1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just looking at this weather forecast for 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 1: the next few days. It is going to be raining 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: and winding and ugly overdue. Oh but we'll tell you later. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: On the Times once again runs a story this will 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: not get us out of the drought. In fact, they 6 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: went one step further. We may never get out of 7 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: the draft, I laughed out loud. We'll never get out 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: of the drought. Never. We'll read you from that. Ridiculous 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: because it's deep. It's about the groundwater, guys. It's the groundwater, right, 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: It's gonna take up many lifetimes to returns the groundwater, 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: they kept insisting, and everything was just gonna get hotter 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: and drier and hotter and drier, and then all of 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: a sudden we had the coldest, wettest winter than we've 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: had in years, and it's like, well, well the draft's 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: not over. It's never gonna be over. Yeah. Yeah, it's 16 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: just same thing. They don't want. They want to change 17 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: your lifestyle. So they want you to think you can 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: use more water. Again, that's what it is. They don't 19 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,960 Speaker 1: want you to have lawns and swimming pools and wash 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: your washing your lawn showers. And yeah, they don't want 21 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: you enjoying life, and they get smoked at every once 22 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: in a while when the real world happens and the 23 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: real in the real world, we have a really cold, 24 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: rainy winter and they don't know what to do. We'll 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: be talking to city Councilwoman Tracy Park after the news 26 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: in one hour about the RV situation at the Bologna 27 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: Wetlands on the west Side. She made a visit there 28 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: recently with a couple of officials. Good news they may 29 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: finally work on that. We're also going to play for 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: you a great story from Fox eleven. The largest concentration 31 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: of RVs, probably in all of La County, is not 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: at the Bologna Wetlands. Find out where it is in 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: this story. It's long, but it's worth listening too because 34 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: it's really frightening and sick. It's coming up later on 35 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: this hour, but we begin by bringing Todd Benzman back 36 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: to the John and Ken Show. He has a new 37 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: book overrun, How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis 38 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: in United States history. And Todd is with the Center 39 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow. And you also 40 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: serve for a decade as intelligence officer for the Texas 41 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and counter Terrorism Division. Let's 42 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: get Todd Benzman on, Todd. How are you. I'm right here, 43 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: Thank you, I'm doing great. Thank you for coming on 44 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: this book you have. It's called Overrun. How Joe Biden 45 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: unleashed the greatest border crisis in American history. One chapter 46 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: was excerpted in the Washington Times about and you go 47 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: through You go in this chapter through the history of 48 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: what most prominent Democrats believed for decades regarding immigration. Take 49 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 1: us through that, because this is a recent phenomenon, this 50 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: open border's ideology. That's right, The mainstream Democratic Party coalition 51 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:13,239 Speaker 1: has never uh promoted or or you know, implemented policies 52 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: like the ones that are being implemented now, which is 53 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: to uh divorce the government from detention and deportation and 54 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: enforcement of every possible strike. Uh. Democratic Party, Uh, you know, politicians, 55 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: uh from one end to the other have always been 56 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: pretty border hawk is actually by comparison. But what happened 57 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: was there was this strong reaction against Donald Trump by 58 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: the American left and in this in a short the 59 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: short way to describe this is that, uh, they became 60 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: crucial to the coalition that was necessary to UH to 61 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: have Joe Biden immerged just the nominee from that big 62 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: there's a big part, a big group of ten or 63 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: fifteen primary candidates. So they really needed the far left 64 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: fringe that held to the idea that there should be 65 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:20,799 Speaker 1: open borders, and they emerged as the nominee and became president. 66 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: And in response, they were given the immigration portfolio. And 67 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: so it is their policies that we're seeing at the 68 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: border now, which is to say that there is no enforcement. 