October 15, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Koblyt Show Hour 1 (10/15) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. KFI's Michael Monks joins the show. Lou calls out the hysteria. Obama shows up for Prop 50 and a looks at CNN midterm polls.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John this week.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good to have you along with us LA County voting
yesterday to declare a state of emergency, specifically a state
of immigration emergency, and it gives them a whole host
of authorities and we need to know exactly what those are.
Kfi's Michael Monks joins us from the KFI newsroom.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Was this a planned thing? This just kind of jumped
on the radar screen.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's not something that was talked about, really, and now
all of a sudden, a state of emergency.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Very dramatic, Michael Monks.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
The board has been talking about various options to assist
illegal immigrants who are here in the community. There are
many in Los Angeles County, and in fact, they've already
taken multiple steps to assist folks who they say are
impacted by immigration enforcement efforts by the federal government here
in Los Angeles County. We're talking about me access to
benefits like food access or even some monetary assistance for rent.
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All of this stuff has already been enacted, but some
on the board suggested that they needed to declare a
state of emergency, because in emergencies you can do things
in a way that may be expedited. You don't have
to go through all of the bureaucracy and the red tape.
Keep in mind, we have something similar in the City
of Los Angeles around homelessness, and that has allowed programs
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like inside Safe to operate in ways that they normally
would not have to wor the emergency not declared. So
this does open up the door to additional actions by
this board because they have declared an emergency.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
All right, So it's more than just window dressing, more
than just symbolic. But when you say it's streamlines a process,
because we're in a state of emergency, when we're talking
about rent relief or legal aid, what would that be
just that you don't have to put it out to bid.
I mean, I'm trying to figure out what would have
slowed down rent relief or legal aid in the first place.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Perhaps nothing there, and that's how they've already been able
to do some of those things. But one characteristic of
this that has been clamored for by activists in La County,
whether they're connected to a legal immigrant families or not
is an eviction moratorium. Now, if you cover local government
like I do, you often hear folks saying we need
an eviction moratorium for this reason or that reason. There
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were folks calling for an eviction moratorium in the wake
of the wildfires from January, regardless of where people lived
or if they were impacted by it at all. So
there's a group of activists here that always see an
opportunity to pursue an eviction moratorium, and this group called
the Los Angeles Tenants Union, is one of those advocacy groups.
They've been pushing the Board of Supervisors for weeks to
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enact an eviction moratorium. Basically, what that would mean is
landlords can't kick people out of their property. You saw
this during COVID, so when people were losing their income,
you know, to no fault of their own, they were
able to stay in their homes. And so this group
has called foreign eviction moratorium. There are members of the
Board of Supervisors that seem sympathetic to this, and the
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County Attorney's report on this emergency declaration indicates that an
eviction moratorium could be enacted during a declared local emergency.
But it would have to be temporary, and it would
also have to be narrowly tailored to address the impacts
of the emergency. It also has to protect landlord's due
process rights, and that's always a problem here in Los Angeles.
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Landlords are often not happy with these various layers of
government that are added to their property ownership.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh, this is I mean, this is like the highest
level of confusion because property owners in Los Angeles County
cannot ask if somebody is lately in the United States on.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oro rental application.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So how would the Board of Supervisors know to place
a moratorium on any one tenant because of ice? Oh
are they gonna make that distinction since nobody's allowed to
know if you're in Los Angeles legally enough?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Do you raise an excellent point, Lou, Because it's not
just the eviction moratorium, it's basically every policy that's been
put in place, whether it be the City of Los
Angeles or the County of Los Angeles, to assist illegal immigrants.
