Chapter 1: What recent incident involving ICE agents in Minneapolis is discussed?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. If you hear a little raspiness in my voice, well, that is because I just spent the last three days, about four to five, maybe five and a half hours a day, finishing up the audio book. I didn't read it out of this book, by the way, because times have evolved.
And apparently they used to have to take just reams of paper in and then have to go back and manually remove the sound of the pages flipping. So I got to go off an iPad, which I found to be a far superior experience, but it's done up until the point where they have to come back and they do pickups.
I'm really happy I got to at least get the opportunity to read my own book that I wrote, essentially accidentally, or I was tricked into it. That's a better term. Glover and I are going to discuss that in a few weeks when he comes back on the show. But it's over. I don't know what's left to do before the book comes out. I think I've actually met all the obligations as far as a production side.
The writing is obviously done. The book itself, the audio book has been done. feeling a little raspy, like I said, as you can hear.
Chapter 2: What are the actual powers and limitations of ICE agents?
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Chapter 3: How does public perception affect the discussion around immigration enforcement?
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No one will ever be able to guess what the number one question people have been bombarding me with. You ready for this? This is going to come as a shock. Minneapolis.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of misinformation regarding ICE operations?
Minneapolis and specifically ICE. And it goes broader than that. Immigration.
Immigration.
ICE policy, ICE training, tactics, techniques, procedures, uniform, lack thereof, facial coverings, all of these things. When I say bombarded, I mean kind of bombarded. It's really interesting the aggressive nature of that people will approach when it comes to topics like this or any topic that they're passionate about.
I understand that the baseline motivation is that they are passionate, but some people get to the point of demanding that I say something, or I need to create content addressing this issue. And I'll tell you right now, the reason that I don't, because what I see right now is that almost nobody is listening, but a lot of people are yelling at each other back and forth.
And that's not helping anything at all. There is a lot of misinformation that is being spread around. And I'm gonna go try to at least go through some of this because I knew I was gonna talk about this. And there are some very interesting misconceptions that although are sticky,
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Chapter 5: How can mindset and preparation impact military selection processes?
are being thrown around as if they are fact. And I actually think that to be quite dangerous. So we'll talk about that in a minute too. But the overall reality is this. I reserve the right to not have an opinion on everything. I'm just me. I don't have some deep and nuanced understanding of, let's start at the very top, immigration policy inside of the United States.
let alone where ICE falls into that in their enforcement role, the specific laws that boundary their behavior, the left and right limits of what they are able to do. And I also realize, because I have fallen for this many times in my life,
That more often than not, the first information that is put out or the information that comes out in the closest proximity to the event itself is almost always the least accurate. But it is amazing to see how it trends. So for the people out there demanding that you need to know my opinion or I need to make content, go find somebody else that is making that content for you
or that you want to see at the velocity you want to. Because I reserve the right, again, to not hold a deep opinion on this stuff until I can develop at least a better understanding and do some of my own research. So here we go.
Chapter 6: What strategies can help build confidence before high-stakes assessments?
Minneapolis. There was a fatal shooting. involving ICE agents. A woman, I believe it was a minivan or it was like a SUV. I didn't look at the video that many times. And actually when I did look at it, I wasn't looking at the make and model of the vehicle. Tied to immigration enforcement actions. So let's go broad umbrella to the
the tactical level, the 30,000 foot view to the boots on the ground. We'll work our way there. Again, I'm going to say this as a disclaimer, I am not an expert on immigration policy of the United States, but as I'm sitting back and I am watching this play itself out, I keep having a question come to the surface in my mind. Are people reacting the way that they do because of the optics
or the objective? The optics being, of course, what it looks like, what it could be perceived like, not only to Americans, but to the world. Or is it the objective, which is to enforce immigration policy in the United States?
Chapter 7: How does the speaker view the relationship between laws and immigration?
My personal opinion, Andy Stumpf's opinion, that counts for nothing other than my opinion, feel free to ignore if you want to, is that our country cannot survive without laws. And if we're going to have laws, we are going to have to have people that enforce those laws. Without that, I don't see how we exist. I also think that it is essential that we have immigration.
I believe, it is my personal belief, that the United States of America is and can continue to be a beacon for the rest of the world. There is a reason that people will risk everything and leave everything they have to try to make a better life here. So I understand that. And I think immigration is essential. But it cannot be uncontrolled. And I will also say this.
Part of the immigration process, in my opinion— that if you are unwilling to participate in this particular process, that you likely have no business staying here, is the assimilation portion.
If it is your goal to leave wherever you came from, to come to the United States, to recreate the exact same environment that you feel the need to leave or felt the need to leave, I have a problem with that. And that left unchecked will destroy our country because our country will become something
that it is not, or it will become flavors and versions of another country, which, by the way, let's not forget, people are risking life, limb, and family to escape.
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Chapter 8: What personal experiences shape the speaker's views on confidence and readiness?
For the people who want to come to this country, I struggle to find anyone absent a very small group of people that have probably other much bigger issues upstairs that would argue against immigration at all. Like it should be a hard stop, no, nobody ever. I don't really encounter those people. And I don't actually even really encounter a lot of people who would argue for illegal immigration.
They understand why people are coming here. They understand that there's a process in place or conceptually there should be, and they have no issue with people following that. So I think that like that baseline template, if we start there, I think most people, reasonable people would say, yeah, that makes sense. The assimilation piece is a big piece to me. If you come to the United States,
and it is your goal to burden our social systems, and again, create the environment from which you fled, I don't have time for that. And I don't think that should be allowed because it's a threat to our country and our morals and our values and who we are. If you're on the other side of that coin and you want to assimilate and become an American,
and live your life to the fullest of opportunities and freedoms. And yes, I know America is not the only free country that has opportunities, but I am talking about the people who are choosing to move here. If you want to do that, like two thumbs up, go through the process, get it done.
Immigrants, by the way, people I know who have taken their time and come here and gone through the process are some of the most patriotic, awesome people that I've ever known. And I think a lot of people would agree with that. But I don't think it can be an unchecked policy. We cannot have people rapidly pouring in, unchecked, unvetted.
If you do that, I don't see how that's anything other than a recipe for disaster. So again, broad immigration policy. And it seems like inside of that, there are Two enforcement windows. And again, I'm not an ICE person or immigration expert, but it seems like there is a chance to apprehend people at the borders, north and south. I'm going to roll them into one.
So you have border operations and then you have interior operations. It makes sense to me. that the more secure the border is, the more focused there is going to be on interior operations, which seems to be what is happening right now. People can argue left, right, and center about whether the border was wide open or not under the previous administration's reign. You can argue about it.
I would suggest you go to black and white math and look at the actual numbers versus then and now. It seems like the vast majority of enforcements from an immigration policy perspective were happening at the border when in the unlikely event it actually was happening. So it seems like now the borders, and I will say, I think the Southern border is far more secure than the Northern.
I live 60 miles from the Northern border. It would shock most people how porous and easy it is to cross. And I'm not trying to give anybody ideas, but anybody in the government listening to this, please do me a favor and pay a little bit more attention to that if you're going to pay attention to the borders. With that action removed or not removed, decreased,
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