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Immigration is Easy, If You Have a $1M Bribe for Dementia Donnie; Remembering Rod Paige; World Cup Coming - TPN 12/14/25 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of December fourteenth, twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. Ice enforcement raids
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Speaker 1: illegally to port legal immigrants and American citizens. However, if
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Speaker 1: you are rich and corrupt, you can buy your way
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Speaker 1: into the US. The passing of doctor Rod Cage, former
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Speaker 1: Education Secretary Hanikah in Houston. Houston is ready for the
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Speaker 1: Cup College Rugby Championships come back to Houston. All that
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Speaker 1: and more on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This
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Speaker 1: is the People's News, and the People's News starts now.
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Speaker 1: Attacks on immigrants, legal and illegal continue by the corrupt
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Speaker 1: and cruel Trump administration. A college freshman trying to fly
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Speaker 1: from from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a
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Speaker 1: court order. According to her attorney, Lucilla Lopez Beloza, nineteen,
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Speaker 1: had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport
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Speaker 1: on November twentieth, when she was told there was an
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Speaker 1: issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Palmerlieu. The
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Speaker 1: Boston College student was then detained by immigration and within
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Speaker 1: two days sent to Texas, then Honduras, the country she
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Speaker 1: left at age seven. According to US Customs and Immigration Enforcement,
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Speaker 1: and immigration judge ordered Lopez Beloza to ported in twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Palmerlou says she wasn't aware of any removal order, however,
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Speaker 1: and the only record he's found indicates her case was
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Speaker 1: closed in twenty seventeen. However, if you're wealthy and corrupt
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Speaker 1: enough to go ahead and give bribes to the convicted
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Speaker 1: felon and addled seventy nine year old Donald Trump, he's
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Speaker 1: announced the Gold Card was officially going on sale, offering
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Speaker 1: legal status and an expedited pathway to US citizenship for
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Speaker 1: individuals paying a million dollars each. In addition, the Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court is considering Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship,
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Speaker 1: a cornerstone of the US Constitution. A child barely old
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Speaker 1: enough to talk was one of twenty five immigrant children
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Speaker 1: forced to fight removal efforts by the Department of Homeland
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Speaker 1: Security at the Pima County Immigration Courthouse in Tucson on
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Speaker 1: November twenty fourth. Lucy and the other unaccompanied miners who
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Speaker 1: are fighting removal orders must appear in front of the judge,
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Speaker 1: many without the help of a lawyer to defend themselves
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Speaker 1: from accusations of illegal entry into the US. The Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court will hear arguments next year and will likely hand
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Speaker 1: down a discision by the end of June. We discussed
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Speaker 1: all of this with immigration attorney Kate Lincoln Goldfinch.
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Speaker 2: I love to talk about let's let's start off with
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Speaker 2: this with the announcement by the Trump administration that they're
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Speaker 2: now going to honor people with millions of dollars to
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Speaker 2: have a waiver and get interest into the United States.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's a lot to say about this,
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Speaker 3: you know, gold card program. I think number one, obviously
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Speaker 3: there aren't that many people who are going to be
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Speaker 3: able to access it, so it really doesn't make that
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Speaker 3: big of a difference in terms of immigration policy. But
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Speaker 3: it's more of an indication of the behavior of the
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Speaker 3: Trump administration. I mean, we've seen from this administration this
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Speaker 3: engagement in what people call a kleptocracy, which is, you know,
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Speaker 3: a wealthy man who uses his position of power to
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Speaker 3: enrich himself through you know, accepting a Katari you know,
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Speaker 3: four hundred million dollars plane, or having anonymous investors in
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Speaker 3: Trump properties around the globe or taking payments into a
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Speaker 3: bit coin scheme and trading favors of the country. So
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Speaker 3: this is just it's a pattern of behavior that we've
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Speaker 3: seen by the Trump administration, which is favors for enrichment,
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Speaker 3: and to me, this is another version of that and
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Speaker 3: I and I worry about which billionaires from around the
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Speaker 3: world are going to take advantage of this and what
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Speaker 3: are they actually up to. That's where my mind goes
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Speaker 3: with it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, here recently we had we had a
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Speaker 2: young a young girl having to go to court by herself,
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Speaker 2: which in some ways is illegal in a lot of
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Speaker 2: ways because.
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Speaker 4: Both due process is one thing, and also.
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Speaker 2: Uh have representation, even as a minor, you still should
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Speaker 2: have representation. And we've had cases here here in Texas
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Speaker 2: where people are being prosecuted or taken the taken from airplanes,
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Speaker 2: taken from taken from the courthouse, and buy ice. And
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Speaker 2: this is aftering on a continuous basis. And the answer
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Speaker 2: from officials are that they have the right to do that.
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Speaker 2: And it's skipping over the due process of people, even
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Speaker 2: if you're not even if you're not a citizen yet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we're seeing case after case where the
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Speaker 3: Trump administration violates peoples, certainly in our constitutional rights to
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Speaker 3: against you know, search and seizure, not having probable cause
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Speaker 3: to detain people. They're violating new process rights, it's violating
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Speaker 3: court orders, and it can be very difficult to enforce
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Speaker 3: someone's rights they're already out of the country, and so
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Speaker 3: in a lot of these cases also we see them
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Speaker 3: rush to get people gone before anybody can do anything
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Speaker 3: about it. And so the speed at which these enforcement
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Speaker 3: actions and the removals occur is really dizzying. And then
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Speaker 3: we see things like the Trump administration is now sending
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Speaker 3: one hundred and forty million dollars on deportation planes. They're
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Speaker 3: buying planes to deport people, which is only going to
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Speaker 3: speed up this process. And when we know that they
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Speaker 3: violate court orders and do process rights, and now they're
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Speaker 3: looking at ways to expand the ways that they can
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Speaker 3: deport people, it is really really concerning because it's very
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Speaker 3: hard to get somebody back once they're gone the scenes.
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Speaker 2: What's going on now is that lawyers will follow lawyers
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Speaker 2: for a client would have we'res information on this person,
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Speaker 2: and you don't get any answers from ICE. You don't
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Speaker 2: get any answer from the government officials, so they delay
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Speaker 2: that while they still have time.
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Speaker 4: With report, so the person's not in the country anymore.
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Speaker 4: And that's exactly that happens.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's a litigation that can occur, and sometimes
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Speaker 3: the courts will go with the plain us. But the
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Speaker 3: biggest three course we have is the midterms and our
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Speaker 3: vote and taking back control of at least one of
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Speaker 3: the three branches of government. I mean, it's you know,
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Speaker 3: it's fair to say Trump has control over all three
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Speaker 3: branches of the government right now, and he is driving
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Speaker 3: us as fast as he can over the cliff of authoritarianism.
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Speaker 3: And unless we all wake up and get ourselves to
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Speaker 3: the polls by the end of this four year period,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be real, real dark. And so you
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Speaker 3: know the people that I talked to people regularly who
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Speaker 3: tell me, oh, I've stopped watching the news, I've stop
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Speaker 3: paying attention. I just can't take it anymore. And I
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Speaker 3: don't think we can afford to do that. I think
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Speaker 3: we have to be paying attention and being uncomfortable and
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Speaker 3: being upset and talking about it because we've got to
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Speaker 3: stir up a resistance to what is happening right before
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Speaker 3: our eyes.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm hearing a no.
