Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey dissect Atlanta’s 1970 minority set-aside program, where 35% of city contracts are reserved for Black-owned firms—despite Trump-era DEI crackdowns costing the city $40M in lost grants. They contrast this with Trump’s 2026 refugee cap of just 7,500 (mostly white South Africans) and Tennessee’s push to block undocumented students from schools, citing Houston’s 4,000-student drop as progress. Meanwhile, they mock TfL’s ban on a bus ad showing Black-on-white harassment, calling it political correctness over truth, while praising DHS’s IRS data crackdown on illegal employment—though criticizing Christy Noam’s glamorous tenure for enabling undocumented violence. The episode ties racial policies to economic and cultural decay, framing set-asides as hollow and immigration enforcement as selective. [Automatically generated summary]
Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
We are convening once again, and I am Jared Taylor.
And with me is Paul Kersey, the one and only thereof.
And as usual, we begin with comments from listeners.
And we have a comment, in fact, on the question of convening.
Regarding your last podcast, dictionaries show that a co-convener is a person who has equal responsibility for being a convener.
So the AMRAN podcast would have two co-conveners.
If there's a convener and a person assisting him, he would be an assistant convener.
Well, this is a correction to what I had said earlier.
I called myself the convener, and I called Mr. Kersey the co-convener.
So I guess that's incorrect, although I don't sort of like being a co-convener and yet another co-convener.
We'll have to work something out on this, Mr. Kersey.
Maybe we'll just have to go back to being co-hosts.
Be that as it may, here's another comment.
And it starts with, believe it or not, this is really catching on, hey there, conveners.
I just wanted to share an observation about culture and language.
I've learned quite a lot of German and Persian.
That's to say, Farsi.
That's the official language of Iran.
As I'm sure you know, Germany is about as PC as it's possible for a country to be.
It's also stuck with a language that presents special challenges for speaking in a gender-neutral way.
There's a lot of annoying verbosity in inclusivity-minded speech, such as, thank you for tuning in, dear male listeners and dear female listeners.
And German writers frequently clutter up their writing with noun-neutering asterisks.
In other words, you've really got to twitch yourself inside out to avoid specifying the gender.
And this is the one occasion when the word gender actually makes sense.
Gender is a linguistic term for male and female.
It is not a biological term.
You and I, Mr. Kersey, we have sex.
We don't have gender.
But our listener goes on to say, what may be news to you, and our listener is absolutely right, this was complete news to me, Persian is perfectly, uncompromisingly, irreproachably gender-neutral.
It even uses the same word for he, she, and it.
Wow, so it doesn't distinguish between humans and non-humans.
Isn't that interesting?
It's a he, she, or it.
This language could have been designed from the ground up to be a safe space for feminists.
So Iranian women who refuse the hijab may be murdered, but at least there's no chance of their being misgendered in the process.
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I thought that was really very interesting, very interesting.
I guess you can't say he or she.
I can't think of, you know, Japanese is fairly undifferentiated, but it certainly makes a distinction between he and she.
Wow, very interesting about Persians.
I guess they just didn't care about sex differences.
Another comment.
You and your team may have already covered this, but I'd like to know if there's any hope left for the white race.
Yeah, we've covered that, Mr. Kersey.
We cover it all the time.
At Amran.com.
You used to have a really gifted writer who passed away suddenly.
I miss his writing.
He did a great piece on McDowell County, West Virginia that was incredible.
Well, let's talk about him first.
That was Martin Rojas.
He wrote under the name of Chris Roberts.
Really, really a great guy.
He died a couple of years ago, 2023, I think it was.
2022.
Was it 2022?
I admire this chronological mind you have.
2022.
Just pick it right out of nowhere.
You know it's 2022.
I'm bumbling around thinking it's 2023.
In any case, yes, he was a great guy.
He was so creative in some respects.
Mr. Wolf and I, when we'd have staff meetings, we'd sometimes say, Chris, you really need to think inside the box a little bit more.
But be that as it may.
No, a great guy, and we miss him terribly.
But back to this first question.
Is there any hope for the white race?
Of course there is.
Yes, of course there is.
There's more hope than ever, I think.
I think we are moving on from triumph to triumph.
More and more people are waking up all the time, and the momentum we have set up now is, I think, irresistible.
That's my personal view.
Let's see.
Comment.
As a young adult in the 1990s, I recall Republicans being routinely accused of being Nazis or fascists, but the rhetoric was mostly limited to pundits and various low-level civilians.
Today, congressmen, senators, and very high-profile celebrities accuse anyone they disagree with of being white supremacists or literally Hitler.
Yeah, that's the very best one, I think.
Literally Hitler.
I don't think anyone's called me literally Hitler yet, but I'm hoping for that day.
The only insults I don't see casually thrown around yet are necrophilia and bestiality.
But I guess they're next.
Wow, yes.
I guess somebody who practices necrophilia is a necrophiliac.
There appear to be no repercussions.
Deluded leftists are now decided that ICE is a pedophile organization that kidnaps children to molest them.
A viral video clip you may have seen showed a mom declaring that if ICE comes for my kids, I'll kill them rather than let them fall into the hands of those pedophiles.
I hadn't seen that.
I hadn't heard of anyone accusing them of being pedophiles, had you?
I must confess I had not.
Well, I guess you can always find somebody out there who's going to accuse ICE of some abomination.
But the commenter goes on to say, is there no such thing as slander or libel?
There's pretty much not.
When's the last time anybody really had to pay up for slander, rival, libel?
Unless you're Donald Trump and you got deep pockets, you can sue people from here to China and back.
What was the last media company that had to pay up?
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Was it CBC?
Was it ABC?
Yeah, ABC or ABCBS.
I think he probably has lawsuits against all of them in some form.
He does.
