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ICE raid at Meat Plant and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: It's on Prime Video, by the way, if you if
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  Speaker 1: you like stuff like that. It's very interesting talking about this,
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  Speaker 1: this raid of the Omaha meat processing plan. Glenn Valley Foods,
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  Speaker 1: and the owner stands by, stands by the story. We
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  Speaker 1: did everything right. We did the background checks, the e verify,
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  Speaker 1: we did all that. They presented their documents. We hired him.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea I was I was employing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent of my workforce was illegal. But that's what
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  Speaker 1: he found out in an ice raid. Whether you believe
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  Speaker 1: him or not, Pat called earlier. He says, the meat
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  Speaker 1: industry is just dirty and they know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but let's say, let's
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  Speaker 1: say pass right. There are other industries out there, probably
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  Speaker 1: caught in the same thing. You know, there's plenty of
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  Speaker 1: businesses out there that are a mom and pop maybe
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  Speaker 1: graduated high school, but maybe not just just folks making
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  Speaker 1: a living. Maybe they run a logistics service and have
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  Speaker 1: truck drivers that they employee, or maybe they maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: a farm. They bought some land and they got a farm,
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  Speaker 1: they got some some hands work in the farm. Just
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  Speaker 1: basic folks and they think they're obeying the law, and
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  Speaker 1: then something like that happens. Should we, as reasonable people
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  Speaker 1: not at least have the conversation that these small businesses
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  Speaker 1: might deserve some sort of compensation to keep the business
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  Speaker 1: alive when they lose all of those employees and they've
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  Speaker 1: got to hire, you know, when you got to rehire
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  Speaker 1: seventy percent of your workforce, man, that's going to take
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. And especially a small business, or
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  Speaker 1: especially a small business in a small town, that maybe
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  Speaker 1: what keeps the dollars flowing there for all. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's unreasonable to at least have that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eighty six h two one
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  Speaker 1: WTVN Dipper, you're on six to ten do w UTVN.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Pat, Pat was correct. As a truck driver, I'd
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  Speaker 4: go to all these different places. I'd go a lot
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  Speaker 4: of dairy farms. I done some work with some of
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  Speaker 4: the lot, a lot of the construction industry, and I
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  Speaker 4: would say ninety percent of the employees I run across
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  Speaker 4: are Hispanic or other nationalities. So usually I know in
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  Speaker 4: the in the beef industry, I think there's like four
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  Speaker 4: major ones, and I know, like the big ones, like
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  Speaker 4: National Beef out of Liberal Kansas. They got a pretty
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  Speaker 4: big one. I know on the West side Columbus, I
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  Speaker 4: think you have Virtual Wood Foods. I used to do
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  Speaker 4: service for them. They do a pretty good job in verifying,
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  Speaker 4: but they all know. I think these big ones know
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  Speaker 4: that the SOD Security number they're given don't match up.
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  Speaker 4: If the person can't speak a lick of English, you know,
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  Speaker 4: darn will that that is not a valid Social Security number.
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  Speaker 4: And unfortunately, for years we've we've looked the other way.
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  Speaker 4: The federal governments looked the other way because big businesses
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  Speaker 4: the bodies in there, and so everyone looks the other
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  Speaker 4: way and that has been the game. So now we
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  Speaker 4: need to clean it up.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, dipper on putting aside every business
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  Speaker 1: that you know to be dirty. Mom and pop family
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  Speaker 1: farm employees, fifty people did their e check. They don't
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  Speaker 1: know ice from a hole in the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: They think they're doing the right thing and ice comes
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  Speaker 1: in and takes away forty nine of their fifty people.
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  Speaker 1: Should that family farm be able to say, hey, can
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  Speaker 1: you help us out until we can hire some more
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  Speaker 1: people because we're in trouble here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that was a big issue was a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the Western That's the dirty little thing that the states were.
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  Speaker 4: The Western states were scared when Trump was gonna win
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  Speaker 4: because they knew he was going to force the immigration
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  Speaker 4: laws and they're looking at their workforce. Omahall is a
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  Speaker 4: big example of it. If you look at Omaho, I
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  Speaker 4: bet you that they probably voted for Kamala Harris because
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  Speaker 4: that's the one area that that Nebraska is separate is
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  Speaker 4: Omaha because of it leans a little bit more blue.
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  Speaker 4: I think we're going to have to work a way through.
