June 9, 2025
LA Riots - Who Is To Blame?
IN this episode we look at the LA riots from the perspective of people who actually live there. Who is funding the bricks, the mortars and explosive devices? Are rioters being paid by CCP shell groups and NGO's to foment unrest?
We've got lots of juicy audio and perspective from one former LA resident (me) who has a slightly different perspective - and it's not about immigration!
#LARIOTS
#LAPD
#KARENBASS
#ICE Riots
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And welcome to another edition
of America TODAY.
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Jim Watkins, your host.
Obviously, over the weekend,
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most of us fascinated by what's
going on in the West Coast,
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particularly in Los Angeles.
And now I understand also San
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Francisco, where the riots
continue.
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We got a lot to unpack.
And you know, for me personally,
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I know that I've told you this
before, but I grew up in Los
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Angeles for most of my young
life and also much of my earlier
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manhood, I suppose you could
call and I worked a lot and I
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know the area very well.
So I can speak to this to a
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certain degree because I, I feel
the compassion of, of, of people
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who live in Los Angeles in the
sense that, you know, most
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people there get along.
It's a, it is a very diverse
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city.
And for many great reasons, the
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Hispanic contribution to the
culture there is, you know, I
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mean, it's, it, it's always been
there.
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It always will be there.
There's nothing that can take
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that away.
And you know, we remember that
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California at one point was part
of Mexico and all that changed
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in the 1800s and, and it's kind
of continued to slide downhill
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ever since because in one, in
one sense, you have a beautiful
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city.
It's got a vibrancy all of its
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own.
But every since COVID, it is, it
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has lost its luster and it's
become a, a shell of its former
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self.
So it breaks my heart to see it
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even further.
Dive, dive, develop into chaos.
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And it's just a, it's just a
mess.
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And it's unfortunate because the
10 or so million immigrants that
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came into this country is where
all of this is rooted.
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That's exactly what has caused
this.
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Now we got a lot of sound bites
to play.
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And I want to get to some of it.
And I also want to tell you
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who's behind a lot of it,
because what you're not hearing
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from the media is who exactly
who exactly is fomenting this
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rage?
Because it started with an ICE
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detention center in downtown Los
Angeles.
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That's where it all started for
some reason.
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There is, there is.
Well, let's put this guy on on
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YouTube.
His name is Maverick and he kind
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of sums it up succinctly.
Take a listen to this.
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Not one, but two ICE riots
happening at the same time in
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Los Angeles and in New York.
And I have some very, very
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interesting things you guys may
want to take a look at now.
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If you guys remember the summer
of 2020, the BLM movement where
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those mysterious pile of bricks
were showing up nationwide,
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Yeah, that's actually happening
again.
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And not only that, they're
conveniently placed right across
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the street from where the riots
and protests are happening.
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Not to mention if you look at
the delivery date, it's actually
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dated a day before the riots and
protests started, which is very
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convenient.
Now, we do have some receipts to
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share with you.
There's a group called Data
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Republican.
What they've unveiled is that
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there are a lot of NGOs that are
federally funded that are
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backing these riots.
And the riots started because
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ICE is cracking down on a lot of
the gang element that has come
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through the board of the last
four years.
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So this is clearly on on and
Biden, Biden caused this.
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And I, I told you leading up to
the elections and no matter the
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outcome, whoever won Kamala or
Trump, and we all kind of knew
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it was going to be Trump that he
was planting minefields.
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And this is one of those
minefields that I was talking
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about the social unrest in
Western cities because when when
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first of all, the proximity of
Los Angeles to to Mexico is it's
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the biggest city closest to the
border, aside from in San Diego,
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which is having its own set of
problems.
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So there's a lot of people,
particularly people in LA that
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are voicing anger, not at Trump,
which is what Karen Bass is
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doing.
Listen to Karen Bass here lay
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blame on on the the rioting on
Trump.
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What?
We're seeing in LA is chaos
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caused by the administration.
People should exercise their
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right to protest.
That's their First Amendment
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right, but people should also
exercise that right peacefully.
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We do not want to play into the
administration's hands.
