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Speaker 1 (00:00):
CBS re course. A CBS reporter says he spent four
hours along the border with Mexico and did not see
a single migrant that's an illegal alien or asylum seeker
that's also an illegal alien. And he says, typically when
we go to the US Mexico border, we see folks,
(00:21):
at least few trying to come across the border. We
didn't see a single migrant. Migrant means illegal alien, it's euphemism.
This comes as the number show that February of this year,
illegal border crossings are the lowest in at least twenty
(00:43):
five years. That goes back to the last millennium. The
story from CBS News.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Just feet away from Mexico, our cameras captured a heavily
fortified a US border.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
This has been known for so many years for.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The high level of Zamangolian activity.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That has been true historically, but not anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The activity is very slow. There's multiple factors attached to
why we have seen a significant drop in apprehensions recently.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
One of them, of course, as consequences.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And you believe that is due to new policies from Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It has a lot to do with that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It is quite here at the US Mexico border, where
illegal crossings are down by more than ninety percent from
the same time last year, we have seen border patrol agents,
soldiers and vehicles and barriers, but no migrants so far.
President Trump has shut down the US asylum system, empowering
officials to swiftly deport migrants without processing their claims. He
(01:44):
has also deployed thousands of troops to the border and
test the military with deportations. It's a crackdown felt across
the border in Mexico. Whenas comeis Don Eduardo Melina and
his wife Johann Acurdez brought their children to this shelter
into Lahuatas fleeing the violence in southern Mexico. You slip here, okay? Yes,
(02:06):
The young family says they've waited in the small room
for six months for an appointment to enter the US,
but that application system was quickly terminated by the Trump administration.
You're saying you might have to go back to me
chak on despite the violence. It's a devastating prospect for Cortez.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You left everything.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Would you want a different life for your children and
now that dream is ending? But O passive border Patrol
Sector Chief Walter slows or says laws must be enforced.
We're going to make sure that we're securing the border,
and we're going to do so unapologetically. I understand that
people ended up in these areas, but we did not
(02:56):
bring those individuals to this specific area. It's a stern mess.
The trumpettustration helps prompts migrants like the ones we met
to go back home. So you spent how long, you know,
going along the borders, and how different was this trip
versus pastor's single migrant or asylum seeker. And typically when
we go to the US Mexico border, we at least
(03:18):
see one group of people who are trying to cross
into the US illegally. We did not see a single migrant.
We saw soldiers, border patrol agents and National Guard troops
and vehicles and barriers, but no migrants that crackdown.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The administration is crediting for these lower numbers that we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How sustainable is that? And then how long would we
expect them to see these loan That really is the
million dollar question because historically in the springtime, as the
weather gets better, migration to the border is the Michael
Arry Show.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The CBS National reporting that the border crossings are down
well over ninety percent to a low of over twenty
five years. That goes back to the Clinton administration. That
goes back to a time when many of the people
now coming to this country, probably most of the people
now coming to this country were not even born yet.
(04:17):
So we know that the border protections are working. Meanwhile,
ICE agents in the Houston area, according to click to
Houston KPRC two in Houston, ICE agents in the Houston
area say they arrested five hundred and forty three criminal
illegal aliens that means someone who does something in addition
(04:39):
to coming to this country illegally, along with seven gang
members between February twenty third and March second alone. What
is that a little over a week. ICE Houston Field
Office Director Brett Bradford says, quote after illegally entering the country,
(04:59):
many of the these criminal aliens have gone on to
commit violent crime and reigns of terror on law abiding residents.
ICE and its partners executed seventy one criminal arrest warrants
over that time period. Here's the breakdown. According to ICE,
one hundred and forty criminal aliens charged or convicted of
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an aggravated felony or other violent offense such as homicide,
aggravated assault, or domestic violence. Remember, the aggravating factor in
an aggravated assault is almost always a gun or at
a minimum, a knife. So we're talking about situations that
could turn south really fast as an end of life.
(05:47):
Thirty four criminal aliens charged or convicted of a sex
offense or child sex offense such as aggravated sexual assault
of a minor, possession of child pornography, or rape. Do
you notice how many times illegal aliens are involved in
sexual offenses. It's almost as if there are certain cultures
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around the world, countries that are incubating this sort of behavior.
Cultural behaviors, the view of children as sex objects, for instance,
the view of women as punching bags. Do you notice
how often you see drunk driving from illegal aliens. It's
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almost as if it is viewed differently in other countries,
because it is when people come to this country, they
bring the culture with them. And as President Trump has said,
and it's true, you're not getting their best. If fifty
percent of third world countries people drip men drive drunk
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because it's always the men. If fifty percent of them
drive drunk, that's the ones you're getting. You're not getting
the best and brightest, the most self restrained, the most
self disciplined, the most focused and ambitious. Thirty eight criminal
aliens convicted of illegal firearms offenses such as unlawful carrying
(07:26):
of a firearm, alien in possession of a firearm, and
aggravated assault with a firearm in a one week period.
