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Jan. 31, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘Everyone is Terrified’

Jared Taylor is pleased to report that illegals now see an ICE agent under every bed. He hopes they can be stampeded into self-deportation. He also discusses Tiffany Henyard, migrant smuggling, Koran-burning, and more Trump victories. Thumbnail credit: © Sgt.1c Nicholas De La Pena/U.S A/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and today is the last day of January, meaning that tomorrow it will be Black History Month, formerly known as February.
Well, as usual, let us begin with comments written in by listeners.
First listener says this: "I was curious to know what you think after having devoted so much of your life to our cause.
Did you ever believe you would live to see the end of affirmative action?
How would you rank our new president in comparison to the last five Republicans?
Would you say this is the best place the white advocacy movement has been in the last half century?" Well, that's many questions.
Well, certainly, as far as affirmative action is concerned, racial...
Prejudices, racial discrimination against whites in all of the institutions in the United States.
Well, I'd hoped it would end, but I'm not sure it actually has ended, but certainly we're moving in a wonderful direction.
I remember back in 1968, believe it or not, when I was applying to college.
We all joked that we would get into the much better schools if we were the right color.
So even then, it was taken for granted that being white was a disadvantage.
And that's been a terrible problem for people, and it's gotten worse and worse and worse.
So I am delighted with what Donald Trump and his administration is doing, trying to get rid of that kind of discrimination against whites.
And it's not just that, of course.
All the things that he's been doing, not just at the border, there's expedited removal.
Illegals are terrified and some of them are self-deporting.
I love the way that Donald Trump has slapped down resistance to deportation.
The way he handled the Colombians was just wonderful.
An end to foreign aid.
Defunding NGOs.
I'll talk about some of these things later on in this podcast.
Trying to exterminate DEI. Oh, it's all absolutely wonderful.
And yes.
I would say that things are looking better than at any point in the last half century, and it's thanks to the American people who defied all the people at the head table who told us we were voting for an incipient fascist and probable dictator and voted for Don Trump.
Now, compared to the last five Republican presidents, gee, that would include two Bushes, Ronald Reagan, Ford, and Nixon.
Not one of them really did much good for white people.
Even Nixon, back in those days, he was one of the people who really got busing going.
He got racial prejudices in the form of affirmative action going.
So, no, we have a vast improvement, and I am very pleased.
Yes, I am.
Thank you for asking that question.
Now, here's a more difficult question.
I've lived in Detroit for the last 10 years.
There's a broken-down home across the street just a few houses down from where I live.
Day and night, cars pick up and drop off children of all ages at what appears to be a makeshift daycare and nightcare center.
However, there doesn't seem to be much care going on.
The children trespass, litter, make an obscene amount of noise.
This house also keeps dogs outside, even in the bitter cold.
They often escape the boundaries of the yard and cause trouble.
Also, these people treat the street as their personal property.
They park in their cars, sit there idling illegally, and give you a sour look as you try to inch past them in your car.
Of course, they're all black.
Now, what does one do about this?
Neither cordially addressing them directly nor calling the police has produced lasting results.
Some people suggest I move, but I love my house.
I love my neighbors, except for them.
I'm optimistic about the city, and I'd hate to let one bad neighbor be the reason people like me can't have a future in Detroit.
The answer can't always be to move.
Many of my neighbors are white.
And I suspect they feel exactly as I do.
I am angry, sitting by while nothing gets done to stop this one house from destroying any semblance of a nice street on which to live.
What can you suggest?
Well, this, of course, is the age-old dilemma.
White people live in a nice neighborhood, the wrong people show up, and there goes the neighborhood.
Now, I've never been in a situation like that myself, so I really can't give you Any kind of advice from my own experience.
But it sounds as though they are operating an unlicensed daycare center.
And it may be that if you can get the authorities on that, you can force them to shut that down.
That would be the way I would approach it.
Another thing you might do is get to know your white neighbors better.
See if you can band with them and try to figure out some kind of solution.
I bet some of your white neighbors probably have some kind of legal influence or maybe they have pulled in City Hall.
Some way to get a real mass sentiment against this public nuisance.
But again, my guess is they are probably operating a business without an appropriate license.
And that would be the way to get them.
And I agree with you 100%.
Always running away is not the solution.
White people build beautiful things.
They build beautiful communities.
And time and again, time and again, they have to uproot and leave because those beautiful things and beautiful communities are ruined by people that we would much rather never showed up.
Another comment, well, we've got several comments about Paul Kersey, my co-host who has been on sabbatical.
This person says your podcast is better with a co-host.
That is so.
Two speakers presenting material hold the attention of the audience better than just one.
That's why you have two announcers for TV sports contests, NFL football, etc.
On TV news, also, you skip back and forth between the anchor and the reporters around the country.
Two alternating speakers is better than one.
