June 13, 2025 • 44 mins
📍Former Navy SEAL David Rutherford unpacks the explosive reality behind the LA riots—what’s really driving the violence, how history is repeating itself, and why millions of Americans are caught in the middle. From ICE raids and immigration chaos to political ideology, criminal opportunism, and cultural rebellion, Rut connects the dots between the Watts riots, Rodney King, and the 2025 unrest tearing Los Angeles apart.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - What Are These Riots Really About?
05:18 - Empathy vs Law & Order
09:09 - Dark Motivations Behind The Riots
11:53 - History of Riots In LA
20:33 - No Kings Day
22:47 - The Cost of Illegal Immigration
30:47 - California Is Going Broke From Illegal Immigration
37:39 - This Is An Attack On The American Ethos
41:05 - How Do We Solve This?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are we facing another summer of chaos? Join me today
as I discussed the La riots, why they're happening, what
the potential is, and how we can quell them. This
is the David Rutherford Show. Imagine you're a twenty seven
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year old woman from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador
or Venezuela or Colombia, and you've got your two children,
four and eight, and you're sitting in the jungles and
the Dairyen Gap, and you're leaving a place where your
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life has been hell, where you've been assaulted and beaten down,
where you can't earn enough money to feed your children
or buy them new shoes, and somehow, some way you
were able to scrape together the three to four thousand
dollars it took to get to that Darien Gap, to
where you would pay a coyote, a guide, someone that
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you've never met, you don't know, to lead you out
of that jungle up the hundreds of miles, thousands of
miles up to the border of Mexico and the United States.
And when you finally reach that spot, when you get
to the border and you're turned over, and you're turned
over to the cartels, and you're turned over to another
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group of men that don't care about you, they don't
care about your children, and maybe they even rape you,
rape your children, or separate you from your children, or
they load you up with contraband, fentanyl, meth amphetamine or cocaine,
and they load your children up with that too, and
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you're forced to give them all the remaining money you
might have, where you have to sell yourself and work
off the debt in order to get them to get
you over the border. And when you get over the border,
you're going to a station DHS or border patrol where
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you're you know, immediately processed. You're giving no phone or whatever,
and then you have some number that the cartel member
gave you and you give it to them and they
say okay, and they give you a bus ticket and
the next thing you know, you find yourself in Los
Angeles and they put you in some random house filled
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with thirty five other people, or an apartment filled with
twenty people, and they get you some horrible job where
you're in some factory stitching clothing, or maybe they make
you become a sex worker, and you know your children
are separated that they sent to a distant cousin or
relative who's in another city, some other place. And then
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out of the blue, one day, as you're trying to
scratch out your existence, trying to fight for a way
to be able to reunite with your children, and ice
right takes place on that factory or that facility, or
maybe the parking lot of the home depot where you
were trying to go and get on as a maid
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for some cleaning business somewhere, and they pick you up,
and they detain you, and they put you in custody
and threaten to deport you. Now, for all of us
that hear that story, that's a debilitating story to hear,
and it goes against the very principles that really represent
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the American dream, the ability to come out of nowhere,
to come out of that poverty, to come out of
that hell, and to some way, some divine way, eke
out some type of living and have a better life,
particular for those children. Now, we want to believe that
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that's what this is all about, that that's what these
riots are about. That's what these people who are throwing
rocks and bottles and shooting professional grade fireworks at police officers,
ice agents FBI agents, Homeland agents, sheriffs and LAPD, first responders, firefighters,
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people on the streets. Right, That's what we want to
believe this is all about. But unfortunately we know that's
just not the case. We've been through this. We've been
through it recently in the summer of twenty twenty during
the George Floyd riots that took place in over fourteen
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thousand cities and towns around the country, and we saw
that these vandals, the as anarchists, the anti fascists, these
people that banded together to burn these cities down, Minneapolis, LA.
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You name it, all in the name of fighting the man.
And I think that's what really stokes the division of
the country, is that two things can exist at the
same time. And that's what makes this problematic, and that's
what makes it difficult for both you and I and
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we see these things. There's one part of me that
is the law abiding citizen of America, the person that
went overseas to fight, that has dead friends, to fight
for the opportunity of what America represents, which is a
nation of laws. And then there's the part of me
that's the rebellion, that's the rebel the people that look
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back and are founding fathers, and how they belled against
the wrongful overreach of the British government. And I see
how those two things are conflicting. But the one thing
that I do know is that over the last four years,
our country has been inundated with millions of new people.
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Millions of new people have come into this country illegally.
They have not followed the process that so many other
millions of immigrants throughout our storied history have followed to
become US citizens or Green called holders, or to get
appropriate visas so they can come and work. And what
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I see is the potential for regular people just trying
to go about their business in Los Angeles, trying to
get home from work or go to work, or some
store owner in the areas that are affected, or even
have some kind of sympathy for Apple and it's mega
corporation being looted last night, because I'm sure that's a
phenomenal representation of this brutal fight against government overreach, to
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go loot the Apple store. Now, these mostly in quotation
peaceful protests, Yeah, I agree. There's an overwhelming majority of
people that are on the streets and they are protesting
these what they believe are unlawful ice raids or government
raids to take people that are just here on asylum
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or here to escape the atrocities of where they're from.
And yes, that makes me feel something. Yes, they have
the constitutional right to be able to do that, and
I support that one hundred percent. But as soon as
you make the decision to turn violent, that's when your
rights stop. That's when your rights end. And even in
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the fact that you're in the country illegally, I lean
towards the fact that you've come here illegally and you're
putting pressure on the system. You're putting pressure on the
system that takes care of other people that are willfully
paying their taxes, that are willfully trying to be strong
components of our civil society. And that's a powerful thing
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that we need to all get behind. Yeah, I'm all
for your ability and your First Amendment rights if you're
a US citizen. I'm also for your First Amendment rights
to speak your mind and to say what you believe
is true and to tell us your story. But as
soon as that threshold is crossed, where violence and the
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destruction of property, other people's property, and more importantly, the
dangers of people that have sworn an oath to protect
the public, law enforcement officers, firefighters and even national guards,
and these young Marines that are out there to support
quelling these riots. As soon as you cross that threshold,
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all bets are off because somewhere, somehow, I'm not sure
what's going on. I've seen multiple videos on x over
the last couple of days, in particular from Nick Shirley,
who I believe is one of the most phenomenal reporters
in the world today. You should follow him on X.
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He's been on the streets watching and witnessing. He had
this wonderful video of a young person when they weren't younger.
It said there were forty screaming at the top of
their lungs that that America was. It's not it's the
land that is Los Angeles was taken by America. It was.
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It was that it's Mexican homeland, it's Mexican land, you know,
and that we stole the land from them. And that
might be true if you look at it from that perspective.
There's also another way to look at it. Historically that
lands all over the world have been stolen or conquered
if you will. I'm sure the Mexicans had their fair
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share of conquering other peoples as well too, Like the
Native Americans, maybe they fought prior to getting those lands.
Nobody's innocent when it comes to the occupation of other
people's homelands. We see that all over the world right now.