Thirty eight of them arrested for these crimes in Houston alone.
So show me your story of the woman crying because
she doesn't want to go back to Mitchulla Khan because
(07:49):
it's dangerous there, And I'll show you stories that Mitchella
Kan has come to Houston and I don't want it.
The problems she doesn't want to go back to have
been brought here. Fifty two criminal aliens charged or convicted
of illicit narcotics offenses such as drug trafficking or possession
of a controlled substance. Fifty one criminal aliens charged or
(08:12):
convicted of property crimes such as burglary or theft. That's
how many were caught. Mind you think about how many
people in the Greater Houston area alone woke up to
their vehicle missing, woke up to their catalytic converter having
(08:34):
been cut, came home from work their house having been
broken into. Think about how many of these crimes affect
our neighbors in one week? Remove the person removed hundreds,
if not thousands of crimes. Ninety three criminal aliens charged
(08:56):
or convicted of driving while intoxicated always the case. Brett Bradford,
who serves as the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston
Field Office Director, says, quote, in recent years, some of
the world's most dangerous fugitives, transnational gang members, and criminal
aliens have taken advantage of the crisis at our nation's
(09:19):
border at our nation's southern border to illegally enter the US.
After illegally entering the country, many of these criminal aliens
have gone on to commit violent crime and reign terror
on law abiding residents. Make America great again means make
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America safe again. You should not need to fear for
your life because people from other countries are coming into
your neighborhood, stealing what you have, raping your children, driving
drunk on your roads, breaking in to your homes, are
(10:01):
sticking you up at gunpoint. You should not have to
deal with that, and the Trump approaches that you won't
because these people will be arrested and they'll be kicked
out of the country. Once they're kicked out of the country,
it's going to be a hell of a lot harder
for them to get back here. Ice officials and border
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patrol will tell you that when you catch one of
these bad guys, the number of times they've been kicked
out of the country shocking. They just they just can't
get enough. It's like a magnetic pool. They just keep
coming back in. So you've got to shut down the
border and you've got to get them out of your country.
(10:44):
And when you do both of those things, you're going
to start seeing the crime rates drop. You're going to
start seeing good things happen. You know, there are a
number of fields that Americans have either been, depending on
your perspective, shut out from, or have not pursued however
you want to approach that. I've had construction workers tell me,
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and particularly at the entry level and the trades, how
difficult it is to get to work because there is
a natural predisposition for hiring from a crew other folks
who speak their language and their primary language is not English,
it's Spanish. I've heard difficulties of folks who try to
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get started as a laborer, who try to get started,
who try to get hired on a job at a
construction site, for instance. But I was reading about the
the butcher business in Nebraska, massive business, the slaughterhouses, and
folks that say if you speak English, you can't get hired.
That shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
People sleep because.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
A woman by the name of Amber Laudermilk was a
Houston mortician. She was embalming a body when she learned
that the man she was embalming was a sex offender,
so she well Channel two with the story.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
The allegations here are rare and disturbing. This embalmer is
accused of stabbing this dead man twice in the groin area,
then cutting off part of his private part and putting
it in his mouth. Investigators say it all happened after
she learned about his past at Memorial mortuary on the
Southwest Side. It's a situation that no family would ever
want to hear about their loved one.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
This was a vicious, brutal attack of a corpse. The
person's already dead. It's kind of shocking.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Even to me.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Licensed embalmer Amber Laughtermilk is accused of using a scalpel
to twice stab a man in the groin after he
died of pneumonia last month. She cut off his private part,
put it in his mouth, according to records, and told
a trainee who witnessed it, you didn't see anything.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Two troubled lives co existed at the same time. But
this person, clearly our suspect, clearly just went off the edge.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Harris County Precinct one Constable Deputies investigated. They say employees
were too scared to report her, who, according to records,
cover the dead man up with a towel when a
colleague noticed the disfigurement. While a motive isn't clear, records
show mortuary staff had just learned the victim was a
registered sex offender. How important are ethics in this line
of work?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Ethics is everything in this line of work.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Jason Altieri runs Southeast Texas crematory not connected to this case,
admitting this could have been hard to predict. He says
families should be aware of where loved ones will be cremated,
feel comfortable to ask questions, and be able to visit
and see it in person.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Whether we have, you know, a particular judgment one way
or the other, it doesn't matter. We're there for a
family and we have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Staff report of the case involving Watermilk to the Texas
Funeral Service Commission. The executive director says it's the only
criminal abuse of corpse case across the state in the
last two years.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is in
an incredibly difficult time, and there are predators who exploit
this vulnerability.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Family should proactively verify the credentials of funeral homes and directors,
he says, using the agency's licensed look up before putting
someone to rest Latermilk has been a funeral director in
Texas since twenty twenty one, according to records. Now the
state will seek to suspend and possibly revoke her license, and.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It makes us all look bad, and that's the sad
thing about this.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Memorial Mortuary tells KPRC too Laughtermilk no longer works there,
but declined to provide any additional detail, citing a personnel
matter and ongoing legal case.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I mean he was a sex offender, though I like
the gap. Jim C. If you can cueue it up
to the a guy with the crematorium commission or the
mortician commission or whatever else where. He says, you know,
you you should feel comfortable going and asking questions before
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you send your loved one there. How does that work?
