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Trump ICE Murders; Birthright Citizenship Protected; Unions Strike for Worker Safety - TPN 7/19/26 · The People's News

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  Speaker 1: It's the week of July nineteenth, twenty twenty six, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's news. Felons given a
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  Speaker 1: second chance, Trump's secret police ice murders a man in
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  Speaker 1: cold blood in Houston. The US Supreme Court upholds birthright
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  Speaker 1: citizenship as ensconced in the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: and Trump tries to figure out a way around him.
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  Speaker 1: Local chemical workers strike over safety issues. All that and
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  Speaker 1: more on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is
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  Speaker 1: the People's News, and the People's News starts now. In
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five analysis, twenty point three percent of
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  Speaker 1: those released from prison are rearrest within three years. Within
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  Speaker 1: nine years, it jumps to eighty three percent. When looking
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  Speaker 1: at the job market right now, it is even harder
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  Speaker 1: for those with a felony conviction in their background to
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  Speaker 1: get a job. Dominique M Peyton has been putting on
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  Speaker 1: job fairs for felons. She held one at Hebron's Seventh
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  Speaker 1: Day Adventist Church where they had employees ready to hire
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  Speaker 1: and second chance opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Well, today we're at hebron ISDA right here in northwest Houston.
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  Speaker 2: We are out here for the third initiative with our
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  Speaker 2: Second Chance Job Fair. This is an initiative that I
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  Speaker 2: do every single month strictly for feelings. We bring employers
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  Speaker 2: out into the community, We bring resources out, education, housing, childcare,
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  Speaker 2: that type of stuff to try to help mitigate.
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  Speaker 3: Some of these issues and barriers that these.
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  Speaker 2: Men and women face coming home from being formally incarcerated.
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  Speaker 4: How hard is it?
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  Speaker 5: People that don't understand how hard it is with a
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  Speaker 5: felony on your WEP.
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  Speaker 3: People don't understand how hard it is. It's so many people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when I put my promotions out there, when
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  Speaker 2: I and like strictly for felons, they're just like wow,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just feelings. And I understand that the Houston
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  Speaker 2: job market is garbage, but imagine having a felony on
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  Speaker 2: your background and you're probably overqualified for the position, but
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  Speaker 2: you don't get it because of a stupid mistake that
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  Speaker 2: you made thirty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: That is hard.
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  Speaker 2: These men and women have wives and husbands, and they
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  Speaker 2: have children, and they have vehicles that they have to
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  Speaker 2: pay insurance, and they have mortgages.
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  Speaker 3: You don't think they need a chance. So that's how
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  Speaker 3: we're here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what'd you decide to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, when I was campaigning to be the next Staate
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  Speaker 2: representative in Northwest Houston for District one thirty nine, I
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  Speaker 2: spoke with a good friend of mine. Him and I
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  Speaker 2: share a similar common ground with criminal justice, and we
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  Speaker 2: both come to the same conclusion. We're sending these men
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  Speaker 2: and women out to you know, all of these job
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  Speaker 2: fairs that are allegedly second chance. You understand, But I've
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  Speaker 2: never met one felon that got a job at those
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  Speaker 2: job fairs, and it was always them coming back empty handed, hopeless,
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  Speaker 2: feeling defeated. And so I sat down on the edge
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  Speaker 2: of my bed one day as I was campaigning, and
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  Speaker 2: I said, y'ah, wait, why do we keep sending them
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  Speaker 2: out and not even getting jobs? Like, why do they
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  Speaker 2: keep playing second chance? And every time they could talk
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  Speaker 2: to an employer, all your background stops you. He said,
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  Speaker 2: start hosting job fairs strictly for feelings. I came off
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  Speaker 2: the campaign trail. I took one month off because I
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  Speaker 2: campaigned for two hundred and thirty nine days. The next
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  Speaker 2: month we got it rolling and I did my first
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  Speaker 2: initiative in April.
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  Speaker 5: As far as like when a person gets out of
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  Speaker 5: prison and comes home and he has so much going
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  Speaker 5: on there and how much how hard is it to
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  Speaker 5: get them to go back into the community to get
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  Speaker 5: to learn how to do some of the things they
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  Speaker 5: didn't know when they were incostated, as far as going
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  Speaker 5: out for a job, doing a job interview application.
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  Speaker 2: Now each individual is different because TDCJ does have programs
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  Speaker 2: on the inside that they implement that some of these
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  Speaker 2: men and women actually do take advantage of and others.
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  Speaker 3: You have to understand they're.
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  Speaker 2: Coming home to nothing. They're coming home to their mother
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  Speaker 2: just died. They're coming home to family drama or you know,
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  Speaker 2: their child's mother or father, you know, is pounding them
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  Speaker 2: about trying to, you know, get finances because they have
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  Speaker 2: all of these responsibilities. So you have to meet these
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  Speaker 2: men and women where they are. Some of them are
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  Speaker 2: sharpest attack that come out, they get it. Others you
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  Speaker 2: have to take them through an entire system to work
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  Speaker 2: with them to be able to get them ready.
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  Speaker 5: We talk about the rates of.
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  Speaker 6: Pay get out of prison, and how how hard is
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  Speaker 6: it to you try to get.
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  Speaker 3: Them people's hits. That is something that I push so hard.
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  Speaker 2: So as of right now, Texas has a receiviivism rate
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  Speaker 2: of twenty seven percent.
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  Speaker 3: That is relatively high.
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  Speaker 2: That means within three years, twenty seven percent of the
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  Speaker 2: men and women that are released back into general population
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  Speaker 2: and society will be back in prison.
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  Speaker 3: That is horrible.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that the receidivism rate is twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: percent because TDCJ has their statistics, like we can look
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  Speaker 2: at these statistics and in order to mitigate.
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  Speaker 3: These issues, you have to make sure that.
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  Speaker 2: These men and women have stable employment and stable housing
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  Speaker 2: because if they don't, they are going to get money
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  Speaker 2: how they know how to get it, whether that's stealing,
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  Speaker 2: robin killing, jacking, but whatever it is to make a dollar,
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  Speaker 2: they will do it because they have mouths to feed,
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  Speaker 2: they have bills. So that's what this initiative is for.
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  Speaker 2: I'm bringing employers and resources out into the community to
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  Speaker 2: mitigate these issues and barriers. I have to sit down
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  Speaker 2: with these employers and screen them and say, hey, you
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  Speaker 2: do know that you're hiring feelings, right, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: the murderers, the robbers, the rapists, the sex offenders, the kidnappers.
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  Speaker 2: This is who we're working with. Okay, white collar and
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  Speaker 2: blue collar, federal and state. So if you discriminate against them,
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  Speaker 2: as an employer, I don't want you, but I also
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  Speaker 2: advocate for employers to know the incentives of having a
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  Speaker 2: feeling on your roster.
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  Speaker 3: As an employer, it is a tax break for you.
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  Speaker 2: I can get them bonded through Fidelity five to twenty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand dollars, so in the event that something happens,
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  Speaker 2: you're covered. But my men and women are probably going
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  Speaker 2: to be the hardest men and women that you have working.
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  Speaker 3: On your team. And I can guarantee that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna say like like what you know, yeah, like
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  Speaker 6: and that's you know, that's what the that's what the
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  Speaker 6: bonding's for, right, Because one thing employers worry.
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  Speaker 2: About the most retention and safety. Right, you take one
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  Speaker 2: of my guys who they're hungry for opportunity, they just
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  Speaker 2: want an opportunity to just work legitimately right and stay
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  Speaker 2: out the way, you're gonna be able to retain them.
