In another example of the broken immigration system, a 19-year old student at Old Dominion University was killed by a man who was ordered deported six years ago.
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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: This from the New York Post. An illegal immigrant with numerous run-ins with the law, who was ordered deported six years ago, stands accused of killing a young Virginia college student in a horrific car crash, according to a local report.
[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Honduran national, Elvis Hamer Cruz-Ferrara, 18 years old, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the February death of Old Dominion University student Lauren Nicole Leonard, 19.
[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_01]: That according to the Virginia Pilot, which is a newspaper.
[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_01]: The night that she was killed, she was driving her gray 2000 Toyota Solara on Interstate 664 in Chesapeake back to her apartment in Norfolk around 6 p.m.
[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: When Cruz-Ferrara smashed into her, causing both drivers to lose control and hit the guardrails.
[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Leonard was killed immediately upon impact.
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And despite Cruz-Ferrara's red 2008 Pontiac vibe overturning, he survived the crash and was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries.
[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_01]: An immigration judge had ordered Cruz-Ferrara's deportation back in 2018, six years ago, during a hearing that he did not even appear for.
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_01]: After he had crossed the border illegally.
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Cruz-Ferrara had several run-ins with cops over traffic stops in the months leading up to the crash.
[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_01]: So the timeline here, according to the New York Post, the timeline is.
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_01]: 2018 deportation hearing ordered deported.
[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_01]: He did not show for that hearing.
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And since that hearing, he has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement, yet never deported.
[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Never taken into custody for deportation to be effectuated.
[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Authorities did not investigate his immigration status at any of the times that they had run-ins with him.
[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Why is that?
[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Why is that?
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_01]: These are policy decisions that are made by people like Gary Not-My-Fault McBadden, Mecklenburg County Sheriff.
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_01]: These are policies put in place by Democratic lawmakers who don't want law enforcement to find out if somebody's in the country illegally and don't want them held on an ICE detainer or something if they haven't been charged with a criminal felony or something.
[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And even then, sometimes they're like, no, just set them loose.
[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_01]: This catch-and-release policy at the national level.
[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: The use of the Border Patrol app.
[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: BP1 or CBP1 or whatever the thing is called.
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a farce.
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a mockery of border enforcement.
[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And it is a decision.
[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a decision made by these officials at Department of Homeland Security.
[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: By the Biden administration.
[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay.
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_01]: The Harris administration.
[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Or the Dr. Jilson administration.
[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: These are intentional decisions.
[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And these are the impacts.
[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Cruz Ferrara had several run-ins with cops over traffic stops.
[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Over the months prior to the deadly crash.
[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_01]: In November of last year, Cruz Ferrara was caught driving recklessly going 85 in a 60-mile-an-hour zone.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Very close to where the fatal crash occurred.
[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: He was also twice cited for driving without a license.
[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's just because he's undocumented.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, duh.
[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not a crime.
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_01]: The brother of the victim here.
[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And again, her name was Lauren Nicole Leonard.
[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_01]: 19 years old.
[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Old Dominion University student.
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Just on her way back from work.
[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Hit and killed by this guy, Cruz Ferrara.
[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Her brother, Eric Hargrove, 31, said that she might still be alive if he had been deported.
[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And I would submit that all things being equal, she 100% would be alive had he been deported.
[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he wouldn't have been there.
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: This is the exact same logic and rationale.
[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And, by the way, legal theory as to why if you are driving drunk and you kill somebody in a car accident while driving drunk,
[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: even if they did something wrong, right?
[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if they pulled out in front of you or something and you hit them and killed them,
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: you should not have been on the road because you were drunk.
[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_01]: So you are at fault.
[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_01]: You're the guilty party.
[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Because you shouldn't have been there.
[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01]: He shouldn't have been on Interstate 664 in Chesapeake.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_01]: He shouldn't have been there.
[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he shouldn't have been here.
[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But he was allowed to be here.
[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_01]: They kept letting him off the hook.
