September 2, 2025 • 51 mins
As the Trump administration prepares to deploy federal agents to Chicago, the city's mayor, Brandon Johnson, doubles down on his resistance - putting the protection of criminals above else.
Guests:
Tom Jordan | Radio Host, The Tom Jordan Show
Keith Gross | Legal Analyst & Constitutional Attorney
Jessica Vaughn | Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies
Jason Meyers | Lead Architect, Auditchain Labs AG & Head of Digital Asset Policy, National File
Guests:
Tom Jordan | Radio Host, The Tom Jordan Show
Keith Gross | Legal Analyst & Constitutional Attorney
Jessica Vaughn | Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies
Jason Meyers | Lead Architect, Auditchain Labs AG & Head of Digital Asset Policy, National File
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome to the real Story. I'm your host, Riley Lewis.
Thank you for joining us. Whoever thought the most divisive
issue in all of modern America would be upholding public safety?
Protecting Americans is one of the government's primary and only responsibilities,
regardless of who runs it. Every government official, from city
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councilors to mayors, from state reps to federal reps, even
from governors to presidents, is responsible for keeping this country safe,
and failing to do so should be a fireable offense.
After all, a government that can't even protect its own
citizens is worthless and pointless, and a government that prioritizes
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criminals over law abiding citizens is criminal itself. And yet
government bodies all over the country are doing just that,
enacting soft on crime policies that protect the people who
are destroying this country, all while law abiding citizens are
forced to live in fear, fear of being assaulted, fear
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of being carjacked, even fear of being killed. And that
brings us to the real divide in modern America. Yes,
there is a very deep divide in this country today,
but it's not just about Democrats versus Republicans, or about
the left versus the right. It's really between those who
are destroying the country and those who are fighting to
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protect it. It's between those who want chaos and those
who want order. It's between those who enable violence and
those who yearn for peace. And that brings us to
the city of Chicago, where local Democrat officials are actively
preparing for the possibility of ice rates this week and
the deployment of federal troops to restore order. So Chicago,
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a city which has long led the US and total
homicides among major cities thirteen consecutive years as of twenty
twenty four, in fact, is currently in a state of crisis,
and the Trump administration is seriously interested in deploying National
Guard troops to the city just to quell the violence.
Amid a Democrat fueled scene of chaos and uncertainty. The
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administration is not only preparing to possibly send troops in,
but also to ramp up ice raids in the city,
with operations potentially launching from the Great Lakes Naval Station
near North Chicago some time this week. It all comes
as President Trump's team target sanctuary cities like Chicago, where
local leaders have long shielded criminals and illegals from justice.
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It also comes though, after a wave of horrific violence
scene over the Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
From Friday night through.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Monday afternoon, the Chicago Police Department reported over thirty two
separate incidents, including a mass shooting in Bronzeville that wounded
seven adults with non life threatening injuries to their lower extremities,
then a drive by in Salshore that claimed the life
of a twenty five year old woman while wounding another,
and even a triple shooting in Pilsen that killed a
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forty six year old man. But that isn't all, unfortunately,
because there was also a different case involving a seventeen
year old girl who was shot in her arm inside
of her own home through a window. Or how about
a forty three year old woman gunned down by five
armed men and outged gardens, And even a twenty six
year old woman who was fatally shot in Pullman after
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a verbal altercation, And with no arrests in most of
these cases, and only persons of interest questioned in just
a few of them, one can't help but wonder why
hasn't Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson resigned? Yet clearly Johnson shouldn't
be in office. The guy couldn't even run a lemonade
stand on the corner of a busy street in Chicago,
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let alone run the city itself. And now Chicago is
being becoming a war zone under his incompetent leadership. And
then on top of it all, he's actively leading the
charge against federal help to crack down on crime instead
of embracing it and walking it like any normal person would.
And that raises all sorts of questions about his real priorities.
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And that also brings us to the protest that he
led against the Trump administration on Labor Day. So Johnson,
in his infinite wisdom, turned a workers rally at the
historic Haymarket Memorial or Haymarket Memorial into a brazen anti
Trump spectacle, leading hundreds and hundreds of labor activists, faith leaders,
and community organizers and the workers over Billionaires protest. He
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even shout a chance like no federal troops in the
city of Chicago and no militarized force in the city
of Chicago, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd. He
also boldly proclaimed, We're going to defend our democracy in
the city of Chicago. We're going to protect the humanity
of every single person in the city of Chicago. Statement
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twits are obviously untrue considering the reign of terror that
erupted over the weekend under his watch. Those statements were
also very ironic considering the fact that they were made
just hours hours after he signed an executive order blocking
Chicago PD from cooperating with federal military forces on patrols
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or immigration enforcement, vowing to launch legal fights against the
White House for actions that he deems to be out
of control.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But then to make matters even more perplexing and disturbing
and really asinine, he made a call to action during
the protest.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Take a look, are you prepared to defend this land?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This land that was built by slaves, a land that
was built by indigenous people, a lan that's built by workers.
Are you prepared to defend this land? The big boat
United will always prevail. I need you all to stand firm,
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to stand strong if this president decides to continue to
break this constitution.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Hmm, you know, almost seems like treason to me. And
at this point Johnson should be arrested, charged, convicted, and
even jailed for calling on the citizens of Chicago to
fight back against the federal government. By the way, he's
also dead wrong about how the city itself was built,
but that's a much different conversation. So in any case,
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it all goes to show that the Trump administration doesn't
have any other choice but to intervene. After all, more
than fifty people are shot in just one weekend, and
the city's own mayor responds by attacking President Trump for
trying to restore order. What exactly does that say about
his real priorities in office? Here with his analysis thoughts
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in reaction is Tom Jordan, host of the Tom Jordan Show. Tom,
thank you for being here.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Riley, it's a privilege to be back with you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's been a long time, so it's great to have
you back. And I have a lot of questions, so
let's just start here, Tom. Clearly, Mayor Johnson, I don't
even like thinking the fact that he's a mayor, but
clearly Brandon Johnson is choosing chaos and violence over peace
and safety and justice.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I just want to know why.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Well, they've been doing this for a while, haven't they
choosing violence and chaos and injustice under the guys that
this is in fact justice and they seem to be
more protective of their criminals, don't they.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
And they have been, they've been doing that. I mean,
twenty twenty was a.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Big eye opener for a lot of us looking around
the country, seeing the defense of these very violent protests
in major cities throughout the country, and the fact that
city Hall in Chicago is still blocking cooperation with the
federal assistance to help bring down crime, which we know
it will work. The mayor signing this executive order telling
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police not to work with federal authorities to help combat
crime in the city.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
This is horrendous what's happening.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
And to me, this is absolutely a violation of constitutional rights.
The Constitution guarantees the pursuit of happiness, liberty, and life,
and when lives are being taken away, the United States
has to come in. They need to come in and
protect against domestic violence. And there's something in the in
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federal law that is called the guarantee Clause. It meaning
anytime there's internal rest, unrest, there is violent disorder, the
federal government has an obligation to come in to protect
US citizens, especially when the local municipalities refused to do so.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And that is what's happening here.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
You can even cite the Insurrection Act if you want
to do that, or showing the deployment without a request
from these various municipalities for the federal government to come
in without state can sense. There's all sorts of different
thing this precedent. Even Eisenhower has done this, george 'sw
Debosh has done this, and many times. The municipalities are
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the ones who are requesting the federal health because they
do not want the crime.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But things sure have changed over the past few years.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They have, And you just said it. So let's zoom
in on something you just said, Tom. Right now, local officials,
primarily Democrats, I think exclusively Democrats, are refusing to prioritize
the criminals who are destroying their seat. Okay, this is
a choice they're making. This kind of decline we see
in Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, New York City. This is
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not inevitable. It is a choice that they are actively making.
And I want to know what are they getting for that?
Why are they so interested in protecting the people who
are destroying the fabric of their city.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I really believe this is part of a greater underlying
cause or the motivation from this current generation of the
Democratic Party. I think that the socialists, the communists, the
Marxist ideologies has really seeped into this and Marxist ideology
demands that there is chaos and there is disunity within
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the country because the ultimate goal is to tear apart
this civilization. You remember the phrase build back better from
Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
That came out.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Build back better was all about first destroying everything and
then build it back better. That is where that phrase
comes from, and that's how it's been used by the
world economic form. Destroy the civilization in all the institutions
in this country, and then we will build it back better.
That's precisely why they want crime to go up. They
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want violence. In fact, they explicitly stated that in twenty
twenty during the riots, we need burned down these institutions.
And by the way, institutions in their view does mean
the nuclear family. Yes, everything that traditional.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Values has and stands for.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
They want that to be taken out to build back
in a completely different way. So that's I think the
reasons behind it. And you got Brandon Johnson and his
far left governor pritzkerk coming out and saying the same thing.
You know that there is going to be consequences for
President Trump if he comes in and tries to fight
crime in the city.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It's pretty tragic what's happening. But we need to push back.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
For a second.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Can we just think about that sentence you just said,
there will be consequences. We're trying to bring us to
a place where we have less crime. I'm sorry, Tom,
It's just it's laughably ridiculous to me.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It is laughably ridiculous. Who is this guy? Where did
they come from.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I'm telling you, the reason why these members of the
Democratic Party are so in line with one another is
because they've all all been told these same talking points.
