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I explore FULL DOCUMENTARY: The Indian and Muslim Takeover of Texas. Texans discuss dramatic changes in North Texas—from 72-foot Hindu temples in quiet neighborhoods to a proposed 400-acre Muslim city reshaping farmland. I investigate what this rapid transformation could mean for the future of the Lone Star State.
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FULL DOCUMENTARY: The Indian and Muslim Takeover of Texas Many Texans have been talking about the dramatic cultural changes happening in North Texas. From towering 72-foot-tall Hindu temples now rising in quiet neighborhoods to a proposed 400-acre Muslim city that could transform state's farmland, North Texas is changing in ways that locals never expected. Watch as @savsays investigates this rapid transformation and what it could mean for the future of America's Lone Star State. @TPUSA
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Savannah Hernandez reports from North Texas, exploring demographic and cultural changes. She notes Frisco’s rapid growth in Indian population over the last decade, rising from about 10% in 2010 to over 30%, and mentions one of the area’s largest Hindu temples dedicated to Hanuman located in a residential neighborhood. Inside the temple, she observes people walking barefoot, piles of shoes, and multiple deities being worshiped; she talks with two couples—one who came from Colorado specifically to visit the temple, and another Indian man from California who says Tuesdays and Saturdays are the temple’s busiest days.
Hernandez cites broader statistics: North Texas has one of the country’s largest Indian populations, more than doubling from around 100,000 in 2010 to over 235,000 today, with Indian Americans making up roughly 3% of the Dallas–Fort Worth area and higher concentrations (over 10–30%) in suburbs like Frisco, Plano, and Irving. She describes accompanying changes in culture—Indian grocery stores, restaurants, Hindu temples, Bollywood screenings, and Holi festivals.
At a Holi festival in McKinney, the team interviews attendees who discuss the festival as a color festival with roots in India; participants recount living in Texas since 2016 and coming from various parts of India (Mumbai, Gujarat, Hyderabad). They describe a strong Indian community in Dallas–Fort Worth, with celebrations of festivals from North to South India and a sense of the community feeling like home.
The report shifts to rising Muslim demographics, contrasting experiences of Texans who feel the state’s home identity is changing. Savannah and her colleague visit a neighborhood in Irving—Ali Akbar Court—where street signs display Arabic inscriptions and Eid decorations appear on homes. They note a campaign sign for a city council candidate with an Islamic-sounding name and observe street names such as Amal Saleh Drive and Mahmoud Egal Drive, highlighting what they perceive as a Muslim-centric zone adjacent to a broader Texas landscape. They discuss Epic Mosque (formerly East Plano Islamic Center) and Epic City, a proposed 400-acre, Muslim-centric city with a large mosque, Islam-based K–12 schools, and over 1,000 homes. Protesters gather as locals express concerns about assimilation, water resources, and potential governance implications, arguing Texas already has enough cities and warning about resource strain.
Inside Epic Mosque, the team interviews President and founder Samir, who differentiates Epic Mosque from Epic City, stating Epic City is not the mosque and that Epic City plans evolved from a desire to expand Epic’s concept. However, independent reporting reveals that Epic Mosque helped organize Epic City, with a video showing leaders discussing creating a large, Islam-centered city open to all. An independent journalist, Brianna Morello, is quoted discussing perceived deception and concerns about Western values, with claims that some mosque officials advocate political aims and that some materials discuss broader intentions to “bring Islam to the forefront” and potentially “conquer the West.” Reports indicate ongoing investigations by the Texas Attorney General and other agencies into Epic City, alleging securities violations, attempts to circumvent local oversight, and possible fair housing discrimination. No construction permits for Epic City have been issued as of March 2026, and the land purchase site is shown as farmland near Plano.
The piece also covers Kaufman County in a separate vein, where SCE Holdings—a Dubai-based company tied to Muslim-city projects—has pursued land deals that sparked resident opposition. Reporter Mary Rook explains how developers have moved southward from McKinney, Rockwall, and Hunt County, facing increased resistance and concerns about water infrastructure if a large Muslim-centric development were to proceed. Keller County residents discuss the need for multiple water districts and drought considerations, while some supporters argue the projects could reflect a diverse Texas future.
In closing, the reporters reflect on the scale of demographic change in North Texas, including Hindu temples, mosques, and Muslim-centered initiatives, and they emphasize that many rural Texas towns are being targeted, potentially shaping the state’s cultural and political landscape for the next decade.
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Speaker 0: Alright, y'all. This is Savannah Hernandez in North Texas. Now I've been hearing a lot about the demographic and cultural change up here, and I wanted to come and check it out for myself. Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm the holidays.
Speaker 2: I think it's like mini gear right now here.
Speaker 3: This is Texas. They need to assimilate to our values if they wanna come here.
Speaker 4: If they don't, then stay home.
Speaker 0: We're starting off here, and then we're just gonna drive. We're just gonna check out the area. Apparently, Frisco has one of the largest growth in Indian populations here in Texas, over the last decade. So we kinda just wanted to come check it out because we've been hearing a lot online about how much the Indian population has grown. And I mean, if we even just flip this camera right here, we are coming up on the Indian bazaar.
Somebody almost just backed into us. Frisco apparently has had one of the largest population growths with their Indian population. Back in 2010, it was like 10%. Apparently, now it's over 30%. And we are headed to this temple because it's one of the largest in the DFW area.
Now, I'm be honest with you guys, I'm kinda shocked seeing this because we are in a residential area. So you're basically driving through, you have these really nice homes and then boom, out of nowhere, you have this huge, very intricate Hindu temple. I wanna say this temple serves thousands of people. They come here to worship this deity called Hanuman. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
But this is a little idea of what Frisco looks like. And even in some of their school districts, Indian, children make up the majority of the demographic. So many Texans have been talking about how the population has changed, how the culture is starting to change here in Texas. And we kinda just wanted to come see for ourselves what was up. So I I wanna go inside the temple actually and see if we can get some footage of what it looks like inside.
Maybe we can talk to some people. Let's go. Okay. So I just went inside the temple and one of the things I immediately noticed was the amount of people that are just walking around barefoot. Again, culturally, just very different.
First time I've seen that. You also had piles of shoes in front of this temple. And, as I went inside, there were of course people worshiping these multiple deities. One of the ones that did stand out to me the most was, the people that were circling this one deity and it was blessings for job visas and work and other things. But, yeah.
This is in North Texas. Obviously, very large Indian population here. I actually spoke to two separate couples and one of them stated that they came in from Colorado and they specifically came here to come and see this temple because it's one of the largest in the area. And then I was talking to another Indian guy from California who was visiting. He stated that actually the busiest days for this temple are Tuesday and Saturday because that's when a lot of the Indian population will come and they will worship their deities at this temple.
North Texas has one of the largest Indian populations in America that in just over a decade has more than doubled from around a little over 100,000 in 2010 to over 235,000 today. Indian Americans now make up roughly 3% of the Dallas Fort Worth area with even higher concentrations in suburbs like Frisco, Plano, and Irving where they represent over 10 to 30% in some communities. Alongside this shift has come a huge change in culture such as the growing amount of Indian grocery stores and restaurants, Hindu temples, Bollywood film screenings, and Indian festivals such as the Holi festival which was our next stop.
Speaker 5: Alright, y'all. So we are currently in McKinney, Texas. We are at the Holi festival here. This is the sixteenth annual Holi festival that happens every single year. And what this is is a spring festival where Indians come and celebrate spring, but also some of their legends, some of their deities.
But, anyway, we wanted to come and check it out. Can we interview you? What is Hali?
Speaker 6: It's a festival of color, actually. And we celebrated in India. And it's it's it's not it's normal over here, but in India, it's it's crazy. I'm telling you.
Speaker 5: How long have you lived here in Texas for?
Speaker 6: I live in, like, five years almost.
Speaker 7: Where are you from?
Speaker 6: I'm from India, Mumbai. Mumbai.
Speaker 5: Why did you come to Texas?
Speaker 6: It's best. Like, Texas is the best, and I I work over here, so that's why I come over here.
Speaker 5: How is the Indian community over here? Is there a
Speaker 7: lot of Indian? No. No. No. No.
Speaker 6: Indians are good over here. Like, we celebrate a lot of festival, like, festival, almost everything. Yeah.
Speaker 7: There's a
Speaker 5: big Indian community over here?
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. In Texas, in Frisco, I would say Frisco, McKinney, Irving, everywhere,
Speaker 7: I would say.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Sorry about that.
Speaker 5: It's okay. Sorry
Speaker 6: about that.
Speaker 5: Alright, y'all. So we are here at the holiday festival, and I was trying to interview a guy, and then this other Indian dude just came and, like, threw color in my face and threw color in my cameraman's face. So Holly in McKinney, Texas.
Speaker 7: So we are in McKinney. We are celebrating the It's here in the DFS. Dallas Festival of Holi.
Speaker 5: How long have you lived in Texas for?
Speaker 7: One and a few. By the
Speaker 5: way Where are originally from?
Speaker 7: I'm from India. Part? Hyderabad. South India.
Speaker 5: How do you like Texas?
Speaker 7: BJ. I really like Texas, but I like Hyderabad more than Texas.
Speaker 1: Very lovely. I'm the only guys.
Speaker 5: Have an idea. Oh, that got in my eye. Oh, that was really painful. Okay. I've been splashed with color multiple times.
Some of them are getting pretty aggressive with it. I they threw the color directly in my eye. They come and they, like, slam it on your head. It's a pretty aggressive festival, but here we are for holiday. Let's go talk to some people.
How long have you been here in Texas?
Speaker 6: I've been here since 2016.
Speaker 5: Where are you originally from?
Speaker 6: I'm from India. Which part? Gujarat.
Speaker 5: What do you do over here in Texas?
Speaker 6: I work in a medical device company. These are my friends.
Speaker 5: How long have you been here in Texas for?
Speaker 6: Four years.
Speaker 7: Four years? Where are you from?
Speaker 6: I'm from India.
Speaker 5: Why do you like Texas?
Speaker 6: It is like India.
