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State Sen. Lance Bell - Jeff Poor Show - Thursday 9-26-24
You got to know when the hold up Know when to hold up Know when to walk away Know when to run You never count your money When you're sitting at the table There'll be time and love for counting When the dealing's done Welcome back to the Jumpport Show And if I talk with 065 They just stick it with us on this Thursday morning 251343 0106 would be in touch with the program All you got to do is text me And I'll do my best to respond to whatever it is That may be on your mind Still to come on the program In just a few About an hour from now To be exact April worry focal And then in the 11 o'clock hour We'll talk to former state senator Dick Baru Baker So please stay tuned for that Thank you for joining us now Making his debut on the Jumpport Show And always appreciative of a new guest But stay senator Lance Bell From Pell City St. Clair County Is on the line with us Senator, good morning, how are you? Good morning, Jeff, how are you? Doing well, doing well Thanks for coming on And I just kind of listened to some of your other interviews You've been doing here in the last few days But Senator, first we'll get to the story in a moment But let's start with your visit to the border And the thing that got me Was kind of like It's like there's these advertisements, you say And the way people are being lured To come across the border And it ends up being Just a bill of goods, right? You have a human trafficking aspect And a money laundering aspect That is really shocking And there's commercials being played over in Haiti Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba That shows this glorious life Move, you know, go to the United States Go to America, this glorious life These people are selling everything they have They are saving up money Their families are putting money To get them on that trail They leave on a nice boat Wherever country that and get to Mexico And from there it's pure Hegel for those people As they try to make their way across Mexico to the border And once they get there, these charities That are down there working They're taking advantage of them They're taking advantage of us The federal taxpayers And they're taking advantage of them And it should be criminal what they're doing Well, and you know, they're doing this And these people get here And it looks like fraud to me Like, is that, I mean, at what point Is that a, you know, a criminal offense? It is, and the bad thing is Our federal government The Biden-Harris administration Are the ones that put all this in place They're the ones that are funding this And it's a crime shame That it's happening And they're taking advantage of these people Of what they're doing And some of the people you met last week It was sad That, you know, one lady had her baby here It was eight days old When we saw her and the baby That was Venezuela Going to New Orleans And they're, I guess that baby's 15 days old now And they're somewhere in New Orleans She didn't have a clue who her sponsor was She just had a name someone had give her No family here So it was just going to be them Dumped out in New Orleans Somewhere else Where's that 14 day old baby out today? Who's taking advantage of that Without you and is giving rape kits away Giving things of that nature These people are being sex trafficked They're being used for who knows what And at the expense of what the Biden-Harris administration has set up It's sad Relations have consequences And if we don't make a change in November It's only going to get worse Now tell me about this now You say they come across with these EBT cards with What, like five grand or something loaded on them? We walked in there And they've all got cell phones And then they've got I guess that's a debit card And most of them the families get $5,000 When they come in these charities There's a big bar set up when you walk in the door And that bar where we would say Bourbons and ROMs and bottles If you went to a bar in the United States That bar has diapers Toothpaste Toothbrush And the necessities that you need Well when they come in They're using their card also For those kind of items at that charity Well they don't understand the money They don't understand what's on their card So by the time they leave that charity Their card is down to about zero The charity's got not only the government paying them And this year I think that one charity went through It's made over $7 million just this year That's just this year that they've already got closer to $8 million And plus they're charging these people Almost the $5,000 On every card it comes through there By the time they leave And then they leave them broke I disagree with our government Given them the money I disagree with our government Given them the cause You just think just this pro program started $530,000 Cubans, patients Nicaraguans and Venezuela's have arrived And they've been granted pro status Here at the United States $530,000 by the Bureau of Border Patrol numbers And that's just the ones that are actually counting Where are these people going? Who's taking care of them? They can't, you know, they come here They don't know the language They're being thrown in our school system And our schools are not equipped for it We don't have the translators There's only so many translators that can speak the languages They speak And it's a bad situation for everyone Well let's talk about this The city at one of the cities And your Senate district, Silicaa, has been in the news And I, you know, it looks like right now There's some Haitians being settled there It's all part of the CHNV program we just mentioned Let's, you know, these town halls We sent one of our reporters over there to cover it And there's not much You guys at the state level could do Is kind of the message that you conveyed, right? That's correct Well, could, and you've got a legal mind here I mean, is there something criminal going on here With these sponsors making these promises These NGOs, even these charities And that they're making I don't know, leading people a little astray here Bringing them here Not necessarily having what they promised Like, is that, is that something within the state's purview? Not in the state, but we don't have anything with that now And I will say, and someone you have is a regular guest, Senator Elliott We have had several conversations along with some others I think you're going to see some things that's next session We're going to try to do to chase the sponsors And I believe this was Senator Elliott's idea The sponsors should have to register here And it's a criminal attempt, if they're not mainstream They're bringing here, where they're bringing them Because we, for infrastructure, for the education system For the things that they need We need to have money set aside for the interpreters Those kind of things, if they're coming here Like they're coming But we need to shut the border down Close the border down, get it secure And figure out what we're doing and how we're doing it And we need to do a better job on the border To all of this, but would divide the administration Doing what they're doing, they're granting all of this They're funding all of this, they're behind all of this Our hands are tied on