You have to do this or else you will not
be an outstanding member of the Democratic Party. The leaders
of this party are all in on this. To go
back to my initial point, all of this and from
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that guide, mister Prisker, all of this violates federally. They're
going to say it violates federalism. No, it doesn't. It
violates individual liberties. Federalism doesn't mean helplessness. Like the Insurrection
Act was put in place to resolve the breakdowns when
states cannot resolve the breakdowns in their own municipalities.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
This has to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Look, and to be fair here, nobody ideally wants to
live in a police state where you have National Guard
troops on the corner of every city in America. The
end goal is very clear for President Trump, for everyone
in this captain and this administration. We want American cities
to be affordable, safe, clean, family friendly, business friendly. It's
a pretty simple ask and it's something that we've seen.
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And you look at DC right now going multiple weeks
without a single homicide.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We have a proven formula.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, it's a temporary solution and arguably a half measure
because you're not really getting at the underlying causes of
what drives America's crime crisis. But we have a formula
that works. So you're thinking, as a resident of Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Gee,
I'd like to think, well, I mean, we want the
federal government to come in. If local enforcement officials refuse
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to do the job which they are doing, then we
want the extra backup and the extra reinforcement so we
can temporarily call the violence, get back to some kind
of equilibrium, and then start holding local officials accountable for
their lack of action. That's exactly what President Trump is
trying to do. And he's put Democrats in this really
weird space where they have to sit here publicly and
defend violence and defend destruction. I think that is extremely interesting, Tom.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It is interesting, and it's a really tragic thing here.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
But as you pointed out, you know, like Johnson's order,
you know, explicitly prevent unning the Chicago Police Department from
aiding federal patrols or arresting criminals. I don't want a
police state either. I don't think anybody here does. I
don't think Donald Trump wants a police state. What he
does want to do is address the crime crisis in Chicago.
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And by the way, Rightley, you hear people say, well,
crime is down in Chicago's down thirty seven percent or
whatever the number they're pulling out of their hat is.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
The reality is still far greater.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
The number of murders and violent crime incidents in Chicago
is far greater than it was in the mid two
thousands when crime was finally being taken care of. What
happened they prioritized policing of criminals and so the numbers
went down back in around twenty ten twenty twelve twenty sixteen,
they pulled back a little bit more so, especially at
twenty twenty, so the crime rate shot through the roof,
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and so they're setting it's down from twenty twenty one. Maybe, yeah,
it is a little bit, but it's still way above
what it was in the mid twenty twenty tens. And
it's far greater than the cities of New York, in
Los Angeles, in Chicago. So that's saying a lot right there.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well and truthfully, and I think we'll wrap here, Tom,
but it's really cold comfort for a family who just
lost one of their family members and a fatal shooting
in the city. So we can sit here and negotiate
over statistics and facts and figures and tabulations all day long,
but we're talking about the overall quality of life, the
lived experience day to day for people all over the city.
If you've had you have fifty people, more than fifty
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people shot in one weekend, you'd expect to see that
in a place like Bagdad or Somalia, not in modern
day Chicago.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So the truth is, we can do better.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
This decline we're seeing it is a choice, and I
think the local Chicago people need to hold their leaders
accountable for going along with this. But in the meantime,
I completely support the Trump administration sending in backup to
get things under order so that way we can get
back to a place of just peace, equilibrium, and stability.
That's the bottom line here.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, and just to.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Know exactly agree with your sentiment there is is exactly
what the victims of crime in Chicago are calling for.
They support, they're begging, they're crying out for help from
this administration, and this administration is responding to those pleas
and those cries for help to bring down crime in
the city of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Absolutely, I hope they move in with full force and
I wish them godspeed in the meantime, Tom, thank you
for being here today.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Riley, It's always a pleasure, my friend. Take care.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Coming up next another day, another activist judge trying to
dictate how President Trump conducts federal immigration policy. A constitutional
attorney and legal analyst joins us next to discuss the
latest case of such radical activism from the bench. More
details after the break.
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
Welcome back to the real Story. Today's next topic brings
us to an urgent issue facing all of America. It's
a complete breakdown and the checks and balances that America's
founders created to prevent the rise of tyranny. It's also
yet another reason as to why Congress should seriously consider
removing funding from certain federal courts before this problem spirals
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out of control. So on that note, a Democrat appointed
judge is blocking the deportation of hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan
children who came to the US illegally. These kids, largely
aged ten to seventeen and housed in government shelters across
states like Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and New York, crossed our
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country's borders without parents or legal guardians, and they were
already loaded onto airplanes for repatriation back to their home
country when this ruling was issued. It also comes after
liberal activists from the National Immigration Law Center and the
Young Center for Immigrant.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Children's Rights rushed to the court.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
At one am on Sunday, August thirty first, with this
emergency motion, all based on concerns about supposed risks of
abuse of persecution if.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They're sent back to Guatemala.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now, to some people out there, perhaps even to many people,
this ruling might just sound reasonable, at least on the surface.
After all, who doesn't want to protect children. Perhaps even
the judge in this case, Sparkle Suk Nannin, genuinely thinks
this is all about justice and doing the right thing.
But here's the truth about it all, it's not. This
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is just a blatant sabotage of the Trump administration's agreement
with Guatemala to reunite these kids with their families. So
make no mistake about it. This ruling exemplifies just how
deep state judge are prioritizing foreign nationals over American sovereignty
as this administration ramps ups ince crackdown on the migrant
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surge that exploded under the watch of Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris. The Department of Health and Human Services had
wisely restricted releases of these children except to verified US
parents or guardians. Following an email from program director Melissa Johnson,
and the Justice Department confirmed that all the kid's parents
in Guatemala had requested their return through official channels, but
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the judge in this case roused in the dead of
night for an emergency hearing, demanded assurances that no deportations
had occurred, forcing these airplanes to turn back mid process
and guiding the operation to a halt. But even Guatemalan
President Bernardo Avallo himself affirmed earlier this year that his
own government is collaborating with the US government on these returns.
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And yet here we find ourselves stalled by a single
judges activist FIAT. Now here with his legal analysis is
Keith Gross, a legal analyst and constitutional attorney.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Keith, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me Riley.
So I want to get your initial thoughts about the situation.
What do you make of it?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Well, first of all, breaking a foreign born judge sides
with foreign citizens over the United States government, right, So
there's that angle. But then there's also just the ongoing
constitutional breakdown where policy in this nation is supposed to
be set by Congress, our elected representatives, carried out by
the president, and here we have a judge jumping in
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and saying that they want to rewrite the policy that
the president is carrying out, even though the president is
doing exactly what the law requires.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, completely.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Don't you find that concerning that we have this new
phenomenon in America where Congress doesn't pass laws, so we
find that presidents have to do things the executive order
or other initiatives, and then activist judges come out of
the woodwork in the middle of the night and obstruct
every single thing the president does. What does that tell
you about the integrity of our country right now and
the system of checks and balances that we have established.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Well, it's a far far cry from what our founding
fathers envisioned, and hopefully this will be the time period
in our country where we re establish those boundaries. The
separation of powers that's been trampled for a long time
by all the branches. I mean, the executive branch has
had its power taken by the legislature improperly through laws
that purport to restrict the executive's power, and now we've
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got the judicial branch going out of its way to
take power out of the hands of both Congress and
the executive branch. At some point, there's going to have
to be a serious realignment of these separation of.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Powers absolutely, and hopefully sooner rather than later. But focusing
then on this radical judge from Washington, d C. So
I believe she issued a fourteen day TRO a temporary
restraining order blocking the deportation process. Here what happens then
in two weeks.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
So during the period of this two weeks, no doubt
there will be an application for the more permanent version
of a stay of this sort of proceeding. So in
the federal system, you have the TRO temporary restraining order
that's only good for fourteen days, and then you have
a preliminary injunction which can last for the pendency of
the underlying case. So no doubt attorneys are already seeking
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the preliminary injunction. And I can tell you, as an
active litigator that handles a lot of commercial situations, many
of which do have emergency scenarios. I'm pretty jealous of
how effective our courts can be handling cases where foreign
citizens have their interests concerned, because every time I have
someone before a court who needs emergency relief, it takes
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months to get a so called emergency hearing.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I want to follow up on that, but I also
want to pivot then to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
We've got some updates about the Maryland man, as the
mainstream media likes to call him, about the fact that
his legal team is now trying to if you put
a gag order on Attorney General Pam Bondi and on
Christy Nome, the DHS secretary, I think this is completely ridiculous.
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It shows that this whole case is political. I don't
want to get your thoughts about that, Keith.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
It reminds me a lot of the gag orders that
we saw put on President Trump when he was being
improperly targeted in the lawfare that he faced as the
folks on the left tried to derail his presidential campaign unsuccessfully.
So now that they're trying to gag the US Department
of Justice, it's just a reminder of that. You know,
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plenty of courts aren't willing to uphold the Second Amendment,
and it should be no surprise to us that they're
also willing to trample on the First Amendment if they
think that somehow the statements the truth being uttered by
the administration about this illegal alien is going to impair
his ability to get a fair trial. They can take
that up through the normal court processes, but giving a
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gag order and preliminary stopping speech before it even happens.
