September 6, 2025 • 27 mins
1. Military Action Against Narco-Traffickers
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Reports that Trump ordered the Pentagon to use F-35 stealth fighters and military force in the Caribbean against drug cartels.
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Describes the destruction of a suspected drug-running boat off Venezuela with a missile strike, killing 11 people—framed by the author as a show of strength.
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Critics (including Axios, Human Rights Watch, and some U.S. officials) are portrayed as outraged, calling it extrajudicial killing and a departure from law enforcement norms.
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The article defends Trump’s decision, highlighting his reclassification of cartels as terrorist organizations, which grants authority to use military force against them.
2. Immigration Courts & Military Lawyers
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Notes Trump authorized the Pentagon to deploy up to 600 military lawyers as temporary immigration judges.
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The stated goal: reduce the massive backlog of 3.4–3.5 million immigration cases.
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Critics (media, immigration lawyers, Democrats) argue that military lawyers lack the training for immigration law and risk undermining due process.
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The piece frames these objections as politically motivated resistance and emphasizes Trump’s commitment to enforcing immigration laws despite opposition.
3. Labor Force & Deportations
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Discusses the decline of immigrant labor (both legal and undocumented) in the U.S., citing a Pew Research analysis that found 1.2–1.4 million immigrants left the labor force under Trump.
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Argues that this decline benefits American workers through higher wages and more job opportunities.
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Counters media claims (like from the AP) about crops rotting due to lack of immigrant labor, suggesting those reports are fearmongering.
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Suggests that “self-deportation” is happening, where immigrants choose to leave due to stricter enforcement and fear of ICE raids.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In some big news. President Donald Trump, with the Pentagon
doing what he said to do, have now deployed F
thirty five stealth fighters to the Caribbean for counter narcotics operations.
Axios freaking out because that's what the media does when
you have a strong president that is protecting American lives.
(00:23):
Here's what their headline reads, quote, We've never seen this before.
Trump's drug war looks like a real war again. They're saying,
in a negative connotation. I'm thrilled by it, and so
are most Americans because it's exactly what they voted for.
Now the media, Axios is the great example of that.
(00:43):
Today they're wanting you to be terrified that the President
is wanting to go after narco terris. Their first line
of the article says this, more missiles, fewer arrests. President
Trump's war on drugs officially a war law enforcement action.
And then they say why does this matter? Well, the
(01:04):
US has entered a new era in which narcotic traffickers
are classified as terrorists and Trump is claiming the right
to kill them before they or their drugs reach this country.
That's what you need to know. The difference between Republicans
and Democrats on this issue. Democrats want to like hand
out due process to these terrorists. Republicans are saying, let's
(01:25):
kill them and stop their drugs before they kill Americans.
I'm loving this article. The President's overall perspective, they write,
is that if there's a terrorist threat to the homeland
of the United States of America, he trusts the military
to take that threat out, whether it's a drug boat
off the coast of Venezuela or an Alcata terrorist in
(01:47):
the Middle East. That is what a senior Trump administration
official said to Axios Now. On Tuesday, the US Navy
blew up a suspected drug running boat off Venezuela, killing
its crew of eleven. According to Trump and Pentagon officials.
By the way, the video it's glorious and I put
it up on my social media accounts. If you haven't
seen it yet, go check it out at Ben Ferguson
(02:10):
podcast on Instagram Now. The attack marked the first time
a suspected go fast drug running boat was destroyed by
a military missile that, according to officials and drug war experts.
Yet again, the President saying, I'm not screwing around quote
there's more where that came from, is what Donald Trump
(02:30):
said in announcing the strike. All other details of the
shocking caught on video missile attack are classified. Officials said.
I also laugh about that, because it was very clear
the President wanted the narcotras to see what happens if
they keep running their drugs to America. Now, the attack
was denounced by critics accustomed to the US conducting the
(02:51):
drug war as a law enforcement matter and in which
I see interactions mainly involved the Coast Guard and not
actually blowing the boats up. Well until now, the goal
was to try to capture drug runners and their narcotics
to build a case for federal prosecution. That's not what
President Trump is trying to do. And by the way,
that policy has been a failed policy now for decades,
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dating all the way back to Ronald Reagan and the
just Say No campaign to drugs with the first Lady.
What happened Tuesday was a murder anywhere in the world,
is what Columbia's NARCO president wrote on acts, saying, quote,
we have been capturing civilians who transport drugs for decades
without killing them. Those who transport drugs are not the
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big narcos, but the very poor young people from the
Caribbean and the Pacific. Well, if you're one of the
poor young people, as he described it in the Narco
terrace trade, maybe after seeing some boats being blown up
from drones or airstrikes, you might think twice about taking
the job. And that's exactly what Donald Trump is trying
to do now. The laugh by the way, they're fighting back.
(04:00):
I'll give you a great example, the former Human Rights
Watchdog executive director Kenneth Ross saying this on acts quote,
Trump admits he ordered a summary execution the crime of murder,
then went on to say drug traffickers are not combatants
who can be shot on site. There are criminal suspects
who must be arrested and prosecuted. By the way, in
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the past, that would technically be true. That's exactly why
Donald Trump changed the designation to name them as terrorists organizations.
Now that thinking is no longer operative. Is how a
Trump administration official put it. In fact, on his inauguration day,
Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring certain drug cartels,
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including Venezuela's trained Aragua Gang, as a foreign terrorist organization.
