcement.
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  Then Sheila complained bitterly that Bush had been given enough money to hire 800 new ICE agents, which is a ridiculously low number to begin with, but he only cut that down to 143, and she demanded to know why.
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  He refused to acquire all the detention space.
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  That they gave them money to purchase.
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  And she demanded to know why.
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  And she cited how vital it is to arrest illegal aliens, especially when they're engaged in criminal activity, drug activity, or terrorism.
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  This was Sheila Jackson Lee.
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  It was the Democrats who used to be the strongest on enforcing the immigration laws to protect Americans' jobs and wages going back to FDR.
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  And it was the Republicans that wanted a wide open border to satisfy the US Chamber of Commerce.
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  I call them the Chamber of Horrors to satisfy all those employers who want cheap labor.
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  So the Republicans were all in.
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  It was Ronald Reagan who gave us that first disastrous amnesty back in 1986.
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  So they passed laws.
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  We're going to make it a crime if you knowingly hire illegal aliens, and that's great.
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  But the dirty secret is they never hired any agents to do it.
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  So they can pass the toughest laws, they get the optics.
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  We're strong on the issue.
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  It's kind of like buying somebody a Ferrari and then sealing up the gas tank so they can't put any fuel in the car.
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  The Ferrari goes nowhere.
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  Pass a law and defund it.
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  And this has been the game forever in Washington and in state and city government.
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  You created law, you say it's going to solve the problems, and then you make damn sure that there's nobody there to enforce the law.
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  And then on top of that, the Democrats are lying through their teeth.
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  What do they lie about?
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  Well, these immigration agents are making warrantless arrests.
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  Wow.
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  Under section 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, guess what?
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  Immigration law enforcement, the agents, the border patrol, and so forth have total authority to make warrantless arrests of suspected illegal aliens.
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  But they come out, they make these statements on the news.
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  The reporters are either ignorant, foolish, or in on it.
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  But nobody says, What are you talking about?
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  The law allows them to.
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  I made thousands of arrests during my 30-year career.
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  I would say that probably 80 to 90 percent of those arrests were made without warrant.
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  In fact, if you look at the so-called 20th hijacker, Massawi was arrested in of all places, Minneapolis, went to flight school.
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  He was a French citizen, came in under the visa waiver program, went to flight school, only wanted to learn how to maintain an airplane in flight and fly it accurately, didn't care about learning to land or take off, had no pilot's license, but wanted to fly a simulator for airliners, and he gave the owner of the flight school $8,000 in cash.
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  Made no sense.
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  Flight school called the FBI.
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  They said we have no ability to arrest this guy.
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  What do we do?
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  They called immigration.
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  Immigration went with them, arrested him for violating his immigration status, and eventually he pleaded guilty to being involved with the 9 11 plot.
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  He is now serving a life sentence in Supermax.
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  How was he arrested?
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  By immigration.
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  Rudolf Abel, the Russian spy.
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  If you want to see a great movie, uh check out Bridge of Spies.
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  I don't like Tom Hanks' politics, but I do like the movie.
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  Rudolf Abel was a Russian spy operating in the United States back in the late 50s.
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  He was in Brooklyn.
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  And the FBI knew from informants that he was involved with espionage.
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  It turns out he was the highest ranking Russian spy ever caught in America.
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  How was he caught?
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  The FBI didn't have enough to do to go after him.
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  Immigration found out that in those days, aliens were required every January to go to the post office and file an alien address report card.
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  He had failed to do that.
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  Believe it or not, no criminal history, nothing else against him, except he failed to file that report that rendered him deportable.
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  He was arrested on immigration violation charges, administrative charges.
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  And during the course of the arrest, and one of my first bosses was part of that arrest team, by the way, they found incriminating evidence, a covert radio transmitter, and all sorts of other materials that pointed clearly to his involvement with espionage.
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  He was found guilty of espionage, sentenced to 30 years in jail and swapped for Francis Gary Powers, the U2 pilot shot down over Russia in 1960.
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  So immigration has always played a major role in national security, but the Democrats and the Republicans are all in on placating the people that give them the money so they can run for their elected office.
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  In fact, right now, Congressman Lawler from upstate New York, a Republican, supposed conservative, is proposing something that is referred to as the Dignity Act.
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  It is a reworked version of comprehensive immigration reform.
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  20 years ago, I testified before a Senate committee hearing about comprehensive reform.
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  I wrote an article for the Washington Times that's then Senator Jeff Sessions loved so much.
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  He quoted me from the floor of the Senate on three separate days during the floor debate on comprehensive immigration reform.
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  And I said we need to call this thing not comprehensive immigration reform, but what it really is the terrorist assistance and facilitation act, because under the law, millions of aliens who snuck into the country.