That's pretty extreme.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh you could say that. I mean, imagine you come
to the country illegally. Maybe you're a gang member, maybe
you're not, but the US government believes that you're in
MS thirteen. You live in the country illegally for multiple years,
hang out with the lowest of the low, the worst
of the worst. You have deportation orders that come your way.
You're sent to a foreign country, El Salvador, to a
prison of all places, Seacott. Then the US lawmakers come
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down to meet with you, and maybe you have a
cocktail just catch up right, that being the Maryland senator,
which is so weird to me. Then they bring you
back to the US just to face charges. And then
on top of it all, you want to silence the
country's top law enforcement agent.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That is just horrendous to me. Keith, truly.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Yeah, Americans are getting pretty accustomed to seeing their government
work better for foreigners than for our own citizens. And
that's why we elected Donald Trump. We wanted to turn
this whole idea that the government should operate better for foreigners.
We wanted to turn that idea on its head. That's
why he's imposing tariffs, That's why he's going after these
people that by the law, he's not going to back down.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Understood.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Then final thoughts on that, and then we'll move on
to one last thing today, Keith, what do you think
is going to happen next with Abrigo Garcia's case.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
No doubt, the ongoing prosecution will continue. The government will
continue to appeal the rulings of these activist judges, and
so far the government's got a pretty good track record
of getting these things overturned on appeal. But that exactly
is the problem. You know, the government shouldn't have to
seek the court at the appellate level to undo what
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never should have happened at the lower court level. That
is an emergency. Anytime the executive's authority is you served
by an out of control lower court judge, That itself
is a constitutional emergency because that judge is stealing the
president's time limited powers. He's only got four years. Every
day that he loses is irreparable.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Harm Okay, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Then moving on to the final topic for the segment
with you, Keith, what do you think about the fact
that we have yet another activist court from the bench,
a radical and robe going after Alligator Alcatraz, the new
detention center in Florida's Everglades.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What do you make of that situation, Keith?
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Unfortunately, Alligator Alcatraz seems to be a bit of an
easy target because there was the overlapping issue of tribal
sovereign tribal sovereignty and environmental concerns. But again, that will
probably get washed out in the appellate courts. But nonetheless,
we're facing a situation where judges are getting in the
way of the people's will as executed by the President,
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and we need Congress to jump in here and take
control of the situation. They have the power to do so.
It's almost budget time. They could defund these lower court
judges if they won't follow the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yes, completely agreed. I would love to see that very much.
I'm not going to hold my breath, but I just
want to say, in the meantime, thank you for your
insight in your analysis into these pressing issues. I don't
think there's anything more important to this country than border security.
That's what tens of millions of Americans voted for last
November and Unfortunately, our biggest hindrance to actually achieving that
goal is our own radical court system.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
So Keith, thank you for being here today. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Coming up next, the director of Policy Studies for the
Center for Immigration Studies joins us to resume our discussion
of border security and why it's crucial to uphold more
details after the break.
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Speaker 1 (27:51):
Welcome back to the real story. Let's pick up right
where we left off highlighting the importance of border security.
There's nothing more more important than protecting the American people
from danger, and that theme lies at the center of
today's next story. So that brings us to a child
sex offender who was recently arrested by ICE officials in
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San Diego, California. His name is Ezekiel Cruz Rodriguez. He's
forty seven years old, and he's a Mexican national who
allegedly has ties to the Logan Heights.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Gang based in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now, this individual has been deported to Mexico, not once,
not twice, but three times, first on August twenty third
of nineteen ninety six, then October twenty eighth of two
thousand and three, and then again on December fourteenth of
twenty twelve, and he was living illegally in the US,
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once again, with a rap sheet that includes chilling offenses
like sex, crimes against a child under the age of fourteen,
sexual battery, illegal possession of a firearm, driving under the influence,
and even robbery.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, that about checks out.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But what raises even more eyebrows here is his living situation,
residing with his wife who runs an in home daycare center,
potentially putting vulnerable children at risk in the very place
meant to protect them. In That situation then naturally raises
some urgent and important questions. After all, how exactly does
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someone with this sickening history slip back into our communities
undetected and into a daycare center, of all places. Admittedly,
it's not a great look, especially when one comes to
learn that this man's alleged partner, who supposedly ran the
daycare center where he was living illegally, appears to have
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met with California Governor Gavenussom in October of twenty nineteen.
Her name is Dulce Villa Gomez. She's a DACA recipient
and she allegedly reportedly operate reads the Little Hands Academy
Family Childcare Center. Of course, this is just a theory
based on the reporting of Amy Riker, a community organizer
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based in San Diego who runs an organization called Restore
San Diego. But it's very compelling, so take a listen
to her theory.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
What does California Governor Gavin Newsom have in common with
an unregistered sex offender? Well, well, well, what do we
have here? Smiling Gavin Newsom pictured with Dulce Via Gomez.
She's the owner of Little Hands Academy Family Childcare ice
just arrested. Her partner is Ezekiel Cruz Rodriguez, an unregistered
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sex offender and Logan Heights gang member. And where was
he hiding inside that San Diego daycare with his doctor
recipient partner with children in the same home as a
convicted predator. He's been deported three times and each time
he's snuck back in to commit more crimes. This is
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the direct result of sanctuary state policies. Instead of protecting
families and children. Kevin Newsom's policies protect criminals and put
our kids in danger.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Right, Well, keep in mind, this is just a theory,
and law enforcement officials haven't corroborated any of these compelling claims,
so yes, we should take them with a grain of salt. However,
so far, she appears to be right on the money.
And why exactly did Villa Gomas meet with Newsom in
twenty nineteen, and more importantly, what did they discuss together? Undoubtedly,
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it's a very bad look that warrants investigation and scrutiny,
and it also leaves one with.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
A whole lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
But in the meantime, regardless of that aspect of this story,
the incident itself is a sobering reminder of the threats
that can lurk unseen, especially after the Biden administration's decision
not to completely open our border to the worst of
the worst. Cruz Rodriguez being the perfect example of one
of those offenders now here with reaction is Director of
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Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, Jessica Vaughn. Jessica,
thank you for joining.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Me, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So this is It's a harrowing story, and I have
a whole lot of questions for you, but I want
to start with your initial reactions to everything that we've
learned in recent days.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Well, this is a really disturbing example of what happens
when you neglect immigration enforcement and border security for so
many years and allow sanctuary cities like San Diego and
in fact, the entire state of California to continue with
these policies that undermine public safety and expose the residents
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of these areas to potential harm. As you've pointed out,
this guy was a predator, deported multiple times, was able
to keep getting back in here. And the Trump administration's
strict enforcement policies have taken tens of thousands of criminals
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like this out of our communities, and we're going to
have a noticeable effect on public safety across the country
as long as this continues. We've just lived through four
years of the worst border crisis we've ever had, and
we're turning that around right now by taking our law
seriously enforcing them despite pushback from politicians like Gavin Newsom
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and sanctuary politicians all over the country.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So, Jessica, what do you make of that pushback. It
seems so odd to me and so confusing, even a
little bit suspicious. How could anybody right, left or center
be on the same side as someone like this cruise
rodrigaz Man knowing that he's dangerous, he has a criminal history,
in a history of praying on young children. That to
me seems indefensible. And the fact that there's opposition to
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immigration enforcement at all given stories like this one is
extremely suspicious.
Speaker 10 (34:10):
It isn't defensible, but it shows how much the left
in our country and Democrats have embraced this narrative that
any form of immigration enforcement is wrong, it's discriminatory, it's racist.
There is no such thing as as any problem associated
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with even illegal immigration. They want the public to believe
that illegal immigration is fine, does not represent a threat
or problem to anyone in his country, and it's just
flat out wrong. Sanctuary policies are shielding criminal aliens and
preventing the removal of people who are causing harm in
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our communities, even to immigrants. It would be interesting to
see who the clientele wise of this daycare center run
by a former illegal alien with you know, a present
illegal alien living there. You know these people were at
risk and they, i'm sure, are very relieved that ICE
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has taken this.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Action absolutely and you bring you bring us to a
really interesting point here that I want to zoom in
on for a moment. So Democrats are clearly interested in
protecting the illegal immigrant population of America. My question for
you is why.
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Well, I think there are different reasons why some people
just believe in open borders. Some politicians want to have
illegal immigration to boost the size of their own particular
congressional or legislative districts. And some people just have a
romanticized view of immigration that thinks that, you know, we
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need to have more and more of it, and that
it should be unlimited. And they don't acknowledge the problems
that this causes for public safety, for job opportunities, the
costs to taxpayers of supporting illegal immigration. Those are all
not important to people who advocate for open borders.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Okay, now, while we're on the subject as well, i'd
like to break down some of these statistics with you
for just a moment, because I have you here and
you're the expert on this, working with a great organization.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
By the way, So when it comes.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
To people with child sex offenses, histories of assault, burglary, robbery.
Let's look at the last five years of illegal immigration
into the US and break down some of those figures.
