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On today's podcast, we begin with more lies from the New York Times on Pete Hegseth, proving they are little more than just left-wing propaganda.

Wait until you see how crazy this story is.

And people need to stand up and tell the Democrats,

stuff it, stuff it, pipe down.

Trump's second oath of office also shows he can't be written off or treated as a fluke this time around.

We have that story, and President Trump takes on Mexico, but they're not going to accept all of it.

They're not.

They're not.

They're not going to accept the Gulf name change,

the deportation things.

They're not happy about that.

Well, how happy are they going to be when we send in special forces to take out the cartels?

Hey, drug lords, you might want a career change pretty quickly.

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Hello, Stu.

Glenn.

Hey.

Your take on today's show and the feeling of the country is fascinating and kind of where I am right now, too.

It's like it feels weird coming in and not having 46 bad stories to tell

everybody in America.

I don't know how to tell people this.

Yeah, this sucks, and this is gonna, this is how it's gonna ruin your life.

Like, it's not,

it's a lot of good things today.

A lot.

Like, a lot of really good things.

Now, it's Jay.

Well, we should be clear.

No, it's.

And they're going to do everything they can to

try to reverse this and make all of our lives miserable.

But,

hey, you know, I don't know how long this lasts.

Hopefully for four years.

Hopefully for eight, maybe 12.

Yeah, let me just get the one dark thing out.

And this should piss off everybody.

And all you have to do is call your congressmen and your senators.

The New York Times

to say that they are journalists

is like saying,

you know,

a Christmas carol is a true story of Christmas.

They are not journalists.

They are not printing facts.

This is a propaganda machine, and they know these are not facts.

Let me give you the latest.

Julie Turkin,

Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Courtney Cube have all worked together on a story that just came out about

Danielle Hegseth.

Now, who's Danielle Hegseth?

Well, that is Pete's former sister-in-law.

So she's right there.

Okay, she's a former sister-in-law.

And according to these, quote, reporters,

Danielle

says, oh, you don't even know, you don't even begin.

Pete was involved in behavior that caused his second wife to fear for her safety.

And she describes in an affidavit allegations of volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth that made his second wife, Samantha, fear for her safety.

Now, I want you to know,

Samantha denies all of this.

Samantha was fearing for her safety.

Okay, I was there.

I saw it kind of, not really, but I saw it.

Ninth paragraph in.

Ninth paragraph in, they report something that should probably be in the headline.

Samantha's response to Danielle's allegations.

She says, first,

I never asked anyone to share or speak about the details of my marriage on my behalf.

She wrote a letter

to Danielle and said, please stop speaking on my behalf.

Your information is not accurate and I have CC'd my lawyer.

Okay?

There was no, quoting,

There was no physical abuse in my marriage.

This is the only further statement I will make to you.

I have to let you know that I am not speaking and will not speak on my marriage to Pete.

Please respect this decision.

But that's not good enough for the New York Times.

No, the person who is allegedly, allegedly abused in their marriage.

Who says, I wasn't abused and please stop speaking for me.

I've contacted my attorney to make it stop.

No, you don't believe that person.

You believe the far-left Democrat who's no longer part of the family.

You believe that person.

Now, if that's not damning enough, several paragraphs past the ninth paragraph,

they report both Pete Hegseth and Samantha Hegseth signed a 2021 court document that said neither parent claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.

So

in a court of law, they both signed a legally binding document that said, yeah, that's not what this is about.

Kind of

important.

Now,

what the New York Times would have you believe is that Pete, the abused wife, and everybody else involved in this marriage and the dissolution of this marriage, including the attorneys and the judge, They're all lying to you.

They're all lying to you.

It's just Danielle that is telling the truth.

This is, I think, the clearest way that the media executes their plan of bias.

Yes.

Right.

It's who they decide to take the word.

Yes.

Whose word do they take?

You know, it's like we have had

accusers against Doug Amhoff for physical abuse.

No time for them at all.

They didn't even mention them.

If they were mentioned at all, it was to dismiss them.

That was the person who actually was supposedly hit in the face.

Right.

In front of witnesses.

Yep.

No known time for them at all.

None.

