November 17, 2025 • 29 mins
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Immigration Enforcement Surge
- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a major immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called Operation Charlotte’s Web.
- This is part of a broader expansion of enforcement efforts in cities like Chicago.
- The stated goal: remove “violent criminal illegal aliens” and enhance public safety.
- Local officials, including Charlotte’s mayor, criticized the operation for causing fear among residents.
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Political and Media Reactions
- The narrative strongly frames Democrats as opposing immigration enforcement and even aiding illegal immigrants.
- Mentions activists using whistles and online alerts to warn undocumented individuals about ICE/DHS presence.
- The tone portrays this as dangerous and irresponsible, linking it to child predators and sex offenders.
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Crime Statistics and Enforcement Justification
- Highlights arrests of child sexual predators and sex offenders in operations like Operation Dirtbag (Florida) and in Houston.
- Emphasizes that many arrested individuals were involved in serious crimes, including child abuse and trafficking.
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Criticism of Democratic Party
- The text repeatedly accuses Democrats of enabling illegal immigration and undermining law enforcement.
- Frames their actions as part of a broader ideological agenda (Marxism, socialism, communism).
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Michelle Obama Commentary
- Includes a segment on Michelle Obama’s recent statements claiming Americans “aren’t ready” for a woman president.
- Suggests she attributes Kamala Harris’s loss to sexism and racism.
- Critiques Obama’s narrative as out of touch, pointing out her media prominence (e.g., Vogue covers) and contrasting with Melania Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Donald Trump continuing to expand immigration enforcement. The Department of
Homeland Security is now bringing immigration enforcement surge to Charlotte,
North Carolina. We're being told that's right. DHS has formally
launched an immigration law enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina,
(00:21):
in addition to its ongoing work. They say that it's
expanding in Chicago. Quote, Americans should be able to live
without fear of violent criminal illegals hurting them, their families,
or their neighbors. That is what the Department of Olnded
Security Assistant Secretary church And McLaughlin said in a statement.
(00:42):
We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte. President Trump
and Secretary Nome will step up to protect Americans when
sanctuary politicians won't. There are plenty of videos circulating by
the way of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte, but the
Department of Homeland Security is now officially confirmed that they
are in the town and they are conducting operations. We
(01:06):
also know that the mclennenburg County Sheriff McFadden has confirmed
last week that the Department of Homeland Security has coordinated
with him on coming operations, which is dubbed Operation Charlotte's
Web that. According to The Washington Post, the sheriff there, McFadden,
also noted that DHS did not ask that his department
(01:30):
assist or participate in the operation. The crime infested city
of Charlotte was thrust into the national spotlight in September
after the Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on the city's
mass transit system, stabbed to death on video by a
chronic criminal by the name of Brown Junior, who had
(01:50):
been let out of jail time and time again despite
having a violent record. The White House sang at the
time they had seen the the horrific video of a
beautiful young Ukrainian refugee who came to America and escaped
the vicious war in Ukraine and was innocently riding the
metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed,
(02:13):
bi amentally deranged, lunatic, the White House saying this must stop.
Customs and Border Patrol chief has already been spotted in
Charlotte as he leaves the Trump administration's latest law enforcement campaign.
Border commander was not only spotted, but local Democrats are
mad about it. The surge has arrived and has been
(02:35):
explained to me. There's no slowing down. There's also video
of federal officers taking illegal aliens into custody, and they're
already making their way around the internet, making Democrats even
more angry. You can watch his Dozens of border patrol
trucks were spotted driving into the heart of Charlotte, North Carolina,
as the DHS had launched another mass deportation campaign. In
(02:59):
a Democrat a strong hold. We need to see this,
by the way, in all of the blue cities. There
needs to be no safe havens for illegal immigrants, and
the Department of Own Security patrols have begun not only
in Charlotte, but we're now saying that it's happening in
other places with expanding efforts. Just like Chicago. The Democrats
(03:25):
are already encouraging citizens, however, to harass Department of Homeland
Security agents, and that brings us to where we are now.
It's clear you're either on the side of law enforcement
or you're on the side of helping illegal immigrants. There
is a new thing that is happening. I wish this
(03:46):
was a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We are witnessing now in different cities where there are
and This is again, not a joke. I want to
make that very clear. What I'm about to tell you
is not a joke. There are now men and women
who are actually going around town where these ICE agents
(04:11):
and DHS agents are, and they're blowing whistles to warn
illegal immigrant criminals, to warn them that they are coming.