69 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: They pretty much abolished ICE. They have a created ad 70 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 1: hoc systems without any basis and law to just let 71 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: millions of people through and into the United States. That's 72 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: continuing to this day. And the chapter that you're talking about, 73 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: the excerpted chapters called the New Theologians chapter four of Overrun, 74 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: which goes through this elaborate description and discussion of how 75 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 1: this happened and who these people really are, what they 76 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: believe and why they're doing it, and what is the 77 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: belief system, what is the change that they're trying to make. 78 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:25,679 Speaker 1: I guess it comes down to America is an illegitimate nations. Yeah, 79 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: I mean, the general ideology holds that you know, the 80 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: world should be a borderless place, and that the poor 81 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: should be able to partake in uh, you know, the 82 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: rich luxuries and you know, jobs and work and prosperity, 83 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: and that borders are in the way. And so they've 84 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: recast immigration policies and border control systems as inhumane and 85 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: kind of a kind to Jim Crow, laws that need 86 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: to be ignored because they're so immoral. It's so deeply 87 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: immoral that all humans should be able to go wherever 88 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: they want, whenever they want, and that anybody who is 89 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:20,359 Speaker 1: interested in enforcement or controlling the borders as a Nazi 90 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: or racist or something terrible. And that's generally what it is. Now. 91 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: There's a gratification that they are feeling. I mean, no Democrats, 92 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: no Democratic politician, has ever countenanced these policies. Barack Obama 93 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: was known as the deporter in Chief. He was known 94 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: for saying to detractors for his deportation, take it's the law. 95 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: I'm president. I'm not a king. I can't I can't 96 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 1: just decide which laws to follow and which one's not to. 97 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: That's mainstream democratic thinking and orthodoxy. What this is is 98 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: something far, far outside of anything that American politics has 99 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: ever seen. So I hope that kind of gets out 100 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: of a little bit Widen buy into this. I mean, 101 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: once he got elected, why did he actually allow these 102 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: policies to be implemented. I mean, I have two theories 103 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: about it. I mean, I wish one day somebody would 104 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: just ask him that. But even if they asked him that, 105 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: I don't think he would answer it, honestly. But I 106 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: think that the that the people behind Biden saw that 107 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: they absolutely needed this fringe segment of the coalition to 108 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: stay to gain power and to stay in power. They 109 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: just needed them. They couldn't alienate them. And one, and 110 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: I think they're still afraid of alienating that segment. Think 111 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: of the Bernie Sanders kind of that block that became 112 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: very influential after twenty sixteen, and they still are very influential. 113 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: And those are the people that run the immigration policy 114 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 1: out of the White House now, the advisors. And then 115 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: the other thing is, you know, I mean, I don't 116 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: think he wanted to alienate them. But I also think that, 117 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: you know, he's getting on in years, and I think 118 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: that there's a bit of a power vacuum there. I 119 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: don't think he's able to quite maintain kind of operational 120 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: interest in everything going on around him, and I think 121 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: people are taking advantage of that. Well's that's frightening, Like 122 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: it would imply the job's overwhelming him and he just 123 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: can't keep track of all this. So people in his 124 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: administration are freelancing. I don't think he understands really what's 125 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: going on. He's not. I don't think he's quite all there. 126 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: I mean, that's maybe informed speculation. But there's one other 127 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: factor at play here, and that is that the people 128 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: that I'm talking about who are named in the chapter 129 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: the people in power Alejandro my orchist at the top 130 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: of the APEX structure. There. They come from what I 131 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: call the migrant advocacy industrial complex, which which are the 132 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: organizations that are nonprofit organizations, but they get hundreds of 133 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: millions of dollars in federal contracts to help the government 134 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: with this mass migration. It is in their interests to 135 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: It's an industry like any other industry, like the homeless 136 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: industry out here in California. Well, there you go. And 137 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,359 Speaker 1: so I think that there's some of this is ideology, 138 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: but some of it is just the good old fashioned snow. Uh. 139 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: You know, self interest lobbying. You know, they are all 140 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,839 Speaker 1: making just tremendous gobs of money from this mass migration crisis, 141 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: resettling and helping with COVID management, and you know, put 142 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: putting everybody on buses and getting them situated with foster families, 143 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: and I mean there's this whole range of services that 144 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: they're being paid for in government contracts. Todd, can you 145 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: hold on sure? All right? Todd Benzman is with US 146 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. 