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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Greeting salutations of welcome my friends drew An their edition
of The Power Hour, our final Power Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
For this week.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm struck them as you know who you are, and
we take it from there. I talk really fast, so
you have to listen faster. We only get an hour together.
My number eight two one nine, eight eighty six a
two to one WTV. And I was just telling Zach
during the break. You know, there are people, there are
people who achieve great things, or maybe just mediocre things,
(00:34):
but they do a great number of mediocre things during
the course of their life. But they do it under
the radar. You don't notice them, you don't see them.
Especially true in the entertainment industry. This guy, this guy died.
He was ninety years old. He lived a good life.
He was in everything ever I mean he was in
(00:56):
more Con Mendy's and Blazing Saddles, used cars, eating Raoul,
all of the Police, Academy of Movies, The eight is Enough,
just everywhere everywhere. His name was Beans Morocco. Character actor
Beans Morocco small Guy, usually played some diminutive type character,
(01:21):
and while he worked for forty five fifty years in
Hollywood and was in everything, if you google his name,
you will actually get pictures of various bean dishes. That's
I guess. That is the essence of being a character actor.
(01:44):
He was never the star. He was always just he
was there. His film debut was back in nineteen seventy
one with Tom Laughlin. He was in Billy Jack. Do
you remember the little guy in Billy Jack? The Little Yeah, Yeah,
(02:04):
nineteen seventy one, Almost one hundred credits as an actor afterward,
some of the most famous movies of the eighties and nineties.
Along with his acting career, a former US Navy pilot,
spent time doing local theater dressed as Sanna for kids
in his hometown. Even elected honorary mayor of Pine Mountain Club, California,
(02:27):
where he lived. Unfortunately, they said he was quickly impeached
and convinced everyone to storm the gazebo. Was a joke
that he used to tell Beans Morocco. You probably never
heard of him, but I guarantee you you saw him
dead at ninety. That's just I don't know. You get
(02:51):
into that line of work to be noticed most people,
I guess do.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, look at his dukes of Hazzard, then used cars,
then w k RP and Cincinnati, then Archie Bunker's Place
and eight is enough. Then he was in any which
way you can?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
The movie, right, I love that movie? Right Turnclyde and
Stelle What's what was her face?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Uh? The old lady in every which way but lose
and every which way you can? Was it a Stelle Getty?
That was the old lady?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh my gosh to hear some of that language coming
out of an old lady's mouth. But that was back
when we weren't offended by everything. You see, we actually
laughed at stuff. And uh, anyway, Beans Morocco has exited
the stage one final time. The the Los Angeles garbage
(03:52):
is kind of overshadowing what is uh, you know the
purpose of the whole argument, which is immigration enforcement. And
I came across the story today and I kind of
chuckled because I thought that. My first thought was, this
guy needs reparations. He has a meat packing plant. Okay,
(04:21):
it's in Oklahoma, I'm sorry, in Omaha, Nebraska. They had
about one hundred people working there and ice raided the place.
And out of the one hundred people that were working there,
seventy of them are now not working there so he's
(04:44):
seventy percent reduction in workforce because they were here illegally.
Now you might be thinking, well, good, they need to
be caught. Okay, that's fine, And you might be thinking, well, good,
he shouldn't have I've been hiring illegals. Okay, that's where
we part ways. Because this guy played by the rules.
(05:06):
Ice shows up with the search warrant focusing on this
glen in Glenn Valley. Foods is what it's called. According
to Ice, some of the illegal aliens had active warrants
prior to UI convictions, previously deported. Many now may face
federal charges fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents,
(05:30):
assaulting a federal officer, resisting of arrest, illegal entry or
re entry, and misuse of social security numbers. There's your
problem right there, Ice, acting Director, said, yesterday an illegal
alien from Honduras brandished a weapon and assaulted federal agents
and officers who were doing their job protecting American citizens,
(05:51):
the public, and businesses who are being victimized through identity fraud.
Let's be clear, this warrant wasn't just someone else out
of status. This was a violent criminal who attacked law
enforcement while they were serving the public, which is why
the term criminal alien is a distraction. If you're here illegally,
you've already broken the law. When you break the law
(06:13):
by coming here illegally and then threaten and assault federal
officers on top of that, you're a threat, plain and simple.
