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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Deputy Chief, Thank you so much for being a part
of our show today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good afternoon, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Okay, I know this kind of wet pull this together
today because nobody really knows what's happening until it's happening,
I think, But I just wanted to have some police
explanation about some things that are happening in the ICE immigration.
I mean, they're called raids for some people, I suppose,
But can you kind of enlighten us to exactly what
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is happening in Omaha today as far as ICE is concerned.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Sure, I'm happy to do so.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We were notified or by advised, I believe, late last
week that there would be some ICE operations taking place
in Oma area. We don't We were not We were
not informed about any specific locations, just general areas, and
we were asked to provide some support in terms of
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traffic control and in if there are any any safety concerns,
to help assist with that in terms of law enforcement.
So we don't participate in raids per se as you
put it. Uh, those are basically, you know, federal statutes
that it's not our jurisdiction to enforce, but we will
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help or assist our UH partner federal agencies and other
other local state agencies in terms of traffic control assistants
and just making sure that that the areas it remains
safe and there's nothing dangerous occurring.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
One of the things that I think people, you know,
would be a bit uneasy about, is you know, knowing
what's going on in Los Angeles that this is taking
place on the week that we are supposed to be
welcoming eight colleges for the College World Series for baseball
and many fans from different areas of the country. Tree
do you know about how long this would take? And
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if you know that is privy information to local law enforcement.
How you guys, are you know, supposed to be worrying
about that while you're also preparing Omaha for the busiest
week and a half of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Sure, sure it is. It is a very busy week.
We are in preparations for the Calls World Series. When
when we were asked to assist with traffic control and
just provide a safe environment, we were basically advised that
this would be taking place today. We don't have any
knowledge of any extended operations or anything going beyond today
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that we're aware of we haven't been asked to assist
in any form or fashion beyond today.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, so that makes actual, you know, a lot of sense.
As far as we're speaking with Deputy Chief Steve Serviny
from the Omaha Police Department here on a day that
you guys are very busy, can you kind of illustrate
you mentioned it's a matter of keeping the area safe.
There is a councilman, Ron hug from the fourth District
that said, you know, this is affecting his district today.
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They tell you specifically kind of the areas that you
guys are going to have to do that before they
arrive or you know, I think a lot of people
when they're talking about Los Angeles and you know, I
don't know how that also plays into Omaha, but it's
just is it orchestrated enough with enough communication with law
enforcement to be able to provide this assistance to make
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this as quick as possible? How does the preparation work
on this as far as you guys being alerted just
a few days ahead of time that this is happening, well,
it really.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Is almost an eleventh hour preparation because we were not
advised or notified until you know, just days days really
days before it was going to take place, last week
sometimes and so it is kind of a quick preparation.
But we have employee, you know, our traffic unit officers
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to assist just to make sure that traffic control is
safety is ensured. They'll you know, regulate traffic in those areas,
and then we're also ready to assist if there are
any dangerous situations that occur or breakout. We have seen
you know, some some violence breakout and other parts of
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the country, so we would be available to assist if
those incidents happened to occur.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think the next question I need to ask is
far as this conversation goes, is like, you guys have
a big staff. There's you know a few hundreds of
people that are involved in law enforcement in Douglas County,
and we know this week is incredibly busy. What is
like kind of the way that you guys kind of
approach College World serious time Because this is a major
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event every single year, you want to make sure that
area is safe. There's also an entire city that you
also have to keep in mind that anything could be
happening during that week and a half. Also, what is
the approach for the Omaha Police Department when it comes
to the College World Series and how you guys tried
to make that feel as safe and secure as possible
for everyone involved.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, you know, it's a very collaborative approach. We start
preparing for that months out. It's something that obviously, as
you know, we've done for years and years. The department
has it down to a science. We also team up
with a lot of our a lot of our other partners, stakeholders,
other law enforcement agencies federal and local, state as well
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as you know, other other stakeholders just to make sure
it's a very smooth running event. So those preparations start,
they're in place months months before the series arrives, and
it is there is a game plan that we follow
that it's worked, and you know, we it's a sort
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of a well oiled machine. So the officers that worked
at event, the units that worked at event are are
well trained.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
To to basically prepare and be.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Ready to address anything that that we would encounter. And
you know, we've done it for so long that we
it's it always. We've had great success in ensuring the
safety and that everything runs smoothly during that time that
College World series is in town.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Were joined by Steve Serviny, who's the Deputy chief at
Omaha Police Department. Uh and just one quick follow up.
Would you anticipate anything from you know, the federal government
or ice kind of getting in the way of kind
of what your plans have been for what College World
Series will look like later this week.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, we don't anticipate anything like that. Like as I said,
we were advised that they would be conducting some operations
to day and asked to assist again for traffic control
and make sure that the areas remain safe. We don't
enforce any kind of federal immigration statues, so we just
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provide support with traffic control. We were asked to assist
just today and we have not We're not aware of
we have been asked to assist with anything or any
operations beyond today. We don't anticipate that today's operations would
affect anything beyond beyond today or the College World Series start.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right, definitely great information. Deputy Chief of the Omaha
Police Department, Steve Servini, thank you so much on short
noticer being a part of our show and giving us
this critical information today.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
All right, that is really important stuff on this here
day where we are being told about the operations. I've
been following kind of what Omaha Scanner has been posting
as we've heard of different things. The Omaha Police Department
released a statement this morning saying the Omaha Police Department
is aware of ICE operations currently taking place in Omaha.
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The Department of Homeland Security recently notified OPD as we
just heard of the operations, and OPD officers responded to
the areas for traffic control. Federal authorities are responsible for
immigration enforcement. Opd's role is only insisting with traffic control
and public safety in the areas near operations. So it's
all the information that we just heard from Deputy Chief
Steve Serviny. Also, I mentioned that Councilman Ron hug of
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the fourth District here in the City of Omaha, he
has put out a media release this afternoon and he
says I've been notified that ICE has conducted raids at
multiple locations across Omaha. These actions are deeply harmful to
the South Omaha community. Not only are they unjust and disruptive,
but they also directly undermined the economic stability and growth
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of district for and the broader community. I have been
in contact with the Mayor, Chief of Police, Human Rights
and Relayation's Department, and the National lu LAC office, and
I will be engaging with community members who understand the
full impact of these events and explore meaningful ways to
support those affected. End quote. We can talk about this.
It's a little bit different talking about it when it's
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this close to home. Phone lines are open four oh two,
five to five, eight eleven ten. Four h two five
five eight eleven ten. If you'd like to talk about this,
This is a great opportunity for us to talk about
it happening here in our city today. We'll chat with
you next on these radio eleven ten. Kfab Sean actually
said this morning, while I was doing my other show
at Douglas County sheriff was escorting ice and this was
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about nine thirty this morning, and then stuff was, you know,
kind of pop popping up Perklayton and just been monitoring
because you just you wonder about disturbances and this is
just a bad This is just bad timing, honestly for
this stuff on the week of College World Series beginning.
But alas this is the job that I know many
people voted on being you know, taking place, And as
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we just spoke with Steve Servini, who is the deputy
chief of the Omaha Police Department, he said that he
anticipates this being just a one day thing, and that
would be that there were just a few different areas
that they were looking to address here in Omaha. So
I want to hear from you today. Four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten is the number. And we'll start with
Mark today on our phone line. Mark, welcome to the show.
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What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
How are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Is there any report of Illy Galla and the premises
of every where they wanted to ring.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I don't have the answers, I guess to.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
That, Mark, I don't understand why we get all this
reporting yet we don't get you ever get the mood
of the story.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Yeah, I just want to.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Make a comment on all of this. As far as
I heard a little bit of youing today, he.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Said this, Well, they didn't contact police. Local police went
about these heads up on these rings three years ago.
I'm close. I'm still in the South Omaha district. The
del Rio buses used to come in through all of
the summer.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
This was three years ago.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
And drop off at a location in South Omaha, not
too far from the South Omaha precinct. And they used
to draw folks off and people used to come and
pick them up. And like I said, the bus was
notated as del Rio. Okay, they called the governor's office
it was Ricketts at that time, about this going on,
and they basically said, well, he didn't. Their office said
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that that was a federal issue. And I mentioned the
police precinct is about a half a mile away, and
they're not concerned about this either.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
So why all.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Of a sudden are we concerned about these raids when
we knew this was going to be a heads up,
but we weren't concerned about when they were coming into
our country.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, well, I guess Mark. It depends on who you
ask and what their political background is and what they
think is best for America, and whether that's people who
are Democrats being in power and having more Democrat representatives,
or if it is you know, people on the right
that feel like this is taking advantage of a system,
and we believe that the country is stronger with stronger borders.
