The few NC sheriffs who keep releasing illegal aliens (04-17-2025--Hour2)

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[00:00:29] WSOC-TV reports two members of MS-13 will spend 35 years in prison for the murder of a man in East Charlotte. A judge sentenced two Charlotte dads, two Charlotte men, Christian Alejandro Garcia Santa Cruz, along with Adderley Jose Veliz Ranquillo.

[00:00:55] They were convicted in the 2022 fatal shooting of Wilson Gutierrez, who was killed outside of a nightclub off of Central Avenue. Prosecutors said that Cruz and Ranquillo committed the murder to increase their position in the gang. The MS-13 gang. This was not a jury. Well, I take it back. I shouldn't say that. I don't know. This was just a sentencing from the judge.

[00:01:22] 35 years for the murder simply to move up in the gang. Up in Wake County, the sheriff's office there, according to Stephen Horn, writing for This Week in the Triangle.com. The Wake County Sheriff's Office ranks number 18 nationwide in the number of deportable aliens released into the public.

[00:01:45] That's according to ICE records obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies, or CIS. CIS found that the Wake County Sheriff's Office either declined immigration detainers or provided insufficient notice to ICE for 219 illegal aliens that were detained in the county, in the jail,

[00:02:10] during the period of October 2022 through February 2025 this year. So for, what, about two and a half years or so? 219 illegal aliens were detained, but then either the immigration detainers were not honored, or they didn't tell ICE to come get the detainees. See, this is not just, I think this is, yeah, Gerald Baker up in Wake County.

[00:02:41] Same deal that we've got with Gary Not My Fault McFadden here. And I have learned it's the same deal with Quentin Miller, the sheriff of Buncombe County, where Asheville is. Right? This was, and if I recall correctly, all three of these sheriffs ran for office the same year, 2018, and they all made the same promise to their Democrat base that they would not cooperate with ICE. They would get rid of the 287G program,

[00:03:10] and they were not going to cooperate with ICE, which, of course, then prompted the release of violent criminals out of the jails, back into the communities, where they could re-offend, re-victimize people. And then the legislature stepped in and tried to force them to cooperate with ICE. And then they found a loophole that Gary Not My Fault McFadden has been using here in North Carolina, in Mecklenburg County, rather. And the same appears to be the case

[00:03:38] with Gerald Baker and Quentin Miller. These three sheriffs. Mal-administration in office. You can remove the sheriffs. Superior Court judges. Y'all are in charge. You guys can do something about this. You just have to have the will to do so. So the 219 illegal aliens that were detained in Wake County are about half of the total

[00:04:07] for the entire state. 508 total reported illegal aliens that got released in the state of North Carolina. That puts us number eight in the ranking of the states for the number of illegal aliens detained, but then released, despite having detainers on them. Wake County began operating as a sanctuary jurisdiction in 2018 when Gerald Baker successfully ran for sheriff on a platform

[00:04:36] of not cooperating with ICE. The Republican supermajority passed House Bill 10 last year in 2024. Governor Cooper vetoed it, but then that was overridden. Yeah, because they were like, no more sanctuary counties and we're going to require cooperation with ICE detainers. Cooper vetoed that. That might be a problem if he runs for U.S. Senate or president.

[00:05:09] Stephen Horn goes on to report there has been subsequent disputes between the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office and ICE over notification, resulting in the release of 163 illegal aliens since the law went into effect in December. 163 illegal aliens released in Mecklenburg County since December. Sheriff Gary, not my fault McFadden, claims that his department

[00:05:38] is honoring the detainers by not cooperating with ICE, although he would object to my calling it that, even though that's exactly what he's doing. He would object to that, says it's not his fault, which is very on brand for him. He says the law doesn't require him to make the phone call. It's simply a request from ICE and he's not going to do that. And that's cooperating with ICE by following the law or something. He puts the blame