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  Speaker 3: That is why you need to hire my men and women.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you need to be an employer at my
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  Speaker 2: job there hiring these men and women.
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  Speaker 5: What do you say to what kind of jobs do
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  Speaker 5: you have offer?
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  Speaker 2: It's a wide range of jobs. Today we have Spike
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  Speaker 2: Electric they you know, do electric work. They're hiring for warehouse.
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  Speaker 2: We had on field services in here. There are labor
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  Speaker 2: jobs you know that are in here, like it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a wide range. Mainly labor construction was here because
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  Speaker 2: that's what usually hires.
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  Speaker 3: Feelings. But I'm working on trying to get to the.
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  Speaker 2: Corporate side of things, the medical side of things, just
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  Speaker 2: to see if we can get you know, different employers
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  Speaker 2: to be open. So these men and women have options,
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  Speaker 2: they have, they have different choices they can choose from.
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  Speaker 2: Because just like you and I don't want to get
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  Speaker 2: up and go to a job every day that we don't.
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  Speaker 3: Like, and we don't want to be restricted. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want them restricted.
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  Speaker 5: How hard is for you know when you do you
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  Speaker 5: have a job and trying to go to a job site.
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  Speaker 6: And get them to assimilate with the general.
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  Speaker 7: Work for the workers.
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  Speaker 2: I tell them all the time, never discuss your background
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  Speaker 2: with anybody strictly HR. No one needs to know anything
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  Speaker 2: about you on a job site. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: make friends, that's fine, But when you start to get
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  Speaker 2: into the background of things, people have their own preconceived notions.
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  Speaker 3: And that can cause problem. So I do try to
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  Speaker 3: help them.
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  Speaker 2: I do try to prep them and let them know, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: when we're going on job sites, when we're walking into buildings,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's the airport, whether it's on a construction site,
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  Speaker 2: you know you need to stand out like a sore thumb,
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  Speaker 2: but in a good way.
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  Speaker 3: Go in shirt, took, thin.
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  Speaker 2: Boots on built you are working, You're not out on
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  Speaker 2: your phone.
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  Speaker 3: You need to look different because you.
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  Speaker 2: Already have it ten times harder than everybody else that's
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 3: Do you offer any type of job jobs, job training?
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  Speaker 5: Like you said, do you mention electric electrical work?
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  Speaker 3: Are they how do you electrical work?
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  Speaker 2: I do have different entities that I partner with who
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  Speaker 2: I have different entities.
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  Speaker 3: That I can work with I have, I have different
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  Speaker 3: entities that I work with.
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  Speaker 2: You know who can partner you know with them to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get them this training and.
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  Speaker 3: Then help them move maneuver into the workforce.
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  Speaker 8: In the organization.
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  Speaker 2: If you can contact me at info Peyton for TX
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  Speaker 2: one thirty nine. You can follow me on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: I'm on all of those platforms. I do respond on
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  Speaker 2: my platforms and I do respond to my email, So
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  Speaker 2: feel free to reach out that.
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  Speaker 1: Was Dominique m. Peyton, who provides jobfares for former felons.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's secret police, also known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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  Speaker 1: or ICE, have murdered yet another innocent man. Fifty two
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  Speaker 1: year old Lorenzo Salgado Arajo, was shot and killed by
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents while he was driving his work van on
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  Speaker 1: the East side of Houston. He was a Mexican national
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  Speaker 1: that had been in the Houston area for thirty five
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  Speaker 1: years and owned a business with three sons, and was
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  Speaker 1: working on permanent residency through a family sponsored immigration petition.
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  Speaker 1: The ICE Gestapo have stated that during an immigration enforcement
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  Speaker 1: stop that Arajo tried to ram his van into officers
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  Speaker 1: and they used deadly forced to defend themselves. Witnesses in
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  Speaker 1: the van and video evidence have shown that there was
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  Speaker 1: no threat to any of the agents. The East side
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  Speaker 1: of Houston, or Edo, has been the site of increased
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  Speaker 1: raids by ICE in recent months. There is no body
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  Speaker 1: camera footage. The agents have not been identified, and they
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  Speaker 1: were masked and driving in two unmarked vehicles. The community
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  Speaker 1: gathered at the side of the shooting for a march
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  Speaker 1: and a rally demanding more accountability.
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  Speaker 9: So She's part of Blue Lag. It should not read
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  Speaker 9: a statement for the family.
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  Speaker 8: Good evening everyone. My name is Goncia Reyes. I'm part
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  Speaker 8: of LULAC Council sixty, but also been around here in
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  Speaker 8: this area and throughout Houston as your community advocate. I
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  Speaker 8: have a methis here today from the family on behalf
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  Speaker 8: of the Soda Defend. We are absolutely dang for all
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  Speaker 8: the support and love for my family has been receiving
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  Speaker 8: from the community here and at large. Here on Canal
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  Speaker 8: Street is where my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Adojo was shot
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  Speaker 8: and bled out before passing away. He lay here in
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  Speaker 8: pain and in fear for his life and with the
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  Speaker 8: fear of leaving his family behind. He did not deserve
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  Speaker 8: to die. He did not deserve to take his co
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  Speaker 8: workers to the job site finish. Let me read that again.
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  Speaker 8: He deserved to take his workers to the job site,
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  Speaker 8: finish the houses, and go back home to his loving wife.
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  Speaker 8: Lorenzo and his family were longtime East End residents, living
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  Speaker 8: in the area for decades. The family would like to
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  Speaker 8: express three wishes. Their three wishes calling for an independent
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  Speaker 8: investigation into the events that jamire yesterday, calling for reform
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  Speaker 8: to change the way the ICE operates steering away with
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  Speaker 8: ambush style tactics and unmarked vehicle. And for his wife
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  Speaker 8: Maria taken care of. That's his request that she is
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  Speaker 8: taken care of now that she is without her partner
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  Speaker 8: of forty years and his income. There is a go
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  Speaker 8: fundme led by Lulac. It's a national GoFundMe. Has been
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  Speaker 8: an amazing help and would ensure that my mother would
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  Speaker 8: be taken care of in these difficult months. So I
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  Speaker 8: ask of you to pray to stand talls, to stand united.
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  Speaker 8: Here we were celebrating FIFA internationally. We had everyone from
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  Speaker 8: all walks of life visiting Houston and then we have
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  Speaker 8: a bullet piercing the heart of Easton. I've been with
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  Speaker 8: the family since ten am yesterday when I saw Ronaldo
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  Speaker 8: the son, the oldest son, walking about this area, going
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  Speaker 8: back and forth from La Mucha Kana all the way
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  Speaker 8: down trying to get answers. He was only given certain
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  Speaker 8: comments on texts to go to bintav They would not
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  Speaker 8: even tell him with the status of his dad. Everything
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  Speaker 8: he got was through social media and with the help
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  Speaker 8: a Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, we were able to get through
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  Speaker 8: with bin tab and the medical examiner she was able
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  Speaker 8: to push through necessary information so that the families could
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  Speaker 8: find peace and answers. At this time, the family is
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  Speaker 8: drained emotionally. So they asked me to come here to
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  Speaker 8: y'all out of respects to y'all, to East End and
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  Speaker 8: to the Houston community. It is not an easy journey.
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  Speaker 8: They're asking questions that I have no answer, and we
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  Speaker 8: are relying our congress people, we are relying on Blu
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  Speaker 8: Lac nationally, we are relying on individuals that are offering
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  Speaker 8: their services pro bono, and we are relying on you.
