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Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the John COBLT podcast on the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 2: app on from one into four, then after four o'clock

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Speaker 2: John coblt on demand, and today we are gonna have

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Speaker 2: two runs of the Moistline next hour, and we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have two hacks thrown in the dumpster too. I think

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Speaker 2: this is our final dump of the year. And they're

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Speaker 2: they're unconnected, but one of them is in rough shape too.

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Speaker 2: It's I think it's the first time we've ever thrown

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Speaker 2: someone in this condition into a dumpster. So that'll be

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Speaker 2: in the next hour. Todd Spitzer coming on the Orange

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Speaker 2: County District Attorney, a real district attorney who puts people

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Speaker 2: in jail. You don't run across those kinds anymore. And

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Speaker 2: they cracked the case thirty four break ins across Orange County,

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Speaker 2: half million dollars in weapons, valuables and cash stolen, twenty

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Speaker 2: people charged, five juveniles and major ties to LA gangs.

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Speaker 2: So let's get tought on to talk about this novelty

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Speaker 2: of prosecuting criminals.

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Speaker 1: Todd, how are you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm great, So let's talk about whether it's novel.

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Speaker 3: You know, today I opened up the Orange County Register

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Speaker 3: Sheriff Don Barnes and I did this press event yesterday, John,

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Speaker 3: where we talked about the arrest of twenty individuals, five

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Speaker 3: juvis in about thirty four residential burghs and now might

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Speaker 3: we filed criminal charges against all the adults, but of

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Speaker 3: course the juveniles get transferred to LA. I'm not sure

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Speaker 3: if everybody knows that, John, Under California law today, even

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Speaker 3: if a juvenile commits a crime in Orange County, they

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Speaker 3: they reside under some theory that you know, their parents

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Speaker 1: So right, so that's a good one.

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Speaker 3: I got to ship all the juvis back to LA.

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Speaker 3: And you know what's going to happen to the I'm

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Speaker 3: in Los Angeles under George Gascombe. But this is the trend, right,

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Speaker 3: As it becomes more and more difficult to solve these crimes,

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Speaker 3: because they know that the legislature. You think the legislature

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Speaker 3: what they've done for juveniles. They've actually gone even more

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the nature of this crime. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people are astonished when they see the videos thirty

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Speaker 2: explain the methods that these smash and grab groups use?

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Speaker 2: Are these burglary groups?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure, sure, so you just shifted gears a little

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Speaker 3: bit on me. I just want to be clear. These

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Speaker 3: prosecuting thirty four residential burglary. So just a few tips

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Speaker 3: that people should know, even if they have alarm systems.

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Speaker 3: These individuals are smashing upstairs windows. They're coming in in

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Speaker 3: the parts of our homes that we generally have not monitored.

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Speaker 3: They're cracking the windows. You know, most people don't put

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Speaker 3: They're literally just moving, They're just removing the glass, so

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Speaker 3: they climb in and then they perpetrate their their heist,

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Speaker 3: And I've talked to you before about the Chileans. The

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Speaker 3: this model by surveying our houses, knowing when we come

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Speaker 3: key points, your listeners need to make sure they don't

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Speaker 3: go on social media and show all their friends when

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Speaker 3: they're in Italy or in France climbing the Eiffel Tower

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Speaker 3: like that is literally being monitored by burglars. Your social media,

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Speaker 3: And then the other thing is talk to your alarm

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Speaker 3: let me shift gears to the smash and grabs. Fifteen individuals,

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Speaker 3: all dressed alike, right John. They all wear hoodies, they

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Speaker 2: This group that did the residential burglaries, what kind of

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Speaker 3: So we've charged them with first degree burglary, that's breaking

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Speaker 3: they know what they're worth, they know what they are

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Speaker 3: arguing to judges. Why these individuals should go to state prison,

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Speaker 3: very simple. I know you believe that this and you

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Speaker 3: and will actually be safer. Is that a novel concept

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it either.

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Speaker 2: I'm every day I come across something that's disgusting and

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Speaker 3: So let me tell you how you get something. How

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Speaker 3: you get something? Karen Bass bragged about one year in office,

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Speaker 3: she's done nothing to really get to the heart of

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Speaker 3: the problem. You can't give a homeless person a home.

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Speaker 3: It's not housing first, it's drug treatment and mental health first.

