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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Policy Impact | Allen Jackson Now | July 23, 2025

Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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We begin tonight with something that touches
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Nearly every american.
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Immigration and the consequences of the fact
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That there was no border for the past four years.
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Well, the good news is that the border is now closed.
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Thanks to the work of president trump's team
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And the emphasis that he put on america's safety.
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No one is against immigration, but almost everyone
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Wants legal immigration and not a free for all.
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It'll take years to clean up the mess that the
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Former president and his hapless security chief caused.
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I don't even like
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To think of the number of times
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Alejandro mayorkas claimed that all was well.
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Remember how he stuck to his story?
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Regardless of what we were all watching at our border?
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Listen.
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The border is closed.
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The border is secure. the border?
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The border is secure.
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The border.
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We are working to make the border more secure.
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It is my testimony
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That the border is secure, and we are working every day,
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Day and night to increase its security.
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You know, he kept saying that even as the video showed people
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From china, mexico, haiti, iran and africa streaming in,
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And then the pictures of them
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Being loaded on busses and planes
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And taking throughout the country
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So that we, the taxpayers, could pay for their hotel rooms
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And their meals.
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Well, tom homan has put together a team that's
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Rapidly catching the worst of those who came in.
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But no one even knows
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If 12 million or 20 million eventually came.
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Isis on the clock, day and night,
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And often working in some rather dangerous circumstances,
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Not only up against gang members and armed criminals,
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But protesters throwing rocks,
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Firing weapons and doing whatever they can to push back.
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But amid all the turmoil,
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There are businesses that still need to run
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Large businesses
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And many small businesses
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That have been dealing with this dysfunction for years now.
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That brings me to our guest tonight,
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The chairman of the border commerce and security council
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And chairman of ballito and associates, nelson ballito.
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Welcome back to our show.
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It's great to be with you once again.
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Thank you for having me.
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Well, before we get into the details,
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Tell us how things are for you and your clients.
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Overall, we're six months
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Into the new administration in washington.
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How's it going?
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Well, you know what?
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It's going well.
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There's a lot of, opportunity for, companies that,
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I've worked with for, for many years now
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To to work with border patrol, with u.s.
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Customs, with the air and marine, with ice and others
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That are actually getting some traction
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Now that we had the, the bill,
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The recent bill that passed that, it gave more funding to
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For the border
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Enforcement and apprehensions throughout the united states
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To ensure looking at how we are moving cargo, how we are,
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Moving passengers and so forth.
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I think with the
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With this passage, they're working on more secure,
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Infrastructure that i think will not only move more
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Legitimate trade and travel,
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But certainly cut that illegitimate trade and travel.
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Well, you're in mexico today, but you're based in san antonio.
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Your organization deals with issues north and south.
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You advise homeland security as well.
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You know,
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I realize that you're on the business side of things,
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But what's the most important part of this huge problem
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That we should be addressing now? is it is time home?
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It is said, capture, convicting the criminal element.
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Yeah. well, certainly that is it.
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We have to disrupt
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Criminal organizations south of the border
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And really also
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Within our borders that have been cropped up more,
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More than anything over the last 4 to 5 years.
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I will say that.
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So we need we need to absolutely have ice on board,
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But we need to have more emphasis
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And more cooperation south of the border
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With our other countries and partners
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To ensure that they're
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Enforcing regulations with the united states,
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Assistance sharing, intelligence
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Sharing, training opportunities and so forth to ensure
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That they have the right equipment,
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The right personnel,
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The right training to disrupt these criminal organizations,
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If not all we're doing is just spinning our wheels.
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You know, we got to get past just the seizing of fentanyl,
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The seizing of of cocaine, of marijuana.
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When we stop seizing those things,
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That means we're winning.
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That means because they're running out
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Or don't have any by disrupting those criminal gangs
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That don't just,
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You know,
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You don't just stop them on one end
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And just go manufacture more on the other end.
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That's where we're going to see real wins.
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We need a disruption to the point
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Where they can no longer function
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The way they're functioning today.
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You've got
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A tricky path to follow on the business side of things.
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There's so many businesses that have been
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Running on the manpower who are here temporarily,
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But you've got other pressures
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To deal with, such as unemployed americans
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Who are being pushed aside for cheaper immigrant labor.
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How do you address that with both homeland security
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And your business clients?
