“I Reject Your Sympathy”: A father’s fury erupts on Capitol Hill

0:00You are listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Outlaw Talk Radio. I'm your host Jimmy Hinton. There's a dad of a girl who was permanently disabled in a crash in California. I don't know if you remember that. It was a semi-truck that plowed into the back of a vehicle. In that accident was Marcus Coleman's, I believe, then five-year-old daughter who was left permanently disabled. He testified recently. I don't know, midweek last week. He testified in front of US representatives and it was powerful. It was such a good speech and he had so many good arguments. I want to play the video or the audio clip rather because it's powerful. It's a little bit lengthy but I want to play the whole thing just to give you context.

1:03Then I want to unpack this and I want to talk about that because this is why the American people are fed up. The American people are absolutely fed up. This one again hits close to home for me because I was in the transportation industry for decades. I drove truck. I've been around heavy equipment my entire life. I drove coast to coast. I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel of a semi and have done so with the exception of one minor tiny little accident. When I first began driving, literally within the first three months, I got rerouted in New York City, which is an absolute nightmare of a city. That hands down is my least favorite city to drive in, period. I ended up getting rerouted and wound up underneath a bridge that wasn't marked.

2:10I went underneath it to get back on the interstate. It was like a quarter of an inch too low. Actually, the bridge itself had enough height. When my trailer tannels went underneath, I caught where the road was all buckled because New York City. They take care of their roads so well. When I hit that big pothole, it twisted my trailer, pushed it up in the air, and it scraped one of the bolts that was underneath that overpass. I put a tiny little hole in the top of the trailer. It wasn't a big deal. The point is I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles in semi trucks. In all of my vehicles, I've driven over a million and a half miles, accident-free. I'm not too in my own horn here, no pun intended, but I've been across America a time or two, and no a thing or two about safe driving.

3:20The trucking industry has radically gone downhill because of illegal aliens. I don't care what the research says. Research and real life experience are two very different things. What you witnessed and what you see, just because there aren't quote-unquote accidents happening because of illegal aliens or whatever. That's kind of the argument. I've looked up the statistics and I don't have them with me. It's been a couple months. The statistics show that illegal's don't necessarily have more accidents per capita than ordinary US citizens. However, what that doesn't take into effect or it doesn't factor in is the dangerous driving. The high-risk driving. The driving too fast or too slow.

4:23Typically, what I see, I know this sounds bad, but it's the truth. I can spot people and I can tell you who's behind the wheel before I ever get a piece out of the truck. By the way, they drive. There's a certain pattern and you can just tell. Not always. I'm not staying always, but there is a very different driving pattern for people who come here illegally or who don't speak fluent English. You can just see it. It's a ratic behavior. It's driving typically way too slow. It's pulling maneuvers that are very, very dangerous maneuvers. Just because other people get out of the way of these people and don't have an accident doesn't mean that they're safe drivers. The vast majority of them that I've seen out on the road, they're absolutely terrible, terrible drivers.

5:28Very risky driving the wrong way. I've seen it right here in my own town multiple times. Stem, I trucks barreling the wrong way down a one way street. They're utterly clueless. That's kind of stuff. When you witness that, that doesn't get marked as an accident. Why? Well, because there was no accident. Everybody got the crap out of their way. We can't go by statistics alone. I see a lot of people on the left and they're posting statistics and they're like, well, actually, they're not as likely to get into accidents. We should have compassion on them. Just because they got their CDL in a CDL mill, we should give them the same opportunity that we have. Well, I want you to hear this clip from the father. It is powerful.

6:28Again, this is Marcus Coleman, whose daughter was permanently injured when a semi-truck with an illegal from India barreled into the back of him. He was actually speeding in an in-extruction zone and not paying attention. He was distracted and pretty much being very reckless. Here is Marcus testifying last week in front of US representatives. How is that okay? How are you guys not fighting for this? Right here. How are you guys not fighting for this? I reject your guys' sympathy to be honest with you. There's no way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys have ever called me. Not one of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, hey, sorry about your daughter. You guys do it right here where you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox.