147 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: Spent a long time looking at this. He was an 148 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: intelligence officer for the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence 149 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: and counter Terrorism Vision. The book that we're talking about 150 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: with Todd is entitled Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the 151 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: Greatest Border Crisis in US History. And you heard him 152 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: run down part of a backdrop to this, how Democrats 153 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,079 Speaker 1: years ago we're least voting and saying things about border security, 154 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: but that's all gone out the window with this president. 155 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: Johnny kN KF I AM six forty Live everywhere the 156 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app where Todd Benzman. The book is Overrun, How 157 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 1: Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border crisis in US history. 158 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: Todd is with the Center for Immigration Studies and spent 159 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: a lot of time in Texas, knows quite well what's 160 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: been happening, and already talked about, you know, parts of 161 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: his book where we look at the history of the 162 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: Democratic Party, which used to talk and sometimes vote for 163 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,199 Speaker 1: border security. Then Trump came along, and of course Trump 164 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: did what everyone thought was logical and rational and came 165 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: to board of the controls, and that's what led the 166 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: activists to pressure Biden to undo everything that Trump did, 167 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: and that has led to an incredible number of people 168 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: coming into the country un debated. Let's get tied back 169 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: on here. Yeah, Todd, by the way, lately, Biden, do 170 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: you think the American people are really worked up over 171 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: this issue or just in certain parts of the country. Well, 172 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: I think that it falls along partisan lines, that you know, 173 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: Republicans tend to be worked up over this issue, and 174 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: that the conservative media covers it more than any other media. 175 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: And you know, when the information about what's happening down 176 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: there reaches anybody, it's very upsetting to actually understand what's 177 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: really happening. And so the mainstream right, rest of the 178 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: media doesn't really cover this issue, and so a lot 179 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: of the country doesn't have any idea about what's happening. 180 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: I mean, the when the president speaks or my orchist 181 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: speaks at of DHS, they use coded words and kind 182 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: of covering language, like you know, this is a border challenge, 183 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: things like that. But I think that the Democrats did 184 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: not suffer terribly over the issue after the mid terms, 185 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: not enough for them to change course, and so they're 186 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: sticking with it. You know, They've made some adjustments recently, 187 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: but the same number of people will still be coming over. 188 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: We should have somewhere between six and eight million new 189 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: people in the country by the end of the Biden term, 190 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: actually who came in from the southern border. I mean 191 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: put that in perspective, six to eight million people during 192 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: this four year Biden term. Yes, yes, unprecedented, is it not? 193 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: It is beyond anything in the American experience. I mean 194 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: the only thing that comes close to it really is 195 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: Ellis Island. This is like a truly historic event, which 196 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: is you know, really concerning when when you consider that 197 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: it's very rarely covered in depth by the American media. 198 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: I mean, why are i an't they covering it more? 199 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 1: I mean there's certainly a lot of suffering that the 200 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:51,599 Speaker 1: immigrants are going through to begin with with the cartels, 201 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: all the money that has to be paid to get 202 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 1: a ride or a path to Mexico, and then all 203 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: the suffering for the children and the women and all 204 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 1: the terrible things it happened to them along the way. 205 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: Well that I would think that's Taylor made for a 206 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: liberal media investigation. Well, that's right. I think it falls 207 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 1: again along partisan lines kind of where the country is 208 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: right now. Listen, I was a journalist for twenty three years, 209 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 1: classically trained. I've got a master's degree in journalism and 210 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 1: undergrad degree in journalism. I worked for major newspapers like 211 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: the Dallas Morning News on staff, so I know a 212 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: little bit about what I'm talking about here, and I 213 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: really just think that the regular media is populated by 214 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: people on the Democratic side who hated Trump, and anything 215 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: that is not Trump they're going to protect. And listen, 216 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: you know, this is such a major story. I mean, 217 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: if you are an immigration reporter for a newspaper, this 218 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: is the moon landing. This is like the invention of 219 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: the wheel. This is the biggest story of your entire 220 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: career that you will ever see, it's a human interest story, 221 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: it's a domestic policy story, it's a foreign fair story. 