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so locked into this open borders policy.

It's not because their voters enjoy this

kind of mayhem. They don't. The

president has the support of the vast

majority of Americans and trying to

control this. It's because the elites,

the top 10%, the top 20%, that upper

middle class professional,

overcredentialed, educated cast, that is

the Democrats base and they have

abandoned the working class including

union workers in order to do that. which

is why the president is just cleaning up

with the multi-racial working-class

coalition that he has built. Um, these

people are throwing a tantrum like

toddlers because they cannot imagine a

world where 77 million people voted for

Trump. This is like the fox Sarah Eisen

and they're pissed. Two, Karen Bass

wouldn't need to have a curfew if she

had things under control. She doesn't

have things under control, which is why

she's a curfew. Three, stop rioting. Let

me walk my kids to school safely. Get

back to work. Get off your butt. Get to

work. get a job and stop burning the

cities. That's what I'm talking about.

Taylor, coming up, one old school is

making I swear I feel like she used to

work at

uh Bloomberg. It says here, "Oh, I was

right, dude. I knew she looked familiar.

No way." I'm like, "That's the Bloomberg

chick."

Taylor Riggs joined Fox Business in

December of 22

prior to joining FB uh Fox Business News

Network or whatever. Rigs spent nine

years at Bloomberg News where she

co-anchored a daily program on Bloomberg

TV covering equities, bonds, currencies,

and commodities.

I knew it. It's her

discovered the answer. Mayor Karen Bass.

Angelinos are trying to live their

lives, going to work, caring for their

families while facing the constant

threat of sudden immigration crackdowns.

The fear paralyzes communities. We saw

it before. Kids too scared to go to

school, families torn apart without

warning. Let's not pretend this is about

public safety. It's political

retribution, plain and simple. You know

to some extent

it is true that you've had uh people who

have been led to believe that if you

come to America even illegally and you

claim asylum that over time you'll be

able to earn citizenship. Now that could

be through temporary protected status

that could be through a green card or

whatever. People were led to believe

this. You know Trump is taking that

belief away. Okay that's his

prerogative. That's what he campaigned

on. He campaigned on securing the

border. He campaigned on deporting

people and he won. So that's that

happens, you know. So now you have this

change. Is there likely some more

targeting in LA because it's, you know,

home of Karen Bass, who's a pretty big

failure as a mayor, especially what we

saw during the fires, and also a core

city within uh Newsome's state. Well, of

course, it's a perfect way to target

Democrats for the Trump administration.

So Trump is accomplishing two, you know,

two things. He's fulfilling campaign

promises of deportations and changing

the this sort of historical precedent

that even if you come over illegally,

eventually you can get your way into

citizenship. And I understand that

because immigration has been part of the

long-standing history of US culture and

otherwise. uh you know that's just now

being flipped on its head because you

know while we're hoping to get better

legal immigration we're still stuck with

the crappy immigration system that we

have right now while also going through

deportations which obviously does

exactly what Karen Bass says here. So

she's not wrong. There are children who

are too scared to go to school. There

are children who are afraid to go to

work. There are families that are being

torn apart because of these

deportations. So these things are true.

Now some people say that's absolutely

terrible. you know, families shouldn't

be torn apart. Other people say, "Well,

they're here illegally and so they

should be." Ultimately, everybody's

going to have their own opinion on that.

Typically, you're going to find people

who lean more right are going to say,

"This is what I voted for." And people

who lean left are going to go, "This is

like inhumane and it's not fair because

people were following sort of standards

that existed in place for very long

periods of time." But let's see what

what some of the um comments are here.

There's a phone number if you need help.

LA helpline. That's interesting. Let me

rewrite this as if you were not a

Marxist who wants us dead. Actual

citizens are trying to live their lives

going to work caring for their uh

families while facing the constant

threat of sanctuary city chaos. This

fear paralyzes communities. We saw it

before kids. So it's it's an interesting

way to write this because really what

this argument does this peachy Karen or

whatever the argument that she's making

is well you know like people who are

legal are threatened by violent

criminals. And it's true some of the

illegal immigrants are violent

criminals, but I would argue it's

probably like a 10 to one or honestly

even like 99 to one uh who are legal

just hardworking individuals trying to

make a living, you know, building homes

or, you know, working farms or working

landscaping or whatever that that are

being deported and and maybe again 1% to

10% of those are actually violent

criminals.