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We're working with officials,
we're organizing resources, but
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what we're seeing in Los Angeles
is chaos that is provoked by the
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administration.
Not really, no.
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It's it's chaos because you're
giving the people who are
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writing a pass.
You're saying it's OK if you
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want to object to law
enforcement arresting people who
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are here here illegally and may
actually be gang related, drug
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related, and and of course
Newsom.
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Governor Newsom is basically
echoing what Karen Bass
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basically giving Trump and his
Department of Homeland Security
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the middle finger.
He knows where to find me, come
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after me, arrest me.
Let's just get it over with,
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tough guy.
So you got the politicians in
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California blaming Trump, but
really the the people who live
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in LA, well, they've got a
different version of the story.
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A lot of people want to blame us
Latinos for Trump for all these
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raids.
You know who you should be
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blaming Latinos for?
Biden.
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Because if it wasn't for Biden's
stupid border policy, none of
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this would be happening.
And if you say no, it was going
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to happen, then why didn't it
happen in 2016?
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Huh?
2016 to 2020 they didn't have
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ICE raids.
Tell me why didn't it happen?
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It all happened because Latinos
for Biden.
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As a Mexican American who voted
for Trump, I have been called so
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many things.
I have been told that I am a
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sell out.
I have been told that I'm
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whitewashed.
I have been told that I'm a
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wannabe white.
I have been told that I'll never
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be accepted by the white people.
And I have been told that my
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ancestors would be so
disappointed even though they're
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the ones that came here in the
first place.
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But the funniest 1 is when they
say wait till they come for you.
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Wait till they send you back.
Back to where?
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To California, where I was born.
To break it to you guys, but
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you're not starting a revolution
by throwing blocks of cement at
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ICE agents while they're driving
and while also blocking a
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federal bus on the One O 1
freeway in LA.
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You're not doing anything but
besides putting people in danger
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and you're being really
annoying.
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So you've got the press and the
and the media coverage making it
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look as if this is a Trump
problem.
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Meanwhile, the people on the
ground actually live there, see
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it for what it is, bad
management.
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And you know, Stephen Miller,
White House chief administrator
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and spokesman really for the
White House, he has some real
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insights into all this virtue
signaling on behalf of
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mainstream media.
If Ioffer any one of you a rent
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free home with no taxes to pay
in any of these gang
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neighborhoods and I said your
neighbors are MS13 terrorists or
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Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel
or trained Eragua.
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I couldn't pay you to live
there.
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But yet you, with your coverage,
are trying to force innocent
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Americans to have these people
as their neighbors and that one
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day their daughter may be
abducted from their home and
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raped.
And murdered.
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And I've been saying that all
along.
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It's easy for you to be in
Brentwood or living in the hills
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in Hollywood and looking down
upon the people of Los Angeles
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as your personal, the play
thing.
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But Tom Holman, he says, look,
you can portray this any way you
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want, but we're doing our job.
This is about enforcing the law
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and again, we're not going to
apologize for doing it.
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We're stepping up, she says.
They're going to, they're going
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to mobilize or guess what, we're
already head of the game.
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We were already mobilizing.
We're going to bring National
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Guard in tonight.
We're going to continue doing
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our job.
We're going to push back on
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these people and we're going to
force a law.
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And that started to on Sunday
night.
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Now we hear that the the rioting
going on in the in San Francisco
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starting to heat up.
But again, this is all being
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exacerbated by fringe groups
behind the scenes who want to
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so, so social discord.
And one of those groups happens
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to be called CHIRLA.
They want to see the social
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discord.
It is the Coalition of Human
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Immigration Rights.
Documents reveal the group saw a
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shocking jump from 12 million in
donations to 34 million in
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government grants just one year.
And this group, according to
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research done by At Data
Republican, shows that they are
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funded by a communist who is
also a very successful
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businessman in China.
And and they are the ones who
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are backing a lot of this
writing right now.
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So you've got anti ICE riders in
Los Angeles being organized by
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the Coalition for Humane
Immigration Rights of Los
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Angeles, which itself is a
group, an NGO, a nonprofit that
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is being funded by a communist
group operating in the US with
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no transparency.