You know, women who claim to be raped by Bill Clinton,

Joe Biden, Joe Biden, Joe Biden.

They don't have time for any of these people.

No.

But if some rant, not even the person, the person is saying it didn't happen.

Right.

Another person

who is an ex of an ex of an ex

comes out and says, yeah, this is really bad stuff.

It gets a whole giant news treatment from the New York Times as if it's a credible assessment.

It's pathetic.

You try to go to court against the United States government on things that they're doing, and you will be deemed not having standing.

Meaning, it's not really affecting you.

It's not about you.

How many times have you heard this was rejected because you didn't have standing?

You hear that all the time, and the government just steamrolls over people.

This woman does not have standing.

She wasn't there.

That's not her.

Everybody else who is under oath is denying what she said.

Do I need to remind you of Kavanaugh?

These people have one mode.

One.

That's it.

This is why the left

can never actually gain rule.

Now they just did, and you saw what happened.

What was happening to our country?

They were destroying it.

Why?

Forget all of the philosophical reasons.

The real reason is that's all they can do.

They cannot build.

They can't actually create anything.

They only destroy.

So what are they doing?

They're not actually creating anything.

They're not actually doing anything.

They're just destroying.

Now they're destroying Pete Hagseth and his ex-wife.

Because what are they doing?

They're not only saying he's an abuser.

They're saying she's a pathetic woman.

These are the people standing up for women.

She's a pathetic woman who just doesn't have the courage to stand up against this brute.

Are you kidding me?

And they can tell that story over and over again.

They can tell it exactly on partisan lines the same way over and over again.

They never have to admit it.

They never have to come to some

come to Jesus moment where they say, gosh, we've been doing this wrong the whole time.

And you know what?

When it comes to the success of the conservative movement in America, good.

It's probably the reason why Trump won.

It's probably the reason why these things are happening today, because they have been so terrible for so long that it finally woke up a bunch of people who don't even believe in conservative principles.

And I tell you, what Trump is doing this week, it is going to backfire on the left like crazy.

People are not against the deportation of illegals.

No, it's quite popular, actually.

It's

polling.

I mean, what is the most popular policy in America?

What is it?

Voting, the checks on voting, right?

Like voter ID is one of the most popular.

And

what is the

mid to high 80s?

Mid to high 80s.

This is in the 70s, I believe, with the conservatives and like 68% approval with the left, right?

With Democrats.

Yeah.

I don't know if it's that high with the left.

Overall, it might be that high, though.

Okay.

I mean, it is.

It's high.

It is high.

It's popular.

And well over 50% for the Democrats.

Well over 50%.

This is not unpopular.

And these guys trying to thwart our safety.

I mean,

you're going to now block the CIA,

the guy who's going in to lead the CIA.

You're blocking the appointment for homeland security.

This is not going to end well for you, Democrats.

It's not.

Your time is over.

You lost.

Reasonable Democrats, absolutely.

Come on in.

But those who are leftists, those who only seek to destroy what has been built, those who want to change and throw out policies that haven't been working, come on, join us.

As long as you want to save the things that have been working or the things that are our mission statement and say, you know what, we've never really made it to all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and all of the Bill of Rights.

We are striving to build a more perfect nation, meaning we're never going to make it.

We always have to strive to be better.

You understand that concept as a Democrat?

Come on in.

Let's strive to be better without throwing out the baby.

But for those of you who are just obstructing,

your time and days are numbered.

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It's over.

Read the room.

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Politico has a fascinating article today that I want to start the hour with.

And it is from John Harris.

He is the founding editor and global editor in chief of Politico.

He says, Donald J.

Trump in his second inaugural address was everything his supporters hoped he would be.

Breathtakingly expansive about his intention to reshape the vast federal government around his vision, raucously jingoistic in proclaiming that the country will do whatever it wants to do to advance its interests around the world, openly triumphal in asserting his belief that

his survival from an assassination's bullet or from an assassin's bullet and his victory show that he is God's chosen instrument to lead an American revival.

I don't think that's exactly what he said or how it came across to his supporters.

It didn't with me, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here.

I understand what he's trying to say as somebody who's never supported Donald Trump.

Trump was also everything his adversaries feared.