He does.
But you can be called just about anything, and nobody much seems to care.
And there's no punishment, no consequences.
All right.
Another commenter.
Hello, Mr. Kersey and Mr. Taylor.
As we transition from Black History Month, formerly known as February, I wanted to bring awareness to white excellence.
A Ukrainian by the name of Danilo Yavhushishin is a sumo wrestler who competes in Japan under the name Aonishiki.
He will be attempting to make history.
Should he win the upcoming March tournament?
Aonishiki will become the first white sumo grand champion.
For those of you who know anything about the sport, that title is known as Yokozuna, the first ever in the history of the sport.
He has taken the sumo world by storm, accomplishing all this at only 21 years of age.
If you or any listener that's interested, would like to follow his attempt at glory, you can easily find highlights of each day's bouts, sumo bouts, on YouTube, which are posted by the national broadcaster NHK.
Well, Mr. Kersey, I'm on team white.
There's no doubt about it.
On the other hand, I have real mixed feelings about seeing non-Japanese roaring around in the ring doing Japan's national sport.
Now, for years, some of the top wrestlers have been Mongolians, and at least they didn't look weird.
But when you see a white guy, I've never seen any other race.
Oh, let's see, there were some Samoans, there was some, they looked weird.
White people look weird.
They just don't look right up there in the ring.
And I think they should not let anyone but a Japanese citizen compete in the national sport.
That's my view.
Yeah, no, I actually know a little bit about another guy who was a sumo wrestler, who then went on to become a professional wrestler, a Canadian by the name of John Tenta.
And seeing photos of him in the 80s, he was in his 20s at the time as well.
And it just looked incongruent.
It didn't look right seeing a white guy up there competing, like you said, the Japanese national sport, which – No, it doesn't look right.
Now, as I say, I am on Team White Man, and I think it's great when white men do well, but I think we should leave the Japanese alone and let them practice their national sport unmolested by outsiders.
I never liked it even when Mongolians were doing it.
Mongolians stay out.
Now, apparently, Mongolia has a sport that's somewhat similar to sumo.
So a lot of young Mongolians grow up playing this sort of sandlot version of sumo wrestling, and some of them are pretty hungry, and some of them are pretty good.
But I never liked it when they were.
When you were over in Japan, did you ever get the honor of going to see a high-level sumo competition?
Oh, I went to one official grand sumo match.
Yes, it was just one day in the tournament.
It's really great.
Of course, you can get a really better view of it when you watch it on television, but there's something great about being in the stands.
The other thing about sumo is you can do sumo with practically no equipment at all.
When I was a child, we would all go sumo wrestling, and you grab somebody's, there's that thing that goes around the waist, that, I don't know, you call it a mawashi in Japanese.
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But we always used to tear the loops off our trousers by grabbing onto belts and throwing each other around.
Our parents didn't love it.
Our mothers didn't like it.
I had to sew our belt loops back onto our pants because we did so much sumo.
But let's see.
Moving on.
Let's see.
A few back of the envelope calculations as to your recent observations on shopping carts.
Well, yes, we did talk about shopping carts.
You talked about shopping cart theory.
And to briefly summarize what it works is, the extent to which you can count on shopping carts being returned to those pens or to the queues of shopping carts voluntarily by shoppers who are under no obligation to bring them back.
That is an indication to you that you live in a high trust society with people who are willing to abide by the rules.
And that's just one indication that you're in the right place if all the shopping carts end up back where they belong.
And we talked about shopping cart theft.
Well, a listener writes in to say, I imagine the larger supermarkets use the better-made heavy-duty carts that cost $150 to $200.
If a national brand supermarket buys in bulk, let's say they cost $150 each.
Well, typical margins for packaged foods at large supermarkets is 2% to 4% profit.
Thus, if a $150 shopping cart replacement cost will require the profits from between $3,750 in sales, that would be a 4% return, or $7,500 in sales, that's 2% return on groceries sold.
That's a lot of groceries.
And this does not even include the cost of shipping the carts or the administrative cost and time of replacing grocery carts that wander off.
Couple this with the 3% shrinkage in so-called difficult areas and maybe more in certain other areas.
AI would not respond to my questions as to how much shrinkage there would be if the neighborhood question is color-coded.
Yeah, we're not surprised.
These costs explain why groceries are more expensive in those areas and why many stores don't even bother to open.
It's just too expensive.
As a consequence, in New York City, for example, you get these little small business bodegas.
They fill the need with limited offerings.
They have no power from no buying power from scale because they're sort of one-off mom-and-pop shops.
No rent negotiating power from scale, poor credit ratings.
All of this means higher costs.
Bodegas skew, therefore, towards higher margin goods, such as snack foods, cigarettes, etc.
Little meat and few vegetables, and what they have is expensive.
Add a few armed holdups, and this is an impossible business environment, hence, food deserts.
There is low to no profitability, financial and physical risk, including risks that are random and cannot be planned for.
Throw in inevitable accusations of prouse gouging, discrimination against certain customers.
And the question becomes: why bother?
As an old Wall Street adage would put it, capital goes where it's most welcomed.
I think that's a very interesting summary of the challenge.
That's a fantastic summary.
I actually thought of another test today on the viability of the community you live in.
Where the presentation for procuring sunscreen at a grocery store is.
If you're in a really nice area and a nice grocery store, you're going to see a huge aisle very close to where you enter said grocery store or big box store, you know, offering up the various types of sunscreen that are available to protect your skin.
And again, I'm sure you've seen some of the viral images of plexiglass covering up items.
And they'll always point out that, hey, why sunscreen not behind plexiglass?
Why don't you have to have an attendant show up to get you deodorant or, you know, shaving cream or the razors?
But the sunscreen is strangely not behind plexiglass.