And the party that is sponsoring
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all of this is called the Party
for Socialism and Liberation.
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And all of this is documented.
So.
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So what you're seeing on
television is is something that
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is being provoked by interests
who want to see America fall
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apart.
It's that simple.
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And when you look at it through
that lens, you understand that
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it's Kabuki theater.
And maybe it's a test run.
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But as one Angelino said, none
of this was going on during the
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Biden administration, was it?
No riots, no bricks being laid
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out in the middle of the night,
none of that stuff.
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And then all of a sudden,
Trump's taking on the deep
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state.
And what happens?
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Social unrest.
And now the Democrats come out
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of the shadows and they blame
Trump.
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So this is it's not as
complicated as you would think
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it is when you know who the
players are.
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We'll continue.
This is America today.
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Welcome back to America Today.
I want to play a couple of
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clips.
I want to also tell you just a
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brief story so you have some
context.
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Having grown up in Los Angeles,
it's one of these things where I
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don't know how you, if you've
not been to Los Angeles, if
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you've never been there, if
you've never gone in, it's
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always a tragedy when you see
your hometown falling apart, if
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you've ever gone back home,
maybe somewhere that you grew up
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in, you have fond memories.
And then you go back and you see
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that it's something's changed
some, some the spirit has
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changed, something has been
transformed.
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There's no no longer what you
would consider a safe space, for
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lack of a better term.
So it it grips me on that level,
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but I also don't like the
misrepresentation coming from
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the government of California,
which seems to want to blame
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Trump, just like they blame
Trump for George Floyd.
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And this is squarely at the foot
of the previous administration.
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Angelenos are saying this.
Even the LAPD Captain Newsome
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and Karen Bass, the mayor
talking about how that saying
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that the the federal government
is provoking when they're just
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doing their job.
And the LA police captain who
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was on the scene says that
that's not the case at all.
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Take a listen.
To the people who are not happy
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with the fact that ICE is in
the, in the community doing what
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ICE does, you know, it's I
respect ICE for being a fellow
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law enforcement agency.
They have their mission.
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They have their what they have
to do.
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We don't engage in in that
activity.
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But again, we can't preclude
them from doing that.
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They have every right to do
that.
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As far as people have worried
about the the violence that
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we're seeing, It is violence
that I've seen.
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It's disgusting.
It's escalated now since the
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beginning of this incident.
What we saw the first night was
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was bad.
What we've seen subsequent to
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that is getting increasingly
worse and more violent.
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I'm going to do a little
statistic test here and tell you
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what the numbers look like in
California and you might have
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some understanding of why ICE
has taken this on because these
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are the numbers.
You can't deny the numbers.
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It's not an easy situation, but
according to the California's
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own records, there are between
1.8 million and 2.6 million
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illegal immigrants in California
undocumented population in 2022.
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This is during the midst of the
open border where between 1.21
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and 2.8 million people
additionally have come in
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through the Southern Border
Migration Policy Institute and
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DHS data officials report from
the Migration Poly Institute
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that California has over
2,000,000 undocumented migrants.
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Now, many, probably most are,
you know, they got jobs.
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They're trying to make a better
life.
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If you've seen Mexico lately,
you probably would want to run
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too.
I don't I don't besmirch them
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for feeling the way that they
feel, but you have to recognize
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the criminal element and who is
backing this criminal element.
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You've got Chinese, they just
what, seized 55 tons of meth
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trying to be snuck through the
border?
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Think of it as an industry.
The cartels have an industry.
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They are supplying the addicts
of California and other states
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with no different from, you
know, going to your favorite
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fast food restaurant, only it
happens at night when you're
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asleep in your neighborhood.
Stay up some night at 3:00 in
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the morning, look outside your
window and see what's going on.
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If you live in places like
Compton or Paramount or downtown
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Los Angeles, you see they're
like vampires that come out at
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night.
And there's nothing wrong with
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the federal government stepping
in and trying to get some
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control back because the state
government won't do it.
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And this is the issue.