We look at what's going on in Israel and Gaza,
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we look at what's going on in Russia and Ukraine,
we look at what's going on in different parts of Africa.
There's a never ending cascade of people wanting to occupy
other people's lands by force. That's indicative of every single culture,
every type of people throughout human history. But what I
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see that America is is America is a place that
have been given hundreds of millions of people opportunities they
would otherwise not have wherever they're coming from. And so
when I see what's going on and I see people
in the streets, and I see cars burning, and I
see buildings being lit on fire or destroyed, or federal
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buildings being attacked, essentially what I'm hearing is that you're
attacking the very society that you've emigrated into. And there's
a nefarious undertone behind that, there's a there's a malevolence,
there's a desire, a machiavellian archetype that wants to destroy
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the very place that they have come to embody and
live in, the very place that affords them the potential
opportunities that they want and seek and need. They're out
there protesting the very existence of what America is, of
what I fought for, of what my friends died for.
And that's not okay. And so what I wanted to
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do today, as we begin to evaluate this in a
more meaningful way in a way that can give us
a greater context, what I thought I would do is
just kind of briefly talk about the history of riots
in Los Angeles. And so, what I wanted to do today,
as we began to evaluate this in a more meaningful
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way in a way that can give us a greater context,
what I thought I would do is just kind of
briefly talk about the history of riots in Los Angeles.
And this goes back quite a ways. It goes back
initially to the Watts riots that were from August eleventh
through the sixteenth and nineteen sixty five, and these were
triggered by the arrest of a twenty one year old
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African American who failed the sobriety test and was taken down. Now,
the real kind of outcry came from when his mother
was involved in the arrest and they were mistreated by
the local police who took them down. And out of
that a massive, massive riot took place. You know, when
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you ask what happened during the riots, I mean it
was went on for nights right it involved There were
approximately three thousand, four hundred and thirty eight to thirty
five hundred people that were arrested, primarily for curfew violations,
looting in arson. There were thirty four people that died
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in this, twenty three killed by LAPD and the National Guard.
So this is not the first time the National Guard
has been called out to help quell riots in Los Angeles.
You know, these riots were primarily sparked. Let me just
talk about property damage. Seven hundred and sixty nine buildings
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and businesses, with two hundred and eight completely destroyed, including
fourteen public buildings. The damage was an estimated cost of
forty million in nineteen sixty five, which estimated is about
four hundred million of of in today's dollars, mostly the
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looting and arson targeted white owned businesses. And there was
a reason for this, right, there was at the time
a heavy schism between blacks and whites in that area
all over the United States. Right, we had the civil
rights movement that was in full swing at the time,
Jim Crow laws everywhere around the country. There was a
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disparage of voting capacity and equal opportunity in business and
making and earning a living. And so this built up
animosity spilled out into what was considered one of the
worst riots in American history, right, the deployment of sixteen
thousand law enforcement nine and thirty four Los Angeles PD,
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seven hundred nineteen Los Angeles County sheriffs, and National guardmen. Right,
and these shocked Los Angeles. Now fast forward, there were
also riots that took place in April twenty ninth to
May fourth of nineteen ninety two, and these are what
are widely known as the Rodney King Riots. And these
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happened as a result of four white LAPD officers, Lawrence Powell,
Theodore Brazil, Bresento, Timothy Wind and Sergeant Stacy Kuhn being
acquitted on excessive force charges where they there was video
of them violently beating Rodney King in a stop in
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a traffic stop, which resulted in Rodney King suffering from
a skull fracture in other major injuries which included long
term brain damage. Now, they were eventually acquitted predominantly by
a white jury in Ventura County, which sparked outrage over
systemic racism within the police force. This was the same
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accusations that took Pice back in the water riots. Now,
you know, there was also tensions during this of the
nineteen ninety one killing of Latasha Harlan's, a fifteen year
old African American girl, by a Korean store owner Soon Jadu,
who received probation, further highlighting the racial and judicial inequities. Now,
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these riots went on, you know, and you have to
also understand the context of what was taking place in
La at the time, which was a massive crack epidemic,
an explosion of gangs. The famous movie or famous movie
with the oh what was it called, Jordy look up
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that it was? What movie that was? I remember? I
love that movie? Movie? What was it? It was? Just
look up Sean Penn cop movie from the nineteen eighties
or nineties. And then tell me what that thing is.
So what you had is you had, you know, this profiling,
you had this division, you had. I mean, in nineteen
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ninety two, there were a thousand homicides in Los Angeles County.
So there was this this boiling that was bubbling up,
this anger, this animosity towards towards the government right that
wasn't supporting these inner cities that had really kind of
moved into this horrific battle between police and government versus
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minorities in the area. Now, these were multi racial riots
back then. About fifty percent were of the urestees were
Latino and thirty six African American. You know, the riot
spermed activism, particularly among Korean Americans because there was the
famous rooftop Koreans that came out to protect their own businesses,
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fully armed and d people that were trying to destroy
their businesses. So you know, when you look at these,
you know, and both of these riots were pretty much spontaneous.
They were there's not a lot of record of them
being facilitated or organized by different groups, external groups like
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in Antifa or other groups of that nature. And you know,
what you also had was some pretty horrific violence on
the other side. I mean Reginald Denny, White truck driver
was pulled out of his cab and almost beaten to death.
Fidel Lopez were beaten all on live television, and so
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they had really gotten out of control.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Approximately twelve thousand people were arrested, including six three hundred
and forty five on May third alone, arson assault, curfew violations,
and many were released due to pretty police inability to
identify individuals and the crowds. There were sixty three deaths
attributed to the riots, including ten shot by LAPD or
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National guardsmen. The second time the National Guard was called
out to quell the riots, so this is not uncommon
that National guards are used to to quell these types
of things. Now, damages were about one thousand to eleven
hundred buildings, including three thousand businesses affected, with thirty two
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hundred Korean owned stores forty five percent of total damages
where the crenow and stores that were looted and burned.
Property damages approximatingly cost one billion dollars about two point
two billion of today's dollars, and fires and looting disrupted
the daily lives, closing schools, halting mail transmit and leaving
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twenty thousand to forty thousand people people jobless from these riots.
All right. Notably there was all kinds of reactions to these,
but again they're not uncommon. And again, here we are
in June of twenty twenty five where we're having riots.
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And what we're on day two now, Jordie, not day two? Oh,
it's the movie? Did you find that is?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Is it Colors or State of Grace? It's Colors, Colors, Colors,
Colors nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that was. I mean, I remember that movie that
came out, and that was the first time I ever
knew what a crip or a blood was. That movie
was phenomenal movie, and it really showed the challenges that
law enforcement face and that that minorities and impoverished areas face.
And I thought it was one of one of the
better movies I've ever seen. I thought it was fantastic.
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And you know, now we're staring at this again, and
we're staring at and unrest. And you know, when you
dig in a lot of information or whatever you want
to call it, that's coming out is saying that this
is being funded by nonprofit NGOs that are out there.
There's a there's a I saw a bunch of posts
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that there's a full page ad for June fourteenth, which is, uh,
what is it the when you look up with that, Uh,
that's that's supposed there's a they say that it's the
no King's Day. June fourteenth will be the no King's Day.
