January 23, 2025 • 35 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (01/23) - Art Arthur comes on the show to talk about ICE starting to carry out raids looking for illegal immigrants. ICE carried out a raid in Boston that resulted in the arrest of multiple violent criminal illegal immigrants. More on the LA County's faulty evacuation warning system. There have been 17 fires in Southern California since the start of 2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 3 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel Podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
We're on from one until four every day, then after
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All right, we're gonna talk with Art Arthur here from
the Center for Immigration Studies. I mean, there's all kinds
of immigration news, and all of it's good if you
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want violent illegal aliens, felons shipped out of the country
and deported. We're gonna play that Bill be Lugin piece
again if you haven't heard it. He went on a
ride along in Boston with Ice agents and they were
rounding up just the most heinous people imaginable that were
living free out in the open here in the United States,
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and along the way, raping and killing some of the residents.
Let's go to the Center for Immigration Studies in Art
Arthur to talk about all that's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All right, how are you, John? I'm doing great, and
thank you so much for haven't they Did you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
See that No Diligion piece yet on Fox News?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, No, I really enjoyed it, and quite frankly, it's
a shame that Donald Trump can't run for president again
because he could have clipped the Haitian fellow who was
praising Joe Biden in the back of a cruiser over
and over again and quite frankly probably win the Landslatin.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, I know that guy. That, but that guy encapsulated
everything that was wrong. He said, f Trump, Yo, Joe Biden,
and thanked Obama as well, and thanks Obama forever. I
mean that that that that was the problem for the
last four years.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, and you know, everything that President Trump is doing
today is you know, has done in the last few days,
has been unexceptional. These are the policies that the United
States traditionally had, you know, even through the Obama administration.
The only difference was that Joe Biden decided to toss out,
you know, all the things that we knew worked, all
of the rules that we had followed for decades, and
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decided to go his own way open the doors of
the United States to any and all. We got about
ten million new people here, and you could see the
impacts and cities and towns across the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Why do you think did the Biden administration do this?
Trump was talking about this today. He kept saying why
why would they do this and go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, no, I actually know the answer to that. In fact,
it goes to another thing that President Trump has, you know,
dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion. In a September twenty twenty
one memo that was issued by DHF Secretary of Alahadra Mayorcis,
they explained that they had to do these things in
the interests of equity. They compared the immigration laws of
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the United States to Jim Crow, to the color bar,
to all of the worst aspects of you know, life
in the early you know, the late nineteenth early twentieth century,
you know, the oppression, the discrimination against African Americans in
this country, and they decided to treat everybody who showed
up in the United States the same, you know, the
same way that they believed every disadvantaged person in this
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country who was born in this country should be treated.
It's an exceptional document. I've written about a couple of times,
but I don't think anybody believes me because it is
so exceptional. And they talk about how, you know, we
need to use prosecutorial discretion to write all these historic ronks.
You know, when you're talking about people who showed up
at the United States border, you know a week ago.
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You know, they hadn't been a disadvantage by anything that
happened in American history. And yes, I mean they're you know,
the immigration laws of the United States are the most
generous immigration laws in the world. We accept a million
people with green cards. Every year, about one hundred and
eighty million people come as non immigrants, most of them
tourists come to see beautiful places like Los Angeles and Florida.
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So you know, the idea that you know, somehow the
immigration laws are discriminatory and that the heavy thumb of
Alejandro Mayorcis and Joe Biden needed to put be pushed
down on the scales is just fallacious. But unfortunately that's
all there was to it. Their attitude is the world's
a bad place, and we need to make it better
by opening our doors and inviting everybody in.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, it wouldn't be our oppression that's holding these people back.
It would be the oppression of all these other nations
that they're coming from.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No, absolutely, And you know, when we talk about our
generous immigration laws, let's talk about you know, our generous
foreign aid packages. Billions of dollars a year, and the
efforts that we engage in and that President Trump will
engage in, you know, for a rule of law, for
order in the world. It's curious because one of the
things that Kamala Harris ran on, she said, you wasn't
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borders are, she was root causes are. Take a look
at Honduras today. Honduras backed out of a one hundred
and twelve year old extradition treaty that it had with
the United States after Kamala Harris went down. There is
root causes are because there's so much corruption in that country.
And it's sort of interesting that, you know, major outlets
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never actually followed up on what she had done. But yes,
Donald Trump has established that there's a new day in
the world and that there's an easy way that countries
can get along in a hard way, and they really
don't want to choose the hard way. He said that
the President putin just yesterday. So the world is odd,
as it sounds to many Americans, particularly on the left,
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the world has been desperate for leadership. Leadership has now
re entered the White House. Leadership not just on border
and immigration, but on any number of issues, climate change
and various other things, and the world is going to
become a better play you know, take a look at
the climate change issues. John, you know, Chris Wright, who
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is the dominee to be the Secretary of Energy, says,
you're looking at the wrong things. We want to make
the world a richer, happier place. We don't want to
you know, put artificial limits on you know, energy production,
you know, so that we can make people, you know,
impoverished in sadder. So I mean, you know this is
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it's a breadth of fresh air in not just Washington,
the capitals all around the world.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, burning fossil fuels has made everyone in the world wealthier,
raised standards of living, pulled people out of poverty by
the billions. You couldn't do it any other way. To
return to the way we lived in the eighteen hundreds
would impoverish billions.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's it's it's so upside down backwards.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's astonishing that anybody buys into this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, and you know that's why we call them developing nations,
and they are going to develop when we you know,
unleash the great energy that we have in our country,
you know, not just you know, oil and natural gas,
but you know nuclear energy. You know, we innovate and
we make things cheaper and easier for people to use.
That's how they're going to pull themselves out of poverty.
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And you know, I quite frankly, I think root causes
are overblown. But you know, when we make other places better,
fewer people are going to want to come here illegally.
They're going to want to come here because we are,
you know, the world's great innovator. And you know that.
You know, we have the highest standard of living. Did
you know that Germany has a lower per capita GDP
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than Mississippi, the poorest state in the Union. I mean,
just think about that for a second. So you know,
we have things good in this country. It's no wonder
people want to come here. But the focus of this
administration and its policies is going to be making the
whole rest of the world better at the same time
that we raise our own ship.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Just getting back to the immigration thing for a minute. Uh,
there's a New York Times poll eighty seven percent of
the public supports deporting criminal illegal aliens eighty seven percent,
including eighty three percent of Democrats, of eighty five percent Hispanics.