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So it depends on who you ask.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
I wish I've been around long enough to know when
they used to do raids and there was never any
problems like this. And I know the political parties have
taken sides on this because this is how they siphon
their voters. Correct. But the thing about it is, we've
got to stop this illegality. And if the folks are
here legally, they need to go, and I don't care
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how long they've been here, they need to go, and
then we need to start doing this league.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Now.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
I know Trump is firing this whole thing up because
when these people go out like they did in LA
and start rioting, he's putting the whole thing on show,
letting you see it, folks. And I wish we knew
who was doing that part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
As far as.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Well, I don't think. I don't think we're ever to
get a good answer on that market.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Oh yes you could, you could, you can follow the money.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, how why haven't we?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Then?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I guess is my question right?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Because when it comes to politics and it gets to DC,
there's only one party. So hey, you have a good day.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You too, Mark, Thanks for the call today. Yeah, I
don't know. John's on our phone line four O two
five five eight to eleven ten. Welcome into eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
John, Hey, how you doing again? And I hope I
can get through these two statements and we can talk
about it.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The first one is this, why in the world that
the Democrats, all the Republicans have not came up with
a solution to keep the dreamers and keep the peoples
that's here and give them a path to citizenship and
work on it and quit playing politics with it, because
that's hurting good people in the United States of America.
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So I blame Donald Trump in which I don't like,
but I blame him and the Publican Party by knocking
everything down to try to give these people a path
to citizenship and creating deck That's the first one.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Secondly, I wish, I wish, and I really mean this
that the Mexicans back in the sixties, when cheved organized
the Mexicans and the Latinos to walk out of these fields,
walk out of these strawberry fields, all these fields and
have a three or four day strike and the shouls
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and walk out of these packet houses, walk out of
these hid sellers, to show the people that what we
need all people, not just one.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Group of people, and that's white people in the United States.
We need everybody. And that's what I wish they would do.
That's where they power would come in at. And if
they did that, they would stop this foolish many Thank.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You, hey, appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
John.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So, I guess my first thing would be the easy.
The answer to that is there are legal ways to
enter this country and illegal ways to enter this country.
And when anybody takes an illegal route to being in
this country, that already is a breaking of federal law. Now,
the current administration in a lot of ways wants to
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clean up this issue because it has been made a
major political issue. This is also, I think a statement
across the board of showing what could theoretically happen if
the government actually puts consequences in for the breaking of laws.
Right if I go speeding down the road and I'm
going too fast and I get pulled over by a
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police officer, I may have to pay a fine for
my ticket and it goes on my permanent record. I sped.
I paid the consequences. There are varying levels of consequences
for breaking rules. One thing about coming into the country
illegally is that for as long as you're here illegally,
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you are breaking the United States law. There should be
some consequence to doing so. And if there isn't active consequences,
that's when you start getting eight thousand people per day
trying to illegally cross our border at the south to
get into this country. And we have no idea the
background the histories of most of these people. This isn't
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to say all these people are bad people. This isn't
to say that there isn't you know that there's overt
illegalities taking place while they're living here. That also doesn't
mean that there isn't Okay, we don't know. This administration,
I think, is trying to create a baseline of what
could happen if this system is being consistently abused. And
for these people, probably most of them have come across
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in the last I would imagine four or five years,
this is a message to say, don't do this in
the future.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
At the same time, this is trying to clean up
any sort of issues or discrepancies. And this is another
thing that a lot of people are talking about. Who
is paying these people, Who are the companies hiring these
people that are not verifying whether or not these people
are legal or illegal immigrants, and what this could end
up doing to economics, like Ron Huggs, said Councilman Ron
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hugg saying this could affect economically South Omaha. It may,
but will it for sure? Or is that a political
talking point to say that I am opposed to what
this administration is attempting to do. These are all things
that are worth discussing, and if you would like to
discuss this with me, my phone lines are open. I'd
love to hear from you today, no matter what your
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background is. If you're for this, if you're against this,
if you're concerned about what this means, if you think
that this is bad timing, because that's where I'm sitting.
Of all the things to try to maybe rile up
political opposition in this city. It happens to be the
busiest week of the year when we're welcoming eight colleges
and their fans to play baseball in downtown Omaha. Call
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me at four h two five five eight eleven ten.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten. It's Radio
eleven ten kfab and were Songer. We're here to talk
to you. An hour from now. I have a huge
announcement about my next trip with pub Culture Beercations. I'm
going to talk about good news during the show. At
some point I have to for my own mental health.
Maybe you do too, But for right now, we have
to get to the nitty gritty of the real news
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in Omaha today. ICE is in Omaha or was in Omaha.
I don't know the status of this. It's very, you know,
secretive unless you're seeing it with your own two eyes.
And as far as I know, they have been operating
in Omaha since this morning and conducting what Ron Hug
Councilman Ron Hugg says district for city councilmen as raids
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in his district and how this could affect Omaha economically,
and of course he leans to the left, so you know,
this has become a political issue more so than I
think even a humane issue. But alas, that's why I
need to talk to people, because you know, I could
hit my head against a wall all day long trying
to come up with different perspectives to view this. But
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I feel the way that I feel I need to
hear how other people see this. Brian's on our phone
line four oh two five eight eleven ten. Brian, thanks
for being on the show today.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Well, with any protest leaving tactics aside, you've got to
look at what for legitimate grievance and if they're a
legitimate grievance. And in this case, what I see is
the legitimate grievance is if this is being sold as
they're going to go after the worst of the worst,
the hardened criminals, the bad ombres. But then it's being
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switched to well, anyone who's here illegally is a criminal.
And even people who apply for refugee status and are
going to their appointments, they also are being picked up.
And when they're rating places like clothing manufacturer or donut
bakery in la or food processing plants here, these are
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people who have jobs and apparently aren't engaged in criminal activity.
I know they will hold up a few people who
are hardened criminals such as well. Even in the case
of that, sometimes they will exaggerate, like Abredo Garcia. The
only thing they actually have evidence on is that he
was transporting eight of their illegals or refugee applicants in
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our van from one city to another. So this you see,
any good thing, too much of it can become a
bad thing. Now, taking in refugees, that's a good thing,
but I will admit, you know, too much of a
good thing can be a bad thing. So sure, closing
the border, reporting lots of people, let's say that's a
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good thing. But then if you go after the people
who are working legitimate jobs, they're going to have a
labor shortage and higher prices for that.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and I'm hearing that argument as well, and I
totally get that part of it, and I wonder if
there was a system in place. Certainly they're trying, Bryan
to send the message to the people who are attempting
to come in this country illegally, saying that this is
not going to fly in the future. But you would
think if there was a way to get a path
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to citizenship, these would be the type of people that
you would offer that to. The people who are working
hard in communities to make a living for themselves, but
also are not harming people in this community outside the
fact that they may not be paying taxes or may
be taking advantage of certain benefits that are usually for
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American citizens. I don't disagree with that point, but this,
don't you believe at some point that there has to
be a consequence being shown, a statement being shown so
people aren't looking to take advantage of America's system in
the future.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
Well, I think that's being shown right now, although I
would like people to think about the consequences of that
for the economy.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's something to keep in mind. Brian. I do appreciate
you calling in. Thank you for listening. John is on
our phone line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Welcome to the show. John, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
Yeah, you talked like to the sheriff a deputy early
and since Ice might only be there for today or something.
My deal is, and I agree with you two that
if you're illegal to gather up and shift your back out,
you need to come in here legally in the United States.
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And then there's some people that are work that have.
We got some fellows working in our town.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
They are good workers.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
Yeah, and I think they're I don't know if they're
illegal or not. I think they're illegal, yeah, illegal, but
they they need to you know, you're coming in illegue.
You don't get to pay tax, right, I mean, it's
really it's gaming.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's totally gaming our system and it's costing the United
States billions of dollars. There's no there's no doubt about that.
And I understand that maybe they're thinking of themselves and
what's best for them, but it's hurting the community and
the country that they want to be a part of.
So if they're good workers, John, maybe we can find
a way to get them to citizenship. I'm not opposed
to that, but we can't just be allowing people to
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come here illegally and just hide from the government and
hide from any consequences for doing that. They know that
it was illegal.
Speaker 11 (23:16):
Yeah, Hey, I want to become coming here anybody, even
a white guy and robbed the bank and then he
got away with it.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
But you're you're hanging around the.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
United States, but you get them illegal, you're about the bank. Now,
if you're coming in here illegal, you're illegal. You did
something wrong, right, and get shipped out.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, there's got to be a consequence. I don't know
what the answer is across the board. I appreciate the call, John,
thanks for listening to us today. I mean, it's a
it doesn't have to be a one size fits all thing,
but I think that's where it becomes a better and
more healthy discussion of just Okay, so who's here because
the gaming the system? Who's here because they wanted a
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better life? Is it possible to even go through ten
million people and try to figure out who fits into
what group and then act accordingly. I'm not one hundred
percent sure that we'll ever have a perfect answer there.