Yes, somehow it just does not get shoplifted.
Isn't that odd?
Yes.
Well, that's very interesting.
Another comment on shopping carts.
We seem to have touched a nerve with your story on shopping carts, Mr. Turkey.
Big story.
It is.
The segment was enlightening.
Avoid any neighborhood where you see stray carts.
Good advice.
In some places, I recall carts with which the wheels locked if you tried to take them off the property.
I've never seen that.
And the reader, our listener goes on to say, the corn, the coin-operated type is a good option, too.
Have you ever heard of queels locking up when you took them off?
That sounds complicated to me.
In any case, maybe people are always worrying about this, especially if you've got to sell $7,500 worth of groceries to replace a cart.
Boy, you're going to think hard about this.
Now, another commenter says, you talked about renting shopping carts for a quarter.
Yep, that's right.
You put your coin in the slot and you take your cart.
These days, with so many people using credit cards and not carrying around change anymore, you might not have a quarter.
I don't know what you do then, or maybe just keep a quarter always in your wallet so you can get a cart.
In any case, our commenter says, I lived in Oakland, California from 1998 to 2000.
I shopped at a lucky supermarket.
Lucky rented its carts, as you mentioned.
Put a quarter in the slot, and your cart was released.
However, usually you did not get your quarter back.
I'm thinking, golly, was the mechanism no good?
No, my imagination was not up to the task, Mr. Kersey.
The reason you didn't get your quarterback is some black guy, not a store employee, he would get the quarter.
Because as you pushed your cart through the parking lot, he would follow you to your car.
After you finished unloading your groceries, the black guy would ask to take your cart back to get the quarter.
And whenever the black guy pestered me to return the cart, I let him take it.
I would rather have returned the carts myself, but 25 cents was a small price to pay to avoid trouble.
This is kind of sad.
But this is the kinds of thing that I don't know.
Did you ever drive into New York City through the Holland Tunnel into Manhattan back when they had the windshield washer boys?
Do you remember hearing about this?
Or did you ever experience that yourself?
No, but I did experience the squeegee boys in 2021 Baltimore.
Ah, same kind of thing.
You come out of the tunnel, there you are in Manhattan, and you're stopped at a traffic light, and you'll get a bunch of black guys who've got a bucket of squeegee, and they slop all over your windshield, and they knock on your window, and you're supposed to pay them for this.
I never paid them, but I think a lot of people are so intimidated they did slip them a couple of bucks.
Like same way, you want to return your cart because you're a good person.
You don't even really need the quarter, but you might as well get it back since you're going there anyway.
And they come and they insist on taking your quarter.
There is just a certain color-coded aspect of this behavior, isn't there?
Another comment.
We have one more after this, too.
Last week's podcast referred to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as the Reverends.
As an Eli, I hope you will appreciate the following quote from Todd Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
Every Yale man, or certainly every Episcopalian among them, knows that Reverend is an adjective, not a noun.
It's like honorable before the name of a legislator or a judge.
You might refer to the honorable William Rehnquist, but you'd never call him Honorable Rehnquist.
You'd call him Justice Rehnquist.
Well, did I do this?
Did I refer to them as the Reverends?
If I did so, I suspect it was.
You did so in a comical fashion.
Yes, I think I was being ironical about it.
But if I erred, if I said something incorrect, then I apologize abjectly.
And the same commenter goes on to say, you referred to cat owners as shit scoopers.
Was I guilty of that, Mr. Kersey?
I have a feeling I probably was.
I was tempted by the alliteration of that expression, and I fell into unwanted vulgarity.
So I apologize for that too.
I must have been having a bad day talking about reverends and talking about scooping.
But as this commenter recalls, Mr. Kersey, we once had a race realist cat on the program.
We did.
Yes, I had forgotten about that.
R.I.P., R.I.P. Yes, yes, golly.
I had to, well, I had to dispose of that cat.
I won't even go into how it happened.
Please move on.
Yes, we'll convene over this story.
No, we're not going to convene over this story.
No, it was a very sad day to say goodbye to the cat.
Miss Nelly was her name.
She was a true race realist and charming cat.
And she would occasionally chime in whenever we talked about dogs.
You could hear her.
Okay, final comment.
Your segment on amusement parks reminds me of my experience at a strawberry festival near Tampa, circa 2020, just before the COVID panic.
We drove there with the children.
From the start, we noticed the diversity on the grounds and the surroundings.
The fairgrounds were ringed by residential areas.
I passed by a Latina asking how much it is to park on her property.
$20.
She senses hesitation on my part and quickly drops to $10.
Too late, lady.
I end up paying the $10 right next door to a nice heritage American good old boy.
But in the park, orcs everywhere.
Cats, piercings, garish, revealing clothing, colorful hair, basically the Star Wars cantina.
We end up spending barely two hours.
One thing that struck me, though, in the whole mess of noise, oral and visual assault, and base consumerism, there was a neat little area, a strawberry patch with a white picket fence.
Our listener capitalizes white, which seemed to be a white oasis.
Nice rural aesthetics, fairly priced strawberry shortcake and other treats, friendly all-American staff and clientele.
Refreshing, but a depressing reminder of what we've lost, hopefully not irretrievably.
Well, thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for that interesting collection of observations and comments.
I especially appreciate the man who sent in that analysis of shrinkage having to do likewise with grocery carts.
The way you can reach us is you can get a message straight to me at amran.com, a-m-r-e-n.com, and hit the contact us tab, and you can send me a message.
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Yeah, go to whichever email provider you use, go to the to tab, and send me an email at becausewelive here at protonmail.com.
Once again, that's because we live here at protonmail.com.
And I repeat, we especially like having our errors corrected.
There is just so much rubbish and baloney out there.
