1 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Hey everyone, Welcome to BLEEP. Thanks for joining us this week. 2 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: Today's episode is going to be dedicated to the victims 3 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: of ICE. And when I say victims, I'm not referring 4 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: to the thousands of children that have been detained in 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: deplorable conditions in places like Dilly Detention Center. I'm not 6 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: referring to the over fifty people who have died in 7 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: ICE custody. I'm referring to the people who have actually 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:40,480 Speaker 1: been killed, targeted, executed, innocent people who have lost their 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: lives in interactions with ICE. Since Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen 10 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: remember him, He's the guy who replaced Christinome. Since he 11 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: took over Homeland Security, there's been the illusion that things 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: have been under control, They've been out of the headlines, 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: things have gotten quieter, But that is far from the truth. 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: The numbers of detentions have not decreased, If anything, they 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: have increased. And just in the last weeks alone, we 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: saw ICE target and kill two innocent people within eight 17 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: days of each other. They killed two innocent men. So 18 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: let's talk about some of these names and people put 19 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: stories and faces to the statistics. On July seventh, Lorenzo 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: Salgado Arajo, a fifty two year old Mexican national who'd 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: been living in Houston for thirty five years. He was 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: shot down by ICE officers who were driving in unmarked 23 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: SUVs at a traffic stop. They were looking for someone else, 24 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: so they had the wrong person, but they pulled his 25 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: car over. Ice officers claim he tried to ram his 26 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: car at them, but witnesses say this is a lie, 27 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: and there is video from the street that proves this 28 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: is a lie. There was nobody camp just IS's words 29 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: against three witnesses who were in the car with him. 30 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: And let us remember Ice has lied before, Ice has 31 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: killed before, and ICE has lied about it before. Lorenzo 32 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: Algado Araljo he was a father, a husband. He was 33 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: a construction business owner and had been applying for authorization 34 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 1: to live in the United States legally. His family said 35 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: he liked nothing better than to sit on his porch 36 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: after work, petting his dog and listening to music. He 37 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: was a very hard worker. He sent all three of 38 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: his US citizen born children to college. One is a teacher, 39 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: another one of his sons is an engineer, and the 40 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 1: third son is studying engineering in college. Now those three 41 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,119 Speaker 1: sons are fatherless. Then there was a different case, yet 42 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: another case. This one was Juan Sewatian Durang Guerrero. And 43 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: let me tell you, Juan Sewatian, that's the name of 44 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: a famous singer, famous Latin singer. And when I heard 45 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: his name and I read and heard about this case, 46 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: it occurred to me that his mom must have named 47 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: him for Juan Sewatian, this singer. This also happened last week. 48 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: ICE fatally shot him. He was twenty six years old. 49 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: He was from Colombia. They killed him in Biddeford, Maine. 50 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: He was an authorized worker in the US. He had 51 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: a legal work permit to work in the United States 52 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: and a valid Social Security number. That means that he 53 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: was not here illegally. You don't have a valid work 54 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: permit if you are in this country illegally, So he 55 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: has got to have had some legal status temporary or 56 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: not that allowed him to have that legal permit. And 57 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 1: like Salgado Araujo, Juan se Vatian Guerrero was driving his 58 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: car when ICE agents were in the area with an 59 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: arrest warrant for someone else. Yes, another case of mistaken identity, 60 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: another case where they chased and targeted the wrong person. 61 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: Video shows that ICE agents rammed him with their vehicle, 62 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: then approached him on foot with their guns already drawn. 63 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: Ice Ice claims they fired because Guerretro's car tried to flee, 64 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: but video shows the car had already slowed down, and 65 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: eye witness said that his last words that he clearly 66 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: heard him say, I tried to stop. Guerretro was originally 67 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: from Columbia. He worked multiple jobs as a food delivery driver, 68 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: he was a cleaner, and he had been living in 69 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 1: Biteford for a few years. He was also the father 70 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: of a three year old daughter with his partner. The 71 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: three year old she was in the backseat of the 72 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: car when he was shot four times in the face. 73 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: She saw her father pulled from the car, his limp, 74 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: bloodied body. I don't know if he was dead yet 75 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: or if he was dying, but they hand cuffed his 76 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: limp body. The little three year old. She was wearing 77 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: her bluey pajamas and a pink backpack at the time. 78 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: These events happened eight days apart. You would think that 79 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: after the first killing, the first execution of Lorenzo Salgado Arajo, 80 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: and the attention the media, attention the protests that resulted 81 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: from that. You would have thought that ICE would have 82 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: been more deliberate, more careful about it happening again, But 83 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: they weren't. It happened again. To Juan Sebatiang gro Why 84 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: because there's no accountability, there's no thorough investigations, there is impunity. 