An immigration roundup (05-30-2025--Hour3)

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Reuters. The White House is demanding a sharp increase in arrests of illegal aliens. What they call them is migrants in the US illegally. They just keep trying to find different ways to say this to virtue signal we stand with you. No human is illegal. Right. The top us Immigration and Customs enforcement officials Kenneth Janalo and Robert Hammer, will be pulled from their posts, the people said, requesting anonymity. To discuss the shift, we're going to need another leak investigation. ICE confirmed the changes in a statement, but did not cite White House pressure to increase arrests. Janalo, who heads ICE's Enforcement and Removal Division, will retire. Robert Hammer, the head of ICE's investigative arm, is going to be reassigned. Deportations so far have legged numbers under Trump's democratic president. That's a terribly written sentence. So under Trump, the numbers of deportations have not been as high as under Joe Biden. Well, why is that? Because when Joe Biden was president and opened the gates and everybody started pouring across the border and going in with their apps and trying to claim asylum and all this other stuff, they would say, Okay, we got a million people that came across the border, and so you know, but thirty six thousand, let's say they are not allowed in. I know you applied we're going to turn you away. Everybody else got in but you thirty six thousand, No, so that would be like one thousand a day, right, Well, well thirty six hang on, three hundred and sixty thousand, Yeah, that would be one thousand a day. Right. So if you turn out, if you say go home, those are quote deportations, right, And the sheer volume of the people coming across drove the quote deportation numbers up. They were not conducting raids. They weren't running around the country sending people home, right. They were doing the opposite. They were flying people around and putting them into government taxpayer funded homes or hotel rooms. So of course the numbers are not going to be as high. The border has been secured, so you're not getting as many people coming across, and now you have to go about the investigative process to find everybody and have them deported. That takes more time. So the lower number to me, the lower number than Joe Biden, that's all. It's beyond a damnable lie. It's a statistic right. Spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security denied that the officials are being pushed out of their Roles said it's not accurate. The White House Chief Deputy or sorry, Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News is Sean Hannity that the White House was setting a goal for ICE to arrest at least three thousand migrants per day. Right now, they're at a one thousand a day quota, so they want to triple that. And why because they know they're on a clock. Right This administration knows it's on a clock. It's got three and a half years, and that's it. They have to get as much done within three and a half years as they can because they don't know what's going to happen with the next administration. It could be a Democrat and they need to get as many people out as possible now. And they also believe that if they get as many people out, that will redound to the benefit of the American economy. They believe that. You could disagree with that, that's totally fine, But I said this, I don't know. A year ago, people complain about the housing shortage. I know a way to free up about ten million houses, well, maybe five million. Let's assume people are living in you know, two people per home. Seriously, what do you think that does. What do you think it does to the housing market When you have ten million people come across the border in four years, they need places to stay. What do you think it does to a home building industry that could barely keep up with the demand before the mass immigration. Also, I was reading before the program this story. This is from the Daily Caller. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement denounced the arrest of a sixteen year old Colombian illegal migrant on Thursday, after he had only received probation for a hit and run that killed a twenty four year old girl named Caitlin Weaver. This happened on May thirteenth. This illegal alien had been granted probation after killing Caitlin Weaver last year in Aurora, Aurora, Colorado. This guy, this maniac, was driving ninety miles an hour in a forty five mile an hour zone and t boned vehicle. This maniac had young children in the car with him. They all lived. She died. She died. I gave you the details of this story a few weeks ago when this guy got the probation. According to ice quote, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a sixteen year old criminal alien from Columbia. The miner who was convicted of reckless driving resulting in death was arrested along with his family, who are also illegal aliens, so they took the whole family. This guy was convicted in Colorado's eighteenth Judicial District and was sentenced to probation and community service. And ICE read that news article. ICE looked at the database and said, oh, he's a convict eight he's sixteen years old. He's convicted just so happens that the judge or the DA rather gave him this sweetheart deal. As part of its routine operations, ICE arrests aliens who commit crimes and other individuals who have violated our nation's immigration laws. All aliens in violation of US immigration law may be subject to arrest, detention, and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States, regardless of nationality. The victim's father, John Weaver, said that the prosecutor had promised him in the family that they would pursue the maximum sentence against the illegal alien team two years in youth corrections. That was the max that he could get because he's only sixteen, he's a child. But months later after that promise was made Amy Padden stepped in as the Arapahoe County's new district attorney, with the team later being offered two years probation if he pleaded guilty, and so he did, and now you're deported along with your entire family, as you should be. And if he had never been in the country in the first place, Caitlyn Weaver would still be alive. But you don't hear Caitlyn Weaver's story, right, Nobody's nobody's going and making her sort of the cause celeb for immigration policy. Nobody's doing that on the left or in the media to the extent it breaks through. 