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Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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This is crazy how this just keeps going on, man. Really? This is nuts. How does this keep happening? A federal officials have not disclosed exact numbers, but there is broad reporting about migrants being swept up during recent immigration raids. It is a scary proposition for tens of thousands of hardworking migrants, especially those. So as ICE agents... Hard working, my God.

New York City looking for dangerous individuals and gang members, they can. can wind up at pretty much any business. And while an alleged rate at one of Amazon's warehouses was probably shocking to everyone inside, immigrant advocates are outraged, saying workplace raids have nothing to do with deporting the high-level criminals. Ice says thereafter, unless, of course, those criminals are doing whatever they can to hide in plain sight. Exclusive video of federal agents swarming into a Washington Heights building hours after a similar sting in the Bronx. Fucking got him.

A couple dozen arrests made in the early morning. Fucking got him. And that number groaning. It's leading to fear in these communities. It's not only palpable, but it's starting to actually become more and more visible. There have been raids in nearby Newark, New Jersey, at a wholesaler fish there. And then we saw most recently a raid at the Bronx terminal market. It's a well-known food market.

Antonio and Sorahi owned two businesses and employ nearly 30 people, some of who are also undocumented. Sounds like a fine to me. I mean, how is it that somebody is going? And you know that they're even admitting we're hiring illegal fucking aliens to work at the business. How the fuck is this guy not immediately fined at least? Isn't it illegal? It is. It's cheaper.

I don't even know what to say. How does this happen? entrepreneurs we're working hard we don't have any criminal records we're following the rules we're making the community a better place a safe place how do you make the community a better place or a safer that that's not even true number one you have a criminal record by the fact that you have a record at all the record that you have in the united states is foundational around you being a criminal what do you mean number one number two also what about the companies that are taking advantage of it as well.

We follow the rules. Uh-huh. It's like somebody breaks into your house, but they take their shoes off whenever they get inside. You're sweeping up a lot of them. All the legal entrance. Do you really believe they're the same? No, absolutely not. That's right.

We're prioritizing public safety threats and national security threats. And we have given ICE instructions. When you look for the bad guy and you find others with them, you will arrest them because they're in a country and violation. That's a AOE. That's an AOE. damage. Lo.

AOE effect. 400,000 people. So an alleged ice raid took place at an Amazon warehouse with a manager at the facility warning, it might not be the last. And even though the news outlet on this says they can't confirm all the details, what nobody in New York wants to admit is that if ICE does go and raid a warehouse and they take dangerous criminals and get them out of the country, they've done everyone in their favor.

Because according to the borders are, ICE doesn't just raid random businesses. And if ICE gets a tip that a criminal is hiding at or being aided by a business, they may locate individuals in the company of that criminal. They got to start finding these businesses and charging the business owners. If the business owners know that they're hiring illegals, you got to charge them. You have to do it because that's what's going to make this shit stop. Because if they don't ever get in trouble, all they're going to do is wait for, you know, in four years, right? like somebody, let's say somebody that, it's not like Trump wins, right?

And, you know, things go back to the way they were. And it's just going to keep happening. Well, who've got ties to them are assisting them and could also be dangerous. And the reason critics are so upset about this is there are over 400,000 people. That's a lot. Living in New York City, many who have jobs that these businesses rely on. Leading defenders of illegal immigration to claim ISIS enforcement actions could crash the local. economy. As these immigrants are taking jobs, Americans ref-

Oh, you're talking about crashing the economy. Let me get this straight. The only way the economy can survive is on the backs of people that are having there, that have less rights and less protections than American citizens. So we can't make sure that American citizens get these jobs instead, because that would be too expensive. We have to have a second class of citizens to do these jobs instead. Now, I've heard this before.

