NC supports using military to remove illegal immigrants (12-16-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] Quick programming note. This is my final week on WBT. For the year, I'm just taking a vacation. I know I'm not being fired that I know of. I've not been fired. I'm going to go on vacation starting on Friday. Friday's my last day on the year, so we're doing the whole week here. And by the way, Wednesday should be a pretty good show.

[00:00:56] I know, highly unusual. But Wednesday, we have Kevin Canty in studio. Kevin Canty is the now former chief deputy for Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary, not my fault, McFadden, who quit a couple of weeks ago and took a flamethrower to the place. I mean, rhetorically speaking.

[00:01:25] And so we'll have Kevin Canty in studio on Wednesday. Looking forward to that interview.

[00:01:31] All right. So I came across a couple of pieces at the well, one at the Charlotte Observer and one at WRAL.

[00:01:40] So first, I guess I'll start with this one because it was from earlier.

[00:01:47] WRAL.

[00:01:50] They, I guess, put out or no, sorry, they reported on a new poll from Meredith College.

[00:01:58] That found the majority of North Carolina voters support the use of the U.S. military on home soil to arrest and deport immigrants.

[00:02:19] Even the legal ones?

[00:02:21] And that why would you be deporting people who are here legally?

[00:02:26] And that doesn't.

[00:02:27] Hmm. Something isn't adding up here.

[00:02:33] Sixty percent of registered voters said they support or strongly support the idea.

[00:02:39] According to the poll, which was released last week, Republicans were most likely to support it at 80 percent compared to 44 percent of Democrats and 46 percent of unaffiliated voters.

[00:02:50] The poll was conducted online, surveyed 800 respondents.

[00:02:53] It had a credibility interval of three and a half percentage points.

[00:02:58] The poll also found overwhelming support, 85 percent support for deporting undocumented immigrants who have criminal records.

[00:03:11] I can't believe it.

[00:03:15] Racist.

[00:03:17] Why do you hate immigrants with criminal records?

[00:03:25] A majority, 54 percent of the respondents support deporting undocumented immigrants who have not committed a property crime or a violent crime.

[00:03:36] So that's 54 percent say that 48 percent would approve of deporting undocumented asylum seekers who left their countries because of war or violence.

[00:03:48] Why would that be?

[00:03:49] Well, because a lot of them have been lying.

[00:03:53] They are lying.

[00:03:55] They know the words to say.

[00:03:57] They are instructed what to say when they cross the border and turn themselves into Border Patrol.

[00:04:05] They know what to say that triggers the asylum process or they just, you know, go to the app and they type in asylum seeker.

[00:04:13] Like, are you fleeing from war?

[00:04:14] Check.

[00:04:15] Yes.

[00:04:15] OK, you're in.

[00:04:16] Like they they know how the system works.

[00:04:20] They've been instructed on how to get in and to stay in.

[00:04:23] The poll also found that about two thirds of voters approve of the use of tariffs to retaliate against other countries.

[00:04:35] OK.

[00:04:36] I mean, it's not all.

[00:04:38] It can't all be terrifying.

[00:04:43] OK, it's that's not terrifying.

[00:04:44] Two thirds of voters say, yeah, let's use some tariffs in order to get Mexico to secure their border with us, because you can see the videos.

[00:04:52] I just saw one this weekend, as a matter of fact, where people are crossing and Border Patrol is trying to like shoo them away to make them go back.

[00:05:01] And the Mexican authorities are doing nothing.

[00:05:05] Or shall I say nada.

[00:05:08] They're not helping at all.

[00:05:12] 55 percent support using tariffs to promote American industry.

[00:05:16] However, that support dropped precipitously when voters were asked whether they would be willing to foot the costs of tariffs on goods they want to buy.

[00:05:26] Only 20 percent said they would be willing to pay more because of a tariff, while 62 percent said they would not.

[00:05:33] Another 17 percent were not sure.

[00:05:36] OK, look, I am a free market guy.

[00:05:38] I generally do not approve of tariffs.

[00:05:42] I don't.

[00:05:43] I don't think.

[00:05:44] But again, here's the key, though.

