1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game podcast. Thank you so 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 1: much for being here this Thursday, July third. I want 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: to start off by saying happy Independence Date everybody. Fourth 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: of July is probably my favorite holiday because it's a 5 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: relatively low maidenance day. People are just in a good mood. 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: You don't have to buy presence. I've never personally been 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: to a bad Fourth of July party. Then again, my 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: friends don't really shoot rockets off their heads and ended 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: an ambulance. So I encourage everybody, if you're celebrating with 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: some fireworks and you're celebrating your nation's birthday by blowing 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: part of it up, to act responsibly. Gallup had a 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: new pull out regarding how many Americans how Americans feel 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: about their country. Only fifty eight percent so that they 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: were either very or extremely proud to be American. It 15 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: is the lowest number since Galup started asking the question 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. There was a stark 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: difference based on political ideology. However, ninety two percent of 18 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: Republicans reported to be very or extremely proud of their country. 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: This is a greater percentage than in two thousand and one. 20 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: Following the nine to eleven attacks. The number of Independents, however, 21 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: fell to an all time low of fifty three percent, 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: down from fifty eight percent the year prior. Democrats, however, 23 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: are not so in love with America right now. Only 24 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: thirty six percent of Democrats that they were either very 25 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: or extremely proud to be an American. That's down from 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: sixty percent the year prior. Now, obviously that's all to 27 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: do with politics, right, I mean, we all know what 28 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: happened last year. Donald Trump was like to president and 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 1: forty two percent of the people and there was a 30 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: big drop down right from Biden's presidency to Trump's presidency. 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: We all kind of see the writing on the wall. 32 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: It's all political. Republicans' feelings towards the country is less wavering, 33 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: though depending on who's president than Democrats. The first year 34 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: of Obama's presidency, ninety two percent of Republicans said they 35 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: were extremely proud to be an American. In the last 36 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: year of his presidency was eighty nine nine percent, and 37 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: in the first year of Biden's presidency was eighty seven percent. 38 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: There was a stark decline because of COVID, and then 39 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,959 Speaker 1: you know, it bounced back up. Republicans This is crazy, 40 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: this number that I pulled out from here. Republicans were 41 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: more proud of their country during every year of Obama 42 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: and Biden's presidencies than Democrats. And there is a general 43 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: trajectory for Democrats right it is continually declining. And that's 44 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: partially because of an age difference. Right as Silent Generation 45 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: and Baby Boomers are getting older and starting to die 46 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: off and Gen Z is coming of age, this age 47 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: difference is even more illuminating. Only forty one percent of 48 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: Gen Z reports that they are proud to be an American, 49 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: and the same issue for only fifty eight percent of millennials, 50 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: compared to seventy one percent of Gen xers and seventy 51 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: five percent of Baby Boomers. For the Silent Generation, it's 52 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 1: eighty three percent. That's the Joe Biden age demographic. Once again, though, 53 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: there's a stark difference between people based on their politics. 54 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: Eighty seven percent of millennials who are Republicans say they 55 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: are proud to be proud to be an American, proud 56 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: of this country. Only forty four percent of millennial Democrats 57 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: say the same. Sixty five percent of Gen Z Republicans 58 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: say they're proud to be, you know, an American compared 59 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: to twenty four percent of Gen Z Democrats. These people, 60 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: and I try really hard in this podcast not to 61 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: be super narrative and to just give a lot of 62 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 1: fact based ideas, but I have to give a narrative 63 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: on this thing, on this topic, specifically, as we're getting 64 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: close to the fourth of July. These people, these democrats, 65 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: especially in Gen Z and Millennials, my generation, they are 66 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: so steeped in self hatred to a level that it 67 00:03:55,400 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: shows their own ignorance. Do you not realize how you 68 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: are to be in this country at this time, a 69 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: time of relative peace and immense prosperity. Your sons aren't 70 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: being drafted, You're not being drafted. You can become a 71 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: millionaire by having a social media page. And you know, yes, 72 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: there's a lot of turbulence on the horizon, but no 73 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: different and actually quite a bit less than most other 74 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: times in the history of our world. This episode's gonna 75 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 1: be a hodgepodge of different topics today because there's a 76 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: lot to really cover and there's no singular theme like 77 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: I try to do it. It's there's a lot of 78 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: data I want to nerd out about. For a second. 