What Bill Malugen reported on nearly the whole country is cheering.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
This is what.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean. Almost ninety percent of the public wanted and
Joe Biden was was was giving us the opposite, and
they weren't, and they wondered why they lost.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And just to remind you and your listeners, the Biden
administration sued all the way to the Supreme Court the
block and effort by Texas to force it to take
criminal aliens, not just you know, old ladies or grandma's
or people you know playing with their kids, criminal aliens
off of the street. It was the official policy of
the Biden administration that we had to consider, you know,
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your age or whether your mental condition may have led
to your criminality before we could take you into custody. John,
we had to consider whether your kid was a Postal
service worker before we could take you into custody if
you were a criminal alien. This was the most upside
down world that I can imagine. And you know, you
told me that eighty seven percents that which I've seen before,
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but in the New.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
York Times, Paul, I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, I mean, who are the other thirteen percent of
people who don't want criminal aliens off the street. And
this is the dirty secret that nobody ever talks about.
You know, I live in a you know, nice community,
you know, with trim blongs. Those criminal aliens aren't you know,
committing their crimes in my neighborhood. They're not jacking my car,
robbing my wife. They're doing it in immigrant communities. The
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very people that they claim that they are so you know,
supportive of and care so much for, they are condemning
to a situation in which, you know, they are preyed
upon daily. If you read newspapers, you know, especially in
the National Capital area, the Washington Post, they'll talk about
migrant crime when they have to. And one of the
things that you'll see are that a lot of these
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people were engaged in criminality, but the victims never came forward,
and they never came forward because they knew they lived
in sanctuary communities and that they those criminals weren't going
to be taken off the street. Why am I going
to put my neck app if you know that person
is going to come and take retribution against me and
my family, Which is part of the reason why eighty
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five percent of the Hispanics, and again you know, most
is Hispanics in this country or citizens. But I'm sure
that even if you ask the other ones, you know,
they don't want criminals on their streets. They want safe streets,
they want safe communities to razor kids.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, who wants rapists and murderers running around their neighborhood,
raping and murdering their family members, their wives, their daughters,
their sisters. Nobody wants that. Well, you know, I'm looking
at the poll and apparently two percent I'm sorry, three
percent strongly pro oppose criminals being deported here in America
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if they're illegal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Three percent, right, And when you think about that, those
statistics that you just read me, consider the fact that
in California, where you're broadcasting from right now, it's official
state law that they're not going to cooperate. Nobody at
the local level, at the state level, is going to
cooperate with ice except for the most heenous of criminals
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and getting those people off the street. Been involved in
law enforcement for thirty three years, and the one thing
I can tell you is that most criminals are upward offenders.
Rape and murder is in anybody's first crime, which is
part of the reason why Congress passed the Lake and
Riley Act, you know, which is on its way to
the President, you know, with bipartisan majorities in both the
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House and the Senate. Because today's shoplifter, today's mugger, is
going to be the person that commits that heinous crime
that's finally going to convince. California authorities always okay to
let ice know when this guy's getting out of custody.
When I was a young prile attorney in San Francisco,
border patrol agents would go through local jails and the
communities for safe The fact that you know, we've gotten
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so far away from that is just bizarre.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Art Arthur, Center for Immigration Studies. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
John, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
All right, and we'll continue. We'll play that Bill mallusion piece.
You're going to be just astonished by it.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So we just talked with Art Arthur from the Center
for Immigration Studies, and yeah, this is New York Times.
Poll is actually shocking on immigration. Eighty eight percent of
the public supports supporting criminals who are here illegally. Eighty
eight percent only ten percent oppose it, and yet Karen
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Bass and Gavin Newsom oppose helping ICE get the criminals
out of the state.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I just.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Listen to the type of people ICE is rounding up. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
This is Bill Malusion Fox News. He went on a
ride along this week in Boston in five degree weather
and look at what they found.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Good morning everyone, It's a frigid five degrees the pre
dawn hours just outside of Boston where this team of
elite ICE officers is briefing on their targets for the day.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
We're gonna be targeting some extremely violent offenders today.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Within moments, the officers are on the move with eyes
on their first target looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We have a movement photography from else.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
They quickly take him into custody. He's an MS thirteen
gang member, wanted NL Salvador for aggravated murder and he
has an Interpol red notice out for his arrest.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We are targeting very violent.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Threats to our community. I'm not going back to Hayden.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti.
I says he's a gang member with seventeen criminal convictions
in recent years.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I mean, go Biden, bro thank Obama put everything that
he's picked for me.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Bold Ice Boston quickly takes down its next targets, including
this illegal alien from Brazil who has an Interpol red
notice for armed this salvador And illegal alien charged locally
with rape and released by a sanctuary jurisdiction Coen Say,
and this Dominican illegal alien charged with assault with the
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deadly weapon and heroin trafficking. Officers also arrested this Guatemalan
MS thirteen gang member facing gun charges. I says he
was released from local custody just the day before their
detainer request was ignored because of sanctuary policies and in
a sign of shifting priorities with the new Trump administration.
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This man, who was in the same apartment as the target,
was also arrested after ICE determined he's also in the
US illegally. This is what ICE calls collateral. So you
guys got your main target just now, but you got
somebody else.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
What just happened, Sorry, Maine target was released by a
sanctuary JERI six years not honoring a detainer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That person was released back.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Into the cananities and when you went to go find him,
he's with somebody else who was previously remained from the
United States.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
So he's going to go today.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Too, And that is exactly what borders our Tom Holman
has borned would happen.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
When we find the bad guy, he's probably with others,
others that are in the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I legally they may not.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Be a criminal priority.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But we're not walking away.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
From Ice Boston says they will continue to go into
sanctuary jurisdictions and do their job.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Today it was a good day today.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
We took several significant public safety threats out of our communities.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Unfortunately a lot were released by.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Sanctuary apologies, but we're here to tell the common loth
and the rest of the country that we're going to
find them, whether they're.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Released or not.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And guys.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Shortly after we finished filming, Ice Boston told us they
arrested two more targets and other parts of town away
from our cameras. One of those targets is a previously
deported Honduran illegal alien who has arrested for raping a
woman while putting a gun in her mouth. The other
target they got is a Haitian man who first flew
into the United States in twenty twenty three as part
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of President Biden's controversial migrant flights mass parole program. Well,
they just picked him up yesterday because he's been arrested
locally for sexual assaults.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I wrote down each individual that was featured in this report,
so I mean, listen to this, Okay. This was a
willful policy by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the administration.