All right? Look, we're gonna trust you guys to to
embalm Bobby here, and we need you to know so
that you're not shocked. Bobby's a pedophile, okay, he's he's
(15:33):
put his winner in some places, ought not to go
and no, he didn't do his time, but he is.
If you look him up on one of those you
know pages, he can't go, you know, near a school
or anything. We just want to know if we trust
Bobby with you and uh, you know his you've got
(15:54):
chipmunk cheeks. We just want to make sure you don't,
you know, I mean, you know, cut his winner off
and stuff in his mouth so that we show up
to say goodbye for the final time. He's you know,
he's got his junk in his mouth and it's been hacked.
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He's missing the one thing he most enjoyed. We just
want to make sure that y'all aren't one of those
places that that you know, does those sorts of things.
I find it interesting that the story has multiple references
to her stabbing him in the leg. I don't. I
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don't think the stabbing in the leg is the part
that's important, because if you're going to focus on that,
then you're overlooking the fact that the body has to
be stabbed in one way or another. It's a scalpel,
it's not like it's a bowie knife. The body has
to be there has to be a blade inserted to
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drain the blood and do all those sorts of things.
I mean, it's it's another to start with the stabbing
of the leg to get access in and start carving up.
That's the least of what should what should bother you? Yeah,
(17:17):
I wonder if this woman, you know, the chances are
she's probably a listener to our show. If she despises
rapists and pedophiles to this extent, there's a pretty good
(17:37):
chance she's a listener to our show. Speaking of which,
we did get the phone line situation fixed, so our
phone lines are open seven one three nine one thousand,
seven one three nine one thousand. Now I know I'm
not mad at Alan Rose. In the Constable, his job
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is to say hey, this is really bad. I'm appalled,
this is nuts. You know, got the shaft. I mean,
you know his job is to say that, right, you
gotta have a certain number of people be serious. But
it's kind of like the dad that comes home. Remember
the case couple of years ago. The dad comes home
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and his little boy's being raped by the guy next door,
and he beats him and beats him, and he calls
the cops and says, y'all better hurry because I'm gonna
beat him till y'all get here. And they get there,
and I mean he is pummeled.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
He is.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I mean, he looks like he had a baseball back
to his head. And it's the dad's raging fists. Who
doesn't identify with that? I mean, let's be honest. We
hate rapists and pedophiles. We do. And that's just that's
a social phenomenon. And I'm not saying it's okay. I'm not.
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But this is a relatively young woman, thirty four years old.
I would be interested to know what her mindset was
when she saw that. And I will bet you, in
a private booth with nobody looking, I'll bet you seventy
five percent of people would say, Oh, let her off
this one time, just this one time. I think that's
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the break.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Jim Lift last learn doing it big on the Michael
(19:46):
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
For many years, I and my wife flew Southwest Airlines
and were the most loyal Southwest Airlines customers. My major
credit card for years was a Southwest Airlines card because
you got points to fly on Southwest Airlines. I had
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the back of the napkin. Remember when they I don't
know if they still do have flown Southwest in a while,
but remember on the back of the napkin that show
you all the places they flew. I could tell you
if you wanted to get to a city where you
wanted to be, how you had to get there because
the Southwest Airlines model, and there's nothing wrong with that.
(20:35):
There's fine dining and there's McDonald's. It's a price point issue.
It's a value proposition. And they ran a no frills
but very good airline on time performance, relatively short hops,
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and great prices. And new things happened to Southwest Airlines.
One is they were extraordinarily profitable, but they didn't reinvest.
They showed amazing returns, but they were returns. It was
as if you're not taking care of your house, and
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so they neglected the technology of the airline, and airlines
are largely a technology company now or a technology business
to keep up with the algorithm of all of these
moving parts, the varying prices that your analysts and now
(21:41):
AI have to use as it gets closer and closer
to the time, because an empty seat is the most expensive,
and staffing all of the crews, pilots and stewardesses. And
I'm told for folks inside Southwest Airlines that what happened
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was when you a couple of years ago, I don't
know how it's been maybe been five by now. It's
amazing how fast time flies for me. But a few
years ago there was a situation where the Southwest Airlines
it was this domino that began to fall and they couldn't.
