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Today is "No Kings Day". Democrats throughout America and, here in South Jersey, they're having protests, against Donald Trump.
How can Democrats look at these violent riots in all these cities and call them "peaceful protests"? Well, the short answer is when they watch their media, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, they don't see any violence! Those networks only show the peaceful demonstrations, and so most Democrats are totally ignorant of the violence and destruction that is going on. They have no idea why Trump as President has to act to stop it.
Trump poll numbers went down because nobody on our side explained why we have immigration laws and why we need deportations to enforce them.
But something else is going on. I force myself to watch CNN news from time to time to see what the other half the country thinks is news. And the folks at CNN were jumping up and down with glee. They were reporting that Trump's poll numbers are dropping among young voters and independents because of his immigration enforcement. However, those numbers are not dropping because we are enforcing immigration laws. They' are dropping because our side is not explaining why we have immigration laws and why they need to be enforced.
The half of the country that doesn't watch Fox News or get any conservative news has no idea why Trump needs to arrest and deport all foreigners who are in this country illegally. For years, Trump promised to round up and deport dangerous criminals who are in this country illegally. And that was very popular. But now we see ICE arresting day laborers at Home Depot or Wawa parking lots trying to get to work. So of course this is a big disconnect for a lot of people. And who does not feel sorry for their kids. People are upset that we are arresting and deporting people who are not causing trouble.
We must explain these three reasons for limits on immigration over and over again!
1. There are eight billion people in the world, and two billion of them are poor and miserable. We cannot let them all come to America.
That is because they are in failed Islamic or socialist countries with governments and cultures that keep people poor and miserable. Of course, they all want to come here for better lives, but we can't let them. If we did, they would still be poor and miserable, and they would make us and our children and grandchildren just as poor and miserable. That is why we had quotas or limits on the number of people who could come to America since 1920!
Even with those limits, America has the most generous immigration laws in the world. Until Lyndon Johnson and Ted Kennedy in 1965, we allowed 100,000 immigrants to come to America each year. Since then, we allow 400,000 people each year. That is actually way too much. However, our country absolutely cannot survive if we allow millions of people to come to America over and above that 400,000 per year! So, we can't say "I have no problem with immigrants, as long as they come here legally". No! They can't come here legally because we cannot allow more than 400,000 foreigners into this country each year and still have a country. But yet I rarely hear people talking about that.
JOHN DeMASI: Boy, that that that's an interest an interesting point. I never I never heard that before, but I'm glad you brought it up.
SETH GROSSMAN: It's also an obvious point. If you say anybody in the world can come to America ifthey, don't commit crimes and work through the system, I say "No!" How can 2 billion of the poorest people in the world come to our country and for us still to have a country? And if you're not prepared to have 2 billion poor foreigners come to this country at once, than anything more than the legal limit of 400,
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But now without further ado, we bring in
the one and only Seth Grossman who
probably
doesn't have much to talk about today.
Good morning, Seth. Libertyandprosperity.com
is the website. Welcome to the show.
Thank you. And every Saturday morning from 09:30
to 10:30, we have a breakfast in Somers
Point where everyone's welcome to come
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at Sal's Coal Fired Pizza where, of course,
they don't serve pizza in the morning. It's
a regular breakfast.
But
on the Saturday, this Saturday, June 14,
of course, if you're listening on Sunday, it's
yesterday.
We're having a special scholarship fund breakfast,
where we figure us boomers getting together to
toss for breakfast. It's nice,
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but we wanna give our message to younger
people. And one of our members, doctor Robert
Fleischer,
set up a very effective scholarship program where
he got, 70 high school students to participate.
And he's giving $500
scholarships to three who,
did the best in the program, and they're
getting their awards,
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today.
And we're charging a $30 fixed breakfast
to, to pay for the breakfast and to
get the program for the scholarships next year.
So if you're in your car near Somers
Point, go to sales,
ColdFire Pizza Grove Wind Avenue and New Road
in Somers Point and come in at the
last minute. But, of course, it's not too
late to make an on loan donation
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of $30 or whatever you can so you
can keep the program going.
And and, of course, you could always hit
the donate button on our libertyandprosperity.com
website
or send a check to what used to
be the law office of Seth Grossman. So
I just wanted to get that out of
the way.
Okay. I I wish you a lot of
luck with that. It it sounds like a
good program.