Here are the people that Belusian mentioned from El Salvador
MS thirteen gang member aggravated murder. An Interpol red notice
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went out for him. That means he's an international crimical criminal.
A Haitian gang member with seventeen convictions. That's the guy
heard yelling f Trump, Yo Biden forever, thanks Obama for everything.
Guy from Brazil, armed robbery, another Interpole red notice El Salvador,
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a guy accused of rape locally in the Boston area.
A Dominican assault with a deadly weapon, a Honduran raping
a woman putting a gun in her mouth, a Guatemalan
gun charges MS thirteen member, and then a Haitian that
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Biden used your tax money to fly in from Haiti.
He lands here and sexually assaulted a woman. That's just
a few hours in one town in Boston, and I
can't emphasize this enough. Michelle wu is the mayor, super
nutjob progressive, same politics as Karen Bass, same politics as
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Gavin Newsom, with eighty seven percent of the country that
wants these criminals deported eighty seven percent. And yet we've
got this concept as a sanctuary city, a sanctuary state
where where these these these rapists and murderers are allowed
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by our local government and our state government to run free.
This is what you vote for, this is what you
spend your tax money on. I'm all right, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I
am sixty.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
More is coming out through the La Times about the
non existent evacuation orders in western Altadena and it's and
it's all bad news. The Times had another story that
came out today. Uh and and apparently west western Altadena,
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if you divide Altadena into two, west of Lake Lake
Avenue is a majority Black residents east of Lake Avenue,
majority white residents east of Lake Avenue. They got the
evacuation notices west of Lake Avenue with primarily black The
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evacuation notices showed up nine hours late east of Lake
Avenue nobody died. West of Lake Avenue, seventeen people died.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is bad.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
All known deaths from the fire occurred in neighborhoods west
of North Lake Avenue. The orders were issued around three
point thirty in the morning. People saw these flames in
their backyards at six or seven in the evening the
night before, La County Sheriff's deputies drove down some streets
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urging people to flee around two am. And according to
one former council member at Altadena named Justin Chapman, who
now works for a Pasadena council member, I haven't seen
any answers from officials about what happened there. There was
a breakdown of communication somewhere because his family was caught
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up in this. His family got out safely, but it
was close and Errol Arfari Hutchison is president of the
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. He said in a news
conference today, the officials fumbled the ball badly by not
giving the black neighborhoods in western Alta Dina the evacuation warnings.
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The fact is is that parts of Alta Dina that
were predominantly white they got the warning. African Americans got
the short end of the stick. It can't argue with
this stuff. This is what happened. I don't know, I
don't know what's wrong with everything. Hutchinson is calling for
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massive restitution, massive compensation. The failure to issue a timely
warning to the residents and a predominantly African American neighborhood
resulted in colossal property damage, colossal and unnecessary injury and
loss of life.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's all true.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And the NAACP is getting involved in the case as well.
They say the evacuation alerts are issued through a unified
command that involves the County Office of Emergency Management and
local agencies, county fire sheriff's departments. And you know, we
went through yesterday about all the malfunctions with the alerts,
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county wide alerts when the fire was hitting a small
section of the region, random alerts going off for no reason, repeatedly,
and just like the DWP and the empty reservoir, just
like the LA Fire Department not sending the personnel in
the trucks early enough to the Palisades fire. Here in
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out to Dina. Nobody is explaining anything. I mean, how
I news conferences have we run the news conferences, We run,
you know, as a public service, right, we're trying to
collectively get all the latest news and information out to you,
and we put these things on the air, and most
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of the time they irritate the hell out of me,
because first of all, they spent a lot of time
congratulating each other, and then it's cliches and platitudes, or
they state the obvious. They just repeat whatever news bulletins
we've already broadcast.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
I want to see a news conference where they explain
what happened, why the security alerts failed, and the next
news conference. I also want to see if we know
what started these fires or who started these fires.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Isn't it it's over two weeks. They really don't know
what started the Palisades fire.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
No, I mean the last the last thing was fireworks
from January first, right, and it was put out and
when it but it, there is some smoldering. And then
when the winds picked up on the seventh, that's that's
the latest thing.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That was their theory. That's the theory possibility. But I'm
wondering if that's a cover story.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
And the one in Altadena, Pasadena they're blaming so Cal Edison,
but we don't know for sure.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
And you and you said yesterday that so cal Edison
was told to preserve any evidence, right, because they're going
to look into all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yes, that's started at the base of a transmission tower
and those utilities are known to destroy evidence.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And then you had that fire yesterday, the four h
five in the Suppolata passed. I mean fortunately only forty
acres burned. But how did that one start?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
If homeless? Then that Castaic one yesterday.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, if homeless people start half the fires in La City.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
One of the odds that.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Some of these fires were started by homeless people, and
they don't want to admit it because they've they've all
been told everyone in the fire departments told don't tell
the media that it that it that a homeless person
started the fire.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's that's official policy.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So you see, and of course the news agencies don't
try to find out the truth. The firefighters just say, well,
we don't know, and then in the news story it's like, well,
unknown origins.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And they were all full of it.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Some of these fires in the last two and a
half weeks have got to be from homeless people.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Look at all the arsonists or the alleged arsenists who
have been detained or arrested.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
What happened to that torch guy in your neighborhood. I
have no idea.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I don't know if he's if he's been let out
of jail, because remember they detained him and they didn't
have enough evidence to say that he committed arson, but
they were holding him on that felony parole violation.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It's been sixteen days since the Palisades fire, and the
fire hasn't been burning at the origin site, you know,
for the last two weeks. Like once fire burns through
an area, the fire goes out, Everything gets burned, right,
the Palisades is smoking ruins, but there's there isn't There
aren't any flames where the fire originated. They must know
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by now, And I think the strategy is to shut
down news until it gets old and people stop caring.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I don't think anybody is going to stop caring about
how these fires started.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't think that is going to go away.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
No, No, that playbook's not going to work for something
of this magnitude. And the people who have created these
policies of not cleaning the homeless off the streets and
all the public lands allowing this to potentially happen. They
know their asses are on the line here. There's so
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many massive failures clearing out the homeless, having the LA
fire show up so late. You could see what happens
when these guys are allowed to do their work. I mean,
look what they did in Kostaic yesterday. Ten thousand acres,
nobody hurt, no buildings burned down, So pulvid had passed
last night. They had that thing controlled in less than
two hours.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And because we only have half a fire department.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The reason things are working really well now is we
called in all the fire departments from around the world,
all over the country and foreign countries. Well, if we
funded fully funded our departments here, we wouldn't have to
wait until all the help came several days later. There
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is so much wrong, and it's the nuts and bolts
of government. I don't want to hear any more about
social issues. Any candidate starts rattling about any kind of
social issues.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Shut up, get out.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
I want to know about reservoirs, fire fighting, police coverage,
getting the homeless off the streets permanently. That's all I
want to hear about. I want to hear about roads,
being paved, is being put out, police arresting bad guys.
