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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Reckless Leadership | Allen Jackson Now | December 9, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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I'm home and had some very good news to report recently.
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More than 60,000 children have been rescued by ice agents
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This year.
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Children that have been brought into the country
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With either no parent or no where to go,
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And they ended up in the hands of smugglers,
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Selling them to sweatshops and child molesters.
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You know, overall,
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300,000 unaccompanied
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Children entered the country over the last four years.
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It's a nightmare at any time.
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But even more painful
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To know that they're hidden in our midst
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While we're seeing family and friends
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And getting ready for christmas.
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Well, if you add to that, the push
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Back on ice and the national guard
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As they work 24 seven to try to keep us safe.
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For example, here's the new york city
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Mayor elect giving out tips on how to resist ice.
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Well, we can all
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Stand up to ice if you know your rights.
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Ice is legally allowed to lie to you,
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But you have the right to remain silent.
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If you're being detained, you may always ask,
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Am i free to go repeatedly until i answer you?
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You are legally allowed to film ice
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As long as you do not interfere with an arrest.
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It is important to remain calm during any interaction with ice
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Or law enforcement.
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Do not, in their investigation resist arrest or run.
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One last thing.
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New yorkers have a constitutional right to protest.
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And when i i'm mayor, we will protect that right?
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You know, i don't think anyone is surprised to see mamdani
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Stirring up resistance, including our guest tonight.
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It's the former acting ice director, jonathan fahy.
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Welcome back, sir.
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Thank you. glad to be here.
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You know, it's not clear yet if mamdani
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Or any of the other city mayors who are pushing back
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Can be prosecuted for what they're doing,
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But how they're going to explain and defend the crime
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That comes from this reckless behavior.
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Yeah, that's the worst part of it all.
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We've seen in some places like both new york
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And in illinois,
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The number of criminals that have been let out in the streets
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That had ice detainers on them, meaning they should have they
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If they were cooperating with ice,
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They could have turned them over to ice
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And had them deported, but instead
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They remained in the country.
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And it just shows really, the democrats
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As a party are so radical on this issue.
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They'd rather have illegal alien criminals
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Remain in this country than deport them.
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And what's interesting about what mondale is doing,
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He's trying to, like, walk a fine line
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On the inside of obstruction.
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But what's really shameful about what he's doing?
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He's maligning ice agents, suggesting what they are doing
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Is illegitimate, when in fact they're keeping us safe.
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It would be a lot better if he if he said something like,
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They're only after illegal aliens and not legal immigrants,
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But he tries to scare the entire immigrant community,
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Which is very cynical.
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And you see that a lot with politicians.
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They try to conflate them both and scare the entire community.
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But yeah, we're really sort of new yorkers.
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Well, if you said
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Ice has a legitimate job to do enforcing federal law,
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We're not going to stand either way.
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But you could if you disagree with it, you're free to protest.
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But the best way to deal with it,
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If we want an open border, if we want mass amnesty,
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Which the democrats want,
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Is go to the ballot box and vote for it
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And ask to have it passed in congress.
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But they can't say that because they know
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The american people don't support it.
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So they use all of these, like i said, cynical moves
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To achieve their policy.
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And they're not really protesting ice.
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What they're actually doing is trying to prevent ice
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From doing their job, which is different altogether.
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Well, as i mentioned in my opening,
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You know, isis already been able to rescue
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More than 60,000 children from the hands of smugglers.
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Can you tell us what's next for them,
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Especially in this cold winter?
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Do they ever get matched back up with their parents?
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Yeah,
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I think a lot of what they are
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Going to try to do is figure out one who these kids were,
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Who were they were put with?
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Because when these unaccompanied minors come to the border,
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There's office of refugee resettlement
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Puts on with sponsors and a lot of times
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These sponsors weren't who they say they were.
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They didn't go where they said they were going to go.
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So they need a you know, they'll have, you know,
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Hopefully they could match them with their parents ideally
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Or responsible family members or other responsible
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Members of a community that can take care of them.
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And some of these, you know, we always talk about
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The unaccompanied minors and things of that nature.
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And a lot of times people sort of pictured
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Is just really little children
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Coming across, which is sometimes the case.
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But a lot of times the unaccompanied minors
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Or people that are 16, 17 years old or even adults,
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They were pretending to be children
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Because we had a policy where we'd let them in the country.
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So the whole thing is very
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Complicated, but it's really shameful
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On the biden administration, because they let the border
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Get so out of control that it was really impossible
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To keep track of any of these children,
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To make sure they were safe.
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And that really the
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The biden administration reduced sort of border patrol
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To a media processing, almost like they were the
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Maitre d of illegal aliens, and they really weren't able
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To be careful enough
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To make sure the people they were letting in
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Were who they say they were, the age
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They said they were,
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And that they were safe and that they were.