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Well, you know, i think you look at the
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You have to look at the areas and where people want to work.
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Certainly most of these jobs
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That are available that perhaps others don't want to go work.
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There are our folks that you know that just
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Simply rather have other jobs.
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So what you need to do is increase migrant workers.
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And what i mean by
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That is the illegal migrant workers, migrant worker visas,
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Things like that,
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Where we can track these people, where they can
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Come in for three months, work certain jobs
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That we perhaps can't get other people
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To work and leave, not stay, not get hotel rooms.
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Now get credit cards. now make this a permanent home.
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There's ways to do that.
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And like you said before, no one's against immigration.
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We're just against illegal immigration.
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So by doing these pathways to help
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Not only manufactured goods, but also the farm worker,
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That helps.
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Again, i'll also say, keep in mind that all the u.s.
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Corporations that we have south of the border
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That are operating, that are employing
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Hundreds of thousands of,
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Mexican nationals and others are people
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That are staying off the streets.
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So the more that we look at,
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How do we improve
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The entire quality of life
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On both sides of the border, increase
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Our business opportunities as companies leave china?
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I think that's, you know, you give people jobs.
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Well, you know, they get busy doing jobs instead of busy
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Doing something else or nefarious,
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Which is what we've seen,
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Especially over the last 4 to 5 years.
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Increased crime everywhere.
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Well, i'd
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Like to ask you about a hot button issue right now.
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The people who are here
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Illegally harvesting marijuana in the big fields of california,
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With the governor trying to protect them,
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And the mayor of los angeles taking on ice directly,
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Mayor karen bass has gone to court to try to stop the raids.
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Gavin newsom seems to be looking for
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An issue to help push his presidential ambitions.
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Aren't they on the wrong side
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Of public opinion, even for california?
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You know what?
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They're absolutely on the wrong side of public opinion,
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Because this is if you look at who voted for donald trump,
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Overwhelmingly, every swing state, the popular vote.
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So, yes, of course,
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They're on the wrong side because, you know, not enforce
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They're offering sanctuary state to these people.
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You got to remember why do they want to do this?
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There's there's there's a background to this.
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What is it?
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Well, what i believe,
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And i think a lot of other people believe,
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Is they want to increase the population numbers
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In the state in these areas that a lot of people have fled
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Because the census that comes around
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Every ten years counts people, not u.s.
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Citizens.
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And that's how they determine congressional districts.
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And those congressional districts
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Mean a lot for the state for money and other and power.
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So if they can do that by increasing these sanctuary
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Cities, by, you know, having 20, 30% more
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Than they would normally have, it's it's a windfall for them.
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That's why i think congress should pass a bill
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That says that in the future,
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We're only going to count us citizens or u.s.
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Permanent residents
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On these on the us census, not people
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That really should not be there to start off with.
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Well, nelson toledo, would
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You please stay with us for another segment?
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We got several more things to discuss.
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Sure, absolutely.
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And during the break, i'd like you at home to go to aj now.com.
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You can send us your thoughts on the immigration issues
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Or even call up a recent show to watch or send to a friend.
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We'd love to have you help spread the word.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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Well.
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Welcome back.
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We're talking with one of the top advisers
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To homeland security
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And the chairman of the border
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Commerce and security council, nelson toledo.
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You've been working on behalf of the business leaders
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On the border for a long time now.
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But karen bass, the l.a.
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Mayor, thinks she knows better.
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Mind you,
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This is the same mayor
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Who was missing in action overseas
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And had weakened the fire department
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By cutting their budget by $17 million,
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Even as she knew the fire hydrants were dry.
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Well, now she's ordered
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City departments to enhance the sanctuary city services
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And is working on a cash card aid program.
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Listen to her latest idea.
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We also are going to have
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A re institution
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Of the angelino card, something that mayor
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Garcetti started during covid that will actually provide cash
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Assistance to people
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Because, you know,
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You have people who don't want to leave their homes,
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Who are not going to work.
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And, and they are in need of cash.
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As if
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There haven't been enough handouts the past four years.
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Can you help explain what she's up to.
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You know, in these handouts, you know.
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Look, i'm all for giving a helping hand,
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But handouts are too much.
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This is absolutely the wrong way to do things.
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Who pays for this?
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Ultimately, the taxpayer does.
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The people of los angeles county,
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They have to follow the bill.
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That's an outrage for everybody that's working and paying taxes
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And supporting people that just don't want to do this.
