"Gang of Six" and Charlotte CBP raid fallout (11-25-2025--Hour1)

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I would love I'm shocked that the Panthers are doing that as well this season as they are, But when you watch them sometimes it looks like a high school team could beat them. Now, Nick, Nick, are you over there? Are you are you listening to this? Did you guys? So? What did you you listen to some of it is it just me or is it just painful sometimes to listen to her watch? Well, first of all, the radio broadcast is excellent. But beyond that, yeah, it was tough for us. I agree, but it's just yuah, it sounds well, it sounded like we started off but then it just it was one of those nights again. It was right, the defense had three intersept they intercepted San Francisco three times. The Panthers couldn't turn that into any points. It was embarrassing. It was just like, oh, but anyway, twenty to nine last night, and yet and yet they're you know, only like a half game out of first place in their division, which says a lot about how bad the division because the Bugs lost the night before. Anyway, this is a political talk show, and yet we're endeavoring to entertain you with regale you with tales of Panthers gone wayward. And Christian McCaffrey just single handedly destroyed the Panthers. It must have been an interesting revenge grim. He said, yeah, you guys, you could have kept me, could have built a better team around me, but I'm just gonna run all over you. So anyway, chat Adam sitting in for Pete Calender. The boy sounds a little different. It's me, it's not he. He is hopefully enjoying his time off as I take hold of the microphone here and have a great time at News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WPT. If you would like to get in on the conversation, because we will cover a number of topics, you're welcome to do so seven oh four five, seven oh eleven ten, or maybe you have one on your own. We had a caller yesterday, Ernest talking about the the military with these ex military or people in Congress that had made a video kind of alluding to the fact that troops should disobey their commanders and like Mark Kelly had, you know, and he was in it, slucking a bunch of six of them total. And you have to wonder his questions were germane. He's asked who was behind the video? Who there had to be. They didn't just come to this on their own. It was organized. It was structured who turned it down because I'm sure other people were approached about it in Congress, but these Democrats just went and led you to believe that there was some kind of illegal commands that were taking place. Now that in and of itself accomplished the propaganda they wanted to. It got out there, and so it leaves in people's minds this thing that illegal commands are coming down the pipe. And when they were interviewed about it, are you aware of any illegal commands? No, they're not. They just believe it could happen. They believe it it could not that it is. And then they tried to turn their attention to the domestic front. Well, you know, deploying US troops on our soil. That's bad. They don't put context. They don't have any context. The thing. It's like when you see somebody driving slowly your neighborhood. You're mad, You've got to be somewhere, you got an appointment, and then you get around them and you realize, you know, hey, they're like, just I'm glad they were able to drive. They were driving safely, they were just driving the speed limit. Context, but these Democrats had no context for their assertion that the US military was used in some kind of surreptitious way, The camp commander in chief was doing something unconstitutional. But they wanted to leave that image in your head. And Ernest was great to point that out and ask very difficult questions that now other people are asking. So we'll see how that ends up. Now, I want to kind of start there going into this, we talked about, you know, the socialist the Mundani thing. Not to belabor it, but just as you watch the Democratic Party the non Democratic Party, I guess I should say Democrats are not very democratic. You saw that last year. It's not hard to say they weren't democratic. They didn't even have a primary. They threw their one guy under the bus, and then they handpicked the successor to be the person having not received any votes during a primary, to be their standard bearer into the election. So they weren't democratic at all about that. But having said all that, and there's a story about the Biden administration that we'll get into later about immigrants and airports, and it's just the more we learn, the worse it looks, and the Trump durand syndrome behind a lot of the actions of the left right now. But this all kind of come comes home to roost here in Charlotte because you have a mayor that doesn't seem to care about the law, that that hand picks what she thinks the law should be. And the sad reality about that, and we'll get especially as we get after the brank is what does that mean? I mean, if you're a Charlotte tean, or even if you're in the ancillary areas, if you're in Huntersville or mint Hill or Matthews, whatever, if you're in these other areas in and around Charlotte, or even in Union County or Gas or Coberras, and you look inward, you look at where