Because these are advocates for legal immigrants who suggest we
need to protect folks who are here illegally and not
necessarily getting up on them because of their lack of
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legal status. But in order to receive some of these funds,
it looks like you would have to prove how you
are adversely impacted by the immigration raids. What we heard
from supervisors is that there are families where there is
a mixed status they call it. So somebody may be
here illegally. Let's say the father is here illegally, the
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mother is not, so the mother's a legal citizen, and
then they are children involved, but the father has been
detained and or deported, and now the main source of
income is gone. In fact, here's what Supervisor Lindsay Horvath
had to say about those sorts of issues.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
For months, families have been living under threat, workers have
been kidnapped from job sites, and children have been coming
home to empty dinner tables. Los Angeles County has the
responsibility to protect every resident, no matter where they come
from or what papers they carry.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And that was Supervisor Lindsay Horvath. We also heard from
Supervisors Janie Hahn, Holly Mitchell, and Hilde Slice who all
voted for this. Supervisor Catherine Barger, who is currently the
chair of the board. This year, she was the loan
vote against it, but she says her opposition to the
motion is about good governance, not immigration status. She says
that this type of action could set the county up
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for legal challenges from the federal government, and goodness knows
whether it's the local government or the state government. Here
the federal government, they've been at odds for months now
at various court levels on various issue So if this
does become a situation where the federal government gets win
of it and they're not happy about it, it could absolutely be.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Challenged, and the fight back and forth between DC and
LA goes on and on.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
All right, lots of questions about this that I still want.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
To just unpack as we move forward, because this, as
you said, opens up a whole host of challenges, especially
when you're getting into mixed status households.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Michael Mounts from the KFI newsroom. Thanks so much, appreciate
you hopping on and giving us the details you got
to go.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, So when we get back, how exactly does
this work? So does the county boarder supervisors expect people
to go on record and say, yes, we knowingly had
a foreign national illegally working and in fact working so
hard that they were the breadwinner of this household and
now you people deported him, and so I need the
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taxpayers of Los Angeles to pay my rent until what
the bread winner gets settled back home and starts first
remittance payments. This is a real problem and we need
to explore it, and we'll do that next.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Sitting in for John coblt all this week Loup Penrose
on I AM six forty. So the state of emergency, now,
the state of an immigration emergency is in effect at
the Los Angeles Board of Supervisor.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Joly County Board of Supervisors voting four to one on
Tuesday to approve a quote immigration emergency declaration in the
county in response to recent ice raids here.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
In La So.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
According to the reports enforcement raids since June six have
grown to a point where they cause undocumented residents extreme
peril of being deported or losing their livelihood. Also they
say financial strain, loss of food security, isolation, mental distress.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And homelessness. And this is what is so amazing to me.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The level of hysteria at the County Board of Supervisors
is off the charts. Now we are in the process
of removing foreign nationals illegally in the county. We're in
the process of removing foreign nationals illegally in the country.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It is illegal to be.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
In Los Angeles illegally. It is illegal to work in
Los Angeles. If you're in Los Angeles illegally, you are
ineligible for employment. And the Border Supervisors is the governing
body of the county. They're the law and order place
and they're rooting for the illegals. And it's quite astounding.
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Here is Supervisor Han.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
We have entire families who are destitute because their fathers
or mothers were taken from their workplaces and they have
no way to pay their rent or put food on
the table.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That's right, Well, that's the process, is to remove them
from housing and the labor, the illegal labor force. That's
part of the process destitute. What are you talking about.
More money is sent in the form of remittance payments
to Mexico than any other thing that goes on. There
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is so much money that is sent in remittance payments
to Mexico from California that it shows up on the
books in Mexico City. It's like part of their economy.
And then they you know, look for public assistance here.
But this is this is just astounding that they don't
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understand the difference between legal and illegal, and they continue
to talk about residents of Los Angeles and ethel alien
is not a resident because by literal definition, you are
not able to reside if you're in in the United
States illegally. This is why I'm always screaming when they
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talk about children in schools in La County. In order
to enroll your child at a public school in Los Angeles,
there are residency requirements, right.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's how you know which elementary school to go to.
That's how you know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's people talk about I want to go to a
good school district. Though, is that a good school district?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I don't know. Is we're going to buy a house,
is it? What's the school district like?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Because you have to have residency in order to be
eligible to get into that school, or you have to
apply for some out of area acceptance and you got
to go on a waiting list.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I did this with my own kids.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So you have to have residency, you have to establish residency,
improve residency.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
A person in.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Los Angeles County, by literal definition, cannot reside because it's
illegal for them to be in Los Angeles County, so
they're not a resident.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So lou Penrose Rule number four words matter.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
The county will take whatever actions we have within our authority.
We need to call on our region to stand up
and protect our community members.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh, community members, that's a good one, community members.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
All right, Well, let's just call this out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
In the process of removing people that are in the
country illegally, it's going to put pain on the people
that relied on that otherwise illegal income, but nevertheless income.
And that is a pity I and not so heartless
that I don't acknowledge that this is a real problem
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for a lot of people that built a life around
a lie, and that is it's okay to work illegally
and start a family and just be But these are
not Los Angeles residents. These are foreign nationals masquerading as
Los Angeles families.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They are.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
They belong to other countries, and they are masquerading as parents.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Entering their children into our public schools.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
The public schools in Los Angeles are for the children
of Angelinos, not people masquerading as Angelinos, which is what
foreign nationals in the country illegally are doing. I don't
know how else you go about doing this without causing
pain to the dependence of the illegal worker. By the way,
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if somebody is a burglar and that's what they do
for a living, and they support a family, and we
catch them and convict them and put them in jail,
doesn't that cause pain to the dependence of the cat burglar?
So why is this different? So let's define our terms
here a little bit. This is what happens. And again,
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as I said, it is a problem. It is in
fact their problem, not your problem, not my problem. Who
told you to come into the country illegally and start
a family? Like, don't let them make you feel bad.
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Don't feel bad. I don't feel bad.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Now, that emergency declaration will give La County the power
to provide taxpayer funded rent relief, legal services, and other
assistance to those the county says have been affected by
recent ice rates. Now, the two LA County supervisors who
first introduced this declaration say immigrants in La have been
quote living under.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Threat from ice and help is needed.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Anybody that's in the country illegally is living under threat
of immigration and custom enforcement. Anybody breaking federal law is
living under the threat of the FBI. Anybody violating interstate
commerce is living under the threat of the Department of Commerce.