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If they were minors,
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They were being placed with people
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That were going to keep the minors safe.
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So the whole thing is such a mess.
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And tom holland, kristi noem, the white house, they've done
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Such a good job on stopping what's going on at the border
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So they could focus on getting these,
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Getting these kids, finding them, making sure they're safe.
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If they're not safe, put in somewhere that they can be safe.
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The maitre d of illegal immigration.
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That's a really good image. thank you for that.
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Peter schweitzer is government
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Accountability institute and his vice
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President of research, seamus bruner.
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They've reported on what they're calling the riot ink.
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That's their shorthand name for the many groups,
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Like the one funded by george soros,
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That's paying the protesters
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And moving them from city to city to cause trouble.
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That's in large part how these photo ops
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Are being driven behind the curtain.
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But what are you hearing from regular folks who clearly want
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The criminals arrested and evicted from the country?
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Yes, i think the the regular
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Rake at just sort of the average american, 85% of them.
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I think latest polling wants illegal aliens
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To commit crimes removed from the country.
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And these groups, like you said, they're they're funded by
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Sometimes these soros groups or these socialist groups.
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But again, they're funded not again to speak out
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And just raise their voices.
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They're actually being used to thwart ice to to intimidate
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Ice agents, to, to prevent them from doing their job.
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And again,
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Their job is not only getting the criminals out,
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But getting illegal aliens out and also preventing
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Other illegal aliens or coming into the country.
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And it's really, again, just so shameful
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Because these agents, these are people.
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They put their lives on the line
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For all of us every single day.
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And we don't even a lot of times.
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I mean, i know you do and all of your viewers do,
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But it's only many people don't appreciate.
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A lot of times the safety we have is because of something
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Somebody did maybe last year or last week or whatever,
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And we don't even know that our lives were saved
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And our loved ones lives were saved.
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So what's going on
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With these groups, again, is just to disrupt
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Ice, doing a lawful and legitimate job
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That was authorized by laws of congress and president trump
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With all the grief he gets.
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So one thing that's really inarguable
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Is he's responsible for enforcing the law.
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This isn't an elective as part of the presidency.
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You're required to enforce federal law.
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And just because people see,
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You know, the biden presidency, they really didn't
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Enforce immigration law in any serious way
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Because they had a disagreement on policy.
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And look at the mess we have the,
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You know, the trump administration's
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Doing one to care to clean up, but it's a lot of work to do.
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Well, the new york times ignored immigration
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For the last four years,
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But they've now posted a story that says biden's aides told him
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That his approach to immigration
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Could prove disastrous just as he took office.
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Joe biden obviously ignored them,
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But it's not yet clear what the paper's agenda is now
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That they've suddenly discovered
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The 20 million illegal immigrants is a big problem.
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I'm bringing it up because the tv news decision
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Makers still rely on the times for their nightly narrative,
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And i can only imagine how hard it's been
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For people in your position
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To get the truth out to the american people.
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How do you do it?
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Yeah, that's a good point, because we've been saying this,
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Like a lot of us have been saying this
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Since the beginning of the biden administration, one,
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That this was predictable, but also it was intentional.
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And i think when you go back to
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Why did the new york times do this, it's
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Sort of akin to what, you know, jake tapper
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And some of these other people have done with the joe biden,
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You know, cognitive decline or deficiency.
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They have to cover it now.
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So it's
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So it's almost covering themselves,
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But it's really shameful about it.
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Is this is sort of widely known.
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There should have been more digging into it.
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And my theory, which i think this proves it, is
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They did this intentionally
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Because their view was these illegal aliens would be more
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Likely to be democratic voters,
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And they would bring as many as they could in.
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And then at some point,
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They throw out their hands and say, well,
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The only way we could do to secure
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The border is if we, you know, give amnesty to everyone here.
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And which is exactly what they did.
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The only other option, which is sort of the new york times
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Narrative, is trying to suggest that was sort of
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Sort of more just incompetence within the administration
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That they they just didn't handle this well.
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But it's it's far too, you know, conveniently helpful
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For them for it not to have been intentional.
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I think their only real mistake on
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From what
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They were trying to do is it
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They were almost two successful in bringing
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So many illegal aliens in the country.
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The the public sort of got wind of it and saw how bad it was.
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But yeah, the new york times, people rely on them.
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But it's certainly,
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You know, a day late, the dollar short for them.
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But, you know, because a lot of us
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Follow this knew this was going on.
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But a lot of people do rely on the media, the mainstream media.
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And frankly, to the detriment of our country.
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Absolutely.
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Well, jonathan, we need to take a short break.
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Can you standby for another segment?