Messianic in tone, lovingly protective of his grievances, wholly uncharitable to the people sitting just feet from him under the Capitol Rotunda, who he defeated so convincingly.

But

the second occasion of Trump taking the oath of office also put him in an entirely new light.

For the first time, he is holding power under circumstances in which reasonable people cannot deny a basic fact, he is the greatest American figure of his era.

Let's quickly exhale, he writes, Great in this context is not about a subjective debate over whether he is a singularly righteous leader or a singularly menacing one.

It is now simply an objective description about the dimensions of his record.

He began a decade ago by dominating the Republic Party.

He soon advanced to dominating every discussion of American politics broadly.

Now, his astonishing comeback after his defeat by Joseph Biden in 2020 and the notoriety of January 6 riot makes it clear there are certain things he is not and one big thing he is.

He is not a fluke who got elected initially in 2016 almost entirely because of the infirmities of his opponent.

That's not true.

He is not someone the American public somehow misunderstands

as

as though Democrats and news media have not spent ten years forcibly highlighting the risks of his record in character.

He is someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians do not and forge powerful, sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary can match.

In other words, he is a force of history.

This is something his most ardent supporters, still shy of a national majority, have never doubted, but something others, myself included, have been slow to reckon with.

This is an article, by the way, from the global editor-in-chief of Politico.

The inaugural address and a raft of hundreds of executive orders Trump has promised for his opening days in office make it impossible to avoid.

For Democrats and most excruciatingly, Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the inaugural ceremony and all it symbolizes were a meal meal made of ingredients scraped off the kennel floor.

Once they gargle and spit, however, the opposition party may find something liberating about this moment.

That is because they can no longer place confidence in a strategy that once looked plausible but has now been exposed as an illusion.

That's a massive statement.

They cannot push Trump to the margins by treating him as a

momentary anomaly or simply denouncing him as a lawless or illegitimate president.

Some voters bought that, but not enough to win the election.

Opponents have no choice but to acknowledge he and his movement represent a large historic argument, and then they rally similarly large arguments to defeat it.

Trump in 2020 showed himself ready to undermine democracy for his own purposes.

Trump in 2024 showed that he is also a potent expression of democracy.

The most flamboyant rhetoric of Donald Trump's inaugural address, Drill Baby Drill, retaking the

Panama Canal, renaming Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, sending federal troops to the border are all expressions of his genuine worldview.

Thank you for acknowledging at least just that.

I can't tell you how many times I heard CNN in the last couple of days say, he doesn't believe any of this stuff.

He absolutely believes all of this stuff.

What part of this is giving you any indication he doesn't believe this?

And how, explain to me exactly how both he doesn't believe any of it and he's a Nazi.

Yeah.

Like

from what I understand, Hitler had some pretty strong beliefs.

Jeez.

That leaves plenty of room for argument.

Trump has transcended his vulnerability to criminal penalties for January 6th.

It is not possible for him to transcend a genuine contest over competing visions of the better America.

The contest may be more effective if opponents embrace the reality that Trump has already demonstrated some familiar signatures of the most consequential presidents.

Like influential predecessors, his arguments have shifted the terms of debate in ways that echo within both parties, in this case on issues such as trade, China, and the role of big corporations.

Like other large presidents, Trump has been communications innovator and exploited technological shifts more effectively than his rivals.

In that sense, Trump's use of social social media recalls Franklin D.

Roosevelt's mastery of radio, John F.

Kennedy and Ronald Reagan's mastery of television, and even as his banter and insults don't aspire to anything like traditional presidents' eloquence.

One more signature shown, the most consequential presidents only,

uncommon psychological toughness.

Have you ever known anyone who is facing similar legal hurdles?

In many cases, even if people ultimately win the case, they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of the experience.

Now listen to that.

The same guy who's making the case that he's, you know, he can't shake his

grievances is saying in many cases, even if people ultimately win the case,

they end up being consumed and shrunken by the searing nature of that experience.

So he's recognizing what he just went through.

Imagine running for president amid huge civil suits, criminal prosecutions, even felony convictions, then emerging from the morass as a larger figure than before.

