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DHS Releases Chilling Video: What Really Happened Before the ICE Shooting? (Ep 633) · Joey Hudson / Just The Truth

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Welcome in. As we start a new week, glad to have you spend a few minutes of your day with me.
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DHS shared new video on its X account that appeared to be three and a half minutes of
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footage taken by a citizen from inside a nearby home showing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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officers and multiple vehicles out in the street being stalked by Renee Good just prior to her
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fatal confrontation last week. We have the latest on this ongoing investigation. Also, the Trump
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administration is fighting back on the narrative that the mainstream media is using in Minnesota.
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Trump officials say they have arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens since kicking off
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the largest immigration enforcement operation ever deployed in Minneapolis, including monsters
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convicted of heinous crimes like murder, sodomy, and raping children. We also have an update on
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what's happening in Iran, where Iranian authorities have mercilessly slaughtered more than 500 people
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in a ruthless crackdown on the nationwide anti-regime uprising in what human rights
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groups have warned is a state-sponsored massacre in progress. And should 16-year-olds be able to
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get married in South Carolina? That's the question state legislators are asking. We have a lot to
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cover. Let's get started. I told you we'd be back. And you shall know the truth, and the truth
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Let your voice be heard. The truth shall set you free. Here's Joey Hudson.
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The story out of Minneapolis has got a whole lot more complicated, and frankly, a lot more
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revealing. Let's start with Borders Are Tom Holman, who appeared on Fox News Sunday, where
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host Shannon Bream asked about his latest thoughts on the investigation and where it is presently.
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Immediately after the shooting, you said that it would be unprofessional to comment on what
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I think happened in that situation. Let the investigation play out and hold people accountable
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based on that investigation. Since that time, we've seen a lot more evidence come out,
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including cell phone video from the officer who shot Renee Good. What is your assessment now?
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Look, you know, when I did that interview, I went straight from an airplane,
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tarmac to that interview. So when someone shows me one video, cherry pick video,
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ask me to comment, I just think it's inappropriate for me to do so. But look,
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I've since then, I've looked at a bunch of videos. And I believe I truly believe that officer
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thought his life was in danger to take that action. Now, look, we won't let the investigation
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play out. You know, there's a lot of things that we all don't know. There's probably a lot of video
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we haven't seen, but the FBI has even ring video. What's the statement from the officer? What's the
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statement from the witnesses? What's ballistics? Ballistics, you know, I'm sure they're looking at
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ballistics in the forensics. There's a lot of information that's come out. So I'm still going
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to say, let's stop the hateful rhetoric. You can't compare this to murder. Murder requires malice.
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And that is just dangerous to put that type of language out. Let the investigation play out
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and see where it lies. Now, over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security
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released new video footage showing the minutes leading up to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole
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Goode by a federal immigration agent. And whether you support ICE or oppose it, which I can't imagine
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why you would, but let's just try to be fair about this. Whether you like President Trump's
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immigration policies or not, the video matters. For days now, the public conversation has been
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dominated by a single version of events that a woman was suddenly and unjustly shot during an
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ICE operation with little explanation and no justification. Protests, as you know, have erupted.
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Politicians have rushed to microphones. Accusations flew. We saw protests in cities all around the
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country. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye went so far as to tell federal agents to get out of his city.
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I cleaned that up considerably. But now we have video, a lot of video, not a press release,
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not a talking point, but actual footage, and it raises additional serious questions.
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The footage shared by DHS is about three and a half minutes long. It appears to have been recorded
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by a private citizen from inside a nearby home. It shows ICE agents and multiple vehicles positioned
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on this residential street. You hear a car horn blasting repeatedly. You hear someone blowing a
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whistle over and over and over. You see vehicles stopped, blocked, boxed in. And at one point,
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the camera pans to Ms. Good's Honda Pilot sitting in the middle of the street. This was not a calm,
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static scene. According to DHS, the video shows what they describe as ongoing interference with
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a federal law enforcement operation. Not a split-second encounter, but escalating behavior
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over a period of time. DHS didn't mince words. They said the woman was stalking and impeding
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the operation. And there'd been a lot more happening prior to the actual fatal confrontation.