...use to work at an extreme statement for sure, as one has to wonder if it's possible zero legal New York residents will work in air-conditioned convenience stores or allegedly at places like Amazon, especially when a 22 study revealed 17% of workers under the age of 24, want jobs but can't find them. And that brings us to the first. real reason why workplace raids are an important part of keeping the country both safe and prosperous,

allowing a massive number of people to illegally live in your city and get jobs there just empowers the criminals who connect them with these jobs in the first place. We're talking gang members and the businesses that prey upon these folks, who even though they claim they're making the world a better place. It's not me on his hat. Guys, stop. When they underpay and exploit their workers. Now, of course, it's very hard to blame individual workers for taking jobs that are offered to them if they're here in need to feed themselves. But the business is hiring these people instead of Americans are preying on their desperate situation,

taking advantage of people who have zero workplace protections, like guaranteed minimum wage and labor safety laws. Plus, as you're about to see... And also, they don't have bargaining power, because if somebody wants to quit their job because they're being mistreated, there's the problem that now maybe this person can call ice on you because they have your name. They might know where you live. that's another big risk.

Someone gets an illegal job at a legitimate looking business. They're often only able to do it with the help of criminals who've embedded themselves in sanctuary cities. It's insane, man. You must prosecute the business owners? Yeah. That's what they need to do. If they prosecute the business owners, this shit stops overnight. Instantaneously.

The only reason why these people were able to do. do this is because they don't get in trouble. That's it. So here we've got a whole bunch of local businesses. Some are part of a larger corporate entity. Others are small independent shops. They might only have one or two locations. And according to the news, some of these independent places have admitted to hiring people who are unlawfully in the country. And some of these individuals have figured out how to get jobs at larger corporate chains that might have a more thorough employment vetting process. And now workers at Pretty much every business are on edge thinking that at any moment, ICE agents could walk in the door looking for somebody who's dangerous.

Antonio and Sorahi owned their family home. Two businesses, this restaurant and the deli at the corner, and employ nearly 30 people. Some of whom are also undocumented. So there's illegal immigrants that you're hiring on purpose. Well, fuck. I mean, that was easy. Holy shit. They just say it. Yeah, that's, wow, okay. Peren terrorists, we're working hard. We don't have any criminal records. We're following their rules.

We're making the community. Isn't a criminal to hire somebody and know that they're illegal? I mean, I'm sure mistakes happen. Somebody uses false information. They get a job somewhere. The business owner isn't at fault. But that's not the norm. So this woman and her husband, they seem like nice, hardworking people, but they're wrong.

not playing by the rules because it's illegal to hire people off the books. That's a crime and legitimate businesses don't do that. And not only does hiring people off the books empower criminals, they're not making their community better because anyone illegally working at their air conditioned restaurant or convenience store has a job that a law-abiding resident of that community can't have. But before we get into how people might be able to illegally get jobs at a place like Amazon or Target, it's important to understand how any business illegal. employing people hurts their community in ways many people don't even realize. Because companies who do this, they don't just take away legitimate jobs from legitimate

legal residents of their community. They also deprive legitimate. Isn't it crazy for us to think about the fact that this is even a conversation? That we have like such a huge subset of people that think that it's somehow a moral and good thing to let a bunch of people illegally come over into the country and work under the table? as if this is somehow a this is like the morally good thing because like you take a step back right and you really think about this

and the fact that it's happening it's really kind of crazy isn't it? It's a shock that this is even happening how the fuck did it get this far? The reason, I think the reason why it's gotten this far is because almost everything is based off of emotional reasoning now and so the way something makes a person feel

and the way something sounds is more important than what it is or what it actually is being communicated. Like that's basically it. Like it's literally feelings over facts. Yeah, it's completely emotionally charged rhetoric. And I think that so many people have been effectively co-opted by it that it's become massively pervasive. Is it really insane? It's been happening long ago before. before it became an issue? What has been? You want to know how it happened? Look at Argentina? I'm not sure.