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They kept ignoring his status.
[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_01]: This has been going on, by the way, for 30 years.
[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: When I was a reporter, when I first started as a reporter here at WBT,
[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01]: lo, those many years ago.
[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That would have been 1999, 2000.
[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I would go cover news conferences and events.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: There were a bunch of forums and such about the impact of illegal immigration on local communities.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Former Mayor Pat McCrory, then, you know, former governor, Pat McCrory put together a task force
[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_01]: in order to measure and to collect the data and information on the impacts.
[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Because people would just have these conversations about how it's super impactful.
[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And then others would say it's not at all impactful.
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_01]: That they're a net positive, a net benefit.
[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And people were just saying these things.
[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And they had no idea whether it was true or not.
[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And now, of course, we know what the actual impacts are.
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And in this case, for this family, the Leonard family, the impact is awful.
[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They lost their family member.
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01]: They lost their daughter.
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: They lost their sister.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_01]: This 19-year-old student, 19-year-old girl, killed in a car accident.
[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And this was happening frequently.
[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, there was a family from, I believe it was Gaston County.
[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_01]: They were down at the beach.
[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a family of four.
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: This was one of the stories that I covered at the time, again, 20 years ago.
[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And if I recall correctly, I think the father survived and the mom and the two kids were all killed.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And the people or the person driving the other car was here in the country illegally.
[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And they should not have been there.
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_01]: They should not have been on the road.
[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And they should not have been, I forget what the details of the accident were.
[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if the person was drunk driving or whatever.
[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But they should not have been there.
[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_01]: So the brother, Eric Hargrove, he says,
[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to say anything that sounds like far right or far left.
[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_01]: But I would just say that it's a possibility that this wouldn't have happened if the deportation happened when it was supposed to.
[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Now think about what he just said there.
[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: He says, I don't want to say anything that sounds like far right or far left.
[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: He's self-policing his speech right there.
[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Far right or far left?
[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_01]: What would be far left?
[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_01]: What would be far left about saying that?
[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing.
[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Far left would be not saying it, actually.
[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_01]: But he's self-policing because he knows what the narratives are.
[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_01]: He knows what the response will be.
[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_01]: He knows that people will attack him as some sort of far right extremist if he says,
[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe my sister wouldn't be dead right now if people had followed the law.
[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_01]: The people that we have put in place to follow and apply the law are not doing so.
[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And had they done so, my sister would not be dead.
[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't want to sound like I'm a right winger or a far left person.
[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to sound like a far left person by saying that.
[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_01]: You would only be accused of being a far right person for saying that.
[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's true.
[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the power of the narrative.
[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: This is the purpose of creating these narratives.
[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Where you are, quote, far right if you believe that a nation should have immigration law.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And that a nation should police its borders.
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And a nation should, you know, get people to sign the freaking guest book on the way in.
[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Same thing.
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: This was hilarious.
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Hang on.
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: There's Jamie Raskin.
[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Have you been following what's going on down in Venezuela?
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: That's how you say it, by the way.
[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're having some problems after.
[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I know this is going to come as a shock.
[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: But apparently the Marxists down there in charge may or may not have committed a little bit of light election fraud.
[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Just a smidge.
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And did so in order to stay in power.
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I know.
[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Who would have guessed?
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_01]: So they are now protesting in the streets.
[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And unlike every single other Marxist dictatorship that comes into power, he has employed bands of thugs to ride through the streets and beat people up and such in order to maintain control.
[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he lost the election.
[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_01]: But then they claim they won the election.
[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And so now they're trying to arrest everybody that says otherwise.
[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So you got Jamie Raskin.
[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And he says,
[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_01]: The democratic world must stand up for the rule of law in Venezuela and oppose Maduro's assault on the electoral process and free speech.
[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_01]: The right-wing attack on democratic institutions anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, dude, Maduro is a Marxist.
[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That is not right-wing politics.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the opposite.
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_01]: But this is the point of the narrative.
[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_01]: The purpose of creating these narratives is that now you can't criticize.
