Disparate Impact Downfall

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Erica has been doing an amazing job. She, of course, was on this show yesterday promoting it in Charlie's stead.
And I just couldn't be more proud of her and everything she's doing. I mean,

she's going on the five. I think she's doing outnumbered this morning.
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She's doing the whole circuit. Obviously, this is her first time doing this.

People don't realize this about Erica. It's not like she's been trained like Charlie over 12 years of doing repeat red.
Oh, exactly, exactly. She's doing tremendous.
Yes. Absolutely immense.

Yeah. Beginning to end, top to bottom.
Yeah, so they're all impressed. They've sold like 60,000 copies in the first day of this book.
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really good. Tremendous.
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And they're doing this. I don't realize books don't always sell that much these days.
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And I said this in a tweet yesterday that

I pitched Charlie on doing all kinds of different politics books. Like we were talking about what is his next book going to be, and he was just...
adamant.

He's like, no, it's going to be about the Sabbath. I've been wanting to write this book for a long time.
I really want to write it. I was like, okay, but like the Sabbath, you know.

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That was all about what the next GOP admin should do. But this is one you could have 30 years from now, 50 years from now, 200 years from now.
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I want to play a couple clips from Erica being on The Five yesterday just because it was so.

I mean, I don't remember the last time I saw kind of like a guest host on the five, especially, you know, promoting a book.

So, thank you to the five, and Jesse, and Greg, and Dana, and even Jessica Tarlov. She was very sweet.
219. Harold, Jesse, and Greg are in a Bible study group together.
Are they really?

Because of Charlie Kirk. Okay, that is really cool.
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Okay. And it is because of Charlie.

I love that. Wait a minute.

So what are you saying? It was Harold, Jesse, and Greg. So Harold's the liberal,

and Jesse and Greg are not.

And they're all in a Bible study because of Charlie. So we found that out yesterday, which was, which was amazing.

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this morning I've been texting with a bunch of people.

Erica's going to do Glenn Beck's show tomorrow morning. And then, so we got into a conversation with Glenn's team.
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which will be great. And we can talk about that and many other things.
But there's another big

news story that was near and dear to Charlie's heart. Oh, this is this is lovely.
And it's near and dear to Blake's heart. So we're going to hit it at hour one.

We're also going to bring Harmee Dylan from the DOJ Civil Rights Department on at the second half of this hour to talk about it.

But that is, of course, the rolling back of disparate impact standards within the DOJ and within the federal government. Blake, what is disparate impact if you had to boil it down? Alrighty.

So disparate impact is more people are thankfully becoming aware of it, but it's been around for half a century at this point.

And disparate impact is sort of the, it's the spearhead for a lot of what we'd call the DEI

regime, the agenda, the

dialogue, DEI dictatorship of America, which is where instead of things coming down to merit, coming down to measurable ability, where we reduce things to quotas, to favoritism, to discrimination based on race or sex or national origin or who knows what.

And,

you know, I think this is actually a good opportunity to bring in

Charlie because he was talking about this in April when there was a Trump executive order concerning this, and we're going to get to the follow-up in a second. But this was Charlie summing it up.

Let's play 236.

In 1971, there was a Supreme Court case, Griggs v. Duke Power Company.

Duke Power was sued because for people to get certain jobs at the company, they required them to either have a high school diploma or pass an aptitude test.

Black applicants were less likely to have a diploma, and they didn't do as well on the aptitude test.

The Supreme Court ruled that Duke's job requirements were, quote, justified, were not justified by business necessity. And so they were illegally discriminatory.

And thus the doctrine of disparate impact was born. So what he's saying there is the idea was this was a neutral test.
It was just having a high school diploma or taking this aptitude test.

No one could really, there was no one actually coming in and saying, oh, don't hire black people. But they were just less likely to do well as well on this test.

And the court said, well, we don't think this test is close enough to what you need employees to do at this company.

