CNN finds the REAL story of the immigration operation in Charlotte (11-17-2025--Hour3)

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But the traffic in Charlotte today was really good, Like it wasn't. It wasn't congested on my way into work for the first time, and I don't know how long. It was like smooth sailing all the way in. I'm getting other people that have noticed the same thing and the connection that we are making. I don't know if it's provable, but it might have something to do with Operation Charlotte's Web that's going on today. What do you think it could be. I had seen some reports that a lot of businesses in the area had closed over the weekend, and maybe you're remaining closed, so maybe that's also cutting things down. But yeah, there's the customs and more controls in Charlotte's Web seems to be catching things over the weekend. The CPB had the head of the CBB there, mister Raveno. I made a Raveno said that there were eighty one arrests and I know the operations are still going on today. Yeah, I think we're at one hundred and thirty four now. There were four more arrests this morning, that's the latest. There was one hundred and thirty before this morning, so I think we're up to one thirty four now. Wow. Yeah. And they've been compiling the list of the people that they've picked up, and you know, some of the names that they've identified in some of the press releases, and you know, in some of their records are you know, as one might expect, these are criminal, illegal aliens. They've got rap sheets. And I've been saying this, this is the response. This is the reaction the ramifications of the policies that these Democrats who have been running Charlotte Mecklenberg for you know, the last ten fifteen years. Now, this is the this is the ramification. Like you said, this is a federal issue. And you know we have our sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden, where nothing is ever his fault. And he said, you know, we're not going to enforce federal immigration law. That's on them to do. Okay, Well here they are now they're doing it right. And you've got up in your neck of the woods in Raleigh, you've got a sheriff that has a similar view. Right. Didn't you guys scraped the two eighty seven g cooperation too? I believe it one time they did. I'm not sure if they entered into it or not. The previous sheriff definitely ended that. But oh and he took his place. Not so sure about that. I would have to actually go look, I don't know, off the top of my head. Who was that? Gerald Baker was at the old sheriff and so he's not there anymore. No, oh, you guys got did he lose an election? Yeah? Oh nice, good for you. Yeah, we can't our guy just he actually gave a quote to the media two weeks ago where he said that he doesn't enjoy being sheriff, and then he announced his reelection. That's the kind of guy we got here. It's most amazing. Wow. Yeah. The guy who's here in McKenny now it's a sheriff. Willie Rowe was He worked underneath Baker and apparently the two of them heads at some point and there were firings and accusations, retaliation and that sort of thing that went on. Oh we've got all that too. Yeah yeah, yeah, we've got all of that going on too. We've had like multiple chief deputies resigned and write public letters calling our sheriff a narcissist, a sociopath. Oh yeah, that's like. Yeah, he fires a lot of. People here, well, at least in a splinging f bombs at federal officials. No, that's true. He's not quite Breezy Clayton level, but he does call he does call white employees crackers. So he has done that on a recording. Yeah, yeah, on a recording. So that's what I mean, Like people really don't. It's like people who don't follow Mecklenburg Sheriff McFadden and this stuff. Like I hear stories of other sheriffs and it's like McFadden did that too, and it's like so like all the worst behavior from all the state sheriffs just take the worst pieces, and mc fadden has done like the identical thing. Anyway, let's talk about Breezy a little bit. This is Anderson Clayton, she's the chair. I read her Twitter exchange. I don't know, are there any updates to this? Like she just dropped the F bomb on Greg Bovino told him blend you. I didn't see any new updates. Her first post on x was on the fifteenth, and it was saying that border patrol on ICE are arresting in quote stealing our community members off the streets of Charlotte and that Donald Trump is single handedly responsible for this haint, for these heinous actions. Please report any activity you see and know that that our party will stand them with all immigrant communities, to which she responded Commander Bravina responded, wrong, US Spirit Control is busy arresting criminal aliens who are walking your streets with immunity. We arrested so many criminals that we had to ex sign extra agents to the process. We begin putting these dozens of criminals on social media so that you won't be mistaken again, to which she replied, f you, and he responded with truth could be a hard thing. Their partner, Yeah, Pardner, he did it. He spelled it with a D two Pardner. So, uh yeah, so and that's but look, that's what that's how she's going to get the rural Trump voters to consider voting for Democrats again. Cussin, right, cussin and saying, y'all a lot. That's I think the strategy. So yeah, I mean, somebody really ought to do accounts how many F bombs she's up to at this point, it's almost a DA occurrence. It feels like, yeah, yeah, definitely, Well it shows that they're fighting, you know, and what's really at the heart of all of this. And I mean I played an audio clip from our County