Speaker 5: It's like India.
Speaker 6: The weather. The weather. The people.
Speaker 5: Is there a big Indian community here in Dallas?
Speaker 2: Huge community. Like, it's like we're in India right now here.
Speaker 7: It makes us feel like home. Are you photographers? Whenever we miss India, we will celebrate festivals of Vashiri. We celebrate all the festivals from North India to South India and everything in between as well.
Speaker 8: So
Speaker 0: While the Indian community states that Texas now feels like home, many Texans state that their home is no longer recognizable due to the rapid cultural change. With many pointing to the state's aggressive business incentives that attracted so many tech companies, alongside the very tech industry utilized h one b visa program where Indian nationals have received roughly 70 to 75% of approvals in recent years. This coupled with workers sponsoring their entire families to join them in The US has led many Texans to highlight a cultural shift that looks nothing like the Texas they remember. Okay. Y'all, so we're currently on our way to go meet my friend Sarah Gonzalez.
She is a Blaze TV host and she regularly talks about, like, a lot of the political issues and demographic change here in Texas. So she's going to kinda discuss how much Texas has really changed because she was born and raised here.
Speaker 8: It has been tremendous to see such big changes in such a small amount of time. I'm born and raised native Texan. I lived in Houston till I was about five. Other than that, I've been living in the DFW area. And just to see just in the last even five years, something happened with COVID where they started gaming the system even more.
There were a lot more people who were working remotely, and they were able to kind of learn the loopholes in how to game the system. And since COVID, there has just been a massive influx. It's totally changing the demographics of our communities, which would be fine if these people shared our values, shared our morals, wanted to assimilate into this country and do things the way that Americans do it. From what I'm seeing, born and raised living here, they don't. And so it's a very, very stark contrast from, you know, the old days.
I know that dates me. That makes me sound old, but really, it's just it looks nothing like it once did.
Speaker 0: Was there always temples like this around the area?
Speaker 8: No, actually. Short answer is no. There were not always these big temples that make you feel like you're in Mumbai, India. That's not a thing that has existed in Texas for forever. This is a relatively new phenomenon.
You've got all of these different places of worship that don't feel very American that are just popping up large metropolitan areas here in the state of Texas, but namely DFW has had a very, very large influx of Hindu temples and, you know, mosques. And it almost feels like when you go to some of these places, it almost feels like you are the minority in your own country. There are people speaking foreign languages very loudly on their speaker phones. There are people who are, you know, obviously doing things that show that they don't care to assimilate into American society, American culture. It really does.
It's really sad. It makes you feel like you're a stranger in your own community. I mean, we talk about the issue of assimilation, and I think it can be summed up by an email that I received from someone in Salina, which is a little a little ways outside of Frisco here in the state of Texas. And she said, I know a girl who is in FFA, Future Farmers of America, and, she has a heifer, a cow. And an Indian couple contacted her and said, hey, can you bring your heifer over to my house?
And she was like, kinda weird, but I guess sure. So, she brought her cow to the house, at which point the Indian man said, can you bring the the cow inside? And, she was like, okay. So, she brought the cow inside. And then, I quote, this might be verbatim from the email.
She said, the cow then peed and pooped inside the house and the family was so happy. They were blessed. And it just kind of sums up where we're at.
Speaker 0: And do you think this was like a one off thing or
Speaker 8: No. No. She actually also told me that, the largest longhorn, rancher in that area is constantly contacted for, cow dung.
Speaker 0: Interesting. But it's not only the Indian population that has been growing in North Texas and Sarah and I went to go check out a new neighborhood that's been going viral online for showing just how fast the Muslim population is also growing and changing Texas culture. I actually saw this online. What we're seeing right now is Ali Akbar Court and you and I are driving around this neighborhood. We've got Salma Jamil and okay.
What are we seeing?
Speaker 8: It looks like a Muslim community just right here in North Texas. These street signs are
Speaker 0: wild. So we're going down Shemsa Lane right now and like I said, I found this online. Here's Zulea Lane. I I kinda wanted to just come check it out. Okay.
This is crazy. This is actually crazy. So I'm glad that we're filming this because, you know, you and I were just driving through here and we were like, you know, it's probably just gonna be a couple of interesting street names. But no, it's like every single house and these are really expensive. They have this Arabic writing on them.
They're decorated for Eid.
Speaker 8: Happy Ramadan.
Speaker 0: Oh, we are in North Texas, by the way. We're in Irving. This is like an entire neighborhood filled with primarily what I'm going to assume is Muslim residents.
Speaker 8: Yeah. And I mean, I don't know much about the, you know, Muslim culture just enough to be dangerous, I guess. But they've Is this a mosque?
Speaker 0: I don't know. It's It says Salaam.
Speaker 8: Salaam. It's a building that is kind of a standalone. Obviously, it's being used for something within this community. I'd love to know what it is.
Speaker 0: Okay. We just passed a sign for a city councilman, Abdul Kabir. So he is campaigning in this neighborhood here.
Speaker 8: Very American. Very American sounding name.
Speaker 0: Okay. We're going down Amal Saleh Drive. I think that is the name of one of our founding fathers here in The United States Of America.
Speaker 8: Good old Amal? What was it?
Speaker 0: Good old Ali Akbar.
Speaker 8: Good old Ali Akbar.
Speaker 0: Good old
Speaker 5: Good Akbar.
Speaker 0: Alright. So, again, Mike. Okay. We're going down Mahmoud Egal Way Drive. Paul, apologies.
Let me be correct here. Mahmoud Egal Drive is the next street that we are going down. And, yeah, entire neighborhood. I was not expecting this because most of the streets in Dallas are overly patriotically named. It's like Independence Parkway, Eagle Screech Lane, and, now we're on Ali Akbar Way.
Speaker 8: Just a few streets over, just a few neighborhoods over, there was we passed a Beaver Lane. So, somewhere along the way.
Speaker 0: We went from Beaver to Akbar. Real quick. It's just crazy though, Sarah, because I feel like everyone is kind of freaking out about, Epic City, but it kind of seems like there are already, fully Muslim centric neighborhoods out here in North Texas.
Speaker 8: Yes. And that's what I have been trying to tell people is if you think that Epic City is new, it's They have already been, you know, infiltrating in these communities. And, it's kind of like a a wink wink, nudge nudge. Okay. We might not tell everyone that we're Muslim communities, all Muslim communities, but we're just gonna build out and name our streets Al Huwakbar and wonder who shows up to them.
Speaker 0: Okay. So it isn't just the Indian population that has surged in this area. Of course, it is also the Muslim population and many Texans have been highlighting the amount of mosques that have been popping up. So we're actually going to go to, of course, Epic Mosque which has been, you know, a big point of contention here in Texas. We're gonna go check that out.
We're gonna go check out some other mosques as well and again keep highlighting this, demographic change that we're seeing. Epic Mosque has become infamous in Texas after not only becoming the focal point of the growing Muslim population in North Texas, but also after they announced their plans to build a 400 acre Muslim centric city with over 1,000 homes, a new mosque, and Islam based k through 12 schools. There was actually a protest planned against the proposed city, so we went to go talk to concerned Texans to see what was going on.
Speaker 3: Well, they were supposed to have a meeting about the epic basically, development, and our attorney general put a temporary restraining order out yesterday. And we were told they were still gonna have the meeting, possibly public comments, but now we're being told that we've got a couple of minutes and we have to be on property that the meeting's been canceled.
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 9: Yes. We're here to talk about the epic city that they're trying to build, and we are firmly against it because this is America, and we already have enough cities in Texas. They need to assimilate and live in the cities that already exist. We have a water issue in Texas, and we don't need to build more cities when there is a current water crisis going on and import more people here. We need to be conserving our natural resources.
A lot of people are making this into a freedom of religion issue, but they have freedom of religion. I mean, look at the church. They have Sharia financing. They're able to practice their religion. This city is just another nuisance, and they're just trying to infiltrate.
Speaker 10: All these houses in this whole area, all these big nice houses are owned by, you know, Muslims that live here in the center and go to this mosque. About an hour ago, they were letting out and you could see, you know, people coming out.
Speaker 9: We all know the true motivation behind Islam and what they're trying to do, they want to take over. I mean, I've heard plenty of video inside of that church that talk about how they wanna take over our government and they wanna take over Texas.
Speaker 3: They need to assimilate to our values if they wanna come here.
Speaker 4: If they don't, then stay home.
Speaker 11: People are showing up because they're angry. They're angry because Epic City, which is East Plano Islamic Center, wants to build a city, has plans to build a city of that is an Islamic city in rural 40 miles from Downtown Dallas, rural Hunt and Collin Counties. This is all about building a thousand homes and making a it really is. This is not an exaggeration because I didn't believe it when I first saw it, but a Muslim centric The Dallas Morning News calls it a Muslim centric city. It is a Muslim city.
Can you answer me this? Why is this massive mosque building a city?
Speaker 0: Now as we interviewed protesters, I noticed that members of the mosque began to come and listen to what the protesters were saying and I wanted to go talk to them about Epic City for myself. What are your thoughts on the Epic City that's being proposed? For, against?
Speaker 4: Look, the president's there. His name is Sadithi. He's involved. Ask him. He'd love to speak to you.
Do you wanna go
Speaker 5: inside?
Speaker 0: Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Alright. We're going inside.
Okay. Tell me your name again.
Speaker 6: You
Speaker 4: can call me Zee.
Speaker 0: Zee? Okay. We are here with Zee, and we are actually outside of the epic mosque here in we're in Plano. Right? We're in Plano.
Okay. So he's gonna take us inside. We're gonna go check it out. You have some protesters over here that were here to essentially push back against the epic city that many Texans have heard about, you know, it being built. So we actually wanna go inside the mosque with our friend Zee here.
He seems he said he was born here in Dallas. He's vibing. He wants us to see more about the religion, so we're just gonna go in and see for Now when we first went in, we couldn't find the president, so I went back outside to check out the mosque for a while before finally getting a call from my cameraman to come back inside. Alright, y'all. So initially, I actually tried to go in and the security told me that I couldn't go in because this was the men's only side and I had to go around back to the women's only side.