And the people in California,
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Los Angeles is sitting and
going, why doesn't our police do
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their job?
Well, because they're told by
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the politicians not to do their
job.
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We had a gentleman on not long
ago who explained that the way
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that California policing used to
be was that if you saw somebody
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that was suspicious in a
neighborhood, you had the right
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to go and question them.
If you saw, say, somebody that
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didn't look like they belonged
in, say, Beverly Hills at night,
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walking with a hoodie on at 3:00
in the morning.
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It used to be the LAPD.
We're encouraged to check it out
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to prevent a crime from
happening.
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Now the position is you have to
wait until the crime occurs
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before you can step in.
Does that sound like a way to
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run second largest American
city?
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No.
So if you want to take the
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position simply because you
don't like Donald Trump and you
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think thinks that he is a
dictator like Gavin Newsom and
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Karen Bass and others, then you
would probably view this as
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being an overreach of federal
authority.
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But what about the people on the
ground?
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What about the, you know, the
women of Los Angeles?
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How do you think they feel?
To break it to you guys, but
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you're not starting a revolution
by throwing blocks of cement at
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ICE agents while they're driving
and while also blocking a
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federal bus on the 101 freeway
in LA.
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You're not doing anything but
besides putting people in danger
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and you're being really
annoying.
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This is about enforcing the law,
and again, we're not going to
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apologize for doing it.
We're stepping up.
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If Ioffer any one of you a rent
free home with no taxes to pay
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in any of these gay
neighborhoods and I said your
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neighbors are MS13 terrorists or
Mexican mafia, I couldn't pay
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you to live there.
Coming up from the stream got.
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A beautiful It's got a beautiful
baby.
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Break it to you guys, but you're
not starting a revolution by
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throwing blocks of cement at ICE
agents while they're driving and
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while also blocking a federal
bus on the One O 1 freeway in
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LA.
You're not doing anything, but
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besides putting people in
danger, you're being really
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annoying.
It's a beautiful.
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He knows where to find me, come
after me, arrest me, going on
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everywhere.
Just get it over with.
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Tough guy like the.
Flicker in black of a train.
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On the track, it's got rhythm
square.
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What we're seeing in LA is chaos
caused by the administration.
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Every LAPD officer should be
fired.
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No benefits.
No retiring package.
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If you can't defend the city.
That's paying, you get the.
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Fuck out.
Goodbye.
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It's a beautiful noise.
That's my Ode and Neil Diamond
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because in my youth they had the
the song beautiful noise and it
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was playing in the movie
theaters as sort of like a a
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teaser.
And that's one of my memories.
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And, and those were the days
where LA was basically kind of a
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cool place to be.
I mean, it's always had its
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problems.
It's had its riots in the 60s
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and 70s that I remember.
And then of course, you know,
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the OJ Simpson trial and all of
the drama.
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And then of course, later Rodney
King.
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I mean, it's, you know, it's got
its scars.
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There's no question about this.
But what this what this is, is
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not that those were just
occasional upheavals, stress,
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hot summer days, people getting
their frustrations out.
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This is not that.
What this is, is an attempt to
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sow social discord.
And remember, we started off
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this program that we have a
Chinese billionaire who was
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funding the NGOs and non
government officials who run
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these little cities and they
support things like amnesty for
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migrants.
They support this Subregga
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Garcia guy that's now back in
the United States.
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And they're basically, if not
indirectly, directly tied to the
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Open Society, George Soros and
that ilk, the globalists who
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don't believe in borders.
And unfortunately, from my
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perspective, I don't know how
Los Angeles can recover.
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The damage has already been
inflicted.
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Eventually this is going to
lead.
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If it's not quelled in the next
couple of days and the rioters
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don't start, stop throwing
Molotov cocktails and breaking
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up bricks and throwing them from
overpasses.
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What you're actually going to
get to is you're going to get to
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martial law in Los Angeles.
Now in New York, it's a
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different picture.
The police are allowed now to do
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what they got to do, and they're
not blocking ice.
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There are people there that are
trying to promote it and
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provocateurs.
