Immigration Moratorium?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six seven two six x sixty eight sixty eight is
the number. Lines are blazing. Dan in New Hampshire. Thanks
for holding Dan and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Thanks for taking the call, Jeff, I appreciate it. Jeff.
You know, you blame people being heavy. You blame and
blame and blame and blame and blame. But I want
to put the blame on our government itself and the
transformation of America. You just let twenty million people into

(00:33):
our country because they're going to vote Democratic, because they've
been brought in by a Democrat and they've been given
everything to support their votes. We've thrown away what we
originally had when people used to go to I can't
think of the island, but there was a special.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Elis and Ellis Island, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, and Ellis Island and they were processed, they were
gone through so they had to assimilate. They couldn't be
a burden onto our country and they had to walk
the walk. And if they didn't walk the walk, they
were tossed out. Now our country has let us down
because they've wont other people in power. They want to

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enrich themselves, they want to stay in office for their
whole entire lifetimes. They've distorted what this country actually stands for,
and in the process let everybody through the door just
to continue the same situation that they can be in
power and have control and not care about a simulation.

(01:38):
You go into a market, that's all you can hear
is people speaking foreign languages. You know, it's hard to
even believe that I'm in America because they have so
many foreign languages. But I'm going to put the blame
on our governments itself because we've basically stepped off. We've
not followed what's been successful for us. And Trump's trying to,

(01:59):
you know, take the wheel, you know, as he says,
maybe stop immigration. I say, let's cherry pick. Let's cherry
pick the people that come in. Let's make sure that
they're qualified and what they can do for this country
instead of what we can give them for their vote.
This country is worried about fat people. Let me tell

(02:21):
you something. I'm fat and I like it. It's my choice.
I'm an American. If I want to eat, I eat.
Quite honestly, I don't go on big vacations. I don't
spend myself lavishly. My little things are going out to
a nice restaurant or a nice bakery and I eat
what I want, you know, later in life. So you know,

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let's face it, you know, my drives and this and
that are different because now that I'm older, you know,
I care a little bit more about food than physique.
But I'll tell you right now, I'm happy in my skin.
I think that heavy people I'd rather I look at
it like this. I'm more interested with a person with
a big brain than I am with a big gut.

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You know why, because you can have both. I can
be a heavy guy, but I can be as smart
as hell, and I can be talented in many different ways.
And they, let's face it, our country has put terrible
food out on our plates. They're forced us to eat it.
We're very very technical. Now the kids don't go out

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and play, they don't get to run around and do
the things that we used to do. So we're responsible
for being in the situation that we've put ourselves in.
And now we're going to discriminate against fat people and
this one and that one. No, no, they've tried to
transform America. They didn't give a care about who they

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let in. They let in the junkies, they let in
the criminals, They let in unqualified people, sick people, everyone.
As long as you could vote, you've got in. So
I say, let's get back to basics. Let's have Ellis Island.
Let's do what made us successful. If you know, we

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want nationalism, we want patriotism, we want people to assimilate,
and they've not done that for twenty and thirty years
because our government has lost side of it.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Bingo, Dan absolutely, Bingo. Look, we've replaced the melting pot
with multiculturalism, and we've replaced Americanization with multilingualism. And Dan, look,
I completely agree with you when you talk about you know,
you go to a store or you go anywhere now

(04:42):
and you hear nothing but foreign languages. You know, as
I said yesterday, I'm talking dozens and dozens of languages,
languages I never even heard of. I mean, I know,
I can I understand Spanish, I understand Portuguese, I get
you know, Okay, that's an Asian language. But I'm telling
they're talking languages now. I have no clue, no clue.

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So the question I have is what binds us together?
What holds us together? If we don't even have a
common language, then how do we have a common country?
We don't have a common culture. We can't even communicate
with each other. And you know, I don't want to
pound the pulpit, but I got to say it. It's
in the Bible. I mean literally, we're talking. This is biblical.