79 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: But I would be remiss to sit there and not 80 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: spend a second and say why I'm proud to be 81 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: an American. Through the course of human events, never has 82 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: there been a place which foundational principles are based on order, liberty, 83 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:54,599 Speaker 1: and prosperity through human freedom. I know critics of this 84 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: country love to point out that we're not perfect, as 85 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: if we invented all the evils of the world. But 86 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: if you take a step back from the focoing in 87 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: view of post structuralism, you would realize that no civilization 88 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: in history has freed the lives of more people. Not 89 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: only through the chains of slavery we be able to 90 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: have to talk about every forty five seconds, but from 91 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: the iron curtain of communism, from disease, from famine, from 92 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: civil war, from fascism. Even at times when it wasn't 93 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: completely altruistic, we did it. Americans were the ones who 94 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: did it in the last twenty years alone. George W. Bush, 95 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: who I am no fan of right, I don't like 96 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 1: most of his presidency, but his policies alone on prefar 97 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: save twenty five million people from dying of AIDS in Africa. 98 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: Twenty five million people from one country from one president 99 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: who did one thing, and that is a footnote on America. 100 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: That's just that's literally a footnote on all the things 101 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: we have done. It's our scientists who discovered cures for 102 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: polio and advanced treatments for cancer, and groundbreaking research on 103 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: everything from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's. Ailing people across the globe 104 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: have a spark of hope because an American is working 105 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: to save their lives, even though they'll never know them. 106 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: In the last century, it was American men who died 107 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: on beaches and in jungles and in deserts of foreign 108 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: land with the hopes of giving freedom from either fascism 109 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: or communism or Islamic tyranny to people who were too ungrateful, 110 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: too often to even understand their sacrifice. It's our institutions 111 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: that I have only created groundbreaking art and music, but 112 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: our beautiful institutions that have preserved shreds of human achievement 113 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: in all those fields for each generation to enjoy. Yeah, 114 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: it's not perfect, but who said it has to be. People, 115 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: especially progressives, think that peace and prosperity is the starting 116 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: point of the human experience, That if it's the baseline, 117 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: that if we got rid of all the things that 118 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: made us American, we would still be peaceful and prosperous. 119 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 1: But we are the exception to the rule. Human history 120 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: is built on failing governments and unimaginable levels of poverty 121 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: and instability. The horrors of history is the baseline, and 122 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: we are the exception. America, to me is the pinnacle 123 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: of Western civilization. All the roads that started in Athens 124 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: and Greece, and Rome and Jerusalem, they took us through 125 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: the ages of the enlightenment and reason, have led us 126 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: to this place. And it is only because of the 127 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: tireless work of American men to build these institutions, to 128 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: defend this place, to build this country from a wild continent, 129 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: that we have a shred of what we enjoy that 130 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: oftentimes we don't deserve. This country wasn't built on slavery, 131 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: or by immigrants, or by or for an elite few. 132 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: It was built on the backs of Western men. And 133 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: is about time that we acted grateful for what they 134 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: did and did our part to preserve it. And it's 135 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: about time we had an ounce of self respect for 136 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: what we have achieved as a people. We have done 137 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: more for the world than any other people in history. 