Well, gosh, I guess if I were really talented, I could change my voice and pretend to be somebody else, but I think that's really a very good point.
Two speakers alternating really do keep attention.
That's one of the reasons why people find panel discussions so interesting.
You get different opinions, different voices, different points of view.
Here is another commenter.
Regarding Paul Kersey, I think you, Mr. Taylor, do best on your own, and especially when you have guests on your podcast.
You're a good interviewer, and during those interviews, that's where your banter takes place.
I would also like to see you do more videos and podcasts.
I suggest two videos and two or three podcasts per week with guests.
Well, yeah, I'd like to do two videos and three podcasts a week.
Gosh, I wish I had 50 hours, 80 hours, 100 hours in the week.
But I'm glad somebody likes my content that much.
And again, we are trying to come to a proper solution here.
Another comment.
What I've missed most about Mr. Kersey's absence is the resulting pause in Gregory Hood's podcast, View from the Right.
It's true.
Ever since the sabbatical, the Curse sabbatical, Mr. Hood has paused his podcast.
It's a real pity because, as our listener says, I hope Mr. Hood will not discontinue.
I have benefited from him just as much as from Radio Renaissance.
You gentlemen have been a blessing to our people and an inspiration to me as I have matured over the last five years.
Well, I would be very pleased if I've had any role in that maturation process.
And the last comment, again about Mr. Kersey, I write to cast my support for Kersey.
I look forward to his return as I find the spontaneity and banter makes for a much more enjoyable podcast.
Where either party can be surprised by insights, comments, or jokes from the other.
Oh dear, what to do?
Well, we are mulling the situation, and we hope to come up with a solution, even if it means I simply carry on single-handedly, I suppose.
But in any case, once again, I assure my listeners that I love to hear from you.
And there is one surefire way to reach me, and that's to go to our website, amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com.
There is a Contact Us tab.
You can send me a message.
I especially like being told when I've said something that is mistaken.
I don't like it when fake news, mistakes, errors, misinterpretations go out over the air, and I am the source.
So, if I've said anything wrong, please let me know.
Let's move on to the first piece of legislation signed by President Trump in his new term.
Appropriately enough, it was the Laken-Riley Act, signed into law Wednesday, expanding the scope of those who can be arrested, detained, and deported by ICE. It passed, interestingly enough, with bipartisan support.
This marks a major shift for Democrats, some of whom actually collaborated or cooperated with Donald Trump.
Also, in one of her first official appearances, Secretary for Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, attended the bill signing, as did several Republican senators who backed the measure and Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman.
He was the first Democrat to co-sponsor the bill in the Senate.
He was also present for the signing.
Good for John Fetterman.
When he won his race in the Senate by a pretty narrow margin against the Republican, and then he had this weird stroke that seemed to disable him, I thought, what a loser.
Well, apparently he seems to be one of the better Democrats.
He seems to be coming around to a more sensible view on a lot of things.
But so, what does the Lakin-Riley Act do?
It orders federal immigration enforcement to detain and deport illegals charged with minor theft or shoplifting or assault of a law enforcement officer or crimes resulting in death or bodily injury to another person.
Now, critics of the measure.
There were critics.
I mean, you ask me, if somebody's here illegally, he should be out anyway.
Especially an illegal who is caught committing a crime out at the speed of light, for heaven's sake.
Some people said, no, no, no, we can't do that.
And the reason is, as they argued, the act skips the current practice of waiting until someone is convicted before considering the removal process.
Well, they're here illegally.
Any reason to get them gone.
Furthermore, if you have to wait for somebody to go to trial, be sentenced after being found guilty, that is a huge waste of time.
Police time, court time, money.
No.
Again, they're here illegally.
I want them out yesterday.
And if this is a reason to do it, all the more reason to get them out.
Now, the bill, the Lake and Riley bill.
The act now, no longer a bill, it's named for the Georgia nursing student who was killed last year by an illegal from Venezuela.
She was out jogging.
This was one of the cases that got a lot of attention.
It's not that different from many cases, but this one happened to get a lot of attention, probably because she was a young, attractive girl who was planning to spend a career as a nurse doing acts of kindness to her fellow man.
And she was brutally cut down by this illegal who should have been bounced.
Now, Lake and Riley's mother spoke briefly at the signing ceremony, and she thanked the lawmakers and the president for pushing the bill in her daughter's name.
Of course, this does not bring her lovely daughter back, but at least it is some consolation to her to know that her...
Now, murdered daughter has been the impetus for something that we hope will prevent similar acts in the past.
As it happened, one of the problems with the Venezuelan who killed her daughter, he'd already been arrested for, as it turned out, shoplifting, but they turned him loose, as they always do, and at least that was the Biden administration's way to approach things, and this way, under Donald Trump, that guy could and should be immediately bounced.
Another good change.
And this goes back to the question that the initial commenter on the podcast said to me, how do I feel about the way things are turning out?
