OVER THE WEEKEND THERE WAS PANIC IN VARIOUS STATES OVER THERE
ñ ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AS FEDERAL AGENTS CONDUCTED A NUMBER
OF ENFORCEMENT RAIDS IN AT LEAST SEVERAL STATES.
INTERNS OUT THAT THESE RAIDS TOOK PLACE IN AT LEAST 11
STATES, AND THEY ARRESTED ABOUT 600 PEOPLE IN TOTAL.
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS SAYING THAT 75% OF
THE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE DETAINED HAD CONVICTIONS,
OR PRIOR CONVICTIONS, BUT THE REST DID NOT.
SO, THERE ARE A LOT OF MYTHS WITH REGARD TO WHAT HAPPENED
OVER THE WEEKEND, SO I AM WHAT YOU COMPARE BOTH THE TRUMP AND
OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS, AND GIVE YOU A FAIR AND BALANCED
VIEW OF WHAT HAPPENED.
FIRST OF ALL, LET ME JUST SAY THAT WHEN THE RAIDS FIRST
STARTED
HAPPENING, AND OF COURSE THE NEWS SPREAD ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA,
I PANICKED, BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HEAR TOO MUCH ABOUT THE RAIDS
UNDER OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION.
BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THE DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENING UNDER THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, JUST KNOW THAT OBAMA DID A TON OF THESE
RAIDS AS WELL.
HE DID DEPORT 2 MILLION OVER THE
COURSE OF HIS PRESIDENCY.
JUST REAL QUICK, ON THE FEDERAL COURT CASE THAT HAS IN REGARDS
TO THE TRAVEL BAN, I EXPLAINED IN A VIDEO THAT I DID OVER THE
WEEKEND, LOOK, I CAN'T STAND THE TRAVEL BAN, I THINK IT'S
TERRIBLE POLICY, BUT HE MIGHT ACTUALLY WIN THE COURT CASE
ONCE THE COURT ACTUALLY HERE'S THE FULL CASE.
AND SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE, I DON'T GET IT, ARGUE FOR
TRUMP OR AGAINST TRUMP?
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS, YOU JUDGE CASE-BY-CASE.
SO, IF HE GETS RID OF THE TDP, THAT'S GREAT.
I'M NOT ONE TO CRITICIZE HIM BECAUSE HE'S ON THE OTHER TEAM.
IN THIS CASE, WE CAN DISAGREE WITH WHAT TRUMP DID, AND WE
WILL, BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW THE REAL FACTS.
SO IN THE CASE OF THE TRAVEL BAN, OBAMA'S TRAVEL BAN WAS MUCH
DIFFERENT THAN TRUMP'S.
IN THIS CASE, WE GIVE YOU THE FACTS ON IT AND YOU DECIDE
WHICH WAY YOU WANT TO GO WITH IT.
OBAMA DID ALSO GO AFTER UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, AND HE
ALSO DID THESE RAIDS, BUT THESE RAIDS OFTEN TOOK PLACE DURING
THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
AND TRUMP'S ADMINISTER ASIAN HAS DECIDED TO DO ñ TRUMP'S
ADMINISTRATION HAS DECIDED TO THESE RAIDS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
DAY, PERHAPS TO SHOW THAT THEY MEAN BUSINESS AND TO BE A
LITTLE MORE HARSH.
IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THAT AGENTS THIS WEEK RATED
HOMES AND WORKPLACES IN ATLANTA, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, THE LOS
ANGELES AREA, NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, NETTING HUNDREDS
OF PEOPLE.
AGAIN, AROUND 600 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED.
LAST MONTH, TOM SUBSTANTIALLY BROADENED THE DEPARTMENT UPON
SECURITY POLICY.
ñ DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY POLICY.
75% HAD PRIOR CONVICTIONS, THE REST ARE INDIVIDUAL ñ
THE REST ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN
TARGETED UNDER OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION.
BUT NEVERTHELESS, TO BE FAIR, THESE TYPES OF RAIDS DID HAPPEN
DURING THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION AS WELL.
1ST OF ALL, I DON'T CARE IF THEY HAPPENED DURING THE MIDDLE
OF THE DAY, THAT'S JUST PHOTO OPS.
I CARE ABOUT THE POLICY.
WE TOLD YOU A NUMBER OF TIMES THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA BROKE
THE RECORD FOR DEPORTATION, MUCH MORE THAN GEORGE W.
BUSH.