[00:05:47] You have to be engaging in free trade.

[00:05:51] And if you've got a country that is.

[00:05:57] Undermining your national security, they're stealing intellectual property from you and then sending drugs across your border and such.

[00:06:07] Then, yeah, no, I know I'm thinking like this is a different set of economics at play.

[00:06:17] One of the guys from Meredith College said people love tariffs until they have to pay for them.

[00:06:23] Right now, Trump has a philosophy on this idea.

[00:06:27] I don't know if it is accurate or not, but there are different schools of thought on these tariffs.

[00:06:33] And the idea is that if you slap tariffs on countries that are not engaging in free trade that are somehow like other countries do this to us, too.

[00:06:43] And they make regulations to make it more difficult for us to sell our stuff to them.

[00:06:48] But also, we don't make a lot of things here.

[00:06:52] And so the service industries that we have, financial services and the like, some of that stuff doesn't port very well over to other countries.

[00:07:02] They're not interested in buying what we're selling.

[00:07:06] So that's part of the issue here.

[00:07:09] But in, you know, Trump's philosophy and his worldview, if you hit manufacturers with big tariffs on if they manufacture their stuff overseas, then the idea is that they will they will then build stuff here and that will employ people.

[00:07:27] They will then make the money and it keeps the money here.

[00:07:31] That's more of a protectionist approach.

[00:07:35] And like I said, there are different schools of thought on this.

[00:07:38] But I recognize that free trade is very difficult when you're trying to engage in it with a country that employs slave labor.

[00:07:49] Very difficult because their input costs for the products they manufacture is greatly reduced when they could just like imprison people and work them to death.

[00:08:02] So that's not exactly a one to one cost comparative, you know.

[00:08:08] But I also think a lot of the pro tariff approach overstates the case for it.

[00:08:16] But I've seen studies over the years that talks about the impacts of the tariffs and it doesn't actually do the thing that people think it will do.

[00:08:26] And so I don't think that tariffs are the answer for most of these issues.

[00:08:31] They can be a tool and the threat of tariffs can be a tool as well because it does harm that other country.

[00:08:37] Like to be clear, right, it's not just us that's going to be paying more money and classic American, right?

[00:08:43] It's like, oh, I want all of this, you know, I want all the borders closed and I want the illegal aliens deported, but I don't want to pay more for my stuff.

[00:08:52] And this is the argument that Democrats make.

[00:08:55] They're like, oh, so what?

[00:08:57] So you want to build a wall and you want to kick out these illegal alien criminals.

[00:09:01] Well, are you ready to pay $20 for an avocado?

[00:09:04] Like, well, no, I just won't buy an avocado.

[00:09:07] Like, that's how that goes.

[00:09:08] Like, I'm not addicted to avocados.

[00:09:11] I don't need avocados every single day, although I have heard there are great health benefits for them.

[00:09:15] But I don't need to, I'm not going to eat an avocado every day.

[00:09:19] So, you know, and if the other country then, like Mexico with their avocados, if they are now suffering because of the tariff,

[00:09:28] maybe they will improve their behavior to get the tariff lifted, right?

[00:09:33] Because that's the reason you would use the tariff, right?

[00:09:37] It's to try to induce better behavior to make it a more even playing field.

[00:09:44] I don't subscribe to this idea that a trade deficit is automatically a bad thing.

[00:09:49] I don't.

[00:09:50] It's not like a ledger where it's like we're selling X and we're buying Y and Y is greater than X.

[00:09:59] And so, therefore, this is bad.

[00:10:02] I mean, not necessarily the case.

[00:10:04] That's not necessarily, again, it gets to what are you selling and what are people interested in buying?

[00:10:09] And remember, like I recall when I was a kid, my best friend growing up, his dad worked as a mechanic at the Chevy dealership.

[00:10:17] And I remember him complaining all the time, and this was before NAFTA, but he was complaining about all of the parts that are coming into the shop.

[00:10:27] They're all, I'll never forget, he said, HECO and Mexico.

[00:10:32] HECO and Mexico, right, which means made in Mexico.