But the president of this mosque said that I could go in and interview him, so we are actually gonna go pop in right now.
Speaker 12: Alright. So we are here with Samir. Samir, what's your role here at
Speaker 13: I'm the president of founding.
Speaker 12: President. Okay. So, obviously, there has been a lot of talk here in Texas about Epic City, about the loss, about the cultural change. So we're basically here trying to investigate the impact get your guys' side here in Chicago.
Speaker 13: Epic City is a completely different project. It has nothing to do with Epic. Epic by itself is a mosque. It's a community service center.
Speaker 12: So Epic City is separate from the Epic Mosque? Correct.
Speaker 13: And then that's our thing.
Speaker 12: Why do you think there has been so much, I guess, fear surrounding what has been going on even here in the mosque and, I guess, eating blows in Muslims here in Texas?
Speaker 13: I think the the people who want to get their political gains are using this rhetoric about against Muslims, especially EPIC. If you really understand what EPIC does, you will get to know that it's not what they are talking about.
Speaker 12: What have you heard about Inhope City? Like you said, we're kinda doing investigation on that. So we're asking the people who might be pro or even against it about it. So what are your thoughts on that? What have you heard about it?
Speaker 13: Not much. What I've heard from what we saw on media, what we see on media, and I, you know, know a little detail about Epiq City saying that they're trying to build a development in Jasfir. It's open to all. But somehow it kinda got turned into a Muslim oriented development, and that triggered a whole bunch of controversies and dragged Epic Mosque into it because the name Epic was part of it.
Speaker 0: Now the president of Epic Mosque initially told us their mosque had nothing to do with Epic City despite having the exact same name. But after a very quick Google search, we found out that wasn't true and Epic Mosque actually created the corporate entity responsible for organizing the development of Epic City. On top of that, we also found lecture by doctor Yisir Qadi, the resident scholar at Epic Mosque, discussing how the board of Epic, which included the president, had envisioned and planned Epic City from the beginning.
Speaker 14: The board and all of us, we thought to ourselves, what if, what if rather than just accidentally these factors coming together, we actually analyzed what made EPIC so significant and then decided to plan an entire, not just subdivision, not just some cul de sacs and an apartment complex. No. What if we were to take the best of what Epic has to offer? And then, rather than just a 100 houses, maybe a thousand plus houses. Rather than just one subdivision, an entire city that we advertised to the entire American sub continent that look epic one was such an amazing success.
What do you think would happen if we bring forth epic two point o? What is gonna happen if we bring forth epic two point o? Taking the best of epic one point o and then purpose building an entire facility, an entire city, not just a subdivision, an entire massive plot of land right here in Dallas. Not a 100 houses, a thousand houses.
Speaker 0: Now the original promotional videos for the city were deleted, but not before independent journalists could save them and highlight what epic city was really about.
Speaker 13: Epic City is more than just a neighborhood. It's a way of life. A meticulously designed community that brings Islam to the forefront.
Speaker 0: The video states that Epic City would be just twenty minutes away from Epic Mosque, showed two Islam faith based schools for girls and boys, and stated that the parks were for Eid prayer, but ended by welcoming anyone to the community stating that it was open to all. I wanted to speak to independent reporter Brianna Morello who has been reporting on Epic Mosque and the religion of Islam to get more insight into how the narratives surrounding Epic has shifted.
Speaker 15: Yeah. So I heard from your perspective that they were very friendly, very welcoming. And the thing about that that's so interesting is according to their own belief, their own Quran, they are allowed to lie to us. They're allowed to because we're nonbelievers. So they're allowed to lie to us.
They're allowed to misrepresent what their goal is here, but their goal here is very clear. If you watch what they're doing because they've they've recorded it in streams online. If you watch what they're doing inside of their mosque, what they're saying inside of their mosque, you know, there's a lot of officials who are associated with the mother Muslim Brotherhood who speak at these mosque. You know, I've sent you clips too, I know, about one individual who is talking to a group of men and is telling them that it's okay to beat your wives. Just don't leave a mark.
It's on film. They're streaming it. I don't think they expected anyone to catch it and post it online. Thanks to the great work that Amy Mech does, we were able to get our hands on this.
Speaker 16: To do in certain situations, and we don't have time to go into details, is to use physical discipline. Yes. The ayah is there to be used in the right way at the right time, but not to beat our lives to the extent that they die.
Speaker 5: Because I don't think
Speaker 15: a lot of people understand what's actually happening here. You see, when you walk in, when the media reporters walk in, they're going to display it like it's a friendly welcoming sector, but it's not the case. They're allowed to lie to us. They're allowed to misrepresent what they're doing here. Their goal is to conquer the West, though.
They make that very, very clear when amongst their followers. And the fact that they're coming here by the masses, they're trying to build Old Epic, it's not a welcoming area. Right? There's just there's not gonna be you're not gonna allowed to have churches. Christians aren't gonna be able to move there.
They're going to try their very best to make it look like it's welcoming, but it's not welcoming at all. They're under investigation right now by Ken Paxson's office. They're also under investigation, I believe, by the housing department as well, the federal housing department. So there's a lot of things that are happening right now regarding EPIC that have so many people concerned. If they were authentic and if they were truly here to coexist with us, why do they have to do this whole PR push to go from the East Plano Islamic Center to now the meadow.
Speaker 0: Despite their rebrand and repeated attempts to state that everyone is welcome in epic city, the project has faced intense pushback from Texans with both the governor and attorney general launching investigations into epic city alleging violations of state securities laws, illegal attempts to circumvent local oversight, and potential fair housing discrimination. With attorney general Ken Paxton even calling it an illegal scheme aimed at transforming hundreds of acres of Texas land. Okay. So these are the exact coordinates to where the proposed Epic City is supposed to be and I just wanna like pan the camera back this way because look at this farmland. This is where a proposed 400 acre Muslim centric city with over 1,000 homes, a mosque, k through 12 schools is supposed to be set up.
So there are a couple of homes out here, but imagine living out here in rural Texas having no neighbors. It's super quiet. And then all of a sudden, you're hearing about this 400 acre city that's coming in. And I know a lot of people have concerns about whether or not they have the infrastructure out here for it. So, this is the location of where Epic City might potentially be built.
Also, let's not forget, as of March 2026, no construction permits have been issued. No ground has been broken. Nothing has officially been built. The state is still actively fighting the, creation of this city. However, this is the land that was purchased and this is where it is potentially going to be.
This isn't the only location where this is going on and apparently another city similar to this is being proposed in Kaufman, Texas. Now Texas has a strong base of local reporters who have been keeping track of these incoming foreign developments and we went to go meet up with Daily Caller reporter Mary Rook to discuss her investigation into another potential epic city situation.
Speaker 17: So we found out that there was going to be a proposed Muslim development in Kaufman County. I the residents were obviously very fearful of that. We've seen epic city all over the news for months and months and months now.
Speaker 0: And walk us back to the beginning of all of this. Who first got wind? How did all of this start?
Speaker 17: So I have a source within Kaufman County, and they were saying, hey, listen. You should take a look at some of these county meetings from back in November and October. And tell me if you see anything odd about this. And at first, I'm I'm watching this. And you know how county meetings can kinda be.
They're a bit dry. Then all of a sudden, get to this one spot where there's this Dallas law firm that's representing a foreign company coming over trying to buy land in Kaufman County, but they're being really cagey about who is actually owning the land. And thankfully, a concerned resident stands up at the end and says, I I know that this isn't, you know, technically part of the procedure, but y'all never explained to us who is the actual holding company or the developer coming in to try and buy this land. And then the lawyer had to get up and explain that it was SCE Holdings. And so then I go and I start into like, looking into who is SCE Holdings and I find out that it's a Dubai based company who builds Muslim cities over in The UAE and they're Muslim only.
And on the face of it, it looks a bit innocuous. Okay. They're trying to develop out Kaufman County, and it's one of the largest counties in Texas. It there's a lot of land out there. However, whenever you take the connection of, like, what's happening in epic city, what's happening in other parts of The United States, I mean, we've had 52 mosques built in the DFW area over the last several years.
I think their residents started worrying, okay. Well, if we have a Muslim only developer coming in from UAE, what does that mean for Kaufman County? Surely, it's gonna be a Muslim only developments. And the crazy thing about this is that they were supposed to have a closed door meeting on March 6 about this. Well, the residents found out about this closed door meeting, and they were all planning on showing up unannounced, uninvited, all of the things, and, they cancel it last minute because they don't want the pushback.
And they the company just doesn't wanna have to deal with the residents actually speaking to them and being upset about it. All of this to say, I talked to representative Lance Gooden today, and he said that there's no more cause for concern, that he talked to the the developers are gonna move on for Collin County. However, I will say that there is cause for concern because from my sources within the county, this is not the first place that SCE Holdings and the developing companies have tried to go into for this particular development. My sources are saying that they started in McKinney. Residence declined their offer there.
Then they went to Rockwall County. Same thing. Residence rose up and said, we don't want this here. Then they went to Hunt County. Same exact situation.
Hunt County said no. Then they moved on to Kaufman.
Speaker 0: And really quickly too for viewers who don't know the geography of Texas, are these people working like north to south?
Speaker 17: Yes. North to south. So imagine, you know, you're kind of like moving like this, you know, as like a a whole movement down the south, just trying to find a county that'll accept them. I think more than likely where you'll see them next is popping up in Anderson County or Henderson County. They both have massive aqueducts that are going underneath it.
And when I was talking to residents in Kaufman County, especially someone that deals with septic a lot, they were saying the biggest problem with this, not even on the social cohesion side, but just on the infrastructure side, they would need three different water districts to house this many people and to be able to put this development in there. Three different water districts on Kaufman County during a drought is a massive amount of water usage. Mhmm. Not to mention the fact that Texas is now accepting tons of AI plants plants here. And so I think county residents have to really be watching, like, where their water is going and how it's being used.