222 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: It's got everything, and it will have a permanent transformational 223 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: impact on the nation for generations. It's just this is 224 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: changing the country, you know, for better or worse. You know, 225 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: I'll leave that up to the historians, but there's no 226 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: doubt that this is transformational. If a Democrat wins in 227 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and continues this, you know, we're looking 228 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: at you know, another twenty you know, ten or twenty 229 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: altogether twenty million people. I mean, at some point the 230 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: country will need to look back at a book like 231 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 1: mine to try to understand what happened here, Why did 232 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: this happen? How did we let this happen? And even 233 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: protests from Democratic politicians like Eric Adams, the mayor of 234 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: New York, seems had no effect on the Biden administration. 235 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: The New York mayor is protesting almost every other day, 236 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: that's right. But the list of cities is growing longer 237 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: by the day. Chicago, Denver, Washington, DC. They're declaring states 238 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: of emergency because this is over. This is an unfunded, 239 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: sudden surprise burden and they can't handle the numbers. That 240 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: are pouring into the cities. These are uneducated, unskilled people 241 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: who don't speak the language, and they need help. All 242 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: of them need help, And so they're declaring emergencies and 243 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: demanding federal bailouts, but they're not demanding that the source 244 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: of the problem be fixed, which is these policies that 245 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: have allowed everybody in that reward everybody who makes it 246 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: to the border with entry in the state. Just one 247 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: more question, do you think there's going to be a 248 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: breaking point when I think of the thousands of children 249 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: who don't speak English that are going to be crammed 250 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: into schools in a place like New York City where 251 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: there is no room for them, or just a billions 252 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: of dollars that we're spending here in California and now 253 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: we're headed towards a big deficitting. Is there a breaking 254 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: point where we don't have the money, we don't have 255 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 1: the space, we don't have the jobs for these people, 256 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: and something's got to give. We have nowhere for them 257 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 1: to live. I think you're right. I think there is 258 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: going to be a breaking point. The book overrun. In 259 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: my final chapter, I present a detailed case study of 260 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: what this looks like There's a Cleveland, Texas Independent School 261 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: district in a remote area of heavily forced to East 262 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: Texas that was overwhelmed in the last three, four or 263 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: five years by one hundred thousand illegal immigrants with kids, 264 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: and what it did to the school district and to 265 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: the seret to the community that it hit is just astounding. 266 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: You can read about that. That's one school district. But 267 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: I believe, and I say so in the book, that 268 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: this level of impact is happening at school districts all 269 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: across the country. You just never hear about it. Nobody 270 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: covers it. You'll only read about the Cleveland, Texas Independent 271 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: School District in my book the last chapter it says nobody. 272 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: It's an incredible story of environmental destruction and clear cutting 273 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: of forests and of the local towns populations fleeing and 274 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: moving to other places. And I mean it's really I 275 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: think that this is a microcosm of what's already happening 276 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: in the country. It's going to be seen and felt 277 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: in the schools for sure. Well to thank you very much, 278 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to buy your book right now in Amazon 279 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 1: overrun you. I appreciate that. Todd Bedsman overrun. How Joe 280 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in history todd of, of 281 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: of course with the Center Fere Immigration Studies. Thanks for 282 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: coming on all right, Johnny ken caf I am six 283 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 1: forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio app. Yes, we stop 284 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 1: a reminder that the moist line is on its way 285 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: back Friday. Good name for it this week, right Moisture 286 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 1: it's coming to all right. You can leave a message 287 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: using the iHeart radio app. The microphone icon is a 288 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: simple way to do that, called the toll free number 289 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: one eighty seven to seven moist eighty six one eight 290 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: seven seven six sixty four seven eight eight six. Next hour, 291 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 1: we're going to be talking to a councilwoman, Tracy Park 292 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: about the situation on the west side in the Bologna 293 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,600 Speaker 1: Wetlands Ecological Reserve area. That's all the RVs that have 294 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: been parked there. Recently, a guy died in an RV 295 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,199 Speaker 1: fire there. She also made a visit Tracy did with 296 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: a couple of officials from Fishing, Wildlife and a state senator. 