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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tine TIGNI lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So Michael Verry Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some that's downright fun Democratic.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Two six packs, Shiner ninety nine, sid Putine Ladder, Lukis
track Center, fifth patrol Us down Eddie Glue Cooler. Take
a guess at all the door. I can feel a
good one coming on home, throw in real wild Hubbard
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sing along.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
With Red Deck and Mother. Any blues I.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Had before or go another working week is over, no
chance saying sover I can feel a good one coming off.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, a week a man, we gonna get to feeling right.
We gonna keep this pider rock.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I can fel the break of doll. Yeah, I can
feel a good one coming all just kind of getting
caught it when I came.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
I put in a hard day's work, put in eleven
four hours baking, and the ain't getting you drubbed in
the last right one or two beers.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Three blocks in a rack top Mustang followed us down
to the lake and didn't have to think about that
too long. Skinny diffen in the right moon situation couldn't
be more right. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
We're going to get to feel it right.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
We gonna keep this party rock until the break. Yeah,
I can feel a good one. Feel like a good one.
I can feel a good one coming.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
They're making it large where you can't drink when you
want to, can't you have to wear a seat felt
when you're driving.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Is going to become this patry who.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
One of the things we've seen the McDonald's in Pennsylvania
that hosted President Trumps. They went after him. Oh, he
failed his last health inspection because his employee hadn't washed
his hand often enough. What they're trying to do, and
they do this every time, is they go after people.
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They did this to Joe the Plumber, Remember, they go
after people and destroy them for daring to ask questions.
Coleman people, everyday people. So the sheriff of Jacksonville, TK Waters,
endorsed President Trump, So the unhinged liberals hired a plane
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with a banner to fly over his city that read
repugnant con coward. Tk Waters turned white. The white liberal
democrat mayor of that town says that Trump wants to
run concentration camps. Because the black sheriff endorsed Donald Trump,
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he's now turned white. See, he's not allowed to have
his own opinion. This is the crab in the bucket.
Won't you try to get out of the bucket. We'll
pull you back down in here with us, we black folk,
we got to hang together. You can't have your own
opinion because you black, we'll decide what you'll do. It's
so gross, it's so disgusting. This is from News for Jacksonville.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
A banner with a racist message targeted at Sheriff TK
Waters flew over downtown Jacksonville Thursday. This is video of
the plane flying that banner, but you can't see the
banner from this viewpoint. We've made the editorial decision to
no longer show the message on the banner. This comes
a day after the sheriff responded to Mayor Donna Deagan's
comments on a London radio show where she compared former
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President Trump's immigration plan to concentration camps. He called her
comments shocking and reckless. Sheriff Waters shared this statement with
News for Jacks about the banner, saying quote Today's banner
is a clear reminder that ignorance and hate will always
breed more ignorance and hate. Jacksonville is a great city
full of good people who care about one another. Let's
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focus on putting that on the world stage. I spoke
with Jacksonville City Councilan Rory Diamond Thursday afternoon to hear
his thoughts on the banner and the continued controversy from
Mayor Deagan's comments. I saw a banner with kind of
a shocking message flying over downtown.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
What is your reaction to that.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Yeah, we're waiting for Donna Degan to apologize first for
her comments, and then when is she going to say
that that banner was wrong and that's just woke racism
out there, because you know, our shariff, who happens to
be black, spoke.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
His mind about a policy issue. This is disgusting.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
I also spoke with Jacksonville City Councilman Jimmy Paluso about
the banner. He says he reached out to Sheriff Waters.
Speaker 10 (05:27):
I think that's pretty appalling. I don't like, just like
I didn't like the response people had against the mayor.
I thought that was kind of a fake outrage moment.
I am outraged when I see someone flying a plane
saying that kind of stuff that I thought was racially charged,
and I just you know, we're elected officials, and it's
a campaign year, and this country's facing a pretty divisive moment.
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But to see it continue over the next couple of days,
everyone just needs to keep their powder dry.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Everyone needs to back off.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
I reached out to counselman Matt Lucci for his thoughts
on the continued controversy that seemingly stemmed from Mary Degan's comments.