Commission Chairman Mark Durrell where they're like, on Friday, they did this press conference where they're standing shoulder to shoulder with these activists, right, and they're like, I don't know why the federal government wouldn't include us in their planning and tell us what's going on, Like, we don't know what's happening. They're keeping us in the dark. It's like you're literally standing next to the people that would then broadcast out all of those plans to the people, the very people that ICE is trying to come and get. So why would they tell you this stuff? It's It's just at the heart of all of this. Is have they ever told them in the past? No? No, right, never, Right, Like now. They gave you a heads up that they're going to be in town. That's what they gave you, Right, They're going to be in town, and you know that's it. Well, didn't the sheriff make that letter public? Though? I think I think your counterparts, Brett Jensen or maybe it was Joe Bruno at w SCU TV, I think one of the two of them have posted out that mcfeddon had issued of tweets or a post to the head the letter from CPB saying that they were going to be doing operations. Yeah, yeah, And I think you made that public. So I mean if they were told. Right, but they want to know, like, what what neighborhood are you going into? What store? Let's get everyone that heads up because we always tell people we're servant warrants. Yeah, and the other thing is yeah, and they're like, oh, they're just going to you know, this grocery store. Yeah, Well, criminals also go to grocery stores. I'm not sure who needs to hear that, but you know, people who engage in criminal activity. Weird that they're showing up at home depots and grocery stores. But it's really not because they've already identified these individuals. They figured out what their phones are, and they've got the warrants on the phone, so they can find them where they are by location, right. I mean, you know, if they're not home, they're somewhere, so let's find where his phone is. Right, You're gonna take your phone everywhere? Right? Right? Exactly? Is the rocket science? No, It at the core of it is an amnesty viewpoint. Right. These democrats are playing dumb. They're saying this stuff and they're all outraged about it because they believe and when you read their statements, they talk about you know, residents in Mecklenburg County. They make no differentiation between legal and illegal aliens, nothing like that. It's all just about you know, people and residents and stuff. It's because at the core of it is they want the people who are here illegally to stay and get citizenship. That's why they object to anything like this. That that makes you know, people afraid of enforcement. I mean, oh yeah, that and their draining city resources. So yes, you know, yeah, well, and also. How much of their budget issues are tied into that. That would be an interesting thing to for maybe, say the state auditor to look at. Oh yeah, I mean, think about all of the schools that Charlotte Mecklenberg has built right in order to educate all of the children, and the emergency rooms. Like the costs of health insurance and health care and all of yeah, there are there are costs associated with any population. This is no different and so yeah, they very well might end up with with smaller budgets. And the activist groups and the grassroots organizations and such, and the votes, you know, because this always ties back to the census counts, which dictate you know, congressional districts and electoral votes. For president. And if you can pile a bunch of people that get counted for the census but they can't vote, that's fantastic for Democrats. If you pile them into blue states, they can puff up their numbers, they can get more congressional seats. Like, there are so many different angles on this on the story, and it's like that is something that these enforcement actions are exposing, is the extent of the problem. And I think the Democrats, you know, unable to address out there. If the census hadn't included certain populations like the legal aliens or non citizens, that it would have shifted to something like thirteen more seats for Republicans in the House and at least two in the Senate. Yeah, I doing like that. I do recall there was some analysis along those lines. Yeah. And then of course the problem with the census where they undercounted six states and five of the six were Republican states, and they overcounted six states and five of those six were Democrat So like just coincidence. That they that's just crazy that that happened. Yeah. Yeah, so hence the need to redistrict mid decade. So anyway, AP, thanks for your time as always appreciate. It absolutely, all right, take care good traffic this afternoon. Yeah, well, I'm going to monitor when I when I leave the studio, I'm gonna, like, I'm gonna pay attention now to see if it's actually better. So because we have a school day, so it's the kids are in school, all right, Thanks AP, Thank you. All right, that's ap Dylan. You can read her work at the North State Journal NSJ online dot com and uh subscribe to her newsletter at on the substack platform. More to the story. 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. 