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It it really is,
and and doctor Fleischer did a lot of
work. I mean, anyone who knows about him,
he's a
an endodontist from Philadelphia, had the biggest,
you know, endodontic dental practice in Philadelphia, but
he had a passion for writing, and he
started writing novels and,
all sorts of books. So he's a fascinating
guy
in in himself,
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presenting the program. So that alone,
besides the kids, is a good reason to
go. But, of course, today is no King's
Day,
and Democrats throughout America and, here in South
Jersey, they're having protests,
against Donald Trump. And to answer your question,
well, how could the Democrats
look,
at at these violent protests and say they're
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peaceful protests?
Well, the short answer is when they watch
their media, CNN, MSNBC,
ABC,
CBS,
NPR,
they don't see that.
That they, those networks only show the peaceful
demonstrations,
and so they're totally ignorant
of,
of the violence that's going on and why,
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Trump has to do what he has to
do
to stop it.
But something else is going on.
If you saw CNN news, and I forced
myself to watch it just to see what
the other half of the country,
is saying.
They were jumping up and down with glee
that Trump poll numbers are dropping,
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among young voters and independents because of the
immigration enforcement.
And it's not they're not numb those numbers
aren't dropping because of the enforcement.
They're dropping because our side,
you know, from Trump on down are not
giving a message
as to why we are doing this immigration
crackdown.
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Because all the other half that doesn't watch,
Fox News or conservative news, all they know
about
is that Trump says we're going to
round up these dangerous illegal immigrant criminals,
and we're gonna send them, put them in
jail or send them back.
And then they see these stories that,
day laborers are getting arrested,
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at the,
you know, at the Home Depot parking lot
or Wawa parking lot, you know, trying to
go to work. So, of course, there's a
disconnect.
If you're out for criminals, why are you
arresting
immigrant you know, illegal immigrant kids? Why are
you arresting people who are have not been
in trouble?
And that's why it's so so important to
to, I I guess, say these three
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key reasons
why we have to enforce
immigration laws
even against people who are not committing other
crimes.
And that's because
there are
2,000,000,000
poor people in the world. I mean, there
are 8,000,000,000 people in the world.
2,000,000,000 come from failed Islamic or socialist states
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where people are desperate and want a better
life.
And The
United States cannot afford to let 2,000,000,000
poor people come here for a better life.
And if they did,
they would not get any better, and we
would just ruin our own country.
So we have to have limits on immigration,
and America already has the most generous immigration
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program in the world.
We allow 400,000
people to legally come into this country,
but we can't afford to have
everybody come in on top of those 400,000.
And so it's not the fact that, well,
we wish people could come here but do
it legally.
No. They can't do it legally because we
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can't afford to allow more than 400,000
people a year coming legally.
But yet I rarely hear people talking about
that.
Boy, that that that's an interest an interesting
point. I never I never heard that before,
but I'm glad you brought it up. But
it's interesting point where it's obvious obvious point
because if you're saying
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people have the right to come here if
they,
don't commit crimes and and work through the
system,
no. How could 2,000,000,000 poor people from around
the world come to this country? And if
you're not prepared to have 2,000,000,000
people come to this country, then anything more
than the legal limit is destroying our country.
And and I wish Trump and the top
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leaders would say that, but if they won't
say it, then we have to say it.
And you just did, and certainly that's part
of the that's part of the message of
liberty and prosperity. Right? It certainly is. And
the second thing that no one's saying is
we need deterrents.
Once you accept the idea that we have
to have limits on who can come here,
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If you say, well, if somebody came here
legally,
but they've been here for five years and
we didn't catch them until just now and
they they haven't been in trouble and now
they're married and they have kids, we we
have to let them stay. Well, if you
do that,
then you don't have limits on immigration,
and we don't have laws. And even more
important,
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if people know, well, all I have to
do is come to America illegally.
And if I'm there for a couple of
years and I'm quiet and I don't get
caught, I could stay. Then we're gonna have
hundreds of thousands and millions of people coming
here,
playing the lottery and hoping that they don't
get caught. And you can't have a legal
system
if you allow that. So, yes, there's hardship.
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It's heartbreaking.
But, as the the Roman said, you know,
the the law is harsh, but it is
the law, and it must be enforced.
And then there's a there's a third angle
there,
and that is when everyone says, well, we
have to have these poor immigrants come to
America to get a bigger life, a better
life.
The the obvious question is, well, why can't
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they get a better life in their own
country?
