June 11, 2025 • 33 mins
The immigration crisis at our southern border has become one of America's most divisive political battlegrounds—but what if both sides are missing the obvious solution? Drawing from personal experience living in Southern Arizona and working alongside immigrant communities, I break down why current approaches from both Democrats and Republicans are fundamentally flawed.
When riots break out in Los Angeles with protesters waving Mexican flags and destroying property, it's easy to understand the call for stronger enforcement. Yet the Republican fantasy of "rounding up" 20 million undocumented immigrants ignores basic reality—even the most oppressive regimes in history couldn't accomplish such a feat. Meanwhile, Democrats who dismiss legitimate security concerns or pretend illegal immigration has no negative consequences are equally disconnected from reality.
The solution? A pragmatic "orange card" program that brings undocumented immigrants who arrived before a specific date into the legal system—allowing them to work, pay taxes, and live openly—but without a path to citizenship or voting rights. This addresses Republican concerns about changing voting demographics while recognizing the demographic reality that America's aging population needs more workers to support our welfare state.
For future immigration, I propose unlimited green cards for those who meet three simple criteria: financial self-sufficiency, no criminal record, and good health. This recognizes that Latino immigrants, contrary to Republican fears, often align with conservative values due to their predominantly Catholic, pro-life beliefs.
The missing piece in this puzzle is ending the failed War on Drugs, which has cost over a trillion dollars without stopping the flow of narcotics (even into our prisons). By redirecting those resources toward catching actual violent criminals at the border, we could create a system that works for everyone.
Our immigration debate doesn't need more shouting—it needs adults willing to acknowledge reality and find practical trade-offs. Listen in as I break down why both parties need to pull their heads out of their collective posteriors and embrace solutions that actually work.
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Good morning dudes and dudettes.
It is me, herbie, your host atA Radical Reset, the home of
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A Radical Reset Okay, the ad'sout of the way.
I'll throw in a share this witheverybody and let's talk about
what's going on in Los Angelesand let's talk about immigration
again.
And let's talk about why bothpolitical parties have their
heads so far up their asses theycan't breathe.
Both parties.
This is one of those cases wherenobody's right, okay.
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So let's start with theimmediate issue, which is the
protests in Los Angelesthemselves.
Then let's talk about theunderlying causation and what
can be done about it, ifanything.
Okay.
So let's begin with what'sgoing on in Los Angeles In that
particular case.
Listen, when they start riotingand waving the Mexican flag in
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the United States, they beingwhoever these people are and I
suspect a lot of them are paidby various anti-American groups
out of the country I would sayand I'm not saying that to be
paranoid.
It's just that this is theworld we live in.
That may or may not be true.
That's an unfounded allegation,but whether it's true or it's
not, waving the Mexican flag andburning Waymo vehicles and
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throwing rocks down fromoverpasses at police cars and
all the other things they'redoing is Trump is 100% right.
Local police, by the way, arenot designed to handle this kind
of thing.
But the only police force inthe United States that can
handle something as big aswhat's going on in Los Angeles
major riots is New York City.
New York City has a policeforce that's structured for that
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, but in Los Angeles they'rejust not.
And it's completely appropriatefor the president to send in
the National Guard, and I'llexplain why.
The Democrats have their headsup their asses on this.
But if there is an award forpolitical malpractice in the
short term, it would go to theDemocrats for being so stupid as
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to play into Donald Trump'shands.
That's all I have to say.
And of course, I'll tell youwhat Trump's thinking about.
He's not planning aninsurrection.
Let's not let our left-wingheads explode, any more than
we're going to let ourright-wing heads explode with
stupidity.
He's doing this because heremembers the riots that were
taking place during the Bidenpresidency in Portland and in
Seattle and in New York City,with the Wall Street nonsense
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and all.
He's just not going to have it.
And there is a long history ofthe president calling in federal
troops to put down localrioting slash.
Call it what you want, Use thewords you want.
I'm not going to use any ofthese inflammatory words because
they're all just hyperbole.
You know, this is not aninsurrection, this is a riot.
But anyway, having said all ofthat, he's completely in the
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right.
I mean, let me just think ofwho I'm thinking of Douglas
MacArthur.
General MacArthur made his fame, at least, or made his
reputation, by leading federaltroops to displace people that
were squatting on federalproperty during the Great
Depression and the Hooverpresidency.
I mean, there's a long historyof this.
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There's nothing unusual aboutany of this, about any of this,
and that the Democrats aremaking an issue out of it is.
You might as well just plan togive up power for a very long
time with this kind of stupidity.
But now let's step back fromthis.
I spoke to my solution onimmigration a while back and
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I'll restate that in just aminute for those of you who
missed that podcast.
But before I get into thesolution, or let me say, a
better trade-off, because, asThomas Sowell, the greatest
living economist in the UnitedStates and I think the world,
says, there are no solutions,only trade-offs, which is
absolutely true, there is abetter trade-off here and I will
explain what it is again in aminute.
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I did a few episodes ago, butthis is a tiny podcast and it
bears repetition.
So let's go do that.
But before I do that, let metell you why both sides have
their heads up their asses.
Okay, first of all, I'm going tostart with why the Republicans
have their heads up their asses.
Okay, the Republicansunderlying all of this storm and
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drang is number one.
They consistently keeprepeating.
But the illegal aliens are allcriminals because they broke the
law to come into the UnitedStates.
Okay, so let's just throw thehypocrisy flag on that one.
Let's pretend we're in afootball game.
I'm throwing the hypocrisy, thebrown bullshit flag of penalty
on that one.
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Look, this is not some plot toget Democratic voters
Republicans okay, which is Iknow what you think it is.
But people who aren't citizenscan't vote, and if they do vote,
it's because local authoritiesare dumb enough to let them
without IDs, and that's a wholenother debate.
But no citizen is allowed, nonon-citizen.
It's already against the lawfor a non-citizen to vote in the
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United States.
Further, if you Republicans areworried that when these people
do become somehow magicalcitizens even though they're
illegal and have no path tocitizenship, but let's just
pretend that magically they wereable to vote in elections, I
hate to break this to you guys,but Latinos vote Republican as
often as they vote Democrat andincreasingly more Republican,
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and I'll explain to you why.
And I explain this to you as aperson who I speak fluent
Spanish.
I live in Southern Arizona.
I've worked around Latinos,legal and illegal, virtually all
of my life.
During the summers of my youth,I worked in the packing houses
of Fresno, loading trucks andpicking tomatoes and bell
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peppers, right alongside illegalaliens by the thousands.