This is why I'm talking to you, because you see
things differently than I do. And that's why I have
a radio show so I can talk to people that
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look at things differently than I do. Charles, Lisa, Terry, Alex,
everybody else calling in. We're chatting with you today four two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten News Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
And Marie's songer on News Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I had no idea that the next day there would
be a presence device in Omaha. To this point, it
sounds like, you know, we've things are just you know,
taking place as they were intended. But I don't I
don't know what to expect moving forward, and of course
College World Series coming up in a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
We talked a little bit earlier to Steve Serviny, who
is a deputy chief of Omaha Police Department, saying that
it doesn't anticipate this impacting CWS, because this is supposed
to be, I think, a one day operation. But still
you don't know if there's going to be any sort
of Backlasher reaction to this, while we're also in the
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process the next couple of days of welcoming eight schools,
eight college teams and all of their fans here to
Omaha for this weekend's action, so that along with all
of the events that are happening around College World Series.
And then I was reminded by Michelle who emailed me
about No King's Day, which is on June fourteenth, that's
this Saturday, which were protests to counter essentially Donald Trump,
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you know, and the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the US Army and stuff. And this isn't supposed to be,
you know, anything violent. But it says on you know,
their website that this is a nationwide day of defiance,
and they say on their website that they are taking
action to reject authoritarianism and to show what the show
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the world what democracy really looks like. But again it
says that it's pro democracy and it's designed to be peaceful.
So I guess we'll see about that when it happens.
But Omaha certainly is going to see one of those.
They say there's eighteen hundred of them around the country
that they expect to take place on Saturday. So and
then on top of all the other protesting that I figured,
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like pro Gaza, pro Palestinian, anti Israel protests that have
just been wandering around downtown on various weekends over the
last year plus, I would imagine they're still going to
have a presence too. So I don't know. Let's get
to the phones. Four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
I got Lisa on the line here to talk about this. Lisa,
welcome to our show. What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
Right?
Speaker 11 (26:45):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (26:45):
So, I like, this is where I think I have
an issue that I don't think a lot of people
point out. But for several years, we've set a standard
of Okay, if you come here undocumented and you work,
you work hard, you stay out of trouble, you do
the right thing, we'll leave you alone. That And then
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one day you get a president that's made his whole
campaign about getting rid of immigrants, and then at the
same time he makes his whole platform this way, and
then he he's has lower numbers of deportation than Biden did. So,
but they we know who he's put in the administration,
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which are completely and utterly incompetent people. So their numbers
were so low we could go they said, oh no,
we need to get the numbers up right now, blah
blah blah blah, and put pressure on them. There's a
reason you don't give quoters to police and criminal investigators.
So they they're doing this because they don't care about
the individual case. They care about a mass round up,
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so they can put the numbers up that. Look, we
did more than Biden, and they're not an organized enough
administration and to put that in place without doing this scatterbrain,
hard handed authoritarian style move. But my point is we've
let these people be here with kind of an unsigned
contract that for twenty years, they bought couches, TVs, they've
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set up homes, they've had kids, and then one day
you get an authoritarian, power hungry lunatic that that can't
implement anything. That's why there's no laws being passionage is
executive orders being signed? Yeah yeah, yeah, Well the switch
and say, you know what, we're going to change that
contract we made for you sure in regular business like
if a bank, your payment's supposed to be two hundred
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dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Right right, right?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (28:41):
And for four consistent months, say.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You paid one hundred dollars, Lisa, I got to get
to another call and running out of time. I do
appreciate all the passion and the conversation on this. I
do appreciate the call today. Obviously a lot of good
information there, and I wish I had more time for
Lisa today, Alex, I got about a minute left. What's
on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I'm just thinking about what everybody's talking about, and I
think people have the right to protest their government. People
have the right to express themselves. That all these protests
where people turn everything into crap and they just burn
stuff and damage people's properties.
Speaker 13 (29:21):
Yeah, they're not going.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
To help anybody's case. They're just giving the cause that
they're fighting for a bad names. I say, thought about
it those days legal If they're talking about, you know,
fixing something, well demonstrate you know, peacefully. But I suppose
they can't help themselves.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, Alex is a good point. I appreciate you calling
in today. Thanks for listening to us. That's been my
point all along more than anything else, it is the
fact that the protests in Los Angeles, and this is
hopefully going to stay there, there is some level of demonstration.
I'm under the impression that there's some level of demonstration
about what's going on in the you know, other cities
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around the country very blue cities. Our city isn't I
wouldn't consider very blue, but it is a blue dot
quite literally in a political way. But those types of
protests are not going to make people feel sympathy for
your cause. They are just damaging property and making people
wonder what's wrong with you and it's not achieving what
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you think it could be achieving. People are not going
to give in because you set a bunch of driverless
cars on fire. People aren't going to give in. And
the government level about this stuff because you're you know,
vandalizing cars and waving Mexican flags, it's just not you're
not going to get the response. This is an excuse
for you to create havoc that shouldn't be what this
is about. We'll take more calls four h two, five, five, eight,
(30:51):
eleven ten coming up on news radio eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Kfab Mariner on news radio eleven.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Ten kfa ie in Omaha. Today. We talked last hour
to Steve Servini, who's a deputy chief of the Omaha
Police Department, and he said this should be a one
day thing, shouldn't interfere with her plans for the College
World series and how we're going to make sure everything's
stay safe and secure, which is good news, but still
pretty interesting that this happens just a day after I
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spent a bunch of my show talking about the ice
riots happening in Los Angeles. Well, I want to get
your thoughts on these things. So the phone lines are
open and ready for you to be a part of
And Mary is the first caller. We'll take this segment.
Welcome Mary. What's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (31:34):
Well, I was listening to the last caller and I'm
just scratching my head and this belief. President Trump ran
on this, this is what he was elected to do.
The last administration opened the border and let twenty million
unvented people in totally unvented. We don't know who they are.
You know, how many Chinese nationals military age are all
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around the country, how many how many people that just
hate us are in this country ready to to do
any harm they choose to. This is insane, and they
forget that. Barack Obama prided himself on being the deporter
in chief. He deported more people he did any other president.
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He certainly did. And so they need to go and
then they need a vetting process to come back. That's
the only way we will feel safe is if they're
gone and we get a Oh you know, one more
thing I want to hit on. This was the great
replacement theory. That's all this was. They brought these people in,
they put them in hotels, three meals a day, free
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medical care, you know. Any they're living better than we were.
And because of that, the great replacement theory, everybody woke
up and they voted Republican. Because of that, they thought, well,
they're not getting my vote ever again. So they have
to be replaced. That's their whole goal. Get him in here,
get a voting Democrat so they never lose power. Everyone
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knows that. No one talks about it, and it's just
a fact.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's just sure. Yeah, Mary, I appreciate the passion in
the call today. Thanks so much Mary for calling in.
Uh yeah, I'm not here to combat anything that she said.
I don't have one hundred percent knowledge on that everybody's
situation was like that. I don't think there are millions
of people that are coming across the border every day
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or you know, of the last few years, and they're
all looking for America to be you know, to be ruined,
right I But again, this goes back to the venomous
snake in the bag thing, right, Like it takes just one,
it takes just a few, and then you realize that
maybe this open border thing is a really bad idea
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that doesn't even go to begin about the cost on
the government, the taxpayers of trying to harbor people that
are not just refugees. They are not just refugees. There
are not that many refugees coming up to cross our
border illegally from these countries at one time. There just isn't.
So the idea of this being some sort of humanitarian thing,
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I'm just not totally buying it. I'm just not you know,
the government should be able to enforce the laws that
we have here, and that includes after somebody's already here.
I don't know how about how long, and I don't
know about the job that they're doing. I don't know
about their family situation, and maybe we can have different things.
That isn't a one size fits all, But at some
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point you have to make a stand on actually enforcing
your own laws. Otherwise this's going to keep getting broken
over and over and over again. Andy is on a
phone line four two five five eight eleven ten, Andy,
Welcome to the show today. On eleven ten, kfab Hi.
Speaker 9 (34:48):
I hire about one hundred and fifty guys to the
H two A program departmental labor. So my guys are
legally here. They can stay here ten months maximum in
the here and they go home and they're happy. The
only problem is they make so much money they get
extorted when they go back to Guatemala. And the guest
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worker program doesn't work well, it's expensive. They could fix
this whole problem by creating a better guest worker program
that streamlined. The people that are here illegally could pay
a fine for being here illegally and work under a
guest worker program of some sort and pay a fee
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for working in this country. Most of these people don't
want to really live here. They want to work here
because the economy is great here and it's not great
in their country right, and there's a lot of corruption
in their country well.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And the fact that our dollars when we give them,
our dollars go a lot further in their country than
their dollars do. So yeah, I mean economically for a
single person or a family, it makes total sense. And
I get why they're trying to do it. It's a
selfish thing. But at the same time, any of us
would do it if we had the instinct or the
willingness to try to do that for our families benefit
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or survival. At the same time, it's coming at the
expense of people who are already living here in this country,
which is creating the issue.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'm glad that you called Andy, because this is quite
interesting to get this perspective on it. Do you think
that the companies that are not doing it your way
and making sure that their workers are all legitimately at
least here through a visa or a work permit for
a certain amount of months, those people should be also
held accountable for hiring people who are illegal immigrants because
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they know they can pay them less money.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
I've done this for forty years and I know how
the system works, and a lot of these people are everified.
If you know what that is they're Social Security numbers.