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  Speaker 8: So we ask that you be the voice of Houston
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  Speaker 8: and to the Sadago family and a positive, respectful.
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  Speaker 5: But just.
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  Speaker 8: We need justice, we need answers, and we need full
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  Speaker 8: transparency and.
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  Speaker 9: Uh and I want to I want us to send
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  Speaker 9: a message back to the family here. I want us
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  Speaker 9: to send a message back to them.
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  Speaker 10: And I want us to send a video.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, and I want everybody so they can hear you.
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  Speaker 9: And so mister Lorenzo can hear you from wherever he's at.
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  Speaker 11: Tell him you're not alone. You're not alone.
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  Speaker 5: You're not You're not alone.
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  Speaker 12: Don't know I.
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  Speaker 10: Said you're lornenzoot you those who he goes no sola, Nola.
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  Speaker 1: So local paulicians are demanding oversight. The new congressman from
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  Speaker 1: Houston's District eighteen, Christian Menafie, said he is going to
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  Speaker 1: fight for a change in policy promises. Let's hear my
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  Speaker 1: real promises.
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  Speaker 13: I'm not spending another I will not vote for a
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  Speaker 13: single dollar to ICE. ICE came to Houston and killed
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  Speaker 13: one of our own. This is not the first time
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  Speaker 13: that this has happened. We saw them with Renee Good,
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  Speaker 13: we saw it with Alex Breddy, and every single time
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  Speaker 13: they come and they tell us their version of a face,
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  Speaker 13: but we don't see any evidence. If ICE was not
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  Speaker 13: in our streets, Lorenzo would still be alive. Today, Congress
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  Speaker 13: votes on funding to ICE. And I'm here today to
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  Speaker 13: say not another die, not another note, not another time.
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  Speaker 13: Donald Trump has radicalized this agency. They are coming to
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  Speaker 13: our streets not to make people more safe, but to
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  Speaker 13: terrorize our communities. This man was a father, he was
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  Speaker 13: a husband, he was a neighbor. And I want you
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  Speaker 13: to look around right now. You see Howsonians like thing.
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  Speaker 13: You know, black, white, Asian. Everybody's standing here together because
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  Speaker 13: we are want Houston right now Republicans control the White
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  Speaker 13: House and Republicans control the House of Representatives. But in
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  Speaker 13: November there's going to be a flip. And I will
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  Speaker 13: tell you right now, I serve on the House Oversight Committee,
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  Speaker 13: and when January comes, I sped to buckle up because
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  Speaker 13: we are going to investigate every single thing that agency
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  Speaker 13: has done, how they spent their money, and how Trump
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  Speaker 13: has put them in our streets. Not another guy, another dime.
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  Speaker 1: An Congressman Sylvia Garcia from District twenty nine demanded accountability.
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  Speaker 4: Funny, we keep funding eyes and it seems like the
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  Speaker 4: administration does not want to get into any type of
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  Speaker 4: funding issues as far as retraining these officers are going
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  Speaker 4: to be on the street.
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  Speaker 5: What can he change with this?
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  Speaker 12: Well, as you know, as we've clearly stated number one,
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  Speaker 12: you know, we're here to support the family and get
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  Speaker 12: them through this crisis. It's a tragedy, not just for Houston,
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  Speaker 12: but it certainly gets tragedy for the family. So we
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  Speaker 12: want to help get the family passed this next couple
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  Speaker 12: of days while they're grieving and wrestling with this.
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  Speaker 3: Horrific, horrific event.
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  Speaker 12: After that, we will start looking at making sure we
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  Speaker 12: get accountability that we get justice, and we'll try experiencing
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  Speaker 12: an investigation that gets to the heart of the problem.
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  Speaker 12: We as Democrats, have said that we will not vote
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  Speaker 12: for one more penny until there's ICE reforms. We will
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  Speaker 12: not give one more penny to ICE. That includes transparency
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  Speaker 12: and accountability. It means taking their masks off, it means training.
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  Speaker 12: If they want to be law enforcement, well they need
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  Speaker 12: to be trained like law enforcement, act like law enforcement,
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  Speaker 12: and behave professionally like law enforcement. And we need to
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  Speaker 12: make sure that they have a warrant signed by real
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  Speaker 12: judges at the county courthouse. If they want to search
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  Speaker 12: someone's home, we've got to make sure they wear body caps.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, there is so many things that they don't do.
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  Speaker 12: They're essentially a rogue unit. So we'll keep continuing to
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  Speaker 12: work hard because we will not vote for one more
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  Speaker 12: penny until some.
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  Speaker 3: Realforce are made.
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  Speaker 1: People at the rally were asking what their local politicians
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  Speaker 1: are doing. At a press conference held on Friday, local
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  Speaker 1: officials are asking for an independent investigation of the murder.
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  Speaker 11: I am Karthik Souro with the Houston Progressive Caucus and my.
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  Speaker 14: Name is Daden Kervin. I'm a local feacher, what brings
• 20:14
  Speaker 14: you out here?
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: So I was actually the teacher for Ronnie Salgado whose
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: father was murdered, and his wife actually Ronnie's wife, Evelyn Rivera,
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: she was also a former student. She like did my wife,
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: and I was Engagement Votos. So these are people that
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: we know whose family has been affected by ice and
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: it's disgusting to me to see the facts that the
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: Department of Justice is not going to do anything about
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: this that we think could be fair. The Governor's not
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: going to do anything, and the only options we have
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: are local. And so we're calling on Sean's here, the
• 20:48
  Speaker 11: District Attorney, and the Mayor of Houston to actually have
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: HPD do an impartisan investigation because all options have to
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: be there and we need to have justice for this
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: family in case that I actually did end up murdering him.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: The mayor said he was he asked before he said
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: he didn't want to try to.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Make ways with the governor.
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I would say that when you look at New
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: York City, this is not happening there because they're on
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: Mondani has moved with strength, and I think that this
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: mayor moves with weakness, and I think that there's a
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: lot of options he has.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: He acts like he doesn't have any.
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: He could, for example, go to the White House talk
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: with Donald Trump and say, I'm the mayor of the
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: fourth largest city in America and I want to have
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: a special investigator appointed for this. He could talk to
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: Cornyan Cornyn and ask Cornan, who really doesn't actually I think,
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: agree with some of this stuff, and say, could you
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: put some holds on judicial nominees that that the president
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: wants for the state of Texas and then use that
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: leverage to get an impartial investigation. There are there are
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: options available to him that he doesn't want to take.
• 21:50
  Speaker 11: He's just afraid of pissing off Republicans, who are his
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: base voters. But he has lost Latinos, he's lost African
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: American voters, he's lost young voters, and he's lost white liberals.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: He has nothing left. If he doesn't say up the city,
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: he's gonna lose.
• 22:01
  Speaker 14: In twenty twenty seven, So I saw what happened online,
• 22:06
  Speaker 14: and I thought it was discussing as a black man
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: in America, watching another brown man be gunned down just
• 22:10
  Speaker 14: reminds me that nobody in this country is truly safe
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: from these people. They're attacking anybody from any group. We
• 22:15
  Speaker 14: saw what happens to Renee Good. This is just another
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: example of a violent, militaristic force cracking down on people,
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: innocent people. This man was an everyday man with a family.
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: He wants a work service community, and they traced him
• 22:27
  Speaker 14: down and shot him, and it's disgusting. I think it's
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: important at times like these we all show up for
• 22:31
  Speaker 14: each other, and that's why I'm out here.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: One thing they're already saying is that the officer was attacked.