And apparently what they're saying is that Donald Trump is
now acting as a king. He's ruling with impunity by
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these illegal deportations, which when you look at the letter
of the law, he has every right to be able
to do. And the fact that so many pundits on
the other side, I think are saying, well, these these
people all deserve due process. So explain to me, in
an already broken judicial system that can't even service regular
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Americans and their need to get in to see their
core case is heard, how are we gonna be able
to get to uh, you know, let's call it ten
million uh illegals that are actually on the books that
we know have come across the border. Just it's an impossibility.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
No King's Day is scheduled for for Trump's birthday. You
know that, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Right, No King's Day. Yeah, And those are that's gone
out and and there's reports coming out that that that
advertisement was was funded by a Walmart errors. I haven't
been able to confirm that yet, but what that does
is just you know, propelled the exploding conspiracy theories that
are going to come out of this. Once again, this
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is across country protests especially this will be a nationwide protest. Yeah.
So this this could be the launch of you know,
thousands and thousands and thousands of of of damaged businesses
and and interruptions and millions of dollars and damages and
potentially hundreds, if not thousands of people being injured, and
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you know, possible deaths. You hear this that that's right,
that's right. So you know, I think it's critical that
we begin to take a step back and say, all right, well,
you know, why why is this so so debilitating for
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regular Americans? And I think the fact of the matter
is is that the impact that that we're seeing from
illegal immigration is profound, right, and you look at school
systems that have been overwhelmed by illegal et entering the
public school systems, or our medical systems that have been overwhelmed,
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and certainly are police departments active investigations. Now, I think
all of this was a real precipice of what got
President Trump into office. There's a and he still has
favorable I just saw polls on CNN and Fox that
he still leading in polls fifty two to fifty three
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percent of Americans still support the deportation not of that
woman and her little kid, but what they support is
the deportation of violent criminals, right, violent criminals that have
come over you know, people that have you know, Venezuela, Colombia,
all these places that have emptied their jails and sent
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people to the United States organized crime units. How many
new cartel members are living on the streets in these
in these cities to gain control of the drug trade,
right to get rid of the you know what what
used to run the drug trade. And that's why we're
seeing gang wars and all over these places. Also, you know,
you begin to think about the impact on businesses. Now
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the big thing I hear and you know, I have
several friends that you know that most likely use some
some illegal immigration for workforce. I mean it's all over
the place. It's you know, it's and and you know
they have ID cards and that supposedly give them gives
them the ability to hire these people. But but you know,
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the big argument on the other side is also nobody
wants these jobs. I saw some lady on X you know,
ranting and raven and her whole point was, you know,
the who's going to pick the cotton argument, like who's
going to do these jobs? Are? You know, are our
white Americans, are our wealthy Americans? Are whatever Americans going
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to do these jobs? And it's and and for me,
that's like, that's one of the most insulting arguments I've
I've ever heard, right, I mean, what I look at
it is, it's it's organizations and businesses paying a lower
amount for cheaper wages that they know they have leverage
over who are illegal so they can pay bottom wages
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to do the work. That whatever. And and you know, again,
you know, is what's the solution to that? I'm not sure,
you know, I maybe we'll do a show in the
future about that. But you know, there's all these arguments
on the other side that America is a built on immigration,
America's built on this. But when I tell you that
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the system is not capable of handling open integration, and
all you got to do is look back throughout history,
no matter what you do. Look at a country that
was overwhelmed by immigration. Just look at what's going on
in Europe right now, all right. You know, it changes
the culture of particular areas. It changes the culture, changes
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the business opportunities, taxes out the federal or the local
municipalities and their systems, policing system, firefighter because all those
things increase, you know. But yet you're not getting any
tax revenue coming in from these people because you know,
they're just they're not paying taxes. They're getting paid under
the table, and much of their money they're sending away.
Now I know what the area, well, they do pay taxes,
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about this right. What I said about this particular raid
is that they were going on after a Quang Chong
Fan who's a forty nine year old from Vietnam with
unspecified criminal charges. Jose Gordillo Midronda or Tease, a forty
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two year old from Ecuador, convicted of cocaine distribution conspiracy.
Victor Mendoza Aguilar, thirty two from Mexico, convicted of assault
with the debly weapon and drug offenses. Delfino Aguilar Martinez,
fifty one year old from Mexico, convicted of assault with
great bodily injury. Rolando Venisari Sion Enriquez, a fifty five
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year old from the Philippines convicted of burglary and sexual assault.
So those were the individuals that ices come out that
they were going after. Now, what's the argument you're going
to give me that those people should remain in the country,
just like the big who have of the individual they
say was the dad and the father, and we now
know they've released more records that that individual was directly
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related to a smuggling a human smuggling organization that was
and he did multiple runs, dozens of runs, bringing illegals in.
So that's illegal activity of an illegal immigrant. And so,
you know, is the solution to you that we tax
our American system, we tax our tax dollars even more
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money in order to create a judicial fairness to these people.
I don't see how that works financially. And all you
got to do is look at some of the debt
that's going on in various different places around the country,
in particular our national debt of thirty eight trillion dollars. Now,
you know, the other context I really want to go
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into is, you know, just the size and magnitude of
undocumented or illegals that are in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County.
The rough estimate it's somewhere between nine hundred, nine hundred
and fifty thousand undocumented immigrants in LA County, which comprises
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about eight to ten percent of the county's population, which
is ten million. Right, that's a massive number. How does
that number impact the resources of the municipalities? Right, there's
a bunch of other ones. Pew Research estimates at one million,
some other ones, eight hundred thousand, somewhere around eight hundred
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to a million, we'll call it there, all right. Now,
in the broader context, about eighty percent of the undocuted
immigrants in Los Angeles County are Latino, ten percent Asian Pacific,
with the rest three percent being white. And that's according
to a twenty sixteen, so it's probably a lot higher. Now,
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all right. Now, here's the kicker, and this is the
deep dive I want you to understand on this, because
what you have to do is you have to affiliate
something that's going to ground you into recognizing the deep
impacts that you will suffer from if this type of
thing comes to wherever you live, if you're in California
or New York or wherever there's mass immigration. We have
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it in Florida as well too, all right, So here
you go. All right. So this is I asked my
friendly neighborhood groc right, I asked about financing and what's
taking place in California funding from state and local governments
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to Los Angeles County. All right. Now, the numbers are
a little tricky to put together, to try and stay
with me, all right. So there's a many Cali expansion
for undocumented immigrants, all right. And this California's Medicaid program
to all income eligible undocumented or illegal immigrants from ages.
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All right. The cost The California Department of Finance reported
nine point five billion dollars for the cost of MEDICALI
coverage for undocumented immigrants, all right, with eight point four
billion from the state's general fund. And ready for this,
one point one billion from emergency room visits and pregnancy
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care covered by guess what federal funds? One point one
billion dollars of your tax payer is going to pay
for their emergency healthcare and pregnancy costs. This is three
billion dollars over the initial bust budget estimate due to
higher enrollment. All right, Um, And they were estimates nearly
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three hundred and fifty thousand illegals are receiving this medical coverage.