They're using the internet to quote expose them wherever they
can expose them. This is the scary part about the
(04:33):
radical left. Now, I'm going to play for you my
comments about this exact issue that I had on Fox
News Channel with Kaylee Mcananny the show Saturday in America,
and I want you to hear what she had to
say about it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Ben, you are the perfect person to ask about this. Okay,
we're looking at it. Guys, you're just torturing me. I'm
torturing you know, Ben. When you protest ice is your
preferred method whistling or dancing?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, neither. What is scary though about this is if
you actually look at what they're protesting. Let's go to
where I am right now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
In Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Two hundred and fourteen child sexual predators were arrested in
the first six months this year just in Houston. I've
been told by ICE that number will be significantly higher
for the second six months of the year. Now that's
not just sexual predators of adults, that is only of miners,
of children, of babies. You're whistling to what allow those
(05:36):
people to get away.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You look at Operation Dirtbag and numbers matter.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One hundred and fifty illegal alien sex offenders that were
arrested in that operation in Florida. So if you're out
there dancing or you're whistling as a mom that says
I just want to keep my kids safe, you're literally
warning sexual offenders and predators, child molesters, and those trafficking
children that they are like going to be caught by
(06:01):
ICE agents.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
This is liberalism.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It is Trump derangement syndrome on a whole other level.
But I also think this is why you say the
Democratic Party is truly dead. This is Marxism, socialism, and communism.
They don't want to protect Americans.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They want to.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Completely destroy this country, remake it in a new form
where they have total control and they don't care who
gets heart in the process.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's really sick.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It is sick, and we covered those children at the
top of the show. A one year old unaccompanied minor
who came across the border lived eleven years in America
being abused. Sponsor after sponsor she was placed with came
unduring the Obama administration and the Biden administration renewed one
of her sponsor's ability to stay here. It's tragic, it's heartbreaking.
Those children matter, their stories matter, and we cover them.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
This is the part that is so shocking that should
make so many of you listening right now so angry,
is that Trump derangement syndrome has gotten to the point
where they were I'd rather say no to what Donald
Trump is trying to do, which is to fight back
against criminal illegal aliens, sexual predators, for example. And they
(07:11):
are having Democrats go out there and dance to protest
ice wherever they are and to try to stop their
operations or blow whistles to warrant illegal immigrants that they
are coming. The Democratic Party has drifted so far left
that Pelosi and Schumer are now literally after thoughts of
(07:34):
the Democratic Party because they hate this country, and they
don't care if you're hurt. They don't care. If your
kids are hurt, they don't care, if your grandkids are hurt,
they don't care. If there is sex trafficking that's happening,
they don't care. And there's only one reason why they
(07:55):
don't care. It is because they fundamentally want to destroy
a mayor and they want to reshape it and they
want to remake it into something that you can't even recognize.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And that's where we are today.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
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Speaker 2 (09:06):
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Speaker 1 (09:07):
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Speaker 1 (09:14):
Donald Trump saying that we are going to continue to
grow this crackdown. This is something that we're not gonna stop.
This is something that we are gonna make clear is
going to expand I want you to listen to how
the media described this carefully.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Our top story tonight. Federal agents have converged on the
city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Federal agents have been seen
today in and around the city making arrests. Assistant Secretary
of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin released a statement saying, quote,
Americans should be able to live without fear of violent, criminal,
(09:52):
illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors. We
are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ens sure
Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed. Charlotte
Mayor Vy Lyles criticized the operation, saying it's causing unnecessary
fear and uncertain Charlotte's population is roughly nine hundred thousand,
(10:14):
including more than one hundred and fifty thousand foreign born people,
according to local officials.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
By the way, there was an interesting conversation about this,
and I just want to expand on it for a moment,
because there was a Democrat over the weekend that got
on TV and in essence lost their minds. And when
I say like lost their minds, the reason why I
say they lost their mind is because they were angry
(10:41):
that ICE agents had stopped a crew that was putting
up Christmas lights. They said that was inhumane, that that
was an essence barbaric, that that was un American because
it's just an illegal who was putting up Christmas lights.
(11:04):
All right, Well, let's talk about a couple of the
people that were arrested that were apparently on a crew
doing exactly what I just described Christmas lights. One of
them was wanted for sexual assault of a child, we're
now being told, and another one was wanted for beating
(11:25):
his wife.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You'd think they'd want to tell you that whole story,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Like, you would think they would be like, you know what,
we should probably tell you the entire story. We should
tell you that, hey, they may be doing a job
that seems harmless, but it doesn't mean that the person
that's doing the job.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Is harmless.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
By the way, the majority of Americans that get arrested.
All right, let's let's be very clear about this. The
majority of Americans that get arrested are doing what you
would describe as a harmless job. Some of them are lawyers,
some of them are bankers, hell, some of them are
pastors or priests. In fact, a lot of people that
(12:12):
get arrested are doing just you know, normal everyday jobs.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
As they try to describe it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Right, harmless jobs. The job has no correlation. I want
to make that clear. The job has zero coordination correlation.