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The Tower of Babel, where you had all these different languages,
people speaking different languages, and they try to build this
tower to glory, you know, to glorify God, and they
ended up destroying each other, and it ended up destroying
the tower. And the Bible is basically warning us saying, no,
you don't want this. God. Look, God wanted different nations,

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different cultures, different people's, different languages. But in France they
speak French. In Poland, it's Polish. In Japan it's Japanese.
In America, at least until recently, it was English. And
so one of the things now, honestly, I think we
need to do is not just restore the melting pot

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and assimilation check, not just now, really crack down on
the borders, check and substantially reduced in legal immigration. Because
I agree with you, we do want to bring in
some of the most talented people if we can, but
we've got to start focusing on what unites us. And
end this stuff with DEI and diversity and multiculturalism, because

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it is the road to ruin and disaster. And I'm sorry.
It's time to make English an official language of the
United States. It should be the official language in every
state across the entire country. And we should be aggressively
teaching English in the schools. So you know, I'm sorry.

(07:00):
You got to learn English. You've got to learn to
read English, You've got to learn to write English. This
is the language of our nation. It's the language of
our founding. It's the language that has sustained this for
four hundred years. Why are we abandoning it now? So
let me throw this log on the fire. Not only

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should we have I'm asking you, should we have a
five year immigration moratorium, but should we make English the
official language of the United States? Jeff Kooner, Boston's bulldozer.
Six one seven two sixty six, sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, my friends, I want to read

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to you a text message that I got from a
really good, dear friend of mine, and I think it
sums up our entire discussion today on borders, language, culture, immigration,
the national question, which to me is the question facing
us as a country. And I think he absolutely hit

(08:05):
the nail on the head. And this is what he
wrote to me. And please, whatever you're doing, please stop.
You need to hear this because this explains the last
thirty to forty years. You want to know how we
got here, This is exactly how we got here, Jeff.
As you know, I used to be a school teacher
in the nineteen eighties high school. That was forty years ago.

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Way back then, especially in the high school system where
I taught, quote unquote, multiculturalism was already being indoctrinated into
the students. The term sounds lovely and warm, with lots
of ethnic food and dancing. But the core principles being

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taught were one, all cultures and all peoples are equal
and interchangeable. That is very true. That is exactly what
you get in school elementary. Now it's forget how high school, elementary,
middle high schools, universities, colleges, in Hollywood, the media. It's

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relentless that all cultures on peoples are equal and they're interchangeable. Two,
that these cultures need not and should not assimilate here
in America, but rather operate under the same way of life.

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That they had in their home countries in order to
quote unquote enrich the new American experiment, and so multiculturalism
should be celebrated. And three and of course you know this,
this is huge. Now, this is, as they say, ubiquitous,
it's pervasive. It's everywhere. That the United States as a

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nation was illegitimate from its outset and quote unquote stole
the country from the Native American Indians and was built
on the labor of slaves. After three years of that,
the kids went off to college hating their own country.

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Now I'm adding this part not only and he's completely right,
A thousand of hell a million percent correct, they forget
a thousand. Not only are they sent off to college
hating their own country, but now you know why they're
so receptive to Marxism and communism, because communism is telling

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them what they think they already know, which is, well,
your country is evil at its very core. It's evil,
so it needs to be overthrown, it needs to be replaced.
We need a full revolution. And now they're completely open
now to Marxist communist indoctrination and brainwashing. And then you
f PBS, which reinforces it, and pr reinforces it, CNN

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reinforces it, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, all the
major networks. They just keep reinforcing this over and over
and over and over again. Now let me ask all
of you this. Okay, this may be a tad premature
because Thanksgiving is still a little bit away, but still

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I want to ask all of you this. When I
ask you, as you're listening at home, in your car,
at work, wherever, you're listening to me on podcast, wherever,
what is American culture? If I was to say to you, look,
you're at sea, you're on a ship, you're with other foreigners,

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and they say, whatever your name is, I'm just going
to make up a name, John, Jennifer, whatever. Can you
explain to us? What is American culture? What is it?
What does it mean to be an American? What does
American culture consist of? What would you say? What's your answer?