No one needs to admire the achievement to recognize that Trump is possessed by some rare traits of denial, combattiveness, and resilience.

About that combativeness, could someone so zealously divisive ever join the roster of presidents who even schoolchildren can typically recite as the nation's greatest?

My mind goes back to a conversation just before Bill Clinton in his second term.

The liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., he had inherited a tradition from his father, also renowned scholar, conducting surveys of historians asking him to rank American presidents from best to worst.

Clinton was promising in his second term to be a great national

unifier.

Schlesinger, who wished greatness for Clinton, but mistrusted his ideological centrism, was skeptical.

Great presidents are unifiers mostly in retrospect.

Of course,

because he is changing things.

He is trying to bring people along.

FDR said, I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

That is the same thing.

Aren't we judging Donald Trump a lot on the enemies that he has made?

Now we're starting to see him and do things that you're like, okay, he understands the enemies, but more importantly, he understands what the enemies have done to our country and can stop those and what we need to do to build a more unified and better country to form a more perfect union.

I'm telling you, I said this to him, and I even said, I can't believe I'm saying this to you,

but

if you accomplish these things, you will be

on the same ground as some of our founders and Abraham Lincoln and the greatest presidents to ever live.

He is going to do more in fundamental transformation of this country than Barack Obama did by far, than Joe Biden did in destroying it.

That's a high bar.

That's a very high bar.

But he is, you know, he sat in the church yesterday

and just took that sermon.

Nobody should be surprised by that that sermon.

That's an Episcopal church.

Hello.

And did you see how she walked out?

I mean, she was practically a rainbow, and her shoes were pots of gold.

I mean,

she's

clear in her stance, just the way she was dressed as a high priestess.

And then, on top of that,

this is the National Cathedral.

The National Cathedral is

practically

an un-American cathedral.

I mean, it does not rejoice in anything except progressivism.

It's the burial site, literally inside the church are the bones of Woodrow Wilson.

So, I mean, nobody should be surprised.

And if this is being done for tradition.

It's the opposite of hallowed ground.

Yes, it is.

It's like a poltergeist house.

Right.

It's hallowed ground for progressivism.

Okay.

So

for him to go into the National Cathedral,

that is tradition.

Well, you know what?

It's time to end some of those traditions because some of those traditions are bad traditions.

Unlike just saying all American traditions should be abandoned like Barack Obama, he should look at

each tradition and say, you know, why would I go to the National Cathedral?

The National Cathedral stands against most of the things that Americans are for.

I'm not going going there.

I'm going to go to another church to celebrate this occasion, not that one.

And it'll be interesting to see how he responds to this in a bigger picture because

what my perception is right now is

Trump 2.0, the second administration, is more to that side.

You know what?

We're done with that tradition.

We're done with that whole thing.

We're going in this direction than what I think he would have been in 2017, where he now he did put up a message about about her and kind of ang an angry sort of uh truth well it wasn't it wasn't speaking truth to power it was uh it was absolutely an act uh of fame it was somebody who was selfish with this with this person yeah that just wanted fame you're not going to change his mind but like

I really hope he doesn't let this stuff bother him this is the type of stuff that like you know

it would have I think he would have been it would have been a week of just bashing this woman and

she is is nothing.

Forget her and move on.

With the exception of, you know what, maybe this is,

why do we go there?

You know, he did that with in the first term with the press, the correspondence dinner, right?

He's like, no, I'm not going to that.

That's stupid.

Yeah.

And like, that's the type of stuff he should do.

But don't let that, don't let crap like that, because it's going to happen to him throughout his four years.

Don't let that derail you.

I'd like to know why the Washington, the White House Press Corps even exists.

The White House, you know, it's the White House Press Corps that does the dinner dinner and they decide who gets the seats and what the rules are.

Why?

Why, who the hell are they?

Yeah, well, I mean, and we've seen, you know, we saw that with the debate commission, right?

Correct.

Well, who the hell are they?

Well, Biden was like, I don't want to do it that way.

Right.

And he didn't.

He didn't.

You know, he probably should have.

Probably should have stuck by that one.

But, you know, I remember this in the Kamala debate with Trump, where, you know, really her only maybe successful point of the entire campaign was to goad him on the crowd size of his first inauguration, right?