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Remember karen bass?
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She was a lady that ran around with fidel castro
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Back in the late 50s, early 60s, praising his glory
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And and as part of the communist movement in the united states.
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You know, in numerous pictures from cuba,
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You know,
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She's the modern jane fonda and i will tell you,
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That problem that you have here
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Is that that's what she is doing.
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It's a social program to try to get her reelected or others
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Elected that you gave them addicted to the dole.
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And that's a that's unfortunate because everybody else pays
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The price.
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Well, in
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La, new york, boston and even here in nashville,
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This is up against the democratic mayors
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Who are stoking citizens to push back on the authorities.
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What do you say
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When you remind them
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That their businesses are suffering
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And their tax base is going to take a hit?
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They seem clueless.
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And i'll tell you, these these when they have these protests
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And they start vandalizing their own communities,
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That small store that used to service
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That community no longer comes back.
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Now they have to go somewhere else.
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That pharmacy that corner pharmacy
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That you just looted because you got out of control
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That i don't see is not coming back.
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So what they're doing is they're destroying their own areas
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Because these are just people that want to create, you know,
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They want to be they want to be criminals
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In the sense of just creating chaos by creating chaos.
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Some of them probably won't even care about
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About the immigrants. they just want to create chaos.
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I think this is a big problem.
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I think if you by stoking the flames, these mayors.
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That's unfortunate.
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You know, this should be a law passed by by by these.
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Well, by the congress to do something
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Against these people that stoke these flames.
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I mean, if you're encouraging it,
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Gosh, you know, and say, hey, my my mayor encourages this.
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You know what?
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Why would you want a mayor like that?
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And again,
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You know, why would you reelect somebody like that?
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That basically just wants to, you know,
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Allow crime in the city and do the wrong thing.
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If we're a society of the rule of law.
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Do you have some examples of what you're seeing
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On the business side,
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As shop owners begin to adjust to less fear
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In a somewhat more peaceful environment?
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Well, you know, i'll tell you so.
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You know, it's they want less feared in many cases
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In a lot of these neighborhoods. right.
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So what you're seeing is that, you know,
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They're actually it's making it difficult
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For the shopper to go in to some of these stores.
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Now you're seeing some of the things in cages.
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They're behind,
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Glass, walls.
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You know,
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Depending on on the crime area in some of these neighborhoods.
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I mean, you know, you have
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They've taken every, every precaution they can,
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But ultimately,
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They can be overwhelmed again if the local authorities don't
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Participate to try to thwart this type of crime.
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It's unfortunate.
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You know, it's it's it's too bad
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For these smaller businesses that ultimately pay the price.
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And these are just law abiding,
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You know, guys who are just trying
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To make a living for their families
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And being disrupted by people that just want to be lawless.
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What can we do is the question that we're most often asked.
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So before we go, what should our viewers know
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If they want to help make things better?
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Are there ways they can help. your member congress?
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Yeah. call your member of congress.
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Call your local officials.
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Tell them this is an outrage.
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We don't want this to happen.
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You send them letters, bother them, and tell them.
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Pass a law to stop this outrage, to stop the stoking of flames
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By elected leaders and see
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Sanctuary cities everywhere to to have penalization,
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To stop funding federal funds, sending federal funds
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To these cities that don't cooperate.
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Hit them with a wallet
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Right in their wallet until they cooperate.
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That's what i would do, is call the people
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That are in charge that you put in office.
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And if the people that are in office
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Are the ones that are causing the problem,
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Do everything you can to get them out of office.
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Support the the opposing candidates.
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Support the opposing counsel to ensure that they
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They are removed, either helped or removed.
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Did i understand your recommendation?
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No federal funds to these sanctuary cities?
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Absolutely.
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That's, that needs to happen immediately.
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No. federal funds are sanctuary cities that do not help
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Our law enforcement officials or are against them.
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That that that will immediately
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Start to start solving the problem right away.
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Well, nelson toledo, thank you for sharing your time
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With us today.
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Let's stay in touch as things
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Improve across these next few months.
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It was great being with you. thank you again.
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Well, in a moment, some hopeful thoughts of my own.
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Stay with us.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know,
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Jesus warned us that one of the characteristics
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Of the end of the age is lawlessness.
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And that the
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Love in the hearts of people, god's people, would grow cold.