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, they say that in a lot of instances,
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: a lot of times, especially in protests in the past,
• 22:43
  Speaker 14: they always say the protests that started, they always say,
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: these people, I just went out of the way to
• 22:47
  Speaker 14: look for our confrontation with this man. These people have
• 22:50
  Speaker 14: been minding their own business. And I think everybody sees this.
• 22:53
  Speaker 14: People see it for what it is. People have seen
• 22:55
  Speaker 14: the video, all right, Dick.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: The three witnesses and detainees in the van, including a
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Rajo's brother, reported to being pressured by federal agents to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: immediately self deport. They have a very different story than
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the Ice agents about what occurred. As we hear from
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: their lawyer, foremost, I want.
• 23:22
  Speaker 15: To extend my gratitude. Yes, I am the attorney representing
• 23:28
  Speaker 15: Jose and Lenie. They're currently being detained at the Conro
• 23:32
  Speaker 15: Detention Center here at the Montgomery Processing Center here in Conrod, Texas.
• 23:37
  Speaker 15: I'm sorry. First of all, I want to extend my
• 23:39
  Speaker 15: deepest condolences to the family of Lorenzo. I pray that
• 23:43
  Speaker 15: their faith has strengthened them through these difficult times. Secondly,
• 23:47
  Speaker 15: I think Congresswoman Senor Garcia and for arranging this, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: all of you guys for joining us here to get
• 23:52
  Speaker 15: this message out. Until now, we only had the statements
• 23:56
  Speaker 15: of the ICE agents as to their versions of what
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: happened of what transpired that past Tuesday. But yesterday morning
• 24:03
  Speaker 15: I personally went to speak with the three individuals that
• 24:07
  Speaker 15: were with mister Lorenzo on that tragic day this Tuesday.
• 24:14
  Speaker 15: I can tell you that my clients will forever be
• 24:17
  Speaker 15: physically and emotionally scarred by this killing. None of these
• 24:22
  Speaker 15: families will ever be whole again. One man lost a brother,
• 24:28
  Speaker 15: the other two men lost a dear friend. What a
• 24:34
  Speaker 15: devastating tragedy, and to what end? He had no criminal record?
• 24:40
  Speaker 15: He had been in here in the United States for
• 24:42
  Speaker 15: over thirty five years, a business owner, he had US
• 24:45
  Speaker 15: citizen children. His only crime was that he fit the
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: description of another man that they were looking for. The
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: agency's versions of the killings have varied, and I won't
• 24:57
  Speaker 15: get into all those different versions, but I can tell
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: you with conviction that my client's versions of the events
• 25:04
  Speaker 15: are extremely different from what ICE agents are saying or
• 25:08
  Speaker 15: what the agency is saying. I am calling for the
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: immediate release of my clients from Conrod from the Montgomery
• 25:17
  Speaker 15: Processing Center. I believe that, given the magnitude of this
• 25:20
  Speaker 15: case and the implications that it carries, my clients may
• 25:25
  Speaker 15: be pressured into signing documentation to sign for their voluntary departure.
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: I believe that this would be devastating not only to
• 25:35
  Speaker 15: them but to everybody involved, and that we should and
• 25:39
  Speaker 15: it would be devastating not only to them but to
• 25:41
  Speaker 15: everybody involved. And I think it is extremely important that
• 25:45
  Speaker 15: we preserve the integrity of this investigation that will all
• 25:50
  Speaker 15: be out the window if they are deported. I am
• 25:53
  Speaker 15: also calling, as I mentioned, for a private investigation into
• 25:56
  Speaker 15: the incident. Simply put, we have completely lost eight in
• 26:02
  Speaker 15: the integrity and demanded independent investigation be conducted. The families
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: deserve to know the truth. They deserve justice and dignities
• 26:11
  Speaker 15: all part is involved in. And finally, I am calling
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: for drastic changes to the immigration to the way immigration
• 26:18
  Speaker 15: the ICE conducts their immigration enforcement. It's alarming that under
• 26:24
  Speaker 15: Trump's second administration, nine out of every ten immigrants that
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: are arrested are Latinus. This is not immigration enforcement, this
• 26:34
  Speaker 15: is racial profile. It's very important that they are required
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: to wear body cameras. It's very important that they are
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: required to remove their masks on everything. That's very alarming
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: is like the congress woman mentioned, unmarked vehicles. That is
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: extremely dangerous. There have been at least thirty eight shootings
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: by immigration agents since Januineve, resulting in nine deaths. That
• 27:03
  Speaker 15: is just simply unacceptable. I mean just after speaking with
• 27:12
  Speaker 15: these men, After speaking with these men, I have no
• 27:16
  Speaker 15: doubt that what they're saying is the truth. I know
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: that these agents, the agency is going to try to
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: cover it up. This is not the first time that
• 27:25
  Speaker 15: it happens. This has become a pattern where ICE agents
• 27:29
  Speaker 15: claim that they use their vehicle as a deadly weapon,
• 27:32
  Speaker 15: that they tried to run over the agents, and the
• 27:34
  Speaker 15: agents shot at self defense, But all three of my
• 27:38
  Speaker 15: clients reiterated that at no point was there ever an
• 27:41
  Speaker 15: agent standing in front of the vehicle, nor was an
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: agent ever placed in the line of danger. That is
• 27:48
  Speaker 15: simply false, and I believe my clients are telling the truth.
• 27:53
  Speaker 16: Again.
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: I am going right now. My office is working diligently
• 27:57
  Speaker 15: to get these men released for the integrity of this investigation,
• 28:01
  Speaker 15: because we know that ICE has a pattern as well
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: of deporting immigrants before they can be heard, before they
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: are given their due process, So it's very important that
• 28:10
  Speaker 15: we make sure that they are not deported. And as
• 28:14
  Speaker 15: I mentioned, I'm working with the office. I have other
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: people that I've reached out as well that I'm going
• 28:17
  Speaker 15: to be working with. And in closing, I just I
• 28:21
  Speaker 15: want to mention a quote that I'm reminded by the
• 28:23
  Speaker 15: late Martin Luther King injustice anywhere is a threat to justice.
• 28:27
  Speaker 14: Ay, thank you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: Next we'll hear from our district attorney.
• 28:38
  Speaker 17: This is the tallest stuff ever felt. Thank you, Congresswoman. Congressman.
• 28:46
  Speaker 17: I think it's important before I even start to just
• 28:49
  Speaker 17: show everyone that we have literally every layer of government
• 28:53
  Speaker 17: here supporting what we're doing, from our federal partners to
• 28:57
  Speaker 17: our state Rep. Jean Wu to our county attorney for
• 29:01
  Speaker 17: the civil aspects of this case. But I am Shawn
• 29:04
  Speaker 17: Tier and I am the District Attorney of Harris County.
• 29:08
  Speaker 17: Since Tuesday, when this incident occurred, we have been conducting
• 29:14
  Speaker 17: our own investigation. We investigate every officer involved shooting in
• 29:20
  Speaker 17: Harris County. When it involves an agency that is not
• 29:25
  Speaker 17: ice universally we are invited in that day, we run
• 29:30
  Speaker 17: a parallel investigation where we collaborate with law enforcement, be
• 29:35
  Speaker 17: it federal agencies or our state and local agencies, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 17: at the end of that we all collaborate and decide
• 29:43
  Speaker 17: what the appropriate outcome is. Almost universally it is we
• 29:47
  Speaker 17: present the case to a grand jury and let them decide.