138 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: So many people like to point out how different we 139 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: are and how you know, diverse we are, and we 140 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: have no shared ancestry, and we're just an idea, which 141 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: is like the thing that drives me crazy. We're just 142 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: as melting potful of ideas. And that's true to a point, 143 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: but it's an important point. As of twenty ten, according 144 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: to ancestry dot com, sixty percent of the American population 145 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: could trace their ancestry back to COLONIALUS in the Revolution 146 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: one of their ancestors, not all of them, but one 147 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three million Americans alive today or as 148 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: of twenty ten, had at least one ancestor living in 149 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: this place two hundred and forty nine years ago when 150 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,719 Speaker 1: this country was born. We have more in common than 151 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: people like to believe. And it's not just on the 152 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: ideas of our shared American experiences. And even for those 153 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,719 Speaker 1: of us with no link to the past, people who 154 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: fully chose to be part of this country, to have 155 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: part of our share experience to become an American. We 156 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: are united by our greatness as a people. We are 157 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: all the descendants of Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt and 158 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: Bell and Edwards and Jobs and Sulk and Latimer and 159 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,080 Speaker 1: Oppenheimer of Boone and Lindenberg and Armstrong and Presley and 160 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: Jackson and Dylan, and the great artists and engineers and 161 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: scientists and leaders and generals who built the foundation the 162 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: world lives on today. We are Americans, and we have 163 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: to start acting like it. We are destined for greatness 164 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: because we are a great country, and the only thing 165 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: that can stop us is our own gluttony and greed 166 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: and envy. But every one of you should be proud 167 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: to be an American, proud of this country. And I 168 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: hope to live a life deserving of the sacrifices of 169 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 1: all the men and women who came before me. I 170 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: know that's a rand. I don't like to go on rants, 171 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: but I needed to say it. We'll be back with 172 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: numbers for the numbers game that is not a narrative 173 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: right after this message. Stay tuned. So these two things 174 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: I want to talk about for the rest of the 175 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: show their immigration slash demographic related. So first, after Zoron 176 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: Mandani won the Democratic primary, a number of conservative commentators 177 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: noted that it was time to put a moratorium on immigration. 178 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: After all the capitalist hating anti Semitic nominee for the 179 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: Democratic Party is an immigrant from Uganda, and he received 180 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: the support of many immigrants in New York City, especially 181 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: in the Asian and Muslim community. Well, Charlie Kirk said 182 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: something to the effect of, you know, we need to stop. 183 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: We need a moratorium and immigration. And then Franklins, the 184 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: Republican polster, who hasn't been right on anything since New 185 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: York was a prairie, came out with a tweet spouting 186 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: that forty six percent of Fortune five hundred company founders 187 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: were either immigrants or the kids of immigrants, So that 188 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 1: would like include Donald Trump. His company's not a Fortune 189 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 1: five hundred, but that would include him because his mother, 190 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: Mary was born in Scotland. And just as long as 191 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: we're all keeping track, well, I looked it up because 192 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: that seems startling to me, and then I thought, I 193 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: wonder what countries they come from, right, because there's this 194 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: trope about from people who are critical, sorry, people who 195 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: are supportive of mass immigration. They lobby it against people 196 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: who are critical of just endless supplies of people, and 197 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: they use the term immigrant like it's like a bag 198 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: of oranges, right, if you want one you got to 199 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: get them all. You can't select which ones you want. 200 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: You can only you can't choose the one ripe one, 201 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: even if you need it for a recipe. You got 202 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: to get forty of them. You can't get the one 203 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: you need for the recipe. So the study that Frank 204 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: cited comes from the American Immigration Council, which is basically 205 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: an organication that promotes open borders. Conveniently, not only do 206 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: they not list the nations of origin from these immigrants, 207 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: they don't even give you the list of immigrant and 208 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: the children immigrants who are the founders. They haven't done 209 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: that since two thousand and eleven, so I had to 210 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: go back to the two thousand and eleven list. It 211 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: includes people like Jeff Bezos, who has two American born parents, 212 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: but he has a Cuban stepfather, So I mean they 213 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: he's counted as a son of an immigrant because his 214 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: mom remarried a Cuban man. That seems like a stretch 215 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: to me from people trying to make a point, trying to, 216 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: you know, create a narrative. Other people listed in this 217 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: list of immigrants and children immigrants include Alexander Graham Bell, 218 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: who immigrated to the States in eighteen seventy one. Well, 219 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: that doesn't seem remotely like it's related to anything to 220 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: do with our current immigration system, does it? In fact, 221 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: in the