I have firsthand experiencewith this.
I know what I'm talking about.
They are deeply Roman Catholicpeople, they are absolutely
anti-abortion and they arenatural Republican voters.
I'm sorry but it's true.
And instead of whining aboutthis, they're trying to foist,
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you know, illegal voting on us.
If Republicans would simply getover it, as President Trump has
to his credit, and embrace thoseLatinos that are here legally
and are able to vote, theyincreasingly vote Republican.
This is not, and this is whythe Democrats are stupid.
I think there are a lot ofDemocrats who really do think
they're going to create a voterblock out of this somehow, some
magical way, and they're just asstupid Because as long as they
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advocate for abortion up untilthe final month of pregnancy,
that you can abort a child up tothe point it's coming out of
its mother's vagina, then youare going to lose that debate
with Latino people and RomanCatholic people and people that
are anti-abortion.
By the way, I want to make thisclear I'm pro-choice, with
reasonable restrictions.
Just want to make that clear.
When I say reasonablerestrictions, I think the moment
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that baby becomes viable,that's it.
Time's up.
You don't get whether that's 15weeks or 10 weeks or whatever
it is.
There's got to be.
You know when the baby becomesand I realize that whole
argument.
I'm not going to go down theabortion train.
I'm just pointing out thatpro-life voters, anti-abortion
voters, are going to beRepublican, and that's a lot of
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Latinos, if not most Latinos.
So, republicans, calm down, calmdown.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two yes, they both brokethe law coming here.
But do you really thinkRepublicans pull your head out
of your ass here?
How are we going to hunt down20 million people?
How exactly are we going toaccomplish that?
Ice doesn't have enough agentsand neither does the military.
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There are about two and a halfmillion people in uniform today
around the world for the UnitedStates, and two-thirds of those
work in support.
You know supply and repair andall the things you know.
You don't just send everybodyinto battle with nothing behind
them.
Almost everybody supports thevery smaller, the much smaller
number of troops that areactually fighting the war itself
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.
So we just don't have enoughpeople to come here and hunt
down 20 million people.
Even if we took the entirearmed forces two and a half
million people they're not goingto all chase down 10 to 1 ratio
from themselves if we pull themout of every base in the world
and send them out.
This is just stupid.
Okay, it's stupid, stupid,stupid.
Hitler.
Hitler, for Christ's sake.
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When in May of 1945, when thewar was over, world War II was
over and Berlin lied in rubbleand finally people could come
out of hiding, there were over5,000 Jews still in Berlin.
Now, if the Nazis can't huntdown all the Jews in Germany
during the Holocaust.
What makes anybody here thinkwe're going to hunt down 20
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million people as aconstitutional republic?
And if you think that we'regoing to suspend the
Constitution, then you're abigger idiot yet.
Ok, so we're not.
This is not.
This is very much akin to thedrug war, and that and these two
issues are directly connectedno-transcript minds.
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What is wrong with you?
And there are this mouthingstatistics that, for example,
illegal immigrants are by andlarge, more law-abiding than the
legal immigrants that are here.
That's probably true, but it'sirrelevant to the family of Lake
and Riley and people like herwho were killed by illegal
immigrants.
And the fact of the matter is,if the border was being properly
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enforced, lake and Riley andpeople like her would be alive
today.
So this argument you make forbasically, leave them all here
and stop worrying about it, andit ices inciting the problem.
Your heads are up your asses.
Pull it out.
This is a loser.
You want to ever have poweragain?
Stop it.
Stop it.
There's no way to make thatreasonable.
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That's stupid.
Okay, now let's talk likeadults.
Now can we all?
I know I'm getting a littleloud here.
Let's calm down and talk likegrownups.
There is Thomas Sowell Again.
I'm citing Thomas Sowell, bythe way.
I cite him a lot because I justI've read, if not everything
he's written, almost everythinghe's written, and I just don't
disagree with a word of it.
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I don't know what else to say.
Anyway, and he is smarter thanme and I always respect those
who have bigger brains than me,and he has a bigger brain than
me.
One of the things he says isthat before we do anything in
government in particular, thereare three questions that have to
be asked.
In particular, there are threequestions that have to be asked.
Whenever you present a newsolution if you want to call it
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that, or a new trade-off, as Icall it and Thomas Sowell calls
it you have to ask threequestions.
The first question is ascompared to what?
So when the Republicans saywe're going to round them all up
, as compared to what?
When has anybody ever roundedup the illegal population?
And, as I cited, not evenHitler could do it.
It's never happened.
There is no historic example ofrounding up illegal populations
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already in the countrysuccessfully in any country at
any time in the world in history.
Feel free to fact check me onthis.
So to sit there and think we'regoing to be the first in a
constitutional republic andrespect the constitution as it's
written is nonsense.
We couldn't do it if we wereNazis, let alone a
constitutional republic.
So just get over it.
And that's where it stops.
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The other two questions are solet's pretend that you're a big
enough dummy to believe that wesomehow are going to think up
the formula to do it.
Okay, show me your data, showme any supporting data, any
research, any properly conductedstudies that would tend to make
me at least think there's apossibility that we can round up
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millions and millions ofillegal aliens.
And there is no data.
So there's no prior history ofthis being successfully done.
There is no data that wouldsupport the way we're doing it
being better, since thegovernment.
Basically, let's be honest,folks and I'm going to talk to
you like grownups here, I'mgoing to use a bad word but the
government fucks up everythingit touches.
It just doesn't do anythingwell because it has no incentive
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to do anything well, becauseit's a bureaucracy.
Forget it, it's not going tohappen.
And, of course, the thirdquestion would be what's this
going to cost?
And we have spent, betweenillegal immigration and the drug
war over a trillion dollars,not stopping anything over the
years.
So what do you say?
We talk like reasonable adultsabout a reasonable solution that
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both sides can learn to livewith if they stop behaving like
children.
So let's start with thispremise we have to have a
strongly enforced border, but wecannot round up the illegals
that are already here, becauseit is literally impossible.
That is a factual statement.
Now what do we do about it?
Number one we declare anamnesty.
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Look, put aside the immigrationissue just for a minute and the
voting issue just for a minute,and let's just look at
demographics.
The average American family isnot having enough children to
replace itself.
We are dying at a faster ratethan we are giving birth.
Therefore, we have, over not avery long period of time, people
grow up fast and becometaxpayers in 18 years, typically
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speaking.
So here's the thing we don'thave enough taxpayers to support
the welfare state that we'veestablished and that most people
like.