They were put on notice. So none of this should
be shocking that the president is actually doing this right
now now. Under US law, this gives the president the
authority which he's using to employ the military. Administration officials
(05:04):
say in the same way, the President Obama authorized a
drone program that killed three thousand, seven hundred and ninety
seven people and five hundred and forty two strikes aimed
at suspected terrats. By the way, the left didn't freak
out when Barack Obama was doing that, but since Trump's
doing something like it now, they're all losing their minds.
(05:25):
Trump also loosened internal rules that slowed military officials from
conducting lethal operations against alleged terras. The National Security Council
has taken out nearly one hundred terrists, the senior official
hast said, saying, quote, we are conducting strikes against terras
weekly that no one even knows about now. Former US
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Attorney Patrick Sullivan, who successfully prosecuted former Panama President Noriego
for drug crimes after he was snatched in a ninety
eight nine US military invasion, said Trump's military rization of
the war on drugs, he says, is a quote surprise,
saying we've never seen this before. This is a totally
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different approach. No one fired a missile at a go
fast boat and just destroyed it. It's just totally unheard of,
yet again making me laugh that the media and the
left are shocked by the President paying off on what
he said he was going to do. Defend Secretary Pete
headsays saying this on Wednesday, quote, anyone else trafficking in
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those waters who we know is a designated narco terrace
will face the same faith as the eleven that were
on board that first go fast boat that was blown
up from the sky. Senator Ran Paul, by the way,
expressing misgivings about the operation, saying on Newsmax that Congress
needs to declare war before the administration wages full scale
(06:51):
war on the cartels. Just for the record, I couldn't
disagree with Senator Paul Moore. Trump's new drug war isn't limited,
by the way we're being told, just to Venezuela. In
the short term, it could double as a regime change operation.
The left is now saying to dispose of the Venezuelan
dictator Maduro, who's accused of sealing last year's presidential election,
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with a ton of evidence to support that fact. But
this is how the left tries to undermine the president
after Narrega, by the way, Maduro became the second sitting
Latin American head of state to be indicted on narcotic
charges in twenty twenty, during Trump's first term. Maduro, by
the way, now also has a fifty million dollar bounty
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on his head, which the Department of Justice has doubled. Quote,
the only person who should be worried is Maduro, who's
running effectively as a kingpin of a narco state. That's
what the DoD administrator said, and we know that he's
been involved in this type of drug running that has
affected the American people directly. Put another way, Maduro can
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be targeted for assassination, including by drone strike, under the
new US policy. I have no problem with that either.
Administration officials say the possibility hasn't been seriously discussed, but
Trump is keeping it as an option now. When asked
whether regime changes a US goal, headse said the call
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wasn't his. What his job is is to do what
the President says, and that is to go after the
narco terrorists because clearly they're not going to stop killing
Americans until we stop them, which brings us to the
bigger point. Why is it that there's so many Democrats
in America right now that are refusing to admit just
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how bad the drug problem is. We know that fetnol
is the number one killer of younger Americans right now.
It's truly sad and shocking. And many of the accidental
overdoses that are causing their deaths are clearly not intentional.
Many kids think that they're taking a legitimate pill like
a Ritlin or an adderall and then drop dead from fetnyl.
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DEA agents have said they can't even tell the difference
between the real pill from a pharmacist and the narco
terrorist pill that is laced with fetanel that can easily
kill you. So here we are, we're in a moment
where Donald Trump has made it clear he may direct
more strikes against the narco terras. As it's been put
(09:21):
by Marco Rubio. He said, quote blow them up. That's
what Rubio says. Trump will direct more strikes. The president
of United States America is going to wage war on
the narco terrorists organizations. So from the State Department to
the Pentagon, to the FBI to the White House, one
thing that is sure the President said he was going
after the drug traffickers, and that is exactly what he's doing.
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And yes, even as they're shocked to write it, it's
maybe one of the best well articles I've ever seen
where they're saying that the president is actually not just
talking about going to war with the terrorists, he's actually
starting a war take them out. President Donald Trump promised
that if you elected a president, he was going to
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get rid of illegal immigrants, especially the worst of them
that were in this country, those that committed heinous crimes,
violent crimes, those had gone after children, those have been
convicted of murder and rape. Well, the President has made
good on that promise. But there's still a lot of
work to be done. How do we know this Because
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of the backlock, there are not enough immigration judges to
deal with all of the cases. Well, the President said
that's not going to stop him from moving forward, and
now we know what the plan looks like. The Pentagon
has authorized up to six hundred military lawyers to serve
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as temporary immigration judges. This could speed things up significantly.
And not only has the President said this is important,
but the Defense Secretary Pete Headseth approving the deployment of
up to six hundred military judges makes it a reality.
The Justice Department is where they're going to be working.
They're going to act as quote, temporary immigration judges. The
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directive follows a request from the DOJ to deliberately help
alleviate a overwhelming backlog in immigration courts. Why is this happening,
because we're actually prosecuting people that need to be prosecuted
for the crime of being in this country illegally, along
with other crimes as well. Now, the deployment timeline is
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also very important. It will begin as soon as possible,
with groups of one hundred and fifty attorneys being sent
at a time. The first round of personnel is actually
expected to be identified by this next week, and then
they will be put out into the court system. Now,
their initial term will last no more than one hundred
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and seventy nine days, with the renewals possible under the
current directives. Why one hundred and seventy one days, It's
because how the law works. Right now for these temporary judges,
the Justice Department has faced a dramatic shortage of immigration judges.
