WarRoom Battleground EP 950: Texas Ag Debate; Mistrial For Illegal Terrorists
Texas Ag Debate pits Sid Miller against claims of systemic bias favoring illegal migrants, proposing H-2A workers pay into a withholding fund ($6B+ global halal industry looms) while Nate Sheets warns Sharia compounds and mosque-funded integration (Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia) threaten U.S. values—highlighting Plano schools’ ignored anti-Semitism and halal’s potential to undermine Texas freedoms, framing elections as a last stand for constitutional integrity. [Automatically generated summary]
Why in the hell you think they're in Houston and the north of Dallas?
They are working together to overthrow Western civilization.
Sharia compounds, which are areas governed by religious rules.
We know who you are.
We know what you are.
We know what you're trying to accomplish.
And it is not going to happen in the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic.
We purge any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas.
They are not coming.
They are already here.
You are not here properly, and you're going to leave.
On the 3rd of March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas.
The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another.
We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it.
Islam will never dominate the United States.
And by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas.
As Texas goes, so goes the nation.
As the nation goes, so goes the world.
Are you prepared to fight for this state?
Are you prepared to fight for your country?
War Room, Texas.
We're your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
Starts right now.
Judge declared a mistrial in a first-of-its-kind case in Dallas County.
It was a capital murder trial involving a violent Venezuelan gang.
Jurors said they were deadlocked.
NBC5 Shannon Miller joins us live with the very latest.
Shannon?
Well, Merit, this was the second and final time that the jury could not come to a unanimous decision in this case of Carlos Zambrano Bolivar.
Take a listen here as the judge read that decision shortly before four this afternoon.
And let the record reflect that the jury has been deliberating three full days on this matter.
That being the case, the court will declare a mistrial in this case.
Now, this is the first case involving Tren de Aragua to be prosecuted by the Dallas County DA's office.
Early Friday afternoon, the jury told the judge they were deadlocked then in their decision, and the judge told them to go back and deliberate and try to come to a unanimous decision.
Barbers Branch Police say Bolivar is one of four suspects responsible for kidnapping Nizuli Petit, his daughter and nephew from a Dallas apartment complex in August 2024 after Petit, a TDA member, failed to turn over cash to members as part of the complex nationwide ATM theft operation.
Detectives say Petit was later shot and killed in Farmers Branch.
His body left in the roadway off Valley View Lake.
Okay, welcome.
It's Tuesday, 17 February in the year of Alert 2026.
Welcome to Warhamm Texas.
We are just a programming announcement.
The Attorney General's debate is going to follow the show.
Grace and Mo.
We're going to be streaming it live from Texas with many of the kind of MAGA folks fighting for the Attorney General's role, Chip Roy, Aaron Wrights, and others.
So you're not going to want to miss this.
Attorney Generals actually from all over the country have been here for this since it's so important what the Texas AG does.
Ben Berquam, this is stories exploded all over Dallas, Fort Worth, throughout the state, and now the country.
I want people to understand something.
You know, President Trump as commander in chief has designated Trende Aragro, and particularly out in the Colorado branch, but also the South Texas branch, as essentially enemy combatants.
This is where he brought out the Alien and Sedition Act to send him home.
This has already been at the Supreme Court here in the state of Texas.
And a jury twice.
And this was where they took the guy who was a gang member and they took a couple of his, I guess, kids and nephews and they executed him in front of the children.
And they couldn't be this guy could not be found guilty of a capital crime.
I'm not even sure the other four are going to actually go to trial.
This shows you, I keep telling people, you're in a different America now.
Don't think you're watching Perry Mason or, you know, Judge for the Defense or anything like that.
You're in a different America.
It is impossible to bring justice now in our courts of law in cities like Minneapolis and cities like Chicago and cities like New York City and now in cities like Dallas, Texas.
Ben, you've been at the forefront of this.
You've been deployed for four years in the Darien Gap and in Mexico onto the border, saw the invasion, warned of the invasion.
You're one of the best voices.
Real America's voice was the leader and actually getting down and dirty about this invasion.
Now you've shifted.
You're the guy there at these, at the insurgents, these neo-Marxists.
You're seeing it.
And people think our courts can do it.
You think that just federal judges are against Trump?
It's so much deeper than that.
Ben Berquam.
Yeah, Steve.
Well, first off, there's three parts to this.