When I say the welfare state,I'm talking primarily Social
Security and Medicare.
Social Security and Medicareare unsupportable without an
increasing population, and wedon't have it.
And there's no.
You know President Trump'sproposing the $1,000 savings
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account.
That's all again, as comparedto what is the question on that
one?
Okay, as compared to what?
When has a program like thatever succeeded in increasing the
birth rate?
And I'll save you guys a lot ofresearch, because I've already
looked Never.
It doesn't work.
It's not going to work.
It's not going to work thistime.
It's been tried.
It's not going to.
It doesn't work.
You can't bribe people with athousand dollars in a tax
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deferred account to havechildren.
I don't know.
I don't know what nonsense isgoing through Trump's head, but
that's a very nice thing.
But we're depositing money wedon't have we're already in a
huge deficit into an account tosupport the birth of children,
when the solution is sittingright in front of you, president
Trump and all of us.
It's the illegal immigrants thatare here.
Just because they came in anddid bad doesn't mean they can't
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do good down the road.
I speak to this as anex-convict myself.
I did something very, very bad,but does that mean that I'm bad
for the rest of my life?
Maybe some of you think thatthat's true, that I'm rotten to
the core, in which case Godbless you, but most reasonable
people would say I made ahorrible mistake, I paid a price
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for it.
I served my time and I haveknow.
I have four children, I havegrandchildren, I have friends.
You know I live a productive,good life these days.
Now that doesn't erase whatI've done and it's not an excuse
and I'm not weaseling out of itthose of you who listen to me
regularly know that but it alsodoesn't mean that I can't do
good going forward.
Well, the same thing's trueabout illegals.
They came here breaking the lawbut come on, now grow up.
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We all break the law.
Jaywalk have littered in ourpast.
When I say litter, I'm nottalking about throwing the
McDonald's back out the window.
I'm saying, like spitting outgum on the sidewalk, that's
littering.
I mean, we all break the law inlittle ways.
And yeah, crossing the borderillegally is a bigger break of
the law than spitting gum on thesidewalk, but it's still
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breaking the law.
We all break the law all thetime.
You're supposed to stop on aright turn on red before you
proceed.
How many of us have just gone?
How many of us eased throughstoplights?
How many eased through stopsigns?
I should say I mean, come on,we all break the law all the
time.
So these people broke the lawcoming in, but now the time.
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So these people broke the lawcoming in, but now they're here
and we're not going to roundthem up because, again, as
compared to what it's not goingto happen.
So let's declare an amnesty andwe pick a day.
That's the cutoff day.
So, as I described earlier,let's just pretend right now it
is June, the 11th of 2025.
So let's say that we passed thelaw at the end of this month.
Um, so we set it for June 30th.
If you can prove you're in theUnited States prior to June 30th
of 2025, okay, it has to be adate before the plan is
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announced, otherwise you'llcreate a rush to the border.
That's called creating aperverse incentive.
So you have to set a date.
You can say June 1st in arrears, if you can prove you're in the
country prior to that date.
And you can prove it all kindsof ways.
You can have a pay stub.
You can have an affidavit fromyour employer that's notarized.
You can have a utility bill.
You can have a rent bill.
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There's all kinds of ways.
Vehicle registration there's amillion ways that you can prove
that you were in the country.
You don't have to prove if youwere illegal.
Everyone knows you're illegalwhen you're doing this, but
prove that you were in thecountry.
If you were in the country priorto the cutoff date, which means
you didn't just come to takeadvantage of the amnesty, you're
already here, you should begiven a blanket amnesty.
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You're not guilty of anythinganymore.
You're pardoned the way Bidenpardoned Hunter.
But instead of getting a greencard, you get an orange card.
Biden pardoned Hunter, butinstead of getting a green card,
you get an orange card.
Now, the orange card is theprice you pay for the amnesty,
which is to say you're nevergoing to be allowed to vote and
you're never going to be allowedto be a citizen.
As a holder of an orange card,you're allowed to work here.
You're allowed to buy propertyand sell property.
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You're allowed to live here therest of your life.
You're allowed to contribute toSocial Security and benefit
from it.
As long as you're contributory,you have all the rights of a
paying American citizen who paystheir taxes, except that you're
not a citizen and you cannotvote.
Now, if you want to be acitizen, you can expatriate
yourself and come back in thegreen card process, which I'll
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talk about in just one second.
I want to reform that at thesame time, but by the stroke of
a pen, we've made all of theserough, let's say.
No one really knows how many,but let's just use the number
that's bandied about so much.
These 20 million people areinstantly legal Now.
They're instantly paying moretaxes.
They're instantly participatory, they're instantly buying
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property.
They're instantly doing all thethings they had to hide out and
not do.
They can walk into a normal cardealership, not the payday
payment one on the corner.
You know that doesn't care if,as long as you're breathing,
they'll take your money.
But they can walk into aregular Ford or GM dealership
and buy a normal.
You know, do everything.
They can go.
They can open bank accounts.
They can send money back toMexico.
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You know, nice and easy.
It's all advantages, nodisadvantages, because they're
expanding our tax base andsupporting our welfare state.
They can also leave the countryand come back.
One of the reasons that so manyillegals are in the country at
any given moment is because whenyou're illegal, you can't leave
the country and come backwithout taking a chance that you
won't be able to get back.
So by giving them an orangecard if they want to go back
down, if they want to work here,let's say they're in the
agricultural business.
My family is in theagricultural business, as I
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alluded earlier, and the growingseason is not 12 months a year,
unless you want to travel withthe growing season like Cider
House Rules.
If you've ever read that book,it's a wonderful book.
But anyway, you can expatriateyourself, go back down to Mexico
, live with your family, yada,yada, yada, and come back next
year for the next tomato pickingseason in California or
whatever it might be.
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A lot of fruits and vegetablescan't be machine-picked, guys.
I hate to break it to you.
Tomatoes crush real easy.
Think about it.
So I'm just using that as oneexample.
And, by the way, no American atany price is going to do that,
unless you want to pay $20 apound for tomatoes.
Shut up, grow up Strawberries.
Do you like strawberries?
They can't be machine picked.
Okay, just throwing it outthere.
So the bottom line is they're abenefit, except for this
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technicality and I realize howserious it was they crossed the
border, but they're here.
It's a reality.
And now I'm going to talk aboutwhy the drug war links up.
Here, it's a reality.
And now I'm going to talk aboutwhy the drug war links up.