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  Why do you sneak in?
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  If there's nothing in your background that would keep you from entering, you would get a visa or come through the visa waiver process and enter the United States lawfully.
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  People come illegally when they know there is something in their background that would prevent them from coming legally.
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  Most are coming to work, they don't have the money to support themselves.
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  It becomes obvious.
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  And as an inspector, I saw this at the airport.
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  If people didn't have the wherewithal to sustain themselves while they're here, we wouldn't admit them.
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  That's a big issue.
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  But you also have people who are known criminals or fugitives from justice, were previously deported from the United States.
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  So these people enter surreptitiously.
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  They enter illegally without inspection.
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  So metaphorically, I like to ask people the question would you be willing to get on an airplane if you saw fellow passengers sneaking past the TSA?
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  You'd have to be out of your mind.
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  But we have millions, tens of millions of aliens who snuck past a very similar vetting process.
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  We conducted ports of entry.
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  And by using the terminology that I wrote in that article for the new for the Washington Times, calling this the terrorist assistance and facilitation act, the bill was defeated.
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  Jeff gave me a beautiful certificate that's hanging over my shoulder on the wall of my office at home.
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  And so now we're doing the same thing.
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  And what they try to do is to convince you that something bad is good.
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  I mean, if you want to talk about a con job, this is the quintessential con job.
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  One of the things Lawler said, for example, well, listen, we're not going to let anybody get legal status if they came in less than five years ago, because that meant they came in during Biden's disaster.
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  So we're going to make it a requirement that these aliens have to be here at least five years to qualify.
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  Sounds great.
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  Here's the questions no one's asking.
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  How in the world do you vet 25 or 30 million aliens with what kind of a workforce?
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  How will you know how long someone's been living here if they sneak in and don't create a record of entry when in fact they enter the United States?
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  Here's the question that no one's asking, and no one's giving any thought to.
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  What do you think of that, Karen?
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  I am not surprised at all.
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  Because as you said, what they want to do is create laws with no mechanism to enforce them.
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  And it is not astounding to me that this is something that has been going on for years and years and years, because also, as you said, it is not we the people, it is they, the donors that need or well, they need for their bottom line cheap labor, and this is their fastest way to get it.
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  And campaign, so they're giving campaign contributions.
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  This is the best money, best government money can buy.
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  And I was just gonna say, people go to open secrets.org and check an incumbents donor list.
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  You can see who they who they get donations from, and then go and look at that company and see how many H1B visas they have brought in so that you can check.
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  Also, um, e-verify.
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  That would be an easy way to check, and there's no enforcement of that either.
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  But Mike, I wanted to ask your question because I don't think people realize uh we all understand we want the bad guys out.
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  We all understand first out we we have to get rid of the murder.
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  The Democrats don't when you say we the Democrats don't remember that.
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  The same people, yeah, the same people understand and they can uh say, yes, we need to get all of the criminals out.
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  But I don't think people realize that the illegal aliens who are working have taken a job from someone who is an American, have taken a spot in a school if they have children for their children who are uh displacing Americans.
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  What happens when you have to when they have a disease and they go to the hospital and the hospital has to take care of them?
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  But even a huge business, which is they send the money to their home country, and it is not taxable.
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  And I don't know what good all of that is doing for us.
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  Uh, they get section eight housing preferred over we have homeless in the streets.
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  Nobody is addressing that, and nobody connects those items.
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  And neither is Trump.
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  Neither is Trump, neither is I say nobody.
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  Yes.
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  And see, what I want everyone to understand is the message that Trump should be hammering.
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  Which would make this a winner, and you hear crickets.
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  All we hear is we're going after the worst of the worst.
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  The Congressional Budget Office did a study back in 2006.
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  And you know what they found?
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  It costs 20 to 40% more to educate kids who can't speak read or write English.
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  Now, here's something else that we need to talk about.
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  I'm not sure where we are on time, but but what I want to get to is the overall cost of immigration and labor, because if you look at the death of the middle class, it's because Americans are being made to run up a downstairs, a down escalator that's picking up speed.
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  Why?
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  Labor is a commodity.
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  Okay.
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  Why do people get all excited when their son makes it into professional sports?
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  Because there are very few people with those talents who do that kind of thing.
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  So they make millions and millions of dollars.
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  This is pure supply and demand.
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  Okay.
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  When you flood America with millions of foreign workers, which we have, supply and demand kicks in, and suddenly jobs that should be middle class jobs become jobs that guarantee that you stay in poverty.
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  My dad was the construction worker.
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  He was a tradesman, tradesmen or brilliant.
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  They are practical engineers when you think of it.
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  He was a plumber, he worked on the World's Fair, he worked on Kennedy Airport.