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We've seen evidence of that all around us.
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The previous administration said that our border was secure,
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And the legacy media happily passed along that narrative,
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Which they knew to be false.
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Millions came through our open border.
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We don't know who came in.
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We don't know who to whom they were attached.
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Children were being trafficked across our borders,
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Sold into sexual slavery in unprecedented numbers.
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Many were put to work
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Illegally, forced to labor in dangerous conditions.
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There was a recent report from the department
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Of homeland security that stated that immigration
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Enforcement officials
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Are unable to effectively track the whereabouts
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Of more than 600,000 unaccompanied children
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Who crossed the southern border since 2019.
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And now we have mayors of a major american cities
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Resisting enforcement of law and order.
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It's unsettling
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To see these leaders determined boldly, brazenly,
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Unapologetically that they're not going to
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Even recognize federal laws.
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Well, i would suggest that if
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They're going
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To reject federal law,
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Then they should not have federal support.
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So how do we arrive at this place?
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Well, it shouldn't be so surprising.
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We've all either conveniently looked away
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Or we've just said there's nothing we can do.
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Well, the church
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Hasn't had the courage to talk about biblical perspectives.
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And as long as the behavior begins with illegal,
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I would submit to you, we shouldn't
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Encourage it or support it.
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That's not compassion.
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That's lawlessness.
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And lawlessness is not a sign from the spirit of god.
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When we, as christ followers finally conclude that
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Spiritual forces are more real than any other force.
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Then we'll realize that we must lead with our faith.
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Let's not be afraid to talk about jesus.
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Let's not be afraid to talk about
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What's happening in our culture
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And what should happen
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From a biblical worldview if we'll do that.
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I promise you, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us this evening.
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Just a reminder, if you miss a live broadcast,
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You could always go to aj now, dot com.
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There's an easy link there. you can send us an email.
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You can share an episode with a friend. it makes a difference.
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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Jared from sanders in florida wrote
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You know what would be smart pastor?
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Some official or trump himself coming out on national do's
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And tell the illegal immigrants if you want to stay in america,
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Join our military.
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It's just a thought.
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Thanks.
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Well, i bet that would make secretary hegseth happy.
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He would exceed his recruitment numbers,
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And i know we'd hear about that.
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Ralph, you wrote commenting on those fighting illegal removal.
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Human nature hasn't changed. given the choice,
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They still demand that barabbas be released.
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It's a pretty insightful comment.
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Some of you will remember that the
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The inhabitants of jerusalem had a choice
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From the roman governor to release barabbas
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And insurrectionist,
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Or jesus of nazareth, and they chose barabbas.
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The outcome of that is, for two millennia,
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A series of treacherous rebels have ruled over
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The inhabitants of jerusalem until recent decades.
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It's a nice reminder
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That you and i have a choice between order or lawlessness.
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We should consider very carefully our choice.
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We will reap the harvest of it.
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Kim has commented, so thankful for the episode with congressman
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Owens and his emphasis on how family is god designed.
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It impacts each of us personally and our communities,
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Creating a positive culture beneficial to all.
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It was encouraging to hear of all the efforts being made
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To give children an opportunity for a good education.
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I agree, congressman owens was a bright breath of fresh air.
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There are good things happening in the world.
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We can't lose sight of those.
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Don't focus on the negative.
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Be sure to celebrate the good things
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You see god doing in your life.
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And finally, rosemary from washington.
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Pastor allen,
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I want to thank you for your ministry
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And for changing my life on how to follow our lord and savior.
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The lord blessed me when i was looking
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For someone who spoke the truth to what is happening in time,
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And what the word has to say about it.
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They brought me to your ministry and for that
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I praise the lord.
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Well, rosemary, thank you for your kind words.
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I'm grateful for this network
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That has the courage to let us talk about
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Current events from a biblical worldview.
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There's a host of people that helped
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Make this program possible.
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They pushed me out in front of the lights.
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But i assure you, i just reflect a lot of very wise,
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Hardworking, talented people who care about
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Holding up a biblical worldview in this culture.
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You're not alone.
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Working together,
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I believe we can make decisions and share the truth
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That can bring the blessing of god
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To our lives, to our children and our grandchildren.
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That's worth a few minutes of time,
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And that's worth using our time and energy for.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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God's moving in the earth.
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Don't lose sight of that.
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God bless you. and you have a good evening.
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