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Speaker 4: People, miners are being picked up now and.
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Speaker 2: Being spit from their parents on a continuous basis.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've worked on cases like this. I've had
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Speaker 3: cases where families are detained and then they decide to
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Speaker 3: split the family once they're in detention. I had this
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Speaker 3: with a with a case of a family of four
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Speaker 3: and the two little girls who were under both under
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Speaker 3: the age of ten, were sent to unaccompanied kids shelter.
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Speaker 3: Mom was sent one place and dad was sent another place.
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Speaker 3: Is inexplicably, you know, for no reason whatsoever, and that,
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, in those cases, we you know,
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Speaker 3: we try to get them back together as quickly as
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Speaker 3: we can, but there's no you know, stated policy. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's some stuff about the detention of children and the
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Speaker 3: conditions around that, but there are abuses like this occurring
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Speaker 3: on a daily basis, and so family separations are happening
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Speaker 3: all over the interior of the United States, and it's
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I know people don't like to
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Speaker 3: draw comparisons between World War Two and what we're experiencing now,
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Speaker 3: but in some cases, in some ways, when you talk
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Speaker 3: about like taking parents off the street, separating families. A
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Speaker 3: lot of this is clandestine, it's hard to find people,
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Speaker 3: it's hard to find the information, and we have got
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Speaker 3: to be like talking loudly about it. And I start
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Speaker 3: to feel like people are getting fatigued by the trauma
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Speaker 3: of it or desensitized, and and I don't And you
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Speaker 3: know again, I think we we have to just like
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Speaker 3: be screaming at the top of our lungs that this
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Speaker 3: is not who we are. We will not tolerate family
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Speaker 3: separations at the hands of the United States government. It's inhumane,
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Speaker 3: it's not who we are. And we've got to get
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Speaker 3: the people in power out of power who are driving
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Speaker 3: these policies.
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Speaker 2: These ice these vice agents are going into Chicago and
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Speaker 2: other mostly democratic, democratic cities and saying that they're reading.
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Speaker 2: The excuse they use at first was they're riding the
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Speaker 2: country of criminals. But everywhere they go to ross people
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Speaker 2: the people, they go to people's work workspace, people are working.
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Speaker 4: So the whole excuse.
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Speaker 2: And the usement in the and the president's US presidents
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Speaker 2: still using that excuses We're getting criminals out the street.
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Speaker 2: And still that's just not I don't think people are
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Speaker 2: buying that anymore.
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Speaker 3: No, they're definitely not. I mean, it's most of the
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Speaker 3: US know someone who has been personally impacted by this.
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Speaker 3: So most of us now have an anecdotal story about
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Speaker 3: your neighbor or the kid down the street, or your
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Speaker 3: friend or your nanny, and you know that that person
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Speaker 3: was not a criminal, or you've seen the data and
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Speaker 3: the statistics that say more than seventy percent of the
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Speaker 3: people apprehended have no criminal history whatsoever. You know, we
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Speaker 3: see the story of the college freshman in Boston who
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Speaker 3: was flying home to surprise her parents to Austin and
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Speaker 3: she gets picked up at the airport and in a
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Speaker 3: rapid deportation, she's gone within forty eight hours. So I
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Speaker 3: think we're all pretty clear now. And I've had people,
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Speaker 3: you know, DMB and social media who say I voted
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Speaker 3: for Trump. I was for this because I thought that
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Speaker 3: they were going after the criminals. But now I see
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Speaker 3: that that was a lie, and I think that that
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Speaker 3: it's true. That's why public opinion is plummeting for Trump
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Speaker 3: and his immigration actions. Now he doesn't seem to be caring.
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Speaker 3: Everybody's mad about it. He's you know, driving forward as
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Speaker 3: hard as it gets. But you know, it's we're all
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Speaker 3: definitely noticing what's happening.
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Speaker 2: Can you talk about that case that the girl was
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Speaker 2: picked on a domestic flight, not an international flight, on
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Speaker 2: a domestic flight and being picked up at my eyes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she was flying. She was a freshman in college
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Speaker 3: in Boston, and she was coming home for Thanksgiving to
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Speaker 3: visit her parents and her family who lives in Austin
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Speaker 3: actually where I live. And probably we don't know, but
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Speaker 3: probably like going through TSA flagged something because there's so
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Speaker 3: much surveillance and information sharing now under Trump that really
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Speaker 3: with all the facial recognition and the license plate reading,
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Speaker 3: you know, cameras and all the information sharing between all
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Speaker 3: the federal agencies, like we are in a surveillance state.
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Speaker 3: And so probably when she passed through security, you know,
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Speaker 3: gets to the gate, it flagged something, and they detain
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Speaker 3: her and then they remove her over a court order.
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Speaker 3: That's my understanding that a judge had ordered a stop
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Speaker 3: on her removal, but they removed her anyway. I'm not
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Speaker 3: I didn't work the case, but that's what I heard,
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Speaker 3: and send her home, to send her back to Honduras
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Speaker 3: and then and now they're going after her parents. That's
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Speaker 3: been reported too, you know, the family of like non criminals,
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Speaker 3: this little girl in college, and why why are we
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Speaker 3: doing this? What is who is benefiting from this? Nobody?
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Speaker 3: Nobody benefits.
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Speaker 2: How is it that that she gets flagged and customs
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing customers would come and stop her at the
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Speaker 2: gate and she's got a throoflight. How is it that?
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Speaker 4: How was it that any type of long form?
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Speaker 2: Because he's not doing anything wrong, you know, So who
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Speaker 2: will be flagging.
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Speaker 4: Is the airline?
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Speaker 2: Is the airline irresponsible for this? Or is somebody somebody
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Speaker 2: just seeing it responsible this?
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Speaker 3: So nobody knows. They don't tell us, But my guess
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Speaker 3: would be it's TSA, which is a part of the
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Speaker 3: Department of Homeland Security.
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Speaker 2: Well TSA working if you're wrong, can't say that they
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Speaker 2: have any type of immigration anything. Oh they're going really
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Speaker 2: is checking for weaponry and all that type of stuff
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Speaker 2: going to security.
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Speaker 4: Correct.
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Speaker 3: But one of the things that the Trump administration has
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Speaker 3: done is connected all of these federal agencies in information sharing.
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Speaker 3: So now the IRS shares information, DHS, TSA, you know,
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Speaker 3: all these databases are connected now. So even though yeah,
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Speaker 3: TSA is not an immigration enforcement agency because they're part
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Speaker 3: of DHS, they're gonna you know, they're accessing information records.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, that's what I think.
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Speaker 2: So that's yes, that's a that's a prophecy issue. Also,
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Speaker 2: and it's not people out there that think that this crackdown.
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Speaker 4: Is just for brown people.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 4: They just deported like eight thousand Naitians.
