Feds says they are NOT done with immigration enforcement in Charlotte (11-21-2025--Hour1)

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They're all very very happy celebrating that it's over and you know, calling for unity and all of us to be inclusive. And by the way, there is a reason why all of these messages sound the same. I did a little bit of research early this morning based off of this, and this is called lateral research. Is the name for it where you read a story, and as you read through a news story, you start whenever you come across something that the report is citing, you then open up another browser tab in your Internet and you search for that and then you start looking into that component of the report. And so by the end of a report, I'll have five or six tabs open because I've I've gone down a rabbit hole based on what the news report is right. And then you know, when you're done with the other tabs, just close them all out, move on to the next story. And that's why I say it takes about two hours of prep time for every one hour on air. So the story that was reported, I guess this was yesterday at WBTV and among other news outlets, they were all reporting the same thing that first off, homeland Security was done, they were wrapping up. We got all the press statements. But then yesterday evening we get new reports that know they're actually not done with Charlotte's Web the CBP operation. I just heard at the top of the hour newscast there before the show began that our own breaking Brett Jensen filed a report saying that his sources say that the CBP folks were so angry at the way that Charlotte teans behaved and the way the operation went down, that they're now going to send a different unit down to New Orleans. Because the original story was a week ago that they were going to come through Charlotte, they were going to run an operation, a brief stint is what they called it, and then they were going to head on down to New Orleans. And then about halfway through the operation, they were like, we're going to go up to Raleigh too, and we're going to hit some places in Raleigh. And we keep asking, why do they keep telling us this stuff? Why are they telling us this Why are they giving people a heads up to prepare, unless, of course they want that they want to see what you're doing. And while I thought that was a far fetched theory a couple days ago after yesterday Senate Judiciary hearing, I'm not so sure anymore. Which, by the way, I didn't even know that the hearing occurred, but for a passing reference in a Charlotte Observer story. They didn't cover the actual substance of that hearing. Had they done that, I think people would have a better understanding of what we're actually dealing with, and what Customs and Border Patrol is actually dealing with, what ICE is dealing with, and why it is so outrageous that local law enforcement like our Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary not my fault McFadden, is refusing to cooperate specifically with the two eighty seven G program. I'm going to get into all of this. You will have new insight about the threat that is actually existing right now but nobody talks about. And what I would say is darn near if not actual collusion between the Democrat Party, these NGOs and yes, the cartels. Like this is like, I don't know who understands what's actually going on. I didn't really like I knew these pieces. I didn't think they were connected. And now I have a lot of questions and local reporters. You guys better figure this out. You better make these connections. There's no excuse anymore, all right, So let me start here. Federal officials. This is from WBTV. Federal officials said Thursday that the US Border Patrol operation in Charlotte was not over, despite earlier reports that it had concluded. Now, remember all of those reports were just based on secondhand hearsay, right, you had Not my Fault McFadden coming out like, oh, they told me that they're done, And you had of of people a news reporters saying, my sources say that they're done. They're they're they're wrapping it up. So either their sources were incorrect, there was a change of plan, I don't know. So on the morning of Thursday yesterday, WBTV independently confirmed with federal and law enforcement sources that Border Patrol agents had left Charlotte. The Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Charlotte's Web and Charlotte November fifteenth to target undocumented immigrants in the city. It was believed that the Charlotte operation was tied to US Border Patrol specifically, but that was no longer the case as of this publication. At around noon yesterday, Sheriff Not My Fault McFadden explicitly said that the border patrol operation had quote officially concluded. The sheriff noted that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE was still in the area and would continue its work in the county. But hours later, officials with the US Department of Homeland Security, which is that's the one that oversees Border Patrol directly contradicted the sheriff. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin said Thursday that Operation Charlotte's Web is still active. Quote. The operation is not over and it is not ending any time soon end quote. Homeland Security has not said how long the operation was expected to last. Now. WBTV reached out to Sheriff McFadden following this new statement from Department of Homeland Security, and the Sheriff's office said it was standing by their initial report of the operation coming to an end. See if if he relayed any false information, that's not his fault. That's why we call him, not my fault, McFadden. Okay, so just get that out of your head right quick, because he nothing is ever his fault. So this is not his fault. Somebody must have lied to him. While McLaughlin insisted that the Charlotte operation was ongoing, it was unclear what exactly that meant. Why won't you give us the operational details? A separate statement from Homeland Security said federal agencies were continuing to target undocumented immigrants with criminal histories as Operation Charlotte's Web progresses. It was still believed that the surge of Border Patrol agents who arrived in Charlotte last weekend had left the city on Thursday. It was still believed. I don't know what that means. That's not quoted that there's nobody, there's no source attributed to that. Sheriff McFadden told a WBTV reporter that on Thursday morning, federal officials told him Border Patrol agents were gone from the city. Okay, so maybe they left and maybe they're going to come back. I don't know. Homeland Security, by the way, reports that they arrested about three hundred and seventy people in Charlotte as part of Operation Charlotte's Web. It was not immediately known how many of the arrests may have involved criminal offenses. Federal officials continue to identify all of the arrestees as undocumented immigrants, but have not gotten more specific about most of the arrests pending charges. Or the like. So, yeah, we don't know at this point. We don't know if Charlotte's Web is over or if it's just a pause. 