It just crumbled and they had thousands of people stranded.
(22:26):
And my understanding from folks within Southwest Airlines is they
were literally having to pick up the phone and call
stewardesses Wendy, when did you last fly? When can you
fly again? Can you do this? And now you're robbing
Peter to pay Paul, you're pulling people off of flights
to get because now you've got people stranded, and so
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you got to get those people out of there because
the clock is ticking for how long they've been stranded.
But when you pull people off of flights to get
those out of there, you're in triage. Now you create
new problems. We're here, and problems beget problems, and so
this once great airline fell into disrepair, and that damages
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your reputation. Nobody wants to be stuck at an airport.
There are laws affecting airlines. They're called common carrier provisions,
and they are held to a higher standard because if
you go to a restaurant and you get halfway through
your meal and they go, look, we don't have dessert today,
you don't have a case against them. You just might
have a little bit of the red ass. But if
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an airline takes you somewhere and can't get you home
and you're stuck, that becomes a much bigger problem. And
so we have standards as to how they have to
behave and conduct themselves and treat you in those situations.
And as bad as it must seem it is, the
idea is that there'll be some level of dignity. It's
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also bad for overall airline travel for people to have
these sorts of experiences, because you don't think how bad
these experiences are until you the person stuck, and then
you're not booking a flight anytime soon, and that starts
becoming a huge problem. The other thing that happened in
Southwest Airlines over that twenty year period is Southwest Airlines
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was the discount airline. Then all of a sudden you
started having these other discount airlines, Spirit, Jet Blue, there
are a number of them. And everybody laughs about Spirit
because you can go online right now and there's some
viral clip of two women fighting while some guy's just
(24:40):
trying to get on his plane. I mean, it's bad,
it's really really bad. But Southwest Airlines for a discount carrier,
and I mean, I can't remember getting on the plane
and the stewardess is cutting up and the pilot coming
over the air and telling jokes, and I never flew United.
United was why how would I pay more for something
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that may not necessarily be any better? Peanuts? I don't
mind peanuts. I'm going to eat at the airport anyway.
I'm one of those weirdos that gets to the airport
so early that the flight before my flight is leaving
while I'm waiting, and that's usually a couple of hours,
(25:24):
because I don't want to risk TSA having a bad
day and holding me up. I'm the guy that left
a bullet one loan bullet in my bag a couple
of years ago, so I know anything can happen, no
matter how hard you scoured, anything can happen. That could
be the day that, for whatever reason, half their crew
didn't show up and you're running late. So those the
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discount carriers came in and now they started undercutting them.
And this has been a problem with the airline industry
for a long time. Profitability is a huge problem. I
saw that Delta is announcing some problems today. Southwest Airlines
has announced that they will no longer offer two free
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check bags to all customers. Is that the end of
the world. No, it's a pretty strong statement, that sort
of thing for you to start having to tell people,
you know who. I feel bad for the gate agents,
the worker bees at that level. They don't make that
much money and you're going to get people showing up hot.
(26:32):
What do you mean I have to pay for check
bags starting May twenty eight, so you get a little
time only. Southwest Rapid Rewards A List Preferred members I
guess as people who fly all the time and business
Select Fair passengers will get two free check backs. The
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A List members will get one free check bag. Rapid
Rewards Credit card members will get a credit for one
check bag. The thing about it is they're not really
discouraging anybody from bringing a bag. You're going to bring
the number of bags you're going to bring because you
got to tote them around, But now that you have
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to pay for it, it's an additional revenue source, and
that tells you that they're hurting. The move is part
of a broader strategy to boost profitability and cater to
Southwest most loyal customers. Quote this is their CEO. We
have tremendous opportunity to meet current and future customer needs,
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attract new customer segments we don't compete for today, and
return to the levels of profitability that both we and
our shareholders expect. Tremendous opportunity to meet current and future
customer needs. The customer that looks like they're going for
because they're adjusting their loyalty program is the Business Select fairs,
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so you will now get more points for them and
fewer points for the lower tier tickets. This is kind
of an admission to what everybody in the airline business knows.
You don't want us, You don't want recreational travelers. You
can't pay the bills with that. We're sporadic, we're inconsistent,
we're less loyal. You want those of you out there
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who have to fly twice a week on your job.
That's where they make their money and that's what they're
going on.
CBS re course. A CBS reporter says he spent four
hours along the border with Mexico and did not see
a single migrant that's an illegal alien or asylum seeker
that's also an illegal alien. And he says, typically when
we go to the US Mexico border, we see folks,
(00:21):
at least few trying to come across the border. We
didn't see a single migrant. Migrant means illegal alien, it's euphemism.