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I thought the AP stylebook was very clear on that you're always to refer to the Al Salvador prison as notorious. I don't know where you get off making this kind of editorial decision to use the word infamous, super whatever. But they were sent there under the Alien Enemies Act. Right before he was sent there, Andre Hernandez Romero was waiting for an immigration judge to decide whether he would be granted asylum in the United States, and even after his deportation, Hernandez's lawyers fought to keep his asylum claim open as a way of ensuring he didn't disappear from the American legal system, But an immigration judge in San Diego dismissed Hernandez's asylum claim on Tuesday, one of at least fourteen such dismissals in recent weeks, weeks fourteen over the course of weeks, so that's like he was infinite seven eight nine. Cook care of the two. That's like a little more than one a day. That's what you're getting through one a day. That as immigration attorneys concerned that the dismissals are the Trump administration's latest tactic in evading due process to ensure those sent away have no means to return. How do you write that a person got no due process when you start off that paragraph by saying an immigration judge in San Diego dismissed the claim. That's due process. I don't know why there is this debate about especially in a case like this. You may not like the due process. This has been the process. Though. Hernandez is the lead plaintiff in a high profile lawsuit brought by the ACLU against the Trump administration on behalf of the hundreds of Venezuelans deported to a Salvadoran mega prison Notorious. Come on NBC, It's notorious. Hundreds of Evenezuelands deported to a salvador In megaprison under the Alien Enemies Act. That case has been the centerpiece of a legal saga surrounding the deportations, one that some legal analysts say has brought the US to the brink of a constitutional crisis, right because when you open the border and let millions of people in with blanket amnesty, basically you can't get rid of them unless you do it one at a time. Otherwise that's the constitutional crisis. The constitutional crisis did not occur when the president refused to enforce the law, when the Department of Homeland Security secretary of Lejandro mayork Is, when that buffoon gave everybody blanket parole status. Right, No, no, no, that was all fine. That's all fine. Trying to fix the mess up, trying to fix the corruption. That's the crisis. Hernandez and I wondered what happened to this guy, because I thought, why are you guys going with the MS thirteen dude, the Maryland man when he was obviously not a good poster child for your efforts. And I had heard about the gay man who worked as a makeup artist for a state TV station in Venezuela. Dude literally worked for state TV. Okay, but he told lawmakers that he had suffered persecution for his sexual orientation and his opposition to the government. So he didn't like the Maduro government. That's why he worked for State TV, because that's where you go when you hate the government, you go to work for the government TV. Right, So, that alleged persecution formed the basis of his asylum claim, which he pursued for months from inside a detention center in San Diego or San Diago, if that is your preferred pronunciation. But that process was abruptly cut short March fifteenth, when Donald Trump and invoked special wartime powers to deport two hundred and sixty eight Venezuelan Mentel Salvador without court hearings and without notifying their attorneys. A majority of them, like Hernandez, had pending cases in immigration court. In the weeks after the sudden deportations, immigration lawyers around the country scrambled to attend hearings to make sure their cases were not thrown out. At first, immigration judges were willing to extend the cases while more information emerged about the removals to El Salvador, But according to attorneys involved in the cases, more immigration judges, including those in California and Texas, have been granting the government's requests to dismiss the cases. In the last two to three weeks. These are the fourteen cases. So the government has come in made arguments saying we want these, we want these dismissed. We are requesting these the cases be dismissed, and the judges have been granting those. So why is that a constitutional crisis? The judge is hearing the request and the judge makes his ruling. The immigration judge who dismissed Hernandez his claim asylum claim did allow for the possibility that the case can be reopened if Hernandez returns to the US. Okay, I mean is he here illegally? Yes, he applied for asylum. Yes. Oh, by the way, there is a development on that front. Hang on a second, let me pull up my book marks here do dut dude? From Josh Gersten gurstin senior legal affairs reporter at Politico. Supreme Court gives Trump administration the okay to move towards deporting about five hundred thousand Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelans in the US on that are here thanks to the Biden era immigration quote parole program, parole program. I have the ruling? Well sounded really a ruling? There was it? Was a seven to decision. They were and to the descent is from Katanji, Brown, Jackson and Son, and they said that the court has plainly botched this assessment. That