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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: December 17, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now | December 17, 2024

Well.
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Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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I want to begin this evening by talking about
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One of our current challenges,
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The vacuum in our political leadership.
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Well, president elect trump prepares to take the reins.
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Our nation rests in the seemingly rather
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Shaky hands of joe biden and his senior staff.
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We haven't seen much of biden
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Since he exited the presidential campaign.
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It's not really clear who's actually
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Running the country on a day to day basis,
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But they seem to be working rather hard
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To create obstacles for the next administration.
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More than once, biden
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Has said he's committed to a smooth transition of power
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Because that's in the best interest of the american people.
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But that doesn't seem to be
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What we're actually watching unfold.
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Take the border as an example for a long time, president
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Biden has claimed his border policies are sufficient,
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But that doesn't line up with the reality
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We see in communities across our nation.
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Recently, yet another illegal young man killed
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A 12 year old girl when he was drinking and driving.
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And as the case in so many of these incidents,
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He hadn't he had been arrested before.
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Not just here, but in his home country.
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Thousands of people are here not just illegally,
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But with previous criminal records.
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At the most fundamental level, the government's job is
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To protect the borders of its nation.
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Otherwise, before too long, the nation doesn't exist.
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Well, in this current arena, our present administration
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Continues to make very destructive decisions.
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Within the last week, it came to light
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That they're auctioning off
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Pieces of the border wall walls paid for by taxpayers.
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That would be you and me.
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These perfectly good sections of wall were left
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To rust after joe biden came into office.
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And now, just weeks before trump takes the helm
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And begins to implement his strong border policies,
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They're being auctioned off
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At a fraction of their original cost.
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One thing seems to be abundantly clear
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The looting of america continues.
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Now, all of this is very alarming.
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The reality is it's happened before.
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For those of us who read our bibles,
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We see some precedents in scripture time and again
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When people have walked away from god.
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He's allowed them to be looted,
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To be plundered by surrounding nations.
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It's often presented as a form
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Of god's judgment and discipline.
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Whether or not the people are overcome
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Isn't about the size of the enemy
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Or their technical prowess.
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It's about the condition of the hearts of the people of god.
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If they honor him, he helps them.
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If they don't, they face consequences.
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When god withdraws his protection, the end result
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It's complete destruction may not arrive immediately.
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It may look like looting and plundering.
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It may look like a slow deterioration
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Or momentum being lost.
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But what actually happens is god has stepped back.
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Or perhaps more directly,
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The people have walked out from under his protection
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Because they simply don't
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Want to cooperate with his principles.
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Well, it seems to me that that is a great deal to do
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With where we find ourselves today.
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Our nation is being looted.
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It's being looted
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Economically, politically cultural in many, many ways.
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We have an important role to play is our leaders navigate
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The changes ahead.
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Let's ask god to show us where we need to repent, where we can
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Change and align ourselves more fully with his truth.
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Then let's ask him where
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He needs us to take that truth into our communities,
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Even when it's difficult or maybe unpopular.
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You know, for a long time, the border wall wasn't
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A popular idea.
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But as the truth has come to light now,
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With the new administration emerging,
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The message is the wall is going to go up,
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Criminals will be deported, and the us military might even
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Be used to find and take out the drug lords
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In mexico and their chinese helpers,
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Who have been producing fentanyl
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And selling it across our country.
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They've taken the street
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Gangs and they've delivered them into the united states.
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Thank you very much. they've taken their criminals.
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They've taken their drug dealers and drug lords.
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They've taken them out of caracas,
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And they brought them into the united states.
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And it is a disgrace.
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And we are going to have to do a very large deportation,
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Because you can't you can't live like that.
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Well, to help us understand how that's going to work,
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We've invited the chairman of the border
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Commerce and security council to our show.
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In a moment, i'll be joined by nelson ballito
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To hear his perspective on the border
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And what's at stake.
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Stay with us.
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Stay with us.
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We're back now with nelson ballito,
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The chairman of the border commerce and security council.
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Welcome to our show,
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Pastor allan.
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Thanks for having me.
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Well, i have a lot of questions, and i'd like to start
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With public safety.
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The murders, the rape cases, the crime seems to be growing.
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President biden seems to have his head
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In the sand,
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Claiming that all is well and things are getting better.
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What do you advise the members of your council to do?
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Well, we're waiting for trump and his team to take office.