And one of the reasons they can't get
a better life in their own country
is because the best and brightest people
who can make
those poor countries rich,
they're coming to America
because it's easier for them to get a
better life,
in America
than in getting a better life in their
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own country. So we're defeating the purpose. The
real solution would be, hey. You could have
the American way of life in your own
country
if you have
respect for law, if you respect private property,
if you have Judeo Christian values, all these
things.
So,
you know, by by bringing the people who
share our values here instead of in their
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own countries, we just guarantee that those countries
are gonna be poor forever. So I just
wanna bring up those three points.
Well, I'm glad you did. You know, the
other thing, Seth, I don't know if you
have have done any research on this, but
if you
try to become a citizen, if if you're
you're a person who came to this country
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and and you wanna become a citizen,
the paperwork and the process
I mean, my ex fiancee went through this
with her mother.
Every week, there was another form, there was
another fee, there was another this, another that.
I mean, the hoops that they have to
jump through to become a citizen is unbelievable.
So it it seems to me that it's
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just easier to just kinda slide under the
radar if you can.
That exactly. And and it's heartbreaking because,
you know, the the law that Ted Kennedy
and Lyndon Johnson put in there in 1965
was designed
to change the ethnic and racial balance of
America.
So if you come from, you know, various
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favored countries like
Pakistan
or or China,
you have an easy time getting it. But
if you come from a European country,
you know, you'll have a very difficult time
because there's very, very tiny quotas
for those, things. And that really it was
designed
to fundamentally change America. But that that's another
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issue. Once we enforce our laws,
the next step is to really completely
overhaul that disaster that Ted Kennedy
shoved down America's throat in 1965,
but that's a whole different issue.
The second thing I'd I'd like to talk
about, in in California, we're talking about,
the National Guard,
not the you know, Trump not being permitted
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to, send the National Guard to California.
And and that's where the Democrats I mean,
I'm glad the Democrats finally discovered that America
has a constitution
and that we have a tenth amendment,
but they completely
misunderstand
or don't know what the tenth amendment is
all about. So I just wanted to give
a little bit of a boring,
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you know, point of law explanation.
So we have a constitution,
and article one of that constitution
says what the federal government is allowed to
do. It's called article one section eight. And
it says the federal government
can handle national problems, like have an army,
have commerce, have copyrights, have patents.
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You know, all the things that local governments
cannot do.
The constitution gives the federal government the right
to do it.
And then you have a bill of rights
with something called the ninth and tenth amendments.
And what they basically say
is that whatever
power is not given to the federal government,
then the states and the people,
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have the right to do, to do it,
and the federal government can't interfere.
And I'll give you, like, three examples.
Sports betting.
You had a federal law that said that
it was illegal
for states to allow
people to bet on, you know, professional sports
games.
And that was taken to court under the
tenth amendment,
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amendment and was found to be unconstitutional.
Why?
Because nowhere in article one, section eight of
the constitution is the federal government
allowed to regulate gambling.
And so when the states permitted gambling and
then the federal government says, oh, no. No.
We don't like that kind of gambling.
The Supreme Court correctly held
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that the tenth amendment protected the right of
states,
you know, to allow gambling
and
and and sports betting.
Same thing with marijuana.
There's nothing in the constitution
that gives the federal government
the right to,
control the use of marijuana.
And that's why when they they wanted to
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make liquor illegal back in the nineteen twenties,
they needed a constitutional amendment to give the
federal government the power to
outlaw liquor.
But the federal government passed these marijuana laws
anyway as a federal crime. And basically, the
Supreme Court held no no no no. The
tenth amendment says if if if the constitution
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doesn't give you the power
to control marijuana,
then the states have the right to regulate
it. So I just wanna give you an
idea what the ninth and tenth amendments say.
So now you have California and all these,
and you have governor Murphy saying, well, we
don't wanna
enforce immigration laws.
You know, and we're exercising our rights under
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the tenth amendment.
And that is completely false because the constitution,
article one, section eight, specifically gives the federal
government
the right to make, quote, uniform
laws of naturalization.
So the federal government specifically has that power,
and the federal government specifically has the right
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to enforce it.
And I really get annoyed
when we even use the term sanctuary
city or sanctuary state
because what is it that we call
states and local governments
that refuse to follow
federal laws and refuse to follow,
laws permitted by the constitution.
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That word isn't sanctuary. It's called Confederate.
Because
last time we had, states that we don't
wanna recognize the, you know, the the rights
of, of of black people.