All Right, Los Angeles County share while roughly forty percent
of California's undocumented population accounts for proportional share. Assuming forty
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percent the county's undocumented immigrants may utilize approximately three point
four to three point eight billion of the state's medical
all right, criticisms. All right, this is the next one
cal Fresh all right cal Fresh program. Starting in October
twenty twenty five, undocumented immigrants aged fifty five and older
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will qualify for cal Fresh, Califlifornia's food stamp program funded
by the state for those ineligible for federal snap due
to immigration status. All Right, here you go, ready for this?
The cost, the estimate, the state estimate is one hundred
and thirteen million annually to provide food assistance to seventy
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five thousand older immigrants illegal immigrants, and this is at
its peak. Assuming forty percent of the eligible population, Los
Angeles County could see forty five million dollars annually for
the undocumented seniors. All right. Immigration support, immigration, legal services
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and support the Department of Social Services. The DSS funds
immigration services, including legal aid for deportation defense. All right,
This cost budget allocates are you ready? Fifty million dollars
to a general fund for DSS immigration and equity programs.
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Down from get this down from twenty twenty four, twenty
three and twenty four, which was two hundred and ninety
seven million dollars to this program. All right. Legal service
ten million in cuts. All right. Los Angeles County Share
represents represent LA public private partnership in Los Angeles provides
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legal service to about two thousand undocumented immigrants illegals facing deportation,
funded by forty million since twenty twenty one, five point
point million annually, totaling fifteen point three million since twenty
twenty three. There's a cash assistance program for immigrants, all right.
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This they don't have the correct numbers for that. There's
education assistance, right. Los Angeles County large student population with
twelve point three percent of K through TEL twelve students
with an undocumented status. Right. Here's another one proposed unemployment.
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Didn't give me a number for the education, but you
know that it's huge. That's under the California DREAMAC proposed
unemployment benefits three hundred and thirty million to offer unemployment benefits
to undocumented or illegal workers. It failed to gain funding,
indicating no costs in twenty twenty five. All right, but
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there was a line item submitted. All right, Jordi, would
you look up what California's shortfall on their budget is
for this year? Yes, thank you? All right, Health and
Human Services one to five million annually. Migrant services. All right,
here you go. City of Los Angeles received twenty two
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million dollars in FEMA funds. Right. Remember North Carolina, Remember Florida.
Remember South Carolina didn't get squat twenty two million in
FEMA funds for twenty twenty four migrant services. But this
is federal, not local. With the city's eighty million, yeah,
eighty million budget shortfall, local funded for undocumented immigrants is
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limited and likely under five million. All right, it looks
like there's going to be.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
The projected for twenty five twenty six is twelve billion dollars,
mostly due to looks like the surging medical costs.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yep, yeah, and that's what cal right medical I have
right here as a summary of all this medical three
point four to three point eight billion dollars. And that's
forty percent of the eight point four State General Fund.
All right, So you know, when you start to think
about these costs estimates and what's being spent on these people,
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how much funding they're receiving to be in Los Angeles,
los Angeles County, Why do you think they're protesting? Why
do you think they're out burning cars down and in
the streets. So you combine that they're funding, you combine
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that with this group internally that truly believes that they're
on you know, they're on stolen land, and that they
want to hell the head of Mexican what is it
the Mexican state. It's like the head of their state
Senator Congress just showed up a map yesterday of the
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of the map from eighteen thirty that had all of California,
Texas being Mexican and saying this was our land, essentially
insinuating like, hey, everybody on the streets, go ahead, start
a revolution, fight for your country back. And we also
know that the president of Mexico has has roots in socialism,
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you know. And we also know that Karen Bass, the
La Maria la Mayor, had an affiliation with a Cuban
support group that supported Fidel Castro. Castro back in the
nineteen seventies. Now, don't get me wrong, she's when you
go back and you look at her political record, she's
done some pretty amazing thing for minorities, certainly for inner
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city homeless people. She actually dropped homelessness when she came
in as Maryica last year. You know. So there are
some historical record of her working across the aisle for
programs to benefit minorities in poverty, people in poverty. So,
but there's also she does have a record of a
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socialist mindset that she is connected to. You know. So
you have the economic the economic inspiration or that's the
wrong word. What's the right word I'm looking for, Jordi.
They're the economic incentives, you have a certain political or
ideological incentive. Right. And then you also have the criminal
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element as well too. Right. Criminals are criminals. They don't
care where they're committing crimes, they don't care what they're doing.
All they want to do is foment crime, criminality, destruction. Right.
So those three elements, what do they represent. They represent
a significant challenge to the American ethos. They always have
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and they always will. What we see in riots are
nothing new. What we see in the backlash from the
perceived overreach of the American government is nothing new. We've
seen it almost destroy, divide, and destroy this country itself
back in the Civil War. Right, We've seen veterans protests
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after World War One because they didn't get their benefits,
and the US government squashed that rebellion of veterans looking
for their benefits. We've seen coal miners in West Virginia
have there enraged that the companies were basically overworking them
and utilizing them as slave labor and not getting paid
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the appropriate So I'm definitely not against pushing back the
American government, but to do so peacefully, right, that's your
constitutional right, and I support that one. But when you
start breaking the law and you start trying to injure
harm or destroy other people's things, that's when you've crossed
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the line. So how do we solve this? I don't know.
I mean, there's a part of me that says, you
come in and drop the hammer, and then there's a
part of me that recognizes, you know, even things that
I was a part of overseas where you see you
come in and you drop the hammer on a local population,
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what does it does? It just foments greater animosity and anger. Right,
if you want to make somebody hate the government forever, right,
what do you do? You kill a family member, you
incarcrate them, you beat them to death, or whatever it
might be. But there has to be law in order
in doing it. And once you cross that threshold, man,
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the game is on. Now. What I would love to
see more than anything else in the world is I
would love to see Gavin Newsom, you know, sit down
with Tom Holman, or sit down with Karen Bass and
Tom Homan, or sit down with the president, or sit down,
you know, with the head of Christy Noman Homeland and
have a collective meeting in front of the publicans and
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beg for them to put a you know, hey, let's
take a ceasefire to the protest, let's hear the demands.
But there is a fundamental issue that has taken place
over the last four years and that we have had
a wave of immigration that cannot be sustained. And part
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of that wave has been nefarious elements that are criminals,
that are our butchers, that are savages that are here
to destroy the fabric of what America is. If we
don't don't drop the hammer on them now, they will
only gain strength and they will only do more harm
in damage to the American population. So I ask everybody
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to support your local law enforcement, but also to sport
First Amendment rights. I know this. What I hate to
see more than anything else, you know, are those young
women and children suffering. What I hate to see of
those business owners suffering. What I hate to see are
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those police officers in that riot gear for twelve hours on,
two hours off and twelve hours on. What I hate
to see is those young Marines being you know, summed
up to you know, go out and face their own
fellow Americans who maybe hate them or maybe don't. But
I'll tell you one thing. If this continues, and this
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summer gets hot and and hotter, it's going to lead
to something really negative. I hope you enjoyed this show.
