NC looks to expand voucher money, force cooperation with ICE (09-09-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the show.

[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Happy Monday.

[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Or as I call it, Post-Panther Loss Monday.

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I don't.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's...

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of feel like it might be a theme this year, as it was last year and the year before.

[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And the...

[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, basically since David Tepper bought the team.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm sure it's just a coincidence, though.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Alrighty, so the North Carolina lawmakers coming back into session this week, and they're going

[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_00]: to be voting on their mini-budget or the second part of their two-year budget.

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: This is normal.

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They do a two-year legislative session.

[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: One's a short...

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Or it starts with a long session, and then they come back for the short session where,

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, they're supposed to just kind of, you know, make some budget adjustments based

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: on the revenue picture.

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And they shouldn't really be doing anything controversial.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But in years past, that has not always been the case.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the short session period.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were hammering out their budget tweaks, their budget updates.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And they have a conference report now because the House and the Senate could not agree.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they went to a conference committee.

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: The conference committee has apparently hammered out an agreement, and we got a look at it

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_00]: over the last few days.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be moving forward on it.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say...

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Right, so House Rules Committee, the Rules Committee...

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, the all-powerful Rules Committee.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: That's how you always have to refer to it.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: The all-powerful Rules Committee.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be meeting at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, and they're going to be specifically

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: discussing one provision in this budget bill.

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's called House Bill 10.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And this specific provision, apparently, according to Catherine Zender at carolinajournal.com,

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the focus of the Rules Committee discussion will be on the provisions requiring sheriffs

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: to cooperate with ICE, Immigration Customs Enforcement, before the House vote on Wednesday,

[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I think, afternoon.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, 2 o'clock.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be voting at 2 o'clock.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: The Senate is going to vote on the budget Monday.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's today.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're going to come back into session.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to vote.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It's expected to vote.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_00]: If it comes out of conference, it's usually had, you know, the stamp of approval from

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: the leaders in each of the chambers in the Senate and in the House.

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And so the Senate will take it up today.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_00]: The House will take it up on Wednesday, but they've got their Rules Committee first.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_00]: It'll fully fund the Opportunity Scholarships, aka the vouchers.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And it will, as I mentioned, require sheriffs to cooperate with ICE.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Specifically, that would be our sheriff, Gary, not my fault, McFadden.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_00]: There are like five others in the state that refuse to cooperate.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_00]: These are in the larger metro areas.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: They ran on these campaign promises in the Democrat primaries in order to win those primaries.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think all of them have since retained their seats.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Gary McFadden, he says two federal laws could be utilized.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So this is this is off of his Twitter feed and it's not well written.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And he has a propensity to use words that aren't appropriate, that aren't like grammatically

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_00]: correct.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: He just like he messes up construed with constructed, that kind of thing.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just going to read to you the tweet.

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, this was from last year about this bill that the legislature first started running

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: to force him and other sheriffs to help ICE deport people who are in the country illegally

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and have engaged in criminal activity.

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So ICE asks the sheriff's office, hey, can you hold on to that person that you've got

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: in your jail?

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Hold on to them.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't turn them loose.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Let us come by and get them.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And McFadden, along with five other sheriffs.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Flips him off and says, screw you.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Get a judge.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Get a judge to issue some sort of a criminal holding order.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And the problem there and McFadden knows this, and this is where he's being deceptive, is

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: that these are civil laws.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And so you're not going to get judges to write criminal documents to hold people because

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_00]: they're not crimes.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: These are civil violations.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He knows this.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why he says it like that.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So here's what he says in this tweet from last year.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Just a reminder from the sheriff of Mecklenburg County, two federal laws could be utilized

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: ICE choose to and not force the local sheriffs to deal with a ineffective immigration system

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: designed by the DHS but now driven by local politicians.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So who really has the political agenda?

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's an all caps, very, very Trumpian.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The political agenda is all caps.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The political agenda is to get violent aliens out of the country.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Sheriff, that's the agenda.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And I know you don't want to do that, apparently, although he'll deny that.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But this argument has always been based in this idea that, well, we can't we can't cooperate

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: with ICE because then the Hispanic population won't cooperate with us.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I would submit that people who are in the country illegally and are being victimized

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: by other people who are in the country illegally, that they are not confident in dealing with

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: the justice system because they're afraid they too will be deported.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you protect them from the deportation because they haven't violated any law, then

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: your argument collapses.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, he already does that.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not they're not putting people in jail for simply being in the country illegally.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to have done something that warrants arrest.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And in Mecklenburg County, that's.