But in essence, that seems to
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have quelled for the moment.
And what remains to be seen.
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Of course, we'll continue to
follow it.
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And if you want to check out my
website, we'll have the latest
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news.
Of course, you can check this
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program on this great radio
station in 24 hours, so until
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then, be safe.
And thank you for joining me on
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America Today.
What we're seeing in LA is chaos
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caused by the administration.
People should exercise their
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right to protest.
That's their First Amendment
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right.
People should also exercise that
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right peacefully.
We do not want to play into the
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administration's hands.
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And welcome to another edition
of America TODAY.
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Jim Watkins, your host.
Obviously, over the weekend,
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most of us fascinated by what's
going on in the West Coast,
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particularly in Los Angeles.
And now I understand also San
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Francisco, where the riots
continue.
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We got a lot to unpack.
And you know, for me personally,
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I know that I've told you this
before, but I grew up in Los
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Angeles for most of my young
life and also much of my earlier
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manhood, I suppose you could
call and I worked a lot and I
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know the area very well.
So I can speak to this to a
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certain degree because I, I feel
the compassion of, of, of people
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who live in Los Angeles in the
sense that, you know, most
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people there get along.
It's a, it is a very diverse
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city.
And for many great reasons, the
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Hispanic contribution to the
culture there is, you know, I
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mean, it's, it, it's always been
there.
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It always will be there.
There's nothing that can take
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that away.
And you know, we remember that
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California at one point was part
of Mexico and all that changed
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in the 1800s and, and it's kind
of continued to slide downhill
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ever since because in one, in
one sense, you have a beautiful
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city.
It's got a vibrancy all of its
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own.
But every since COVID, it is, it
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has lost its luster and it's
become a, a shell of its former
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self.
So it breaks my heart to see it
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even further.
Dive, dive, develop into chaos.
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And it's just a, it's just a
mess.
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And it's unfortunate because the
10 or so million immigrants that
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came into this country is where
all of this is rooted.
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That's exactly what has caused
this.
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Now we got a lot of sound bites
to play.
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And I want to get to some of it.
And I also want to tell you
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who's behind a lot of it,
because what you're not hearing
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from the media is who exactly
who exactly is fomenting this
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rage?
Because it started with an ICE
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detention center in downtown Los
Angeles.
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That's where it all started for
some reason.
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There is, there is.
Well, let's put this guy on on
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YouTube.
His name is Maverick and he kind
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of sums it up succinctly.
Take a listen to this.
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Not one, but two ICE riots
happening at the same time in
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Los Angeles and in New York.
And I have some very, very
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interesting things you guys may
want to take a look at now.
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If you guys remember the summer
of 2020, the BLM movement where
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those mysterious pile of bricks
were showing up nationwide,
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Yeah, that's actually happening
again.
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And not only that, they're
conveniently placed right across
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the street from where the riots
and protests are happening.
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Not to mention if you look at
the delivery date, it's actually
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dated a day before the riots and
protests started, which is very
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convenient.
Now, we do have some receipts to
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share with you.
There's a group called Data
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Republican.
What they've unveiled is that
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there are a lot of NGOs that are
federally funded that are
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backing these riots.
And the riots started because
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ICE is cracking down on a lot of
the gang element that has come
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through the board of the last
four years.
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So this is clearly on on and
Biden, Biden caused this.
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And I, I told you leading up to
the elections and no matter the
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outcome, whoever won Kamala or
Trump, and we all kind of knew
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it was going to be Trump that he
was planting minefields.
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And this is one of those
minefields that I was talking
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about the social unrest in
Western cities because when when
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first of all, the proximity of
Los Angeles to to Mexico is it's
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the biggest city closest to the
border, aside from in San Diego,
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which is having its own set of
problems.
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So there's a lot of people,
particularly people in LA that
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are voicing anger, not at Trump,
which is what Karen Bass is
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doing.
Listen to Karen Bass here lay
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blame on on the the rioting on
Trump.
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What?
We're seeing in LA is chaos
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caused by the administration.
People should exercise their
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right to protest.
