More judges getting busted for aiding illegal aliens (04-25-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:29] Alrighty, so I don't know if these stories are related. I don't know if they're related to our local story. I just find them to be...well, I find them to be connected. Okay, I do. I find there to be a connection. I sense a connection between three stories.

[00:00:48] Alright, the first, I went over yesterday in great detail as the Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary Not My Fault McFadden put out his compelling and rich press release about his heroic intervention that yielded nothing with the ICE agents that were taking into custody an illegal alien outside the courthouse.

[00:01:13] Outrage ensued. Outrage ensued. How dare they? What, pick up an illegal alien for deportation outside of the courthouse? They're allowed to do that. That's their job. You have no role in it. You have no say in it. It does not matter to them. It does not matter to me. Okay?

[00:01:31] It is spectacle to see, no doubt. And that's what apparently, what was it? I heard the community migrant network or something like that. But this has now become, this is part of the counter op, which is people who are open borders types.

[00:01:52] They are recording, video recording, all of these ICE actions, trying to get license plates, make and model of vehicles and stuff. And if they can get the people, the ICE agents themselves, they can get their faces recorded. And then they share it on social media. So now everybody who's trying to avoid deportation can now identify vehicles if they see them hanging around.

[00:02:20] And so apparently, according to the latest story I heard driving in today here on WBT, was that somebody tipped off McFadden because they saw a van and they, I guess, hypothesized, or maybe they knew from the social media network sharing counter op, that ICE was there looking for somebody.

[00:02:42] And that's how they were able to tip off McFadden. Now ask yourself the question of why does this person have Gary McFadden's phone number where he can be immediately alerted that ICE is out front picking up somebody. I will leave that for the local reporters to track down. That's the obvious question to me is walk me through the timeline of how this all happened and why McFadden is getting tipped off from the anti-deportation counter op.

[00:03:12] You know, so that was the first story. I'm not going to go into the details. I dragged the sheriff far enough yesterday. So I feel no need to revisit that. You can go back though and listen on the podcast at thepeatpod.com.

[00:03:27] So there's that story. Okay. And then there's this story. You may have heard this a couple days ago. We got news of a judge in New Mexico who was housing an illegal alien at his house.

[00:03:50] And there's been a development now. The former New Mexico Democrat judge, Jose Cano or Cano and his wife have reportedly been taken into custody by federal officials after being accused of harboring an illegal alien. Not just any illegal alien. No, no. A trend de Aragua gang member.

[00:04:18] In their home. This raises all sorts of other questions for me. Did they actually have a choice? My understanding of the way these gangs operate is they are corrupting influences on judges, law enforcement, right? Business people. And they do this through intimidation, harassment, attacks, right?

[00:04:50] And so now I am wondering, was this a friendly judge? Was this judge on the payroll? Was this judge coerced somehow? I don't know. When you take in a trend de Aragua member and put them up in your house to avoid deportation, that's the first thing that I thought of. Now, maybe the judge is just, you know, bleeding hard lefty and, oh, you know, I just, I have a soft spot in my heart for the, you know, the guys with the gang tattoos all over their face.

[00:05:18] Or maybe they're, you know, fight the power, tear down Western civilization leftist. And they are, you know, they're more interested in destroying the system. And so putting them up in the house would be a way to help destroy the system and undermine the patriarchy and the systemic isms and such. Maybe that's it.

[00:05:43] KFOX 14 captured a video yesterday afternoon showing federal officials placing Kano and his wife, Nancy, both into custody as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers executed a search and probable cause arrest warrant at their Las Cruces house, house, whatever. The video shows officials wearing Homeland Security investigations and FBI vests detaining the couple near a set of vehicles, both placed in handcuffs.

[00:06:12] In March last month, Kano resigned from his position after 23-year-old Venezuelan national Christian Ortego Lopez was arrested by authorities. Ortego Lopez had reportedly met Nancy Kano after illegally entering the United States in 2023 near Eagle Pass, Texas. Remember that place? Oh boy, that was ground zero, wasn't it, for a while.

[00:06:40] And he later accepted her offer to stay in a casita behind their home. I do not know if he was contracted to work on the pool for her. I'm not sure if he was doing some pool maintenance operations.

[00:06:59] Leading up to Kano's resignation, the Department of Justice said federal authorities had executed search warrants related to unlawful firearm possession and other offenses involving four illegal migrants in the state, Ortego Lopez among them. The couple, the Kano's, both face evidence-tampering charges. Seems bad.