twenty eleven list, I looked at the top 222 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: twenty two fortune five hundred company founders. Sixteen of them 223 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: were born before the year nineteen hundred, some of them 224 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: born in countries that don't even exist anymore. Why would 225 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: you list that? Like, what does that have to do 226 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: at all with our current immigration system? Like? What on 227 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: earth does it matter that Walt Disney had a father 228 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: born in Canada who immigrated in eighteen seventy six to 229 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: look for gold in California. It matters. It's completely irrelevant 230 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: to the conversation immigration. It's just to write a headline, 231 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: to make a narrative to attack anybody who supports any 232 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: restrictions on immigration at all. What about living founders? Right, 233 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: because obviously the list that Frank cited, which he believed 234 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: without even doing any research whatsoever, what at living founders? 235 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, Forbes wrote an article that fifty five 236 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: percent a billion dollars start had one immigrant co founder, 237 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 1: and they actually listed them. It was from a study 238 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: from the National Foundation of American policy. Well, the billion 239 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: dollar co founders of these companies came from twenty five countries. 240 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: Can you guess what countries? Well, here it goes in 241 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: order of how many billionaire founders they produced. These are 242 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: the list of countries. Canada and Israel they both have 243 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: nine co founders as of twenty eighteen. Then India, the 244 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: United Kingdom, China, Germany, France, Ireland, Russia, Australia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azabaijan, Bulgaria, Denmark, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, 245 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa. You can guess 246 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: who that one was. It was Beekistan and Vietnam. Well, 247 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: how did those countries reflect in America's overall immigration numbers? 248 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: I plugged it into rock and examining the average number 249 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: of immigrants that came to this US to the US 250 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: overlast four years from those countries, they represent just thirty 251 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: percent of immigrants national origin. Right, So those thirty So 252 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: the thirty percent, all those billionaires would represent the immigrant 253 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: population from thirty percent of all immigrants. And that's actually 254 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: if you take out China and India, which I mean 255 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: you wouldn't, but China and India represent twenty of that 256 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: thirty percent, which would make sense. They're the two largest 257 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: countries in the world by population. So our immigration system 258 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: that brings over billionaire entrepreneurs and tech giants and you know, 259 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: future founders of Google, doesn't represent are doesn't represent you know, 260 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: our immigrations from at all. Our immigrations some overall, brings 261 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: in people that will never not only never co found 262 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: a billion dollar business, but no one from their nation 263 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: of origin will co found a billion dollar business, right 264 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean I don't dislike any people 265 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: from any specific country just because they're from that country. 266 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: Everyone has good and bad people, YadA, YadA, YadA. But 267 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: as far as the idea of creating billion dollar companies, 268 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning 269 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: several times in a row and then winning lottery than 270 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: you do of some people from that country creating a 271 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 1: billion dollar business. It is just a fact. So with 272 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 1: the exception of Uzbekistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, which all had 273 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: one billionaire co founder, all these immigrants come from Europe, 274 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: East Asia, and India, and that is not surprising. There 275 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: is a book called The Hive Mind by economist professor 276 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,400 Speaker 1: Garrett Jones, who I invite on this podcast and he 277 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: turned me down. It's okay, I'm not better. He is 278 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: brilliant and he doesn't have to like me for me 279 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: to respect him anyway. He wrote in the book Hive 280 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: Mind that nations have SAT scores. Basically, if a country 281 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: has a state history that is a formal state history, 282 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: like they formed a government, that's the S. An agricultural 283 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: history that's the A, and a technological history that's the 284 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: that matches where the most advanced societies were in the 285 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: years zero, one thousand and fifteen hundred. Those countries will 286 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: overwhelmingly produce high performing immigrants. They will have they will 287 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: invent more, they will save more. They're high producing, high functioning, 288 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: high IQ societies. You know, basically, what our ancestors did 289 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: a thousand years ago or several hundred years ago details 290 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: kind of how we're going to perform today, you know. 291 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 1: And he also says in the book, you are better 292 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: being a