That's their First Amendment
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right, but people should also
exercise that right peacefully.
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We do not want to play into the
administration's hands.
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We're working with officials,
we're organizing resources, but
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what we're seeing in Los Angeles
is chaos that is provoked by the
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administration.
Not really, no.
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It's it's chaos because you're
giving the people who are
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writing a pass.
You're saying it's OK if you
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want to object to law
enforcement arresting people who
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are here here illegally and may
actually be gang related, drug
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related, and and of course
Newsom.
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Governor Newsom is basically
echoing what Karen Bass
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basically giving Trump and his
Department of Homeland Security
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the middle finger.
He knows where to find me, come
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after me, arrest me.
Let's just get it over with,
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tough guy.
So you got the politicians in
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California blaming Trump, but
really the the people who live
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in LA, well, they've got a
different version of the story.
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A lot of people want to blame us
Latinos for Trump for all these
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raids.
You know who you should be
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blaming Latinos for?
Biden.
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Because if it wasn't for Biden's
stupid border policy, none of
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this would be happening.
And if you say no, it was going
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to happen, then why didn't it
happen in 2016?
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Huh?
2016 to 2020 they didn't have
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ICE raids.
Tell me why didn't it happen?
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It all happened because Latinos
for Biden.
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As a Mexican American who voted
for Trump, I have been called so
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many things.
I have been told that I am a
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sell out.
I have been told that I'm
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whitewashed.
I have been told that I'm a
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wannabe white.
I have been told that I'll never
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be accepted by the white people.
And I have been told that my
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ancestors would be so
disappointed even though they're
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the ones that came here in the
first place.
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But the funniest 1 is when they
say wait till they come for you.
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Wait till they send you back.
Back to where?
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To California, where I was born.
To break it to you guys, but
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you're not starting a revolution
by throwing blocks of cement at
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ICE agents while they're driving
and while also blocking a
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federal bus on the One O 1
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You're not doing anything but
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and you're being really
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So you've got the press and the
and the media coverage making it
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look as if this is a Trump
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Meanwhile, the people on the
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it for what it is, bad
management.
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And you know, Stephen Miller,
White House chief administrator
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and spokesman really for the
White House, he has some real
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insights into all this virtue
signaling on behalf of
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mainstream media.
If Ioffer any one of you a rent
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free home with no taxes to pay
in any of these gang
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neighborhoods and I said your
neighbors are MS13 terrorists or
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Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel
or trained Eragua.
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I couldn't pay you to live
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But yet you, with your coverage,
are trying to force innocent
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Americans to have these people
as their neighbors and that one
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day their daughter may be
abducted from their home and
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raped.
And murdered.
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And I've been saying that all
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It's easy for you to be in
Brentwood or living in the hills
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in Hollywood and looking down
upon the people of Los Angeles
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as your personal, the play
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But Tom Holman, he says, look,
you can portray this any way you
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want, but we're doing our job.
This is about enforcing the law
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and again, we're not going to
apologize for doing it.
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We're stepping up, she says.
They're going to, they're going
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to mobilize or guess what, we're
already head of the game.
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We were already mobilizing.
We're going to bring National
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Guard in tonight.
We're going to continue doing
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our job.
We're going to push back on
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these people and we're going to
force a law.
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And that started to on Sunday
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Now we hear that the the rioting
going on in the in San Francisco
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starting to heat up.
But again, this is all being
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exacerbated by fringe groups
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so, so social discord.
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to be called CHIRLA.
They want to see the social
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discord.
It is the Coalition of Human
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Immigration Rights.
Documents reveal the group saw a
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shocking jump from 12 million in
donations to 34 million in
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government grants just one year.
And this group, according to
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research done by At Data
Republican, shows that they are
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funded by a communist who is
also a very successful
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businessman in China.
And and they are the ones who
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are backing a lot of this
writing right now.
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So you've got anti ICE riders in
Los Angeles being organized by
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the Coalition for Humane
Immigration Rights of Los
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Angeles, which itself is a
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is being funded by a communist
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no transparency.
And the party that is sponsoring
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all of this is called the Party
for Socialism and Liberation.