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Speaker 2: And uh and that that's and that's not even talented
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Speaker 2: amount of people are being deported to African countries also,
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Speaker 2: So this is this is happening all over. Have you
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Speaker 2: have you had any cases besides besides Latinos.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm an immigration lawyer in Texas, so
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Speaker 3: most of my clients are Latino. But yeah, I've worked
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Speaker 3: with a lot of immigrants for all over the globe.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I would say that the people who
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Speaker 3: get spared from all of these policies are the people
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Speaker 3: from English speaking white and they are white people from
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Speaker 3: English speaking countries, you know, Western European, Australian like. Those
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Speaker 3: are the groups of people South Africans. Those are the
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Speaker 3: groups of people that the Trump administration doesn't go after.
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Speaker 3: But there's no there's no question about racism in their policies.
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Speaker 3: I mean they probably they would just say it. I
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Speaker 3: don't think they would even try to hide that.
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Speaker 2: What do you what do you recommend? Can you use
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Speaker 2: some recommendations for people out there that are listening, that
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Speaker 2: are trying to that that have some lead to a
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Speaker 2: little immigration issues.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, number one. Number one thing definitely every immigrant needs
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Speaker 3: to do is have a relationship with an immigration lawyer.
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Speaker 3: That means a consultation with a lawyer where they tell
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Speaker 3: you what your options are, what your rights are, how
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Speaker 3: to protect yourself and if you can get legal status awesome.
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Speaker 3: I've had a lot of people say to me, well,
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Speaker 3: I'm not eligible for legal status, how do I have
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Speaker 3: a relationship with a lawyer? And because of that, in
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Speaker 3: my firm, we created a program. It's called the Peace
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Speaker 3: of Mind Program and it is for undocumented people who
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Speaker 3: are ineligible for legal status. And what it is is
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Speaker 3: it's an annual relations like contract where we will give
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Speaker 3: our clients a letter of representation. We'll give them a
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Speaker 3: safety planning packet, you know, help them with the caregiver
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Speaker 3: authorization for their kids, collect their documents, give them a
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Speaker 3: strategy session with a lawyer, and a special phone number
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Speaker 3: to call in case of emergency. And that way we've
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Speaker 3: already got all their information, We know what they want
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Speaker 3: to do, so if they get picked up or something
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Speaker 3: like that, we can act really quickly. So that would
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Speaker 3: be my recommendation to immigrants is that you have some
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Speaker 3: level of plan and relationship with a lawyer, because what
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Speaker 3: I see we do detain cases at my office, and
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Speaker 3: what I often see is people, you know, they've been scared,
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Speaker 3: but they haven't done anything, and then they get picked
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Speaker 3: up and then it's a total chaos scramble trying to
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Speaker 3: gather information, documents, you know, filing a bond application, all
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Speaker 3: of that stuff, and it delays their release by weeks
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Speaker 3: in some cases. And I wish for everybody to take
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Speaker 3: action now and to do something to protect yourself before
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Speaker 3: something happens and not after.
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Speaker 2: And they're people that are citizens, people are born in
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Speaker 2: the United States are still being picked up and by
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Speaker 2: ice and still having to go do the same thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah they are good, Yeah they are, but they're also
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Speaker 3: not staying detained for long. I mean, so US citizens
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Speaker 3: who get picked up, it is definitely happening, but US
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Speaker 3: citizens who get picked up are being released usually within
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Speaker 3: hours or days.
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Speaker 1: That was immigration attorney Kate Lincoln Goldfinch. She can be
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Speaker 1: reached at five one two seven five zero seven seven
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Speaker 1: seven zero, or you can email her at Kate at
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Goldfinch All put Together dot com. Doctor rod Page
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Speaker 1: passed away recently. He meant a lot to Houston, especially
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Speaker 1: Texas Southern University, where he was dean of the education department.
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Speaker 1: He headed the Houston Independent School District from nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: four to two thousand and one. He was the head
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Speaker 1: football coach at Texas Southern University from nineteen seventy one
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Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy four. The Mississippi native came to Houston
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Speaker 1: and made education our priority, changing education in the city
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Speaker 1: while on the school board. He is also known for
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Speaker 1: being appointed as the U s Secretary of Education under
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Speaker 1: George W. Bush and was the creator of the No
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Speaker 1: Child Left Behind policy, which affected every school in the
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Speaker 1: nation and made schools more accountable. He stressed education in
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Speaker 1: reaspect of his life. We talked with the legendary radio
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Speaker 1: reporter and writer Ralph Cooper about the life of doctor
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Speaker 1: Rod Page.
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Speaker 5: What I remember of doctor Rod Page was when he
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Speaker 5: first came here, he had a huge afro. He had
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Speaker 5: a huge afro, and it was in the early seventies,
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Speaker 5: and he was also in Bail Bottoms, believe it or not,
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Speaker 5: the same one, the same doctor Rod Page or Roderick
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Speaker 5: Page who became a great Republican and worked in the
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Speaker 5: George Bush cabinet and as the Secretary of Education. Bail
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Speaker 5: Bottoms and suave and could coach an he knew football.
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Speaker 4: He coached Texas Southern University of Mike greg One.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he coached at Texas Southern as a head football coach.
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Speaker 5: But before he came here, he was at Jackson State
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Speaker 5: as a head football coach. He also worked at the
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Speaker 5: if I'm correct, the University of Cincinnati as an assistant coach,
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Speaker 5: and he graduated. Of course, he got a degree also
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Speaker 5: from the University of Indiana, along with Jackson State and
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Speaker 5: the others, if I'm.
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Speaker 6: Correct that he got What was he originally from?
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Speaker 5: He was originally from Mississippi. I don't know which part
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Speaker 5: of Mississippi he was originally from. But he was a
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Speaker 5: man who loved Mississippi. He loved to share stories with you, Mississippi,
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Speaker 5: and the pride was there. He was just a priude
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Speaker 5: for proud of Mississippi and a proud man of how
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Speaker 5: Mississippians had been able to make it with all of
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Speaker 5: the obstacles they faced in regards to civil rights, racial relations,
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Speaker 5: and slavery. How was he and how is he?
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Speaker 4: How do you think he'd be remembered.
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Speaker 5: I think he, if you watch and you read social media,
21:47
Speaker 5: is going to be remembered as a man who helped
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Speaker 5: a lot of people, and many people didn't realize that.
21:52
Speaker 5: I guess exactly how many people he was helping. And
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Speaker 5: when I say helping, I'm not just talking about maybe financially,
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Speaker 5: I'm talking about mentally. He helped a lot of us
22:01
Speaker 5: mentally in regards to trying to make sure that we
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Speaker 5: did the right thing. We were prepared to do the
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Speaker 5: right thing in regards to some of the things we
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Speaker 5: were attempting to do at that particular time.
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Speaker 4: Me being in.
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Speaker 5: Sports as a broadcaster and a writer, he enhanced me
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Speaker 5: because I watched how he how prepared he was as
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Speaker 5: a coach, and you had to be prepared to interview
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Speaker 5: him because of his preparation as a head football coach.