Over one hundred, by the way, have been fired to
resign after the deferred resignation offers, cutting the bench roughly
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in half from about twelve hundred to six hundred judges.
The AP is now reporting simultaneously, the immigration court system
faces a massive backlog of approximately three point four to
three point five million pending cases. How do we get
to the point where there were this many cases backlog?
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It was all by design by the Biden administration so
that illegal immigrants could overflow the country and stay here
and not actually have to worry about getting in any
trouble or being held accountable for breaking into the country.
It was also part of the game plan. Democrats wanted
to overrun the country, so the only way that seemed
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possible to deal with the issue was to offer some
sort of amnesty, to basically say that if, well, you're
here already, we'll just let you stay and we'll give
you a pathway to citizenship. Well, Donald Trump ran on
doing the exact opposite of that, and he's now saying
we've got to clean up the backlog, no matter how
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long it takes, and adding the up to six hundred
military lawyers to service temporary immigration judges is a massive
step in the right direction. Now, the administration's broader context
includes increased immigration enforcement as well, and the White House
said the deployment of troops to the border and different
major cities, and also the use of military resources in
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domestic immigration operations. Now you're gonna hear a lot from
the media, and you're gonna hear a lot from the left.
Their argument about why this is going to be a
quote disaster is this. They're claiming already that the military lawyers,
who haven't even been named or been in the court yet,
typically they say, lack training and immigration law or procedure
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and due process considerations. The American Immigration Lawyers Association coming
out with a full court press condemning what they say
is the shift, likening assigning the DOJ attorneys to immigration
judges is to asking a cardiologist, they say, to do
a hip replacement, thus highlighting the mismatch in expertise, and
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running to the news to put out that propaganda. I
just told you, where do they put it first? Well,
the mainstream media, and they started with CBS News, And yes,
there was also a Reuter's report echoing the same exact
verbiage as CBS News and same concerns, noting that even
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with additional training Jags may struggle with the complexities of
immigration proceedings due process, they say, and judicial integrity is
also a major problem. Right critics are now saying that
this measure prioritizes speed over the fairness of the law
breakers of the illegal immigrants. They say that potentially is
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going to undermine due process and increase the risk of
flaud or appealable they claim decisions. Democratic legislators and immigration
rights advocates have already joined together and they're condemning the
move and also saying that it is reckless and not
putting people where they should be first. So here we are.
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The Pentagon is authorized up to six hundred military lawyers
to serve as temporary judges. The left is saying, yes,
this is going to be a disaster and that these
illegal immigrants deserve a better system. So here's my response.
Maybe it's time for us to stop caring so much
about people that break into this country and start protecting
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their victims and American workers. And that's exactly what I
voted for, and it's exactly what Donald Trump is doing now.
By the way, the local media, they do have a
little bit of a different spin on this, especially in
cities that have been affected by so many illegal immigrants
and much of the violent crime. Let me give you
a perfect example of that. The report that played on
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Fox ten, the local affiliate in Phoenix, sounding very different
than what I read you from the big boys at
CBS and at the other news media outlets that are nationwide.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
New at six, the military could soon be running some
immigration courts across the US. Today, the Pentagon issued new
orders to six hundred military lawyers to serve as temporary
immigration judges. The first round of attorneys are heading to
the Justice Department next week. The Trump administration says that
this will help expedite immigration cases, as the country has
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long dealt with a shortage of judges. Arizona attorney Nick
Suriel says that the decision will only bog down an
already broken legal system.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I've been doing this thirty three years and least six
hundred pages of immigration law.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
These things are not you know, for the casual observer,
these these people being being proposed have is again one
week of training. Uh, you know what we're asking for.
We're asking for all the appellate courts to be clogged,
clogged up with cases.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The judge advocates have a range of different responsibilities like
their civilian counterparts, including carrying out prosecutions, acting as defense
attorneys for service members, and offering legal advice.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
All Right, so let's just be real. It's not that
different from the mainstream media.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It was almost good, but then you hear it the
way that it was just described, and yeah, guess what,
the media still wants you to think this is some
sort of terrible idea. Well, at the end of the day,
the President United States of America says we're going to
do this. The Pentagon says we're going to do this.
The man in charge of the Pentagon says, we're doing it.
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And the most important part is this. When you have
a system that was deliberately backloged, like the Democrats did,
to the point where we have a million and a
half people waiting for a date, the president had no
choice but to take that disaster and try to get
it back to something that's manageable. This is why it's
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so important moving forward that the president has these judges
and maybe others that get in the game and get
this country back on track when it comes to our
immigration laws, policies, and enforcement. It was a prediction that
Donald Trump made when he was running for president. He said,
if you elect me, guess what's going to happen. There
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are going to be people that are going to self
deport because I'm in charge, and they're going to realize
that it's just not worth staying here. Wow, we have
actual law and order. Well that became a reality, and
the Associated Press is now running this headline, one point
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two million immigrants are gone from the US labor force
under Donald Trump. Preliminary data is now confirming it's tomato season.
The article begins, and Lydia is harvesting on farms in
California's Central Valley. She is also anxious attention from US
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Immigration and Customs enforcement could up in her life for
more than twenty three years after she illegally crossed the
US Mexico border as a teenager. The worry is they
will pull you over when you're driving and ask for
your papers, is what Lydia said the Associated Press don't worry.