If you did, please like, subscribe and share and just
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And I hope you support that God speaking
Are we facing another summer of chaos? Join me today
as I discussed the La riots, why they're happening, what
the potential is, and how we can quell them. This
is the David Rutherford Show. Imagine you're a twenty seven
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year old woman from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador
or Venezuela or Colombia, and you've got your two children,
four and eight, and you're sitting in the jungles and
the Dairyen Gap, and you're leaving a place where your
(00:45):
life has been hell, where you've been assaulted and beaten down,
where you can't earn enough money to feed your children
or buy them new shoes, and somehow, some way you
were able to scrape together the three to four thousand
dollars it took to get to that Darien Gap, to
where you would pay a coyote, a guide, someone that
(01:10):
you've never met, you don't know, to lead you out
of that jungle up the hundreds of miles, thousands of
miles up to the border of Mexico and the United States.
And when you finally reach that spot, when you get
to the border and you're turned over, and you're turned
over to the cartels, and you're turned over to another
(01:34):
group of men that don't care about you, they don't
care about your children, and maybe they even rape you,
rape your children, or separate you from your children, or
they load you up with contraband, fentanyl, meth amphetamine or cocaine,
and they load your children up with that too, and
(01:56):
you're forced to give them all the remaining money you
might have, where you have to sell yourself and work
off the debt in order to get them to get
you over the border. And when you get over the border,
you're going to a station DHS or border patrol where
(02:17):
you're you know, immediately processed. You're giving no phone or whatever,
and then you have some number that the cartel member
gave you and you give it to them and they
say okay, and they give you a bus ticket and
the next thing you know, you find yourself in Los
Angeles and they put you in some random house filled
(02:37):
with thirty five other people, or an apartment filled with
twenty people, and they get you some horrible job where
you're in some factory stitching clothing, or maybe they make
you become a sex worker, and you know your children
are separated that they sent to a distant cousin or
relative who's in another city, some other place. And then
(03:01):
out of the blue, one day, as you're trying to
scratch out your existence, trying to fight for a way
to be able to reunite with your children, and ice
right takes place on that factory or that facility, or
maybe the parking lot of the home depot where you
were trying to go and get on as a maid
(03:23):
for some cleaning business somewhere, and they pick you up,
and they detain you, and they put you in custody
and threaten to deport you. Now, for all of us
that hear that story, that's a debilitating story to hear,
and it goes against the very principles that really represent
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the American dream, the ability to come out of nowhere,
to come out of that poverty, to come out of
that hell, and to some way, some divine way, eke
out some type of living and have a better life,
particular for those children. Now, we want to believe that
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that's what this is all about, that that's what these
riots are about. That's what these people who are throwing
rocks and bottles and shooting professional grade fireworks at police officers,
ice agents FBI agents, Homeland agents, sheriffs and LAPD, first responders, firefighters,
(04:31):
people on the streets. Right, That's what we want to
believe this is all about. But unfortunately we know that's
just not the case. We've been through this. We've been
through it recently in the summer of twenty twenty during
the George Floyd riots that took place in over fourteen
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thousand cities and towns around the country, and we saw
that these vandals, the as anarchists, the anti fascists, these
people that banded together to burn these cities down, Minneapolis, LA.
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You name it, all in the name of fighting the man.
And I think that's what really stokes the division of
the country, is that two things can exist at the
same time. And that's what makes this problematic, and that's
what makes it difficult for both you and I and
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we see these things. There's one part of me that
is the law abiding citizen of America, the person that
went overseas to fight, that has dead friends, to fight
for the opportunity of what America represents, which is a
nation of laws. And then there's the part of me
that's the rebellion, that's the rebel the people that look
(05:56):
back and are founding fathers, and how they belled against
the wrongful overreach of the British government. And I see
how those two things are conflicting. But the one thing
that I do know is that over the last four years,
our country has been inundated with millions of new people.
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Millions of new people have come into this country illegally.
They have not followed the process that so many other
millions of immigrants throughout our storied history have followed to
become US citizens or Green called holders, or to get
appropriate visas so they can come and work. And what
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I see is the potential for regular people just trying
to go about their business in Los Angeles, trying to
get home from work or go to work, or some
store owner in the areas that are affected, or even
have some kind of sympathy for Apple and it's mega
corporation being looted last night, because I'm sure that's a
phenomenal representation of this brutal fight against government overreach, to
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go loot the Apple store. Now, these mostly in quotation
peaceful protests, Yeah, I agree. There's an overwhelming majority of
people that are on the streets and they are protesting
these what they believe are unlawful ice raids or government
raids to take people that are just here on asylum
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or here to escape the atrocities of where they're from.
And yes, that makes me feel something. Yes, they have
the constitutional right to be able to do that, and
I support that one hundred percent. But as soon as
you make the decision to turn violent, that's when your
rights stop. That's when your rights end. And even in
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the fact that you're in the country illegally, I lean
towards the fact that you've come here illegally and you're
putting pressure on the system. You're putting pressure on the
system that takes care of other people that are willfully
paying their taxes, that are willfully trying to be strong
components of our civil society. And that's a powerful thing
(08:19):
that we need to all get behind. Yeah, I'm all
for your ability and your First Amendment rights if you're
a US citizen. I'm also for your First Amendment rights
to speak your mind and to say what you believe
is true and to tell us your story. But as
soon as that threshold is crossed, where violence and the
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destruction of property, other people's property, and more importantly, the
dangers of people that have sworn an oath to protect
the public, law enforcement officers, firefighters and even national guards,
and these young Marines that are out there to support
quelling these riots. As soon as you cross that threshold,
(09:02):
all bets are off because somewhere, somehow, I'm not sure
what's going on. I've seen multiple videos on x over
the last couple of days, in particular from Nick Shirley,
who I believe is one of the most phenomenal reporters
in the world today. You should follow him on X.
(09:22):
He's been on the streets watching and witnessing. He had
this wonderful video of a young person when they weren't younger.
It said there were forty screaming at the top of
their lungs that that America was. It's not it's the
land that is Los Angeles was taken by America. It was.
(09:42):
It was that it's Mexican homeland, it's Mexican land, you know,
and that we stole the land from them. And that
might be true if you look at it from that perspective.
There's also another way to look at it. Historically that
lands all over the world have been stolen or conquered
if you will. I'm sure the Mexicans had their fair
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share of conquering other peoples as well too, Like the
Native Americans, maybe they fought prior to getting those lands.
Nobody's innocent when it comes to the occupation of other
people's homelands. We see that all over the world right now.
We look at what's going on in Israel and Gaza,
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we look at what's going on in Russia and Ukraine,
we look at what's going on in different parts of Africa.
There's a never ending cascade of people wanting to occupy
other people's lands by force. That's indicative of every single culture,
every type of people throughout human history. But what I
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see that America is is America is a place that
have been given hundreds of millions of people opportunities they
would otherwise not have wherever they're coming from. And so
when I see what's going on and I see people
in the streets, and I see cars burning, and I
see buildings being lit on fire or destroyed, or federal
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buildings being attacked, essentially what I'm hearing is that you're
attacking the very society that you've emigrated into. And there's
a nefarious undertone behind that, there's a there's a malevolence,
there's a desire, a machiavellian archetype that wants to destroy
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the very place that they have come to embody and
live in, the very place that affords them the potential
opportunities that they want and seek and need. They're out
there protesting the very existence of what America is, of
what I fought for, of what my friends died for.