This is another example of why things are turning out and how things are turning out so well.
Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, she announced on Wednesday that the department has cut off all grant funding to non-profits.
that operate outside of government control, saying that they have been perverted into a shadow government that feeds and encourages illegal immigration.
Kristi Noem said some NGOs, non-governmental organizations, that get millions of dollars in federal grants have been facilitating illegal immigration.
They help aliens cross the U.S. border illegally.
As she said, Many of these NGOs actually have infrastructure and operations set up in Mexico, that side of the border, telling these illegal immigrants to come to them and they will help them get across.
They're operating outside the U.S. to make it easier for those who want to break our laws.
She said that until a complete evaluation is completed, the department is not going to spend another dime to help the destruction of this country.
She also said that when she'd first heard about NGOs, non-governmental organizations, she thought, oh, this is some kind of non-profit telling somebody about Jesus or spreading faith and salvation, doing good works.
Then I realized, she said, this whole process has been perverted.
And, of course, she's absolutely right.
These are non-profits that have been set up to do things that the United States government sometimes is not allowed by law to do or thinks can be handled more officially by non-profits.
As it turns out, there are approximately 1.5 million non-profits in the United States.
As a matter of fact, the parent organization of American Renaissance, It's called the New Century Foundation.
It, too, is a non-profit.
So in that sense, I guess it's an NGO. I work for an NGO. But I can assure you we have never had a dime in grants from any government entity.
We don't get grants from any kind of foundation.
We are supported by our supporters, our readers, our listeners, people like you.
In any case...
I think Kristi Noem has 100% the right idea.
Starve these NGOs that have grown fat on your tax money and who have been actively involved in subverting our laws and bringing people to the United States who do not belong here and who will never become proper Americans.
Starve those NGOs.
Put their employees on the breadline.
It is really quite disgusting that Democratic administrations have been funding these non-profits that openly help foreigners break our laws.
So, again, this is a wonderful achievement by the Trump administration.
And here is another one that could be a wonderful achievement, too.
President Donald Trump just signed an executive order prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote The Secretary of Education will have 90 days to lay out a strategy on how to end CRT and gender ideology in schools.
Donald Trump has nominated Linda McMahon as his education secretary, but she's not yet been confirmed.
I don't really know much about her, only that she was a former professional wrestler.
She's 76 years old.
Also, she ran for the Senate from Connecticut, but lost.
In any case, at the same time, Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Attorney General to work with all state attorneys generals and local district attorneys to pursue legal action against teachers and school officials who try to transition children from one sex into another.
The order says innocent children are compelled to adopt identities as either victims or oppressors.
This is the critical race theory aspect of it.
As victims or oppressors solely based on their skin color.
In other instances, young men and women are made to question whether they were born in the wrong body and whether to view their parents and their reality as enemies to be blamed.
Now, I'm...
All in favor of withholding federal money from local school districts.
I don't think the federal government has got any business supporting local schools at all.
It's something that should be a local responsibility.
For a lot of different purposes, it's not just school meals, that is a big one, but teacher training and trying to reduce class sizes.
Again, these are not a major component of local school budgets, and I think the federal government should be out, out, out completely.
But what is going to have to happen is a determination of what constitutes CRT and what constitutes radical gender ideology.
These things will have to be policed one way or another.
Are the students being told, maybe we will have parents who are on the lookout to see what happens.
But in any case, this is another great attempt by Donald Trump to fix things that need fixing.
Now, as far as some of the other great things that Donald Trump has done, it has put the New York Times into a vicarious panic.
Let me read a few sentences here from an article that appeared.
At a barbershop in Los Angeles, only one of the ten chairs was occupied on what would ordinarily be a busy evening.
In Chicago, a mistaken report that immigration agents showed up at a school set off a panic.
At a church in Charlotte, North Carolina, more than a third of the usual congregants were absent.
The hysteria is out of control, said Patrick Garcia, executive director of Embrace All Latino Voices.
I don't embrace all Latino voices, frankly.
I don't embrace most Latino voices.
In any case, this is a group set up in Charlotte that has a hotline for advocates for immigrants to report enforcement activity.
They have all seen a spike in calls.
And the guy who runs it says the hysteria is out of control, that they have a hotline.
If you see La Migra someplace else, you can call in, and there have been lots of calls.
And the New York Times continues, arresting and deporting even a small share of the population with no legal status is all but impossible.
But stirring up anxiety and uncertainty among those millions appears to be far easier.
Well, it should be far easier.
Even schools, churches, and hospitals, places long considered insulated from immigration enforcement, have become fair game after a DHS announcement that such locations were not off-limits to agents.
Yes, it was Barack Obama who issued an order saying, nope, you can't arrest illegals in churches, you can't arrest them in schools, you can't arrest them at weddings or at funerals.
Oh no, the little dears have to be completely immune.
Under those circumstances.
Nope, not under Donald Trump.