This is what created the warrant. They figured out that's
where this guy was. Work site enforcement remains a priority
for ICE. It seeks to protect the nation's workforce. Employers
found a violation of federal hiring laws may face civil
(06:33):
penalties and in some cases, criminal prosecution. So that is
the way that NBC reported the story in Omaha. But
as Paul Harvey used to say, and now my friends,
your god, jear the rest of the story. The guy
(06:55):
who owns the Glen Valley meat processing place I had
an Omaha said, hold on a second. I have played
by the rules. I have used e verify. All these
people passed the federal litmus test to work here. And
(07:16):
he says, the ICE agent said, yeah, the system's broken
because what they did was use stolen documents, stolen social
Security numbers and so forth, presented themselves as someone else
and got jobs there. So this guy who did play
by the rules, he says, and did follow all the steps,
(07:39):
now has seventy percent of his workforce missing. I this
is a hard one because you know, in my heart
that emotional part of me, I feel like he deserves something. Look,
we bailed out people during COVID. Ever, everything on the
(08:00):
planet had some kind of grant, money or something coming
from Washington, d Z. You drive around on expired license
tags for three years. Nobody said anything to you because
they didn't want to inconvenience you with complying with the
law bent over backwards. We give money all the time
to special interest groups and so forth. What about people
(08:22):
who are damaged in this process? American citizens who have
done what they were supposed to do in the legal
way required and still end up taking it up to note,
shouldn't they shouldn't they be able to fall back on
some sort of emergency fund or something to keep their
(08:42):
business going. It just that only seems right to me.
And I know people say, well, you know, whether whether
he knew it or not, the fact of the matter
was they were illegal. Yeah, Well, how many times have
we whether he knew it or not. She was only nineteen,
He wasn't supposed to be in the bar. You don't
(09:04):
know everything. Sometimes you have to take people at their
word and when they show up apply for a job
and bring you the documentation that says my name is
Manuel Roriquez and it turns out that you know, your
name is actually Jose Martinez, and you've got warrants for
your arrest, but you had papers. It's not like the
employer is going to do a DNA check, is it.
(09:29):
And I guess that's my question to you. Am I
am I being too touchy feely here? Or if ICE
is going to continue doing this, do we perhaps need
to be talking about some sort of some sort of
fund or or you know, like I said, during COVID,
people were running businesses that didn't even exist and getting
(09:52):
hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the
government to pay for employees that never existed, companies that
never existed. We were throwing money away at this point. Yeah,
we would be giving money, but isn't it money that
is being given because we're doing something as a country
that is creating the need for the money. I'd like
(10:13):
to know, seriously, what do you think about this? Because
it's kind of a dilemma for me A two one
nine eight eighty six A two one WTV in or
eight hundred sixty ten double UTV in. And as always, Zachary,
I come to you first because you're a pretty good
You're a pretty good barometer for me. Am I making
any sense? Or am I just? Am I making much
ado about nothing? On that?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't have much argument on this one, honestly, because
that's seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, in this case, he had one hundred employees, so
he lost seventy But what if you had a thousand
and lost seven hundred of his thousand, Right, That's that's significant.
Especially you know, a small town thing processing plan in Omaha, Nebraska.
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean, they're gonna have to shut it down if
he can't. You know what, they can't even hire beans.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Morocca beans is not available any longer. Yeah, and it's
not a bean processing plant anyway. I'm just like I say,
it's I don't want to throw away money for the
sake of throwing away money. But with the enforcement of
the law, there does come a cost no matter what
the even if you're just throwing somebody in the County
(11:21):
jail for a drunken disorderly there's a cost the officers
that make the arrest, the officers that process, the jailers
that hold them, the food that they are given, the
clothes that they wear, and the laundering of those clothes
once they are out. There is a cost that is
incurred by society when law is enforced. And I, honestly,
(11:44):
heart of hearts, just don't feel like it's out of
the question that we at least have a legitimate and
sincere discussion, preferably at the congressional level. And I'll likely
send this to to our members of Congress about somehow
(12:05):
making these these people whole, at least until they can
find a way to hire replacements for the people that
were taking away in the raids. A two one nine
eighty six eight two one WTV and Pat, you're on
the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines hy.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Hey, Chuck, listen to you a lot. You are out
of your wheelhouse because for probably forty years or more,
they went to illeguo aliens in the meatia industry. They
only checked to see if the SoC security number is valid.
They do not check to see if it's hot works
You can get online and check where they've gone into
(12:41):
packing houses and cleaned out one hundred percent of them,
and now they're getting into construction doing the same thing.