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Speaker 4: How was he as a coach?
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Speaker 7: Was he?
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Speaker 3: Was?
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Speaker 4: He really strict? Though he was you know, well he was.
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Speaker 5: He was kind of combination of all of that. He
22:41
Speaker 5: also believed in delegated power to assignments of power to
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Speaker 5: those who assisted him. He had some great guys around
22:49
Speaker 5: him who knew football like he did. Their only problem.
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Speaker 6: Was when he came in to Texas Southern.
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Speaker 5: That problem was that the in the say, for an example,
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Speaker 5: in Mississippi, Jackson State was still being a historical the
23:03
Speaker 5: black school Jackson State was still and because of what
23:06
Speaker 5: was happening in the integration. While Jackson State was still
23:09
Speaker 5: getting the top quality ball players and Walter Payton's, the
23:12
Speaker 5: Robert Brazil's Hall of Famers and many of them in
23:15
Speaker 5: more and the same at Grammling State University being in Louisiana,
23:19
Speaker 5: they were still getting many of the top athletes and
23:22
Speaker 5: what and with Eddie Robinson there and you had he
23:26
Speaker 5: and his staff had to compete against those people who,
23:29
Speaker 5: in my opinion, had better overall athletes. Not saying that
23:31
Speaker 5: they didn't have great athletes. To Texas Southern, they did,
23:35
Speaker 5: but the other schools were still the kids that go
23:38
Speaker 5: to Georgia now in Florida now and some of the
23:42
Speaker 5: U Miami and the University of Tennessee, they were still
23:46
Speaker 5: going to the black schools at that particular time. Most
23:48
Speaker 5: of them were still going to the black schools and
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Speaker 5: h and many of the Floridians who had come here
23:55
Speaker 5: from come to Texas Southern in the past. Some were
23:58
Speaker 5: still coming, but now the doors were starting to open
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Speaker 5: open at the other places in the in the historically
24:04
Speaker 5: white schools in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and even Louisiana. And
24:09
Speaker 5: that that you had to compete against those type people.
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Speaker 4: Mhm. How do people react to him being a Republican?
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Speaker 5: They just, well, if you knew him, you respected the
24:25
Speaker 5: fact that he had chosen to go that way. That's
24:27
Speaker 5: I mean, if he chose to go that way, you
24:29
Speaker 5: had to respect him because of who he was. You
24:32
Speaker 5: may not have agreed with his politics, but you respected him.
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Speaker 5: And I think that's the way most people looked at it.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 5: They didn't hold it against him that he was a
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Speaker 5: Republican and uh and and over the years many adjusted
24:45
Speaker 5: to him to that fact that many came to him
24:48
Speaker 5: when they were trying to do business with Republicans. And
24:51
Speaker 5: to believe me, there were many Democrats who did business
24:55
Speaker 5: with with Republicans. And doctor Page was right, especially down
24:59
Speaker 5: this when doctor Page was writing the Mix MHM.
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Speaker 2: And he he was, but he was you know, he
25:06
Speaker 2: became a big strong in the Bush administration. People people
25:10
Speaker 2: forget about that. The no child left behind was something
25:13
Speaker 2: that he brought up. He brought up Well, I.
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Speaker 5: Showed you, right, he showed you how innovative he was.
25:19
Speaker 5: That's what I was saying.
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Speaker 6: He was.
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Speaker 5: He was more than just a football coach, a guy
25:24
Speaker 5: who had been a football student athlete at one time.
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Speaker 6: Uh.
25:27
Speaker 5: The man was an educator and he also business wise
25:32
Speaker 5: was was was very innovative and like I said, he
25:36
Speaker 5: was able to uh do somethings many people thought, uh
25:40
Speaker 5: that he probably wouldn't do. I mean he uh no
25:44
Speaker 5: no child left behind. He became what the head of
25:46
Speaker 5: the hi SD and and then he parlayed that into
25:52
Speaker 5: uh working with becoming the Secretary of Education. And Uh
25:58
Speaker 5: that's surprised that a lot of people because they didn't
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Speaker 5: know how strong he was in regards to the Republicans,
26:04
Speaker 5: and they also didn't know how strong in respect that
26:06
Speaker 5: he was in regards to educating people.
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Speaker 2: People don't look at him as uh when people look
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Speaker 2: at HI s d uh people thought and even when
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Speaker 2: during the Bush years, people thought he was just a
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Speaker 2: yes man, but he was not a yes man.
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Speaker 4: He was a man of his own quality. He did
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Speaker 4: his own thing, He ran his own ship.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you had to if you knew him, you knew
26:29
Speaker 5: that he was not a yes man. That he uh,
26:32
Speaker 5: that he his input was respected by the Bushes, young
26:36
Speaker 5: and old and uh. Look and ended up being on
26:40
Speaker 5: the cabinet and traveling all over the world, uh at
26:44
Speaker 5: various times as part of the cabinet. So cabinet, So
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Speaker 5: you had to respect him seas and think about this.
26:52
Speaker 4: How could a.
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Speaker 5: Guy like him be intimidated by a Bush who becomes president.
26:59
Speaker 5: I mean you, he had been around great people all
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Speaker 5: the time. That's what I'm saying. Bush was great, and
27:06
Speaker 5: he became president, and he was his boss.
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Speaker 6: He was doctor Page's boss.
27:09
Speaker 5: But hey, he had coached against Eddie Robinson, he had
27:13
Speaker 5: coached against John Merrit, He had coached against Marino Castle.
27:17
Speaker 4: He had coached against some great coaches.
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Speaker 5: You see what I'm saying.
27:20
Speaker 4: He had coached against some great coaches.
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Speaker 5: And as a result, he was not just picking up
27:26
Speaker 5: a check in those places.
27:27
Speaker 4: He was also learning people.
27:29
Speaker 5: And and and I think all of that, that, all
27:34
Speaker 5: of those experiences in coaching played a role with him
27:38
Speaker 5: becoming the Secretary of Education and not being intimidated here
27:42
Speaker 5: in Houston by Houston politics and regard. This man came
27:46
Speaker 5: from Mississippi and became the head of the Hi SD.
27:49
Speaker 5: Think about this now, with all the politics going on
27:52
Speaker 5: in Houston, he was able to become the head of
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Speaker 5: the Houston Independent School District and then parlay that and
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Speaker 5: to becoming the Secretary of Education in the Bush cabinet.
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Speaker 5: So that that's, in my opinion, that shows you how
28:06
Speaker 5: how innovative and smart he was. Yeah, I was gonna say,
28:10
Speaker 5: how how does the one come for a different state
28:13
Speaker 5: Mississippi for all places, and come to Houston and take
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Speaker 5: over Houston.
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Speaker 4: Politics and yet became a very integral party he was.
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Speaker 4: That was doctor Page that you had to know him.
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Speaker 2: That was him.