And because it doesn't have an equal outcome between these these two groups it's discriminatory so it it's what took our law from what most people think of when they think of discrimination where you're deliberately discriminating against people and they're saying anything you do if it has an unequal outcome

can be labeled illegal can be labeled illegal discrimination can get you sued and what that's turned into is you you

essentially anything can be illegal because news flash andrew everything has unequal outcomes everything in the world that no one actually I think we have this as well.

Literally, every standard imaginable has created, has some sort of disparate impact against a group.

Nobody on this planet has ever designed a test or a standard that men, women, blacks, whites, Asians, Hispanics, Catholic, Jews, gays, straits do so equally well. The very idea is an absurd fantasy.

You're going to have different outcomes. But what disparate impact does is it says

the test itself is wrong.

It is a loophole that you could drive a semi-truck through. It's a little sliver.
You say, oh, disparate impact. Well, what's the big deal here? No, no, no, no.

This has been exploited by DEI actors for the last 30 years.

30 years? The last 50 years, really?

And again, one of the things I want to get into is aptitude tests. We used to require these to get a job in the federal government, for example.
And one of the best examples of this was the NYPD.

I brought it up before Class of Chiefs, the 1939. Now, this had controversy because they claimed it was anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish.
But here's what's interesting.

They had so many applicants, they just selected candidates from the top scores on the civil service exam. Far more officers made it to retirement or achieved high-rank performance than any other year.

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Blake, we were talking about aptitude tests, good or bad. Aptitude tests are great.
They're one of the fairest things we have in modern life. No, they're racist.

Oh, no, there are a lot of things that get called racist in America. You know what's funny? Charlie loved Thomas Sowell's book on disparate impact.
It was Discrimination and Disparities, right?

And the whole theme of the book is that you challenge single explanations, like single factor explanations. So disparities are not solely due to discrimination, exploitation, genetics.

There's multivariate analysis that needs to be done. It's complex thinking.
Like, you can't just say...

What's great about aptitude tests is anyone can walk in and do well on a test, whereas every other standard people propose those alternatives.

They're always much more likely to favor people who have networks, who have other things they can take advantage of.

Frankly, it's way better to be a person with money with an informal system than just a system where whoever scores best does best.

I recommend everybody check out Thomas Soule's book, Discrimination and Disparities. It's one of Charlie's favorite books to quote.
And in it, Soule challenges single-factor explanations.

And what that means is there is disparities in racial outcomes. Blacks and Hispanics tended not to do as well on certain aptitude tests.

We can ask questions of why that is. So they got rid of aptitude tests, largely.

In order to get into the federal government, you had to pass, or you had to take a PACE test, which was, what is it, Stanford? Political and

professional and career examinations. An administrative career examination.
Yeah, and so we still have some tests in in the federal government, but widely

they've been removed. That's the important thing about disparate impact.
It doesn't actually ban tests. There are still, for example, the

maybe unless they got rid of the State Department has long had a test to get in, for example.

But when we say, I said disparate impact makes everything illegal, it literally does make everything illegal.

And what that means is that you have government by vibes.

So, for example, with disparate impact, a company, if they say, we're just going to give every job applicant applicant an IQ test and hire the top scorers, they'll get, historically, they would get a very

questionable look from the federal government. It would feel legally risky to do.

But if they say, you need this or that college diploma to be hired by us, it's very unlikely that they would be questioned, even if that diploma isn't super directly related to what they're hiring for.

And both of those things have a disparate impact. You know, whites and Asians are more likely to have college diplomas than black Americans, for example.

So why is one looked at negatively and the other isn't? It basically just comes down to how the bureaucrats feel. It's vibes-based.
And government bureaucrats and lawyers like colleges.

They like diplomas. They like liberal colleges dispensing these job-granting credentials to people that you have to pay a ton of money for.
And they don't like IQ tests. And so...

You get this vibes-based government.

And then you also get, that's what also drives that HR ratchet that Charlie would talk so much about, which is you avoid getting the government after you by doing all these big, loud, expensive signals that you're not racist, that you're not sexist, because everyone's breaking the law because everything's illegal.

So you just are trying to say, don't eat me, because they can't eat everyone.