297 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about all this coming up after 298 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: the news at three o'clock. It may mean that maybe 299 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: they can finally do something because you know what, While 300 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: tents and homeless encampments are difficult, these RVs are even 301 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 1: tougher to get out because they're sort of considered some 302 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: type of shelter. Well, they were goes down a really 303 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: weird road. They were protected during the stupid lockdown, and 304 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 1: none of the RVs could be removed. You couldn't tell 305 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 1: them that was the city ordinance. You can only tell 306 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 1: them if it was clear no one was living in them. 307 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: And these people who, by the way, they're the worst. 308 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: You know, we have lots of drug addicts, lots of alcoholics, 309 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: and they dump all their sewage that they collect in 310 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 1: their RV into the wetlands or on the street. No, 311 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: this is what I can't believe. They're allowed to live 312 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: out the open and engage in all their addictions and 313 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: their mental illness and then dump all their human waste 314 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: and garbage into a protected preserved I've never seen this insanity. 315 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: And you don't hear a peep, not a peep from 316 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: all those fake phony environmental groups in La Well as 317 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: bad as the Bologna Wetlands is on the West side, 318 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: You're not going to believe this next story. It's from 319 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: Fox eleven. They went to a place where there's more 320 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: than five hundred of these lying the streets of Los 321 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: Angeles County. This is not a place that I have 322 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: been to, John Harbor Gateway, I don't know it very well. 323 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: But Holly mackerel, here comes a story from Fox eleven 324 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: reporter Hailey Winslow. A man on a mission with nothing 325 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: to gain, led by his heart. This is you in waste. 326 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: This is David matthews day. Every day we spend the 327 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: first six hours of our day going through a reporting 328 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: the illegal dumping. Today though the community Advocate started before 329 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: the sun rose with a sixth homeless RV fire in 330 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: thirty hours. Our fire station now spring water to many 331 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: of the fires that they go to because they cannot 332 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 1: access the fire hydrants because the RVs are blocking the 333 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: fire hydrants. Lined along the streets for miles are more 334 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: than five hundred homeless RVs. This is La but looks 335 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: more like a third world country. A small part of 336 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: the area is Harbor Gateway, unknown to most, that shares 337 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: zip codes with Guardina and Torrance. The large majority of 338 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: these RVs are parked in unincorporated LA County, bleeding into 339 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: East Guardina, West, Rancho, Dominguez, Compton and Willowbrook. Everything kind 340 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: of overlaps itself, so this is the perfect spot to 341 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,680 Speaker 1: have the Wild West trashed out. Broken down homeless RVs 342 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: blocking sidewalks and lanes of traffic, infested with filth, drugs, weapons, 343 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: and crime. It's crazy around here, from Broadway to one 344 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: hundred and fortieth to Redundo Beach Boulevard. Derelict boats, surfboards, 345 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: and trailers where puppy is roam free, parking's free and 346 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: rules don't apply. A few individuals that charge fifty or 347 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: seventy five dollars to take the septic out to take 348 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:06,439 Speaker 1: the waiste out of the septic takes in the RVs 349 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: and then they're disposing of that waste into the storm drans. 350 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: Some homeless fires here are accidents. Others payback, like this 351 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: one captured on surveillance. The burned out RVs just become 352 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: part of the roadside decor. This one on one hundred 353 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 1: and thirty fifth burned down four months ago. It's still 354 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: here in front of it. Exposed electrical wires run along 355 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: the sidewalk where the homeless steel power by hardwiring their 356 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: RVs into this traffic light across the street. The Song family, 357 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: like the other twelve thousand who work around here, tries 358 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: to run business as usual at the La Garden Center. 