dumb person in a smart country than a 293 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: smart person in a dumb country. And when enough people 294 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: from high IQ countries high SAT score countries move to 295 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: other regions, they tend to improve their overall economies and 296 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: many times become economic dominant minorities. Getting back to Lunce, 297 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: he repeated a lie about open from an open borders 298 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: group because he wanted to believe it was true. He 299 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: wanted the lie perpetuated by neoliberals to be true, so 300 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: when it was not, and did not do a shred 301 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: of thinking about it and say this seems odd? Is 302 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: this true? When were these immigrants coming here? Where did 303 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: they come from? And furthermore, people say immigrants do all 304 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: these fabulous things. I think it's worth saying where did 305 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: they come from? Because the idea that is perpetuated by 306 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: the diversity delusion that every person, whether they come from 307 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: Haiti or hal Effects, is equally likely to generate the 308 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: same level of economic output isn't true. It's just it's 309 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: not a fact, and we are going to get thrown 310 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: that out there. And I think that if you are 311 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: somebody who's more on the immigration restriction aside like I am, 312 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: it's worth having that answer pointed out and ready when 313 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: it goes just sit there and say what country do 314 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: that immigrant come from? Where do all these immigrants come from? 315 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: If they're all coming from three specific regions of the world, 316 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: why aren't almost all of our immigrants coming from three 317 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: specific regions of the world. Okay, next point, and I 318 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: want to make this quickly. The census data came out, 319 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: came out and found that during the last year of 320 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: Trump's presidency and the four years of Biden's presidency, the 321 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: Native white population shranked by three million people, including about 322 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand people last year. Now, a 323 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: lot of that can be contributed to COVID deaths. Back 324 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, you know, a 325 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: lot of people did pass away, a lot of older people. 326 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: There was also a spike in the number of people 327 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: reclassifying themselves as being Native American during the Floyd Riots. 328 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: You know, it was not it's not politically, economically, or 329 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: culturally wonderful to be a white person during that time. 330 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: And there's something called fleeing from whiteness where people discover 331 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: their one eighth Native American and now they're Cherokee, and 332 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: they can re change all of their documentation to make 333 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: sure their kid gets a scholarship from a college, or 334 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 1: gets into a college, or gets a job, or gets 335 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: a government grant. All of the major institutions at the time, 336 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: although some of them are starting to change because of 337 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court case absolutely put their thumb on the 338 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 1: scale against specifically white men. But there was also a 339 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 1: general decline because of low birth rates, which has been 340 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: below replacement levels for decades. Remember, you need two point 341 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 1: one children on average per woman to sustain a population 342 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: from one generation to the next. Now, even though the 343 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: white population dec overall shrank, it did grow in seventeen states, 344 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 1: three that voted for Kamala Harris, New Hampshire, Maine, and Delaware, 345 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 1: and fourteen that voted for Trump Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, 346 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Carolinas, 347 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: both north and south. On my substack, I broke down 348 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: county by county where you could see the white population 349 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,480 Speaker 1: whether it increased, and how it voted in the twenty 350 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: twenty four election. And what you see when you look 351 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 1: at the entire map of all the counties is they 352 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: mostly moved to red counties or they had a higher 353 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: birth rate in red counties, but they fled, especially from 354 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: urban areas where crime was extremely high during the Floyd Riots. 355 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: The only states that saw the white population decline in 356 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: every county was Illinois and Rhode Island. But the biggest takeaway, 357 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: the several biggest takeaways, the biggest takeaways is one Rural America, 358 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: especially in the Rust Belt, Appalachia and the Prairie states, 359 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: are dying. They're just there. The economies are collapsed and 360 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: the populations are declining with them substantially. People, white Americans 361 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 1: especially are fleeing from big blue states like Illinois, California, 362 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: and New York in droves. But rather than just picking 363 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: up and going to red cities or says cities in 364 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: red states, and it's happening in a few places like Nashville, Miami, 365 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: they are choosing to live in smaller cities and excerpts 366 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: of major metropolitan areas. The white population of the city 367 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: of Atlanta grew a little bit, but in the suburbs 368 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: it shrunk as well. The egxerbs is where it exploded. 