So,
you know, we're we're exercising our tenth amendment
rights. No. The federal government has a right
and a duty,
to enforce those laws to protect the rights
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of citizen. So basically, the federal government has
the specific right
to, enforce uniform law laws of naturalization.
The federal government also has specific duties under
the fourteenth amendment
to protect the rights and property and lives
of citizens.
And and that's what happened in the South.
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You know, when you had the the KKK
in the South would be killing black Americans
and taking their property, burning their property,
and then the local officials and the state
officials would refuse to
enforce the laws to protect their citizens. The
federal government moved in,
completely legal under the constitution. So I I
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apologize for that, boring
Oh, no. I I thought it was good.
I think it's I think it's important to
know that. Yeah. I I I thought it
was good because
I felt like,
you know,
the role of the federal government is to
protect its citizens.
And Right. Certainly,
you know,
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you're talking about these riots.
They would
seems to me that the federal government would
try to stop it to protect the citizens.
And and it's not just your feeling.
We had a civil war over that issue
and the South lost. Yeah. And we had
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment
that give the federal government the power to
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protect the rights of citizens if the states
refused to do it. And that's exactly what,
Trump did. So so and again, instead of
calling California
a sanctuary
state, no. Call it a Confederate state, and
we have to deal with that Confederate state
the same way we dealt with the last
Confederate state. And by the way, the Confederate
states were all Democrats, if you go back
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in your history.
Another point that's forgotten. And I I just
give me a just a few more minutes,
to go over some headlines.
I like the headline, Atlantic Shores
shelves offshore wind project,
Current Political Climate Makes Plans No Longer Viable.
That was in two, Tuesday's press of Atlantic
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City.
And what's completely missing from that story
is, the name of congressman Republican congressman Jeff
Van Drew.
Because if anyone has followed that,
even though Brigantine mayor Vince Sarah did a
lot, even though Eustace Mehta,
you know, of that, ICONA hotels did a
lot.
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What Jeff Van Drew is a congressman. Remember,
I ran against him in 02/2018.
He beat me when he was a Democrat,
but he this the work he did behind
the scenes
to change the laws and to change the
approvals,
You could almost say that he did 90%
of all the work necessary to stop that
Atlantic Shores, project.
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And I I really think all of us
owe it to to give him the recognition
he deserves for that. And he does deserve
it. Yes. You're right. You're right.
Okay. And then I guess one more,
point. This is almost a humorous,
headline. It said cuts to state funding
could decimate Volunteers of America programs throughout New
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Jersey.
The or that organization was complaining about a
7,340,000
cut in the state budget. And, of course,
you have to ask the question, well, wait
a minute. If they're volunteers,
why are they worried about no money getting
cuts from the government? And that is if
that brings us to, like, the Margate elephant
again. All these programs that we think are
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done by, you know, volunteers and fundraisers,
we find out are funded by the government.
And we don't realize
how much the, you know, the funding is
unless we, you know, we look into detail
unless we cut it. And there's just,
so is liberty and prosperity
struggles to get people to pay $30 for
breakfast so we could give scholarship chips to
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students who support the constitution.
You know, all these organizations that do all
this stuff that we don't want are getting
millions from the government, and yet they they
pretend they're private organizations.
Anyway, there's a scholarship award about to be
given. I don't wanna miss it. Libertyandprosperity.com,
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But now without further ado, we bring in
the one and only Seth Grossman who
probably
doesn't have much to talk about today.
Good morning, Seth. Libertyandprosperity.com
is the website. Welcome to the show.
Thank you. And every Saturday morning from 09:30
to 10:30, we have a breakfast in Somers
Point where everyone's welcome to come
(00:22):
at Sal's Coal Fired Pizza where, of course,
they don't serve pizza in the morning. It's
a regular breakfast.
But
on the Saturday, this Saturday, June 14,
of course, if you're listening on Sunday, it's
yesterday.
We're having a special scholarship fund breakfast,
where we figure us boomers getting together to
toss for breakfast. It's nice,
(00:43):
but we wanna give our message to younger
people. And one of our members, doctor Robert
Fleischer,
set up a very effective scholarship program where
he got, 70 high school students to participate.
And he's giving $500
scholarships to three who,
did the best in the program, and they're
getting their awards,
(01:04):
today.
And we're charging a $30 fixed breakfast
to, to pay for the breakfast and to
get the program for the scholarships next year.