It says, in part, ar Mayor would never do anything
overtly or purposely to hurt any of our communities in Jacksonville,
and our sheriff did not deserve to have a sign
flown over Jacksonville putting him down. If you ask me,
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it's all about politics. And this is what they call
the silly season.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
There's a little story bubbling up over and over again,
and it is the number of schools who are refusing
to play San Jose State in women's volleyball because San
Jose State has a man pretending to be a woman
on their team. And you're getting a lot of these
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young ladies who are being injured because he hits the
boss so damn hard. He's not a girl. So the
Republican governor of Nevada, Joe Lombardo, released a statement backing
the University of Nevada. He knows women's volleyball team doing
what other teams are doing, choosing to forfeit their volleyball
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match against San Jose Say State because they're not going
to participate in this nonsense. He says it's irresponsible for
the NCAA to put student athletes in a position of
balancing their personal safety against the schools, competition, and sports.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That they love.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Now betther women's volleyball players will have the choice whether
to participate in their upcoming game against San Jose State University.
The match is set for October twenty six, and according
to the university, the majority of the team sent to
the school statement yesterday saying they were forfeiting from the match. Today,
university officials say that decision was made independently and the
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school plans to move forward with the game as scheduled.
Players will not be disciplined if they choose not to participate.
So what's the impetus for all this? What comes after
other schools forfeited playing San Jose State, reportedly due to
that team having a transgender player on the roster. In
a statement, the university tells US it made the decision
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to move forward with the match based on the Battle Law,
as well as rules and regulations from the NCAA and
the Mountain West Conference.
Speaker 11 (08:15):
Everybody needs to be woke.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I just did woke.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
The less woke.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Born on this day in nineteen twelve, Sarah Ophelia Collie Cannon.
That was her full name, Sarah Ophelia Collie Cannon. She
was born in Centerville, which is in Hickman County, Tennessee.
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Where else, but you know her as the very funny
and quite lovable long time star of he Hall Mini Pearl.
Here was many Pearl holding her own with Glenn and
with the Yeah, with Glenn and Johnny Cash.
Speaker 12 (09:13):
And I'm just so proud to be here.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I come all the way from New York City just
to be here with you all.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You all the way to New York City.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That's a long way from Grinder Switch.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh, I know, but it's wonderful. I never thought i'd
hear you say.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
In New York was a wonderful. Well, the people Oh,
the people are so nice. Why some of the.
Speaker 11 (09:36):
Men, Oh, they're just freshious daisies.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And the subways, oh, that seems to be the place
where a girl can get.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
A fella say, oh yes, And the men also thoughty
down in the subway.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
A young fellow come up to me without me even
asking him, and he carried my purse for me.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
The crowd before he could give it back.
Speaker 11 (10:02):
I had my phone number in it called.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You're just an incurable romantic. You know, Well, why wouldn't
that be New York City?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Oh, it's the most romantic city in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
One day I was walking, well.
Speaker 13 (10:17):
It was nighttime, actually, I was walking through Central Park,
and there was a fellow.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Jumped out from behind the bush and started just sparking
and courting me, just right on.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
His hot You mean he attacked you.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Yes, you just imagine being attacked twice in the same night.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You were attacked twice. Well, I had to walk back
the same way. Born on this day in nineteen twenty eight,
Marion Ross, you know hers missus Cunningham on Happy Days.
In this scene, mississ c tells Phonsie.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
To sit on it.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
This was racy stuff back in the day.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
There's not gonna be a wedding. Yes, there's gonna be
a wedding.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Arthur is the best man.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
And he's gonna go and explain this to Arnold, and
then Arnold can talk to MoMA.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Listen, listen, I have caused enough trouble already.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
The only shot that those two people have is if
I stay out of it. The funds, already cursed, cannot
be broken. It's ridiculous to try.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's it, that's all, and that's Goodbot Fuzzy sit on it.
Speaker 14 (11:36):
Well, I just here.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I think we should just all calm down.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And the handle is Howard. You heard what I said.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I understand about your curse and all that, and I
know you are the funds with the hay and the woe, but.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You are the best man.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
And you have an obligation as that best man, and
you cannot shirk your obligations.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Even the funds cannot stand in the way of true love.
And you have got to talk to Arnold if you.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Get my drift. And that's all, And that's.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
In in Goodbye. One of the issues it's not getting
enough attention because it's hard at this time to focus
on too many things at one time. Is what the
Democrats called criminal justice reform, and it really just means
doing what George Soros told them to do, and it
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means that putting rapists and murderers back out on the street,
not in prison. And the results are guess who ends
up being a victim of the rapists and murderers, minorities.