the city of Charlotte is heading. Okay, let's just say, what is the course that's being charted by the leadership of those running the city vilials being the mayor, and it's a mayor, it's it's a mayor manager form of government for most the word Dylan Rual state the mayor doesn't have a lot of power, but it certainly set a tone and she makes comments. And remember how they kind of covered up the death of the young lady on the on the light rail, not covered ups too strong, but didn't far from that, they withheld information from the public about that death, an unnecessary death, someone who had been through the system multiple times. But if you were to look just objectively, I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican or unaffiliated, and you were to look at the direction Charlotte is headed. So Charlotte has many wonderful things, banking, It's got so many things going for it. But remember the HP two situation started in Charlotte, the men and women's restroom. That issue really kind of started germinated in Charlotte. It's laughable to look back on, but remember how big an issue that became from Pat McCrory. But if you're looking at Charlotte and where it's headed politically, do you believe the city is headed toward the right, toward fewer regulations, more efficiencies lower? Do you believe that's the direction that has been charted? Or do you believe it has the aspirations to be more like Chicago or Memphis? Do you believe that it seems to be turning its back on law abiding citizens and picking and choosing other political issues rather than legal ones. In other words, is it is aspiring to be a Seattle? Is it aspiring to be a Mom Donnie kind of New York? Now I'm not saying that Vililes is like Mumdanni, but you certainly need to question the direction that and I'll get into that after the break. We will talk about some of the statements the mayor's made. What the question why? I would ask that, and many of you who listen to this kind of broadcast or listen to Peter or Vins or any the other people. But you know, these are issues that come up frequently, and then you have to wonder. You can't blame the mayor entirely for this, because you have to wonder, what are the citizens? Why do the citizens not seem to care the people who live in Charlotte. I mean, many of the other areas around Charlet there very conservative, and maybe that's it. Maybe that those who can leave and those who do have the option they leave Charlotte. It leaves everyone behind that thinks that they are owed something by town officials, that they are owed something by the government. And so you end up heading in that leftist way, that more socialist way of thinking that you can just redistribute, you can just redistribute. 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. Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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And with that being said, CJ, I appreciate you calling in. How are you today? Uh? Yeah, well I haven't talked to you in a while. Appreciate you. But I've concerned about this raid thing. And when they just it was told that if you have a criminal record, you could be arrested. But apparently they said today three hundred were arrested, but not all of them are criminals. Now that is concerning to all of it. They can just sit and rest arrest anybody. I thought it was only criminals like from. These jaels and the CJJ CJ. Hold on, CJJ, CJ, CJ, CJ. Well, let me just correct one thing. They didn't arrest them. They detain people and determine what their status is. And that even the gentleman Generaldo Heraldo Ortiz Puerto Rican that was pulled out, he's been detained twice and released. They didn't even take him. They didn't process him in jail or anything like that. So yes, that does if you're in certain groups and they bring them in that does that make it great? No? Is that a great thing? No? So I can't disagree with you there, But do you are you interested in any of these people that are here illegally and have been arrested, released by Charlotte and not complying with immigration officials? Are you interested in those people being left on the streets. Well, I'm having trouble and having trouble hearing you, honey, I don't know what's going on. Oh okay, well I pause. What I was asking is do you think that the people that are being arrested that are criminals should be arrested and deported? Well, I would say that someone that has serious credentials. You know, there have been murders of rapist, this type of thing. They're the ones I thought they were going to try to get off the street. Basically, Well, CJ, let me read you a couple. Let me let me read you. CJ. Let me read you, CJ, let me read you a couple. Okay, So these are people that were arrested in Charlotte and released with not complying. Hordan Renaldo Chavez, criminal alien from Costa Rica arrested for indecentelebrities with the children, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor, attempted statutories, sexual offense with a child, solicitation of a child by He was released after authorities in Charlotte failed to honor the ICE detainer. Then you have Osmond Ornando Pia's order Ties, a criminal illegal alien from Hondoras statutory sex offense with a child in decent liberties with a child sex