[00:10:35] And they were complaining that all of the stuff was coming in.

[00:10:38] It was all made in Mexico.

[00:10:39] Then, remember, there was all this, all the complaints that a lot of stuff was being made in Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, right?

[00:10:50] There were all these different countries.

[00:10:51] Why?

[00:10:51] Because the industries move where they can to reduce costs.

[00:10:57] But at some point, right, eventually, the, quote, rising tide lifts all the boats.

[00:11:03] And, like, what, I think China's in for some serious problems soon.

[00:11:07] They've got an emerging middle class that's been growing for 20 years now.

[00:11:12] These people want cars, right?

[00:11:14] They want a higher standard of living.

[00:11:18] And, like, China's going to have a real problem in a command control economy like they've got.

[00:11:23] They're going to have a real problem trying to satisfy the demands of their people.

[00:11:30] But, you know, we'll see.

[00:11:31] So that was one story.

[00:11:32] Apparently, North Carolinians support the use of the U.S. military to deport illegal immigrants.

[00:11:40] Illegal immigrants.

[00:11:45] Meanwhile, Charlotte Observer reports that a majority of the foreign-born residents here in the Charlotte area, not citizens.

[00:11:56] Oh, what?

[00:11:56] That doesn't get the...

[00:11:57] Okay.

[00:11:58] All right.

[00:11:59] Okay.

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[00:13:07] So the Charlotte Observer had a write-up Friday that more and more—this is by Desiree Mathurin.

[00:13:15] Mathurin.

[00:13:17] Mathurin.

[00:13:18] Whatever.

[00:13:19] More and more immigrants from the Latin Americas.

[00:13:24] Is that a new term?

[00:13:26] Did we—I didn't get the AP Stylebook Update memo on that one.

[00:13:30] Is that a—are we doing that now?

[00:13:33] Is this the fallback from Latinx?

[00:13:35] Are we going to Latin—OK.

[00:13:37] From the Latin Americas as opposed to the Canadian Americas?

[00:13:45] Because that's North America.

[00:13:47] We are North America.

[00:13:48] And then Central America.

[00:13:50] And then South America.

[00:13:51] Why don't you just say Central and South America?

[00:13:55] Or Central and South America.

[00:13:57] Yeah, yeah.

[00:13:58] Why not just say that?

[00:13:58] Why the Latin Americas?

[00:14:00] I don't—anyway.

[00:14:01] But also Asia.

[00:14:03] More and more immigrants from Latin America and Asia are calling the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia region home.

[00:14:11] But a majority of that population are not U.S. citizens.

[00:14:17] A majority are not citizens.

[00:14:21] Out of the estimated—we'll call it 191,000 because it's just shy of that.

[00:14:28] So it's 190—rounding up—191,000 foreign-born residents in Mecklenburg County.

[00:14:35] 191,000.

[00:14:36] About 60% of them are not citizens.

[00:14:40] So 115,000 are not citizens.

[00:14:44] By the way, how are we doing on that whole housing crisis thing?

[00:14:48] Just curious.

[00:14:50] Are we keeping up with the pace of—

[00:14:53] Okay, those numbers are similar in the Charlotte-Metro area as well.

[00:14:57] The number I just gave you was Mecklenburg County.

[00:15:00] The Charlotte-Metro region, not 60%, but 58% are not citizens.

[00:15:10] That number, by the way—so Mecklenburg County is home to 191,000 foreign-born residents.

[00:15:16] The metro area, larger area, has about 309.

[00:15:23] The Census Bureau defines a foreign-born person as someone who was born outside of the U.S. and its territories to non-American parents.

[00:15:32] So this does not include the DACA kids, right?

[00:15:37] The Dreamers.

[00:15:38] The Census also does not ask people their legal immigration status.

[00:15:42] Being a non-citizen does not mean a person lives in the U.S. without documentation, though.

[00:15:48] Hmm.

[00:15:49] This seems like it might have been, I don't know, a helpful data point to have asked during the Census, don't you think?

[00:15:54] So we don't have to kind of guess at what the numbers are?

[00:15:57] I'm just spitballing on that one, though.