How many people have we seen come into this country
illegally in terms of a rough estimate, who have these
really egregious criminal histories? Are we talking about hundreds? Is
it thousands, Jessica? Is it potentially millions? What are we
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looking at here.
Speaker 10 (36:51):
Well, it's the number of criminal aliens in our country
is almost certainly over one million at this point in time.
Years ago, ICE did a state body of the immigration
status of people who were in state and local jails
around the country, and they at that time estimated that
every year there were about seven hundred thousand potentially deportable
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aliens who were arrested by local authorities for committing crimes locally.
So that's a large number of people, and there's only
a fraction of that number who've been removed every year,
and probably few of them go home on their own.
So now we have a much larger illegal population because
of the Biden policies. We're talking probably about fifteen million people.
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So if those numbers are maintained today, we're talking over
a million deportable aliens who've committed crimes in this country
who will remain here at this.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Point, it's just heartbreaking to hear that. I know the
Trump administration is working around the clock to address that problem,
but it's just such a massive one to address. So
I'm just hoping and praying they make as much headway
as possible in the next four years. I guess it's
three at this point, but stories like this one are
really gut wrenching for me, and so I want to
say thank you for talking about this. I hope you
get some answers from California Governor Gavin Newsom because this
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looks very bad for him and he's been silent about
this issue. But in the meantime, Jessica truly thank you
for your time today and your analysis.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
Thank you for covering this.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Coming up next is the US government moving from Fiat
currency to digital currency. That's certainly what it looks like,
and a cryptocurrency expert joins us next to discuss it
all more details after the.
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Speaker 1 (39:12):
Welcome back to the real story. Let's talk about bitcoin,
shall we see? Bitcoin is climbing to record highs, and
the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, the smart guys from
Harvard University who founded the Gemini crypto Exchange, just donated
twenty one million in bitcoin to the Digital Freedom Fund.
This super pack is gearing up to make America the
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world's crypto leader before the twenty twenty six MITERM elections,
and it's no small gift either. It's a powerful push
against outdated Washington rules, with President Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
stacking up digital assets as we speak, and laws like
the Genius Act passing Congress at big time with sixty
eight votes in the Senate and more than three hundred
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in the House in twenty twenty five. The Cryptocommunity aims
for a three hundred millionion dollar fund by mid twenty
twenty six, and just last cycle, the Fairshake Pack raised
one hundred and forty one million and spent one hundred
and thirty million to back innovative leaders while knocking out
critics like Ohio Shared Brown hit with forty million dollars
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in attack ads. Now, there have been some staunch congressional
crypto advocates, such as Wyoming's Cynthia Loomis fighting for a
national bitcoin stockpile.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Or how about Tennessee's.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Bill Haggerty calling for clear rules, and then Alabama's Tommy Tuberville,
who sees crypto as tomorrow's money. Even Democrats like Georgie's
John Ossoff could even switch, but expect battles against crypto foes.
Simply put, crypto isn't just cash. It's reshaping America's economy.
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And one must remember the major advantage of crypto is
that it's finite. You cannot devalue it. It is inflation proof,
unlike the US dollar, which used to be inflation proof
before nineteen seventy two when it was moved from the
gold standard. However, even Richard Nixon, who took us off
the standard and created fiat currency, understood that would come
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with risks, And of course fiat currency is essentially meaningless money,
meaning you can just keep printing and printing and devaluing
the dollar more and more and more, and everybody in
society has to live with the consequences. As we are
right now. So is cryptocurrency the natural evolution away from
fiat currency? Only time will tell. But here with his
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thoughts is Jason Myers, the lead architect at Audit Chain
Labs AG and the head of Digital Asset Policy for
National File. Jason, thank you for being here, Thanks for
having me ryany So, I have a lot of questions,
but let's start with this one because there's a very
active debate about it. Is cryptocurrency really the currency of
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the future.
Speaker 11 (41:55):
Bitcoin, which is the first successful cryptocurrency, in my humble opinion,
cannot become a unit of account and therefore a currency
until it reaches a level of volatility against other currencies
that might equate to global GDP divided by twenty one million,
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which works out north of five million dollars per coin. So,
with respect to a lot of the other cryptocurrencies that
are being launched, the one getting the most attention are
or the class get the most attention is are stable coins, which,
as you probably know, the Genius Act covers. And what
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the Genius Act does is it allows you to wrap
a US dollar. You are not the issuer of the
US dollar. The constitution is not changing in that regard
private institutions, and now with Wyoming states will be able
to wrap existing dollars so that they can travel at
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the speed of light. They can settle instantaneously and there's
no intermedia.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Okay, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
So then for people out there who are very interested
in seriously investing into crypto or some kind of digital currency,
what would you recommend for them?
Speaker 11 (43:20):
Well, I don't provide investment advice, but as a long
time bitcoin advocate, what we say is you stack sacks
every week, every month, take a little bit of your paycheck,
we put it away. Cryptocurrencies are used for other things
like Etherium is used for building decentralized applications on top
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of In fact, the majority of the stable coins are
built on top of Etherium. Another one is Solana. There'll
be a number of stable coins that are also on
the Solana network. And if you think of these networks
as brand inches of the Internet of Value, it then
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becomes a question of how fast Ethereum is, how fast
Solana is, and some of the features and functionality that
allows you to that allow you to build on top
of Do.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
You see a situation in the future in which cash
simply does appears and we move to a society totally
based around digital currency altogether.
Speaker 11 (44:28):
I get asked this a lot. And as you know,
paper money allows you to make on the spot transactions
and settle it instantaneously, but it requires that both parties
be present at the same time to do the exchange.
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With cryptocurrencies or should I say stable coins, but any
cryptocurrency allows you to do that on a peer to
peer basis without having to be physically present.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
So looking ahead then to the future, because I know
the Trump administration is trying to make America a dominant
force in the crypto space. What do you think that
really entails and how powerful would that be moving into
the next century.
Speaker 11 (45:14):
Well, you've got the Genius Act, which is signed into law.
You've got Clarity which is pending. And the difference between
the two is the Genius Act covers the issuance of
stable coins. The Clarity Act governs market infrastructure, how they're trading, right,
disclosure requirements. Both Genius and Clarity Act as amendments to
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our Securities Acts in the United States, the Securities Act
of nineteen thirty three and the Securities Exchange Act of
nineteen thirty four, which governs market market infrastructure right. So
when you look at what the President has done in
bitcoin New phil last year, he said on day one,
I will fire Gary Gensler. He didn't need to fire him.
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Gary resigned. You have the appointment of Paul Atkins, who
is a pro crypto Chair of the SEC. Yes, Hester Purce,
who really was a loan dissenter most of the time
for the last four or so years, is now Chair
of the Crypto Task Force, and then the SEC put
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together this Project Crypto and Project Crypto aims in conjunction
with current legislation and the mandates under the executive order
to sign it in January. President Trump has not only
fulfilled his promises, he's exceeded them. So he wasn't joking around.
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He plans on making the United States the crypto capital
of the world. So far everything we see indicates that
that's already happened.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Okay, that's very interesting because a lot of people out
there who are just observers, people who aren't really even
invested in the market whatsoever. They've been sitting back and
wondering should I get involved in crypto and they don't
know because they don't know if it's just a temporary
fad or trend or if it's something that's going to
be around for the long haul that will transform America's
economy and the world economy. It seems like it's going
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to be one of these extremely transformative forces. I know
we're still in the early stages, but you look at
the value of bitcoin today and you clearly see a
lot of interest in it. And I get it because
it's so good at storing value. There is a liquidity
problem with it, but it's got a real edge to
it that the US dollar does not have. So we'll
have to see what happens in the long run. But Jason,
I just want to say thank you for stopping by
it today and giving us your perspective about it.
Speaker 11 (47:44):
I just want to tell your audience to do one
thing that they have these questions. Find a little bit
and use it. Learn how to use it, and you'll
see for yourself.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Coming up next, President Trump is set to award Rudy Giuliani,
otherwise known as America's Mayor, with the Presidential Freedom Award,
and we can't think of anyone who is more deserving
of it.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
More details after the.
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Welcome back to the real Story.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
Former President Ronald Reagan, otherwise known as the Great Communicator,
once wisely and famously said this, The greatest leader is
not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He
is the one that gets the people to do the
greatest things. And I feel like this really couldn't be
any more true. A leader should not only be a
beacon and a guide for the people that they lead,
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but also empower them to do good all on their own.
And there are many such leaders in history that come
to mind when talking about this, But today I'd like
to talk about Rudy Giuliani as an example. Giuliani cracked
down a mafia crime in New York City and led
the city through the devastating attacks on September eleventh. He's
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one of the most recognizable American politicians and truly a
fierce patriot.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
He even stood by.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
President Trump after the election of twenty twenty and was
one of the few people in this country searching for truth.
These are just some of the reasons that President Trump
has decided to award mister Giuliani with the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. Trump posted this about it on his True
social page on Monday, saying the following. As President of
the United States of America, I am pleased to announce
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that Trudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor in the history of
New York City and an equally great American patriot, will
receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our country's highest civilian honor.
Details as to time and place to follow. Thank you
for your attention to this matter. Make America great again.
