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Desperate Migrants Sew Mouths Shut in Protest (ft. Ritesh Rajan)

#paytaxes#mexico#wartorn#criminal#asylum
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0:00 [Music] do you guys remember the uh migrant comp boy from that was like moving from south america oh yeah like a ton of them yeah they're moving through like all the south american countries working their way up north migraines was like stop coming into our country yeah yeah i remember that that's right they were trying to get in the united states you're trying to get united states from all the way from like south america and they were like traveling as a group yeah yeah i remember that well i don't know whatever happened to that because they just stopped reporting on it but um do they stop that they always do now there's another one there's like it was a safe shot yeah they're playing 15 minutes yeah but uh basically there are a bunch of uh there's another group desperate migrants have sewn their mouths shut in a protest

0:52 demanding that they be able to travel over 1 000 miles through mexico to the u.s border you mean like they ████ sold it this is what people don't understand like these people are fighting for their ████ lives they got real problems i guess most of them are from venezuela that's what i said venezuela yeah and they're trying to get over to the us but the but mexico won't grant them the uh the asylum yeah whoa this is like this is what i always feel so bad for man because honestly if they don't do some of the ████ like this nobody gives a ████ nobody gives a ████ yeah and they'll just stop reporting on it you know what's funny so well it's not funny it's pretty sad but then like back in the day america used to have this was mainly during the cold war america used to have the uh verbiage of okay come over here immigrants you know you guys could start a new life here this is the place right you'll see it in every presidential speech but then this one

1:42 it's like don't ████ come people thought it would change with biden but then i think there's something else happening with the way that the us is like okay we don't want more people or whatever it is because back then it was a different conversation but because people thought that when biden got into office it would change but now he even outright was like don't come here but but like that's the definition of politics kalama was like don't ████ come here it's ████ crazy people are coming here and they're taking the resources from away from the actual citizens i don't know what but what does that mean like resources like they're stealing gasoline like taxes or like you have the medical care has to get spread to them that's why you mean like the counter argument or do you mean like that's the argument yeah like for example isn't there like there's those those guys that were uh they were caught at the border they were jumping they're they're hopping the border and then now um because they weren't given the vaccine they were able to counter sue

2:33 for being mishandled right so like so like now the met like the the medical resources have to get spread i always say this and i wonder why no one else has thought of this why don't they just put a team of lawyers down there and say hey you need to bring me like your criminal record because people are like the criminals are coming the criminals are coming why don't they just be like you're a citizen and now you got to pay taxes because that helps the government and then the complaint of like they're not paying their taxes which is basically a misnomer which we were talking about because a lot of illegal immigrants do pay taxes don't they just get paid under the table though that too but they still have so a lot of people still pay their taxes and then they've got no benefits of being a tax payer like let's say they get fake papers right this is one of the ways that they do pay taxes it's like even if you get fake papers and then you like let's say you work at like i don't know like a farm or whatever right they're still getting taxes taken out of

3:23 their paycheck before they get their paycheck just like a regular if it's not under the table um yeah if it's not but a lot of farms and stuff uh don't do i would say a lot of under the table jobs might be like mom and pop restaurants it might be it's not done by major operations because they get audited and like they're scared of getting caught yeah because you can't even document that you paid an illegal immigrant right in your own records if you're a businessman you're ████ yeah you can't actually say you did that right in most it's not done in major operations but most people that are hiring are like mom and pop like for example like a contractor right like if you own like a construction company and it's just you and maybe your brother and then you go to home depot and you grab some dudes up and you're like i need help you know things like that it's done by you know small operations and sometimes there'll be a scandal where you find a big

4:13 operation doing it but then they're um they're way too like it's too risky for them to hire an illegal immigrant i mean there's also less crime committed by immigrants when people like ah they're gonna be criminals i'm like who's the criminal for real the catholic church the dude who makes the the you know the tahini sliced mango across the street is a criminal usually like what usually him after he works really really hard provides a good life for the family then the son who speaks perfectly then he runs then he becomes the president of the fda and then runs this game that's usually what the recent immigrants are the hard working ones yeah that's true it's their ████ ass kids yeah are we offering like did all of our parents immigrate here yes yes yours was great grandparents well you have great grandparents probably yeah my parents did and i was a criminal so yeah