359 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: We're trying not to to see if we can help them 360 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: out and stuff like that, but it's just been really 361 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: tough to work around them. The campers have a bunch 362 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: of pictures of cartoons and stuff. It's very smilling and 363 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: makee me share that they have fallen there. Just as 364 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: we're leaving the garden Center. Right in front of our camera, 365 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: this homeless man falls to the concrete and his mouth 366 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,800 Speaker 1: fills with blood. He hit his head on the brick 367 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 1: wall when he tripped running with a drink. We called 368 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: nine to one one and tried to stop the bleeding. 369 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: Firefighters and paramedics quickly arrived and took him to the 370 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: er around the corner in Rosewood. Isn't any better? A 371 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: near fight over accused snitching with no intention or desire 372 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: to leave this lifestyle. It's a blessing because I want 373 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 1: to be for a mind that's my freedom, Jose Sanchez says. 374 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: His next door neighbor, who lived in this RV still 375 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: parked here, died of an overdose last month and back 376 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: in October has not responded to almost forty barrels of 377 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: wood blue seeping into the storm drain. Dorian Campos says 378 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: it was an accident by her ex husband, a carpenter. 379 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: Now homeless with a taser in her back pocket. She 380 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: visits him often to help, but he doesn't have anybody else. 381 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: I had three kids with m I've never seen that's 382 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:05,159 Speaker 1: bad in in his life. Matthews offers his assistance as 383 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:06,959 Speaker 1: well a lot of the homeless out here. No one 384 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: trust him and even invite him inside god rat infested 385 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: RVs that have hundreds of rats everywhere. The fifty seven 386 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: year old moved here from Pasadena six years ago with 387 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: some savings as a private chef. He quit at the 388 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: start of COVID to form the Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce. 389 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: He doesn't make any money, but earns what he holds 390 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: more valuable, a sense of purpose and fulfilling the promise 391 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: he made to help his new community, not only the 392 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: outraged residence, but the homeless. Matthews met Fabiola Roblais, who 393 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: quit her accounting job in August to voluntarily help him 394 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: full time. Me and my family decided to do community 395 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 1: clean up, So we started doing that every Saturday, and 396 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: from there I learned how complicated our jurisdictions were and 397 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: how much of a need we had to help our 398 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: community just with keeping it clean, simple trash pickup. The 399 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: majority of our views are being rented, so the rent 400 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: if you don't pay your rent on time, they're basically 401 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: burning you out. Who are they renting from. They're renting 402 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: from unknown individuals that apparently own the bulk of these 403 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 1: RVs that are on the street. Along with about a 404 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: dozen volunteers, the two advocates did a homeless count last month. 405 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: The findings staggering five hundred fifty two homeless RVs in 406 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 1: six square miles. There's sixty five kids in seven RVs 407 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: in one area, and why that's the million dollar question. 408 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: Four hundred twenty five of these RVs lie within a 409 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: six mile radius, and ten percent of them are on 410 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: La City land. The other ninety percent fall within unincorporated 411 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: La County, which makes solving this crisis even more challenging. 412 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: Matthews only represents that one tenth of the area, but 413 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 1: says he's trying to help everyone here and needs a 414 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: lot more support. These are people who need our help. 415 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: And we can't just say someone else is going to 416 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: do it. There isn't someone else. It's got to start 417 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: from within the community. A man of his work, striving 418 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,840 Speaker 1: to do all in his power to help the housed 419 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: and unhoused so everyone in the community can have peace 420 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 1: and feel safe at home. I tell you, did you 421 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: watch this? I get I was watching it. Oh my god. 422 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: I never realized there was something like this in La County. 423 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: I'd realized because it's unincorporated area. That's what makes it 424 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 1: like nobody cares, right, well, it's that's Jesus Supervisorial District, 425 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: right so it's her responsibility. They believe. A lot of 426 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,359 Speaker 1: them are undocumented that are living in these RVs. I'm sure. 427 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,199 Speaker 1: I'm sure you got a mix of all kinds of 428 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: demographics there, and you've got I mean, I saw some 429 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: of those people that that they're crazy, they're drug addicts. 