So if you're in your car near Somers
Point, go to sales,
ColdFire Pizza Grove Wind Avenue and New Road
in Somers Point and come in at the
last minute. But, of course, it's not too
late to make an on loan donation
(01:26):
of $30 or whatever you can so you
can keep the program going.
And and, of course, you could always hit
the donate button on our libertyandprosperity.com
website
or send a check to what used to
be the law office of Seth Grossman. So
I just wanted to get that out of
the way.
Okay. I I wish you a lot of
luck with that. It it sounds like a
good program.
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It it really is,
and and doctor Fleischer did a lot of
work. I mean, anyone who knows about him,
he's a
an endodontist from Philadelphia, had the biggest,
you know, endodontic dental practice in Philadelphia, but
he had a passion for writing, and he
started writing novels and,
all sorts of books. So he's a fascinating
guy
in in himself,
(02:09):
presenting the program. So that alone,
besides the kids, is a good reason to
go. But, of course, today is no King's
Day,
and Democrats throughout America and, here in South
Jersey, they're having protests,
against Donald Trump. And to answer your question,
well, how could the Democrats
look,
at at these violent protests and say they're
(02:31):
peaceful protests?
Well, the short answer is when they watch
their media, CNN, MSNBC,
ABC,
CBS,
NPR,
they don't see that.
That they, those networks only show the peaceful
demonstrations,
and so they're totally ignorant
of,
of the violence that's going on and why,
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Trump has to do what he has to
do
to stop it.
But something else is going on.
If you saw CNN news, and I forced
myself to watch it just to see what
the other half of the country,
is saying.
They were jumping up and down with glee
that Trump poll numbers are dropping,
(03:13):
among young voters and independents because of the
immigration enforcement.
And it's not they're not numb those numbers
aren't dropping because of the enforcement.
They're dropping because our side,
you know, from Trump on down are not
giving a message
as to why we are doing this immigration
crackdown.
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Because all the other half that doesn't watch,
Fox News or conservative news, all they know
about
is that Trump says we're going to
round up these dangerous illegal immigrant criminals,
and we're gonna send them, put them in
jail or send them back.
And then they see these stories that,
day laborers are getting arrested,
(03:54):
at the,
you know, at the Home Depot parking lot
or Wawa parking lot, you know, trying to
go to work. So, of course, there's a
disconnect.
If you're out for criminals, why are you
arresting
immigrant you know, illegal immigrant kids? Why are
you arresting people who are have not been
in trouble?
And that's why it's so so important to
to, I I guess, say these three
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key reasons
why we have to enforce
immigration laws
even against people who are not committing other
crimes.
And that's because
there are
2,000,000,000
poor people in the world. I mean, there
are 8,000,000,000 people in the world.
2,000,000,000 come from failed Islamic or socialist states
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where people are desperate and want a better
life.
And The
United States cannot afford to let 2,000,000,000
poor people come here for a better life.
And if they did,
they would not get any better, and we
would just ruin our own country.
So we have to have limits on immigration,
and America already has the most generous immigration
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program in the world.
We allow 400,000
people to legally come into this country,
but we can't afford to have
everybody come in on top of those 400,000.
And so it's not the fact that, well,
we wish people could come here but do
it legally.
No. They can't do it legally because we
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can't afford to allow more than 400,000
people a year coming legally.
But yet I rarely hear people talking about
that.
Boy, that that that's an interest an interesting
point. I never I never heard that before,
but I'm glad you brought it up. But
it's interesting point where it's obvious obvious point
because if you're saying
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people have the right to come here if
they,
don't commit crimes and and work through the
system,
no. How could 2,000,000,000 poor people from around
the world come to this country? And if
you're not prepared to have 2,000,000,000
people come to this country, then anything more
than the legal limit is destroying our country.
And and I wish Trump and the top
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leaders would say that, but if they won't
say it, then we have to say it.
And you just did, and certainly that's part
of the that's part of the message of
liberty and prosperity. Right? It certainly is. And
the second thing that no one's saying is
we need deterrents.
Once you accept the idea that we have
to have limits on who can come here,
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If you say, well, if somebody came here
legally,
but they've been here for five years and
we didn't catch them until just now and
they they haven't been in trouble and now
they're married and they have kids, we we
have to let them stay. Well, if you
do that,
then you don't have limits on immigration,
and we don't have laws. And even more
important,
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if people know, well, all I have to
do is come to America illegally.