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What does it mean to be an American? Truly be
an American? And if you notice, over the last forty years,
they have tried to drain the content of what it
means to be an American. They're deliberately diluting American culture

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on purpose, and what it means to be an American
and our cultural identity. This is done deliberately, and so
when you ask someone what does it mean to be
an American? Increasingly people are saying, I don't know, really, no,

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what does it mean to be an American? Do we
have a national food? Do we have a shared history? Yeah?
Do we have actual, real traditions that we all as
Americans honor and commemorate and respect and adhere to. Do

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we have a definition of what it means to be
an American? Now, I'm just gonna I've never heard of
this woman. I've never heard of this woman. I don't
care to know about this woman. But this is a
story that struck it just it really stood out for me,
and it's a big deal in the media. I never

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heard of this woman anyway, So some of you may
know her. I'm confessing to you, I have no idea
who she is. But this is exactly now what I'm
talking about. CBS is now giving a cooking show, and
apparently it's a big deal to this host. She's a model,
a former model. She's from India. Her name is Padma

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And if I'm mispronouncing her name, forgive me. Lakshmi. I
think is how you pronounce it Lakshmi. Okay, Okay, there
you go. So Sandy knows her very well. She was
a huge host on Bravo and apparently she was the

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former wife of Salmon Rushti. So apparently she's a big deal.
I never heard of her. She's a huge cookbook author.
Now you anticipate exactly what I'm going here, Sandy. So
apparently she's a huge cookbook author. And now she's going
to get her own show on CBS. So Patma Lakshmi.
Now she did an interview on CBS because now they're

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plugging her new show. She's got a new cooking book out. Now.
I want to stress this. I have nothing against her.
I'm sure she's probably a nice woman in private. Nothing
against her personally. But her mother and her arrived in
this country fifty years ago. She's now fifty five years old.

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She came at the age of five, so they left
India when she was five years old. She's a naturalized
American citizen. She came here at the age of five,
according to her. Because now they're talking, you know, Thanksgiving,

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and what are you going to be cooking for Thanksgiving?
And they're plugging her show, blah blah blah, and she says,
listen to this, that apple pie is not American. You know,
the expression as American as apple pie. No, no, no, no.
She goes on about that Americans have no culture, that

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the only culture we have is what is brought to
us by quote unquote immigrants and migrants. And according to her,
in an interview that she gave to the New York
Times and they wrote it down word for word, she said,
quote apple pie isn't American. Not the crust, not the filling,

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not the spices. And so she goes on to say
that even everything that Americans love, say for Thanksgiving, such
as turkey, corn, cranberries, even blueberries, you name it, that

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this was all given to us by immigrants or migrants.
And listen how condescending she is. She says, you know,
the only really American food. This is what she says,
is that if we just ate what was native to
the United States, we'd be living on desert, pack rat

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and ramps. And she's referring to these rodents that live
in the desert and wild garlic. That's it, according to her,
that's all that's our native cuisine. That's a very good point, Sandy,
our Native Americans upset about this. You're completely right. I

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mean she's ignorant. There's no question. You're right. She's completely ignorant.
But my point is, this is her attitude. Now she
even says, I just want to add, this is a
further problem when you have multiculturalism. Now, by the way,
she's phenomenally wealthy. She's done extremely well for herself, and
she admits it. She even says, oh, no, America has

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been very good to me. So they say, well, do
you love America? And this is what she said, quote, well,
I love this country for what it gave me and
my mom in other words, like it's transactional. Well, it
scratched my back, it put money in my pocket. So yeah,

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I want to scratch its back. Now here's what she wrote.
If you take away this is what she told the
New York Times forgive me. Is what they wrote. If
you take away the immigrants, our country, the entire food system,
high tech, the tech arena, wall street, medicine, everything, it

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will all come to a standstill. In other words, without migrants,
there is no American culture. Okay, look, we're going to
talk about this some more as we get closer to Thanksgiving.
But just because I want to go to the phones,
but just super super quick apple pie was introduced in
the sixteen hundreds in the United States and the third

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in the colonies. It's from England, originally from England, and
we perfected it, we did. We perfected it. Even the
English admit we perfected it. By the way, just so
that people know pasta, which is you know, you want
to talk about a national right food for the Italians, right,
it's pasta. What you think they invented pasta? Just to