Enough with enough, with all the social justice nonsense. It's
like a moratorium for the next ten years until we
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go back to the nuts and bolts of civilization, governing
ourselves properly, making the whole area safe. God, there's just
like there are too many disasters going on here.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
And you know, I would hope now the public has
woken up that this has been a dark, dark era
of politics, policies, candidates, program they have abandoned. You talk
about dereliction of duty right up to the point where
the mayor's in Africa, the complete dereliction of duty. And
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we are paying a fortune for this and all we're
getting our.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
How much property tax they pay in Pacific Palisades, Actually
I can. They They got nothing for it. They got
burned out, smoking ruins. That's what they got for all
their property taxes. They had their property destroyed. Are more
coming up?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
We just got this information from Fox eleven. We've had
seventeen fires in southern California since the first of the year.
Seventeen of them fifty thousand, two hundred and thirty six
acres burned. Now in the city of la We know
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that half of the fires that are reported are from vagrants,
and there's probably a lot of unreported fires as well.
So how many of these seventeen were started by vagrants
or crazy arsonists who should have been locked up? Edward
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ring rights for the well it writes for a lot
of places. And we got this piece out of the
National Review, and he writes about a lot of environmental
issues in the state, and he went through the rounds
of wildfires that California has suffered the last few years.
(29:19):
In twenty twenty summer twenty twenty, there are a lot
of bad fires, and Gavin Newsom's response was an executive
order to ban gas powered cars. Gas powered cars has
nothing to do with any of the fires, and US
driving gas powered cars has had no effect on the
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global climate. But this is what he does. He grand
stands and tries to be a leader on some outrageous
issue that has nothing to do with the problem. There
was another round of fires in twenty twenty three and
his mini me, Attorney General Rob Bonta, what did he
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do file a lawsuit against five major oil companies, saying
that the oil companies misled the public regarding the harm
that fossil fuels would inflict on the climate. Again, the
fires in twenty twenty three had nothing to do with
oil companies, nothing to do with oil and gas consumption.
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And the funny thing is is that only seventeen percent
of the public is interested in this issue. I was
looking at new polling today and climate change is ranked
number sixteen out of eighteen possible issues. Sixteenth. About seventeen
percent of the country cares about it. But this is
see the reaction was, Hey, maybe we don't have enough firefighters,
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Maybe we don't have enough fire engines. Maybe we don't
have our reservoirs filled. Maybe we haven't cleared the brush
properly in these forests, we haven't thinned about properly. Maybe
we don't have a proper notification system at these emergent
see command centers. Think of all the things that have
gone wrong here, because Ring says these are just distractions.
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And he says, if it was climate change, then why
aren't they doing more to Excuse me, why aren't they
doing more to protect us from climate change?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And they're not.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He writes, for the last several years, why wasn't top
management at the LA Fire Department and the LA Department
of Water and Power demanding that the state, the city,
the county immediately send cruise into the canyons and engage
in fuel reduction projects?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
When the Santa Ana wins were forecast, why wasn't the
LA Fire Department more aggressively prepositioning tankers and engines? They didn't,
And he goes on and on. We'll talk more about
this tomorrow. We got to Conway Thompson.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Thompson's back from going to the inauguration.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Yeah, I just got down with that inauguration. The party
was in Shane.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, that's wild, man.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
I've never seen a America drunk again?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
What did you wear? Did you get to?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
What? I did?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I think?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I think make America Drunk Again is too close to
M A mad, M A d A and M A.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
No good point. I'll tell he's the one that suggested it.
We'll work on it, all right.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Uh, we've got a lot. Look, I don't know what
to say. I woke up and they said, hey, there's
a Laguna fire, and I panicked. I said oh, I
got friends and Laguna. I got a friend of Liz
a Newport. What's going on? What's going on there?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Looking up? No, it's in like I don't know, it's
in San Francisco. Why would you? Why would they call
it the Laguna fire? It actually was in came Rea.
There's a there's another street right there. You could have
named it after.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
It never occurred to any of them. It's unbelievable. I think,
just do you know how many people they flipped out
in Orangetown?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I can imagine, you.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Know, because like was last time Laguna was on fire,
you know, fifteen twenty years ago, nine hundred homes burned.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I slept through the whole supulvt of fire you did.
I was going to call you all the warning so yeah,
I'm dead asleep.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I woke up.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
My phone was filled with suppulvent of fire warnings. I'm thinking,
oh crap, you know, I'm looking to see if I'm
still alive.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
How far without giving it address? How far?
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Like as the crow flies that you do. That fire
probably about three miles. Oh you're fine, Yeah, you're fine. Yeah,
And it was across the four or five. So that's
that's what's really good.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
But they had an evacuation within two miles actually not
far from where he is.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Yeah, and then I got my old neighbors, you know
that because we are place burned when the fire started
on the other side that were almost directly across. Yeah,
and yeah, my my old neighbors were, you know, chirping
about the fact that this is on the other side.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We're okay, you know, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I don't trust that though I can jump down because
the embers fly exactly multiple miles, so they can go
over the four or five easily.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
The one of the silver linings of being a horrible
horse handicapper is I can't live in the mountains that
kind of money. So you're just living. I am safe
in the flats. You were never making it to the mountains.
You guys that don't go to the track. You're up
in the hills with these helicopters and these flames.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I'm busted out, and wait, dollar, you can accomplish it.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Conway had a long plan, that's.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Right, But you know what, I did it on purpose,
so I'd put my wife and daughter up in that
danger that her next time did it for them, you know,
I I once had a dip into my daughter's college
account to pay a guy off for a bet, and
she was, look she was. She got photoed out of
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going to Yale. Were you were just didn't do a
cartwheel at the end. She was going to Yale.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
You were a few winners short of her going to
Ivy League school.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Could have gone to Yale.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Conway come out with this Yale Thompson Live in the
We got Carcier Live in the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hey,
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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All right, we're gonna talk with Art Arthur here from
the Center for Immigration Studies. I mean, there's all kinds
of immigration news, and all of it's good if you
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want violent illegal aliens, felons shipped out of the country
and deported. We're gonna play that Bill be Lugin piece
again if you haven't heard it. He went on a
ride along in Boston with Ice agents and they were
rounding up just the most heinous people imaginable that were
living free out in the open here in the United States,
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and along the way, raping and killing some of the residents.