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  It took three years of his gross pay to buy the house.
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  I'm still living in the house I moved into when I was 11 years old.
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  Three years of gross pay bought the house.
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  With inflation and everything else, someone would need to be earning well over 300,000 a year to buy this house because then three times that is the rough value of what the houses of my neighborhood are.
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  How many construction workers are making in excess of $300,000 a year today?
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  Nobody.
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  So what happens?
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  People are unable to buy homes.
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  Now, if you're a communist, which is where the Democrat Party has essentially gone, 90% of them, I mean, Fetterman is the rare exception that proves the rule, there's a few others.
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  But most of them, I believe, are communists who want to see regime change and economic change in America.
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  I wrote an article about it, and I said that if we pass a massive amnesty, they should give it another name besides the terrorist assistance and facilitation act.
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  I would suggest calling it the Overwhelm America Act.
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  Because again, another little dirty secret, nobody's telling you folks, is that if we legalize an alien under the law, they have an immediate and absolute right to bring in every single one of their minor children and their spouses if they are not already here.
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  So if some guy has been going around and impregnating women, and we see this where one guy will have kids with four or five different women, each one of those children is absolutely under the law entitled to an immediate visa to come to America as a resident if we give lawful status to that child's father.
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  Doesn't have to be married to the mother.
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  You could be looking at three or four times as many aliens entering the United States as aliens that we give lawful status to.
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  So what happens then?
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  The economy collapses, home ownership and ownership of other property goes out the window.
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  Communists believe that nobody should own private property.
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  How many young Americans own private property today?
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  Most people don't even buy cars.
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  They lease them.
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  So if you say to them, you can't have private property, but we'll put you up in a free house, they say, Wow, look at what happened in New York with Mamdanny.
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  I'll give you free buses.
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  Of course, that's not working out, but it doesn't matter.
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  Unlike any other industry or business, politicians can lie through their teeth, not live up to their promises, not fulfill the things they said they would do without repercussions.
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  If you buy a car and it doesn't work right, and you have to bring it back three times or more in New York State under the Lemon Law, you can park that car in your deal in the car deal is lot and demand your money back.
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  That's the lemon law.
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  But we don't have a lemon law for lemon politicians.
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  And no one in the world of journalism, so called, is making them accountable by asking the questions they need to be asking them.
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  How in the world do you deal with an influx of 20 or 30 million children who under the law immediately have to go to school?
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  And when you're dealing with kids who are 12, 13, 14 years old, and don't speak a word of English.
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  What class do you put them in?
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  Oh, you're not going to be able to do that.
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  What happens to the kids in those?
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  You're you're an educator.
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  One of my kids is teachers uh learning disabled children.
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  So think about it.
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  My called that thought because we're going to come back uh after the break and we'll continue as to what this actually costs Americans because these government programs, folks, Mondami's government program of taking care of children from uh cradle to grave is a six hundred thousand dollar tab on it.
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  Give me a break, folks.
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  And that goes to the people who have put nothing into the system.
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  So don't go away.
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  Hello, everyone, welcome back.
• 28:19
  This is Karen Schoen.
• 28:20
  You're listening to the Prism of America's Education brought to you on the America Outloud dot News Network.
• 28:27
  Just before the break, Mike and I were talking about numbers, money.
• 28:31
  And money is really the biggest motivator of just about everything I can think of.
• 28:38
  And I also believe that most of us, the numbers are so astronomical that we don't think how could it affect anything?
• 28:49
  How is it possible?
• 28:51
  Well, when I was one of my jobs was working in marketing, and I have the opportunity to work with Western Union.
• 29:01
  And the vice president spoke to me.
• 29:04
  We were talking about his biggest revenue source.
• 29:07
  And he said, People don't realize my biggest revenue source is the immigrants.
• 29:13
  Now he didn't say legal or illegal.
• 29:16
  He just said the immigrants sending that hundred dollars back home.
• 29:22
  Because we don't realize 100 from one person doesn't mean anything, but they are sending billions of dollars back home.
• 29:32
  What do you think about that, Mike?
• 29:34
  And could you comment on that?
• 29:35
  But yes, in fact, it's a very interesting point that you're raising about Western Union.
• 29:39
  I don't know if you're familiar with who Charlie Foote was.
• 29:41
  He passed away, I believe, a year ago.
• 29:43
  He had been the president of first data corporation, and they were headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 29:49
  First data corporation in those days was the parent to Western Union.
• 29:54
  And Congressman Tom Tancredo, who at the time chaired the immigration reform.
• 30:00
  Um, it was a bipartisan committee looking at immigration after 9-11, especially.
• 30:05
  I did a hearing for him about six weeks, in fact, after the attacks, went to Washington.