So the argument was that not releasing criminals out to
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the streets was hurting minorities because most of the criminals
were minorities. But what they didn't point out was so
are the victims. So if you let the criminal back
out on the street because he's a minority, he's going
to hurt the people who are his victims, who are minorities.
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So there's a pastor in Houston named Ronald Mouton. He
was at East Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, his very popular pastor,
beloved by his family and his congregation, and a thug
shot and killed him in a road rage accident or
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not accident incident, and it wasn't an accident, it was
an incident, and yet they put the killer back out
on the streets. So here is a family looking like Republicans,
a black family looking like Republicans, saying why is he
out on the streets. He showed and killed my brother.
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The story from the Houston station KPRC TV.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
Sunday service at East Bethel Baptist Church started with songs
and prayer.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeas to both of.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
The Reverend Roland Mouton dedicated the service to his twin brother,
Ronald Mouton, who was a reverend at the church and
was tragically murdered at between.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Bond is a different bond. He and I were very close.
Speaker 15 (14:31):
We've shared everything from the womb to roomis children to
college dormitory room sharing, both in the ministry, traveling on
trips together, this prejus and stuff we and not having
him it has I'm about to be honest, it's been
very devastating.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
For my life.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
In June twenty twenty two, Muton's other half was taken
from him in a possible road raid shooting. Investigators say
an Uber driver named Sean Longmeyer shot at Muton's car
on the Go Freeway. Surveillance video showed Muton's white BMW
veering off to the side of the road. Since then,
Longmire has been out on bond record show he violated
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his bond by not obeying to his curfew restrictions.
Speaker 15 (15:16):
Why should he be as free as me? Keep him
locked up till he goes to trial, That's what.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I want to see.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
The trial was supposed to be in September, but has
been pushed back to April twenty twenty five.
Speaker 15 (15:28):
I'm on the impression it was delayed because the defense
attorney was in a case that did not end in
time to start our case. Why could Nava case be
his next case because it was supposed to be his
next case, which as to defend a more free time.
I mean, it'll be almost three years by the time
he goes to trial.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Muton's brother says in the future, he is hoping that
there is change in stricter bond conditions for those who
are charged with murder. He says, once his brother's trial
does happen, he is hoping for justice.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
We will restore the American Republican Michael, show your support.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
We will make you America powerful again.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
A story earlier this week reminiscent of Joe the Plumber,
the mainstream media the legacy media now running opposition research
on the Pennsylvania McDonald's where Trump worked. The Fry station
on what was that Sunday reporting on their past inspection
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report in an attempt to destroy them over Trump. This
is Britt Hume at Fox. But let me tell you
why they're doing this, folks. It's too late to salvage
the McDonald's story. But what they're telling anybody else out there,
a small business owner, you want to have Donald Trump
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come to your business? We just know this will destroy you.
It's now become an act of defiance to simply have
a president come to your to your business. Do you
realize what bullies these people are?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
What goons?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Anyway, listen this.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
People on the left are claiming that this event was
staged and that it was not a real dead work
at McDonald's. Well, of course it wasn't. It's a campaign event.
Of course it was stage. They all are staged. The
question in a situation like this, when a candidate drives,
strives to be seen doing something he would not normally
be expected to do, is whether he whether he.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Pulled it off or not.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It looked to me, and from a lot of reactions
that I've heard and seen that as angry as people
on the left are, that he kind of did pull
it off that he looked comfortable doing it and it
you know, he got in there and he seemed comfortable
among those McDonald's workers and was being shown how to
you know, how you dip the basket, and been how
to oil and how you shovel them out into the
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little holsters they come in and all that. He looked
like he like he was find doing that and was
kind of enjoying himself. So I don't think this is
a minus for him. The question is always letting you
can pull it off. The most spectacular example we can
remember of somebody not pulling it off was when Michael Dukakis,
then the governor of Massachusetts and the candidate for president
on the Democratic ticket in nineteen eighty eight, got into
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a tank and was riding around in it with his
head sticking out, and it just didn't work, and it
was an object of incredible ridicule.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Trumpet a little better here.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I think we've been talking about how Democrats in swing
states are now hugging Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
That's the political term.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
And you try to get up right next to somebody
and make their voters think that y'all are big buddies.
Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey in his latest ad asking
the people of Pennsylvania to vote for him. He's a Democrat.
He talks about his agreement with Trump on trade. You
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know why because Republican Dave McCormick is gaining ground on Casey.
The Real Clear Politics average now sits less than two percent.
Back in April, Casey was up by six. As Trump
has grown more popular and has taken the lead in Michigan,
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his coattails Dave McCormick. It's helping them. So Casey is
now trying to say, basically, you can vote for Trump,
but I'm over here. You know, I get along with Trump.
I'm a Republican and I'm a Democrat.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Our marriage pure bless but on politics.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We just don't agree except for Bob Casey. He's independent,
that's right. Casey's leading the effort.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
To stop corporate greedflation and price gouging.
Speaker 16 (19:56):
Casey bucks Biden to protect racking, and.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
He's sided with Trump to en NAFTA and put tariffs
on China.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
To stop them from cheating.
Speaker 14 (20:04):
So in this house we agree it's Bob Casey who's
doing right by Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I'm Bob Jasey, and I definitely approved this message.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
ABC's Rick Klin earlier in the week was talking about
early voting numbers and we've got we've got plenty of
new numbers coming in, but I wanted to highlight this.
There's some interesting things in here. Give this a listen.
Speaker 17 (20:26):
Ready, more than thirteen million Americans have cast their ballots. Now,
that's actually down significantly from where it was four years ago,
but of course the COVID year when records were voting
early and Bibel in Georgia. Just this past week, the
first day of in person voting set a new record.
Let's look like we're on track to have a very
high turnout election.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Particularly in the Battle States. In fact, there's more than.
Speaker 17 (20:47):
A million people that have voted early ready in Boldsbridge
and Michigan. Now we're not going to know for a
while it's an election night, or even later than that,
exactly who people voted for, but based on the likely
partisanship of the voters that we've seen so far, we're
seeing more Republicans as a share of the electorate than Democrats.
Take a look at that four years ago, less than
a third. Only thirty two percent of people that had
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voted so far were Republicans. That's up six points so
far this cycle. Now, that could be a sign of
enthusiasm among Republicans. That could because Donald Trump is sometimes
at least supporting early voting, and it may be that
these are voters they're going to vote anyway on election day.
But the bottom line is that people are voting and
they're enthusiastic about this race. In Pennsylvania, we've seen Republicans
so far ahead of the twenty twenty pace. Again, Democrats
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are still a larger share of early voters, but there
are more Republicans in just about all of the states
we've seen significant votes so far.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Andrew Kazinski is no brand of Donald Trump. He is
a liberal journalist at CNN. Even he says, you know,
when Kamala ran for president, she vowed to prosecute oil companies.
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She promised they would face heavy fines and criminal prosecution.
Now she's taking credit for oil production from the same
oil companies she promised she would destroy.
Speaker 18 (22:19):
It really shows sort of just how far left that
Kamala Harris got. In that twenty nineteen Democratic primary when
she was running with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, she
was making this extremely bold promise that she was going
to take the US oil industry, possibly criminally prosecute them
for their role in climate change. She compared it to
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big tobacco, saying they knew the effects of climate change,
but they hit it from the public. Now we saw there.
Fast forward to twenty twenty four. What are her and
Tim Wall's doing. They are touting the record domestic oil
production from those same oil companies during the Biden Harris administration,
and well.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
How big of a shift is this.
Speaker 18 (23:00):
Well take a listen to just one of those comments
from twenty nineteen.
Speaker 12 (23:06):
Will you order your Justice Department, in your Attorney General
to investigate Chevron and show companies for their part and
their damage to our planet in this climate crisis.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
I'm saying about these big oil companies and these fossil
fuel companies. Look, you should be really prepared to look
at a serious fine. I'll be charged with.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
A crime, and they need to pay the price.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
So yes is the answer.
Speaker 18 (23:36):
And that's very different from obviously what we played in
the intro here. But that was not the only time
she made comments like this. This was very much a
theme for her take. Listen to a few other comments
that she made in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 11 (23:50):
I took on big oil companies and one they've taken
on the big oil companies who are polluting. I took
on oil companies who are polluting out our environments.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
All right, obviously that is extremely different than what she
is presenting right now.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
But this isn't the only thing that she's flipped on
that you found, and you've found.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
A lot of other inconsistencies.