I hate to contribute to that ever-growing pile of it by saying something that is not true or is a mistake.
Well, the first bit of news, this is breaking news today, is about Christy Noam.
President Trump fired her and announced plans to replace her with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma.
He announced the change on social media along with a new and previously non-existent role for Ms. Noam as special envoy for the shield of Americans.
This is supposed to be a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere.
I wonder if she's going to be leading the charge against the next Venezuela.
Ms. Noam is the first cabinet member to be ousted in Mr. Trump's second term.
You know, it is remarkable.
He's gone for a full year without giving anybody the boot.
I think last time around, there were several people who didn't make it through the first year.
Or even after they were nominated, they had to rescind that nomination.
It was quite a musical chairs scene there.
Now, Ms. Noam's fate had been the focus of speculation among Mr. Trump's allies for several weeks.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump contradicted remarks that Christy Noam made in her hearing before a Senate panel on Wednesday that he had signed off on a border security advertising campaign featuring Ms. Noam.
I never knew anything about it, said Donald Trump.
Well, as it turns out, DHS, under Secretary Noam, launched a $220 million advertising campaign in early 2025 that was supposed to warn undocumented illegal immigrants to self-deport or face enforcement sanctions with ads running domestically, internationally, on radio, TV, digital platforms, and social media.
I remember watching some of those.
Some of them, they would show them in airports even.
Yeah, it was actually shocking.
You'd be in an airport because normally in a place like, say, Atlanta or Denver or Dulles, you'd basically be inundated with messages from the governor or the mayor of said city and state.
And then all you saw at the Atlanta airport were Christine Ohm videos.
It was actually kind of like, what's going on here?
What work is she had done, by the way?
She looks entirely different.
It was startling to see these ads.
Now, I didn't like them for several reasons.
As you say, she was all dolled up, looking like, I don't know, kind of a cross between a porn star and a Sunday school teacher or something with her super made-up and her dangly earrings and just looking as she-she as could be, telling people, you clear out or we'll get rid of you.
It was a promo for her OnlyFans account.
Yeah, I think that's a good way to describe it.
Terrible.
I remember thinking, look, we need somebody that looks like Bob Holman making these ads, not this dolled-up girl telling people to clear out.
But the way the DHS puts it now, they claim the initiative prompted over 2.2 million self-deportations.
I bet Bob Holman could have done 5 million deportations.
Tom Holman, real quick.
Tom Holman.
Yes, I beg your pardon.
Quite right.
Quite right.
That saved 25 listeners writing in to save Mr. Taylor.
Yes, Tom Holman.
Well, write in anyways, ladies and gentlemen.
No, no, he corrected me on the spot.
Yes, Tom Holman.
I think he just looks so fierce.
He looks like the kind of guy that would collar you and give you the boot with no hesitation whatsoever.
And apparently, this $220 million advertising campaign, according to DHS, saved the country $39 billion because that's what it would have cost to have given the boot the usual way.
The trouble is, DHS awarded no-bid contracts.
They cited a national emergency to bypass competitive bidding.
And the firms that got the job had close ties to Noam and her senior aides, including Corey Lewandowski.
He was Trump's campaign manager first time around.
One recipient of the money got $143 million in contracts.
It had been incorporated for just 11 days.
The company was 11 days old.
That's an absurd amount of money.
And though it's nowhere near what we've seen, obviously, with the fraud in Somalia, it is insane that they would do a no-bid contract when the person had probably no CV detailing of this.
They probably contracted it out.
That's exactly what they did.
That's exactly what they did.
This just stinks.
An 11-day-old company, it's $143 million.
They subcontracted the work to Strategy Group, a Republican consulting firm run by the husband of one of Noam's chief DHS spokesperson, which has long-standing connections to Noam for her time at South Dakota, South Dakota governor.
In any case, lawmakers from both parties accused this of being a vanity project, and I'm afraid it was.
There she was preening and primping the whole time, boosted her name recognition rather than doing the job.
They featured her prominently, including a scene.
I didn't see this in any airport.
Apparently, she was on horseback at Mount Rushmore, trotting around telling the illegals to clear out.
Well, in any case, now this, I can't say I know much about Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma, but now that he's gone, apparently Governor Kevin Stitt will appoint a temporary senator.
He's got to be a registered Republican for at least five years.
And he has to agree, and I think this is very interesting, not to run in any special election or subsequent regular election.
The idea is this prevents the temporary appointee from gaining an unfair advantage in future elections and ensures that the role serves only as a placeholder.
So that'll be very interesting.
Somebody will serve, but will not run, at least not in the immediate next election.
Well, I'll throw in one thing that I know of Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
He said that babies of undocumented immigrants should be deported too back in June of 2025.
And I've long thought that this is the most important position within the Trump administration.
One of them, head of DHS, to really, to really sit down and listen to Stephen Miller's laser-focused desire to see mass deportations.
And really what I'd love to see would have been Ron DeSantis brought into the team.
I know that he's still the governor of Florida.
He's doing useful things there.
He is, but I think he's done a tremendous job as executive.
And this is the most serious time in our country's history.
And as we're going to talk about, there's some unbelievable things happening.
And you can't have an individual like Christine Ohm, who looks like she visits, you know, looks like she's going to the plastic surgeon far more often than she is sitting in on, you know, high-level meetings about policy.
Well, also, apparently, she, well, I did not like the idea that she never retracted the idea That this pretty guy and what was the other lady who got shot dead in Minneapolis?
Yeah.
Renee Good and Pretty.
Yes.
Alex Pretty.
Yes.
She called them domestic terrorists.
I don't think she ever retracted that.
Even in the hearing, she refused to retract calling them domestic terrorists, weeks, weeks after.