7:30This is when you guys care. Right here inside this room is the only time you guys care. I've never received anything from anybody over here, at all, regarding my daughter or my family. Or anything, hey, Mr. Coleman, your guys is the lila-long. I want to help you revise your study for it interested inside of it. Nothing. You guys have no pathway to anything. You guys want to sit there and talk about the pathway to citizenship. There is a pathway. It's not jump defense and apply. That's not the way it goes. There's a process to get it done. You don't just do that. I can't just go over there and go sit down as I want those seeds and become a Democrat. Oh, you know what? I probably could. I honestly probably could. So I'm not even going to say that. But I can't go inside the hospital and become a doctor just because I want you. And go put on a coat and come to work. It's getting ridiculous to what things are going down. It honestly is. It makes no sense at all. Sanctuary cities allow so much to be done that it's almost like the parents not there to take care of. The household and everybody's running around and doing what they want to do.

8:32And it sucks. It honestly does. You guys, if you guys talk about ice invading cities and doing this and doing that, I agree with Mr. Gordon. Jordan, sorry. If you guys, if the state sat there and told him come pick up the person, it would take one or two people to go do it. Instead, they got sent an army out there because now they have to look for them. And then since it's a sanctuary state, you got people sitting there abusing the ice, the ice officers that are out there. I have a whole statement right here that I was going to read to you guys. But just listening to you guys, none of this is relevant anymore because you guys just changed so much. It makes no sense at all. My daughter doesn't deserve this. She didn't ask for any of this. The people that jumped the fence did though. They knew exactly what they were doing. They still chose to move forward in that direction. And every day something's happening to somebody. And it is your guys' fault. I hold each and every one irresponsible for it. And I always will. That was powerful.

9:34That was powerful. And that wasn't even all of it. He's a truck driver. His wife is an immigrant. And he talked about that. He said, my wife, my wife went through the process. He said, it's really not that hard. It's complicated. But he said, she went through the process. She didn't jump a fence and say, now you can make me a citizen. I loved his analogy. You can't just jump into a hospital. You can't walk through the doors and demand the people make you a doctor. And put on a white coat when all these other people had to go through a medical school. You can't do it. And he's absolutely right. The Democrats, well, the compassionate thing is we need to provide a path to citizenship.

10:34There is one. You don't get to jump the fence. And say, give me all the benefits. Let me jump the line for all these people that are doing it legally. They're going through the process. But because I jumped the fence, give it to me now. Anyone on the say is that you want to give people, you want to give these people free healthcare. You want to give them all these things that citizens don't get. America's citizens don't get. You never called me once. You never acknowledged me in the hallway. You never said, hey, Mr. Coleman, I'm sorry. I'm sorry what happened to you and your family, your daughter. But all of a sudden, the cameras are on. And all of a sudden they're saying, oh, Mr. Coleman, we're so terribly sorry for what happened in that tragedy. He said, I don't accept your apology. I mean, your condolences.

11:35I don't accept it. You guys are responsible for what happened to my daughter. He is 100% right. And this is why America is fed up with the left. Because they're going around. I have some really good quotes from another woman whose daughter is, I believe it's her daughter, son or daughter, I think it's her daughter, is permanently disabled from another accident in another state. Because of an illegal. And she had some very, very powerful lines. And she called the Democrats out for their hatred for Trump. She said, I wish you loved Americans as much as you hated Trump. She's right. Their hatred for Trump has absolutely blinded them to the fact that we have laws, we have rules.

12:35And they're out there inciting people to violence. All these radical, loony bins, her thrown rocks at ICE. And then they get pepper sprayed and they're throwing themselves on the ground and, no, film it, film it, this is abuse. It doesn't work that way. Yeah, it's gotten so out of hand. And the left is, they must own this. They are the party of violence. I don't care what they say, I don't care how they grandstand and talk about their compassion and their love for the American people and how President Trump is just so evil and he's so cruel and he's so bad and he's so awful and he says mean things. They say all those things, but look at the laws. Look at what they're doing.