5:03 me too i'm a ████ stereotype i wasn't a criminal but i was a ████ dude i'm a criminal i'm a criminal i'm stealing white roles yeah that's the good thing oh ████ i'm the real criminal you're the reason why so the argument you're like they're going to steal my jobs it's it's it's retail he is you've been stealing jobs you're stealing jobs from uh since i'm 18 years old baby lizzy's stealing josh from the whites bro most of these migrants are from venezuela guatemala nicaragua republic of the congo these are all like war-torn countries they're not poor they're war-torn you don't hear people like congo's in africa so they went to latin america first and then they no because a lot of people will go well yeah they'll take a boat to south america and then from there move up yeah so mexico is blocking them from passing through well not like they don't ever want them to go through but i guess they're not um they're not waiting to be issued the

5:53 visas because it just takes so freaking long like i'm assuming these guys also don't want to land in mexico right they don't they don't they want to go all the way through oh but then mexico is like nah bro because you got to go through they have to physically i mean they just it's like with anything like the process is so long that for people are seeking asylum that might be too long i might die in five years yeah they don't have the resources dude chill in the random spot it's really ████ didn't it dude people were complaining you know like oh if you sent me back to my country i'm gonna die and then they send these people and then they're murdered and they die and people are like ooh i wanna know the real reason why is it like is it like they don't have enough money the government's running out of like what is it you know because it's usually an economic reason nothing else i highly doubt that people make decisions no no no dude it's definitely politically voted because let's just say the president of mexico goes yeah i'm going to do this then you know whoever

6:44 disagrees with him is like we're not voting for this person period ever again oh so it's a met you mean like from mexico it's being blocked i would have why is it i was thinking about the us no trump was like i'm building the wall and half the country was like yeah we're voting for this idiot and then they didn't build the wall so he scammed the country you spent all this money parks football with little mexican children doing see-saws on the border i do enjoy all the art installations that have come through this wall i just think it's ████ stupid dude like they should just give everyone citizenship let them all pay taxes and be like what do you do what are you good at is it painting houses were you a lawyer in your country like you got a lot of should it go the other way too like if you just suck at being american and you're not throwing them back over here this is what i'm saying it's like what do we do there

7:34 it's like there's hell of people that are like failing i bet if you look at the statistics of people who are you know like are criminals uh dealing with tax fraud or any sort of uh let's say bad habits i guarantee you their citizens in this country are not people of color well statistically you know there's more citizens than immigrants that are illegally here so obviously there's going to be way more criminals you know like yeah but think about it what's the ratio then is it disproportionate yeah disproportional yeah it's the same thing you know so there's actually just a little factoid there's actually more immigrants in federal detention now with biden office than we're before i'm not surprised though yeah i laugh at that ████ because it's just not part of his promise yeah they're gonna they're gonna let the

8:25 kids in the cages go and he was like way more kids in them cages i just never understand why they're like i have a great idea let's separate the pants from the kids and then they're like if we if they die that's not our fault i don't know that way at least we'll be away from the parents confusing part is that biden closed to immigration detention centers as part of the initiative to like fight against that and then he built five more we just we just consult there's more people in the ones that are left over oh my god because people think like we're the good side we're gonna solve america and i'm like don't you ████ know that there's established dudes that are career politician on both ████ sides that are just constantly ████ with the u.s you know public like it's been like this for how long and they said that about obama too right it's been like this for

9:15 how ████ long why are there borders just forget it like we're in the modern world just oh ████ open it up i got ████ you know i got easy pass yeah let's just go back to pangaea yeah one world government how about that new world order someone activates skynet i'm tired of this ████ let's let the robots figure it out yeah dude they got it so what do you think about like um about the due process of vetting people who want to immigrate well i'll tell you this like so um i mean i said this story before but my my girlfriend coming here from the uk she's on a legitimate visa all that stuff but she got stopped by border control and it was a crazy ████ scary moment because like you know she called me she's like yeah i just landed cool i don't hear from her for five ████ hours yeah and she was treated like a