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And all of this is documented.
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So what you're seeing on
television is is something that
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is being provoked by interests
who want to see America fall
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apart.
It's that simple.
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And when you look at it through
that lens, you understand that
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it's Kabuki theater.
And maybe it's a test run.
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But as one Angelino said, none
of this was going on during the
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Biden administration, was it?
No riots, no bricks being laid
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out in the middle of the night,
none of that stuff.
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Trump's taking on the deep
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state.
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Social unrest.
And now the Democrats come out
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of the shadows and they blame
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So this is it's not as
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it is when you know who the
players are.
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We'll continue.
This is America today.
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Welcome back to America Today.
I want to play a couple of
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clips.
I want to also tell you just a
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brief story so you have some
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Having grown up in Los Angeles,
it's one of these things where I
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don't know how you, if you've
not been to Los Angeles, if
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you've never been there, if
you've never gone in, it's
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always a tragedy when you see
your hometown falling apart, if
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you've ever gone back home,
maybe somewhere that you grew up
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in, you have fond memories.
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that it's something's changed
some, some the spirit has
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changed, something has been
transformed.
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There's no no longer what you
would consider a safe space, for
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lack of a better term.
So it it grips me on that level,
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but I also don't like the
misrepresentation coming from
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the government of California,
which seems to want to blame
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Trump, just like they blame
Trump for George Floyd.
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And this is squarely at the foot
of the previous administration.
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Angelenos are saying this.
Even the LAPD Captain Newsome
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and Karen Bass, the mayor
talking about how that saying
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that the the federal government
is provoking when they're just
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doing their job.
And the LA police captain who
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was on the scene says that
that's not the case at all.
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Take a listen.
To the people who are not happy
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with the fact that ICE is in
the, in the community doing what
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ICE does, you know, it's I
respect ICE for being a fellow
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law enforcement agency.
They have their mission.
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They have their what they have
to do.
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We don't engage in in that
activity.
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But again, we can't preclude
them from doing that.
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They have every right to do
that.
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As far as people have worried
about the the violence that
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we're seeing, It is violence
that I've seen.
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It's disgusting.
It's escalated now since the
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beginning of this incident.
What we saw the first night was
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was bad.
What we've seen subsequent to
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that is getting increasingly
worse and more violent.
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I'm going to do a little
statistic test here and tell you
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what the numbers look like in
California and you might have
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some understanding of why ICE
has taken this on because these
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are the numbers.
You can't deny the numbers.
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It's not an easy situation, but
according to the California's
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own records, there are between
1.8 million and 2.6 million
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illegal immigrants in California
undocumented population in 2022.
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This is during the midst of the
open border where between 1.21
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and 2.8 million people
additionally have come in
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through the Southern Border
Migration Policy Institute and
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DHS data officials report from
the Migration Poly Institute
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that California has over
2,000,000 undocumented migrants.
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Now, many, probably most are,
you know, they got jobs.
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They're trying to make a better
life.
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If you've seen Mexico lately,
you probably would want to run
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too.
I don't I don't besmirch them
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for feeling the way that they
feel, but you have to recognize
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the criminal element and who is
backing this criminal element.
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You've got Chinese, they just
what, seized 55 tons of meth
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trying to be snuck through the
border?
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Think of it as an industry.
The cartels have an industry.
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They are supplying the addicts
of California and other states
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with no different from, you
know, going to your favorite
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fast food restaurant, only it
happens at night when you're
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asleep in your neighborhood.
Stay up some night at 3:00 in
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the morning, look outside your
window and see what's going on.
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If you live in places like
Compton or Paramount or downtown
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Los Angeles, you see they're
like vampires that come out at
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night.
And there's nothing wrong with
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the federal government stepping
in and trying to get some
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control back because the state
government won't do it.
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And this is the issue.
And the people in California,
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Los Angeles is sitting and
going, why doesn't our police do
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their job?
Well, because they're told by
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the politicians not to do their
job.
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We had a gentleman on not long
ago who explained that the way
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that California policing used to
be was that if you saw somebody
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that was suspicious in a
neighborhood, you had the right
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to go and question them.