She's not using her last name because the APS will
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protect her. She went on to say, we need to work,
we need to feed our families, and we need to
pay our rent. Well, there's also Americans that need the
exact same thing, and what we're witnessing is many Americans
are saying we should put American workers first. Well, here's
the reality. More than one point four million immigrants have
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disappeared from the labor force from January through the end
of July, according to the Census Bureau data analyzed by
the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in
the country illegally as well as legal residents, but the
majority are illegals. Immigrants make up almost twenty percent is
the claim of the US workforce, and data shows forty
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five percent of workers are in farming, fishing, forestry they
are immigrants. According to the Pew Senior researcher Sephanie Kramer,
about thirty percent of all construction workers are immigrants and
twenty four percent of service workers or immigrants. She went
on to add the loss of immigrant workers comes as
the nation seeing the first decline and the overall immigrant
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population after the number of people in the US illegally
reached an all time high they claim of fourteen million
in twenty twenty three. Many believe that number is off
by as many as ten to twelve million. It's unclear
how much of the decline we've seen since January is
due to voluntary departures to pursue other opportunities and avoid
deportation removals under reporting of other technical or other technical issues.
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Kramer said, However, we don't believe that the preliminary numbers
indicate net negative migration are so far off that the
decline isn't real. So what are they saying? Yes, it's real.
People are leaving on their own. Trump campaign, by the way,
on the promise to deport millions of immigrants working in
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the US illegally, and he said he is focusing on
deportation efforts also of dangerous criminals first. But most people
detained by ice have no quote, criminal convictions, is what
the left said. So they believe they should all take
away American jobs, which brings me to part two of
the story. Guess what's happening. Americans are actually now making
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more money because of these self deportations. That's right. We
are seeing a rise in pay which is helping American families.
The broader economic research is consistently finding that right now
we are seeing more Americans are making more money than
they did before. The National Employment Law Project its study
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found that if eight point three million undocumented immigrants were deported.
The resulting economic impact could lead to seven percent increase
in pay instantly. The Baker Institute also reports that pass
mass deportations, they claimed lower wages and caused job losses.
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But what we're witnessing right now is the opposite of that,
because the unemployment rate has actually gone down over the
same period of time, not up. So what does it mean.
It means that Donald Trump and what he is saying
is actually working. Quote average hourly wages have not decreased
the left promise and the media said was going to happen.
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In fact, they have accelerated, rising by zero point four
percent over the last month. Yes, in May, for example,
it went up zero point four percent to thirty six
twenty four in May as businesses adjusted to a tighter
labor supply as many were self deporting. Now this also
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goes in the face of the argument that there would
be fewer jobs Americans would take than Americans would do
the jobs illegal immigrants are doing. All of that has
also now been a lie. A Labor economists of the
Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas said immigrants normally contribute at
least fifty percent of job growth in the US. But
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what we're seeing now is Americans coming out of the
woodwork for the jobs that they couldn't get before because
they were taken by illegal immigrant labor. Quote. The influx
across the border, from what we can tell, is essentially stopped,
and that's where we were getting millions and millions of
migrants over the last four years. That has a huge
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impact on the ability to quote create jobs now. You
can also go back to the fear mongering story from
the AP Their sub headline was crops did go to waste.
Just across the border from Mexico and Mcowan, Texas, corn
and cotton fields are about ready to harvest. Elizabeth Rodriguez
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worries there won't be enough workers available to deal with
the gens and other machinery once the fields are cleared.
They say immigration enforcement actions at farms are hurting them,
businesses and construction sites. They say it's bring everything to
a standstill. Rodriguez, by the way, is the director of
farm worker Advocacy for the National farm Worker Ministry that
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loves illegal immigrant labor. So there is two sides the story. Yes,
it's not good for illegal immigrants right now, and yes,
they're trying to fearmonger you that you're not going to
have anything on the shelves. You may remember, by the way,
that's the exact same fear mongering they said when they
said Donald Trump was going to ruin our economy with
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a terrified that he was willing to take to other
countries that were taking advantage of the United States of America. Well,
guess what they lied to you then, and they're lying
to you now. In fact, in May, during the peak
of our watermelon and cantalop season, it delayed it. A
lot of crops did go to waste, is the new
claim from the Associated Press. When asked to back it up.
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What are we actually seeing, Well, not a lot of
data to back that up at all. In fact, there
were plenty of Americans that had no problem finding a
water melon, that's right. So what's going to happen next.
It is clear that the President of the United States
of America is going after illegal immigrant laborers, and many
of them are saying it's just not worth it anymore.
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Business is not good in America if you're an illegal immigrant,
because Donald Trump is actually enforcing the laws and most
of the men and women who work in the farms.
For example, in California, our contractor provided day laborers. There
were days earlier this year, they say, when crews would
be smaller. One of those, Lisa Tate, manages her family
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business that grows citrus, fruits, avocados and coffee on eight
ranches and eight hundred acres. And what did she say, Well,
she's concerned. She said there were days this year when
the crews were just smaller. She's hesitant to place the
blame on immigration policy, but she fears that ice raids
spread quickly. So what is she actually doing. She knows
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what she's doing. It's very clear that the labors that
she is using for day labor are probably you guessed it,
illegal immigrants. And dozens of area farm workers were arrested
late this spring, sending another message the present is not
messing around. Quote. People are being taken out of the
laundry mats off the side of the road. Tait said. Lydia,
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the farm worker who spoke to the AP by the
way through an interpreter, cent her biggest fear is being
sent back to Mexico. Now, at thirty six, she's married
with three school aged children who were born in the US.