Tommy, it's almost like when you break

the law, you have to be fearful that

you're going to get caught and pay the

costers. This is true. So, in the past,

you didn't have to be fearful of that

because you just didn't really have that

many deportations, especially under a uh

you know, Biden administration. You did

more so under Obama who also used

expedited removal quite regularly. Uh

but you're right, Karen, because uh

people who break the law are upset with

consequences. We should not enforce uh

the law at all. you were so smart. Okay,

this is just the classic argument of

just Democrats don't want to enforce the

law. I mean, in fairness, you've seen a

lot of lawlessness in Democratic cities.

I mean, we've seen what's happened in

Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, San

Francisco. You know, these are all

left-leaning cities that, you know,

thought, hey, maybe if we legalize

drugs, there'll be less crime. And, oh

my gosh, crime actually got worse. Maybe

if we don't throw people into jail,

crime will get better. And, oh my gosh,

wow, crime got worse. So like some of

these democratic experiments have failed

and it's time for the Democratic party

to kind of wake up and move away from

these things. Uh it's about enforcing

law. If you don't like the law, you

could change it with the law, but you

don't get to attack law enforcement and

interfere with their activity. Totally

agree with this, by the way. Like don't,

you know, don't attack law enforcement.

You don't have to show up to these

riots, right? 95% of Los Angeles isn't

affected by these riots or protests or

whatever. Uh most people don't care

about this. uh and and and like it

doesn't affect them. Uh but there are a

lot of people this does affect and so

there there are definitely arguments on

both sides here. So I I get it. But um

you know I don't really I can't I can't

like a comment from her because I I

can't stand this lady. I think she's

terrible uh as as a mayor. Uh I think he

chose a rock and did a better job. But

don't get me wrong, like as much as I

try to stay neutral, I'm I just don't

like Newsome and Bass. Somebody here in

the comments is saying, "I'm hearing no

one is willing to work on fields and

construction. Does that mean prices will

go up on everything?" Uh, well, yeah. I

mean, sure. What happens is if like your

home your house cleaners or your

landscapers or whatever get deported,

yes, somebody's got to do the work and

you're going to have to hire somebody

who's uh, you know, paid a substantially

higher wage than somebody who's willing

to work illegally. Like frankly, if you

go to pay like clean your house with an

American company, you're probably paying

like $350 to $500 depending on how large

your house is. You know, you pay

somebody who maybe doesn't pay taxes,

although even illegal uh individuals can

pay taxes because you can get a taxpayer

identification number and you could pay

taxes. You know, why you would versus

not, you know, TBD. But um but yeah, I

mean, you might only pay like $250 to to

to somebody else. So like there is that

price discrepancy. So So yeah, like I I

don't think people are wrong when they

say like what we saw in that Fox segment

where people are like, "Oh, you know,

people are upset that people have to pay

higher prices." Well, yeah, absolutely.

And the same thing for farm workers like

strawberries or blueberries or, you

know, cabbage or or whatever. Like these

are all components uh that are of

basically consumer prices that are

worked by people who are typically

undocumented immigrants and you know

they're trying to become legal. They're

trying to pay for their family. They're

trying to get ahead and even the wages

that they're getting paid on the fields

are still twice the wages they could be

getting you know in Mexico or another

country. So just sort of like basic

economics.

Somebody says if we deport all 20

million the economy would take a big

hit, you know, and then obviously the

question is is that worth it? You know,

I mean I I personally think the best

case scenario is like you should just

vet immigrants appropriately and like

it's okay to like if you take these 20

million people who are living here, you

know, if there's a question like deport

all of them or not deport all of them, I

think that's too binary. I think what

you really need is can we screen these

20 million people and case by case in an

expedited way say look you're a hard ass

worker we want you you stay here's some

you know green card or whatever now

prove yourself otherwise we're stripping

it and you're going back to your country

right and then you are an

criminal out like that's that's what I

would do with this bucket of 20 million

people I wouldn't destroy families

and destroy parts of the economy uh and

and remove hard workers from America,

you know, because of the mandate to

deport illegals. I would try to like

strain the group of people and go, let's

work in let's work a legal immigration

process. Let's figure out how to get you

paying taxes, get you paying into the

economy. Let's, you know, what they do

with green card holders is they'll say

things like, you'll let you be a green

card holder, but you have to promise not

to use any social services. You're not

allowed to get social services. You're

not allowed to get, you know, like the

bare minimum sort of benefits or

whatever if you fall behind or whatever.

If you work here and work your butt off

and you can make your own living without

the support of the government, you could

stay and you're not a criminal, right?

That'd be my POV on this, right?

