John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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You all started the same kind of a process. It's inevitable. That's the enduring truth. And that's what made America special and that made us strong.
Yeah. Well, again, because it's like that becomes like a third rail. We can't talk about this.
It's like I would want to make sure that we first we have to acknowledge the truth. It's like immigration has been an issue because America is an amazing country and they're coming from broken countries where they've all recognized that there's not a meaningful path for them to have a quality of life. And they're willing to risk their lives. And sometimes they even drown.
And it's like I can't imagine turning back. Turning could you imagine turning your children over to a coyote and, you know, they're going to, you know, go like like if you're trying to leave. Imagine I like, hey, in Pennsylvania, it's like walking to North Carolina with your kids on your back. I mean, it's like these are desperate kinds of situations. Right.
And acknowledging where that's at. And it needs to have a path. Otherwise, you're going to have to round up. And that's not realistic. And there's not the resources. And that's going to be incredibly disruptive. And it's going to be damaging economically as well, too. So how do you provide a pathway while also security? In my respect.
Well, to me, I think we can, you know, chew gum and walk at the same time on this. And it's not going to be perfect. It's going to be messy and it's not going to be. Right. But what would that look like? Whether there's actually a barrier or, you know, hiring, you know, thousands and thousands of more agents and whatever that it takes on that.
And it's like the best border deal in that situation is the best one that can be that can pass. Because otherwise, like, boy, if I could wake up with a perfect head of hair or I could – it's like – but it's like practicing the possible. And we were as close as we've ever gained in years and years. And that never came into –
Yeah, and we have to weed them out. And we have to deport them. Absolutely.
Well, again, that's just like taking taking some kind of an inventory of like who's actually here on this. And we have to figure out who's actually here on those kinds of a thing. And and there are going to be, you know, statistically, that's a fact that out of X million people, for example, you know, it's it's a fact that statistically that some that thinks terrible things are going to be.
perpetrated by those things. And, you know, statistically, in some sense, that Native Americans, you know, like not the American citizens, you know, and the criminality, if anything, the criminality is slightly higher, you know, in immigration communities as well. And some of the most pro-pro-American kinds of views, that's projected in those kinds of communities.
I mean, just like the community that brought my wife and their family to this country. And that's kind of where we're at. And I think what we're seeing now in this cycle, there are more and more Latinos that are changing their views on some of those. They're like, hey, we do need... We do need a secure border on that.
It's not necessarily assumed that because you are a member of a demographic that it has to – it's not necessarily consistent that it's going to be strong blue kinds of – But we all want safety, right?
Everyone. Of course, yeah.
Of course. And a secure border with more and more resources put on that. And that makes it's but it's impossible to make sure that, of course, you're going to have members of the immigration community that are going to commit kinds of terrible kinds of crimes. And you're going to see and those are going to be talked about in the popular media as well. It's undeniable that.
And I mean, they're incredibly tragic. And it's a fact. And that's actually the truth of the American story. Immigration made our nation.
And there were hard truths and we have a hard truth right now and we need to have a secure border and we have to find a way to celebrate our immigrations and the kinds of what immigrations and the contributions that they made to this nation and also to weed out or to minimize the kinds of negative kinds of things and those kinds of resources because we can't possibly support
an unchecked kinds of a situation that we had. And I described that if you had 300,000 people showing up at the border, well, that's the side of Pittsburgh, you know, in a month, like where are they going to go? You know, how are we going to give them an American dream already? Cause they're all going to need to certain kinds of resources.
And that should never be controversial to say it's like we can't – that's not sustainable. And it's like if we want for every immigrant their American dream, it's impossible if it's unchecked like that. And it shouldn't be controversial to anyone politically.
Well, I think it's undeniable, too. And, you know, I'm certainly not going to discount some of the experience of some people that have been hit by eggs or other things or, you know, inflation. But right now, our economy right now, it's really it's the world's envy throughout all those things.
By any metric, it's our unemployment, the stock market, and, you know, the hundreds of thousands of new jobs that are being created throughout all those things. And our inflation now has been kind of eased back into check. But it's undeniable that there was an incredible growth. inflation that hit certain kinds of families hard through those things.
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