[00:06:08] on ICE for not coming to pick up the aliens prior to release, which, of course, ICE wouldn't know. ICE is happy to let them sit in the jails. ICE, I'm not sure you may be aware of this, but ICE and Customs Border Protection, right, they're a little overwhelmed due to the sheer volume of people that were allowed to enter the country over the last four years. They're dealing

[00:06:38] with millions and millions of people. And when somebody ends up incarcerated, in the jail, picked up on some, you know, violent offense or something and they get thrown into the jail and ICE is happy to leave them in there until they can come get them at some point. But if they are going to bail out, if they have come up with the money to get out of jail, ICE has asked the sheriff, let us know

[00:07:06] as early as you can, you know, 48 hours before or as early as you can that the person has posted the bond. And once we know that, now we know we got to come get them. But the sheriff isn't telling them. The sheriff wouldn't even tell them until HB 10 passed last year. The sheriff wouldn't even tell them whether they were picked up in the first place. ICE claims that McFadden is failing to provide notice of when the release is scheduled to occur. In response

[00:07:35] to not my fault McFadden's lack of cooperation, the House Speaker Destin Hall has filed House Bill 318 which would require agencies to provide the 48 hour notice prior to release that ICE is seeking. So now we're going to force you to do it, Gary. Now we're going to force you because you will not cooperate. Again, Gary McFadden, the sheriff of Mecklenburg County has,

[00:08:05] he put in a press release that deportation will not solve the illegal immigration problem. He literally said that when in fact it does. And if you want proof, look at the numbers right now. People aren't coming, border crossings are down when you don't give them a free path in or a free flight into the country, when you don't give them

[00:08:35] all of these open pathways, fewer people tend to try to make the journey, which is by the way very, very dangerous. Your quote, kindness is cruelty. That's what you are doing. They claim to be doing things in a kinder way when in fact you are putting these people on a path to be victimized. you do not occupy the morally

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[00:10:33] they found a connection to the Maryland man, aka Kilmore Abrego Garcia. He apparently had a bit of a run-in at one time with the Tennessee authorities. Yeah. In December of 2022, two and a half years ago, he was suspected of being engaged in human trafficking.

[00:11:04] Interesting. Tennessee highway patrol officer who detained him after pulling him over and when they, you know, got his identification and ran the tags and, you know, say, hey, why you got all these people in your vehicle? So they called the FBI to try to get some guidance on what the FBI wants the Tennessee highway patrol to do. It took about two

[00:11:34] hours, but the FBI ultimately, after, you know, quite a good bit of deliberation and investigation, they told the Tennessee highway patrol to just let them all go. Everybody, all of them. And so the highway patrol complied with that request. Yeah, December 6th, 2022, Abrego Garcia was transporting seven passengers in his vehicle and operating said

[00:12:04] vehicle without a valid driver's license, which is not legal, by the way. One source told the star, the Tennessee star, that the highway patrol ultimately discovered Abrego Garcia was on a terrorist watch list, but they could not locate Abrego Garcia on a deportation list, even though I think by that point he had been ordered deported. They had told him, two judges had said, yeah, you're MS-13,

[00:12:33] we believe it, and yeah, you gotta go. And then he was like, no, no, no, I'm gonna appeal, and the second judge like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta go, you're MS-13, and you're here illegally, which is, you cross the border, that's the crime, you gotta go. And then he was like, okay, well, let me try this excuse, I can't go back to El Salvador because another gang is gonna kill me. I'm like, okay, fine, we won't send you to El Salvador. And then Trump gets into office, and El Salvador just happens to be the site that we've been

[00:13:03] sending people, and so they put him on a plane and send him to El Salvador. And that's the violation that the Trump administration made in this case. I went over this the other day. They sent him to the wrong country. I think the easy answer here is just mail a check down to El Salvador's president, Bukele, and just mail him a check for like, you know, 200 bucks or something and pay for a bus ride out of El Salvador.

