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April 11, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Starving the Sanctuaries

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey talk about Donald Trump's plan to withhold all federal grants from illegal-immigrant sanctuaries. They also discuss antisemitism, the track-meet stabbing, and resignations at the IRS.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
I'm your host, Jared Taylor.
And with me is my indispensable co-host, none other than Paul Kersey.
And as usual, Mr. Kersey, we'll start with comments from our indefatigable listeners.
One commenter says, you have sought corrections in pronunciation in the past.
So here's one from last week's podcast.
Several people sent in this correction, by the way.
Our listener says, Michiganders pronounce the city's name Hamtramck.
That's the one that, of course, is spelled H-A-M-T-R-A-M-C-K.
We were talking about the Muslim population in Hamtramck.
Our listener adds, it's about five miles from downtown Detroit.
You also mentioned Dearborn, which I believe, Mr. Kersey, we did pronounce that one correctly.
It's about ten miles west of Hamtramck.
As of the 2010 American Community Service, Hamtramck's foreign-born population stood at 41.1%, says our listener, making it Michigan's most internationally diverse city.
Its population is more than 60% Muslim, with immigrants from, of all places, Mr. Kersey, Yemen and Bangladesh as the largest populations.
Yemen? Golly, how did all these Yemenis end up in Hamtramck?
Another commenter adds, Hamtramck now has an all-Muslim city council, but Dearborn has the most Muslims by number because it's a larger city with a slim majority of the population Muslim.
That is enough for halal meat to be served in Dearborn public schools.
Well, yes.
So, like it or not, you're going to have hollow meat fit for muzzies in your public school lunch.
Now, the city name Hamtramck, I was curious to know where that comes from.
And ordinarily, in the United States, if you find something really odd, you know, I thought, okay, there must be a Hamtramck Indian tribe or something.
Well, apparently not.
It comes from a French-Canadian soldier by the name of Jean-Francois Hamtramck.
Now, how he pronounced the name, I do not know.
Born in Quebec in 1756 and served in the American Revolutionary War under General George Washington.
So, that's where the name Hamtramck comes from.
I bet he was a slaveholder.
I bet they'll have to change the name.
Here's another comment.
This listener wants to know, where do Iberians or people of Iberian descent fall in terms of the Caucasian world?
They're not Anglos.
They're not Nordics.
Are they a subgroup of white?
Would they be like Greeks or southern Italians?
Are they also white?
Well, I take a very broad view of whites, actually.
I think if you're from Europe and you consider yourself white, then you're pretty much white.
And that includes Sardinians, that includes Greeks, Southern Italians.
So I think Portuguese and Spaniards, I consider them white.
I think some of these divisions, the way...
Medicine Grant tried to carve the white world up into Nordics and Mediterraneans and what was this other one?
Alpine. I don't think that's useful at all.
We need all the allies we can get.
I mean, I suppose I have a certain attachment to Anglo-Saxons, English-speaking white people, but all the same, I feel far more at home.
Among Estonians with whom I can't talk than I can Somalis or Ethiopians or even Koreans for that matter.
So, no, I take a very broad view.
Yes, go ahead.
If I could, I'm reading one of David Starr Jordan's books right now and he actually takes your view about Europeans and our history as opposed to Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard who probably would be more...
They were Nordicists, I think, to a degree that's really unnecessary and divisive.
I think all Europeans are our comrades.
Let's see.
Another comment.
Mr. Taylor, I've routinely heard you and others in our movement declare that we will in the end win this battle for the survival of our race and civilization because we have the truth on our side.
However, Do you not consider they may very well be a point of no return due to endless mass immigration, plummeting birth rates, so that even the truth may not save us?
Well, that's possible.
That's possible.
But I think like you, Mr. Kersey, I do not.
Calculate the odds to determine whether I'm in this fight.
I'm in this fight whether we win or lose.
And I think we will win, but that's not the point.
The point of return, of no return, may come.
But so long as there are even small numbers of racially conscious whites, it's like Iran and South Africa.
You can be a small group, but that can be the group from which great things can come.
And I do not believe that whites all around the world will be reduced to that kind of South African minority.
But, yeah, it's possible.
But anything's possible, and that does not daunt me at all.
We have a duty, and I take great joy in fulfilling what I consider to be my duty, and we do have the advantage of having the truth on our side.
Anything to add or subtract, Mr. Kersey?
I like to think that we're all Rhodesians.
We know what happened to Rhodesia.
They call it Zimbabwe now.
We know what happened to the whites in South Africa.
No one's coming to save them.
There wasn't some great awakening.
And I think that's what we need to look at, is these white tribes that have been disenfranchised in a lot of ways.
And what happens if you lose?
And that has to be the motivating factor, is winning.
Yes. When?
Yes. Yes.
And we can't keep thinking, oh, well, did the odds improve yesterday, or did they go down yesterday?
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
We're in this for the long haul.
We're in this for our children.
We're in this in the name of our ancestors.
And that's just the way it is.
A commenter writes, so this is all rather personal, I was reflecting on you and your father, who was a Christian missionary in Japan.
I enjoy tracing character traits through the generations, especially when those traits take on dissimilar manifestations.
Well, I think we know where we're going, don't we?
He says, it seems to me, although you did not follow your father in his religious devotion, you became another type of bearer of witness.
Well, I guess that's true.
I'm a missionary in my own way, a missionary for our people.