sex by a substitute parent. Costume was released by Charlotte officials after he failed they failed to honor the ICE detainer so he could be deported. Jefferson Mooyse Modatina Sorto, a criminal alien from Hondora's sexual battery resisting an officer, fleeing, eluding arrest with a motor vehicle, also held by Charlotte, released without honoring the ICE detainer. So Charlotte is processing people and releasing child sex offenders into the streets, multiple people. And I've got lists and list of these people, and these are also being arrested. I don't hear you saying you're concerned about that. Oh, I am concerned very much. So that doesn't make any sense either. Yeah, why would Charlotte be releasing these people back in verify what exactly who they're arresting, why type of thing, So you can look at that. You can go to that what's going on. You can go to DHS dot gov. They have all the list of people who have been arrested, and there's over three hundred of them now three fifty I believe in counting that. You can look at their criminal you can look at their criminal records. But this happened. I mean, I just want you to understand the context. The reason this happened is because Charlotte officials, for whatever reason being a sanctuary city I don't know, will arrest people that do have criminal backgrounds and do have crimes and then releasing them and not cooperating with the government. Now, the mayor of this city has said she took an oath to defend the constitution, to defend the laws of the country, and she isn't interested in doing that, And I think that's problematic. I mean, would you think it's problematic if you have groups of individuals that are leading a great city like Charlotte that don't want to comply with the law. That's definitely our mayor is I think is corrupt my personal opinion, okay, and I wish they'd gotten a new mayor in and clean things up a little bit. Well, okay, I'm not going to get into that one. I'm not as profoundly knowledgeable about whether she's corrupt or not. I know some other Charlotte officials that have gone down that path and left for those reasons. But I do I really agree with you on this. I don't want Americans Puerto Rican citizens are American citizens. I don't want them arrested. I don't want them to be deporting willy nilly. I want them to verify who they're getting, and if they're finding criminals and people who are illegal, get those It is an almost a herculean impossible task. I think they're doing the best they can. I wish that Charlotte would stop trying to harbor and release criminals and start at least cooperating so that this didn't have to take place. So that would be my take on it. Fair enough, fair. Enough, I agree, Thank you very much. I enjoy hearing you. I wish you could be on all the time. Wow. Well that is that is high praise indeed, CJ. And thank you for calling in and being part of the broadcast. Okay, you're welcome. So and again I would agree with her this. It is a Being an American means you you believe everyone has the right. Meaning you're an American. You don't have the right to not be processed. They can't just arrest you willy nilly, and so detaining someone and determining status happens. Heck, it happens on college campuses when copsule detained students, you know, and they're drunken, disorderly, or maybe they're not, or maybe they suspect them of underage drinking. It happens. It doesn't make things right. They didn't mirandize them. They're not arresting them. They're detaining and finding out status. So that's suspicion. So if there is reasonable suspicion, they do. But this whole website about people who have been arrested that Charlotte Charlotte's I don't know law enforcement, you know, due to sanctuaries, I don't know. But when you have someone that's another vehicle, theft, larceny, trespassing, burglary, forced entry, property damaged possession of stolen property, in drug possession, that's one person was released after authorities failed to honor the ICE detainer in Charlotte. And then you wonder how someone gets killed on a light rail when they've been through the system, And that was someone who was a legal citizen, but it was a criminal that was released back into the streets. So there are serious questions that Charlotte needs to answer for. There are serious questions that either the council, the mayor law enforcement. I don't know, but if law enforcement were actually working with the US government rather than against the US government, then this wouldn't happen. But our operation, Charlotte's Web is certainly delivering. And the list of criminals is I was just reading you the list of criminals that had been detained from Charlotte and then released back into the public. These these sex offenders with miners and stuff that have been released back into the public and not detained. And so ICE has a list of those, and it also has the list of people that have been arrested, and it it is, oh, there's some bad there's some bad ones out there all right. 