Anybody selling knockoff Louis vatam purses at santi Alli is
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living under the threat of the Department of Treasury. This
is absurd, like this is some new thing. It's illegal
to be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I legally, it just is.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
When we come back, let's talk about how the landlord
somehow deserves to get screwed on all this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's all coming up next.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The County of Los Angeles declaring an immigration state of emergency,
giving the County Border Supervisors the authority to provide taxpayer
funded rent relief, legal aid, and other services to illegal
aliens and their families now immigration Customs enforcement.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And I'm surprised to see.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That they issued a statement, but they issued a direct
statement to the LA Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
ICE is blasting LA County's decision to approve this declaration.
They write, in part quote, the only state of emergency
is the one residence of Los Angeles face after electing
officials who give a middle finger to the law.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Wow, that's tough stuff. Middle finger to the law. But
that's not untrue. They are flooding the law at flouting,
they are not helping the process. And I, for the
life of me, don't understand how the property management company
or the property owner has to wait for rent relief
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from the county and Comma, Why do the legal residents
and actual Americans of Los Angeles have to cover the
rent for the dependents of illegals.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And even if there is any.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Truth to this idea of a mixed household, a mixed
status household, I think, is the term that was used
where some people are in the country illegally and working illegally,
and some people are legally here and dependent. I don't
even know how you get to that, since only an
idiot would marry an illegal. But whatever, can't people still
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work at home and send money to their family like
it is possible?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It used to happen.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
My great grandfather came from Italy and worked on the
New York City subway system and mailed money home to
my great grandmother, who was an Italian citizen.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So does that is not not still a thing?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
People don't do that anymore, like you can get deported
or self deport, which is still the best way to go.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
For all you illegals out there. The jig is up.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, I don't know what you're thinking. Remember the
lou Penrose rule. There are no tears in the back
of the ice van. I don't want to see any tears.
I don't want to hear any crying. We gave you
a goodly amount of time to get your affairs in order.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We told you what was.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Coming down, and the best thing you could do is
take the deal. Have your sister in law sell the
truck and get the one thousand dollars from the Trump
administration and get that free ticket and scram and get
back to Guatemala City and get yourself an apartment a
thousand dollars. It's a thousand dollars US dollars, so it
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goes a long way in Honduras or Turkey or Venezuela
or India or wherever.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Get yourself a.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Small studio apartment near the US embassy, and then hang
out for six weeks, wait for the smoke to clear,
and then go apply. If you legitimately have family here,
apply like you know legal people do. So that's the
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best deal. Going waiting around for the ice truck to come.
Not a good plan, But if that's what you insist
on doing, go for it. Just I don't want to
see any crime, I don't want to see any tears,
and I don't want to hear about it. So how
is this rent relief going to make it to the
person that actually has to make the mortgage payment on
the apartment building? Taxpayer funded rent relief and legal aid.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's the other one that I fully don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I worked for three members of Congress from California for
fifteen years, which means for fifteen years I did immigration
casework or I managed staff that did immigration casework. There's
nothing that an attorney can help you with that your
local member of Congress can help you with for free.
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I see these designs all the time in various communities
in La County Immigracion, and I'm thinking, what is going
on here? There is no such thing as an immigration attorney.
Immigration law is pretty clear for the most part.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's a scam. A lot of these immigration attorneys they're
praying on foreigners.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
They're really just simply providing translation services at three hundred
dollars an hour. That's really where the crime is. But nevertheless,
immigration attorneys, what are they going to help you? Having
an immigration attorney it would be like having a DMV
attorney in state government.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You can just do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So I don't know what the legal aid is going
to do, and I don't understand what these lawyers are
telling these dependents of illegals. Again, if you are a
US citizen and you are married to an illegal alien,
that doesn't mean that your spouse is staying. I think
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that a lot of illegals got that wrong. I don't
know if it was pop culture, maybe some movies, I
don't know, but I think a lot of illegals thought
if they just somehow marry a local that they'll get
to stay, or if they knock up a local, they'll
get to stay, And that isn't how it works. So
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I don't know what the long term plan is. But
if I were you, I would go home and then
find the US embassy and apply like a normal person.
