Charlotte Democrats look to payoff "those affected by immigration enforcement" (11-18-2025--Hour3)

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The commit The also unanimously directed city staff to work on a public education campaign about available resources for immigrant communities and people's rights when interacting with border patrol and other federal immigration officials. See here's the thing. If you are here illegally and you're looking face to face with a border patrol or ice agent and they are asking you and you know, like they're already asking you questions. This is really only going to go one way because you're here illegally, right, that's like how you end up at the endpoint there. That could go a whole bunch of different ways, but the end result will be the same under this administration. Right, they're going to send you back to your home country. And then if you try to come back in, if you haven't already done that multiple times, right, then you'll you come back in and get caught. You'll be charged with a felony. And by the way, a lot of this is also meant to send a message, which is you should make arrangements to leave on your own. And in fact, if you go to the CBP app Customs Border Patrol their app, they've got a program there to help you resettle back into your home country because it costs less money to write you a check basically to send you away, pay for your flight, get you out of here, and then they don't have to worry about tracking you down and the expense of deportation. So maybe something to consider, right, if you're living in fear and you're terrified of walking out the front door, and by the way, that's the other thing too, Like I'm not sure what the left wants the border patrol agents and ICE agents to do. It sounds like they're demanding that you don't pick them up off the streets. You don't confront these illegal aliens. You don't do that in their place of business. You don't do it at their work site. You don't do it while they're you know, walking down the street or shopping. You can't do it in any of those locations. So I'm assuming you mean go to their homes. So you want so what you want ICE agents to go to people's homes so then we can have another like another barricaded person shooting at law enforcement because they don't want to get deported. Is that the scenario? Or do you know that they don't have unless they have a warrant, they don't have the right to come into your house. And that's why they want people to stay home and don't answer the door for ICE because then they can't get you. That's what they're that's what they're telling people. That's why people are staying home. It's not because it's just fear. I'm here legally, I'm just afraid. No, no, no, they're staying home because that's that's all the ali oxen free. If I could just lay low for long enough, Democrats will come back in power and we can go back to the way things work, where I'm allowed to live in the shadows. I'm allowed to undercut American workers. I'm allowed to be, you know, working off the books, right, that's the whole economy. By the way, how are people able to work off the books? How are they able to work with you know, documents required if they are on the books? How much fraud exists? They're like this whole cottage industry of identity theft surrounding this issue. I've covered this stuff for twenty five years. Okay, there are so many problems because of the lack of enforcement of immigration law. And now everyone's freaking out when this is what it looks like. And maybe you don't have any experience ever seeing it, but this is what it looks like. Worksite raids. It's what it looks like. And I want you catch people working like this like they need to go after the employers too. So anyway, the city of Charlotte in Mecklemburg County, they want to take taxpayer funds and use that money to somehow help people affected by the operation. Don't have any idea what that means. The committee unanimously directed city staff to work on a public education campaign as well. The committee is focused on budget, governance and intergovernmental relations. Also, it discussed proposals by the progressive group Action and See, including denying border Patrol access to city property. Members of the group and other organizations including Indivisible Charlotte as well as Charlotte East Pack. The committee meeting after a social media call out, but city staff said Charlotte is legally limited in what it can do to limit federal officials reach. This is a nullification argument. You are making democrats. I know you know what that means because the last time you tried this, we had a civil war over it. Okay, dimple Azmira City councilwoman. She said that Border Patrol's actions in Charlotte are causing community chaos. Right. No, see, the chaos is created with the breakdown in law and order. The first part of that phrase, law and order law the breakdown in law because you guys don't want to enforce the law and havn't for twenty five years. Monday's committee vote gave city staff until honor before November twenty fourth to work with the county to identify and deploy short term funding to organizations actively supporting individuals and neighborhoods affected by recent events. No idea what that means, no idea how much it's going to cost us. But this so, this is what democrats are doing. They're going to take taxpayer funds from citizens and they're going to funnel that money into these left wing, Democrat aligned nonprofit groups. Right to offer whatever services, whatever support, whatever that means, No idea. Action NC political director Robert Dawkins said he's grateful city council moved forward with emergency funding, but he added many activists are just burnt out on city leaders, citing North Carolina's Dylan rule status. When they ask Charlotte for something means it means you got to ask the state legislature for permission to do a lot of stuff. You're not You're not a home rule state. We are not a home rule state where cities get to set their own course, where a sort of a mother may i. You have to ask the state legislature because cities and counties are administrative units of the state. The state is the seminal authority. Okay, cities are chartered by the state. They exist at the pleasure of the state. So no, you don't get home rule Charlotte, he says. I think we need to work on some way to get around that excuse by trying to get a home rule exemption for Charlotte. Yeah. First off, good luck with that. Secondly, that's my queue to leave very quickly, because imagine what Charlotte would do, what these Democrat leaders would do completely unchained. Ah, I can't even imagine. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video. Started in nineteen ninety seven and mint Hill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high qu quality produced slideshows, videos and albums. The trusted, talented and dedicated team at Creative Video will go over all of the details with you to create a perfect project. Satisfaction guaranteed. Drop them off in person or mail them. They'll be ready in a week or two. 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So I'm wondering is this an obstruction of justice with even though they're doing it on this ring the ring app and telling other people to post all of this in their social media account. Is this considered an obstruction of justice? I don't think they are not. Yeah, I'm not a lawyer. I don't think so. Like this is it's the same thing like years ago before everybody had a camera and their own you know, publishing platform on YouTube or something or Facebook. They like media would you know, send up their helicopters and let's say you had a police stand off outside of a house, and the trappers would go up and they would be shooting video down and then you know, law enforcement realized, hey, the guy inside the house is watching the news, and so they would ask the media please do not show you know, law enforcement officer positions, do not show the guy inside anything that can help him, right, And media complies with those requests. Media doesn't do that. But everybody with their own cameras now and their own publishing platforms, they don't know any of these rules that journalists and media companies generally try to follow. And so it's a problem. But I don't think it's I think it would be covered under First Amendment protections. You can you can shoot the video. Okay, Well, I try to do my little due diligence by telling them that they're following the laws or the land. They have nothing to work out. But. Yeah, yeah, I mean if they're here legally, then then they have the documentation to show. Yeah. I found that we were a sanctuary city, which is very depressed, which was was disgusting actually to me because I didn't know that. I really didn't And I'm praying and hoping that South Carolina doesn't turn into that because I really want to move. Therena head south. Yeah, that's a lot of people are doing it from Mecklamurre County sharing it. Yeah, I appreciate the call. Good to hear from you. Thanks, all right, take care, I. Mean, jump over here and get Smiley. Hello Smiley, Hey, hey are you what's up? How you doing? I'm good man, how are you? Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to me. But I have one question, and I'm not going to take much of your time, okay, But what I want to know is why is it that we advertise the fact that ice is coming to town when you know you're trying to stoop up people. Why do you let them know you're coming? We were talking about this, Uh, what was it on Friday when this news first started breaking, and one hypothesis is that they're already here. ICE has already been operating in Charlotte. So one one theory is that they're that they were already here and they were monitoring people and organizations for the response. Right, So when you say, hey, we're coming, and then if you get people that start leaving, now they can now they can trace them, they can follow them. That's that's one theory. I have no idea if that's true. But yeah, because I asked the same question on Friday, like why would you be advertising that you're coming? And that makes good sense. Another one of my friends brought that same topic, cup that they wanted to watch their movement. Yeah, and so I guess we're monitoring it. But man, thank you so much. Yes, sir, all right, I appreciate it, thanks Miley. Yeah, And that's just a theory, you know. One of the other ideas is that you do it so this way people may they may leave and they may try to go home, they may try to go back to their home countries. Right, Like, I don't know, I'm not sure you know what the pr effect or advantages by letting people know ahead of time. This from WBTV. Nearly twenty one thousand students in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools were absent yesterday. Actually that number has now been updated. Thirty thousand, three hundred and ninety nine absences. Thirty thousand, that is, twenty one percent of the student population was out yesterday, So one out of five students not in class. Do you know what the CMS budget is nowadays? Isn't it like somewhere around two billion dollars? One out of five students not in class? I mean, that's just Charlotte is now the fourteenth most populous US city. It's share of the population that is Latino. According to this is Greg Greg LaCour over at the Assembly NC dot com. It's Latino share has grown from six and a half percent of the total population back in two thousand and in twenty five years, it's now fifteen point two, so fifteen percent in twenty sorry, twenty years, twenty twenty, it's now fifteen percent. Border patrol agents and Charlotte also involved in a vehicle ramming incident yesterday when a driver attempted to bock them in in a parking lot, rammed the car jump the curb entered the parking lot, sped towards the officers. Driver was warned to stop and back up, but instead drove toward the exit of the parking lot, trying to trying to box them in. Agents approached the vehicle, the driver rammed a law enforcement vehicle, fled the scene, led them on a high speed chase, eventually stopped in a cul de sac, where the driver was arrested. Didn't want to identify what local organization he or she was with. I do not know. I've heard this person referred to as a woman as well as a man. Read between the lines. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Ashville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. Cabins of Asheville has the idea spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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The Charlotte City Council has a committee of the Council has unanimously voted to approve an undefined amount of money to be paid an unidentified group or groups who are claiming to be helping people that have interactions with border patrol guys. Do you understand that you are funding the freaking problem? By doing this. This is like the dumb ass idea in San Francisco to pay homeless people a stipend. What did you end up getting more people coming to the city to collect the stipend. This it's just such a dumb idea. So dumb. Okay, let me go to the phones here, Dave, Welcome to the show. Hey Dave, Hey, thanks for taking my class. Sure, it's just a couple of things. And the guy John who was worried about, you know, the Fourth Amendment or everything. I think maybe he's confused about being asked about your citizenship, comparing it to Nazi Germany's when they asked you where your your papers were to prove whether or not you were Jewish. Yes, so there's a big difference. Yes. And then the officer who was on you don't have to answer. I mean, you have that right of free speech. They're going to detain you for a period of time until they you know, how much time is the government going to try to confirm your identity? Right, that's but you're still going to bring a lot of heat on yourself for no reason, especially if you are a citizen, right, and just just I don't know if many people are aware of this. But when you travel to Canada via car and you are across the border, they ask you if you own any weapons. You better answer that question honestly because they know if you're US citizens, if you own any weapons, because that information is changed between the two countries. Oh, I'm aware of that. I've never been to Canada. And then one last thing. When you travel to Mexico and you're on the plane before touchdown and you're filling out the paperwork, if you read it real closely, it says specifically on there you cannot stay any longer than one hundred and eighty days. If you stay longer than one hundred and eighty days in Mexico, you are going to be subjected to either being fined or incarcerated or both. Yeah, other countries have a much hip, they have a much higher standard, way higher than we do. So thanks for taking a call, and. Yeah, that's good stuff, good work. Yeah, Dave, I appreciate the call. It's important, you know, a country without borders is not a serious country. It's not even a country. What are you define by Jeff, Welcome to the show, Hey, Jeff, Jeff, Hello, Hello, Hello, Yes you are alive, on the air. All right, right, thanks Sarah, thanks for chaking my call. I've got a little different different take on the whole situation. I work in the construction area, and I feel like there needs to be a look introspect, look at who's doing the work. And I get to hold the legality of being illegal and so forth and so on. I understand it. But now that the border is secured, I think Trump Trump's missing an opportunity to bring these people in the fold and let them pay taxes. And because Americans are not going to do the work that they're doing. They're not going to process our foods our meats, they're not doing any construction, Hispanics are carrying the load. And I'm not a bleeding herd level. I voted for Trump three times. I don't like his style, but I appreciate what he's done for this country. But I think he lives in a bubble and he does not understand who's actually doing the work. And as these people go away, it's not going to be good. Right, so we should we should allow a permanent underclass. No, I'm saying, no, you're a path the citizens. Yeah, there you go, amnesty right, So. And it doesn't matter what. But Pete, you can't. We can't put our heads in the sand and not realize who's doing the work. Now these people, let's just say, hypothetically ten million people leave here that are illegal, that are and you know, there's some bad apples. Obviously, I want to get the bad apples out. But I'm just saying, if we do not understand that these people are doing this work, we got our heads up our butts because they're doing all the work. Just to open your eyes. Yeah, so that's all I'm saying. Its possible that they are doing the work at a price that others won't. No, I'm going to tell you in the construction field, these Hispanics are making lots of money and they cannot we cannot find labor. You cannot find labor. And if you're being honest, if you you look at the jobs the Americans don't want to do, it's Hispanics that are doing it. And it's it's really why really. Why are they Why are they doing those jobs? Because there obviously they want a better way of life. And and by by no means I'm not a liberal, but I may sound in this in this particular situation, but I just feel like we are being naive and I think someone needs to get Trump's here. And there's a political aspect. I'm telling you he's given the Democrats if he in his first term, if he would come up with a program, he would have shot the wind out of all the Democrats sales. They would not have a leg to stand on as it relates to this subject. Right, So this, uh, this idea is already implemented in farm workers. We're already do this with farm workers. Right. You have a you're talking about a work visa program. But I'm saying, I mean, I know what you're saying with that it's a temporary thing. People overstay and so forth, us all on. But I don't understand why if we need the labor, I don't understand why we can't make them a legitimate