13:35Listen to how they're inciting people to violence. And then they play dumb. And then they want to get their two seconds of fame and say, oh, Mr. Coleman, we're so sorry for this tragedy that happened to your daughter. No, you're not. And I love that he called them out. He said, no, you're not sorry for what happened to me and my family. You know how I know? Because not one of you has ever said a whisper to me. And he's past couple years, nobody said a word to him. Nobody's acknowledged his existence. I mean, this is absurd. So again, he said, I reject your guy's sympathy. His daughter, Delilah, who was there in the courtroom or there in the chambers. His daughter, Delilah, suffered a fractured skull, broken femur, and traumatic brain injury in the 2024 California crash.

14:43Can you imagine this happened because of the Democrats, because of their policies, because of sanctuary cities, because of the CDL mills that are, they're turning a blind eye. They know that these people are illegal. Now, I get fired up over this because I know what it takes to drive an 80,000 pound vehicle. I think a lot of people are like, oh, what's the big deal? You just get behind the wheel and it's so easy. It's such an easy job and it's like driving a car and you know, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Then do it. Go ahead and try. I dare you. Now, for all the people who think it's so easy, you have to be hyper aware. If you're going to be a good driver, if you're going to be a safe driver, you can't get your CDL and a CDL mill.

15:44You've got to have skills. You've got to know where every square inch of that vehicle is. You've got to be able to maneuver in places that you never dreamed a truck could go. That truck from bumper to bumper is 72 to 75 feet long. 80,000 pounds loaded. That's a heck of a piece of machinery. It's a weapon. It is a weapon on wheels. And you get some idiot behind it that doesn't have a clue how to drive because they've never been trained. You see that video of that lady that she was a foreign lady and didn't know how to turn the headlights on. She was literally driving a semi truck in the dark and somebody flashed another driver, truck driver pulled her over. He's like, what are you doing driving with lights off? She's like, oh, show me where. Show me how to do it. I don't know how to turn the lights on.

16:45He's like, I followed you for miles and you had your lights off. It's pitch black. I mean, this is the kind of stuff it folks. I get fired up. It makes no sense. All right, we're coming up on a break here. Be sure to check out the America Out Loud store where you'll find incredible deals. Use the code out loud for 20% off and visit America out loud.News. Help us share the out loud truth. We'll be right back. You wouldn't go a day without brushing your teeth or washing your hands. What about washing your nose? I mean, your nose does filter the air you breathe. Air loaded with bacteria, viruses and irritants. Make nasal hygiene part of your routine with clear. No messy bottles to fill, no drowning sensation. Clear is a natural drug-free saline with the added benefit of xyletol, which blocks bacterial and viral adhesion. Available in stores and online at clear.com. That is x-L-E-A-R. Successful weight loss is about changing the gut-brain relationship with food. I'm Dr. Kelly Victory with the Wellness Company.

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18:48Fort slash Out Loud for an exclusive discount. That's chemicalfreebody.com, Fort slash Out Loud. Well, did you see Google quietly updated its AI principles removing its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance? They promised they agreed to in 2018. Where the American people have seen Google's track record prompting the question, is Google, and on trustworthy player in the AI race? Now is our time, my fellow Americans, AmericaOut Loud.News, Liberty, and Justice for all. Marcus Coleman got to testify in front of the US. Representatives. And it was powerful. His daughter was maimed in a very bad accident when an illegal

19:52was driving semi-truck out in California, 80,000 pound vehicle, flying through a construction zone, not paying attention. And he rear-ended Marcus' vehicle, leaving his daughter permanently disabled. He was at five years old at the time, she's seven now. And he rejected the Democrats' sympathy. I played the clip in the last segment before the break. And it was so powerful. He said, my daughter, Delilah, didn't deserve this. She didn't ask for this. These people did by jumping over the fence. And I love what he said. His wife is an immigrant. A legal immigrant. And he said, she went through the process. It's not that hard. I don't have sympathy for people jumping over the fence.