• 30:10
  He proposed taxing the money being wired out of the country.
• 30:15
  Charlie Foote immediately created a political action committee, put several million dollars of his own money into it, and encouraged his wealthy friends to do the same.
• 30:26
  And he moved the headquarters of first data corporation from Atlanta to Colorado next door to Tom Tancredo with the threat of unseating him if he continued to push for taxing the remittances.
• 30:39
  What do you think of that connection?
• 30:40
  I think you're absolutely right because I remember that.
• 30:45
  Uh, and I remember the arguing and the lack of understanding that this money that we are sending overseas that they are sending overseas is not taxed.
• 30:56
  I want to go beyond that.
• 30:58
  Number one, it's not taxed.
• 30:59
  Number two, I don't know why Trump doesn't talk about it.
• 31:02
  He's concerned about terrorists, but doesn't seem to care about balance of payment.
• 31:06
  Any money that leaves the United States, multiply the value of that money to our economy to the detriment of our economy by at least a factor of three.
• 31:15
  Economists call that the multiplier effect.
• 31:18
  If you remember, a number of administrations have put money into the hands of the American people.
• 31:23
  What was the purpose?
• 31:24
  To grow the economy.
• 31:26
  Give people money, they spend the money.
• 31:29
  By spending money, they create more demand for products and services, and it grows the economy.
• 31:35
  Makes perfect sense.
• 31:36
  Money sucked out of the economy has the exact opposite impact.
• 31:42
  For Mexico, the remittances that they receive every year, not just from America, but predominantly from America, is the second greatest source of revenue for the entire Mexican economy.
• 31:55
  Think about that.
• 31:56
  And then multiply that by three or four.
• 32:00
  Go back to the multiplier effect, and it's not just Mexico.
• 32:03
  Countries from all over the world are very concerned.
• 32:07
  When H1B visas are restricted, the times of India has a meltdown because they have article after article, if you read it, talking about how important it is for their citizens to come to our country to get jobs as computer programmers and other high-tech jobs.
• 32:27
  Alan Greenspan testified for Chuck Schumer back in 2009, had the Hutzpa, as we say in Brooklyn, to refer to high-tech middle class workers with advanced degrees.
• 32:39
  You know, my late wife passed away roughly 40 years ago.
• 32:42
  Terrible tragedy, died of cancer, was a brilliant programmer.
• 32:45
  She had a team of 35 programmers working for her, with the exception of one individual.
• 32:51
  34 were American citizens of every race, religion, gender, you name it.
• 32:57
  It was a great opportunity to make good money in a high-tech industry.
• 33:01
  Greenspan said the solution to wage inequality.
• 33:05
  Catch this, is to make American high-tech workers compete with their foreign counterparts to get rid of that wage premium that differentiates these hard working, highly talented and educated workers from Americans who lack skills and education.
• 33:23
  He was actually the former chairman of the Fed was essentially advocating for communism.
• 33:29
  We're going to give everybody the same paycheck, no matter how educated they are, how skilled their job is, or what the requirements for their job is.
• 33:38
  So this was the way to greatly reduce inequality in wages, not elevating the working poor, but destroying the middle class.
• 33:48
  Are we there yet?
• 33:49
  That was back in 2009.
• 33:52
  I have such contempt for him.
• 33:54
  This is a guy that has mansions all over the place, including out in the Hamptons, okay, where people commute by helicopter.
• 34:02
  But he's going to have the nerve to call high-tech Americans who spend a fortune on advanced degrees, the privileged elite.
• 34:11
  This is where we are.
• 34:13
  So when you look at that one woman working as in that donut shop that I mentioned before the break by herself, Alice is no problem.
• 34:21
  We see it all the time.
• 34:23
  In fact, Solomon, the general who was killed by Trump during his first administration, his niece and her mother were just arrested in Los Angeles.
• 34:32
  They claim political asylum.
• 34:34
  We cannot go back to Iran.
• 34:36
  But meanwhile, on the internet and in social media, she was hammering away, attacking America, filled with hate for our country.
• 34:45
  She wasn't an aberrant member of the family.
• 34:48
  She was a core member of that family.
• 34:50
  So it's been determined that she is a supporter of terrorism, that she lied when she got political asylum, and she's she and her mother are about to lose their green cards and be sent back to that hellhole that they've turned Iran into.
• 35:03
  We saw it with the Tsarnev brothers who had bombed the Boston Marathon.
• 35:08
  Please, you can't send me home.
• 35:09
  You can't send me home.
• 35:10
  And meanwhile, they were making trips back and forth.
• 35:13
  So look at the way we're hammering ourselves.
• 35:15
  This goes back to what I said about immigration serving as a follow-on to what the military does.
