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trail. One of the things that Benz recommends is that Trump allow the release of the transcripts and questions and answers from something called the OPR, the Office of Professional Responsibility, where investigators talked to Alex Acosta. He was the prosecutor working on the original 2008 plea deal for Epstein. And I thought to myself, how does Mike Benz know all these things even exist? Now, th…

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al health information of 79 million people, Americans, will be handed over to ICE. And then ICE will use that to figure out how to track down immigrants who are in the US illegally. I guess part of it is to get the illegals off of Medicaid because they're not allowed to be on it, but also maybe to just locate them. I don't know how you do that with that data, but that's bad.

Now, you might remember that I said to you that I wondered how long it would be before the aggressive deportations would start affecting regular citizens. So on day one, when you hear that ICE is deporting some murderers and some gang members, I say to myself, huh, that didn't affect me in any way, but if it did, it was a positive. I'm better off. And then they do some more criminals and they go after gangs trying to take over apartment buildings or whatever they're doing. And I say to myself, well, that's all good.

But remember, I warned you that there will be a time when the regular citizens are affected by it and that's going to change the conversation. So if you were, for example, a farmer who couldn't get your crops picked, and I'm not saying that will happen, it's not a prediction, but if you know, just as an example, that might affect your cost of food, maybe. And then you'd say, oh wait, they've deported so many people that we can't even fill those jobs and my food cost just went up because there was a lot of waste. Or maybe there were some other services that you couldn't get done. Or maybe people that you knew and liked in your life are being deported and you don't think that they were criminals.

Well, I'm here to tell you that I have now crossed that line. Meaning that this now has affected me personally. Not because I'm an illegal. Turns out I'm a citizen. Who knew? But I did meet and have an interaction with somebody who is, their life is ruined. Their life is ruined because one of them has been here I don't know 15 or 20 years, has been working productively and legally, never broke a law, never got a speeding ticket, has children that are legal residents because they were born here, and has I believe an American wife. I'm not positive about that. I think so. And his life and his family's life is in terror right now because they expect that although they're nothing like the criminals that are being deported, that they might get scooped up and sent to a country that they don't consider their country.

You know, if you've been living and working and obeying the laws, you think this is your country and no, it's nobody that you know. So don't guess. Please don't guess in the comments because it's not who you think. It's just somebody I had a conversation with yesterday.

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And I would say that affects me personally because it's the first time I had a conversation with somebody who was a law-abiding, you know, God-loving, family-loving, good person whose life is kind of ruined at the moment. And I don't love it. So more and more of you, I think, are going to have this experience that at some point the cutting is going to reach the bone and you're going to say, oh wa…

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