Uh so,

so let's see here. Case to case will

take like five years. Well, that's the

problem. That's why it's easier to just

kick everybody out, right? So, uh lol. I

I love how since you're an illegal

immigrant, people automatically think

you're a hard worker. Well, I I'm not

saying that. I'm saying that you have an

incentive as an undocumented immigrant

to work really hard because frankly,

you're working for a lower wage, so you

have to. It's not necessarily that you

want to, it's that you have to. And I'm

not saying that that like makes you as a

personality like, "Oh, okay. Yeah,

they're all hard workers." No, I mean,

I'm sure they're lazy people as well. I

mean it's it's going to be the same

distribution curve you know like there

you know 30% of Germans are going to be

lazy and 30% are going to be really

hardworking and 60% or 40% rather are

going to be somewhere in the middle the

same thing is going to be true of

Mexicans the same thing is going to be

of Canadians the same thing is going to

be of Chinese you'll have little changes

at the margins but I don't think that

really matters so much uh so let's see

somebody says no deport them all even if

they're a hard worker they're taking

from an American worker. Well, that's

not necessarily true because you're

working industries that Americans don't

necessarily want to work. Like, do you

want to go work picking strawberries in

the field in, you know, 90° weather uh

in the summer, uh, you know, get like to

where you have to wear sweaters and

hoodies so you don't get skin cancer and

die? Like, do you really want to go do

that job? Do you really want to go, you

know, clean somebody's bathrooms? Like,

these are jobs that people don't want to

do who are in America. So, this this

whole idea of like, oh, like I saw this

argument from from some Republicans

where they're like, oh, hey, if you got

fired from the federal government, why

don't you go do a job that uh an

immigrant is doing? It's like, really?

So, you're going to take that DMV worker

and you're going to put them in a

strawberry field? Come on, man. You're

talking about two totally different

economies here. These are two totally

different labor markets. You know, it's

it's almost like like, you know, one

person's shopping for a Tesla and the

other person is shopping for a

Caterpillar $1 million reaper harvester

machine. Like, these are two totally

different markets. Yes, they're both

machinery. Yes, technically they're both

styles of automobiles, but they're two

totally different markets. The same is

actually true to some extent of this

labor that we're talking about. you

know, a fired federal worker versus an

undocumented worker working in the

fields or working construction jobs.

These are entirely different skill sets,

entirely different markets. So, I I

don't think that works here. Somebody

says here, Kevin himself is an

immigrant. Would his parents want to

come in these current conditions? No

sane person is against deporting

undocumented people. We should still

want legal immigration. Well, we came

here legally, right? And and that's why

I encourage so much more legal

immigration. You know, we were green

card holders. We came here on a work

visa, got green cards, and eventually I

became a dual citizen.

So, what was I like 18 months old or

whatever? It's like telling a pipeline

worker to go to code. Yeah, very true.

Uh, the original Steven says, "These are

the real issues here. We need more

conversations." Like, well, I appreciate

you saying that. Uh, just saying the

current work conditions are bad doesn't

take away an American can't work that

job. I mean, that's fair. Like,

technically, yes. Could an American do

those jobs? Of course. But, you know, is

that an issue right now? I don't know. I

guess you could make the argument that

the vacancy rate for jobs is very low

right now. So, you could make the

argument that uh, you know, you kind of

have a lack of jobs available right now.

Maybe the vacancy rate would rise if

those jobs became available. This is

true. You might The way you then solve

that is you go, okay, farms now have to

pay higher labor costs. Fine, then go

subsidize the labor market for farm

workers, right? You could do that. That

would be a way of solving that potential

issue. That's true. Why is it always

people don't live in LA or in an

immigrant major city always the most

angry?

Well,

yeah. I mean, that might be a broad

generalization, but I see what you mean.

Like I think what you're arguing is if

you're not living in an area that is

like more multicultural, uh there's a

little bit it's easier to sort of have

that us versus them mentality. I I think

that's fair. I mean like personally, you

know, I work with a lot of immigrants

obviously. I mean in the work we do,

it's it's as far as I'm aware,

everybody's legal, you know. Um but uh

you know, like I don't care what

language you speak, where you were born,

what color you are. I don't give a fly

an F. If you're a good person who's not

a criminal, you're here to contribute to

the economy.

I I I would want to live here, too. You

know, I would want to live in America,

too. So, like, I don't blame people at

all.

I live in San Diego. We're doing just

fine here. San Diego is beautiful. Uh if

we ever send money to another country,

they are still taxed on the local,

state, federal level. Oh, if they send

money out. This is true. This is true.