There used to be a fine for ten thousand dollars
when they first passed the law. You couldn't employ these
guys when they gave amnesty, which was like under Reagan,
and it should be one hundred thousand dollars per head.
(13:03):
It's because ice. This is no joke as called. The
employer says, you got five or six of these guys in.
They're here's so surety numbers. The numbers no good. They
come the next morning, they're gone. This is the way
the system's been working for years.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, now, if they went to him and said, hey,
you've got bad Social Security numbers or whatever, that's a
different matter. But this came from one guy who assaulted
a federal officer. The war was because they knew he
was there, and they caught seventy when they went there
who were there illegally. If this owner had been warned
ahead of time, that's a different matter. But if he
(13:41):
legitimately followed all the steps required by law. Unless you
know somebody can show me, God rest of it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I've been around it. They don't want to know that
that person's illegal. They want to get enough information to
say it's a good social security number. They'll hire anybody.
Those guys all standing there and go I didn't know.
I believe Momford, which is I don't know what it
is now. They closed down one whole plants and they said,
where are people going to do to eat meat? These
(14:10):
guys are pocketing in the money. The meat industry has
been dirty the whole time it's been out there. Read
the book The Jungle.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I read The Jungle when I was in seventh grade.
Man good, and I still like sausage.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh, I do too. But look at how many plants
that they open, they closed, they leave them shuttered for
a while, they open them, back it up to get
rid of the unions. Believe me, the meatpackers are dirty.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Bunch, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I appreciate the call, pat. I'm not that familiar with
the meat packing industry, and especially in Omaha. I mean,
if we were talking about up to in Sinclair's but
you know, Chicago slaughter houses and so forth. Of the
turn of the century, I'm sorry, the turn of two
centuries ago. Now, yeah, that's more of a vivid picture.
But Omaha, I don't know. Just for some reason, I
(15:02):
maybe it's the idealist in me. I don't know. I
just want to believe this guy in Nebraska is just
trying to run a small business. Pat could be right,
maybe he was as crooked as everybody else. But I
want to believe he was just trying to run a
small business and trying to play by the rules and
got caught up in something here that he wasn't expecting.
(15:23):
Because some idiot goes out and assults a federal office
Greeting salutations of welcome my friends drew An their edition
of The Power Hour, our final Power Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
For this week.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm struck them as you know who you are, and
we take it from there. I talk really fast, so
you have to listen faster. We only get an hour together.
My number eight two one nine, eight eighty six a
two to one WTV. And I was just telling Zach
during the break. You know, there are people, there are
people who achieve great things, or maybe just mediocre things,
(00:34):
but they do a great number of mediocre things during
the course of their life. But they do it under
the radar. You don't notice them, you don't see them.
Especially true in the entertainment industry. This guy, this guy died.
He was ninety years old. He lived a good life.
He was in everything ever I mean he was in
(00:56):
more Con Mendy's and Blazing Saddles, used cars, eating Raoul,
all of the Police, Academy of Movies, The eight is Enough,
just everywhere everywhere. His name was Beans Morocco. Character actor
Beans Morocco small Guy, usually played some diminutive type character,
(01:21):
and while he worked for forty five fifty years in
Hollywood and was in everything, if you google his name,
you will actually get pictures of various bean dishes. That's
I guess. That is the essence of being a character actor.
(01:44):
He was never the star. He was always just he
was there. His film debut was back in nineteen seventy
one with Tom Laughlin. He was in Billy Jack. Do
you remember the little guy in Billy Jack? The Little Yeah, Yeah,
(02:04):
nineteen seventy one, Almost one hundred credits as an actor afterward,
some of the most famous movies of the eighties and nineties.
Along with his acting career, a former US Navy pilot,
spent time doing local theater dressed as Sanna for kids
in his hometown. Even elected honorary mayor of Pine Mountain Club, California,
(02:27):
where he lived. Unfortunately, they said he was quickly impeached
and convinced everyone to storm the gazebo. Was a joke
that he used to tell Beans Morocco. You probably never
heard of him, but I guarantee you you saw him
dead at ninety. That's just I don't know. You get
(02:51):
into that line of work to be noticed most people,
I guess do.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I mean, look at his dukes of Hazzard, then used cars,
then w k RP and Cincinnati, then Archie Bunker's Place
and eight is enough. Then he was in any which
way you can?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
The movie, right, I love that movie? Right Turnclyde and
Stelle What's what was her face?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Uh? The old lady in every which way but lose
and every which way you can? Was it a Stelle Getty?