• 35:21
  We're undermining public health, we're undermining public safety, we're undermining public national security and American jobs and wages.
• 35:28
  And if you don't believe it, take out your pen, write this down.
• 35:32
  Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182.
• 35:36
  I'll repeat it.
• 35:38
  Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182.
• 35:41
  It enumerates the categories of aliens who are not to be admitted into the United States.
• 35:47
  There isn't a word that talks about race, religion, or ethnicity.
• 35:50
  You know, this big thing, oh, it's about people with brown skin, etc.
• 35:54
  No, no, no, no, no.
• 35:55
  I've I arrested an Israeli wanted for murder of a Palestinian woman back in Israel.
• 35:59
  The Israelis came to me and said, we need to put this guy on trial.
• 36:03
  He was found guilty and given a lengthy jail sentence.
• 36:05
  And I hope it gave the family of the victim closure.
• 36:08
  I work closely with the Japanese national police.
• 36:12
  We this isn't about race.
• 36:14
  And if you look at that section of law, it's really simple.
• 36:16
  It's about keeping up people of dangerous communicable diseases, are severely mentally ill, are criminals, terrorists, spies, human rights violators, war criminals, fugitives from justice, and aliens who, if they worked, would displace Americans, either cost Americans their jobs or suppress wages of American workers, which is why when a guy like Lawler uh sounds similar to liar, lawler.
• 36:40
  Well, anyway, give it what you want.
• 36:43
  Oh, this is so good for the world, we're gonna give everybody lawful status and we're we can't arrest the now with the 25 million, it's probably 40 million.
• 36:53
  And that's nonsense.
• 36:55
  No one ever looks at the law and says, well, if we can't arrest everybody, we're gonna arrest nobody.
• 37:00
  I like to ask people, what do you do with drunk drivers that the police don't catch?
• 37:05
  Nothing.
• 37:06
  You hope to catch them the next time.
• 37:08
  Well, shoplifters don't always get caught.
• 37:10
  You arrest as many as you can, you make them pay a significant price for their violation of law to not only punish them but to deter others.
• 37:20
  When you come out as Lawler has done, waving a white flag saying, Well, if we can't arrest them all, we'll give them all lawful status.
• 37:28
  This is the exact wrong message that encourages the next wave of illegal aliens who come here thinking if I can hide long enough, I can get a green card and I can bring over my eight children and my wife.
• 37:41
  Now, how does America sustain that with the impact?
• 37:45
  And by the way, it's another thing we hear.
• 37:47
  Oh, these people are an important part of the economy, the illegal aliens, right?
• 37:51
  They pay taxes.
• 37:53
  If you're an illegal alien making $30,000 a year, if you're lucky, uh, tell me what kind of taxes do you pay on 30,000 a year?
• 38:02
  One visit to the ER costs a lot more to the taxpayers than whatever few dollars in tax you may be paying.
• 38:10
  Their children are getting a free education, free for them, not free for the taxpayers.
• 38:15
  In New York, it costs over 20,000 a year in public school to educate one child.
• 38:22
  So if someone comes in with three children, the education alone is costing us over 60,000 a year.
• 38:30
  And how much taxes are they paying?
• 38:33
  So it's lie after lie.
• 38:36
  They talk about immigration law being insignificant.
• 38:39
  Again, I mentioned in the first half about the arrest of a terrorist, the arrest of a Russian spy, not for spying, not for terrorism, but the initial arrest took place because they violated immigration law.
• 38:52
  Um I want to just read something very quickly here.
• 38:55
  This is from the 9-11 Commission staff report on terrorist travel.
• 38:58
  And remember, I, as I mentioned, I provided sworn testimony to the commission.
• 39:02
  Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11th hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition.
• 39:13
  Is already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen.
• 39:17
  Meanwhile, there are movies that think it's humorous to marry an American for a green card, right?
• 39:22
  Achieving temporary worker status or applying for asylum after entering.
• 39:27
  In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated.
• 39:36
  Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.
• 39:50
  This is what the 9 11 Commission staff report warned about.
• 39:54
  Meanwhile, what is Lawler doing?
• 39:56
  What are the Democrats doing?
• 39:58
  None of them seem to give a
• 40:00
  Matt's tale about national security, public safety, or the jobs and wages of American workers.
• 40:06
  So tell me how this could possibly be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, Karen.
• 40:12
  It is not, and unfortunately, we are at the end of our time.
• 40:17
  Mike, I'm going to ask you to come back again because this is such an important issue, especially the closer we get to the Supreme Court making their decision on birthright citizenship, which will only allow all of these illegal aliens to have a complete foothold and to create more and more businesses, right?
• 40:43
  And they would be bringing their parents in and they would be bringing in their whole families, but more important, they will have the right to vote.