And this all loops around to why we're talking about this today, because one of the great things going on in this administration, something that's not talked about enough, is they have been waging war on this monstrosity.

The reason we had those Charlie clips is President Trump did an executive order to roll back disparate impact last April.

And just yesterday, we had a great announcement from the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division where they're going after the traditional disparate impact prioritization in their office, the quote they had from their division.

The prior disparate impact regulations encourage people to file lawsuits challenging racially neutral policies without evidence of intentional discrimination.

Our rejection of this theory will restore true equality under the law by requiring proof of actual discrimination rather than just enforcing race or sex-based quotas or assumptions.

And the other thing that we had yesterday, because of this,

the civil rights division, a bunch of employees of the DOJ's civil rights

division have released an open letter

denouncing the direction that the department has been headed in.

And it turns out about 75% of lawyers, of career lawyers in the DOJ's civil rights division, have left because they are outraged at drawing the Trump administration is taking it. God bless America.

Yeah, this is better than Doge. This is better.
You know, like 75% of a single

weapon

bureaucracy,

the woke commissars, as Charlie liked to say, get them out. Get them out.
Former DOJ staff criticize leadership for abandoning civil rights mission.

That's a good thing. It's an amazing thing.
Stand up and clap. And

we are going to give Harmeet Dylan her

kudos and a warm congratulatory welcome onto this show because

listen, you're losing 75 attorneys that are leaving the DOJ Civil Rights Division. Over 200, 75%.
Yeah, 75%, sorry. More than 200 former employees

criticize what they call an ongoing destruction of the civil rights division.

This is bigger and more impactful than most people could possibly realize because, yeah, you know, Charlie said 30 years. This has been going on for 50 years in our federal government.

When you see a sliding of standards, when you see an abandonment of meritocracy, when you see that, like there, I think there's this prevailing fog over the country where it just feels like things don't matter anymore.

It's like, oh, well, people just get away with crap and nobody gets held accountable.

This is one of the root causes for that, where it's like Charlie used to say it was like, whose line is it anywhere? Where the points are made up and the rules don't matter.

That's what modern society is starting to feel like. Why does it feel that way? Part of the root cause of this is disparate impact.

It's, and by the way, the legal profession getting infected with DI and critical theory and all of these things, it floods out into the wider culture and the wider society, government bureaucracies, civil order, and things fall apart over time.

Things disintegrate and degrade. And so,

if you want to get to root causes, you have to get rid of disparate impact. This is a huge, huge development.

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All right, welcome to the show, Harmeet Dillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. Harmeet, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

I think this is the first time we've had you back, if I'm not mistaken,

in this brave new world that we're living in. So, welcome.
We're honored to have you. Thanks for having me.
It's always an honor to be on the show. Yeah, absolutely.

I told the audience, Harmeet, that we were going to give you a very warm welcome

because

you have done what I think even Doge was not able to do.

And

you are,

I'll let you describe it the way you want to, because I know these things can be sensitive in the actual official halls of power. But

you're cleaning house at the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. There's a report this morning.
We celebrate these changes. And also, there's news on disparate impact.
The floor is yours, Harmee.

Well, thank you so much, Andrew. And so, yes, I'm in the news this week because there are hundreds of disgruntled former Civil Rights Division lawyers who voluntarily quit.
I didn't fire them.

After I told them that their job was going to be to protect the civil rights of all Americans, not just the chosen few, and their pet projects that they had been pursuing for decades here in the Civil Rights Division.

200 of them or so immediately quit and took a five-month payout, so over $100,000 worth of severance pay. And then over the last few months, another close to 100 have quit.

And yet, you know, they're writing in the press, Reuters covered it, and

they say that I'm trashing the DOJ. I've changed its mission.
I'm making them, making attorneys do stuff they don't want to do. And it's against the storied historic vision of the DOJ.

But I completely disagree. I'm really proud of the work that we're doing.

And obviously, it seems obvious to me that the United States Department of Justice should be justice for all Americans, not just some Americans or some winners of a victimhood sweepstakes.