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[00:16:29] We have reports out of Canada, eh?

[00:16:33] Where Prime Minister Blackface is considering resigning.

[00:16:38] CTV News, Canadian TV News,

[00:16:41] sources have reportedly told the outlet that Trudeau, Justin Trudeau,

[00:16:46] is considering prorogation, prorogation, I don't know what that word is,

[00:16:50] prorogation or resignation,

[00:16:52] and may address Parliament today.

[00:16:56] The report comes after Canada's finance minister suddenly announced she was quitting.

[00:17:03] Hmm.

[00:17:04] That's all I know.

[00:17:07] All right, back to this story at the Charlotte Observer.

[00:17:11] Majority of Charlotte region foreign-born residents are not citizens.

[00:17:16] Which kind of makes sense if, you know, you have like an open-door immigration policy,

[00:17:20] and you don't really care if they're lying to you about seeking asylum and that sort of thing.

[00:17:24] Also, we have a large international corporate footprint here.

[00:17:28] We have international companies.

[00:17:30] And so if people come here to work, they may very well be non-citizens that are living here and working.

[00:17:36] And they're in the country legally.

[00:17:38] But we don't know all of the data breakdown because the census is not allowed to ask people these types of questions.

[00:17:46] Census data tracked the year of entry by foreign-born residents going back to 1990 through the 2000s,

[00:17:57] through 2010.

[00:17:58] And prior to the 2000s, naturalized citizens made up the majority of the foreign-born population.

[00:18:07] That drastically changed in the 2000s with changes to the U.S. immigration policy.

[00:18:14] And then the numbers exponentially increased.

[00:18:17] Which, I will tell you, if you were not here, that prompted public backlash.

[00:18:24] Do you remember the path to citizenship?

[00:18:29] George W. Bush?

[00:18:32] 2000s?

[00:18:33] Also at the time, Pat McCrory was the mayor of Charlotte.

[00:18:37] Put together an immigration task force.

[00:18:39] Because people did not know what the actual economic impact and the impact on services, government services,

[00:18:48] on the school district, on law enforcement.

[00:18:50] All of these impacts were unknown.

[00:18:53] Because the influx was so great.

[00:18:57] So they put together the task force and they did assessments.

[00:19:06] And people were saying, oh, they're a net positive.

[00:19:09] It's a net positive.

[00:19:10] It's a net positive.

[00:19:10] And it's not.

[00:19:12] It wasn't.

[00:19:13] And people then got very, very mad.

[00:19:16] Very mad at the data.

[00:19:19] Of the 19...

[00:19:19] And by the way, I don't say that as somebody who is a zero immigration policy guy.

[00:19:24] I want there to be immigration.

[00:19:25] I want the best and the brightest around the world to be able to come here.

[00:19:31] Like, everybody wants to be here.

[00:19:32] We have a product that a lot of people want to take advantage of.

[00:19:39] And you either ration by access or cost.

[00:19:43] Right?

[00:19:44] And if you're...

[00:19:45] And look, we can have a debate about what the number should be.

[00:19:47] Do you know...

[00:19:48] So what do you think the...

[00:19:49] What is the number of legal immigration into America annually?

[00:19:55] What do you think that number is?

[00:20:00] Most Americans, when asked that question, will put the number in the hundreds of thousands.

[00:20:06] They'll say two, three hundred thousand or so.

[00:20:09] When the number is actually...

[00:20:10] This is just the legal, by the way.

[00:20:12] Legal is a million.

[00:20:16] Every year.

[00:20:17] Most people are not aware it's that great.

[00:20:19] That's...

[00:20:19] We welcome a lot of people into this country.

[00:20:24] And I would submit we should continue to do so.

[00:20:30] But you got to sign the book on the way in.

[00:20:33] Because, I don't know, you might not love America so much and you might be wanting to come in and do some bad stuff.

[00:20:38] Of the 19,855 people listed as coming from other Central American countries, I guess not Mexico, after 2010.

[00:20:53] So almost 20,000 people that came into Mecklenburg County after 2010, 97% of them are not citizens.