We only have X number ofdollars to spend on border
enforcement and drug enforcement, which are largely the same
thing.
In one case you're stoppinghuman trafficking, in the other
case you're stopping drugtrafficking.
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But it's mostly the sameprocedures, the same searches
and a lot of times there's a lotof crossover.
You know they'll stop somebodyfor drugs and they'll find
illegals, and they'll stopsomebody for illegals and
they'll find drugs.
It's all mixed up together andagain back to as compared to
what, there has never been asuccessful prohibition of
anything in the history ofmankind.
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If the public wants something,they're going to get it.
The drug war is stupid, stupid,stupid.
We've spent on it alone over atrillion dollars since it
started in 1971, and we haven'tstopped drugs.
Oh, they arrest this one andthey arrest that one.
In the broad scheme of things,it means nothing.
We created the fentanyl market,by the way, we being the law
enforcement of the United Statesbecause fentanyl is much easier
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to transport than heroin.
You get much more bang in amuch smaller package, and it all
comes about as a result of drugenforcement that if it weren't
there, the fentanyl crisis wouldtake care of itself.
Okay, what I'm saying is and Iwas in prison with.
80 to 90% of the people I wasin prison with didn't belong in
prison in normal, in in inrational circumstances.
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In other words, all of theircrimes were drug related.
Now they might be there forassault and battery and they
might be there for armed robbery, but these are all drug crimes
because they are all takingplace because of the illegal
nature of drugs.
By making drugs illegal, we makethem artificially expensive but
otherwise would be cheap.
Therefore, the addicts, who arewasted, frankly, most of the
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time and don't make enough money, feel that they're forced to
steal.
Now I know that's wrong and Iknow you Republicans are
screaming that's wrong, that'swrong and it's a problem with
their morality.
But let's get a grip on reality, not morality.
Reality and the reality isthese are people that are
self-medicating self-loathing.
That's what addiction is.
Addiction is theself-medication of self-loathing
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.
We're not going to make thatillegal.
How about we treat them likewhat they are, which are people
with a severe mental andemotional health problem, and
spend some money much less thanwe're spending now on
first-class rehab, and meanwhilelet people do their drug?
Look, if a person wants to gointo the privacy of their home
and drug themselves intooblivion, it's their business,
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so long as they're not affectingtheir children or even, most of
the times, they won't even havechildren and they're not
affecting driving a car.
If they're sitting home aloneshooting up heroin, who cares?
I'm not saying this to be funny.
They should be able to go downto Walgreens or CVS and buy
their heroin, properly cut, andtheir sterile needles if they're
mainlining, or smoke it if theyprefer.
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Yes, people do smoke heroin,guys.
I'm just going to tell you it'snot all mainlining.
A lot of addicts don't like theidea of sticking needles in
their arms.
I digress, I only know thisbecause in my whole life I never
saw heroin in real life until Iwent to prison.
Then I saw it every day.
We can't even control drugs inprison.
In Kingman Prison, where I wasstationed I said stationed
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because I'm also a veteran whereI was placed for the last
roughly two years of my littleover four-year sentence, I got
to know the cartel guys prettywell.
I speak fluent Spanish, like Itold you, and I can tell you
that there was about $3.5million a year worth of drugs
coming through Kingman Prison.
$3.5 million a year and apopulation of 1,800 inmates.
Let's think about that for aminute.
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Okay, and this is a fact.
This is not a supposition, thisis a firsthand fact.
I know this for a fact andwe're just not going to stop it.
So we only have a dollar tospend.
We're already spending moremoney than we have.
What if we stop spending it onwhat can't succeed?
The drug war cannot succeed.
Rounding up 20 million peoplecannot succeed.
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What can succeed is bringingthe 20 million people into the
sunlight and making drugs legal,so that we can concentrate our
resources that are limited bythe very fact that money is not
unlimited and concentrate on thereal criminals, the people that
killed the Lake and Riley's.
If we can concentrate ourresources on the genuine, we can
round up 100,000 criminalsacross the United States or so
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that got in illegally withhorrible crimes.
That's what we're reallytalking about here.
The other 19,900,000 or 700,000, whatever, let's not split
hairs.
The overwhelming majority ofthese people aren't committing
crimes and they just want tolive their lives.
Let's stop chasing them down atall.
Leave them alone.
Give them their orange card.
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Now let's move along and talkabout the green card.
We need immigrants and we'revery, very fortunate.
Once again, the United Statesis lucky because the healthiest
demographics in the world are inLatin America.
It's a very young population.
Not only should we let themcome, we want them to come.
The green card should beunlimited, with no quotas, so
long as the following are true.
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Number one you can come herewithout any money given to you.
In other words, you have enoughmoney Instead of spending
$3,000 or $4,000 or $5,000 on acoyote coyote, by the way, are
the guys that are the humansmugglers that bring these
people across the border Insteadof spending the money on that,
you come here with your three orfour or $5,000 and you support
yourself while you go out andget yourself a job.
You don't need anything.
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You're coming here to work.
You have the means to come hereto work.
That's number one.
Number two you don't have acriminal record in the country
you're coming from, whether it'sMexico or El Salvador or
Columbia or wherever it is.
And number three, you'rehealthy.
You're not carrying anycommunicable diseases.
Otherwise, you should beallowed to come and work as many
as want to come, and you know.
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As far as the welfare situationgoes, that's the choice of a
state.
Welfare should be a state-runprogram, and if your state's
dumb enough to hang out the freeshit here sign to immigrants,
then they deserve what they get.
There should be no federalwelfare program because it's so
stupid it doesn't work.
But if your state wants to keeptrying it, that's fine, okay,
because states can't print money, so that limits the damage they
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can do.
And I understand myconversation here is far ranging
, but that's my nature, you'lllearn as you listen to me.
But anyway, a rational adultlet's sum this up and close out
the podcast A rational adultwould legalize drugs, declare an
amnesty with an orange card,like I said, bring them all into
the sunshine, okay, and thenconcentrate our resources on
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stopping the real bad guys andthe world would be a better and
happier place.
And the Republicans would behappy because all of these green
card people coming in when theylived here five years and they
become citizens and they'veworked themselves up and they're
making a good living andeverything's great they're going
to, most of the time, beRepublican voters anyway,
because they're anti-abortionand the Democrats are not going
to abandon choice, ok, it's justnot going to happen.
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So grow up is the word of theday.
Grow up let's talk about thislike adults, not like children.
With our fingers in our ears Onboth sides, everyone sounds
like a bunch of idiots.
It's just, it is mind boggling.