To to taunt him, to try to get him off track.

And

it seems to me that he is

really mostly beyond that.

I mean, it's obviously tempting.

I mean, it's like the person, you know, I'm in this situation.

I know you are too, Glenn.

You hop on social media, you know, the dumbest thing you can do with your display is fight with idiots online.

You know it.

Then you read a comment, you're like, oh, come on.

I know, I know.

And you type it, and hopefully you don't click send.

But, like, it's just this stupid thing that we do as human beings.

It's got

a hundred times worse for Trump to have to do it.

I kicked myself for posting about CNN.

Because it's like nobody's watching it.

There's like four people that are watching it.

It doesn't matter.

And three of those are cameramen.

And the fourth and fifth cameramen aren't watching it as they're filming it on camera.

And we knew those cameramen, and they weren't always excited about what was going on there either.

No, they were not.

I got to tell you, it is, I did the same thing.

I'm like,

and I just blew up and I went live on X or wherever I went and said a few things about CNN.

It's so beneath us.

It doesn't need to be said.

It just doesn't need to be said.

It doesn't need to be said.

And we are morons who have plenty of time to waste.

He's the president of the United States.

I'm an alcoholic.

I'm a former DJ.

Those are my qualifications for this job.

Okay?

Don't bitch at what you get.

Those were the qualifications.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Oh, boy.

Stu Al Sharpton is very upset, very upset today.

Oh, no.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He is very upset that companies are dropping the enforcement of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

He said, why do we have DEI?

We have DEI because you denied us diversity.

You denied us equity.

You denied us inclusion.

If you want to put us in the back of the bus, we're going to do the Dr.

King Rosa Parks on you.

I don't know if that's a new dance move or what.

It's TikTok.

It's a TikTok dance.

It's a TikTok dance, yeah.

But I, you know what?

I really don't fear

Al Sharpton.

No.

You know, used to be a fear of Al Sharpton with some.

And no, I don't think you watch how insignificant that's going to be.

Americans have heard it all.

They've done it all.

They're not afraid of it anymore.

Oh, my gosh, they're marching in front of us calling us racist.

Oh, my gosh.

Well, let's give them a little something to make them go away.

They don't go away, okay?

They don't go away.

You hire and you

take activists, bring them into

your company, or you play ball with those activist revolutionaries, that's all you're going to have left in the end.

So congratulations with that.

Saw that, doesn't work, no interest.

It's not going to make a difference.

It's a mindset change, right?

It is.

You know, I remember the first time we got like protested by one of these organizations and it was like, gosh, like, what's happening?

Like, wait a minute.

Like, I didn't understand it.

I mean, we came from a, you know, we had started a local radio show that wound up going national.

When you get to that level, these things start happening.

And then, like, I don't know, a few times after it occurs, you just roll your eyes.

You just roll your eyes.

Like, when I go on Twitter and you see someone saying something negative about you or whatever, like, you just don't, I mean, generally speaking, you just don't care.

Like, it comes and it goes.

And you just get to that point where none of it makes any difference to you.

Yeah.

And it becomes a superpower because you just don't care about any of it.

And especially now, nobody cares about it.

Nobody cares about it.

You know, do you mind being called?

I mean, now people are wearing that as a badge of honor.

Oh, Al Sharpton.

Yeah, he came after me because I believed in actual diversity, because I believed in actual racism was bad.

I believed in that idea, and the best way to fight it is to forget about color and just look for merit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ooh, I'm scared.

It's not going to change anything.

Let me give you a couple of other things that Donald Trump, in fact, I could go a full hour on just the things remaining that we haven't talked about in the last two hours of the things he's done in the last 24.

President Donald Trump declared the

global corporate minimum tax.

Did you know we had one?

Yeah.

The Biden administration signed us up for this one, a global minimal tax.

So in other words, companies, We promise, we promise the whole world we're never going to have a tax rate lower than 15%, the global minimum tax, because that would be unfair.

And Donald Trump said, yeah, screw you, we're not doing that.

And let everybody know that,

mm-mm, no, we're not going to do that.

Now, that doesn't mean we're going to have a tax lower than 15%.