Let's go to the Center for Immigration Studies in Art
Arthur to talk about all that's going on.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
All right, how are you, John? I'm doing great, and
thank you so much for haven't they Did you.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
See that No Diligion piece yet on Fox News?
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, No, I really enjoyed it, and quite frankly, it's
a shame that Donald Trump can't run for president again
because he could have clipped the Haitian fellow who was
praising Joe Biden in the back of a cruiser over
and over again and quite frankly probably win the Landslatin.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, I know that guy. That, but that guy encapsulated
everything that was wrong. He said, f Trump, Yo, Joe Biden,
and thanked Obama as well, and thanks Obama forever. I
mean that that that that was the problem for the
last four years.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, and you know, everything that President Trump is doing
today is you know, has done in the last few days,
has been unexceptional. These are the policies that the United
States traditionally had, you know, even through the Obama administration.
The only difference was that Joe Biden decided to toss out,
you know, all the things that we knew worked, all
of the rules that we had followed for decades, and
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decided to go his own way open the doors of
the United States to any and all. We got about
ten million new people here, and you could see the
impacts and cities and towns across the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Why do you think did the Biden administration do this?
Trump was talking about this today. He kept saying why
why would they do this and go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, no, I actually know the answer to that. In fact,
it goes to another thing that President Trump has, you know,
dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion. In a September twenty twenty
one memo that was issued by DHF Secretary of Alahadra Mayorcis,
they explained that they had to do these things in
the interests of equity. They compared the immigration laws of
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the United States to Jim Crow, to the color bar,
to all of the worst aspects of you know, life
in the early you know, the late nineteenth early twentieth century,
you know, the oppression, the discrimination against African Americans in
this country, and they decided to treat everybody who showed
up in the United States the same, you know, the
same way that they believed every disadvantaged person in this
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country who was born in this country should be treated.
It's an exceptional document. I've written about a couple of times,
but I don't think anybody believes me because it is
so exceptional. And they talk about how, you know, we
need to use prosecutorial discretion to write all these historic ronks.
You know, when you're talking about people who showed up
at the United States border, you know a week ago.
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You know, they hadn't been a disadvantage by anything that
happened in American history. And yes, I mean they're you know,
the immigration laws of the United States are the most
generous immigration laws in the world. We accept a million
people with green cards. Every year, about one hundred and
eighty million people come as non immigrants, most of them
tourists come to see beautiful places like Los Angeles and Florida.
(03:53):
So you know, the idea that you know, somehow the
immigration laws are discriminatory and that the heavy thumb of
Alejandro Mayorcis and Joe Biden needed to put be pushed
down on the scales is just fallacious. But unfortunately that's
all there was to it. Their attitude is the world's
a bad place, and we need to make it better
by opening our doors and inviting everybody in.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah, it wouldn't be our oppression that's holding these people back.
It would be the oppression of all these other nations
that they're coming from.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
No, absolutely, And you know, when we talk about our
generous immigration laws, let's talk about you know, our generous
foreign aid packages. Billions of dollars a year, and the
efforts that we engage in and that President Trump will
engage in, you know, for a rule of law, for
order in the world. It's curious because one of the
things that Kamala Harris ran on, she said, you wasn't
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borders are, she was root causes are. Take a look
at Honduras today. Honduras backed out of a one hundred
and twelve year old extradition treaty that it had with
the United States after Kamala Harris went down. There is
root causes are because there's so much corruption in that country.
And it's sort of interesting that, you know, major outlets
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never actually followed up on what she had done. But yes,
Donald Trump has established that there's a new day in
the world and that there's an easy way that countries
can get along in a hard way, and they really
don't want to choose the hard way. He said that
the President putin just yesterday. So the world is odd,
as it sounds to many Americans, particularly on the left,
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the world has been desperate for leadership. Leadership has now
re entered the White House. Leadership not just on border
and immigration, but on any number of issues, climate change
and various other things, and the world is going to
become a better play you know, take a look at
the climate change issues. John, you know, Chris Wright, who
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is the dominee to be the Secretary of Energy, says,
you're looking at the wrong things. We want to make
the world a richer, happier place. We don't want to
you know, put artificial limits on you know, energy production,
you know, so that we can make people, you know,
impoverished in sadder. So I mean, you know this is
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it's a breadth of fresh air in not just Washington,
the capitals all around the world.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, burning fossil fuels has made everyone in the world wealthier,
raised standards of living, pulled people out of poverty by
the billions. You couldn't do it any other way. To
return to the way we lived in the eighteen hundreds
would impoverish billions.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It's it's it's so upside down backwards.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's astonishing that anybody buys into this nonsense.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, and you know that's why we call them developing nations,
and they are going to develop when we you know,
unleash the great energy that we have in our country,
you know, not just you know, oil and natural gas,
but you know nuclear energy. You know, we innovate and
we make things cheaper and easier for people to use.
That's how they're going to pull themselves out of poverty.
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And you know, I quite frankly, I think root causes
are overblown. But you know, when we make other places better,
fewer people are going to want to come here illegally.
They're going to want to come here because we are,
you know, the world's great innovator. And you know that.
You know, we have the highest standard of living. Did
you know that Germany has a lower per capita GDP
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than Mississippi, the poorest state in the Union. I mean,
just think about that for a second. So you know,
we have things good in this country. It's no wonder
people want to come here. But the focus of this
administration and its policies is going to be making the
whole rest of the world better at the same time
that we raise our own ship.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Just getting back to the immigration thing for a minute. Uh,
there's a New York Times poll eighty seven percent of
the public supports deporting criminal illegal aliens eighty seven percent,
including eighty three percent of Democrats, of eighty five percent Hispanics.