Yet another wonderful thing that has happened because the American people voted in the right man.
Denver public schools recorded a decline in attendance of 10% or more over the last week at some schools that have a large number of students from illegal families.
In San Francisco, someone named Karen Rodriguez rushed.
To pick up her seven-year-old son from school after parents were notified by a worker that ICE agents had been spotted in the area.
Turned out to be a rumor.
Unfortunately, it wasn't true.
But she says, fear is definitely a feeling we all have.
I'm glad that she's afraid.
She should be afraid.
She's 30 years old, a Colombian.
She said that she and her husband and her son had just crossed the border and were planning to apply for asylum.
Too bad.
You get to go home.
And at the Park Plaza Barbershop that I mentioned earlier, only one customer on Tuesday.
And, as I mentioned earlier, ordinarily, most or all of the chairs would be occupied.
Snip, snip, snip, snip, clip, clip, clip, clip.
Says Mr. Anguino, who owns the barbershop.
Everyone is terrified.
They don't want to spend money because they don't know what could be coming.
That's right.
Keep your cash.
Illegals, you might never, you might not, you might have to spend it in unexpected ways.
Keep your cash in your pockets.
Prepare to go.
And this guy of Embrace All Latino Voices, he says some people are starting to talk about returning to their home countries.
That, in many respects, is the key point of this story.
You don't have to do a lot.
Just do a few things in a very high-profile way, scare enough people, make people realize that they are genuine lawbreakers, and get them to go.
Get them to pay.
Get them to leave without any sympathetic television cameras watching them weep.
This is the way to do it.
Scare them and make them go.
Now, apparently, in order to calm nerves and debunk information, TikTok and other media platforms, etc.
The Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles released a video.
It was a two-week video.
I'm sorry, a two-minute video.
And it says, Well...
This is Mexico trying to counter the panic.
This is, of course, exactly what you would expect Mexico to do.
It's acting in its interest, not in ours.
But I want there to be more and more excellent reasons for people to be in a panic.
I'd like to see worksite raids.
I'd like to see somebody arrested at a wedding or a funeral.
These things must happen, and if they do, out they will go.
In San Francisco, there was a rumor that ICE agents had gone into five downtown office buildings looking for janitors to deport.
This information was shared widely on social media and, as a result, hundreds of janitors failed to report for their shifts that night.
Well, that tells you how many of them are here illegally and shouldn't be here.
As it turned out, the agents were in two of those buildings with an arrest warrant.
They weren't particularly looking for janitors.
Lorena Malgarejo, who takes calls on a hotline, says that there have been many ghost sightings of ICE. That's right.
People are seeing things.
Whenever they see someone in uniform, they think it's ICE. She says there are so many reports, it's almost impossible to follow up on them.
Well, I think as I say.
Just have the ICE people walk around.
That's enough to scare people.
They don't even have to be out to arrest anybody.
Just have a few of them march down Main Street or march through the places where the illegals live.
Just showing the flag can put them into a panic and encourage them to go.
Now, this is a story that has been recently back in the news.
It dates back to June 27, 2022. On that day...
Officials discovered dozens of illegals packed into the back of an 18-wheeler on the outskirts of San Antonio.
The truck had been smuggling at least 64 illegals from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and En Salvador.
It was discovered abandoned in a desolate industrial area near a highway about 160 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Of the illegals were left trapped in the sweltering heat without any ventilation, air conditioning, or water.
They were stuck inside, all of them.
They screamed and they banged on the walls for help while attempting to claw their way out as temperatures reached nearly 100 degrees outside.
It's estimated that inside that trailer, temperatures would have been close to 150 degrees.
48 of the 64 were found dead at the scene.
Their bodies stacked on top of each other.
Five others later died at local hospitals and for a total of 53 dead.
Emergency crews who showed up said many of the victims were absolutely, actually hot to the touch.
There were only 11 survivors.
What happened?
How did this happen?
Homero Zamorano was the driver of the tractor-trailer.
He knew the air conditioning didn't work.
He is said to have abandoned the truck so that he could escape and flee.
Well, police arrested Zamorano after he was hiding in a nearby bush.
He tried to evade the San Antonio police by posing as one of the survivors.
These migrants...
They reportedly paid each about $12,000 to $5,000 each to be brought into the United States.
The smugglers had forced each of the migrants to give up their cell phones before getting inside the trailer so they had no way to call.
An unknown powder had also been spread around inside the trailer to prevent the smell of humans from being detected by patrol dogs at border inspection stations.
So this was done in a fairly carefully planned way.
I didn't realize they have people sniffing dogs at the border to make sure that folks aren't being brought in trucks.
This was one of the deadliest smuggling operations in American histories.
Now, this story is back in the news only because the driver, Homero Zamorano, He's 48 years old.
He now faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and will be sentenced on April 24th.
Now, why is he only now pleading guilty?
