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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Power Grab | Allen Jackson Now | August 14, 2025

Good evening, and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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There's a lot of reasons why president trump and his team
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Are trying to clear the country.
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Of the millions of migrants who came here illegally.
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The crime, the drugs, the children being used for hard
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Labor, the cost that we've all had to absorb for the cities
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That feed and housed them with the taxes that we pay.
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And there's another extremely important reason
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That we're watching unfold right now.
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The democrats are trying to fill certain state populations
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With enough people on their side of the aisle
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To water down the number of republicans,
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And ultimately to turn congress
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Into a democratic stronghold for the rest of time.
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Not on policies, but, of course, just on sheer numbers.
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Well, first, they opened the borders
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To flood the country with people
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Who collect around areas
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Where they can most easily find food and housing.
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That's our cities.
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Then they redraw the lines.
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We're republicans live
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And include areas with a lot of immigrants.
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It can be done because the law requires
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The census bureau to count all residents,
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Not just current american citizens.
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It's a lot to absorb, but when you see democrats
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Scrambling to get back into power
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Not with policies, but with protest and
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Any other way they can, it's a whole lot easier to see.
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Which brings us to our guest this evening, cooper
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Smith from the america first policy institute.
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Welcome back, cooper.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Well, first, you're the director of communications at fpi.
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So i want to start by asking about the various ways
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That democrats are trying to take back power.
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What are you seeing these days?
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Well, you mentioned in your opening monologue, alan,
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What's going on in texas in the redistricting fight?
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And i think it from
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His perspective, it's
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It's awfully rich and ironic that the party
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That for decades has counted illegals as part of the census,
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As you accurately described, is now complaining that
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That legislators in texas, who are lawfully elected
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And are there to do their job, are doing
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What democrats do in many other states, california, illinois
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And new york, as an example.
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So, it's terrible what's happening
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With the census, because you're right,
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We count all illegal immigrants, which affects
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Not only the amount of congressional seats,
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That we have, but also money that flows into these districts.
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So when we're counting,
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Illegal immigrants, say,
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In california,
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We're actually
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Padding democrat numbers, but we're also sending
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More federal dollars to those districts,
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To people who are not american citizens.
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So i think we are right to be concerned.
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And back in 2020, president trump then tried to,
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To fix this for the 2020 census.
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And of course, the left sued him.
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And unfortunately he wasn't able to get that
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Over the finish line.
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So i think he's finishing what he, started back in 2020.
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So the democrats are scrambling
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To get attention any way they can.
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You know,
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I think the idea of flooding the country
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With people who are here illegally has always been a part
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Of democratic strategy to increase their numbers,
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Even if it means counting people
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Who skip the immigration process.
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Republican senator bill hagerty spoke about it
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When he referenced a new york congresswoman
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Who was caught on camera saying exactly that.
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Listen to what he said.
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Americans are fleeing blue cities and states
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In mass because of bad government.
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But congressional seats are allocated based on population.
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So if you're losing population, you either have to.
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Backfill it.
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Or lose congressional seats.
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This represented stated that.
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This representative stated that the cause for population loss.
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She needed to fill her district of the illegal aliens
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To keep from losing her seat.
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You know,
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For the democrats, it seems it's not about ideas.
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It's all about power now, isn't it?
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I think it i think it always has been for them.
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And the illegal population in
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This country is very hard to count.
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You'll see estimates ranging from anywhere
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From 11 million to upwards of 25 million.
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At aspi,
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We think that, you know, during the four years of biden,
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It's almost undeniable that about 12 million
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People came into this country.
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And and just for reference.
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Los angeles county has about the same amount of people
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That the state of wisconsin has, about 6 or 7 million people.
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So we're talking about double the population of of wisconsin.
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And those are just the people that border patrol, cbp
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Know about.
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Those are the encounters,
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The people that they saw on camera or otherwise sensed.
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Yet what we really have to worry about, too, is the,
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That the folks who we invaded that and probably paid
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Extra money to the cartels
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To do that, so those people didn't want to be seen.
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They probably paid cartels a little bit extra,
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5000 or 10,000 more to evade go around the ports of entry.
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That's often going to be a terrorist.
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Human traffickers, drug smugglers,
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As you mentioned in your opening monologue.
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And yes, child trafficking, which we've seen exploded
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Under president biden.
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And unfortunately, the media covered this up at the time.
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I think human trafficking
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Is something that you've covered,
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And i think it's one of the biggest stories of my lifetime.
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In our lifetimes.