85 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: Our own government is killing human beings, including US citizens, 86 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: in the streets of America with absolute impunity. So after 87 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: this happened, there was a short pause of traffic stops 88 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: by ICE nationwide. That's what Borders saw. Tom Homan announced. 89 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: And when I say short pause, I mean short because 90 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't. A day later that Trump contradicted the policy 91 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: and said ICE should resume traffic stops because they were 92 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: essential for cracking down on illegal aliens. And Tom Holman 93 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: and ICE they also promised to expand body cameras. Remember 94 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: we've heard this promise before. They promised this after the 95 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: Minneapolis shootings in January, and it was never fully delivered. Homan, 96 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: of course, discussing human being that he is, his response 97 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: was to blame Democrats for the delay in body camps. 98 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: He said that shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security 99 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: was responsible for the delay of ICE agents having body 100 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: camps in neither of the two cases that I just 101 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: talked about where ICE agents were wearing body camps. They 102 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: also promised a so called investigation into both shootings and 103 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: officers getting placed in administrative leave. This is a standard process. Meanwhile, 104 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: states and field officers are conducting their own investigations, and 105 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 1: Harris County's DA in Texas and Houston, which has issued 106 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: nearly twenty subpoenas for evidence, say federal offices are not 107 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: cooperating with their investigation. And let me tell you what 108 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: we haven't gotten. We haven't gotten video evidence from DHS. 109 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: No agents have been named who were involved. And meanwhile 110 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: DHS continues to defend the ab agency, telling CNN ICE 111 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: agents are trained to use the minimum necessary force to 112 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: resolve dangerous situations to prioritize the safety of the public 113 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: and our officers. So you think it is prioritizing the 114 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: safety of the public when you are shooting a driver 115 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: mid drive with a child in the back seat. Come on, 116 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: the hypocrisy of these people that they're able to say 117 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: that with a straight face, It's just it just blows 118 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: my mind. And let me just say this, if these 119 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: were the only two people that ICE had killed, it 120 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: would be shameful enough. But they are not the only 121 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: two people that have been executed by ICE. Ice has 122 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 1: shot at least five or six other people. I want 123 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 1: us to remember their names. I want us to remember 124 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: their stories. I want us to take them with us 125 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: to the voting booth and November. So let's talk about them. 126 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: Silverio Jea Gonzalez a thirty eight year old Mexican immigrant 127 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: from Michuacan. He lived in Chicago for twenty years. His 128 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: girlfriend described him as warm and present at home. She 129 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: said he'd wake her up sweetly in the mornings, helped 130 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: get the children fed and dressed, and let her rest 131 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: whenever she had a migraine. On September twelfth, twenty twenty five, 132 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: ICE agents attempted a vehicle stop to arrest him after 133 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: he just dropped off one of his children at school. 134 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: He was shot at close range. Ruben Rey Martinez he 135 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: was just twenty three years old and he was a 136 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: US citizen from San Antonio, Texas. He was planning to 137 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: enrolled in trade school to become a mechanic and move 138 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: into his own apartment. His mom, Rachel Reyes, described him 139 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:04,479 Speaker 1: as shy, laid back, humble, kind and adventurous. On March fifteenth, 140 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, he was pulled over by Homeland Security 141 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: investigations while he was driving by a crash scene on 142 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: South Padro Island, Texas. He was shot and killed. And then, 143 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: of course, there's Renee Good, a thirty seven year old 144 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: mother of three who loved to sing and was kind 145 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: to everyone. She had just dropped off her six year 146 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: old son at school. Her car was parked sideways in 147 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: a residential street in Minneapolis. She motioned unmarked ICE vehicles 148 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: to pass. She was part of the community's Whistle network, 149 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: a response to that week's ice surge in the city. 150 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: An ICE agent approached her on foot circled her SUV 151 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: while another ICE agent ordered her to get out of 152 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: the car. Agents shot her three times, and she died 153 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: from gunshots to the chest. Ice lied that she was 154 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: charging her car at them, which video footage proved was 155 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 1: utterly false. She was a US citizen. And then there 156 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: was Alex Pretti, thirty seven years old, an ICU nurse 157 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: at the Minneapolis VA Hospital who had been participating in 158 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: protests against the earlier killing of Renee Good. His family 159 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,359 Speaker 1: said he loved the outdoors, and his neighbors and colleagues 160 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: described him as calm and competent and a good person. 