And so I think that these holding companies will be looking for places that have a natural water supply, like an aqueduct, which is under Henderson County and Anderson County. I am actually a ninth generation Texan, so when things like this happen to my state, it feels like a little bit of a tinge to my heart where it's like you're attacking something that I feel my blood and, you know, soil kinda go along in Texas. And I have children here and I want them to be able to grow up in the state that I grew up in and I see it changing before my eyes.
Speaker 0: And I wanted to ask you too, were the mosques and the Hindu temples as prevalent in this state a couple decades ago?
Speaker 17: Absolutely not. I I honestly don't ever remember seeing anything like that. You would see a Christian church on every single corner and that's what you would see. You would see absolutely none of the rest of it. I think it's shocking and one of the greatest problems in our state right now.
And not to say that I'm against Muslims celebrating their faith or practicing their faith in any kind of way, but are you telling me that, like, now we have so many Muslims here in the DFW area that we need 52 mosques?
Speaker 0: Alright, y'all. So there is definitely a huge amount of demographic change here in North Texas. I mean, I was not expecting to see entire Muslim neighborhoods where the street names were Ali Akbar. I was not expecting to see the amount of Hindu temples, the mosques. Also, just seeing the land where epic city is going to be built, seeing this beautiful Texas farmland and knowing that there is potentially going to be an entire new city there was kind of crazy.
One of the, I think, things that stuck with me the most on this trip was talking to Mary and about how it really is a lot of these small rural Texas towns that are being targeted, where people are really not paying attention or maybe they don't have the voice or the ability to talk about what's happening in their small towns. This is one of the main reasons we've seen such a big demographic change in Texas. This is one of many, obviously. But, that really stuck with me and also the concept of Texans feeling like they can kind of be asleep at the wheel because we are a red state. We're a stronghold.
We don't need to really pay attention to our politics or what's going on locally. Crazy to see where we're currently at, and it'll be interesting to see where Texas is in another ten years or so.
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I report on allegations of Somali daycare fraud and excessive payouts to childcare providers overwhelming Washington State, but the agency tasked with investigating is MIA and dodging accountability questions. @choeshow is on the ground demanding answers from elected officials. @TPUSA
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NEW: Allegations of Somali daycare fraud and excessive payouts to childcare providers are overwhelming Washington State, but the primary agency responsible for investigating these claims is MIA and ignoring our questions about accountability. @choeshow is on the ground investigating and demanding answers from elected officials. @TPUSA
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The investigation highlights potential fraud or serious irregularities in Somali daycare operations, based on observed signs such as windows not covered with vinyl and a lack of signage or children visible at purported day care locations. The team questions the existence of many day cares, noting that some places listed as licensed have no identifiable activity or occupants when visited.
Speaker 2 argues that even if a daycare were legitimate and serving only two children, there is “no world” where the government should be giving almost a million dollars or three-quarters of a million dollars in subsidies to such a place. The discussion underscores how fraudulent claims can be made easily and points to a lack of visible accountability in the system.
The agency responsible for overseeing and funding daycares is identified as the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families, with Secretary Tana Sen named as the head of the agency being discussed. To contact leadership, the team attempts to reach the communications department led by Nancy Gutierrez, noting repeated efforts to obtain comment about suspicious Somali daycares. They report multiple attempts to call and email, with messages indicating that some numbers are unavailable and voicemails are full.
Speaker 0 notes the difficulty in getting a response from DCYF’s top communications official, emphasizing that their mailbox is full and no responses have been received. This lack of contact is framed as convenient for avoiding questions about the alleged issues.
Speaker 6 states that if fraud is confirmed, a forensic audit should be conducted to trace how much money was actually spent and to recover any funds. Speaker 7 suggests that, even in the best-case scenario, the situation is inefficient and a waste of taxpayer dollars. Speaker 8 adds that there is a prevailing attitude in Olympia that does not recognize the problem.
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Speaker 0: For the past few days, we've uncovered what we believe could be signs of possible Somali daycare fraud. At the very least, we've run into some really sketchy situations. The windows are aren't covered up with some type of vinyl. Can we get an application for the home day care?
Speaker 1: I don't have a.
Speaker 0: You guys don't have a day care?
Speaker 1: No. We don't like you either. Who? Get a life. No signage of any day care.
No sounds of any kids.
Speaker 0: If you have a day where are all the children?
Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you what I have, what I don't have.
Speaker 2: Even if this was, let's assume for a second, a legitimate daycare business that's only serving two children, there is no world where the government should be giving almost a million dollars or 3 quarters of $1,000,000 in subsidies to this place.
Speaker 3: It's incredibly easy to make fraudulent claims. Just we're not seeing very much accountability.
Speaker 0: And the agency responsible for overseeing and funding these daycares is the Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families. And the person running the shop is secretary Tana Sen.
Speaker 4: But I'm also happy to report that
Speaker 3: we have more childcare providers today than we did pre pandemic.
Speaker 0: In order to get in touch with her, we need to reach out to the communications department run by Nancy Gutierrez. We have called her numerous times. We have sent her emails with multiple questions about suspicious Somali daycares, some that are listed as licensed but don't exist when we knock on the doors.
Speaker 1: 6418 is not available.
Speaker 5: The mailbox is full I cannot accept any messages at this time. Goodbye.
Speaker 0: Well, that's convenient. We're trying to get in touch with the d c y f, and the top coms person isn't responding to any of our requests for comment, and her mailbox is full.
Speaker 6: If we do find out and we connect all the dots that this was fraudulent, we need to go back a forensic audit of how much money was actually spent, and we need to go retrieve all of it.
Speaker 7: Let's assume the best. This is still inefficient. This is still a waste of taxpayer dollars, and and the prevailing culture in Olympia doesn't mind that.
Speaker 8: They just don't see a problem with that.
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President Trump is sending 200 National Guardsmen to Portland due to ongoing violence at the federal ICE facility, which has faced over 100 days of unrest. Reports indicate that ICE agents have been doxxed and journalists attacked, while local police have seemingly overlooked these incidents. The Portland mayor and Oregon governor have attempted to minimize the situation, but a detailed timeline reveals a more troubling reality.
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100 DAYS OF TERROR: President Trump is deploying 200 National Guardsmen to Portland after their federal ICE facility has been under siege for over 100 days. From ICE agents being doxxed to journalists being brutally beaten, the violence in Portland has been allegedly ignored by police as their chief downplays recent ANTIFA attacks, stating they only account for “one block of the city” The mayor of Portland and governor of Oregon have also tried to downplay the violence but a timeline of the last 100 days tells a different story: @sav_says_ | @TPUSA
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Savannah Hernandez reports from Portland at the ICE facility that "200 national guardsmen are set to be deployed to the city later on this week," and Trump says these guardsmen are "already in place." Since June 4, protests began with Antifa blocking the driveway and ICE vehicles; in July, ICE agents were doxxed and protesters printed their photos and addresses to intimidate at homes; in September, Antifa brought a guillotine to protest. Last night journalist Katie Davis Court was attacked by an Antifa member; Portland police told her, "it's too dangerous for us. Sorry. There's nothing that we can do." The scene is chaos and lawlessness, residents pleading for help as state and local officials do nothing. Three arrests last night; 100 arrested overall; only 27 federally charged by the DOJ; "three citation rule" allows up to two citations before jail time or federal charges; agitators often released to continue.
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Speaker 0: This is Savannah Hernandez in Portland, Oregon in front of the ICE facility because 200 national guardsmen are set to be deployed to the city later on this week. Now earlier today, president Donald Trump stated that these national guardsmen are already in place, and it's speculated that we'll start to see movement later this week. But I wanted to give you guys a brief timeline and a reminder as to why 200 national guard are necessary in front of the ICE facility. Now June 4 were the start of these protests here in Portland, and that's the first time that Antifa tried to impede federal officials by blocking the driveway, blocking those ICE vehicles similar to what we've seen across the country. And then you fast forward to the July.
You had ICE agents that were doxxed. You had Antifa members who were printing out their photos alongside their addresses and trying to get people to go and intimidate them at their homes. At the September, you also had Antifa members who brought a guillotine with a sharpened blade to peacefully protest in front of this facility. And just last night, you had journalist Katie Davis Court who was violently attacked by an Antifa member. By the way, she went up to Portland police as soon as this happened, and they told her, yeah.
It's too dangerous for us. Sorry. There's nothing that we can do. And that Antifa member ended up getting away. This has been a very common theme, by the way, since 2020 as I was walking down the street.
I ran into a Portland resident who told me that during 2021, he was actually held at gunpoint, by Antifa members on this very street. He called the Portland police, and they told him the same thing that there was nothing that they could do to help him. So this is what's been happening in Portland, not only for the last almost one hundred and twenty days now, but for the last couple of years. Just complete chaos, complete lawlessness. The last time I was here, this entire building was covered in graffiti reading, kill ICE.
The only good cop is a dead cop. Kill Trump. There were threats all over it. It has now been cleaned up, but these federal ICE officials have been threatened, doxxed. Antifa members have tried to burn down this building.
They have threatened residents. The residents of these apartments have been calling the police and asking for help. And, of course, the state and local officials are doing nothing. So that is why president Donald Trump is deploying 200 national guardsmen to this area, not because it is a peaceful city like the government officials here at the state and local level are making it out to be, but because, in fact, it has been completely lawless, chaotic. The residents have been pleading for help, and many of them have come forward and stated that they are very grateful that National Guard is being deployed.
By the way, just to give you guys an idea of why we continue to see these agitators on the ground, last night, we witnessed three arrests. Overall, about a 100 people have been arrested. However, only 27 of those people had been federally charged by the DOJ. So what's been happening is there's basically, a three citation rule. These agitators can get up to two citations before finally getting hit with jail time or federal charges.
So they're oftentimes, again, taken into the ICE facility, but then re released to continue agitating. So that's what's been going on over here in Portland, and this is why president Donald Trump is deploying 200 national guards into the city.
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I explored how Minneapolis earned the title of the "Somali Capital of America," highlighting the journey of the East African diaspora and their significant presence in the U.S. It's fascinating to see how a community from over 8,000 miles away has made such an impact.
