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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name is John Mounts, filling in for JT in
the Department of Homeland Security. Says it's going to resume
the immigration raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants. We go
now to our national correspondent Rory O'Neil, the deportations they're
back on. What's the latest.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, good morning, John.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, we heard from President Trump last week saying,
all right, I've heard from my friends in hospitality and
in the agriculture sector that these ICE raids have been
very disruptive when it comes to getting workers to be
out in the fields or at construction sites. So he
suggested that he'd be backing off a little bit on
enforcement operations at those kinds of locations. But then on Monday,
(00:38):
in a national call with all of its offices, ICE
essentially said nope, we are full speed ahead. We don't
care where these locations are.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
The White House and Stephen Miller, the advisor to the President,
they've essentially set a goal of having three thousand people
detained each day if they are here in the country illegally.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, Tom Homan, you know, he doesn't mess around, and
he's got a job to do. I know, that's why
we're why he's doing it. At the same time, it
is interesting how we have a lot of people who
they speak out of both sides of their mouths because
they say, we want this cheap labor, but we also
want these people out. And I guess we're going to
have to agree that there are people who will do
these jobs, but they're going to want to be paid more.
(01:18):
Are there are people in America, but they're not going
to want to, you know, pick vegetables for six dollars
an hour. They're going to want to get paid a
decent wage. And I guess that is the price that
we we have to admit that we're going to pay
if we want to see this this straightened out. And
you know that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I was thinking about the arguments from over one hundred
years ago for slavery of well who's going to pick
the cotton? Or you even here on the view, remember,
well who's going to clean our bathrooms? If if everybody
has value, then we should pay people what they're worth.
And if we do that, then all of a sudden,
immigration status does matter.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, we've sort of had this wink and a nod deal. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, you come in the country and you do the
jobs that no one here wants to do, and okay, if.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You're legal not they go, oh, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Just stay out of trouble and keep your mouth shut, right,
but get the work done. But what we saw was
during the Biden administration there's huge flood of immigrants coming
into the country, unprecedented numbers, and that sort of off
ended this relationship we've had.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So yeah, things are certainly changing.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Plus, by the way, we saw the big spike in
those minimum wage requirements. You know, fifteen dollars minimum wages
in most states these days, and suddenly, you know, we'll
all be paying nine dollars per one tomato if we
get those kinds of laws in place.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And you know, there are.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Still migrant workforces that come in from other countries the
USS visa programs that allow this. They'll come in, they'll
harvest the crops, and then they'll go back to usually
Mexico after the season ends. So a migrant workforce is
still a big part of the equation.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
When for our economy, well, Rory, the thing is, change
is tough, and anytime you're going through a change period,
there's going to be some hardship. We're just hoping that
that hardship it straightens out for a few years of
settling and we get to either a place where the
prices are moderate and at the same time we're getting
paid more and maybe we're not having the other problems
associated with the illegal immigration. Before I let you go,
(03:13):
you've got another topic here, best and worst run city.
So I'm really curious as to are there any cities
in the state of Alabama and are we well ran
or not well.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
We have one hundred and forty eight cities are in
this list from wallet hubb and they actually rank Montgomery,
Alabama pretty well fifty eight out of one hundred and
forty eight.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now Birmingham, oh, one hundred and thirty two.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So wallet hub looked at all the services provided, the education,
the police and the sewer service, the pollution level, stuff
like that, and then the cost of it and the
price per capita and are you getting your money's worth?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It was the quality of city services in Birmingham that
dragged the numbers down versus the cost.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The best run city in the country Provo Utah, Nampa
I the hose number two Manchester, New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Is three for the worst run cities. You gotta go.
Well all the.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Way to San Francisco, California is bottom of the barrel.
Detroit and Oakland, California. Also there one five New York,
New York.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm curious, and maybe it doesn't get this granular, but
doesn't have anything about Hoover, Alabama on there. That's, you know,
the fifth biggest city in the state of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, I don't think. No, it just had the two
cities Montgomery and Birmingham from Alabama. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I was curious about that because a lot of a
lot of our listeners they don't reside in Birmingham proper.
We live, as they say, over the mountain.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So I was sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
They did have Mobile, which ranked very well number twenty
four nationwide.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh, very very good. Well, they've they've done some great
things in Mobile. And actually, you know, I've been to
Montgomery as several times. You know, it's Jill Capitol, and
it used to be not a great place to visit.
But they've done a lot to clean that city up,
and they're trying here in Birmingham, but they still have
a long way to go. So I'm not surprised that
at this list at all. Rory, thank you so much
for joining us and enlightening us on where we stand
(05:03):
in the country.