[00:13:34] Or reimburse the El Salvadoran authorities for gas and let them drive him across the border and dump him on the other side of the border. Slight problem, El Salvador and the president, as he stated when he was at the Oval Office the other day, he said they don't make a habit of releasing terrorists back into their own country. They tend to avoid that sort of thing. So they don't want this guy

[00:14:03] to be released back into their country. So enter my idea, right, where you just pay, send them some money and let them just drive the guy out of the country. Maybe put a chip on him or something. You know, so this way if he comes back into the country, then you can pick him up. Because by the way, I suspect that with his network and his family in El Salvador, I suspect that if you were to send him to a neighboring country,

[00:14:33] country, he probably would come back. He would probably come back to El Salvador. Or maybe he would try to get back into America. I don't know. Now, so whether or not he was on the terrorist watch list is apparently under debate. So we don't know if that's true. Because one of the sources told the Tennessee Star that he was, but another source said that the highway patrol did not discover Abrego Garcia on a terrorist watch list, but that another one

[00:15:03] of the seven passengers in the vehicle may have been on that watch list. So it was either Garcia or one of his seven passengers that he was trafficking. Either way, not sure, but somebody that's the recollection of the highway patrol, the sources rather, that told the Tennessee Star about this traffic stop. The FBI instructed highway patrol officers at the scene to capture photos of all eight people in the vehicle and document its content. Once those photos were captured, the FBI requested that the highway

[00:15:33] patrol release all eight individuals and the officers complied with that request. 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 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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[00:16:33] 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. Let's go to the phones and talk with Jim. Hello Jim. Welcome to the show. Pete, thank you for your time sir. Yes sir. I have one issue with the old narrative on the quote Maryland dad. Yeah. The first sentence they say he's not a gang member right? Then the second

[00:17:02] Well hang on now Jim I don't think anybody is actually I don't think anybody can definitively say that he is not a gang member. Right. Right. That's what I'm saying. The next sentence is but if he goes back to El Salvador he's going to be threatened by a rival gang. But to have a rival gang that means you are a gang member. Correct. Well if you're using the word rival then yes but I have to say like I've not seen people reporting that it's a rival gang.

[00:17:32] There is a different gang called Barrio 18 and that gang is the reason why he says he had to leave or he couldn't go back and the rival gang to Barrio 18 is in fact MS-13 so all of that would support your theory but his story when he went for the you know don't deport me to El Salvador argument because he had already lost on the deportation two different times right they ordered him

[00:18:01] deported twice and then this this was like the third bite at the apple was okay fine just don't send me to El Salvador because of the Barrio 18 thing he claimed in that proceeding that it was because his mom sold like some food out of her house to make money and that they were trying to like squeeze her the Barrio 18 gang was trying to get her to you know pay protection basically take her money and that they had threatened to harm him

[00:18:31] if she didn't but that that and so that was the story although she doesn't sell the stuff anymore she doesn't sell the papoosas or whatever she doesn't sell them any longer and the Barrio 18 gang has been smashed by the new El Salvadoran government so I'm not even clear why that would still prevent him from being going being sent back to El Salvador at this point but yes it would seem to line

[00:18:59] up that the Barrio 18 gang and his you know them threatening him for his mom's business that somehow that might actually be some proof that he was an MS-13 gang man gang banger yeah well I know you're a connoisseur of English language sir so I appreciate your time yes sir have a great Easter weekend brother yes sir you too thanks Jim I appreciate it happy Easter yeah this is one of those things like I don't understand why they've chosen this guy

[00:19:29] like there's a there's a better poster child for for this kind of thing like there's a story today but I know like the left would have had to have waited a little bit for this story but there's a kid he's a student and he's from Japan and they took away his visa because he had two speeding tickets and oh a he got popped

[00:19:58] for fishing without a license I forget where what school he's going to I don't I don't know what college he's at and according to the report that I had read this morning I don't I didn't print it out I didn't add it to the prep pile because I needed you know to do more research on it but there was an allegation I don't know if this is true or not but there was an allegation that they were using AI the that the administration or