28:25
Speaker 5: He did it in his own way, and and he
28:29
Speaker 5: was able to communicate and gain the respect to people
28:32
Speaker 5: on all types of levels. You know, I'm sure, I'm
28:36
Speaker 5: sure he disappointed some guys who thought they should have
28:38
Speaker 5: been playing quarterback or should.
28:40
Speaker 4: Have been starting on the football team.
28:42
Speaker 5: He was running, but everybody couldn't start, and everybody couldn't
28:45
Speaker 5: be a quarterback. But he also, from what I saw,
28:50
Speaker 5: encouraged people to get their degrees. He stressed education and
28:55
Speaker 5: he led that.
28:56
Speaker 6: He did that by examples.
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Speaker 2: You know, he came back, he came back to TSU,
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Speaker 2: led the department, led TSU Education department too.
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Speaker 5: It's slept the name on the building. There's a building
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Speaker 5: on the campus with his name on it, doctor Rod
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Speaker 5: Page building. So, like I said, he did a lot
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Speaker 5: of positive things, such a lot of people and uh,
29:20
Speaker 5: you know, and and he was a mentor to countless
29:23
Speaker 5: that there's no ten on how many people he mentored.
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Speaker 1: That was the legendary Ralph Cooper about the passing of
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Speaker 1: former Education Secretary doctor Rod Page. Not everything Houston tries
29:36
Speaker 1: will work, of course, and missteps and backlash are inevitable.
29:41
Speaker 1: But in education, the greater risk is not trying something
29:44
Speaker 1: drastically different. Page wrote in twenty twenty four, Hi, this
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Speaker 1: of honkah It's Judaism's Festival of Lights. On eight consecutive nightfalls,
31:38
Speaker 1: Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional
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Speaker 1: candle of the Manora with hope for peace. The Houston
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Speaker 1: Jewish community celebrates. We talked to Rabbi Yosi Zamaloski about Honukkah.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so Honika begins this Sunday night. It's a night
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Speaker 8: night holiday because a Sunday to Sunday night, it ends
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Speaker 8: up Monday evening. And so the first night of Knica,
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Speaker 8: we have ten events with cob out of Easton across Houston,
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Speaker 8: with over forty throughout the area.
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Speaker 6: Of Houston over the total contac holiday.
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Speaker 8: And one of the feature events is the Sunday there's
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Speaker 8: going to be a carmen or parade going from Southwest
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Speaker 8: Houston to City Hall, passing by the BMX bike stunt
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Speaker 8: show at the Governor Park on the corner of Sanfellype
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Speaker 8: and Post Oak Lane, right in the Heart Gallery and
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Speaker 8: their Whole Foods and so it's going to be an
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Speaker 8: amazing evening of family celebration, music and Arthur Crash for
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Speaker 8: the kids, BMX bike show and lighting of them min
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Speaker 8: A and all over.
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Speaker 4: I've been to the bar before and it was amazing.
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Speaker 2: It's a it's a special it's a special time. It's
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Speaker 2: a special time this year where we see such such
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Speaker 2: such ill.
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Speaker 4: Going on around the world. And having had a is.
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Speaker 2: A celebration of all cultures and all people.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's exactly right, and how all the Choonic celebrates
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Speaker 8: religious freedom. The Syrian Greece wanted to stamp out the
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Speaker 8: religious expression of the Jews, and they, like many make
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Speaker 8: many generations and societies before us, they had didn't weren't
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Speaker 8: tolerant for the needs of the minority.
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Speaker 6: But here we live in America.
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Speaker 8: America allows freedom of religion and freedom of expression, and
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Speaker 8: that we all.
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Speaker 6: Are allowed to express our faith as we please.
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Speaker 8: And it's a beautiful time that the Minora is a
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Speaker 8: symbol a religious freedom.
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Speaker 6: It's the universal symbol for all to be able to.
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Speaker 8: Realize that we live in a country of kindness, in
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Speaker 8: the country that accepts all people of all faiths, and
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Speaker 8: we are here to profess our faith.
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Speaker 6: Is the landing of the Manora and the.
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Speaker 8: Messages for all that they should also realize that appreciate
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Speaker 8: and express themselves in the way that they have the
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Speaker 8: right to do so as well.
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Speaker 6: In this beautiful country called America.
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Speaker 2: One thing that people should know that you know it's
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Speaker 2: safe to come out is you have you have you
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Speaker 2: have security there and so people don't have to worry
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Speaker 2: about that aspect that things am I correct.
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Speaker 8: There's going to be a very heavy security and and
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Speaker 8: there's and so expect security protocols in place, whether it's
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Speaker 8: over at the COVID, there's now security in place mhm.
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Speaker 2: Like and like, like you said before, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: what religious faith you have. This it's a time of
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Speaker 2: vegetation if you if you never if you've never been
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Speaker 2: to again before, there's a time to learn and educate
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Speaker 2: yourself on the.
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Speaker 4: From for a lot of people.
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Speaker 6: Right, I mean, one of one.
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Speaker 8: Of the ways we combat and estimatism and bigotry is
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Speaker 8: by education. One of the biggest issues that leads to
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Speaker 8: antesseematism and bigotry and times of difficult times is the
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Speaker 8: cause of people of ignorance. And hopefully people can be
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Speaker 8: educated and what the Jewish people are all about. We're
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Speaker 8: kind and loving people and want all to be able
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Speaker 8: to live and.
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Speaker 6: Serve God as they were created.
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Speaker 8: The Jewish people have their sixt the thirteen Commandments of
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Speaker 8: the Torah and the universal laws for all humanity. The
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Speaker 8: seven Laws of Nola are the laws that are there
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Speaker 8: to teach us how to live ethically, and they means
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Speaker 8: to be a part of your society and to value
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Speaker 8: family values and eat ethically and various other laws as
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Speaker 8: in the Seven o I had laws, and so in
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Speaker 8: Judaism very differently than perhaps in other religions. We don't
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Speaker 8: believe everyone must become like us in.
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Speaker 6: Order to be fulfilled and go to Heaven.
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Speaker 8: Every person is greater than the image of God for
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Speaker 8: the sake of serving God as they were created.
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Speaker 2: And can people find out more about what's going.
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Speaker 6: On about Houston dot com forwards.
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Speaker 8: Last light for the listening of the han events happening
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Speaker 8: around Euston.
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Speaker 1: That was Rabbi Yosi Zavloski. The bel Air Honika Festival
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Speaker 1: is this Sunday, December fourteenth, from four to six pm
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Speaker 1: at the bel Air Town Square. Come out with your
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Speaker 1: whole family for an amazing opportunity to kick off and
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Speaker 1: celebrate Hankkah twenty twenty five. You can go to Jewish
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Speaker 1: bel Air put together dot com for more info. Breaking news,
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Speaker 1: two gunmen attacked the Shabbad of Bondi's Hanka event on
36:31
Speaker 1: Bondei Beach in Australia, killing eleven, including a Shabad rabbi,
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Speaker 1: and injuring many others. Houston Rabbi cham Lasarov had this statement,
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Speaker 1: I am heartbroken to share the devastating news that Rabbi
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Speaker 1: Eli Schlanlanger of Shabad of Bondi was murdered during a
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Speaker 1: Honka event in Sydney. Together with others, we dobvin for
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Speaker 1: the wounded and for all who are suffering from this
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Speaker 1: act of hatred. Please say Telemann Capital twenty one for
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Speaker 1: my nephew Leda leb Menmanya Lazarov of College Station, Texas,
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Speaker 1: who was among the injured in the attack. We in
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Speaker 1: Houston Shabad is working closely with law enforcement and professional
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Speaker 1: security to ensure that every Honka event is safe and secure.