What Bill Malugen reported on nearly the whole country is cheering.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
This is what.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean. Almost ninety percent of the public wanted and
Joe Biden was was was giving us the opposite, and
they weren't, and they wondered why they lost.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And just to remind you and your listeners, the Biden
administration sued all the way to the Supreme Court the
block and effort by Texas to force it to take
criminal aliens, not just you know, old ladies or grandma's
or people you know playing with their kids, criminal aliens
off of the street. It was the official policy of
the Biden administration that we had to consider, you know,
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your age or whether your mental condition may have led
to your criminality before we could take you into custody. John,
we had to consider whether your kid was a Postal
service worker before we could take you into custody if
you were a criminal alien. This was the most upside
down world that I can imagine. And you know, you
told me that eighty seven percents that which I've seen before,
(09:03):
but in the New.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
York Times, Paul, I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, I mean, who are the other thirteen percent of
people who don't want criminal aliens off the street. And
this is the dirty secret that nobody ever talks about.
You know, I live in a you know, nice community,
you know, with trim blongs. Those criminal aliens aren't you know,
committing their crimes in my neighborhood. They're not jacking my car,
robbing my wife. They're doing it in immigrant communities. The
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very people that they claim that they are so you know,
supportive of and care so much for, they are condemning
to a situation in which, you know, they are preyed
upon daily. If you read newspapers, you know, especially in
the National Capital area, the Washington Post, they'll talk about
migrant crime when they have to. And one of the
things that you'll see are that a lot of these
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people were engaged in criminality, but the victims never came forward,
and they never came forward because they knew they lived
in sanctuary communities and that they those criminals weren't going
to be taken off the street. Why am I going
to put my neck app if you know that person
is going to come and take retribution against me and
my family, Which is part of the reason why eighty
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five percent of the Hispanics, and again you know, most
is Hispanics in this country or citizens. But I'm sure
that even if you ask the other ones, you know,
they don't want criminals on their streets. They want safe streets,
they want safe communities to razor kids.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, who wants rapists and murderers running around their neighborhood,
raping and murdering their family members, their wives, their daughters,
their sisters. Nobody wants that. Well, you know, I'm looking
at the poll and apparently two percent I'm sorry, three
percent strongly pro oppose criminals being deported here in America
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if they're illegal.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Three percent, right, And when you think about that, those
statistics that you just read me, consider the fact that
in California, where you're broadcasting from right now, it's official
state law that they're not going to cooperate. Nobody at
the local level, at the state level, is going to
cooperate with ice except for the most heenous of criminals
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and getting those people off the street. Been involved in
law enforcement for thirty three years, and the one thing
I can tell you is that most criminals are upward offenders.
Rape and murder is in anybody's first crime, which is
part of the reason why Congress passed the Lake and
Riley Act, you know, which is on its way to
the President, you know, with bipartisan majorities in both the
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House and the Senate. Because today's shoplifter, today's mugger, is
going to be the person that commits that heinous crime
that's finally going to convince. California authorities always okay to
let ice know when this guy's getting out of custody.
When I was a young prile attorney in San Francisco,
border patrol agents would go through local jails and the
communities for safe The fact that you know, we've gotten
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so far away from that is just bizarre.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Art Arthur, Center for Immigration Studies. Thank you for coming on.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
John, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
All right, and we'll continue. We'll play that Bill mallusion piece.
You're going to be just astonished by it.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So we just talked with Art Arthur from the Center
for Immigration Studies, and yeah, this is New York Times.
Poll is actually shocking on immigration. Eighty eight percent of
the public supports supporting criminals who are here illegally. Eighty
eight percent only ten percent oppose it, and yet Karen
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Bass and Gavin Newsom oppose helping ICE get the criminals
out of the state.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I just.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Listen to the type of people ICE is rounding up. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
This is Bill Malusion Fox News. He went on a
ride along this week in Boston in five degree weather
and look at what they found.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Good morning everyone, It's a frigid five degrees the pre
dawn hours just outside of Boston where this team of
elite ICE officers is briefing on their targets for the day.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
We're gonna be targeting some extremely violent offenders today.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Within moments, the officers are on the move with eyes
on their first target looks like.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
We have a movement photography from else.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
They quickly take him into custody. He's an MS thirteen
gang member, wanted NL Salvador for aggravated murder and he
has an Interpol red notice out for his arrest.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We are targeting very violent.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Threats to our community. I'm not going back to Hayden.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti.
I says he's a gang member with seventeen criminal convictions
in recent years.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I mean, go Biden, bro thank Obama put everything that
he's picked for me.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Bold Ice Boston quickly takes down its next targets, including
this illegal alien from Brazil who has an Interpol red
notice for armed this salvador And illegal alien charged locally
with rape and released by a sanctuary jurisdiction Coen Say,
and this Dominican illegal alien charged with assault with the
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deadly weapon and heroin trafficking. Officers also arrested this Guatemalan
MS thirteen gang member facing gun charges. I says he
was released from local custody just the day before their
detainer request was ignored because of sanctuary policies and in
a sign of shifting priorities with the new Trump administration.
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This man, who was in the same apartment as the target,
was also arrested after ICE determined he's also in the
US illegally. This is what ICE calls collateral. So you
guys got your main target just now, but you got
somebody else.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
What just happened, Sorry, Maine target was released by a
sanctuary JERI six years not honoring a detainer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That person was released back.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Into the cananities and when you went to go find him,
he's with somebody else who was previously remained from the
United States.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
So he's going to go today.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Too, And that is exactly what borders our Tom Holman
has borned would happen.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
When we find the bad guy, he's probably with others,
others that are in the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I legally they may not.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Be a criminal priority.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But we're not walking away.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
From Ice Boston says they will continue to go into
sanctuary jurisdictions and do their job.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Today it was a good day today.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
We took several significant public safety threats out of our communities.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Unfortunately a lot were released by.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Sanctuary apologies, but we're here to tell the common loth
and the rest of the country that we're going to
find them, whether they're.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Released or not.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And guys.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Shortly after we finished filming, Ice Boston told us they
arrested two more targets and other parts of town away
from our cameras. One of those targets is a previously
deported Honduran illegal alien who has arrested for raping a
woman while putting a gun in her mouth. The other
target they got is a Haitian man who first flew
into the United States in twenty twenty three as part
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of President Biden's controversial migrant flights mass parole program. Well,
they just picked him up yesterday because he's been arrested
locally for sexual assaults.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I wrote down each individual that was featured in this report,
so I mean, listen to this, Okay. This was a
willful policy by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the administration.
Here are the people that Belusian mentioned from El Salvador
MS thirteen gang member aggravated murder. An Interpol red notice
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went out for him. That means he's an international crimical criminal.
A Haitian gang member with seventeen convictions. That's the guy
heard yelling f Trump, Yo Biden forever, thanks Obama for everything.