He says, can you say a few words about your father and the ways in which you are like and unlike him?
Well, I don't want to get too much into this personal stuff, but yes, it's true.
My father was a missionary, and I'm a missionary too, but of a different denomination.
Let's put it that way.
And as a matter of fact, my father and I were extremely similar.
Our mannerisms were the same.
We had the same cultural tastes.
We found the same kinds of things funny.
We would laugh in a very similar way.
Whenever we were walking down the street, people could immediately tell that we were father and son.
Nope, no ice man, no milk man involved here.
Unquestionably, he was my father.
And I think one of the real tests of compatibility is how well you travel with someone.
When you're traveling with someone, you're constantly making little decisions.
What are we going to eat?
Where are we going to go?
Where are we going to stay?
Which way are we going to turn in this city?
And he and I were just super compatible.
He was about the best travel companion I can imagine.
And so he and I were very, very similar.
He was religious.
I'm less so.
But that was one of the main differences.
He was also rather a liberal.
But there were certain things we didn't much talk about.
We just got along great.
I loved him, and he loved me, and it was wonderful.
And I will always miss him.
So, enough about me and my father, who was really a thoroughly wonderful man, in my view.
Now, let's see.
Mr. Taylor, I have routinely heard you and other leaders in our movement declare that we will...
Oops! No, I just read that comment.
I beg your pardon.
Ah, yes, my father got a little loopy in the end, too, and I'm heading that direction.
Now, this is a comment from Officer John Patterson.
He was my co-host for a while when Mr. Kersey was on sabbatical.
He has his own podcast on crime, and he has really got very, very interesting things to say about crime and other matters as well.
He writes, Posting that DOJ's Community Relations Service responds to black-on-white crimes, like the stabbing at the track meet that happened in Texas.
And we'll hear more about that from you, Mr. Kersey.
People are saying that this agency gets to the families of white victims very early on and tells them to say to the press, it wasn't about race.
This seems to happen just about every time.
Maybe there's even a disguised threat to those.
Family members of the victims.
It would be a shame to have your slam-dunk case dropped because you mentioned race.
Thus saith Officer John Patterson.
Now, first, there is such a thing as the Community Relations Service at the DOJ, and this is what its website says about it.
It says, Sierra's Community Relations Service assists communities through facilitated dialogue.
Mediation, training, and consultation to overcome differences and build the skills needed to prevent future disputes.
All CRS services are confidential and provided free of charge to the communities that voluntarily request or accept CRS's assistance.
Now that sounds pretty murky, but that would include that kind of outreach if they If that's in fact something they do.
CRS has just issued something called Navigating Conflicts, a guide for campus leaders and public safety personnel.
It also has a program called Engaging and Building Relationships with Arab American Communities.
So, I do not know for sure.
There's bound to be a lot of mischief going on in this agency, and yes, for years I heard the theory that it gets a hold.
Of the families of victims and tells them to downplay race, but I have never heard any confirmation of this.
This is pure speculation.
I have never heard of a crime family or a victim say the feds got to them and said, hey, don't talk about race.
You look like a hero if you forgive the killer or the rapist or whatever it is.
I'm a little doubtful it works that way.
The feds would just have to pounce on the victim or his family right away to pull it off.
And if the word got out, If the word got out that the feds are trying to make you say, oh, no, no, no, no, he was just a sweet little black boy.
If the word got out, the blowback would be pretty bad.
So I just don't know.
But it's the kind of thing, it's definitely the kind of thing the Dems would do if they had a chance.
Well, Mr. Taylor, conversely, we do know that the DOJ, the FBI under Obama, sent, what, 20 agents down to inquire about George Zimmerman's racial views.
We know that the same thing happened to the Bubba Wallace noose incident, which happened during the Trump presidency.
We know that Darren Wilson had his personal views investigated by the federal government.
No question.
As opposed to when, if there's a way to try and say, ooh, we've got a civil rights case, too, when a white person does something.
Or a white Hispanic does something.
There is a huge, huge effort to try to turn any white-involved person into a racial incident.
No question about that.
And as I said, I wouldn't put it past the feds, certainly the Democrat feds, to try to do this.
But I've just never heard of it.
Actually, if anyone in our listening audience has anything more than speculation about this, please, please, please send the information either to me at amren.com a-m-r-e-n dot com at the contact us page.
You can send information directly to me.
Also, pronunciation corrections, anything you'd like to call to our attention, anything we've done right, everything we've done wrong, or if you prefer to go straight to the great and the good, Mr. Kersey, the other way to reach us is...
Really simple.
Because we live here at proton.me, once again, that email address is because...
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But yeah, if anybody has got anything more than pure speculation about what this Community Relations Services of DOJ does, we'd love to hear about it.
Agreed. Now, Mr. Kersey, you've got the first story, and you sent me a story that has a few developments about the stabbing that took place at the Frisco track meet that I'd certainly never heard of, but would you mind just setting the stage?
What is the initial incident here that caught so much attention all around the country?
Yeah, it was a track meet, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, called Frisco.
There was a white guy named Austin Metcalf, who, from what we can tell, he asked a black teenager who attended a different high school.
Apparently, he wasn't even associated with the track meet, but I ran track, and when you're waiting all day, a lot of the times you'll have a tent where you can just relax, so you can prepare for your next event.
And this black kid was apparently in the white kid's tent.