First is you no longer have equal protection under the law in these Democrat cities.
You've experienced that in Washington, D.C.
We saw that with the J Sixers.
That's across the board if you're conservative in America.
But now you have this next level of this where you have the radical leftists who have mobilized this attack against ICE, against anything that has to do with illegal aliens to coerce people in these communities, these jurors in these communities to not side against a murderer who murdered somebody in front of children.
Think about how cold-blooded this is.
They murdered this guy.
Now, whether or not this guy was a gang member, a TDA as well, a terrorist as well.
What they did, they murdered this guy in front of children.
And for him to be able to walk on this or these guys to be able to walk on this, this is the death of America if we don't stop this.
And it goes right back to everything we saw, the NGA, NGOs training illegal aliens on a game system, how they got the illegal aliens into this country and what they're doing now in the cities across America to teach people how to undermine ICE.
Basically, anything that has to do with illegal aliens, they side with the illegal aliens over American citizens or anyone that gets in the way.
The other side of this is the TDA themselves.
We have invited this in.
This is like the movie Red Dawn, but instead of them parachuting into our country, we invited them into our country and they have spread out across this nation, some of them operating within our own government.
We have politicians that are operating against our country.
This is a suicide pact against this nation if we don't stop it.
And it's this election.
It's that critical this election that we turn this around.
Ben, your first point was amazingly perceptive.
I want to go back to that, that in these big cities, whether it's New York City, whether it's Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, you're not going to get equal justice.
If you're a conservative or MAGA, they're going to pursue you.
They're going to use lawfare.
They're going to imprison you.
This is why they went after President Trump in Fulton County and in Washington, D.C., just nonstop.
But if you're an illegal alien or jihadist, it's impossible to get a jury to convict you, sir.
That's right.
You have special privilege in America today if you're a jihadist or an illegal alien.
Think about that.
An American citizen, if you're a conservative or just any American citizen, think about all of the American citizen angel families that have been murdered by illegal aliens who are swept under the rug and the illegal aliens are uplifted.
They're protected by these sanctuary jurisdictions, these people that have traded America for foreign enemy combatants in their communities.
They are protected.
We are not.
Peter McAlvan, I want to bring you in.
I've got you here for something directly dealing with England, but is what's happening in Texas.
But I want your comments on this.
Because Marco Rubio gave a speech the other day is being hailed and Hillary Clinton said, yeah, we got to control our borders.
We have to figure out about immigration.
And I said, hey, that speech Rubio gave, which had a lot of great elements to it, was a good speech 15 years ago.
But today, it's the colonization and what you're seeing here in places like Dallas, right, in places like Texas, Colony Ridge and these things.
And what we're seeing here with the Islamic invasion is so far past that.
You've got to talk about in continental Europe today, remigration.
But when you see something that's supposed to be the backbone of English common law, trial by jury, and now you know you've got these corrupt prosecutors, you've got these corrupt judges.
But now knowing you can't get a fair trial in one of these big cities, what does that tell me about what is well, how has London been a forerunner of that?
Well, we have this huge debate at the moment, trial by jury, and the Labor government, the far left, Kier Stormer, has tried to say he's going to remove that because our legal system has utterly collapsed.
We have such a backlog.
You're now waiting years for a case to come up.
And because that they've decided, well, we're just going to make the system less fair and remove your right to a jury trial, which is not across the board, but still you remove that right.
And we have certainly seen pressure put on judges over the COVID tyranny in terms of free speech.
Those two big areas, we have seen huge political pressure put on judges where they have ruled simply according to what the government wants.
So finding those who didn't go along with the COVID tyranny procedure and also on the free speech issue on concern of immigration, that's now branded as far-right extremist terrorists.
I think far-right terrorism is the term which is now used to describe those who have a concern of immigration.
And therefore, there is pressure using the political language put on judges to rule in favor of what the government wants.
And yet on the other side, you've got zero legal push to actually hold those who have broken into the country illegally, the 50,000 or so who have come over.
In fact, there was a story just two days ago that 200 million has been given to, sorry, 5,000 pounds.
So $7,500 has been given per person to 50 illegal immigrants because they had their phones taken off them when they arrived.
So they arrive illegally.
The police remove their phones.
They go to the European Court of Human Rights and they are told, actually, Britain is breaking your human rights.
After you illegally came into the country, you must be given $7,500 in apology from the government.