If you saw, say, somebody that
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didn't look like they belonged
in, say, Beverly Hills at night,
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walking with a hoodie on at 3:00
in the morning.
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It used to be the LAPD.
We're encouraged to check it out
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to prevent a crime from
happening.
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Now the position is you have to
wait until the crime occurs
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before you can step in.
Does that sound like a way to
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run second largest American
city?
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No.
So if you want to take the
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position simply because you
don't like Donald Trump and you
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think thinks that he is a
dictator like Gavin Newsom and
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Karen Bass and others, then you
would probably view this as
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being an overreach of federal
authority.
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But what about the people on the
ground?
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What about the, you know, the
women of Los Angeles?
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How do you think they feel?
To break it to you guys, but
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you're not starting a revolution
by throwing blocks of cement at
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ICE agents while they're driving
and while also blocking a
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federal bus on the 101 freeway
in LA.
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You're not doing anything but
besides putting people in danger
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and you're being really
annoying.
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This is about enforcing the law,
and again, we're not going to
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apologize for doing it.
We're stepping up.
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If Ioffer any one of you a rent
free home with no taxes to pay
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in any of these gay
neighborhoods and I said your
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neighbors are MS13 terrorists or
Mexican mafia, I couldn't pay
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you to live there.
Coming up from the stream got.
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A beautiful It's got a beautiful
baby.
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Break it to you guys, but you're
not starting a revolution by
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throwing blocks of cement at ICE
agents while they're driving and
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while also blocking a federal
bus on the One O 1 freeway in
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LA.
You're not doing anything, but
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besides putting people in
danger, you're being really
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annoying.
It's a beautiful.
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He knows where to find me, come
after me, arrest me, going on
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everywhere.
Just get it over with.
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Tough guy like the.
Flicker in black of a train.
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On the track, it's got rhythm
square.
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What we're seeing in LA is chaos
caused by the administration.
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Every LAPD officer should be
fired.
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No benefits.
No retiring package.
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If you can't defend the city.
That's paying, you get the.
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Fuck out.
Goodbye.
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It's a beautiful noise.
That's my Ode and Neil Diamond
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because in my youth they had the
the song beautiful noise and it
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was playing in the movie
theaters as sort of like a a
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teaser.
And that's one of my memories.
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And, and those were the days
where LA was basically kind of a
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cool place to be.
I mean, it's always had its
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problems.
It's had its riots in the 60s
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and 70s that I remember.
And then of course, you know,
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the OJ Simpson trial and all of
the drama.
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And then of course, later Rodney
King.
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I mean, it's, you know, it's got
its scars.
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There's no question about this.
But what this what this is, is
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not that those were just
occasional upheavals, stress,
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hot summer days, people getting
their frustrations out.
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This is not that.
What this is, is an attempt to
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sow social discord.
And remember, we started off
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this program that we have a
Chinese billionaire who was
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funding the NGOs and non
government officials who run
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these little cities and they
support things like amnesty for
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migrants.
They support this Subregga
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Garcia guy that's now back in
the United States.
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And they're basically, if not
indirectly, directly tied to the
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Open Society, George Soros and
that ilk, the globalists who
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don't believe in borders.
And unfortunately, from my
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perspective, I don't know how
Los Angeles can recover.
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The damage has already been
inflicted.
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Eventually this is going to
lead.
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If it's not quelled in the next
couple of days and the rioters
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don't start, stop throwing
Molotov cocktails and breaking
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up bricks and throwing them from
overpasses.
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What you're actually going to
get to is you're going to get to
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martial law in Los Angeles.
Now in New York, it's a
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different picture.
The police are allowed now to do
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what they got to do, and they're
not blocking ice.
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There are people there that are
trying to promote it and
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provocateurs.
But in essence, that seems to
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have quelled for the moment.
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What we're seeing in LA is chaos
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caused by the administration.
People should exercise their
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right to protest.
That's their First Amendment
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right.
People should also exercise that
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right peacefully.
We do not want to play into the
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administration's hands.