citizen if they're not if they're not on the dole, if they're trying to work and they've got a job families, I don't understand why we can't utilize them, because. Why make them citizens? What is the purpose of doing so if you can have a work visa program. I don't know that they follow the rules, to be honest, because they're scared. I mean, well, if they say this is the legal route to do it, right, if you're saying this is the legal route to do it, then then more people would do it. Why not just do that for the construction industry. Right all I'm saying there's that they need. Look, the Republicans are my people, need to look inward and come up with a plan to take the wind out of the Democrats sales, because they're going to use this They're gonna. I'm not you know, I mean, what you're saying is you're you're you're pitching an amnesty plan before we've even gotten the illegal alien the criminal illegal aliens identified and deported. Like we're still in the middle of this operation. It just started. Actually right right, well, let let me let me ask you this, and I just I know you probably need to run. But so there's got to be a quota. These guys are rounding up people that you know. I know for a fact, there was a guy that was apprehended that is a citizen. They yanked him up and he had he was detained for a day and he and the gentleman and before made a comment about proving it, and I don't know whether, well, if he said something incorrectly, but it took him all day, and he was illegal, he was a legal. Citizen, citizen or resident. I don't know. I'm right, like, is he actually an American citizen or. Was he He was legal? Got it right, he was legal. He wasn't an illegal alien. He was a legal alien resident and probably didn't have his probably did not have his documentation on him. And I'm and I don't know this. I'm just speculating. Well, there's a quota that these people are trying to round us. Sure, Trump Trump has said that. Trump has said he wants to see deportations hit a certain number. I forget what the number is. Right, And I don't know that that's a great policy. No, I don't know either. I mean I could see that going one or two. I mean actually a couple of differents, And yeah, it could be used for I won't. I just want people to understand who's actually doing the work people. I just drove through downtown some of the richy neighborhoods in Charlotte, and those people have no clue who's doing the work in this country. They don't. Yeah, I don't find that to be a compelling reason to give everybody that crossed the border illegally. I didn't know, give them to reward them with citizenship. No, there needs to be a process if they have not if they've been let's be real, if they've been here for five ten years, okay. Right, So as long as you got in long enough ago, then you get the reward for violating the laws. And you get you get you if you again, and you get. To insult everybody, Well, that's just a given. If you I mean, take all of the criminals out of the equation. Right, that's just a given. I like what you mean, it's a given. You're not going to give citizenship to people who have been breaking the law while they've been here illegally, that's. A god not with the last administration. No, they didn't give citizenship to them. They gave him asylum status, which, by the way, that is what happens all of what you're talking about, like, oh, why don't we just slow down and help this out and and you know, help these people out and this and that, all of this ends as soon as Trump goes lame duck, all of this ends, because then there will be no appetite for it. And when a Democrat gets back into power, everything that was done will be undone. So there are people that are just waiting. That's my point. Yes, that's exactly my point. So just want him to be a lame duck. Want he is going. There's nothing you can do about that. A lame duck just means he's he didn't have any more time left on his turn. There's nothing to be done about that. Well, what I'm saying is I want another Republican in office, and if he doesn't change course, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. I don't think citizenship is the way to go. I don't think it's a good trade off. Jeff, I appreciate the call. I hear this argument all the time from people in your industry. I get it. The industry is hurting. Why because it's been relying on illegal labor. So have a work visa program for construction workers if no Americans will do the job. I've heard this from the industries, from the food processing, from the agriculture. I've heard it all. I've heard these arguments for twenty five years, and they are always used as a way to stemy enforcement. So this is like, so right now, No, I just want enforcement. I'm not even talking about anything on amnesty or citizenship path, the citizenship or anything. That's where I'm at. Sorry, Democrats have radicalized me, particularly in the last four years watching the asylum corruption going on with the Biden administration. 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 way site, 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. 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Sarah says, in addition to working here illegally, tens of millions of illegal aliens are taking up apartments as well in houses, driving up the cost. Then there, Trent said, here's another construction guy with his head someplace. They want to be able to pay people pennies on the dollar because they refuse to pay people in normal wage. The Hispanics are getting undercut with pay I've seen it. These companies know they have a catch twenty two. They can pay these illegals whatever they want, and the Hispanics have to live under fear of speaking up because they are illegal and that is a key point Trent makes. He is absolutely correct. That's why I say, you're creating this underclass of people in our society, and I don't think it's more all right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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