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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Affordability.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is going to be the issue of the midterm
elections if there was an election today. It's the issue
that Democrats are saying, they believe they have the best
footing on to go after Donald Trump, saying that it's
all his fault that affordability is not where you want it.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But then you will get prices.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
And there are massive successes that have happened that are
the complete opposite of what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
were doing. Energy Secretary Chris Right, for example, pointing to
now what is historic gas prices compared to Biden and
the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright saying this about where
the gas prices are today.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
And you know, I don't think there was there definitely
wasn't a time during the Biden administration when the gas
went below the price they came in. Of course, they
came in during the pandemic when prices were very low
because people weren't traveling as much. But they basically you
look at a chart and it's it's pretty amazing the
way it just stayed up there.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It did come.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Down for the high point of five bucks a gallon,
but it never really came down significantly enough for American
car users.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Imagine if Harris had won the election, where would gasoline
prices be today? How would American consumers feel? I guess
you could visit California and get a preview of that,
where gasoline prices are over fifty percent higher than the
national average. Those are political choices. They're not unfortunate facts.
They're political choices to make energy expensive.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Now, political choices deliberately to make gas prices expensive. You
also go back to the chart that he was referring to,
and that chart is one that truly is incredible. When
Joe Biden became president November of twenty twenty, gas prices
were about two dollars and twenty cents a gallon. By
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June of that of twenty twenty two, they administration had
gotten gas prices up to five dollars and three cents
a gallon average. They then tried to artificially deflate that
price by even releasing all reserves. Why because they wanted
to win reelection. And in November of twenty twenty five,
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we were at three dollars and seventeen cents a gallon
national average, meaning fifty percent we're paying more than that
and in many places much more so. Now, where are we,
the President United States of America saying, I understand affordability,
and I understand there are many Americans that are concerned
about it. And here's part of what he had to
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say at the White House.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
We're now at about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
We're going to be I think at two dollars a gallon,
we could even crack that at some point. I'd love
to do it, and we could do it more easily
if we weren't building up the strategic national reserves, which
Biden emptied out before the election so that he could
try and get elected, meaning she he started it, then
he got thrown out of the race.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Then she took over and she kept it.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Going, and they emptied out these strategic national reserves, which
are really meant for something else. They're not meant to
keep people happy with a gasoline price. They meant for war.
They meant for problems, big problems. He emptied it out,
and then she continued it during the process of trying
to get elected. Didn't work out too well for him,
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and they virtually brought it down to the lowest level.
I believe in history, and it didn't have much of
an impact because the prices were very high. But our
price is now for energy put for gasoline or really
low electricities coming down.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
And when that comes down, everything comes down.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
When that comes down, everything comes down. Now the President
saying that just a few days ago, and now what
we're seeing is we're winning. The US average gas price
has dropped again, now under three dollars a gallon. The
average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline in the
United States dipped again this week, now standing at under
three dollars a gallon. According to gas Buddy the December
(04:08):
eighth update, gas prices fell five cents over the last week,
reaching two ninety a gallon, and the national average is
down seventeen point six cents from a month ago, seven
point three cents per gallon lower than a year ago.
And the national average price of diesel has also fallen
five point one cents in the last week, standing at
three dollars and sixty seven cents per gallon average. Now,
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this is also incredible because Americans are now paying less
for a lot of different things because of the price
of a gallon of gas going down. You depending on
where you're listening right now, can look at signs that
will make you not be stressed like they were under
the Biden administration when it was again five dollars a gallon.
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Triple A also reflect the reality of an average under
three dollars. According to its data, the national gas price
its average, they say, stands at two ninety five and
for greater perspective, one week ago, the average stood at
three oh one. One month ago, it stood at three
oh seven. States across the south in the Midwest are
also seeing prices even lower. In Oklahoma, for example, the
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average gas price rings in at two dollars and thirty
six cents a gallon. Texas is average now sits below
two fifty a gallon, Missouri at two sixty a gallon.