The white kid asked, Metcalf asked Carmelo Anthony to leave.
He wouldn't.
And this is corroborated by the police report.
He said, why don't you do something about it?
And to make a long story short, the black guy stabbed the white guy to death.
Did the white guy grab him and try to throw him out of the tent?
That is not in the police report.
No, that is not.
I think he touched him, but not in a malicious manner.
That's the police report that is making the rounds now that has been substantiated as an official police report.
I think today they decided, the prosecutor said they're not going to go for the death penalty.
I think that was announced today.
But this is one of the big stories.
Okay, so he was sitting in the wrong tent.
He was in a long tent and he had no affiliation with either school in terms of running the track, in terms of competing that day.
So that's going to be interesting to see what exactly this kid was doing there.
And I know that the attorneys for or the state is going to try and substantiate what exactly were you doing at this in this tent?
Were you, you know, were you going around?
Was the knife to pilfer through people's bags?
Were you trying to get money?
It's going to be fascinating to see what happens in this case.
But we already know what's happened nationwide, sir, is that there have been dual go.
There's been a GoFundMe and another organization, Gibson Go, has put up for Mr. Anthony.
And last I checked, I think it had raised close to three hundred thousand dollars for the.
That's a black kid.
I don't keep their names straight.
So people have raised $300,000 for his criminal defense?
Yes, the give, send, go.
I'm there right now.
Holy cow.
9,594 people have given to this defense, the Help Carmelo Official Fund.
Thus far, sir, there's a total of $323,082 raised.
As I recall, Go fund me, at least at the time of that guy whose name I can never remember.
Rittenhouse? Yes, Rittenhouse.
You now remember what I can't remember.
When Rittenhouse was trying to raise money for his defense, they said, we do not let people raise money on our platform for criminal defense.
That's right.
But in this case, they're permitting it.
Well, no, so GoFundMe is where the white kid, Austin Metcalf, his father started that.
It's called Honoring Austin Metcalf, Help His Family Heal.
There have been 6,400 donations for a total of $319,000.
Oh, then I misunderstood.
Now, how much has this black guy collected?
And it has not been on GoFundMe.
No, that's on Give, Send, Go for Carmelo Anthony.
Yes, they're much more.
Give, Send, Go actually let Kyle Rittenhouse raise money for his defense.
So, okay, that's consistent.
That's consistent.
So I'm glad we got that corrected.
Carmelo Anthony has raised $323,000.
Now, I believe there's another GoFundMe that was created by Austin, the white teenager who was murdered.
By his mother, which had raised, last I checked, over $100,000.
But again, if you just compare the two, Carmelo Anthony has actually raised more money for his defense with more donations.
Like I said, almost 3,000 more individual donations.
So that's somewhat astonishing because in the story we're going to talk about from the Daily Mail, people, sir, are able to leave comments.
I'm actually reading some right now that have been given.
People are giving $30, $20.
Wow. As I just checked, there was just four more donations came in for this kid.
Holy cow.
I think this is one of the bigger stories.
Obviously, online, this has become a very big point of contention for...
I don't think the right and the left really exist anymore.
Conservatives, Democrats, I think it's becoming pretty clear.
Mr. Hood and I's podcast last week was called Your Race is Your Uniform.
What team are you on?
And it's becoming obvious now.
It's like, holy cow, can the battle lines be drawn even any more clear?
And in this case, some of the comments that blacks are leaving or they've made on social media defending this self-professed murder.
He's already admitted he did it when he was arrested, Mr. Taylor.
Well, tell us some comments.
Let's just go there.
Hold on.
Choice ones, not just random ones.
I'll just read from the story from the Daily Mail.
A female CEO has claimed that the black teenage boy who fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf was bullying the 17-year-old who was already accused of killing him.
It was already admitted he did it.
Stephanie Crutchfield is the black owner and CEO of several financial health businesses.
She left the claim on the Give, send, go donation page for Carmelo Anthony when she wrote, quote, Let's get this baby home.
I have a young black son as well, and I live in Collin County.
This baby was bullied, and he was defending himself, and I know it's more to this story.
I'm praying for you and your family.
Please let me know how else I can help.
There's no evidence that Mr. Metcalf was bullying the black Anthony.
Police said Anthony stabbed Metcalf in the heart, killing him.
After Metcalf told him he was sitting in the wrong chair at a match between their two schools last week.
Well, is there any evidence they had ever known each other before?
There's absolutely zero evidence that they've known each other.
Absolutely no evidence.
There was no reason for this kid to be in a tent that he did not have any...
any legal right to or no affiliation different high schools.
You don't want you don't want to be interacting with the other high school.
You're supposed to be preparing for your track, your track event that you're doing.
So, sir, the black lady Crutchfield that we're discussing, she donated one thousand dollars to Carmelo Anthony's fund.
And she later doubled down on her support for the black teenager, adding, no, I don't agree with what he did.
But it's more to this story.
This kid had a good future ahead of him as well, and he deserves a great defense attorney.
Sorry, I'm trying to do my best Crutchfield voice.
Anthony's family has claimed the Gibson Go donation page that narrative being spread about Austin Metcalf's killing is false, unjust, and harmful.
As a family of faith, we are deeply grateful for all your support during this trying period.
Your prayers and assistance mean more to us now, more than ever, the statement reads.
And like I said, sir, they've raised $323,000 as I last checked.