Oh, one more thing.
One more thing I want tocomment on before I close out
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today, about immigration.
We need to get rid ofbilingualism Now.
I've told you that I speakfluent Spanish.
In fact, I spoke Spanish beforeI spoke English, because my
mother, who had divorced mynatural father, had a degree in
Spanish with a minor in French.
Language runs in my family.
My sister has a degree inArabic and Middle Eastern
Studies, just to give you anidea, and I was a Russian
linguist at the NationalSecurity Agency.
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We pick up language easy in ourfamily.
It's like a genetic thing.
But anyway, my mother went towork at Miami Beach Federal
Savings and Loan which is nolonger there, but it used to be
and she was the bilingual tellerin those days and she hired a
Cuban housekeeper to take careof me and I was just Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Good morning dudes and dudettes.
It is me, herbie, your host atA Radical Reset, the home of
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A Radical Reset Okay, the ad'sout of the way.
I'll throw in a share this witheverybody and let's talk about
what's going on in Los Angelesand let's talk about immigration
again.
And let's talk about why bothpolitical parties have their
heads so far up their asses theycan't breathe.
Both parties.
This is one of those cases wherenobody's right, okay.
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So let's start with theimmediate issue, which is the
protests in Los Angelesthemselves.
Then let's talk about theunderlying causation and what
can be done about it, ifanything.
Okay.
So let's begin with what'sgoing on in Los Angeles In that
particular case.
Listen, when they start riotingand waving the Mexican flag in
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the United States, they beingwhoever these people are and I
suspect a lot of them are paidby various anti-American groups
out of the country I would sayand I'm not saying that to be
paranoid.
It's just that this is theworld we live in.
That may or may not be true.
That's an unfounded allegation,but whether it's true or it's
not, waving the Mexican flag andburning Waymo vehicles and
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throwing rocks down fromoverpasses at police cars and
all the other things they'redoing is Trump is 100% right.
Local police, by the way, arenot designed to handle this kind
of thing.
But the only police force inthe United States that can
handle something as big aswhat's going on in Los Angeles
major riots is New York City.
New York City has a policeforce that's structured for that
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, but in Los Angeles they'rejust not.
And it's completely appropriatefor the president to send in
the National Guard, and I'llexplain why.
The Democrats have their headsup their asses on this.
But if there is an award forpolitical malpractice in the
short term, it would go to theDemocrats for being so stupid as
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to play into Donald Trump'shands.
That's all I have to say.
And of course, I'll tell youwhat Trump's thinking about.
He's not planning aninsurrection.
Let's not let our left-wingheads explode, any more than
we're going to let ourright-wing heads explode with
stupidity.
He's doing this because heremembers the riots that were
taking place during the Bidenpresidency in Portland and in
Seattle and in New York City,with the Wall Street nonsense
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and all.
He's just not going to have it.
And there is a long history ofthe president calling in federal
troops to put down localrioting slash.
Call it what you want, Use thewords you want.
I'm not going to use any ofthese inflammatory words because
they're all just hyperbole.
You know, this is not aninsurrection, this is a riot.
But anyway, having said all ofthat, he's completely in the
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right.
I mean, let me just think ofwho I'm thinking of Douglas
MacArthur.
General MacArthur made his fame, at least, or made his
reputation, by leading federaltroops to displace people that
were squatting on federalproperty during the Great
Depression and the Hooverpresidency.
I mean, there's a long historyof this.
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There's nothing unusual aboutany of this, about any of this,
and that the Democrats aremaking an issue out of it is.
You might as well just plan togive up power for a very long
time with this kind of stupidity.
But now let's step back fromthis.
I spoke to my solution onimmigration a while back and
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I'll restate that in just aminute for those of you who
missed that podcast.
But before I get into thesolution, or let me say, a
better trade-off, because, asThomas Sowell, the greatest
living economist in the UnitedStates and I think the world,
says, there are no solutions,only trade-offs, which is
absolutely true, there is abetter trade-off here and I will
explain what it is again in aminute.
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I did a few episodes ago, butthis is a tiny podcast and it
bears repetition.
So let's go do that.
But before I do that, let metell you why both sides have
their heads up their asses.
Okay, first of all, I'm going tostart with why the Republicans
have their heads up their asses.
Okay, the Republicansunderlying all of this storm and
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drang is number one.
They consistently keeprepeating.
But the illegal aliens are allcriminals because they broke the
law to come into the UnitedStates.
Okay, so let's just throw thehypocrisy flag on that one.
Let's pretend we're in afootball game.
I'm throwing the hypocrisy, thebrown bullshit flag of penalty
on that one.
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Look, this is not some plot toget Democratic voters
Republicans okay, which is Iknow what you think it is.
But people who aren't citizenscan't vote, and if they do vote,
it's because local authoritiesare dumb enough to let them
without IDs, and that's a wholenother debate.
But no citizen is allowed, nonon-citizen.
It's already against the lawfor a non-citizen to vote in the
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United States.
Further, if you Republicans areworried that when these people
do become somehow magicalcitizens even though they're
illegal and have no path tocitizenship, but let's just
pretend that magically they wereable to vote in elections, I
hate to break this to you guys,but Latinos vote Republican as
often as they vote Democrat andincreasingly more Republican,
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and I'll explain to you why.
And I explain this to you as aperson who I speak fluent
Spanish.
I live in Southern Arizona.
I've worked around Latinos,legal and illegal, virtually all
of my life.
During the summers of my youth,I worked in the packing houses
of Fresno, loading trucks andpicking tomatoes and bell
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peppers, right alongside illegalaliens by the thousands.
I have firsthand experiencewith this.
I know what I'm talking about.
They are deeply Roman Catholicpeople, they are absolutely
anti-abortion and they arenatural Republican voters.
I'm sorry but it's true.
And instead of whining aboutthis, they're trying to foist,
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you know, illegal voting on us.
If Republicans would simply getover it, as President Trump has
to his credit, and embrace thoseLatinos that are here legally
and are able to vote, theyincreasingly vote Republican.
This is not, and this is whythe Democrats are stupid.
I think there are a lot ofDemocrats who really do think
they're going to create a voterblock out of this somehow, some
magical way, and they're just asstupid Because as long as they
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advocate for abortion up untilthe final month of pregnancy,
that you can abort a child up tothe point it's coming out of
its mother's vagina, then youare going to lose that debate
with Latino people and RomanCatholic people and people that
are anti-abortion.
By the way, I want to make thisclear I'm pro-choice, with
reasonable restrictions.
