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Scholars Corner: UNDERSTANDING WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: So next is workplace discrimination, which is another topic that's unfortunate,
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  Speaker 3: but I love to I love to talk about it
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  Speaker 3: because I don't think that we realize how much this
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  Speaker 3: actually comes up in the workplace and for you know,
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  Speaker 3: for individuals. So African Americans are six times more likely
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  Speaker 3: than our white counterparts to report workplace discrimination. So this
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  Speaker 3: is actually something that we see a lot of at
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  Speaker 3: my practice at Hall Counseling Services. We have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of black folks that come in and they feel that
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  Speaker 3: they have been discriminated against, but they have no idea
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  Speaker 3: how to fight it. They're not really sure what to
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  Speaker 3: do about it. But they come in and they can
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  Speaker 3: explain and express how it's made them feel. Right, And
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  Speaker 3: so one of the things that we teach, which actually
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  Speaker 3: is not it's not necessarily therapeutic, but I am also
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  Speaker 3: an advocate, so I'm going to educate anytime, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I have the opportunity to, I usually teach people what
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  Speaker 3: to document. Like, so the first thing that people need
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  Speaker 3: to know is when you feel like you're being discriminated
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  Speaker 3: against at work because of your race or for any reason,
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  Speaker 3: but for the purposes of this this session, race, you
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  Speaker 3: need to make sure you're documenting all of those incidents right,
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  Speaker 3: because it needs to be very clear. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: I have a client who comes in and they have
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  Speaker 3: filed a complaint against the EEOC, and you know, essentially
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  Speaker 3: claiming that their job or their manager, supervisor, someone in
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  Speaker 3: the workplace has discriminated against them. You may it may
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  Speaker 3: be true, and usually it is, but you have to
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  Speaker 3: be able to prove it or nothing comes of it. Right,
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to get compensated, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: get any money, no one's going to apologize, and so
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  Speaker 3: when you you know, one example that is a really
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  Speaker 3: clear cut example is when there's a meeting and you
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  Speaker 3: feel like you have a supervisor who really doesn't like you,
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  Speaker 3: and they will just simply not send you the invite
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  Speaker 3: for the meeting, and you realize later that your entire
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  Speaker 3: team has gone to this meeting and you weren't included,
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  Speaker 3: and it's very intentional, especially if you're the only black
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  Speaker 3: person on the team. And so that that is one
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  Speaker 3: of the more like clear ways that we see workplace discrimination.
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  Speaker 3: But there are some other more subtle things i e.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my r EG microaggressions that happen that are
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  Speaker 3: a little bit harder to prove. But those things also
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  Speaker 3: need to be documented because the more the the higher
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  Speaker 3: the frequency of these even microaggressions, the unseen things that
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  Speaker 3: happen to us racially, the stronger the case, right, So
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  Speaker 3: the better off we are when we're trying to foul
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  Speaker 3: a complaint against our jobs. So it's interesting because we
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  Speaker 3: have people reach out all the time and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we heard you guys work on you know, workplace discrimination,
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  Speaker 3: like help me, you know, So we're definitely there for that.
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  Speaker 3: So finally, just to you know, kind of highlight microaggressions,
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  Speaker 3: the number of African Americans who report racial trauma via
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  Speaker 3: microaggressions is equal to the Canadian population, which is thirty
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  Speaker 3: seven million people. Right, so we're talking, we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: ninety percent of the African American populace here in this country,
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  Speaker 3: which is absolutely horrendous. So, you know, it's something that
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  Speaker 3: most of us experience.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I it's interesting because I think that when when black
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  Speaker 3: people see one another, I have people tell me this
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  Speaker 3: often and I experience it too. Sometimes we have an
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  Speaker 3: understanding without even saying anything to one another, and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we're bonded in these traumas.
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  Speaker 4: That we have.
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  Speaker 3: Right, it's like we get it, you know, we know
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  Speaker 3: when someone has maybe treated us differently because we are black.
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  Speaker 3: When we're you know, in a room or at the
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  Speaker 3: store and someone is following you simply because you're black.
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  Speaker 3: That type thing, we know it, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 3: something that we definitely experience way too much. So I
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  Speaker 3: think everybody knows what a microaggression is, but just in
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  Speaker 3: case microracial microaggressions are subtle, they are sometimes intentional or
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  Speaker 3: unintentional assaults, insults and validations that dennigrate or degrade a
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  Speaker 3: minority person do to race, right, So I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty clear definition there. And even though sometimes they're
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  Speaker 3: unintentional or you know, it seems like they might be
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  Speaker 3: more challenging to prove if you are experiencing.
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homes.
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  Speaker 3: In the workplace, I always tell people the only way
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  Speaker 3: you can change something is to fight it right, So
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  Speaker 3: I really love this quote that I have here. It
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  Speaker 3: says nothing. Now, excuse me, Not everything that is face
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  Speaker 3: can be changed, but nothing that can be Nothing can
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  Speaker 3: be changed until it's faced. Going to read that over again.