Despite cutting twenty five million dollars from La County's Sister
Attorney's office, Wow, that's politically bold to cut the DA's
budget to give rent relief to foreign nationals living in
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Los Angeles County illegally. I still, for the life of me,
I do not understand how the border supers expect to
qualify that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
How are you going to prove this?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
People have to come forward and say there wasn't illegal here,
he got deported, or there's illegals here and they're afraid
to go to work.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
They're not going to say that.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I think if you say they were in the country
and they got deported, but they were the breadwinner, you're
opening yourself up to a lot of back payroll taxes.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So I don't think they're going to say that.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't think this is really thought through by Jennis Hahn,
and I don't think Lindsey Horvath understands law at all.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So we'll see where this takes us.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But to be sure, what happens now is the rental
market becomes even more tight because those that are in
the business of renting apartments to anybody, because those individuals
become a lot more suspicious of those rental applications, so
that it just makes things worse yet again LA County
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Board of Supervisors making things worse. Louke Penrose info John
Coblt on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt
Show coming up following the news of two.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So I knew this would eventually happen.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Former congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter had to break
her silence at some point and attempt a recovery tour,
and she did right here in Los Angeles, inside California
Politics with Nicki Lorenzo, and it didn't go well. I mean,
there is damage control consultants in politics, just like there
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are damage control consultants and media control consultants in business
and in showbiz. And you've got to address these things quickly.
I mean, unless you plan on just avoiding it all
together and letting the chips fall where they may. But
if you have a live campaign for the Democrat nomination
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for governor and you're the leading contender, which according to
Pohle's Porter is, and you have this much damage to
your candidacy, you need help. You can't get out of
this on your own because clearly your instincts are flawed.
And that's the case here now is recovery possible. Sure,
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Californians easily forgive character flaws.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Mistakes happen. All politicians flubb they all do. They all
make mistakes. They all say something and artfully and sometimes
they can't get.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Out of their own way.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It's never the fumble in politics, it's always the recovery.
So when somebody fumbles, I mean, we all watch because
it's a train wreck.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And this was a train wreck.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And the first thing you do is to find out, Wow,
was this just a bad day?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Was this sour milk in the coffee? Is she hungover?
Is she drunk?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
What's going on? Does somebody kick her dog? Why is
she in a bad mood? So you find out.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Is there a pattern or was this just a really
bad day?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Is there zero evidence of this happening in the past,
And in Katie Porter's case, there is growing evidence that
it happens continuously. So there is a pattern of behavior
for which in this latest interview she has not really addressed,
and there's no sense that she is going to change
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her ways. She actually took it as a bit of
a badge of honor, saying that it shows the voters
that she's tough. So we'll listen to the parts of
the interview together and then go back and contrast it
with the one interview that got her in trouble, and
then of course the now famous get out of my
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shot treatment of the staffer. And I'll tell you a
little bit about what goes on behind the scenes and
these kinds of situations, having been a senior staffer for
three members of Congress, and Porter was a member of
Congress when she was in that conference call with the
Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But from my read, this didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
The questions will continue to be asked about her temperament
because it's now it's not a character question, it's a
matter of temperament. She doesn't seem to mind that she
came off as a class A B.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Ch Hylou Regarding Supervisor Corva's statement this morning about this proclamation,
she stated that it's La County's responsibility to protect every resident. Well,
what about the landlords? What about people who who are citizens,
are legal residents? Why don't they have protection? Very infuriating.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It's infuriating because a member of the county Board of
Supervisors in this case, Lindsay Corbat doesn't understand what a
resident is and doesn't make the distinction between people that
live and work in Los Angeles and people that make
believe they're Angelino's and are masquerading as residents and workers
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while lying because they're in the country illegally.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
She refuses to make.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
That distinction, and it's because it's probably more so in
California than it is elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
But I see it in Chicago, and I see it.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I used to see it in New York, and you
see it sometime in Austin, Texas and in Denver. Democrats
care about illegals more than they care about you. Certainly,
Democrats fight harder for illegals than they fight for you.
Certainly in Los Angeles, Democrats care about the children of
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illegals more than they care about your children. They never
talk about your children. They always talk about the children
of illegals. They call them the children of our migrant community.
But you and I both know what they're talking about.
They're not talking about you. You never called yourself a
member of the migrant community. You never consider yourself part
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of all residents.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You live here, it's your city. My favorite one is.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
The undocumented community. That's my favorite. That one was around
for a while. We went from illegal aliens, which is
what they are. They're alien nationals in the country illegally,
and that is a federal term from the Department of State.
So that's not a made up pejorative. That is US code.
That's what you are. And then they that was too unkind,
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so they just became immigrants, and Republicans pushed back and said,
there's immigrants and there are illegal immigrants, and so they
moved on because they couldn't get out of that one.
And they said, well, they're just undocumented. You don't know
what's going on there. They're just undocumented. And I said,
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that's not even an accurate term. If you are on vacate,
you fly to London for a vacation and you get
your backpack stolen at Heathrow Airport and your passport's in
the backpack.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Now you're undocumented.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
If you cut a hole in the fence between the
United States and Mexico and then run through that hole
into the United States in the middle of the night
while throwing rocks at border patrol agents.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You're not undocumented. You are an illegal alien.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And somehow all of us understand that distinction, except for
a majority of the Los Angeles Border Supervisors. Loup Penrose
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
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You can always hear the show live on KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Lou Penrose sitting in for John this week.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good to have you along with us LA County voting
yesterday to declare a state of emergency, specifically a state
of immigration emergency, and it gives them a whole host
of authorities and we need to know exactly what those are.