• 40:51
  So folks, uh, this is something that we absolutely must get a handle on.
• 40:57
  It is up to us.
• 40:58
  I always close and I say to you, is America worth saving.
• 41:04
  Well, I have another question this time, and that is what is your citizenship worth to you?
• 41:10
  And if it's worth nothing, do nothing.
• 41:13
  If it's worth something, you had better make sure that we get the right people in office, that we vet those candidates, that we vote in the primaries, and that we make sure that that borders are.
• 41:25
  But at one point, listen to what they say carefully because they lie through their teeth to make something terrible sound worthwhile, just like Lawler and this idea of the dignity act.
• 41:37
  And that's something to understand.
• 41:38
  In fact, the 9-11 Commission said that a lack of interior enforcement were in working unwittingly working together to support terrorist activity.
• 41:46
  Today it's not unwitting, it's intentional, and it's by sanctuary policies.
• 41:51
  Absolutely.
• 41:52
  We must get rid of sanctuary cities.
• 41:54
  Thank you so much, Mike.
• 41:56
  Uh, where can people find your work?
• 41:58
  Yeah, front page of my own website is Michael Cutler.net.
• 42:01
  Uh, and I and I do plan to go back and continue to do some writing.
• 42:05
  I I had a health challenge of thank God doing really well now.
• 42:08
  So I do plan to continue to contribute, but go to front page magazine, put my name in Michael Cutler.
• 42:14
  It's not a new story, it's an old story as you so adequate so eloquently put it at the beginning of our discussion today.
• 42:21
  Thank you, Mike, and we will have you back again.
• 42:24
  Folks, you all know I live in rural Florida, and I am extremely concerned about what is happening to my beautiful state and how we are losing agricultural land to developers and to solar farms.
• 42:40
  Well, recently I have come across a gentleman who is running for commissioner of agriculture who actually knows what agriculture is and what it means to the state of Florida.
• 42:53
  So I have asked him to join me and to explain who he is and why he's running for office and how important agriculture is, not only to the state of Florida, but to the entire country.
• 43:07
  Matt and Matt the welder, that's a unique name, Matt.
• 43:11
  You're gonna have to explain that one.
• 43:14
  Uh welcome to the show.
• 43:15
  Thank you for joining me.
• 43:16
  Thank you for having me.
• 43:18
  Okay, um, Matt the welder, where did that come from?
• 43:21
  Uh well, I really was a welder.
• 43:23
  I started posting videos online and um specifically about Florida, talking about the problems and stuff that we faced.
• 43:31
  And I had to handle Matt the Welder, and I developed a rather large following, and that's what people knew me as.
• 43:37
  So I um went ahead and had to figure a way to get on the ballot, and I changed my name to Matt the Welder, but then the state of Florida said passed a law, HB 991 and said if you've changed your name by petition 365 days before, you don't get to be on the qualified.
• 43:52
  So now I have to fight that before I can even get on the ballot.
• 43:55
  Well, this is what our Florida RPOF, that's the Republican Party of Florida has done to purge grassroots candidates from the ticket.
• 44:09
  And it seems as though they are not interested in we the people, they are certainly not interested in America First people, Florida First people.
• 44:17
  They are interested in maintaining the status quo and supporting their donors, who, in my estimation, are ruining the state.
• 44:27
  So, Matt, I am sure that since you have chosen commissioner of agriculture, that you know a bit quite a bit about agriculture.
• 44:35
  And I heard you, and I'd like you to explain one of the things, which is what's happening with Florida's water.
• 44:42
  So uh the Commission of Agriculture, it's a very powerful position in the state of Florida.
• 44:47
  It's the division of forestry, the division of licensing, and one of the unique things it has is it controls pesticide use, which is umbrella term for herbicide.
• 44:56
  And the FWC currently is spraying our waterways, they're hiring subcontractors to kill off invasive uh aquatic plants.
• 45:05
  And they're not just taking out the invasives, they're taking out the native plants.
• 45:09
  And a lot of our anglers and a lot of our outdoorsmen, they want it to stop, but the FWC refuses.
• 45:15
  The governor refuses to speak on it.
• 45:17
  Pretty much any other cabinet member, including the commissioner of agriculture, the current one, um, they don't want to talk about it.
• 45:23
  They just kind of act like it's not happening.
• 45:26
  So we have herbicides and pesticides going into our water that we drink and use.
• 45:35
  Is that what you're saying?
• 45:37
  That our fish are swimming around in things that are detrimental to our health.
• 45:43
  There is 17, I believe it's 17 or 18 chemicals registered for aquatic use in the state of Florida.
• 45:49
  One of them is glyphosate, uh, the diquat de bromide is another one, and the thal is one.