Guy from Brazil, armed robbery, another Interpole red notice El Salvador,
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a guy accused of rape locally in the Boston area.
A Dominican assault with a deadly weapon, a Honduran raping
a woman putting a gun in her mouth, a Guatemalan
gun charges MS thirteen member, and then a Haitian that
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Biden used your tax money to fly in from Haiti.
He lands here and sexually assaulted a woman. That's just
a few hours in one town in Boston, and I
can't emphasize this enough. Michelle wu is the mayor, super
nutjob progressive, same politics as Karen Bass, same politics as
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Gavin Newsom, with eighty seven percent of the country that
wants these criminals deported eighty seven percent. And yet we've
got this concept as a sanctuary city, a sanctuary state
where where these these these rapists and murderers are allowed
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by our local government and our state government to run free.
This is what you vote for, this is what you
spend your tax money on. I'm all right, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kf I
am sixty.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
More is coming out through the La Times about the
non existent evacuation orders in western Altadena and it's and
it's all bad news. The Times had another story that
came out today. Uh and and apparently west western Altadena,
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if you divide Altadena into two, west of Lake Lake
Avenue is a majority Black residents east of Lake Avenue,
majority white residents east of Lake Avenue. They got the
evacuation notices west of Lake Avenue with primarily black The
(19:03):
evacuation notices showed up nine hours late east of Lake
Avenue nobody died. West of Lake Avenue, seventeen people died.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
This is bad.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
All known deaths from the fire occurred in neighborhoods west
of North Lake Avenue. The orders were issued around three
point thirty in the morning. People saw these flames in
their backyards at six or seven in the evening the
night before, La County Sheriff's deputies drove down some streets
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urging people to flee around two am. And according to
one former council member at Altadena named Justin Chapman, who
now works for a Pasadena council member, I haven't seen
any answers from officials about what happened there. There was
a breakdown of communication somewhere because his family was caught
(20:02):
up in this. His family got out safely, but it
was close and Errol Arfari Hutchison is president of the
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. He said in a news
conference today, the officials fumbled the ball badly by not
giving the black neighborhoods in western Alta Dina the evacuation warnings.
(20:27):
The fact is is that parts of Alta Dina that
were predominantly white they got the warning. African Americans got
the short end of the stick. It can't argue with
this stuff. This is what happened. I don't know, I
don't know what's wrong with everything. Hutchinson is calling for
(20:49):
massive restitution, massive compensation. The failure to issue a timely
warning to the residents and a predominantly African American neighborhood
resulted in colossal property damage, colossal and unnecessary injury and
loss of life.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's all true.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And the NAACP is getting involved in the case as well.
They say the evacuation alerts are issued through a unified
command that involves the County Office of Emergency Management and
local agencies, county fire sheriff's departments. And you know, we
went through yesterday about all the malfunctions with the alerts,
(21:31):
county wide alerts when the fire was hitting a small
section of the region, random alerts going off for no reason, repeatedly,
and just like the DWP and the empty reservoir, just
like the LA Fire Department not sending the personnel in
the trucks early enough to the Palisades fire. Here in
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out to Dina. Nobody is explaining anything. I mean, how
I news conferences have we run the news conferences, We run,
you know, as a public service, right, we're trying to
collectively get all the latest news and information out to you,
and we put these things on the air, and most
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of the time they irritate the hell out of me,
because first of all, they spent a lot of time
congratulating each other, and then it's cliches and platitudes, or
they state the obvious. They just repeat whatever news bulletins
we've already broadcast.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
I want to see a news conference where they explain
what happened, why the security alerts failed, and the next
news conference. I also want to see if we know
what started these fires or who started these fires.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Isn't it it's over two weeks. They really don't know
what started the Palisades fire.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
No, I mean the last the last thing was fireworks
from January first, right, and it was put out and
when it but it, there is some smoldering. And then
when the winds picked up on the seventh, that's that's
the latest thing.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
That was their theory. That's the theory possibility. But I'm
wondering if that's a cover story.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
And the one in Altadena, Pasadena they're blaming so Cal Edison,
but we don't know for sure.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
And you and you said yesterday that so cal Edison
was told to preserve any evidence, right, because they're going
to look into all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yes, that's started at the base of a transmission tower
and those utilities are known to destroy evidence.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And then you had that fire yesterday, the four h
five in the Suppolata passed. I mean fortunately only forty
acres burned. But how did that one start?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
If homeless? Then that Castaic one yesterday.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, if homeless people start half the fires in La City.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
One of the odds that.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Some of these fires were started by homeless people, and
they don't want to admit it because they've they've all
been told everyone in the fire departments told don't tell
the media that it that it that a homeless person
started the fire.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's that's official policy.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So you see, and of course the news agencies don't
try to find out the truth. The firefighters just say, well,
we don't know, and then in the news story it's like, well,
unknown origins.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And they were all full of it.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Some of these fires in the last two and a
half weeks have got to be from homeless people.
Speaker 7 (24:18):
Look at all the arsonists or the alleged arsenists who
have been detained or arrested.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
What happened to that torch guy in your neighborhood. I
have no idea.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I don't know if he's if he's been let out
of jail, because remember they detained him and they didn't
have enough evidence to say that he committed arson, but
they were holding him on that felony parole violation.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It's been sixteen days since the Palisades fire, and the
fire hasn't been burning at the origin site, you know,
for the last two weeks. Like once fire burns through
an area, the fire goes out, Everything gets burned, right,
the Palisades is smoking ruins, but there's there isn't There
aren't any flames where the fire originated. They must know
(25:03):
by now, And I think the strategy is to shut
down news until it gets old and people stop caring.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I don't think anybody is going to stop caring about
how these fires started.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't think that is going to go away.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
No, No, that playbook's not going to work for something
of this magnitude. And the people who have created these
policies of not cleaning the homeless off the streets and
all the public lands allowing this to potentially happen. They
know their asses are on the line here. There's so
(25:42):
many massive failures clearing out the homeless, having the LA
fire show up so late. You could see what happens
when these guys are allowed to do their work. I mean,
look what they did in Kostaic yesterday. Ten thousand acres,
nobody hurt, no buildings burned down, So pulvid had passed
last night. They had that thing controlled in less than
two hours.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
And because we only have half a fire department.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
The reason things are working really well now is we
called in all the fire departments from around the world,
all over the country and foreign countries. Well, if we
funded fully funded our departments here, we wouldn't have to
wait until all the help came several days later. There
(26:34):
is so much wrong, and it's the nuts and bolts
of government. I don't want to hear any more about
social issues. Any candidate starts rattling about any kind of
social issues.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Shut up, get out.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
I want to know about reservoirs, fire fighting, police coverage,
getting the homeless off the streets permanently. That's all I
want to hear about. I want to hear about roads,
being paved, is being put out, police arresting bad guys.