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's saying something in order to get arrested in Mecklenburg County.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Your argument collapses.

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The conference report for HB 10 includes two hundred forty eight million dollars non-recurring

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: to clear out the wait list for the school vouchers for the opportunity scholarships.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a huge wait list because people are trying to get their kids out of the government

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: failing schools.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And it also includes about twenty five million to clear out the wait list for education scholarships

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_00]: or savings accounts rather the ESA, the education savings accounts.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: A plus there's a wait list there for kids with disabilities.

[00:08:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So twenty five million will clear that wait list and the funding would be retroactive

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: to the beginning of this school year.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So families would be eligible for a tuition reimbursement from their school.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to take this in two different parts, one on the schools and one on the immigration

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_00]: side.

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll start with the schools.

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[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Matt Welch writing at reason.com.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: This was on Friday, I believe.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Talking about the US education system, the North Carolina General Assembly coming back

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_00]: into session today.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to move to adopt their budget.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And in it, they include enough money to clear out the waiting list for all of the parents

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: who have been trying to get the Opportunity Scholarship, which is a voucher program.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And Matt Welch talks about this in general, but K-12 government schools, the project more

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: generally.

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He says the US population continues to grow.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The number of kids attending public K-12 schools will likely never again reach its highest

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: number, which was 2019.

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It was back in 2019, it's five years ago.

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The rise of homeschooling went from around 2.8 percent of the school-aged population

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: pre-pandemic to about 5.8 percent.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So basically a doubling, virtually.

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Although reliable statistics are hard to come by, he points out.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's a chief contributor to the decline, along with the decreasing birth rates.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the peak enrollment he's looking at is the number, not a percentage, but the number.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Between the fall and which makes sense, by the way, because the number, the total number

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: of kids going to K-12 government schools is important because we have built the schools,

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_00]: right?

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a constant push for smaller class sizes, which of course adds more teachers

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_00]: to the payroll, which of course gets more members for the teachers' unions and more

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: money for them.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you have fewer kids, then you don't need as much classroom space.

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need as many teachers.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So the rise of homeschooling explains some of this.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2030, the projection from the National Center

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: for Public Education Statistics is that public school enrollment will decrease by 7 percent.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It'll go from about just under 51 million kids down to 47 million kids.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So surely government spending on those schools, which typically amounts to about 20 percent

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_00]: of state and local budgets, surely, which by the way, it's more than that in North

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Carolina.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you've got fewer kids, then surely you're going to be spending less on the

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_00]: government schools, right?

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Just kidding.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That's never going to happen.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, that's a good one.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So the National Center for Public Education Statistics, or the NCES, estimates that taxpayer

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_00]: expenditures on K-12 schools is actually going up slightly from 69—sorry, $693 billion

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_00]: to $698 billion.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: The per-pupil spending, when adjusted for inflation, will continue its long-term trend

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: of increasing.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It'll go from about $13,700 up to $14,800.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: So that is the current per-pupil average—$13,700 a year to educate a kid in a K-12 school,

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: in a K-12 government school.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The reality is even less fiscally sane than these numbers suggest.

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, that estimate does not factor into the projections, the direct federal injection

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: of about $200 billion worth of federal COVID relief money—$69 billion in 2020 bills,

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: $130 billion in the American Rescue Plan, so for a total of $200 billion—nor does

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: it include the indirect $350 billion ARP bailout for states to plug whatever budget

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: holes they wanted.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This taxpayer blowout, extracted with strategic intentionality by the same Democrat Party

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: supporting teachers' unions that kept schools closed in America much longer than those in

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: most other countries, produced the largest one-year per-pupil spending hike in two decades.

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So taxpayers are paying more money for a service they use less, even without calculating the

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_00]: COVID-19 spending shutdown debacle.

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's, and before he died, my mom

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

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[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so Matt Welch at Reason.com points out that the number of kids attending charter

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: schools public in name but managed by private entities rather than government, the number

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_00]: of kids attending these charter schools has more than doubled over the last 15 years.

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: This is also part of the reason why the K-12 traditional government school numbers of enrolled

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: kids is going down.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Families, it turns out, he says, have been fleeing government managed schools since long

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: before COVID-19.

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It is notable that all of these school choice states that are doing more and more going

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_00]: to true choice, that they are all run by Republicans, just as all of the biggest school lockdown

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: states were run by Democrats.

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_00]: That should tell you something.