369 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: They chose to live in exxerb communities that are more 370 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: politically like them, probably more racially like them, have more 371 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: values like they do. There is a realignment going on 372 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: where people are choosing to move. It will eventually have, 373 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 1: you know, changes within the congressional lines over time. I 374 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: guess maybe, well, maybe not, because immigrants do replace they 375 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 1: are having immigrants replace Americans in those cities for those populations, 376 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: but it will it will have a point specifically with voting, 377 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: for sure at some point. There have also been pockets 378 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: of rural Americas that did see some level population growth 379 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,960 Speaker 1: for white Americans because of a high concentration of highly 380 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: religious people. These include Orthodox Jews in Rockland County, Latin 381 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: Mass Catholics in Patawami and Newca Counties. Kansas. Seriously, Kansas, 382 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: you could make that easier for me. I spoke at 383 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: your damn convention, and Amish people in Holmes County, Ohio, 384 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: and Lagrange and Adams Counties in Indiana. I say this 385 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: just to say that there's a lot of online conversation 386 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: about something called the Great Replacement theory, the idea that 387 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: Western governments are purposely replacing their native white populations with immigrants. 388 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: Now there is, you know, an insane level of adoration 389 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: for mass immigration on the part of Western nations that 390 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: you don't see in other parts of the world, like 391 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: in the Far East, where birth rates are declining, in 392 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: populations are declining, there's still a demand to keep their 393 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: culture intact, which is not the same in Western nations. 394 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: In most parts of Western nations, but what's really causing 395 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: the mass decline of native white populations is that you 396 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: don't have enough children. If anyone choosing to be replaced, 397 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: it's the decision by white Americans to not have kids. 398 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: Granted there's a big difference between progressive whites and conservative whites. 399 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: Progressive whites have an extremely low birth rate. But to 400 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: anyone complaining, which is mostly right wingers, about a great replacement, 401 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: my first question to you, because I hate complainers, my 402 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: first question to you is how many kids do you have? 403 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 1: Because if the answer is three or less, I don't 404 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: really want to hear you talk about or sorry, if 405 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: it's less than three, If it's maybe two, I was 406 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: even think two. If it's under two, I don't want 407 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: to hear you talk about being replaced. I just don't 408 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: want to have a conversation. If you're like my grandma 409 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: and you had eleven kids and you want to talk 410 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: about it, I'll hear your complaint. But if you have 411 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: no kids and you just live online to complain, maybe 412 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: go on a date, maybe talk to a girl, maybe 413 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: have a little experiment of having a life outside being 414 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 1: online that might do something. I know. It's a strange 415 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: set of topics today. It's kind of a michmash. We're 416 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: in summer, it's not an election this week, so I 417 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: thought I bring you some interesting numbers that are out there. 418 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: You're listening to It's a numbers game with Ryan Gradsky. 419 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: We'll be right back now for the Ask Me Anything 420 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: segment of the show. I have to to tell you. 421 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: I used to get so few questions that I would 422 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: text friends and like family members and my employees and 423 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: be like, I don't have any questions, Send me a question. 424 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: Now I have so many questions in the backlog, which 425 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: I appreciate beyond belief that Monday's episode is going to 426 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: be a full ask Me Anything segment because I gotta 427 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: get through some of these questions. I promise my listeners 428 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: I will answer all their questions, and we are going 429 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: to be waiting until Christmas to get me through September 430 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: if I don't start doing a full episode based on it. 431 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: So I'm very excited if you have questions that you 432 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: would like me to answer and they Ask Me Anything 433 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: segment of the show. Email me Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast 434 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 1: dot com. That's Ryan at numbers Plural Numbers gamepodcast dot com. 435 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: And I will answer your questions either through one on 436 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: one email or I will answer them on the show. 437 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: Today's question comes from Kyle Carson. He writes, Ryan, I 438 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: appreciated your podcast our Jay Homan. I think he raises 439 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 1: some excellent points. However, in light of the OBB that's 440 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill passing in the Senate inclusion for 441 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,479 Speaker 1: greater ICE funding, I am skeptical that we simply can 442 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: throw money at the issue to actually fulfill mass deportations. 