And I think that actually is very popular with Americans. And we're continuing to do the core focus of our work.
We're protecting people with disabilities. We're even protecting prisoners.

We're protecting the rights of students in schools, employees in the workplace,

contractors,

people who are discriminated against, hate crimes, anti-Semitism, actually all the same stuff that we did before we're doing it, but we're just doing it for everybody, not just for some.

And we're going to keep doing it that way. So if you don't like it, too bad.

this is how it's going to be for the balance of this administration and hopefully beyond because shouldn't the doj be for all americans so i'm really proud of that and yeah this criticism just shows that we're over the target andrew it's amazing and so it's amazing yeah harmie we like trust me we are uh this news we we literally were like standing up and clapping uh before when when we saw it i'm telling you so again just to reiterate about 75 percent of attorneys left the doj civil rights division and claim amid claims of a coordinated effort to drive them out.

No, they quit on their own accord. You did not fire them.
And they claim that you're abandoning the civil rights mission of the DOJ.

I think this is great. Is it safe to say, Harmeet, that the DOJ Civil Rights Division is now hiring? There is some spots that have opened up.

Okay,

thank you for mentioning that. I was itching to say that.
And so to be clear, we have a huge agenda. So it isn't just sort of, there's no goal to shrink the civil rights division.

We actually have a huge affirmative agenda. I'm suing 14 states right now, and they're going to be more on that list by the end of the week.
A lot of exciting litigation.

We just sued Minneapolis for discriminating against teachers who are not minorities and, you know, on and on and on. And so we are hiring.
And so.

Lawyers with at least 18 months experience who are interested in serving a tour of duty to help their country can apply at usajobs.gov and look for civil rights division.

We are hiring as fast as we can qualified candidates who are willing to do the work I just articulated.

Enforce all of our federal civil rights statutes with a lens of all Americans and this administration's priorities. What's that URL again, Harmee? I want to put it up on

usajobs.gov.

USAjobs.gov. If you want to go work with Harmeet Dillon and you are an attorney that wants to defend the civil rights of all Americans.
Novel idea. Novel idea.

You know what's funny about this whole thing?

Yeah, it's crazy. Go to usajobs.gov and I'll have the team put it up on that lower banner there so everybody can write it down.

You know, what's crazy about this, you know, when they started this stuff back in the 60s, right, Disparate Impact, which we're going to talk about next, you know, I get it.

Okay, it was like, let's say it was 83% white country. Now we're basically 50%.
We're on track to, you know, I think the last census had whites at, what, 56, 57% of the population.

You give that another 10 years, it's going to be probably under 50%, maybe right around 50%. I mean, that's what we're kind of like losing every 10 years at a 10-year clip.

When I was born, I think we were around 80% white still. But as this happens, you're going to see,

I don't know, some of this old way of thinking about how white equals bad, oppressive, majority, like it's, it's got to necessarily, we've got to rethink the way this is happening.

Because if you're just going to say that another one of the minorities in this country, like, I mean, it might be minority, majority, but like still, it's not the same dynamics as it was in the past.

And

we have to make sure everybody is getting protected. And one of the ways that you do that, sorry, if you want to chime in there, Harmie, feel free.
Yeah, so let me talk about that.

I mean, like, let's be very frank here. We have a history of discrimination in our country.
There are slaves. They were not white.

And they were then kept down by mainly southern, but not exclusively southern states.

And so the Civil Rights Act of 1964 included a very important law that I have have personally used for most of my career, Title VII, which protects people from discrimination in employment.

And then in 1968, the Civil Rights Act added this provision that we're going to talk about, Title VI,

and that deals with all the folks who have contracts with the government, government contractors, and anybody who does business with the government or receives money from the government, including all American universities, except for Hillsdale, pretty much, and all school districts and so forth.

It's a pretty vast coverage of this statute, and the DOJ provides guidance on it. And so

I don't want to bore people with too much legalese, but I think this is a really important law and important development. And the Supreme Court in 1971 issued a case called Duke Power versus Griggs.