Speaker 18 (24:12):
Yeah, she's flip flopped on a lot of issues related
to energy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Take a look at just a few of them.
Speaker 18 (24:17):
She said she was going to ban plastic straws, she
said she was going to ban fracking.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We have heard a lot about that.
Speaker 18 (24:25):
And she said she would eliminate the filibuster to pass
the past the Green New Deal. Now, she also ran
Facebook ads during that campaign which we're touting her support
for the Green New Deal, which we're saying that she
was going to take on big oil to stop for
their role in contributing to climate King.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Joe Biden became mentally impaired with Michael Berry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Kamala was born that way, so Kamala.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Harris the borders off has left the border wide open
and invited illegals in We're hearing again and again that
they encourage these illegals to come to government offices to
receive their benefits, and when they do, they register them
to vote. California now has full blown illegal alien voting.
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You're being replaced, and if we don't win this election,
they will so outnumber you you'll never have a chance
to take your country back. Did you know there is
a massive caravan of illegal aliens headed for America right now.
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We've had a bunch of these. They don't stop them.
You know why they're coming right now because they're scared
that Trump's going to win and that the Kamala Harris
wide open border, the gate will be closed.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They are scared of that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
National Border Patrol Council VP Chris Cabrera says, this has
just become the norm. We are being invaded, folks. I'm
assuming you know that we are being invaded.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
These groups coming across. We see groups like this quite
a bit. It's it's it's unfortunate that stuff like this
has become the norm under this administration. But unfortunately it
has large groups of you know, hundreds crossing at any
given time, caravans of two or three thousand at a time.
I mean it unfortunately becomes a normal thing.
Speaker 16 (26:27):
I know, this caravan is expected to you know, cross
and then splinter off into two smaller groups and kind
of enter at a different ports of entry. If you will,
Where are you expecting the most crossings to occur?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Are you locating?
Speaker 16 (26:39):
You know a specific city or area you.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Know right now? Obviously in Texas the hot spot would
be Eagle Pass. You know, one would think California is
the busiest, but the closest straight line distance wouldn't be
the real Grand Valley of Texas. So our guess is
between real Grand Valley and maybe Eagle Pass area.
Speaker 16 (26:58):
The Border Patrol Council has obviously endorsed Trump.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
If he were to win on.
Speaker 16 (27:03):
November fifth take office come January, how long would it
take for him to undo everything that the Biden administration undid?
It seems like, realistically that would take a long time
to get chaos back in check.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Are you know? I think just bidening recognition. When he
took off his last time, things slowed down immediately because
people knew that he was serious about what was happening,
and the effects were almost immediate. This may take a
little longer because it isn't a lot worse shape than
what he inherited last time. But I wouldn't imagine it
would take all too long to start feeling the effects
of some of these policies that are going to get
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put back in place.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Logan's point. Logan's point, Indiana, a town of eighteen thousand,
has seen an influx of Haitian illegals thanks to the
Biden Harris Administration's open border, and they're actually bringing these
people into dumping them into towns. Overwhelming the town of
the illegals are unaccompanied miners, which of course is putting
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a strain on the schools. It's increasing the population of
students by nearly fifteen fold, fifteen times as many students
as they had before. The New York Post reports, Logan's
point is now Logan's port. I can't seem to say
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that is now part of a growing list of small
town communities where the local population is struggling to deal
with a huge influx of migrants as a result of
Biden Harris administration policies. Springfield, Ohio. Towns in Pennsylvania, see,
these are people that didn't want to be in the
big city. If you wanted to be overrun by illegals.
You'd be in the big city. These are people who
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moved to small towns with a town square where you
knew your neighbors. And the Democrats are going, uh uh,
we're taking over your towns. And you know where they're
doing all of this in the Swing States, that's what
they're doing. Listen to this. This is Fox fifty nine
in Indianapolis.
Speaker 13 (29:07):
Logansport, Indiana, a rural city seventy eight miles north of Indianapolis,
known for its diverse urban population of eighteen thousand people
from at least twenty eight countries now called Logansport home,
with at least twenty seven languages spoken each.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
Each week each week.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Okay, you do not say that each week.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
So last week they had my final count that I
knew of. They had sixteen newcomers that week that week.