It's interesting, by the way she's been here for so
long but still has decided not to learn English. Quote.
I don't know if I'll be able to bring my kids,
said Lydia. I'm also very concerned. I've had to start
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from zero if I left. My whole life has been
in the United States of America. So there's the fear
mongering for the ap but if you look at the reality,
more Americans now are able to provide for their families,
and they're also making more money now than they've made
ever before. Don't forget share this podcast please with your
family and your friends where whoever they are, and I
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will see you back here tomorrow.
In some big news. President Donald Trump, with the Pentagon
doing what he said to do, have now deployed F
thirty five stealth fighters to the Caribbean for counter narcotics operations.
Axios freaking out because that's what the media does when
you have a strong president that is protecting American lives.
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Here's what their headline reads, quote, We've never seen this before.
Trump's drug war looks like a real war again. They're saying,
in a negative connotation. I'm thrilled by it, and so
are most Americans because it's exactly what they voted for.
Now the media, Axios is the great example of that.
(00:43):
Today they're wanting you to be terrified that the President
is wanting to go after narco terris. Their first line
of the article says this, more missiles, fewer arrests. President
Trump's war on drugs officially a war law enforcement action.
And then they say why does this matter? Well, the
(01:04):
US has entered a new era in which narcotic traffickers
are classified as terrorists and Trump is claiming the right
to kill them before they or their drugs reach this country.
That's what you need to know. The difference between Republicans
and Democrats on this issue. Democrats want to like hand
out due process to these terrorists. Republicans are saying, let's
(01:25):
kill them and stop their drugs before they kill Americans.
I'm loving this article. The President's overall perspective, they write,
is that if there's a terrorist threat to the homeland
of the United States of America, he trusts the military
to take that threat out, whether it's a drug boat
off the coast of Venezuela or an Alcata terrorist in
(01:47):
the Middle East. That is what a senior Trump administration
official said to Axios Now. On Tuesday, the US Navy
blew up a suspected drug running boat off Venezuela, killing
its crew of eleven. According to Trump and Pentagon officials.
By the way, the video it's glorious and I put
it up on my social media accounts. If you haven't
seen it yet, go check it out at Ben Ferguson
(02:10):
podcast on Instagram Now. The attack marked the first time
a suspected go fast drug running boat was destroyed by
a military missile that, according to officials and drug war experts.
Yet again, the President saying, I'm not screwing around quote
there's more where that came from, is what Donald Trump
(02:30):
said in announcing the strike. All other details of the
shocking caught on video missile attack are classified. Officials said.
I also laugh about that, because it was very clear
the President wanted the narcotras to see what happens if
they keep running their drugs to America. Now, the attack
was denounced by critics accustomed to the US conducting the
(02:51):
drug war as a law enforcement matter and in which
I see interactions mainly involved the Coast Guard and not
actually blowing the boats up. Well until now, the goal
was to try to capture drug runners and their narcotics
to build a case for federal prosecution. That's not what
President Trump is trying to do. And by the way,
that policy has been a failed policy now for decades,
(03:15):
dating all the way back to Ronald Reagan and the
just Say No campaign to drugs with the first Lady.
What happened Tuesday was a murder anywhere in the world,
is what Columbia's NARCO president wrote on acts, saying, quote,
we have been capturing civilians who transport drugs for decades
without killing them. Those who transport drugs are not the
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big narcos, but the very poor young people from the
Caribbean and the Pacific. Well, if you're one of the
poor young people, as he described it in the Narco
terrace trade, maybe after seeing some boats being blown up
from drones or airstrikes, you might think twice about taking
the job. And that's exactly what Donald Trump is trying
to do now. The laugh by the way, they're fighting back.
(04:00):
I'll give you a great example, the former Human Rights
Watchdog executive director Kenneth Ross saying this on acts quote,
Trump admits he ordered a summary execution the crime of murder,
then went on to say drug traffickers are not combatants
who can be shot on site. There are criminal suspects
who must be arrested and prosecuted. By the way, in
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the past, that would technically be true. That's exactly why
Donald Trump changed the designation to name them as terrorists organizations.
Now that thinking is no longer operative. Is how a
Trump administration official put it. In fact, on his inauguration day,
Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring certain drug cartels,
(04:43):
including Venezuela's trained Aragua Gang, as a foreign terrorist organization.
They were put on notice. So none of this should
be shocking that the president is actually doing this right
now now. Under US law, this gives the president the
authority which he's using to employ the military. Administration officials
(05:04):
say in the same way, the President Obama authorized a
drone program that killed three thousand, seven hundred and ninety
seven people and five hundred and forty two strikes aimed
at suspected terrats. By the way, the left didn't freak
out when Barack Obama was doing that, but since Trump's
doing something like it now, they're all losing their minds.