I should say zero correlation too. If the person is
(12:41):
a good person or a bad person. They are bad
and evil people in literally every job there is. They're
bad and evil people. In the church, they're bad and
evil people. In medicine, they are bad and evil people.
In missions. They're bad and evil people. At your gery store.
There are bad and evil people in every different profession.
(13:04):
There is no profession, even the holiest of positions, where
there aren't bad people among them. There are criminals. Literally
in every single profession. There are criminals in law enforcement.
Just to be very clear about what I'm saying today,
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And when Democrats come out and they're like, oh, it's
an American to just arrest somebody that's just trying to
make a living. Well, virtually every criminal is just trying
to make a living when they go to their day job.
That doesn't mean, okay, that if you commit a crime,
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you shouldn't be treated like you are a criminal. And
what they're really saying is there's certain areas where they
should just be like, oh, hands off, like it should
never happen. I think that is also totally insane and
completely absurd.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Where do you think we arrest.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The majority of people that have warrants, the majority of
people we have that we arrest, they go to their
place of business first, because most people, even after they've
committed crimes, they still go to get a paycheck. So
let's just think about that for a second. Okay, the
majority of people I'm going to say it again that
(14:29):
commit crimes, they go to work. And when they go
to work, does that mean that they're an innocent person
of the crimes have committed before after they got their No.
So when you talk about illegal immigrants, one, if you're
a legal imm you've actually broken the law, period full stop.
But if you're an illegal immigrant, and ice roll is up,
(14:51):
on a job site and you're in this country illegally,
there is a reason that you should be arrested. It
doesn't you're not an innocent person. Now if you're an
American citizen, Okay, that's a different conversation, right. And then
they say, well, they're harassing them. If Democrats are angry
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as they've described with that there are people that are
quote being harassed, then don't let twenty million illegal immigrants
into the United States of America. We wouldn't be having
to do what we're doing right now if it wasn't
for the fact that the Democratic Party deliberately and purposely
let twenty plus million illegal immigrants into the United States
(15:36):
of America. These surges in Charlotte, if you're angry about them,
would have never happened. Ever, they would have never happened
if it wasn't for the Democrats that let countless illegal
(15:57):
immigrants into this nation.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So I will go back to the core here. Two
hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Child sexual predators in the first six months of this
year were caught. Child molesters, shall rapists, people that are
selling children for sex. Sex traffickers were arrested in Houston alone.
I've been told by ICE agents that I know that
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they expect that number for the next half of the year,
the second half of the year, to go even higher.
I want you to think about that. They're expecting the
number to go higher. Now, I didn't say that was
total number of sexual offenders. I want to be clear
about that. That's not what I said. I said that
is only sexual offenders against children. There are countless other
(16:54):
sexual offenders, countless others. Can I say that again, countless
other sexual offenders of adults that are not in the
stat that I just gave you. That is just among children.
There were more than one hundred, and I think it
was fourteen that were rounded up, for example, in last
couple weeks alone in Florida, with an operation that's going
(17:16):
on in Florida just against children. We're not counting those
that were out there molesting or abusing adult women. Again,
I go back to the basics here. Why is it
that so many of these radicals are willing to allow
child sexual predators to walk around freely among us? Answer
(17:40):
me that question, all right. I want to bring you
also something else real quick. And if you thought Democrats
were learning from their mistakes at lecturing Americans about like
your way of life and how you should be living
your life. If you thought the Democrats were going to
like start listening to you instead of yelling at you
(18:04):
all the time about what you do that's wrong, Yeah,
I just got to tell you that ain't gonna happen
anytime soon. Sorry, hate to burst your bubble. Why do
I say this, Well, even the as I would describe them,
the more elder statesman of the Democratic movement of the
Democratic Party, they're pretty much like, yeah, it scrut like,
(18:25):
we're also going to talk down to Americans. Insert the
perfect example. Are you ready you remember that person by
the name of Michelle Obama. Remember that name, Michelle Obama,
You know, the old first Lady.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
She was the first Lady for eight years.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
She wants to tell you now that you need to
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call you make. Michelle Obama is now saying Americans need
to quote grow up before a woman can be president.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Michelle Obama not only said Friday that she won't be
running for president because Americans quote aren't ready, she says,
for a woman. She also implied they weren't ready for
her in the White House as a black first lady.