That's a good question.
This all happened back in 2022. He was picked up right at the scene and...
What is mysterious?
And I've tried to find out what's going on.
Why did he stop the truck?
Why didn't he let them out?
Why was he trying to flee?
What was going on?
Now, one thing I had been able to find out, that he was taking amphetamines, and he might have been confused.
But at the very least, if he was going to give up, if he was going to try to abandon the truck, why didn't he let them out?
Nope, I can't find the answer to that.
Again, he must have been just completely addled by amphetamines.
But he could face life in prison.
Now, I wish he would just face the death penalty, or I wish he would be booted back to Mexico where he belongs.
I don't like the idea of these people living forever inside our prisons at our expense.
We'll get into another aspect of that in a different item on this podcast.
But there's an interesting footnote.
San Antonio officials have recognized what they call this tragedy, and they've built a permanent monument.
It includes the 53 victims' names and countries of origins at the site where their bodies were found.
It's called the Migrant Memorial.
It has 53 limestone boulders, that's one for each victim, leading to a concrete paved circular plaza.
City Councilwoman of San Antonio, Adriana Rocha Garcia, she pushed hard to pay for the memorial, which cost $100,000.
Now my question for you, why should the city of San Antonio pay for a monument of this kind?
Are these people heroes of some kind?
No.
They weren't Americans.
They were illegals.
They were invaders.
But Councilwoman Garcia explains spending taxpayer money in the following way.
She says a lot of our community members have had experiences themselves or family members that kind of took the same journey to get into the United States.
Immediately think that could have been me or that could have been a family member.
Right.
Well, these are people who think in terms of illegals coming into the country because they themselves have come in illegally.
People like this get into positions of authority and they change the nature of the United States and they change the purpose and the action of government.
I don't like it.
Here's Andrea Rivas.
She organizes an event every year.
Each victim's name is called out with a moment of silence to honor the victims.
Honor them.
She says people risk their lives for a better future here.
It's heartbreaking.
Knowing that they were left to die.
They sacrificed everything.
This is a moment for us to pay our respects, to honor them, to remember them, to respect them.
Sorry, I do not honor them.
I'm sorry they died.
That was too bad.
But they should not have tried to come to the country illegally.
These people had $12,000 to $15,000 to spend on a criminal undertaking.
It's not as though they were starving to death.
They should have stayed home.
They should have used that money to go to school, start a business, whatever it is.
Not try to sneak into the United States.
By being here, of course, they're stealing services and they are benefiting from a country their people could never have built.
Now...
One little sidelight about San Antonio itself.
Guess what the Hispanic population of San Antonio happens to be?
65%.
That's nearly two-thirds of the city is Hispanic.
And as the city councilwoman, Andreana Garcia, pointed out, many of them.
Have this idea of illegal border hopping.
That's part of their history.
That's part of their heritage.
And that is why they build monuments and they try to remember the people that they call heroes.
No, they're not.
No, sorry.
Now here's another story from deepest, darkest America.
A fellow named Marquis Braziles, age 26. He didn't even exchange a word with his victim before he threw her against the train.
She says, In other words, Marquise's timing was bad.
A second or two earlier, and she would have been thrown in front of the train and run right over.
Police nabbed Marquise at the 181st Street station after bystanders took pictures of him and showed them to the cops.
This is a new crime-fighting tool.
Your cell phone could produce interesting evidence, ladies and gentlemen.
Be aware of that.
If you see something, if you see something, you know the motto is, if you see something, say something.
Sometimes, if you see something, Take a picture of it.
And as it happens, Marquis, one of our African-American fellow citizens, he was allowed to remain on the street after two quite recent run-ins with the police before the attack.
He was busted on January 19th for entering a prohibited area of the Bergen Street subway station.
That's right, he was walking down the tracks, poking in a place where he didn't belong, only to be released, and then arrested four days later and charged with third-degree sexual assault for groping a woman on a subway train.
I mean, it does make you wonder.
You hear about these people who have been arrested 20 times and are still walking around.
What do you have to do?
How many times do you have to be arrested in order not to be walking around?
Now...
The real point of this story is when arrested for the attempt at what I would call an attempted murder of a woman that he shoved into the oncoming train, he told cops, I did it because I wanted to.
I did it because I wanted to.
Can we call this an expression of deep negritude, perhaps?
Well, I wonder why he wanted to.
All I can find out about the victim is that she is a woman 23 years old.
I can find no information about the race of the woman.
Although what she described and how she expressed herself about what happened to her sounded pretty literate, I wonder if she was a white woman.
Why did he want to push her in particular in front of a subway train and just missed?
When he said, I did it because I wanted to, why her?
We'll probably never know the answer to that question.
Well, moving to Sweden.
Salwan Momika is an Iraqi man who sparked violent protests, not just in Sweden, but in many Islamic countries, after he burned the Koran.