Tax-free also? Yeah, no doubt. Business owners of the opportunity to compete in a fair marketplace. Think about that. How do you open a legitimate restaurant or cafe next to one that's not playing by the rules and has lower labor costs than you do? Your prices are automatically. This is a really good point he's bringing up. Is that like it also hurts legitimate businesses? Because if this business is able to operate at a lower cost because they're breaking the rules, then the other business either has to lose business to that person or make less money or do something else illegal themselves. It's an unfair advantage. Yeah. And this is, I think the problem, this door is locked. Bro.

Look, they lock. Monster energy is getting locked behind a fucking door? Oh my God. It fucks the whole system. Yeah. And this is what I think a lot of these people don't understand is that the second and third. order effects of this type of stuff is very dangerous and it's very problematic. And I think that a good example is what he just brought up about how other businesses now can't compete in the market because these other businesses are operating at a margin that is obtained through illegal labor. It's going to be higher than theirs because you pay more for labor than they do. And in a tough economy, whoever's got the lowest prices, they're the ones who are going to win

and everybody else is going to lose. And if people are working at a place in an off-the-book's manner, they're not benefiting either. Sure they might have a job, but it exists in the shadows, and these people don't benefit from any of the worker protections, which exists to stop predatory businesses from harming their workers in the first place. And living in a country where the laws that protect others don't apply to you is not the American dream. Instead, it just means that you're being taken. Well, it was before 1965. And that was kind of a bad thing, you know? advantage of

Worse on enforcement coming back no one hires an alien on the goodness or hard they're hard to work them harder to pay them unless an under

competition as you a citizen employees exactly but most importantly yeah I love how these business owners these like fucking

in a lot of cases not with that one but like in a lot of these millionaire business owners are trying to make this emotional argument of oh we need to hire these people

we're trying to do it for the out of the goodness of our heart no you're doing it to save money and you know it most victims of trafficking works license.

They have to pay the cartels off. They have forced in a later situation over where they're abusive. You know, this is something that many people have never considered. The fact that when ICE raids a business, they find trafficking victims that totally goes against the narrative that ICE is going into these places and pulling out people who wish they were there and are the happiest they've ever been. Especially when they're only going to businesses based on tips

about ongoing criminal activity and the presence of dangerous individuals. They're not going to places where the only thing possibly going, wrong are that otherwise law-abiding people are working illegally. And in New York especially, the signs of trafficking are everywhere. Literally, if you go to the bus terminal, a location where many asylum seekers and recent immigrants first arrive, you'll see signs warning people about this. I wonder why that's there. What could possibly be the reason?

Be there if it wasn't a problem. And according to the borders are, when businesses do they're hiring, they could be bringing people into their company. Usually they don't have stop signs in the middle of the forest, do they? Are trafficking victims and they might not even know it. Yet that person's entire paycheck ends up getting turned over to the criminals who forced them to take that job in the first place. And where might these criminals find their victims while this report says they're being located in the very shelters that New York City opened to keep people safe? Shelters which are infested with gang members because as a sanctuary city, we don't do background checks and police are banned from patrolling these places.

How the fuck did this happen? This is amazing. What the hell is going on? Oh my God. This guy actually makes a good comment. This is his first message ever. He made his account an hour ago. This is a prime example of how the middle class was being hollowed out

and yet somehow never became an election issue until recently. This is how regular people become radicalized. This is his first message. And he's fucking. right. Absolutely fucking right. There it is.

Yep. Somebody made a fucking account. Imagine not. After Banavation, hey, he learned his lesson. It allows the criminals

who are smuggling weapons inside to become the de facto law and order standard, doing whatever they want to whoever they want and nobody can stop them.

However, these gangs, they're not just getting people jobs at little mom-and-pop restaurants or convenience stores. They're also helping people get jobs at corporate entities that may have no idea. They've just hired somebody illegally.

Yeah, sure that happens. ...rested repeatedly on the Mag Mile for retail theft. And once they were interviewed, they explained why. They were then being able to either buy or trade for Social Security numbers by cards or American permanent residency cards. See, this is kind of the issue is that, like, you have people in illegally and there's like a cascade of other illegal activities like identity theft and other types of. and other types of fraud that happen as a necessity to a person living in the country illegally.

