Hurricanes and Haitians

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordie, we go now to our iHeartRadio brethren from
North Carolina, k COO day morning show host across multiple
stations in that state, and Casey, thank you very much
for taking time here this morning. Mostly we just want
to know how's everyone doing down there. What can we
do to help?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well. To answer your first question, Scott, if you listen
to the President yesterday, everybody's happy. But I don't want
to make this super political, but there's a lot of
people that it can do to help. We have a
wonderful organization in North Carolina that has worked over the world.
I'm sure you've heard Samaritan's Purse. They're hard at work
on the ground. But I grew up out in Wyoming,

(00:45):
right very close to Nebraska there, and so I think
a lot of people out there have the same attitude.
The ability of rule folk, mountain folk to sit there
and look at a situation and say all right, time
to get to work is something that is really really impressive.
And I'm sure you see it when you guys have
tornadoes and thunderstorms and bizards that go through the community spirit,

(01:07):
it just hits different than when you're necessarily in a
big compacted city like you saw in New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
So you hear me, right, Yeah, And I don't mind
you taking it political because it actually sets up another question.
But to your last point, yes, we've certainly seen that here.
And President Biden did say yesterday that when it comes
to helping people, there's no Republicans, no Democrats. But you've
got people there maybe. Yeah, you've got people there, and
Jim Rose here with me this morning as well, Casey,

(01:35):
but you got people there in North Carolina saying that
we know that there's assistance that is available to us,
but it's not coming here. They're not letting the government
for whatever reason, or the local someone's not letting someone
come in here and help us out here. I mean,
are some of these things you're hearing on social media true?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yes? And I'm glad that you went to this point
because I was having this discussion as morning actually with
a fellow fellow iHeart brethren. We do hits on each
other's shows, and you, as a broadcaster in Jim knows this.
You hear so many things, and in with social media's
I heard my neighbors say this, there's rumors and you

(02:14):
got to take everything with a grain of salt until
you can look into it. But a couple incidents I
know people are seen on Twitter that we can confirm
is the helicopter pilot incident, which I'm sure you heard about.
A private pilot rescued flew in with his son and
a two seater rescued. The wife left his son with

(02:35):
the father in this remote place and was yelled at
by a fire chief for attempting to go back out,
which he did and eventually was able to get both
of them in there. That is true. The thirty year
old auto repair business in Ashville, possibly the most devastated
location of the storm in the country. Half of the
deaths are in North Carolina, half are in Buncom County,

(02:58):
which is Asheville. It's like forty five people. I believe
it's the number right now. You have businesses that in
their thirty years they're washed away, an auto repair business,
all of the tools, everything's spread over, and police not
letting people go in because they're fearful that looters will
take mechanics schools. And I understand that, and so those

(03:19):
frustrations are there. Many of these stories are playing out,
but you also look at it and go well, I
understand the argument that you don't want drones and helicopters
by and willy nilly, But pilots are trained, they talk
to each other. They're able to do this, and if
we can manage New York air space, I think fundamentally

(03:41):
we have an obligation to manage it. Keep people informed,
but not turn these people away if you're showing up
with a helicopter. I'm not a state official, but God
bless you.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, and Greg Biffel, the NASCAR drivers assembled an armada
of fifty helicopters to.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Go into the mountains. Right, that story is up.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
One other thing, and you can confirm or at least
give us an update on this one. That the federal
response was very late. We know that now four or
five days in some cases. But now they're on the
ground and they're taking up hotel rooms. These are hotel
rooms for the homeless. They show up in their cars
to a motel or a hotel managed to somehow survive

(04:22):
the weather, and they say, sorry, no room. We have
a thousand federal employees that have taken up all of
these hotel rooms.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Is that so, yeah, Actually it's more than a hotel room.
It's Harrow's Cherokee Casino, which is a Native American casino
in Cherokee, North Carolina, just down the road, and it
is a giant establishment. In fact, I know the casino
you're thinking about across the river where you are right now.
It's bigger and that is that's FEMA's HQ there. And yes,

(04:53):
but what's more frustrating is we in the city of Greensboro,
which is just off the slope, a couple hours from Ashville,
but not necessarily from all affected areas. They they retrofitted
an old boarding school called the Jewish Day School it
to house eight hundred migrant children, right this is yeah,