(05:25):
Trump also loosened internal rules that slowed military officials from
conducting lethal operations against alleged terras. The National Security Council
has taken out nearly one hundred terrists, the senior official
hast said, saying, quote, we are conducting strikes against terras
weekly that no one even knows about now. Former US
(05:47):
Attorney Patrick Sullivan, who successfully prosecuted former Panama President Noriego
for drug crimes after he was snatched in a ninety
eight nine US military invasion, said Trump's military rization of
the war on drugs, he says, is a quote surprise,
saying we've never seen this before. This is a totally
(06:07):
different approach. No one fired a missile at a go
fast boat and just destroyed it. It's just totally unheard of,
yet again making me laugh that the media and the
left are shocked by the President paying off on what
he said he was going to do. Defend Secretary Pete
headsays saying this on Wednesday, quote, anyone else trafficking in
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those waters who we know is a designated narco terrace
will face the same faith as the eleven that were
on board that first go fast boat that was blown
up from the sky. Senator Ran Paul, by the way,
expressing misgivings about the operation, saying on Newsmax that Congress
needs to declare war before the administration wages full scale
(06:51):
war on the cartels. Just for the record, I couldn't
disagree with Senator Paul Moore. Trump's new drug war isn't limited,
by the way we're being told, just to Venezuela. In
the short term, it could double as a regime change operation.
The left is now saying to dispose of the Venezuelan
dictator Maduro, who's accused of sealing last year's presidential election,
(07:13):
with a ton of evidence to support that fact. But
this is how the left tries to undermine the president
after Narrega, by the way, Maduro became the second sitting
Latin American head of state to be indicted on narcotic
charges in twenty twenty, during Trump's first term. Maduro, by
the way, now also has a fifty million dollar bounty
(07:34):
on his head, which the Department of Justice has doubled. Quote,
the only person who should be worried is Maduro, who's
running effectively as a kingpin of a narco state. That's
what the DoD administrator said, and we know that he's
been involved in this type of drug running that has
affected the American people directly. Put another way, Maduro can
(07:57):
be targeted for assassination, including by drone strike, under the
new US policy. I have no problem with that either.
Administration officials say the possibility hasn't been seriously discussed, but
Trump is keeping it as an option now. When asked
whether regime changes a US goal, headse said the call
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wasn't his. What his job is is to do what
the President says, and that is to go after the
narco terrorists because clearly they're not going to stop killing
Americans until we stop them, which brings us to the
bigger point. Why is it that there's so many Democrats
in America right now that are refusing to admit just
(08:39):
how bad the drug problem is. We know that fetnol
is the number one killer of younger Americans right now.
It's truly sad and shocking. And many of the accidental
overdoses that are causing their deaths are clearly not intentional.
Many kids think that they're taking a legitimate pill like
a Ritlin or an adderall and then drop dead from fetnyl.
(09:01):
DEA agents have said they can't even tell the difference
between the real pill from a pharmacist and the narco
terrorist pill that is laced with fetanel that can easily
kill you. So here we are, we're in a moment
where Donald Trump has made it clear he may direct
more strikes against the narco terras. As it's been put
(09:21):
by Marco Rubio. He said, quote blow them up. That's
what Rubio says. Trump will direct more strikes. The president
of United States America is going to wage war on
the narco terrorists organizations. So from the State Department to
the Pentagon, to the FBI to the White House, one
thing that is sure the President said he was going
after the drug traffickers, and that is exactly what he's doing.
(09:45):
And yes, even as they're shocked to write it, it's
maybe one of the best well articles I've ever seen
where they're saying that the president is actually not just
talking about going to war with the terrorists, he's actually
starting a war take them out. President Donald Trump promised
that if you elected a president, he was going to
(10:06):
get rid of illegal immigrants, especially the worst of them
that were in this country, those that committed heinous crimes,
violent crimes, those had gone after children, those have been
convicted of murder and rape. Well, the President has made
good on that promise. But there's still a lot of
work to be done. How do we know this Because
(10:26):
of the backlock, there are not enough immigration judges to
deal with all of the cases. Well, the President said
that's not going to stop him from moving forward, and
now we know what the plan looks like. The Pentagon
has authorized up to six hundred military lawyers to serve
(10:47):
as temporary immigration judges. This could speed things up significantly.
And not only has the President said this is important,
but the Defense Secretary Pete Headseth approving the deployment of
up to six hundred military judges makes it a reality.
The Justice Department is where they're going to be working.
They're going to act as quote, temporary immigration judges. The
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directive follows a request from the DOJ to deliberately help
alleviate a overwhelming backlog in immigration courts. Why is this happening,
because we're actually prosecuting people that need to be prosecuted
for the crime of being in this country illegally, along
with other crimes as well. Now, the deployment timeline is
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also very important. It will begin as soon as possible,
with groups of one hundred and fifty attorneys being sent
at a time. The first round of personnel is actually
expected to be identified by this next week, and then
they will be put out into the court system. Now,
their initial term will last no more than one hundred
(11:54):
and seventy nine days, with the renewals possible under the
current directives. Why one hundred and seventy one days, It's
because how the law works. Right now for these temporary judges,
the Justice Department has faced a dramatic shortage of immigration judges.
Over one hundred, by the way, have been fired to
resign after the deferred resignation offers, cutting the bench roughly
(12:17):
in half from about twelve hundred to six hundred judges.
The AP is now reporting simultaneously, the immigration court system
faces a massive backlog of approximately three point four to
three point five million pending cases. How do we get
to the point where there were this many cases backlog?
(12:40):
It was all by design by the Biden administration so
that illegal immigrants could overflow the country and stay here
and not actually have to worry about getting in any
trouble or being held accountable for breaking into the country.