430 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 1: I saw their faces. You saw the way they act, 431 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: the way they look. It's clear that these people are 432 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: out of their mind. They can't be reached. Oh my god, 433 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: I have you really got to go to Fox eleven 434 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 1: because you've got to see it. This is one of 435 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: those things you've got to see Yeah, by Hailey Winslow 436 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: as the reporter. Oh, it's about a five minute video 437 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: and it is unbelievable. I mean five hundred RVs. That Again, 438 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: this is an area a lot of you probably don't 439 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 1: know called Harbord Gateway, unincorporated La County, that southern western section. 440 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: I guess it bleeds into East Cardina, West Rancho Domingue's Compton, Willowbrook. 441 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: I think there's are areas where the residents wherever they 442 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: are around there, don't really care. So, I mean, I 443 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 1: can't imagine living anywhere near this trashed out the open 444 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: down RVs for the homeless. It's in sidewalks and lanes 445 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: of traffic. It's so disgusting. There is so much garbage 446 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: and debris. The people look so crazy. It's like the 447 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: end of civilization. I can't imagine what it all smells like. 448 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking all human waste. Did you see the 449 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: statement they put in the story from Mitchell's office. We've 450 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: been actively communicating with and there are challenges in the 451 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: community due to RV encampments. Yeah, it's boiler place, it's garbage. 452 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: We sent out teams to engage. Hollie Mitchell doesn't care 453 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: doesn't care about these people, doesn't care about anybody who 454 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: lives anywhere near this doesn't care, or it wouldn't exist. 455 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,959 Speaker 1: That is about his filthy and disgusting a region I 456 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: have ever seen in my life that is foul. How 457 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: do I how can that possibly be? They used to 458 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: be a day if you couldn't afford a place in 459 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: a neighborhood, you went somewhere else. Now people just pull 460 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: up an RV in park, Well, they see five hundred 461 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 1: others and what's what did that guy say? The guy's 462 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: trying to help sixty five kids among seven RVs. I 463 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: read that line in the printed story and I'm thinking, well, 464 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: it's obviously a typo, right, And then no, that's really 465 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: what he said. He really they really sixty five kids 466 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: and seven How is that even possible? That's David Matthews. 467 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 1: He's the Harvard Gateway Community a KIT. But this is 468 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: the guy that moved down from Pasadena and does this voluntarily. 469 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: I don't know what you can do. I mean, you 470 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: need like the military to come in here, all right, 471 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: and Holly Mitchell is not the answer. It's amazing how 472 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: bad these local politicians are, how just absolutely horrific they 473 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: are at their jobs. After three, we'll talk about the 474 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: RV encampment on the west side of the Bologna Wetlands 475 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,080 Speaker 1: and playa del rey in that region where a man 476 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: actually died in an RV fire over the weekend. John 477 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: and Ken Cafe. I Am six forty live everywhere the 478 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Yeah, Tracy Park will be joining us after 479 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: the news. She's the council District eleven council member representing 480 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: John Colbell took over from Mike Bonnen and she made 481 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: a visit to the west Side's Bologna Wetlands Ecological Reserve, 482 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: where there has been a huge number of RVs. I 483 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: see all these burnt out buses there. She'll give us 484 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: the lightest on what they planned to do. She went 485 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: there with officials from Fish and Wildlife and also a 486 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:58,959 Speaker 1: state senator. It's coming up after three o'clock. Well, of course, 487 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: this is the I guess it's appropriate to talk about 488 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: in between the RV encampment down and Harvard Gateway and 489 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: Tracy coming on next hour about the Ballona Wetlands. We're 490 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: going to Studio City. Here's the story from Katla reporter 491 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 1: Mary Beth McDade about he's supposed to be a homeless 492 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: guy who looks to hang out in broad daylight. A nude, 493 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: semi nude touching himself. Quite the collection of things here, 494 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: Let's listen. These are disturbing images of a man spotted 495 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: on the streets of Studio City end up in Freeman Canyon, 496 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: touching himself inappropriately in a public place. Concerned citizens too 497 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: afraid to reveal their identities say when he's been seen 498 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: up in Freeman Canyon, he's often completely naked. There's been 499 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: some weird guy touching himself and exposing himself to hikers, 500 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: most