[00:07:28] All right, so what is the connection, Pete? I'm getting there. Third story. This came down this morning, moments ago. ABC News reports, a Milwaukee County Circuit Judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest. This according to the FBI Director Cash Patel.

[00:07:55] Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on obstruction charges. Quote, this is from Cash Patel, quote, We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse. The guy's name is Eduardo Flores Ruiz. It allowed him to evade arrest. Dugan was arrested early Friday morning today at the courthouse.

[00:08:25] Flores Ruiz was arrested still a short time later. Thankfully, Patel said, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he's been in custody since. But the judge's obstruction created increased danger to the public. Look, I'm starting to think that ICE and the FBI are turning their attention to the jails and the courthouses.

[00:08:52] This is now three occasions, right? Here in Mecklenburg County, they picked one up outside of the courthouse. And then these two different judges now all now charged for obstructing or aiding and abetting in these efforts. Because you know that people in the legal community, they know who the who have which judges have the soft hearts. Let's just say it that way. Right.

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[00:11:12] I think they are, I think they are looking at the nexus in the judiciary with these, with the illegal immigration issue. That's just a wild speculation, wild hypothetical on my part, but I don't, like, after a certain point, it's a pattern, right? It's no longer coincidence, it's a pattern.

[00:11:36] And so I'm starting to wonder if this is the pattern because this is an op. And going into areas or, you know, courthouses where illegal aliens have been getting turned loose, particularly the criminal ones because that's why they're in the courthouses, right? And it's not too difficult to track if you've got judges that are making comments and making rulings

[00:12:05] that are turning people loose and everything. It's not difficult to, like, okay, well, like, for instance, Gary, not my fault, McFadden, the sheriff here. He has a history. They know his history. He does not cooperate with ICE. ICE, and he prefers to turn people loose. And, okay, we'll hang out in front of the courthouse then. We'll start picking them up right outside of your doors. And now he's going to come up with policies and procedures, whatever. Yeah, go ahead. Do whatever you want. Do whatever you want.

[00:12:35] We ask to cooperate with you. All you have to do is call ICE when these people that are in your jail are about to bond out. All ICE asks is you hold on to them and give them a heads up, and they give you the freaking phone number to call. And he refuses to make the call. But he's handing out a cell phone number to ICE agents that are there.

[00:13:02] ICE suggested that ICE take that phone number, share it with every single officer in the vicinity, and just call Gary every five to ten minutes and ask, hey, is somebody getting turned loose today? Hey, is somebody getting released today? Hey, do you know of anybody? Just over and over and over again. That would be malicious compliance. Or as the kids say, extra.

[00:13:32] It's a little extra. All right, meanwhile, we have other lawyers with the wardrobe changes looking to slow down Donald Trump and thwart his presidency because that's what the resistance is all about, right? Any means necessary. You will use the only thing, the only tools you have because let's face it, right? The street protests, they weren't cutting it. People kind of just ignore them now, and they don't really have an effect.

[00:14:01] I mean, yeah, media will go out and cover the crazy colored hair people in your protests, but it's not moving the needle, you know? So now just use the judiciary and just block everything for as long as possible. Slow it all down. It doesn't matter if you're starting to create precedent that might come back and bite you. It doesn't matter. See, leftists never think in these types of terms.

[00:14:28] They think only in terms of seizing power. That's it. That's all it is about because that is the philosophy. It is power dynamics. That's what Marxism is. It's about power dynamics. Who has it and who's trying to get it? And so their intent is to seize the power and then they'll rule however they need to rule to keep their power. They're very short-sighted on some of this stuff.

[00:14:57] So we have the judge now. This is out of a federal district court, Washington, D.C., U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Collar-Cotelli. Well, thank goodness her name Colleen is spelled with a C because otherwise that would make for a very awkward monogram on the towels. Okay. Donald Trump's unilateral effort to reshape election processes

[00:15:25] is an attempt to short-circuit Congress's deliberative process by executive order. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., wrote yesterday afternoon, in a 120-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Colleen Collar-Cotelli blocked the Trump administration from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and ordering that election officials assess the citizenship of anyone

[00:15:53] who receives public assistance before allowing them to register. So that is on hold. She also barred the Election Assistance Commission from withholding federal funding from states that did not comply with the order. So it's just putting the brakes on this executive order. I will say it again. None of this changes unless Congress acts.

[00:16:19] I don't understand what the hell Congress is doing, or not doing, I should say, more accurately, that they are not doing these things. You guys have a very slim majority and you have a very narrow window to do these things. How are you not running bills? I don't care if you run the bill and it fails.