So I am more than happy to hear this announcement
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and truly hope that President Trump will continue to honor
American patriots for the remainder of his term. And that
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our troops. And God bless America.
Welcome to the real Story. I'm your host, Riley Lewis.
Thank you for joining us. Whoever thought the most divisive
issue in all of modern America would be upholding public safety?
Protecting Americans is one of the government's primary and only responsibilities,
regardless of who runs it. Every government official, from city
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councilors to mayors, from state reps to federal reps, even
from governors to presidents, is responsible for keeping this country safe,
and failing to do so should be a fireable offense.
After all, a government that can't even protect its own
citizens is worthless and pointless, and a government that prioritizes
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criminals over law abiding citizens is criminal itself. And yet
government bodies all over the country are doing just that,
enacting soft on crime policies that protect the people who
are destroying this country, all while law abiding citizens are
forced to live in fear, fear of being assaulted, fear
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of being carjacked, even fear of being killed. And that
brings us to the real divide in modern America. Yes,
there is a very deep divide in this country today,
but it's not just about Democrats versus Republicans, or about
the left versus the right. It's really between those who
are destroying the country and those who are fighting to
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protect it. It's between those who want chaos and those
who want order. It's between those who enable violence and
those who yearn for peace. And that brings us to
the city of Chicago, where local Democrat officials are actively
preparing for the possibility of ice rates this week and
the deployment of federal troops to restore order. So Chicago,
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a city which has long led the US and total
homicides among major cities thirteen consecutive years as of twenty
twenty four, in fact, is currently in a state of crisis,
and the Trump administration is seriously interested in deploying National
Guard troops to the city just to quell the violence.
Amid a Democrat fueled scene of chaos and uncertainty. The
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administration is not only preparing to possibly send troops in,
but also to ramp up ice raids in the city,
with operations potentially launching from the Great Lakes Naval Station
near North Chicago some time this week. It all comes
as President Trump's team target sanctuary cities like Chicago, where
local leaders have long shielded criminals and illegals from justice.
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It also comes though, after a wave of horrific violence
scene over the Labor Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
From Friday night through.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Monday afternoon, the Chicago Police Department reported over thirty two
separate incidents, including a mass shooting in Bronzeville that wounded
seven adults with non life threatening injuries to their lower extremities,
then a drive by in Salshore that claimed the life
of a twenty five year old woman while wounding another,
and even a triple shooting in Pilsen that killed a
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forty six year old man. But that isn't all, unfortunately,
because there was also a different case involving a seventeen
year old girl who was shot in her arm inside
of her own home through a window. Or how about
a forty three year old woman gunned down by five
armed men and outged gardens, And even a twenty six
year old woman who was fatally shot in Pullman after
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a verbal altercation, And with no arrests in most of
these cases, and only persons of interest questioned in just
a few of them, one can't help but wonder why
hasn't Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson resigned? Yet clearly Johnson shouldn't
be in office. The guy couldn't even run a lemonade
stand on the corner of a busy street in Chicago,
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let alone run the city itself. And now Chicago is
being becoming a war zone under his incompetent leadership. And
then on top of it all, he's actively leading the
charge against federal help to crack down on crime instead
of embracing it and walking it like any normal person would.
And that raises all sorts of questions about his real priorities.
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And that also brings us to the protest that he
led against the Trump administration on Labor Day. So Johnson,
in his infinite wisdom, turned a workers rally at the
historic Haymarket Memorial or Haymarket Memorial into a brazen anti
Trump spectacle, leading hundreds and hundreds of labor activists, faith leaders,
and community organizers and the workers over Billionaires protest. He
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even shout a chance like no federal troops in the
city of Chicago and no militarized force in the city
of Chicago, drawing cheers and applause from the crowd. He
also boldly proclaimed, We're going to defend our democracy in
the city of Chicago. We're going to protect the humanity
of every single person in the city of Chicago. Statement
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twits are obviously untrue considering the reign of terror that
erupted over the weekend under his watch. Those statements were
also very ironic considering the fact that they were made
just hours hours after he signed an executive order blocking
Chicago PD from cooperating with federal military forces on patrols
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or immigration enforcement, vowing to launch legal fights against the
White House for actions that he deems to be out
of control.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
But then to make matters even more perplexing and disturbing
and really asinine, he made a call to action during
the protest.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Take a look, are you prepared to defend this land?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
This land that was built by slaves, a land that
was built by indigenous people, a lan that's built by workers.
Are you prepared to defend this land? The big boat
United will always prevail. I need you all to stand firm,
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to stand strong if this president decides to continue to
break this constitution.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Hmm, you know, almost seems like treason to me. And
at this point Johnson should be arrested, charged, convicted, and
even jailed for calling on the citizens of Chicago to
fight back against the federal government. By the way, he's
also dead wrong about how the city itself was built,
but that's a much different conversation. So in any case,
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it all goes to show that the Trump administration doesn't
have any other choice but to intervene. After all, more
than fifty people are shot in just one weekend, and
the city's own mayor responds by attacking President Trump for
trying to restore order. What exactly does that say about
his real priorities in office? Here with his analysis thoughts
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in reaction is Tom Jordan, host of the Tom Jordan Show. Tom,
thank you for being here.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Riley, it's a privilege to be back with you. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's been a long time, so it's great to have
you back. And I have a lot of questions, so
let's just start here, Tom. Clearly, Mayor Johnson, I don't
even like thinking the fact that he's a mayor, but
clearly Brandon Johnson is choosing chaos and violence over peace
and safety and justice.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I just want to know why.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Well, they've been doing this for a while, haven't they
choosing violence and chaos and injustice under the guys that
this is in fact justice and they seem to be
more protective of their criminals, don't they.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
And they have been, they've been doing that. I mean,
twenty twenty was a.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Big eye opener for a lot of us looking around
the country, seeing the defense of these very violent protests
in major cities throughout the country, and the fact that
city Hall in Chicago is still blocking cooperation with the
federal assistance to help bring down crime, which we know
it will work. The mayor signing this executive order telling
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police not to work with federal authorities to help combat
crime in the city.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
This is horrendous what's happening.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
And to me, this is absolutely a violation of constitutional rights.
The Constitution guarantees the pursuit of happiness, liberty, and life,
and when lives are being taken away, the United States
has to come in. They need to come in and
protect against domestic violence. And there's something in the in
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federal law that is called the guarantee Clause. It meaning
anytime there's internal rest, unrest, there is violent disorder, the
federal government has an obligation to come in to protect
US citizens, especially when the local municipalities refused to do so.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
And that is what's happening here.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
You can even cite the Insurrection Act if you want
to do that, or showing the deployment without a request
from these various municipalities for the federal government to come
in without state can sense. There's all sorts of different
thing this precedent. Even Eisenhower has done this, george 'sw
Debosh has done this, and many times. The municipalities are
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the ones who are requesting the federal health because they
do not want the crime.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But things sure have changed over the past few years.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They have, And you just said it. So let's zoom
in on something you just said, Tom. Right now, local officials,
primarily Democrats, I think exclusively Democrats, are refusing to prioritize
the criminals who are destroying their seat. Okay, this is
a choice they're making. This kind of decline we see
in Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, New York City. This is
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not inevitable. It is a choice that they are actively making.
And I want to know what are they getting for that?
Why are they so interested in protecting the people who
are destroying the fabric of their city.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
I really believe this is part of a greater underlying
cause or the motivation from this current generation of the
Democratic Party. I think that the socialists, the communists, the
Marxist ideologies has really seeped into this and Marxist ideology
demands that there is chaos and there is disunity within
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the country because the ultimate goal is to tear apart
this civilization. You remember the phrase build back better from
Joe Biden.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
That came out.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Build back better was all about first destroying everything and
then build it back better. That is where that phrase
comes from, and that's how it's been used by the
world economic form. Destroy the civilization in all the institutions
in this country, and then we will build it back better.
That's precisely why they want crime to go up. They
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want violence. In fact, they explicitly stated that in twenty
twenty during the riots, we need burned down these institutions.
And by the way, institutions in their view does mean
the nuclear family. Yes, everything that traditional.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Values has and stands for.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
They want that to be taken out to build back
in a completely different way. So that's I think the
reasons behind it. And you got Brandon Johnson and his
far left governor pritzkerk coming out and saying the same thing.
You know that there is going to be consequences for
President Trump if he comes in and tries to fight
crime in the city.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
It's pretty tragic what's happening. But we need to push back.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
For a second.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Can we just think about that sentence you just said,
there will be consequences. We're trying to bring us to
a place where we have less crime. I'm sorry, Tom,
It's just it's laughably ridiculous to me.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
It is laughably ridiculous. Who is this guy? Where did
they come from.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I'm telling you, the reason why these members of the
Democratic Party are so in line with one another is
because they've all all been told these same talking points.
You have to do this or else you will not
be an outstanding member of the Democratic Party. The leaders
of this party are all in on this. To go
back to my initial point, all of this and from
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that guide, mister Prisker, all of this violates federally. They're
going to say it violates federalism. No, it doesn't. It
violates individual liberties. Federalism doesn't mean helplessness. Like the Insurrection
Act was put in place to resolve the breakdowns when
states cannot resolve the breakdowns in their own municipalities.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
This has to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Look, and to be fair here, nobody ideally wants to
live in a police state where you have National Guard
troops on the corner of every city in America. The
end goal is very clear for President Trump, for everyone
in this captain and this administration. We want American cities
to be affordable, safe, clean, family friendly, business friendly. It's
a pretty simple ask and it's something that we've seen.