20:55If you want to become a citizen, figure it out. You don't get to jump over the fence. Any more than somebody gets to walk into a hospital and say, hey, give me that white coat. Yeah, make me a doctor. No. You have to go to medical school. You can't practice medicine simply by hop in line, bypassing everybody who went to medical school, walking into a hospital and demanding that they give you a white coat. It doesn't work that way. And yet we have all these people getting CDLs, their commercial driver's licenses, and the Trump administration is cracking down on it. Actually, last week, they really, well, for the whole month of August, too, they really cracked down on it. And I support it. I fully support cracking down on illegal behind the wheel. I fully support it.

21:56I don't care. People are going to be like, oh, that's not very much sympathy. Well, it's not a whole lot of sympathy. When you allow people behind the wheel of an 80,000 pound vehicle who have no training, they can't read the signs. They don't know how the truck works. They don't know how our laws work. And they run over top of people. And they injure or kill little children. Yeah, I support. I say not only shut the trucks down, but they're deporting them. And Mr. Marcus Coleman is absolutely right. They don't get to jump over the fence and say, well, there's a pathway to citizenship now. They don't get to do that anymore than the person walks into the hospital.

22:57Our force is their way into the hospital and says, make me a doctor. He is 100% right. So he blasted the Democrat lawmakers because they never reached out to him. So he said, I reject your sympathy. None of you. Not one of you. Here's his quote. Not one of you guys have ever sat there and seen me in the hallways and said, hey, sorry about your daughter. You guys do it right here where you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is when you guys care right here inside this room is the only time you guys care. 100% right. 1000% correct. He said his daughter doesn't deserve what happened to her. She didn't ask for any of this. The people that jumped to the fence did, though. They knew exactly what they were doing. They still chose to move forward in that direction. And every day something's happening to somebody and it's your guys' fault.

23:58I hold each and every one of you responsible for it and I always will. Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. He is exactly correct. The Democrats are the responsible ones. And you know, it's really interesting. They didn't use to be like that. Chris Cuomo, I mentioned him the other day. I mentioned him last week. And believe me, I'm not a Cuomo fan, but he was absolutely correct. He said, my dad is like, I could tell you why he was a Democrat. I could go right down the list. I could tell you exactly why he was a Democrat. And he said he would never stand for what the Democrats stand for now. Not in a million years. The Democrats were not for open borders. They weren't. That's a radical shift, a recent radical shift.

25:02Now all of a sudden it's, oh, well, yeah. And then they'll deny it. They'll be like, oh, we're not for open borders. Yes, you freaking are. You absolutely 100% are. Yeah, it's absolute insanity. So this stuff gets me so fired up. When you look into the eyes of these little kids who are maimed for the rest of their lives and for what? You know, can you imagine your child going under the knife and then a doctor kills your child? Like, it's a malpractice. That doctor kills your child and then to come to come to find out that doctor never went to medical school. That doctor's not even a US citizen. They jumped the border, slapped a white coat on, and started practicing medicine. That's exactly what's happening on the road.

26:03This is what's happening on the highways. The Justice Department has shut down multiple CDL mills. Illegal CDL mills where these people can't speak a lick of English. They've never spent one minute behind the wheel of a truck. They didn't pass a written test. And boom, rubber stamp. They get a license. It's not just a license. It's a commercial driver's license. That lets you drive a class A combination vehicle, something that bends. And it's 80,000 pounds. I think people don't realize how much weight that is, how much force that is. Now, I did have one. It was a non preventable accident.

27:03It was a young girl who spun out in front of me. She was a college girl. She was, I don't know, 18 years old, freshman. And there was like a wet sludgy, super thick slush snow. I was 80,000 pounds. I was fully loaded, pulling up a hill. I was pretty close to home. And she got in that slush. Right beside me and she hit the brakes. And the second I saw the brakes, I was like, oh boy. I could picture exactly where she was going to go. I just, I knew I was going to hit her. Now, there was that, like, I was on the brakes. The second she got up beside me, when I saw her brake light, I was like, oh boy. This is going to be a wild ride. And sure enough, she, flowing off to the side, hit the wall, ricocheted right out in front of me. IT boned her.