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Well, i think members of the council,
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A lot of us, what we do is we advocate on behalf of issues
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Regarding trade, travel and security issues.
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Now we understand the issues of the illegitimate trade
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And travel, but we always advocate
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For the legitimate trade and travel.
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Well, you know, what we have to do
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Currently is we have to be vigilant.
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We have to continue. we have to hold it steady.
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We have to continue to do whatever we can and encourage
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Our local law enforcement and our federal law enforcement
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To continue to do the right thing.
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Now, i know that this administration
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Has not really enforce these types of laws
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That are on the books, but, you know, help is on the way.
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And we got to tell them that look, keep keep a steady hand.
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Things are going to change come the 20th of january
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Because they have to change.
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We have to look at ways that we can we can get
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Get the legitimate trade and travel up
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And the other stuff down there.
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So there's a very easy way to come to this country.
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And that's a legality way.
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There's a legal way to come, this country
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To work with visas temporarily to apply for programs.
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No one is against immigration,
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No against no one is against immigration.
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We're against illegal immigration.
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And those are the that's the issue
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That you have today where we have,
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You know, we have run out of excuses
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To even know why
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Things are happening, why they're happening.
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And, you know, people ask me all the time,
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You know, why is this happening?
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Why isn't the administration doing anything, really?
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You know,
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I run out of answers because i really don't
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Know, other than just i can sit here and speculate,
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But there is a lot of that.
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There's a lot of people that have come to this country
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That are that are here to to cause harm.
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You look at venezuela, you look at nicaragua, cuba,
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Some of these other areas that they've empty
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Jails, they've emptied insane asylums.
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They've sent them north. why?
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Because they're trying to get rid of their problems.
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And what happens is they come to this country
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And they send back billions of dollars.
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Just mexico alone last month had $5.2 billion.
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We know that about 40% of that dollars, it goes for human
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Trafficking and also fentanyl and related drugs.
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So those are the kind of things that need to stop.
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Cash deals at western union, cash deals at moneygram,
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Sending money all over the world.
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In these countries, if you think about it,
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If they don't have to house them,
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They don't have to feed them.
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They don't have to transport, they don't have to educate it,
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Make it export that to the united states.
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And then that export comes back in dollars in cash.
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The delta of that is
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What is the incentivizing in these countries.
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So the members get involved.
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We get involved all over the world,
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Especially in this part of the hemisphere.
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And we look at how do we stop pressuring mexico,
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Guatemala, honduras and others to do their part.
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How do we have to do something and start negotiating
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In these countries to stop the flood of people?
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And we need to stop putting band-aids.
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And we need to perform major surgery. and we all know that.
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Well, how confident are you that mr.
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Trump will be able to find
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And round up the truly bad guys who are causing all the havoc
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And send them back to wherever they've come from?
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It sounds promising.
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Well but it will take to do that.
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It well, it's going to take a huge force.
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So when we talk about military getting involved,
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What you're seeing is what they're already involved.
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There's thousands of troops on the us
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Border, us-mexico border now doing a lot of vigilant, the,
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You know, into having eyes on the border
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Doing administrative jobs.
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So the officers that have arrest authority
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Can actually get out there and do what they can.
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Unfortunately, there's just simply not enough.
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And we've had thousands upon thousands of daily bases.
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I will remind the viewers
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That, oh, we, we don't hear a whole lot
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What's happening as of late, but you have 1500 people
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Using the cbp one app every day crossing the border.
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You're looking at about 1100 illegals
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Now crossing the border,
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You don't have 67,000, but you have 1100.
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And then you have there's still tax funded flights
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Coming in from venezuela, nicaragua, cuban
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Areas, in into the united states,
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Flying about 7 to 800 people a day.
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So you're still getting four
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Plus thousand people a day coming to this country
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In a quote unquote
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Legal fashion, you know, looking at an asylum process
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That unfortunately, 89% of those people don't show up.
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So with that said, what does trump have to do?
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Those 89% of the people
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That don't show up now, lose their visa, now
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Lose their ability to be in this country
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Now they are illegal in this country.
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So you're looking at first, where do you start?
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You have tens of thousands of people already in jail, in local
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Jails, county jails. you got to start with those.
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Hopefully we figure out how to deport these.
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There's a lot of countries that don't want these people back.
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Venezuelan is one of them.
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Nicaragua and others. cuba is the same.
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They don't want these people back.
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Do you send them to mexico?
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Because that's how they came in.