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Speaker 3: No one can have a home before they get a

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Speaker 3: Gascones got to go. I'm so happy you. I think

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Speaker 3: you reported Gascons pulling it like eighteen percent. Until he

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Speaker 2: Well said, it was good talking with you, Todd. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for coming on. Good work out in Orange County.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 2: You're doing it the way it should be done. Todd Spitzer,

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Speaker 2: Orange County District Attorney. And they charge twenty people tied

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Speaker 2: what three strikes was about. Recidivus get put away for

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Speaker 2: longer and longer prison sentences. It's easy, just do it.

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Speaker 2: Just judge their behavior. Did you do this, it's proven

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Speaker 2: Todd's doing it right. People are lucky in Orange County

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Speaker 2: and we collectively apologize here in La County for the spillover.

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Speaker 4: You're listening to John Coebelts on demand from KFI AM six.

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Speaker 2: Forty after four o'clock, Johnny can No, John Cobalt on

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Speaker 2: because they just cracked a Most of these are LA

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Speaker 2: stuff from people's homes. And he was talking about these

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Speaker 2: store owner in pleasant Hill up in northern California in

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Speaker 2: the East Bay what he did because the robbers burst

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Speaker 2: in with sledgehammers. He however, had a gun. Gun beat sledgehammer, right,

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Speaker 2: So the game worked in grammar school. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: Albert Marcou has been with the estate's consignment store since

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Speaker 5: and explains he's had enough.

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Speaker 6: I have to take us tend do many things happen

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Speaker 5: Staff believed that a woman seen on surveillance video may

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got Chanel hosts. Right, you can turn it

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Speaker 2: Well, they're not gonna have electric charging stations or gas stations.

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Speaker 2: And again everybody's like the people on the train that

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Speaker 1: Everybody just sits around and nod.

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Speaker 1: I guess this is the my life is.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what happens with this nonsense.

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Speaker 2: This is after they got processed, then Biden's government dumps

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Speaker 2: them in San Diego, forty two thousand. Well, separately, there's

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Speaker 2: eleven hundred migrant families being processed at the US Mexico border.

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Speaker 2: The other ones are getting busted in or flown in somehow,

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Speaker 2: they're transported from Dexas wherever. These are eleven hundred migrant

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Speaker 2: families processed at the US Mexico border, and they're getting separated. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you remember everybody crying and screaming about families being separated

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Speaker 2: during the Trump administration. The only difference is they're not

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Speaker 2: separating little kids, but they're separating spouses. They're separating adult

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Speaker 2: children from the parents that are traveling with, including forty

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Speaker 2: three between ages eighteen to twenty one. They're separating brothers

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Speaker 2: and sisters and cousins and all that. We'll tell you

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Speaker 2: all the details, but definitely, of course, none of these

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Speaker 2: people belong here. You know, if you want to stay together,

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Speaker 2: stay in your home country. Now there are you constantly

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Speaker 2: hear the cliche that immigrants come here for a better life.

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Speaker 2: But do they get a better life or do they

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Speaker 2: immediately get exploited by jackass employers who will abuse anybody

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Speaker 2: if they work cheap. Well, we have a guy named

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Speaker 2: Tony brand Brn. He owns two poultry plants, and he

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Speaker 2: hired immigrant children as young as fourteen years old for

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Speaker 2: all kinds of dangerous jobs, deboning chicken, operating heavy machinery.

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Speaker 2: And he hid all his child workers in bathrooms and closets,

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Speaker 2: hurried them out the back door whenever the US Department

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Speaker 2: of Labor Personnel would come to visit.

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Speaker 1: These workers.

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Speaker 2: These teenagers came from indigenous communities in Guatemala. They didn't

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Speaker 2: speak anything close to English or Spanish. They spoke their

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Speaker 2: local languages. I don't know how to pronounce these words.

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Speaker 2: One is ketchee qui chi, two different spellings. Their mom

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Speaker 2: and instead of going to school, they worked so many

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Speaker 2: hours they rowed overtime pay, but of course they didn't

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Speaker 2: get it. And Brand was cheating the adults and the

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Speaker 2: kids out of wages. And he tells the workers, well,

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Speaker 2: here's what one worker said. Brand tells us he doesn't

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Speaker 2: care about us. We mean nothing to him, and that

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Speaker 2: we should leave if we don't like how he's paying

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Speaker 2: us or treating us. He settled with the federal government

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Speaker 2: and paid almost four million dollars to workers, and then

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Speaker 2: he had to pay a million and a half in

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Speaker 2: a settlement with the California Labor Commission because back on

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Speaker 2: September twenty eighth, agents from the Federal Labor Department US

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Speaker 2: Marshall showed up and busted the whole operation. Now you've

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Speaker 2: been eating this chicken that's been processed by these illegal immigrants,

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Speaker 2: slave laborers, these teenage slave laborers.