And so it's not like somebody just comes over here and they're just here and that's it. There's always like all of these knock-on effects that happen like this. And this story we were getting over and over again. This is like someone, don't you think also the tax burden on small business owners and companies is so high that it leads them to bend the rules? The tax burden on businesses is so high? No, I don't think so. I think when they can afford to pay their CEOs and their executives, millions of dollars and sometimes tens of millions of dollars a year. No, I'm not going to think about the tax burdens.

I actually think the taxes in some cases should probably even be higher. So, yeah, no, I don't think so at all. And also, like, small businesses, so there are small businesses, like the entire, so, like the premise here is that a small business can't exist unless they hire illegal labor. We all know that's not true. And there are a lot of small businesses that do exist without hiring illegal labor. So why is it that some of them can and other ones can't?

Well, maybe that's a skill issue. So this story is from a Fox affiliate in Chicago, but this same thing is taking place right here in New York. And fake IDs are being sold openly on our streets by gang members, which should be expected in a place that allows massive numbers of people in the country on lawfully to stay here. They're going to need a way to provide for themselves. And that creates a marketplace for false identification.

And where are people getting the money to buy their fake IDs? Well, according to this news report, they shoplift and steal and commit crime, which is such a problem. It's just like, we have a city where we don't, we don't, we don't arrest people for coming here illegally. And they're stealing people's identities. They're working jobs under the table. They're making money by stealing stuff out of stores and then selling it on the street.

What the fuck is going on? There's a reason, yeah, there's a reason why Gotham City's based on New York. It's just, yeah, this isn't a clown show. It's the whole circus. Oh my God. Y'all live in a massive PVP zone over there? Yes. Yes, and yes, and it enables PVP.

You're right. I forgot all about that. That's a good point. New York that our state is home to a $4.4 billion shoplifting economy. And when you walk through a store in the city, you'll see most products behind plexiglass. And although this is the obvious result of decriminalizing thefts that are nonviolent and under. Dude, this is, this is insane. See, like, remember what I was talking before about how, like, stealing a bunch of stuff out of,

like, or sorry, like all the threats and everything that people are making online is going to cause a reduction in personal freedoms? I think this is a really great parallel to what I was trying to bring up and talk about and I think this is a good example and like a good kind of metaphor for where things are going to be going online if things continue the way that they go or the way that they are, excuse me.

And by the way, do you know how fucking annoying it is to try to shop at a place like this? Like I go to Target instead of Walmart even though it's a little bit more expensive just because I don't want to have to act like I'm a fucking convict if I want to buy a pack of underwear. It's insane.

I instantly walk out. Yeah, it's insane. It's massively inconvenient. You're $1,000 in value. This type of arrangement allows low-level petty thieves to do this as a full-time job, which is why you have so many open-air theft markets throughout the city where people are just reselling stolen goods on a sidewalk somewhere. But even if a person steals just long enough to get a fake ID,

so they can work at Amazon or Uber or Target or any business that actually checks, they're going to need a real ID and a valid Social Security number. And the way these criminal gangs help people get an ID like that threatens every single person in our entire country. It's crazy how stupid people are that they couldn't see this happening. It's actually shocking to me that this obvious effect is somehow completely like just incomprehensible. It's by design. You think it's by design? I think that you put too much faith in the system. I think the fact is that it's just a massive amount of emotional reasoning

and stupid people doing the thing that makes them feel good. That's what I think it is. And you're right that there's probably an Illuminati that's working behind the scenes that's trying to make the happen. But it's still happening voluntarily. The people are still making decisions and choosing to do this. That's what I care about. So it's one thing for a person who's in the country illegally to get a job at a place where the owners think that they're doing. Didn't you just read how Soros funded it? Don't you understand what I'm saying is that like obviously you're always going to have bad actors that are going to try to like like, you know, push weird agendas or for, for, for, whatever thing, everything, right? But like, what's problematic to me is the fact that this is so, it's a socially

acceptable point of view. That's the issue. Does that make sense? So like, like, because the reason why they're able to do it is because it's a socially acceptable point of view. That's it. Shaming this, like the best place people will discuss it without being canceled. Yeah, I mean, over here, you'd say whatever the fuck you want. Like, I mean, if it gets like racist or, you know, it's like bad, you're going to get banned. But like, if people want to disagree or whatever, like, it's fine, right? I don't give a shit. Your phrase you're looking for is useful idiots?