Check with the Social Security Administration. Most of these people
buy documentation they crossed the border, they work for X
amount of dollars, They buy documentary generally, and then they
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will everify. The employer has to be held accountable in
some way, but it's very hard to do because if
somebody comes to my place and apply for a job
they have and they have documentation that shows that they verify,
they supersede my guest workers. So I have to hire them.
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And I've had guys, For example, I hired two guys
here this last summer that when I paid them, they verified.
When I paid them, they said, you underpaid me by
three hundred dollars. I said, no, we didn't. We had
to pay your child back child support. And they said,
we don't have children. We would never treat our children
that way. And then I said, well, then you must
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not be the person you claimed to be, so I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
I have to fire you.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
And they walked out saying we'll buy a better documentation
the next time. This is the way the system works.
There's a corruption on all around. And then include the
Social Security Administration. Don't you think that they know there's
multiple people paying Social Security on the same number.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yeah, it's happening in the government. It's the whole thing
is corrupt. It could be straightened out with a few
rules and regulations and a guest worker program that work
for everybody.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Andy, good stuff. Really appreciate you, Conin, thanks for listening
to us.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Man, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Let's go to Kevin real quick before I hit the brake.
Here Kevin on our phone line at four h two,
five five, eight to eleven ten. Kevin, you're on eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (38:34):
I'm just tired of the last four years and just
the lawlessness that's gone on throughout our country. And I
think we have a new administration that we need to respect,
just like we have a new mayor that we need
to respect. Give him a chance. But I'm tired of
the Democrats. They lie, they cheat, they cause antinomianism in
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our culture, and I'm just tired of it. And I
like what Trump is doing right.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well, yeah, and I appreciate the call.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
Kevin.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Thanks for listening to the show today. I like that attitude.
We have to understand that this is how our republic works.
We vote for people to be in certain offices, and
we may not always like the result, but at a
certain point we have to understand they are going to
do what they said they would do. This is something
Trump said he was going to do. This is something
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Republicans and leadership said they wanted to do when they
got into power. They are in power now. People want
to fight back against the side that they do not like.
We've seen that happen on both sides. That's just reality.
We have to stay the course and we have to
see what the world looks like after this. And no
Democrat is ever going to give Donald Trump any credit
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for anything but objectively, this could make America a better
and safer place if we have better rules, we have
better systems in place, and we're eradicating anyone who's trying
to abuse our systems, commit crimes, come into this country illegally. No,
that's against our laws. That's all that this is really about.
Keith ron and I might have time for one more
(40:07):
after that. We'll get We'll see how much time I have,
but we'll take your phone calls at four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten here until the bottom of the
hour here on news radio eleven ten KFAB and raise Dona.
I'm getting your thoughts. I have time for three more
calls bottom of the hour, changing gears a bit. Have
a chance to make a huge announcement about a trip
I got coming up that I want you to be
a part of. But first, let's get to those phone
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lines about what's going on in Omaha today and around
the country as well. Let's start with Keith on our
phone line at four two, five, five, eight to eleven ten. Keith,
Welcome to eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (40:39):
Hey.
Speaker 16 (40:39):
I always go with a five percent rule. In other words,
pretty much five percent of the population are bad people.
We got about five percent of the people in the
United States that are in jail. So therefore, if we
let ten to fifteen million illegals in, five percent of
those roughly are gonna be bad people. So we have
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approximately five hundred to seven hundred and fifty thousand bad
people in our United States because of the last administration,
or even the previous one when the Democrats wouldn't allow
Trump to shut down the border.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Point being is, we got a lot of people.
Speaker 16 (41:18):
In here that are not very happy with us.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, and I got to be honest with you when
you put those numbers to it. It kind of puts
it in perspective better, Keith. It's just kind of like, Wow,
that isn't actual like a huge amount of people. When
you think about just even how many are living in Omaha.
That's five hundred thousand people, right, and you talk about
what ten percent, even five percent, ten percent of the
population is you know, we're talking fifteen thirty million people
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so of the United States. Wild stuff to say the least.
I appreciate the call, Keith. Thanks for the perspective today.
Speaker 8 (41:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Let's go jump to Ron on a phone line four two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Welcome in Ron. What's on your
mind today?
Speaker 12 (41:55):
Yeah, I'm an old history teacher and I just want
to point out people saying there's been no president for
this kind of stuff. For the president setting you know,
military and to put down disturbances of this type of
thing just quickly. Washington, George Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
He led the army himself into Pennsylvania. Jackson, the Cherokeys
that moved into Oklahoma, and the trailer of tears. Buchanan
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put down John Brown. Lincoln had put down a draft riss.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
In New York City.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Grant kicked the snot.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
Out of KKK. In the South, Grover Cleveland put down
the railroad riots, railroad strikes. After r put down the
Bonus Army and burned him out of Washington, d C.
Eisenhower sent the hundred person everyone to the Little Rock,
forced him to take kids into.
Speaker 6 (42:39):
The Central you know.
Speaker 12 (42:40):
Johnathan Selmam marched Kent Nixon the Kent State Riot, Bush
l e Riots nineteen ninety two for nineteen sent the
Marines in to put down right.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Sure, yeah, so what's wrong? What you're saying is this
has happened a lot. There's been a lot of president
on this ton of Yeah.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I'm like, I'm glad that you added that perspective to
is Ron, because people live in the moment way too much.
There's way too much hyperbole going on, people saying this
stuff is unprecedented. Almost nothing that we see in American
history is unprecedented, and that goes for a lot of stuff.
I appreciate the call today, man, really appreciate you listening. Yeah,
so I just go read a history book or take
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a class. I love American history. Take a class with
a guy like Ron, and you'll be able to understand
that a lot of the stuff that has happened, it's
not that necessarily different or new, is something that did
happen really not all that long ago historically. I did
want to mention also, all we know about the troops
that have been deployed aren't to do anything other than
to make law enforcement safe in doing their job or
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whatever job they've been instructed to do. Even though it
sounds like they're not arresting anybody, but they're still trying
to at least contain where the people are in Los Angeles,
the military that's been sent there. It may be a
show of intimidation in some case, is if you want
to look at it that way. My understanding is that
they are there to occupy federal buildings and to make
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people in law enforcement feel safe in doing their jobs.
But they're not going to be doing any law enforcement themselves,
So there happens to be I think just a lot
of showmanship with this, and because we're not getting a
lot of transparency on why these troops are being sent
there except oh, well, they are there to try to
help solve these riotous problems. You know. I'm of the
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belief that maybe we should just like California, deal with
California's problems. But alas you know, I'm not the President
of the United States or the Secretary of Defense. As
far as what California is actually attempting to do and
what their government says, the United States federal government is
overreaching with their deployment of National guardsmen and marines. Makes
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it you kind of understand that this is a lot
more political war and battle over who is going to
stand down first, like Gavin Newsom in the state of
California and the Democrats that he is representing here, or
is it going to be the side of what we
consider to be law and order and the Republicans and
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the federal government at least the way the federal government
looks right now, should be interesting to see how it
plays out. And I'm not sure we're going to get
anybody who's a true winner of this considering what we're
talking about. Taking place. Last caller on this at least
for now, is Jeff. Jeff, appreciate you being on the
phone lines today on eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Hey guys, Hey, just one thing. I mean, I've been
listening to your show all afternoon. I'm on my way
to go play golf. But first I just want to say,
let's keep our local policemen and sheriffs and everybody in
our prayers. Okay, I don't know what, you know, what's
going to happen here, but you know, I changed my
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subject because I wanted to originally talk about the one
gentleman that called about the e verify and how they're
finding falsifying documents and all that stuff. Well, what do
you think DOJE was looking for when they said we
need to get more information from, you know, for Social
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Security numbers, and everybody was having a rage and sit
about it. Same thing with Medicare, and it caused a
ruckus with like my mom who's eighty three years old.
She's like, oh my god, they're going to take my Mike.
Speaker 8 (46:25):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
They're not going to take anybody's Medicare. But the falsifying
of documents is causing a huge issue with this stuff,
and I think that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, and no doubt, jeff In, it's hard to talk
or track that stuff because we're just not used to
that happening in our regular life. We don't know how
it's possible that it happens because we're not trying to
do it. The last time a lot of people have
falsified the document is when they bought a fake ID
when they were seventeen years old, right, So I know exactly.
We just don't have a lot of there's not a
lot of like firsthand experience with this, and I think
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that's why part of this, that part of this DISCUSSI
which should be a major part of it as to
why and how it's happening. It is something that needs
to be a bigger issue. It's just people don't quite
understand how that is even able to happen. I appreciate
you shining light on that today.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Jeff, Thanks buddy. You guys have a great day, man.
I love you guys.
Deputy Chief, Thank you so much for being a part
of our show today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good afternoon, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Okay, I know this kind of wet pull this together
today because nobody really knows what's happening until it's happening,
I think, But I just wanted to have some police
explanation about some things that are happening in the ICE immigration.