That was the old lady?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh my gosh to hear some of that language coming
out of an old lady's mouth. But that was back
when we weren't offended by everything. You see, we actually
laughed at stuff. And uh, anyway, Beans Morocco has exited
the stage one final time. The the Los Angeles garbage
(03:52):
is kind of overshadowing what is uh, you know the
purpose of the whole argument, which is immigration enforcement. And
I came across the story today and I kind of
chuckled because I thought that. My first thought was, this
guy needs reparations. He has a meat packing plant. Okay,
(04:21):
it's in Oklahoma, I'm sorry, in Omaha, Nebraska. They had
about one hundred people working there and ice raided the place.
And out of the one hundred people that were working there,
seventy of them are now not working there so he's
(04:44):
seventy percent reduction in workforce because they were here illegally.
Now you might be thinking, well, good, they need to
be caught. Okay, that's fine, And you might be thinking, well, good,
he shouldn't have I've been hiring illegals. Okay, that's where
we part ways. Because this guy played by the rules.
(05:06):
Ice shows up with the search warrant focusing on this
glen in Glenn Valley. Foods is what it's called. According
to Ice, some of the illegal aliens had active warrants
prior to UI convictions, previously deported. Many now may face
federal charges fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents,
(05:30):
assaulting a federal officer, resisting of arrest, illegal entry or
re entry, and misuse of social security numbers. There's your
problem right there, Ice, acting Director, said, yesterday an illegal
alien from Honduras brandished a weapon and assaulted federal agents
and officers who were doing their job protecting American citizens,
(05:51):
the public, and businesses who are being victimized through identity fraud.
Let's be clear, this warrant wasn't just someone else out
of status. This was a violent criminal who attacked law
enforcement while they were serving the public, which is why
the term criminal alien is a distraction. If you're here illegally,
you've already broken the law. When you break the law
(06:13):
by coming here illegally and then threaten and assault federal
officers on top of that, you're a threat, plain and simple.
This is what created the warrant. They figured out that's
where this guy was. Work site enforcement remains a priority
for ICE. It seeks to protect the nation's workforce. Employers
found a violation of federal hiring laws may face civil
(06:33):
penalties and in some cases, criminal prosecution. So that is
the way that NBC reported the story in Omaha. But
as Paul Harvey used to say, and now my friends,
your god, jear the rest of the story. The guy
(06:55):
who owns the Glen Valley meat processing place I had
an Omaha said, hold on a second. I have played
by the rules. I have used e verify. All these
people passed the federal litmus test to work here. And
(07:16):
he says, the ICE agent said, yeah, the system's broken
because what they did was use stolen documents, stolen social
Security numbers and so forth, presented themselves as someone else
and got jobs there. So this guy who did play
by the rules, he says, and did follow all the steps,
(07:39):
now has seventy percent of his workforce missing. I this
is a hard one because you know, in my heart
that emotional part of me, I feel like he deserves something. Look,
we bailed out people during COVID. Ever, everything on the
(08:00):
planet had some kind of grant, money or something coming
from Washington, d Z. You drive around on expired license
tags for three years. Nobody said anything to you because
they didn't want to inconvenience you with complying with the
law bent over backwards. We give money all the time
to special interest groups and so forth. What about people
(08:22):
who are damaged in this process? American citizens who have
done what they were supposed to do in the legal
way required and still end up taking it up to note,
shouldn't they shouldn't they be able to fall back on
some sort of emergency fund or something to keep their
(08:42):
business going. It just that only seems right to me.
And I know people say, well, you know, whether whether
he knew it or not, the fact of the matter
was they were illegal. Yeah, Well, how many times have
we whether he knew it or not. She was only nineteen,
He wasn't supposed to be in the bar. You don't
(09:04):
know everything. Sometimes you have to take people at their
word and when they show up apply for a job
and bring you the documentation that says my name is
Manuel Roriquez and it turns out that you know, your
name is actually Jose Martinez, and you've got warrants for
your arrest, but you had papers. It's not like the
employer is going to do a DNA check, is it.