I will actually say I'm okay with that because I think anybody out there getting in the way, especially with, we're not going to talk about it much, but we should at least mention what just happened in Winnipeg, Virginia, where this illegal alien who has from Sierra Leone, who has, my goodness,
30 prior arrests, who the cops were actually warning about the danger that he posed to the community, that they let this guy out to kill Stephanie Minter, a white mother from Fredericksburg, not far from where Oakton, Virginia was from your global headquarters of the new state.
Well, but is he a domestic terrorist?
No, he's not.
He's an illegal immigrant who happens to be a murderer.
I don't think these, I don't think either of those two people were trying to kill ICE agents.
Calling them domestic.
I mean, they were certainly obstructing justice, no question about that.
They got themselves in a tight spot and they came to a sticky end.
To call them domestic terrorists, I think, is just nutty.
But be that as it may, we will have to disagree on that.
Move on to our next story.
And our next story is: DHS is going to use IRS data to track illegals.
I like that.
Do tell.
This is from The Revolver, a fantastic site.
You don't hear much of him anymore because the guy who ran Revolver, Darren Beattie, I believe he's with the State Department now.
Very high position.
Yes.
But they write that according to a new report, DHS appears to be stepping in and taking a more aggressive role in investigating illegal employment inside the U.S.
No, they're not politely coordinating with IRS.
They basically just told them to take a seat, reportedly bypassing the IRS and using its own investigative team to dig into the relationship between employers and illegal workers.
For years, everyone avoided this tactic.
Why?
Because the Unio Party knew it would actually break the pipeline.
And God knows they don't want that to happen.
Well, Trump's DHS is moving directly into the driver's seat.
Douglas Mackey, who a lot of people might remember was the non-deplume Ricky Vaughan, who was persecuted by the Biden administration.
Yes.
He summed it up best on Twitter when he wrote this on X.
This is a very big deal.
The DHS is going around the IRS with its own investigative wing to check if employees, taxpayers, are illegal aliens.
This is a significant escalation in the crackdown on illegal immigration.
If this goes down as planned, it's going to be a major shift in the anti-illegal immigration strategy.
And again, this is why I stress the person who runs DHS can't be spending all their time making sure that their hair extensions look good in the camera.
They need to be focused only on fulfilling their job and their duty of removing illegal aliens.
And this is such a huge moment.
Yes, yes.
And I wonder, well, will there be employer sanctions?
We've been waiting for that for a long time, too.
Well, when's the last time an employer actually got sanctioned for hiring illegals?
You'd probably know this.
I don't know the answer to that, but I do know that in Washington, D.C., there were five restaurants where 131 illegal aliens were apprehended.
I've actually eaten at two of the five restaurants.
And if you recall, last week we spoke about Jimmy's famous seafood in Baltimore.
And I watched a video where it looked like there's a number of illegal aliens working in the back of the kitchen.
Oh, no.
I guess it wouldn't be a good thing to be like, hey, Jimmy, we need to see their papers, pal.
Are they authorized to work here?
But basically, the DHS has confirmed a statement to the Post, the Washington Post, that the I-9 inspection investigations are ongoing.
The agency did not respond to questions about how many notice of suspect documents letters it has sent, but I'm hoping that that's going to start happening all across the country, especially in places where we know massive amounts of refugees have been dumped to work in chicken processing places like in Arkansas,
like in those states, Oklahoma, Iowa, where you have these massive farms and individuals are working there and probably illegal because they're able to pay a lot less for labor.
Yep.
Well, I think this is a wonderful development.
And I think it's great that DHS is walking through the halls of IRS, telling them, open up your files and we will take a look.
Find them and deport them.
Excellent.
It's fantastic news, but this might be the white pill of all time in regards to what we've talked about since we started the Radio Renaissance podcast, Mr. Taylor.
DHS Targets Illegal Workers00:12:36
And this comes courtesy of an employee of Cato Institute, the left libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., David Beyer, wrote, just absurd.
Not a single refugee in the world was allowed to come legally except for white South Africans.
And he has a picture of the refugee arrivals by state and nationality fiscal year 2026.
So for the fiscal year for our government starts October 1st, 2025.
So he breaks down the data for the first quarter, October 1st, 2025 through January 31st, 2026.
And we learn that 99.8% of those who were brought in as refugees, ladies and gentlemen, were white Afrikaners.
We only brought in 1,651, but they were all white South Africans.
And he has this picture of the breakdown per state.
I'll just be brief.
You know, seven went to Alabama.
21 went to Arizona.
59 went to California.
31 to Colorado.
59 to, let's see here.
I'm sorry, 121 to Florida.
I mean, it's, it's.
And they like the weather there, probably.
Exactly, but it breaks it down and it's just boom.
It's South African.
Well, who, no, if it wasn't 100%, where does that 0.16%, where was that person from?
Any idea?
I haven't looked at the entire chart yet, but then what this guy does is he breaks down October 1st, 2023 through September 30th, 2024 for the entire fiscal year of 2024.
And we brought in 100,000 refugees during that time period, sir.
And he was much happier, I'm sure.
He was much happier because it's a bunch of Afghanis, people from Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Iraq, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen.
And that's just for Alabama alone.
Alabama got a total of 559 from those from those places.
Including Yemenis.
Yep, Yemeni.
And that fiscal year from 2023, October 1st to September 30th, 2024, Arizona got 3,776.
The bulk of those were from Burma, Afghanistan, 1,200 from the Democratic Republic of Congo, now called Arizona home.
A trade, Ethiopians, Guatemalans.
And then you go back and look here.
It simply breaks down by state.
It says total nationality, South Africa.
There's no other nations.
Colorado, believe it or not, they did get three Afghanis during the past fiscal quarter of the fiscal year 2026.
But for every other state that's mentioned, it's just white South Africans.