Let's do it.

But we could.

Let's embrace it.

I'd love it.

I will say, when it comes to economic competition, I want to be unfair.

I want to be the country where everyone else is like, gosh, I got to get there.

How do we get involved with them?

Yes.

That's exactly who I want to be.

Yes.

Not to mention it really benefits the people here in the United States

more than all.

Now, not everybody agreed to it because after Biden agreed to it,

the Pillar One talks, that should really scare you.

This was Pillar One.

The Pillar One talks stalled because we just kind of lost interest, I guess, in countries, Italy, France, and the UK, Spain, Turkey,

you know, weren't really excited about reinstating their digital taxes.

And now with Donald Trump in, there's no way they're going to do it.

So congratulations to the rest of the world.

We have helped set you free again.

Now,

Rand Paul has introduced some legislation to repeal Corporate Transparency Act.

This is

so important.

The CTA, Corporate

Transparency Act, we talked about this.

This will protect small businesses.

And it was signed into law as part of fiscal year 2021, the National Defense Authorization Act.

What does this have to do with national defense?

It requires individuals with an ownership interest in a limited liability company, an LLC, to disclose all their personal information to the U.S.

Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

And they go after American small business owners.

And any failure to comply could result in up to two years in prison and up to $10,000 per violation.

So they are repealing that, or at least that has been introduced because, you know, farmers, restaurants, gyms, law and service companies, all of these people,

I have to register with the Treasury Department's financial crimes unit?

I don't think so.

No.

That's a big one.

And we talked a lot about

it when it happened.

Yeah, That's a big, big, big one.

Pain.

Giant pain at the very least going away, hopefully.

All right.

Also,

an update on the border.

The southern border apparently witnessed an outflow of persons

that came into the United States over the last four years.

I don't know if you heard that.

There was an outflow of persons.

Even on Inauguration Day,

illegal aliens were voluntarily deporting themselves and saying,

Yeah, you know, that's good, first of all.

That's that's you if you're here illegally, you should leave.

You should leave and you should leave on your own.

Yes.

You know, it was interesting.

There's a poll Axios had today, which is the share of

of Americans who agree with immigration policies like deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally, the number overall 66%.

So

a popular policy.

But the take from Axios is they don't agree with the ways to do it, right?

And so they say, here are their examples of this.

Using active duty military to find undocumented immigrants, only

let's see, 38% agree with that.

Deporting immigrants that came to the U.S.

illegally as children, 34% agree.

Quickly deporting detained immigrants, even if it involves separating families or sending people to countries other than their country of origin, 34%.

Using money allocated to pay for the U.S.

military for deportation, 28%.

Deporting immigrants who are in the country legally, 11%.

Who the hell is talking about deporting people who are in the country legally?

And who's 27% or 25%?

They're for that.

Yeah, it was 11%.

11%.

It's 11.

Right.

But, like, are any of those, any of those policies really the policies you're talking about on a day-to-day basis?

There are waves of this, right?

It starts with, obviously, criminals that have committed other crimes.

Right.

Then you have people who come in contact with law enforcement for other things that they may have done.

Like, if you are

busted, let's say, in

a raid of a factory,

those people would get deported now, as opposed to just released and then they go to another another factory, right?

Like those types of things are

the interactions that would lead to a deportation.

Like this, they're trying to paint this picture.

I heard all sorts of coverage on this this morning.

That like we're going to have military members going school to school to find children who are illegal immigrants and deport them.

That is not like that.

And you know what?

What these policies are going to do, and what more likely, the overwhelming majority of these quote-unquote deportations are going to be of the self-deportation variety.

When people start seeing that, hey, I got pulled over for, you know, I got, because I got in a car accident or whatever, and,

you know, police came over and they investigated, found out somehow that, you know, we're illegal immigrants.

You're going to get deported for something like that.

Well, when people start seeing that, they're going to say, like, wait a minute, there's no longer this giant welcome mat

for us to come here illegally.

Right.

It's going to be too much stress on the family, too much, you know, and they say, what are we going to do with the children?

Take them back home with you.

Yeah, you shouldn't just leave them here.

Yeah, what is wrong with you?

Like, what do you do when you leave?