So now we're thrown down on you as well. Even
though we elected her not once but twice, right her husband,
and she was the first lady. Somehow you still weren't
(21:16):
ready for it. So you're all still a bunch of racists,
and you don't deserve a woman in the White House
yet because you're so racist. Obama sided Kamala Harris's loss
to Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. It couldn't be
that she was a terrible candidate. Couldn't believe that she
never got above three percent when she was actually running
for president on her own. Couldn't be that the American
(21:38):
people rejected her ideas because or the coronation of her No, no, no,
it's because you're a bunch of sexists. And so Michelle
Obama sides Kama Harris has lost to Donald Trump as
her evidence of the country's sexism, saying Americans have a
lot of growing up to do, as we saw in
(21:59):
the past election. Sadly, we ain't ready, she says. We
ain't ready, is what she told the audience at Brooklyn
Academy of Music while promoting her new book The Look.
That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running,
because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman.
You are not. You know, We've got a lot of
(22:22):
growing up to do, she continued, and there's still, sadly,
a lot of men who do not feel like they
can be led by a woman, and we saw it.
Obama appeared to amplify previous complaints on her book tour
that she was under a particularly white hot glare as
a black first lady, saying even Democrats were trying to
(22:45):
destroy her while she became effective when her husband was
running in the primaries of the eight nomination. Let's be clear.
She said, these were our people who were going after me.
This started when we were running again Star Party, the
beginning of turning me into an angry shrew who diminished
her husband, who didn't love her country, who was unpatriotic.
(23:09):
These people are lying, they're making stuff up because they're
trying to win. Michelle Obama said, when she got to
the White House, she had to quickly define herself. And
I didn't even feel like I had the support of
the campaign because they were white folks too. Man, it
almost sounds like a racist statement from the former First
Lady Michelle Obama, doesn't it? Quote So I knew this immediately,
(23:34):
and I knew this coming in as First Lady, that
I was in charge of my story, my narrative. I
had to be smarter than them. I had to outsmart
everyone and came and that came to everything I did, including.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What I wore.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Obama's book, By the Way, released earlier this month, explores
her experience with fashion and beauty, while also claiming that
women in politics are often judged based on their physical
appearance instead of leadership qualities. While the former First Lady
claims she faced heavy criticism during her time in the
White House. She was actually, in reality celebrated in the
(24:16):
legacy media. And she appeared on the cover of Vogue
magazine not once, not twice, but three different times as
first lady man. Doesn't it sound like she had a
really hard life? Yeah, I mean a lot. By the way,
that's more times than the actual supermodel by the name
(24:38):
of Milania Trump has been on the cover of Vogue magazine.
She's a former supermodel. Literally, she's been snubbed by the
establishment media and leftist magazine despite her status as a
high fashion figure throughout her life. So just to put
it in perspective for you, Michelle Obama, think about this, Michelle, Okay,
(25:01):
are you again?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Three times in the cover of Vogue.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
A former supermodel, Melania Trump has never been on the
cover of Vogue. And Michelle Obama says that you guys
hated her because she was a woman in black, And
she says that you don't deserve a woman president because
(25:26):
you need to grow up first. I'm just gonna let
that really sink in for a second. What is the
takeaway from this? Let's let's let's just talk about that for.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
A moment, not number one.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I think the biggest part, the biggest aspect of this
takeaway is this, I think it's pretty obvious that the
Democratic Party has learned nothing from losing. That's number one.
Number two. Every time they lose, they seem to go
(26:08):
back to the same thing, and that is that when
they lose, it is never their fault. It is always
someone else's fault. Every single time, it is always someone
else's fault. It is always somebody else. Is the reason
(26:31):
why they didn't succeed, right, because it couldn't be that.
Maybe just people rejected Kamala Harris. Maybe they rejector because
they thought she was a bad can it. Maybe the
rejector because it was a coronation and no one voted
for in her primary. Maybe the rejector because the economy
was bad. Maybe the rejector because of the failures of
her administration with Joe Biden. Maybe the rejector because of
(26:53):
Joe Biden's record that she was a part of.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Different reasons why she could have lost the last election,
why she did lose the last election. I mean, there's
a lot of reasons, but it doesn't just actually come
down to what she describes it as, Oh, this is
just because you guys need to grow up. Even the
(27:20):
way that she talked about some of this was shocking.
I want you to listen to just again. This is
why she's trying to get you to buy her book.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Lee and I knew this coming in as first Lady,
that I was in charge of my story, my narrative.
I had to be smarter than them. I had to
outsmart everyone, and that came to everything I did, including
what I.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Wanted, including what I wore. So everything was against her. Everything,
the system was against her, You were against her. Every
single person she says, was against her. So She's decided
I'm going to write a book, and in that book,
(28:02):
I'm going to tell you about fashion. And I'm going
to tell you I've been snubbed when I was doing
my fashion and culture, even though I was on the
cover of Vogue magazine three different times, and the Republican
First Lady, who was a little supermodel, has never graced
the cover of Vogue magazine, not one single time. And
I'm going to tell you that it's racism. And I'm
going to tell you that the reason why you deserve
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to have bad leaders is because you need to grow
up and you haven't grown up yet. That is what
she is saying. You have not grown up yet, so
you deserve all the bad things until you grow up. Now,
for me, that's truly astonishing. For me, that's truly incredible
(28:47):
that that is how out of touch with reality she is.