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I recalled back in the early two thousands, when Congress was close to passing amnesty, there was a visiting priest from Mexico saying Mass at Saint Anne's in rock Hill. The church was packed with Latinos who wanted to hear from one of their own. They were sorely disappointed. This visiting priest began his homily by lambasting the illegal immigrant community, denouncing all the crimes and scams that every illegal immigrant in the country must engage in to survive as an illegal alien. In the US. There were a lot of sad faces walking out of that church that day, and it was the last time I have heard any moral clarity from the church on the subject of illegal immigration. There's a story that was being highlighted by the local media and national media. Oh my gosh, they killed some guy. That Border patrol killed somebody. They did not. Okay, there was a guy. The one case attracted a lot of attention revolved around a man who received medical treatment after he appeared to collapse while Border Patrol agents attempted to detain him on Milton Road near Weeping Willow ame Zion Church. Okay, so that's that's all you get, That he collapsed. Well, they took him to the hospital and while at the hospital, apparently he attempted to escape. Numerous social media posts incorrectly claim the man who was arrested was either shot or run over. He was not, Joe Bruno reports at WSOCTV. On Twitter, Assistant Secretary Deputy of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said the man is from Mexico and is in the country illegally. She said he has a prior assault arrest and he attempted to a ski pape through the ceiling at the hospital. Quote. This criminal illegal alien from Mexico had a panic attack and was taken to the hospital, where he attempted to escape by climbing onto the ceiling tiles from the hospital bathroom. 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Federal immigration officials used the book's title to name their latest crackdown in Charlotte, North Carolina, Operation Charlotte's Web. The author of that book, eb White, He's long dead, but his granddaughter drew a sharp contrast between the federal raids and the ideals of eb White, highlighted in The Beloved Book in a statement that she shared with CNN that Martha White is her name, Martha White, her grandfather. Quote certainly didn't believe in masked men in unmarked cars raiding people's homes and workplaces without IDs or summons. He didn't condone fear mongering. H That's the real story here. I don't know what we would have done without CNN reaching out to I mean, think about that. Did Martha White just send it over, send out this statement to CNN, or did somebody at CNN track her down and be like, so, what do you think of them using the name Charlotte's Web. Huh. The move into North Carolina comes as agents have arrested thousands across the nation, including dozens in Charlotte, in immigration raids, and deported nearly two hundred thousand people as of late August. The controversy highlights the tension between the Trump administration efforts to arrest and deport immigrants it deems criminals, and the work of civic and community groups highlighting residences' rights. So, once again, what is missing any kind of a delineation between legal and illegal aliens? Once again, now the guy who's leading these operations, Bovino. Bovino. I don't know how he pronounces it, but he put up a post on Twitter and he quoted the book quote, wherever the wind takes us high low, near, far east, west, north south, we take to the breeze, we go as we please. In the book, that's when all of Okay, I'm about to give a spoiler here. So if you're not aware of Charlotte's webb and how it ends here, boiler alert. Okay, so this is what the little baby say in the book. That's when Charlotte's babies hatch and fly off, leaving Wilbur to cry himself to sleep, only to find out the next morning that three spiders stayed to keep him company. Martha White highlighted the message of generosity and inclusion that permeates the Children's tail quote by helping you. Perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a little. That's what Charlotte says in the book. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. CNN reached out to the DHS for comment. Right, okay, you reached out. Could you imagine fielding that call? You're at DHS. You're in the comms shop and you're getting all sorts of media requests from all over the country for all of these operations, and CNN calls you or emails you with this. Yeah. Oh that's good. I needed to laugh. Thank you for that. Yeah. By the way, I think you could actually make the argument here that the name Charlotte's Web and the all of the spiders when they when they all fly away, you know, take to the wind and go wherever. Those are like the immigrants, Those are like the Yeah, you can't stop us. We're gonna go wherever we want. All over social media calling out mister Hendrick for selling vehicles to ice is a wonderful business decision, surpassed only by bud light. Oh my gosh, are they really they're attacking? They're attacking where the dealership that sold them the cars? Really? These people are just unhinged, just unhinged. And then there is this the super g Mart super g Mart in Pineville. Border patrol agents with rifles chased after employees at a super g Mart in Pineville Saturday went into the store and dragged a teenage employee out before arresting him. That's according to one of the store's owners. At least part of it was caught on video. It happened at about two in the afternoon, said Peter han or Han, whose family owns the International supermarket chain. So wait a minute, you were employing an illegal alien supermarket chain owner. Really, that's quite the admission. It started when scared employees saw border patrol agents in the parking lot and ran. He said about half of his employees didn't come to work the next day on Sunday, which again, like I think you might be in a bit of trouble, you know, for hiring illegal aliens. The person arrested was a teenager. Hands said he was like fifteen or sixteen. It's not clear where they took the boy. Agents arrived in about five vehicles and used fake leaves to cover their license plate numbers. Many of the plates were from Texas. The most appalling thing was these guys still had the audacity to smile and wave at the camera. That's that's the most appalling thing. It's not you hiring illegal labor. That's not appalling at all. No, all right, I'll get to your messages in a moment. 