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DOCUMENTARY: How Minneapolis Became the "Somali Capital of America" Home to the largest Somali population in the U.S., Minneapolis is often referred to as the "Somali Capital of America." But how did this East African diaspora from over 8,000 miles away establish such a significant presence in the U.S.? @sav_says_ dives into the details. @TPUSA
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Minneapolis’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is described as the 'Somali capital of America' where Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the US, estimated at 80,000–100,000. The growth traces to the 1980 Refugee Act, TPS extensions, and the DV lottery, with resettlement by Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities. By 2025 Minnesota had at least 76 mosques, and Somali influence is visible in politics (Ilhan Omar, the 'first Muslim Somali politician to congress,' and Omar Fateh), culture (Somali Culture Day in 2019), and daily life (the call to prayer broadcasts). Street interviews describe warmth and tension—neighbors noting driving problems, bar closures (Palmer’s Bar) and a mosque converting a nearby venue into a community center. A national headline case at Al Hasan Islamic Center involved a 12-year-old assault; the judge gave eight years with four years probation. Critics cite handouts and assimilation debates; supporters cite layered neighborhood histories and ongoing integration.
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Speaker 0: Where are you from?
Speaker 1: I'm from Somalia.
Speaker 0: From Somalia?
Speaker 2: Yeah. We're like here, Minnesota. As you know, it's a lot
Speaker 3: of Somalia. Yeah. The state of Somalia. That's why.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to put it.
Speaker 5: You know, this is a different culture.
Speaker 6: This is the
Speaker 4: Somali community. So
Speaker 7: Cedar River side, the West Bank is its own kind of bubble universe. Once you cross Franklin, once you cross Riverside, you kind of exist in this place and it's deeply beautiful that doesn't follow the rules of the rest of the city or the rest of reality.
Speaker 0: Minnesota, known as the land of 10,000 lakes, is known for its over 14,000 bodies of fresh water, vast prairies, fertile farmland, and also its growing Muslim and African population.
Speaker 8: When I grew up, I had friends of all different shades. Now you come up into the city and really even a lot of little small towns, it seems to be a demographic shift to primarily Somalians.
Speaker 4: It is definitely a lot of Somalis, but it don't affect me. I don't, you know, I don't I don't care.
Speaker 0: Are they pretty friendly?
Speaker 4: Yeah. They're cool. They're cool for the most part. They can't drive for shit, but hey. Ain't.
Speaker 0: Now home to the largest Somali population in The US, Minnesota has garnered headlines not only due to the viral videos and stories from the state, but also the rapidly changing culture that some have categorized as a takeover of Minnesota.
Speaker 6: Around the world are celebrating Eid this weekend, and one of the biggest celebrations in Western Hemisphere takes place here in Minnesota. I
Speaker 9: am proud to announce today that during the month of Ramadan, we will be having the call to prayer broadcast.
Speaker 6: Right now, we're blessed to have three Somali elected officials at the capital, and we work very closely together, and we carry each other's bills.
Speaker 0: But was this just online exaggeration or was this community of Somalis from a country over 8,000 miles away really taking over the state like the Internet said? We went to the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, also known as the Somali capital of America, to go find out. Somali Street. Where in Somali are you from?
Speaker 2: Mogadishu.
Speaker 0: Where are you from? Where are you from?
Speaker 10: Somalian.
Speaker 0: Which part? Southside. Southside Of Somalia?
Speaker 10: Yeah. Mogadishu. Yeah.
Speaker 0: When did you come to The US?
Speaker 10: Oh, I come, like, February.
Speaker 2: I'm from Somalia, but I gotta go to work right now. I'm kinda
Speaker 0: What what part of Somalia? Mogadishu. Mogadishu. When did get here?
Speaker 2: I came here 1999.
Speaker 0: Do you like The US? How has it been?
Speaker 2: It's not bad. It's good.
Speaker 1: You guys call here this area Little Mogadishu? Mhmm. Are you sure?
Speaker 0: Yes. Who said that?
Speaker 1: Somebody was just, you know, just following the ladies here Mhmm. And just keep saying, is is this area is a little Mogadishu?
Speaker 0: No. That's not us. We've been asking people who live in the area about Somali culture, where they're from. So we that's all we've been asking people.
Speaker 1: You never guys you you guys never ask or something like that. No.
Speaker 0: No. Nothing like that. Okay. Where are you? Where are you from?
Speaker 1: I'm from Somalia.
Speaker 0: From Somalia? Where you're from Mogadishu though.
Speaker 1: No. I'm not.
Speaker 0: Where are you from in Somalia?
Speaker 1: I'm from Hargeisa.
Speaker 0: Okay. How long have you lived here in Minneapolis for?
Speaker 1: Five years.
Speaker 0: How do you like it?
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 0: You do? Yeah. Do you ever miss home?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm going back there now.
Speaker 0: To live or visit?
Speaker 1: Visit.
Speaker 0: To visit? Yeah. Yeah. We were just trying to learn about the culture here.
Speaker 1: It is not important to learn. For the some of our culture is a different different culture.
Speaker 0: Do you ever miss home or do you like being here in The US?
Speaker 2: I miss home actually.
Speaker 0: Really? Yeah. Do you wanna go back or do you think you'll stay?
Speaker 2: Going back this year.
Speaker 0: You are?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. We like here. Minnesota, you know, it's a lot of Somalia.
Speaker 3: Yeah. The state of Somalia. That's why.
Speaker 0: So it reminds you of home which is why you like it here?
Speaker 11: Yeah. Sometimes I miss home, but for real life, you have to work hard and you have to improve yourself. That's all.
Speaker 0: After spending time in the neighborhood, we could see how drastically different this area was from other parts of Minneapolis. But how did the Somali population, which has now grown to an estimated 80 to 100,000 people, become so prominent here in Minnesota? Well, it all started with the refugee act of 1980 signed by president Jimmy Carter. This law created a formal system for admitting and resettling refugees into The US while also providing a path to permanent residency and citizenship after one year. This act, initially set a cap of 50,000 refugees, topped over 200,000 in its first year due to the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
And since that time frame, the numbers have continued to fluctuate due to the president being able to set the annual ceiling. For example, we saw numbers ranging from 70,000 to 80,000 per year under president Obama down to a low of 15,000 refugees under president Trump. This act remains the backbone of US refugee policy with over 3,500,000 refugees resettled nationwide since 1980, including tens of thousands of Somalis. During the nineteen nineties, the Somali civil war erupted and over 1,000,000 people were displaced after their government's collapse created a massive refugee crisis. Under the refugee act, The US began admitting these Somalis in the early nineties with about 55,000 coming into The US from 1983 to 2004 alone.
Many were resettled in Minnesota by organizations like Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities which partnered with the federal government to bring them over. And Minnesota, which already had a strong history of welcoming refugees since the seventies, was a hotspot for affordable housing, job opportunities, and of course, generous social services.
Speaker 12: The International Health Clinic sets aside Mondays and Tuesdays to serve Minnesota's growing Somali population, most of whom are in The US legally as refugees and qualify for various health insurance programs.
Speaker 0: Secondary migration also played a part in growing the Somali population as Somalis from other states moved to join families and Somali communities, boosting the population from a few 100 in 1992 to tens of thousands by the two thousands. Immigration reform in the nineties also added more pathways for refugees such as temporary protected status or TPS, which has shielded Somalis from deportation since 1991 due to ongoing violence and instability in Somalia. This has recently also been extended for Somalis in The US well into 2026. Finally, the diversity visa lottery launched in 1990 and still active today, allocates up to 55,000 green cards annually to people from unrepresented countries such as Somalia.
Speaker 2: I want DV lottery buses. DV lottery is like buses, like you win like Ramdali every year.
Speaker 0: Once resettled, refugees and immigrants can sponsor relatives under family reunification provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, creating a chain effect that not only continues to grow the populations, but also has fundamentally changed the culture of various American neighborhoods just like Cedar Riverside. So we've been out here for probably about two hours, and overall, everyone we've spoken to has been pretty friendly. It does seem like some of the locals are getting a little bit defensive, but it's okay. Like I said, so far, everyone's been pretty nice. However, one thing that I have noticed is none of the women will speak to us.
They all seem very shy. Would you like to interview with us? Yes. No? Okay.
And some of the locals explaining maybe why that is.
Speaker 5: They've simulated. Sometimes the women seem kind of not inactronized. They they're definitely like like almost a second running on the ladder. They're they're kept to be quiet and they they you know what I mean?
Speaker 0: The I've been trying to talk to a couple of them. They seem pretty shy.
Speaker 5: Yeah. That's what I mean. They're not real open with dropping out what's really on their mind. They do keep things. You can see it when you look into their eyes, but they don't they won't talk to you.
And they and it's it's somewhat, I think, what the culture is.
Speaker 4: Some of them will be cool, but most of the Somalis stick with to Somalis, you know. I was asking them I was asking a couple Somalis about a store I was trying to run for the kids or whatever, know. He told me like, you know, if you're not Somali, if you're not Somali, the the Somali community really ain't gonna mess with you like they'll mess with another Somali, you know.
Speaker 7: People get freaked out by this neighborhood. When I grew up, there was a lot more violence, there was a lot of stabbings, there a lot more shootings.
Speaker 0: A lot of the critiques online are people saying that the Somalis don't assimilate that it's an entirely different culture. What are you what's your viewpoint on that as somebody who lives here?
Speaker 7: Well, this neighborhood has a lot of history and there's been like layers and layers of different cultures. Like most of my other people came to this neighborhood '95 through '97. Before that, you had a big wave of Oromo, Eritrean and Amharic people from Ethiopia. Before that it was Hmong and Vietnamese people who got over by the US government. But that's how it goes, same with a lot of Somali people actually.
