Scott Besant
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860 appearances
122 recordings
17 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Scott Besant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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under any law and under the United States Constitution, you can't tackle somebody because they look Somali without knowing who they are, what their name is, and you can't then detain them for purposes of immigration when they're a complete legal American citizen, when they have tried to provide information showing that they're an American citizen, where you have declined to receive that information, which you saw in this video.
What we are seeing again and again
is discrimination only to the extent that it applies to certain groups.
So they are discriminating only as it applies to, are you a Latino person?
Are you a Somali person?
Once that's been established, as far as we can tell, there are countless incidents where the arrest, the detention is indiscriminate.
You can't do that.
You can't do that in Minneapolis.
You can't do that anywhere in this country.
Not because I'm a progressive liberal mayor or whatever.
You can't do that because it's against the law.
The economy has been better than we thought.
We've had 4% GDP growth in a couple of quarters.
We're going to finish the year despite the Schumer shutdown with 3% real GDP growth.
Well, Margaret, inflation is a composite number and it's roughly the same year over year.
And if we were to look at all imported goods, imported goods inflation is below the inflation number, which is about
2.9%.
Imported goods inflation is about 1.8.
It's the service economy that's generating inflation, which actually has nothing to do with tariffs.
Mr. Secretary, a lot of people are out there holiday shopping.
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