In other states including Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Virginia, Montana, and others are seeing averages now
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under three dollars a gallon, which they did not see
under the Biden regime. Now some of the highest prices,
and this goes back to what was said earlier by
the Energy Secretary, are in leftist states. California, for instance,
is seeing an average of four dollars and forty six
cents per gallon. That is a dollar fifty seven a
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gallon higher than the national average. Others such as New York, Washington, Hawaii,
Nevada average above three dollars per gallon as well. Still,
this is dramatically lower than the all time summer high
Americans experience in twenty twenty two. That summer gas price
is sword reaching an all time high of five dollars
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and sixteen cents average for a gallon of regular unleaded
on June the fourteenth, right in the middle of summer
travel of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Two.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Days later, and even a more shocking moment, the diesel prices,
which are eighteen wheelers use, reach an average high of
five dollars and eighty one cents a gallon, the White
House putting it out in a tweet this way, In
thirty seven states, the average price for gas is blowed
three dollars a gallon, in twenty two states, it's blowed
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two to seventy five a gallon, in five states it's
blowed two fifty a gallon, and all states are now
trending lower now. All of this follows an update last
week announced that gas prices had fallen below the three
dollar gallon for the first time in four years. Last month,
President Trump celebrated the strides's administration has made since last
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year's election, making living more affordable for the American people,
with gas prices, groceries, and rental prices actually falling. So
when you hear the media and Democrats saying that we
have a quote affordability crisis, I agree, it costs too
much for a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But are the.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Prices heading in the right direction? The answer is yes,
they are going in the right direction. They are not
going in the wrong direction. They are headed exactly where
Donald Trump said they were going to be headed. And
that is part of why so many Americans should take
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a moment pause and look and see what the press
and is actually doing to get all this moving the
way it needs to. Quick break Ben Ferguson Show, there
is one group of people that I want to make
sure we hit pause and think and talk about, and
that is our forgotten farmers in this country. President Trump
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understands that the farming industry, especially in the US, has
been under siege and undercut by so much foreign influence.
And the President understands also from a national security and
a food security standpoint, that we need to be allies
and advocates of our men and women and family farms
in this country. Secretary Rawlings recently on Fox and Friends
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said this about the farmers in our nation.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Farmers said, if who have credit problems and are wondering
they maybe have too many soybeans stockpiled, money is coming.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're going to give them the figure a little bit later.
Even though they prefer to sell. This is one way
to keep them.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Yeah, they don't want to farm for government checks, right,
they want to farm for real, for real pay for
what they do. But soybeans are looking better. I think
it's the highest price it's been in fifteen months. We've
got some other road crops that we're working on, but yes,
soon to be announced, likely the week after Thanksgiving. And
we're just so grateful for our farmers and our ranchers,
and prices are coming down. I think from the affordability perspective,
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once we saw for these inputs, you're going to see
some incredible, incredible numbers.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
In all agriculture of Sigaretary Rawlings there making it clear
that we're not going to forget which moves made to
Part two. President Trump has now proposed a twelve billion
dollar aid package for farmers that have been hit hard
by China's trade or the President at the White House
describing it this way, delighted.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
To announce this afternoon that the United States will be
taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of
dollars we receive in tariffs. We are making a lot
of money from countries that took advantage of us for years.
They took advantage of us like nobody's ever seen. Our
deficits are way down because of tariffs. I guess because
of the election, because without the election, you wouldn't have tariffs.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You'd be sitting here losing your shirt.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
But we're taking in billions, We're really taking in trillions
of dollars if you think about it, Scott, because they're
real numbers, you know, when you think of all the
money being poured into the country for.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
New auto plants and all of the other things. AI.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
So what we're doing is we're taking a relatively small
portion of that and we're going to be giving and
providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. And we
love our farmers, and as you know, the farmers like
me because based on voting trends, you could call it
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voting trends or anything else, but they're great people.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
They're the backbone of our country.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
In economic assistance to American farmers. Twelve billion is a
lot out of money, Merrill. What do you think peanuts
for you? Though?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Right, she's a farmer of rice.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
This release will, this relief will provide much needed certainty
to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market
and look ahead to next year's crops, and it'll help
them continue their efforts to lower food prices.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You hear the present there, and this goes back to affordability.