That is how screwed up our judges are in terms of pressure from the UK government and pressure still from the European Union through the European Court of Human Rights, even though we have left that jurisdiction.
By the way, this whole being part of the UN, Ben, as you know, Oscar Blue Ramaris, tell us every day being part of the UN's compact on migration is one of the reasons we got 25 million illegal alien invaders in the country.
Okay, here's what I want to do.
One of the most powerful things, and Peter, you were so great in coming over here.
First of all, coming over in November and warning us about it, and you're going to stick around.
We're going to play a highlight reel after the bottom of the hour break of the Agricultural Commission debate from the other night.
We've got the AG debate live.
We're going to stream that live right at the end of War Room, Texas, because Peter warned us about halal food.
So that became a question in the ag, and we're going to stick, Peter.
Peter's going to stick around.
The other thing you did is in warning us and us getting organized is we gave permission structure.
We gave space for average Texans to be able to talk about this issue of Sharia law.
That's on the ballot today's first day of early voting.
It's Prop 10 to prohibit Sharia law in Texas is the proposition.
The wealthiest man in England, right?
Owner of one of the legendary soccer clubs, football clubs, as they call them, the wealthiest guy in England who really came up, just taught himself chemistry, taught himself finance.
This guy's worth, I think, 30 billion pounds or something.
I want to show you his interview.
He is being virtually run out of the country for the following interview.
And this interview applies directly to the situation in the state of Texas.
Let's go ahead and play it.
If you really want to deal with the major issues of immigration with people opting to take benefits rather than working for a living, if you want to deal with that, then you're going to have to do some things which are unpopular and show some courage.
And has this government done that?
No, I think they have.
I don't know whether it's just the apparatus that hasn't allowed Kia to do it or he's maybe too nice.
He's a nice, I mean, I know Keir, he's a nice man, and I like him.
But it's a tough job, and I think you have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track because at the moment, I don't think the economy is in a good you can't afford, you can't have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in.
I mean, the UK's being colonized.
It's costing too much money.
It will cause.
The UK is being colonized by immigrants, really, isn't it?
I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020.
Now it's 70 million.
That's 12 million people.
You met recently with Nigel Faros, didn't you?
I did.
Do you think that they would be a kind of a good government if they were to win the next election?
I think Nigel is an intelligent man, and I think he's got good intentions.
But in a way, you could say exactly the same about Kia when Kia came in.
I think it needs somebody who's prepared to be unpopular for a period of time to get the big issues sorted out.
Would be nine.
Someone who's prepared to be unpopular for a period of time, take care of the problem.
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Now, this is the wealthiest guy in England, really kind of self-made, coming up through the ranks of buying chemical companies and really doing tough industrial turnarounds.
He said England's been colonized.
And then he says, of course it's been colonized.
And in 2020, you had 58 million people.
Now you have 70 million.
That's all been migration, 12 million migrants.
On a percentage basis, they got a worse problem than we have.
Peter McAlvenna, he has been eviscerated.
They are not having a debate about what he said about colonization.
They are trying to destroy him.
Are they not, sir?
They are.
And Steve, this is fascinating.
As you said, the richest man in the UK, worth, yeah, $35, $40 billion.
I think the fifth highest taxpayer in the UK, he pays $150 million a year.
And that's why he moved to Monaco a few years ago, bought Manchester United, probably the biggest football team in the world and soccer team in the world.
And he bought that maybe four or five years ago and had been really interested in sports, had bought, I think, some French teams.
And he bought a 25% stake in Manchester United.
Hasn't been in the public eye at all.
I think during the Brexit debate, during that getting us out of the European Union, he probably gave one or two comments that he was actually Eurosceptic.
He was pro-Brexit, pro-leaving, but wasn't a big player at all.
I mean, I don't recognize him or remember him at all speaking.
And I knocked on thousands of doors during that campaign.
And suddenly he comes and he says this on a Sky interview, which is strange because he normally has stayed under the radar, uber successful businessman and has done everything quietly.
He doesn't want the spotlight.
I don't think I've ever seen an interview from Jim Radcliffe ever before.
And that is a curious part of this: that he is not a politician.
He doesn't have anything to gain.
He is just, can you say a normal bloke if you're worth $40 billion?
But he sees what is happening to the country.
He has a huge concern and he is speaking up.