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Speaker 1: But let this be absolutely clear, we are not canceling
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Speaker 1: a single event. This Honkah must be bigger, stronger, and
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Speaker 1: brighter than ever last Honkah. Rabbi Schlanger responded to those
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Speaker 1: asking how Jews should respond to anti Semitism with a
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Speaker 1: video posted on social media showing the Shabad way in
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Speaker 1: his classically humorous manner, with the caption saying, here's the
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Speaker 1: best response to combat anti Semitism. Schlanger danced out of
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Speaker 1: his home toward his car, on top of which he
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Speaker 1: placed a light up portable menora, encouraging others to join
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Speaker 1: him in sharing the message of light in the face
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Speaker 1: of hate. My car, emblazoned with the Mitzvah symbols, is
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Speaker 1: a living example of pride and resilience, Schlanger told Shabbad
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Speaker 1: dot Org. The Rabbi said that in the face of darkness,
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Speaker 1: the way forward is the same. Be more Jewish, act
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Speaker 1: more Jewish, and appear more Jewish. Let's take his own
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Speaker 1: words to heart. They try to spread fear, We answer
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Speaker 1: with light. They try to silence us. We respond with mitzvahs.
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Speaker 1: They try to bring darkness. We fill the world with
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Speaker 1: the fire of the menora. If you know someone in
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Speaker 1: Houston who does not yet have a menora, please help
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Speaker 1: make sure they receive one. Your local Shabbad has kits
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Speaker 1: that you can pick up to share with others. Let
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Speaker 1: one more light be lit in memory of those who
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Speaker 1: cannot light this year, Hashem, we are doing our part
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Speaker 1: to fight darkness with light. Please do yours, heal the wounded,
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Speaker 1: protect your people, and bring the day when we will
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Speaker 1: light Manora of the base Hamas Stash in Jerusalem a
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Speaker 1: world of peace, safety, and redemption with the coming of
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Speaker 1: Montsiak now happy Hanukah from Rabbi Chaim Lazarov. Last week's
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Speaker 1: announcement of the FIFO Men's Football World Teams and Cities
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Speaker 1: was something that Houstonians were waiting for. Houston's organizing committee
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Speaker 1: was a static about the teams coming to Houston. Portugal
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Speaker 1: with the world's best player in the world, Rinaldo Clockwork
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Speaker 1: Orange with the Netherlands, which has one of the largest
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Speaker 1: supporters groups in the world. Chief Executive Officer Ryan Walsh
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Speaker 1: with Harris County Sports Authority says Houston is ready for
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Speaker 1: the big show.
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Speaker 9: I mey, what a phenomenal opportunity to have a World
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Speaker 9: Cup in Houston.
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Speaker 10: Houston's the first global city. Having an event like world come.
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Speaker 9: In Houston make just makes sense right, So for us,
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Speaker 9: it's a homecoming of sorts. Houston's hosted more major events
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Speaker 9: than two thousand and four since any other city in
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Speaker 9: the country. This is nothing for us, and I say
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Speaker 9: that lightly, but there's a lot of work to do
40:17
Speaker 9: and there's a lot of people involved in making that happen.
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Speaker 10: But Houston does big events and we do them really well.
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Speaker 11: We've seen we've got a lot of problems here with
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Speaker 11: the traffic and trying to get people here and there,
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Speaker 11: and even on the East end, all the construction there's
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Speaker 11: going on.
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Speaker 10: Do you think that's gonna be the Six Issues Company.
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Speaker 10: I think our partners are working towards that.
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Speaker 9: Certainly the city and the county, text Dot, you know, Metro,
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Speaker 9: the rest of the partners that are working on that.
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Speaker 10: Houston will be ready, undoubtedly, and.
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Speaker 11: Some people are talking about maybe the women's will come.
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Speaker 10: It's on the horizon. We're working on it. Fingers crossed.
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Speaker 1: Houston, Scottish community is ready for the Tartan Army to
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Speaker 1: take over the US. Scotland qualified for this World Cup
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Speaker 1: as they have been absent since nineteen ninety eight, where
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Speaker 1: they finished the group stage without a point. Scotland's hope
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Speaker 1: is rekindled.
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Speaker 7: Unbelievable stuff for us because it's been so long, you
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Speaker 7: know it's been that will be twenty eight years. That's
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Speaker 7: a long time. The way we've had kind of hope.
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Speaker 7: You've got post at times been toy qualify all MacLeay
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Speaker 7: as well.
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Speaker 10: As unbelievable for us. Unbelievable some people are talking about it.
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Speaker 11: What would be great is I have a World Cup
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Speaker 11: that matches England with Scotland.
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Speaker 7: For us, like where England the arrivals, you know, so
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Speaker 7: we kind of support Scotland and whoever England plays, So
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Speaker 7: for us it will always be fun to see them
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Speaker 7: there in some extent, but we never want them to
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Speaker 7: do too well because we'll always hear thembouty back home,
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Speaker 7: all right, and who.
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Speaker 10: Should we look for?
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Speaker 12: Let's Scotland for Scotland.
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Speaker 10: I'm standing players for us. Scott mctomony unbelievable.
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Speaker 7: Left the English League when it played in Italy and
41:59
Speaker 7: is the unbelievable in La for Syria. And Appley won
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Speaker 7: the Sirian and he's kind of commanded taking on our
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Speaker 7: team scored in unbelievable goals in the qualifiers.
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Speaker 10: Scoll mctominy, you know, Cambio.
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Speaker 12: What are people back home?
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Speaker 7: Was saying, it's just energy. Everyone again's so happy, you know.
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Speaker 7: No Scotland, no party, that's the same. So that's why
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Speaker 7: we're so glad to be here and we're gonna make
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Speaker 7: it something. And maybe you wouldn't be with us. Want
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Speaker 7: to Todd No, I means so up and force like
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Speaker 7: I think so like there's gonna be hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 7: of people traveling it's unbelievable.
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Speaker 10: There's people here. We're already talking about what plans we'll make.
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Speaker 7: Whenever see we find out what group we're gonna be in,
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Speaker 7: there's gonna be something special ying.