But a lot of them are coming out, accompanied.
Speaker 13 (29:36):
A startling rapport from the Cass County Health Department administrator
during a September County Commissioner meeting, Serenity Altar sits in
meetings with new children enrolled in Logansport schools. She listens
to them described their journey to the city.
Speaker 14 (29:50):
Most of them fly from Haiti to Nicaragua, to Mexico
and then to whatever stake they're flying to. A lot
of them, like we met a couple last week that
hadn't seen their parents at about seven.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
It's a bit so eye opener.
Speaker 13 (30:03):
The overall growth of school enrollment jump by nearly one
hundred and fifty kids in three years. This year there
are two hundred and seven Haitian students and Logan Support schools,
up from fourteen in twenty twenty one. They also have
new students from eleven other countries, including Guatemala, Cuba, Honduras,
and El Salvador. No one from the health department wanted
to do an on camera interview with this, but they
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told me that language barrier is a big challenge.
Speaker 14 (30:27):
So I don't think our school system can contain that
many and can sustain what they're doing right now.
Speaker 13 (30:32):
The school district is more optimistic.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
We can handle it, and we're a.
Speaker 19 (30:35):
Public school and so we take everybody that comes in
the door and meets them where they are, no matter what.
Speaker 13 (30:40):
Michelle Starkey graduated from Logan Suport High School and has
worked for the school for decades. She says embracing immigrants
is what they do, but she acknowledges many of these
migrant students are being asked to bear a heavy load.
Speaker 19 (30:54):
Well, it might be startling to some people. We have
students that work second and third shift jobs to help
support their families.
Speaker 13 (31:00):
I stopped by the Jehovah Jairie Haitian market on North
Street and talked with the owner and asked Tim how
many Haitian immigrants now call Logan'sport home.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I don't know exactly, but maybe more than two thousands.
Speaker 13 (31:12):
Walkins moved to Logan'sport from Florida four years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
He told me what brought him. Dyson. Walkins is talking.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
About the Tyson meatpacking plan. He used to work there
but now owns this market. He started it because Logan
Support didn't have anything for the growing Haitian population. He says,
people are coming to earn a living.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Dyson good money, Yeah, yeah, I didn't make good money. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (31:36):
Immigrants like Walkins can come to Logansport legally with certain
employment authorization documents issue to temporary protected status individuals. I
reached out to Tyson and submitted multiple questions, including how
many migrant teenagers work for them third shifts. They did
not respond do you need help?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
We do.
Speaker 13 (31:54):
Logan'sport Mayor Martin told me his biggest issue right now
is not knowing how many immigrants have come to city
from the federal to state government. Nobody can tell him.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Do you even know? We don't, we don't.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Migrant spiritual leaders told city leaders five thousand Haitian immigrants
have moved to Logan's Port, but the mayor says he
has no way of verifying that number, but he knows
it's significant.
Speaker 20 (32:15):
Here's how we know it's changed is because of the
twenty to thirty percent increase that we're seeing in a
lot of our normal city services, you know, with our
traffic stops, with the hospital, with our school corporation.
Speaker 13 (32:26):
He blames federal immigration policies for the burden.
Speaker 20 (32:29):
The federal government has got to step in and they've
got to start helping communities ours.
Speaker 13 (32:33):
Mayor Mark's two biggest concerns are the strain on the
hospital and housing. Logan's Port Memorial told us they are
on pace for record births and more than twenty thousand
er visits. Twenty seven percent of their patients are also
on Medicaid, and that puts a significant burden on OBI
caare in Indiana, Immigrants and anyone else who can't pay
sign up for presumptive Medicaid, apply for charity care or
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a payment plan. The hospital recently asked the city council
for three million dollars to stay abilizer operations and it
was granted. As for housing, the Health Department has been
in homes where twenty to twenty five people are living
and that's not safe.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
That is a big concern.
Speaker 13 (33:10):
Mayor Martin said his team is working on a few
new housing projects, but is it ready to divulge the specifics.
He says they need help now.
Speaker 20 (33:18):
I will say that we have been in contact with
Governor Holcombe and his office and so we are finally
getting to the next step.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Mayor Martin told me he considered issuing a state of emergency,
but said that will wait for now. We also reached
out to the Governor's office multiple times, but he never responded,
never
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Ask for thank you and good night.