I mean, they're called raids for some people, I suppose,
But can you kind of enlighten us to exactly what
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is happening in Omaha today as far as ICE is concerned.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Sure, I'm happy to do so.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
We were notified or by advised, I believe, late last
week that there would be some ICE operations taking place
in Oma area. We don't We were not We were
not informed about any specific locations, just general areas, and
we were asked to provide some support in terms of
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traffic control and in if there are any any safety concerns,
to help assist with that in terms of law enforcement.
So we don't participate in raids per se as you
put it. Uh, those are basically, you know, federal statutes
that it's not our jurisdiction to enforce, but we will
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help or assist our UH partner federal agencies and other
other local state agencies in terms of traffic control assistants
and just making sure that that the areas it remains
safe and there's nothing dangerous occurring.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
One of the things that I think people, you know,
would be a bit uneasy about, is you know, knowing
what's going on in Los Angeles that this is taking
place on the week that we are supposed to be
welcoming eight colleges for the College World Series for baseball
and many fans from different areas of the country. Tree
do you know about how long this would take? And
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if you know that is privy information to local law enforcement.
How you guys, are you know, supposed to be worrying
about that while you're also preparing Omaha for the busiest
week and a half of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Sure, sure it is. It is a very busy week.
We are in preparations for the Calls World Series. When
when we were asked to assist with traffic control and
just provide a safe environment, we were basically advised that
this would be taking place today. We don't have any
knowledge of any extended operations or anything going beyond today
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that we're aware of we haven't been asked to assist
in any form or fashion beyond today.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Okay, so that makes actual, you know, a lot of sense.
As far as we're speaking with Deputy Chief Steve Serviny
from the Omaha Police Department here on a day that
you guys are very busy, can you kind of illustrate
you mentioned it's a matter of keeping the area safe.
There is a councilman, Ron hug from the fourth District
that said, you know, this is affecting his district today.
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They tell you specifically kind of the areas that you
guys are going to have to do that before they
arrive or you know, I think a lot of people
when they're talking about Los Angeles and you know, I
don't know how that also plays into Omaha, but it's
just is it orchestrated enough with enough communication with law
enforcement to be able to provide this assistance to make
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this as quick as possible? How does the preparation work
on this as far as you guys being alerted just
a few days ahead of time that this is happening, well,
it really.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Is almost an eleventh hour preparation because we were not
advised or notified until you know, just days days really
days before it was going to take place, last week
sometimes and so it is kind of a quick preparation.
But we have employee, you know, our traffic unit officers
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to assist just to make sure that traffic control is
safety is ensured. They'll you know, regulate traffic in those areas,
and then we're also ready to assist if there are
any dangerous situations that occur or breakout. We have seen
you know, some some violence breakout and other parts of
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the country, so we would be available to assist if
those incidents happened to occur.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I think the next question I need to ask is
far as this conversation goes, is like, you guys have
a big staff. There's you know a few hundreds of
people that are involved in law enforcement in Douglas County,
and we know this week is incredibly busy. What is
like kind of the way that you guys kind of
approach College World serious time Because this is a major
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event every single year, you want to make sure that
area is safe. There's also an entire city that you
also have to keep in mind that anything could be
happening during that week and a half. Also, what is
the approach for the Omaha Police Department when it comes
to the College World Series and how you guys tried
to make that feel as safe and secure as possible
for everyone involved.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, you know, it's a very collaborative approach. We start
preparing for that months out. It's something that obviously, as
you know, we've done for years and years. The department
has it down to a science. We also team up
with a lot of our a lot of our other partners, stakeholders,
other law enforcement agencies federal and local, state as well
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as you know, other other stakeholders just to make sure
it's a very smooth running event. So those preparations start,
they're in place months months before the series arrives, and
it is there is a game plan that we follow
that it's worked, and you know, we it's a sort
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of a well oiled machine. So the officers that worked
at event, the units that worked at event are are
well trained.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
To to basically prepare and be.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Ready to address anything that that we would encounter. And
you know, we've done it for so long that we
it's it always. We've had great success in ensuring the
safety and that everything runs smoothly during that time that
College World series is in town.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Were joined by Steve Serviny, who's the Deputy chief at
Omaha Police Department. Uh and just one quick follow up.
Would you anticipate anything from you know, the federal government
or ice kind of getting in the way of kind
of what your plans have been for what College World
Series will look like later this week.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
No, we don't anticipate anything like that. Like as I said,
we were advised that they would be conducting some operations
to day and asked to assist again for traffic control
and make sure that the areas remain safe. We don't
enforce any kind of federal immigration statues, so we just
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provide support with traffic control. We were asked to assist
just today and we have not We're not aware of
we have been asked to assist with anything or any
operations beyond today. We don't anticipate that today's operations would
affect anything beyond beyond today or the College World Series start.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
All right, definitely great information. Deputy Chief of the Omaha
Police Department, Steve Servini, thank you so much on short
noticer being a part of our show and giving us
this critical information today.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
All right, that is really important stuff on this here
day where we are being told about the operations. I've
been following kind of what Omaha Scanner has been posting
as we've heard of different things. The Omaha Police Department
released a statement this morning saying the Omaha Police Department
is aware of ICE operations currently taking place in Omaha.
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The Department of Homeland Security recently notified OPD as we
just heard of the operations, and OPD officers responded to
the areas for traffic control. Federal authorities are responsible for
immigration enforcement. Opd's role is only insisting with traffic control
and public safety in the areas near operations. So it's
all the information that we just heard from Deputy Chief
Steve Serviny. Also, I mentioned that Councilman Ron hug of
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the fourth District here in the City of Omaha, he
has put out a media release this afternoon and he
says I've been notified that ICE has conducted raids at
multiple locations across Omaha. These actions are deeply harmful to
the South Omaha community. Not only are they unjust and disruptive,
but they also directly undermined the economic stability and growth
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of district for and the broader community. I have been
in contact with the Mayor, Chief of Police, Human Rights
and Relayation's Department, and the National lu LAC office, and
I will be engaging with community members who understand the
full impact of these events and explore meaningful ways to
support those affected. End quote. We can talk about this.
It's a little bit different talking about it when it's
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this close to home. Phone lines are open four oh two,
five to five, eight eleven ten. Four h two five
five eight eleven ten. If you'd like to talk about this,
This is a great opportunity for us to talk about
it happening here in our city today. We'll chat with
you next on these radio eleven ten. Kfab Sean actually
said this morning, while I was doing my other show
at Douglas County sheriff was escorting ice and this was
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about nine thirty this morning, and then stuff was, you know,
kind of pop popping up Perklayton and just been monitoring
because you just you wonder about disturbances and this is
just a bad This is just bad timing, honestly for
this stuff on the week of College World Series beginning.
But alas this is the job that I know many
people voted on being you know, taking place, And as
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we just spoke with Steve Servini, who is the deputy
chief of the Omaha Police Department, he said that he
anticipates this being just a one day thing, and that
would be that there were just a few different areas
that they were looking to address here in Omaha. So
I want to hear from you today. Four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten is the number. And we'll start with
Mark today on our phone line. Mark, welcome to the show.
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What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
How are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Is there any report of Illy Galla and the premises
of every where they wanted to ring.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I don't have the answers, I guess to.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
That, Mark, I don't understand why we get all this
reporting yet we don't get you ever get the mood
of the story.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Yeah, I just want to.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Make a comment on all of this. As far as
I heard a little bit of youing today, he.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Said this, Well, they didn't contact police. Local police went
about these heads up on these rings three years ago.
I'm close. I'm still in the South Omaha district. The
del Rio buses used to come in through all of
the summer.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
This was three years ago.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
And drop off at a location in South Omaha, not
too far from the South Omaha precinct. And they used
to draw folks off and people used to come and
pick them up. And like I said, the bus was
notated as del Rio. Okay, they called the governor's office
it was Ricketts at that time, about this going on,
and they basically said, well, he didn't. Their office said
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that that was a federal issue. And I mentioned the
police precinct is about a half a mile away, and
they're not concerned about this either.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
So why all.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Of a sudden are we concerned about these raids when
we knew this was going to be a heads up,
but we weren't concerned about when they were coming into
our country.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, well, I guess Mark. It depends on who you
ask and what their political background is and what they
think is best for America, and whether that's people who
are Democrats being in power and having more Democrat representatives,
or if it is you know, people on the right
that feel like this is taking advantage of a system,
and we believe that the country is stronger with stronger borders.
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So it depends on who you ask.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
I wish I've been around long enough to know when
they used to do raids and there was never any
problems like this. And I know the political parties have
taken sides on this because this is how they siphon
their voters. Correct. But the thing about it is, we've
got to stop this illegality. And if the folks are
here legally, they need to go, and I don't care
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how long they've been here, they need to go, and
then we need to start doing this league.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Now.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
I know Trump is firing this whole thing up because
when these people go out like they did in LA
and start rioting, he's putting the whole thing on show,
letting you see it, folks. And I wish we knew
who was doing that part of it.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
As far as.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Well, I don't think. I don't think we're ever to
get a good answer on that market.