This comes as the number show that February of this year,
illegal border crossings are the lowest in at least twenty
(00:43):
five years. That goes back to the last millennium. The
story from CBS News.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Just feet away from Mexico, our cameras captured a heavily
fortified a US border.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
This has been known for so many years for.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The high level of Zamangolian activity.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That has been true historically, but not anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The activity is very slow. There's multiple factors attached to
why we have seen a significant drop in apprehensions recently.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
One of them, of course, as consequences.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And you believe that is due to new policies from Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It has a lot to do with that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It is quite here at the US Mexico border, where
illegal crossings are down by more than ninety percent from
the same time last year, we have seen border patrol agents,
soldiers and vehicles and barriers, but no migrants so far.
President Trump has shut down the US asylum system, empowering
officials to swiftly deport migrants without processing their claims. He
(01:44):
has also deployed thousands of troops to the border and
test the military with deportations. It's a crackdown felt across
the border in Mexico. Whenas comeis Don Eduardo Melina and
his wife Johann Acurdez brought their children to this shelter
into Lahuatas fleeing the violence in southern Mexico. You slip here, okay? Yes,
(02:06):
The young family says they've waited in the small room
for six months for an appointment to enter the US,
but that application system was quickly terminated by the Trump administration.
You're saying you might have to go back to me
chak on despite the violence. It's a devastating prospect for Cortez.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You left everything.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Would you want a different life for your children and
now that dream is ending? But O passive border Patrol
Sector Chief Walter slows or says laws must be enforced.
We're going to make sure that we're securing the border,
and we're going to do so unapologetically. I understand that
people ended up in these areas, but we did not
(02:56):
bring those individuals to this specific area. It's a stern mess.
The trumpettustration helps prompts migrants like the ones we met
to go back home. So you spent how long, you know,
going along the borders, and how different was this trip
versus pastor's single migrant or asylum seeker. And typically when
we go to the US Mexico border, we at least
(03:18):
see one group of people who are trying to cross
into the US illegally. We did not see a single migrant.
We saw soldiers, border patrol agents and National Guard troops
and vehicles and barriers, but no migrants that crackdown.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The administration is crediting for these lower numbers that we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
How sustainable is that? And then how long would we
expect them to see these loan That really is the
million dollar question because historically in the springtime, as the
weather gets better, migration to the border is the Michael
Arry Show.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The CBS National reporting that the border crossings are down
well over ninety percent to a low of over twenty
five years. That goes back to the Clinton administration. That
goes back to a time when many of the people
now coming to this country, probably most of the people
now coming to this country were not even born yet.
(04:17):
So we know that the border protections are working. Meanwhile,
ICE agents in the Houston area, according to click to
Houston KPRC two in Houston, ICE agents in the Houston
area say they arrested five hundred and forty three criminal
illegal aliens that means someone who does something in addition
(04:39):
to coming to this country illegally, along with seven gang
members between February twenty third and March second alone. What
is that a little over a week. ICE Houston Field
Office Director Brett Bradford says, quote after illegally entering the country,
(04:59):
many of the these criminal aliens have gone on to
commit violent crime and reigns of terror on law abiding residents.
ICE and its partners executed seventy one criminal arrest warrants
over that time period. Here's the breakdown. According to ICE,
one hundred and forty criminal aliens charged or convicted of
(05:22):
an aggravated felony or other violent offense such as homicide,
aggravated assault, or domestic violence. Remember, the aggravating factor in
an aggravated assault is almost always a gun or at
a minimum, a knife. So we're talking about situations that
could turn south really fast as an end of life.
(05:47):
Thirty four criminal aliens charged or convicted of a sex
offense or child sex offense such as aggravated sexual assault
of a minor, possession of child pornography, or rape. Do
you notice how many times illegal aliens are involved in
sexual offenses. It's almost as if there are certain cultures
(06:14):
around the world, countries that are incubating this sort of behavior.
Cultural behaviors, the view of children as sex objects, for instance,
the view of women as punching bags. Do you notice
how often you see drunk driving from illegal aliens. It's
(06:40):
almost as if it is viewed differently in other countries,
because it is when people come to this country, they
bring the culture with them. And as President Trump has said,
and it's true, you're not getting their best. If fifty
percent of third world countries people drip men drive drunk
(07:03):
because it's always the men. If fifty percent of them
drive drunk, that's the ones you're getting. You're not getting
the best and brightest, the most self restrained, the most
self disciplined, the most focused and ambitious. Thirty eight criminal
aliens convicted of illegal firearms offenses such as unlawful carrying
(07:26):
of a firearm, alien in possession of a firearm, and
aggravated assault with a firearm in a one week period.