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  Speaker 4: There's two big issues we have in this country. One
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  Speaker 4: is our young kids don't want to work and The
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  Speaker 4: other problem is past right, you have to start, you know,
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  Speaker 4: making more. Uh, increase your wages, because who wants to
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  Speaker 4: go and butcher cowls for twelve dollars an hour every day?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I got you.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough work.
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  Speaker 1: I got you. I appreciate the call different be safe
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  Speaker 1: out there on the roads. But eight two one nine
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  Speaker 1: six eight two one WTV and Joe, you're on the
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  Speaker 1: Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, hello, Chuck's first time caller.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I worked at a factory on road and growth
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  Speaker 2: there loves that had the same situation. We're eighty percent
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  Speaker 2: of the workforce plus building. How I know they were illegal?
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  Speaker 2: I was friends with the play manager and wrote back
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  Speaker 2: and forth forth with him. They don't care the E file.
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  Speaker 2: All it does is make sure that the name and
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  Speaker 2: social Security numbers. Then we had one gentleman that his
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  Speaker 2: ideas said he was sixty three and he wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: day over twenty. Most of the plans that hire them
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  Speaker 2: don't care. They do what they're supposed to do to
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  Speaker 2: stay legal, but they don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see now, Joe. In that case, I'd have no
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  Speaker 1: sympathy on that company. It's obviously your twenty three year
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  Speaker 1: old man, and the ID says sixty three that company
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  Speaker 1: then intentionally broke the law, and I would have no
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  Speaker 1: sympathy for them whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I worked there for three and a half years,
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  Speaker 2: and I say eighty percent of the population of the
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  Speaker 2: workforce was there dealing. That's all I have.
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  Speaker 1: Thank I appreciate you making this your first time calling Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Please feel free to call back any time.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome here A two one nine at eighty six A
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV. And I you know, I'm not I
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  Speaker 1: am not in any way saying that all businesses are are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, crisp and clean and all that. I know
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  Speaker 1: that there are people out there who take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: any opportunity to cheat the system and pay less to
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  Speaker 1: employees and whatever they can to increase their bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, buy a new boat this summer. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. I just I worry that there are those
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  Speaker 1: there are good guys that are gonna go by the
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  Speaker 1: wayside and take it up the nose because the bad
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  Speaker 1: guys are out there, and I just I hate to
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  Speaker 1: see that. I hate to see the good guys lose
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  Speaker 1: even when they're being the good guys. I know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so blessed idealistic A two onu WTV and is my
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  Speaker 1: number A Debbie R on the Legacy Retirement Group dot
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  Speaker 1: com phone lines.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Hey Chuck, I hate you guys loose too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you, but uh your caller before the Left
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  Speaker 3: I really got to agree with and the way that
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  Speaker 3: young kids today just don't want to work. And it's
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  Speaker 3: not like these folks coming here and when when you
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  Speaker 3: say illegal, it kind of it's got a fine line.
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  Speaker 3: Because these ICE raids have got me really in an
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  Speaker 3: uproar because it's not like they're.
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  Speaker 5: Going out to neighborhoods where drug dealers are dealing drugs
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  Speaker 5: and all that. They're going into places of these mom
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  Speaker 5: and pop places or even you know, big corporations that
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  Speaker 5: these folks they're here illegally with quotation marks around it,
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  Speaker 5: but they're trying to go about it the right way
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  Speaker 5: and get their papers in order, and you know they've
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  Speaker 5: been here for years, they go to a judge and
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  Speaker 5: then they get arrested by ICE. I got a real
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  Speaker 5: big problem with ICE and the way these raids are
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  Speaker 5: being done because you're won you hit a topic, it's
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  Speaker 5: hurting the small business.
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  Speaker 1: We disagree on the quotation marks because I you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you come here illegally, you are here illegally, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's that kind of a cut and dry thing
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 4: There truck, our ancestors came over here illegally, No don't.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't debby because there was no law that defined
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  Speaker 1: legality at that time, so they didn't come here illegally.
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  Speaker 3: I disagree on I wholeheartedly.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: The way they're doing these grids, it's not right.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you calling up to let me know.
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  Speaker 1: You'll you're never going to be told you're wrong. We
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  Speaker 1: can disagree all day long, that's fine, but illegal is
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  Speaker 1: illegal to me, and I just don't want to see
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  Speaker 1: people doing things the right way suffering because of that.