And we know that that's something they want to increase to just under 5,000 per month.
Starting with the- By the way, did you call them Afghanis?
I did.
It's probably wrong, isn't it?
That is wrong.
I was corrected once.
I was debating a lady.
She was a Pakistani, and I referred to Afghanis.
She says they're called Afghans.
Afghani is the name of the currency, apparently.
Okay.
Yes.
So we live and we learn.
We can have peaceful relations with that nation without any intake of refugees.
And they can gladly receive the 120 to 150,000 refugees we brought over.
They can enhance that nation with their return if they spin their Afghanis as Afghans.
That's right.
Well, I've got an article from Cato also, another hand-wringing article.
And as I will point out, it is a little bit on the deceptive side.
It's, you don't remember the author of this article, maybe the same guy, but he goes on to say: During the State of the Union, President Donald Trump lauded his administration's success in reducing the number of people trying illegally to cross the border.
But he assured us he's in favor of legal immigration.
The administration's actions will lead, on the other hand, to the largest restriction in legal immigration, setting aside 2020, as the Cato Institute points out.
Now, 2020 was the COVID year, and we had quite a love-little reduction in people crossing the border.
Joe Biden had significantly expanded the use of humanitarian parole.
That's a way people can come into the U.S. legally, temporarily, to live and work.
Trump revoked the two programs and let people receive humanitarian parole and stripped the protections of people who entered that way.
Afghans, as I recall, they were the number one beneficiary of this kind of humanitarian parole.
The way it works is that it's supposed to be for individual cases.
You're not supposed to take a whole category of people like Afghans that say, we need to give them humanitarian parole.
Come on, come on.
But that's what Joe Biden did.
The Department of Homeland Security has also tried to end several countries' TPS to temporary protected status, which allows people from certain countries suffering war and environmental disasters and epidemics to live temporarily in the United States.
But on February 2nd, just last month, a federal judge blocked TPS termination for Haiti, saying it seems substantially likely that the administration decided to terminate TPS because of hostility to non-white immigrants.
Well, if that was a reason, that was an excellent reason.
But that's the thing.
Remember, that happened before.
I think in his first term, he was talking about telling people that they couldn't come from various Muslim countries.
And a judge said, well, you've got all these fancy non-racial and non-religious reasons of saying they can't come, there's security risks.
But he cited conversations between administration people saying disparaging things about these folks.
He said, your actual reasons are not what you say, and so you can't do it.
So, who knows?
It'd be interesting to read the full decision here.
But apparently, the judge said this reflects a hostility to non-white immigrants, and so you can't send these Haitians home.
Ending humanitarian parolement, TPS could affect as many as two and a half million people.
Imagine that many people gone.
Trump has banned travel from 19 countries, including for tourism and education.
And Cato is very worried.
Over the next three years, 400,000 legal immigrants and nearly 1 million tourists, business travelers, and international students, foreign workers, and other temporary visitors will face this ban.
Oh, the poor darlings.
The State Department on January 21st paused issuing non-tourist visas for people from 75 countries.
75 countries, Mr. Kersey.
You can't come on anything but a tourist visa.
And I bet in some cases you shouldn't be coming even on a tourist visa because a lot of those tourists cease being tourists and they just melt into the underbrush.
And I won't read all 75 countries, but I do note that Africa is pretty heavy and all of the North African countries, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, the entire north of the Sahara aspect of the continent is banned.
No people coming except tourists.
And I wish a lot of them probably couldn't come either.
Furthermore, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, USCIS, has paused processing immigration applications from 39 countries, even ones that were in the pipeline, of course, for asylum, permanent residency, and citizenship.
And Trump set the fiscal year 2026 refugee settlement cap at 7,500, which was a record low.
And as you were pointing out, he promised that they would be only either Afrikaners or, as I recall, the announcement at the time, said it could be Europeans who were persecuted because they opposed mass immigration in their own countries.
Now, so far, I haven't heard of any people being granted refugee status because they were persecuted by the German government, for example.
In any case, fiscal year 2024, Biden's last year, yes, as you were saying, we resettled 100,000 refugees.
And boy, you rattled off some of these obscure countries, Burmese, Yemenis.
Gosh, how did states of the old Confederacy ever get along with Burmese and Yemenis or Yemenis?
I don't know how you pronounce that.
In any case, they got them now.
They got them now.
Now, this article, which I say is all wringing its hands about all of these wonderful legal immigrants, are going to either get the boot or not be allowed to come.
The fact is, the actual number of legal immigrants, this is not talking about TPS and this humanitarian parole business, has not changed very much under Trump.
In 2025, just this last calendar year, there were 575,000 people who came legally.
Family reunification, that kind of thing, H-1B visas.
In 2024, the year before under Biden, 670,000, but in 2023, 563,000.
So under Trump, more people came in through the usual legal channels than came in in Biden's next to last year.
Those numbers have hardly changed.
So we need to speak to Donald about this, Mr. Kersey, you and I. We'll draw aside and say, Donald, baby, you got to stop this.
But let's see, here's another good story.
Tennessee Republicans are pushing forward with a bill that could force undocumented children out of public education.
I think that's a great idea.
It's a direct challenge to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K-12 public education regardless of immigration status.
This was a terrible decision.
The Heritage Foundation has officially called on other states to pass similar laws challenging Plyler.
And Tennessee is among the first in this effort to overturn the decision.
You know, I like that.
The idea is just ignore the decision and then come up with a court case and make the Supreme Court have to decide.
They're going to say, we don't like this decision.
We're going to tell people they can't send their illegals off to public schools.
As Laura Rees of Heritage explains, illegal aliens should not be eligible, federal, state, or local government benefits, including through their children.
Yes.
Because such benefits encourage unlawful revenue, unlawful residence, and they take resources from American citizens and lawful immigrants.