And if I'm there for a couple of
years and I'm quiet and I don't get
caught, I could stay. Then we're gonna have
hundreds of thousands and millions of people coming
here,
playing the lottery and hoping that they don't
get caught. And you can't have a legal
system
if you allow that. So, yes, there's hardship.
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It's heartbreaking.
But, as the the Roman said, you know,
the the law is harsh, but it is
the law, and it must be enforced.
And then there's a there's a third angle
there,
and that is when everyone says, well, we
have to have these poor immigrants come to
America to get a bigger life, a better
life.
The the obvious question is, well, why can't
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they get a better life in their own
country?
And one of the reasons they can't get
a better life in their own country
is because the best and brightest people
who can make
those poor countries rich,
they're coming to America
because it's easier for them to get a
better life,
in America
than in getting a better life in their
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own country. So we're defeating the purpose. The
real solution would be, hey. You could have
the American way of life in your own
country
if you have
respect for law, if you respect private property,
if you have Judeo Christian values, all these
things.
So,
you know, by by bringing the people who
share our values here instead of in their
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own countries, we just guarantee that those countries
are gonna be poor forever. So I just
wanna bring up those three points.
Well, I'm glad you did. You know, the
other thing, Seth, I don't know if you
have have done any research on this, but
if you
try to become a citizen, if if you're
you're a person who came to this country
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and and you wanna become a citizen,
the paperwork and the process
I mean, my ex fiancee went through this
with her mother.
Every week, there was another form, there was
another fee, there was another this, another that.
I mean, the hoops that they have to
jump through to become a citizen is unbelievable.
So it it seems to me that it's
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just easier to just kinda slide under the
radar if you can.
That exactly. And and it's heartbreaking because,
you know, the the law that Ted Kennedy
and Lyndon Johnson put in there in 1965
was designed
to change the ethnic and racial balance of
America.
So if you come from, you know, various
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favored countries like
Pakistan
or or China,
you have an easy time getting it. But
if you come from a European country,
you know, you'll have a very difficult time
because there's very, very tiny quotas
for those, things. And that really it was
designed
to fundamentally change America. But that that's another
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issue. Once we enforce our laws,
the next step is to really completely
overhaul that disaster that Ted Kennedy
shoved down America's throat in 1965,
but that's a whole different issue.
The second thing I'd I'd like to talk
about, in in California, we're talking about,
the National Guard,
not the you know, Trump not being permitted
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to, send the National Guard to California.
And and that's where the Democrats I mean,
I'm glad the Democrats finally discovered that America
has a constitution
and that we have a tenth amendment,
but they completely
misunderstand
or don't know what the tenth amendment is
all about. So I just wanted to give
a little bit of a boring,
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you know, point of law explanation.
So we have a constitution,
and article one of that constitution
says what the federal government is allowed to
do. It's called article one section eight. And
it says the federal government
can handle national problems, like have an army,
have commerce, have copyrights, have patents.
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You know, all the things that local governments
cannot do.
The constitution gives the federal government the right
to do it.
And then you have a bill of rights
with something called the ninth and tenth amendments.
And what they basically say
is that whatever
power is not given to the federal government,
then the states and the people,
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have the right to do, to do it,
and the federal government can't interfere.
And I'll give you, like, three examples.
Sports betting.
You had a federal law that said that
it was illegal
for states to allow
people to bet on, you know, professional sports
games.
And that was taken to court under the
tenth amendment,
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amendment and was found to be unconstitutional.
Why?
Because nowhere in article one, section eight of
the constitution is the federal government
allowed to regulate gambling.
And so when the states permitted gambling and
then the federal government says, oh, no. No.
We don't like that kind of gambling.
The Supreme Court correctly held
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that the tenth amendment protected the right of
states,
you know, to allow gambling
and
and and sports betting.
Same thing with marijuana.
There's nothing in the constitution
that gives the federal government
the right to,
control the use of marijuana.
And that's why when they they wanted to
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make liquor illegal back in the nineteen twenties,
they needed a constitutional amendment to give the
federal government the power to
outlaw liquor.
But the federal government passed these marijuana laws
anyway as a federal crime. And basically, the
Supreme Court held no no no no. The
tenth amendment says if if if the constitution
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doesn't give you the power
to control marijuana,
then the states have the right to regulate
it. So I just wanna give you an
idea what the ninth and tenth amendments say.