Kfi's Michael Monks joins us from the KFI newsroom.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Was this a planned thing? This just kind of jumped
on the radar screen.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's not something that was talked about, really, and now
all of a sudden, a state of emergency.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Very dramatic, Michael Monks.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
The board has been talking about various options to assist
illegal immigrants who are here in the community. There are
many in Los Angeles County, and in fact, they've already
taken multiple steps to assist folks who they say are
impacted by immigration enforcement efforts by the federal government here
in Los Angeles County. We're talking about me access to
benefits like food access or even some monetary assistance for rent.
(01:07):
All of this stuff has already been enacted, but some
on the board suggested that they needed to declare a
state of emergency, because in emergencies you can do things
in a way that may be expedited. You don't have
to go through all of the bureaucracy and the red tape.
Keep in mind, we have something similar in the City
of Los Angeles around homelessness, and that has allowed programs
(01:29):
like inside Safe to operate in ways that they normally
would not have to wor the emergency not declared. So
this does open up the door to additional actions by
this board because they have declared an emergency.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
All right, So it's more than just window dressing, more
than just symbolic. But when you say it's streamlines a process,
because we're in a state of emergency, when we're talking
about rent relief or legal aid, what would that be
just that you don't have to put it out to bid.
I mean, I'm trying to figure out what would have
slowed down rent relief or legal aid in the first place.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Perhaps nothing there, and that's how they've already been able
to do some of those things. But one characteristic of
this that has been clamored for by activists in La County,
whether they're connected to a legal immigrant families or not
is an eviction moratorium. Now, if you cover local government
like I do, you often hear folks saying we need
an eviction moratorium for this reason or that reason. There
(02:26):
were folks calling for an eviction moratorium in the wake
of the wildfires from January, regardless of where people lived
or if they were impacted by it at all. So
there's a group of activists here that always see an
opportunity to pursue an eviction moratorium, and this group called
the Los Angeles Tenants Union, is one of those advocacy groups.
They've been pushing the Board of Supervisors for weeks to
(02:49):
enact an eviction moratorium. Basically, what that would mean is
landlords can't kick people out of their property. You saw
this during COVID, so when people were losing their income,
you know, to no fault of their own, they were
able to stay in their homes. And so this group
has called foreign eviction moratorium. There are members of the
Board of Supervisors that seem sympathetic to this, and the
(03:11):
County Attorney's report on this emergency declaration indicates that an
eviction moratorium could be enacted during a declared local emergency.
But it would have to be temporary, and it would
also have to be narrowly tailored to address the impacts
of the emergency. It also has to protect landlord's due
process rights, and that's always a problem here in Los Angeles.
(03:32):
Landlords are often not happy with these various layers of
government that are added to their property ownership.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh, this is I mean, this is like the highest
level of confusion because property owners in Los Angeles County
cannot ask if somebody is lately in the United States on.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oro rental application.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
So how would the Board of Supervisors know to place
a moratorium on any one tenant because of ice? Oh
are they gonna make that distinction since nobody's allowed to
know if you're in Los Angeles legally enough?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Do you raise an excellent point, Lou, Because it's not
just the eviction moratorium, it's basically every policy that's been
put in place, whether it be the City of Los
Angeles or the County of Los Angeles, to assist illegal immigrants.
Because these are advocates for legal immigrants who suggest we
need to protect folks who are here illegally and not
necessarily getting up on them because of their lack of
(04:27):
legal status. But in order to receive some of these funds,
it looks like you would have to prove how you
are adversely impacted by the immigration raids. What we heard
from supervisors is that there are families where there is
a mixed status they call it. So somebody may be
here illegally. Let's say the father is here illegally, the
(04:49):
mother is not, so the mother's a legal citizen, and
then they are children involved, but the father has been
detained and or deported, and now the main source of
income is gone. In fact, here's what Supervisor Lindsay Horvath
had to say about those sorts of issues.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
For months, families have been living under threat, workers have
been kidnapped from job sites, and children have been coming
home to empty dinner tables. Los Angeles County has the
responsibility to protect every resident, no matter where they come
from or what papers they carry.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
And that was Supervisor Lindsay Horvath. We also heard from
Supervisors Janie Hahn, Holly Mitchell, and Hilde Slice who all
voted for this. Supervisor Catherine Barger, who is currently the
chair of the board. This year, she was the loan
vote against it, but she says her opposition to the
motion is about good governance, not immigration status. She says
that this type of action could set the county up
(05:46):
for legal challenges from the federal government, and goodness knows
whether it's the local government or the state government. Here
the federal government, they've been at odds for months now
at various court levels on various issue So if this
does become a situation where the federal government gets win
of it and they're not happy about it, it could absolutely be.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Challenged, and the fight back and forth between DC and
LA goes on and on.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
All right, lots of questions about this that I still want.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
To just unpack as we move forward, because this, as
you said, opens up a whole host of challenges, especially
when you're getting into mixed status households.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Michael Mounts from the KFI newsroom. Thanks so much, appreciate
you hopping on and giving us the details you got
to go.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
All right, So when we get back, how exactly does
this work? So does the county boarder supervisors expect people
to go on record and say, yes, we knowingly had
a foreign national illegally working and in fact working so
hard that they were the breadwinner of this household and