Well, also, wasn't there a story somebody put up the news that a guy died of drugs rather than being stabbed?
Yeah, the Frisco police, sir, have been forced to deny many viral unfounded rumors about Metcalfe's tragic death.
A viral post falsely claimed to be from Collin County Medical Examiner's Office said that Metcalfe died from an MDMA drug overdose and that a stab wound was a secondary factor.
They actually had to put out a statement, sir, where they denied this.
They said they were aware of an image circulating on social media purporting to be a report from the Collin County Medical Examiner's Office.
At this time, the report has not been released.
So somebody actually hokied up a false medical report and circulated it.
I saw a false police report where the police there in that county had said that conservative influencers were spreading false information and that the police...
Wait, wait, wait.
But so far as you know, somebody dummied up a coroner's report?
Yes. Oh, yeah.
They actually dummied up an actual police report showing that they weren't going to press charges and that because conservative influencers had poisoned the discourse with false claims of what happened.
Wow. You've got some pretty clever people going to bat for this black killer.
Yeah, like Tim Pool.
No, I'm joking.
He's not clever.
No, he's this conservative influencer who's basically said, you know, are we against self-defense now?
It's like, hey, come on, dude.
This guy was at a track meet and he pulled out a knife and stabbed a guy to death when he was...
Well, you know, I asked you, you know, apparently the black guy said, what are you going to do about it?
Now, that's obviously a physical challenge.
He's challenging him to lay hands on him and throw him bodily out of the tent.
Is that what he tried to do?
Now, even if he did, this black guy has got no business stabbing him.
I agree 100%.
But it seems to me there's a murky moment there.
We have to really get down to the bottom of what happened.
But still, you don't take a lethal weapon and use it under circumstances like that.
When people are just in empty-handed combat, no.
And that's murder.
No question about it.
But anyway, we'll see what happens.
This has been too much in the news for it to disappear.
So it will be most fascinating.
And the fact is, even in the United States, where people think the court system is all gone kerfooey, in a trial, facts come out.
All kinds of stuff comes out.
So we will find out what actually happened.
Okay, well, let us move out of Texas, if we may.
Mr. Taylor, I just want to get the words correct of what he actually said.
I've got the police report in front of me right here, so I want to get this correct for our listeners.
to move out from under the team's tent.
And Anthony grabbed his bag, opened it and reached inside and proceeded to tell Austin, that's the white student, touch me and see what happens.
No one really thought Anthony had any weapon in his bag.
And Austin proceeded to touch Anthony.
And then Anthony told Austin to punch him and see what happens.
A short time later, Austin grabbed Anthony to tell him to move.
And Anthony pulled out what recalled as a black knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest
Okay, so it does sound as though the white guy was going to heave him bodily out of the tent.
I mean, again, I just want to get the facts straight.
That does absolutely not justify killing him or using a knife on him.
Okay, well, very good.
Just to get the facts straight, that's all I read that for, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, yes.
Well, this is back to the question of booting bad guys out of the country.
I wish we could boot that black guy out of the country, but I'm afraid we can't.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday night that the Trump administration could continue deporting Venezuelans using this wartime powers act for now.
The Supreme Court overturned a lower court that had put a temporary hold on those deportations.
However, the ruling did not address the constitutionality of using the Alien Enemies Act to boot migrants who have been designated as members of terrorist groups.
The justices said only that the case had been filed in Texas.
Where the Venezuelans are being heard rather than in a court in Washington, D.C. Now, all this boils down to judge shopping.
You know, people look around and say, okay, who's this guy?
This court's more like the side with us.
All nine justices agreed.
Amazing! That migrants from Venezuela detained in the United States must receive advance notice and the opportunity to challenge their deportation before they can be removed.
I agree with that in general.
You can't just snatch somebody off the street and slingshot him over the border.
The justices ordered that the Venezuelan migrants must be told they were subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act within a reasonable time for them to challenge their removal before they're deported.
Now, I think there are too many procedural obstacles to putting them into that trip budget or that slingshot, that big slingshot that heaves them across the border.
But this finding could impose significant new restrictions on how Trump might use this act in the future.
The administration had asked the justices to weigh in on its effort to use this 1798 law to deport more than 100 Venezuelans who it said are members of Tren de Agua.
The administration says these removals are allowed because they are in effect waging war on the United States.
Now I'm all in favor of getting them out, but this seems like a little bit of a flimsy kind of reasoning to me.
They haven't really declared war on us.
They are committing acts of what could be called violence, war, I don't know.
Now on March 14th Donald Trump signed a proclamation that targeted the trend to Aragua, claiming there was an invasion and a predatory incursion underway.
And in the proclamation, he claimed the gang was undertaking hostile actions against the United States at the direction clandestine or otherwise of the Venezuelan government.
Well, again, what's the evidence for that?
We may or we may not see.
And that very same day, plane loads of deportees were sent off to El Salvador to this rather disagreeable prison that we're all aware of.
Now, at the same time, I know this seems like a pretty good thing to me, the Department of Homeland Security is reviewing billions of dollars in grants for cities and states to make sure recipients comply with the administration's priorities on immigration enforcement.
Grant beneficiaries must honor requests for cooperation, such as participation in joint operations, requests for information, and short-term detention of an alien.
In other words, no more sanctuary cities.
And what's important here is that instead of potentially withholding grants that have to do with law enforcement, the administration now is saying every single federal dollar can hinge on whether or not they cooperate with ICE.