Just want to make that clear.
When I say reasonablerestrictions, I think the moment
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that baby becomes viable,that's it.
Time's up.
You don't get whether that's 15weeks or 10 weeks or whatever
it is.
There's got to be.
You know when the baby becomesand I realize that whole
argument.
I'm not going to go down theabortion train.
I'm just pointing out thatpro-life voters, anti-abortion
voters, are going to beRepublican, and that's a lot of
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Latinos, if not most Latinos.
So, republicans, calm down, calmdown.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two yes, they both brokethe law coming here.
But do you really thinkRepublicans pull your head out
of your ass here?
How are we going to hunt down20 million people?
How exactly are we going toaccomplish that?
Ice doesn't have enough agentsand neither does the military.
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There are about two and a halfmillion people in uniform today
around the world for the UnitedStates, and two-thirds of those
work in support.
You know supply and repair andall the things you know.
You don't just send everybodyinto battle with nothing behind
them.
Almost everybody supports thevery smaller, the much smaller
number of troops that areactually fighting the war itself
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.
So we just don't have enoughpeople to come here and hunt
down 20 million people.
Even if we took the entirearmed forces two and a half
million people they're not goingto all chase down 10 to 1 ratio
from themselves if we pull themout of every base in the world
and send them out.
This is just stupid.
Okay, it's stupid, stupid,stupid.
Hitler.
Hitler, for Christ's sake.
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When in May of 1945, when thewar was over, world War II was
over and Berlin lied in rubbleand finally people could come
out of hiding, there were over5,000 Jews still in Berlin.
Now, if the Nazis can't huntdown all the Jews in Germany
during the Holocaust.
What makes anybody here thinkwe're going to hunt down 20
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million people as aconstitutional republic?
And if you think that we'regoing to suspend the
Constitution, then you're abigger idiot yet.
Ok, so we're not.
This is not.
This is very much akin to thedrug war, and that and these two
issues are directly connectedno-transcript minds.
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What is wrong with you?
And there are this mouthingstatistics that, for example,
illegal immigrants are by andlarge, more law-abiding than the
legal immigrants that are here.
That's probably true, but it'sirrelevant to the family of Lake
and Riley and people like herwho were killed by illegal
immigrants.
And the fact of the matter is,if the border was being properly
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enforced, lake and Riley andpeople like her would be alive
today.
So this argument you make forbasically, leave them all here
and stop worrying about it, andit ices inciting the problem.
Your heads are up your asses.
Pull it out.
This is a loser.
You want to ever have poweragain?
Stop it.
Stop it.
There's no way to make thatreasonable.
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That's stupid.
Okay, now let's talk likeadults.
Now can we all?
I know I'm getting a littleloud here.
Let's calm down and talk likegrownups.
There is Thomas Sowell Again.
I'm citing Thomas Sowell, bythe way.
I cite him a lot because I justI've read, if not everything
he's written, almost everythinghe's written, and I just don't
disagree with a word of it.
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I don't know what else to say.
Anyway, and he is smarter thanme and I always respect those
who have bigger brains than me,and he has a bigger brain than
me.
One of the things he says isthat before we do anything in
government in particular, thereare three questions that have to
be asked.
In particular, there are threequestions that have to be asked.
Whenever you present a newsolution if you want to call it
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that, or a new trade-off, as Icall it and Thomas Sowell calls
it you have to ask threequestions.
The first question is ascompared to what?
So when the Republicans saywe're going to round them all up
, as compared to what?
When has anybody ever roundedup the illegal population?
And, as I cited, not evenHitler could do it.
It's never happened.
There is no historic example ofrounding up illegal populations
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already in the countrysuccessfully in any country at
any time in the world in history.
Feel free to fact check me onthis.
So to sit there and think we'regoing to be the first in a
constitutional republic andrespect the constitution as it's
written is nonsense.
We couldn't do it if we wereNazis, let alone a
constitutional republic.
So just get over it.
And that's where it stops.
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The other two questions are solet's pretend that you're a big
enough dummy to believe that wesomehow are going to think up
the formula to do it.
Okay, show me your data, showme any supporting data, any
research, any properly conductedstudies that would tend to make
me at least think there's apossibility that we can round up
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millions and millions ofillegal aliens.
And there is no data.
So there's no prior history ofthis being successfully done.
There is no data that wouldsupport the way we're doing it
being better, since thegovernment.
Basically, let's be honest,folks and I'm going to talk to
you like grownups here, I'mgoing to use a bad word but the
government fucks up everythingit touches.
It just doesn't do anythingwell because it has no incentive
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to do anything well, becauseit's a bureaucracy.
Forget it, it's not going tohappen.
And, of course, the thirdquestion would be what's this
going to cost?
And we have spent, betweenillegal immigration and the drug
war over a trillion dollars,not stopping anything over the
years.
So what do you say?
We talk like reasonable adultsabout a reasonable solution that
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both sides can learn to livewith if they stop behaving like
children.
So let's start with thispremise we have to have a
strongly enforced border, but wecannot round up the illegals
that are already here, becauseit is literally impossible.
That is a factual statement.
Now what do we do about it?
Number one we declare anamnesty.
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Look, put aside the immigrationissue just for a minute and the
voting issue just for a minute,and let's just look at
demographics.
The average American family isnot having enough children to
replace itself.
We are dying at a faster ratethan we are giving birth.
Therefore, we have, over not avery long period of time, people
grow up fast and becometaxpayers in 18 years, typically
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speaking.
So here's the thing we don'thave enough taxpayers to support
the welfare state that we'veestablished and that most people
like.
When I say the welfare state,I'm talking primarily Social
Security and Medicare.
Social Security and Medicareare unsupportable without an
increasing population, and wedon't have it.
And there's no.
You know President Trump'sproposing the $1,000 savings
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account.
That's all again, as comparedto what is the question on that
one?
Okay, as compared to what?
When has a program like thatever succeeded in increasing the
birth rate?
And I'll save you guys a lot ofresearch, because I've already
looked Never.
It doesn't work.
It's not going to work.
It's not going to work thistime.
It's been tried.
It's not going to.
It doesn't work.
You can't bribe people with athousand dollars in a tax
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deferred account to havechildren.
I don't know.
I don't know what nonsense isgoing through Trump's head, but
that's a very nice thing.
But we're depositing money wedon't have we're already in a
huge deficit into an account tosupport the birth of children,
when the solution is sittingright in front of you, president
Trump and all of us.
It's the illegal immigrants thatare here.