[00:16:47] I'd rather you run a bill and have it fail than to not do anything at all. You have to keep up the pressure. You have to keep making or submitting the legislation. You have, like, otherwise the executive orders are only good until Trump walks out of office. This has been a problem from the get-go. I have, like, I, my position on executive orders has not changed.

[00:17:15] Even when I agree with the executive order, I don't like them just by default. I don't like them. Because we do not elect a king. And Trump is pushing the boundaries, absolutely. He's pushing the boundaries of what he can do. But after what we saw with Biden and what we saw with Obama and what we saw with Bush and what we saw with Clinton and what we saw with Bush the Elder and Reagan, it goes back decades.

[00:17:45] Presidents keep doing more of these executive orders. But what it's creating is this wild swing back and forth and back and forth. It just creates instability in the society. It's not helpful. It's not healthy. You have to codify this with law. And the House and the Senate needs to get off their asses and start proposing legislation, running these bills through, getting them passed,

[00:18:14] and you will get Trump's signature for crying out loud. You can, look, right, you want to do the citizenship thing? They've got a bill to do this. Where is it? Well, the Democrats are going to filibuster it. Let them filibuster it. Make them do a Spartacus, a.k.a. Cory Booker. Make them do a filibuster to prevent the passage of a law that says you have to be a U.S. citizen to vote. Make them do it. Absolutely.

[00:18:43] The campaign commercials write themselves. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, and you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. Why? Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with Ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information.

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[00:19:36] Subscribe through that link, and you'll get 15% off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. So this judge in D.C. says Donald Trump's order to require proof of citizenship to register to vote exceeded the president's authority,

[00:20:05] noting that the Department of Justice, quote, offered almost no defense of the president's order. Look, I'm no lawyer. I'm no legal scholar, constitutional expert, or anything. It does seem, though, like if you are not allowed to rewrite the law as the president, then you can't rewrite the law as the president. I may agree with what he's trying to do. This is why my contempt is for Congress.

[00:20:31] The people that are elected to write the laws are refusing to do their freaking jobs. While they have this window of opportunity, while they have the chance to build on a mandate, while they have the chance to take a pretty good swipe at the leftist project that has been going on for decades, you have the chance now to actually try to make a difference, and they're just, they're on vacation.

[00:21:01] And they're, like, they're not focused. They're not disciplined. I don't understand what you're doing. I do understand. Their incentives are not to actually get laws passed. Their incentive is to fundraise and to get reelected based on floor speeches that nobody watches, but clips of which go viral among, you know, small dollar donors. It's the only, it's the only explanation here in my mind. Because the judge might very well be correct on this.

[00:21:31] But the fact that we have so many cases like this, so many judges issuing injunctive relief, barring the president from doing basically everything, well, it all gets thrown into this one basket, not of deplorables, but one basket of examples of, you know, judges thwarting Trump.

[00:21:57] And in some of these cases, I would say probably most of these rulings are not legit. But there are, there are some that are going to be in the basket that will be legit. It's just, in this, I also blame Chief Justice John Roberts. I went over this yesterday too. More worried about the, the, the opinions rather of his peers in DC and in the law schools and academia.

[00:22:25] He's more interested in what they think of him and the court and whether he's doing a good job versus the public versus the American people. What do we think you're doing? Do we have confidence in your court? And every time you try to, to make these accommodations in order to protect your peers' opinion, you lose public opinion.

[00:22:53] ABC News reports that the judge said, if Trump wishes to, not directly quoting here, but if the president wishes to reform election processes, Congress would be the appropriate branch to do so. For now, the judge did allow the Trump administration to carry out two parts of the executive order that are related to enforcement of pre-existing laws. One of the sections ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State

[00:23:21] to make voting databases accessible to the Department of Government Efficiency to identify non-citizens who are registered to vote. Good. Good. So that's a victory. Good. This kind of cross-check is a, I mean, this to me is a very simple and, I don't know, foundational kind of approach to list management and integrity.

[00:23:49] You have these different databases. Cross-reference them. The second section, which she allowed to stand, directed the Department of Justice to take action against states that do not adopt Trump's requirement that mail-in ballots be received by Election Day. Good. Mail-in ballots should be in the election offices by the close of the polls on Election Day.