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. 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Cabins of Ashville has the ideal spot for you for any occasion, and they have pet friendly accommodations, call or text eight two eight three six seven seventy sixty eight or check out all there is to offer at Cabinsofashville dot com and make memories that'll last a lifetime. John, Welcome to the show. Hello John, Hey, Hey, there's a great silver lining to all this chaos with the border control here and one day they have managed to cut traffic down quickly. How many years have we spent widening seventy seven billions of dollars, the light rail billions of dollars still under construction, for eighty five still under construction. None of them have had the impact that the just two hundred agents have had. I say we keep these two hundred agents around year round and say billions of dollars and solve the traffic. And the fewer cars on the road would also mean that the roads last longer. The deterioration would not be pollution. Isn't that what they're always talking about? You know, they wouldn't get rid of cars. This is a win win all around, John. I appreciate the call, sir, Thank you all right, Take care. Emily writes in on the text line. The narrative is that Ice is walking around racially profiling brown people and body snatching. There is no thought to whether they have criminal records or not. The general libs who aren't too dialed in really think they're literally driving around and body slamming anybody who looks hispanic. Yeah, I've seen I have seen that sentiment expressed as well. Yep, seven oh four Numbers says, why do we have to keep having the argument about law abiding illegals? There is no law abiding illegals. They all have broken the law. Time to go, Jennifer says. The criminal illegal aliens that are being arrested have some pretty serious crimes under their belt. We're talking child predators, chronic drunk drivers, clearly a threat to the legal citizens of Charlotte. The Democrats argument are disingenuous. Jim In Waxhaw says, Uh, what do you or your BT colleagues, especially the news guys here off the record from peers in local media concerning this big, beautiful illegal immigrants roundup. Is this a matter of local media just squeezing as much news juice out of this totally legitimate federal operation for ratings and clicks, or do you think media folks are actually aligned with the resistance movement or a little bit of both or something else. No, I think it is. It is all of that, right, Uh, local media, I mean for a weekend, Like they're doing this on a weekend, and staffing in news departments is always lower, So smaller workforce on the weekends, slower news cycle, right, not a lot happening. You're usually going out covering some you know, event that's going on in town or something you know, or you're out at chasing an apartment fire or a car accident or something, or crime homicide, right, something like that. And when you get protests on the way and by the way, the protesters know this. These organizers know this. That's why they do them. They know that. Like it's easy video, it's easy to get interviews. You just stick a mic in anybody's face and you have this you know, this tension, this conflict, tension going on with law enforcement, them chasing people, and you never know what's going to happen, like, oh my gosh, look at this, I caught this on video. Yeah, so they are incentivized absolutely to go cover it, and look they should though, I mean, is it is newsworthy. I wish they would try to trace some of this out like I've been doing. I wish they would try to connect some of these outcomes to the decisions that have been made that yielded the necessity for this operation. I can dream. Come on, the local politicians sound like the kids at school when they were informed of a locker check. John in Jersey says Native Americans took slaves after territorial wars. That's interesting. Yeah, then people say, call in fake sightings to get the UH to get the protesters scurrying all over town. As anyone pointed out the irrational fear the Democrats, news media, school board, and others are creating by suggesting immigration enforcement is going to take your kids from school and grab them off the street. They are creating an irrational fear that only harms the community, does not help it. Right, correct, Just like the whole issue of illegal immigration in the first place. Right, they claim to be the morally superior and ethically superior and more empathetic people in the art argument, because they're like, just let all of them in, right, no punishment for anybody, Amnesty and all this open the borders up. Joe Biden did it perfectly. And everything meanwhile incentivizing the very human trafficking and that, by the way, Charlotte is like a hub now for human trafficking, among the worst in America. Because we're between the northeast and Texas and Florida, We're a central location where they traffick people through. Could that be a reason they're in town? All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.