And this was about a janitor who allegedly was impacted negatively by some policies in hiring at Duke Power. And that started this concept of disparate impact.

So in other words, you no longer necessarily had to prove in your discrimination case, whatever the context was, that you were actually being the victim of intentional discrimination.

You could simply prove that there's a hiring process or a policy or there's certain tests that are required. And because I'm African-American, I can't pass a test.

We were going back and forth on that at the top of the show.

And the line we were discussing, which I'm a big fan of, is disparate impact seems to just, it literally makes everything illegal because nothing is actually equal except, I guess, true random chance, right?

It really shifts the burden

away from the plaintiff and to the employer to defend themselves.

And when you use statistics, as you know, Mark Twain famously said about statistics, lies, and damn statistics, you know, you can chop and slice and dice them and prove anything.

And I mean, we have statisticians here in the civil rights division who you can give them a premise, they'll be able to come up with some formula to prove it.

That's not how we should be running our businesses or our world.

And so, as to Title VI, when when the United States gives federal funds, whether it's in a contract basis or grants, we have now issued a guidance that says that this 50 years of discrimination

against,

frankly, law-abiding practices and businesses and recipients is over. It is harming a lot of people.
It is wrong. And you should go back to having to prove intentional discrimination.

By the way, there may be statistical cases to be brought there. So we're not banning the use of statistics.

What we're saying is we're not going to let people use statistics to assume a default of discrimination and people are going to have to prove their cases. And that includes the government sometimes.

That includes me. If I have to bring a case against a school district or against a university, I have to use

my evidence and prove the case, not just have a default assumption of discrimination, because that has hurt so many people in our country. It has eroded merit-based hiring.

It has put companies on the defensive.

It has encouraged and now institutionalized quotas from every institution, including the boardrooms of America's largest corporations, because they're all government contractors.

And so this is so damaging. And if we can just reverse that back to an assumption that Americans are good, generally speaking, we follow the law.
If something bad happened to you, prove it.

with intentional discrimination evidence. I think that is really a great development for all Americans.
Politico's framing of this is hilarious. DOJ rolls back anti-discrimination rules.

Trump officials say the requirement to consider racial impacts was itself a form of discrimination.

It says the Justice Department on Tuesday moved to end long-standing civil rights policies that prohibit local governments and organizations that receive federal money from maintaining policies that disproportionately harm people of color.

Why are you hurting people of colour? Repealing the government's 50-year-old disparate impact standard will make it harder to challenge potential bias in housing, criminal law, and employment.

I mean, it's basically

frames it as you're ripping away this sacred shroud from the

protection for disadvantaged people, Harmeet.

I'm clutching my imaginary pearls here, Andrew. And the fact is that that's all fake news.
Okay.

I have been a lawyer for over 30 years, and the last 20 years of it has been as a plaintiff's lawyer proving discrimination cases.

You can absolutely do it without this unnecessary crutch, and we will continue to pursue and take action against discrimination here at the DOJ. I do it every day.

I just filed a lawsuit today and we'll be filing some more later this week and we're just leveling the playing field and returning it back.

And to be, I want to conclude by saying when Congress passed the law, Title VI, nowhere in that law does it say disparate impact. That's not Congress's intent.
It was made up by a court.

and we're getting rid of it here at the DOJ. Well, God bless you, Harmie K.
Dillon,

Assistant Attorney General at Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. Thank you so much for all your great work.
You are crushing it and we are so proud to have you on this show. Go get a job.

If you're a lawyer out there, go work with Harmeet and help make the country a better place. God bless you.
Yeah, usajobs.gov. Thank you, Harmeet.

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I don't know how he did that. It decreases your attention span, impairs your judgment, slower reaction time, emotional volatility, higher cortisol levels.

Charlie didn't want any of that, so he slept a lot. Taking a Sabbath will help you do that.
All right, Blake, President Trump was in Pennsylvania in a Trump rally last year.

Yeah, he loves to have those rallies. Just have a rally for now and then it recharges

him energized. I think there's a little more to it, but yeah, we'll talk about that.
But I think it was, I think it's fat. We're going to have Rich Barris on, and so we can talk about the polling.