28:03And I was, I don't know, I had gotten down to probably 40, 45 miles an hour when I hit her. 80,000 pounds hitting a 3,000 pound car. You would not believe the amount of impact, the amount of force that I felt. I can't imagine what she felt. And I thought I killed her. And I got out, I walked back. Her car was literally folded in half. And she had a passenger. And when I saw the car from a distance, I was like, there's no way anybody lived. And I went back. And not only was she alive and her passenger, I kid you not. There was not one scratch on either one of them, not a scratch. And I would say that it was a miracle.

29:05And maybe it partly was. But I can tell you that 99% of that was strategy. It was knowing how to handle my truck. I had already driven for years and years. I knew how my truck handled. I knew what I was going to do. I knew what part of the car I was going to aim for. And I did. I aimed for the strongest where the support beam is that comes down along the windshield. It was 99% strategy. And you have to, and let me say this, it's because of my training. It's not because I'm some skilled like super trucker. It's because I had very, very good training. I had exceptional training. Exceptional. I earned my CDL. And these people who don't have a clue how to drive.

30:06And these CDL mills are pumping those CDLs out. It's these people, every one of them ought to be in prison. Every single one of them. All right. So at that hearing, good old Nadler, he looked like he was so bored. Like he was absolutely just inconvenience to be there. I've never really been able to stand him. He just, he rubs me the wrong way. But watching him, the camera pan to him a couple times. He had his hand up on his, on his cheek. And he was, he literally looked like he was nodding off. He wouldn't even look at Mr. Coleman. He had notes or whatever had something in front of him. He kept, he would look down at it. Then he'd kind of stare off in a space. I'm like, what a disrespectful piece of crap. Like what an absolute jerk.

31:08I mean, this is, these are the people who care. They care so much about the American people. Donald Trump doesn't care about anybody. He's just a, he says mean things to reporters. You know, and I'm not arguing that President Trump is the most compassionate person in the world. He's not. But these people claim to be so compassionate and so caring about the American people. And we're here for you. And we're going to help you out. I'm not buying it. Not anymore. There was a time when I did. All right, here's another woman, Patricia Fox, said that her daughter, Teresa Lulu, Aspenies, was permanently disabled after March, 2025, hit and run crash in Colorado, evolving an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.

32:11Fox told lawmakers her daughter was thrown headfirst into a concrete barrier at nearly 50 miles per hour. My gosh. And that the driver and passenger fled without checking whether she was alive. Despite her initial prognosis, Teresa survived. Praise God, but survival and recovery are not the same. Fox testified. She said that she now, her daughter now uses a hoier lift to get her and her daughter out of bed because her daughter can't sit up or stand on her own. It's absolutely tragic. She said she bends her daughter's, blends her daughter's food and feeds her through a G tube. Administers her medications and bathes her

33:11while sleeping lightly at night in case her pulse, pulse, oxymeter. There we go. I don't know I can't talk today. Sounds in alarm. One collision created an entire family of victims, Fox said. Are you going that her daughter's case carried an additional source of anguish because the accused driver's immigration status? She said if an American citizen had hit my daughter, I wouldn't be here asking why was somebody who had no lawful right to be in this country here? To hit her in the first place. And then she said the lives of American citizens should matter to both sides. We get it. You guys hate Trump. The campaign adds they're all the same. Taking the fight to Trump. Standing against Trump. Trump, Trump, Trump. You need to love Americans more than you hate Trump, she added.

34:15That's not partisan politics. It's literally your job. Wow. I'm she is so, so right. You see, this altered their lives forever. I can't begin to imagine. The amount of anger and sadness that I would feel. Living a perfectly normal happy life. And then one day, one second. That's all taken from you. And you have these dumb Democrats. Sorry, I'm fired up over them. They talk about how well the people who are here, they don't commit crimes. That's just Republicans making that up. You bring up these accidents, they won't bring them up. You know, it's interesting. I looked and looked and looked for this story.