[00:21:03] This is similar for the Mexican population.

[00:21:05] 94% of people who are in America, or sorry, or in Mecklenburg County, 94% of those Mexicans are not citizens.

[00:21:18] Asians are the second largest foreign-born residents in both Mecklenburg County and the Charlotte metro area.

[00:21:27] Mecklenburg County is home to about 54,000 Asians, which does include Indians.

[00:21:35] A lot of people are not aware of that.

[00:21:37] Well, a lot of Americans are not aware of that.

[00:21:39] They're not aware of that.

[00:21:41] Because as Americans, it is our birthright not to know geography.

[00:21:45] And so we don't realize that India is on the continent of Asia, which makes it an Asian country.

[00:21:55] That's how that works, in case you were unclear.

[00:21:57] So, Asians are the second largest foreign-born resident population in Mecklenburg County.

[00:22:04] There's about 54,000 Asians.

[00:22:06] And in the Charlotte metro area, the larger area outside of just Mecklenburg County, there are like 86,000 Asians.

[00:22:13] This population has experienced large growth in both regions.

[00:22:18] And they've also experienced the biggest shift from a majority that are naturalized citizens to not citizens.

[00:22:29] A very large swing has occurred here, where it used to be, like 10 years ago, most of the people that were from Asia in Mecklenburg and the Charlotte metro area were naturalized citizens.

[00:22:42] And now, the majority are not.

[00:22:46] 60% between 2000 and 2010, 60% were naturalized.

[00:22:52] And now, 86% are not.

[00:22:58] Yeah, this is a problem.

[00:23:00] The system is broken.

[00:23:01] And too many people are okay with it being broken.

[00:23:07] And I am not one of those people.

[00:23:09] I think it does grave damage, grievous injury to people who are abused in their journey to get here.

[00:23:17] And then are taken advantage of when they are here in America because of their status, their illegal status.

[00:23:24] And they get taken advantage of by criminals, by employers, right?

[00:23:31] By people at the work site or something who threaten to have them deported if they do anything wrong, if they won't work those hours or do that dangerous shift, you know?

[00:23:42] That's how they get taken advantage of.

[00:23:44] They get abused.

[00:23:46] If you're defending this system, you do not occupy the moral high ground in this argument.

[00:23:55] What else here?

[00:23:56] Oh!

[00:23:57] Who's ready for another Democrat boycott of an inauguration?

[00:24:04] Well, we better be because they're doing it again.

[00:24:06] Democrats are apparently trying to put together another boycott of Trump's inauguration.

[00:24:12] Yeah.

[00:24:13] A couple other items to get to.

[00:24:16] Axios.com reports more than a dozen congressional Democrats are planning to sit out Trump's inauguration.

[00:24:25] And many more are anxiously grappling with whether to attend.

[00:24:29] Now, not every Democrat, hashtag not all Democrats, are skipping the ceremony.

[00:24:34] And all of those that are skipping it are not doing it to protest Trump per se.

[00:24:39] But a formal boycott is materializing as a first act of resistance against democracy.

[00:24:48] Actually, against Trump.

[00:24:51] Because it's MLK Jr. Day.

[00:24:54] That coincides with the January 20th inaugural ceremony.

[00:24:58] And so that gives the Democrats an easy out.

[00:25:01] Though others planning to stay away cited a distaste for inaugurations in general,

[00:25:06] a loathing of Trump, and even fears for their own safety.

[00:25:10] That's the hysterical Democrats.

[00:25:12] Dozens of Democrats boycotted his first inauguration.

[00:25:16] And that boycott was whipped up by the now deceased Congressman John Lewis.

[00:25:23] Now, a sizable number of Democrats are prepared to grit their teeth and show up.

[00:25:28] If only to rebuild public faith in national institutions.

[00:25:35] Okay.

[00:25:36] After the events that followed the 2020 election.

[00:25:40] Senator Jackie Rosen, Democrat from Nevada, said, quote,

[00:25:43] I'm planning to attend because I believe in the peaceful transition of power.

[00:25:47] And I respect the office of the president.

[00:25:50] And I'm better than you.