(05:13):
it's not open yet. It was supposed to open here
in the very short order. It's basically done. It's sitting there.
It's empty. It has a campus facility that has eight
hundred rooms for students, not to mention I think four
hundred spaces for staff, facilities and.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Everything we got to run here. I want to have
you tell people, though, what they can do to help.
We've all kind of been waiting to find out what
can we do to assist.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Samaritan's Purse is an organization that I would I would
push at helping hands is another good one. But I
think the way that people assist is stay on this
and if you see something and there's an opportunity to
help check it out, make sure it's legit. There are
ski out there, but you do what you gotta do.
Get involved. We're all in this together, as the President

(06:06):
once said, and I'll agree with.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Them on that.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
So k Cooday, iHeartRadio's morning show hosts across North Carolina.
You can hear him out of one oh sixty one
FM Talk in Raley Durham. Thank you very much of
the time this morning. Kc Hek Scott. This guy's name
is Donald J. Trump. He wants to be president of
the United States. To hear his opponent speak, he's never
been president of the United States before, so therefore we

(06:30):
have no idea what he would do as president or
what the country would be like if he were president.
But turns out I says here he is a former
president of the United States, and he's looking here specifically
at Springfield, Ohio. You've heard that there are in this

(06:52):
town of forty thousand people. Now it's up to sixty
twenty thousand of them are Haitian migrant it's given temporary
status to be here in America while we wait for
I don't know what when or from whom. But President
Trump talked with News Nation yesterday and talked about if
you were president, Springfield, Ohio would look very different.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You have to remove the people and you have to
bring them back to their own country.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
They are, in my opinion, it's not legal.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
So you would revoke the temporary protected.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Absolutely, I'd revoke it, and I'd bring them back to
their country.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
What if they won't receive them, then they're not well,
they're going to receive them. They'll receive them. If I
bring them back, They're going to receive them. That is
President Trump on News Nation yesterday. Now, it's funny that
the number was twenty thousand, but now they're like officials
believe there's actually only twelve thousand Haitians in the community

(07:51):
among fifteen thousand immigrants in Clark County, which includes Springfield.
I don't know why they're saying there's twenty thousand Haitians
in there eating cats and dogs or anything. Well, I
don't know. I've never been to Springfield, Ohio. I know
that if suddenly you brought in the twenty thousand people

(08:12):
into Fremont, and let's say they're from Haiti, or let's
say they're from Bangkok. Let's say they're from Vladivostok, Rush
it doesn't matter where they're from. You bring in twenty
thousand people from one culture that's not ours, not that
there's anything wrong with that, and you put them into

(08:33):
a community like Fremont. It's gonna look a little different. Now.
What happens if this kind of thing occurs and they
bring in twenty thousand migrants from anywhere in the world,
and suddenly the issue is from people who live who've
always lived in that community. They're saying on social media
that there are problems being caused, there's more crime, there's

(08:57):
people living on the streets, there's the issue about cats
and dogs and these accusations and so forth. And let's
say that nearby communities, whether it's Valley or Omaha or Bennington,
are saying, yeah, we're actually trying to get a read
on what's going on in Fremont, but we can't hear.

(09:19):
We used to have access to the police scanner activity
people not calling nine to one one, but you hear
the one to one dispatchers telling police what to do
based on calls that have come in to nine one
one the police chief in Tremont City, Ohio. This is
a suburb of Springfield. It's eight miles from Springfield, he says,

(09:45):
and his number is. Since the arrival of approximately twenty
thousand Haitian nationals into Springfield, Ohio, he said, we've seen
more crime in the area. He said, We've got a
big problem. Not what necess nessarily like, you know, you
think a crime, you think like assault, sir, robbery, murder,

(10:05):
things like that. He says. A lot of the it
is just these Haitians who don't have driver's licenses suddenly
having access to cars, and they're really enjoying driving cars
up and down the streets of Springfield and across the area.
They're going two to three times over the speed limit.
So now they're speeding, which is dangerous. They're driving dangerously,

(10:28):
which is dangerous. They don't have a driver's license, which
is dangerous. All of this is illegal, and a lot
of times it's people pulled over for the same thing
multiple times. Here's a guy pulled over twice in the
span of about a week and a half. Car was towed,
license wasn't revoked he didn't have one, and they go

(10:50):
to local police. And what this police chief is saying
just outside of Springfield is that the police in Springfield
have been told not to detain them. But he says,
I'm not able to tell as much what's going on