I'll also say, I'm not surprised totally. Okay, I'm not.
I'm not totally surprised by this, because I do think
this is the Democratic Party. When they don't get their way,
they lose their mind, and this is how they act.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
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Speaker 1 (29:05):
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Donald Trump continuing to expand immigration enforcement. The Department of
Homeland Security is now bringing immigration enforcement surge to Charlotte,
North Carolina. We're being told that's right. DHS has formally
launched an immigration law enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina,
(00:21):
in addition to its ongoing work. They say that it's
expanding in Chicago. Quote, Americans should be able to live
without fear of violent criminal illegals hurting them, their families,
or their neighbors. That is what the Department of Olnded
Security Assistant Secretary church And McLaughlin said in a statement.
(00:42):
We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte. President Trump
and Secretary Nome will step up to protect Americans when
sanctuary politicians won't. There are plenty of videos circulating by
the way of Border Patrol agents in Charlotte, but the
Department of Homeland Security is now officially confirmed that they
are in the town and they are conducting operations. We
(01:06):
also know that the mclennenburg County Sheriff McFadden has confirmed
last week that the Department of Homeland Security has coordinated
with him on coming operations, which is dubbed Operation Charlotte's
Web that. According to The Washington Post, the sheriff there, McFadden,
also noted that DHS did not ask that his department
(01:30):
assist or participate in the operation. The crime infested city
of Charlotte was thrust into the national spotlight in September
after the Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on the city's
mass transit system, stabbed to death on video by a
chronic criminal by the name of Brown Junior, who had
(01:50):
been let out of jail time and time again despite
having a violent record. The White House sang at the
time they had seen the the horrific video of a
beautiful young Ukrainian refugee who came to America and escaped
the vicious war in Ukraine and was innocently riding the
metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed,
(02:13):
bi amentally deranged, lunatic, the White House saying this must stop.
Customs and Border Patrol chief has already been spotted in
Charlotte as he leaves the Trump administration's latest law enforcement campaign.
Border commander was not only spotted, but local Democrats are
mad about it. The surge has arrived and has been
(02:35):
explained to me. There's no slowing down. There's also video
of federal officers taking illegal aliens into custody, and they're
already making their way around the internet, making Democrats even
more angry. You can watch his Dozens of border patrol
trucks were spotted driving into the heart of Charlotte, North Carolina,
as the DHS had launched another mass deportation campaign. In
(02:59):
a Democrat a strong hold. We need to see this,
by the way, in all of the blue cities. There
needs to be no safe havens for illegal immigrants, and
the Department of Own Security patrols have begun not only
in Charlotte, but we're now saying that it's happening in
other places with expanding efforts. Just like Chicago. The Democrats
(03:25):
are already encouraging citizens, however, to harass Department of Homeland
Security agents, and that brings us to where we are now.
It's clear you're either on the side of law enforcement
or you're on the side of helping illegal immigrants. There
is a new thing that is happening. I wish this
(03:46):
was a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
We are witnessing now in different cities where there are
and This is again, not a joke. I want to
make that very clear. What I'm about to tell you
is not a joke. There are now men and women
who are actually going around town where these ICE agents
(04:11):
and DHS agents are, and they're blowing whistles to warn
illegal immigrant criminals, to warn them that they are coming.
They're using the internet to quote expose them wherever they
can expose them. This is the scary part about the
(04:33):
radical left. Now, I'm going to play for you my
comments about this exact issue that I had on Fox
News Channel with Kaylee Mcananny the show Saturday in America,
and I want you to hear what she had to
say about it.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Ben, you are the perfect person to ask about this. Okay,
we're looking at it. Guys, you're just torturing me. I'm
torturing you know, Ben. When you protest ice is your
preferred method whistling or dancing?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, neither. What is scary though about this is if
you actually look at what they're protesting. Let's go to
where I am right now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
In Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Two hundred and fourteen child sexual predators were arrested in
the first six months this year just in Houston. I've
been told by ICE that number will be significantly higher
for the second six months of the year. Now that's
not just sexual predators of adults, that is only of miners,
of children, of babies. You're whistling to what allow those
(05:36):
people to get away.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You look at Operation Dirtbag and numbers matter.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
One hundred and fifty illegal alien sex offenders that were
arrested in that operation in Florida. So if you're out
there dancing or you're whistling as a mom that says
I just want to keep my kids safe, you're literally
warning sexual offenders and predators, child molesters, and those trafficking
children that they are like going to be caught by
(06:01):
ICE agents.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
This is liberalism.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
It is Trump derangement syndrome on a whole other level.
