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Fernando Mejia Spared Deportation, A Win For the People By The People! Equal First Aid Report On ADA Compliance to Start ADA WEEK 7-20-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: We have a.
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  Speaker 1: Follow up here on one leg up with Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: We have a follow up. Fernando Mahia, remember the man
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  Speaker 1: who runs Schmear Bagel and cafe right here in Port Washington,
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  Speaker 1: had a major win as announced on July second, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. Yes, two hundred forty nine years after the
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  Speaker 1: declaration of independence where they say all men should be equal. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mahea found his justice two hundred for nine years
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  Speaker 1: later when they won a temporary reprieve from a long
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  Speaker 1: standing deportation order when his attorney filed emotion to delay
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot. This was a report on news Day and
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  Speaker 1: by Port Li Press Patch Port Washington. I mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot of outlets cover this even as I'm working through
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  Speaker 1: the papers here The New York Times and a Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: June twenty fifth, twenty five article titled Nassau County is
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  Speaker 1: sued for working with US immigration agents aka ice. Luis
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  Speaker 1: Ferrey Soderni writes this The suit comes as Long Island,
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  Speaker 1: where immigrants account for about one fifth of the population,
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  Speaker 1: has experienced a visible increase in ice activity in recent
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  Speaker 1: weeks that has prompted protests, he writes, including a rally
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, which was going to be June twenty eighth
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  Speaker 1: at the time, on Saturday in Port Washington and Long
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  Speaker 1: Islands North Shore, where more than one hundred residents demanded
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  Speaker 1: this was Saturday prior actually demanded the release of Fernando Mahea,
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  Speaker 1: the longtime manager of a popular bagel shop who was
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  Speaker 1: arrested by Ice this month. He was arrested for an overstay.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, as I've said before.
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  Speaker 2: There are people here illegally.
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  Speaker 1: That are doing real crime, like real criminal activity overstaying
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  Speaker 1: of visa. I've sort of softened on. This does not
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  Speaker 1: feel as intense. It's something that Mahia can rectify. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that he won this deportation reprieve because
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  Speaker 1: because he does want to contribute to society. He is
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  Speaker 1: contributing to society. He delivers to my fiance and I
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  Speaker 1: at the door here. We know him, We've talked to him.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a bad guy, and so I'm very excited
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  Speaker 1: that he won the reprieve. More importantly, it's very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The New York Times picked up on this story as well.
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  Speaker 1: Following a June twenty first protest in favor of.
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  Speaker 2: Mahia. And this is why community matters.
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  Speaker 1: Look, we can talk about all the division that the
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  Speaker 1: media so, but when the community comes together like that,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I love America. That is the spirit of America.
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  Speaker 1: Community always wins out over government. I will always say
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  Speaker 1: that the founding fathers did not intend for a big
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  Speaker 1: government to rule our lives. They intended for communities to
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  Speaker 1: rule America. It's for the people, by the people. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they write. For the people, by the people, not
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  Speaker 1: government entities. And while I have always liked what Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman is doing, and I agree that there should be
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  Speaker 1: a crackdown on violent illegals, not those that oversay visus
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  Speaker 1: because those can be rectified. Those can be rectified. But
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  Speaker 1: should NASA County collaborate with ICE in the way they
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  Speaker 1: have Civil liberty unions say no. I say there should
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  Speaker 1: be a presence of ICE if needed. However, a collaborative
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  Speaker 1: effort like that where they're literally partnering just to make
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  Speaker 1: Trump happy, that doesn't feel good to me.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't sound good to me.
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  Speaker 1: And it was interesting that this all happened around July second,
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  Speaker 1: because a day after, on July third, they approved the
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  Speaker 1: Big Beautiful Bill, and there were two Republicans that said no.
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  Speaker 1: And I hadn't really unveiled this thought, but when I
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  Speaker 1: was watching the fireworks on July fourth, love of country, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but it just was a bit sad that they were
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  Speaker 1: signing this bill in to affect that same day that
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  Speaker 1: we're stripping different, you know, kind of accesses to Medicaid,
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  Speaker 1: because I believe while they're trying to root out the
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  Speaker 1: Medicaid for those here illegally, they're also rooting Medicaid for
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  Speaker 1: Americans that are here, born here. And don't forget the
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  Speaker 1: SNAP program, which can use a lot of change also,
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  Speaker 1: but don't strip it away. And so as the fireworks
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  Speaker 1: were going off as President Trump was signing this big
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bill, I couldn't help that this is not what
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  Speaker 1: the Founding fathers wanted. There is much more work to do,
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  Speaker 1: and this reprieve to find out about. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: July twentieth and I'm reporting on it now, but to
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  Speaker 1: find out about it now gives me hope that when
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  Speaker 1: the community and for the people really come to life,
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  Speaker 1: that is what the Founding fathers wanted, the community efforts,
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  Speaker 1: not the government telling us what to do. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we got away from in two hundred forty nine years ago.