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show you how stupid that Padma Lakshmi whatever she is. No,
it was pasta was brought from China by Marco Polo
back to Italy, and then the Italians perfected it and
they adopted it and said, no, now it's you know,
it's our national cuisine. It's our national food. So what
I'm saying is just because something isn't quote native to

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your country doesn't mean it's not your national food. Now. Furthermore, so,
that's you know, point number one. Moreover, and Sandy's on
fire back there because I think you know she liked Padma.
She calls her Padma by the way on a first
name basis. She used to watch her. According to Sandy,
she says, she's dropped dead, gorgeous. I'm just telling you
what Sandy's telling me. And she's a great host, and

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she can't believe she's saying this, and she thinks this
is going to ruin Padma's career. And I think she's right.
But anyway, as Nancy, as sorry, Sandy, as Sandy said,
the turkey is native to the United States. In fact,
it's so native that Ben Franklin wanted national bird or

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whatever to be the turkey and not the American eagle.
So turkeys are indigenous to America. This woman doesn't know
what she's talking about corn. What do you think the
Native American Indians? What They didn't grow corn? What are
you nuts? They didn't do hunting and fishing and so
so much of the foods that we eat on Thanksgiving

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are indigenous to the United States. A b apple pie,
we perfected it over four hundred years. But my point
is under multiculturalism, look at how they denigrate the country

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that's been so good to them. Look how little they
think of us. And she came here, she's fifty five
years old, now and I'm sorry, but I got to
say this. I'm sorry I have to say it. You
think you would be successful in India the way you
are here in America, with the cast system that they

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have in India. It's a third world country with mass
poverty and that particularly discrimination against women, which is rampant.
You think that you would have a cooking show, a
successful modeling career, a successful TV career, and be a

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multi multi, multi millionaire with a national audience and your
own national TV show in India in your dreams, in
your dreams, and this is how you pay us back.
This is your gratitude. That's what multiculturalism does. It divides,

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it polarizes, it's fundamentally un an anti American. And I
got final word to Padma. You know, if India is
so much better and they have all this culture and
all this tradition, and they have all this beauty and
we don't, We're just a bunch of culturalist barbarians. Hey,

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no problem, go back to India. It's okay, We'll survive
without you. If you don't like it here, leave And
that's one saying that used to be very prominent in
the seventies. I want to revive America, love it or

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leave it. John in Saugust, Thanks for holding John, and
welcome John. Okay, I think we lost John. Maestro mic
Where do you want me to go to next? My
friend Sergio in Marlborough. Thanks for holding Sergio and welcome.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Good morning, Jeff. How are you doing good?

Speaker 1 (23:08):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (23:10):
I'm very well, sir. Two quick points. When I was
going to mention the pasta coming from China, I was
going to mention that. Two I'm going to get to
a point about illegal immigration too. My parents were Italian
immigrants in the late fifties, very proud of what they did.
They had to be sponsored to come to the United States,
and they assimilated and they did very well for themselves.

(23:31):
My real point is about illegal immigration, which I never
hear anybody talking about. And because I was entrenched in
the Brazilian community in Framingham for a lot of years
and I knew a lot of Brasilience, everybody I knew.
Kane flew over on a visa and just overstated the visas.
They didn't come over the border.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
That's a great point, a great point. Keep going, please.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
They they came over on a plane on a visa
to just overstate the visa, and nobody ever talks about that.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sergio, do you think it's time for a moratorium five years,
three years, whatever it may be on immigration quick or
running out of time? What do you think?

Speaker 3 (24:13):
I'm not against that. I haven't thought about it, but
I'm certainly not against it.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, I think we're gonna need something like it. As
Grace put it, We're gonna have to pump the brakes.
And look, you know, I'm an immigrant to this country.
You know, my wife is Italian, and I know how
how Italians are some of the best immigrants in the
entire world. Honestly, everywhere they've gone. I don't care. America, Canada, Argentina, Australia,
take Britain. They enrich, Enrich, Enrich,