10:05 criminal in there they were interrogating her not letting her go to the bathroom like not just violating right demanding that she unlock her phone and ████ they wanted to look at her phone go through her ████ phone they kept pressing her she's like look am i here for a reason why am i here they're like oh it's because of this this and this and then she's like okay that's probably illegal and then you know i was like this is ████ mad they just wanted to single you out and they were doing this to other people in there too and she goes you know what's crazy is the people that could prove that they were extremely rich they got out like that this guy was like from australia and he goes look i have this much money in my bank account this is what i do here whatever whatever and they're like okay you're free to go and everybody else that couldn't really speak english well they were grabbing them up and ████ them up dude they're like you're tripping on that word okay this and this

10:55 okay we're saying but also but the interrogator was not white that's why i was ████ up you know what i mean like it's like dude you need to have somebody on that side i guess if we need to have more resources for the undocumented people to come through like the u.s boards and stuff there needs to be a special interest for politicians to make money yes correct it all comes out of super power if there is no incentive for them to make this a system they're not going to pour money and resources into it that's why i say just make everyone a citizen and have them fill into the the tax dollars so at least then the government knows we have officially put them in the pipeline but to even start to make money off dude if the irs wants something for you they can literally find you in 10 seconds you're telling me they can't process these people it's literally it's a one-piece paper they probably just don't want to set up the system what if you can't prove that you would be a

11:45 citizen of worth like like being first uh well i guess like with my parents immigrating here they it took so ████ long for them to prove that what they were studying and what they were certified for in the philippines was real and that they would be able to come here and be a nurse or x-ray but then like what if you're just someone that is fleeing a country and you don't have those you didn't bring all that ████ yeah but don't they claim are they claiming like refugees refugee asylum well either way both of those processes who knows how much longer asylum is than ████ regular but doesn't it all of it is weird everyone knows that venezuela is a ████ show it's not like i'm coming from a village in asia and they're like you can't verify what's going on they're like let me check on wikipedia they're like oh there's a civil war or they don't have internet well there is inflation a deflation like so it's it's the question of like let's say that you you're legitimately telling the truth hey i'm coming from like a

12:36 war-torn situation i'm here for singing asylum okay we'll we're just going to file your stuff it may take months at that point when you hear that and you go ████ it i'm jumping the wall yeah like is that wrong because that's what's happening a lot of times i mean look that's rough dude i think you're going to do whatever you're going to need to do to protect yourself and your family dude imagine leaving so then you get these people who are sewing their mouths because they're china if china had a land border with the us would that should be exactly the same way i have a i have a friend who's uh who's japanese but like culturally mexican like full japanese right and the reason why this happened is because um in the 1940s they immigrated to mexico because they heard that it was easier to go from mexico to california and then world war ii broke out and they heard that japanese people were being rounded up into camps so their relatives were like

13:26 don't ████ come here so their grandpas and grandmas just basically stayed in mexico and then they're like we're just going to be mexicans and then basically that's what happened but eventually they made their way into california to meet their relatives but that's a funny ████ story after two generations they were born in mexico all that and then they went let's finally go to america oh s███'s chill all right they're not rounding up some caps all right let's go you know what you know the thing is is like we we're saying this as obviously minority groups and a lot of us as immigrant families it's like most people just have no clue what this experience is oh yeah yeah yeah no ████ no i do you're completely ignorant and it's just like we're american and it's just like dude you gotta have empathy i always i always blame you know like not only the media but then our

14:16 politicians who divide us because we have way more in common with working class white folks than we do with rich white folks you know and rich minorities like it's really a it's more class yeah with class i bond more with people of the same class and upbringing than i do over race and i think that that's the ████ up ████ with the right and left issue under the ████ red and blue issues a lot of that ████ is ████ too made to divide us and that's what everyone says about like out like people that don't live in the states they always say like you guys in the u.s man you guys are always so obsessed with race all the time i know that's you guys yeah but yeah but i'll tell you why though because we just watched a video of two 14 year olds getting fought one kid who got arrested was the black kid that's why we're obsessed with 100 it's why when i'm wearing a mohawk i get pulled over every single day and not the white kid it's because of race it's because you

15:07 look like a stereotypical 90s villain [Laughter] dude that's why i get searched for bombs every time i go to the airport [Music] you

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