There's a lot of layers of history and a lot of people that kind of integrated into the subcultural world which Somali people as a community don't integrate. There's a lot of like structures of like the clan, there's a lot of structures of community that persist which also leads to a lot of people getting taken care of, Somali people specifically getting taken care of in a way that they wouldn't if they were assimilated. You go to that cafe, you go to any fucking caf Somali cafe around here, and instead of a tip jar, they got the community fun jar for some for a family that's broke to send money back home. There is a lot of people who don't assimilate but that it is what it is, you know, and it's like there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 8: I would say there's a lot more younger people around and just more diversity. Mean it's not trying to be racist, but it it just really is Somalians everywhere. It's a lot cleaner, a lot less chaos. You weren't finding accidents, car accidents, and drug users everywhere and that that kind of stuff.
Speaker 0: Okay. So I've heard you're the second Minnesotan who has mentioned the driving thing, and yesterday, we actually witnessed a car crash in this area. Is the driving a big problem?
Speaker 8: It is a huge problem. Yep. Things used to be fairly orderly, you know, if if something went wrong, the cops would show up. It's not like that anymore. It's kinda like you're left to fend for yourself unless the cops do happen to show up.
I know there was a there's a white pickup truck that was just parked like half on the curb and half in the street and it was there for like a week or two. You never would have seen that kind of thing before. It might still be there. I haven't checked in recently, but just that kind of dilapidated, just negligent, you know, people just not caring about about the area.
Speaker 1: It was a
Speaker 9: kind of a sad story tonight because we got two Minneapolis restaurants that have been city institutions here for decades. They're shutting their doors.
Speaker 0: Now I'm currently standing in front of Palmer's Bar because this bar has been here for one hundred and nineteen years, and they are set to close down in September after living through the prohibition outliving two world wars and the great depression. They're going to be closing down because the owners state that not only is the current economic condition taking a toll on the bar, but also the culture surrounding drinking in this area has changed so substantially that they're losing 10 to $30,000 every single month. Now this is not the only bar on this strip of land that is closed down, by the way. Three other bars have closed down in the last thirteen years as well as an iconic punk rock venue. Now that venue, which locals had previously stated was a staple in Minneapolis for up and coming punk rock bands, that closed down and has since been turned to an African restaurant.
And this bar has been bought out by the mosque that is next door to it. It is the oldest Somali mosque in, Minneapolis, by the way. They have bought this area, and they are now going to be combining it with their mosque and turning it into a community center. But the growing population isn't the only way Minneapolis has changed. To give you an idea of how much the Somali and Muslim culture have influenced the city, back in 2019, mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, declared that July 1 was Somali culture day.
Speaker 9: Jacob Frey, Yarub.
Speaker 0: And videos of the annual event regularly go viral as the Minneapolis mayor partakes in traditional Somali dances, waves the Somali flag, and chants long live Somalia in fluent Somali. Mayor Frey was also at the forefront of changing noise ordinance throughout Minneapolis to allow the Islamic call to prayer to be broadcasted five times a day with the earliest call starting at around 3AM. The Minnesota state flag was also recently changed back in 2024 under the direction of current Minnesota governor Tim Walz, and many Minnesotans immediately called out how similar it looks to none other than Somalia's flag.
Speaker 13: Their current flag is problematic. I think we all know that. We've evolved into a, a more, diverse state, and I think it's more reflective of that.
Speaker 0: Representation of the Somali population has also made its way to both state and local politics. And back in 2018, Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar, the first Muslim Somali politician to congress. Assalamu alaikom. I stand here before you tonight as your congresswoman elect. Omar, who is still currently serving as a congresswoman, has made way for her progressive stance and consistent fight against what she states is white supremacist American culture.
We must begin the work of dismantling whole system of oppression wherever we find it. But recently, it's her consistent Somalia first stance and loyalty to her home country over The US that has been garnering attention across social media. But I am a Somali girl, a girl with your lineage that misses her country and wishes to live there and share with its people. I am very honored to have the chance that our president, president of Somalia, president Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud. Let us give him a warm welcome, Minneapolis.
The interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan. It's not the interest of Minnesota nor is it the interest of the American people. The interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.
Speaker 10: She's the first Somali immigrant to get elected, you know, to Washington. So I feel it's great, you know. So
Speaker 0: And Ilhan isn't the only Somali politician making waves. Omar Fateh, who recently secured and then lost the democratic endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis, has also mirrored many of the same sentiments Ilhan Omar has regarding Somalia and The US.
Speaker 6: I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other here in Minnesota and back home. And I'm running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we're gonna succeed succeed everywhere.
Speaker 0: Fateh and Omar are examples of the changing politics and demographic in Minnesota politics. And despite making up just 1% of the population within Minnesota, many have pointed out just how widespread the influence of the Somali community now stretches. The introduction of mosques throughout the state is another example of the changing area and back in 1998, the first Somali mosque opened in the state with only one other mosque opened prior. Fast forward to 2025, and there are now at least 76 mosques throughout the state with a significant number of them opened by Somalis. And while I was on the ground, a shocking story surrounding a local Somali mosque began garnering national headlines.
This is Savannah Hernandez standing in front of the Al Khisan Islamic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Now I'm standing here because this mosque has made national headlines after they penned a letter of community support for a Somali immigrant who sexually assaulted a 12 year old. Now back in 2024, this perpetrator was charged after abducting a 12 year old from her backyard, forcing her into his vehicle, and then sexually assaulting her. He has since been convicted of first degree criminal sexual assault. Now after being convicted, his family members were sending letters to the judge to ask the judge to consider his character when making that sentencing.
And one of those letters came from the Al Hasan Islamic Center. It was actually signed by their executive director stating that he had to face cultural differences and the challenges of taking on a new culture. They also framed him as a family oriented man who sends his money oftentimes back to his family members in Somalia. The judge actually gave him the lightest sentencing possible. He is only going to be serving eight years in jail for this crime.
He was sentenced to twelve years, but those last four years are going to be, spent out of jail and on probation. By the way, going back to that point about the challenges of a different culture, perpetrator has been in The United States Of America since 02/2006. So he's been in The United States for nineteen years. He was born in Somalia, but he has been here for almost two decades at this point. However, the culture coming into play, when it comes to, as the Islamic center put it, this situation.
The situation, of course, being him sexually assaulting and abducting a 12 year old girl. While this story is not representative of the entire Muslim population, many of the Minnesotans I reached out to consistently stated that the difference in cultural practices and religion have led to difficulties within their state. With headlines surrounding Somali gangs, Somalis linked to statewide fraud cases, and the continued excuse of the challenges of a new culture becoming a more and more common occurrence throughout Minnesota. From the name Mohammad hitting the list of 100 most popular baby names in Saint Paul, Minnesota to the closure of a 119 year old bar due to the changing culture and drinking habits, the growing African and Muslim population has continued to make its way throughout Minnesota and due to modern day US immigration policy, looks like it has no plans of slowing down.
Speaker 8: But it was it was about then 2,006, 2007 where I noticed that their their presence was becoming very prominent and then later we learned that they were I can't give you exact figures on what they're getting in terms of handouts and dolls but I I know I was pretty staggered when I heard when they were if it was either a single person or a couple it was like 2,500 a month and if it was a family with kids they were getting an automatic like 4,500 a month in just just handouts, know, and and so when when they kinda take over an area like this, it's I mean, it's not really that surprising that people like to say, oh, it's their ingenuity and their their work ethic and stuff. It's not. It's it's handouts and anybody can can flourish with that kind of cushioning.
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I obtained surveillance footage revealing an incident involving WSU PhD student instructor Patrick Mahoney and employee Gerald Hoff attacking engineering student Jay Sani. Sani alleges the assault was motivated by his Trump 2024 campaign hat. I'm worried about the possibility of WSU reinstating Mahoney, especially since the university has not commented on the matter due to student privacy laws.
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EXCLUSIVE: Frontlines reporter @choeshow has obtained surveillance footage showing Washington State University (WSU) PhD student instructor Patrick Mahoney and WSU employee Gerald Hoff attacking engineering student Jay Sani. Sani claims that Mahoney and Hoff assaulted him because he was wearing a Trump 2024 campaign hat. He expressed concern that the publicly funded institution might reinstate Mahoney. WSU administrators declined to comment on the situation, citing student privacy laws.
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WSU student Jay Sonny says he was attacked by Patrick Mahoney and Gerald Hoff for wearing a Trump hat. The incident, caught on camera outside a campus bar, left Sonny with scrapes and bruises. Police arrested Mahoney and Hoff, who admitted to grabbing the hat and bringing Sonny to the ground, but downplayed the assault. They face misdemeanor assault charges.
Sonny believes his conservative views and involvement with Turning Point USA led to the attack, as Mahoney is a far-left activist, a WSU graduate student and instructor, and is allegedly associated with the Democratic Socialists of America and admires the communist party. Mahoney was temporarily suspended from WSU. He refused to comment on the incident. Hoff's LinkedIn indicates he is a WSU employee, but the school would not comment on his status. Despite the incident, Sonny continues to wear his MAGA hat. The university is preparing for a Turning Point USA event, which is drawing threats from left-leaning groups.
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Speaker 0: Pullman is farm country and is home to Washington State University, a campus that's focused on academic excellence and is supposed to be welcoming to diverse values and ideas.
Speaker 1: So I I was walking like this, my head down.
Speaker 0: That's why Jay Sonny says he never imagined his political leanings would make him a target.
Speaker 1: Patrick just just probably hates Trump.
Speaker 0: After a long day at work, the WSU junior says he got ambushed and jumped by Patrick Mahoney and Gerald Hoff
Speaker 1: Patrick, ripped the hat off my head.
Speaker 0: For wearing this bright red Trump cap.
Speaker 1: He said to me, go get it, or punch me a bunch of times on the back.
Speaker 0: Sonny says they unleashed a vicious beatdown all caught on surveillance cameras right in front of the Coug, a popular campus bar packed with students.
Speaker 1: Gerald also kicked me also a bunch of times too. Patrick, he he grabbed my chest, slammed it on the concrete as I was falling.
Speaker 0: He tried to defend himself.
Speaker 1: So I have go throw my food at his face.
Speaker 0: But Sonny says two against one was just unfair.
Speaker 1: And I was like, what the hell just happened?