now you people deported him, and so I need the
(06:52):
taxpayers of Los Angeles to pay my rent until what
the bread winner gets settled back home and starts first
remittance payments. This is a real problem and we need
to explore it, and we'll do that next.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
You're listening to John coblt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Sitting in for John coblt all this week Loup Penrose
on I AM six forty. So the state of emergency, now,
the state of an immigration emergency is in effect at
the Los Angeles Board of Supervisor.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Joly County Board of Supervisors voting four to one on
Tuesday to approve a quote immigration emergency declaration in the
county in response to recent ice raids here.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
In La So.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
According to the reports enforcement raids since June six have
grown to a point where they cause undocumented residents extreme
peril of being deported or losing their livelihood. Also they
say financial strain, loss of food security, isolation, mental distress.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And homelessness. And this is what is so amazing to me.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The level of hysteria at the County Board of Supervisors
is off the charts. Now we are in the process
of removing foreign nationals illegally in the county. We're in
the process of removing foreign nationals illegally in the country.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It is illegal to be.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
In Los Angeles illegally. It is illegal to work in
Los Angeles. If you're in Los Angeles illegally, you are
ineligible for employment. And the Border Supervisors is the governing
body of the county. They're the law and order place
and they're rooting for the illegals. And it's quite astounding.
(08:48):
Here is Supervisor Han.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
We have entire families who are destitute because their fathers
or mothers were taken from their workplaces and they have
no way to pay their rent or put food on
the table.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
That's right, Well, that's the process, is to remove them
from housing and the labor, the illegal labor force. That's
part of the process destitute. What are you talking about.
More money is sent in the form of remittance payments
to Mexico than any other thing that goes on. There
(09:20):
is so much money that is sent in remittance payments
to Mexico from California that it shows up on the
books in Mexico City. It's like part of their economy.
And then they you know, look for public assistance here.
But this is this is just astounding that they don't
(09:42):
understand the difference between legal and illegal, and they continue
to talk about residents of Los Angeles and ethel alien
is not a resident because by literal definition, you are
not able to reside if you're in in the United
States illegally. This is why I'm always screaming when they
(10:06):
talk about children in schools in La County. In order
to enroll your child at a public school in Los Angeles,
there are residency requirements, right.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
That's how you know which elementary school to go to.
That's how you know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's people talk about I want to go to a
good school district. Though, is that a good school district?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I don't know. Is we're going to buy a house,
is it? What's the school district like?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Because you have to have residency in order to be
eligible to get into that school, or you have to
apply for some out of area acceptance and you got
to go on a waiting list.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I did this with my own kids.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So you have to have residency, you have to establish residency,
improve residency.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
A person in.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Los Angeles County, by literal definition, cannot reside because it's
illegal for them to be in Los Angeles County, so
they're not a resident.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
So lou Penrose Rule number four words matter.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
The county will take whatever actions we have within our authority.
We need to call on our region to stand up
and protect our community members.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh, community members, that's a good one, community members.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
All right, Well, let's just call this out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
In the process of removing people that are in the
country illegally, it's going to put pain on the people
that relied on that otherwise illegal income, but nevertheless income.
And that is a pity I and not so heartless
that I don't acknowledge that this is a real problem
(11:47):
for a lot of people that built a life around
a lie, and that is it's okay to work illegally
and start a family and just be But these are
not Los Angeles residents. These are foreign nationals masquerading as
Los Angeles families.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They are.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
They belong to other countries, and they are masquerading as parents.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Entering their children into our public schools.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
The public schools in Los Angeles are for the children
of Angelinos, not people masquerading as Angelinos, which is what
foreign nationals in the country illegally are doing. I don't
know how else you go about doing this without causing
pain to the dependence of the illegal worker. By the way,
(12:48):
if somebody is a burglar and that's what they do
for a living, and they support a family, and we
catch them and convict them and put them in jail,
doesn't that cause pain to the dependence of the cat burglar?
So why is this different? So let's define our terms
here a little bit. This is what happens. And again,
(13:11):
as I said, it is a problem. It is in
fact their problem, not your problem, not my problem. Who
told you to come into the country illegally and start
a family? Like, don't let them make you feel bad.
(13:32):
Don't feel bad. I don't feel bad.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Now, that emergency declaration will give La County the power
to provide taxpayer funded rent relief, legal services, and other
assistance to those the county says have been affected by
recent ice rates. Now, the two LA County supervisors who
first introduced this declaration say immigrants in La have been
quote living under.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Threat from ice and help is needed.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Anybody that's in the country illegally is living under threat
of immigration and custom enforcement. Anybody breaking federal law is
living under the threat of the FBI. Anybody violating interstate
commerce is living under the threat of the Department of Commerce.