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Yeah, i agree.
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The texas republicans seem
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To have turned the scheme back on the democrats lately.
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They came up with a plan of their own
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To do what the democrats have done for years.
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Redraw the maps to dilute liberal strongholds.
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It took democrats took off to some very blue states.
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And they won't come back to vote on the new maps.
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Even with the threat of losing their jobs,
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How do you think this is going to play out?
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I think it's going to play out how it played out
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Every time they've done this in the past.
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I was working in wisconsin when they did it in 2011,
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When then governor scott walker was trying to pass,
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Some union legislation.
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They left and went to illinois.
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Well, that legislation ultimately passed.
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Then indiana democrats did the same thing.
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I think a year later in the same year, around 2011, 2012,
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On a right to work bill, i think it was.
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Well, that bill ultimately passed.
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Fast forward to 2021.
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Texas democrats fled the state back then.
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Ultimately, the bill that they were protesting passed.
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So to me, the american people are on the side of people going
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To, you know, voting for legislators,
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Going to the state capitol, voting yay or nay on a bill.
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And then that's what we live with.
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That's a system that we've all agreed to.
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We pay taxes for it every year.
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So i think the american people
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Are disgusted by political showmanship
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And kabuki theater that we're watching unfold.
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With texas, i'm absolutely loving what governor abbott,
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The signals that governor abbott has been sending,
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You know, threatening
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To bring them back, threatening prosecution, bribery charges.
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I think that's important
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Because they cannot get away with it. but even if they do,
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The american people will not let them.
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And this and this district redistricting plan will,
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I'm sure, ultimately be passed, if passed as is present.
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You know,
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This fight looks like something
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The democrats might fight to the finish.
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As i said at the opening, lacking
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Any real issues that would keep them in power,
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They're throwing whatever they can at the system.
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The law fair,
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The reckless protest, the push back on deporting
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The people who are here illegally.
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Isn't it likely
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That they're
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Making so much noise about the illegals,
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Because this may be their last chance
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In a long time to take back power in the house?
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Oh, 100%.
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And it's funny,
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Because you mentioned that they they've said this
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The kind of quiet part out loud, what they say
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They've been saying it for decades.
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Remember back after obama won in 2008?
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In 2012,
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They said due to demographics, which is
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Was their favorite term.
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But of course we all understood it
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In the conservative movement
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To to mean illegal immigration due to demographics.
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There's going to be a new democrat majority
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That's going to take over for 50 years.
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Well, that ultimately didn't happen
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Because of a very skillful politician named donald trump.
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But the plan was laid out.
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We want illegal immigration.
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We're going to promote it.
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And you see, now, after their categorical defeat
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In november, all seven swing states, the popular vote.
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They're not changing their tune on immigration.
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If anything, they're leaning in further.
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They're they're trying to pass bills, for example.
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Right now in the house,
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Democrats are to force ice agents to take off their masks
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When doing immigration operations
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While they're wearing masks,
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Because their families are being threatened,
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Because their lives
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Are being threatened,
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Because they cannot do their job without their masks on.
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The only reason they're wearing them
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Is because of progressive politicians
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Who are calling them nazi nazis and gestapo,
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And comparing them to the kkk like kamala harris did
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Until she ran for president and claimed
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To be like a border state prosecutor.
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I'm going after the the, the gangs and all that stuff.
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And of course, the american people
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Thankfully didn't buy that.
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But this has been going on for for decades,
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And i think we should we should learn from that
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And understand that. you're right.
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Political power is all they have.
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I'm sorry. it's all that they want.
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They don't have it right now.
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And the only way that they view to get it
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Back,
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Apparently, is through
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Legal immigration,
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Which is just such a catastrophe,
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Not just for the american people,
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People, our culture, our economy, border cities,
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But also for the immigrants themselves,
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The people who are fleeing, states.
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They get raped, murdered.
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They're giving their life savings to come here
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Because politicians have sold them a lie.
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They're going to be welcome when they get here.
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So i just i think it's a tragedy for everybody involved.
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Well, there's more to this topic
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That i'd like to go over with you.
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Cooper, can you stay for another segment?
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Absolutely. great.
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Well, i'll be right back.
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Well, i'll be right back.
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We're back now with cooper smith,
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The director of communications at the america first policy
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Institute and a specialist on immigration there.
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Let's pick up where i left off.
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It's fair to say that most people are unaware
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That the us census includes people who were here illegally,
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And more importantly, that data all counts
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When it's used to determine
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How many seats each state gets in the house of representatives.