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 Asheville 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. 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We got some kids protested outside the studio. They hate ice, I mean, at least that's what they keep screeching. They're very young. I think they're from the school a block away and they walked out. That'll show you ICE, which isn't even actually running any of the operation Charlotte's Web Customs and Border Patrol which actually kitties. You can actually rhyme CBP with a lot of stuff. I'm not going to give you any help here. Okay, this isn't like an open book quiz, but I'm guessing they walked out of that school and they're walking around what we used to call Needle Park, but now thanks to gentrification, now it's Bryant Park. I mean, honestly, that was always the name of it. But they're walking out over there along Moorhead and apparently I have it on I have a witness account that they started screeching at the CMPD officer who drove by, who probably had no idea that that was occurring, drove past, and they just like lost their minds. Because I guess the kids think that that's ICE too or something. I don't know, not really sure, but yeah, so the Customs and Border Patrol maybe circling back to Charlotte, or as we like to say, pasaki back. They're going to pasaki back, circle back to Charlotte. They were not happy with the way things went. Now. I did get a very insightful email here from Jan who said, maybe ICE is upset about Charlotte drivers ramming all their cars all the time. But Jan points out, this is Charlotte, Like, if you people can drive like Pam would have nothing to report on for a traffic report. That's like, that's a fair point. And I hadn't even really considered this, But is it possible that these people were not actually trying to ram all of the ICE vehicles after circle them and videotaping and honking at them and yelling epithets at them. But they're just really bad drivers? Because like I can I can confirm that, Okay, we have some really really bad drivers in Charlotte. So that's that could be it. From the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC. This morning, WSOC was giving out a phone number to report ice unbelievable. I've had a police officer tell me that WSOC stands for we Scare our community, right, well, okay, look to be fair, that's all media. Okay, it's not just WSOC. I mean they are kind of the leaders in the if it bleeds, it leads, if it secks its next kind of model, and they have been for you know, twenty five years. But you know, the motto of the media is if you're not scared, I'm not doing my job. Like That's what most media functions off of. And I've said this many different ways over the years. But the best example or analogy is, you know, back in the olden times, when you had the paper boy standing on the corner and he'd be holding the papers out trying to get people to buy the papers, extra extra, read all about it. You wouldn't be saying absolutely nothing happened today, No one's going to buy that paper. All right. Let me get Phil, Hello, Phil, Welcome to the program. How are you, honey? Oh hey, I want to try then get your take on it. I'm voted for Trump's muck, but I didn't vote for all of this in a sense that this is just a theater. If you ask me, it's first fifty thousand projective, fifty thousand illegals. Then we've got about three hundred and fifty round up. You know that. I don't think they're really trying. I think it's just for shows, because. How would you prefer they get to that? How would you prefer they get the fifty thousand? Well, number one, a lot of the guys that come and working, you know, they use fake social Security cards and all this other stuff. There's got to be a way to run all of this. You could show up. I know plenty of businesses where you could show up and pull off with thirty five people if you're really serious about it, pull off with thirty five at each pop and that would be what two hours. So they have done some of them. I mean they have hit a couple of workplaces. And so when it first started, it was defined as you know, you said, we're going to run up the criminals. That's the primary target. They would ask anyone who came in illegally is considered a criminal. Now they're moving the needle where well only people would be UI's and all this other No, if you're here illegal, no, no, no, no, I was expecting a. Large round up, okay, Phil, So they said, our targets the first the first target is the worst of the worst, right, because look, you can't let in what do we have now, twenty thirty million illegal aliens? The Biden administration let in over ten million, right, So you have to prioritize how you use your limited resources to start getting them right. So that's why they said, the primary target then has got to be the ones that have the criminal records, the ones that are pending charges, the worst of the worst, quote unquote. But they always said, well, while we're running those ops, if we encounter anybody who is also illegal, we're taking them into So that was that was always a secondary priority. But the first priority was, you know, go after the worst because you don't have the resources to do the kind of operation you're talking about doing. Well, that's true, and I hope there is a plan to increase, you know, increase funds for you know, all this USA. Oh they've been hiring and all you know, it's it's it's really got. All these companies that don't