Anybody selling knockoff Louis vatam purses at santi Alli is
(14:17):
living under the threat of the Department of Treasury. This
is absurd, like this is some new thing. It's illegal
to be in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I legally, it just is.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
When we come back, let's talk about how the landlord
somehow deserves to get screwed on all this.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's all coming up next.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
The County of Los Angeles declaring an immigration state of emergency,
giving the County Border Supervisors the authority to provide taxpayer
funded rent relief, legal aid, and other services to illegal
aliens and their families now immigration Customs enforcement.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And I'm surprised to see.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That they issued a statement, but they issued a direct
statement to the LA Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
ICE is blasting LA County's decision to approve this declaration.
They write, in part quote, the only state of emergency
is the one residence of Los Angeles face after electing
officials who give a middle finger to the law.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Wow, that's tough stuff. Middle finger to the law. But
that's not untrue. They are flooding the law at flouting,
they are not helping the process. And I, for the
life of me, don't understand how the property management company
or the property owner has to wait for rent relief
(15:42):
from the county and Comma, Why do the legal residents
and actual Americans of Los Angeles have to cover the
rent for the dependents of illegals.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
And even if there is any.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Truth to this idea of a mixed household, a mixed
status household, I think, is the term that was used
where some people are in the country illegally and working illegally,
and some people are legally here and dependent. I don't
even know how you get to that, since only an
idiot would marry an illegal. But whatever, can't people still
(16:27):
work at home and send money to their family like
it is possible?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It used to happen.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
My great grandfather came from Italy and worked on the
New York City subway system and mailed money home to
my great grandmother, who was an Italian citizen.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So does that is not not still a thing?
Speaker 3 (16:51):
People don't do that anymore, like you can get deported
or self deport, which is still the best way to go.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
For all you illegals out there. The jig is up.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, I don't know what you're thinking. Remember the
lou Penrose rule. There are no tears in the back
of the ice van. I don't want to see any tears.
I don't want to hear any crying. We gave you
a goodly amount of time to get your affairs in order.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
We told you what was.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Coming down, and the best thing you could do is
take the deal. Have your sister in law sell the
truck and get the one thousand dollars from the Trump
administration and get that free ticket and scram and get
back to Guatemala City and get yourself an apartment a
thousand dollars. It's a thousand dollars US dollars, so it
(17:37):
goes a long way in Honduras or Turkey or Venezuela
or India or wherever.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Get yourself a.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Small studio apartment near the US embassy, and then hang
out for six weeks, wait for the smoke to clear,
and then go apply. If you legitimately have family here,
apply like you know legal people do. So that's the
(18:08):
best deal. Going waiting around for the ice truck to come.
Not a good plan, But if that's what you insist
on doing, go for it. Just I don't want to
see any crime, I don't want to see any tears,
and I don't want to hear about it. So how
is this rent relief going to make it to the
person that actually has to make the mortgage payment on
the apartment building? Taxpayer funded rent relief and legal aid.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's the other one that I fully don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I worked for three members of Congress from California for
fifteen years, which means for fifteen years I did immigration
casework or I managed staff that did immigration casework. There's
nothing that an attorney can help you with that your
local member of Congress can help you with for free.
(18:59):
I see these designs all the time in various communities
in La County Immigracion, and I'm thinking, what is going
on here? There is no such thing as an immigration attorney.
Immigration law is pretty clear for the most part.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It's a scam. A lot of these immigration attorneys they're
praying on foreigners.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
They're really just simply providing translation services at three hundred
dollars an hour. That's really where the crime is. But nevertheless,
immigration attorneys, what are they going to help you? Having
an immigration attorney it would be like having a DMV
attorney in state government.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You can just do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
So I don't know what the legal aid is going
to do, and I don't understand what these lawyers are
telling these dependents of illegals. Again, if you are a
US citizen and you are married to an illegal alien,
that doesn't mean that your spouse is staying. I think
(20:08):
that a lot of illegals got that wrong. I don't
know if it was pop culture, maybe some movies, I
don't know, but I think a lot of illegals thought
if they just somehow marry a local that they'll get
to stay, or if they knock up a local, they'll
get to stay, And that isn't how it works. So
(20:31):
I don't know what the long term plan is. But
if I were you, I would go home and then
find the US embassy and apply like a normal person.