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Love to.
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And during the break, you can log on to aj now.com
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And see what's available,
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Including a simple link to send me a question
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Or your opinion on our discussion. i'll be right back.
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Or your opinion on our discussion. i'll be right back.
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We're back now with
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The former acting ice director jonathan fahy.
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Now that illegal traffic by land has been tightened up, u.s.
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Forces are working
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To stop the flood of drugs to our southern shores.
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Not surprisingly,
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The democrats are siding with two of the drug couriers
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Who were taken out with a second shot after their boat was hit.
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As a man who served in the us military, pete hegseth
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Has had to help educate them on what happens
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When you're at war with drug runners
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Who are killing americans with their poison.
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Listen to his comments.
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I fully support that strike.
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I would have made the same call myself.
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Those who were involved in 20 years of conflict in iraq
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And afghanistan or elsewhere, know that we attacks
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And strikes have combatants on the battlefield, happen often,
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You know, with traffic
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Getting tightened up on land and now at sea.
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Do you think
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We'll see an increase on drug running flights into the us?
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I think the drug runners will always sort of,
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You know,
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Wherever you can't get through, they always find
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The other option or look for the other option.
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Just when i was a federal prosecutor,
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You see what the airports want.
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One airport sort of had success.
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Lots of drugs would come through.
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And then once it was
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Cut down, they'd go through somewhere else.
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But the great thing about what the trump
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Administration is doing
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Is essentially we, i don't want to say
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Sealed the border
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Because there's always
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Ways to get it, but made it so much harder and now.
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So if you can't get over from land, it's harder.
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By by sea it's going to it's going to be harder
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By getting them through the air.
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And ultimately, the benefit will have one.
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It weakens the cartels.
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It makes, you know, they're only doing this to make money.
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So it makes it harder for them to make money.
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But we're going to see.
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I think in our country, a benefit in terms of
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You look at these like the drug overdose death numbers.
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And i think they'll come out from the cdc maybe in february.
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We're going to see a massive decrease.
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And remember, we were averaging about 100,000 deaths
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Per year under the biden administration from drug deaths.
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And again, it's not just coincidental
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Because remember, the border was wide open.
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And it wasn't just the illegal aliens coming through.
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It was that we basically turned over
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Our southern border to drug traffickers
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And human traffickers.
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So everything the trump
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Administration is doing on this is sending a message
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Not only to the people here,
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But to the people,
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You know, these drug traffickers were done
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Dealing with this, were done deal with the human traffickers.
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And it also sends a strong message
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To other countries, if you really think about it,
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You know, china with the precursors to fentanyl,
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When they see that
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Donald trump is serious
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About it to a level that they have not seen before.
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I think it's going to be a great deterrent.
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And also these countries in central and south america,
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It's going to be very encouraging
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To them to cooperate with us because they know
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We have a stronger and a play.
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So they're going to have to choose between us
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And the cartels.
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And the smarter move
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Is probably going to choose to be on our side.
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So all of these things,
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I think it's going to be a tremendous benefit
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To the american people. amen.
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Well, after the two national guard troops were shot
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In washington, d.c., the white house put travel
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Restrictions on 19 countries, including afghanistan.
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Now it seems clear that there's no good way
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To figure out who's safe to let in, especially when people come
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From countries where there's no real effective record keeping.
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Do you agree that the travel must be stopped,
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At least for now?
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And is there any better way to check on
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The people who want to come here
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So we don't just bring in more problems?
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Yeah, i agree that the travel should be stopped
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From the certain countries and the migration
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From the certain countries,
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And i don't know that we are in a position
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That we are ever going to be able to fully vet or even
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I don't say fully vet, but just meaningfully vet people
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From certain countries
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Because they don't have,
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Like you said, record keeping or anything else.
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And you think of somewhere like afghanistan.
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It's not like you can call the local
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Afghanistan the taliban municipal office
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And ask somebody if somebody good
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To go to come here, you can't even
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Even if they were to
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Have the information, would they even share it?
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Would they be honest about it?
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So whenever we're looking at these, you know, the,
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You know, immigrants in any respect,
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Even though the american instinct
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Is to be kind of generous,
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The responsibility still has to fall on american safety.
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And if we can't vet people meaningfully, unfortunately,
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They shouldn't get to come in.
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And this person that came in, well,
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I don't know if there's anything
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That could have been found out about it.
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But the thing is, the default should be you don't come here
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And we don't wish ill on anyone, but we have to.
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And the president
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Trump understands this certainly better than his predecessor.
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The american public safety is first and foremost.
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And that what?
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When there is a question and a close question,
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You should always on the side of the american people.
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One more brief question.