He understands that American farmers have been hit, and they've
been hit hard by China and the trade wars, and
that's why he's taking the tariff money. And that's why
I announced a twelve billion dollar farm made package. It
will be a boost to farmers who have struggled to
sell the crops while getting hit by rising costs after
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the President raised tariffs on China as part of that
broader trade war. And that's why the President build the
planned Monday afternoon at the White House a round table
with the Treasury Secretary of Scott descent, the Agricultural Secretary
Brook Rawlings, lawmakers and farmers who raise cattle and grow corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, wheat, potatoes, etc.
Twelve billions a lot of money, Trump said, adding that
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the additional aid will help provide certainty for farmers. The
money is coming from the tariff revenue, again, not directly
from you, the taxpayer, which is another great thing. Rawlings said,
by the way, in her own remarks to the White
House that eleven billion is being announced on Monday, while
another one billion is being held back for specialty crops.
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Farmers have backed Trump politically, but his aggressive trade policies
and shifts and tariff rates have come under increasing scrutiny
because of the impact of the agricultural sector and because
of broader consumer worries. The AID is the administration's latest
effort to defend Trump's economic stewardship and answered voter anks
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about rising costs, even as the President's dismiss concerns about
the concept of affordability as a straight up democratic hoax
because prices are in fact coming down now. Upwards of
eleven billion is set aside for the Department of Agriculture's
Farmers Bridge Assistance Program, which the White House says will
offer one time payments to farmers for row crops. That
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is a huge help to so many farmers. Soybeans and
sorghum will hit the hardest by the trade dispute with
China because more than half of those crops are exported
each year, with most of the harvests going to China.
The eight is meant to help those farmers who have
suffered from trade wars with other nations, inflation, and other
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market disruptions. The rest of the money will be for farmers
who grow crops not covered under the Bridge Assistants program.
That according to White House officials, who said it's important
that we protect all of our farmers. The money is intended,
they say, to offer certainty to farmers as they sell
their current harvests as well as planned for next year's crops.
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In October, after Trump met with in South Korea, the
White House said Beijing had promised to buy at least
twelve million metric tons of US soybeans by the end
of the calendar year, plus twenty five million metric tons
a year in each of the next three years. Soybean
farmers have been hit especially hard by Trump's trade war
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with China, which is the world's largest buyer of soybean. China,
just so you know, has purchased more than two point
eight million metric tons of soybeans since Trump announced the
agreement at the end of October. That's only about one
quarter of what administration officials said China had promised, but
Scott Descent, Treasury Secretary, said China is on track to
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meet its goal by the end of February, saying, quote,
these prices haven't come in because the Chinese actually used
our soybean farmers as pawns in their trade negotiations. That's
what he said on Sundays Face the Nation on CBS.
That also explains why a bridge payment to farmers is
needed now. The SI of the twelve billion dollar aid
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package is roughly the value of total US soybean exports
to China in twenty twenty four and half of the
total exports of US farm goods to China in twenty
twenty four as well. Farmers they're beyond thrilled about the
aid package, but some of them say it's likely only
a down payment on what's needed, and government aid doesn't
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solve the fundamental problems that farmers are facing of soaring
costs and uncertain markets for their crops altogether.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
During Trump's first term, he gave farmers more than twenty
two billion in aid payments in twenty nineteen at the
start of his trade war with China, and nearly forty
six billion in twenty twenty, although that year also included
aid that was related to the COVID pandemic as well.
The farmers want to make a profit off of selling
their crops, not rely on government aid to survive, saying quote,
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that's a start, but I think we need to be
looking for some avenues, to find other funding opportunities, and
we needn't get our market going.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's where you want to be able to make a
living from.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Is where a Kentucky farmer who serves the president of
the American Soybean Association had to say at a conference.