It was also part of the game plan. Democrats wanted
to overrun the country, so the only way that seemed
(13:01):
possible to deal with the issue was to offer some
sort of amnesty, to basically say that if, well, you're
here already, we'll just let you stay and we'll give
you a pathway to citizenship. Well, Donald Trump ran on
doing the exact opposite of that, and he's now saying
we've got to clean up the backlog, no matter how
(13:22):
long it takes, and adding the up to six hundred
military lawyers to service temporary immigration judges is a massive
step in the right direction. Now, the administration's broader context
includes increased immigration enforcement as well, and the White House
said the deployment of troops to the border and different
major cities, and also the use of military resources in
(13:43):
domestic immigration operations. Now you're gonna hear a lot from
the media, and you're gonna hear a lot from the left.
Their argument about why this is going to be a
quote disaster is this. They're claiming already that the military lawyers,
who haven't even been named or been in the court yet,
typically they say, lack training and immigration law or procedure
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and due process considerations. The American Immigration Lawyers Association coming
out with a full court press condemning what they say
is the shift, likening assigning the DOJ attorneys to immigration
judges is to asking a cardiologist, they say, to do
a hip replacement, thus highlighting the mismatch in expertise, and
(14:28):
running to the news to put out that propaganda. I
just told you, where do they put it first? Well,
the mainstream media, and they started with CBS News, And yes,
there was also a Reuter's report echoing the same exact
verbiage as CBS News and same concerns, noting that even
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with additional training Jags may struggle with the complexities of
immigration proceedings due process, they say, and judicial integrity is
also a major problem. Right critics are now saying that
this measure prioritizes speed over the fairness of the law
breakers of the illegal immigrants. They say that potentially is
(15:10):
going to undermine due process and increase the risk of
flaud or appealable they claim decisions. Democratic legislators and immigration
rights advocates have already joined together and they're condemning the
move and also saying that it is reckless and not
putting people where they should be first. So here we are.
(15:32):
The Pentagon is authorized up to six hundred military lawyers
to serve as temporary judges. The left is saying, yes,
this is going to be a disaster and that these
illegal immigrants deserve a better system. So here's my response.
Maybe it's time for us to stop caring so much
about people that break into this country and start protecting
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their victims and American workers. And that's exactly what I
voted for, and it's exactly what Donald Trump is doing now.
By the way, the local media, they do have a
little bit of a different spin on this, especially in
cities that have been affected by so many illegal immigrants
and much of the violent crime. Let me give you
a perfect example of that. The report that played on
(16:14):
Fox ten, the local affiliate in Phoenix, sounding very different
than what I read you from the big boys at
CBS and at the other news media outlets that are nationwide.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
New at six, the military could soon be running some
immigration courts across the US. Today, the Pentagon issued new
orders to six hundred military lawyers to serve as temporary
immigration judges. The first round of attorneys are heading to
the Justice Department next week. The Trump administration says that
this will help expedite immigration cases, as the country has
(16:47):
long dealt with a shortage of judges. Arizona attorney Nick
Suriel says that the decision will only bog down an
already broken legal system.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I've been doing this thirty three years and least six
hundred pages of immigration law.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Right.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
These things are not you know, for the casual observer,
these these people being being proposed have is again one
week of training. Uh, you know what we're asking for.
We're asking for all the appellate courts to be clogged,
clogged up with cases.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
The judge advocates have a range of different responsibilities like
their civilian counterparts, including carrying out prosecutions, acting as defense
attorneys for service members, and offering legal advice.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
All Right, so let's just be real. It's not that
different from the mainstream media.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Right.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
It was almost good, but then you hear it the
way that it was just described, and yeah, guess what,
the media still wants you to think this is some
sort of terrible idea. Well, at the end of the day,
the President United States of America says we're going to
do this. The Pentagon says we're going to do this.
The man in charge of the Pentagon says, we're doing it.
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And the most important part is this. When you have
a system that was deliberately backloged, like the Democrats did,
to the point where we have a million and a
half people waiting for a date, the president had no
choice but to take that disaster and try to get
it back to something that's manageable. This is why it's
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so important moving forward that the president has these judges
and maybe others that get in the game and get
this country back on track when it comes to our
immigration laws, policies, and enforcement. It was a prediction that
Donald Trump made when he was running for president. He said,
if you elect me, guess what's going to happen. There
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are going to be people that are going to self
deport because I'm in charge, and they're going to realize
that it's just not worth staying here. Wow, we have
actual law and order. Well that became a reality, and
the Associated Press is now running this headline, one point
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two million immigrants are gone from the US labor force
under Donald Trump. Preliminary data is now confirming it's tomato season.
The article begins, and Lydia is harvesting on farms in
California's Central Valley. She is also anxious attention from US
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Immigration and Customs enforcement could up in her life for
more than twenty three years after she illegally crossed the
US Mexico border as a teenager. The worry is they
will pull you over when you're driving and ask for
your papers, is what Lydia said the Associated Press don't worry.
She's not using her last name because the APS will
(19:43):
protect her. She went on to say, we need to work,
we need to feed our families, and we need to
pay our rent. Well, there's also Americans that need the
exact same thing, and what we're witnessing is many Americans
are saying we should put American workers first. Well, here's
the reality. More than one point four million immigrants have
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disappeared from the labor force from January through the end
of July, according to the Census Bureau data analyzed by
the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in
the country illegally as well as legal residents, but the
majority are illegals. Immigrants make up almost twenty percent is
the claim of the US workforce, and data shows forty
(20:27):
five percent of workers are in farming, fishing, forestry they
are immigrants. According to the Pew Senior researcher Sephanie Kramer,
about thirty percent of all construction workers are immigrants and
twenty four percent of service workers or immigrants. She went
on to add the loss of immigrant workers comes as
the nation seeing the first decline and the overall immigrant
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population after the number of people in the US illegally
reached an all time high they claim of fourteen million
in twenty twenty three. Many believe that number is off
by as many as ten to twelve million. It's unclear
how much of the decline we've seen since January is
due to voluntary departures to pursue other opportunities and avoid
deportation removals under reporting of other technical or other technical issues.