Speaker 8 (13:03):
Oh yes you could, you could, you can follow the money.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Well, how why haven't we?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Then?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I guess is my question right?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Because when it comes to politics and it gets to DC,
there's only one party. So hey, you have a good day.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You too, Mark, Thanks for the call today. Yeah, I
don't know. John's on our phone line four O two
five five eight to eleven ten. Welcome into eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
John, Hey, how you doing again? And I hope I
can get through these two statements and we can talk
about it.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
The first one is this, why in the world that
the Democrats, all the Republicans have not came up with
a solution to keep the dreamers and keep the peoples
that's here and give them a path to citizenship and
work on it and quit playing politics with it, because
that's hurting good people in the United States of America.
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So I blame Donald Trump in which I don't like,
but I blame him and the Publican Party by knocking
everything down to try to give these people a path
to citizenship and creating deck That's the first one.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Secondly, I wish, I wish, and I really mean this
that the Mexicans back in the sixties, when cheved organized
the Mexicans and the Latinos to walk out of these fields,
walk out of these strawberry fields, all these fields and
have a three or four day strike and the shouls
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and walk out of these packet houses, walk out of
these hid sellers, to show the people that what we
need all people, not just one.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Group of people, and that's white people in the United States.
We need everybody. And that's what I wish they would do.
That's where they power would come in at. And if
they did that, they would stop this foolish many Thank.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You, hey, appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
John.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So, I guess my first thing would be the easy.
The answer to that is there are legal ways to
enter this country and illegal ways to enter this country.
And when anybody takes an illegal route to being in
this country, that already is a breaking of federal law. Now,
the current administration in a lot of ways wants to
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clean up this issue because it has been made a
major political issue. This is also, I think a statement
across the board of showing what could theoretically happen if
the government actually puts consequences in for the breaking of laws.
Right if I go speeding down the road and I'm
going too fast and I get pulled over by a
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police officer, I may have to pay a fine for
my ticket and it goes on my permanent record. I sped.
I paid the consequences. There are varying levels of consequences
for breaking rules. One thing about coming into the country
illegally is that for as long as you're here illegally,
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you are breaking the United States law. There should be
some consequence to doing so. And if there isn't active consequences,
that's when you start getting eight thousand people per day
trying to illegally cross our border at the south to
get into this country. And we have no idea the
background the histories of most of these people. This isn't
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to say all these people are bad people. This isn't
to say that there isn't you know that there's overt
illegalities taking place while they're living here. That also doesn't
mean that there isn't Okay, we don't know. This administration,
I think, is trying to create a baseline of what
could happen if this system is being consistently abused. And
for these people, probably most of them have come across
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in the last I would imagine four or five years,
this is a message to say, don't do this in
the future.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
At the same time, this is trying to clean up
any sort of issues or discrepancies. And this is another
thing that a lot of people are talking about. Who
is paying these people, Who are the companies hiring these
people that are not verifying whether or not these people
are legal or illegal immigrants, and what this could end
up doing to economics, like Ron Huggs, said Councilman Ron
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hugg saying this could affect economically South Omaha. It may,
but will it for sure? Or is that a political
talking point to say that I am opposed to what
this administration is attempting to do. These are all things
that are worth discussing, and if you would like to
discuss this with me, my phone lines are open. I'd
love to hear from you today, no matter what your
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background is. If you're for this, if you're against this,
if you're concerned about what this means, if you think
that this is bad timing, because that's where I'm sitting.
Of all the things to try to maybe rile up
political opposition in this city. It happens to be the
busiest week of the year when we're welcoming eight colleges
and their fans to play baseball in downtown Omaha. Call
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me at four h two five five eight eleven ten.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten. It's Radio
eleven ten kfab and were Songer. We're here to talk
to you. An hour from now. I have a huge
announcement about my next trip with pub Culture Beercations. I'm
going to talk about good news during the show. At
some point I have to for my own mental health.
Maybe you do too, But for right now, we have
to get to the nitty gritty of the real news
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in Omaha today. ICE is in Omaha or was in Omaha.
I don't know the status of this. It's very, you know,
secretive unless you're seeing it with your own two eyes.
And as far as I know, they have been operating
in Omaha since this morning and conducting what Ron Hug
Councilman Ron Hugg says district for city councilmen as raids
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in his district and how this could affect Omaha economically,
and of course he leans to the left, so you know,
this has become a political issue more so than I
think even a humane issue. But alas, that's why I
need to talk to people, because you know, I could
hit my head against a wall all day long trying
to come up with different perspectives to view this. But
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I feel the way that I feel I need to
hear how other people see this. Brian's on our phone
line four oh two five eight eleven ten. Brian, thanks
for being on the show today.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Well, with any protest leaving tactics aside, you've got to
look at what for legitimate grievance and if they're a
legitimate grievance. And in this case, what I see is
the legitimate grievance is if this is being sold as
they're going to go after the worst of the worst,
the hardened criminals, the bad ombres. But then it's being
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switched to well, anyone who's here illegally is a criminal.
And even people who apply for refugee status and are
going to their appointments, they also are being picked up.
And when they're rating places like clothing manufacturer or donut
bakery in la or food processing plants here, these are
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people who have jobs and apparently aren't engaged in criminal activity.
I know they will hold up a few people who
are hardened criminals such as well. Even in the case
of that, sometimes they will exaggerate, like Abredo Garcia. The
only thing they actually have evidence on is that he
was transporting eight of their illegals or refugee applicants in
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our van from one city to another. So this you see,
any good thing, too much of it can become a
bad thing. Now, taking in refugees, that's a good thing,
but I will admit, you know, too much of a
good thing can be a bad thing. So sure, closing
the border, reporting lots of people, let's say that's a
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good thing. But then if you go after the people
who are working legitimate jobs, they're going to have a
labor shortage and higher prices for that.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and I'm hearing that argument as well, and I
totally get that part of it, and I wonder if
there was a system in place. Certainly they're trying, Bryan
to send the message to the people who are attempting
to come in this country illegally, saying that this is
not going to fly in the future. But you would
think if there was a way to get a path
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to citizenship, these would be the type of people that
you would offer that to. The people who are working
hard in communities to make a living for themselves, but
also are not harming people in this community outside the
fact that they may not be paying taxes or may
be taking advantage of certain benefits that are usually for
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American citizens. I don't disagree with that point, but this,
don't you believe at some point that there has to
be a consequence being shown, a statement being shown so
people aren't looking to take advantage of America's system in
the future.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
Well, I think that's being shown right now, although I
would like people to think about the consequences of that
for the economy.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's something to keep in mind. Brian. I do appreciate
you calling in. Thank you for listening. John is on
our phone line four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
Welcome to the show. John, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
Yeah, you talked like to the sheriff a deputy early
and since Ice might only be there for today or something.
My deal is, and I agree with you two that
if you're illegal to gather up and shift your back out,
you need to come in here legally in the United States.
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And then there's some people that are work that have.
We got some fellows working in our town.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
They are good workers.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
Yeah, and I think they're I don't know if they're
illegal or not. I think they're illegal, yeah, illegal, but
they they need to you know, you're coming in illegue.
You don't get to pay tax, right, I mean, it's
really it's gaming.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's totally gaming our system and it's costing the United
States billions of dollars. There's no there's no doubt about that.
And I understand that maybe they're thinking of themselves and
what's best for them, but it's hurting the community and
the country that they want to be a part of.
So if they're good workers, John, maybe we can find
a way to get them to citizenship. I'm not opposed
to that, but we can't just be allowing people to
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come here illegally and just hide from the government and
hide from any consequences for doing that. They know that
it was illegal.
Speaker 11 (23:16):
Yeah, Hey, I want to become coming here anybody, even
a white guy and robbed the bank and then he
got away with it.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
But you're you're hanging around the.
Speaker 11 (23:26):
United States, but you get them illegal, you're about the bank. Now,
if you're coming in here illegal, you're illegal. You did
something wrong, right, and get shipped out.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, there's got to be a consequence. I don't know
what the answer is across the board. I appreciate the call, John,
thanks for listening to us today. I mean, it's a
it doesn't have to be a one size fits all thing,
but I think that's where it becomes a better and
more healthy discussion of just Okay, so who's here because
the gaming the system? Who's here because they wanted a
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better life? Is it possible to even go through ten
million people and try to figure out who fits into
what group and then act accordingly. I'm not one hundred
percent sure that we'll ever have a perfect answer there.
This is why I'm talking to you, because you see
things differently than I do. And that's why I have
a radio show so I can talk to people that
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look at things differently than I do. Charles, Lisa, Terry, Alex,
everybody else calling in. We're chatting with you today four two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten News Radio eleven ten Kfab.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
And Marie's songer on News Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I had no idea that the next day there would
be a presence device in Omaha. To this point, it
sounds like, you know, we've things are just you know,
taking place as they were intended. But I don't I
don't know what to expect moving forward, and of course
College World Series coming up in a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
We talked a little bit earlier to Steve Serviny, who
is a deputy chief of Omaha Police Department, saying that
it doesn't anticipate this impacting CWS, because this is supposed
to be, I think, a one day operation. But still
you don't know if there's going to be any sort
of Backlasher reaction to this, while we're also in the
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process the next couple of days of welcoming eight schools,
eight college teams and all of their fans here to
Omaha for this weekend's action, so that along with all
of the events that are happening around College World Series.