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Speaker 1: Here is the schedule for the World Cup events in
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Speaker 1: Houston next year. On June fourteenth, Germany versus Caraco at
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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium. June seventeenth, Portugal versus FEIFA playoff winner one
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Speaker 1: New Caledonia, Jamaica or Dr Congo at NRG Stadium June twentieth,
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Speaker 1: The Netherlands versus YUFA playoff winner b Ukraine, Sweden, Poland
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Speaker 1: or Albania June twenty third, Portugal versus Yubekistan June twenty sixth,
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Speaker 1: Cape Verde versus Saudi Arabia the round of thirty two
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Speaker 1: June twenty ninth, Group C winner versus Group F second
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Speaker 1: place Round of sixteen July fourth to be done versus
43:29
Speaker 1: to be done at NRG Stadium at one pm. The
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Speaker 1: National Collegiate Rugby Championships came to Houston over the weekend
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Speaker 1: at the Sabercapped Stadium south of downtown Houston. This brought
43:42
Speaker 1: college teams from all over the country to compete for
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Speaker 1: the National Championship in men and women's rugby. Jeremy Trees
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Speaker 1: is the Chief Executive Officer with National Collegiate Rugby. He
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Speaker 1: talked about the event and what it means to rugby
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Speaker 1: in the United States.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: Hi, I'm Jeremy Trees. I'm the CEO of National Collegiate Rugby,
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Speaker 12: where the largest collegiate rugy organization in the world. We
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Speaker 12: have about six hundred and fifty plus teams and twenty
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Speaker 12: thousand student athletes that are that are in our competition
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Speaker 12: across eight divisions, four on the men's side, for on
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Speaker 12: the women's side. And today we have the D one
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Speaker 12: double a national championship between the Tennessee Volunteers and the
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Speaker 12: Bowling Green Falcons.
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Speaker 11: And how's this competition gone so far?
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Speaker 12: It's going very well. So this is our fourth year
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Speaker 12: here at the SaberCats facility in the stadium in here
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Speaker 12: in Houston. We love it here and it's going well.
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Speaker 12: The Tennants is really great today. The weather's beautiful. It's
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Speaker 12: not it's not cold. I'm from New Hampshire where it's
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Speaker 12: below zero, so we love it here. It's not raining.
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Speaker 12: It is not raining as well. Rain today Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 12: it's not raining, and we got a great game. But
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Speaker 12: I think Tennessee is up right now fourteen to seven.
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Speaker 12: So you know, we're going to crown a national championship
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Speaker 12: in D one double A. We're going to crown a
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Speaker 12: national champion in D one tonight, and then we have
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Speaker 12: the lone Star Bowl with Texas Tech is playing Fairfield University.
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Speaker 12: And tomorrow we have our D two and D three
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Speaker 12: National Championship. Uh D three is Franciscan University versus Bowl
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Speaker 12: Slippery Rock, and the D two National Championship is University
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Speaker 12: of Vermont versus the University of Chicago.
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Speaker 11: Some of my my, my coach asks me where the
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Speaker 11: hell is Slippery Rock?
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Speaker 12: Slippery Rock is in a little corner of northwest Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 12: and Franciscan University is in Stutentbule, Ohio, which is the
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Speaker 12: home of d Martin. No fun fact what what?
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Speaker 11: So we talk about rugby, and you know in the
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Speaker 11: States we have we have like we used to have
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Speaker 11: mister Rugby, US Rugby and now we have your organization
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Speaker 11: and we have other organizations to representation and how is
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Speaker 11: that all.
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Speaker 12: Mixing into just one?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 12: So you know, if you think of us like we're
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Speaker 12: like the nca A College Rugby, so we operate about
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Speaker 12: eighty five center collegian rugby in the US. And then
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Speaker 12: you have other organizations which are like to the n
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Speaker 12: A I A, the n A I A, you know,
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Speaker 12: a little smaller. And then you have a group called NYRO,
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Speaker 12: which is the women's n C Double A Emerging Sports division.
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Speaker 12: So so really there's only about three collegiate organizations in
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Speaker 12: the US, but we're by far the largest and most popular.
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Speaker 11: We had we had we had to pay sip dues.
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Speaker 11: You guys have the same thing. Do you play sib
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Speaker 11: duce to US rugby or nope? Nope, nope, we're again,
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Speaker 11: we're we're similar to you know, the n C Double A.
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Speaker 11: You know, the n C Double A sports teams don't
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Speaker 11: pay dues to the n GBS. So you wouldn't see
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Speaker 11: the n C uble A pay dues to the USA Basketball.
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Speaker 12: Or or anything like that, or or n C Double
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Speaker 12: A swimming or track and field play dues to the
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Speaker 12: n GB And so you know, we we support the
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Speaker 12: national governing body in other ways, but are our athletes
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Speaker 12: a hundred percent of the money that comes into national
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Speaker 12: ECCLEUS of rugby goes. We reinvested right back into college
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Speaker 12: rugby to continue to grow the sport.
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Speaker 10: And how is it going to do?
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Speaker 4: Any new teams coming out?
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Speaker 8: And how is it?
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Speaker 11: How are you getting how are you getting too sports?
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Speaker 11: These these are smaller universities, like especially HBCU schools, which
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Speaker 11: then prev you.
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Speaker 12: Now, yeah, so so we've we've been emerging in the
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Speaker 12: HBCU schools. So Howard University has come to the c
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Speaker 12: r C s and h both and the men and
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Speaker 12: the women over the years. And you know, we're we're
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Speaker 12: we'd like to see more HBCU schools get involved. There
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Speaker 12: are some down south, you know, and they're they're organizing
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Speaker 12: and and and we we give out grants for teams
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Speaker 12: that are emerging. So if you're a new team and
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Speaker 12: you're just forming, you know, we give you fifty percent
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Speaker 12: off you know your dues and you will help you out,
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Speaker 12: you know, your coaching support and and just to get
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Speaker 12: your program off the ground right. How can people get
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Speaker 12: in touch with your organization? So you go to nc
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Speaker 12: dot Rugby. It's very simple. You can go to the
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Speaker 12: Cleasure Rugby Championship dot com, which is for the national
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Speaker 12: sevens tournament. You can follow us online on Instagram, Facebook,
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Speaker 12: National Clesiate Rugby. You can download the app on the
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Speaker 12: App Store for Android or Apple.
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Speaker 6: National Colesian Rugby.
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Speaker 12: You can follow our scores and highlights, and you can
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Speaker 12: watch the college Rugby shows College Rugby Show online on
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Speaker 12: YouTube Facebook. The College Rugby Show Game Day is live
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Speaker 12: here today. Yeah, they're live. They're up in the corner
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Speaker 12: the try zone up there, So if you want to
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Speaker 12: take a trip up there and say hello to Darien
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Speaker 12: patten Zac and introduce yourself, it'd be great.
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Speaker 1: In the Championships, Tennessee earned their first ever men's Division
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Speaker 1: one AA national Championship title on Saturday with a twenty
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Speaker 1: one to fifteen win over Bowling Green. While the corrupt,
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Speaker 1: criminal and cruel Donald Trump, addled with dementia besieged by
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Speaker 1: his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and Gallaine Maxwell, continues to
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Speaker 1: distract by committing war crimes against Venezuela, the Venezuelan football
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Speaker 1: team still brings joy to those Venezuelans living here in
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Speaker 1: the US. Friday night at Shell Dynamo Stadium, the Venezuelan
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Speaker 1: national team played Australia in a friendly match during the
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Speaker 1: international break Venezuela won one to zero with a goal
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Speaker 1: by Ashu's Andres Ramirez Diz, which brought joy to those
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Speaker 1: here and back home as Trump Breton's war on the country.