And Skyn, back in the day, Sky News back in the day, when they're owned by Fox, back, back, back, actually, it would have been a voice of reason.
Now, really, the only voice of reason is GB News.
But you're right.
He has been maligned, criticized.
Keir Stormer has demanded he make an apology.
He's kind of had to roll back slightly on that.
We've got Kick It Out, which is the anti-racism group in English football.
It's called on him to make more apologies.
And yet, he is one of the most, if it wasn't for him, you wouldn't have many tens of thousands of people in jobs.
The amount of tax he pays, and simply he is a concern that and paying more and more tax, being hit by higher and higher levels of tax, which are the highest since the Second World War.
As a businessman, he's got concerns whenever people come over and get handed free cash when they come over, free education, free health care.
But hang on, but what he said is absolutely 100% true.
Why should she apologize?
England has been colonized.
That's what we're trying to stop here in Texas.
As you pointed out when you came over in November, you said at the time that struck me, you said, Hey, you guys are much farther along than this than we were when it first started.
It's moving, it's accelerating, accelerating rate in Texas, and they're much more sophisticated with Halal Food and the businesses that get into the real estate and do these communities.
He said it took decades for that to kick in in the United Kingdom.
He said, He said, this is a much more sophisticated invasion.
Is there any doubt in your mind that England has been colonized and particularly 12 million, 12 million additional population since 2020 on a country I think's got a what 80 million population to start with?
12 million.
He went from 58 million now to 70 million.
The percentage is huge and it's all migration.
Oh, 100%.
And we no longer know what it means to be English.
We no longer know what it means to be British.
That's a contentious debate.
We're now embarrassed about flying our flag.
So you've got that on one side.
Then you've got an utter lack of integration.
When you look at the generation that came over from the Caribbean, the generation that came over from India, they all amalgamated, they all integrated, they all became part of the UK.
They were kind of colonies that had traditionally been part of the British Empire.
And they came and they became part of the fabric of society.
Yet the clash, which you refer to, Steve, is in Islam.
It's not integration.
It's isolationism.
It's demanding your rights, it's wanting to change where you arrive to fit what you want instead of fitting in to the culture you arrive in.
And that's why we are seeing a change.
And that's why the huge concern of in 15 years we've seen the national population go up 10%, the Islamic population go up 111%.
We have a 10 times growth, and that's where we have the clash.
That's where we have the debate.
That's why we have the Islamophobia debate of that legislation coming through.
That's why we have 24, I think, members of parliament who are Muslim more than any other country in Europe.
That's why we are seeing the huge growth of halal because it demands its place.
That's why we're seeing the huge growth of mosques.
Well, we see the fall of churches.
That's why we've seen an aggressive, forceful, seemingly confident Islam, especially in the education system and politics.
And we have a meek, weak, pathetic Church of England that puts a dogma of doubt over confidence.
And we are seeing a massive change in our society, Steve.
With we have no Christian leadership, and the leadership we seem to have is acquiescing and bowing the knee to Islam.
And we see that changes across, whether it's Sharia courts, whether it's the rape gangs, and no one wanting to say a thing about it.
And Jim is absolutely right.
We are seeing the fabric of England change.
We are seeing areas which would have been very English areas.
We are seeing change with halal shops.
Most high streets in London, most of the takeaway shops, the food takeaways, are halal only.
You see the call to prayer, you see the footpaths full on a Friday at lunchtime, the call to prayer, and you see the church just opposite it empty.
I went specifically, I remember a couple of weeks ago, the church I went to might have had maybe 25, 30 people in it, a church, maybe 300 people, it could have fitted in.
And then you go to the mosque and it's spilling out with a footpath full.
And you see this forceful demand for domination, for superiority, for imprint in society.
So Jim is absolutely right.
And the interview he gave was so gentle.
It was, he was just making comments about what he saw.
And he is pillared.
Yeah.
Hang on one second.
I'm going to get more into this.
Ben Berkham's got a bounce.
Ben, between in Texas, Colony Ridge, H-1B visas, and Sharia law.
You've been at the forefront of this, covering this now for I think going on six years with us.
Is there any doubt in your mind that what has happened in England, you're seeing in Texas, that Texas is being colonized, sir?
No, not at all.
And I was actually, I spent the last two summers in England.