But I also think this is why you say the
Democratic Party is truly dead. This is Marxism, socialism, and communism.
They don't want to protect Americans.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They want to.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Completely destroy this country, remake it in a new form
where they have total control and they don't care who
gets heart in the process.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's really sick.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
It is sick, and we covered those children at the
top of the show. A one year old unaccompanied minor
who came across the border lived eleven years in America
being abused. Sponsor after sponsor she was placed with came
unduring the Obama administration and the Biden administration renewed one
of her sponsor's ability to stay here. It's tragic, it's heartbreaking.
Those children matter, their stories matter, and we cover them.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
This is the part that is so shocking that should
make so many of you listening right now so angry,
is that Trump derangement syndrome has gotten to the point
where they were I'd rather say no to what Donald
Trump is trying to do, which is to fight back
against criminal illegal aliens, sexual predators, for example. And they
(07:11):
are having Democrats go out there and dance to protest
ice wherever they are and to try to stop their
operations or blow whistles to warrant illegal immigrants that they
are coming. The Democratic Party has drifted so far left
that Pelosi and Schumer are now literally after thoughts of
(07:34):
the Democratic Party because they hate this country, and they
don't care if you're hurt. They don't care. If your
kids are hurt, they don't care, if your grandkids are hurt,
they don't care. If there is sex trafficking that's happening,
they don't care. And there's only one reason why they
(07:55):
don't care. It is because they fundamentally want to destroy
a mayor and they want to reshape it and they
want to remake it into something that you can't even recognize.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And that's where we are today.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I want you to just pause what you're doing for
the next sixty seconds, and I want you to imagine Lucy,
a seven year old. Her stomach often aches with hunger,
her small hands instead of holding crayons, no, only the
struggle of survival on dusty streets. School is a distant dream,
medical care forgotten hope. Lucy's potential is overshadowed, her future
(08:33):
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Speaker 2 (09:06):
Today.
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You can visit compassion dot com.
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That's compassion dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Donald Trump saying that we are going to continue to
grow this crackdown. This is something that we're not gonna stop.
This is something that we are gonna make clear is
going to expand I want you to listen to how
the media described this carefully.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Our top story tonight. Federal agents have converged on the
city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Federal agents have been seen
today in and around the city making arrests. Assistant Secretary
of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin released a statement saying, quote,
Americans should be able to live without fear of violent, criminal,
(09:52):
illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors. We
are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ens sure
Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed. Charlotte
Mayor Vy Lyles criticized the operation, saying it's causing unnecessary
fear and uncertain Charlotte's population is roughly nine hundred thousand,
(10:14):
including more than one hundred and fifty thousand foreign born people,
according to local officials.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
By the way, there was an interesting conversation about this,
and I just want to expand on it for a moment,
because there was a Democrat over the weekend that got
on TV and in essence lost their minds. And when
I say like lost their minds, the reason why I
say they lost their mind is because they were angry
(10:41):
that ICE agents had stopped a crew that was putting
up Christmas lights. They said that was inhumane, that that
was an essence barbaric, that that was un American because
it's just an illegal who was putting up Christmas lights.
(11:04):
All right, Well, let's talk about a couple of the
people that were arrested that were apparently on a crew
doing exactly what I just described Christmas lights. One of
them was wanted for sexual assault of a child, we're
now being told, and another one was wanted for beating
(11:25):
his wife.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You'd think they'd want to tell you that whole story,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Like, you would think they would be like, you know what,
we should probably tell you the entire story. We should
tell you that, hey, they may be doing a job
that seems harmless, but it doesn't mean that the person
that's doing the job.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Is harmless.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
By the way, the majority of Americans that get arrested.
All right, let's let's be very clear about this. The
majority of Americans that get arrested are doing what you
would describe as a harmless job. Some of them are lawyers,
some of them are bankers, hell, some of them are
pastors or priests. In fact, a lot of people that
(12:12):
get arrested are doing just you know, normal everyday jobs.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
As they try to describe it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Right, harmless jobs. The job has no correlation. I want
to make that clear. The job has zero coordination correlation.
I should say zero correlation too. If the person is
(12:41):
a good person or a bad person. They are bad
and evil people in literally every job there is. They're
bad and evil people. In the church, they're bad and
evil people. In medicine, they are bad and evil people.
In missions. They're bad and evil people. At your gery store.
There are bad and evil people in every different profession.
(13:04):
There is no profession, even the holiest of positions, where
there aren't bad people among them. There are criminals. Literally
in every single profession. There are criminals in law enforcement.