(09:29):
And I guess that's my question to you. Am I
am I being too touchy feely here? Or if ICE
is going to continue doing this, do we perhaps need
to be talking about some sort of some sort of
fund or or you know, like I said, during COVID,
people were running businesses that didn't even exist and getting
(09:52):
hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the
government to pay for employees that never existed, companies that
never existed. We were throwing money away at this point. Yeah,
we would be giving money, but isn't it money that
is being given because we're doing something as a country
that is creating the need for the money. I'd like
(10:13):
to know, seriously, what do you think about this? Because
it's kind of a dilemma for me A two one
nine eight eighty six A two one WTV in or
eight hundred sixty ten double UTV in. And as always, Zachary,
I come to you first because you're a pretty good
You're a pretty good barometer for me. Am I making
any sense? Or am I just? Am I making much
ado about nothing? On that?
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I don't have much argument on this one, honestly, because
that's seventy percent.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, in this case, he had one hundred employees, so
he lost seventy But what if you had a thousand
and lost seven hundred of his thousand, Right, That's that's significant.
Especially you know, a small town thing processing plan in Omaha, Nebraska.
It's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I mean, they're gonna have to shut it down if
he can't. You know what, they can't even hire beans.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Morocca beans is not available any longer. Yeah, and it's
not a bean processing plant anyway. I'm just like I say,
it's I don't want to throw away money for the
sake of throwing away money. But with the enforcement of
the law, there does come a cost no matter what
the even if you're just throwing somebody in the County
(11:21):
jail for a drunken disorderly there's a cost the officers
that make the arrest, the officers that process, the jailers
that hold them, the food that they are given, the
clothes that they wear, and the laundering of those clothes
once they are out. There is a cost that is
incurred by society when law is enforced. And I, honestly,
(11:44):
heart of hearts, just don't feel like it's out of
the question that we at least have a legitimate and
sincere discussion, preferably at the congressional level. And I'll likely
send this to to our members of Congress about somehow
(12:05):
making these these people whole, at least until they can
find a way to hire replacements for the people that
were taking away in the raids. A two one nine
eighty six eight two one WTV and Pat, you're on
the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone lines hy.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Hey, Chuck, listen to you a lot. You are out
of your wheelhouse because for probably forty years or more,
they went to illeguo aliens in the meatia industry. They
only checked to see if the SoC security number is valid.
They do not check to see if it's hot works
You can get online and check where they've gone into
(12:41):
packing houses and cleaned out one hundred percent of them,
and now they're getting into construction doing the same thing.
There used to be a fine for ten thousand dollars
when they first passed the law. You couldn't employ these
guys when they gave amnesty, which was like under Reagan,
and it should be one hundred thousand dollars per head.
(13:03):
It's because ice. This is no joke as called. The
employer says, you got five or six of these guys in.
They're here's so surety numbers. The numbers no good. They
come the next morning, they're gone. This is the way
the system's been working for years.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, now, if they went to him and said, hey,
you've got bad Social Security numbers or whatever, that's a
different matter. But this came from one guy who assaulted
a federal officer. The war was because they knew he
was there, and they caught seventy when they went there
who were there illegally. If this owner had been warned
ahead of time, that's a different matter. But if he
(13:41):
legitimately followed all the steps required by law. Unless you
know somebody can show me, God rest of it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I've been around it. They don't want to know that
that person's illegal. They want to get enough information to
say it's a good social security number. They'll hire anybody.
Those guys all standing there and go I didn't know.
I believe Momford, which is I don't know what it
is now. They closed down one whole plants and they said,
where are people going to do to eat meat? These
(14:10):
guys are pocketing in the money. The meat industry has
been dirty the whole time it's been out there. Read
the book The Jungle.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I read The Jungle when I was in seventh grade.
Man good, and I still like sausage.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh, I do too. But look at how many plants
that they open, they closed, they leave them shuttered for
a while, they open them, back it up to get
rid of the unions. Believe me, the meatpackers are dirty.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Bunch, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I appreciate the call, pat. I'm not that familiar with
the meat packing industry, and especially in Omaha. I mean,
if we were talking about up to in Sinclair's but
you know, Chicago slaughter houses and so forth. Of the
turn of the century, I'm sorry, the turn of two
centuries ago. Now, yeah, that's more of a vivid picture.
But Omaha, I don't know. Just for some reason, I
(15:02):
maybe it's the idealist in me. I don't know. I
just want to believe this guy in Nebraska is just
trying to run a small business. Pat could be right,
maybe he was as crooked as everybody else. But I
want to believe he was just trying to run a
small business and trying to play by the rules and
got caught up in something here that he wasn't expecting.
(15:23):
Because some idiot goes out and assults a federal office
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