• 29:52
  Speaker 17: We were not invited into this scene on Tuesday. My
• 29:57
  Speaker 17: investigators and my Civil Rights division and have been out
• 30:01
  Speaker 17: there from basically the moment the scene was released up
• 30:05
  Speaker 17: until today, looking for surveillance footage, talking to witnesses, doing
• 30:11
  Speaker 17: everything that we can, and we do in every case
• 30:16
  Speaker 17: to ensure that a full, fair investigation is conducted so
• 30:20
  Speaker 17: that we can be transparent with our community. Look, when
• 30:26
  Speaker 17: someone in our community loses their life at the hands
• 30:29
  Speaker 17: of law enforcement. That is the ultimate breach of trust
• 30:34
  Speaker 17: with our community. And if we aren't transparent, if the
• 30:39
  Speaker 17: people don't believe that we are actively investigating and holding
• 30:44
  Speaker 17: ourselves in law enforcement accountable, we will lose that trust
• 30:48
  Speaker 17: so quickly. And that's what you're seeing right now. That
• 30:51
  Speaker 17: is the reason that we have so many cameras here.
• 30:57
  Speaker 17: What I can tell you right now is that I
• 31:01
  Speaker 17: am imploring the community. Anyone that was there that day,
• 31:07
  Speaker 17: anyone that has a snippet of footage from a camera,
• 31:12
  Speaker 17: regardless of whether or not you think that it's even relevant,
• 31:17
  Speaker 17: send it to us. Things that you may not think
• 31:21
  Speaker 17: are important could be the pivotal piece of information for
• 31:24
  Speaker 17: us to finally figure out what actually happened. I have
• 31:30
  Speaker 17: the utmost hope that the Department of Homeland Security and
• 31:36
  Speaker 17: the Office of Inspector General, who are conducting this investigation
• 31:40
  Speaker 17: will share evidence with us. Regardless of whether they do
• 31:46
  Speaker 17: or not, we will go to the ends of the
• 31:49
  Speaker 17: earth to collect all the evidence so that we can
• 31:52
  Speaker 17: eventually let the public know what happened. I just that
• 32:00
  Speaker 17: that request for the public extends to all of our
• 32:05
  Speaker 17: media partners as well. Any surveillance footage that you have collected.
• 32:10
  Speaker 17: Any witnesses that you've identified, please share it with us.
• 32:16
  Speaker 17: We need to be able to tell all five million
• 32:20
  Speaker 17: residents of Harris County, everyone in the state of Texas,
• 32:24
  Speaker 17: and quite frankly everyone in the world that we are
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: doing everything to uphold all of our oaths. So with that,
• 32:35
  Speaker 17: I'm going to hand it back to the Congresswoman. I'll
• 32:37
  Speaker 17: be here to answer any questions you'll have.
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: Yes, thank you. He's absolutely correct. All of us here
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: and we do have the county Attorney ab Kaman, and
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: we have.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Represented will with us.
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: All of us at every level, just express our deepest
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: constollasis to the family and promise them that we will
• 32:57
  Speaker 12: continue to working together to a sure that we do
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: have justice in this case and that the family gets answers.
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: We need to do that for them, just like we
• 33:08
  Speaker 12: would do it if it was one of your family members.
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: And I know many are asking. We've gotten many calls,
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: Who's next?
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Will I be next?
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: We're fortunate that we've got two members of Congress of
• 33:20
  Speaker 12: two committees of jurisdiction. Christian Menefee is on the Oversight
• 33:23
  Speaker 12: Committee and he will be doing what he can through
• 33:26
  Speaker 12: that committee and with us. Today is Congressman Green, who
• 33:30
  Speaker 12: sits on the Committee of Department of Homeland Security, which
• 33:33
  Speaker 12: has direct oversight on the Department of Homeline Security, and
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: of course Ice Congressman.
• 33:44
  Speaker 18: Thank you, Congresswoman Garcia. I'm very proud to be associated
• 33:50
  Speaker 18: with this endeavor, always honored to work with you, and
• 33:55
  Speaker 18: in tandem we've been able to accomplish some things. Before
• 33:58
  Speaker 18: I get to these things, I want to thank the
• 34:01
  Speaker 18: district attorney. I want to thank you for not allowing
• 34:07
  Speaker 18: the FEDS to bully you and convince you that somehow
• 34:12
  Speaker 18: you don't have the authority to investigate. Any member of
• 34:16
  Speaker 18: the constabulary can investigate. Some people confuse investigation with prosecution.
• 34:25
  Speaker 18: Investigation is separate and apart, and it can allow us
• 34:29
  Speaker 18: to have the transparency necessary to understand what happened. I
• 34:34
  Speaker 18: thank you again for investigating. I want to thank our
• 34:39
  Speaker 18: state representative who's always with us when we are in need,
• 34:43
  Speaker 18: and our county attorney, new on the job but working
• 34:46
  Speaker 18: hard all the time.
• 34:47
  Speaker 19: I thank the lawyer for what he has done, especially
• 34:51
  Speaker 19: what you have done, sir, because what you've done is
• 34:54
  Speaker 19: going to bring light to this that may have been
• 34:57
  Speaker 19: in the shadows for too long already.
• 35:00
  Speaker 18: I am going to make some comments now, and my
• 35:04
  Speaker 18: first is, mister Arajo belongs to us. He belongs to
• 35:15
  Speaker 18: the Constitution of the United States of America. That constitution
• 35:19
  Speaker 18: applies to him just as it applies to me. He
• 35:24
  Speaker 18: should not receive any less attention from the Constitution that
• 35:30
  Speaker 18: I or any of you would receive. He belongs to us.
• 35:34
  Speaker 18: He's in our jurisdiction. We have a duty and a responsibility,
• 35:38
  Speaker 18: in fact, an obligation to bring justice to this cause.
• 35:46
  Speaker 18: Pursuing to this At the prior press conference that we
• 35:48
  Speaker 18: had under the leadership of the Honorable Sylvia Garcia, that
• 35:52
  Speaker 18: was on Wednesday, July eighth, I indicated at that time
• 35:56
  Speaker 18: that I would be asking the Homeland Security Committee in
• 36:01
  Speaker 18: Congress to take up this cause.
• 36:05
  Speaker 19: I sent a letter.
• 36:08
  Speaker 18: That letter has been in the hands of members of
• 36:12
  Speaker 18: the committee. I especially talk to Benny Thompson, who is
• 36:16
  Speaker 18: the ranking member on the committee, and he and I
• 36:20
  Speaker 18: have conversed and he has assured me of two things. One,
• 36:23
  Speaker 18: he's going to do everything that he can to make
• 36:25
  Speaker 18: sure that we investigate at the federal level.
• 36:28
  Speaker 19: This committee has jurisdiction over ice.
• 36:32
  Speaker 18: He's going to make sure that he does everything. But
• 36:35
  Speaker 18: he also assured me, and he asked it. I share
• 36:37
  Speaker 18: this with you, Congresswoman, that if we don't get the
• 36:41
  Speaker 18: results we're looking for, we will have a shadow hearing
• 36:44
  Speaker 18: right here in Houston, Texas. He will come to Houston, Texas.
• 36:48
  Speaker 18: We will assemble our people. I told you that we
• 36:52
  Speaker 18: would investigate. This is not something that we take lightly.