And officials with FEMA have already identified nearly $1 billion in funding they think should be cut, and another $4 billion that is at risk of being reviewed.
And some of the funding, like $80 million from FEMA to New York City for migrant shelters, has already been clawed back.
Hooray, hooray!
But as Tricia McLaughlin Who is a spokeswoman for DHS, said the open borders gravy train is over.
There will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interests and safety of the American people.
So, there you go.
I mean, this is one of the crazy things about the federal system.
We send so many billions to Washington, and then Washington can sort of dole it out as it sees fit and make sure that we all toe Washington's line.
Well, when it happens that Washington wants the states to align that we approve of, then everybody thinks that's fine, but I think the principle of this is all wrong.
In any case, if this works, then I can't think of a single state that's going to say, Well,
Mr. Kersey.
I believe we've had some high-profile resignations in the IRS because the IRS is under orders to share information with the Department of Homeland Security on illegals who are into the system.
That's another part of this really across-the-board effort to gear up the entire federal government to boot illegals.
There was a couple stories that I neglected to send you that Doge has done that are just incredible, that kind of a tease for next week.
I'll be sure to add them.
This is a very interesting one.
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service will resign in the wake of a deal struck on behalf of the agency that will see its shared tax data on...
Illegal aliens.
Whenever I come across that word, undocumented immigrants, I'm immediately just going to call it illegal aliens.
Of course.
This was from CNN, so of course they're going to use that terminology.
Melanie Krause, the commissioner of the IRS, who is the third person to serve as its chief since the start of the year.
She's going to pack up her desk as part of the deferred resignation program offered by the Trump administration.
She'll probably head over to Ernst& Young.
Paul Weiss.
She'll be happier there.
Ernst& Young, that's an accounting firm, right?
It is.
Yes. The Treasury Department announced a couple days ago the news of her plan to leave the federal agency comes less than a week before the deadline for individual tax returns.
Krause decided to resign in an apparent protest of the Trump administration's actions, sources told the Washington Post.
She's been leading the IRS through a time of extraordinary change.
Treasury Department spokesperson told the outlet, stating that the department was, quote, in the midst of breaking down data silos that for too long have stood in the way of identifying waste, fraud, and abuse and bringing criminals to justice, end quote.
Tells you a lot about Ms. Krause and probably her political leanings and ideology that she would resign in protest to trying to simply identify waste, fraud, and abuse.
Well, she's got an argument, as we will see at the end of that article.
The tax collecting agency finalized the agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to share taxpayer data to help the immigration authorities identify illegal aliens.
Now, a lot of people, Mr. Taylor, have said, oh, the Trump administration isn't moving fast enough for mass deportations, blah, blah, blah.
There was another story in the New York Times that I read that we're starting to see a lot of self-deportations, which will never factor into the data because people are actually afraid.
And that's a good thing.
That's what we want.
We want people to self-deport to go back.
I just wish we could have tax remittances.
But at the same time, it takes a while to ramp up and to identify those areas where you can readily find out and go and do these so-called raids.
And if we actually went ahead and...
Oh, I agree.
I agree.
You know, I just wonder, though, How would the IRS really know from a tax return whether somebody is an illegal?
I'm not quite sure.
You fill out a tax return every year.
I fill out a tax return.
I don't know.
We have social security numbers, but there are all sorts of illegals who have social security numbers.
What is it on your tax return that would make anybody think that you're a citizen or that you're a legal resident?
I'm not sure what it is.
I think you can say whether you're a legal resident or not, and I know that Doge has just uncovered The granting of hundreds of thousands of social security numbers to illegal aliens.
So I guess you could cross-check that with the...
Again, you and I have never looked at IRS software.
We have no idea what a spreadsheet looks like they have access to with the government in terms of how you would file through and sift through data.
I don't think it's probably too hard if you actually know...
Social Security members have put him in to cross-check.
That's a great question, though.
I don't know.
What is it the IRS knows that DHS doesn't know?
I mean, the IRS knows a whole lot about a whole lot of people, but whether it knows your legal status, I'm just not sure.
But if it does, then it should cough up that information.
Now, the reasoning that Melanie Knauss, is that her name?
The reason she had for resigning is that she thinks this violates Privacy requirements.
She does.
She does.
Now, again, just to tell a few things what this is going to allow.
The DHS is going to is allowed to request information about migrants who are already facing deportation orders and who are under criminal investigation with the IRS being responsible for sharing existing taxpayer data.
They're just trying to corroborate.
They're trying to figure out what's going on here and hopefully to then find the employers.
Because that is one of the most important steps, ladies and gentlemen, to really get a handle on illegal immigration.
If there are financial consequences for those who employ illegal aliens.
Well, I understand this better than these people are already on their way out.
And what they're trying to do is find out, they're probably trying to find out what sort of assets they might have.
I don't know, but I see.
So they're not identifying illegals by means of IRS information.
They are coming to the IRS and finding out what kind of tax returns they've had once they know that they shouldn't be in the country and they're on their way out.
Well, that's interesting.
I wonder what ICE then does with that information.
Maybe they're assets to be seized.
I hope so.
Well, like you said, lawyers with the IRS said the data sharing agreement likely violates privacy laws.
One of the reasons why Doug O'Donnell, the previous acting head of the IRS, he also resigned due to the Treasury's attempt to sign a data sharing agreement.
That was back in February.