Speaker 0: And the melee left him with multiple scrapes and bruises.
Speaker 1: Oh, because of this. Yeah.
Speaker 0: Pullman police eventually found the pair nearby within hours of the chaos.
Speaker 2: I've seen this guy campus before. Okay. I know he's like being like right wing dude.
Speaker 0: Mahoney and Hoff pretty much admitted to the allegations.
Speaker 2: I like grabbed his hat, threw it, and I said like go get it. We did grab him and bring him to the ground.
Speaker 0: But tried to downplay the incident.
Speaker 2: I didn't hit him. I don't think I did something illegal. Right? Someone in touching. Someone in touching, I don't know what that is.
Right?
Speaker 0: In fact, Mahoney tried to victim blame.
Speaker 2: He wanted to fight. He got what's coming to him.
Speaker 0: The officers didn't buy that story and arrested them on the spot.
Speaker 3: You have the right to an attorney if you cannot
Speaker 0: afford one. They're now facing fourth degree misdemeanor assault charges.
Speaker 1: See, the thing is is that this country, you know, was, you know, was also built, you know, around tolerance.
Speaker 0: Sonny says he doesn't know Hoff, but his prior interactions with Mahoney may have played a role in this assault since the two are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Speaker 1: Patrick said I'm a communist because the system fails people.
Speaker 0: Sahni is a Republican and volunteers with conservative groups on campus like Turning Point USA. Can you tell me about Patrick?
Speaker 1: He seems like a nice dude.
Speaker 0: Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor, teaching a freshman level political science class.
Speaker 1: Had his beliefs and.
Speaker 0: By all accounts, Mahoney is a notorious far left activist.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm gonna think you are beyond insane.
Speaker 0: Who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro Hamas
Speaker 2: protests in the city. Almost 30,000 Gazan civilians have been killed.
Speaker 0: Recently, he was part of a group pressuring the Pullman City Council to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, but that went nowhere.
Speaker 2: To support the revolution. Support the resolution.
Speaker 3: Workers everywhere are rising up.
Speaker 0: Sahni says Mahoney has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, progressive pro labor groups, and is someone who publicly touts his admiration for the communist party. Look at the hammer and sickle pin he's wearing in this official school photo.
Speaker 1: My only goal is to is to turn this country into a communist dictatorship or a communist authoritarian system.
Speaker 2: I'm a hit to be like, yo, don't fuck with us anymore.
Speaker 0: This violent incident happened in late February, and the school temporarily suspended Mahoney from classes and teaching duties. But Sonny is speaking up now since he's hearing his attacker could be reinstated and doesn't want that to happen.
Speaker 1: He really shouldn't be teaching here in my opinion because, you know, if you can't tolerate different different opinions, then then then what's the point?
Speaker 0: School leaders would not comment on this matter citing student privacy laws. I wanna see if mister Mahoney wants to tell his side of the story.
Speaker 2: No. Go away.
Speaker 0: Mahoney refused to talk after I door knocked him at his off campus apartment.
Speaker 2: Gerald's in the black. Gerald Hoff is in the black. And I'm black.
Speaker 0: We were unable to reach Hoff to get his side of the story but found his LinkedIn account indicating he's employed at WSU. Again, the school would not comment on Hoff's status either.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump won the elections because the left was so toxic like
Speaker 0: Meanwhile, Sonny is still wearing that MAGA cap and frequently getting dirty looks on campus. But he's also getting tons of love from students and faculty who respect him for sticking to his convictions. You must be sick and tired of getting bullied?
Speaker 1: It does become exhausting. Yes.
Speaker 0: The university is now preparing for an event on April 17 featuring TPUSA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3: You can't express your beliefs, like, as openly as some of the left leaning students can. Like, when I'm tabling for Turning Point here on campus, I've been cussed out. I've been flipped off.
Speaker 0: It's already drawing online chat from violent militant groups like Antifa and other left leaning students who are promising to disrupt and cause chaos.
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I’m closely following the investigation at Washington State University, where Pullman Police are looking into an incident involving a leftist PhD student and a WSU employee who allegedly ambushed a conservative student. Protests may arise during an upcoming Turning Point USA event.
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EXCLUSIVE: All eyes are on Washington State University (WSU) as the Pullman Police Department investigates two individuals—a leftist PhD student instructor, Patrick Mahoney, and WSU employee, Gerald Hoff—who allegedly ambushed conservative engineering student Jay Sani. Pullman Police Chief Aaron Breshears shared with @choeshow that the investigation is still underway, with authorities preparing for potential protests surrounding an upcoming Turning Point USA event on campus. @TPUSA
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Two arrests have been made for fourth-degree assault after an incident on Colorado Street in Pullman. The victim was reportedly wearing a Trump hat, which appears to be central to the assault. Authorities have not classified it as a hate crime because the investigation is ongoing. To be considered a hate crime, it would need to be proven the crime was committed due to race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender. Political ideology as a motivator is questionable under Washington state law. There is currently no evidence perpetrators made statements related to these factors.
A Turning Point USA event featuring Charlie Kirk is scheduled for April 17 on Washington State University's campus. The Washington State University Police Department has primary jurisdiction, with other agencies providing support. Due to the history of similar events, counter-protesters are expected, potentially leading to conflict. The primary goal is to ensure public safety for everyone attending.
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Speaker 0: Took that through it. Right? And then you you guys both Sorry. That was took him to the ground. Okay.
At this point, we have made, two arrests in the case for, assault fourth degree, which is a low level of assault in the state of Washington. And, essentially, what we were able to determine is that, two people assaulted the victim up on, Colorado Street in Poland.
Speaker 1: At this point, do we have any sense of what the motive may be?
Speaker 0: It appears that the victim was wearing a hat supporting Trump and that that appears to be a focal point of the assault.
Speaker 1: Are you calling this a hate crime at this point?
Speaker 0: We haven't classified it as a hate crime at this time.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 0: At this point, the investigation hasn't gone far enough to to reach what would be the level of a hate crime in the state of Washington. It is something that we are considering.
Speaker 1: What would it take for this to become a hate crime?
Speaker 0: And we would have to show that the the crime was committed, you know, specifically because of of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender. Those would definitely fall into it. Political ideology, that is questionable whether that could be classified as a hate crime.
Speaker 1: But as far as you can tell, none of that was uttered or said by the perpetrators?
Speaker 0: There's no evidence of that at this time. As yourself are a conservative influencer in some way.
Speaker 1: There's a Turning Point USA event happening April 17. It's gonna be on campus. As you stated earlier, how are you approaching this event? What type of preparations are you, you know, undertaking at this point?
Speaker 0: The event will be taking place on Washington State University's campus, and the Washington University Police Department would have primary jurisdiction over that campus and preparing for public safety there. We are here as a support agency to provide any assistance that they may need on their campus, and we have been working with them to, prepare a plan, in the case they need us.
Speaker 1: There could be some some issues from activist groups, within and even outside Pullman. What type of chatter can you share that could potentially disrupt this event?
Speaker 0: Based upon the history of of these types of events, it does draw, for lack of a better word, counter protesters. Maybe that's not the right word, but people with opposing views to what Charlie Kirk presents, and sometimes that results in conflict.
Speaker 1: Your goal is to make it as safe as possible for everyone attending because it's students at the end of the day for the most part. Right?
Speaker 0: That is correct. Our our primary goal is public safety.
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I witnessed employees from Jackson-Hewitt distributing flyers to illegal immigrants outside the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. The flyer claimed that they could receive up to $14,000 in tax returns based on their children. When I identified myself as a journalist, one employee took back the flyer and warned about legal consequences.
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🚨 BREAKING: Employees of Jackson-Hewitt, a tax services company, were handing out flyers to illegal immigrants lined up outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC, which is famous for housing migrants on the taxpayer's dime. The flyer indicates that illegal immigrants can get up to $14,000 in tax returns based on how many children they have. When the employee found out @sav_says_ is a journalist, he took the flyer back and said legal would have to get involved if he is on camera. @TPUSA
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Savannah Hernandez reports from New York City's Roosevelt Hotel, examining the migrant crisis. She found a Jackson Hewitt table offering flyers to migrants, stating, "working or not, file your taxes, and we can get the maximum refund for your family." The flyer claims refunds could exceed $7,000 for one child and $14,000 for up to three children.
A Jackson Hewitt employee confirmed they assist migrants with tax refunds. The reporter noted the flyers are being distributed as tax season approaches in New York City, a sanctuary city with over 200,000 illegal immigrants. Despite promises of mass deportations, the city has spent $7 billion on migrants. A shelter is closing in June, but another with 2,200 beds for single migrant men just opened in the Bronx. The report is dated March 2025.
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Speaker 0: We do this stuff like this, like, at all the shelters and stuff.
Speaker 1: But, like, our company, this is why we try to help people by, you know, providing them with refunds. You know?
Speaker 2: This is Savannah Hernandez in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Now we wanted to come check-in on the migrant crisis. And as we were walking around, we saw a Jackson Hewitt table out here with an employee who was handing out this flyer. Now what this flyer says is working or not, file your taxes, and we can get the maximum refund for your family. And the paper says that if you have one child, you can get over $7,000 in a refund.
And if you have up to three children, you can get over 14,000. So the Jackson Hewitt employee who initially handed me this paper, after finding out I was a journalist, took the paper away. That's why this one's so dirty because a migrant ended up giving me another copy. And he stated that if he's put on camera and this goes out, that legal will have to get involved.
Speaker 0: We do this stuff like this, like, at all the shelters and stuff.
Speaker 1: But, like, our company, this is why we try to help people by, you know, providing them with refunds. You know?
Speaker 2: So you guys are trying to help the migrants with their taxes then? Yes. To get help them get refunds, help them get some money back from the government?
Speaker 1: Yes. Okay.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you. No problem. Yeah. We just wanna go try to talk to
Speaker 0: Can't put my footage.