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And you figure what's their problem?
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Let them send them to guatemala
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And all down the road because that's how they came in.
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Those are things that have to be looked at and planned.
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I haven't seen that type of plan yet,
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But i will tell you, there's a lot of low hanging fruit.
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So the other people that have become now illegal,
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What you have to do is you got to stop.
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How do you fund them?
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So in other words, we talk about the moneygram,
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The western union.
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If you don't have a bank account from now on,
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You shouldn't be able to send money anywhere.
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What happens if you're illegal and you're
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You're not supposed to be in this country.
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You can't get a bank account.
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Now you've stopped the money spigot.
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If you could stop that,
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That that will really help e-verify for employers
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And really hold them accountable,
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Using documentation to ensure that they are legally able
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To to work in this country. that right there.
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So if you start putting
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That very difficult for people
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To be able to work in this country,
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What's going to happen
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Is they're possibly going to self-deport
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And i'm going to bet that's going to happen quite a bit.
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So we have to encourage that.
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That's one way to do it.
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So it's going to be tough.
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We need to deputize a lot of county and local
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Level, officers to be able to do this type of job.
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There's going to be a lot of transportation.
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And depending how many of these camps that are rolled out
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Throughout the nation, and we know texas
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Have talked about south texas and stark county with 1400 acres
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To be the first one.
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You know, how is that going to work?
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It's yet to be seen,
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But i'm confident there's going to be
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Hundreds of thousands,
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If not a few million over the next
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3 to 4 years that will be deported
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Or at the least leave the country one way or another.
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And ultimately, that's what we want.
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Well, it sounds like a common
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Sense approach to a rather complex problem.
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What are your members saying about the biden's fire
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Sale of the unused parts of the wall?
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It seems like a rather crass way
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To take a swipe at the incoming president.
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It's on the back of america's taxpayers.
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And that's unfortunate to see.
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So this wall has been sitting on the border
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For for 3 to 4 years.
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It's been rotting away.
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What's being sold
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Are basically scraps at this point,
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Because the biden administration
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Did not do what they needed to do.
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This stuff was purchased by the american taxpayer,
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And they failed to implement wall
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And put the equipment that we already purchased.
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So what are they selling?
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So yeah, they're selling parts of the wall,
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But a lot of it is just dilapidated at this point.
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About 60% of that wall went to states.
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The other 40% went on on an auction.
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And that's what we're seeing. yeah, it needs to stop.
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But honestly it needs to be re melted down and recycled.
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There's there's savings in that.
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But you can't use some of this wall
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Because they've left it out there.
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It just told basically right now
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You got to wonder did they do it on purpose or not.
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You know, you and i could probably debate about that.
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But i will say that it's unfortunate
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That that we've purchased we allocated for this
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And they just simply just like they've had with the immigration
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And the problem that we've had were
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2.8 million people have crossed the border on an annual basis,
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Have done nothing about it.
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You know,
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Well, the new borders are tom homan has been meeting
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With big city mayors,
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And he says that a lot of them
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Are doing one 80s jumping on board.
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The idea that safety and security
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Has to take priority over everything else.
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One of them was the new york city mayor, eric adams.
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Here's how mr. home in put it.
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You know,
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I've been calling mayor adams
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Out for two years, saying he forgot
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What was like being a cop and became a politician
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Because he wasn't taking up action
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On public safety in the city when it comes to illegal aliens.
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Yesterday i saw a complete one.
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And i saw the cop and him, and, he is, he is.
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He has promised to work with us to target
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Violent, criminal, illegal aliens in this city
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And to help us find over 300,000 missing
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Children that his administration released. unvetted sponsors.
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Do you think the mayors have had a change of heart,
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Or are they just trying to save their jobs right now?
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Well, there's two things.
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I think the mayor of new york is actually right on this.
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Maybe if he could talk to the mayor of
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Denver, the mayor of los angeles, the mayor of portland,
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And many other other cities,
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They would understand that people are sick and tired
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Of what's been happening in their community.
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People are sick and tired
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Of housing people at the taxpayer expense.
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And these folks, once they're in, they never want to get out.
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It's a problem that he he sees it
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And they just don't have the money for it.
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They have to do something about it,
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Whether he likes it or not.
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So he figured, hey, i'm going to work with tom homan,
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Tom homan being the right guy
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To be able to do this because he's pretty serious.