Yeah, but there's just a lot of useful idiots, you know? There's a lot of them. Damn, that's a lot. But it's quite a number for that person to get a job at a legitimate looking place like this subway where they check. But in a city with over 400,000 people who aren't supposed to be here needing employment, that's going to have to happen if everybody wants to work. And because of that, you have a new victim entering the equation when it comes to unlawful employment. And that victim is anyone who has legal work authorization in this country.

This is what the migrants were bartering for, fake IDs, in order to secure employment. And then the vast majority of them are released. Nearly 500 fake IDs were uncovered. Social security cards, driver's licenses, and American permitted. So you got to wonder, where does a gang like this get hundreds of fake IDs? They've got stacks of them in there all for sale. Now, of course, the IDs could all be bogus, but it's not going to be good for business if word gets around that they don't help people get jobs, which means if somebody puts the information on that ID through some sort of database that checks to see if people can actually get jobs. There can't be any errors, which means some of the IDs floating around out there got into the hands of criminals in an illegitimate manner.

Now, the way for criminals to get their first few IDs that they sell are to have themselves, friends or family members, recreate a legitimate ID and then sell those IDs to people who, kind of look like whoever's on the picture, but that's not going to work forever. And the fact that there's demand for these things should terrify everyone who's ever been involved in some sort of data breach. If your identity or personal documents have ever leaked, a more sophisticated criminal could use that information to recreate your ID with someone else's picture on it, and then they could sell it an unlimited number of times to an unlimited number of people. This article says a legit driver's license will go for $500.

The New York Post found gang members in Queens selling IDs from $80 to $250, some of which were obviously bogus. But what this reveals is... There's a... Yeah, this is what's crazy about it. There's a massive economy that comes out of this. What's the endgame for Democrats with all this? I think that for a lot of them, there isn't really an end-the-game.

So it depends on, like, who you're asking. I think that for business owners, which is not... I mean, this is not a political... I mean, I don't think that there's like, you know, like taking like political sides out of it. I think for business owners, the end of game is cheap labor and more money. For the people voting on it, the end game is feeling good and knowing that you're better than the people that you disagree with. And the people who you disagree with are racist and evil. And then I think for the politicians, the reason is that they're betting that the people that are going to come over will have some degree of thankfulness and will actually vote for.

them in the future. So I think you put all of these together. And if you can figure out what the incentive is, you can figure out why something is happening. I think that's the reason. That even somebody who is well-meaning for the most part has to subject themselves to the criminal underworld if they want to get a legitimate looking job in this city or in any city in America, for that matter. Even so, there are people out there defending illegal labor practices as being good for the entire country. Even at my dry cleaner, you know, I went the other day and there was nobody there. And she said, well, I let my employees go down to the protest in Newark.

She said, and then she asked me, do you think this is good for the small business community? And I went, well, look at your shop. This is one day. What happens when your employees just don't come in people? So here's what's going to happen. I don't even, what do you even, because they went to a protest? Yeah, you don't have any, number one, the entire premise of this is bullshit because they went to a, protests. You let them go.

It's like every part of this is stupid. Business, they're going to be forced to hire legally and they're going to be forced to play by the rules. When businesses and everybody plays by the rules, the country is better off. The country is not better off if businesses

break the law to get a leg up on their competitors while acting like they are engaging in some noble pursuit that's not at all related to money. Especially when giving those jobs just leads to numbers like this. We're 17% of people age 16 to 24 can't get jobs in New York City. And these are people. That's a lot of fucking people can't get a job down.