Thirty eight of them arrested for these crimes in Houston alone.
So show me your story of the woman crying because
she doesn't want to go back to Mitchulla Khan because
(07:49):
it's dangerous there, And I'll show you stories that Mitchella
Kan has come to Houston and I don't want it.
The problems she doesn't want to go back to have
been brought here. Fifty two criminal aliens charged or convicted
of illicit narcotics offenses such as drug trafficking or possession
of a controlled substance. Fifty one criminal aliens charged or
(08:12):
convicted of property crimes such as burglary or theft. That's
how many were caught. Mind you think about how many
people in the Greater Houston area alone woke up to
their vehicle missing, woke up to their catalytic converter having
(08:34):
been cut, came home from work their house having been
broken into. Think about how many of these crimes affect
our neighbors in one week? Remove the person removed hundreds,
if not thousands of crimes. Ninety three criminal aliens charged
(08:56):
or convicted of driving while intoxicated always the case. Brett Bradford,
who serves as the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston
Field Office Director, says, quote, in recent years, some of
the world's most dangerous fugitives, transnational gang members, and criminal
aliens have taken advantage of the crisis at our nation's
(09:19):
border at our nation's southern border to illegally enter the US.
After illegally entering the country, many of these criminal aliens
have gone on to commit violent crime and reign terror
on law abiding residents. Make America great again means make
(09:41):
America safe again. You should not need to fear for
your life because people from other countries are coming into
your neighborhood, stealing what you have, raping your children, driving
drunk on your roads, breaking in to your homes, are
(10:01):
sticking you up at gunpoint. You should not have to
deal with that, and the Trump approaches that you won't
because these people will be arrested and they'll be kicked
out of the country. Once they're kicked out of the country,
it's going to be a hell of a lot harder
for them to get back here. Ice officials and border
(10:22):
patrol will tell you that when you catch one of
these bad guys, the number of times they've been kicked
out of the country shocking. They just they just can't
get enough. It's like a magnetic pool. They just keep
coming back in. So you've got to shut down the
border and you've got to get them out of your country.
(10:44):
And when you do both of those things, you're going
to start seeing the crime rates drop. You're going to
start seeing good things happen. You know, there are a
number of fields that Americans have either been, depending on
your perspective, shut out from, or have not pursued however
you want to approach that. I've had construction workers tell me,
(11:07):
and particularly at the entry level and the trades, how
difficult it is to get to work because there is
a natural predisposition for hiring from a crew other folks
who speak their language and their primary language is not English,
it's Spanish. I've heard difficulties of folks who try to
(11:28):
get started as a laborer, who try to get started,
who try to get hired on a job at a
construction site, for instance. But I was reading about the
the butcher business in Nebraska, massive business, the slaughterhouses, and
folks that say if you speak English, you can't get hired.
That shouldn't be happening.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
People sleep because.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
A woman by the name of Amber Laudermilk was a
Houston mortician. She was embalming a body when she learned
that the man she was embalming was a sex offender,
so she well Channel two with the story.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
The allegations here are rare and disturbing. This embalmer is
accused of stabbing this dead man twice in the groin area,
then cutting off part of his private part and putting
it in his mouth. Investigators say it all happened after
she learned about his past at Memorial mortuary on the
Southwest Side. It's a situation that no family would ever
want to hear about their loved one.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
This was a vicious, brutal attack of a corpse. The
person's already dead. It's kind of shocking.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Even to me.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Licensed embalmer Amber Laughtermilk is accused of using a scalpel
to twice stab a man in the groin after he
died of pneumonia last month. She cut off his private part,
put it in his mouth, according to records, and told
a trainee who witnessed it, you didn't see anything.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Two troubled lives co existed at the same time. But
this person, clearly our suspect, clearly just went off the edge.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Harris County Precinct one Constable Deputies investigated. They say employees
were too scared to report her, who, according to records,
cover the dead man up with a towel when a
colleague noticed the disfigurement. While a motive isn't clear, records
show mortuary staff had just learned the victim was a
registered sex offender. How important are ethics in this line
of work?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Ethics is everything in this line of work.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Jason Altieri runs Southeast Texas crematory not connected to this case,
admitting this could have been hard to predict. He says
families should be aware of where loved ones will be cremated,
feel comfortable to ask questions, and be able to visit
and see it in person.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Whether we have, you know, a particular judgment one way
or the other, it doesn't matter. We're there for a
family and we have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Staff report of the case involving Watermilk to the Texas
Funeral Service Commission. The executive director says it's the only
criminal abuse of corpse case across the state in the
last two years.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is in
an incredibly difficult time, and there are predators who exploit
this vulnerability.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Family should proactively verify the credentials of funeral homes and directors,
he says, using the agency's licensed look up before putting
someone to rest Latermilk has been a funeral director in
Texas since twenty twenty one, according to records. Now the
state will seek to suspend and possibly revoke her license, and.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It makes us all look bad, and that's the sad
thing about this.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Memorial Mortuary tells KPRC too Laughtermilk no longer works there,
but declined to provide any additional detail, citing a personnel
matter and ongoing legal case.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I mean he was a sex offender, though I like
the gap. Jim C. If you can cueue it up
to the a guy with the crematorium commission or the
mortician commission or whatever else where. He says, you know,
you you should feel comfortable going and asking questions before
(15:09):
you send your loved one there. How does that work?