35:16I did all kinds of searches because I don't want to always quote from Fox News. Not that I have any, I don't have anything against Fox News or really any of them. I mean, they're all kind of crooked in their own way. But I mean, I'll quote from literally any news source. I couldn't find not one single mainstream media who's covering this. Only Fox. And I see all these Democrats and I'm like, well, Maggie's just stop stop reading Fox News and get a little enlightenment. I'm not going to stop reading Fox News nor will I stop reading CNN or ABC or any of them. I read all of them. But come on. Not one mainstream media outlet could be bothered to cover the story, not one.

36:17I mean, how is this a partisan idea? They're like, no, no, no, can you imagine the editors? Like, don't cover that story. We don't want it. We don't want the Democrats to look bad. We're not even reasoning for not covering this story. Just cut it's cutting, cutting dry. It's black and white. It's a story that deserves to be covered. Oh, that's partisan. Fox, there's Fox News. Tapping their mega base again. You know, this is a kind of stuff people are tired of. Americans are are wakening up to this kind of garbage. They're tired of all of this garbage. Cover the stories. Point out the Democrats. This is on them. This is 100% on them. And their love for Americans ought to outweigh their hatred for Trump.

37:20We're coming up on a break here. All of our shows do go to podcasts the next day after the broadcast heard on talk radio. And on them on your favorite podcast app, be sure to subscribe, rate the show, share it, pass it around, share the love. When we come back, we'll talk more about what the Trump administration is doing about this because I like solutions. So we'll talk about what Trump's doing and sit tight. We'll be right back. The smartest food on the planet doesn't come from a lab or in a package. It grows in a class jar. I'm Doug Evans, author of the National Best Seller, The Spout Book. Sprouts deliver up to 100 times the antioxidants of mature vegetables. They grow in just three to five days for under a dollar serving. Get your sprouting kit at thespoutingcompany.com slash out loud. Use the code out loud for an exclusive offer. Gross smarter.

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39:21And the other was a hit and run out in Colorado. And they both made the argument that the Democrats own this. They have to own this. They're all about the sanctuary cities, sanctuary states saying that they're not cooperating with the Trump administration with ice. They're going to resist ice when ice comes into their cities. On and on and on. They incite people against ice agents. And then they want to look at these parents and say, oh, we're sorry for what happened to you. Well, Mr. Coleman struck back and said, I reject your condolences. I reject your sympathies. And then he explained why and I thought it was absolutely brilliant. He did a really good job and he said, by the way, I haven't been able to drive truck.

40:22He was a truck driver by profession. So he really gets it too. And he said, I used to make good money. He has nine kids to support. And he said they are just barely scraping by. Well, yeah, and you live in California. So I really feel for you, Mr. Coleman, because they sure don't give two cares about the residents who live in California. It's all about tax and tax and taxing taxing. And we're they're going to squeeze their fair share out of everybody. So this poor guy has just a terrible position that they've put them in. All right. So what is the Trump administration doing about it? Well, there's been a major crackdown. I've been seeing some of these videos on Facebook. And I've been kind of cheering this on. I haven't seen any in real life, but I've to be fair. I've not been traveling very much lately.

41:24But there was one video that somebody shared the other day. And there were probably, oh man, I'll bet you there were two dozen at least. Cars that were like DOT cars that were in the in the median on the shoulder all circled around a rest stop. And somebody captioned it and they're like, anybody want to guess what's going on here? And I was like, oh boy. You know, that's a site that even if you're fully legal, trust me. You don't want to see. There were so many times where I'd come up to a rest area. And by the way, when you have a CDL, you're governed by the federal government. They can pull you over when they want where they want, how they want. And you just got to you got to deal with it. And it's absolutely terrible.