Right, right, right.
Six states, and I wasn't even aware of this.
This is apparently something that's been moving along from state to state.
Texas, Oklahoma, Idaho, Indiana, New Jersey, believe it or not, New Jersey and Tennessee have introduced bills that would violate Plylar.
Last year, a Tennessee state legislature introduced a bill that would allow schools to refuse to enroll students who cannot prove lawful presence or charge tuition.
Now, this does remind me of my lawful presence when I was a young person, a child living in Japan.
I was lawfully present, so I could attend Japanese public schools, didn't have to pay tuition.
However, some of these say you should be a citizen.
Texas, it has introduced two bills.
One would require that you be a citizen to enroll in a public school.
I'm not, I won't say that I'm opposed to that either.
If you're visiting and you're not a citizen and you want to send your children to public school, well, you can pony up.
That's okay with me.
Contracting Controversies00:10:41
And I think it's wonderful.
I love it when I hear stories like this.
The Houston School District lost nearly 4,000 immigrant students this year.
Yes.
Oh, the poor darlings.
I mean, what happened to their basketball team and their football team?
You know, and the challenge was.
I'm sure they were fine.
They probably got better.
The math club.
Yes.
Oh, they're just suffering, I'm sure.
And that was about a quarter of the school district's immigrant population.
That's a good start.
It's unclear how many of them left the U.S. willingly or were deported, or how many are just living in the shadows, as they used to call it.
Anyway, all of this is great news.
Off, off, off, out you go.
And Mr. Kersey, here is an important story that we delayed, I believe, two podcasts in a row because we didn't get around to it.
But do speak to us of Atlanta.
And it just got an unlimited libido for racial preferences for black people.
Well, yeah, it all started with Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor.
It was elected back in 1970.
But this is a story that we kind of teased about a month ago when it first came out.
But we mentioned that you couldn't actually get the whole article online because the AJC has gone as of January 1st, 2026.
And that's not online.
And that's not the American Jewish Congress.
It's not.
It's the Atlanta.
It's the General Constitution.
Yes.
However, I was able to get the whole article, and it is incredible if any of our listeners have any ability to get something in front of individuals within the Department of Justice.
This is, I believe, one of the biggest lawsuits imaginable.
And I think you'll understand as we read from this.
History will judge us.
Former Atlanta mayors defend minority contracting as the Trump administration targets affirmative action and DEI policies.
Atlanta's former mayors are speaking out.
And all of the former mayors that are mentioned in this, they're black.
This was published in early February of 2026.
Former mayor Andrew Young recalled almost every contract I signed when I was mayor, I got taken to court by somebody.
The first time I almost panicked because I'd never been in a courtroom where I had to testify.
But the city attorney told him, oh, Andy, don't worry about that.
We got that.
We got that handled.
We didn't have it handled in the Georgia case, as Young recalled.
The issue landed before the Supreme Court in 1989, which forced changes to the program, including requiring all cities to implement regular disparity studies to prove continued need.
Atlanta suspended all procurement until it could reshape the program.
Shirley Franklin, the black mayor from 2002 to 2009, who was also Young's chief administrative administration officer, recalled.
The program has succeeded because it's been modified and edited.
Corrections have been made and changes have been made.
It's not the same program that it was 50 years ago.
Well, what program are we talking about?
In the last few months, all of the Atlanta mayors joined together to create the Soul of Atlanta Coalition, a rare public show of black unity.
I'm putting that word in because that's what this is, defending the importance of the minority contracting program that some say made Atlanta Atlanta, the city too busy to hate.
Many argue that the Atlanta status as a hotbed for minority-owned businesses is rooted in its groundbreaking minority contracting program, established by Mayor Maynard Jackson in 1970 to require a certain percentage of city contracts be awarded to minority and women-owned businesses.
If memory serves, I want to say it was about 35% of the contracts had to be awarded to minority-owned businesses, specifically black at the time.
And of course, the city of Atlanta, Mr. Taylor, oversees the busiest airport in the world, Hartsfield International Airport, which regrettably also now has Jackson's name attached to it, which I refuse to use.
Which, if you've ever been there, and I think you have a number of times, you notice that almost every employee of all the businesses appears to be black.
That's because there are initiatives in place to ensure that if a parcel is up for rent, one of those minority-owned businesses takes over.
Let's see here.
That focus has always been in the DNA of Atlanta, former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told the AJC.
You might recall she was in the short running to potentially be the vice president nominee.
Yes, I remember.
2020.
Keisha, Keisha, that's almost as good as Kavala.
Keisha Lance Bottoms.
She's actually running for governor.
She just filed to run for governor in Georgia.
But in the last year, these programs at all levels of government have been under unprecedented threat as the Trump admin has implemented executive orders to purge affirmative action or diversity initiatives from government and federal funding recipients.
Trump's called DEI initiatives wasteful and discriminatory.
Atlanta would call them how they built a fake black middle class.
Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great, the executive order read back on January 20th, 2025.
Well, the city's disadvantaged business program and its dramatic success in addressing inequity in city spending went on to inspire other cities and eventually the federal government to copy its structure.
Now, Mr. Taylor, as I'm reading this article, you're realizing this is Exhibit A and Atlanta's just complete refusal to adhere to the new DEI policies, but at the same time, admitting this is how they built this fake black middle class.
It is remarkable.
Well, I wonder if they would actually admit that, yes, they are discriminating in favor of minorities, because they obviously are.
Whether they would admit it is another thing.
They probably would talk in terms of lowering obstacles or how would they justify this?
But no, it all seems to me these admissions essentially are, we are breaking the law.
Please sue us.
Not only are we breaking the law, but we are the people who started breaking the law.
And every other city municipality in the country copied us.