I don't know when you leave a park.

You don't just leave them at the park.

What am I taking with you?

I'm going to do the children when I take them to the park.

You take them home with you, right?

And that is what, like, a large portion of this will be people saying, you know, and when we talk about this, like

they say, oh, well, they're just coming here to do jobs that Americans just won't do.

You know, like when we say those jobs aren't here, they're not going to come, right?

When we're not rewarding rewarding companies for giving jobs to illegal immigrants who are paying them less than the minimum wage.

The majority of people are going to self-deport.

Also, the cities that are sanctuary cities are only making it worse.

Because if they won't turn over the criminals when they're released or they're in jail, if they won't do that, then they release them and our ICE needs to go find them.

And if they're hiding with a family and stuff like that or a different family, when we do find them, they'll bust everybody.

They'll bust everybody.

So, you know, any sanctuary city that's saying, we're not going to help ICE, you're only getting more people deported quicker.

And

you're not really helping.

Now, let me give you this from the Chicago Tribune.

When reports surfaced over the weekend that mass deportations could potentially begin in the Chicago area on Tuesday, Martin Ramos informed his boss he was taking time off from work.

He stocked up on groceries and decided his kids would skip soccer practice this week.

Ramos, who immigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico without the necessary work permits, spent the first full day of Donald Trump's second presidency hunkered down with his family trying to avoid being picked up by ICE agents.

An arrest, he knows, would destroy everything that he and his wife have worked for and force their two boys into an uncertain future.

Force their two boys into an uncertain future.

They're staying home from school because they play soccer and they can't play soccer.

We have to do everything possible to keep our children safe.

What will they do if we get deported?

They will go home with you.

ICE agents did not show up at the Joliet factory where Ramos and his wife both work on Tuesday, but fear inflicted upon the employees there was evident.

A co-worker told Ramos that only 10 out of the typical 40 to 50 workers showed up.

In In Little Village, one of Chicago's largest Mexican immigrant communities, streets were mostly deserted and quiet.

Tamale vendors, a hardy group used to braving all kinds of weather, weren't lined up on the sidewalks.

The hardware store parking lots where day laborers searched for work were also largely empty.

So in other words, they're not hanging out.

with a sign that says, we'll work for food, we'll work for anything, and picked up by construction workers that don't want to pay union workers in Chicago.

Is that what I'm hearing from the Chicago Tribune?

The possibility of mass deportations have terrified some of the area's roughly 400,000 undocumented immigrants, prompting many to skip work, keep their kids out of school, and stay hidden until the promised raids end.

They're not going to end.

They are not

going to end.

Now,

Chicago is saying that they're not going to help at all.

That's okay.

That's okay.

Sunday, Mass at St.

Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church was unusually empty.

And the church personally advised a group of street vendors based on the southwest side to stay home during the week until they learn how ICE will operate.

Out of the 13 street vendors, only one was out there.

Most vendors declined to speak to the Tribune out of fear they might be identified and targeted.

People are hiding.

They call me and ask me what to do, but my hands are tied.

I don't think anyone knows what to do.

Yeah, here's what you do.

You tell them to go home.

You tell them that this government is serious about applying the laws equally and holding on to those laws.

And you then tell all minorities in Chicago,

you know, I got to tell you, if your city continues to defy federal law, then your city's going to get funding cut off from the federal government.

Let the minorities know that they are embraced by the federal government, but due to the city and the state's stance on protection of those who come here illegally and took your jobs and receive things the Democrats would have never given to you or any other American, the federal government only has one lever, and that is to shut off the funding to Chicago.

So recognize who the bad guy is here.

It's up to you, Chicago.

It's up to you to stand up.

Now, the question is, are you going to stand up with illegals?

Are you going to stand up for the absolute vast minority?

Are you going to stand up against the minorities in your city that are Americans?

Because they've been protesting this whole time, saying, wait, why are we getting the shaft and these guys are getting hotel rooms and free food and everything else?

You never gave us any of that stuff.

Yeah, well, it's time for Chicago to wake up, and these states are either going to be absolutely left behind, or they're going to wake up.

And that goes for California, too, and you're going to see that choice on Friday.

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