All right? Look, we're gonna trust you guys to to
embalm Bobby here, and we need you to know so
that you're not shocked. Bobby's a pedophile, okay, he's he's
(15:33):
put his winner in some places, ought not to go
and no, he didn't do his time, but he is.
If you look him up on one of those you
know pages, he can't go, you know, near a school
or anything. We just want to know if we trust
Bobby with you and uh, you know his you've got
(15:54):
chipmunk cheeks. We just want to make sure you don't,
you know, I mean, you know, cut his winner off
and stuff in his mouth so that we show up
to say goodbye for the final time. He's you know,
he's got his junk in his mouth and it's been hacked.
(16:14):
He's missing the one thing he most enjoyed. We just
want to make sure that y'all aren't one of those
places that that you know, does those sorts of things.
I find it interesting that the story has multiple references
to her stabbing him in the leg. I don't. I
(16:35):
don't think the stabbing in the leg is the part
that's important, because if you're going to focus on that,
then you're overlooking the fact that the body has to
be stabbed in one way or another. It's a scalpel,
it's not like it's a bowie knife. The body has
to be there has to be a blade inserted to
(16:57):
drain the blood and do all those sorts of things.
I mean, it's it's another to start with the stabbing
of the leg to get access in and start carving up.
That's the least of what should what should bother you? Yeah,
(17:17):
I wonder if this woman, you know, the chances are
she's probably a listener to our show. If she despises
rapists and pedophiles to this extent, there's a pretty good
(17:37):
chance she's a listener to our show. Speaking of which,
we did get the phone line situation fixed, so our
phone lines are open seven one three nine one thousand,
seven one three nine one thousand. Now I know I'm
not mad at Alan Rose. In the Constable, his job
(17:58):
is to say hey, this is really bad. I'm appalled,
this is nuts. You know, got the shaft. I mean,
you know his job is to say that, right, you
gotta have a certain number of people be serious. But
it's kind of like the dad that comes home. Remember
the case couple of years ago. The dad comes home
(18:20):
and his little boy's being raped by the guy next door,
and he beats him and beats him, and he calls
the cops and says, y'all better hurry because I'm gonna
beat him till y'all get here. And they get there,
and I mean he is pummeled.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
He is.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I mean, he looks like he had a baseball back
to his head. And it's the dad's raging fists. Who
doesn't identify with that? I mean, let's be honest. We
hate rapists and pedophiles. We do. And that's just that's
a social phenomenon. And I'm not saying it's okay. I'm not.
(19:00):
But this is a relatively young woman, thirty four years old.
I would be interested to know what her mindset was
when she saw that. And I will bet you, in
a private booth with nobody looking, I'll bet you seventy
five percent of people would say, Oh, let her off
this one time, just this one time. I think that's
(19:26):
the break.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Jim Lift last learn doing it big on the Michael
(19:46):
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
For many years, I and my wife flew Southwest Airlines
and were the most loyal Southwest Airlines customers. My major
credit card for years was a Southwest Airlines card because
you got points to fly on Southwest Airlines. I had
(20:13):
the back of the napkin. Remember when they I don't
know if they still do have flown Southwest in a while,
but remember on the back of the napkin that show
you all the places they flew. I could tell you
if you wanted to get to a city where you
wanted to be, how you had to get there because
the Southwest Airlines model, and there's nothing wrong with that.
(20:35):
There's fine dining and there's McDonald's. It's a price point issue.
It's a value proposition. And they ran a no frills
but very good airline on time performance, relatively short hops,
(20:56):
and great prices. And new things happened to Southwest Airlines.
One is they were extraordinarily profitable, but they didn't reinvest.
They showed amazing returns, but they were returns. It was
as if you're not taking care of your house, and
(21:19):
so they neglected the technology of the airline, and airlines
are largely a technology company now or a technology business
to keep up with the algorithm of all of these
moving parts, the varying prices that your analysts and now
(21:41):
AI have to use as it gets closer and closer
to the time, because an empty seat is the most expensive,
and staffing all of the crews, pilots and stewardesses. And
I'm told for folks inside Southwest Airlines that what happened
(22:03):
was when you a couple of years ago, I don't
know how it's been maybe been five by now. It's
amazing how fast time flies for me. But a few
years ago there was a situation where the Southwest Airlines
it was this domino that began to fall and they couldn't.
