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Episode 39 Mississippi Meat Market Bust August 7th 2019 Charlotte Cuthbertson with The Epoch Times joins Jay to discuss the recent ICE raid at 7 meat market plants in Central Mississippi that resulted in 680 arrests and employers in hot water. The worst violators were two processing plants owned by the same man, a Chinese national with a California address. For decades immigration reform has been a hot political topic.  One aspect of illegal immigration is the employer skirting federal and state laws to hire the illegal workers.  The immigration topic often revolves around the humans trying to seek a better life, but a firm Trump Administration stance could start to put pressure on the source of jobs for illegal aliens.  Charlotte and Jay discuss the recent bust and the role of employers in the immigration reform debate. Article: Mississippi Ice Sting Video: ICE Press Conference Charlotte Cuthbertson on Twitter @charlottecuthbo Email Feedback to thec...

Episode 38 Photo Credit: Maria Oswalt Trope:  What is a trope? I've lived 45 years on this planet without hearing that word.  It's all the rage these days: "Don't fall for the gas lighting trope." "He's using a racist trope." "She's alluding to an antisemitic trope." As I was researching what exactly a trope was, I discovered I may have heard it before after all.  It's a literary term describing plot development.  So in our modern psy-ops politics this term has been co-opted to describe a sly way of inferring something dastardly without overtly signifying the thing itself. But I'm here to tell you:  It's ok.  Most likely the user of the word trope may indeed be spinning their own trope of deflection.  Yes indeed, they may be using an old political trope by accusing an adversary of using a trope.  How can we survive stuck in this terrible trope! Just remember:  Omar can criticize Israel on the Palestin...