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And you look at DC right now going multiple weeks
without a single homicide.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We have a proven formula.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, it's a temporary solution and arguably a half measure
because you're not really getting at the underlying causes of
what drives America's crime crisis. But we have a formula
that works. So you're thinking, as a resident of Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Gee,
I'd like to think, well, I mean, we want the
federal government to come in. If local enforcement officials refuse
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to do the job which they are doing, then we
want the extra backup and the extra reinforcement so we
can temporarily call the violence, get back to some kind
of equilibrium, and then start holding local officials accountable for
their lack of action. That's exactly what President Trump is
trying to do. And he's put Democrats in this really
weird space where they have to sit here publicly and
defend violence and defend destruction. I think that is extremely interesting, Tom.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
It is interesting, and it's a really tragic thing here.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
But as you pointed out, you know, like Johnson's order,
you know, explicitly prevent unning the Chicago Police Department from
aiding federal patrols or arresting criminals. I don't want a
police state either. I don't think anybody here does. I
don't think Donald Trump wants a police state. What he
does want to do is address the crime crisis in Chicago.
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And by the way, Rightley, you hear people say, well,
crime is down in Chicago's down thirty seven percent or
whatever the number they're pulling out of their hat is.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
The reality is still far greater.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
The number of murders and violent crime incidents in Chicago
is far greater than it was in the mid two
thousands when crime was finally being taken care of. What
happened they prioritized policing of criminals and so the numbers
went down back in around twenty ten twenty twelve twenty sixteen,
they pulled back a little bit more so, especially at
twenty twenty, so the crime rate shot through the roof,
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and so they're setting it's down from twenty twenty one. Maybe, yeah,
it is a little bit, but it's still way above
what it was in the mid twenty twenty tens. And
it's far greater than the cities of New York, in
Los Angeles, in Chicago. So that's saying a lot right there.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Well and truthfully, and I think we'll wrap here, Tom,
but it's really cold comfort for a family who just
lost one of their family members and a fatal shooting
in the city. So we can sit here and negotiate
over statistics and facts and figures and tabulations all day long,
but we're talking about the overall quality of life, the
lived experience day to day for people all over the city.
If you've had you have fifty people, more than fifty
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people shot in one weekend, you'd expect to see that
in a place like Bagdad or Somalia, not in modern
day Chicago.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
So the truth is, we can do better.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
This decline we're seeing it is a choice, and I
think the local Chicago people need to hold their leaders
accountable for going along with this. But in the meantime,
I completely support the Trump administration sending in backup to
get things under order so that way we can get
back to a place of just peace, equilibrium, and stability.
That's the bottom line here.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Yeah, and just to.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Know exactly agree with your sentiment there is is exactly
what the victims of crime in Chicago are calling for.
They support, they're begging, they're crying out for help from
this administration, and this administration is responding to those pleas
and those cries for help to bring down crime in
the city of Chicago.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Absolutely, I hope they move in with full force and
I wish them godspeed in the meantime, Tom, thank you
for being here today.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Riley, It's always a pleasure, my friend. Take care.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Coming up next another day, another activist judge trying to
dictate how President Trump conducts federal immigration policy. A constitutional
attorney and legal analyst joins us next to discuss the
latest case of such radical activism from the bench. More
details after the break.
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
Welcome back to the real Story. Today's next topic brings
us to an urgent issue facing all of America. It's
a complete breakdown and the checks and balances that America's
founders created to prevent the rise of tyranny. It's also
yet another reason as to why Congress should seriously consider
removing funding from certain federal courts before this problem spirals
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out of control. So on that note, a Democrat appointed
judge is blocking the deportation of hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan
children who came to the US illegally. These kids, largely
aged ten to seventeen and housed in government shelters across
states like Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and New York, crossed our
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country's borders without parents or legal guardians, and they were
already loaded onto airplanes for repatriation back to their home
country when this ruling was issued. It also comes after
liberal activists from the National Immigration Law Center and the
Young Center for Immigrant.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Children's Rights rushed to the court.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
At one am on Sunday, August thirty first, with this
emergency motion, all based on concerns about supposed risks of
abuse of persecution if.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
They're sent back to Guatemala.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now, to some people out there, perhaps even to many people,
this ruling might just sound reasonable, at least on the surface.
After all, who doesn't want to protect children. Perhaps even
the judge in this case, Sparkle Suk Nannin, genuinely thinks
this is all about justice and doing the right thing.
But here's the truth about it all, it's not. This
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is just a blatant sabotage of the Trump administration's agreement
with Guatemala to reunite these kids with their families. So
make no mistake about it. This ruling exemplifies just how
deep state judge are prioritizing foreign nationals over American sovereignty
as this administration ramps ups ince crackdown on the migrant
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surge that exploded under the watch of Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris. The Department of Health and Human Services had
wisely restricted releases of these children except to verified US
parents or guardians. Following an email from program director Melissa Johnson,
and the Justice Department confirmed that all the kid's parents
in Guatemala had requested their return through official channels, but
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the judge in this case roused in the dead of
night for an emergency hearing, demanded assurances that no deportations
had occurred, forcing these airplanes to turn back mid process
and guiding the operation to a halt. But even Guatemalan
President Bernardo Avallo himself affirmed earlier this year that his
own government is collaborating with the US government on these returns.
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And yet here we find ourselves stalled by a single
judges activist FIAT. Now here with his legal analysis is
Keith Gross, a legal analyst and constitutional attorney.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Keith, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me Riley.
So I want to get your initial thoughts about the situation.
What do you make of it?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Well, first of all, breaking a foreign born judge sides
with foreign citizens over the United States government, right, So
there's that angle. But then there's also just the ongoing
constitutional breakdown where policy in this nation is supposed to
be set by Congress, our elected representatives, carried out by
the president, and here we have a judge jumping in
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and saying that they want to rewrite the policy that
the president is carrying out, even though the president is
doing exactly what the law requires.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, completely.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Don't you find that concerning that we have this new
phenomenon in America where Congress doesn't pass laws, so we
find that presidents have to do things the executive order
or other initiatives, and then activist judges come out of
the woodwork in the middle of the night and obstruct
every single thing the president does. What does that tell
you about the integrity of our country right now and
the system of checks and balances that we have established.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Well, it's a far far cry from what our founding
fathers envisioned, and hopefully this will be the time period
in our country where we re establish those boundaries. The
separation of powers that's been trampled for a long time
by all the branches. I mean, the executive branch has
had its power taken by the legislature improperly through laws
that purport to restrict the executive's power, and now we've
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got the judicial branch going out of its way to
take power out of the hands of both Congress and
the executive branch. At some point, there's going to have
to be a serious realignment of these separation of.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Powers absolutely, and hopefully sooner rather than later. But focusing
then on this radical judge from Washington, d C. So
I believe she issued a fourteen day TRO a temporary
restraining order blocking the deportation process. Here what happens then
in two weeks.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
So during the period of this two weeks, no doubt
there will be an application for the more permanent version
of a stay of this sort of proceeding. So in
the federal system, you have the TRO temporary restraining order
that's only good for fourteen days, and then you have
a preliminary injunction which can last for the pendency of
the underlying case. So no doubt attorneys are already seeking
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the preliminary injunction. And I can tell you, as an
active litigator that handles a lot of commercial situations, many
of which do have emergency scenarios. I'm pretty jealous of
how effective our courts can be handling cases where foreign
citizens have their interests concerned, because every time I have
someone before a court who needs emergency relief, it takes
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months to get a so called emergency hearing.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
That's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I want to follow up on that, but I also
want to pivot then to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
We've got some updates about the Maryland man, as the
mainstream media likes to call him, about the fact that
his legal team is now trying to if you put
a gag order on Attorney General Pam Bondi and on
Christy Nome, the DHS secretary, I think this is completely ridiculous.
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It shows that this whole case is political. I don't
want to get your thoughts about that, Keith.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
It reminds me a lot of the gag orders that
we saw put on President Trump when he was being
improperly targeted in the lawfare that he faced as the
folks on the left tried to derail his presidential campaign unsuccessfully.
So now that they're trying to gag the US Department
of Justice, it's just a reminder of that. You know,
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plenty of courts aren't willing to uphold the Second Amendment,
and it should be no surprise to us that they're
also willing to trample on the First Amendment if they
think that somehow the statements the truth being uttered by
the administration about this illegal alien is going to impair
his ability to get a fair trial. They can take
that up through the normal court processes, but giving a
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gag order and preliminary stopping speech before it even happens.
That's pretty extreme.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh you could say that. I mean, imagine you come
to the country illegally. Maybe you're a gang member, maybe
you're not, but the US government believes that you're in
MS thirteen. You live in the country illegally for multiple years,
hang out with the lowest of the low, the worst
of the worst. You have deportation orders that come your way.