Just because they came in anddid bad doesn't mean they can't
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do good down the road.
I speak to this as anex-convict myself.
I did something very, very bad,but does that mean that I'm bad
for the rest of my life?
Maybe some of you think thatthat's true, that I'm rotten to
the core, in which case Godbless you, but most reasonable
people would say I made ahorrible mistake, I paid a price
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for it.
I served my time and I haveknow.
I have four children, I havegrandchildren, I have friends.
You know I live a productive,good life these days.
Now that doesn't erase whatI've done and it's not an excuse
and I'm not weaseling out of itthose of you who listen to me
regularly know that but it alsodoesn't mean that I can't do
good going forward.
Well, the same thing's trueabout illegals.
They came here breaking the lawbut come on, now grow up.
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We all break the law.
Jaywalk have littered in ourpast.
When I say litter, I'm nottalking about throwing the
McDonald's back out the window.
I'm saying, like spitting outgum on the sidewalk, that's
littering.
I mean, we all break the law inlittle ways.
And yeah, crossing the borderillegally is a bigger break of
the law than spitting gum on thesidewalk, but it's still
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breaking the law.
We all break the law all thetime.
You're supposed to stop on aright turn on red before you
proceed.
How many of us have just gone?
How many of us eased throughstoplights?
How many eased through stopsigns?
I should say I mean, come on,we all break the law all the
time.
So these people broke the lawcoming in, but now the time.
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So these people broke the lawcoming in, but now they're here
and we're not going to roundthem up because, again, as
compared to what it's not goingto happen.
So let's declare an amnesty andwe pick a day.
That's the cutoff day.
So, as I described earlier,let's just pretend right now it
is June, the 11th of 2025.
So let's say that we passed thelaw at the end of this month.
Um, so we set it for June 30th.
If you can prove you're in theUnited States prior to June 30th
of 2025, okay, it has to be adate before the plan is
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announced, otherwise you'llcreate a rush to the border.
That's called creating aperverse incentive.
So you have to set a date.
You can say June 1st in arrears, if you can prove you're in the
country prior to that date.
And you can prove it all kindsof ways.
You can have a pay stub.
You can have an affidavit fromyour employer that's notarized.
You can have a utility bill.
You can have a rent bill.
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There's all kinds of ways.
Vehicle registration there's amillion ways that you can prove
that you were in the country.
You don't have to prove if youwere illegal.
Everyone knows you're illegalwhen you're doing this, but
prove that you were in thecountry.
If you were in the country priorto the cutoff date, which means
you didn't just come to takeadvantage of the amnesty, you're
already here, you should begiven a blanket amnesty.
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You're not guilty of anythinganymore.
You're pardoned the way Bidenpardoned Hunter.
But instead of getting a greencard, you get an orange card.
Biden pardoned Hunter, butinstead of getting a green card,
you get an orange card.
Now, the orange card is theprice you pay for the amnesty,
which is to say you're nevergoing to be allowed to vote and
you're never going to be allowedto be a citizen.
As a holder of an orange card,you're allowed to work here.
You're allowed to buy propertyand sell property.
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You're allowed to live here therest of your life.
You're allowed to contribute toSocial Security and benefit
from it.
As long as you're contributory,you have all the rights of a
paying American citizen who paystheir taxes, except that you're
not a citizen and you cannotvote.
Now, if you want to be acitizen, you can expatriate
yourself and come back in thegreen card process, which I'll
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talk about in just one second.
I want to reform that at thesame time, but by the stroke of
a pen, we've made all of theserough, let's say.
No one really knows how many,but let's just use the number
that's bandied about so much.
These 20 million people areinstantly legal Now.
They're instantly paying moretaxes.
They're instantly participatory, they're instantly buying
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property.
They're instantly doing all thethings they had to hide out and
not do.
They can walk into a normal cardealership, not the payday
payment one on the corner.
You know that doesn't care if,as long as you're breathing,
they'll take your money.
But they can walk into aregular Ford or GM dealership
and buy a normal.
You know, do everything.
They can go.
They can open bank accounts.
They can send money back toMexico.
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You know, nice and easy.
It's all advantages, nodisadvantages, because they're
expanding our tax base andsupporting our welfare state.
They can also leave the countryand come back.
One of the reasons that so manyillegals are in the country at
any given moment is because whenyou're illegal, you can't leave
the country and come backwithout taking a chance that you
won't be able to get back.
So by giving them an orangecard if they want to go back
down, if they want to work here,let's say they're in the
agricultural business.
My family is in theagricultural business, as I
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alluded earlier, and the growingseason is not 12 months a year,
unless you want to travel withthe growing season like Cider
House Rules.
If you've ever read that book,it's a wonderful book.
But anyway, you can expatriateyourself, go back down to Mexico
, live with your family, yada,yada, yada, and come back next
year for the next tomato pickingseason in California or
whatever it might be.
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A lot of fruits and vegetablescan't be machine-picked, guys.
I hate to break it to you.
Tomatoes crush real easy.
Think about it.
So I'm just using that as oneexample.
And, by the way, no American atany price is going to do that,
unless you want to pay $20 apound for tomatoes.
Shut up, grow up Strawberries.
Do you like strawberries?
They can't be machine picked.
Okay, just throwing it outthere.
So the bottom line is they're abenefit, except for this
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technicality and I realize howserious it was they crossed the
border, but they're here.
It's a reality.
And now I'm going to talk aboutwhy the drug war links up.
Here, it's a reality.
And now I'm going to talk aboutwhy the drug war links up.
We only have X number ofdollars to spend on border
enforcement and drug enforcement, which are largely the same
thing.
In one case you're stoppinghuman trafficking, in the other
case you're stopping drugtrafficking.
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But it's mostly the sameprocedures, the same searches
and a lot of times there's a lotof crossover.
You know they'll stop somebodyfor drugs and they'll find
illegals, and they'll stopsomebody for illegals and
they'll find drugs.
It's all mixed up together andagain back to as compared to
what, there has never been asuccessful prohibition of
anything in the history ofmankind.
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If the public wants something,they're going to get it.
The drug war is stupid, stupid,stupid.
We've spent on it alone over atrillion dollars since it
started in 1971, and we haven'tstopped drugs.
Oh, they arrest this one andthey arrest that one.
In the broad scheme of things,it means nothing.
We created the fentanyl market,by the way, we being the law
enforcement of the United Statesbecause fentanyl is much easier
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to transport than heroin.