[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Now you self-censor.
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what this poor guy is doing in this interview about his dead sister.
[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_01]: He's afraid to even say,
[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we should be enforcing the law.
[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And had we enforced the law, my sister would be alive.
[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_01]: But he has to couch it first by saying,
[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to be far right or far left.
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, I'm just saying.
[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he knows what the implications are.
[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: If he says this thing that is common sense and obvious to all rational thinkers,
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: he knows what kind of crap he's going to get.
[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's go to the phones, talk with Jeff.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Jeff.
[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, thank you for taking my call.
[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And welcome back.
[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, sir.
[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate it.
[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd like your opinion on how long you think it will take the Democrats to take film of what went on in Venezuela and January 6th film and put it side by side in a campaign ad tying back to Trump.
[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's a good question.
[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_01]: If I had to predict, I think it might be in a couple.
[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, it's right now.
[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, there it is.
[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I just saw it.
[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm kidding.
[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Very quickly, I'm sure.
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Because everything they don't like is fascist.
[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Everything they don't like is Hitler.
[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Everything they don't like is right wing.
[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, since somebody's already labeled it right wing, it's a natural for them.
[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't give them any ideas, Jeff.
[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, come on, man.
[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, whose side are you working for here?
[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm working for the side of freedom.
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I'm a Trump man, because no Democrat wants American freedom.
[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_00]: They want to end it.
[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, but now you're giving people ideas here for campaign ads.
[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying, like, let's think these things through.
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's, like, not put that out into the ether, because somebody may hear it.
[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, Democrats listen to this show, and then they take audio clips from Dan Bishop,
[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: and they use it against them in campaign ads.
[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_01]: So you may, now if we see one of these ads, Jeff, we're never going to know whether it was your idea or their idea.
[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I do appreciate your input, and I promise you that I will consider that very carefully before I say anything again.
[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_01]: That's good.
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Jeff, I appreciate the call.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: That was good afternoon.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, man.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: You too.
[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Take it easy.
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's always the line we walk, isn't it?
[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we engage in the absurd, as Limbaugh used to talk about, right?
[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Highlight the absurd by being absurd.
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And you say this stuff, and then it's like, oh, my gosh, but they are actually doing it.
[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Or they're going to do it.
[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Now we won't know if they would have done it had maybe they not heard of it here first.
[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man.
[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: We're like corrupting our sample, you know, like from a science-y perspective.
[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Not to get all science-y or Fauci on you, but like that's like we're corrupting our data set.
[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well.
[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So this previously deported, or sorry, previously arrested and adjudicated for deportation person
[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_01]: kills a girl up in Virginia.
[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Old Dominion University student Lauren Nicole Leonard killed by an illegal alien who was here
[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_01]: and told to leave.
[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_01]: He was, you know, issued deportation orders six years ago.
[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Then had been arrested, sorry, pulled over, cited for driving without a license multiple times,
[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_01]: had had multiple infractions since, but law enforcement never did anything else with him.
[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Cruz Ferrara is his name, his last name.
[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_01]: He's got an immigration hold now on his case.
[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He's being held without bond.
[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_01]: He faces up to 10 years in prison.
[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_01]: He crossed the southern border into McAllen, Texas in October 2016 when he was 11 years old.
[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_01]: He was processed by border agents.
[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_01]: He was transferred to an ICE facility in San Antonio where he was briefly held
[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_01]: before being given a court date and released.
[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Think about this.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_01]: 11 years old, 2016.
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_01]: What was happening at the time?
[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Children in cages!
[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump is putting children in cages!
[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_01]: So he gets let out.
[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: For the last four years, he had been living in the Virginia area with his mom and siblings
[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and completed school up to the 11th grade.
[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_01]: He also worked at a local Wendy's for a month before the crash.
[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: How?
[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_01]: How do you get the job if you're in the country illegally, you've been ordered to be deported,
[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: how do you get work?
[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: How does that work?