[00:24:18] You don't get extra time to vote. Election Day is the last day. That's it. Everybody votes by that day. Very simple. Oh, but what about the postmarks? Well, then I'm sorry. Then it doesn't count. Right? I mean, if I'm mailing a birthday card to my mom and I don't drop it in the mail, you know, 17 weeks ahead of time, that's my fault for not getting, I'm just kidding. I don't do it 17 weeks.

[00:24:42] But still, you drop it in the mail if you want to do a mail-in ballot. And you have to know that I have to drop it in the mail early so it gets there on time. You don't get to drop it in the mail at 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. or 1159 p.m. on Election Day. And if it shows up without a postmark, it doesn't count.

[00:25:08] It shouldn't count because there's no way to know when the vote was actually dropped in the mail. This is very elementary stuff. So a couple of bright spots on that order, at least, or that ruling on that order. And then we go to California. A federal judge in Northern California has barred the Trump administration from withholding funds

[00:25:37] from cities and counties that follow sanctuary policies, which were targeted by executive orders the president issued at the start of his second term. Andrew McCarthy, writing at National Review, outlines the ruling. He does not, in my opinion, he does not take any position on whether this ruling is correct or not. He is simply outlining what the judge ordered and why. So this was a six-page order.

[00:26:06] Judge William Orrick Jr., an Obama appointee to the district court in San Francisco, reasoned that in relevant part, Trump's executive orders, 14159 and 14218, violate the Constitution's separation of powers. The spending power in Article I. Article I made the Congress. Article II made the presidency. And Article III made the judiciary. Right? I think I got that right. Yeah, Article III.

[00:26:36] Yeah. So, and they outline, like, this is what Congress does, this is what the president does, and this is what the judiciary does. Okay? So, Article I gives the power of the purse, the spending power, to Congress alone. This is why you have all spending bills have to originate in the House. Right? And Congress has the authority to allocate public funds,

[00:27:05] including the authority to attach conditions on those funds. Right? If Congress wants to, for example, tie federal funding to the speed limit being 55 miles an hour. Right? That's what Congress can do by holding out the carrot of the federal money. It does not empower. Article I does not empower the president to attach additional conditions, though. The president does not get to do that.

[00:27:35] That's more like a, that's a kingly kind of a power. The president doesn't have that because the president is not a king. I don't want a king. Even if I like the guy, I don't want him to be the king. The president's constitutional duty is to take care that the laws enacted by Congress are faithfully executed. Right?

[00:27:58] As enacted, federal spending laws do not condition funding to states, counties, and municipalities on their enforcement of federal immigration law. So once again, if Congress wants to create a condition that you have to help enforce immigration law, that you have to cooperate with ICE. This is why North Carolina passed this law. And that was passing another version of it, an amendment to that law,

[00:28:26] because of sheriffs like Gary, not my fault, McFadden. Right? They refuse to cooperate with ICE. And so, okay, we are now going to make it a law that you must. That's what Congress needs to do. But Congress isn't doing it. All right. So spring is here, a time of renewal and celebrations. You got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that are going to last a lifetime.

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[00:29:50] Pete, have you done a wellness check on it's not my fault McFadden yet? I can't wait for the perp walk video of him. He deserves it as well. Stop putting citizens and police at risk. It's, yeah. Uh, okay. And that's it on that. Uh, at Patriot Girl says, if we're lucky, the FBI will arrest Sheriff McFadden for failure to cooperate with ICE and we'll be rid of him once and for all. Uh, Pete, Bitcoin deals here. Oh, that's a spam.

[00:30:18] Um, that's junk mail. This from Tim who says, two judges locked up for harboring illegal aliens. I call that a good start. Go get him, Cash. Patel. John says, since Gary, not my fault McFadden, will not call ICE before releasing an illegal alien that they want, why doesn't ICE just come pick them up as soon as they know they're in jail? They seem to know they're there. They just want to wait until they are released before they pick them up. Just go get them immediately.

[00:30:47] So I, I'm not sure that ICE is actually allowed to take somebody out of state custody. I'm not, I'm not sure that you could basically short circuit the, the state, uh, arrest and intake in that process. Right? You get arrested for some criminal activity, allegedly, and they send you into the jail. Uh, you get processed.

[00:31:15] And, you know, in the past, McFadden, like, didn't even want to tell ICE that they had found illegal aliens. So now they have, they have to report they're an illegal alien in the custody of the sheriff's office. And so once ICE is made aware, ICE says, all right, put it, you know, just hold on to them. Give us 48 hours. And that gives ICE time to do the research and find out, is this somebody that we're going to deport? Do we send people whatever? Like they have to, they've got their side of the operation. They have to line up.