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I know tom, i've worked with tom in the past
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And he's the guy that can can certainly do this
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And put something in place
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And figure out how you get the other mayors to fall in line.
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So when they want federal funding
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And they don't
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Get the federal funding
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Because they're not falling in line,
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Or you have some kind of sanctuary community
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Of some sort.
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Well, then there has to be a penalty for that.
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Ultimately, what you got to understand that
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The people of this country voted for this.
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Donald trump campaigned on this.
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This is not some snafu.
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After action.
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I got elected and i'm changing my story.
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People voted for this overwhelmingly.
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They want it.
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This is what it was a top five campaign issue
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And they knew what they were getting into.
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This is no surprise to anybody.
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But you have these
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These democratic mayors in some of these areas
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That consistently want to go against the grain.
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You know, i think it's sooner or later,
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That these are number two, you know, they get on board
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Or they maybe get out of board.
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Well, i believe the
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Majority of the american people are compassionate and generous.
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They just want
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A regulated immigration policy that makes sense to all of us.
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Nelson bilodeau, thank you for visiting with us today.
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We'll stay on this across the months
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Ahead, and we'd like to have you back,
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Especially here in nashville whenever you're in the area.
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Thank you a lot.
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Thank you, pastor allen.
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Love to have you come to be there.
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Well, in a moment, i'll have some thoughts
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Of my own to share with you.
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Stay with us.
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Stay with us.
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You know i love the christmas season.
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I like everything about it.
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I like the decorations and the christmas music.
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I would like to. secular christmas music.
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I like the whole thing that our culture really shifts our focus
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For weeks in a celebration of the arrival of our king.
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Now, i know they don't all do it with the purest of motives.
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Many of them do it with a very clear profit objective.
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Doesn't offend me.
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We're still celebrating christmas,
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And i think sometimes as christ followers, we lose
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Perspective a bit and we get pulled into the
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The frustration of the season.
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I'd like to invite you out of that for just a minute.
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I would remind you of the angelic message
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To the shepherds in those shepherds
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Fields just outside of bethlehem a couple millennia ago.
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It says, we bring you good news of great joy,
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Which will be for all the people today in the city of david.
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David, a savior is born.
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Good news of great joy.
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And that news was about the arrival of a savior.
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It wasn't that we were going to get premium
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Opportunities at the latest sale at target or walmart
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That a savior was born.
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So we're a world in need of a savior more than we're in
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Need of the perfect gift.
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And i want to invite you away a little bit
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From the pressure of the season
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That's focused on what i have to do,
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And who's expecting me to jump through some hoop,
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Or the gift that i hope
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Somebody is sensitive enough to deliver to me
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And recognize
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That at the heart of this season is a spiritual invitation
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To transformation in my life and in the world that we live in.
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We're all leaders.
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You lead in a professional arenas
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You live in, you lead with your hobby.
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You lead in your families.
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This christmas season, let's lead with our faith.
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Let's take jesus to all the christmas celebrations.
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If it's a secular environment,
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You can do it in a more subtle way.
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But wherever we go, let's be certain we take jesus with us.
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It's good news of great joy for all people,
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And we want to be advocates of that
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This christmas season, if we'll do that.
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I promise you, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us.
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Your emails are always an important part of our program.
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Laura from arizona writes
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I've been gathering with several others
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In my retirement community for a bible study.
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It can be difficult because we read
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From so many diverse translations.
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One friend wants me to only read from the king james version,
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But i have a hard time understanding it.
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What are your thoughts?
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Well, you know, i grew up reading the king james bible.
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It is a beautiful poetic translation of scripture,
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One of the most impactful books in the history of civilization.
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But i'm not an expert on 17th century english,
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And it's sometimes difficult to read.
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I often tell people that i think the most the best
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Translation of the bible is the one that you'll read.
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There's differences in them, but at the heart of those
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Is god's truth, and it'll change our lives.
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Find ways to make friends, not fight.
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Finally, janice from oregon says,
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I followed your live streams and now your new program.
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I don't have a truly bible
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Believing church in my area and i can't travel far.
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I just don't know where to start.
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Well, we have a whole host of small group studies.
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You can find them online in alan jackson.com.
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Invite a neighbor or a friend to join you.
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Make your home a lighthouse in your community.
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Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment
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To send your emails to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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Your feedback and questions.
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They do a lot to shape our show.
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I'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful
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Evening.
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Allen Jackson: December 17, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now

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