And that's not okay. And so what I wanted to
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do today, as we begin to evaluate this in a
more meaningful way in a way that can give us
a greater context, what I thought I would do is
just kind of briefly talk about the history of riots
in Los Angeles. And so, what I wanted to do today,
as we began to evaluate this in a more meaningful
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way in a way that can give us a greater context,
what I thought I would do is just kind of
briefly talk about the history of riots in Los Angeles.
And this goes back quite a ways. It goes back
initially to the Watts riots that were from August eleventh
through the sixteenth and nineteen sixty five, and these were
triggered by the arrest of a twenty one year old
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African American who failed the sobriety test and was taken down. Now,
the real kind of outcry came from when his mother
was involved in the arrest and they were mistreated by
the local police who took them down. And out of
that a massive, massive riot took place. You know, when
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you ask what happened during the riots, I mean it
was went on for nights right it involved There were
approximately three thousand, four hundred and thirty eight to thirty
five hundred people that were arrested, primarily for curfew violations,
looting in arson. There were thirty four people that died
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in this, twenty three killed by LAPD and the National Guard.
So this is not the first time the National Guard
has been called out to help quell riots in Los Angeles.
You know, these riots were primarily sparked. Let me just
talk about property damage. Seven hundred and sixty nine buildings
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and businesses, with two hundred and eight completely destroyed, including
fourteen public buildings. The damage was an estimated cost of
forty million in nineteen sixty five, which estimated is about
four hundred million of of in today's dollars, mostly the
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looting and arson targeted white owned businesses. And there was
a reason for this, right, there was at the time
a heavy schism between blacks and whites in that area
all over the United States. Right, we had the civil
rights movement that was in full swing at the time,
Jim Crow laws everywhere around the country. There was a
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disparage of voting capacity and equal opportunity in business and
making and earning a living. And so this built up
animosity spilled out into what was considered one of the
worst riots in American history, right, the deployment of sixteen
thousand law enforcement nine and thirty four Los Angeles PD,
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seven hundred nineteen Los Angeles County sheriffs, and National guardmen. Right,
and these shocked Los Angeles. Now fast forward, there were
also riots that took place in April twenty ninth to
May fourth of nineteen ninety two, and these are what
are widely known as the Rodney King Riots. And these
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happened as a result of four white LAPD officers, Lawrence Powell,
Theodore Brazil, Bresento, Timothy Wind and Sergeant Stacy Kuhn being
acquitted on excessive force charges where they there was video
of them violently beating Rodney King in a stop in
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a traffic stop, which resulted in Rodney King suffering from
a skull fracture in other major injuries which included long
term brain damage. Now, they were eventually acquitted predominantly by
a white jury in Ventura County, which sparked outrage over
systemic racism within the police force. This was the same
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accusations that took Pice back in the water riots. Now,
you know, there was also tensions during this of the
nineteen ninety one killing of Latasha Harlan's, a fifteen year
old African American girl, by a Korean store owner Soon Jadu,
who received probation, further highlighting the racial and judicial inequities. Now,
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these riots went on, you know, and you have to
also understand the context of what was taking place in
La at the time, which was a massive crack epidemic,
an explosion of gangs. The famous movie or famous movie
with the oh what was it called, Jordy look up
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that it was? What movie that was? I remember? I
love that movie? Movie? What was it? It was? Just
look up Sean Penn cop movie from the nineteen eighties
or nineties. And then tell me what that thing is.
So what you had is you had, you know, this profiling,
you had this division, you had. I mean, in nineteen
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ninety two, there were a thousand homicides in Los Angeles County.
So there was this this boiling that was bubbling up,
this anger, this animosity towards towards the government right that
wasn't supporting these inner cities that had really kind of
moved into this horrific battle between police and government versus
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minorities in the area. Now, these were multi racial riots
back then. About fifty percent were of the urestees were
Latino and thirty six African American. You know, the riot
spermed activism, particularly among Korean Americans because there was the
famous rooftop Koreans that came out to protect their own businesses,
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fully armed and d people that were trying to destroy
their businesses. So you know, when you look at these,
you know, and both of these riots were pretty much spontaneous.
They were there's not a lot of record of them
being facilitated or organized by different groups, external groups like
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in Antifa or other groups of that nature. And you know,
what you also had was some pretty horrific violence on
the other side. I mean Reginald Denny, White truck driver
was pulled out of his cab and almost beaten to death.
Fidel Lopez were beaten all on live television, and so
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they had really gotten out of control.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Approximately twelve thousand people were arrested, including six three hundred
and forty five on May third alone, arson assault, curfew violations,
and many were released due to pretty police inability to
identify individuals and the crowds. There were sixty three deaths
attributed to the riots, including ten shot by LAPD or
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National guardsmen. The second time the National Guard was called
out to quell the riots, so this is not uncommon
that National guards are used to to quell these types
of things. Now, damages were about one thousand to eleven
hundred buildings, including three thousand businesses affected, with thirty two
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hundred Korean owned stores forty five percent of total damages
where the crenow and stores that were looted and burned.
Property damages approximatingly cost one billion dollars about two point
two billion of today's dollars, and fires and looting disrupted
the daily lives, closing schools, halting mail transmit and leaving
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twenty thousand to forty thousand people people jobless from these riots.
All right. Notably there was all kinds of reactions to these,
but again they're not uncommon. And again, here we are
in June of twenty twenty five where we're having riots.
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And what we're on day two now, Jordie, not day two? Oh,
it's the movie? Did you find that is?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Is it Colors or State of Grace? It's Colors, Colors, Colors,
Colors nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, that was. I mean, I remember that movie that
came out, and that was the first time I ever
knew what a crip or a blood was. That movie
was phenomenal movie, and it really showed the challenges that
law enforcement face and that that minorities and impoverished areas face.
And I thought it was one of one of the
better movies I've ever seen. I thought it was fantastic.
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And you know, now we're staring at this again, and
we're staring at and unrest. And you know, when you
dig in a lot of information or whatever you want
to call it, that's coming out is saying that this
is being funded by nonprofit NGOs that are out there.
There's a there's a I saw a bunch of posts
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that there's a full page ad for June fourteenth, which is, uh,
what is it the when you look up with that, Uh,
that's that's supposed there's a they say that it's the
no King's Day. June fourteenth will be the no King's Day.