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It looks like it's going to take most
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Or all of the president's term to get all the people
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Who came here illegally either deported
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Or in the case of criminals, put in jail.
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Do you have any advice
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On what else could be done between now and then?
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I think the best thing that he is doing
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Is one the deterrence aspect on the border,
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As well as deporting the criminals.
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But the other part is,
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You know, what they have. i think it's been about 1.6
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Million people have self deported.
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So i think efforts
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To sort of increase that number, the self deportation number,
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Might be a focus in the next few years
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Because once you sort of get the criminals under control,
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It might be sort of a,
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You know,
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Once people know
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They're not going to get to stay,
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They may take self-deportation option.
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So i think that that might be a shift
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That you see even more heavier on that in the next three years.
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Wouldn't that be a wonderful christmas gift
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If the media and the politicians
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Would cooperate at encouraging self-deportation?
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Exactly.
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I would take the arrival of the king.
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Jonathan frey, thank you for sharing your time with us today.
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I hope
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You have a wonderful christmas with your family and friends.
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Thank you. merry christmas.
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When we come back, the hope that penetrates beyond
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All the news. we'll be right back.
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All the news. we'll be right back.
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You know, most of us are
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Familiar with the characters in the christmas story.
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One of my favorites or recorded in matthew's
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Gospel there, the wise men, those three nameless,
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Faceless characters that made it a long,
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Difficult journey in search of the christ child.
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They stopped enroute to bethlehem in jerusalem.
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They found themselves in herod's palace.
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Herod knew nothing about it, but they didn't.
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They persisted,
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And they found their way to bethlehem, following a star.
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They arrive in bethlehem.
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They don't find a king in a palace.
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They find a baby in a manger, in a stable.
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It would have been very easy
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To be disappointed, but they weren't.
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It says they rejoiced with great enthusiasm.
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The greek language is very, very clear.
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There was a tremendous celebration
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When the wisemen got to bethlehem
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And finally discovered mary and joseph and baby jesus.
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Well, i want to make a suggestion.
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This christmas season,
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You and i are working through our own journeys.
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Maybe we didn't
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Start in a distant land that we certainly didn't
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Have to ride camels a great distance,
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But we're on a journey nonetheless,
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And i find oftentimes i'm disappointed.
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You know, my expectations of following god
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And the reality of that often leave me with some questions.
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Well, the wisemen followed a star
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And they ended up in a stable in a barn.
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And yet they celebrated.
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They found god's purposes for themselves.
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I want to suggest you and i can do the same.
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Don't give in to disappointment
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In the midst of a holiday season
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Because it doesn't align perfectly with your dreams.
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Let's determine
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That the purposes of god are emerging in the earth,
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And we've got the privilege of being a part of it,
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Even if the moment it feels like we're standing in a
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Stable up to our knees and stuff that needs cleaned out.
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God's moving in the earth, and we get to be a part of that.
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And that's a reason to celebrate.
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That's a reason for hope.
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I'll be right back with your emails.
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I'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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Just a reminder, if you ever miss a live episode,
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You can always go to aj. now.com.
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There's a full archive of all the programs.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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Start a conversation.
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We'd love to be a part of it.
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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William in katy, texas wrote,
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There are laws on the books
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That would clean up the illegal problem
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And crime in our cities,
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But it's quite obvious that those who charge
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Don't have the will to enforce them,
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Whether they're conservative or liberal.
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The state governors could, but they won't enforce the laws
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And create a safer environment.
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Our christian churches have been too silent
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As a group on the subject, so not to offend,
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Speaking the hard truth and enforcing the law.
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How do we get there?
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Well, i think it starts with intent.
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I'm not a governor or the mayor of a city.
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I'm just a citizen. i am a pastor.
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You can start in the place
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You are with the intent to submit yourself
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To the discipline of the rule of law.
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If we will do that, if we'll start submitting to god's laws.
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Do the simple things.
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Get your family together once a week at the table for a meal.
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No devices.
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Read your bible on a regular basis.
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If we'll take those simple steps to start to
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Put back in place.
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Submitting to the law of god, i believe it'll
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Bring good things to the entire nation.
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It makes a difference.
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Russ, from michigan said, once again, i can't
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Thank you enough for all that you do to bring god's truth
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To a really messed up world in this season we're in.
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I would think rather than trying to put the world
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To get the world with christ back in christmas,
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I believe we'd be a whole lot better
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If we were to put christ back in christians.
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Russ, i couldn't agree more.
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If those of us
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That sit in the churches will start
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To act like christ followers again,
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The world will be a better place.
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We've got to stop pointing to the windows and accusing others.
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We have to decide to become the solution ourselves.
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Thanks for the reminder.
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Well, i'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful
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Evening.
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December 9, 2025 | 21:59

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