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Speaker 1: If you bought chicken.

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Speaker 2: At Rouf's grocery outlet, Cisco i'ld I guess is that

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Speaker 2: another chain Brand had all these front companies U mets

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Speaker 2: up Poultry, Daltierra Poultry, Sullen Poultry, Nalyces Poultry to employ workers.

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Speaker 1: And what he also.

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Speaker 2: Did is he set up these companies to supply the workers.

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Speaker 2: He would say, oh, these aren't my workers. I got

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Speaker 2: these from an employment service. Well, he owned the employment service,

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Speaker 2: so he sold the workers to himself. But he thought

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Speaker 2: that would provide him some legal protection and kind of

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Speaker 2: confused the investigating officials. And this is this is common.

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Speaker 2: More than half the Latino workers in Los Angeles get

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Speaker 2: paid less than the minimum wage. And this is why

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Speaker 2: the Republicans have never, in all these decades ever cracked

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Speaker 2: down on a legal immigration, even when they were in charge,

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Speaker 2: even when they had the Senate and the Congress and

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Speaker 2: a president in office. They never because this is this

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Speaker 2: is what all the different industries want. They want to

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Speaker 2: abuse cheap teenage labor in their factories. The chicken processing

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Speaker 2: companies are notorious for this. A lot of it happens

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Speaker 2: in the Southern States, but it happens it happens here

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Speaker 2: as well. The number of miners employed in violation of

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Speaker 2: child labor laws increased thirty seven percent last year and

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Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty three percent since twenty fifteen because

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Speaker 2: the laws to protect work. But again, these are workers

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Speaker 2: who aren't supposed to be here, so you know all

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Speaker 2: this clap trap. Well, they come here because they want

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Speaker 2: to work. They come here for a better life. We

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Speaker 2: don't give them a better life, and we don't give

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Speaker 2: them even minimum wage work. And that's the reason you

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Speaker 2: have unchecked the legal immigration that goes on for decades.

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Speaker 2: It's in nobody's interest to seal the border. This guy,

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Speaker 2: Tony Brand makes it. If he'd gotten away with this,

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Speaker 2: I mean you add up how much money he had

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Speaker 2: to pay to after this federal and state lawsuit, what

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Speaker 2: does it add up to five point two million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Had he gotten away with this, he'd have an extra

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Speaker 2: five million bucks in his pocket. And he's probably pocketed

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Speaker 2: millions and millions of dollars. He's getting very cheap labor.

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the racket that's going on. Now we've

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Speaker 2: got we've got new influx of every day, and we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk with San Diego Supervisor Jim Desmond when

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Speaker 2: we come back because uh, eleven hundred migrant families have

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Speaker 2: been separated at the border.

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Speaker 1: This is this is Biden's compassion. By the way, you

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Speaker 1: notice that the the uh not.

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Speaker 2: A lot of media coverage of this, right, remember when

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Speaker 2: Trump Trump was separating people, what was going on? Well,

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Speaker 2: Biden separating a lot of people too, and then they

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Speaker 2: get sent off to debone chicken for Ralph's customers while

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Speaker 2: getting abused. Well, they're they're they're coming in by the

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Speaker 2: thousands and they're getting separated. This is on top of

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Speaker 2: the forty two thousand that the federal government divided administration

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Speaker 2: dumped in San Diego in recent weeks.

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Speaker 1: No to put any of these people.

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Speaker 2: There is no services, no nonprofits, no government agencies that

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Speaker 2: can handle this kind of a load. This is like

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Speaker 2: what's happening in New York City where New York City

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Speaker 2: got over one hundred thousand people that they don't know

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Speaker 2: what to do with. So that's all I had. We

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Speaker 2: have two rounds of moistline. Next hour, we've got two

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Speaker 2: hacks to throw into two dumpsters. Last one of the year.

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Speaker 2: Two hacks in two dumpsters, and that's coming up next

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