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Everyone's cracking up, he used, But he said, Biden used an auto pen for the turkey pardons last year, so I have the official duty to determine, and I have determined it. Last year's turkey partons are invalid, and are the pardons of about every other person that was pardoned after the Where's Hunter. The turkey's known as Peach and Blossom last year have been located and they were on their way to be processed. But I have stopped that journey and I'm officially parting them as well. They will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner. He went on to say that our Secretary RFK Junior has certified that the turkeys Turkey's being pardoned today are the first ever Maha turkeys make America healthy again turkey weighing over fifty pounds each, these are two of the largest turkeys ever presented. In other words, they could be fat, but they're still healthy turkeys. Hen says, there were about the turkeys that I'm partying were about to be sent to President Naive bukelis Secot in El Salvador, but he stopped it. I'd like to thank the president of that country, he said, Goblin, wallll. We're going straight to the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador. Even those birds don't want to be there. He's just having so much fun with this, and he says President Trump was about to name the turkeys he's partnering Chuck, and but then I realized, he said, I wouldn't be partoning them. I would never pardon those two people. I wouldn't care what Malania told me. So it's just become kind of a comedic and this is just happening in the fast like thirty minutes or so that that this is going on. It is kind of funny just to add some levity to you know, kind of It's so easy to get this, uh, to get overly toxic. You know, it's so easy even I try every day to not be toxic. I profoundly disagree with the political left. I think they're going down the socialist strain. It's it's almost as if they have no read on history whatsoever. When when their party continues to track to the left, I know many rank and file Democrats that are friends of mine that are very concerned about this issue. And I know many of you in the audience, because I know this audience is very diverse politically and every other way imaginable. And it's got to disconcerting to watch it tack toward AOC Bernie Sanders Mandani, you know, to see it move, and it's it's got to be difficult for mainstream Democrats to celebrate those victories say, look, our party is doing great, because many of those Democrats back almost half of them, and this is this is also disconcerting. Almost half of them in Congress voted for or just over half voted for a condemnation of socialism. The more alarming component to this is last week's resolution one hundred plus Democrats voted against condemning socialism. That is alarming on yourself that people believe that that in any way, that but for tweaking it here and there, that somehow the results of socialism would be different. It never is. It always ends up in people starving, people being killed, political enemies being hunted down. It always ends up up. And there's probably never been a system of government that has killed more humans anywhere on the planet. If you add them up over time, it's just astounding. So but I want to get back to the Charlotte situation as we get you know, as we wrap up our first hour year, and anyone who wants to get in on the conversation, by the way, Chat Adam sitting in for Pete Callender here on News Talk eleven ten ninety nine to three seven oh four five seven zero eleven ten, five seven eleven ten, you can get into the conversation. Is that the story I think the Charlotte media, and I don't want to be disrespectful to them, you know, it's it's kind of disappointing that they choose to be so political, And what I mean by that is, rather than really digging into this issue, it's more important to them to like show Operations Charlotte's Web from only one perspective that somehow it's bad, without trying to provide context. Why did Operation Charlotte's Web come about? What was the City of Charlotte doing that led to the decision to do this and expand it's now expanding toward Raleigh, another city that's decided to go left and asking tough questions. So I want to read to you what, Well, maybe I'll get this right. But the oath that she took when she took office, So the oath that Mayor Lyles took is that that she did solemnly Well, here we go, I, Mayor lyle By Lyles, do solemnly swear affirm that I will support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution in laws of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith, and I will faithfully discharge the dues of my office as Mayor of the City of Charlotte. So help me God, she took that oath, she didn't take sit and say, well, I'm going to take this oath sept for immigration laws because I don't like immigration laws. So she took the oath to defend and support the laws of the United States. So when she decides to hand pick and to oppose that, she she has technically violated her oath of office. Now that may not matter to many people. It should, it should matter to her, but it doesn't seem to. And I say that because there's there's a story over at Fox News. It makes it's a national story, and and I think it's a good one. It says that, you know, violent crime in Charlotte has ignited a political storm, with Republican lawmakers pointing to the city's rising homicide rate. As mayor Villiles leadership has faltered. Quote, when you're in charge of a city, it's your job to put the best possible foot forward and create as best of a perception as you can. Now that that perception may or may not match reality. In the case of Charlotte, the perception does not match the reality. Abdul Ali, North Carolina twelve geopchair person told Fox News Digital. Now, granted that's going to be a political perspective. Recent federal immigration raids in Charlotte area and lawmakers calling for National Guard deployments have complicated City Hall's messaging on public safety success. The Charlotte Meckelburg Police Department's third quarter report shows overall crime down eight percent from January through September compared with a year earlier. 