Speaker 2: Can we take one of your papers though just so we can kind of thank you. Actually,
Speaker 0: you should just take this one because this one has my office information. And so therefore, legal would have to get involved. So that's
Speaker 2: why we're here. So just wanted to give you guys an idea of again what migrants have been told in New York City. Now that tax season is coming up, they are being given, official flyers from Jackson Hewitt themselves on how to file their taxes. You know, we have the Trump administration that is currently in office, and they have been promising mass deportations. But in sanctuary cities like New York, where you've had over 200,000 illegal immigrants make their way to this area, the crisis is very much alive and well.
Now this shelter behind me is actually set to close in June, but you have another shelter that was just opened up in The Bronx with 2,200 beds specifically for single migrant men. So the crisis very much alive here in New York City that has already spent $7,000,000,000 on migrants over the last couple of years. Wanted to give you guys an update as of March 2025 where we're currently at
Speaker 0: with it.
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NEW: Protesters in Los Angeles marched to "defend the Constitution" against President Trump and @elonmusk. But most who spoke to @fromkalen had a hard time defending their points. @TPUSA https://t.co/ism1e2Dm7A
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The speakers are protesting for various reasons. One speaker says the protest seems pro-Hillary and pro-Kamala, and that America has been evil since before Trump. Another speaker says they are protesting for Palestine and humanity, and that America is a "God of a country."
One sign says "Trumpy Pool's Russian asset," but a speaker admits this is an assumption without proof. Another speaker wearing a Ukraine hat gets angry when asked if they support the United States, calling it a stupid question.
One speaker claims people from Venezuela are being wrongly accused of being gang members and deported without due process. The speaker fears this will lead to the repression of protesters. Another speaker calls someone a fascist dictator and "America's Hitler," claiming freedoms are being destroyed.
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Speaker 0: If anyone around here knows why you guys are out here, I would love to hear it.
Speaker 1: To be honest, it seems like this is just a a Democrat protest. So I'm I'm kind of a bit fed up with this that this just seems like a pro Hillary, pro Kamala protest. This country's been evil since before Donald Trump. George Bush, Ronald Reagan, the founding fathers were slave owners. Out here has positive energy.
Why are you focusing on him? Already 12 judges have ruled that the constitution has been violated.
Speaker 0: What exactly happened there?
Speaker 1: I I don't know why you're asking me this, but
Speaker 0: Well, I'm because you're out well, you're out here protesting. You're you're
Speaker 1: out here protesting. I'm protesting for Palestine and humanity. I'm protesting for the world. I'm protesting for the fact that this country has been a God of a country since before Donald Trump. America.
Israel. Free Palestine. Free Mahmoud Khalil.
Speaker 0: Well, you know, some people have something to say. They're out here. He's got something to say. And then we've got people complaining, and yet they can't even explain to me why they're
Speaker 1: out here protesting. It
Speaker 0: says Trumpy Pool's Russian asset. How do we know that?
Speaker 1: Trump and Russia have not to go.
Speaker 2: I'm making an assumption.
Speaker 0: I don't have any proof or evidence of anything. They just make stuff up.
Speaker 2: The purpose is to
Speaker 0: get to Ukraine.
Speaker 1: That. Happen.
Speaker 2: Democrats A % we support Ukraine.
Speaker 0: Do you
Speaker 2: support The United States? What a stupid question is that. Are you a right winger? Why are you asking that?
Speaker 0: Because you're wearing a Ukraine hat.
Speaker 2: Yes. Because I'm showing my support for Ukraine. You're clearly making a stupid video for the right wingers. Go to hell.
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey. Ho ho. Trump and Moscow
Speaker 0: Apparently, it's wrong to ask someone wearing a Ukraine hat if they support Ukraine over The United States. I think it's a valid question. It's no. It's a valid question. So right here, we have a couple of fun people.
They're blocking my cameraman so that I cannot ask people questions. A lot of the reason that they do this is because they have no idea what they're talking about.
Speaker 3: When he, like, sends people away to El Salvador and imprisons them in the worst prison Sends who? A bunch of, like, people from Venezuela, like, men from Venezuela accusing
Speaker 0: What were they doing here?
Speaker 3: Accusing them of being gang members without any evidence that there is, without any due process. Once he starts, like, sending some of us away, then all of our rights go away. No. It's not It's only a small
Speaker 0: I don't think you know what you're talking about here because you're talking about the plane full of deported, trendy agua gang members.
Speaker 3: No. I'm not. I'm talking about a bunch of Venezuelan men that we don't know who they were.
Speaker 0: We didn't know who they were.
Speaker 3: We didn't. But show me the record. Show me the evidence. Show me the due process. It's not there.
You can't because it doesn't exist.
Speaker 0: Were these legal citizens that you're talking about?
Speaker 3: No. It starts off.
Speaker 0: So they weren't allowed to be here?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Bro, let me tell you about it.
Speaker 0: They took over an apartment building in Aurora, Colorado, and you're saying that they should be allowed to stay here.
Speaker 3: So then the next step after you start deporting these people is then you move the the the the needle again and again. And I'm telling you, right now, pay attention because soon, they'll be knocking on your door for participating in a protest and they'll be arresting you and there won't be a thing you can do about it.
Speaker 4: He's a fascist dictator and he's America's Hitler. We're hitting a point where everything they are so out of bounds. These people are so out of bounds. They are destroying two hundred and forty eight years of freedom. And I damn sure I'm not gonna be the first one in my family to be serving and crawling around on the floor like those sad little weak mega knee benders who suck the tiny mushroom twenty four seven.
His little tiny pee pee.
Speaker 0: I see.
Speaker 4: That's where they live, on their knees.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
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In 2023, approximately 112,000 people died from fentanyl. Here's how it got here: @TPUSA https://t.co/5P9F2MXjMX
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Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, originates from China and is trafficked into the US by cartels. Fentanyl analogs like Carfentanil and Xylazine are mixed with Fentanyl, causing severe harm to users. Cartels use various methods to smuggle Fentanyl into the US, including hiding it in vehicles and using migrants as carriers. Migrants become indebted to cartels, leading to exploitation. In 2023, 112,000 Americans died from Fentanyl, with 2024 expected to be worse. This crisis is described as chemical warfare originating from China.
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Speaker 0: Fentanyl has become a household name in the United States. In most cities in America, you can see fennel addicts everywhere. Addicted and docile from the opioid that is 50 times stronger than heroin. But why is it here in such abundance? Our journey starts in China.
Before you assume this is some baseless conspiracy theory, our own department of justice charged 4 Chinese chemical manufacturing companies for this just last year in 2023.
Speaker 1: We know that this global fentanyl supply chain, which ends with the deaths of Americans, often starts with chemical companies in China.
Speaker 0: These Chinese companies are sending Fentanyl precursors, Fentanyl analogs, and Xylazine into Mexico. Fentanyl is a synthetic drug, meaning it doesn't exist in nature, but rather needs to be synthesized through precursor chemicals. These precursor chemicals are sent to Mexico to the cartels where they are processed and synthesized into Fentanyl, and that gets distributed into the United States by many different means. We'll get into those means in a second. As stated previously, what is also sent to Mexico are Fentanyl analogs and Xylazine.
Fentanyl analogs are similar, but not exact to the composition of Fentanyl. There are several analogs sent from China to the cartel, the strongest of which is called Carfentanil.
Speaker 2: And I said, please promise me you won't touch that. And he said, I promise you more.
Speaker 0: At the end of October, they learned it was actually carfentanil. Carfentanil is a 100 times stronger than traditional fentanyl and can kill somebody with an amount equivalent to the size of a tip of a needle.
Speaker 1: That would be enough to to kill you.
Speaker 0: The other chemical sent from China is Xylazine. If you're not familiar, xylazine is an active ingredient for a street drug called dovetranq. It's an animal tranquilizer mixed with Fentanyl, but Narcan won't work on it. Which many videos on the Internet have covered as the zombie drug.
Speaker 2: My arm swelled up, like, about this big, and it was like
Speaker 0: an abscessed, but it hurt so bad. This drug includes Fentanyl, Xylazine, and traditionally, Xylazine was used to sedate large animals, but it is now being used to mix with Fentanyl. And it's causing drug addicts to develop sores and eventually lose their limbs.
Speaker 2: You can see an infection that it they didn't take your limb. We've had a macrophage, 2 weeks. Yeah. Matter of 2 weeks.
Speaker 0: So how do Fentanyl precursors, Fentanyl analogs, and Xylazine make their way into the United States from Mexico? Cartels throughout Mexico Mexico find many ways to do this. The DEA believes that the primary cartel groups transporting Fentanyl into the US are Sinaloa and CJNG. Sinaloa is widely considered the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere.
Speaker 2: But for
Speaker 0: all the fanfare around the capture of El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel have adapted. CJNG, according to the Mexican government, is the most violent and militarized cartel in Mexico. The kidnapping of 4 US citizens and killing 2 of them. A lot of the fentanyl that crosses into the United States is done so through the ports of entry, where the cartels might hide loads of fentanyl underneath compartments or in packages and trucks or tractor trailers. I realized that all the doors are loaded with packages.
These vehicles might be transporting legitimate cargo into the United States. With the Fentanyl being hidden so discreetly that the officers at the port of entry can't always catch it. The cartel also uses migrants as foot cargo when they cross illegally into the United States. The cartel groups give each migrant a wristband, which they're instructed to rip off once entering the United States.
Speaker 2: Each color represents a different smuggling organization. So they're given a number. And when they get to that destination, they better call.
Speaker 0: These wristbands are identifiers for the cartel group that the migrant has paid to help them along their illegal journey into the United States. Oftentimes, these migrants become indebted to the cartel. They will need to actively allocate a percentage of their wages to the cartel. If they don't do this, their cartel threatens the lives of their loved ones back home, and this is how the cartel creates slaves.
Speaker 2: Cartel de Goffo operatives push them right to border patrol by the 100. They are indebted to a criminal organization in a foreign country.
Speaker 0: Indebted to them forever, but living here in the United States. In 2023, approximately 112,000 people died from Fentanyl in the United States alone. 2024 is projected to be even worse. This is chemical warfare, plain and simple. And all of it is coming from China.