[00:25:52] I'm kidding.

[00:25:53] I added that last part.

[00:25:55] So be aware of that.

[00:25:57] Also, Biden might need another commutation.

[00:26:02] This time to a member of Bashar al-Assad's forces.

[00:26:06] And maybe a CNN crew.

[00:26:09] So there was a prisoner that CNN helped to free from a secret facility in Syria.

[00:26:16] It was caught on tape.

[00:26:18] It was a big story.

[00:26:19] They were very, very proud of their ability to influence events rather than just report on them.

[00:26:25] But actually, the guy that they dragged out of the prison

[00:26:30] was a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad's forces

[00:26:33] known to torture those who refused to pay him off.

[00:26:39] The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward,

[00:26:47] who called it, quote,

[00:26:49] one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed.

[00:26:52] And by witnessed, I mean been a part of.

[00:26:54] In her 20 years of reporting.

[00:26:58] But independent and unbiased fact checkers at Verify Sci published a detailed report

[00:27:06] last night saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually a guy named Salama Mohammed Salama.

[00:27:17] Well, wait a minute.

[00:27:18] So his name is Salama Salama.

[00:27:21] So would you do like with multiple Salamas?

[00:27:25] Does that make it Salami?

[00:27:26] Anyway, a first lieutenant in Syrian's Air Force intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.

[00:27:35] CNN acknowledged it, saying, quote,

[00:27:38] We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity.

[00:27:44] We are continuing our reporting into this and the wider story.

[00:27:49] Now, just think about this for a moment, CNN.

[00:27:52] If this one guy was able to dupe your intrepid, experienced veteran journalismers by giving a fake ID,

[00:28:05] what do you think about, oh, I don't know, people that are coming across the U.S. border?

[00:28:12] Do you think they may have the same skills at their disposal?

[00:28:16] The ability to claim to be somebody else and you not know it.

[00:28:22] The CNN story last week showed Clarissa Ward and a camera crew escorted by a rebel fighter

[00:28:28] visiting a former Syrian Air Force intelligence headquarters in Damascus

[00:28:32] and freeing the man who was found under a blanket locked in a windowless cell.

[00:28:39] He gave his name as Adel Gurbhal.

[00:28:42] Or Gerbil.

[00:28:45] And he claimed to have been arrested by government authorities three months ago.

[00:28:50] And he said that he had no idea the Assad regime had even collapsed.

[00:28:56] Verify Psy, the fact checker, however, noted that he appeared to be well-groomed

[00:29:02] and also a bit tubby.

[00:29:06] And no visible injuries.

[00:29:09] And no signs of torture.

[00:29:11] That would not line up well with somebody who had allegedly been held in solitary confinement

[00:29:19] in the dark for 90 days.

[00:29:25] Also, when they brought him out into the sun after 90 days in a windowless cell in the dark,

[00:29:35] he did not flinch and he did not blink.

[00:29:39] Even when gazing up at the sky.

[00:29:44] Gosh, if only there were any clues that CNN could have relied upon

[00:29:48] to help verify the story that the man told.

[00:29:52] You know who the real loser in all of this is?

[00:29:56] It's that Islamist rebel fighter guy.

[00:29:58] He's in for a world of trouble.

[00:30:00] Because he brought CNN there and then let this guy out.

[00:30:05] And his entire disguise was a blanket.

[00:30:07] Right?

[00:30:08] Like, that's bad.

[00:30:09] I don't know what the jihadis are going to do to their fellow jihadists for letting the torturer slip through their fingers.

[00:30:17] The guy's name is also known as Abu Hamza.

[00:30:22] Or known as Abu Hamza.

[00:30:24] Salama worked at several security checkpoints in homes and was involved in theft, extortion, and coercing residents.

[00:30:30] What landed him in the jail was that somehow or another he got into a dispute with a higher-ranking officer

[00:30:36] over sharing of the extorted money.

[00:30:38] That's how he ended up there.

[00:30:41] Oh, man.

[00:30:42] It always happens to the good ones.

[00:30:44] All right.

[00:30:44] That'll do it for this episode.

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