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But they're rather than just say you know what, we all, regardless of party, have a vested interest in making our community safer, would rather say we're just going to oppose. We're going to create a sanctuary city, which is not an American thing. It's it's not. It's there's nothing, there's nothing, nothing American about creating a sanctuary city. It is a political statement that is anathema to the laws of the United States about our sovereignty. It is absolutely anathema to those who have worked to become sentiment citizens. It is absolutely a horrific person. I don't care in regards to your political party, all of you should be against sanctuary cities because it's a false premise. It's not. It means you have to commit you have to commit multiple crime shift to get across the border. You have to travel into our country illegally with no documentation, no no regard to what your past record had been, whether you've been a criminal or time or escape from a prison, doesn't matter. Once you get to the city of Charlotte. If you're in a sanctuary city, you can reside there, and if you don't break any laws while you're there, it's okay, or maybe they don't know you broke them. But what you've done is you've created an unsafe environment. But for the fact that you either hate Republicans, or hate Conservatives, or hate Trump, whatever it is, it does not serve the public interest to have that perspective. So this operation Charlotte's Web could easily have been avoided had the leaders in Charlotte said, you know what, I don't care who you are. If you're here illegally, we're going to work with immigration officials and you're going to go back to the country where you belong. And if you have a criminal record, you're going to move to the front of the line. But you're not going to come to our city, use our resources and take advantage of our system and move ahead of other people who are working very hard to become citizens and are playing by the rules. You're not going to do it. We have enough criminals here without adding to them. But that's not what happened. So, you know, the mayor may want to say, hey, things are down and better, but the rise in violent crime in charlill I go back through the story a little bit. It's on Fox News, then you have be oh, fox News a bunch of conservative news. No, it's a story, it's a genuine story. The messaging comes as Charlotte faces intensifying scrutiny over violent crime, with Republican lawmakers pointing to the sharp rise in homicides and assaults in the Queen cities bustling downtown. It's almost weekly daily at this point that we're hearing about the homicides in Charlotte. We've averaged about one hundred or so annually on this Mayor's watch. Ali's the twelfth District GP guy sharing his recent attendance of multiple vigils for young children killed. I think the perception that we're trying to create is one thing, but the reality is different. And obviously there's an epidemic of underreporting of certain crimes to gen statistics. We've seen this. We've had the FBI even tell us that cities do under report things or don't fly reports to make their stats look better, but that doesn't mean it's better. The rise in violent crimes prompted Republican lawmakers to urge Democratic Governor Josh Stein to deploy the National Guard. For now, the governor has resisted that call, and local officials have argued that public safety is a local responsibility. Fine, local responsibility, then enforce the laws and prosecute criminals. Just do it, and then you can resist those calls all you want. But you guys are acting like there's not a problem when there is. The city faced eight homicides in seven days. Recently, the murder rateing uptown Charlotte is now two hundred percent higher than it was a year ago, set a letter from a trio of Republican lawmakers. According to the Fraternal Order of Police, aggravated assaults involving knives or guns I presented from eighty six in twenty twenty four to one hundred and eleven and twenty twenty five, and personal strong arm robberies have increased from twenty six to thirty one in the same period. Lyle was most recently re elected when he a fifth term. Her reelection came after her leadership was scrutinized for her response to Arena Zarutzka's violence stabbing in August. Again, there's no reason, there's no reason that this can't be bipartisan, except for the fact that the Democrats are afraid that Trump will get credit. 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 thepetecleanershow dot com. 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