• 45:55
  And when you start to look at what they're doing, like what kind of adverse effect could that have on the fish and the wildlife?
• 46:02
  Well, there was a study from the UF veterinic that said glyphosate uh causes it compounds cold stress and manatees.
• 46:11
  And we had, I think, 17 or 25 manatees in Lee County died, and they pointed to the Florida Power and Light Power Plant and said it had an unexpected shutdown, but nobody ever explained the details.
• 46:22
  How long was the plant shut down?
• 46:24
  Did the water temperature come up?
• 46:25
  They just said we think it's that power plant, but nobody explained that the herbicide use, they only studied glyphosate, they didn't study any of the other 16 compounds of cold stress and the manatees.
• 46:37
  Wow, and it's not just the fish because where does that water go?
• 46:42
  How does you know our crops?
• 46:44
  Isn't this happening with the crops that we're we're spraying them with water?
• 46:49
  It's the same water.
• 46:50
  So how are they affecting our crops?
• 46:53
  Casey DeSantis came out and said that they found glyphosate in the bread, and I mean they didn't put it there in the bakery.
• 47:00
  It's you know, it bioaccumulates up into the food chain, and it's having an adverse effect on the fish, too.
• 47:07
  You see some of these fish the anglers are pulling out, and they got boils all over them, these like weird legions.
• 47:13
  And I never saw fish like that growing up.
• 47:16
  We were fishing, but the FW spray pro FWC spray program wasn't quite as extensive as it is now.
• 47:23
  I mean, they're dumping uh just countless chemicals into our waterways, and they're turning them in from an ecosystem into just this muddy, mucky bottom.
• 47:32
  Oh, this is not good, folks, and yet what are we doing?
• 47:36
  We are bringing more and more people down into the state of Florida.
• 47:41
  They we're we're taking away wetlands.
• 47:44
  What are what are the purpose of wetlands?
• 47:47
  Oh, they they hold the flood water, they recharge the aquifer and they help with the quality of water.
• 47:52
  You know, they all that stuff gets in the wetlands and it percolates down through the soil and it cleans the water and it helps it.
• 47:58
  But Florida's lost 47 or approximately percent of its wetlands.
• 48:02
  And if we keep going at this rate, we're gonna lose all of them and we're gonna be in some real water quality issue.
• 48:09
  Yes, it's not only that, the wetlands also control the height of the water because uh they're filling them in, and therefore the water has no place to go, and it's beginning to flood the communities.
• 48:23
  Longtime residents that have historically never flooded flooded in their life.
• 48:28
  Um, when they have a new community come in, they bring four four feet of fill onto a piece of property that was wet, the water has nowhere to go.
• 48:35
  You're changing the the flow of the land and you're doing it to benefit new residents while turning your back on longtime residents.
• 48:44
  Oh, that sounds very familiar.
• 48:46
  That seems to be what our Florida legislature is doing.
• 48:51
  There are several bills that even say in them that the developers can supersede the local community government.
• 49:03
  And even if a uh community says, no, we don't want you to build there, it doesn't matter if the developer wants to put up a high rise, the local community is going to have no say, and that is gonna certainly churn change the makeup of Florida land.
• 49:21
  What are we going to do about our food source as we are diminishing it?
• 49:27
  That's gonna be a big issue as well.
• 49:30
  We're gonna have to import the food.
• 49:32
  I mean, it's it my father was a baby boomer, you know, he he saw America's industrial might that we could you know manufacture anything, and he would have it would have been hard for him to imagine that America would have no factories, no automotive industry, that most of the stuff's made overseas and is just assembled here.
• 49:48
  That's what I fear is gonna happen to our food supply.
• 49:51
  When you develop all that ag land, where do you get food from?
• 49:54
  Well, you start bringing in Argentinian beef like we're doing now.
• 49:57
  You're gonna start bringing in food from Brazil.
• 50:00
  And Guatemala and Central and South America, and our farmers are just effectively going to be out of business and their crops are going to be nothing more than houses.
• 50:10
  Yeah, the problem also, think about this.
• 50:13
  How many stringent regulations we have regulating the quality of the food, the look of the food, the uh all about the food.
• 50:23
  And do you think they do that in third world countries?
• 50:26
  They they have.
• 50:27
  So the citrus greening, which has wiped out Florida citrus industry.
• 50:31
  It's it's a bug that carries it around.
• 50:33
  It's the Asian citrusillid, and it's pesticide resilient.
• 50:37
  You can get out there and spray all the pesticide you want.
• 50:40
  It's just not having an effect on the little insect that carries the uh bacteria from grove to grove.
• 50:47
  They also have it in Brazil.