(11:11):
with our fellow boys in Blue and Springfield because they've
cut off the rest of the country from the police
radio frequency. Says we were able to hear them on
the radio, but now we can't. They in Springfield, Ohio
have decided to go silent. We don't know what's going
on there, but I know that these people are driving

(11:34):
recklessly or getting arrested for whatever. They're not being detained.
If you're not being ticketed and not being detained, then
you can't be marked for potential deportation because it would
be a blow to the Biden Harris administration if now
we're bringing migrants into America, specifically twenty thousand of them

(11:59):
from Haiti to Springfield, and then some of them end
up being accused of crimes, being found guilty of crimes,
even being deported for crimes. So how do you stop
that from happening? You just don't charge them with crimes.
If you can't be charged with a crime, you can't
be deported. This police chief, his name is Chad Duncan,

(12:23):
and again Tremont City, Ohio's just outside Springfield, and he
says that he surmises that the police in Springfield turned
off the ability for others to hear radio communications nine
to one to one dispatch information, to obstruct any outside
monitoring of their actions and thereby having to answer for
those actions or lack thereof. There was the story about

(12:48):
a recent threat to a school in Springfield that nearby
police forces who could potentially be called into help, especially
if parents worst nightmare was coming true, These nearby police
officers in this community couldn't hear details about do you
need help? Is there an active shooter situation? What's going on?

(13:09):
They weren't getting those police communications because they've shut themselves
off from the rest of the country. And I can't
imagine that they in Springfield made that choice to do so,
someone's leaning on them and telling them to do this.
By the way, that story about ever since JD Vance

(13:32):
said that Haitian immigrants are eating cats in Springfield, Ohio,
now we've got people calling and threatening to shoot up
a school in our community. They're blaming that on Trump
and vance at the day that and within a couple
of days of this story that came out about a
vague threat to a school in Springfield, which turned out

(13:54):
to be a total hoax. Do you have any idea
that that same threat was going on across the country,
Because this happens a number of times every school year.
Someone posts something on social media says I wouldn't go
to school tomorrow. We'll be waiting for you. Doesn't say where,

(14:16):
but whoever sees it shares it with their friends. Oh
my gosh, look at this. There's a threat. Who shares
it with their friends, and then it gets shared over
here and shared up and pretty soon every teenager is
sharing this video thinking it's about their school, and so
the parents and everyone are like, oh my gosh, and
the school officials call the police and go, we have
a vague threat. We don't know if it's our school
or what. The same time we had this vague threat

(14:38):
against Springfield, Ohio school, there was threats that same day
against Omaha schools, all of them complete hoaxes that didn't
originate here, there or I don't know where, but I
know they had nothing to do with JD Vance and cats.
That was so overblown. So why would President Trump say,

(15:05):
in my administration, I'll revoke temporary protected status for Haitian
migrants and deport them back to the country from whence
they came. Can he do that? Well, it would set
up a court battle. Check that, it would set up
twenty thousand court battles. President Trump may or may not

(15:28):
know that. Let's say he does and he said that anyway,
why does he think that perhaps this election is bigger
than what's going on in Springfield, Ohio, and he's thinking
that this is really about the mindset of You've got
one group of people President Biden, Vice President Harris who

(15:51):
say we need to bring in millions of people from
other cultures use money directed from the Federal Emergency Management
Agency that's supposed to, among other things, help people in
the wake of a tragedy like Hurricane Helene, like people
in Asheville, North Carolina, who can't get any assistance from

(16:15):
FEMA funds because the Homeland Security Director Alejandro Majorcis came
out yesterday and said we don't have the money when
he just gave he just directed six hundred and forty
one million dollars from money that was supposed to go
to FEMA to go to communities like Springfield, Ohio to
help them deal with the influx of migrants in those

(16:35):
in those communities. We don't have any money left for
Americans who need help, who've lost everything because of what
the Biden Harris administration has done with an open border policy.
And they say we don't have illegal immigrants pouring through
our border, which on some levels technically true because when

(16:56):
you give them temporary protective status while they way to
court hearing on their requests for asylum that won't happen
for seven or eight years. Well, they're not technically in
the country illegally. For President Trump to say I'm going
to deport them all that would set up tens of
thousands of court cases arguments. But he's saying we need

(17:20):
to do something, and he's saying that this mindset from
Harris and Biden to do this to our communities in
this country, and to do this with tax dollars that
are supposed to help Americans is wrong. And he offers
up a different choice. He knows he probably can't go
into Springfield, load up a bunch of people on Paddy

(17:41):
wagons and put them on a cargo plane, send them off,
you know, send them through, have the dock workers who
are back on the job today, you know, put them
onto ships and send them back down to Haiti. He
knows he probably can't do that. I don't know that
he wouldn't try. But he also knows that people in
this country are fed up with what they see going

(18:02):
on in our communities and with our tax dollars. And
now they got exposed by the allocation of money that's
supposed to go to help Americans like.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Those who exposed. Oh no, what's going to happen now?

Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's why I say, I think that when I point
all this stuff out, it makes all Americans blood boil.
Some blood is boiling because they hear this, and they
get upset and go, I can't believe that is what
is going on in our country. And then you got
some Americans going, I can't believe that you are so
racist that you don't want these children who have been

(18:43):
brought here in some cases against their will. You want
to tear families apart, you want to deport these people
back to horrible places where they're from. Well, hey, apparently
we have a lot of money to all of you
who take that tact of we need to take care
of these people. Then please, there's so much more money

(19:03):
available at the federal government. They can always print more,
they can always tax us more. After all, those millionaires
and billionaires clearly aren't paying their fair share. I hear
them talk about I hear the politicians talk about it.
There's so much more money. Please take all of those resources,
go to these countries, whether it's Guatemala or Haiti or wherever.

(19:26):
Bring everybody here, because apparently they shouldn't be where they are.
It's dangerous limited resources. So please let's see here. What
is the population of Haiti. I just asked my phone. Oh,
it's only eleven point seven million people.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Well, we can fit eleven million in. We can absolutely
fit them here and there.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I've always heard this, and there's no way it can
be true. But I've heard this that the entire world
population as they talk about, well, there's you know, we're
getting too many people on the planet. And someone says,
you know that the number of people on the entire
planet could live comfortably in the greater Atlanta area. I

(20:14):
no way that can be true, but I've heard it
and it's interesting to pass along, but suffice it for
this stupid conversation to say, we could put eleven point
seven million Haitians in the greater Atlanta area and apparently
they wouldn't even notice it. Bring them all here and

(20:36):
not just Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala. Let's go. I mean, what,
why are people still living in New Guinea? Bring them
to Springfield, Ohio. You know that's why when the people
are like, well, we got to take care of these people,
then let's do it. But hey, let's bring them all.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Okay, but why do we have to do that. Have
people just recently inhabited the area of Haiti and New
Guinea as you mentioned, or have there been people living
there for thousands of years?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, I can't worry about what happened before we got
to this epiphany I've had this morning. Okay. I'm only
looking at the here and now, and I'm bringing the.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Joy, all right, bring that joy?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Okay. I mentioned a moment ago. There's something else out
of North Carolina. We talked earlier in the morning, and
you'll hear it again after ten thirty this morning. By
the way, program note, I said we had a guy
from the Israeli Defense Force in the studio this morning.
I screwed up. I had one conversation about this on

(21:41):
text message and that said Friday. And I had another
conversation about this on email and that said Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
So which is it Wednesday?

Speaker 1 (21:53):
So that's going to happen on Wednesday unless it's next Friday.
I don't know. If someone shows up, we'll talk to them.
So we talked earlier with a guy in North Carolina.
Radio guy. He was talking about what's going on there,
and he's a news talk opinionated radio guy like Mice Elf,

(22:14):
and so he immediately started saying, no, there are resources
not going to the people in North Carolina because of
this red tape and that so forth. And then he
sent me a text and said I didn't get a
chance to add because you rudely cut me off, which
is true. I had to get back to timesaver traffic
trying to stay Yeah. So he says, the most infuriating

(22:38):
thing is a thousand North Carolina soldiers being sent in
to help. These are your state National Garden people being
sent in to help, and they're sitting at Fort Bragg
a week after the storm because of red tape. No

(23:01):
one will give them the authority to go and do anything,
and no one's also taken responsibility for why this is
still happening and why people aren't getting the assistance from
these guys who are chomping at the bit ready to
go help. This is also part of the First you
have the devastation from the hurricane, then you got the

(23:21):
devastation from the reality of this whole idea of where
the government and we're here to help doesn't always apply,
at least not to you. Scott Voyes Mornings nine to
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