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  Speaker 1: We also got away from judges ruling for the whole land.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying that, but it's true. But we didn't
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  Speaker 1: go from independence from Britain to be told what to
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  Speaker 1: do by a bigger government. The government should be working
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  Speaker 1: with us, not against us. And in this case, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like they were working against this hard worker, Fernando Mahia,
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  Speaker 1: by detaining him and making his life hell. I know
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  Speaker 1: that he had attorneys, he had legal fees. There will
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  Speaker 1: be gofund me signs all over Port Washington for him.
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  Speaker 2: But here to announce.
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  Speaker 1: On July twentieth, in case you're here already, Fernando Mahia
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  Speaker 1: has won a deportation reprieve as of July second. That
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  Speaker 1: is major and I'll have all the details in the
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  Speaker 1: description below. But this is one case where you can
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  Speaker 1: have one lego, where the justice and can have one
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  Speaker 1: lego for those hard workers, one case at a time,
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  Speaker 1: though not across the land, as some Vegian judges have
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  Speaker 1: felt the need to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we have one leg up is by reporting
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  Speaker 1: these winds for those in our communities, not just on
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  Speaker 1: a wide scale thing, but right here in Port Washington,
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  Speaker 1: or in Queens, or in the Bronx, or in Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: or New York.
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  Speaker 2: City, because those winds, those community efforts will let us
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  Speaker 2: have one leg up for America as we had into
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  Speaker 2: year two fifty, as we head into year two fifty.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to report on another story, but I'll
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  Speaker 1: leave that for another day because that's a lot more intense.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to end this week with some good news,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to also preview that I'll be proved
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  Speaker 1: using the Able newsletter for July. It is the thirty
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  Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of the ADA coming up this July twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and I just got worried that Texas
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  Speaker 1: has become the first state to become ADA compliant with
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  Speaker 1: airway clearance devices. Thank you Tony about in Equal First
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  Speaker 1: Aid for telling me about this. As now in Texas
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  Speaker 1: there will be devices placed like life back placed in
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  Speaker 1: every public and private school to prevent school choking trategedies.
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  Speaker 1: Congrats on Texas for being this first state to have
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  Speaker 1: one leg up on this and being ADA compliant.
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  Speaker 2: And she'd like.
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  Speaker 1: Those who know about this now to joinforces with Equal
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  Speaker 1: First Aid to help make your schools safe and compliant
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  Speaker 1: as well. We'll create a graphic for her and Equal
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  Speaker 1: First Aid to be debuted tomorrow. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: break that news to you as well. The Texas First
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  Speaker 1: they had become ADA compliant when it comes to that
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  Speaker 1: airway clearance devices allowance across schools in Texas. So another
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  Speaker 1: big win there. But I want to say, speaking of ADA,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be perusing able News and finding out some
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  Speaker 1: of the best and top leaders in the disabled community.
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  Speaker 1: They're all top leaders, but who really I've seen Judy Newman,
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  Speaker 1: of course, doctor Viscardi. I gotta highlight Chris Rose. I
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  Speaker 1: mean his rise to become president of the Viscarti Center
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  Speaker 1: is really special as well. Joe Salonica. I mean, here's
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  Speaker 1: a guy who has been continuing his work not only
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  Speaker 1: as a coach, but as a advocate up in Albany
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  Speaker 1: for kids at Viscardi School. We'll talk maybe with him
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  Speaker 1: or about him this week and others that Able News
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  Speaker 1: is highlighting as we go along. Look, they told me
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  Speaker 1: to start tomorrow at I keep saying today's tomorrow in
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  Speaker 1: covering those disabilities, especially as we hit the thirty fifth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the Ada, which doctor Viscardi was a big,
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker 1: He's been photographed with a lot of presidents over his life,
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  Speaker 1: coming up, the EIGHTYA coverage coming up this week on
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  Speaker 1: one leg up with Alex Garrett and a win for
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  Speaker 1: Port Washington. As Shmeir Bagel and Cafe has nanda he
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  Speaker 1: is deportation should order temporarily reprieve, meaning he can stay
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully he comes back and helps out smear Bageling Cafe,
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  Speaker 1: and we can all congratulate him on this win. And
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  Speaker 1: I know, as I said watching the fireworks on July second,
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  Speaker 1: July fourth, there's so much more work to do to make.
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  Speaker 2: It so
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  Speaker 1: This country is for the people, by the people, as
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  Speaker 1: the founding fathers wanted now two hundred and forty nine
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  Speaker 1: years ago,