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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bokay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream

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Speaker 1: studios here in Times Square, Folks, I have made it

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Speaker 1: a point over all of last week to discuss the

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Speaker 1: to bring you up to speed right now where we

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Speaker 1: have learned that over two thousand Haitians have been deported

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Speaker 1: we know is that the country is politically ravaged, is

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Speaker 1: being essentially run by bunches of gangs. That who the

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Speaker 1: not someone that the people actually want. But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: stop America from inserting its foot inserting itself into foreign

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Speaker 1: affairs that frankly, it has no business being a part of.

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Speaker 1: What is troubling to me, what continues to be troubling

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Speaker 1: how many more decades are we going to hear about

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Speaker 1: a broken immigration system without there being an actual solve

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Speaker 1: to it. And it seems to me that every single

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Speaker 1: pick up. What's unfortunate, however, is that our Congress is

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Speaker 1: been there since like the beginning of time. I shit

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Speaker 1: you not. Senator Grassley has decided, at the ripe old

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Speaker 1: The man has been in elected office since the nineteen

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Speaker 1: fucking fifties. So we wonder when we turn around and

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Speaker 1: How come we don't have any fresh ideas well, if

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the average age of those that are

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Speaker 1: sitting in the fucking Senate right now, I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: what a bunch of septarians or like octanagarians like, it's

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Speaker 1: ridiculous where we are. And you know, here's the other thing,

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Speaker 1: and I mentioned this last week, is when Yumishali Sendor

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Speaker 1: he speaks through me, he speaks through other people he met,

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Speaker 1: speak on his own. And I'm saying to myself, when

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Speaker 1: Border Patrol is a whip or is it horse reins?

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Speaker 1: And I don't need to go through with white people

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Speaker 1: and unpack and dissect brutality with you when you want

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Speaker 1: continual lying ass mouths. And I'm calling out this administration

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't feel like I was caught out. But that's

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Speaker 1: exactly how I feel with this administration. And then they

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Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security is going to what suspend

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Speaker 1: the use of horses as if the horses were the

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Speaker 1: the problem. So how do you suspend that exactly? How

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Speaker 1: do you enforce humanity for people that do not see

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Speaker 1: them as being human? How do you legislate depravity out

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Speaker 1: a part literally in everything that we do. No one

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Speaker 1: you see, because I have a heart because I believe

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Speaker 1: I should be provided with the basics. But that is

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Speaker 1: I say, wow, you know, because the place that you're

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Speaker 1: when our democracy is hanging on by a goddamn thread,

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Speaker 1: and Republicans and Democrats alike continue to act like all

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Speaker 1: we care very little for black people in this country.

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Speaker 1: We care even less for black people in other countries.

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Speaker 1: But when they show up in mass on Shore and

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Speaker 1: are not even heard. Do you understand that their cases

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Speaker 1: there please, are not even being heard because this administration

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Speaker 1: has decided to continue Title forty two, which was developed

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Speaker 1: you know what about COVID? Fuck? I would love to,

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Speaker 1: you know, fence off Tennessee, but we can't fucking do that.

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Speaker 1: You want to be concerned about colvid, Why don't you

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Speaker 1: be concerned about the red state governors that are allowing

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Speaker 1: to me about that. Don't talk to me about people

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Speaker 1: that are fleeing violence and hunger and despair trying to

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Speaker 1: that's how it looks in New York. That sure's fuck

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Speaker 1: is not how it looks everywhere else. Coming up next, Friends,

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Speaker 1: where we go about this broken system and whether or

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Speaker 1: I am very happy to welcome to the show for

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Speaker 1: the book Immigration, Law and Social Justice. You know, one

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Speaker 1: through historical analysis of what the United States is part

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Speaker 1: has been in creating economic and political instability in Haiti

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Speaker 1: And what I think, and you know, you tell me

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong or don't have the fu enough picture,

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Speaker 1: And so when we look at you know, the influx,

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Speaker 1: And yet we're choosing leaders. We're doing this right now

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Speaker 1: after the assassination of the prime minister in Haiti, we're

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Speaker 1: be more conversation not of talking about the people that

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Speaker 1: such a desperate situation. Now, I think you're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: We as a nation tend to view immigration as a

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Speaker 1: continuing series of crisis. You know, it's Cubans are coming,

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Speaker 1: You can look at Mexico. Why are so many Mexican

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Speaker 1: look what NAFTA did. NAFTA was a trade agreement. It

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Speaker 1: So that the economic dislocation created by NAFTA, which we champion,

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Speaker 1: term solutions. The long term solutions to migration. If you're

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Speaker 1: prosperity and political stability. Most of the world, ninety five

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Speaker 1: percent of the world dies within one hundred miles where

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Speaker 1: how do we stop these people from coming? Is what

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Speaker 1: you have to do. But the problem with that, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's an insurmountable problem, is that we

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Speaker 1: us to understand the link between if they're strong, we're

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