[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: See what I mean?
[00:16:02] [SPEAKER_01]: This is a complete breakdown of an entire code of law.
[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, if we're not going to have these laws in place, or sorry, if we're not going to enforce these laws,
[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_01]: then what's the point of even having them?
[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Just remove them.
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Just get rid of them.
[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: That's an honest...
[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I know it's a jobs program.
[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, never mind.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Gave you the details on this story out of Virginia.
[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Previously deported illegal immigrant known to cops allegedly killed a Virginia college student
[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_01]: in a car crash.
[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Nightmare car crash is what the New York Post headlines it as.
[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Stephen Miller, not Donald Trump's advisor guy, but the writer for The Spectator, Stephen L. Miller.
[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_01]: He goes by Red Steez on Twitter.
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what the name means, but Stephen Miller says,
[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump's entire campaign should be making Kamala Harris answer for this.
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: This story, this kind of story, right?
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But he's still mad and yelling at Kemp for some reason in Georgia, right?
[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, the message discipline that we saw after he was shot in Pennsylvania, that is gone.
[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: It's gone.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_01]: It's gone.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And, like, this is what you should be focusing on.
[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_01]: These types of things.
[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And yet, he's going after...
[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, it's just so dumb.
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_01]: If you have been following the headlines, it's impossible to miss all of the stories about crimes involving illegal migrants or newcomers or undocumented immigrants or unauthorized immigrants.
[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you want to call them, illegal aliens.
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: New York, for example.
[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: There have been at least eight gun-related murders so far this year where either the shooter, the victim, or both were migrants.
[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Actual crime rates, are they higher among the illegal migrants?
[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Or lower?
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Or what?
[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_01]: We don't know, actually.
[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Is it all cooked up by right-wing media in an election season, as some leftist commentators are saying?
[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: The problem is that we don't have the data.
[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_01]: So, I can't tell you if it's more or less prevalent.
[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I have heard the counter-argument.
[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we heard Joe Biden say during the debate.
[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I think he tried to make some sort of a reference to this or tried to articulate this response that I hear all the time from the left, which is, you know, the native population of America kills, you know, people too.
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, this argument is like a whataboutism kind of an argument.
[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: That, well, you can't focus or you shouldn't focus or you're only focusing on them because racism or something.
[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: That you can't identify crimes and victims based on illegal immigration status because, you know, native-born populations also do those types of crimes.
[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, well, that's not an argument.
[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not an argument against illegal immigration and the impact that that is having on communities.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Because those victims are still dead.
[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: In New York City, these eight people who have been killed or committed the crimes, right, lives have been shattered.
[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So, it doesn't matter what the other demographic breakdown looks like.
[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: That being said, we don't even know.
[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: We don't even know because they're not collecting the data across all the cities.
[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a woman named Nicole Galenas, and she wrote an op-ed at the New York Post this week.
[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_01]: She said last Monday, Venezuelan migrant Sandra Serrano was shot and killed outside the Randalls Island migrant shelter.
[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Caught in the crossfire in what police think was a retaliatory shooting for a robbery.
[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Her murder was the second killing at this shelter.
[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And at least the eighth migrant-related killing this year.
[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_01]: If Mayor Eric Adams doesn't want such headlines to govern New Yorkers' perceptions of migrant crime, City Hall needs to provide hard data.
[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Serrano's killing marked four murders in July in which migrants were perpetrators or victims or both.
[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Another disturbing trend, writes Jazz Shaw at HotAir.com,
[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_01]: is the amount of criminal violence being attributed to Venezuelan gangs that have recently been operating with impunity in our cities.
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_01]: A few weeks ago, two men living in a Brooklyn migrant shelter were shot and killed, reportedly by Venezuelan gang members.
[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So how is it that we don't have the data?
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, according to Galenas, the NYPD, as well as most other urban law enforcement groups,
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_01]: do not track immigration status as part of their criminal records.
[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_01]: We collect data for all sorts of other things, right?