Enough with enough, with all the social justice nonsense. It's
like a moratorium for the next ten years until we
(27:10):
go back to the nuts and bolts of civilization, governing
ourselves properly, making the whole area safe. God, there's just
like there are too many disasters going on here.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
And you know, I would hope now the public has
woken up that this has been a dark, dark era
of politics, policies, candidates, program they have abandoned. You talk
about dereliction of duty right up to the point where
the mayor's in Africa, the complete dereliction of duty. And
(27:47):
we are paying a fortune for this and all we're
getting our.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I can't tell you.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
How much property tax they pay in Pacific Palisades, Actually
I can. They They got nothing for it. They got
burned out, smoking ruins. That's what they got for all
their property taxes. They had their property destroyed. Are more
coming up?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
We just got this information from Fox eleven. We've had
seventeen fires in southern California since the first of the year.
Seventeen of them fifty thousand, two hundred and thirty six
acres burned. Now in the city of la We know
(28:36):
that half of the fires that are reported are from vagrants,
and there's probably a lot of unreported fires as well.
So how many of these seventeen were started by vagrants
or crazy arsonists who should have been locked up? Edward
(28:57):
ring rights for the well it writes for a lot
of places. And we got this piece out of the
National Review, and he writes about a lot of environmental
issues in the state, and he went through the rounds
of wildfires that California has suffered the last few years.
(29:19):
In twenty twenty summer twenty twenty, there are a lot
of bad fires, and Gavin Newsom's response was an executive
order to ban gas powered cars. Gas powered cars has
nothing to do with any of the fires, and US
driving gas powered cars has had no effect on the
(29:40):
global climate. But this is what he does. He grand
stands and tries to be a leader on some outrageous
issue that has nothing to do with the problem. There
was another round of fires in twenty twenty three and
his mini me, Attorney General Rob Bonta, what did he
(30:01):
do file a lawsuit against five major oil companies, saying
that the oil companies misled the public regarding the harm
that fossil fuels would inflict on the climate. Again, the
fires in twenty twenty three had nothing to do with
oil companies, nothing to do with oil and gas consumption.
(30:21):
And the funny thing is is that only seventeen percent
of the public is interested in this issue. I was
looking at new polling today and climate change is ranked
number sixteen out of eighteen possible issues. Sixteenth. About seventeen
percent of the country cares about it. But this is
see the reaction was, Hey, maybe we don't have enough firefighters,
(30:45):
Maybe we don't have enough fire engines. Maybe we don't
have our reservoirs filled. Maybe we haven't cleared the brush
properly in these forests, we haven't thinned about properly. Maybe
we don't have a proper notification system at these emergent
see command centers. Think of all the things that have
gone wrong here, because Ring says these are just distractions.
(31:10):
And he says, if it was climate change, then why
aren't they doing more to Excuse me, why aren't they
doing more to protect us from climate change?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And they're not.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
He writes, for the last several years, why wasn't top
management at the LA Fire Department and the LA Department
of Water and Power demanding that the state, the city,
the county immediately send cruise into the canyons and engage
in fuel reduction projects?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
When the Santa Ana wins were forecast, why wasn't the
LA Fire Department more aggressively prepositioning tankers and engines? They didn't,
And he goes on and on. We'll talk more about
this tomorrow. We got to Conway Thompson.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Thompson's back from going to the inauguration.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Yeah, I just got down with that inauguration. The party
was in Shane.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah, that's wild, man.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
I've never seen a America drunk again?
Speaker 2 (32:13):
What did you wear? Did you get to?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
What? I did?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I think?
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I think make America Drunk Again is too close to
M A mad, M A d A and M A.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
No good point. I'll tell he's the one that suggested it.
We'll work on it, all right.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Uh, we've got a lot. Look, I don't know what
to say. I woke up and they said, hey, there's
a Laguna fire, and I panicked. I said oh, I
got friends and Laguna. I got a friend of Liz
a Newport. What's going on? What's going on there?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Looking up? No, it's in like I don't know, it's
in San Francisco. Why would you? Why would they call
it the Laguna fire? It actually was in came Rea.
There's a there's another street right there. You could have
named it after.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
It never occurred to any of them. It's unbelievable. I think,
just do you know how many people they flipped out
in Orangetown?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I can imagine, you.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Know, because like was last time Laguna was on fire,
you know, fifteen twenty years ago, nine hundred homes burned.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
I slept through the whole supulvt of fire you did.
I was going to call you all the warning so yeah,
I'm dead asleep.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I woke up.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
My phone was filled with suppulvent of fire warnings. I'm thinking,
oh crap, you know, I'm looking to see if I'm
still alive.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
How far without giving it address? How far?
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Like as the crow flies that you do. That fire
probably about three miles. Oh you're fine, Yeah, you're fine. Yeah,
And it was across the four or five. So that's
that's what's really good.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
But they had an evacuation within two miles actually not
far from where he is.
Speaker 8 (33:37):
Yeah, and then I got my old neighbors, you know
that because we are place burned when the fire started
on the other side that were almost directly across. Yeah,
and yeah, my my old neighbors were, you know, chirping
about the fact that this is on the other side.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We're okay, you know, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I don't trust that though I can jump down because
the embers fly exactly multiple miles, so they can go
over the four or five easily.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
The one of the silver linings of being a horrible
horse handicapper is I can't live in the mountains that
kind of money. So you're just living. I am safe
in the flats. You were never making it to the mountains.
You guys that don't go to the track. You're up
in the hills with these helicopters and these flames.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I'm busted out, and wait, dollar, you can accomplish it.
Speaker 8 (34:28):
Conway had a long plan, that's.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Right, But you know what, I did it on purpose,
so I'd put my wife and daughter up in that
danger that her next time did it for them, you know,
I I once had a dip into my daughter's college
account to pay a guy off for a bet, and
she was, look she was. She got photoed out of
(34:53):
going to Yale. Were you were just didn't do a
cartwheel at the end. She was going to Yale.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
You were a few winners short of her going to
Ivy League school.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Could have gone to Yale.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Conway come out with this Yale Thompson Live in the
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