• 50:49
  Brazil, there was they were doing 46 pesticide treatments a year, and they couldn't get a handle on this bug.
• 50:56
  And that's when they came to the conclusion.
• 50:58
  Oh no, it's it's become resistant to pesticides.
• 51:02
  Imagine if you got one of those from one of those groves.
• 51:04
  It was in a certain area in Brazil.
• 51:06
  If you got a piece of fruit that had been sprayed 46 times in a season.
• 51:18
  Well, I don't find it hard to believe because the bottom line is they want to kill us anyway.
• 51:22
  It's just another way to do that.
• 51:25
  Um, Matt, why did you want to run for commissioner of ag?
• 51:31
  When I looked at the position, I realized it's a it's a pretty powerful position in the state of Florida.
• 51:36
  It's in charge of way more than crops and cattle and division of uh licensing, it's um consumer services.
• 51:44
  It and you I think I could do a lot of good with it.
• 51:47
  Um, there's a Florida farm bill every year that the division of AG has a you know say in creating what what do you think our farmers need?
• 51:55
  And this year it was lackluster.
• 51:57
  The biggest thing that they celebrated was the freedom to choose your gas-powered lawn equipment or not.
• 52:03
  Well, at least they're giving us gas power because the electric one certainly did no good.
• 52:08
  The regulations are so stringent that it makes it not profitable for a farmer to be able to produce the food at a price that is affordable.
• 52:20
  And if you really wanted to help our farmers and you were creating a Florida farm bill, you would have put in there the right to repair.
• 52:28
  So uh, as I was a tractor mechanic, and this new stuff isn't like the the old machines that I grew up tinkering around on when I was a child from the 40s all the way up to the 70s.
• 52:40
  You have to have the computers, you have to have the software, and if you have to rely on John Deere, Kubota, whoever the manufacturer is, to come out and scan that computer to get your trouble code and fix that machine for you.
• 52:52
  That's more costly downtime that the farmers in the middle of a season can't afford to have.
• 52:57
  That should have been in the bill.
• 52:59
  It should have been in the bill, and now I know why my husband likes the older equipment.
• 53:03
  He said, I like to be able to fix it myself.
• 53:06
  And this is a big problem as we are moving forward into this uh AI technology, which is a whole other issue into itself.
• 53:18
  Um, Matt, uh the um other question I wanted to ask you is where can people find you?
• 53:25
  Where are you?
• 53:27
  Uh do you want people to uh call you to get a hold of you to be able to come and speak to their groups so that you they can hear your message?
• 53:38
  Uh, where do they go?
• 53:40
  You treadback.com is the best site because it'll come into the email or what have you.
• 53:44
  It's it's literally just me and my wife reading them.
• 53:46
  So sometimes we get behind.
• 53:48
  Um, social media too.
• 53:49
  If you message me on social media, um, it'll come in to my phone as well on the messenger screen.
• 53:55
  And uh you just people be like, you didn't get my message or this, that, and the other.
• 54:00
  And sometimes I miss them because like I get probably 200 messages a day on on social media and emails and all that stuff, and um the phone calls when I do hand out my card or what have you, I probably get about 50 phone calls a day.
• 54:14
  So I try to get back to everybody.
• 54:15
  And if I haven't got back to you, you might have to reach out to me and just be patient.
• 54:19
  I will get back to you, but as there's no team, it's literally just what you see.
• 54:23
  So, what you're saying, Matt, is that you need help.
• 54:27
  And you need some volunteers to help you.
• 54:30
  And folks, this is a position that covers the entire state of Florida.
• 54:35
  So it does not matter where you are.
• 54:38
  If you can help Matt and get the message out, then please contact him and tell him, yes, I can help you, and this is how to contact me, and I'll be willing to uh get you in front of my group or have a group fundraiser for you.
• 54:55
  Uh, this is serious, folks.
• 54:57
  And if we want our grassroots candidates to run for office, then we've got to help them.
• 55:03
  You we can't let them hang out there to dry, so to speak, and say we have no grassroots candidates.
• 55:10
  And Matt, what phone number or text number can people reach you?
• 55:15
  Because uh sometimes texting is an easy way, also.
• 55:19
  Yeah, the texting is always the best way.
• 55:21
  The easiest number is 813 5285040.
• 55:25
  I want to thank you, Matt, for putting your hat in the ring, so to speak, and for making a difference.
• 55:32
  Uh, this is so important.
• 55:34
  People really do not have a knowledge of what the commissioner of agriculture does and what their responsibility is.
• 55:42
  And it's up to us, as I say all the time, folks.
• 55:45
  If we want to make a change, it's up to us.
• 55:48
  So hopefully you will help Matt, because help is needed.
• 55:53
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• 55:54
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