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Kramer said, However, we don't believe that the preliminary numbers
indicate net negative migration are so far off that the
decline isn't real. So what are they saying? Yes, it's real.
People are leaving on their own. Trump campaign, by the way,
on the promise to deport millions of immigrants working in
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the US illegally, and he said he is focusing on
deportation efforts also of dangerous criminals first. But most people
detained by ice have no quote, criminal convictions, is what
the left said. So they believe they should all take
away American jobs, which brings me to part two of
the story. Guess what's happening. Americans are actually now making
(22:01):
more money because of these self deportations. That's right. We
are seeing a rise in pay which is helping American families.
The broader economic research is consistently finding that right now
we are seeing more Americans are making more money than
they did before. The National Employment Law Project its study
(22:24):
found that if eight point three million undocumented immigrants were deported.
The resulting economic impact could lead to seven percent increase
in pay instantly. The Baker Institute also reports that pass
mass deportations, they claimed lower wages and caused job losses.
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But what we're witnessing right now is the opposite of that,
because the unemployment rate has actually gone down over the
same period of time, not up. So what does it mean.
It means that Donald Trump and what he is saying
is actually working. Quote average hourly wages have not decreased
the left promise and the media said was going to happen.
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In fact, they have accelerated, rising by zero point four
percent over the last month. Yes, in May, for example,
it went up zero point four percent to thirty six
twenty four in May as businesses adjusted to a tighter
labor supply as many were self deporting. Now this also
(23:28):
goes in the face of the argument that there would
be fewer jobs Americans would take than Americans would do
the jobs illegal immigrants are doing. All of that has
also now been a lie. A Labor economists of the
Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas said immigrants normally contribute at
least fifty percent of job growth in the US. But
(23:48):
what we're seeing now is Americans coming out of the
woodwork for the jobs that they couldn't get before because
they were taken by illegal immigrant labor. Quote. The influx
across the border, from what we can tell, is essentially stopped,
and that's where we were getting millions and millions of
migrants over the last four years. That has a huge
(24:09):
impact on the ability to quote create jobs now. You
can also go back to the fear mongering story from
the AP Their sub headline was crops did go to waste.
Just across the border from Mexico and Mcowan, Texas, corn
and cotton fields are about ready to harvest. Elizabeth Rodriguez
(24:29):
worries there won't be enough workers available to deal with
the gens and other machinery once the fields are cleared.
They say immigration enforcement actions at farms are hurting them,
businesses and construction sites. They say it's bring everything to
a standstill. Rodriguez, by the way, is the director of
farm worker Advocacy for the National farm Worker Ministry that
(24:52):
loves illegal immigrant labor. So there is two sides the story. Yes,
it's not good for illegal immigrants right now, and yes,
they're trying to fearmonger you that you're not going to
have anything on the shelves. You may remember, by the way,
that's the exact same fear mongering they said when they
said Donald Trump was going to ruin our economy with
(25:13):
a terrified that he was willing to take to other
countries that were taking advantage of the United States of America. Well,
guess what they lied to you then, and they're lying
to you now. In fact, in May, during the peak
of our watermelon and cantalop season, it delayed it. A
lot of crops did go to waste, is the new
claim from the Associated Press. When asked to back it up.
(25:35):
What are we actually seeing, Well, not a lot of
data to back that up at all. In fact, there
were plenty of Americans that had no problem finding a
water melon, that's right. So what's going to happen next.
It is clear that the President of the United States
of America is going after illegal immigrant laborers, and many
of them are saying it's just not worth it anymore.
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Business is not good in America if you're an illegal immigrant,
because Donald Trump is actually enforcing the laws and most
of the men and women who work in the farms.
For example, in California, our contractor provided day laborers. There
were days earlier this year, they say, when crews would
be smaller. One of those, Lisa Tate, manages her family
(26:21):
business that grows citrus, fruits, avocados and coffee on eight
ranches and eight hundred acres. And what did she say, Well,
she's concerned. She said there were days this year when
the crews were just smaller. She's hesitant to place the
blame on immigration policy, but she fears that ice raids
spread quickly. So what is she actually doing. She knows
(26:44):
what she's doing. It's very clear that the labors that
she is using for day labor are probably you guessed it,
illegal immigrants. And dozens of area farm workers were arrested
late this spring, sending another message the present is not
messing around. Quote. People are being taken out of the
laundry mats off the side of the road. Tait said. Lydia,
(27:08):
the farm worker who spoke to the AP by the
way through an interpreter, cent her biggest fear is being
sent back to Mexico. Now, at thirty six, she's married
with three school aged children who were born in the US.
It's interesting, by the way she's been here for so
long but still has decided not to learn English. Quote.
I don't know if I'll be able to bring my kids,
said Lydia. I'm also very concerned. I've had to start
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from zero if I left. My whole life has been
in the United States of America. So there's the fear
mongering for the ap but if you look at the reality,
more Americans now are able to provide for their families,
and they're also making more money now than they've made
ever before. Don't forget share this podcast please with your
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