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They accused activists of deliberately disrupting law enforcement. They blasted the media for what
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they say is incomplete and misleading reporting. We know that's what the media does best. Now,
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you don't have to accept DHS's framing wholesale. A skepticism of government, I guess, is healthy
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to a degree. But you also can't pretend this footage does not exist. Here's the key issue.
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This incident did not come out of nowhere. The dominant narrative suggested the shooting
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happened suddenly, without warning, without provocation, without context. That narrative
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shaped public outrage before any facts were actually known. All we know was that an ICE agent
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shot what the protesters were saying was an innocent woman. The video shows a buildup.
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It shows agitation. It shows disruption. It shows tension escalating, not dissipating.
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And that matters when you evaluate the claim of self-defense. Federal officials say the agent
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fired after Goode allegedly drove her vehicle towards officers. DHS and ICE have characterized
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as a self-defense tactic, even used the phrase domestic terrorism by using her vehicle,
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turning her vehicle into a weapon, a weapon that could have cost the agent his life.
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Now, reasonable people can disagree on various parts of the story. But what's no longer reasonable
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is pretending this was a calm, peaceful moment that turned violent out of the blue. This had
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been building. She had been agitating them for quite some time that day. And it brings us to a
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bigger issue, the media. DHS flat out accused legacy media of failing the American people.
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Now, that's a that's a strong charge, but it's not coming out of thin air.
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How many Americans heard about the protests before they heard about the interference?
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How many heard politicians condemning ICE before they saw some of the video that we've been able
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to see since that tragic day? How many headlines ran with outrage before they even looked at the
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evidence, automatically assuming that ICE had done something wrong? This isn't about defending ICE at
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all costs. It's about asking why full context consistently arrives late after opinions have
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already been formed by many. By the time video shows up, the narrative has hardened because
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you've seen it across the headlines and all the networks, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, all the networks
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have already automatically condemned ICE. By the time facts emerge, the outrage has already
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done its work. And that's a problem, not just for this case, but for public trust in general.
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Now, Mayor Jacob Fry, you heard him last week. He's been at the center of this firestorm,
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loudly opposing ICE, accusing federal agents of making the city less safe. He dismissed DHS's
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self-defense claim as garbage. But here's the uncomfortable reality for city leaders like him.
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You can oppose federal immigration enforcement. You can criticize ICE policy. You can argue for
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sanctuary protections, but you do not get to ignore what happens on the street when federal officers
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are surrounded, blocked, and interfered with during an operation. Because when rhetoric escalates,
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behavior often follows. And that's what we saw when officials tell activists that ICE doesn't
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belong. Some people take it as a green light to intervene themselves, to try to keep ICE from
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doing their jobs. That's when things spiral out of control. That's what we saw last week. That's
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what we've seen in some other situations around the country. And let us be clear about this.
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A woman is dead now because of it. She felt like that she was doing, in Governor Tim Walsh's mind,
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her patriotic duty for being out there trying to interfere with an ICE operation. She lost her life
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over it. Now it's created a firestorm. But the other thing that you have to ask yourself is,
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how many times are we going to go down this path over something that's happened in Minneapolis?
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We saw the world turn upside down over the George Floyd situation. It's like it's repeating
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itself now over a demonstration protest over immigration. Minneapolis should not be able,
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or should not be allowed, to take us back down that path of destruction like we saw happen during
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George Floyd. We got to stop this now, get back on board, and support ICE and the job that they do.