SO, IF YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE YOUNG TURKS, THAT'S NOT
NEWS TO YOU.
AND OF COURSE HE DID THAT BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD
HELP THE DEMOCRATS GET SOME REPUBLICAN VOTES.
HOW DID THAT WORK OUT?
A LOT OF ñ BY A LOT OF IMMIGRATION EXPERTS, HE WAS TO
CRONY AND IN HOW HE WENT AFTER IMMIGRANTS IN THIS ñ HE WAS
DRACONIAN IN HOW HE WENT AFTER IMMIGRANTS IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND LO AND BEHOLD, HILLARY CLINTON DIDN'T GET AS MANY
LATINO VOTES AS SHE THOUGHT SHE WOULD.
SO NOW, TRUMP OF COURSE TAKES IT TO 11,
TAKES IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, AND EVEN WORSE.
IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT AS A RESULT OF
TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER, THAT THEY CAST A WIDER NET THAN
THEY WOULD HAVE IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS.
SO THEY ARE SAYING THAT YES THEY ARE TARGETING MORE PEOPLE, BUT
THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE THEY TARGETED HAD CRIMINAL
CONVICTIONS.
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF CASES SHARED WITH THE MEDIA, ONE
PERSON WITH A GANG MEMBER FROM EL SALVADOR WHO WAS DETAINED AND
SENT BACK TO HIS COUNTRY, BUT IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE THE
TYPE OF REACTION THESE RAIDS ARE GETTING, AS OPPOSED TO THE
RAIDS UNDER OBAMA.
NOW, UNDER OBAMA THE RAIDS HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN'T SEE
AS MUCH CRITICISM FROM THE LEFT.
THE RAIDS ARE HAPPENING UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, AND
THERE IS PANIC WIDESPREAD.
I DON'T LIKE A DOUBLE STANDARD, THERE SHOULD BE PANIC IN BOTH
CASES, ESPECIALLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE TARGETED AT OUR NOT
CRIMINALS.
BY THE WAY, ANYONE WHO IS HERE UNDOCUMENTED IS BREAKING
THE LAW, SO THEY ARE ALL, NOSE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
I DON'T AGREE WITH TARGETING PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE THAT DON'T
GET INVOLVED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, BUT UNDER TRUMP'S
DEFINITION, ANYONE WHO IS HERE UNDOCUMENTED IS A CRIMINAL.
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DOCUMENT AND ILLEGAL, AND
IMMIGRATION ADVOCATES WOULD STRONGLY ARGUE THAT WHAT THEY
ARE DOING IS COMING IN WITHOUT PAPERS ñ THAT'S TRUE ñ BUT THAT
IS NOT NECESSARILY ILLEGAL IN AND OF ITSELF.
NOW, TRUMP, AS ANA JUST POINTED OUT, DOESN'T BELIEVE IN
THAT, IF YOU COME HERE WITHOUT PAPERS THAT IS BY
DEFINITION ILLEGAL AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL.
NOW, AGAIN, WHAT DO I THINK?
I THINK, WHEN OBAMA WANTED TO FIND FELONS, PEOPLE WHO HAD
ACTUALLY BROKEN A SERIOUS LAW HERE, AND IT WAS A FELONY
AND WE WANTED TO DEPORT THEM, NO PROBLEM.
OF COURSE, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THAT, AND I THINK MOST
REASONABLE AMERICANS WOULD AGREE WITH THAT.
YOU CAME HERE, YOU BROKE A SERIOUS LAW, YOU'VE GOT TO GO.
YOU CAME HERE UNDOCUMENTED IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND YOU
ARE COMMITTING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY?
THAT'S NOT A CLOSE CALL.
BUT WHEN THEY SAY, NOW WE'RE GONNA GO TO MISDEMEANORS,
OR MINOR INFRACTIONS, AND SAY, YOU GOT A SPEEDING TICKET ONCE.
NOW WE'RE GETTING TO A POINT WHERE IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE OF
A REIGN OF TERROR, TO BE HONEST.
AND THEN WHEN YOU SAY, OKAY NOW EVERYBODY IS ILLEGAL BY
DEFINITION, WELL YOU CAN'T GO ANY BROADER THAN THAT, AND
THAT MEANS YOU'RE GOING TO TRY TO ROOT OUT 11 ñ 12
MILLION PEOPLE HERE, AND SOMEHOW KICK THEM ALL OUT.