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_00]: One party wants to give you the freedom to leave, and the other party wants to force

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you out or in, but it's all about force.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: That which is not permitted, or sorry, that which is not prohibited is mandated.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the old joke about the left.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It's either everybody has to do it or it's banned.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Those are your options.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The Republican platform supports universal school choice in every state, expanding the

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: 529 education savings accounts and shutting down the Department of Education.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's not as if kids weren't learning before the Department of Education was established

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: a couple decades ago.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, they were learning.

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably better.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually, no probably about it.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Now you've got like half of the schools, half of the kids in the schools not at grade

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: level in reading and math.

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: What are teachers unions getting for their 99% plus political donation spending on Democrats?

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, at the local level, Democratic dominated polities like the state of New York are still

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: pushing through mandatory class size reductions, which surprise requires hiring more teachers

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: even as the student population declines.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Teachers union muscle flexing.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: He said an example of this underrated kind of under the radar was the selection of Minnesota

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: governor Tim Walz, who is a liar.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Walz, who is a liar, is a former teacher.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: He was a dues paying member of both the AFT and the NEA.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Just to be safe, right?

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Just like, no, no, no.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm making way too much money as a public school teacher.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So let me give money to two unions just in case.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what just in case, but just in case you just got to cover.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you want to run for an office, obviously.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So you want to be able to claim membership and the support of both of those union bases

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: and leadership.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. So the two main unions in America for teachers, he was a member of both.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And as governor, he opposed school choice and he favored extended school lockdowns.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Surprise, surprise.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: No amount of political backslapping and Democrat influence buying can overcome the cruelty

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_00]: of math. Matt Welch goes on to say when public school buildings become too empty, they have

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_00]: to shut down when the federal spigot runs dry, as it was supposed to this month, although

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: there are still some drops that are going to stick around until next year.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But when the federal money runs dry, state and local governments are going to be gazing

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: out over a fiscal cliff.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what Democrats do.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They did it in North Carolina until they were removed from power in 2010.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: In a, you know, a wiping out of their legislative majorities.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: When Republicans took over, they had to address a structural budget deficit.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And that structural deficit, there were many reasons for it.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But a very large reason was and Democrats knew this, too, by the way, they had identified

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: this as a problem was their was their education funding levels that they were doing in the

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: teacher pay scales that they were running.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And they kept using one time money for ongoing costs.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's just stupid.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. You don't take it's like, hey, here's a check.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, some wealthy uncle passed away.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't even know him. But here's a check for ten thousand dollars.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you then go out and say, you know what?

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go I'm going to go buy a car.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to buy a car that's, you know, one hundred thousand dollars.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you do that?

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You only have 10 K and it's a one time check.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not getting that every single year.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't pay that car off with ten thousand dollars.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: You may be able to buy something this year.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You could put down a down payment on it, but you can't pay the the.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The loan on that thing, and that's what Democrats did on like all sorts of stuff, but

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: education included.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: No amount of political back slapping and Democrat influence buying can overcome the

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: cruelty of math, he says.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Public schools had one job.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: One job. And they have screwed it up.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Just wait until all the taxpayers, not just the ones that have defected from the school

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_00]: system. Wait until everybody else starts noticing.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of people in North Carolina, I will say, that don't know about the

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Opportunity Scholarship.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't know about the the vouchers.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're listening to this show, you do.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You are informed.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you don't have a kid that's in the schools, you're not taking advantage of, you

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_00]: know, the Opportunity Scholarship program.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, if you're sending your kid to a government school and you are happy

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: with that indoctrinate, I mean, the education that they are getting, then fine.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Then don't take the voucher.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: See, that's choice.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Which I thought Democrats were all about.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: They're only for choice on one thing.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. Just one thing.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Everything else has to be mandated.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You will go to our schools.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And here's the key.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You will go to the schools that we control because we want your kids to learn what we

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_00]: want them to learn.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So they can usher in the revolution.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the point.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: It's always been the point.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The issue is never the issue.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, they're going to say the issue is the Opportunity Scholarships, the school

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: vouchers, not the issue.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The issue is the revolution.

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It always is.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_00]: My grandma came to live with us in her final years.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We took care of her in the house.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But also when I was a kid, my grandfather, we moved him into the house across the

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: street. He was suffering from Alzheimer's.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And we you know, my mom, predominantly my mom, my dad and all of us kids, you know,

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: helped take care of him, too.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And back then there weren't a lot of treatments, virtually no support for the

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: caregivers and family members, both.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Things are a lot different, though.