I was over there with Rohim last year during the elections and spent a night out, one of the scariest nights of my life on the border at the beaches of Calais, where all the boats are loading up with the illegals from North Africa, the Muslims from North Africa that are going across and being given everything for free.
And what Peter just said, the key to all of this is the death of the church in Europe is what caused the death of Europe.
Europe is gone.
England is gone for the most part.
Europe is gone.
But it's because the death of the church, and the same thing is happening in America.
It's why they've infiltrated the communist churches in America.
They've created these radical leftists, the United Methodist Church, the Lutheran Church, all of these radical leftist churches that are aligned with this destruction of America from within, which will say nothing about Sharia, which will say nothing about beating your wives or having honor killings or the way that the gays are treated under Islam, but they will attack Christians for standing up for what the Bible says about sin.
This is the destruction of the West.
Europe is gone.
And I hate to say that, but my experience, I don't see it turning around unless we have a Crusade 2.0.
America is on the verge of that exact same thing if we don't wake up now.
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Ben Berquam, I know you're working on a big book.
You're out in the field with us all the time.
You're going to get back down here to Texas.
Where do people keep up to you and your weekly show?
Hi, Law and Border.
We're having a new episode.
We'll be coming out in a couple of weeks.
So at Real America's Voice on Everything.
And then my personal social sub stack is FrontlineAmerica website, frontlineamerica.com.
If you want to support ICE, we have a nonprofit, Frontline America Foundation.
It's frontlineaf.org.
We've got some big things coming out with that.
And my personal socials at Ben Berquam.
Ben, you're a hero.
You've put it on the line.
One of the bravest guys I know, been in some very dangerous situations.
And we're getting you down here, Texas, in the run-up.
Today's the first day of early voting.
The Attorney General's debate follows War Room Texas here.
We're going to be on Getter.
We're going to be on our Rumble channel, all of our platforms.
You can watch it.
You can watch it live.
Ben Berquam, thank you so much.
Appreciate you, sir.
Thank you, Steve.
My honor.
Of course, Real America's voice is giving wall-to-wall coverage of this.
Why?
As Peter McElvan warned us about when he was down here in November, saying, Hey, you lose Texas, you're going to lose this country.
And you can see this from what's Monday.
Look at New York City under Mondani.
Look at Chicago.
Look at what just happened in Minneapolis and the retreat there at Minneapolis.
We had last night on the five o'clock show, we had the great Sam Fattis talking about the American Tet Offensive, right?
And how we've and how, like in Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, which they didn't totally win, the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, but it led the path to victory.
That's what you're seeing here, and that's why it's got to be thwarted.
As Texas goes, so goes the nation.
As the nation goes, so goes the world.
And of course, Tarrant County and these important towns and little cities north of Dallas-Fort Worth are the place where you're going to do the fight.
Okay, we're going to come back, but Peter McAvoy is going to stick with us.
We're going to go to the Ag Commissioner's debate we covered live on Sunday night.
Short commercial break.
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Benji Gershon, thank you so much for joining us.
Benji, first off, what is your group and why did you decide to sponsor over President Day's weekend on a Sunday, the debate for Agriculture Commission?
And at first, I thought, gosh, that's going to be a tough, that's going to be a tough sell because people are in the middle of it.
We actually had a huge audience.
I know you guys did live.
We streamed it live.
The Warren Posse absolutely loved it.
We had it on all our platforms, Real America's Voice.
It was just incredible.
So what is your group and why did you decide to sponsor a debate for the Texas Agriculture Commission?
Yeah, well, thanks for having me on, Steve.
And this race has gotten national attention.
You got this screw worm now that's gotten the attention of President Trump and Brooke Rollins that's become a national issue.
You had the governor, Governor Greg Abbott, which is unprecedented in history, where he endorsed the challenger as opposed to the incumbents.
First time that's actually happened in Texas history.
So the debate really heated up.
It got people's attention.
People were talking about it on social media.
And we just try to keep our finger on the pulse of what conservatives are talking about and what they're concerned about.
The whole Maha movement has become a huge, huge subject with RFK dealing with that.
So there's a lot of different factors went into it.
And so I've had a long standing relationship with Sid Miller going back several years.
He's a friend.
Got to know Nate Sheets over the last several months.
He's also a great guy.
Two fierce competitors, two smart guys going at it.
It's a very important position that has a lot of power in the state.
So we decided to put it on.
That was the only date they were both available.
And thank God we were able to secure it.