• 36:56
  Speaker 18: And we don't have to ask. We don't have to
• 36:58
  Speaker 18: beg we don't have to plead, we don't have to beseeched,
• 37:01
  Speaker 18: we don't have to gravel. We can demand. This is
• 37:05
  Speaker 18: what the constitution allows. So I'm proud to tell you
• 37:08
  Speaker 18: now that the Homeland Security Committee has sent a letter
• 37:15
  Speaker 18: or is sending a letter. I just signed on to
• 37:17
  Speaker 18: it today. This is from members of the committee and
• 37:22
  Speaker 18: this letter is going to Secretary Mullen. I'm gonna read
• 37:25
  Speaker 18: the first paragraph of the letter and then I'll read
• 37:27
  Speaker 18: some of the excerpts. First paragraph reads, as members of
• 37:32
  Speaker 18: the Committee on Homeland Security, with jurisdiction over the Department
• 37:36
  Speaker 18: of Homeland Security DHS, we are investigating some things. Bear repeating.
• 37:45
  Speaker 18: We are investigating the fatal shooting of mister Lorenzo Salgado Arajo,
• 37:53
  Speaker 18: as well as the Trump administration's response to his killing.
• 37:59
  Speaker 18: He belongs to us, The Constitution applies to him.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: The League of United Latin American Citizens LULAC has set
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: up a GoFundMe page for the family. Members of the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: community are planning to attend this week's Houston City Council
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: meeting to pressure the city to do more.
• 38:17
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• 38:17
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• 38:48
  Speaker 1: regardless of their legal status, is given citizenship in the
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  Speaker 1: under the fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in eighteen sixty
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: eight to address the legal status of former slaves and
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  Speaker 1: citizenship law enacted in nineteen forty. This includes babies of
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  Speaker 1: unauthorized non citizens and temporary residents such as asylum seekers,
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  Speaker 1: international students, tourists, and seasonal workers. In a ruling six
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: to three by the U. S. Supreme Court, the President
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: was banned from using executive orders to end birthright citizenship.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: To get around this, the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: is asking states to deny birthright citizenship, even though challenges
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to this bedrock constitutional principle have always failed. In Texas,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: state Representative Brian Harrison, Republican, called for Governor Greg Abbott
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to start a special session to stop birth tourism in
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the state, including not issuing birth certificates to children of
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: people who are not US citizens. We've got to stop
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: doing anything to incentivize birth tourism, Harrison said. There's no
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: requirements the state of Texas must issue birth certificates to
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: non citizens. US Republican Representative Chip Roy of Austin and
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Republican activists, through their support behind Harrison's call. Why is
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: this important? Your birth certificate is used for employment, school,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: home loans, and voter registration. We talked to Texas Immigration
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: attorney Kate Lincoln Goldfinch about why this is important and
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: some of the myths being thrown around about birthright citizenship.
• 40:50
  Speaker 20: The decision on birthright citizenship was really monumental in that
• 40:54
  Speaker 20: it was the pest of the president's authority to change
• 40:58
  Speaker 20: the Constitution by executive order. And it's a very fundamentally
• 41:03
  Speaker 20: held principle in this nation and our democracy that the
• 41:07
  Speaker 20: president cannot do that.
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: However, we are living in a time.
• 41:11
  Speaker 20: Of a presidency in which founderies are pushed, and Trump
• 41:15
  Speaker 20: of course.
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: Decided to try.
• 41:17
  Speaker 20: And what was surprising was that the Supreme Court even
• 41:20
  Speaker 20: entertained the argument at all, and that the decision wasn't
• 41:24
  Speaker 20: a nine oh decision. But at the end of the day,
• 41:27
  Speaker 20: we can all rest assured that our Constitution and our
• 41:31
  Speaker 20: democracy remain intact after the Supreme Court finding maintaining birthright
• 41:37
  Speaker 20: citizenship as it is written in the Constitution.
• 41:40
  Speaker 16: But you've seen where he's trying to go around this
• 41:43
  Speaker 16: by getting states to put in their own bridge right
• 41:46
  Speaker 16: citizenship speaking in Texas.
• 41:51
  Speaker 20: Right and these are all things, of course that will
• 41:53
  Speaker 20: also be challenged in court. I mean, the holding, the
• 41:55
  Speaker 20: majority holding of the court five to four was that
• 42:00
  Speaker 20: a sporting amendment, and the Constitution is clear on this question.
• 42:04
  Speaker 20: The concurring decision from Kavanaugh, which made it also sort
• 42:08
  Speaker 20: of a five four or six to three decision, depending
• 42:10
  Speaker 20: upon how you look at it, was that Congress could
• 42:15
  Speaker 20: write in essentially more of an explanation of what it
• 42:19
  Speaker 20: means to be subject to the jurisdiction of this country,
• 42:22
  Speaker 20: and so he was paving a pathway for Congress to
• 42:26
  Speaker 20: allow the cancelation of birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants,
• 42:30
  Speaker 20: should they so choose. Now, the majority of courts still
• 42:34
  Speaker 20: didn't agree with Kavanaugh.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: And Congress can't really get anything done.
• 42:38
  Speaker 20: But I think at the end of the day, if
• 42:40
  Speaker 20: individual states like Texas, you know, try to be renegade
• 42:43
  Speaker 20: and do their own work changing the constitution, that ultimately
• 42:46
  Speaker 20: will be challenged and blocked in the federal courts as well.
• 42:51
  Speaker 20: In the meantime, what can happen It can be really
• 42:54
  Speaker 20: detrimental for individual people because you know, if you think
• 42:58
  Speaker 20: about if it's baby is born to immigrant parents and
• 43:03
  Speaker 20: that baby is unable to get documentation of its citizenship,
• 43:07
  Speaker 20: it might not be eligible for medical care. Should the
• 43:12
  Speaker 20: baby be in the neck you and need life saving care.
• 43:15
  Speaker 20: You know, so these are potentially life and death consequences.
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: And shouldn't be messed around with by the state of Texas.
• 43:23
  Speaker 16: I heard condis Wan West say that this is something
• 43:26
  Speaker 16: that's that's needed because well he feels that people are
• 43:31
  Speaker 16: people are just using this to come across the border
• 43:34
  Speaker 16: of how babies and you know, yeah, the process for.
• 43:40
  Speaker 20: Me, but well you hear a lot about you know,
• 43:43
  Speaker 20: the terms which are offensive terms, but anchor babies or
• 43:47
  Speaker 20: birth tourism. And there's this idea that it's taught about
• 43:52
  Speaker 20: amongst conservatives that very pregnant women are just crossing the
• 43:56
  Speaker 20: border to have babies. I think he was even stemha
• 43:59
  Speaker 20: Miller talked about a.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: Shipload of pregnant women brought to the shores.
• 44:05
  Speaker 20: It's like they're got to gather a shipload of pregnant
• 44:10
  Speaker 20: you know.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's since an absurdity.
• 44:11
  Speaker 20: And I will say as an immigration lawyer in practice,
• 44:16
  Speaker 20: it's actually a known thing that very pregnant tourists get
• 44:21
  Speaker 20: denied entry all the time.
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: It's not as if we've had.
• 44:26
  Speaker 20: This system in place where super pregnant people come over
• 44:29
  Speaker 20: and have babies and then leave.
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: I mean, maybe many many.
• 44:31
  Speaker 20: Years ago but certainly not in the last several decades.
• 44:35
  Speaker 20: The babies that are born here to immigrant parents are
• 44:38
  Speaker 20: born to parents who have established lives in the United
• 44:41
  Speaker 20: States and who are caught up in the broken immigration system.
• 44:45
  Speaker 20: So bird tourism or anchor babies, those aren't really a thing,
• 44:49
  Speaker 20: but there are words that get talked about and are
• 44:53
  Speaker 20: used to convince.