Uh I think we have enough foreigners. We

should send you back. you could send me

back and I could still do videos from

Germany. Honestly, I wouldn't have to

wake up as early. I could I could do the

videos at like, you know what, 9 minus

uh or 9 + 6 would be 4. I could do them

at like 5:00 p.m. You know, we could

have market open at like 5:30 p.m. in

Germany. It'd actually be quite

convenient. I could have a whole day and

then do my streams at night in Germany.

So, that's it. Deport Kevin, send him

away. is send him back to Germany where

he came from, back to where he came

from. We don't want him here. We don't

need him. He says things uh that we

don't always agree with about the Trump

administration. He does also say some

bad things about the Democrats, too, but

but because he includes me, he's not a

friend of me.

Uh

let's see here. People in jail want out.

People in hell want ice. Moral of the

story, you don't always get what you

want. Well, yeah, I mean that's true.

Uh,

[Laughter]

we need immigration reform so people we

need for these jobs are able to come and

go legally. That's fair. I work remotely

for US companies. I do machine

learning/AI development. I make an

extremely high wage willing

willingly living in a lowcost country.

Am I in danger of being subject to a

tariff?

What you're asking for is a tariff on

services like human labor services.

That's very difficult to tax. Like it's

almost like an upwork tax, right? That

would be quite challenging. I don't know

if they could pull that off. I find that

unlikely. Tariffs on labor or services.

Maybe in a future economy I could see it

happen, but right now it seems like

there's enough punishing that you could

do with a goods economy that you don't

really have to get that complicated yet.

you know, they were trying to do that

with uh with the movie industry, you

know, movie production, like where are

the movies shot? We're going to tariff

them. You know, Trump was threatening

this. It's substantially more

complicated. It's hard enough to to uh

implement uh tariffs on on all the

products. Speaking of Germany, what are

your thoughts on the Germans econ German

economy? Well, the German economy seems

to be U-turning. You know, they actually

I mean, the Germany is an example of one

of the downsides of just unmitigated

immigration. I mean this the uh I mean

the mother of Germany they always said

uh Angela Merkel was ridiculously

over liberal with asylum immigrations

the importation of Turkish and Syrian

migrants with essentially no screening

uh and and the quantity of the

immigration that's created substantial

cultural change in in you know

significant parts of Germany.

That is in fairness a very real argument

of one of the downsides of unmitigated

unregulated immigration. I'm not saying

that it's not nice for people to be able

to get away from their war torn country

and flee to safety in a place like

Germany. But you know now Germany is

providing as far as I'm aware you know

this is just what I'm hearing from from

German family. I I have not fact checked

this, so please fact check this for me.

But what I'm hearing is uh migrants can

receive money for essentially being in

Germany or arriving in Germany and and

some of these payments are greater than

what what even Germans are receiving.

And so there's a lot of frustration

about that. So migrant money Germany,

I'm I'm curious. I don't know. Um in

Germany, financial support for asylum

seekers is provided through various

systems including the Asylum Seekers

Benefit Act. Uh they could pay for food,

shelter. There could be a cash benefit

of €367

per month uh for a couple, €150 for

singles. Asylum seekers may receive

compensation of up to €200 for voluntary

work, uh welfare benefits, blah blah

blah blah blah. Like, you know, that

pisses off a lot of hardworking Germans.

And so I think this is why I say like

what if you if you're going to have a

legal immigration process. I'm a big fan

of saying look if you want to be a legal

immigrant here, go work, but don't ask

me for state benefits. Don't ask me for

what's what you're seeing in New York

City where people are getting hotel

rooms for being an undocumented

immigrant. You know, that's bull crap.

There are plenty of Americans who were

suffering. like if they want to be here

and go work

again, I'm a fan of a a pathway to legal

legalization, but this idea of of uh you

know, give money away, I don't know. I'm

not the biggest not the biggest fan of

that. So now again, am I opposed to

asylum seekers moving to European

country? No. Again, it's a limitation

thing and a fairness thing to existing

citizens. So it's a balance. I think

Angala Merkel went a little too far. Am

I saying all Syrians are bad? No. I know

Syrians Assyrians. I I know people from

Turkey. They're wonderful people. I've

I've never met a like I personally maybe

I'm just lucky. I've had great

experiences with people from Iran. I've

had clients from Iran. Uh I've had great

experiences with people from Russia,

from from Syria. Like I don't really

care where you're from, like I've said.

Uh so but it's it's a balanced thing.

and somebody brings up the question of

Germany on an immigration topic. I think

that's somewhat important to talk about

and it's just an example. Why not

advertise these things that you told us

here? I feel like nobody else knows

about this. We'll we'll try a little

advertising and see how it goes.

Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you. Kevin Pra there, financial analyst

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