First day was really on the eve, virtually the eve of early voting here in Texas.
What I'd like you didn't endorse either one.
You said, hey, what we're doing, my organization is going to just put this on and let you guys go at it.
And I can tell you, people were fascinated by it.
It was really, they really went at it.
We've cut some segments out of it.
I want to play it in its entirety.
It runs about seven or eight minutes of the debate.
I've got Peter McAlvana with me also.
And Benji, I'll bring you back on just for your observations.
Let's go ahead and let it rip.
Provided the border does stay secure, and I don't know what Congress is doing about that right now, but what immigration reform policies would you support, provided we do get a bill at some point that makes sense for that community?
Well, two things.
I've been actually been working on this ever since I've been in office.
We need 800,000 migrant workers in our agriculture sector.
We have an H-2A program which is legal migrant workers.
We started out with $75,000.
We've got to work that up and work that up, and I've been involved in that.
Right now, we're at 400,000, and we've just successfully got another 100, we're going to have 500,000 of the 800 that we need this time.
So that helps.
Now, the 800 need is coming down because of technology.
We now have cows with robotic milkers.
We have tractors that drive theirselves.
We have unmanned drones that spray our crops.
We can almost mechanically harvest not all of them, but most of our crops can be mechanically harvested.
So that at one time we did have to, you know, use a lot of illegal labor, but the need for that is shrinking.
I don't know any farmer or rancher that wants to hire illegal labor.
They only do it if it's the last resort.
Can you imagine a dairyman getting woke up at four in the morning and say, boss, they just picked up all of our hands?
Who's going to milk the cows?
Or can you imagine being in the middle of a watermelon harvest and you get all your hands picked up?
The crop's going to rot in the field.
No one wants to do that.
So I'm going to continue working on that.
We do need to fine-tune that.
And I don't have time, but I would tell you that we need to make those workers pay for that themselves.
The American taxpayer doesn't need to be paying for that.
They already, the illegals pay $10,000 to a coyote.
We can make those H2A workers pay their own way up here.
And we need to do a withholding, just like income tax from them.
And if they run off to the construction industry, we keep that.
But if they go back, fulfill the contract, all that would be reimbursed to them.
And that is a workable system.
I've been to Congress several times to lay that out.
No one has intestinal fortitude to touch immigration reform.
That's just the fact.
But it would work.
It would really work good.
It's what actual immigration reforms, provided we keep the border secure, which is for it.
That makes sense for that community.
Yeah, I was just down when I was down at McAllen, they were telling me that they just put cameras up on the bridge because they used to have workers come up and they come up for about four days and then they would work and then they'd go back.
But we have these new cameras up that are taking people's pictures.
And if you do not come back within 24 hours, then they block you to be able to come back in back into the United States.
And so even our current policies are really hindering migrant workers to be able to come up that are legally coming up.
We need to enhance that.
We need to make it easier for people down south to be able to access migrant workers.
And having been someone in the food industry where we've got a lot of workers, we've got 120,000 beehives, it takes a lot of labor to be able to help work on all those.
And so we need a program that allows us to have longer-term relationships with workers to come in from Guatemala and South America that we could have them here for three years.
And if they could do well, not have any criminality, pay their taxes, then we could look at giving them some other type of green card to be able to come in here and continue work.
Because the labor is an issue.
We've lost a lot of dairies lately because ranchers or because dairymen do not have people willing to get up at three o'clock in the morning and milk cows.
So we've got to change this.
Is Islam and Sharia a threat to the American way of life?
But in particular, are you aware of the halal food preparation methods?
And should that be legal?
What they do to animals, should that be legal in Texas?
Mr. Shaw.
You know, Sharia and a caliphate are incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and the freedoms that we have in Texas.
The economic goal is to have a global caliphate and they'll let non-Muslims vote they want us to pay a tax.
I worked for in Sudan for 10 years when I was in full-time Christian ministry.
I saw the literal war from the northern parts of Sudan trying to come in and raid and invade the southern parts of Sudan.
But there's also a silent war.
These mosques that they would go and they build a mosque.
They would give free education.
They would give free health care and they would draw people into the community.
And all of that money came from Qatar, UAE, Dubai, Saudi Arabia.
And we're seeing the same thing happen right here in America, right here in Frisco.
I was just talking to one of my brothers that was just talking about the anti-Semitism in Plano in the school district.