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Start the new year off right and fix your weight loss. Before we leave Minneapolis,
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you know, I just wish people would calm down for a minute and look at what ICE is actually
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doing there and anywhere, any of these cities that ICE is carrying out these immigration
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enforcement actions. The incident sits at the crossroads of national tensions,
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immigration enforcement, protest culture, federal versus local authority,
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media credibility, political rhetoric that's increasingly incendiary. When ICE operations
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are treated as illegitimate by local officials, enforcement becomes more dangerous for anybody
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involved. When activists are encouraged to physically disrupt law enforcement, consequences
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will follow. And when the media picks sides before evidence erodes public trust,
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in everybody, law enforcement and the media. And you have to understand, the Trump administration
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is doing their job. ICE agents are doing their job in Minneapolis. They have arrested and the
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Trump administration released some of the data to support this over the weekend as well. They've
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arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens since what they kicking off what they're calling
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the largest immigration enforcement operation ever deployed in Minneapolis, including monsters
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convicted of some very horrible crimes. Immigration and custom enforcement officials
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announced the latest round of what it called the worst criminal offenders in the world,
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while blasting local officials for upholding policies that have made the Twin Cities a magnet
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for vicious predators. You would think that the people of Minneapolis would want these people out
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of their community rather than trying to disrupt what ICE is doing. Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh,
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye are encouraging this bad behavior with their rhetoric of lawlessness
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while their sanctuary policies continue to ensure that the worst of the worst criminal aliens flock
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to their areas. Why? Why would they want these people in their community? The agency which sent
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over 2,000 officers to Minneapolis in the last week alone also hit out at violent rioters and
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agitators for trying to protect these criminals by interfering and obstructing. Some of the worst
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of the worst. Let me just read to you some of the information that was released on these criminal
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legal aliens. Now, the names I may not get right, but I'm going to give it a try.
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Siridorne Favon, a Laotian national convicted of strong-arm sodomy of a boy and strong-arm
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sodomy of a girl, as well as another aggravated sex offense, nine counts of larceny, four counts
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of fraud, and a spate of other burglary, drug, and theft offenses. Now, this is the type of person
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that Governor Tim Walz is defending. Tu Vang, a criminal illegal alien from Laos,
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who has been convicted of sexual assault and sodomy of a girl under the age of 13
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and procuring a child for prostitution. This is who Mayor Jacob Fry is defending.
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Xiong Vu, also from Laos, with convictions for strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old girl,
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kidnapping a child with intent to sexually assault her, and vehicle theft. Gabriel Fierro Gama,
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a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, who was previously removed from the U.S. in 2002,
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later convicted of homicide, battery, assault, and amphetamine possession. And the mayor,
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again, would rather Ice not be in his city. In fact, just told Ice to get out of his city
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because he's okay with Mr. Gama being in his city, I guess.
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Abra Deshaw Adosh Elmi, a Somali national convicted of homicide. I mean, they've got
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murderers in that community, and they're upset that Ice is coming and picking them up and
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deporting them, sending them back home. Abra Deshaw Muhammad Ahmad, a criminal illegal alien,
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again from Somalia, convicted of two counts of negligent manslaughter with a vehicle,
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two counts of DUI, larceny, and damage to property. Gilberto Landaverde, a Salvadorian
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national and illegal immigrant who has been convicted of homicide, not once, not twice,
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but three times. And Governor Tim Walz is okay with him being in Minnesota.
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Mariama Sa Kanu of Sierra Leone, who has been convicted of two counts of homicide, four DUIs,
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three counts of larceny, and burglary. Tai Lora, a criminal illegal alien from Laos,
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with a final order of removal from June 15, 2009, who has been convicted of two counts
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of homicide. Arresting and deporting these people is absolutely critical to national security.
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Why anyone would want them in our country, and why anyone would not be applauding Ice
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for making sure that these people leave our country. Wallace and Fry, they've been very vocal
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opponents of Ice's operations in the state. Even when the offenders being rounded up
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have numerous convictions for horrific violent crimes, they're okay with it. Mayor Fry puffed
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up his chest, told Ice to get out of Minneapolis. And again, I clean that up. In an expletive-filled
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press conference, right after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent,
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when she veered her SUV into the path and tried to run over him.
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Governor Wallace has called immigration enforcement efforts in the state reckless,
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and has compared ICE agents to the Gestapo. Because they're getting these murderers,
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these rapists, out of their cities and out of their state, out of our country.