He burned it in front of the Stockholm Central Mosque.
In 2023, Swedish police gave him permission to do this because it was in accordance with Sweden's free speech laws.
Well, as a result, there was rioting in Stockholm, which they expected, and there were also riots at the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice.
The Swedish ambassador was expelled from the city amid a diplomatic row about this because this Iraqi...
It wasn't a Swede.
It was an Iraqi who, very much against the wishes of the Swedish authority, decided to burn a Koran in front of the central mosque.
Well, now it appears that Salwan Momika has been killed in his apartment in Stockholm.
And apparently he had been live streaming on social media about the time he was shot.
Maybe he was burning yet another Koran.
Apparently he's been making all sorts of anti-Islamic messages.
He's a guy who doesn't like Islam.
But what is he doing in Sweden?
Why is he bringing these primitive medieval quarrels to the West?
All of this stuff should be absolutely kept out of Europe.
Apparently one of the things he'd been doing on social media lately was asking for donations so that he could pay a lawyer who was going to help This Salwan Momika gained asylum in the United States.
That's right.
He wanted to come to the United States and burn Korans.
The Swedes had tried to deport him.
They had sent him to another Scandinavian country, which immediately bounced him back as an undesirable.
But the Swedes, unlike Americans under Donald Trump, have not been able to say to a country, take this guy back, like him or not.
So, he was still there, but he's no longer their problem.
But apparently five people have been arrested in connection with this, and the Swedes are wondering if they might be agents of some sort of foreign power.
But this is precisely the kind of trouble you get when you let people who don't belong in the West come live amongst people who do belong in the West.
Now, here is another article.
A court in East Texas sentenced an illegal alien to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
This was after he pleaded guilty to killing five Honduran migrants near Cleveland, Texas in April of 2023. After the killings, Francisco Oropeza, he led police on a five-day manhunt.
That involved hundreds of state, local, and federal law enforcement officers.
He, interestingly enough, had been removed from the United States on four previous occasions.
Four times he'd been given the boot.
And he managed to come back.
He comes back to the United States and kills his neighbors.
But his neighbors were five hard-earned migrants.
I don't know whether they were legal or illegal.
It's certainly better than killing bona fide Americans.
But this guy should, of course, Now, the plea bargain, and he got life without parole.
This was offered to Oropesa's defense counsel only after several meetings with the families of Oropesa's victims.
They agreed to this rather than seek the death penalty.
So he pleaded guilty.
And in the end, the consensus was that a plea of life without parole Would spare the survivors of the dead people the trauma and the risk of a trial.
Also, the projected cost of a capital murder trial would have exceeded the county, this is in East Texas, the county's annual budget for court-appointed attorneys by 400%.
Obviously, this is a terrible system.
You have got to be able to give people the death penalty without tremendous expense and time.
Furthermore, the county decided the financial strain of the inevitable appeals would have continued even after a guilty verdict.
Now, there are a couple of things going on here.
The family said, no, no, we don't want the trauma of the trial.
Well, sorry.
I want the guy dead.
And you don't have to attend.
The trial.
You don't have to be there when he talks about what he did to your relatives.
I know it was awful.
I know it was horrible.
But you don't have to attend.
To me, it's more important that this guy be dead and that this be a very, very convincing deterrent to any kind of future activity.
This kind.
So, that's one aspect.
The other is, obviously, the fact that he had been removed four times previously and was let back in.
He probably thought he could get away with anything.
What else would he think?
So that was another terrible mistake.
And then this whole awful, interminable process we have in the United States, it takes so long to carry out a death meddling.
Ordinarily, it takes two to three years between the crime and an actual trial.
And then it takes the period of the trial to get a guilty verdict.
That's two or three years.
And then people sit on death row for an average of 20 years before they are put to death.
This is a crazy system.
And as a result, they're in jail for 20 years.
And this is such a bother that people end up pleading and getting life sentences instead.
I don't want to support this guy.
He will get old.
He will need medical treatment if he gets cancer of some kind.
We're going to have to pay for his cancer treatments.
Well, if he's got senility, whatever it is, whatever happens to this guy, we've got to feed, clothe, and medicate this guy until he dies.
I am sick and tired of that.
I want these people dead.
Sorry.
Either that or permanently out of the United States in some way that we can ensure that they never come back.
That's why we need the wall.
That's why we need the way Trump would have handled this.
Also, one of the great things that Trump has done is he's going to pursue death sentences against illegal immigrants who commit capital crimes.
I haven't yet seen a case of that being attempted, but I'm all for it.
Send them a very unmistakable message.
Well, here's a different little bit of the consequence of our new president in action on Monday.
A day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that it had made 956 arrests as part of President Trump's crackdown on illegals.
Actress and singer Selena Gomez posted on an Instagram video to her 422 million followers in which she talked about what was happening and the poor girl wept.
She was sitting She was visibly distraught.