And apparently what they're saying is that Donald Trump is
now acting as a king. He's ruling with impunity by
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these illegal deportations, which when you look at the letter
of the law, he has every right to be able
to do. And the fact that so many pundits on
the other side, I think are saying, well, these these
people all deserve due process. So explain to me, in
an already broken judicial system that can't even service regular
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Americans and their need to get in to see their
core case is heard, how are we gonna be able
to get to uh, you know, let's call it ten
million uh illegals that are actually on the books that
we know have come across the border. Just it's an impossibility.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
No King's Day is scheduled for for Trump's birthday. You
know that, that's.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Right, No King's Day. Yeah, And those are that's gone
out and and there's reports coming out that that that
advertisement was was funded by a Walmart errors. I haven't
been able to confirm that yet, but what that does
is just you know, propelled the exploding conspiracy theories that
are going to come out of this. Once again, this
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is across country protests especially this will be a nationwide protest. Yeah.
So this this could be the launch of you know,
thousands and thousands and thousands of of of damaged businesses
and and interruptions and millions of dollars and damages and
potentially hundreds, if not thousands of people being injured, and
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you know, possible deaths. You hear this that that's right,
that's right. So you know, I think it's critical that
we begin to take a step back and say, all right, well,
you know, why why is this so so debilitating for
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regular Americans? And I think the fact of the matter
is is that the impact that that we're seeing from
illegal immigration is profound, right, and you look at school
systems that have been overwhelmed by illegal et entering the
public school systems, or our medical systems that have been overwhelmed,
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and certainly are police departments active investigations. Now, I think
all of this was a real precipice of what got
President Trump into office. There's a and he still has
favorable I just saw polls on CNN and Fox that
he still leading in polls fifty two to fifty three
(24:02):
percent of Americans still support the deportation not of that
woman and her little kid, but what they support is
the deportation of violent criminals, right, violent criminals that have
come over you know, people that have you know, Venezuela, Colombia,
all these places that have emptied their jails and sent
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people to the United States organized crime units. How many
new cartel members are living on the streets in these
in these cities to gain control of the drug trade,
right to get rid of the you know what what
used to run the drug trade. And that's why we're
seeing gang wars and all over these places. Also, you know,
you begin to think about the impact on businesses. Now
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the big thing I hear and you know, I have
several friends that you know that most likely use some
some illegal immigration for workforce. I mean it's all over
the place. It's you know, it's and and you know
they have ID cards and that supposedly give them gives
them the ability to hire these people. But but you know,
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the big argument on the other side is also nobody
wants these jobs. I saw some lady on X you know,
ranting and raven and her whole point was, you know,
the who's going to pick the cotton argument, like who's
going to do these jobs? Are? You know, are our
white Americans, are our wealthy Americans? Are whatever Americans going
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to do these jobs? And it's and and for me,
that's like, that's one of the most insulting arguments I've
I've ever heard, right, I mean, what I look at
it is, it's it's organizations and businesses paying a lower
amount for cheaper wages that they know they have leverage
over who are illegal so they can pay bottom wages
(25:52):
to do the work. That whatever. And and you know, again,
you know, is what's the solution to that? I'm not sure,
you know, I maybe we'll do a show in the
future about that. But you know, there's all these arguments
on the other side that America is a built on immigration,
America's built on this. But when I tell you that
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the system is not capable of handling open integration, and
all you got to do is look back throughout history,
no matter what you do. Look at a country that
was overwhelmed by immigration. Just look at what's going on
in Europe right now, all right. You know, it changes
the culture of particular areas. It changes the culture, changes
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the business opportunities, taxes out the federal or the local
municipalities and their systems, policing system, firefighter because all those
things increase, you know. But yet you're not getting any
tax revenue coming in from these people because you know,
they're just they're not paying taxes. They're getting paid under
the table, and much of their money they're sending away.
Now I know what the area, well, they do pay taxes,
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but let me just let me let me about this
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about this right. What I said about this particular raid
is that they were going on after a Quang Chong
Fan who's a forty nine year old from Vietnam with
unspecified criminal charges. Jose Gordillo Midronda or Tease, a forty
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two year old from Ecuador, convicted of cocaine distribution conspiracy.
Victor Mendoza Aguilar, thirty two from Mexico, convicted of assault
with the debly weapon and drug offenses. Delfino Aguilar Martinez,
fifty one year old from Mexico, convicted of assault with
great bodily injury. Rolando Venisari Sion Enriquez, a fifty five
(28:54):
year old from the Philippines convicted of burglary and sexual assault.
So those were the individuals that ices come out that
they were going after. Now, what's the argument you're going
to give me that those people should remain in the country,
just like the big who have of the individual they
say was the dad and the father, and we now
know they've released more records that that individual was directly
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related to a smuggling a human smuggling organization that was
and he did multiple runs, dozens of runs, bringing illegals in.
So that's illegal activity of an illegal immigrant. And so,
you know, is the solution to you that we tax
our American system, we tax our tax dollars even more
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money in order to create a judicial fairness to these people.
I don't see how that works financially. And all you
got to do is look at some of the debt
that's going on in various different places around the country,
in particular our national debt of thirty eight trillion dollars. Now,
you know, the other context I really want to go
(30:03):
into is, you know, just the size and magnitude of
undocumented or illegals that are in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County.
The rough estimate it's somewhere between nine hundred, nine hundred
and fifty thousand undocumented immigrants in LA County, which comprises
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about eight to ten percent of the county's population, which
is ten million. Right, that's a massive number. How does
that number impact the resources of the municipalities? Right, there's
a bunch of other ones. Pew Research estimates at one million,
some other ones, eight hundred thousand, somewhere around eight hundred
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to a million, we'll call it there, all right. Now,
in the broader context, about eighty percent of the undocuted
immigrants in Los Angeles County are Latino, ten percent Asian Pacific,
with the rest three percent being white. And that's according
to a twenty sixteen, so it's probably a lot higher. Now,
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all right. Now, here's the kicker, and this is the
deep dive I want you to understand on this, because
what you have to do is you have to affiliate
something that's going to ground you into recognizing the deep
impacts that you will suffer from if this type of
thing comes to wherever you live, if you're in California
or New York or wherever there's mass immigration. We have
(31:29):
it in Florida as well too, all right, So here
you go. All right. So this is I asked my
friendly neighborhood groc right, I asked about financing and what's
taking place in California funding from state and local governments
(31:51):
to Los Angeles County. All right. Now, the numbers are
a little tricky to put together, to try and stay
with me, all right. So there's a many Cali expansion
for undocumented immigrants, all right. And this California's Medicaid program
to all income eligible undocumented or illegal immigrants from ages.
(32:13):
All right. The cost The California Department of Finance reported
nine point five billion dollars for the cost of MEDICALI
coverage for undocumented immigrants, all right, with eight point four
billion from the state's general fund. And ready for this,
one point one billion from emergency room visits and pregnancy
(32:36):
care covered by guess what federal funds? One point one
billion dollars of your tax payer is going to pay
for their emergency healthcare and pregnancy costs. This is three
billion dollars over the initial bust budget estimate due to
higher enrollment. All right, Um, And they were estimates nearly
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three hundred and fifty thousand illegals are receiving this medical coverage.
All Right, Los Angeles County share while roughly forty percent
of California's undocumented population accounts for proportional share. Assuming forty
(33:21):
percent the county's undocumented immigrants may utilize approximately three point
four to three point eight billion of the state's medical
all right, criticisms. All right, this is the next one
cal Fresh all right cal Fresh program. Starting in October
twenty twenty five, undocumented immigrants aged fifty five and older
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will qualify for cal Fresh, Califlifornia's food stamp program funded
by the state for those ineligible for federal snap due
to immigration status. All Right, here you go, ready for this?