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So if you fill republican areas with enough outsiders,
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You can draw the district lines to suit candidates
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From any other party and watered down conservative influence.
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Cooper president trump is taking this head on
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By directing a new census
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That excludes undocumented immigrants.
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Is that the answer, and can it be done?
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It is absolutely the answer.
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Going back to 2020, he will this will end up in court,
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There's no doubt about it.
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There have been rulings on this
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From the highest levels of our judiciary system.
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So i'm thankful that the supreme court on on most issues,
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Throughout the first term has been siding with, with reason
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And with the constitution.
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So i'm hopeful that that this will end up the same way.
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As relates to the census bureau and the counting of
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Illegal immigration or, i'm
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Sorry, illegal immigrants, but remember, politicians
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Like maxwell frost and others o'rourke
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Have said this repeatedly, that they want all illegal
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Aliens to be naturalized citizens and be able to vote.
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This is their plan.
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They've said it out loud.
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We need to listen to them and take them at their word.
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This is not what they're telling to their, their donors. maybe.
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But this is what we're hearing from them.
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We need to listen to them when they speak.
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And unfortunately, scary because that's what they want to do.
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Well, let's move to the larger immigration issues.
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Tom homan has made clear that this is about
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More than just people who were here
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Illegally, the majority of who
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They're arresting are extremely dangerous.
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Listen to homan.
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About 70% ever.
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Everybody. ice's arresting is a criminal.
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No kicking him off the street.
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Every criminal in
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When they cross the street makes this country safe again.
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And every public safety threat and national security
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Threat and national security threats.
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We've arrested thousands of national security
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Threats again, making this country safe again.
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Do you have any idea why the democrats are willing
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To risk the safety of their own families and friends in order
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To defend the mess that biden and kamala harris brought us?
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Look, i think it's pretty simple.
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They have for decades conflated immigration
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With illegal immigration.
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And this is a key thing that your audience
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Needs to understand. i'm sure they do.
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But democrats and the media and mainstream
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Media, the associated press and new york
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Times will often say, donald trump, our borders,
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Our tom homan are doing x to immigrants.
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Well, no, we're doing it to illegal immigrants.
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And they're right now focusing
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Because they think it hurts the president
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On the fact that not every not 100%
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Of the population that they're deporting
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Have a criminal background.
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Well, i would bring up two things.
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The person might have a criminal background,
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Just not here in the united states.
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So we might not know about it.
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And number two, the administration, the trump
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Administration never said that we're going to exclude people
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For deportation based on their criminal history.
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They said we will prioritize
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The most dangerous people the drug traffickers,
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The cartel members who they labeled
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As terrorists, which was a fantastic move,
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But they never exempted anybody from deportation.
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If you don't have a legal right to be here,
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You are subject to removal there.
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When the trump administration took over,
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There were millions
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Of illegal immigrants here in the united states
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Who had what's called a final order of removal,
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Meaning they'd already gone through
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The immigration court process.
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And that judge had said, you are removable.
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And yet, the biden administration
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Decided to send their hands and not remove millions of people.
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So we're
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Talking about a population that even our own government
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Can't understand how big it is, which is very, very concerning.
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And they, you know, frankly, had lied to us for years.
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Even under biden, they would repeatedly tell us
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There's only 11 million illegal immigrants here.
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That's just factually untrue.
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And they lied straight to our faces about it.
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So, you know, tom homan is absolutely right.
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The large majority of them are criminals
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And have a criminal background, and we need to prioritize them.
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But there will be ancillary arrests
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When you're going into a community,
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Especially a sanctuary jurisdiction.
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So if they set up sanctuary laws
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And they don't allow ice to go to, say,
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A jail setting,
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Which is safe for both the migrant
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And for for ice, then they have to go into the community.
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So ironically enough, this is what the left wants.
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They want the arrests to happen in public
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Because they want their activist base to get their phones out,
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To throw rocks, to do all these disruptive things.
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And sanctuary cities, unfortunately, are exacerbating
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The problem of illegal immigration.
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Well, cooper, i know you just returned from the border.
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What did you see while you were there?
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Yeah, we did.
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So the america
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First policy institute was able to go down
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And send a few policy experts to the border
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To see first hand the big, beautiful bill funding.
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So, of course, on 4th of july, the president signed,
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The reconciliation bill into law,
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Which provided billions of dollars
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For both border patrol and for ice.
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And so we got to see
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What border patrol is, is doing down there.
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Obviously, they've had record low crossings, at the border.