[00:20:28] border patrol whoever or ICE they're using AI to basically go through all of the names and find anybody who has any kind of you know court proceedings attached to them and then that's how they're generating these lists to then remove their visas now the question I had and this is why I didn't pull the story and go in depth although here I am talking about it but

[00:20:58] like the first question I had was like first off okay fishing without a license that that's actually a pretty serious thing like you're supposed to have the permit but I could understand why a kid from Japan may not know every single regulation in every single place that he was whatever he was doing the fishing right so I could see why he may not know and I know ignorance is no excuse but that would make some sense but I believe that one was dismissed

[00:21:27] but he had the other two speeding tickets that he got the question I have there is how fast was he going like was he was he doing like 120 in a 45 zone and then he did it again like I think that might that might be important to the story but all I'm saying is that there are other cases where I'm sure you could find because it's GovCo GovCo is going to make a bunch of mistakes it's kind of what

[00:21:57] they do you know so I mean they did it with this this Maryland man he wasn't supposed to go to El Salvador and they sent him to El Salvador our bad yeah it's GovCo they mess up all the time so send so send the guy someplace else problem solved everyone's happy send him to Syria how about that send him to Iran or China whatever North Korea how about we send him to North Korea well that is that okay oh no no we can't do that

[00:22:27] there are a whole lot of other countries to pick from we can pick any one of these countries so this Maryland man was apparently pulled over in Tennessee in December and he was suspected of human trafficking because he had seven people in the vehicle with him he did not have a driver's license while he was driving the vehicle which is a misdemeanor in Tennessee class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and

[00:22:58] the Tennessee Star says that the officer who filed the report confirmed that the seven individuals in the van were being transported from Texas to Maryland by Abrego Garcia which sounds kind of human trafficking you know it sounds a little bit like trafficking Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen who illegally immigrated to the United

[00:23:27] States in 2012 and despite two judges determining that he is likely to be a member of MS-13 he and his family have denied the allegations he was deported to El Salvador under President Trump in March both U.S. District Judge Paula Zinnes and the U.S. Supreme Court have ruled that the government must take steps to allow Abrego Garcia to return to the country however the high court recently halted an order by Judge Zinnes on the grounds

[00:23:57] that she sought to compel the Trump administration to engage in diplomacy with Bukele Naib Bukele the president of El Salvador you had a judge telling our president to engage in foreign diplomacy like that's not your lane judge I know you got the fancy robe but that doesn't give you the power to engage in foreign diplomacy all right so spring is here a time of renewal and celebrations you got graduations weddings

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[00:25:26] tweet it's a pete tweet from dinah or dina I never know how to pronounce that anyway many states is liberal authorities refuse to report migrant crimes to the feds that's how liberals get away with the false statement that illegal aliens and migrants commit fewer crimes liberals simply don't report the numbers note okay I would need to see evidence of that claim no numbers equals no real crime

[00:25:55] stats no I mean there have been there have been studies like the Center for Immigration Studies CIS they they compile all sorts of data on this and you got problems with the federal what used to be called the uniform what they call the uniform crime reporting statistics I think is what they called it UCR and because I remember we used to take those those figures and

[00:26:24] we would you know rank the states and we would look to see like okay well where do the different states fall in different cities and the feds and the local police were always like these shouldn't be used to rank states as the most dangerous like yeah that's what you say when you're the most dangerous cities and states you don't want people knowing that so you know not everybody reports these the same way so they've changed the way they collect the data you got major police departments that don't participate in some of that stuff anymore so yeah I mean the whole

[00:26:54] reporting system is a mess but to me the argument isn't even about like I don't even get into those arguments about whether or not illegal aliens commit more or less crime than the native population it doesn't matter to me it doesn't because any illegal alien committing any crime whatsoever should not be here to have committed the crime