And the last Senate-confirmed IRS chief, Danny Weifel, left the post on Mr. Trump's first day in office, January 20th.
So like I said, I'm sure they're all getting ready to head over to Booz Allen Accenture or Ernst& Young, or like you said, that law firm.
But again...
Well, you know, it is important to have confidentiality there.
And when Donald Trump's IRS filings were leaked...
Everybody shrieked, as they well should.
But if you are not even allowed to be in the United States, if you're criminal on your way out, I can't shed too many tears about your tax returns being released to ICE.
That much I will say.
I'd like to invoke that Acme Looney Tunes image you had of the massive slingshot earlier.
That's what I envisioned.
No, I'm joking.
Here's a great quote, though, that I think sums up this story.
We can move on.
Under President Trump's leadership, the government is finally doing what it should have been doing all along, sharing information across the federal government to solve problems.
That's a great thing that should happen.
A lot of organizations in the private sector, one of the most important...
The primary problems you have when you are trying to make a profit is making sure that all your data speaks to one another.
You have a competent CRM, especially if you have clients and prospects, and keeping people happy.
What's the job of the federal government?
To ensure the safety and security of the United States of America and its people.
This is a great step.
Moving on.
I was very surprised.
Well, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was disappointed to learn that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, these are the people who decide whether people can get legal status once they're here, it has announced it will begin screening immigrants' social media for evidence of not crime,
but anti-Semitic activity.
And this would be grounds for denying immigration requests.
The screenings will affect people applying for permanent residency as well as foreigners affiliated with educational institutions and the policy goes into effect in standard.
Now these announcements come following the highly publicized arrests and detentions of pro-Palestinian student activists.
Such as Mahmoud Khalil and Rumesya Uzturk, who the government alleges engaged in anti-Semitic activities their lawyers deny any wrongdoing.
Now, it seems to me if all they're doing is expressing anti-Semitism, that's freedom of speech.
I mean, people with names like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumezia Ozturk, I don't want them here.
But I don't like the idea of they're being booted on pretexts that don't hold up.
And if they're scouring immigrant social media for nasty things,
Agreed. Yeah, so this is, on the other hand,
we have a similar but rather more severe situation in Sydney, Australia.
As I understand it, now, we did have a listener who wrote in to say that this Mahmoud Khalil guy...had committed a violation by, in effect, supporting Hamas, I believe it was, who is designated as a terrorist organization.
Now, whether you can consider him to have supported Hamas in a material way by handing out handbills that are issued by Hamas, I don't know.
But there is perhaps an argument to be made that he did violate the law.
But simply by expressing anti-Semitic ideas...
Ah, I just don't like that clamping down on freedom of speech.
Now, what's going on in Sydney, Australia?
This is a report from the Gatestone Institution, which often finds good stories.
The apparent normalization of jihadist Islamic radicals such as Hamas and Hezbollah became frighteningly real when a video depicted two Muslim immigrant nurses working in a Sydney hospital Bragging that one of them had killed Israeli patients and the other had sworn to let them die.
A male nurse is recorded as saying, you have no idea how many Israeli dogs came to this hospital and we sent them to Jahannam.
That is Islamic Arabic for hell.
The nurses both were suspended and later arrested.
Now, yes, very clearly, if you've got people who are murdering Jews or Israelis, that's an entirely different question.
After local Sheikh Vassam Charkawi declared his support for the two nurses, pro-Palestinian teachers led dozens of schoolchildren in chants of Allahu Akbar outside a western Sydney public school in their support.
Of these Arabs, Muslims, who cheerfully are claiming to have killed Jewish patients.
And this sheik, this local sheik, he is employed by the new South Wales Department of Education.
Well, what did he get?
He was ordered to work from home.
Well, the poor dear.
Now, there is an Egyptian journalist by the name of Muna al-Hilmi, who is quoted in this Gatestone Institute article, explains that Islamic jihad ideology exists for the purpose of eradicating Western civilization through worldwide jihad to establish a global Islamic caliphate.
Well, yes, I think that's the official idea of radical Islam, is to eliminate all non-believers, or at least reduce them to demi-status, have a global Islamic caliphate that's run by Sharia law, but clearly,
I mean, this is a different kettle of fish than what's going on in the United States, when you have these Muslim nurses who claim to be murdering patients in their care because they're Jewish.
Fortunately, they are arrested, and they are being charged.
Now, here is a little story from a different part of the world, South Africa.
The air traffic control system in South Africa is so bad that there are massive flight delays and cancellations and intervention is required to prevent a catastrophic breakdown in aviation safety.
Now, let's review the facts here.
These flight delays and cancellations don't have to do with malfunctioning airplanes or rain or terrible turbulent weather conditions.
It's the fact that air traffic control system doesn't work well enough.
Can you imagine that?
You're sitting there on the tarmac.
Well, you know, the tower and the center are unable to communicate.
We can't have safe airspace.
So we're going to sit here for another 48 hours while they figure out what's going on.
But planes are grounded, flight delays are on increase, and safety warnings from airlines and industry.
experts continue to grow with challenges deeply entrenched at what in South Africa is called the air traffic and navigation services.
It's the Federal Aviation Administration that does this work in the United States.
Sounds like a misnomer.
I beg your pardon?
Sounds like a misnomer.
There's not going to be much traffic left to have to continue.