Just to be very clear about what I'm saying today,
(13:28):
And when Democrats come out and they're like, oh, it's
an American to just arrest somebody that's just trying to
make a living. Well, virtually every criminal is just trying
to make a living when they go to their day job.
That doesn't mean, okay, that if you commit a crime,
(13:50):
you shouldn't be treated like you are a criminal. And
what they're really saying is there's certain areas where they
should just be like, oh, hands off, like it should
never happen. I think that is also totally insane and
completely absurd.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Where do you think we arrest.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The majority of people that have warrants, the majority of
people we have that we arrest, they go to their
place of business first, because most people, even after they've
committed crimes, they still go to get a paycheck. So
let's just think about that for a second. Okay, the
majority of people I'm going to say it again that
(14:29):
commit crimes, they go to work. And when they go
to work, does that mean that they're an innocent person
of the crimes have committed before after they got their No.
So when you talk about illegal immigrants, one, if you're
a legal imm you've actually broken the law, period full stop.
But if you're an illegal immigrant, and ice roll is up,
(14:51):
on a job site and you're in this country illegally,
there is a reason that you should be arrested. It
doesn't you're not an innocent person. Now if you're an
American citizen, Okay, that's a different conversation, right. And then
they say, well, they're harassing them. If Democrats are angry
(15:14):
as they've described with that there are people that are
quote being harassed, then don't let twenty million illegal immigrants
into the United States of America. We wouldn't be having
to do what we're doing right now if it wasn't
for the fact that the Democratic Party deliberately and purposely
let twenty plus million illegal immigrants into the United States
(15:36):
of America. These surges in Charlotte, if you're angry about them,
would have never happened. Ever, they would have never happened
if it wasn't for the Democrats that let countless illegal
(15:57):
immigrants into this nation.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So I will go back to the core here. Two
hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Child sexual predators in the first six months of this
year were caught. Child molesters, shall rapists, people that are
selling children for sex. Sex traffickers were arrested in Houston alone.
I've been told by ICE agents that I know that
(16:26):
they expect that number for the next half of the year,
the second half of the year, to go even higher.
I want you to think about that. They're expecting the
number to go higher. Now, I didn't say that was
total number of sexual offenders. I want to be clear
about that. That's not what I said. I said that
is only sexual offenders against children. There are countless other
(16:54):
sexual offenders, countless others. Can I say that again, countless
other sexual offenders of adults that are not in the
stat that I just gave you. That is just among children.
There were more than one hundred, and I think it
was fourteen that were rounded up, for example, in last
couple weeks alone in Florida, with an operation that's going
(17:16):
on in Florida just against children. We're not counting those
that were out there molesting or abusing adult women. Again,
I go back to the basics here. Why is it
that so many of these radicals are willing to allow
child sexual predators to walk around freely among us? Answer
(17:40):
me that question, all right. I want to bring you
also something else real quick. And if you thought Democrats
were learning from their mistakes at lecturing Americans about like
your way of life and how you should be living
your life. If you thought the Democrats were going to
like start listening to you instead of yelling at you
(18:04):
all the time about what you do that's wrong, Yeah,
I just got to tell you that ain't gonna happen
anytime soon. Sorry, hate to burst your bubble. Why do
I say this, Well, even the as I would describe them,
the more elder statesman of the Democratic movement of the
Democratic Party, they're pretty much like, yeah, it scrut like,
(18:25):
we're also going to talk down to Americans. Insert the
perfect example. Are you ready you remember that person by
the name of Michelle Obama. Remember that name, Michelle Obama,
You know, the old first Lady.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
She was the first Lady for eight years.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
She wants to tell you now that you need to
be lectured, and this is why she's lecturing you now.
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to quote grow up before a woman can be president.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Michelle Obama not only said Friday that she won't be
running for president because Americans quote aren't ready, she says,
for a woman. She also implied they weren't ready for
her in the White House as a black first lady.
So now we're thrown down on you as well. Even
though we elected her not once but twice, right her husband,
and she was the first lady. Somehow you still weren't
(21:16):
ready for it. So you're all still a bunch of racists,
and you don't deserve a woman in the White House
yet because you're so racist. Obama sided Kamala Harris's loss
to Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. It couldn't be
that she was a terrible candidate. Couldn't believe that she
never got above three percent when she was actually running
for president on her own. Couldn't be that the American
(21:38):
people rejected her ideas because or the coronation of her No, no, no,
it's because you're a bunch of sexists. And so Michelle
Obama sides Kama Harris has lost to Donald Trump as
her evidence of the country's sexism, saying Americans have a
lot of growing up to do, as we saw in
(21:59):
the past election. Sadly, we ain't ready, she says. We
ain't ready, is what she told the audience at Brooklyn
Academy of Music while promoting her new book The Look.
That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running,
because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman.