443 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: I support increasing ICE and it will certainly allow for 444 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: more deportations. However, I do not think we can achieve 445 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: mass deportation unless the White House use its full power 446 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 1: and Red states get involved. It should have supported chip 447 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: Roy's amendment to significantly drag on deportations in the courts. 448 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: Left wing interest groups are forcing the White House to 449 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: do deportations one by one because illegal aliens are suing 450 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: under Article three. Trump should invoke section eight of the 451 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 1: US Code eleven eleven three, Section A ten. This would 452 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: allow for street level immigration enforcement by state and local police. Basically, 453 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 1: every local police department with the consent of the chief, 454 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: and the city would now be an ICE officer and 455 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: can do effective immigration arrests on their own. DISANTUS four 456 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: for this provision in Florida and wants to force every 457 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: Florida police department to follow it. Question or what are 458 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: your thoughts on Trump's plan to do to facto amnesty 459 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: to Farm's Best Kyle, Okay, Kyle, thank you so much, 460 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: great question. All right, first point, yes, I agree that 461 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: it's not possible for ICE just simply do fifteen to 462 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: twenty million deportations of illegal aliens, especially with the way 463 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,040 Speaker 1: the courts are right now, it takes months and sometimes years. 464 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: There are, however, over a million illegal aliens in our 465 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,919 Speaker 1: country today who have already had their full legal proceedings 466 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,479 Speaker 1: done and were issued war issued notices that they had 467 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: to leave the country, and then they stayed. Those people 468 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: can go immediately if they are upon being arrested. They 469 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: don't have to have more court cases. They've had a 470 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: million court cases. But how we entice illegal aliens leave 471 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: our country is you do self deportation. I mean it's 472 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: cheaper and it's faster. The Bureau for Labor Statistics stated 473 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: that a million non citizens. About a million have already 474 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: dropped out of the workforce. There's no telling whether or 475 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: not they went to their home country, but they're no 476 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: longer showing up for work. A migration policy paper found 477 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: that and estimated five thousand migrants self deported in the 478 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 1: first three months of the Trump presidency, and immigration judges 479 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: have granted voluntary deportation for almost nine hundred illegal immigrants 480 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: in the month of May alone. Now there's a lot 481 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: of stories in places like the New York Times and 482 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times about people self deporting, but it's 483 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: hard to get real numbers about how effective it is 484 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: because they're not It's just, you know, stories about this 485 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 1: crying mother and how her life is so hard to 486 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: just go back to I don't know, Dominican Republic or whatever, 487 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: or Mexico. But as far as real numbers goes, it's very, 488 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: very difficult to actually get hard numbers. Given that no 489 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 1: one is coming through our southern border and that illegal 490 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: immigration is at a record low, we are definitely seeing 491 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: overall net illegal immigration population in this country declining every month. 492 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: It seems obvious as far as the farm raiders go, 493 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: this was originally a plan brought on by Agricultural Secretary 494 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: Brook Rollins. I covered it on my podcast with Marco 495 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: Corean a couple of weeks ago. The plan was proposed, 496 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: but according to the New York Times, it was almost 497 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: immediately reversed and rates on farms have continued. So that's 498 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: all the information I have on that. I haven't seen 499 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 1: anywhere that Trump has actually gone back again and changed 500 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: his mind. Great questions. I agree though, that we need 501 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: to do more to fix this system and get rid 502 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: of our illegal alien population and restructure our illegal immigration system. 503 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: I think those two ideas that you put out there 504 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: are very very smart. So we'll see what happens and 505 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: maybe I'll get some hard numbers to report for you. Anyway, 506 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: thank you. Come back again Monday whole episode of Ask 507 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: Me Anything Questions. Looking forward to it. Please like and 508 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever gets your podcast. 509 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: I'll see you guys on Monday, and Happy Independence Day.