Right....risks to flights in the country as well as possible sanction by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
I mean, if it gets really, really bad, ICAO, which is the ICAO, the Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO can say, we don't authorize flights into this country because we can't guarantee that air traffic control will work well enough to get you safely on the ground and off again.
Now this article goes into the slow but steady deterioration of institutional capacity.
There's been a brain drain and mismanagement.
Highly trained staff have been poached by international markets with gutter and the UAE and Australia offering significantly higher salaries than South Africa does.
And internal recruitment, of course, they've got black economic empowerment, so they've got to give these jobs as much as possible to black people.
It lags behind the outflow of talent and new hires take between 18 months and three years to become fully trained.
I bet even when they're fully trained, the USA certainly wouldn't want to hire them.
But the communication, navigation and surveillance systems, which are the backbone of air traffic control, have become unreliable due to years of neglect and delayed upgrades.
Now, this is quite something.
Hundreds of instrument flight procedures were suspended.
by the South African Civil Aviation Authority last year because the Air Traffic and Navigation Services, which, as you point out, are somewhat ironically named now, failed to file mandatory regulatory reviews.
What does that mean?
Instrument flight procedures are As opposed to visual flight rules, these are electronic advanced ways of being to fly through the fog and fly through the rain, fly through the night so that you know where you're going even if you can't see where you're going.
And without these procedures, Mr. Kersey, pilots are forced to rely solely on visual flight rules in bad weather.
And that is a real recipe for disaster.
So, what could possibly have gone wrong?
Well, I just can't imagine.
It's just been a series of unexplainable misfortunes, but air travel in South Africa gets more dangerous all the time.
Now, Mr. Kersey, I believe...
There isn't any.
You actually mentioned the story a couple weeks ago.
I'm looking at it right now.
Only six of the 330 South African Air Force aircraft are in working order.
That's right.
I mean, come on, you've got these advanced aircraft and helicopters that have just been sitting there inaudible because there's no one making repairs and no one increasingly looks at them and probably thinks, ooh, what magic is going to cause this to fly?
I mean, that's one thing.
I mean, we can very easily imagine deferred maintenance, no maintenance.
You don't fix the things that go bad.
It never occurred to me that the air traffic control system itself could be so bad that even if you had perfectly fully functioning airplanes, they dare not fly because they can't
It just never occurred to me, but once you think about it, well, yep, yep, yep, all fits, doesn't it?
Well, this is what they wanted with air traffic controllers, which is a primarily...
I actually know a number of air traffic controllers.
It is a heavily, heavily white profession.
It's a white application.
A lot of pilots love going to smaller airfields and interacting with the air traffic controllers.
It's a very important function when you have a lot of aircraft in the air.
It's an essential function.
It keeps people running into each other.
But anyway.
Because, guys, ladies and gentlemen, America has a template for what the left, for what people want to do to our country.
And it's this story of South Africa, what we just talked about.
And that's what DEI leads to.
Well, now you have a story about the Smithsonian.
Do I ever have a story about the Smithsonian?
You know, one of the great things we've been watching is that occasionally you'll see one of Trump's DEI orders.
...cause a hysteria.
It happened with the Tuskegee Airmen earlier this year when one of the webpages was removed, and now this comes to us from the U.S. News& World Report.
It's a look at what's all happening, but with the Trump administration.
Since Inauguration Day, the Trump ad has placed a path of destruction on precious, nonpartisan institutions that benefit all Americans, regardless of their political ideology, socioeconomic status, or race.
From the National Institute of Health, to the U.S. Institute of Peace, to the CDC, to the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, now Trump is interfering with a jewel in our nation's cultural crown, the 178-year-old Smithsonian Institution.
Established back in 1846, based in D.C., President Trump is actually trying to, quote, restore truth in American history.
And he has claimed that the Smithsonian Institute has come under the influence of a divisive race-centered ideology that alleges efforts to rewrite history have fostered a sense of national shame.
The order signals out criticism for the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.
The article would go on to talk about how there's a war in the press.
University suggests that Trump's broader aim is to destroy fact-based inquiry into our history.
It's especially alarming that he's targeting the Smithsonian, an incredibly powerful institution that educates millions of residents as well as visitors to this country.
The March 27th executive order, disturbingly titled, as we said, Restoring Truth in American History, he claimed the Smithsonian...
I'm sorry, for some reason that paragraph got...
The museum, which opened back in 2016, and I'm talking about the African American Museum, did not have the chance to watch the longest-serving black U.S. Senator, Republican Tim Scott, say that all Americans have an obligation to visit the museum.
An obligation?
An obligation?
Tim Scott actually said that, yes.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Gosh. Man, what are they going to do?
Fine us?
Put us in jail?
Had things gone that other way, I'm pretty sure that people like...
Mike, yourself and myself would be forced to be in there all day, and probably in an exhibit.
We'd probably be a live exhibit to show.
That's right.
But anyways, Tim Scott said, quote, I hope that one of the beauties of this museum, being here, will be an understanding and appreciation of the depth of pain, agony, and tragedy of slavery, and that you will feel individually responsible for making America the most amazing country for every single citizen in our land.
Again, this article was written by a leftist, and they're just terrified that...
President Trump doesn't want a museum of this nature, which is on the mall.
It's a monstrosity.
It looks like an inverted pyramid.
I think I asked you.
You've not been to it, correct?
I have been to it.
I have.
Yes. Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
And it was jam-packed.