If farmers can't make ends meet this year, there will
likely be additional consolidation the industry, with giant industrial farmers
only getting bigger while the number of smaller family farmers
continue to shrink. The farmers most at risk are young
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air farmers and those who rent instead of own most
of the ground they farm because they don't have much
ability to borrow against the equity in their land. Most
established farmers will be able to borrow more to survive
the trade war, but older farmers who spend their whole
lives building up equity may decide to retire instead of
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risk everything that they built up, unless they are trying
to help the next generation of farmers get established on
their land, which brings us back to what President Trump said,
it's clearly a broken sism them. We've got to fix it,
and we also have to make farmers understand that we're
on their team and that they can survive and they
can make a living doing exactly this. Democrats have chosen
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to put more lives at risk.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Your life is one of them.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
With the new moves that they're doing to undermine Donald
Trump and the laws in this nation. The sanctuary state
of Illinois has now released more than one thousand, eight
hundred illegal aliens. They've been charged with crimes such as murder, assault, burglary, robbery,
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and sex crimes, including crimes against children, and they've released
them on purpose back in the communities since Donald Trump
took office in late January. The new data is exposing
all of this. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd
lyons to data on Monday while urging Illinois Attorney General
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to honor more than four thousand active ICE detainers that
the agency has lodged against criminal legal aliens in the
sanctuary state of Illinois. In particular, Lions said Illinois officials
have already failed to honor more than one thousand, seven
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hundred and sixty eight ICE detainers and release the illegal
aliens back into neighborhoods. Among those illegal aliens that have
been released back into America are five charged with murder
who are now walking among US, one hundred and forty
one charge with assault walking among US, twenty three charge
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of burglary walking among US, ten charged with sex crimes
now walking among US, and four charged with robbery, twenty
four charged with drug crimes, many of them dealing with
fetnyl that are killing Americans, and fifteen charged with weapons
offenses as well. Meanwhile, the crimes of more than four
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thousand illegal aliens with active ICE detainers in Illinois, including
fifty one charged with murder, one thousand, one hundred and
thirty four charged with assault, one hundred and seven charged
with burglary, thirty six charged with robbery, two hundred and
seventy five charged with drug crimes, and one hundred and
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twenty charged with weapons offenses. And this is the one
that is the most shocking, eight hundred and thirteen illegal
aliens charged with sex crimes. Governor Pritzker and his fellow
Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing these murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers
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back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk,
the Department of owned Security Secretary Tristian McLaughlin said in
a statement. She then said, we we are calling on
Governor Pritsker and his administration to stop this dangerous derangement
and commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the
more than four thousand criminal legal aliens in Illinois's custody.
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It is common sense criminal legal aliens should not be
released back into our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans.
ICE officials said Illinois has released from custody and failed
to honor detainers for illegal aliens, such as a forty
nine year old Victor Manuel Menendez Garcia of Mexico, who
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was convicted of kidnapping for ransom and sentenced to eighteen
years in prison. A new release from ICE detailed other
instances where illegal aliens were released from custody instead of
being turned over to ICE agents. Juan Morales Martinez, an
illegal alien from Guatemala, for example, was arrest sit after
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a vehicle crash near Westfield, Illinois, where he was a passenger.
Early reports the vehicle crash showed not one, but two fatalities.
It was a county board member and his wife. Police
also found an extended magazine and ammunition in the vehicle.
On October the twenty fifth, ICE lodged a detainer on
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Morales Martinez. October the twenty seventh, ICE arrested Morales after
his release from the Clark County Jail. The jail did
not cooperate with ICE, but ICE officers suspected his release
and performed an enforcement action outside of the county jail.
He has now been removed from the United States of America,
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but he would be among us if it was left
up to the sanctuary state of Illinois. There was another
man by the name of Gonzales Jimenez, an illegal alien
from Mexico. He was arrested and convicted for one count
of driving under the influence and domessic battery, and two
counts of criminal sexual assault. Yet again, Illinois chose deliberately
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to refuse the ICE detainer for this individual, again accused
of two counts of criminal sexual assault. On November the thirteenth,
ICE arrested the man as he was released from jail.
Juan Alberto Carl Morin, an, a legal alien from Mexico,
was arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of
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a victim and a family and sentenced to six years
in Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE detainer for that man
was also not honored. On November ninth, ICE arrested Carl Marin,
where he is currently in ICE custody, Yet again Illinois
saying no, we'd rather play politics than keep our citizens
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safe from these dangerous criminals. This is just one example
of what Donald Trump and our government is up against,
as time and time again, these radicals in radical cities
and states around the country are constantly refusing to work
with ICE to keep American safe, and yet again the
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president is not backing down, sending more resources to Illinois
to find and to put into custody these more than
one thousand, eight hundred legal aliens charged with murder, assault,
sex crimes, and what has happened? Illinois chose to put
them back into our neighborhoods instead of hand them over
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Heart Media. It's not just in Illinois where the radicals
are defying Donald Trump and putting Americans lives at risk,
and many Americans are actually losing their lives. Another sad
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and shocking story is now coming out of California, where
an illegal alien is accused of drunk driving and causing
a crash that left an eight year old girl dead
in the sanctuary state of California. Last week, Immigration and
co Some's enforcement agents lodged a detainer against a twenty
five year old Guatemala man after he allegedly caused a
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head on collision on a San Diego highway that resulted
in the death of the eight year old little girl.