161 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: Border Patrol was in the neighborhood conducting an operation targeting 162 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: a different individual, Josel Wuerta Chuma, when Pretti and a 163 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: group of activists arrived at the scene to protect him. 164 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 1: Pretti was recording the agents on his phone when officers 165 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 1: pepper sprayed him, tackled him, and shot him. DHS said 166 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: he approached with his gun. This was a lie. Videos 167 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: showed he never showed his gun. Again, I slide and again. 168 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 1: Alex Pretty was a US citizen. Then there was Keith 169 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: Porter Junior, a forty three year old father of two 170 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: from Northridge in Los Angeles. His mom described him as 171 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: a caring and hardworking person with the biggest heart. Shortly 172 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: after ten thirty pm on New Year's Eve, December thirty first, 173 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, he was firing celebratory gunshots into the air, 174 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: something that's our common New Year's tradition, and that's when 175 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: an off duty Ice agent who lived in the same 176 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 1: complex heard the gunfire. Instead of staying inside and calling police, 177 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: the Ice agent grabbed his Ice issued firearm and shot 178 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: and killed Porter. And then he lied about it. And 179 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: there was Marie Mar Martinez, Marie Mar. Thankfully she made 180 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 1: it out alive, but barely, and no thanks. Twice. On 181 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 1: October fourth, twenty twenty five, the thirty year old US 182 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:05,319 Speaker 1: citizen and Montessori's School teaching assistant with no criminal record, 183 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: was driving in her Brighton Park neighborhood in Chicago when 184 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: she saw Border Patrol agents patrolling the area. They were 185 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: calling it Operation Midway Bliss. She followed them in her car, 186 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: honking her horn shouting la Megra, La migra to alert 187 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: her neighbors that immigration agents were present. An ICE agent 188 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,439 Speaker 1: then got out of their car and shot her five times. 189 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: She managed to drive to a nearby auto repair shop 190 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,760 Speaker 1: for help before being taken to the hospital and treated 191 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,439 Speaker 1: and then arrested. DHS says her car tried to ram them, 192 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: but body camera footage shows differently it was DHS's car 193 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: driving towards her lies. Again. Martinez is still alive, but 194 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: suffered severe trauma and injuries. And again, just like Keith Porter, 195 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: she too was a US citizen. These are people who mattered. 196 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: They were parents, they were loved ones, They were partners, 197 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: they were teachers, they were nurses, they were hard workers, 198 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: they were colleagues, they were people trying to live the 199 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: American dream. We need to honor them and remember and 200 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: never forget the cruelty that they suffered at the hands 201 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 1: of our own government. And again, I hope you take 202 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: this knowledge. I hope you look these people up, and 203 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: I hope that when the elections come in November, we 204 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: all show up and we vote for accountability, We vote 205 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: for investigations, We vote to honor the memory of the 206 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 1: people who died unjustly at the hands of ICE agents 207 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: and the US government, and we vote to vote out 208 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: the people who have looked the other way in Congress 209 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: and in the Senate as these things happen in the 210 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: streets of America. I have to be honest with you, 211 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: this has been a very tough week for me. These 212 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: two deaths that happen within eight days of each other, 213 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: have left me devastated, sad. I have this feeling in 214 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: my chest, this dread, this fear at seeing brown people, 215 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: at seeing immigrants, at seeing people who look like me 216 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: and sound like me hunted down. And again I can't 217 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: get over the fact that these folks aren't being killed 218 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: by criminals, They're being killed by our own government, and 219 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: they're doing so with impunity. What is going to be 220 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: the accountability? When is there going to be justice? This 221 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: has been very very hard to watch, to talk about, 222 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: to accept, and to realize can happen in the United 223 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: States of America. But at the same time, I try 224 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: to find bad and I tried to read things and 225 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: enjoy things, find things that brought me happiness. And one 226 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: of the things that brought me happiness this week was 227 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: Ejen Carroll. If you remember, Egen Carroll was the writer 228 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: who was who claimed Trump had raped her in a 229 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: Burgdoff Goodman dressing room in the mid nineteen nineties and 230 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty three, she sued Trump for sexual 231 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: abuse and for defamation twice when he publicly called her 232 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: a liar numerous times. A jury concluded that Trump was 233 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: civilly liable, and a judge ordered Trump to pay her 234 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: five million dollars in damages. He fought it. He fought 235 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: it time and again, took it all the way up 236 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court. But you know what, last week 237 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: he had to pay her. She finally got her five 238 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: point six two five million dollar payment, which includes three 239 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,640 Speaker 1: years of interest. Another thing that brought me joy was 240 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: the Spain and Argentina game they faced each other in 241 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: the World Cup finals. It was two Spanish speaking countries. 242 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:16,719 Speaker 1: And listen, you know, I'm a newfound fan of the 243 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,439 Speaker 1: World Cup and of soccer. And part of what I 244 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: love about this event that happens every four years and 245 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: about this sport is just how much you realize the 246 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: role of immigrants matter when it comes to sports, and 247 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 1: how you see people who complain about immigration at the 248 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 1: same time that they are cheering on and rooting on 249 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: the immigrants who are playing in these teams. Let me 250 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: tell you something. If it wasn't for immigrants, go look, 251 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: go take a look at the membership of these teams. 252 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: If it wasn't for immigrants, I think these folks would 253 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: have been celebrating the World Cup of shuffle Board. Nearly 254 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: a quarter of all the almost thirteen hundred players were 255 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: representing a country other than the one they were born in, 256 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: and that includes the US where the star the star 257 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: striker Baalagan. He became the team's top scorer during the tournament. 258 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 1: This is the guy who got the red card that 259 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: then Trump called the head of FIFA about and had 260 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,720 Speaker 1: the red card violation overturn. Well, he qualified to play 261 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 1: for the United States only because he was granted automatic 262 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: citizenship under the fourteenth Amendment, so birthright citizenship after his 263 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,160 Speaker 1: Nigerian parents gave birth to him in Brooklyn. So this 264 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 1: is the same amendment, the same birthright citizenship that Donald 265 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: Trump wants to get rid of. But here he was 266 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 1: asking for this US player to be put back into 267 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: the team, into the game because he's the best player. 268 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,359 Speaker 1: So I guess he didn't care much about birthright citizenship. 269 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: Then France is reckoning with its own anti immigration rhetoric. 270 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: It had sixteen members that were born abroad or have 271 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: parents who have migrated to France. It was the same 272 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 1: for Belgium, it was the same for Switzerland. Anytime you 273 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: were looking at a World Cup game, you couldn't help 274 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: but notice the role of immigrants. There were great other 275 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: immigrants stories as well. Alfonso Davis from Canada. He was 276 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:31,439 Speaker 1: born in two thousand in a refugee camp in Ghana 277 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: after his parents fled Liberia's civil war. There was Nestori Irakunda. 278 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: He's from Australia. He was born in a refugee camp 279 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: in Tanzania after his parents fled Burundi's civil war. He 280 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: became the youngest player to score for Australia at the 281 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: World Cup this tournament. There was our My Bill, also 282 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: from Australia. He too was born in a refugee camp 283 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: in Kenya after his parents from South Sudan fled the 284 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: civil war. There there was Eduardo Gamaviinga. He was from France. 285 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: He plays for Real Madrid, but he was playing for 286 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: France in the World Cup. He also was born in 287 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: a refugee camp in Angola after his family fled the 288 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I was born 289 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: in a refugee camp in Angola after my family fled war, 290 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,119 Speaker 1: he said. And I am grateful to play and proud 291 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: to do so as a former refugee. Just wanted to 292 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: highlight some of these stories because I find it the 293 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: height of irony that so many people who are against 294 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: immigrants seem to be all four immigrants when they are 295 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: representing their country in the World Cup and scoring goals. 296 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: That's it for Bleep this week. As always, I want 297 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: to thank you for listening. I want to ask you 298 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 1: to leave me your thoughts, your replies to spread the 299 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: word about this podcast. I am a reading every comment 300 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: you leave me and I appreciate your time. Thank you 301 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: for being with us this week. 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