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But i think my concern
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And i think america first policy institute's concern is that
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While the border may be secure right now, we need to fortify it
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Against any future administration
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Who would seek to undo the policies
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And the infrastructure
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That the big, beautiful bill provides on day one.
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So the more that we add,
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The more work that they have to do on the back end to undo it.
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You saw on day one, president biden said,
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No, we're not doing the border wall anymore.
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Not only that, we're going to sell the parts
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That the us taxpayer paid for $0.04 on the dollar,
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Which was just completely insane.
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And in a number of ways.
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But, from our trip, we're able to see firsthand
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What's happening at the border
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And, and some of the actions border patrol are taking to,
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To take the american people's hard earned money
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And and do good with it and protect our country.
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Well, coopersmith, thanks for coming on again today.
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We'll be following these issues closely.
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We'd like to have you back on again.
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Thank you very much.
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I will be back on.
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Thank you in a moment.
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Signs of hope.
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And later, your emails
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With all sorts of interesting questions and comments.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, i believe that we are in a season of shaking.
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The shaking may feel uncomfortable at the moment,
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But after the shaking,
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Things become visible that weren't so clear before.
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During the last administration,
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Our borders were wide open for a lengthy season
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Facilitated by the people who were in authority over us.
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They were telling us porous, unsecure border
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Was just our imagination, that there was nothing to see.
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Like they counseled millions of people to do something
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Illegal as a means of joining this nation.
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Well, in the meantime, we were lectured ad nauseum
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By people that have somehow achieved elite status,
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At least in their own minds,
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That an open border and welcoming
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Whoever wants to come across
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It is the ultimate expression of compassion.
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And if we opposed it, well,
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We were accused of supporting people
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Being put in cages
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And separating parents from their children.
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We were accused of being evil incarnate, and unfortunately,
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Far too many churches picked up that mantra.
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Well, i don't think it's a biblical perspective, and
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I don't think an open border was about compassion at all.
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I'm grateful that now the covers have been lifted off
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A bit by this administration, exposing the corruption
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And the scheming that has been taking place.
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But how did we arrive at this place?
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Well, unfortunately, i believe it's
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Because the church, as
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It had the courage to talk about biblical perspectives
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As christians by remaining silent.
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We have abandoned our culture to lawlessness.
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We're going to have to choose differently.
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We have to engage.
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A healthy,
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Vibrant church is what brings freedom and liberty to humanity.
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If we'll do that,
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I promise 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 of your day with us.
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If you ever miss a live episode, you can always go to aj now.
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Dot com.
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There's an archive there with all the programs.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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You can even share them with a friend.
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The more the merrier.
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And thank you for taking the time to send your emails
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There.
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Always a highlight to the entire team here.
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Terry from sun city center, florida commented, it's so sad
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And disturbing to hear about the slaughter
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Of any people group, especially christians.
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So many think that
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Because it doesn't affect us, we can ignore it.
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Do we in this country truly believe that we will
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Escape this type of treatment
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If we ignore it now
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And say and do nothing, eventually we will be next?
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At the very least,
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While we disappoint our lord
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For not speaking up for those who can't on their own.
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Well, terry, i agree
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We can't afford to sit in our comfort and convenience
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And imagine that we will escape the fate
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That the rest of the world faces.
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You know, the problem that we face
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Really isn't the depravity of the wicked.
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It's the indifference, the ambivalence of the faithful.
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But i think we're changing.
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We're going to stop worshiping with the altar of comfort
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And convenience and again, to take seriously invitation
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To serve our lord.
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If we'll do that, there's good things ahead.
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Bill from georgia wrote.
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Will you be inviting knowledgeable guest
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In the new i science and quantum computing science
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That will affect everyone in some way very soon?
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Bill, we've had some guests in.
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As soon as we can find some that i can understand,
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We'll have them on as well.
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I'm quite certain it's shaping our future,
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And we need to understand what's happening.
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And finally, jerry emailed your special blessing to me.
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I'm 93 years old.
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My dad was a great bible
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Believing baptist minister from the 40s to the 70s.
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You're one of the minority of preachers
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Who still believe and preach the entire bible.
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It would be so wonderful to be involved
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With the church led by you.
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Thank you for your tv ministry.
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I'll see you one day. god bless you.
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Well, jerry, i think we are serving
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Together is not our location.
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It's the authority over our lives.
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And we both serve the same king.
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Thanks for your encouraging words.
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And thank all of you
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For spending a bit of time with us today.
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I'm alan jackson, and you have a wonderful evening.
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