Well, the fact is, it was a Richmond v. Crossan.
That was, I think that was a 1989 Supreme Court decision in which the Supreme Court said, if you can prove that there had been discrimination against minority businesses in the past, then you can have these set asides.
And so you have all of these governments, and Atlanta was one of them.
They hire these high-priced consultants to go digging through the records to try to prove that previous administrations had discriminated against black people and no doubt against women and Mexicans and who knows what else.
Maybe Burmans, Burmese, and Afghans, for all I know.
An absolutely absurd situation.
You have to have city money, taxpayer money, being spent to prove just how wicked we once were.
But in that respect, it was legal, as I recall.
Once you could prove that they had been discriminated against in the past, then you could discriminate in their favor in the present.
Here's the key lines of this whole story.
A federal, let's see here, the federal about face has whipsawed municipalities, universities, and corporations across the country that have spent decades designing programs to rectify centuries of discrimination.
Some quickly canceled diversity initiatives.
Again, this article is written in a very passive manner as if to defend all these programs, obviously.
Others took to the courts challenging the constitutionality of the executive order.
A large lawsuit featuring a litany of municipalities remains in progress.
Atlanta, however, took neither route.
A federal funding freeze would have cost Atlanta city agencies $1.4 billion last year alone with housing and infrastructure seeing the worst hits, according to a city document reviewed by the AJC.
Instead, the city last summer lost out on nearly $40 million in airport grants when airport leadership refused to sign new grant language, disavowing its diversity initiatives.
The city has opted to continue to implement its present-day minority contracting program, the Equal Business Opportunity Program.
The city council also has quietly rebranded its DEI office last fall to remove all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I'd love to actually take a look at that to see if it mentions just black, black, black, in any manner.
Probably not.
Well, didn't you say it's an equality business initiative?
Isn't that what they're calling it now?
Equality.
Equal business.
Equal business.
Equal business opportunity program.
Yeah, the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.
I mean, again, I'm sure a lot of our listeners have flown there for business, to visit families, connecting flights.
It is entirely a black run machine that powers.
You're talking about tens of billions of dollars generated every year.
$40 million being lost out on is a pocket change.
And I really mean that in terms of what to comply with this, what would be lost?
It is remarkable, though, that there you can put an absolute dollar figure on their refusal to get rid of their race preferences program.
$40 million, who cares?
We're going to keep discriminating in favor of the brothers.
Remarkable.
Yeah, it's astonishing.
In a statement this week, a city spokesperson confirmed Atlanta remains fully committed to the opportunity for all, administering the Equal Business Opportunity Program, which ensures that qualified businesses can compete fully and fairly for city contracting opportunities.
But all the while, the eerie silence of the city's faith in business community about the importance of the programs bothered former city councilman and columnist Jabari Samama, co-convener of the Soul of Atlanta Coalition.
He, of course, is the originator of that fantastic term that we've co-opted.
We all need to sing out of the same hymnal.
And the problem is not enough people are singing.
Our black originator of the co-convener phrase said.
He decided to help convene a people's movement led by the former mayors to offer a platform for business and residents to highlight why the program has worked and merits defending.
Quote, this is a 50-year plus program that doesn't belong to any one mayor.
In fact, it doesn't even belong to just mayors.
It belongs to the city of Atlanta.
No, Mr. Samama, it belongs to the erection of a fake black middle class that has completely had a vice on the city and true growth.
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That is just, it's really disgusting to watch being having grown up in Metro Atlanta and having lived in Buckhead for three years to see this, to see that they're defending this still, and to see the inaction of the Trump administration.
I think this is a slam-dunk case, and I think that it has to be pursued.
Pam Bundy, you're listening.
Get to work.
Sue these swine.
I'm telling you, it would be like some of the bombs we're seeing dropped on Tehran right now.
I really mean that.
Well, Mr. Kersey, we are running out of time.
I think I'm going to squeeze in just one last story.
This is from London.
I don't think we hopped across the Atlantic even once.
Let's do that.
There was a Transport for London, that's London Subway, advertisement showing a black man and his white friend harassing a white girl on a bus.
Well, this has been banned because it reinforced negative racial stereotypes.
This was a Facebook ad.
It was pulled after just one complaint from a viewer who said it was irresponsible and offensive because it portrayed black teenage boys as sexual harassers.
It was released as part of Transport for London's Act Like a Friend campaign.
It encourages people to intervene safely.
I don't think they convene safely.
They intervene safely if they witness sexual harassment or hate crimes.
But it was one of three made for social media.
The other two featured white men either sexual harassing or committing a hate crime.
But the idea of having even one that had a young black man who was sexually harassing a woman, that was unspeakable and unacceptable.
And Transport for London said, we understood that we had intended to present a range of diversity and scenarios across our campaign.
We considered the ad, when seen in isolation, had the effect of perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men as perpetrators.
On that basis, we concluded the ad featured a harmful stereotype.
Well, you know, they're actually right about that.
It is a stereotype of black men cat-calling, harassing women.
That's a stereotype because it's true.
And you can't say that having white men doing that instead is a stereotype because it's so rarely the case people don't think much in those terms.
So they're actually right.
This does perpetuate a stereotype because it's true.
And if you're trying to get people to stop doing it, you should target your ads, the people who are most likely to be doing it.
But that obviously is not what London Transport is willing to do.
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A sad day.
One single complaint, Mr. Kersey.
And they pulled the ad.
But Britain, in so many ways, has just lost every single vertebra.
It's just a sad, sad case to see the land of my ancestors sinking so ignominiously beneath the waves.
Well, Mr. Kersey, we're out of time.
And ladies and gentlemen, it is always a pleasure and a joy and a privilege to spend this hour with you every week.
Thank you so much for your attention, and we look forward to seeing you next week.