[00:27:25] it's like if you are a drunk driver and you're sitting at a stoplight and it's red and you're drunk but you're behind the wheel and you're at the stoplight and somebody plows into you you're going to be in trouble because you weren't supposed to be there you're drunk you're like even if you were in the right and you weren't you know you didn't swerve into somebody you didn't cause the crash you caused it by being there because you're drunk

[00:27:54] so I have I don't even go into the arguments because they are irrelevant to me to make any comparisons because then you start breaking down okay should we break you know like which crime stats do you want to look at because you can break them down by offense you can break them down by male and female you can break them down by racial category you can break them down urban and rural like there are all different ways to you know to manipulate the data so that's why I just I don't even bother going into the you know who's committing more crime any crime

[00:28:24] is one too many because they should not be here because they are illegally in the country right somebody's in my house not supposed to be in my house like it doesn't matter to me what I you know what I do to that person or what they may be doing in the house it's all illegal because they're not supposed to be there so this guy was deported to El Salvador as I mentioned under the Trump administration the quote Maryland man Abrego Garcia the president

[00:28:54] of El Salvador when he met with Donald Trump he said that he had neither the authority nor the motivation to release this guy who was deemed a terrorist because the Trump administration added MS-13 to the federal government's list of foreign terrorist organizations and so like the U.S. has designated this guy a terrorist and me as the president of El Salvador I am not going to I'm not going to release a terrorist he said quote

[00:29:23] we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country when the media asked him well can't you release him into your country then he's like he's a terrorist why would we do that well no he's not he's just a gang member at most yeah but the gang has now been designated a foreign terrorist organization there's another development apparently the guy the Maryland man I mentioned this yesterday there were

[00:29:54] restraining orders taken out on him by his wife Jennifer Vasquez who's now running around saying that you know he's just a dad he's just a great guy and all of this but now we have the petition for protection I told him to give me his card to pay he got angry start insulting me I only put a few of gas I guess dollars of gas once leaving there he pulled out like crazy I started recording because I was scared of the way he was driving

[00:30:24] and because our one year old was in the back seat in the recording you can hear him yelling insulting me driving extreme fast on the date and time I was watching on my laptop and he yelled to turn it off I told him I wasn't sleepy he got angry reached over shut and threw my laptop on the floor and the baby started to cry he was putting pressure on him my immediate reaction was to push him off of us and he then punched scratched

[00:30:54] me on my left eye leaving me bleeding that same day he came home and to say he was going out with his friend I told him that I needed to go out to pick up some orders at BJ's he got angry started yelling again to

[00:32:03] man right yeah he's a maryland man he's actually in el salvador that's who he is he's an illegal alien in maryland but the u.s senator from maryland then holland went down there to try to plead for him to be released and then i guess he was going to just bring him back into america illegally he was going to what so the u.s senator was going to human smuggle i guess or traffic somebody up into america illegally was that the plan did you think this through el salvador said

[00:32:31] no pound sand buddy um by the way there was um another story of an illegal alien out of maryland an illegal migrant was found guilty of viciously raping and murdering rachel morin victor martinez hernandez 24 was convicted of first degree murder first degree rape first degree sexual offense and

[00:32:56] kidnapping after morin 37 mother of five was killed along a trail about 30 miles northeast of baltimore in harford county in august of 2023 took less than an hour of deliberations to convict this guy could spend the rest of his life in prison which i would say let's send him down to el salvador to spend out the rest of his life um you know how much media coverage nbc abc and cbs

[00:33:23] gave that conviction story because rachel morin was like that story was told during the presidential campaign rachel morin's mom made an appearance at the white house press briefing yesterday that was in maryland too and van holland went to el salvador to try to spring an illegal alien and bring them back

[00:33:46] here the news gave rachel morin's murder trial zero seconds of coverage the maryland man deported 64 minutes and 57 seconds so over an hour on those three networks combined and nothing for rachel morin 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

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