Her face was red from crying.
Her voice broke, and she wiped away tears.
She says, I don't understand.
I'm so sorry.
I wish I could do something.
I don't know what to do.
I'll try everything.
I promise.
And Selena Gomez's video was captioned with the words, I'm sorry, next to a Mexican flag.
Well, after her post, Selena Gomez was immediately hit with a great deal of negative feedback on all social media platforms, as she should be.
Tom Homan.
White House Borders are, said.
We've got a quarter of a million Americans dying from fentanyl coming across an open border.
Where are the tears for them?
Good for Tom Holman.
I've never heard of a single thing Tom Holman has said that I disagreed with.
Selena Gomez has since deleted her original post, but clearly she cares about her people, Mexicans, despite the fact that she is a natural-born American citizen.
Born, yes, here in the United States, as was her father, born in the United States.
Well, we've got some notion of who she is.
In 2019, she wrote an essay for Time magazine in which she reflected on being the granddaughter of illegals from Mexico, who eventually got U.S. citizenship, probably in one of those ill-fated amnesties.
Too bad.
But as I say...
By the time she was born, well, she was born probably of American citizen parents, and she was born in the United States and got birthright citizenship.
She has an aunt, however, who crossed the border in the back of a truck, etc.
So she just loves the idea of being descended from illegals, I guess.
And in 2017, she was an executive producer on the Netflix documentary Living Undocumented.
Undocumented, mind you.
This looked at the lives of eight families living in the United States.
She says, I watched footage outlining their deeply personal journeys and I cried.
That's what Ms. Gomez wrote about being a producer on a Netflix documentary.
Now, this is just like what happened with that San Antonio city councilwoman.
This is really part of their heritage.
This is like being on the Mayflower.
This is like having fought in the revolution.
These people are sons and daughters of the American Revolution.
They think that this is part of being an American, coming here illegally.
And so they're weeping when President Trump tries to enforce the law.
This just goes to show you how deep the rot is in the United States where people really think that this is as American or even more American than any other way you could become an American.
And I'm very glad that she got the terrible slapdown she got when she posted this weepy video and maybe this will teach her a lesson.
Now, another great thing Donald Trump has done is...
Put an immediate hold on so-called development aid.
And former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, he had what I think is an excellent reaction to all of this.
He criticized African leaders who have been complaining about the end, or at least a pause, on aid.
Kenyatta was attending a regional health summit.
And he's a fellow who served as Kenya's president from 2013 to 2022. And he talked to regional leaders at the East Africa Region Global Health Security Summit in Kenya.
He called out other Africans for crying about the aid freeze.
Why are you crying?
He says.
It's not your government.
It's not your country.
He has no reason to give you anything.
You don't pay taxes in America.
He's appealing to his people.
What an idea!
What an idea!
This single African, Uhuru Kenyatta, I think, understands human psychology and understands morality better than every Democrat who frantically votes for foreign aid.
Kenyatta called Trump's move a wake-up call for African leaders.
They should reflect and consider, okay, what are we going to do to help ourselves?
What an idea.
Now, the U.S. is the largest provider of global humanitarian assistance.
We pay for around 40% of all the foreign aid that gets shoveled out of the doors to developed countries.
And the United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values, Trump said in the executive order.
And when he ordered this pause on foreign aid, unfortunately, military aid to Egypt and Israel was exempt.
I don't think there should be any foreign aid.
If people in the United States want to spend their private money to help any other country they like, for whatever reason, they're free to spend their money.
But my tax dollars should not be leaving the country.
Dozens of senior officials within the U.S. Agency for International Development.
They were put on administrative leave earlier this week.
That's right.
We don't need you anymore.
Now, they don't like it either.
The president of Oxfam America.
That is a British charity.
It stands for Oxford Famine Relief.
That's how it got started.
The president of Oxfam America says the aid community is grappling with just how existential this aid suspension is.
Well, yes, it is existential to them.
That's how they make a living.
As I said before, I want these guys all on the breadline, either that or making an honest living, rather than sucking on the government teat and helping spend your money on things you don't want it spent on.
And here's Jude Moore.
A former Liberia cabinet minister.
She called the cutoff cruel.
And she says it hurts the U.S. because it makes no distinction between ally, partner, and adversary.
I see.
We're supposed to buy their friendship.
Is that it?
Okay.
The people we like, they get handouts.
The people we don't like, don't.
Well, I hope that Donald Trump's actions will become a great model for other...
Now, there is a representative, Dan Goldman, of the state of New York, and he put out a note on X claiming that Trump's freeze on all foreign aid is an abdication of our duty as a global leader.
Well, I happened to look at his comments, which were numerous, and boy did he get a rousing earful.
This is just a tiny sample of the replies, all of which were along these lines.
Here's one.
All you Democrats should donate your salary.
Until you do, don't come crying to us Americans.
Another.