There he is right there.
And the anti-Semitism in the school district right here in Plano where they have swastikas up on school walls, but the school won't do anything about it.
We have to stand up against this Islamic invasion.
I want to go back to the, we'll come to you the same question just a moment, Commissioner, but Mr. Sheets, the question is, what specifically is halal food preparation permissible?
Or should it be, the way they slaughter animals?
Should that be something the Ag Commissioner cares about?
Absolutely, the Act Commissioner should care about it.
But most importantly, to ensure that we do not put the pressure on public school systems to start to bring halal food and segment it and force other non-Muslims to eat the meat because they're trying to satisfy the desires of the Muslims.
We have to not allow that to be able to come into any of Texas schools.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Okay, we can restart too.
Okay, Commissioner Miller, the same question about halal food preparation.
Should the Ag Commissioner care about how we and just overall the Islamification of Texas?
America, better wake up.
We cannot allow Islam and Sharia law in our country, and we're allowing it every day to grow like a fungus.
Just look at Germany, France, Sweden.
Oh my gosh, look at Great Britain.
They have taken over.
They're filling all their elected official spots.
It's just horrible what they do.
They come in with the intent to take over.
Wake up, America.
We've got to stop this.
We cannot allow this to happen.
You're seeing it here in this local school in Plano.
You've got the school board defending them and not putting checks and balances in there.
We've got whole communities coming together and initiating their own Sharia law against our law.
We've outlawed that.
We've got to enforce it.
We've got to be strong.
We've got to be tough and we've got to stop it.
Halal inspections, I've seen those.
I've been in the slaughterhouses many times.
They have an Imam comes in there, they inspect the carcass and bless it.
That is halal beef.
I don't know what Dog heard, but that's how it works.
And, you know, it's not a big problem as far as because I don't eat it.
But if you want to sell beef to Dubai, which Tony just got back, they won't kosher and they want halal.
And there are not much difference in the two.
But I tell you what, the culture is much, much stricter than that, a whole lot stricter.
It's a much tougher standard to meet.
Yeah, I'm not going to make political comments here, but Nate Sheets is an entrepreneur and also been a missionary for a long time.
And of course, Sid Miller, the long-standing, I got to know Sid after we won the first time.
He came very close to being actually President Trump's first pick to be the Department of Agriculture.
That was fascinating, Benji.
I really want to thank you guys for putting on.
I hope folks throughout Texas and folks throughout the nation understand how hot a topic this situation is with Sharia law.
You just saw right there, immigration, which used to be almost everything.
And of course, they got alternatives.
And some people thought Nate was maybe not, you know, all of a sudden you start talking about green cards and amnesty.
But that has been overwhelmed by this issue on Sharia law.
And you can see the audience, I mean, when Sid Miller was going through and his name of the countries and the audience goes, hey, and Great Britain and England, right?
They're tainted.
So Benji, what are your thoughts of just the temperature of this and the intensity of it?
Yeah, I mean, they were spot on as far as Sharia law and the global caliphate that they're trying to impose on us and it's not conducive with Western values, with Judeo-Christian values.
Yeah, there were some interesting answers as far as the H2A workers are concerned.
I'll let the audience kind of make their decisions and determinations on that.
Also, I want to make a quick distinction on the halal versus kosher because it's actually a very interesting subject.
Something that, I know, obviously I'm Jewish.
I know about kosher, but halal, I had to learn a little bit about.
Apparently, halal actually allows stunning, but there's a stunning of the animal, but does actually not allow internal checks of the organs.
The animal may not be in good health or may not be clean.
Also, they're not as strict when it comes to actually enforcing the highest standards of the preparation and also who's actually doing the slaughtering, the cutting, with us a very sharp knife, an animal dies relatively quickly within a few seconds.
Kosher, on the other hand, there's no stunning allowed, but the internal organs are checked.
It allows for a much higher quality standard of cleanliness and also a higher level of standard of training.
So I did want to make sure that distinction was made because some people think it's either the same or it's, you know, they're both inhumane, but it needs to be made that distinction.
So I just want to make sure that was on the record as well.
I want, Peter, one of the ways you got my attention back in November, you first came in, he says, Steve, I don't think you understand this.
Halal food's like a $100 million a year business in Texas right now and only growing bigger.
And once you get these kind of business interests in there, it's tough to unwound.