So now you have California and all these,
and you have governor Murphy saying, well, we
don't wanna
enforce immigration laws.
You know, and we're exercising our rights under
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the tenth amendment.
And that is completely false because the constitution,
article one, section eight, specifically gives the federal
government
the right to make, quote, uniform
laws of naturalization.
So the federal government specifically has that power,
and the federal government specifically has the right
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to enforce it.
And I really get annoyed
when we even use the term sanctuary
city or sanctuary state
because what is it that we call
states and local governments
that refuse to follow
federal laws and refuse to follow,
laws permitted by the constitution.
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That word isn't sanctuary. It's called Confederate.
Because
last time we had, states that we don't
wanna recognize the, you know, the the rights
of, of of black people.
So,
you know, we're we're exercising our tenth amendment
rights. No. The federal government has a right
and a duty,
to enforce those laws to protect the rights
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of citizen. So basically, the federal government has
the specific right
to, enforce uniform law laws of naturalization.
The federal government also has specific duties under
the fourteenth amendment
to protect the rights and property and lives
of citizens.
And and that's what happened in the South.
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You know, when you had the the KKK
in the South would be killing black Americans
and taking their property, burning their property,
and then the local officials and the state
officials would refuse to
enforce the laws to protect their citizens. The
federal government moved in,
completely legal under the constitution. So I I
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apologize for that, boring
Oh, no. I I thought it was good.
I think it's I think it's important to
know that. Yeah. I I I thought it
was good because
I felt like,
you know,
the role of the federal government is to
protect its citizens.
And Right. Certainly,
you know,
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you're talking about these riots.
They would
seems to me that the federal government would
try to stop it to protect the citizens.
And and it's not just your feeling.
We had a civil war over that issue
and the South lost. Yeah. And we had
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment
that give the federal government the power to
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protect the rights of citizens if the states
refused to do it. And that's exactly what,
Trump did. So so and again, instead of
calling California
a sanctuary
state, no. Call it a Confederate state, and
we have to deal with that Confederate state
the same way we dealt with the last
Confederate state. And by the way, the Confederate
states were all Democrats, if you go back
(15:32):
in your history.
Another point that's forgotten. And I I just
give me a just a few more minutes,
to go over some headlines.
I like the headline, Atlantic Shores
shelves offshore wind project,
Current Political Climate Makes Plans No Longer Viable.
That was in two, Tuesday's press of Atlantic
(15:52):
City.
And what's completely missing from that story
is, the name of congressman Republican congressman Jeff
Van Drew.
Because if anyone has followed that,
even though Brigantine mayor Vince Sarah did a
lot, even though Eustace Mehta,
you know, of that, ICONA hotels did a
lot.
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What Jeff Van Drew is a congressman. Remember,
I ran against him in 02/2018.
He beat me when he was a Democrat,
but he this the work he did behind
the scenes
to change the laws and to change the
approvals,
You could almost say that he did 90%
of all the work necessary to stop that
Atlantic Shores, project.
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And I I really think all of us
owe it to to give him the recognition
he deserves for that. And he does deserve
it. Yes. You're right. You're right.
Okay. And then I guess one more,
point. This is almost a humorous,
headline. It said cuts to state funding
could decimate Volunteers of America programs throughout New
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Jersey.
The or that organization was complaining about a
7,340,000
cut in the state budget. And, of course,
you have to ask the question, well, wait
a minute. If they're volunteers,
why are they worried about no money getting
cuts from the government? And that is if
that brings us to, like, the Margate elephant
again. All these programs that we think are
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done by, you know, volunteers and fundraisers,
we find out are funded by the government.
And we don't realize
how much the, you know, the funding is
unless we, you know, we look into detail
unless we cut it. And there's just,
so is liberty and prosperity
struggles to get people to pay $30 for
breakfast so we could give scholarship chips to
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students who support the constitution.
You know, all these organizations that do all
this stuff that we don't want are getting
millions from the government, and yet they they
pretend they're private organizations.
Anyway, there's a scholarship award about to be
given. I don't wanna miss it. Libertyandprosperity.com,
Meeting for breakfast every Saturday morning, 09:30 at
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Groveland Avenue in New Road in Somers Point,
Sal's Coal Fired Pizza. Thank you very much.
Have a great weekend and a great summer.
Thank you. You too. And, of course, that
that special ceremony going on starting right now
at Liberty and Prosperity,
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I'm John DiMasi. It is Talk With a
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