And then I was reminded by Michelle who emailed me
about No King's Day, which is on June fourteenth, that's
this Saturday, which were protests to counter essentially Donald Trump,
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you know, and the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the US Army and stuff. And this isn't supposed to be,
you know, anything violent. But it says on you know,
their website that this is a nationwide day of defiance,
and they say on their website that they are taking
action to reject authoritarianism and to show what the show
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the world what democracy really looks like. But again it
says that it's pro democracy and it's designed to be peaceful.
So I guess we'll see about that when it happens.
But Omaha certainly is going to see one of those.
They say there's eighteen hundred of them around the country
that they expect to take place on Saturday. So and
then on top of all the other protesting that I figured,
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like pro Gaza, pro Palestinian, anti Israel protests that have
just been wandering around downtown on various weekends over the
last year plus, I would imagine they're still going to
have a presence too. So I don't know. Let's get
to the phones. Four two, five, five, eight eleven ten.
I got Lisa on the line here to talk about this. Lisa,
welcome to our show. What's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (26:44):
Right?
Speaker 11 (26:45):
Okay?
Speaker 14 (26:45):
So, I like, this is where I think I have
an issue that I don't think a lot of people
point out. But for several years, we've set a standard
of Okay, if you come here undocumented and you work,
you work hard, you stay out of trouble, you do
the right thing, we'll leave you alone. That And then
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one day you get a president that's made his whole
campaign about getting rid of immigrants, and then at the
same time he makes his whole platform this way, and
then he he's has lower numbers of deportation than Biden did. So,
but they we know who he's put in the administration,
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which are completely and utterly incompetent people. So their numbers
were so low we could go they said, oh no,
we need to get the numbers up right now, blah
blah blah blah, and put pressure on them. There's a
reason you don't give quoters to police and criminal investigators.
So they they're doing this because they don't care about
the individual case. They care about a mass round up,
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so they can put the numbers up that. Look, we
did more than Biden, and they're not an organized enough
administration and to put that in place without doing this scatterbrain,
hard handed authoritarian style move. But my point is we've
let these people be here with kind of an unsigned
contract that for twenty years, they bought couches, TVs, they've
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set up homes, they've had kids, and then one day
you get an authoritarian, power hungry lunatic that that can't
implement anything. That's why there's no laws being passionage is
executive orders being signed? Yeah yeah, yeah, Well the switch
and say, you know what, we're going to change that
contract we made for you sure in regular business like
if a bank, your payment's supposed to be two hundred
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dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Right right, right?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Yes?
Speaker 14 (28:41):
And for four consistent months, say.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
You paid one hundred dollars, Lisa, I got to get
to another call and running out of time. I do
appreciate all the passion and the conversation on this. I
do appreciate the call today. Obviously a lot of good
information there, and I wish I had more time for
Lisa today, Alex, I got about a minute left. What's
on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I'm just thinking about what everybody's talking about, and I
think people have the right to protest their government. People
have the right to express themselves. That all these protests
where people turn everything into crap and they just burn
stuff and damage people's properties.
Speaker 13 (29:21):
Yeah, they're not going.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
To help anybody's case. They're just giving the cause that
they're fighting for a bad names. I say, thought about
it those days legal If they're talking about, you know,
fixing something, well demonstrate you know, peacefully. But I suppose
they can't help themselves.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, Alex is a good point. I appreciate you calling
in today. Thanks for listening to us. That's been my
point all along more than anything else, it is the
fact that the protests in Los Angeles, and this is
hopefully going to stay there, there is some level of demonstration.
I'm under the impression that there's some level of demonstration
about what's going on in the you know, other cities
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around the country very blue cities. Our city isn't I
wouldn't consider very blue, but it is a blue dot
quite literally in a political way. But those types of
protests are not going to make people feel sympathy for
your cause. They are just damaging property and making people
wonder what's wrong with you and it's not achieving what
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you think it could be achieving. People are not going
to give in because you set a bunch of driverless
cars on fire. People aren't going to give in. And
the government level about this stuff because you're you know,
vandalizing cars and waving Mexican flags, it's just not you're
not going to get the response. This is an excuse
for you to create havoc that shouldn't be what this
is about. We'll take more calls four h two, five, five, eight,
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eleven ten coming up on news radio eleven ten.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Kfab Mariner on news radio eleven.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Ten kfa ie in Omaha. Today. We talked last hour
to Steve Servini, who's a deputy chief of the Omaha
Police Department, and he said this should be a one
day thing, shouldn't interfere with her plans for the College
World series and how we're going to make sure everything's
stay safe and secure, which is good news, but still
pretty interesting that this happens just a day after I
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spent a bunch of my show talking about the ice
riots happening in Los Angeles. Well, I want to get
your thoughts on these things. So the phone lines are
open and ready for you to be a part of
And Mary is the first caller. We'll take this segment.
Welcome Mary. What's on your mind?
Speaker 15 (31:34):
Well, I was listening to the last caller and I'm
just scratching my head and this belief. President Trump ran
on this, this is what he was elected to do.
The last administration opened the border and let twenty million
unvented people in totally unvented. We don't know who they are.
You know, how many Chinese nationals military age are all
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around the country, how many how many people that just
hate us are in this country ready to to do
any harm they choose to. This is insane, and they
forget that. Barack Obama prided himself on being the deporter
in chief. He deported more people he did any other president.
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He certainly did. And so they need to go and
then they need a vetting process to come back. That's
the only way we will feel safe is if they're
gone and we get a Oh you know, one more
thing I want to hit on. This was the great
replacement theory. That's all this was. They brought these people in,
they put them in hotels, three meals a day, free
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medical care, you know. Any they're living better than we were.
And because of that, the great replacement theory, everybody woke
up and they voted Republican. Because of that, they thought, well,
they're not getting my vote ever again. So they have
to be replaced. That's their whole goal. Get him in here,
get a voting Democrat so they never lose power. Everyone
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knows that. No one talks about it, and it's just
a fact.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's just sure. Yeah, Mary, I appreciate the passion in
the call today. Thanks so much Mary for calling in.
Uh yeah, I'm not here to combat anything that she said.
I don't have one hundred percent knowledge on that everybody's
situation was like that. I don't think there are millions
of people that are coming across the border every day
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or you know, of the last few years, and they're
all looking for America to be you know, to be ruined,
right I But again, this goes back to the venomous
snake in the bag thing, right, Like it takes just one,
it takes just a few, and then you realize that
maybe this open border thing is a really bad idea
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that doesn't even go to begin about the cost on
the government, the taxpayers of trying to harbor people that
are not just refugees. They are not just refugees. There
are not that many refugees coming up to cross our
border illegally from these countries at one time. There just isn't.
So the idea of this being some sort of humanitarian thing,
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I'm just not totally buying it. I'm just not you know,
the government should be able to enforce the laws that
we have here, and that includes after somebody's already here.
I don't know how about how long, and I don't
know about the job that they're doing. I don't know
about their family situation, and maybe we can have different things.
That isn't a one size fits all, But at some
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point you have to make a stand on actually enforcing
your own laws. Otherwise this's going to keep getting broken
over and over and over again. Andy is on a
phone line four two five five eight eleven ten, Andy,
Welcome to the show today. On eleven ten, kfab Hi.
Speaker 9 (34:48):
I hire about one hundred and fifty guys to the
H two A program departmental labor. So my guys are
legally here. They can stay here ten months maximum in
the here and they go home and they're happy. The
only problem is they make so much money they get
extorted when they go back to Guatemala. And the guest
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worker program doesn't work well, it's expensive. They could fix
this whole problem by creating a better guest worker program
that streamlined. The people that are here illegally could pay
a fine for being here illegally and work under a
guest worker program of some sort and pay a fee
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for working in this country. Most of these people don't
want to really live here. They want to work here
because the economy is great here and it's not great
in their country right, and there's a lot of corruption
in their country well.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And the fact that our dollars when we give them,
our dollars go a lot further in their country than
their dollars do. So yeah, I mean economically for a
single person or a family, it makes total sense. And
I get why they're trying to do it. It's a
selfish thing. But at the same time, any of us
would do it if we had the instinct or the
willingness to try to do that for our families benefit
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or survival. At the same time, it's coming at the
expense of people who are already living here in this country,
which is creating the issue.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'm glad that you called Andy, because this is quite
interesting to get this perspective on it. Do you think
that the companies that are not doing it your way
and making sure that their workers are all legitimately at
least here through a visa or a work permit for
a certain amount of months, those people should be also
held accountable for hiring people who are illegal immigrants because
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they know they can pay them less money.
Speaker 9 (36:39):
I've done this for forty years and I know how
the system works, and a lot of these people are everified.
If you know what that is they're Social Security numbers.
