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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, so let's learn a little bit more about this now.
Ben Berkwam is in addition to being the host of
Law and Border on Real America's Voice, he is also
the founder of Frontline America. He's a Christian conservative husband
and father. So says his bio, you need to be
following him on Twitter. Acts Ben, good morning, Good to
have you.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How are you great, Bob, Great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Tell us about your experience here in what you're calling,
you know, third World America, the community created especially for
illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I had never heard of this before. Give us the background. Well,
it's a community I'd been covering for a while. I
do the show.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
As you mentioned, Long Border, I've traveled extensively through Central
and South America and overseas, and what's wild is going
in there.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's called plum Grove Colony Ridge.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's in Cleveland, Texas, just north of Houston, and I've
been going there for a couple of years, heard the stories,
and when I first arrived a couple of years ago,
I thought, man, this is just an odd community.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It just it feels that that third world field.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And I went back a couple months ago for a
ride along with ICE. You know, we previously were banned
from being with ICE under the Biden administration, but since
Trump took office, we were able to get back with them.
And that was apparently one of the largest locations for
(01:27):
apprehensions of illegals in the country. And I wanted to
go back and see, Okay, well what's it like now
and what's changed. And I just had the brilliant idea
to pat myself on the back of going and doing
interviews in English and seeing how many English speakers I
could find, and over the course of forty five minutes,
I couldn't find one. And it was you know, again
(01:50):
it's not definitive too are they illegal or are they illegal?
But it was just very clear if you've ever traveled
in any other country, the building standards, the style, the
kind of you know, the pace of life, and the
uneasiness of even driving through there. Several times it felt
like there were you know, vehicles that were following me.
You just get the feeling that this is not America,
(02:13):
and you know, this is in America. This is part
of America, and this is sadly, I think what's coming
too much of America if we don't stop. Thank God,
Trump one, if we don't stop what has been invited
into our country.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's very well said, Ben. And to the language part
of this thing, you know, you're right, just not speaking
English doesn't necessarily determine whether somebody is here legal or not,
legally or not. But people who are here legally, they
do try to assimilate to a degree anyway, most of them.
And that is learning the language and learning how to
communicate in the in the English speaking American world. If
these individuals, no one you encounter speaking English, they have
(02:51):
no interest whatsoever in assimilation, it does give us an
idea that these people are not here with an interest
in actually being American.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, that's that's the big difference. I mean, it's really
the the you know, the defining factor of America is
you know, do we become Americans?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Is this?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know, we have all these people chanting and marching
and I was actually out there a couple of weeks
ago in Houston, and all these people out there marching
against Ice and fore illegals and burning the American flag
and waving their own foreign country's flag.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's not what America is. You know, this idea that
America's a nation of immigrants.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, many immigrants came to this country that my wife's
family escaped Blause communism moved to America. I was there
when my wife got her citizenship.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It was beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know, if that is what happens when you come
to America, you become an American, You abandon your foreign country,
and you embraced this nation as your home nation, and
you love this nation. And what we have now is
you have some people that do that. You have legal
immigrants that are doing that, that want to come to America, but.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You have a whole lot of people who.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Are coming here who have no desire to do that.
In fact, they're they're encouraged not to. You've got these
radical leftist organizations that hate this country that teach.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That it's a.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Stolen land, or you know, the the cliche of all
the leftist communist talking points that have taught people that
when you come into this country, you have no allegiance,
there's nothing good to here, that you just should come in,
take what you want and leave the rest. And so
there's this there's an an entire subset of America, or
(04:32):
subset of a community that's not America within America that
to me, is really the death of America if.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We don't stop it from from growing.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And the worst part to me is not even the
illegals that are coming in, which is they're bad, and
a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Are really bad.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's the people that are incentivizing in them, the American citizens,
as our founders warned us, the enemies within our government
and within our country that are inviting this and creating
that that mindset that no, you don't there's there's nothing
you know, there's nothing that you have to do. There's
no part of this contract with this nation that you
(05:07):
have to be a part of, and that you know
that is unsustainable if we continue that as a nation.
And really you want to get a feeling of that,
like what that looks like?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Uh? In three dimensions? You just go into places like
Colony Ridge.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And unfortunately, I travel all like I said, all over
not just the world, but our country, and there are
many places you go to Minnesota, Michigan, many parts you know,
dearborn Minneapolis. Some of these places you go into and
you just feel like, wow, this is this isn't America?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What happened? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And the question really remains, we know about these places
you document these places.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
If you know about it, ICE knows about it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
If ICE knows about it, CBP knows about it, and
law enforcements about it, why are they allowing this to continue?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is the question.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If we are supposedly staging the greatest and largest deportation
in American history, these places seem undisturbed, and that's that's
a real issue. BERKWAM is the host of Law and
Border on Real America's Voice News. Ben I wish I
had more time to talk to you because this is fascinating.
Perhaps we can do it again, but thank you so
much for this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, no, absolutely my pleasure. Thank you, thank you,
Okay, so let's learn a little bit more about this now.