You get much more bang in amuch smaller package, and it all
comes about as a result of drugenforcement that if it weren't
there, the fentanyl crisis wouldtake care of itself.
Okay, what I'm saying is and Iwas in prison with.
80 to 90% of the people I wasin prison with didn't belong in
prison in normal, in in inrational circumstances.
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In other words, all of theircrimes were drug related.
Now they might be there forassault and battery and they
might be there for armed robbery, but these are all drug crimes
because they are all takingplace because of the illegal
nature of drugs.
By making drugs illegal, we makethem artificially expensive but
otherwise would be cheap.
Therefore, the addicts, who arewasted, frankly, most of the
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time and don't make enough money, feel that they're forced to
steal.
Now I know that's wrong and Iknow you Republicans are
screaming that's wrong, that'swrong and it's a problem with
their morality.
But let's get a grip on reality, not morality.
Reality and the reality isthese are people that are
self-medicating self-loathing.
That's what addiction is.
Addiction is theself-medication of self-loathing
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.
We're not going to make thatillegal.
How about we treat them likewhat they are, which are people
with a severe mental andemotional health problem, and
spend some money much less thanwe're spending now on
first-class rehab, and meanwhilelet people do their drug?
Look, if a person wants to gointo the privacy of their home
and drug themselves intooblivion, it's their business,
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so long as they're not affectingtheir children or even, most of
the times, they won't even havechildren and they're not
affecting driving a car.
If they're sitting home aloneshooting up heroin, who cares?
I'm not saying this to be funny.
They should be able to go downto Walgreens or CVS and buy
their heroin, properly cut, andtheir sterile needles if they're
mainlining, or smoke it if theyprefer.
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Yes, people do smoke heroin,guys.
I'm just going to tell you it'snot all mainlining.
A lot of addicts don't like theidea of sticking needles in
their arms.
I digress, I only know thisbecause in my whole life I never
saw heroin in real life until Iwent to prison.
Then I saw it every day.
We can't even control drugs inprison.
In Kingman Prison, where I wasstationed I said stationed
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because I'm also a veteran whereI was placed for the last
roughly two years of my littleover four-year sentence, I got
to know the cartel guys prettywell.
I speak fluent Spanish, like Itold you, and I can tell you
that there was about $3.5million a year worth of drugs
coming through Kingman Prison.
$3.5 million a year and apopulation of 1,800 inmates.
Let's think about that for aminute.
(23:18):
Okay, and this is a fact.
This is not a supposition, thisis a firsthand fact.
I know this for a fact andwe're just not going to stop it.
So we only have a dollar tospend.
We're already spending moremoney than we have.
What if we stop spending it onwhat can't succeed?
The drug war cannot succeed.
Rounding up 20 million peoplecannot succeed.
(23:38):
What can succeed is bringingthe 20 million people into the
sunlight and making drugs legal,so that we can concentrate our
resources that are limited bythe very fact that money is not
unlimited and concentrate on thereal criminals, the people that
killed the Lake and Riley's.
If we can concentrate ourresources on the genuine, we can
round up 100,000 criminalsacross the United States or so
(24:01):
that got in illegally withhorrible crimes.
That's what we're reallytalking about here.
The other 19,900,000 or 700,000, whatever, let's not split
hairs.
The overwhelming majority ofthese people aren't committing
crimes and they just want tolive their lives.
Let's stop chasing them down atall.
Leave them alone.
Give them their orange card.
(24:21):
Now let's move along and talkabout the green card.
We need immigrants and we'revery, very fortunate.
Once again, the United Statesis lucky because the healthiest
demographics in the world are inLatin America.
It's a very young population.
Not only should we let themcome, we want them to come.
The green card should beunlimited, with no quotas, so
long as the following are true.
(24:44):
Number one you can come herewithout any money given to you.
In other words, you have enoughmoney Instead of spending
$3,000 or $4,000 or $5,000 on acoyote coyote, by the way, are
the guys that are the humansmugglers that bring these
people across the border Insteadof spending the money on that,
you come here with your three orfour or $5,000 and you support
yourself while you go out andget yourself a job.
You don't need anything.
(25:04):
You're coming here to work.
You have the means to come hereto work.
That's number one.
Number two you don't have acriminal record in the country
you're coming from, whether it'sMexico or El Salvador or
Columbia or wherever it is.
And number three, you'rehealthy.
You're not carrying anycommunicable diseases.
Otherwise, you should beallowed to come and work as many
as want to come, and you know.
(25:27):
As far as the welfare situationgoes, that's the choice of a
state.
Welfare should be a state-runprogram, and if your state's
dumb enough to hang out the freeshit here sign to immigrants,
then they deserve what they get.
There should be no federalwelfare program because it's so
stupid it doesn't work.
But if your state wants to keeptrying it, that's fine, okay,
because states can't print money, so that limits the damage they
(25:47):
can do.
And I understand myconversation here is far ranging
, but that's my nature, you'lllearn as you listen to me.
But anyway, a rational adultlet's sum this up and close out
the podcast A rational adultwould legalize drugs, declare an
amnesty with an orange card,like I said, bring them all into
the sunshine, okay, and thenconcentrate our resources on
(26:09):
stopping the real bad guys andthe world would be a better and
happier place.
And the Republicans would behappy because all of these green
card people coming in when theylived here five years and they
become citizens and they'veworked themselves up and they're
making a good living andeverything's great they're going
to, most of the time, beRepublican voters anyway,
because they're anti-abortionand the Democrats are not going
to abandon choice, ok, it's justnot going to happen.
(26:33):
So grow up is the word of theday.
Grow up let's talk about thislike adults, not like children.
With our fingers in our ears Onboth sides, everyone sounds
like a bunch of idiots.
It's just, it is mind boggling.
Oh, one more thing.
One more thing I want tocomment on before I close out
(26:53):
today, about immigration.
We need to get rid ofbilingualism Now.
I've told you that I speakfluent Spanish.
In fact, I spoke Spanish beforeI spoke English, because my
mother, who had divorced mynatural father, had a degree in
Spanish with a minor in French.
Language runs in my family.
My sister has a degree inArabic and Middle Eastern
Studies, just to give you anidea, and I was a Russian
linguist at the NationalSecurity Agency.
(27:15):
We pick up language easy in ourfamily.
It's like a genetic thing.
But anyway, my mother went towork at Miami Beach Federal
Savings and Loan which is nolonger there, but it used to be
and she was the bilingual tellerin those days and she hired a
Cuban housekeeper to take careof me and I was just Thank you,
thank you, thank you.
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