Check with the Social Security Administration. Most of these people
buy documentation they crossed the border, they work for X
amount of dollars, They buy documentary generally, and then they
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will everify. The employer has to be held accountable in
some way, but it's very hard to do because if
somebody comes to my place and apply for a job
they have and they have documentation that shows that they verify,
they supersede my guest workers. So I have to hire them.
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And I've had guys, For example, I hired two guys
here this last summer that when I paid them, they verified.
When I paid them, they said, you underpaid me by
three hundred dollars. I said, no, we didn't. We had
to pay your child back child support. And they said,
we don't have children. We would never treat our children
that way. And then I said, well, then you must
(37:46):
not be the person you claimed to be, so I'm sorry, but.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
I have to fire you.
Speaker 9 (37:50):
And they walked out saying we'll buy a better documentation
the next time. This is the way the system works.
There's a corruption on all around. And then include the
Social Security Administration. Don't you think that they know there's
multiple people paying Social Security on the same number.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yeah, it's happening in the government. It's the whole thing
is corrupt. It could be straightened out with a few
rules and regulations and a guest worker program that work
for everybody.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Andy, good stuff. Really appreciate you, Conin, thanks for listening
to us.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Man, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Let's go to Kevin real quick before I hit the brake.
Here Kevin on our phone line at four h two,
five five, eight to eleven ten. Kevin, you're on eleven ten, kfab.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (38:34):
I'm just tired of the last four years and just
the lawlessness that's gone on throughout our country. And I
think we have a new administration that we need to respect,
just like we have a new mayor that we need
to respect. Give him a chance. But I'm tired of
the Democrats. They lie, they cheat, they cause antinomianism in
(38:56):
our culture, and I'm just tired of it. And I
like what Trump is doing right.
Speaker 8 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well, yeah, and I appreciate the call.
Speaker 8 (39:03):
Kevin.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Thanks for listening to the show today. I like that attitude.
We have to understand that this is how our republic works.
We vote for people to be in certain offices, and
we may not always like the result, but at a
certain point we have to understand they are going to
do what they said they would do. This is something
Trump said he was going to do. This is something
(39:23):
Republicans and leadership said they wanted to do when they
got into power. They are in power now. People want
to fight back against the side that they do not like.
We've seen that happen on both sides. That's just reality.
We have to stay the course and we have to
see what the world looks like after this. And no
Democrat is ever going to give Donald Trump any credit
(39:44):
for anything but objectively, this could make America a better
and safer place if we have better rules, we have
better systems in place, and we're eradicating anyone who's trying
to abuse our systems, commit crimes, come into this country illegally. No,
that's against our laws. That's all that this is really about.
Keith ron and I might have time for one more
(40:07):
after that. We'll get We'll see how much time I have,
but we'll take your phone calls at four h two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten here until the bottom of the
hour here on news radio eleven ten KFAB and raise Dona.
I'm getting your thoughts. I have time for three more
calls bottom of the hour, changing gears a bit. Have
a chance to make a huge announcement about a trip
I got coming up that I want you to be
a part of. But first, let's get to those phone
(40:28):
lines about what's going on in Omaha today and around
the country as well. Let's start with Keith on our
phone line at four two, five, five, eight to eleven ten. Keith,
Welcome to eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 7 (40:39):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (40:39):
Hey.
Speaker 16 (40:39):
I always go with a five percent rule. In other words,
pretty much five percent of the population are bad people.
We got about five percent of the people in the
United States that are in jail. So therefore, if we
let ten to fifteen million illegals in, five percent of
those roughly are gonna be bad people. So we have
(41:01):
approximately five hundred to seven hundred and fifty thousand bad
people in our United States because of the last administration,
or even the previous one when the Democrats wouldn't allow
Trump to shut down the border.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
Point being is, we got a lot of people.
Speaker 16 (41:18):
In here that are not very happy with us.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Yeah, and I got to be honest with you when
you put those numbers to it. It kind of puts
it in perspective better, Keith. It's just kind of like, Wow,
that isn't actual like a huge amount of people. When
you think about just even how many are living in Omaha.
That's five hundred thousand people, right, and you talk about
what ten percent, even five percent, ten percent of the
population is you know, we're talking fifteen thirty million people
(41:43):
so of the United States. Wild stuff to say the least.
I appreciate the call, Keith. Thanks for the perspective today.
Speaker 8 (41:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
Let's go jump to Ron on a phone line four two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Welcome in Ron. What's on your
mind today?
Speaker 12 (41:55):
Yeah, I'm an old history teacher and I just want
to point out people saying there's been no president for
this kind of stuff. For the president setting you know,
military and to put down disturbances of this type of
thing just quickly. Washington, George Washington put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
He led the army himself into Pennsylvania. Jackson, the Cherokeys
that moved into Oklahoma, and the trailer of tears. Buchanan
(42:18):
put down John Brown. Lincoln had put down a draft riss.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
In New York City.
Speaker 6 (42:23):
Grant kicked the snot.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
Out of KKK. In the South, Grover Cleveland put down
the railroad riots, railroad strikes. After r put down the
Bonus Army and burned him out of Washington, d C.
Eisenhower sent the hundred person everyone to the Little Rock,
forced him to take kids into.
Speaker 6 (42:39):
The Central you know.
Speaker 12 (42:40):
Johnathan Selmam marched Kent Nixon the Kent State Riot, Bush
l e Riots nineteen ninety two for nineteen sent the
Marines in to put down right.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Sure, yeah, so what's wrong? What you're saying is this
has happened a lot. There's been a lot of president
on this ton of Yeah.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
I'm like, I'm glad that you added that perspective to
is Ron, because people live in the moment way too much.
There's way too much hyperbole going on, people saying this
stuff is unprecedented. Almost nothing that we see in American
history is unprecedented, and that goes for a lot of stuff.
I appreciate the call today, man, really appreciate you listening. Yeah,
so I just go read a history book or take
(43:22):
a class. I love American history. Take a class with
a guy like Ron, and you'll be able to understand
that a lot of the stuff that has happened, it's
not that necessarily different or new, is something that did
happen really not all that long ago historically. I did
want to mention also, all we know about the troops
that have been deployed aren't to do anything other than
to make law enforcement safe in doing their job or
(43:45):
whatever job they've been instructed to do. Even though it
sounds like they're not arresting anybody, but they're still trying
to at least contain where the people are in Los Angeles,
the military that's been sent there. It may be a
show of intimidation in some case, is if you want
to look at it that way. My understanding is that
they are there to occupy federal buildings and to make
(44:07):
people in law enforcement feel safe in doing their jobs.
But they're not going to be doing any law enforcement themselves,
So there happens to be I think just a lot
of showmanship with this, and because we're not getting a
lot of transparency on why these troops are being sent
there except oh, well, they are there to try to
help solve these riotous problems. You know. I'm of the
(44:30):
belief that maybe we should just like California, deal with
California's problems. But alas you know, I'm not the President
of the United States or the Secretary of Defense. As
far as what California is actually attempting to do and
what their government says, the United States federal government is
overreaching with their deployment of National guardsmen and marines. Makes
(44:51):
it you kind of understand that this is a lot
more political war and battle over who is going to
stand down first, like Gavin Newsom in the state of
California and the Democrats that he is representing here, or
is it going to be the side of what we
consider to be law and order and the Republicans and
(45:12):
the federal government at least the way the federal government
looks right now, should be interesting to see how it
plays out. And I'm not sure we're going to get
anybody who's a true winner of this considering what we're
talking about. Taking place. Last caller on this at least
for now, is Jeff. Jeff, appreciate you being on the
phone lines today on eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Hey guys, Hey, just one thing. I mean, I've been
listening to your show all afternoon. I'm on my way
to go play golf. But first I just want to say,
let's keep our local policemen and sheriffs and everybody in
our prayers. Okay, I don't know what, you know, what's
going to happen here, but you know, I changed my
(45:53):
subject because I wanted to originally talk about the one
gentleman that called about the e verify and how they're
finding falsifying documents and all that stuff. Well, what do
you think DOJE was looking for when they said we
need to get more information from, you know, for Social
(46:13):
Security numbers, and everybody was having a rage and sit
about it. Same thing with Medicare, and it caused a
ruckus with like my mom who's eighty three years old.
She's like, oh my god, they're going to take my Mike.
Speaker 8 (46:25):
Mom.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
They're not going to take anybody's Medicare. But the falsifying
of documents is causing a huge issue with this stuff,
and I think that's part of the problem.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, and no doubt, jeff In, it's hard to talk
or track that stuff because we're just not used to
that happening in our regular life. We don't know how
it's possible that it happens because we're not trying to
do it. The last time a lot of people have
falsified the document is when they bought a fake ID
when they were seventeen years old, right, So I know exactly.
We just don't have a lot of there's not a
lot of like firsthand experience with this, and I think
(46:57):
that's why part of this, that part of this DISCUSSI
which should be a major part of it as to
why and how it's happening. It is something that needs
to be a bigger issue. It's just people don't quite
understand how that is even able to happen. I appreciate
you shining light on that today.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Jeff, Thanks buddy. You guys have a great day, man.
I love you guys.
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