want this happening in Charlotte are companies who are benefiting hugely from having this cheap labor and taking jobs and keeping everyone at such low rates. Yeah, appreciate your take on it. Yeah, I appreciate it. Phil, Thanks for the call. Have a good weekend. No, look, I get it there. You know, people are frustrated by the operation and they're frustrated by it not being large enough. Others are frustrated that is not large enough. There is there. There are also sort of downstream impacts, which I've got in a story here from the Associated Press that talks about that people are now because this is like this is one aspect to a multi pronged operation right under the Trump administration. One is this kind of visible operation right to go target the worst of the worst, right and pick up anybody else along the way. If they encounter you, if you're out there protesting, if you're at the house or something, when they pick up this criminal like you're going to that's that's the That's one prong of it. Another prong is what happens in the court system, in the immigration court system, and you've got people that are getting deported immediately out of their hearings and stuff when they show up, and what is what is happening then is the downstream impact. People are self deporting, they're leaving. There was a net for the first time I think in history there was a net loss. We have fewer foreign born people now, so people are leaving because they're afraid of being deported, So better to do it on your own terms. In fact, CBP, Department of Homeland Security will assist you in leaving. They'll give you money to leave, So that's another prong. 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 in mint Hill, North Carolina. It was the first company to provide this valuable service, converting images, photos and videos into high quality produced slide shows, videos and albums that 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. 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So you write down the laws and you say you're not allowed to do these things, like you know, rob people or assault them. And then if somebody breaks that law, then the society has employed people to go out and enforce that law against your your offender. See in that nice it's a nice it's a nice model when it works, you know, and everybody has buy into this sort of thing. So there, I think there's a larger lesson. Let me jump over to the text line Jim with a story out of the LA Times. Protesters also targeted hotels where federal agents are staying, a tactic seemingly borrowed from Los Angeles area demonstrators. Yes, and there's a reason why these tactics are being replicated. I will get into this. There's a there's a nexus point here. Here's welcoming the federales to say for as long as it takes to clean up the city. So I'm guessing forever, right. And I had a report or I saw a report that people were texting uh. I think it was out of Rock Hill. They were texting their uh, their fellow illegal aliens in Charlotte, telling them where border patrol was staying, like they got the rest they saw the reservations or something like that, and so they and then people at the hotel were alerting their friends and family and spreading the word this is where the agents are staying, because they rented a block of hotel rooms while they were in town. I think they were up in the University City area and again not a new tactic. Let me see here, I'm trying to find this other message here. It is from seven oh four number, don't know who it is. Last week I purposely left an opposing comment on one of Josh Stein's posts Governor of North Carolina, regarding Charlotte's Web. He was his usual milk toast self, short on facts, long on gas lighting to your point. My feed was immediately flooded by posts from Democrat politicians across the country, all using identical language. The speed and frequency in which they have sent out this past week makes it clear there is a central propaganda center putting this stuff out. I haven't seen an inkling of original thoughts or ideas from anyone on the Democrat side except for Senator John Fetterman. I have to say I admire his courage to stand up to the incessant bullying that he has been subjected to. Yeah, I saw an interview with him the other day where he was saying, like, when Republicans and maga peeple will come at him, you know, they're just like, oh, you're stupid, you got a dumb idea, you said something stupid. We disagree with that whatever. And when he crossed his fellow Democrats though he was getting death threats from them. They were like, I hope you die, hope you get another stroke, like all of these really terrible things. So he recognizes there, like, I would not be surprised if that guy flips Republican at some point or just gets out of politics altogether. I could see that. Let me get Ralph on. Hello, Ralph, welcome to the show. Well, you know, over a month ago, Pete, you had a shootout right at your stations, which a couple people died, I think one all the scene and you know one later in the hospital. Well that was well, hang on, hang on, Ralph, But let me defend my turf. Here there was the suspect was killed by cop a block away from the studio. That is true. He thee the woman he had kidnapped and carjacked. She survived, so she was fine. But she was also at the scene of the crash where he wrecked the car and then he ran and then he turned the gun on the cops and they killed him. He murdered two other people, but that was farther up Freedom Drive. Okay, it wasn't right here Okay, so like we only had one we only had one body here. Well, you know, and my point is why not welcome I So, you know, we had the what twenty percent increase that mervs in downtown Charlotte, you know. And I worked in proximity of the government building in between those three buildings of the government building and the courthouse down at McDowell, and I called in the Bread show. One day we had a shootout at McDowell by road rage people and right at the courthouse. And did any the mainstream media, our local stations reported no, not until I blasted it out on the fifty thousand watch. They did have a little bleep the next day in everything. But you know, Charlotte, you know a lot of people don't know what's going on downtown. A guy about ten years