AND NOW, TO BE FAIR TO TRUMP, AND I HAVE NOW SEEN AND A
TOTAL EVIDENCE OF HIS VOTERS AND INDEPENDENT SAYING, THAT'S
WHAT WE VOTED FOR.
AND HE IS A RARE GUY WHO IS DOING WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID HE
WAS GOING TO DO.
MOST POLITICIANS WHO COME INTO THE OPPOSITE.
HE TOLD YOU HE WAS WHAT KICK THEM OUT, AND HE'S KICKING
THEM OUT.
SO, WHERE'S THE PANIC COMING FROM?
I AGREE WITH YOU, IT'S A TERRIBLE POLICY.
I HATED IT UNDER OBAMA, AND NOW THAT TRUMP HAS MADE IT MORE
BROAD, I HATED EVEN MORE.
BUT THAT'S WHAT WE ñ THAT'S WHAT HE TOLD HER HE WAS GOING TO
DO, AND WE TOLD YOU NOT TO VOTE FOR HIM.
THERE WAS THIS WIDESPREAD SOUGHT DURING THE ELECTION THAT HE
WOULD JUST BE A GUY WHO WOULD NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH HIS
PROMISES, BUT NOW WE KNOW THAT HE DOES FOLLOW THROUGH WITH
HIS PROMISES.
PEOPLE LIKE TO THINK OF THINGS AS BLACK AND WHITE;
IMMIGRANTS BAD, OR IMMIGRANTS GOOD.
IT'S WAY MORE NUANCED THAN THAT.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE GDP IN CALIFORNIA ALONE, UNDOCUMENTED
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO OUR ECONOMY.
THAT'S THE REASON WHY STATE LAWMAKERS WANTED TO MAKE
CALIFORNIA A SANCTUARY STATE.
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT STATE LAWMAKERS WANT, BECAUSE IF
THE FEDS WANT TO COME IN AND DO THESE RAIDS, THEY CAN DO
THESE RAIDS.
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS CALIFORNIA WAS TARGETED.
BUT AGAIN, THESE ARE PEOPLE ñ THE LAW-ABIDING IMMIGRANTS
ñ THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE ñ
THAT ARE GIVING TO THE ECONOMY, AND A LOT OF BUSINESSES
WOULD BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE IF THEY ALL GOT DEPORTED.
I'M GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTED IN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN
THAT SITUATION THAT AND I JUST POINTED OUT.
WHEN THE RUBBER HITS THE ROAD.
STATE DON THIS BEFORE, IN THE SOUTHERN STATES THEY KICK OUT
ALL THE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, AND THEN THEY PANICKED
BECAUSE NOBODY WAS WORKING AT THE FACTORIES OR THE FARMS.
NO MATTER HOW HIGH THEY PAID THEY COULD NOT GET PEOPLE
TO WORK AT THE FACTORIES OR THE FARMS, SO THEY BROUGHT THEM
ALL BACK.
SO WHEN HE GOES TO KICK THEM OUT AT A MASS SCALE, HE MIGHT
GET MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR.
NUMBER TWO, HE KEEPS HALF OF HIS PROMISES, LET'S BE CLEAR
ABOUT THAT.
THE DRACONIAN PROMISES HE KEEPS.
DRAINING THE SWAMP?
NOT SO MUCH.
THE CORRUPTION HE'S TOTALLY IN FAVOR OF, AND HE STEPPED
HIS CABINET WITH REPUBLICAN DONORS WHO ARE LOOTING THE
PLACE AS WE SPEAK.
FINALLY, CREDIT TO SOME PROGRESSIVES ñ
INCLUDING THE ONES WHO VOTED FOR JILL STEIN, I THINK THEY VOTED
FOR IN THE ñ I THINK THEY VOTED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION, I MADE
THAT CLEAR BEFORE THE ELECTION, AT LEAST IN THE SWING STATES.
BUT AT LEAST IT'S WAKING PEOPLE UP, AND IF HILLARY HAD BEEN
ELECTED, HE WOULD STILL BE ASLEEP.
UNDER OBAMA, THEY HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT,
AND IT WAS OKAY BECAUSE IT WAS A FRIENDLY PRESIDENT KICKING
OUT THE LATINOS.
IT'S OKAY, IT'S A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT, SETTLE DOWN
EVERYBODY.
WELL NOW ONE IS A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, AND EVERYBODY IS
SLIPPING OUT, YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUTTING OUT ALL ALONG.
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