You're sent to a foreign country, El Salvador, to a
prison of all places, Seacott. Then the US lawmakers come
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down to meet with you, and maybe you have a
cocktail just catch up right, that being the Maryland senator,
which is so weird to me. Then they bring you
back to the US just to face charges. And then
on top of it all, you want to silence the
country's top law enforcement agent.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That is just horrendous to me. Keith, truly.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Yeah, Americans are getting pretty accustomed to seeing their government
work better for foreigners than for our own citizens. And
that's why we elected Donald Trump. We wanted to turn
this whole idea that the government should operate better for foreigners.
We wanted to turn that idea on its head. That's
why he's imposing tariffs, That's why he's going after these
people that by the law, he's not going to back down.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Understood.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Then final thoughts on that, and then we'll move on
to one last thing today, Keith, what do you think
is going to happen next with Abrigo Garcia's case.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
No doubt, the ongoing prosecution will continue. The government will
continue to appeal the rulings of these activist judges, and
so far the government's got a pretty good track record
of getting these things overturned on appeal. But that exactly
is the problem. You know, the government shouldn't have to
seek the court at the appellate level to undo what
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never should have happened at the lower court level. That
is an emergency. Anytime the executive's authority is you served
by an out of control lower court judge, That itself
is a constitutional emergency because that judge is stealing the
president's time limited powers. He's only got four years. Every
day that he loses is irreparable.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Harm Okay, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Then moving on to the final topic for the segment
with you, Keith, what do you think about the fact
that we have yet another activist court from the bench,
a radical and robe going after Alligator Alcatraz, the new
detention center in Florida's Everglades.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
What do you make of that situation, Keith?
Speaker 8 (26:09):
Unfortunately, Alligator Alcatraz seems to be a bit of an
easy target because there was the overlapping issue of tribal
sovereign tribal sovereignty and environmental concerns. But again, that will
probably get washed out in the appellate courts. But nonetheless,
we're facing a situation where judges are getting in the
way of the people's will as executed by the President,
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and we need Congress to jump in here and take
control of the situation. They have the power to do so.
It's almost budget time. They could defund these lower court
judges if they won't follow the Constitution.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yes, completely agreed. I would love to see that very much.
I'm not going to hold my breath, but I just
want to say, in the meantime, thank you for your
insight in your analysis into these pressing issues. I don't
think there's anything more important to this country than border security.
That's what tens of millions of Americans voted for last
November and Unfortunately, our biggest hindrance to actually achieving that
goal is our own radical court system.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
So Keith, thank you for being here today. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Coming up next, the director of Policy Studies for the
Center for Immigration Studies joins us to resume our discussion
of border security and why it's crucial to uphold more
details after the break.
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Speaker 1 (27:51):
Welcome back to the real story. Let's pick up right
where we left off highlighting the importance of border security.
There's nothing more more important than protecting the American people
from danger, and that theme lies at the center of
today's next story. So that brings us to a child
sex offender who was recently arrested by ICE officials in
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San Diego, California. His name is Ezekiel Cruz Rodriguez. He's
forty seven years old, and he's a Mexican national who
allegedly has ties to the Logan Heights.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Gang based in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Now, this individual has been deported to Mexico, not once,
not twice, but three times, first on August twenty third
of nineteen ninety six, then October twenty eighth of two
thousand and three, and then again on December fourteenth of
twenty twelve, and he was living illegally in the US,
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once again, with a rap sheet that includes chilling offenses
like sex, crimes against a child under the age of fourteen,
sexual battery, illegal possession of a firearm, driving under the influence,
and even robbery.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, that about checks out.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
But what raises even more eyebrows here is his living situation,
residing with his wife who runs an in home daycare center,
potentially putting vulnerable children at risk in the very place
meant to protect them. In That situation then naturally raises
some urgent and important questions. After all, how exactly does
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someone with this sickening history slip back into our communities
undetected and into a daycare center, of all places. Admittedly,
it's not a great look, especially when one comes to
learn that this man's alleged partner, who supposedly ran the
daycare center where he was living illegally, appears to have
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met with California Governor Gavenussom in October of twenty nineteen.
Her name is Dulce Villa Gomez. She's a DACA recipient
and she allegedly reportedly operate reads the Little Hands Academy
Family Childcare Center. Of course, this is just a theory
based on the reporting of Amy Riker, a community organizer
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based in San Diego who runs an organization called Restore
San Diego. But it's very compelling, so take a listen
to her theory.
Speaker 9 (30:17):
What does California Governor Gavin Newsom have in common with
an unregistered sex offender? Well, well, well, what do we
have here? Smiling Gavin Newsom pictured with Dulce Via Gomez.
She's the owner of Little Hands Academy Family Childcare ice
just arrested. Her partner is Ezekiel Cruz Rodriguez, an unregistered
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sex offender and Logan Heights gang member. And where was
he hiding inside that San Diego daycare with his doctor
recipient partner with children in the same home as a
convicted predator. He's been deported three times and each time
he's snuck back in to commit more crimes. This is
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the direct result of sanctuary state policies. Instead of protecting
families and children. Kevin Newsom's policies protect criminals and put
our kids in danger.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Right, Well, keep in mind, this is just a theory,
and law enforcement officials haven't corroborated any of these compelling claims,
so yes, we should take them with a grain of salt. However,
so far, she appears to be right on the money.
And why exactly did Villa Gomas meet with Newsom in
twenty nineteen, and more importantly, what did they discuss together? Undoubtedly,
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it's a very bad look that warrants investigation and scrutiny,
and it also leaves one with.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
A whole lot of questions.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
But in the meantime, regardless of that aspect of this story,
the incident itself is a sobering reminder of the threats
that can lurk unseen, especially after the Biden administration's decision
not to completely open our border to the worst of
the worst. Cruz Rodriguez being the perfect example of one
of those offenders now here with reaction is Director of
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Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, Jessica Vaughn. Jessica,
thank you for joining.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Me, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So this is It's a harrowing story, and I have
a whole lot of questions for you, but I want
to start with your initial reactions to everything that we've
learned in recent days.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
Well, this is a really disturbing example of what happens
when you neglect immigration enforcement and border security for so
many years and allow sanctuary cities like San Diego and
in fact, the entire state of California to continue with
these policies that undermine public safety and expose the residents
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of these areas to potential harm. As you've pointed out,
this guy was a predator, deported multiple times, was able
to keep getting back in here. And the Trump administration's
strict enforcement policies have taken tens of thousands of criminals
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like this out of our communities, and we're going to
have a noticeable effect on public safety across the country
as long as this continues. We've just lived through four
years of the worst border crisis we've ever had, and
we're turning that around right now by taking our law
seriously enforcing them despite pushback from politicians like Gavin Newsom
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and sanctuary politicians all over the country.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
So, Jessica, what do you make of that pushback. It
seems so odd to me and so confusing, even a
little bit suspicious. How could anybody right, left or center
be on the same side as someone like this cruise
rodrigaz Man knowing that he's dangerous, he has a criminal history,
in a history of praying on young children. That to
me seems indefensible. And the fact that there's opposition to
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immigration enforcement at all given stories like this one is
extremely suspicious.
Speaker 10 (34:10):
It isn't defensible, but it shows how much the left
in our country and Democrats have embraced this narrative that
any form of immigration enforcement is wrong, it's discriminatory, it's racist.
There is no such thing as as any problem associated
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with even illegal immigration. They want the public to believe
that illegal immigration is fine, does not represent a threat
or problem to anyone in his country, and it's just
flat out wrong. Sanctuary policies are shielding criminal aliens and
preventing the removal of people who are causing harm in
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our communities, even to immigrants. It would be interesting to
see who the clientele wise of this daycare center run
by a former illegal alien with you know, a present
illegal alien living there. You know these people were at
risk and they, i'm sure, are very relieved that ICE
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has taken this.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Action absolutely and you bring you bring us to a
really interesting point here that I want to zoom in
on for a moment. So Democrats are clearly interested in
protecting the illegal immigrant population of America. My question for
you is why.
Speaker 10 (35:32):
Well, I think there are different reasons why some people
just believe in open borders. Some politicians want to have
illegal immigration to boost the size of their own particular
congressional or legislative districts. And some people just have a
romanticized view of immigration that thinks that, you know, we
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need to have more and more of it, and that
it should be unlimited. And they don't acknowledge the problems
that this causes for public safety, for job opportunities, the
costs to taxpayers of supporting illegal immigration. Those are all
not important to people who advocate for open borders.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Okay, now, while we're on the subject as well, i'd
like to break down some of these statistics with you
for just a moment, because I have you here and
you're the expert on this, working with a great organization.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
By the way, So when it comes.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
To people with child sex offenses, histories of assault, burglary, robbery.
Let's look at the last five years of illegal immigration
into the US and break down some of those figures.
How many people have we seen come into this country
illegally in terms of a rough estimate, who have these
really egregious criminal histories? Are we talking about hundreds? Is
it thousands, Jessica? Is it potentially millions? What are we
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looking at here.
Speaker 10 (36:51):
Well, it's the number of criminal aliens in our country
is almost certainly over one million at this point in time.