My name is John Mounts, filling in for JT in
the Department of Homeland Security. Says it's going to resume
the immigration raids on farms, hotels, and restaurants. We go
now to our national correspondent Rory O'Neil, the deportations they're
back on. What's the latest.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, good morning, John.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know, we heard from President Trump last week saying,
all right, I've heard from my friends in hospitality and
in the agriculture sector that these ICE raids have been
very disruptive when it comes to getting workers to be
out in the fields or at construction sites. So he
suggested that he'd be backing off a little bit on
enforcement operations at those kinds of locations. But then on Monday,
(00:38):
in a national call with all of its offices, ICE
essentially said nope, we are full speed ahead. We don't
care where these locations are.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
The White House and Stephen Miller, the advisor to the President,
they've essentially set a goal of having three thousand people
detained each day if they are here in the country illegally.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, Tom Homan, you know, he doesn't mess around, and
he's got a job to do. I know, that's why
we're why he's doing it. At the same time, it
is interesting how we have a lot of people who
they speak out of both sides of their mouths because
they say, we want this cheap labor, but we also
want these people out. And I guess we're going to
have to agree that there are people who will do
these jobs, but they're going to want to be paid more.
(01:18):
Are there are people in America, but they're not going
to want to, you know, pick vegetables for six dollars
an hour. They're going to want to get paid a
decent wage. And I guess that is the price that
we we have to admit that we're going to pay
if we want to see this this straightened out. And
you know that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Rory.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I was thinking about the arguments from over one hundred
years ago for slavery of well who's going to pick
the cotton? Or you even here on the view, remember,
well who's going to clean our bathrooms? If if everybody
has value, then we should pay people what they're worth.
And if we do that, then all of a sudden,
immigration status does matter.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, we've sort of had this wink and a nod deal. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh, you come in the country and you do the
jobs that no one here wants to do, and okay, if.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You're legal not they go, oh, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Just stay out of trouble and keep your mouth shut, right,
but get the work done. But what we saw was
during the Biden administration there's huge flood of immigrants coming
into the country, unprecedented numbers, and that sort of off
ended this relationship we've had.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So yeah, things are certainly changing.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Plus, by the way, we saw the big spike in
those minimum wage requirements. You know, fifteen dollars minimum wages
in most states these days, and suddenly, you know, we'll
all be paying nine dollars per one tomato if we
get those kinds of laws in place.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And you know, there are.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Still migrant workforces that come in from other countries the
USS visa programs that allow this. They'll come in, they'll
harvest the crops, and then they'll go back to usually
Mexico after the season ends. So a migrant workforce is
still a big part of the equation.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
When for our economy, well, Rory, the thing is, change
is tough, and anytime you're going through a change period,
there's going to be some hardship. We're just hoping that
that hardship it straightens out for a few years of
settling and we get to either a place where the
prices are moderate and at the same time we're getting
paid more and maybe we're not having the other problems
associated with the illegal immigration. Before I let you go,
(03:13):
you've got another topic here, best and worst run city.
So I'm really curious as to are there any cities
in the state of Alabama and are we well ran
or not well.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
We have one hundred and forty eight cities are in
this list from wallet hubb and they actually rank Montgomery,
Alabama pretty well fifty eight out of one hundred and
forty eight.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now Birmingham, oh, one hundred and thirty two.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
So wallet hub looked at all the services provided, the education,
the police and the sewer service, the pollution level, stuff
like that, and then the cost of it and the
price per capita and are you getting your money's worth?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It was the quality of city services in Birmingham that
dragged the numbers down versus the cost.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
The best run city in the country Provo Utah, Nampa
I the hose number two Manchester, New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Is three for the worst run cities. You gotta go.
Well all the.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Way to San Francisco, California is bottom of the barrel.
Detroit and Oakland, California. Also there one five New York,
New York.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm curious, and maybe it doesn't get this granular, but
doesn't have anything about Hoover, Alabama on there. That's, you know,
the fifth biggest city in the state of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
No, I don't think. No, it just had the two
cities Montgomery and Birmingham from Alabama. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I was curious about that because a lot of a
lot of our listeners they don't reside in Birmingham proper.
We live, as they say, over the mountain.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So I was sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
They did have Mobile, which ranked very well number twenty
four nationwide.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh, very very good. Well, they've they've done some great
things in Mobile. And actually, you know, I've been to
Montgomery as several times. You know, it's Jill Capitol, and
it used to be not a great place to visit.
But they've done a lot to clean that city up,
and they're trying here in Birmingham, but they still have
a long way to go. So I'm not surprised that
at this list at all. Rory, thank you so much
for joining us and enlightening us on where we stand
(05:03):
in the country.
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