the state level, for the most part Well, I just, it's just the criminal, I mean, potentially criminal Going on with the de-enablers And not necessarily the so-called refugees And, well, why wouldn't you look at that? Number one, number two, the jobs, I guess I don't think all the people who are employing these Haitian asylum seekers Or whatever you want to call them are necessarily bad actors Some are maybe employing them after the fact Well, they're here, and they need a job Others, at least some of these poultry processing plants Senator, I think you're just exploiting a very difficult situation I agree with you, I agree with you They're, they're talking the middle You know, that's the bad part, you kind of feel sorry for them 'Cause they're the ones trapped in the middle They come here under one thought process of where they're going They get here, and I can tell you what they showed America is being in that commercial I'm still looking for that vacation spot 'Cause I'd love to go there and see it myself Yeah, I mean, that's really what it is They are, you know, the false advertising aspect of that And not really having a way to, you know, you get here And then suddenly it's a totally different set of circumstances But it's probably better than what they left Still, even under these, under this dress, right? I agree, I agree Well, and so the feedback from your constituents You know, we had kind of a similar, I honestly scared, but Concern, if you will, down here where I'm at in Fair Hope And what I can't figure out, Senator And this seems to be sort of the rule There's one city councilwoman in Silicon Who's an exception, but There seems to be sort of a disconnect here between the municipal governments And especially at your level, at the state level And even our congressional delegation in this state Like, what do you make of that? These municipalities are more concerned With telling the constituents, "Hey, it's going to be okay You don't need to be upset, don't listen to the rumors" And I don't know that they can do a whole lot But maybe proactively they can enforce some zoning ordinances or whatever But it does seem like the levels of concern vary greatly I agree, and I can tell you from Silicon, I've got a standpoint that council members there Have reached out trying to figure out answers We've reached out, Congressman Rogers has been great Senator Brett, Senator Coverville, they have all been trying to work it But they're not even getting answers On the federal level, they cannot even get the answers that they are asking for It's just like they're stonewalling Yeah, I just... Kind of some of my sources in that orbit, Senator, tell me this Let's see what's thinking about this You know, it seems like an in-opportun time If you're a Democrat candidate for president To have a Haitian resettlement controversy Because that is going to animate, motivate voters to go the other way for Trump But there's this idea that Trump will win And they're facing a January 20th deadline Because that's inauguration day And you have hundreds of thousands of these Up to half a million of these CHNV refugees All, you know, probably south Florida Most of them, but some come across the other ways across the border And they got to find a place for them Before Trump gets into office and resends that order And then once they find them a place If Trump tries to deport them Some liberal group will go to court And try to stall it like they did Trump's travel band And eventually got upheld by the US Supreme Court But it seems like there's a... There's a very kind of evil sinister game being played by the Biden administration right now with this Absolutely. But think back in 2011 Our state legislature passed a very tough immigration act And by the time they got finished, the federal court had destroyed most of it So at one time Alabama had a very good law in place But then by the time it gets through the federal courts And the same thing's going to happen again just what you said Whatever we do is going to be tested in federal court And I think the times today may be a little bit different With what's going on But, you know, just who knows what federal court will do with it Well, I guess this Well, let me ask, and then this is totally off topic, but tangentially related You hear these mayors and these cities wanting a... The clock switch ban, which is already a federal law in the books against it What's the difference between what Alabama tried to do with immigration back then? And getting eaten up by the federal courts and trying to supplement Already something that looks like it's a federal law I mean, isn't that sort of the same thing? It is Politics with people's lives It's the same, right, so it looks to me like it's sort of like the same idea But the people who were probably pushing back against that immigration law back in 2011 are the ones now wanting this clock switch ban, right? Think about this Certain mayors come in They don't want you making, you know, unlawful possession of marijuana second-degree thing Look in their case, made of municipal court And municipalities regular all day long District courts also But you have certain mayors that come in and don't want to do that anymore And so they stop their officers from enforcing laws that are on the books So what's the difference if they'd been enforcing those laws, the simple laws Finding those people that are doing those kind of things It all follows hand-in-hand What gives you, you know, change the permit, you know, permitless carry We have no way to enforce the laws now and check in people Well, if you go back to the laws that's already on the books prior with marijuana, for instance You know, you're parking all these people from the Mr. Mayor marijuana conviction You can still today pull those people over if they got that marijuana It's still against the law, enforce the laws on the books And you solve a lot of problems Quit trying to go back and blame things that are not there Senator, we'll wrap it up on this And Lieutenant Governor Williamsworth was down here and said as much But it does look like this to me that By breaking a lot of these refugees and resettling them in Alabama Potentially in some places, and I'll put Talladega County on this list If the system's overwhelmed, the county government will look to the federal government for help And it creates this dependency Which I think when you create these sort of, you know, intergovernmental dependencies And they become beholden to the federal government Which really changes the politics And does it seem that way to you? Hey, man, I agree Yeah, I mean, that's what it looks like is going on here And I don't know the politics of Talladega County or any of those cities around there But, I mean, you got to be concerned about that, right? 100% We'll keep an eye on that Well, Senator, it's been a pleasure getting you on this morning And let's do this again real soon Maybe we'll say that I'll bring that up some other time You ask about some of your gambling bouts earlier this session And the day that we'll live in infamy, but we'll say that for another day Hi, man, thank you Thank you All right, state Senator Alance O'Bell right there We got to get a break in here, we'll be right back This is the Jeff Moore Show on FM Talk 10065 (upbeat music)