You are not. You know, We've got a lot of
(22:22):
growing up to do, she continued, and there's still, sadly,
a lot of men who do not feel like they
can be led by a woman, and we saw it.
Obama appeared to amplify previous complaints on her book tour
that she was under a particularly white hot glare as
a black first lady, saying even Democrats were trying to
(22:45):
destroy her while she became effective when her husband was
running in the primaries of the eight nomination. Let's be clear.
She said, these were our people who were going after me.
This started when we were running again Star Party, the
beginning of turning me into an angry shrew who diminished
her husband, who didn't love her country, who was unpatriotic.
(23:09):
These people are lying, they're making stuff up because they're
trying to win. Michelle Obama said, when she got to
the White House, she had to quickly define herself. And
I didn't even feel like I had the support of
the campaign because they were white folks too. Man, it
almost sounds like a racist statement from the former First
Lady Michelle Obama, doesn't it? Quote So I knew this immediately,
(23:34):
and I knew this coming in as First Lady, that
I was in charge of my story, my narrative. I
had to be smarter than them. I had to outsmart
everyone and came and that came to everything I did, including.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
What I wore.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Obama's book, By the Way, released earlier this month, explores
her experience with fashion and beauty, while also claiming that
women in politics are often judged based on their physical
appearance instead of leadership qualities. While the former First Lady
claims she faced heavy criticism during her time in the
White House. She was actually, in reality celebrated in the
(24:16):
legacy media. And she appeared on the cover of Vogue
magazine not once, not twice, but three different times as
first lady man. Doesn't it sound like she had a
really hard life? Yeah, I mean a lot. By the way,
that's more times than the actual supermodel by the name
(24:38):
of Milania Trump has been on the cover of Vogue magazine.
She's a former supermodel. Literally, she's been snubbed by the
establishment media and leftist magazine despite her status as a
high fashion figure throughout her life. So just to put
it in perspective for you, Michelle Obama, think about this, Michelle, Okay,
(25:01):
are you again?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Three times in the cover of Vogue.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
A former supermodel, Melania Trump has never been on the
cover of Vogue. And Michelle Obama says that you guys
hated her because she was a woman in black, And
she says that you don't deserve a woman president because
(25:26):
you need to grow up first. I'm just gonna let
that really sink in for a second. What is the
takeaway from this? Let's let's let's just talk about that for.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
A moment, not number one.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I think the biggest part, the biggest aspect of this
takeaway is this, I think it's pretty obvious that the
Democratic Party has learned nothing from losing. That's number one.
Number two. Every time they lose, they seem to go
(26:08):
back to the same thing, and that is that when
they lose, it is never their fault. It is always
someone else's fault. Every single time, it is always someone
else's fault. It is always somebody else. Is the reason
(26:31):
why they didn't succeed, right, because it couldn't be that.
Maybe just people rejected Kamala Harris. Maybe they rejector because
they thought she was a bad can it. Maybe the
rejector because it was a coronation and no one voted
for in her primary. Maybe the rejector because the economy
was bad. Maybe the rejector because of the failures of
her administration with Joe Biden. Maybe the rejector because of
(26:53):
Joe Biden's record that she was a part of.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Different reasons why she could have lost the last election,
why she did lose the last election. I mean, there's
a lot of reasons, but it doesn't just actually come
down to what she describes it as, Oh, this is
just because you guys need to grow up. Even the
(27:20):
way that she talked about some of this was shocking.
I want you to listen to just again. This is
why she's trying to get you to buy her book.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Lee and I knew this coming in as first Lady,
that I was in charge of my story, my narrative.
I had to be smarter than them. I had to
outsmart everyone, and that came to everything I did, including
what I.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Wanted, including what I wore. So everything was against her. Everything,
the system was against her, You were against her. Every
single person she says, was against her. So She's decided
I'm going to write a book, and in that book,
(28:02):
I'm going to tell you about fashion. And I'm going
to tell you I've been snubbed when I was doing
my fashion and culture, even though I was on the
cover of Vogue magazine three different times, and the Republican
First Lady, who was a little supermodel, has never graced
the cover of Vogue magazine, not one single time. And
I'm going to tell you that it's racism. And I'm
going to tell you that the reason why you deserve
(28:26):
to have bad leaders is because you need to grow
up and you haven't grown up yet. That is what
she is saying. You have not grown up yet, so
you deserve all the bad things until you grow up. Now,
for me, that's truly astonishing. For me, that's truly incredible
(28:47):
that that is how out of touch with reality she is.
I'll also say, I'm not surprised totally. Okay, I'm not.
I'm not totally surprised by this, because I do think
this is the Democratic Party. When they don't get their way,
they lose their mind, and this is how they act.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
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Speaker 1 (29:05):
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