42:26You know, for truck drivers, it's terrible. And I get it, like I get trying to keep the road safe. But every now and then you get somebody who's just a, they just want to make your life a little bit more difficult. And I always was super respectful to them. And nine and a half times out of 10, they'll just, they'll leave you alone. They'll be pretty cool with you. I think they're looking for those people who are going to put up a fight and just be complete jerks because typically that'll point them to different areas in your life where you're not necessarily dotting your eyes and crossing your teeth. And so they're, you know, I think sometimes they intentionally try to agitate you a little bit just to see how you respond. And so I was always super cool with these guys. And I had maybe one semi bad experience with it with a DOT officer. And I think he was just having a bad day at the end of the day.

43:27Like he, and he had me for a long time. It was like an hour and a half. This guy had me and he, he went over everything with fine tooth comb. My logbook, my truck. He had me follow him off like on some back road. I was on the interstate. He spotted me like singled me out, came through the median, pulled me over. And he said, I want you to follow me. He said, no matter what, don't lose me. I was like, oh, this is interesting. So we're like, we get off the interstate. We're winding down these back roads. And it's at night. It's, I don't know, 10, 11 o'clock at night. And my, my life is flashing before my eyes. And I'm like, is he actually a DOT officer? You know, like you, you start to question yourself. Like it's, it's really challenging being a truck driver. You, you see just about everything. But anyway, he takes me way off the main road.

44:27And there's this great big shed. And he has me pull inside of the shed. And there's another DOT officer there with a, with like a picnic table set up. And they made me get out of the truck. They searched my truck. By the way, I don't think you can say no. You know, it's not the same as when you hold a state license. When you're governed by the federal government, they can go through anything. They can search your load. They can search your, the cabbier truck. So I was always like cool with these guys. And I was like, whatever. And this guy just gave me a really hard time. And he was, he was asking me all kinds of questions. And accusing me of cheating my log book, which I wasn't. And so anyway, at the end of it, he, he ends up, he was like, all right, no citations. Yeah, I think he was, he was either having a bad day or he just was testing me. And I never lost my cool with him. I was like, I was fine. He was doing his job and I was doing mine.

45:29People are allowed to have bad attitudes. You know, I think that's where people get in a bind. But anyway, you know, under normal circumstances, it's, it's nerve-wracking. So I can't imagine why these people would want to drive as illegal aliens. Like what, what goes through their mind that they're like, oh, yeah, we're going to, we're going to cruise these highways. And this is something else. I've been seeing this really often when I travel with my family virtually every time that we stop at a truck stop. I'm not making this up. They're these guys with their bare feet inside the sink. And they're washing their feet in the sink. And it's so disgusting. And I'm like, we don't do that in America. But that's, that's not part of our culture. You don't stick your nasty feet in a sink where people are washing their hands and brushing your teeth.

46:32At truck stops, that's where drivers brush their teeth. These guys have their nasty feet. And they're washing them in the sink. And I'm, that's just so gross. I'm leaving trash everywhere at truck stops. Like it's really gone downhill. But the Trump administration is cracking down on it. So here's an article. This was just published. And of course, it's Fox News. Nobody else will cover this. Dozens of illegal alien truck drivers busted with licenses from deep blue states. There are, there are pictures of this whole row of trucks that get red tagged. So I've been red tagged once. You don't want to be red tagged. Well, if you're an illegal, you really don't want to be red tagged. So when you're red tagged, that means they tag your truck and you're not allowed to leave. You cannot leave that spot.

47:35Well, they're tagging these trucks. They're putting these big tags in the windshields. And you can see all their luggage sitting outside. But these guys are getting arrested. And they're going to, they're going to ice facilities. So the, the, all the luggage on the ground is basically the companies empty in the trucks out. Because now the companies have to find new drivers and get these trucks. And keep in mind these trucks have freight. And a lot of that freight's very time sensitive. You have groceries, you have, you know, you have produce and things that are time sensitive. Car parts, you name it. I mean, that stuff has to get delivered like ASAP. So here you have all these trucks that are sitting in these, in these truck stops and rest areas. And the drivers are bye-bye. So here's the article, a multi-agency operation in Arizona's NUME sector led to the arrest of 95 illegal alien truck drivers earlier this month.