[00:31:43] But if they know that you're, you're holding somebody and they're not bonding out, they can't afford the bond or something. There's less of a timeline for ICE to act on that. So ICE will deprioritize taking that person into custody versus, you know, racing down there every time. Now you could say maybe just set up a, you know, a big van. I don't want to call it a paddy wagon because I believe that might have some sort of a negative stereotypical implications for the Irish.

[00:32:12] But you set up a big bus. How about that? A bus. We can't use the sheriff's bus because he converted it into a bookmobile. So we have a bus maybe. And you just staff a bunch of ICE people there all day. And as soon as people bail out, you just walk in and take them. And that's, I think, what they did yesterday. That's what it sounds like they did yesterday or day before. Was it Wednesday? I think it may have been. I don't remember. But I think that's what they did.

[00:32:42] They waited there on somebody to get released. And they did not take custody of them inside the jail, inside the courthouse, because I suspect McFadden won't allow that transfer to occur. Because remember, McFadden demands some sort of a warrant from a judicial official. But the warrants are administrative because it's immigration.

[00:33:07] It's a different track inside the government process. McFadden knows this. That's why he always says a judicial warrant. So now, okay, you're not going to cooperate with us. We're going to just sit on your doorstep and we're going to take people as they come out of the building. That's it. No fair. No fair. That's what McFadden basically is saying. No fair. Yeah, actually, it is fair.

[00:33:37] It's called a workaround. They're working around you. And even if you were willing to help ICE and they were to reach out to you, why would they trust you at this point? Why would ICE trust that you're acting in good faith on any of this when you have been campaigning and promising and acting in bad faith the entire time?

[00:34:04] All right, back to this National Review piece by Andrew McCarthy about the Sanctuary City's executive order. Basically, it was to freeze funding. Federal money was to withhold federal money for any sanctuary jurisdiction. And Judge Oreck says that as enacted, federal spending laws do not condition funding to states, counties, and municipalities

[00:34:31] on their enforcement of federal immigration laws. Judge Oreck concluded that the two executive orders at issue were basically the same as the executive order from President Trump's first term. And when that executive order was issued, Judge Oreck ruled on that too. Something maybe to the fact that the lawyers know which judge to go in front of in San Francisco.

[00:34:57] Oreck ruled that that was unconstitutional as well. His ruling was then appealed. It went to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. And it was upheld. So even if he had some sort of change of mind over the last few years, which he obviously hasn't, he would have been bound to follow the Ninth Circuit precedent from 2018. He also found that the new executive orders violate the Fifth Amendment because, in his view,

[00:35:26] they are vague and violate due process, withholding funds on the president's unilateral say-so. So there's no due process. Further, the judge concluded that the executive orders violate the Tenth Amendment by coercively commandeering state and local officials into enforcing executive immigration policies and federal law. What have I been saying? Like, the nullification as the crisis, right, a nullification crisis,

[00:35:54] that's the prediction from the guys who did the fourth turning. And it looks like this is where it's going to pop. That's my guess. Moreover, to the extent that Attorney General Pamela Bondi has undertaken in compliance with the executive orders to freeze DOJ funds Congress has allocated to state and local programs, the judge found it likely that this action was arbitrary and capricious, violative of the Constitution,

[00:36:23] and thus an illegal final agency action in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. So you can't do any of it, according to this judge, who also directed that his order, quote, shall apply to the maximum extent provided for by federal law and procedural rules. Which means what? It means that it's basically another nationwide injunction. It applies to everybody. Even though it's one judge

[00:36:54] with, like, no class that's been certified. Now maybe somebody else sues at another level in a different district and they get a different ruling, and then it forces the Supreme Court to have to take this up. But again, all of this is because Trump is signing executive orders, doing all of this flurry of executive orders, and doing so because Congress hasn't put a bill on his desk. For years I have heard the criticism

[00:37:24] from the left and the media, but I repeat myself, that the Republicans don't know how to govern. They can't govern. And the reason why is because they want to kill the government. They hate government. They're for limited government. So they don't possibly understand how to govern. Now I have known that to be false because states are controlled by Republicans. More than half of them have Republican majorities. And we have example after example of Republican lawmakers

[00:37:52] actually knowing how to run bills and make law. Why is this such a problem at the national level? Why can't Congress get its act together and run bills and get them passed? Again, even if they fail, at least you are running the bill and you are getting Democrats to have to defend their dumbassery. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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