Saw some disturbing results out of Miami. They have a Democrat mayor now, first time in 30 years in Miami, which is not a good sign.
We've struggled with some of these special elections. Things are,

you know,

in the end, we are, this is, it comes down to who is winning elections and in control of things.

The only way you can get what we just talked about with disparate impact is by controlling the civil rights office. The only way you do that is by winning elections.
Same thing throughout the country.

And so it's unfortunate what happened in Miami. But yeah, so President Trump, he was in Pennsylvania holding a rally.

And I want to open with, it's not as fiery as the others, but I like it because I think it's him taking some advice we gave. It shows the feedback loop is alive.
So let's play 227.

And I have no higher priority than making America affordable again. That's what we're going to do.
And again, they caused the high prices, and we're bringing them down. It's a simple message.

If I had one message tonight, you know, this is being covered like all over the world. This is crazy because I haven't made a speech in a little while.

You know, when you win, when you win, you say, oh, I can now rest. So Susie Trump, do you know Susie Trump?

Sometimes referred to as Susie Weil, Susie Trump.

Yeah, so I liked that because we've gotten emails about this. There was that clip that was taken out of context where he says affordability is a hoax and people thought, oh, he doesn't care.
No.

What it was is he was saying, I am fixing a problem created by the Biden administration and going to bring prices down. That's all the messaging needs to be.
And I think he says it's pretty simple.

It's very simple. They messed it up.
We're fixing it.

Real wages are going up. The price of gas nationally, the average is below $3, first time since before Joe Biden took office.
And so, I mean, there are good signs.

I mean, the price of Thanksgiving meal was down 25%, according to the administration. I did not personally check on that.
I'm sure mine was actually up because we had more people around this year.

But the point is,

President Trump's feedback loop is alive and well. There's been some consternation.

I mean, for those who are not aware, there are little rumors and rumblings behind the scenes that, you know, President Trump isn't on Twitter. He's not getting that.

Those rallies are kind of work as a poll test for him, kind of a focus group, if you will. He says certain things, pays attention to what gets the biggest applause lines, and then he kind of like...

dials in his messaging that way.

So if you're just dealing with issues of state all the time and you're kind of confined into your White House bubble, you're going to miss some of those feedback loops.

So how do you make sure that President Trump is hearing from the base, especially in the wake of Charlie being gone? Charlie was a great conduit for that kind of stuff. Well,

this is proof that the message is getting through, that people are hearing, hey, affordability, affordability, affordability, domestic, domestic, domestic.

So this is a whole affordability tour in Pennsylvania. I like it because

as soon as President Trump during Thanksgiving announced he was doing a third world immigration moratorium,

things, you know, I made a prediction that this was going to be one of his most popular policy planks of all time. And he's hitting this hard.
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If you don't share our values, contribute to our economy, and assimilate into our society, then we don't want you in our country. We don't want you.

I mean, Elon Omar and the people from Somalia, they hate our country.

And they think we're stupid people, which actually, when they allow that to happen, they are. That's headed by Governor Waltz, one of the dumber people around.
No, but he's given, but think of it.

He's given, not like peanuts, billions. These are people that don't work in their own country.
Their own country is a failure. They have no money.

And yet they come into our country and steal tens of billions of dollars. How stupid are we to allow that to happen?

Just hammer away. Hammer away at this.
And I actually, I'm...

It really is the perfect thing because the left has boxed itself in ideologically where they're so radicalized on immigration, they can never admit that any group of immigrants is just not worth bringing into America.

And this is, it's like the perfect specimen in terms of they cost a lot of money, so they're not contributing that much economically. They're very culturally hostile.
They're very clannish.

They're not assimilating well. And they have this avatar who's so unappealing, Ilhan Omar.
Gosh, she's awful. She married her brother to get in here.

I have to, the third world country real quick. This is funny.
I hope they bleeped it. Ride the dump button.
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I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and many other countries.

I didn't say all you did.

That's a good moment.

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