It was jam-packed.
Not only was it jam-packed, it was full of black people, unlike any other museum on the mall.
This one sure enough had black people in.
American history.
Who cares?
Science? Who cares?
Art? Boy, nobody cares.
But black history?
It was full of black people.
Most of those museums, as I say, black people like hen's teeth, but not there.
It was teeming with them.
Yeah, if you're going to visit D.C., ladies and gentlemen, just go to the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum, which is on 28 right by Dulles International Airport.
That's the best museum in...
The Washington, D.C. area.
Well, come on.
It's an air and space museum.
But people differ in taste.
But the fact is, if you were going to go through all of the public exhibitions, whether they are national or, for example, Monticello, the exhibition there is very anti- Thank you.
states as a fact that Thomas Jefferson fathered six children with Sally Hemings.
This is absolutely not true.
There is possible evidence for two, and there is irrefutable evidence that he did not father the other ones.
But this is—if you're going to go through every one of these institutions and try to
Make things objective, just base it on the facts.
It is an absolutely never-ending process.
Never-ending.
And so much of it has to do not just with whether something is false or true.
It's the emphasis that you put on it.
The absolute emphasis.
If you are going to talk about lynching, Probably, in the way things work today, all you're going to talk about is lynchings of people who were probably innocent.
Well, what percentage were lynchings of people who were overwhelmingly guilty?
What percentage of lynchings were of white people?
What about the number, the small number, granted small, the number of white people who were lynched by black people?
There is no end to trying to get a clear record of the past when you have these politicized attempts to do one thing or the other.
But anyway, I should not have interrupted you.
There's not much else to say.
I mean, again, you go to museums, you just realize that it's basically the manifestation of the 1619 Project.
And as this ideology becomes more pervasive, we're basically going to see airports across the country reminiscent of the South African airports where airplanes just don't fly anymore because there's no maintenance and you have, you know,
Catastrophes waiting to happen with ill-equipped and misinformed individuals who are air traffic controllers.
It's all laughable, and it's good.
Well, it's not really.
You've got to laugh to keep from crying, I suppose.
But now, here is a short item.
It really has so much to do with the onomastics of certain communities.
That means the process of naming.
And I would call this the adventures of Dante Lamont Brown, Tamika Lavon Hall, and Malaysia Lele Martin.
Mr. Taylor, for our listeners who might not have caught that great word you just used, onomastics?
Is that the word?
I believe that's correct.
And if I'm wrong, I'll sure hear about it.
I've never heard that word.
I believe that is correct.
But as I say, it popped out of my mouth and I thought to myself, well...
If I'm wrong, we will certainly hear about it.
In any case, Dante drove up alongside Tamika and Malaysia.
Malaysia is spelled M-A-L-A-Y-S-I-A by the way.
Malaysia. In their vehicle while it was stopped at a signal light before opening fire on his ex-partner and her child.
The mother was Tamika.
And her child is Malaysia.
No indication as to whether Dante was Malaysia's father.
Tamika then exited the driver's side that she was driving before falling to the ground.
The driverless car traveled across the street and smashed into a traffic signal pole with young Malaysia inside.
Dante fled the scene.
Detectives have exhausted all leads and now need the public's help in locating Dante Lamont Brown.
It is unclear what transpired between Dante and Tamika leading up to the fatal shooting.
This was in Compton, California, and Compton City Councilman Jonathan Bowers was quoted as saying, We have had enough violence here in Compton.
We are not pleased with this at all.
Well, that'll take care of the problem, I'm sure.
Here is another disturbing story.
And, you know, I hesitate to write about these, to talk about these things, but sometimes they are just so jarring.
An Israeli woman and an Indian woman were stargazing.
This was in India, alongside with three men, an American and two Indians.
So we've got five people.
They are stargazing.
This was in the town of Copal in southern Karnataka state.
This was at a UNESCO World Heritage Site with ruins and temples from the Vijayanagara Empire.
Apparently it's quite a place.
I've never heard of it, but it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
There they were gazing at the stars when three men on a motorbike this sounds like three men on one motorbike according to reports Approached them, asked for money, and following arguments, the three men pushed the male travelers into a nearby canal.
That's an American and two Indians.
Now, I saw photographs that accompanied this story, and the sides of the canal are very steep, so if you get pushed in, you can't climb back up.
It's a concrete wall.
And the American and one of the Indians swam to the other side and managed to get out, but they couldn't come across to where the women were, as I say, because the concrete walls are so steep.
And one of the Indians pushed into the water, drowned.
Thereupon, the men who had come on the motorcycles gang-raped the two women.
Imagine, here you are in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, enraptured in the glory of the stars, and something like this happens to you.
I mean, I guess it could happen anywhere, but there's just something about this that struck me as just particularly awful and brutal.
And apparently...
Rape is really a problem in India.
People just getting raped right and left.
High-profile cases involving foreign visitors have drawn all kinds of international attention to this issue as well.
It's really a gruesome business.
Well, golly, Mr. Kersey, we are running out of time.
We really should be more efficient about getting through our stories.
Because we have so many other interesting things to say.
I had a great story about Paul Weiss.
Paul Weiss.
Save that for next week.
All these things are evergreen stories for the most part.
Yes, indeed.
Also, a great story about poor Eric Zamour.
He's one of my favorites.
He came a cropper in an unfortunate way.
But okay, no more teasers.
We have to polish up here.
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