48:44This was in August, August 31st, this article was written. Striking at the heart of a human and drug smuggling operations at the US Southern border. All 95 drivers had acquired state issued commercial drivers licenses. 76. You ready for this? I'll give you one wild guess what state these licenses came from. 76 of them. 76 from California. 6 from, right for this one, you're going to be shocked. New York. And the rest from a handful of other states. According to customs and border protection. The apprehensions continue to demonstrate the high volume of narcotics and human traffic smuggling operations that are alive and well at border. Even as immigration numbers have plummeted in recent months.

49:49Nothing to see here. Nope, the Democrats, right? That's just the Republicans are making that up. They're not smuggling human bodies. Yeah, they actually are. Have you seen the videos? I mean recent videos of trailers full of human people, 110 degrees outside. And they just shove these human bodies in like their trash. They shove them into these trailers. It's sad folks. And the Democrats, oh no, that's mega. Mag is lying. A bunch of Trump cult followers. You know, that's how they frame it. And so Marcus Coleman was 100% right to pin this on the Democrats and say, you guys own this. You guys did this. All right. So here's acting chief patrol agent Dustin Coddle.

50:53He said in a statement Fox News digital. We're committed to protecting our citizens from all international threats. Whether that is from unlicensed or untrained drivers. Transnational criminal organizations and great engaged in human or drug trafficking. Thank you, sir. Well, they're just making it up. Yeah, look at the statistics. The roads are safe with. They don't call them illegals with. When do they call them? I forget their term for it. They get offended. They need their safe spaces. If you say the word illegal. Yeah, no, these guys are untrained. A lot of these guys. These licenses coming out of California. We know for a fact they shut down the CDL mills. These people had never even taken a written test had never touched a truck.

51:59And then they throw keys in the truck and they're like, here you go. You'll figure it out. A lot of these drivers can't speak English. Can't read road signs. Yeah, the guy in Florida. Remember that that did the U-turn in the middle of the interstate. Killed a couple people. That's just crazy. I just don't understand how people can like they don't want to cover it in the news. And then they're like, guy, quit listening to Fox News. Well, Fox News is literally the only. It's the only media that's covering these stories. I don't know. I don't get it. Am I missing something here? I mean, the only conclusion that you can come to is that they're trying to cover this up. They don't want the public. They want the public to have the perception that all these poor people are just coming over seeking a better life.

53:01And we need to give them a path to citizenship. Well, as Marcus Coleman said, it doesn't work that way. You don't get to jump offence, skip the line, and then get this easy path to citizenship. You want to become a citizen? Do it the right way. There's a certain order to do that. We need to be able to vet people. Oh, that's that's that's just made up. Crime rates are actually lower among people who cross the border than the American people. You know why I looked it up. It's because they don't record them. They literally put them here. I'll play a clip. I just I'll see if I can find it. I should say that. Let me see if I can find it real quick. I couldn't find I thought I had it cute up, but I didn't, but anyway, it's it's a whole bunch of criminals in Virginia illegals that just got released the highest bail for any of these was $5,000.

54:13Then it went down from there. You know what they were we're arrested for rape of miners. Sodomy of a child under 12. Rape by violence with threat to kill. There was like a whole cluster of them in the Democrat. It was a Democrat. District attorney who turned them all out onto the street. They're literally and it doesn't go into the record. There is no record. So when they say well, it's you know, the rest rates are less for for people who are here illegally than everybody else. They actually produce less crime. It's total rubbish. They they don't keep records. You can't find them. And by the way, when they're arrested, I looked it up.

55:15You look it up yourself. They do not list their status. So if they're illegal, they don't list that. It's not marked. So you might see an arrest. Oh, and they also turn felonies into misdemeanors. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. So I'm all for I'm all for cracking down on this. It's you know, especially on the highways. That's not the place to play bumper cars. That's not the place to be clueless and hope that you can figure it out along the way. You better be darn sure that you know exactly what you're doing. Now you can't drive an 80,000 pound vehicle and hope for the best. Cross your fingers and be like, well, they'll figure it out. It doesn't work that way. You've got to be very, very skilled.

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