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: Less knowledgeable people that there's this big.
• 44:58
  Speaker 20: Scary monster out there, which is immigrants who are coming
• 45:01
  Speaker 20: and taking all of our resources. That's not true, it's
• 45:04
  Speaker 20: not born out in the data. But you have to
• 45:08
  Speaker 20: use a little bit of critical thinking and put a
• 45:10
  Speaker 20: little bit of time into actually questioning the things that
• 45:13
  Speaker 20: your so called leaders are telling you in order to
• 45:16
  Speaker 20: come to these conclusions. And a lot of people just
• 45:18
  Speaker 20: don't have the capacity or the ability to do that
• 45:22
  Speaker 20: critical thinking. And that, I think is the part that
• 45:25
  Speaker 20: makes all of this the most scary, is that there's
• 45:27
  Speaker 20: a whole.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: Rather large subsection of our population that.
• 45:32
  Speaker 20: Believes that birth tourism is a thing, or believes that
• 45:36
  Speaker 20: anchor babies are a thing because they hear, you know,
• 45:39
  Speaker 20: leadership in Washington talk about it, but it's just actually
• 45:42
  Speaker 20: not true.
• 45:44
  Speaker 16: Well yeah, and it's getting momentum. You know, Texas does
• 45:49
  Speaker 16: it in one state and then it kind of it
• 45:51
  Speaker 16: kind of crosses state lines and you know that thing,
• 45:54
  Speaker 16: you know in Louisiana and it.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: All gets challenged.
• 45:56
  Speaker 16: But you're right, It still it still affects people that
• 46:00
  Speaker 16: is in the process and their immigration status. And it's
• 46:04
  Speaker 16: a lot it scared a lot of people, what I'm saying.
• 46:09
  Speaker 20: Yeah, Look, at the end of the day, fear is
• 46:10
  Speaker 20: a really strong motivator and a lot of politicians who
• 46:14
  Speaker 20: are power hungry understand that. And when they talk about
• 46:18
  Speaker 20: an invasion of immigrants, it gets people really riled up.
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: And that is in some way the tale is old
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: as time.
• 46:27
  Speaker 20: Uh, and we are being manipulated by power hungry people
• 46:33
  Speaker 20: and that is the bottom line. And those of us
• 46:37
  Speaker 20: who are you know, I said before critical thinkers do
• 46:43
  Speaker 20: a little bit of a deeper dive on the information
• 46:46
  Speaker 20: that's soon said to us will come to different conclusions.
• 46:50
  Speaker 20: But you know, I do a lot of social media,
• 46:53
  Speaker 20: a lot of videos.
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: I have a lot of people in my comments, and
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: I have.
• 46:56
  Speaker 20: Enough exposure to those folks to understand and that they
• 47:00
  Speaker 20: are very sets in their beliefs that immigrants are bad,
• 47:07
  Speaker 20: immigrants are dangerous, that they're drain on the system, and
• 47:10
  Speaker 20: that people are trying to manipulate the system just have
• 47:14
  Speaker 20: babies here, and that when somebody has a baby that
• 47:17
  Speaker 20: they get a ton.
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: Of you know, resources from the government. None of that
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: is true. None of it is even close to true.
• 47:24
  Speaker 20: But people believe that hook, line and sinker, and they
• 47:28
  Speaker 20: will fight really hard to support these beliefs, probably.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Because it's coming from a white house holding down.
• 47:35
  Speaker 16: I'm looking at both French who's running and uh, it
• 47:41
  Speaker 16: goes down the line in Texas.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: Uh, that's right, Chi boy, it says.
• 47:46
  Speaker 16: The same thing. And either there's the there the areas
• 47:52
  Speaker 16: that they're in. They fall the glon sincer. But mind it,
• 47:55
  Speaker 16: there's no reality in any of this. You know, it's
• 47:58
  Speaker 16: how they how are they speaking around the proof? Because
• 48:02
  Speaker 16: this is going to go in court. How long will
• 48:04
  Speaker 16: it take to go through the court if they passed
• 48:07
  Speaker 16: any type religious leator.
• 48:09
  Speaker 20: I mean court, you know, lawsuits gets filed pretty quickly
• 48:13
  Speaker 20: and junctions can happen pretty quickly.
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: The problem we've.
• 48:16
  Speaker 20: Got in Texas is that we sit in the fi
• 48:20
  Speaker 20: Circuit Court of Appeals, which is a very conservative anti
• 48:23
  Speaker 20: immigrant court, and so it you know, should something have
• 48:28
  Speaker 20: to go up to the Supreme Court, you know that
• 48:30
  Speaker 20: obviously could take longer. So you know who knows on
• 48:35
  Speaker 20: litigation and how quickly it can protect us.
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: And that is the reality of the world that we
• 48:41
  Speaker 7: live in. We live in a world in.
• 48:42
  Speaker 20: Which the president is out of control, Congress is impotence,
• 48:48
  Speaker 20: and the courts are kind of our only hope in
• 48:51
  Speaker 20: many ways.
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: And it's a slow and.
• 48:54
  Speaker 20: Dangerous and difficult process for democracy exactly.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: And I have to ask you the case you were
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: working on as far.
• 49:04
  Speaker 16: As the the immigrant that was in the passenger seat,
• 49:10
  Speaker 16: and uh, he was charged, he was charged, He was
• 49:13
  Speaker 16: charged with you know, they were trying to deport him.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: How that the US citizen? Right, Yeah, I mean that
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: case is equally frustrating. You know, this is a man
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: who was born in a.
• 49:24
  Speaker 20: Hospital in Denver, Colorado, and he's a US citizen and
• 49:28
  Speaker 20: he was pulled over in a work truck as a
• 49:30
  Speaker 20: passenger and detained and deported to Mexico.
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: And he is still in Mexico.
• 49:36
  Speaker 20: I mean, we are in active litigation to try to
• 49:38
  Speaker 20: bring him back, and we're being asked to provide more
• 49:43
  Speaker 20: and more evidence, like fingerprints of him in infancy, you know,
• 49:47
  Speaker 20: things that really should not be required of a US
• 49:52
  Speaker 20: citizen because if you think about it, if if this
• 49:56
  Speaker 20: is the procedure that is allowed in one case, it
• 50:01
  Speaker 20: will be allowed in other cases.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: And imagine a world.
• 50:04
  Speaker 20: Imagine living in a world where everybody who's a dual
• 50:08
  Speaker 20: citizen of two nations, including the US, can be detained
• 50:12
  Speaker 20: and deported from the United States to the other nation,
• 50:15
  Speaker 20: and in order to get back they have to provide
• 50:17
  Speaker 20: fingerprint or biometric evidence.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: Of their citizenship. Who has that? I don't know. Do
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: you have fingerprints of your infancy?
• 50:24
  Speaker 20: Maybe some of us do if they did that little
• 50:26
  Speaker 20: you know, footprint, baby footprint at the hospital and.
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: You can get your hands on it.
• 50:32
  Speaker 20: But requiring everybody to have that in order to not
• 50:36
  Speaker 20: be detained or deported is dracronian and dystopian. And I
• 50:44
  Speaker 20: hope that we're not headed in that direction.
• 50:47
  Speaker 16: Thing is have enough money to try to skid around
• 50:51
  Speaker 16: all this or is it just mostly people that don't
• 50:55
  Speaker 16: have the money to fight this these type of cases?