I meanwhile, Kagan, another liberal, she's with the Republican majority on this. So whatever it requires next to nothing from the government with respect to irreparable harm. It undervalues the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously apend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million non citizen people. And she then goes on to say that under the CHNV program, which is what we're talking about here, the Cuba, was it, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela's HNV program, individuals from these conflict written countries receive quote parole status for up to two years, which allows them to live in the United States and in some cases work here lawfully. Parole is discretionary by statute. DHS awards parole status through a competitive and detailed application process that involves a rigorous, individualized assessment of the applicant circumstances. That is false. That is absolutely false. This is what Majorcis got impeached over. That is a lie. He gave blanket parole status. He did not review every single one of these cases. This is not accurate. And this is what KBJ and SS does. She go by sa I come only KBJ gutsitt. Do you have to have three letters for a name like that? So to my arm, this is what they're arguing. So you have to do it on a case by case basis to send them out. That's what they're arguing. All right. So spring is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and especial days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But let me ask you, are all of those treasured moments from days gone by? Are they hidden away on old VCR tapes, eight millimeter films, photos slides? Are they preserved? Because over time, these precious memories can fade and deteriorate, losing the magic of yesterday. At Creative Video, they help you protect what matters most. Their expert team digitizes your cherished family moments and transfers them onto a USB drive, freezing them in time so they can be enjoyed for generations to come. I urge you do not wait until it's too late. This spring celebrates your past. 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I'm reading from the DHS dot gov website. The list was created to identify sanctuary jurisdictions, which are determined by factors like compliance with federal law enforcement information restrictions and legal protections for illegal aliens. Each jurisdiction listed will receive formal notification of its non compliance with federal statutes. DHS demands that these jurisdictions immediately review and revise their policies to align with federal immigration laws and renew their obligation to protect American citizens not dangerous illegal aliens. All right, so who made the list? Let me start with South Carolina. South Carolina. Nobody, actually, no jurisdiction, none on the list in South Carolina. Okay, so good for you, South Carolina. You're in the clear. Tom Holman will not be visiting you. North Carolina. We have a couple more than zero, but not many. Bunkham County, Chatham County, Durham County, Orange County, Watoga County. These are all sheriffs, by the way, that's what's going on here. These are all the sheriffs of these counties, but not Mecklenburg. Mecklenburg is not on this list. What are these other counties doing that Gary McFadden is failing to do to become a full blown listed sanctuary city or county, Like, what is the difference because they've all these sheriffs are all behaving the same way. They're all doing the same stuff. So are they just better at doing it or something I'm unclear unclear. Then there's this The Defense Intelligence Agency had an employee had They are no longer an employee. They have been fired. A twenty eight year old Defense Intelligence Agency employee got arrested for allegedly attempting to transmit national defense information to an officer or agent of a foreign government. Nathan vilas Lash arrested in Northern Virginia following an investigation launched after a tip that somebody had offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign to a friendly foreign government. A friendly one, so not an enemy but a friendly one, but a foreign government. Nonetheless, they were employed by the DIA since twenty nineteen, working in its Insider Threat Division. Well if you couldn't see that coming, right, Wow, talk about an insider threat. Dude held top secret security clearance. Back in March, the FBI received a tip about a potential threat and discovered an email in which the sender said that he did not quote agree or align with the values of this administration and was quote willing to share classified information, including completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation. Lash unknowingly then began communicating with and undercover FBI agent, believing that they were anofficial of that foreign government. He allegedly transcribed classified information onto a notepad at his desk and then over the course of about three days would xfiltrate the information from his workspace. By May, he was surveiled the FBI had a drop location handing off a thumb drive containing classified information. So he'd write it down on a pad. He would he would stuff it in his socks like Sandy Burglar did, and he would he would leave work and you'd go home. He would type the stuff up, put it on a thumb drive, took it to the drop and that's that contained information that was portion marked up to the secret or top secret levels, demonstrate demonstrating the range of types of products to which he had access. So he was trying to prove to them like I can get my hands on the stuff, I have eyes on this stuff. You want to be my friend. He gathered more classified information between May fifteenth and May twenty seventh, telling the undercover agent that he would consider citizenship for your country or quote other compensation. And then he was set to deliver that second batch of materials Thursday, and they busted him all because he hates Donald Trump. At least he was giving it to a friendly country, which, by the way, if it was a friendly foreign government, why didn't you think that they would tell their American counterparts. Hey, guys, you have a spy. He came to us offering to give us info. It's not very good info. We already have all of this stuff because we eavesdrop on you. But like, just to heads up, he may go to some other person or country that you may not be able to contain. So I just not I just don't feel like that's good spycraft, you know, like you're doing a drop. Well, hang on, it says a friendly country. Could that be Ukraine? I don't know, Like what is friendly here? Didn't say allied country, just at a friendly country. But they're not telling us who it is. So many questions. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, and you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why. Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself check dot ground, dot news slash pete. 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Yes, and so now he's going to be able to run really really fast, wicked fast, talking really fast. Bam bam, bam bam. Just yeah, we're actually doing two shows at once, like I'm doing my show and then I'm doing my other show. Just to get it all in so that they get what's your other show? They get the four hours. No, I'm just saying it's. The other hour, right, just layering it right on top. Right, it's not a mono feed. Are you doing like double channel? Yeah, so like one show is going in the right ear and then his fourth hour is going on. Well, I want I want to be clear. I am not really doing that, because other people are going to be going like, what the heck is he talking about. It's a joke. We're all in Mono and it's a j okay joke, right exactly. So, sir, I asked you this also because we were talking a little bit about Ronald Reagan during the break, as we are known to do, and I asked, have you ever had have you ever had any kind of a letter or a communicate from a president? I have not had a communicate from. A president, even like a boilerplate one. No, have you ever written to a I guess that's the first question. Have you ever written to a president? I mean that's usually he gets what it gets you the letter back. I never, I never have. However, however, Yeah, random fact. I once shook Bill Clinton's hand in Boston, why he was campaigning, and it was, you know, Angus and all these guys were before he won the first time, before he got any anywhere near it, and I was like, oh, it's. A governor of Arkansas. I shook his hand. Why is he in Boston? Is that part of the media market for New Hampshire. Yeah, the media market. It was the whole thing with that, Yeah, I. Was gonna say, because nobody pays attention to Taxachusetts. Well back in the day, this is this is like nineteen ninety. Four, right, so there you go. Probably they had more McDonald's per capita in Boston as well. Oh no, Arkansas had way more no than New Hampshire, Nampshire, Namshire, Nampshire. Yeah, that's yeah. So he probably had to just make a quick, you know, detour down to Boston way, hit a couple of fast food joints. Hitting a couple of fast food joints. That's what he could do. That's a good euphemism. Boom. That's uh no, that's that was the thing about him, Like SNL did the big right, did the big skit on him? You never saw that one? Yes, I did. So the reason I asked was I actually, I mean it was it was my class, my first grade class. We got a letter back, a thank you letter from Ronald Reagan. Wow, that's pretty awesome. Do you still have it? No, because it went to the class. Oh, it's the class. So when Reagan got shot, the teacher had us tell me this would happen nowadays, right, please Reagan gets shot? Yeah, Well, if it was a Democrat, president. It probably won't happen. But Reagan gets shot, and so this is eighty one, right, yeah, yeah, eighty one right, So people were still kind of about him. It wasn't like eighty four landslide. Everybody loves him at that point, right. So he gets in there, though, and he gets the assassination attempt, and she has us right letter get well letters, and you know the old school big pieces of paper. It have like the oh, the lines on the boat, the line so you can practice your lower case and upper case lines. And then the top was just a big empty field where you could draw pictures about what you're writing about. Oh, don't even tell me. So I well, I had heard that he likes jokes. I don't know where I heard this from, probably my dad. I heard he liked jokes. So I had heard a couple of jokes and about pickles, and so I included a bunch of jokes to help him. You know, that's in good spirits. And when he wrote the letter back to the class, he said, I especially enjoyed the pickle jokes. Are you serious? That awesome? That's as close as I ever got. Wow to a person. That is cool, And it has sustained me low these fifty years. Who has the who has you should go try to find that letter? She's dead. The teacher, she couldn't keep secrets. Probably no, she was. She was you know old. Don't you think back like when you were a kid and all the teachers are like way older. She's probably only like thirty five forties, right. But you're always like, wow, man, I was like a really old lady, right, and you're like, no, no, she taught. For another forty years. What you talking about, Zackly? Yeah, anyway, so I saw this clip come down. We still have the audio. Oh no, I don't have time. Maybe we could talk about it when I do The Hangover with you Brett, which is coming up in the next segment. So that if you're listening on the podcast, you should get Brett's podcast also because we start off every Friday. I mean you should also get this podcast, but every Friday we start off with the Hangover. Right now, it's getting ready for a weekend. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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