Theresa Opeka on NC immigration numbers (02-27-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:26] And again, thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. So, the story that you've got at the Carolina Journal, carolinaj journal.com, takes a look at the impact of illegal immigration in North Carolina. And I guess you cited the work done by

[00:01:42] the Federation for American Immigration Reform that put out a report per North Carolina household on an annual basis. And they also said the average cost to North Carolinians is about $4,700 per illegal alien. That's just amazing. Yeah, $4,781 per illegal alien in North Carolina. So this

[00:03:00] sort of flies in the face of that whole461.1 million. And there's health care, there's Medicaid, there's other public assistance costs.

[00:04:22] It all adds up.

[00:04:23] And it adds up astronomically at this point.

[00:04:27] You mentioned the criminal charges and convictions. Do we know if this is, are these charges and convictions in America or were these charges and convictions prior to them arriving in America? It looks to be in America.

[00:05:40] Gotcha.

[00:05:41] It's from what I gathered.

[00:05:42] Yeah.

[00:05:43] Yeah.

[00:05:44] And you look no further to what's happening, you know, the poor nursing student over in

[00:05:48] Georgia. Not exactly. It would not be a brand new tactic for a communist. No, not at all. All right. And so we're looking at this. You write in your report that the state has seen a surge in all types of crimes, but those were the most notoriety human in sex trafficking, illegal drugs, most notably fentanyl. And then you get into some of the overdose numbers.

[00:07:03] So kind of go over some of those numbers, and this is from the CDC, right?

[00:07:08] Yes. And he makes the point that, you know, we had 58,000 dead in Vietnam. And we've had more than that in one single year. We've had almost twice as many die in one year than in the entirety of Vietnam. You write in your report also 14 members of a drug organization with ties to the Mexican

[00:08:21] cartels, the Sinaloa and the CJNG.

[00:08:24] I have to admit, I've never kind of a reassessment maybe of whether or not these programs should actually be reinstituted that you're aware of? Is there talk at the General Assembly of this? Is there talk in the executive branch about, you know, maybe just tightening up a teensy weensy little bit? Maybe just a smidge.

[00:09:42] Yeah, a smidge, right? At least that would help.

[00:09:44] There's nothing at the moment.

[00:09:46] However, there was House Bill 10, essentially take that bill up again and push it through and maybe it becomes more of an issue now in this short session we shall see getting ready to they get ready to reconvene in a couple of weeks here is there anything else you want to add here that you think is important or interesting that people should know before we let you go Teresa. Just you know talking with Sheriff Sam

[00:11:01] Page who was running for lieutenant governor he is just thinking that you Yeah, just keep an eye out. Teresa Opeca, executive branch reporter at the Carolina Journal. You can read her work at carolinaj journal.com. Teresa, thanks so much for your time. I appreciate it. Thanks so much, Pete. All right. Take care. Yes, you too. All right. Hey, maybe you have heard by now DraftKings Sportsbook is coming to North Carolina. It's coming soon. On March 11th, to be exact, DraftKings is one of America's top rated sportsbooks with

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[00:17:45] of supplies and educational materials that you'll need for any kind of news. I mean, I think if more people seen that all across this country, what's really going on, people would get up in the air and do something about it. I don't hear so-called journalists saying anything about that at night on a news or during the day when I watch the news. Nothing. if they are not getting packages that are fed down to them from the networks that they're like you know BTV is a CBS affiliate for example right so if CBS is not creating content on that

[00:20:21] story and sending it down to their affiliates like ideas, whether they're reporters. Yeah, but these journalists are not supposed to be doing that. They're supposed to be telling us what's going on. I mean, you're talking about those three, I can't remember the three national news after the local news is over to come on. Right. CBS, ABC and NBC.

[00:21:41] Yeah. Right.

[00:21:42] They get so-called journalists come on and like that one after he gets done, determinations as to where to devote resources and time and manpower to go cover stories. And so if they don't think a particular story is newsworthy, they're not going to go cover it if they're even aware of it at all. And therein lies the problem with news departments that are sort of captured by one ideology. If the one the the murder of this woman in Athens, Georgia, right? The people are aware of this story now because it was oh my gosh young pretty girl out jogging gets murdered and then it turns out oh it's

[00:24:25] an illegal alien. Now all of a sudden like the story was already breaking so that some illegal immigrants who commit felonies can be turned over to ICE for deportation. Well, look at that. Keep sending more busloads from Texas. More, more, more. We're getting 5,000 people a day crossing into the country.

[00:25:41] Spread this pain everywhere.

[00:25:43] I don't like it.

[00:25:45] I don't want to do this.

[00:25:46] It's the only way this stuff breaks through. about releasing these Utes back to their parents and just put like a turnstile thing where they keep releasing them back and some of them have 20 offenses, some have 30, and I didn't know if Tim Moore commented on that. Yeah, that was a while ago, right? That was- Yeah, yeah.

[00:27:01] Yeah, he said that, if I remember correctly,

[00:27:03] I have to go back and listen to exactly what he said.

[00:27:06] I thought he said something about

[00:27:07] revisiting it in the short session. And you had county commissioners that were celebrating and most proud of their votes to close jails. So yeah, I mean, like everybody wants to pretend that there were all of these efficiency and financial reasons why everything got closed down. But look, if they wanted fewer jail beds,

[00:28:26] they would have done nothing differently, right? exactly what's going on all the time, but they do not report it purposely. So did you hear what my first question was to him? I heard the final question. Go ahead and repeat it. I asked him, are you talking about the local news or the national news? And then he said the local news.

[00:29:41] He said both.

[00:29:42] No, first he said the local news.

[00:29:44] First he said the local news. Exactly. The problem was there. Anyway, the illegal alien charged with kidnapping and murdering a 22-year-old nursing student Lake and Riley got into the U.S. thanks to President Joe Biden's parole pipeline at the nation's poorest southern border. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have since confirmed that Jose Antonio Ebarra

[00:31:05] is an illegal alien who first arrived at the United States-Mexico border in September of