People who would be willing to work in an air-conditioned business where they can bring their smartphone like a grocery store or a bodega. These are not people who won't work because they refuse to do the jobs that exist. And here's the thing. These businesses like this dry cleaners mentioned by that news anchor, of course they're not hiring people who they think are victims of trafficking. And they might think they're playing by the rule. Air conditioning. Well, the argument that he's making is that, and there are some like really, really low status, really shitty jobs that it's hard to fill with American workers. So people use like a migrant workers to do that. And I think this is especially true with agriculture. But what he's saying is that the entire premise of that goes away when you're talking about working at a gas station. You're working at Subway or Amazon. Like these are normal places that average people can work at.

the requirements are not going to destroy your body. There's nothing like that's extreme, like a call center. Yeah, it's an easy, comfortable job. Well, I mean, like, it's not an easy job. And it might not be comfortable, but like compared to picking strawberries it is. It's because so many businesses here don't. And the most maddening thing about all of this is, yes, New York is a sanctuary city, but it's also very progressives.

And who do progressives say they're sticking up for? the little guy. They're out there on one hand advocating for the little guy to get higher wages. Yeah, they've gotten, they've gotten sci-opt into defending these massive multi-billion-dollar companies or multi-million dollar, you know, business owners into thinking that they're helping the little guy by advocating for these business owners to continue using, you know, second-rate, second-class citizen labor. It's really impressive. Yeah, it's like tipping. In a way, yeah.

And more protections, but at the same time, they're totally okay with businesses who don't do any of that in the name of open borders? Minimum wage in New York is 16.50 an hour. It's a lot. And ask any progressive, they'll tell you that's too low. And they'll tell you that greedy businesses should be paying more because we're- You know what's funny is that I think that they're right. I think $16 an hour probably is too low in New York. And I bet you might not be able to make a living working 40 hours a week at $16 an hour.

like I would view like you know like this is like my my view on like minimum wage right is like if you have to work if you're working 40 hours a week and you can't afford an apartment or a place to live on that money then the minimum wage needs to go up because if it doesn't go up you have an untenable situation in the long term. That's the most valuable input in any economy unless of course those workers are in the country illegally. If that's the case, there is nobody advocating for them to get higher wages or more protections. There's just anger at the fact that ICE is here and might arrest somebody who's a criminal. And this puts progressives in sanctuary cities in a catch-22. Here they are advocating for

policies that disenfranchised workers who they say are already disenfranchised by virtue of their immigration status. And these people don't care about anybody, any workers or anything like that. They just care about having the right opinion. That's it. Yeah. It's, It's all optics and virtue signaling. That's it. Awful workers. They don't have the one thing legitimate workers have, which protects them. And that is the power to walk.

Here's the way that I look at it. You can say you can tell the employee to get a better job. But have you ever thought about telling the employer to get a better job? Like if you have a function that you can't even justify paying somebody a living wage for, maybe that's your fault as an employer. That's just me. Away from any business they feel isn't treating them fairly and work somewhere else. That's not possible if the only job you can get is because the people working there are willing to break the law.

And this brings up a big question. Are the businesses who are hiring people illegally doing something good? Or are they just doing something that's good for their bottom line at the expense of the rest of society? And does that improve? Well, it's guaranteed that they're doing something that's beneficial for them financially. Like, that's the guarantee. Power, the very criminals and gang members, ICE may have to raid a business to find in the first place. Let me know what you think about that.

Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you in the next video. I love these fucking videos. I think this guy's amazing. I'm so glad that he's calling this out, and I totally support. Cash Jordan. I've watched probably 10 of his videos before a good video. Yeah, he's so good.

And I really think, like, I mean, he's doing the Lord's work, right? I mean like it's crazy how bad this shit's gotten. I'm actually really kind of shocked.