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Now you got a lot of resources that are available via the Alzheimer's Association.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And one of the organizations that I have supported for over 20 years is the

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Alzheimer's Association of Western Carolina.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And I am participating once again in the Walk to End Alzheimer's.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I am leading a Charlotte team.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a Truist Field and it's called Pete's Pack.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I was thinking Pete-estrian, the Pete-estrians, but then I thought that might be

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: a little too hard to pronounce.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So just Pete's Pack.

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can sign up and join me and join the walk with us.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It's October 19th at Truist Field.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You go to ALZ.org slash walk, ALZ.org slash walk and then just look for Pete's

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Pack. Just do a search for the teams and you'll find it.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I also put links in the podcast description as well.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm also going to be in the Gastonia Walk on October 5th, but I'll be N-seeing

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: that one. So I won't be able to walk with you, but I will be walking at the

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Charlotte one. So if you want to make a donation to the team, help support the

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_00]: cause, really would appreciate it.

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It goes to a really, really great organization.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And come on out and walk with us.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so the North Carolina Senate is passing or has passed legislation and

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_00]: now it's going to be part of the budget.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Because it did not get final approval in the earlier days of the short session,

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and so part of the budget deal includes this requirement, a law to require

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: sheriffs to cooperate with ICE.

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: According to the story by Breonna Kramer at the Carolina Journal,

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_00]: CarolinaJournal.com from back in May, pointed out that most sheriffs, virtually

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: all the sheriffs in North Carolina, comply with the detainer requests.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: But there are about half a dozen that don't.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, Sheriff Gary, not my fault, McFadden, who's always got an excuse for

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: something bad that happened at the jail or some failure on his part or in the

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: sheriff's office, he's always got an excuse.

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_00]: He's always blaming somebody else.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: House Bill 10 passed the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2023, 71 to

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: 44, with just two Democrats voting in favor, Cecil Brockman and Michael Ray.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They were then targeted by their own party for primary defeat.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Carolina Journal found in a poll that about 25 percent of North Carolina likely

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: voters said immigration is the most important issue in light of elections this

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: November. And by the way, if you're seeing lots of AI generated images of

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Donald Trump.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Holding up cats and and ducks or running from from crazed mobs trying to save cats

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and ducks, it's because those are the memes that have sprouted up after the

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: reports have come out about a town, I believe it's Ohio Springfield, I want to

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_00]: say, where people went down, residents went down to the city council.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're just ripping the local elected body for all of the Haitians that have

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: been flown into their city, which, by the way, this was the way the Biden-Harris

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_00]: administration made the numbers look better at the border crossings.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They just started flying the immigrants, the illegal immigrants into America and

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: dropping them in, I'm sure completely coincidentally, red states.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, they're trying not to have any kind of a political impact whatsoever.

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But these people who came down to the city council in Ohio, they they were

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: complaining that the Haitians, they don't have driver's licenses and they're like

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_00]: smashing into all sorts of stuff.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't follow any of the rules of the road.

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and by the way, they are going around taking people's pets and killing

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: them and eating them along with ducks from the park.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So that that may be why you're seeing the memes.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: ICE can request a detainer against non-citizens who have been arrested for

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: criminal activity.

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the first thing that you got to remember is that you are in the jail

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_00]: because you've been arrested for some sort of criminal activity.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: An immigration detainer asks the local police departments or the sheriff's

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: office running the jail to notify ICE when a criminal alien is about to be

[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_00]: released from custody as ordered by a judge.

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And instead of releasing them, the detainers allow time for the ICE agents to

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: arrive and take custody for deportation in accordance with federal law.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And our sheriff, along with the sheriffs in Orange County, Durham, Wake, Buncombe

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and Forsyth counties, none of them are complying.

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: None of them are helping ICE.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: They're refusing.

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And they say because they don't want to be sued.

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They could be sued for false imprisonment.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's amazing.

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Out of the 95 other counties in this state where the sheriffs do cooperate

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_00]: with ICE, not a single one of them have been sued for false imprisonment.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Not a single one.

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Because what McFadden and the other sheriffs who refuse to comply with they

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: say is, well, they were ordered to be released.

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They bonded out.

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't hold them.

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Which of course ignores the federal law.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: What this amounts to is they don't want to anger their Democrat base voters and

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: the nonprofits that are helping to settle people into the country illegally with

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_00]: the expectation, as Chuck Schumer told us last week, is to get them amnesty so

[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_00]: they can vote.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_00]: That is the plan.

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: They are very clear.

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They have been very explicit.

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_00]: That'll do it for this episode.

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