[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_01]: We're already collecting demographic data as it relates to crime victims and perpetrators and such.
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Why would you not collect this data too?
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it would be racist or it would be xenophobic or something, right?
[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Even though we already track crime statistics based on race.
[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm not sure how it would be more racist.
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: How, I mean, it would have to be like, this would be like, well, we're okay with some racism,
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: but not that kind of racism, which is weird because your immigration status doesn't have anything to do with race.
[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It has to do with immigration status because there are people that are here from other countries
[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_01]: of all sorts of races and ethnicities, right?
[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: The problem we may run into when calculating illegal immigrant crime levels,
[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: the police have no way to tell who is an illegal migrant and who is here legally.
[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: This is what Jazz Shaw writes.
[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_01]: That's part of the problem that these departments might be having.
[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Because if you cross into the border and you get handed a bunch of paperwork
[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_01]: and you have false documents or you ditch them or whatever, we may not be able to tell.
[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're not asking, like Gary, not my fault McFadden doesn't want to do, right?
[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_01]: The sheriff of Mecklenburg County, like then you're not going to know.
[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_01]: We wouldn't be dealing with this question or at least not anywhere near this level
[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_01]: if Biden and Harris hadn't flooded the country with more than 10 million new arrivals.
[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: But they did what they did and we are where we are.
[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_01]: We don't know how accurate the numbers will be, but the governors in all the states
[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_01]: should direct their law enforcement agencies to begin collecting citizenship status
[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_01]: as part of their crime stats immediately if they are not doing so already.
[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Real quick, here is a clip from an Asian immigrant at a Donald Trump rally.
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_02]: This is a Trump country.
[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We live in the Southeast.
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_02]: We drink sweet tea.
[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_02]: We don't drink socialist Kool-Aid.
[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I need to make that a drop or something.
[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Story at the New York Post.
[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's been an eventful Paris Olympics for Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso.
[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_01]: The 20-year-old athlete who retired from the sport after she failed to advance out of her heat
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and into the women's 100-meter butterfly semifinals on July 27th,
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_01]: was asked to leave the Olympic Village for creating an inappropriate environment.
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Have you heard what happens in the Olympic Village, right?
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_01]: No, because what happens in the village stays in the village.
[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: No one talks about it, but we all know what's going on there.
[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Lots of young people in peak physical condition, especially in the Summer Olympics,
[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_01]: all scantily clad and such.
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Larissa Scherer, head of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee, said in a statement published by the UK Sun,
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: quote,
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Her presence is creating an inappropriate atmosphere within Team Paraguay.
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: We thank her for proceeding as instructed, as it was of her own free will,
[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_01]: that she did not spend the night in the athlete's village.
[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So what happened apparently was, you know, she failed to qualify to get to the next round,
[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_01]: and I guess at that point you're supposed to leave.
[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And she didn't leave.
[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_01]: She was hanging around.
[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And she was dressing very scantily.
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And she had become a distraction to other competitors with her, quote,
[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_01]: skimpy clothing and socializing.
[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, goodness.
[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Which, wait.
[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Shouldn't Paraguay?
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_01]: You guys, you missed an opportunity here.
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You should have deployed her.
[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, she's already doing this stuff, right?
[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_01]: She's probably, you know, getting her socials and stuff, right?
[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Posting to the gram, right?
[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_01]: She's probably building her influencer brand and stuff.
[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And so why not just deploy that as an asset?
[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Why not just send her over to, like, your competitor's part of the village?
[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, who are the, I don't know, guys or girls?
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying anything.
[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not, like, just find out, like, who you could weaponize her against.
[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you got some ladies that are interested in her, you send her over there,
[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_01]: and then she goes out, keeps them out late at night, you know?
[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Partying.
[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they can't swim very well the next day.
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm just thinking.
[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_01]: There's an opportunity.
[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Like Lawrence Taylor did, right?
[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Isn't that what he used to do?
[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying, missed opportunity.
[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And yes, I did see the totally not related at all to the Last Supper painting opening of the Olympics.