Ben Berkwam is in addition to being the host of
Law and Border on Real America's Voice, he is also
the founder of Frontline America. He's a Christian conservative husband
and father. So says his bio, you need to be
following him on Twitter. Acts Ben, good morning, Good to
have you.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How are you great, Bob, Great to be with you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Tell us about your experience here in what you're calling,
you know, third World America, the community created especially for
illegal aliens.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I had never heard of this before. Give us the background. Well,
it's a community I'd been covering for a while. I
do the show.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
As you mentioned, Long Border, I've traveled extensively through Central
and South America and overseas, and what's wild is going
in there.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's called plum Grove Colony Ridge.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's in Cleveland, Texas, just north of Houston, and I've
been going there for a couple of years, heard the stories,
and when I first arrived a couple of years ago,
I thought, man, this is just an odd community.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It just it feels that that third world field.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
And I went back a couple months ago for a
ride along with ICE. You know, we previously were banned
from being with ICE under the Biden administration, but since
Trump took office, we were able to get back with them.
And that was apparently one of the largest locations for
(01:27):
apprehensions of illegals in the country. And I wanted to
go back and see, Okay, well what's it like now
and what's changed. And I just had the brilliant idea
to pat myself on the back of going and doing
interviews in English and seeing how many English speakers I
could find, and over the course of forty five minutes,
I couldn't find one. And it was you know, again
(01:50):
it's not definitive too are they illegal or are they illegal?
But it was just very clear if you've ever traveled
in any other country, the building standards, the style, the
kind of you know, the pace of life, and the
uneasiness of even driving through there. Several times it felt
like there were you know, vehicles that were following me.
You just get the feeling that this is not America,
(02:13):
and you know, this is in America. This is part
of America, and this is sadly, I think what's coming
too much of America if we don't stop. Thank God,
Trump one, if we don't stop what has been invited
into our country.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's very well said, Ben. And to the language part
of this thing, you know, you're right, just not speaking
English doesn't necessarily determine whether somebody is here legal or not,
legally or not. But people who are here legally, they
do try to assimilate to a degree anyway, most of them.
And that is learning the language and learning how to
communicate in the in the English speaking American world. If
these individuals, no one you encounter speaking English, they have
(02:51):
no interest whatsoever in assimilation, it does give us an
idea that these people are not here with an interest
in actually being American.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, that's that's the big difference. I mean, it's really
the the you know, the defining factor of America is
you know, do we become Americans?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Is this?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know, we have all these people chanting and marching
and I was actually out there a couple of weeks
ago in Houston, and all these people out there marching
against Ice and fore illegals and burning the American flag
and waving their own foreign country's flag.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's not what America is. You know, this idea that
America's a nation of immigrants.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yes, many immigrants came to this country that my wife's
family escaped Blause communism moved to America. I was there
when my wife got her citizenship.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
It was beautiful thing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know, if that is what happens when you come
to America, you become an American, You abandon your foreign country,
and you embraced this nation as your home nation, and
you love this nation. And what we have now is
you have some people that do that. You have legal
immigrants that are doing that, that want to come to America, but.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You have a whole lot of people who.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Are coming here who have no desire to do that.
In fact, they're they're encouraged not to. You've got these
radical leftist organizations that hate this country that teach.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That it's a.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Stolen land, or you know, the the cliche of all
the leftist communist talking points that have taught people that
when you come into this country, you have no allegiance,
there's nothing good to here, that you just should come in,
take what you want and leave the rest. And so
there's this there's an an entire subset of America, or
(04:32):
subset of a community that's not America within America that
to me, is really the death of America if.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We don't stop it from from growing.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
And the worst part to me is not even the
illegals that are coming in, which is they're bad, and
a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Are really bad.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's the people that are incentivizing in them, the American citizens,
as our founders warned us, the enemies within our government
and within our country that are inviting this and creating
that that mindset that no, you don't there's there's nothing
you know, there's nothing that you have to do. There's
no part of this contract with this nation that you
(05:07):
have to be a part of, and that you know
that is unsustainable if we continue that as a nation.
And really you want to get a feeling of that,
like what that looks like?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Uh? In three dimensions? You just go into places like
Colony Ridge.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And unfortunately, I travel all like I said, all over
not just the world, but our country, and there are
many places you go to Minnesota, Michigan, many parts you know,
dearborn Minneapolis. Some of these places you go into and
you just feel like, wow, this is this isn't America?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
What happened? Right?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And the question really remains, we know about these places
you document these places.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
If you know about it, ICE knows about it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
If ICE knows about it, CBP knows about it, and
law enforcements about it, why are they allowing this to continue?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is the question.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If we are supposedly staging the greatest and largest deportation
in American history, these places seem undisturbed, and that's that's
a real issue. BERKWAM is the host of Law and
Border on Real America's Voice News. Ben I wish I
had more time to talk to you because this is fascinating.
Perhaps we can do it again, but thank you so
much for this morning.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, no, absolutely my pleasure. Thank you, thank you,
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