The cost, the estimate, the state estimate is one hundred
and thirteen million annually to provide food assistance to seventy
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five thousand older immigrants illegal immigrants, and this is at
its peak. Assuming forty percent of the eligible population, Los
Angeles County could see forty five million dollars annually for
the undocumented seniors. All right. Immigration support, immigration, legal services
(34:27):
and support the Department of Social Services. The DSS funds
immigration services, including legal aid for deportation defense. All right,
This cost budget allocates are you ready? Fifty million dollars
to a general fund for DSS immigration and equity programs.
(34:47):
Down from get this down from twenty twenty four, twenty
three and twenty four, which was two hundred and ninety
seven million dollars to this program. All right. Legal service
ten million in cuts. All right. Los Angeles County Share
represents represent LA public private partnership in Los Angeles provides
(35:10):
legal service to about two thousand undocumented immigrants illegals facing deportation,
funded by forty million since twenty twenty one, five point
point million annually, totaling fifteen point three million since twenty
twenty three. There's a cash assistance program for immigrants, all right.
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This they don't have the correct numbers for that. There's
education assistance, right. Los Angeles County large student population with
twelve point three percent of K through TEL twelve students
with an undocumented status. Right. Here's another one proposed unemployment.
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Didn't give me a number for the education, but you
know that it's huge. That's under the California DREAMAC proposed
unemployment benefits three hundred and thirty million to offer unemployment benefits
to undocumented or illegal workers. It failed to gain funding,
indicating no costs in twenty twenty five. All right, but
(36:13):
there was a line item submitted. All right, Jordi, would
you look up what California's shortfall on their budget is
for this year? Yes, thank you? All right, Health and
Human Services one to five million annually. Migrant services. All right,
here you go. City of Los Angeles received twenty two
(36:35):
million dollars in FEMA funds. Right. Remember North Carolina, Remember Florida.
Remember South Carolina didn't get squat twenty two million in
FEMA funds for twenty twenty four migrant services. But this
is federal, not local. With the city's eighty million, yeah,
eighty million budget shortfall, local funded for undocumented immigrants is
(36:59):
limited and likely under five million. All right, it looks
like there's going to be.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
The projected for twenty five twenty six is twelve billion dollars,
mostly due to looks like the surging medical costs.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yep, yeah, and that's what cal right medical I have
right here as a summary of all this medical three
point four to three point eight billion dollars. And that's
forty percent of the eight point four State General Fund.
All right, So you know, when you start to think
about these costs estimates and what's being spent on these people,
(37:42):
how much funding they're receiving to be in Los Angeles,
los Angeles County, Why do you think they're protesting? Why
do you think they're out burning cars down and in
the streets. So you combine that they're funding, you combine
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that with this group internally that truly believes that they're
on you know, they're on stolen land, and that they
want to hell the head of Mexican what is it
the Mexican state. It's like the head of their state
Senator Congress just showed up a map yesterday of the
(38:23):
of the map from eighteen thirty that had all of California,
Texas being Mexican and saying this was our land, essentially
insinuating like, hey, everybody on the streets, go ahead, start
a revolution, fight for your country back. And we also
know that the president of Mexico has has roots in socialism,
(38:46):
you know. And we also know that Karen Bass, the
La Maria la Mayor, had an affiliation with a Cuban
support group that supported Fidel Castro. Castro back in the
nineteen seventies. Now, don't get me wrong, she's when you
go back and you look at her political record, she's
done some pretty amazing thing for minorities, certainly for inner
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city homeless people. She actually dropped homelessness when she came
in as Maryica last year. You know. So there are
some historical record of her working across the aisle for
programs to benefit minorities in poverty, people in poverty. So,
but there's also she does have a record of a
(39:29):
socialist mindset that she is connected to. You know. So
you have the economic the economic inspiration or that's the
wrong word. What's the right word I'm looking for, Jordi.
They're the economic incentives, you have a certain political or
ideological incentive. Right. And then you also have the criminal
(39:50):
element as well too. Right. Criminals are criminals. They don't
care where they're committing crimes, they don't care what they're doing.
All they want to do is foment crime, criminality, destruction. Right.
So those three elements, what do they represent. They represent
a significant challenge to the American ethos. They always have
(40:15):
and they always will. What we see in riots are
nothing new. What we see in the backlash from the
perceived overreach of the American government is nothing new. We've
seen it almost destroy, divide, and destroy this country itself
back in the Civil War. Right, We've seen veterans protests
(40:36):
after World War One because they didn't get their benefits,
and the US government squashed that rebellion of veterans looking
for their benefits. We've seen coal miners in West Virginia
have there enraged that the companies were basically overworking them
and utilizing them as slave labor and not getting paid
(40:59):
the appropriate So I'm definitely not against pushing back the
American government, but to do so peacefully, right, that's your
constitutional right, and I support that one. But when you
start breaking the law and you start trying to injure
harm or destroy other people's things, that's when you've crossed
(41:20):
the line. So how do we solve this? I don't know.
I mean, there's a part of me that says, you
come in and drop the hammer, and then there's a
part of me that recognizes, you know, even things that
I was a part of overseas where you see you
come in and you drop the hammer on a local population,
(41:41):
what does it does? It just foments greater animosity and anger. Right,
if you want to make somebody hate the government forever, right,
what do you do? You kill a family member, you
incarcrate them, you beat them to death, or whatever it
might be. But there has to be law in order
in doing it. And once you cross that threshold, man,
(42:03):
the game is on. Now. What I would love to
see more than anything else in the world is I
would love to see Gavin Newsom, you know, sit down
with Tom Holman, or sit down with Karen Bass and
Tom Homan, or sit down with the president, or sit down,
you know, with the head of Christy Noman Homeland and
have a collective meeting in front of the publicans and
(42:26):
beg for them to put a you know, hey, let's
take a ceasefire to the protest, let's hear the demands.
But there is a fundamental issue that has taken place
over the last four years and that we have had
a wave of immigration that cannot be sustained. And part
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of that wave has been nefarious elements that are criminals,
that are our butchers, that are savages that are here
to destroy the fabric of what America is. If we
don't don't drop the hammer on them now, they will
only gain strength and they will only do more harm
in damage to the American population. So I ask everybody
(43:14):
to support your local law enforcement, but also to sport
First Amendment rights. I know this. What I hate to
see more than anything else, you know, are those young
women and children suffering. What I hate to see of
those business owners suffering. What I hate to see are
(43:35):
those police officers in that riot gear for twelve hours on,
two hours off and twelve hours on. What I hate
to see is those young Marines being you know, summed
up to you know, go out and face their own
fellow Americans who maybe hate them or maybe don't. But
I'll tell you one thing. If this continues, and this
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summer gets hot and and hotter, it's going to lead
to something really negative. I hope you enjoyed this show.
If you did, please like, subscribe and share and just
think about what it takes to keep a society together.
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