Years ago, ICE did a state body of the immigration
status of people who were in state and local jails
around the country, and they at that time estimated that
every year there were about seven hundred thousand potentially deportable
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aliens who were arrested by local authorities for committing crimes locally.
So that's a large number of people, and there's only
a fraction of that number who've been removed every year,
and probably few of them go home on their own.
So now we have a much larger illegal population because
of the Biden policies. We're talking probably about fifteen million people.
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So if those numbers are maintained today, we're talking over
a million deportable aliens who've committed crimes in this country
who will remain here at this.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Point, it's just heartbreaking to hear that. I know the
Trump administration is working around the clock to address that problem,
but it's just such a massive one to address. So
I'm just hoping and praying they make as much headway
as possible in the next four years. I guess it's
three at this point, but stories like this one are
really gut wrenching for me, and so I want to
say thank you for talking about this. I hope you
get some answers from California Governor Gavin Newsom because this
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looks very bad for him and he's been silent about
this issue. But in the meantime, Jessica truly thank you
for your time today and your analysis.
Speaker 10 (38:27):
Thank you for covering this.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Coming up next is the US government moving from Fiat
currency to digital currency. That's certainly what it looks like,
and a cryptocurrency expert joins us next to discuss it
all more details after the.
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Speaker 1 (39:12):
Welcome back to the real story. Let's talk about bitcoin,
shall we see? Bitcoin is climbing to record highs, and
the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, the smart guys from
Harvard University who founded the Gemini crypto Exchange, just donated
twenty one million in bitcoin to the Digital Freedom Fund.
This super pack is gearing up to make America the
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world's crypto leader before the twenty twenty six MITERM elections,
and it's no small gift either. It's a powerful push
against outdated Washington rules, with President Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
stacking up digital assets as we speak, and laws like
the Genius Act passing Congress at big time with sixty
eight votes in the Senate and more than three hundred
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in the House in twenty twenty five. The Cryptocommunity aims
for a three hundred millionion dollar fund by mid twenty
twenty six, and just last cycle, the Fairshake Pack raised
one hundred and forty one million and spent one hundred
and thirty million to back innovative leaders while knocking out
critics like Ohio Shared Brown hit with forty million dollars
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in attack ads. Now, there have been some staunch congressional
crypto advocates, such as Wyoming's Cynthia Loomis fighting for a
national bitcoin stockpile.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Or how about Tennessee's.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Bill Haggerty calling for clear rules, and then Alabama's Tommy Tuberville,
who sees crypto as tomorrow's money. Even Democrats like Georgie's
John Ossoff could even switch, but expect battles against crypto foes.
Simply put, crypto isn't just cash. It's reshaping America's economy.
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And one must remember the major advantage of crypto is
that it's finite. You cannot devalue it. It is inflation proof,
unlike the US dollar, which used to be inflation proof
before nineteen seventy two when it was moved from the
gold standard. However, even Richard Nixon, who took us off
the standard and created fiat currency, understood that would come
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with risks, And of course fiat currency is essentially meaningless money,
meaning you can just keep printing and printing and devaluing
the dollar more and more and more, and everybody in
society has to live with the consequences. As we are
right now. So is cryptocurrency the natural evolution away from
fiat currency? Only time will tell. But here with his
(41:32):
thoughts is Jason Myers, the lead architect at Audit Chain
Labs AG and the head of Digital Asset Policy for
National File. Jason, thank you for being here, Thanks for
having me ryany So, I have a lot of questions,
but let's start with this one because there's a very
active debate about it. Is cryptocurrency really the currency of
(41:53):
the future.
Speaker 11 (41:55):
Bitcoin, which is the first successful cryptocurrency, in my humble opinion,
cannot become a unit of account and therefore a currency
until it reaches a level of volatility against other currencies
that might equate to global GDP divided by twenty one million,
(42:18):
which works out north of five million dollars per coin. So,
with respect to a lot of the other cryptocurrencies that
are being launched, the one getting the most attention are
or the class get the most attention is are stable coins, which,
as you probably know, the Genius Act covers. And what
(42:41):
the Genius Act does is it allows you to wrap
a US dollar. You are not the issuer of the
US dollar. The constitution is not changing in that regard
private institutions, and now with Wyoming states will be able
to wrap existing dollars so that they can travel at
(43:04):
the speed of light. They can settle instantaneously and there's
no intermedia.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Okay, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
So then for people out there who are very interested
in seriously investing into crypto or some kind of digital currency,
what would you recommend for them?
Speaker 11 (43:20):
Well, I don't provide investment advice, but as a long
time bitcoin advocate, what we say is you stack sacks
every week, every month, take a little bit of your paycheck,
we put it away. Cryptocurrencies are used for other things
like Etherium is used for building decentralized applications on top
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of In fact, the majority of the stable coins are
built on top of Etherium. Another one is Solana. There'll
be a number of stable coins that are also on
the Solana network. And if you think of these networks
as brand inches of the Internet of Value, it then
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becomes a question of how fast Ethereum is, how fast
Solana is, and some of the features and functionality that
allows you to that allow you to build on top
of Do.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
You see a situation in the future in which cash
simply does appears and we move to a society totally
based around digital currency altogether.
Speaker 11 (44:28):
I get asked this a lot. And as you know,
paper money allows you to make on the spot transactions
and settle it instantaneously, but it requires that both parties
be present at the same time to do the exchange.
(44:49):
With cryptocurrencies or should I say stable coins, but any
cryptocurrency allows you to do that on a peer to
peer basis without having to be physically present.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
So looking ahead then to the future, because I know
the Trump administration is trying to make America a dominant
force in the crypto space. What do you think that
really entails and how powerful would that be moving into
the next century.
Speaker 11 (45:14):
Well, you've got the Genius Act, which is signed into law.
You've got Clarity which is pending. And the difference between
the two is the Genius Act covers the issuance of
stable coins. The Clarity Act governs market infrastructure, how they're trading, right,
disclosure requirements. Both Genius and Clarity Act as amendments to
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our Securities Acts in the United States, the Securities Act
of nineteen thirty three and the Securities Exchange Act of
nineteen thirty four, which governs market market infrastructure right. So
when you look at what the President has done in
bitcoin New phil last year, he said on day one,
I will fire Gary Gensler. He didn't need to fire him.
(46:05):
Gary resigned. You have the appointment of Paul Atkins, who
is a pro crypto Chair of the SEC. Yes, Hester Purce,
who really was a loan dissenter most of the time
for the last four or so years, is now Chair
of the Crypto Task Force, and then the SEC put
(46:28):
together this Project Crypto and Project Crypto aims in conjunction
with current legislation and the mandates under the executive order
to sign it in January. President Trump has not only
fulfilled his promises, he's exceeded them. So he wasn't joking around.
(46:50):
He plans on making the United States the crypto capital
of the world. So far everything we see indicates that
that's already happened.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Okay, that's very interesting because a lot of people out
there who are just observers, people who aren't really even
invested in the market whatsoever. They've been sitting back and
wondering should I get involved in crypto and they don't
know because they don't know if it's just a temporary
fad or trend or if it's something that's going to
be around for the long haul that will transform America's
economy and the world economy. It seems like it's going
(47:22):
to be one of these extremely transformative forces. I know
we're still in the early stages, but you look at
the value of bitcoin today and you clearly see a
lot of interest in it. And I get it because
it's so good at storing value. There is a liquidity
problem with it, but it's got a real edge to
it that the US dollar does not have. So we'll
have to see what happens in the long run. But Jason,
I just want to say thank you for stopping by
it today and giving us your perspective about it.
Speaker 11 (47:44):
I just want to tell your audience to do one
thing that they have these questions. Find a little bit
and use it. Learn how to use it, and you'll
see for yourself.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
Coming up next, President Trump is set to award Rudy Giuliani,
otherwise known as America's Mayor, with the Presidential Freedom Award,
and we can't think of anyone who is more deserving
of it.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
More details after the.
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Speaker 1 (48:46):
Former President Ronald Reagan, otherwise known as the Great Communicator,
once wisely and famously said this, The greatest leader is
not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He
is the one that gets the people to do the
greatest things. And I feel like this really couldn't be
any more true. A leader should not only be a
beacon and a guide for the people that they lead,
(49:09):
but also empower them to do good all on their own.
And there are many such leaders in history that come
to mind when talking about this, But today I'd like
to talk about Rudy Giuliani as an example. Giuliani cracked
down a mafia crime in New York City and led
the city through the devastating attacks on September eleventh. He's
(49:30):
one of the most recognizable American politicians and truly a
fierce patriot.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
He even stood by.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
President Trump after the election of twenty twenty and was
one of the few people in this country searching for truth.
These are just some of the reasons that President Trump
has decided to award mister Giuliani with the Presidential Medal
of Freedom. Trump posted this about it on his True
social page on Monday, saying the following. As President of
the United States of America, I am pleased to announce
(49:59):
that Trudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor in the history of
New York City and an equally great American patriot, will
receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our country's highest civilian honor.
Details as to time and place to follow. Thank you
for your attention to this matter. Make America great again.
So I am more than happy to hear this announcement
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and truly hope that President Trump will continue to honor
American patriots for the remainder of his term. And that
concludes today's broadcast. We truly hope you enjoyed it, and remember,
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