Despite cutting twenty five million dollars from La County's Sister
Attorney's office, Wow, that's politically bold to cut the DA's
budget to give rent relief to foreign nationals living in
(20:54):
Los Angeles County illegally. I still, for the life of me,
I do not understand how the border supers expect to
qualify that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
How are you going to prove this?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
People have to come forward and say there wasn't illegal here,
he got deported, or there's illegals here and they're afraid
to go to work.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
They're not going to say that.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I think if you say they were in the country
and they got deported, but they were the breadwinner, you're
opening yourself up to a lot of back payroll taxes.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So I don't think they're going to say that.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I don't think this is really thought through by Jennis Hahn,
and I don't think Lindsey Horvath understands law at all.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So we'll see where this takes us.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But to be sure, what happens now is the rental
market becomes even more tight because those that are in
the business of renting apartments to anybody, because those individuals
become a lot more suspicious of those rental applications, so
that it just makes things worse yet again LA County
(22:03):
Board of Supervisors making things worse. Louke Penrose info John
Coblt on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Lou Penrose in for John Cobelt on The John Cobelt
Show coming up following the news of two.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So I knew this would eventually happen.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Former congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter had to break
her silence at some point and attempt a recovery tour,
and she did right here in Los Angeles, inside California
Politics with Nicki Lorenzo, and it didn't go well. I mean,
there is damage control consultants in politics, just like there
(22:50):
are damage control consultants and media control consultants in business
and in showbiz. And you've got to address these things quickly.
I mean, unless you plan on just avoiding it all
together and letting the chips fall where they may. But
if you have a live campaign for the Democrat nomination
(23:10):
for governor and you're the leading contender, which according to
Pohle's Porter is, and you have this much damage to
your candidacy, you need help. You can't get out of
this on your own because clearly your instincts are flawed.
And that's the case here now is recovery possible. Sure,
(23:33):
Californians easily forgive character flaws.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Mistakes happen. All politicians flubb they all do. They all
make mistakes. They all say something and artfully and sometimes
they can't get.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Out of their own way.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It's never the fumble in politics, it's always the recovery.
So when somebody fumbles, I mean, we all watch because
it's a train wreck.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And this was a train wreck.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
And the first thing you do is to find out, Wow,
was this just a bad day?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Was this sour milk in the coffee? Is she hungover?
Is she drunk?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
What's going on? Does somebody kick her dog? Why is
she in a bad mood? So you find out.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Is there a pattern or was this just a really
bad day?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Is there zero evidence of this happening in the past,
And in Katie Porter's case, there is growing evidence that
it happens continuously. So there is a pattern of behavior
for which in this latest interview she has not really addressed,
and there's no sense that she is going to change
(24:46):
her ways. She actually took it as a bit of
a badge of honor, saying that it shows the voters
that she's tough. So we'll listen to the parts of
the interview together and then go back and contrast it
with the one interview that got her in trouble, and
then of course the now famous get out of my
(25:08):
shot treatment of the staffer. And I'll tell you a
little bit about what goes on behind the scenes and
these kinds of situations, having been a senior staffer for
three members of Congress, and Porter was a member of
Congress when she was in that conference call with the
Secretary of Energy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
But from my read, this didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
The questions will continue to be asked about her temperament
because it's now it's not a character question, it's a
matter of temperament. She doesn't seem to mind that she
came off as a class A B.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
Ch Hylou Regarding Supervisor Corva's statement this morning about this proclamation,
she stated that it's La County's responsibility to protect every resident. Well,
what about the landlords? What about people who who are citizens,
are legal residents? Why don't they have protection? Very infuriating.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It's infuriating because a member of the county Board of
Supervisors in this case, Lindsay Corbat doesn't understand what a
resident is and doesn't make the distinction between people that
live and work in Los Angeles and people that make
believe they're Angelino's and are masquerading as residents and workers
(26:29):
while lying because they're in the country illegally.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
She refuses to make.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
That distinction, and it's because it's probably more so in
California than it is elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
But I see it in Chicago, and I see it.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I used to see it in New York, and you
see it sometime in Austin, Texas and in Denver. Democrats
care about illegals more than they care about you. Certainly,
Democrats fight harder for illegals than they fight for you.
Certainly in Los Angeles, Democrats care about the children of
(27:05):
illegals more than they care about your children. They never
talk about your children. They always talk about the children
of illegals. They call them the children of our migrant community.
But you and I both know what they're talking about.
They're not talking about you. You never called yourself a
member of the migrant community. You never consider yourself part
(27:26):
of all residents.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
You live here, it's your city. My favorite one is.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
The undocumented community. That's my favorite. That one was around
for a while. We went from illegal aliens, which is
what they are. They're alien nationals in the country illegally,
and that is a federal term from the Department of State.
So that's not a made up pejorative. That is US code.
That's what you are. And then they that was too unkind,
(27:57):
so they just became immigrants, and Republicans pushed back and said,
there's immigrants and there are illegal immigrants, and so they
moved on because they couldn't get out of that one.
And they said, well, they're just undocumented. You don't know
what's going on there. They're just undocumented. And I said,
(28:18):
that's not even an accurate term. If you are on vacate,
you fly to London for a vacation and you get
your backpack stolen at Heathrow Airport and your passport's in
the backpack.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Now you're undocumented.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
If you cut a hole in the fence between the
United States and Mexico and then run through that hole
into the United States in the middle of the night
while throwing rocks at border patrol agents.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You're not undocumented. You are an illegal alien.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
And somehow all of us understand that distinction, except for
a majority of the Los Angeles Border Supervisors. Loup Penrose
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