of the time women, and he seems to be 501 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: happening in the trail, most in the secluded areas of 502 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: the trail. She says. People have been posting their concerns 503 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: about this guy on an Instagram page she created, and 504 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: he's touching himself and he's exposing himself, and he does 505 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,680 Speaker 1: not seem to be concerned about people watching him. She says. 506 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: He's a younger Tina guy about five nine, with dark, 507 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 1: short hair and a mustache and carries a military type 508 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: backpack or told. This video was shot on Sunday a 509 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: Laurel Terrace Drive near Woodhill Canyon Road on Sunday. Was 510 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: walking in the neighbor because I leave close by, and 511 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 1: I saw him here where we are right now, with 512 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: a chair all his belonging, and he was touching himself 513 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: right here in front of this residence. She fears his 514 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: lud acts will become more aggressive. As a woman who 515 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: has been attacked before, I believe this individual is going 516 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: to escalate and get worse. If he's already doing a 517 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 1: sexual act, he might have sexual needs and he might 518 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: attack us. And I'm a woman who run the canyon 519 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: by myself. Other hikers tell us their concerned for the 520 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: children in this family friendly community and they're now too 521 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,719 Speaker 1: afraid to go hike up in the hills by themselves. 522 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 1: This is endangering kids on their way to school and 523 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 1: the way back from school. I mean, it kind of 524 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: scares me that a place that I always go hike 525 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: with my dog is now dangerous. And that woman tells 526 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: us that the LAPD is now finally involved in this case. 527 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: I did reach out to the lead officer who's handling 528 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: it to find out where things stand with the investigation, 529 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: but I have yet to hear back. That's from Channel 530 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: five Mary Beth McDade, the still pictures that they put 531 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: on the website. Yeah, he wears nothing but shorts. He 532 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,040 Speaker 1: just lies back. Sometimes he has a little camping chair 533 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,120 Speaker 1: that he unfolds's lounging like he's at the beach, and 534 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 1: his hand is right down his shorts in the front there. Yeah, 535 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: so he spends the day pleasuring himself. Yeah, and he enjoys. 536 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: I guess people walking by and seeing him. This is 537 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: Nitthia Pictures. Doesn't bother him. Nitthi Araman's district. It is, Yeah, 538 00:33:54,040 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 1: studio city is Nithia Araman. Now not surprised he's described 539 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 1: as a transigent. Of course he is. But he seems 540 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: he has a wife and three kids, and he's got 541 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: an office job. This is what he does all day. 542 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: This is what he does all day, young Latino man. 543 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: He's got the player like mustache. It kind of droops 544 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: down like the ruler. Yeah, he's a player. He's playing 545 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: all day, He's playing all night. See you can watch 546 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: him play. What how some people busy themselves all day. 547 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna lie around and wait to see some 548 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,319 Speaker 1: women come by. He's in the last two stories just overwhelming, 549 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: unbelievable and by the way I they were broadcast yesterday. 550 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: Did you see any news stories, any reaction from anybody 551 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: in elected office? Where's Karen Bass where is she? What? 552 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 1: No from that the iraman, Nothing from Holly Mitchell, nothing, nothing, not, 553 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 1: just just silence. And in a day everybody will forget 554 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: the story exactly right. It gets attention because it gets 555 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 1: hits because it's a crazy video to watch and interviews 556 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,920 Speaker 1: and I can't I can't believe that RV encampment. You 557 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 1: know something, There are obviously plenty of countries and plenty 558 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 1: of cities with a lot of poor people. There are 559 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 1: not many places in the world like this where a 560 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:27,720 Speaker 1: guy can sit in public nearly nude and sexually pleasure 561 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: himself all day. Yeah, and the criminal justice system they 562 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: get him, they'll be out. Really no, no case. It's 563 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 1: a misdemeanor public lowness, all right. Coming up next, councilwoman 564 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,200 Speaker 1: Tracy Park will be our guest the Mike Bonden seat 565 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: in the council district she just took over a couple 566 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: of months ago. She has made a visit along as 567 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 1: some officials, to the Bologna Wetlands on the west side, 568 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: where there is also a huge or encampment, she'll talk 569 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: about it. John and Ken caf I Am six forty 570 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: Live Everywhere, the iHeartRadio app and Deborah glid in the 571 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:01,800 Speaker 1: twenty four hour Cafin Newsroom