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Speaker 2: It has gotten better.
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Speaker 13: We still have to go to the World Cup, that's
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Speaker 13: the main goal though, but it has gotten better. I
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Speaker 13: think we're now today and the last game, we're looking
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Speaker 13: at a new generation for Venezuela and football soccer. So
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Speaker 13: I believe we're going to be in the World Cup
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Speaker 13: very soon. We were very close this time around, and
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Speaker 13: I mean ideally with this year, development of the team,
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Speaker 13: new coaching staff and everything coming in together, I think
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Speaker 13: it is going to be a very nice couple of
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Speaker 13: years coming up for us with football.
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Speaker 11: Football is very popular in Venezuelas, yes, along with baseball.
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Speaker 11: But with the politics involved with with with with the football,
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Speaker 11: how's that going?
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Speaker 6: How's that going?
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Speaker 11: In check and Howard is playing football in the United
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Speaker 11: States today?
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Speaker 1: You know, we don't want with the climate right now,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about that.
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Speaker 13: So the first part I believe this politics shouldn't really
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Speaker 13: be involved into sports. Unfortunately, politics do have a huge
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Speaker 13: impact on federation teams, so it is heavily controlled by
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Speaker 13: unfortunately the wrong people. And that's why we're trying to
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Speaker 13: you know, trying to get push games and get into
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Speaker 13: results and get into a World Cup, get into a
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Speaker 13: good spot in Copamerica.
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Speaker 12: That's kind of like the goal right now.
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Speaker 13: But yeah, and playing in the US I think is
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Speaker 13: growing as well now with like more teams in the MLS,
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Speaker 13: you know, more exposure to coming into the league with MESSI,
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Speaker 13: with Inter Miami in general.
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Speaker 10: You got Koreans going.
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Speaker 13: Into LFC with Song, so you have a lot of
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Speaker 13: I already comeing into the league, and I believe that's
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Speaker 13: gonna be like a very good thing for the US
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Speaker 13: in general.
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Speaker 11: The politics between Venezuela and the United States and standis needles.
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Speaker 2: We talk about that.
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Speaker 13: I mean, yeah, I mean we're here to have fun,
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Speaker 13: We're here to talk about football. So I don't really
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Speaker 13: I believe the conflict is gonna benefit our country in general.
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Speaker 13: But you know, there's sacrifices to be made along the way.
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Speaker 13: We're being suffering for so long now, like anything that
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Speaker 13: helps us really is gonna be a blessing. But yeah,
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Speaker 13: I believe the US and Venezuela never play against each
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Speaker 13: other in soccer, So I don't think it's gonna really
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Speaker 13: affight the team.
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Speaker 1: Also this last week, Houston activists gathered at the Meekham
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Speaker 1: Fountain on Saturday to demonstrate the US escalation as they
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Speaker 1: march down Herman Drive to Caroline and enter the McGovern's
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Speaker 1: centennial gardens at Herman Park. Gathering at the bust of
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Speaker 1: Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
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Speaker 1: and Panama, they rally and invoke the anti colonial fighting
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Speaker 1: spirit of Bolvar. The corrupt, cruel, and criminal Trump administration,
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Speaker 1: whose main focus is to protect Trump from being exposed
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Speaker 1: as a pedophile, will require millions of low income people
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Speaker 1: to reapply for food stamps as part of an effort
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Speaker 1: to crack down on fraud. Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins said
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Speaker 1: this is not the first time that Republicans have called
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Speaker 1: for cutting SNAP. With the government reopening, funding for SNAP
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Speaker 1: is required to be paid out. A new report on
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Speaker 1: SNAP benefits that was just released from the University of
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Speaker 1: Houston Center for Public Policy in the Hobby School of
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Speaker 1: Public Affairs shows how local areas are affected by cuts
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Speaker 1: to SNAP. Some points from the report, almost one in
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Speaker 1: four Houston area households rely on food assistance from the
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Speaker 1: SNAP program. Black households are disproportionately more affected by SNAP
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Speaker 1: cuts than other races. Seventy five point six percent of
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Speaker 1: SNAP recipients are saying that rising inflation has affected their
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Speaker 1: spending decisions related to food and energy. We talked to
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Speaker 1: Maria pi Perez Agrelez, a research assistant professor at the
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Speaker 1: Hobby School.
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Speaker 14: In our report is that those that access that have
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Speaker 14: access to SNAP are especially vulnerable and so nearly one
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Speaker 14: in five have fults around say fifteen or eighteen percent.
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Speaker 14: Almost twenty percent of the respondence in system received SNAP benefits.
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Speaker 14: We found that from this populations that receives benefits, many
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Speaker 14: are vulnerable have other types of concerns for their their
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Speaker 14: daily spending.
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Speaker 3: On This is that a lot of people on Snap
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Speaker 3: they do have uh, they are working, They're not they're
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Speaker 3: not unemployed.
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Speaker 6: So to speak.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, so even those that are working so in not.
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Speaker 14: In one of our recent reports from our Space City panel,
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Speaker 14: we also found that even for those that are working,
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Speaker 14: one con certain concerns are low poweries. So people in
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Speaker 14: general are struggling to pay for their basic necessities. Are
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Speaker 14: struggling because because income is not being enough, the wages
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Speaker 14: are not being enough to cover them.
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Speaker 2: How much how much does the federal government pitch in
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Speaker 2: to Texas as far as as far as as a benefits.
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Speaker 14: I don't have that right here, but I can get
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Speaker 14: back to you with.
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Speaker 4: That, MH. But but how is it accepting they say
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Speaker 4: it's going to be a SNAP is going to be
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Speaker 4: funded fully?
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Speaker 3: How long will that take?
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Speaker 2: And all those benefits are going to be affected for
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Speaker 2: the people in November because we're in a been in
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Speaker 2: November right now?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, so God, does SNAP are going to have to
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Speaker 14: use a media consequences? The these households that rely on
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Speaker 14: snaps already past high poverty rates, high and insurance rates,
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Speaker 14: and our financially able according to our survey resources, so
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Speaker 14: reducing these benefits would mean more food insecurity, more debt,
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Speaker 14: more health problems in their long run, and especially for
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Speaker 14: her houses that are for example, black and Hispanic and
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Speaker 14: low income families. Those are some of the findings from
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Speaker 14: our survey.
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Speaker 4: Did your did your?
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Speaker 2: Did your survey include the rural communities outside of outside
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Speaker 2: of the outside in Harris County?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: We so.
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Speaker 14: Our survey reports are from the Greater Houston area, So
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Speaker 14: it includes the nine counties that are in the Houston MSA,
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Speaker 14: so we have restences from Harris County and the neighboring counties.
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Speaker 1: That was Marie P. Perez Agalz, Research Assistant professor at
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Speaker 1: the Hobby School. The research can be found at the
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Speaker 1: University of Houston website.
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