[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_01]: The opening ceremony?
[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to use the word weird, because that's, I mean, it's not like weird in a J.D. Vance
[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_01]: traditional marriage sort of weird way.
[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh my gosh, that's so weird.
[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Weird.
[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_01]: He has, he has a wife and kids.
[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Ugh.
[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Weird.
[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?
[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Not like that.
[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Weird as in, I don't know, putting a kid up there, like, with some trans and, like, mocking the Last Supper tableau.
[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?
[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_01]: That kind of weird.
[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, old school weird.
[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, weird from, like, last week and before.
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Not weird as it is now understood to mean, you know, only applicable to Republicans.
[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_01]: So the Paris Olympics opening ceremony took a lot of people by surprise with a rendition by drag queens of what looked like Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting of The Last Supper.
[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_01]: This is AP Dillon writing at her sub stack, apdillon.substack.com, called More to the Story.
[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_01]: The Olympic ceremony presentation was apparently called, I'm going to use French here, so you may not understand it,
[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_01]: la scène sur une scène sur scène sign.
[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's how they pronounce that.
[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It is translated into English as the Last Supper on a stage on the Seine, which is not very original.
[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Just not for nothing there.
[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of a branding expert here.
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So, The Last Supper on a stage on the Seine.
[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a river, by the way.
[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_01]: The Seine.
[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_01]: The title was reported by multiple outlets in France at the time.
[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe you've seen a picture of this.
[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a woman who's at the center of this, of the table, and she's wearing like a hat that almost looks like a halo, which I'm sure totally doesn't represent Jesus at all.
[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: No connection whatsoever there.
[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Her name is Barbara Butch.
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And she posted on her Instagram account.
[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Let's see here.
[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes.
[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes.
[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_01]: The New Gay Testament.
[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Totally not related to Christianity, though, people.
[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Do not read anything more into this.
[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?
[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Once the backlash started coming in, because apparently some people were like, oh, that seems like the Last Supper.
[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_01]: That seems like a mockery of Christianity.
[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no.
[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Totally not that, which is why she deleted the post.
[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously.
[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously.
[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_01]: She deletes the post that says, the New Gay Testament.
[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_01]: So like the New Testament, but the New Gay Testament.
[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Get it?
[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_01]: So clever.
[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_01]: So she deleted that post after the backlash started.
[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And then she posted it again, but a different language underneath where she says,
[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll forever be proud and support this moment of art reference.
[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_01]: The Feast of the Gods by Jan Harmens van Buzert.
[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's Dutch.
[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, the guy who was responsible for these presentations, who created the opening ceremonies tableau,
[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_01]: this guy by the name of Thomas Jolly, who is queer.
[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_01]: That's according to him.
[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And like the profile by LGBT magazine or whatever.
[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He's queer.
[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_01]: His name is Jolly.
[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying he denied that Da Vinci's work was his inspiration.
[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Official Olympics accounts and organizers did not make Last Supper references,
[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_01]: instead pointing to Dionysus, the Greek god of winemaking.
[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was about because they had the almost nude guy looking like a Smurf, all painted up blue.
[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it was about.
[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_01]: It was about Dionysus.
[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't about Jesus in the Last Supper.
[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_01]: But The Wrap reported others, including a statement from the Paris 2024 producers,
[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_01]: said that it was in fact inspired by Da Vinci's famous painting,
[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_01]: a skewing of the religious imagery that has been slammed by the Christian right as a mockery of Jesus Christ.
[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_01]: For the festivities segment, Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting to create the setting.
[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_01]: That's according to the Olympic producers.
[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_01]: They said that.
[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_01]: But then, of course, the backlash comes.
[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So now the gaslighting starts and they're like, no, no, no.
[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_01]: It's about Dionysus.
[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_01]: The Dionysus problem.
[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_01]: While the producers put that statement out, Jolly was then denying.
[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_01]: So they had a bit of a bit of a mixed message.
[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.
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