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  Speaker 3: Not everything that is face can be changed, but nothing
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  Speaker 3: can be changed until it is faced. Right, So we
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  Speaker 3: can't do anything about a situation unless we actually fight
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  Speaker 3: it right, and we have this misperception misconception both of
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  Speaker 3: those sometimes that if you can't see a problem, you
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  Speaker 3: can't solve it. Well, microaggressions oftentimes you can't see them.
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  Speaker 3: But again, if you're documenting, if you have appropriate examples,
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  Speaker 3: it certainly helped to make your point, to make your
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  Speaker 3: case to other people around you. So something that we
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  Speaker 3: need to know is that many trauma survivors hold their
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  Speaker 3: breath and their bodies tightly, bracing themselves for whatever is
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  Speaker 3: coming next. So this is the hypervigilance that Robert Carter
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  Speaker 3: measures on the RBT triple S skill. So that hypervigilance
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  Speaker 3: is there, and it's something that you know, we experience
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  Speaker 3: all the time due to these microaggressions that we're that
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  Speaker 3: you know are kind of imposed on us on a
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  Speaker 3: regular basis. And then lastly, it's important to know that
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  Speaker 3: there's a clear link between experiences of racial microaggressions and
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  Speaker 3: negative mental health outcomes. So no surprise there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the previous slides have made very clear, all
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  Speaker 3: of those symptoms that can be a result of racism.
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  Speaker 3: So here I want to talk about specific types of trauma,
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  Speaker 3: and I would say these are specific types of of
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  Speaker 3: racial trauma. And some of these you probably both of them.
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  Speaker 3: Actually you probably have heard or maybe it's come across
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  Speaker 3: your radars somehow before. Intergenerational trauma is trauma that isn't
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  Speaker 3: just experienced by one person, but it extends to from
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  Speaker 3: one generation to the next. Right, So I have these
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  Speaker 3: examples here the Great Depression COVID nineteen. But specifically in
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  Speaker 3: talking about racism, you know, our parents, our grandparents, our
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  Speaker 3: great grandparents have had these you know, terrible experiences and
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  Speaker 3: they really are passed down from generation to generation. When
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  Speaker 3: you think about how we raise our children, right, what
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  Speaker 3: are the conversations that we have with our black boys,
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  Speaker 3: with our black girls, Right, we tell them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how to behave when they interact with a police officer
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  Speaker 3: if they're pulled over, or how to behave when they
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  Speaker 3: just go out in public period, you know, even just
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  Speaker 3: going to school, there's a certain conversation that we usually
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  Speaker 3: have with our kids. That conversation wasn't just created by us,
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  Speaker 3: although I'm sure we would love to take credit for it.
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  Speaker 3: Those conversations were passed down through our relatives. You know,
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  Speaker 3: our parents have the conversation with us, their parents have
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  Speaker 3: the conversation with them, you know, and they are traumatic.
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  Speaker 3: I truly and firmly believe that they're conversations that are needed,
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  Speaker 3: but they are traumatic. When you're telling a child that
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  Speaker 3: they may be treated differently from somebody else because of
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  Speaker 3: how they look, there's trauma involved in it. The other
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  Speaker 3: type of trauma is ancestral trauma that has passed through
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  Speaker 3: lineage and ancestors. So you know, this is more even
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  Speaker 3: more of a macro type of trauma. So we're thinking,
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  Speaker 3: you know, movement so to speak, you know, slavery, Holocaust,
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  Speaker 3: errors that we have in this world, and so through
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  Speaker 3: this type of trauma, you know, we pass on through
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  Speaker 3: genetics and social learning and conditioning different things that were
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  Speaker 3: experienced through slavery. And I get a little upset sometimes
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  Speaker 3: because people say, you know, I'm so tired of hearing
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  Speaker 3: black people talk about slavery like this happens such a
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  Speaker 3: long time ago. What else can we do for them?
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  Speaker 3: What else do they want? And those people do not
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  Speaker 3: understand the impact that slavery has had on our community.
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  Speaker 3: You can't just get away from colonizing so many people,
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  Speaker 3: pulling them away from their families and taking them to
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  Speaker 3: another country, beating them, forcing them to work for you,
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  Speaker 3: raping our women, you know, all of these things that
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  Speaker 3: happen that doesn't just go away, you know, and people
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  Speaker 3: don't understand the impact that that has on our entire
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  Speaker 3: culture and race.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Sometimes an illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: child in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: Salvador accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: with filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: just some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: President Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: you are here illegally, your next you will be fined
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: will never return. But if you register using our CBP
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: home app and leave now, you could be allowed to
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: America's laws, border and families will be protected.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,