ago that started a finol type foundation because his die son died from it. He was shot on College Street and died during the mill of day, you know, and everything that. You know, people need to wake up these democrats. They are a machine and it's for destruction of society so they can have socialism and everything. And it's just so frustrated. I do not live at Metemburg County. I moved out a long time ago. Well, you're not alone, and that's on that front, Ralph, I appreciate the call. Have a good weekend. Yeah, And that's why it's now. It is impossible basically for repub Bligans to win any elected races here because Republican voters fled. I think there are a lot of Democrats that don't understand the game they're playing. I do believe this. I'm not saying all of them, and I don't know which ones know and which ones don't. I think that they just want, like if I'm giving them benefit of the doubt, they want change, quote unquote. They are racked with suicidal empathy because they order in their priorities, in their culture, they order empathy above all else. And when you order something as the highest principle by which to live and that then you are willing to die for that highest principle. And that's where you get suicidal empathy from. This is gad, said the evolutionary psychologist Guy. He wrote a whole book about it, suicidal empathy. And it makes sense if you think of like an honor society like the Japanese would commit. Harry Carey in order to preserve their honor, right if they were shamed or something, because that's the highest principle of the society. And if you have a society that's highest principle is empathy, then you will lay down your life for that thing. You will be so inclusive that, yes, you can murder me or I'll just murder myself. So I think there are some that I like that. There are others, though, that are actively trying to dismantle the quote unquote systemic oppression of the West. There are people that are like that as well, and the people who are funding these operations and the people who are you know, getting votes and support from those from those organizations. Right, they may not even realize. But I heard a great point that was made in that Senate Judiciary Committee which was virtually all crime can be traced in some way to the cartels. Right, even like your home breaking, why are they breaking in? Feeding an addiction? Maybe? Okay, well what hooked them? Right? The drug use? Where do the drugs come from? Right? When you step back and you think about the cartel as sort of a Starbucks operation, a lot more of what we see here makes sense. You got franchise, It's a franchise model, right, and they have enforcement mechanisms, and they have spread out they over the years, over the last ten years, they have spread out all across the country. They're here, they're operating here. And a lot of the people that the suicidal empathy folks point to, as the poster child said, case, oh, this poor person, this the Maryland man, right, the Charlotte mom or whatever it is, you don't understand that they may actually be against their will even but they may be a part of that cartel franchise model. How did they get here? Who do they owe? See, in order to run the kind of operation the cartels are running, you need a lot of logistical support. You need a lot of people on the ground. And if you know, innocent person wants to come into America pays off the cartel which controls all of the human smuggling corridors. Right, you don't get through unless you pay the toll. And just because you pay some upfront price to the cartels doesn't mean that they're done collecting from you. You may be paying them back for years and so what so like you don't know, you don't know the extent of these of this web. If you will 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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Charlotte's Web tweeted out a report. Homeland Security actually tweeted it out initially because one of the people that was rounded up in Charlotte's Web was Jordan Renato Castillo Chaves. Okay, and here is the report from WSOCTV. She didn't know until this week that the suspect was not a US citizen. Now that she does, she believes justice is deportation. It's hurtful. Then my child is the victim, and they have this person and let him go for me. Sha Rose says her daughter was thirteen years old when she met this man, twenty nine year old Jordan Castillo Chaves. Rose found out when she looked at her daughter's phone. And then there was this message from this guy. I'm like, who's the and she's like, oh, that's my friend. I just met them on line and I looked at the messages. There were photos, there were messages that indicated like he was coming to pick her up, and I immediately just like dropped, like I feigned like this is not happening right now. In march Pineville police charged Castillo Chavez with indecent liberties and other sex related charges. He has since bonded out. This week, Customs and Border Protection named Castillo Chavez of Costa Rica as one of the worst of the worst criminal legal aliens, blaming his release on a failed ICE detainer. I asked the Melckhamberg County Share Office to respond. They said ICE made a request for advanced notification of his release, but said the agency did not issue an ICE detainer. The Sharre's office said they did not notify ICE when Castillo Chaves bonded out because they weren't legally required. There you go, We're not legally required to let you know that this illegal alien, if he even is one, we don't know because we scrapped two eighty seven, so we have no idea who's an illegal alien inside of our jails. But I said, hey, give us a heads up when this guy gets ready to bond out. You have him right now where we want him. Well, I'm not legally required to call you. The guy molested a thirteen year old Gary. This is serious. Roe says her own father had committed a crime in the US and was deported back to his country years ago. So she understands the impact and believes it's what Castillo Chavez deserves too. So there you go. And the Gregory Bovino from Border Patrol said quote and this, folks, is why we are in North Carolina. 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 the Pete callan our show dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.