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Speaking on Fox News yesterday, U.S. Border Czar Tom Holman accused the media of normalizing people
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interfering with ICE operations. And that's exactly what they've done. It's like, you know,
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it's your constitutional right, and as Governor Wallace says, it's your patriotic duty to get
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out there and protest, to try to interfere with ICE, because they're getting murderers out of
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our community. Now, this is good as long as, along with many others in their communities,
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they receive training, some of these protesters, with a so-called ICE watch, to learn tactics for
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disrupting agents' work. This is criminal. It is criminal for them to be allowed to continue
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to try to disrupt ICE and what they're doing. Mr. Holman told Shannon Breen,
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we need to enforce the law and arrest these bad guys. We've already arrested over 1,000
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people in Minnesota, and we're going to continue to do exactly that, as they should, as they
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should. I mean, what am I missing here? Is there any scenario where people should be allowed to
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interfere with any law enforcement operation, particularly ICE? Email me, joeyjoeyhudson.com.
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Well, speaking of protests, let's turn overseas now, because what's happening in Iran
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is kind of horrifying. Numbers keep getting worse by the hour. Human rights groups are now
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warning that more than 500 people have been killed in Iran over the past two weeks as the
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regime launches what is being called a brutal crackdown on the nationwide anti-government
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protest. Let that sink in. 500 people, many of them young, many of them civilians, gunned down
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by their own government. According to human rights activists in Iran, security forces
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are firing live ammunition into the middle of crowds, dragging bodies away in trucks,
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arresting thousands. More than 10,600 people have reportedly been detained,
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and former U.S. military officials are warning many of those prisoners could be executed.
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Now, some of these protesters in Minneapolis who think they haven't been treated fairly,
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maybe they should go try their protesting skills in Iran, see what it gets them over there.
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Eyewitnesses inside Tehran have described scenes that sound like a war zone. Have you seen some of
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the video that's leaked out as well? Blood in the streets. Hospitals, we're told, are overwhelmed.
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Their bodies are just literally piling up because they have nowhere to put them.
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And this is all happening while the Iranian regime has shut down the internet nationwide to
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keep the outside world from seeing what's really going on. So we're not getting clear pictures.
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You certainly aren't getting videos posted on Instagram and Facebook and TikTok like we have
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been out of Minnesota because the government shut it down. Again, these protesters around the
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country, they think that they're being crucified here in the U.S. Go try that in Iran, see where
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it gets you. Iran's attorney general didn't exactly try to soften things either. He labeled
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protesters enemies of God, which in Iran means one thing, the death penalty. They're going to kill
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them. They could end up having public executions. Of course, you can't get any
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more public than just shooting them out in the middle of the street. Human rights organizations
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are now openly saying that a state-sponsored massacre is unfolding. Reports describe snipers,
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the use of drones, rubber bullets aimed at protesters eyes to intentionally blind them,
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and even military-grade weapons being used on civilians. Now the pressure is building
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around the world as people are watching this. Retired Army General Jack Keane
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says that President Trump should give the regime one final warning before taking direct action
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against Iranian leaders responsible for the violence. His words, if this continues,
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take down the people giving the orders. Now, I hate to see these people lose their life. I hate
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to see this country in such turmoil, but I gotta tell you, I'm a little torn on just how involved
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we need to get. Boy, I mean, it's like the whole world is falling apart. We got the situation in
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Venezuela. Now Iran, we're still looking at Ukraine. Things aren't totally taken care of in
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Gaza. There's a lot of unrest, and that doesn't even mention Minneapolis and Oregon, Portland,
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Oregon, and the things that are going on here at home. President Trump, for his part, has made it
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pretty clear when it comes to Iran, if the regime starts shooting protesters, the U.S. just won't
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sit back and watch, he said. Meanwhile, Iran's Supreme Leader is responding with the usual
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threats, promising retaliation against U.S. bases if America intervenes. At what point,
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and again, I'd love to get your take on this, text me, email me, joe at joeyhudson.com,
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And again, the pressure is building. President Trump has made it clear. Meanwhile,
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you know, we're being threatened by the Iran leaders that if we do get too involved,
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what they're going to do. Weighing in also is Reza Pahlavi, Iran's exiled crown prince, urging
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President Trump not to abandon the Iranian people. He says that President Trump's public support has
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given protesters hope, and he's calling for sustained pressure to help them overthrow the
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regime. Now, not everyone's calling for military strikes. Some Iranian-American groups are urging
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targeted sanctions, international investigations, diplomatic isolation, and help restoring internet
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access to protesters so they can communicate and better organize. Here's the bottom line.