It just crumbled and they had thousands of people stranded.
(22:26):
And my understanding from folks within Southwest Airlines is they
were literally having to pick up the phone and call
stewardesses Wendy, when did you last fly? When can you
fly again? Can you do this? And now you're robbing
Peter to pay Paul, you're pulling people off of flights
to get because now you've got people stranded, and so
(22:48):
you got to get those people out of there because
the clock is ticking for how long they've been stranded.
But when you pull people off of flights to get
those out of there, you're in triage. Now you create
new problems. We're here, and problems beget problems, and so
this once great airline fell into disrepair, and that damages
(23:11):
your reputation. Nobody wants to be stuck at an airport.
There are laws affecting airlines. They're called common carrier provisions,
and they are held to a higher standard because if
you go to a restaurant and you get halfway through
your meal and they go, look, we don't have dessert today,
you don't have a case against them. You just might
have a little bit of the red ass. But if
(23:34):
an airline takes you somewhere and can't get you home
and you're stuck, that becomes a much bigger problem. And
so we have standards as to how they have to
behave and conduct themselves and treat you in those situations.
And as bad as it must seem it is, the
idea is that there'll be some level of dignity. It's
(23:56):
also bad for overall airline travel for people to have
these sorts of experiences, because you don't think how bad
these experiences are until you the person stuck, and then
you're not booking a flight anytime soon, and that starts
becoming a huge problem. The other thing that happened in
Southwest Airlines over that twenty year period is Southwest Airlines
(24:20):
was the discount airline. Then all of a sudden you
started having these other discount airlines, Spirit, Jet Blue, there
are a number of them. And everybody laughs about Spirit
because you can go online right now and there's some
viral clip of two women fighting while some guy's just
(24:40):
trying to get on his plane. I mean, it's bad,
it's really really bad. But Southwest Airlines for a discount carrier,
and I mean, I can't remember getting on the plane
and the stewardess is cutting up and the pilot coming
over the air and telling jokes, and I never flew United.
United was why how would I pay more for something
(25:02):
that may not necessarily be any better? Peanuts? I don't
mind peanuts. I'm going to eat at the airport anyway.
I'm one of those weirdos that gets to the airport
so early that the flight before my flight is leaving
while I'm waiting, and that's usually a couple of hours,
(25:24):
because I don't want to risk TSA having a bad
day and holding me up. I'm the guy that left
a bullet one loan bullet in my bag a couple
of years ago, so I know anything can happen, no
matter how hard you scoured, anything can happen. That could
be the day that, for whatever reason, half their crew
didn't show up and you're running late. So those the
(25:47):
discount carriers came in and now they started undercutting them.
And this has been a problem with the airline industry
for a long time. Profitability is a huge problem. I
saw that Delta is announcing some problems today. Southwest Airlines
has announced that they will no longer offer two free
(26:08):
check bags to all customers. Is that the end of
the world. No, it's a pretty strong statement, that sort
of thing for you to start having to tell people,
you know who. I feel bad for the gate agents,
the worker bees at that level. They don't make that
much money and you're going to get people showing up hot.
(26:32):
What do you mean I have to pay for check
bags starting May twenty eight, so you get a little
time only. Southwest Rapid Rewards A List Preferred members I
guess as people who fly all the time and business
Select Fair passengers will get two free check backs. The
(26:53):
A List members will get one free check bag. Rapid
Rewards Credit card members will get a credit for one
check bag. The thing about it is they're not really
discouraging anybody from bringing a bag. You're going to bring
the number of bags you're going to bring because you
got to tote them around, But now that you have
(27:14):
to pay for it, it's an additional revenue source, and
that tells you that they're hurting. The move is part
of a broader strategy to boost profitability and cater to
Southwest most loyal customers. Quote this is their CEO. We
have tremendous opportunity to meet current and future customer needs,
(27:34):
attract new customer segments we don't compete for today, and
return to the levels of profitability that both we and
our shareholders expect. Tremendous opportunity to meet current and future
customer needs. The customer that looks like they're going for
because they're adjusting their loyalty program is the Business Select fairs,
(27:57):
so you will now get more points for them and
fewer points for the lower tier tickets. This is kind
of an admission to what everybody in the airline business knows.
You don't want us, You don't want recreational travelers. You
can't pay the bills with that. We're sporadic, we're inconsistent,
we're less loyal. You want those of you out there
(28:19):
who have to fly twice a week on your job.
That's where they make their money and that's what they're
going on.
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