According to local police, Alva Rodriguez was driving a two
thousand and five Toyota to Come a truck when he
crossed lanes and hit a Toyota camery head on. The
driver of the camera, a twenty six year old man
from m Arizona, suffered major injuries, as did his front passenger,
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a twenty eight year old woman. Three children in the
back of the camera. A five year old boy, a
four year old girl, and an eight year old girl
were taken to a nearby children's hospital. The girl did
not survive her injuries and died at that hospital. How
many deaths of children at the hands of criminal legal
aliens need to happen before Governor Knewsom and sanctuary politicians
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will prioritize the safety and security of a manor American families.
That's what the Department of Homeland Security said in his statement.
ICE officials said that Rodriguez had a history of drunk driving,
including a twenty twenty arrest for driving under the influence
and then another arrest in twenty twenty one for driving
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under the influence and a hit and run. This serial
drunk driver should never have been allowed back onto California roads.
We are praying for the family of this child who
will be grieving this holiday season. Secretary Nome is now
calling on Governor Newsom to honor this ICE arrest attainer
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for this illegal alien. And yet again you have another
elected official in another sanctuary state that is saying I
will put illegal immigrants a head of American citizens. And
that's not the only place that's happening. The New York
mayor Mundani now telling illegal aliens in your York City
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how to stand up to ICE agents. The New York
City Democratic Socialists mayor elect now giving lessons telling illegal
immigrants in this area that you must stand up to
ICE agents. The news comes as President Trump's administration has
been working as safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime,
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and as federal officials have been arresting the worst of
the worst criminal aliens. In a video posted on Sunday,
Mondani talked about a recent ICE rate in Chinatown, adding
when he officially becomes a mayor, he will protect all
New York residents and that means the illegal immigrants. He said,
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that includes the more than three million immigrants who call
the city their home. But we can all stand up
to ICE if you know your rights, he said, and
then he gave points about avoiding ICE agents altogether, saying, quote,
ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant
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signed by a judge. He went on to explain that
they had a right to keep their door shut, literally
telling the criminals exactly how to fight back and not
be arrested.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Last weekend, ICE attempted to raid Canal Street and detain
our imports. As Mayor, I'll protect the rights of every
single New Yorker, and that includes the more than three
million immigrants who called the city their home. But we
can all stand up to ICE if you know your
rights if you encounter ICE. These are the things that
every New Yorker should know.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
First.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant
signed by a judge.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
That looks like this.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by
a judge, you have the right to say I do
not consent to enter it, and the right to keep
your door closed. Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork that
looks like this and tell you that they have the
right to arrest you.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
That is false.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Ice is legally allowed to lie to you, but you
have the right to remain silent. If you're being detained,
you may always ask am I free to go repeatedly
until I answer. You are legally allowed to film ICE
as long as you do not interfere with an arrest.
It is important to remain calm during any interaction Ice
for Lawnforce, do not impede their investigation, resist arrest or
One last thing, New York has had a constitutional right
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to protest. When I'm there, we will protect that way.
New York will always welcome and I will fight each
and every day.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
To protect and support and celebrate our neighbor brother sisters.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That is the mayor elect of New York May it
very clear he doesn't work for the citizens of New
York and said he works for the illegal immigrants and
telling them everything he can to help them continue to
break the laws. So yet again we are having a
conversation about more American to our being killed. One thing
is for sure, the President of the United States of
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America has promised, no matter what, to go wherever these
criminals are to find them, to hunt them down and
to bring them to justice. Even if the radicals on
the left like Mundani or Newsom or Prince Gurp are
doing everything they can to stop illegal immigrants from being deported.
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