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This is no longer about just economic protest, though. This has turned into a full-scale uprising
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against a regime that's been in power since 1979, and the response has been ruthless,
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violent, and deadly. The world's watching. The clock's ticking, and what happens next
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could shape the future of Iran and the Middle East for generations. We'll continue to watch that.
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Gavin Newsom and the progressives running California have thought all they have to do
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is tax the rich. You know, just tax those billionaires more, and we'll get out of our
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financial problems here in California. The problem with that, and it's something that
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New York City's about to discover, too, billionaires can live anywhere they choose,
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and California's about to learn it the hard way. Venture capitalist Shumuth Phillipopia
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says that California's proposed billionaire tax is accelerating an exodus of ultra-wealthy
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residents, a shift he argues will worsen and not solve the state's budget deficit.
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Now, he says that he's been tracking capital flight from the Golden State and said that
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California has so far lost an estimated $1 trillion in potential taxes because of
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billionaires who've left the state. He wrote on X yesterday,
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We had $2 trillion of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago. Now 50% of that wealth has left,
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taking their income tax revenue, their sales tax revenue, real estate tax revenue,
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and all their staffs and their salaries with them. And we're seeing these countries just say,
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okay, hey, this is how you're going to treat your corporate citizens. We're out of here.
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There are a lot of other states that we can move to, we can set our operations there,
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and they'll appreciate having us there. California has long depended on its billionaire class,
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among the largest in the nation, and they need them to help fund the state budget.
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I mean, why would Gavin Newsom and his little progressive group of people out there,
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do they not understand that billionaires have been reliable taxpayers for all these years?
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This gentleman's comments come as California voters consider a proposed ballot initiative
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that's backed by the Service Employees International Union that would impose a one-time 5% tax
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on the assets of California residents worth more than $1 billion. I mean, you're basically
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targeting, you're creating a tax that only applies to one group of individuals, billionaires.
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Supporters say the revenue could help offset federal funding and cuts for healthcare.
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In December, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he opposed the proposed billionaire tax
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while cautioning against panic over the measure. He said it's not something to be
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panicked about, but it's part of the broader concern and narrative that's developed in this
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country of the haves and have-nots, not just income inequality, but wealth inequality.
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He told this to the New York Times during an interview.
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But the progressives in the California Assembly have continued regardless. For once,
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Gavin Newsom seems to be the one with the common sense. Is he going to let the Assembly
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institute this and drive the billionaires out of the state? We'll be watching, we'll see.
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furmanford.com, furmanford.com. Here's a question for you. Should 16 and 17-year-olds
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be allowed to marry in South Carolina? Here's the story. In South Carolina, 16 and 17-year-olds
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can't smoke, they can't open a credit card line of credit, or they can't vote,
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but they can get married under a law that some legislators and advocates are trying to change.
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Until 2019, a loophole in the state law allowed judges to issue marriage licenses to children
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of any age if they were pregnant or gave birth, allowing thousands to get married over the course
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of two decades. A law passed that year made clear that only those 16 and up could get married
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with parental permission. But as more states do away with underage marriage altogether,
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some are pushing South Carolina to set a firm floor of 18 years old. What do you think about
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that? Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto is trying again to get a bill that he's proposed during
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every two-year session since 2019. He's trying to get it past the finish line this year.
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The proposal didn't get a hearing during last year's legislative session.
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He's trying to change that. He said, I think that marriage is one of the biggest decisions anyone
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will ever make. It should be done by someone whose mind is fully developed. Teenagers don't
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magically wake up more mature on their 18th birthday than they were on their 17th, said Alex
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Goyeta with the Terrera Justice Center, who advocates for bills raising the minimum marriage
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age. But 18-year-olds have more opportunities than 17-year-olds. As someone who's considered
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an adult by law, an 18-year-old can hire a lawyer, can sign other legal documents on their own.