Talk to me about halal food.
It's become a massive issue in the United Kingdom, or I guess it was years ago.
You've kind of passed it, but talk to me about halal food and particularly halal food as you saw it in the great state of Texas.
Well, the halal food industry globally is $2.5 trillion.
In the U.S., it's $100 billion, going to hit $220 billion in about seven, eight years.
So massive growth, 10% U.S. growth, 22% in Dallas and Houston, which are the epicenters.
And this has all been happening under the noses of different governors.
Obviously, it's been the big growth has been in New York, it's been in California, and it's been in Texas.
Those are three epicenters of Muslim population, but also the demand and rise of halal.
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My shouldn't, certainly there is a distinction between kosher and halal.
I wouldn't even begin to touch on it with Benji listening, but one of the issues is that halal is very much religious.
It is prayed over and a proportion of the money in the halal food industry goes to further Islam.
That should be a concern to anyone who's not Muslim or a Christian.
But the second thing is choice.
I know when I go around London, if I'm in a Jewish area, I can choose not to eat kosher food if I so wish, because it's not as if every food establishment is in effect forced to only offer that.
Where when I'm in a Muslim area, which is most areas in London, you don't really have a choice anymore.
The vast majority of takeaways, pizza outlets, chicken outlets, whatever they are, have that little halal sticker, which is often clear in the window.
So you would actually miss it because you wouldn't notice it.
And yet all the meat in that establishment is halal.
That is simply not the case with Judaism because Judaism wants to provide for its own community.
It's not missionary.
It's not expansionist.
So that is not a concern to anyone who does not want to partake of food, which is kosher.
With Islam, it's different.
Halal is growing hugely.
And over 40%, I know in the UK, over 40% of halal food is eaten by non-Muslims.
It's put out there, certainly by Gen Zers, as ethical or better for you.
It is no such thing.
It's just a new quirky way of pushing it.
But the size of the industry and the impact on especially government institutions, on schools, on hospitals, on prisons, many of them go fully halal because it's too difficult to have two suppliers, two preparation areas.
It's simply easier to go all halal because, of course, with Islam, you run the risk of legal action.
And of course, with Judaism, it doesn't have that aggression.
Judaism is not trying to force itself or attack the country Jews are in, where Islam is so different.
So they're very, and I love that question, but it was Debbie Georgadis asked that question.
And it was great to see it.
I would love to have Nate.
Could I get someone like Nate here in the UK?
We need someone like that who's bold, who understands the issue.
And for Sid to compare halal with kosher, that is a slippery slope.
And that is something that Islam wants you to do to say, you know, we're all the same.
We're all one.
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Don't worry.
No, do worry.
And Debbie's question pushed the issue and the crowd responded.
I'd love Sid, but I think also I'll get you back on.
I really want to talk about halal food.
The preparation of law food, I'm not buying that.
It's just an imam coming and praying over.
Anyway, we've got to bounce.
We have the attorney general debate that's going to follow us live here on the war room.
We're going to pick it up live at Top AR at 7.
Peter, you've become kind of a star down here in Texas because you came down and really kicked off this warning.
Where do people get you?
The show, your content, all of it, sir.
Just watch War Room.
So we're on War Room on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. for all the Texans there.
Just tune in on War Room Get or Rumble.
If you want to watch us directly at Hearts of Oak UK on X or at Hearts of Oak everywhere else.
Thank you, Peter, and thank you for all the attention and focus and backup you've given us here on this Texas situation.
I really appreciate it.
Thank you, Steve.
A man who loves his country.
Benji, real quickly, where do people go to find out more about you and your group?
What's your social media?
Yep.
AmericanJewishConservatives.com.
You can also find us on Facebook and on X, AJC America.
We've got a great AI and politics event coming up on March 12th.
Several other events, including a Sharia law event that's talking about that as well.
So on March 5th, check us out and more information there and all the other social platforms.
Benji, thanks for putting on this debate.
It was amazing.
The only time I think you're going to have a debate in this early voting starts today.
Thank you, sir.
My pleasure.
Thank you, Steve.
We've played it a couple of times.
I think we'll play it a couple of times.
It's a fascinating debate.
I think you find out a lot about the two candidates.
Okay, we're going to take you out with War Room Texas.
We're going to be back in a moment with the Attorney General debate on the first day of early voting in the state of Texas.