• 51:00
  Speaker 20: Well, all litigation is expensive and so and you know,
• 51:05
  Speaker 20: people who have money have more access generally in systems
• 51:10
  Speaker 20: of power, and so definitely people who have power and
• 51:14
  Speaker 20: influence tend to fare better in matters of immigration.
• 51:19
  Speaker 16: Certainly, you were saying that it's illegal for a person
• 51:24
  Speaker 16: walking down the street to be s an ID ex
• 51:27
  Speaker 16: really identification, am I correct on that?
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: That is correct?
• 51:31
  Speaker 20: No one is required you, as citizens, is not required
• 51:35
  Speaker 20: to identify themselves unless they are being detained and questioned
• 51:41
  Speaker 20: for a crime with probable cause, or.
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: If they're driving a car. But if you're a passenger
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: in a car.
• 51:47
  Speaker 20: Or you're walking down the street, there is no law
• 51:49
  Speaker 20: that says you have to have your identity documents on
• 51:52
  Speaker 20: you even.
• 51:53
  Speaker 16: If there if a suspected crime has happened in a
• 51:57
  Speaker 16: certain area and they're just asking questions of you, that's right.
• 52:02
  Speaker 20: I mean, unless you know your description match is that
• 52:05
  Speaker 20: of a suspect or something like that, that would equal
• 52:07
  Speaker 20: probable cause. But if they're just stopping everybody on the street, No,
• 52:12
  Speaker 20: they can't require US citizens to identify themselves. That's a
• 52:16
  Speaker 20: violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Workers at Ashley Chemical Plant, which is a pharmaceutical grade
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: chemical manufacturing plant in Texas City, Texas, have been on
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: strike for over nine days now. About seventy of them machinists, operators,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: and pipe fitters represented by four unions at the plant,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: have been asking the company for safety concerns to be met.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: The union says the company has been trying to cross
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: utilize workers as a way of saving money. This means
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: workers doing work they're not trained to do. This is
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: important as there have been numerous fires and chemical plant
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: emergency incidents in the area. Lewis Crawford, lead negotiator for
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: the Texas City Trades Council and a business agent with
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: the International Union of Operating Engineers Local five six four,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: commented on the strike.
• 53:09
  Speaker 21: Well, Aceland presented a last, best and final offall on
• 53:12
  Speaker 21: our contract renewal on June or twenty second, and.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: The membership over overwhelmingly rejected.
• 53:18
  Speaker 21: It and the company didn't want to go back to
• 53:20
  Speaker 21: the table.
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: So long strike.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: What's still on? Some of the issues that's going on?
• 53:23
  Speaker 21: Many it's a safety issue. We want operators and maintenance
• 53:28
  Speaker 21: cross crafts and do each other's work. We don't feel
• 53:31
  Speaker 21: that safe, and the chemical parents not, especially in Texas City.
• 53:34
  Speaker 21: We all know the dangers in Texas City when chemical
• 53:37
  Speaker 21: utilities cut corners on safety.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: What do you?
• 53:40
  Speaker 16: What do you?
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: How long you guys been out here.
• 53:42
  Speaker 21: We've been out here nine days, yes, sir, And this
• 53:44
  Speaker 21: is an unfair labor practice strike. The company broke the
• 53:47
  Speaker 21: law at the bargaining table, and we filed charge of.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: The NRB to prove that.
• 53:52
  Speaker 21: How's that going, Well, it's a process, you know, it
• 53:55
  Speaker 21: takes a while.
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: You just started filing grievous. This takes a long time. Sure, Yeah,
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: that's a whole other story, that's right.
• 54:02
  Speaker 21: Yeah, it protects our workers too, you know, have a
• 54:05
  Speaker 21: known for label practice.
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: What's the move? What's that? What's the what's the what's
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: the mood of the guys?
• 54:10
  Speaker 21: They're great, man, everybody's showing up. Uh, No one's laying out.
• 54:14
  Speaker 21: It's it's been great. Solidarity is good. Unions small around
• 54:18
  Speaker 21: the area are coming to help the south.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: So it's been wonderful.
• 54:21
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: How many members on strike?
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Seventy members?
• 54:23
  Speaker 21: Seventy members, seventy members with uh their spread out to
• 54:26
  Speaker 21: be operating engineers, I b w uh u A two
• 54:30
  Speaker 21: eleven and I and the machine is sharing here.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: And how is it? How is it that you guys
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: decided to walk away from the table.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we didn't.
• 54:38
  Speaker 21: We we rejected their offer and the company didn't want
• 54:40
  Speaker 21: to go back to the table, said they were prepared
• 54:42
  Speaker 21: for a try, so we're on try.
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: So the company was prepared for this, I don't know. Yes, yeah,
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: but people don't understand. You know, when you got somebody
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: working working with your work, doing your work, or getting
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: kind of contracted out, that's the whole other.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: St That's right.
• 55:00
  Speaker 21: These guys are hotty skilled and they know their crafts
• 55:03
  Speaker 21: and that's what they should be doing.
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: Are they talking about trying to do that and trying
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: to contract gut which would be just a contract?
• 55:08
  Speaker 21: I would They did try to negotiations to contact out
• 55:11
  Speaker 21: the storeroom and that would displace at least two employees
• 55:14
  Speaker 21: and replace them with contractors.
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: Yes, and that didn't work out for them.
• 55:18
  Speaker 21: Well, no, they rejected the members rejected their offer.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, are they trying to do to try to
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: come in and say, hey, can we come in and
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: get contract workers to come and do this type of work?
• 55:29
  Speaker 21: And they probably will do that later, But the only
• 55:31
  Speaker 21: contract there if they tried to do so far, was
• 55:34
  Speaker 21: the storeroom and these negotiations. But yeah, you know something
• 55:36
  Speaker 21: you all got to be on guard for.
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: And you got lost employees too, right.
• 55:40
  Speaker 21: Yeah, we've got a couple of rounds of layoffs this
• 55:42
  Speaker 21: year so far because productions down in the facility. The
• 55:46
  Speaker 21: plan manager told us that it's during negotiations that production
• 55:50
  Speaker 21: was down sixty seven percent at this facility.
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: And you guys, you guys are told them against these
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: any more any more, guys, that's correct.
• 55:57
  Speaker 21: Well, we don't want to, you know, and we're not
• 55:59
  Speaker 21: asking for money or anything. We're just happening to asking
• 56:01
  Speaker 21: the people we had benefit wise and the cross training
• 56:06
  Speaker 21: and doing the crosscraft work, which we're against for safety.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: And whiles you explaining I know it is, but why
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: don't you explain what that is?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: The crosscraft?
• 56:14
  Speaker 21: Well, they want operators process operators to change valves and gaskets,
• 56:18
  Speaker 21: and they want the machinists to do HiPE fitter work,
• 56:21
  Speaker 21: the pipe fitters to do machinist work and so forth,
• 56:24
  Speaker 21: you know, work they're not trained.
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: To do right. And it was in Texas City. You know,
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: we just had a we just had a fire like
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: a month ago.
• 56:31
  Speaker 21: Yeah, and we've had some bad accidents here and you
• 56:33
  Speaker 21: know that's why we're so careful about this and that's
• 56:35
  Speaker 21: why we have to stand.
• 56:36
  Speaker 7: Up to it.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: In a statement, Ashland spokeswoman Carol Marie Brown said the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: chemical manufacturing company is dedicated to the safety, health and
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: security of our employees, their families, and the communities where
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: we work and live. She said Ashland has taken steps
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: to minimize disruption to its customers and that the company
• 56:56
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