Cry more, loser.
U.S. citizens are winning.
Here's another.
We've just learned how all these congressmen become multimillionaires on $170,000 a year.
They skim it from foreign aid.
I don't know if that's true, but I certainly hope Dan Goldman reads the comments to his ex-posts because I couldn't find a single one that thought this was a great thing, splashing out our money.
There were hundreds and hundreds, so I didn't read them all, but I hope he reads at least a representative sample.
And now it's back to Tiffany Henyard.
I did a video about her some years ago when she first burst onto the scene.
What a lovely lady she is.
She is an African-Americaness and is the mayor of Dalton Village in Illinois.
She has also been the supervisor of nearby Thornton Township.
Well, she took a bit of a tumble Tuesday night when a melee broke out after her boyfriend rushed to defend her honor.
It all happened at a town council meeting, a packed town council meeting, because she is a local star.
There are some people who love her, more people who actively hate her.
In any case, it all began when a local activist, African-American fellow citizen, Jedediah Brown, who is a frequent critic of Tiffany Henyard, took to the podium and launched into an aggressive tirade against the mayor.
He accused Henyard of sleeping her way to the top.
Now, I'm not sure that being mayor of Dalton is, in fact, the top.
Other African-American fellow citizens of ours have seemed to have gotten a little bit higher by sleeping their way somewhere.
He also called her a half-assed mayor and even suggested she would never get married.
Oh, this must have been the cruelest blow.
He then asked the room to vote on a measure to put...
Tiffany Henyard's boyfriend, Kamal Woods, and her ally, William Moore, on leave from the town.
And then he ended his comments with, Well, apparently, the boyfriend took offense at this, and a brawl broke out.
And, oh, there's quite a rousing video of what happened.
It looks like tag team wrestling to the 12th power.
And as it all broke out, the mayor pushed her table aside and rushed into the fisticuffs.
She can be seen bolting into the thick of it all, at one point losing her wig.
That's a cruel loss of dignity.
It's also reported that she lost a shoe and was thrown to the floor during this fight.
Several television cameras in the room were smashed, and some people were seen jumping on tables.
Wow.
Yep, you get your money's worth when you attend a town council meeting in Dalton Village in Illinois.
Well, it's not as though the Daltonites have been inactive in the face of her misbehavior, and I will explain.
This will help explain why so many people don't like her.
Monday this week, former Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, lovely Lori Lightfoot, Finally revealed the findings of her independent investigation into the alleged wrongdoings of Tiffany Hinew.
Yes, the city had the dough to hire her to look into the doings of Lori.
I'm sorry, the doings of Tiffany.
And, oh, for example, there were $780,000 charged on town credit cards in 2023. $780,000.
With little or no tracking of what the money was spent on.
At least six government credit cards.
These are local town government credit cards.
We used to pay for, among other things, glamorous getaways that Henyard took to Las Vegas in 2002 and 2023. Several of her friends traveled to Las Vegas on both these trips.
And also at the expense of the local taxpayers.
They paid for their travel, their lodging, their meals, their entertainment, all on village and township credit cards.
According to the report, over $50,000 was spent at local restaurants.
Well, I guess that's important, important local business.
Got to feed the mayor.
Their purchases were made of Dick's Sporting Goods, Best Buy, Wayfair, Walgreens, Apple, and Walmart.
And $218,000 was spent on Amazon while Henyard was in charge.
Again, no details as to what it was Amazon shipped.
Were these, oh, important secretarial supplies, office supplies?
Probably not.
Henyard charged the town more than $7,000 for her hair and makeup team.
That was at least one expense that could be itemized.
Also, now this is quite interesting.
The town of Dalton received $3 million in payments from the American Rescue Plan.
That was a COVID stimulus bill.
Hundreds of thousands of the original $3 million went missing without receipts.
Hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds of thousands.
Just gone.
Now, it looks as though Henyard is trying to recapture the Democratic Party nomination for Dalton mayor in February.
This will be exciting.
I wonder if we'll have tag team wrestling when she comes up for that as well.
And she will face off against a city trustee by the name of Jason House.
As it happens, she lost the Democratic primary to lead Thornton Township.
You see she was doing both jobs, Thornton and Dalton.
It was another one of those rowdy meetings, and she lost the Democratic primary for Thornton Township, and she later complained that this was caused by voter suppression.
Well, just how her opponents managed to suppress the vote remains unreported.
That's the news from Tiffany Henyard.
Now, she really is a remarkable creature.
And as I say, I did a video about her, which you can find at the AMRAM website.
And I hope you might visit it from time to time because there are lots of things there in addition to my podcast.
Well, it looks like we've come to the end of our time and had so many more interesting things to say.
Gosh, that just made me need to talk faster or have fewer things to say.
In any case, thank you so much for your attention.
It is a joy and an honor and a privilege to be with you, and I look forward to doing this podcast again next week.
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