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Finding an apartment is easier, as is finding a full-time job. All good points. He said that's
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really important for someone who's trying to resist an unwanted marriage or to leave an abusive
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situation. Now, since Delaware became the first state to set the minimum age of 18, they did it
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back in 2018, 15 other states have followed suit. This according to the Washington, D.C.-based
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non-profit center, which works to protect women from violence and help victims. Five of those
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states did so just this past year. South Carolina is one of 20 states that allows people as young as
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16 to get married. Six states allow marriages as young as 15 or don't have an age limit at all.
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Now, the biggest challenge that these advocacy groups face is time, they say. Bills about the
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state's legal marrying age generally aren't among legislature's top priorities, making it more
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difficult to get a hearing scheduled amid the, you know, you got the chaos of a part-time legislative
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session in a two-year session. The issue is an important one, though, and with potential
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far-reaching impacts, he said. Girls married before turning 18 are more likely to face domestic abuse
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than their counterparts, according to studies by the Justice Center. Marrying young often
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separates girls from support networks that they might otherwise form through school, maybe their
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friends or family, and making it more difficult for many to get help. Goyette says that underage
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brides are less likely to finish high school or to attend college, more likely to live in poverty,
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and more susceptible to long-term mental and physical health problems, again according to the
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Justice Center. Goyette said this obviously has devastating lifelong harms. You know, I never had
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really even thought about how young you could be in South Carolina to get married, had you?
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I mean, it's sort of a southern joke that people get married younger down here,
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and look, you used to hear about stories of, I mean, my parents got married when they were like 17.
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And that was common during that period of time. But you have to ask yourself,
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you know, at what point is this something that government should be more involved in?
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According to the Justice Center, between 70 percent and 80 percent of marriages that include someone
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under the age of 18 end in divorce. And I don't doubt that, because you think about, you know,
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you're 16, you're 17 years old, you're not mature, you've got a lot of life left to live, and
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you just don't know, you just haven't been exposed to things. And you're sometimes forced
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into this relationship or pressured into it, and you're not mature enough to stand up for yourself.
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And then, as you do get older, you realize you made a mistake.
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Mr. Goyette said these are not the foundational lifelong partnerships that we like to think of
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when we're talking about a marriage. As more states raise the legal age for marriage,
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Mr. Goyette warns that people could start traveling to South Carolina to take advantage of its pretty
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lax laws about marrying underage. I never thought about that. It's kind of like, you know, people
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go to Vegas to get married there. People could start coming, these young people, 16, 17-year-olds,
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could start coming to South Carolina just to get married. Some of South Carolina's neighboring
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states have already approved stricter laws. For example, Georgia, marriage is limited to those
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who are 18 and older. Tennessee, Tennessee has an age floor of 17. So does Florida. North Carolina
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also has a minimum age of marriage age of 16, but its law includes more safeguards, including
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allowing the other spouse to be no more than four years older and requiring a judge to evaluate
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whether the marriage serves the best interests of the person under 18. I wonder how that process
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works. You're going to get married and you have to plead your case to a judge that you know what
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you're getting into? Wow. South Carolina's laws, according to the Daily Gazette,
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where I saw this article first written about, does not include these safeguards, but could
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prevent some unwanted marriages if that age is raised. As long as a minor's parent signs off,
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any certified official can issue a 16-year-old a marriage license in the Palmetto State.
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Goyette said until every state moves on this issue, kids across the U.S. are in danger. Interesting.
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Is this something that you would call your legislator about? And I can see now how it would
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be hard to get something like this passed, because on the surface you think, well, you know, what's it
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hurting? Sometimes people fall in love at 16, 17. Sometimes it's probably good for them to get
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married. And look, some of those marriages last. Again, I use my parents as an example. They got
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married when they were 17 and lasted until my father passed away a few years ago. So it's not
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likely that they're always going to fail. But as the stats show us, they're more likely to fail
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than if you wait until you're a little bit older. I don't know. What do you think? Email me,
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followed by the Mike Gallagher show, Bill Frady, Charlie James this afternoon. Mark Levin
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