1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Intro 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,340 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheard podcast 3 00:00:10,340 --> 00:00:13,140 full of people, politics, and popular culture 4 00:00:13,140 --> 00:00:17,140 I'm your host Austin Creed and we're welcoming you into the show 5 00:00:17,140 --> 00:00:18,340 You're in for a treat 6 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:23,420 So, I've talked about immigration a little bit in my last episode 7 00:00:23,420 --> 00:00:26,520 I don't know, I don't expect you to watch everything in order 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,220 I guarantee you most people won't 9 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:31,420 but that's okay because at the end of the day 10 00:00:31,420 --> 00:00:34,380 I almost feel like a teacher in a certain respect 11 00:00:34,380 --> 00:00:38,140 that every lecture I have builds upon the next one 12 00:00:38,140 --> 00:00:42,940 but regardless, what I really want to talk about today is immigration 13 00:00:42,940 --> 00:00:46,460 so, immigration is a hot button topic issue 14 00:00:46,460 --> 00:00:51,420 Trump is the one who really made this a big issue with his desire to build the wall 15 00:00:51,420 --> 00:00:54,940 I believe this problem really started under Bill Clinton 16 00:00:54,940 --> 00:00:59,500 because pre-Bill Clinton there wasn't this level of illegal immigration in the country 17 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:05,660 and then you have people from the past whose drip-drip campaign of poison 18 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:10,860 has slowly weaseled its way into every facet of society 19 00:01:10,860 --> 00:01:14,860 which that affects by extension immigration 20 00:01:14,860 --> 00:01:17,340 in our understanding of it 21 00:01:17,340 --> 00:01:20,780 so what I really want to do for you today is discuss 22 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:24,060 the differences between 1920s 23 00:01:24,060 --> 00:01:28,780 and the 2020s when it comes to immigration 24 00:01:28,780 --> 00:01:34,140 so, number one, I want to provide historical context to this discussion 25 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:39,500 two, we're going to discuss the immigrants back in the day compared to now 26 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:42,380 then we're going to talk about comparing the two 27 00:01:42,380 --> 00:01:46,460 because really I'm sick of this argument 28 00:01:46,460 --> 00:01:52,460 of people telling me that the immigrant of yesteryear is the same as the immigrant today 29 00:01:52,460 --> 00:01:55,820 when the society is not the same 30 00:01:55,820 --> 00:01:58,060 the immigrants are not the same 31 00:01:58,060 --> 00:02:01,260 so therefore why would the immigration be the same? 32 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:02,620 we're going to talk about that 33 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:05,660 we're also going to talk about the personal narratives 34 00:02:05,660 --> 00:02:08,780 and we're going to finally we're going to look towards 35 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:11,580 we're going to turn our gaze towards the future 36 00:02:11,580 --> 00:02:13,820 our gaze should always be on the future 37 00:02:13,820 --> 00:02:16,620 because the past only becomes the future 38 00:02:16,620 --> 00:02:22,380 if we do not remember it and give it due respect 39 00:02:22,380 --> 00:02:29,020 so without further ado let's jump in and let's discuss this topic at length 40 00:02:29,020 --> 00:02:31,980 so, number one, historical context 41 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:33,820 so let's back up 42 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:39,260 let's turn the clock back to 1920 43 00:02:39,260 --> 00:02:41,820 1920s were known as the roaring 20s 44 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:43,500 we were rolling in Dell 45 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:45,020 Wall Street was great 46 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:50,220 I believe that's also I think it's the same time period as the great Gatsby 47 00:02:50,220 --> 00:02:52,860 if anybody read the great Gatsby high school 48 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:57,260 I believe that's the same time period 49 00:02:57,260 --> 00:03:00,220 but the world was also reeling from the great war 50 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:05,100 also known as I believe it was world war one 51 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:06,700 the ruling from the great war 52 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:10,060 the Spanish flu had just ended 53 00:03:10,060 --> 00:03:12,540 and the nations of the world were rebuilding 54 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:15,100 which means there was a lot of money to be found 55 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:19,820 so this period saw rise in the United States as a global power 56 00:03:19,820 --> 00:03:22,940 as well as a destination for millions of people 57 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:24,940 who were looking for a better life 58 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:29,820 which I don't blame anybody for wanting to have a better life 59 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:33,180 but this wasn't just a hope 60 00:03:33,180 --> 00:03:35,500 it was also about fear and control 61 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:41,820 the United States Congress during 1921 passed the Emergency Quota Act 62 00:03:41,820 --> 00:03:47,740 and in 1924 they passed the Immigration Act of 1924 63 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:53,020 which dramatically limited the amount of immigrants that were allowed into the country 64 00:03:53,020 --> 00:04:01,900 and they explicitly limited immigrants coming from southern and eastern Europe 65 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:08,300 now let's continue on the 1920s and then we're going to tie it into the modern day 66 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:13,020 so in 1920 or the 1920s in general 67 00:04:13,020 --> 00:04:16,540 the immigrants came by steamboat 68 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:22,700 and they carried pretty much nothing but their hopes and dreams across the Atlantic Ocean 69 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:25,900 going mainly through Alice Island 70 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:30,780 and they were fleeing from war, poverty, and persecution 71 00:04:30,780 --> 00:04:37,900 so familiar it's the same exact line that's used today in the 2020s 72 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:40,460 but they arrived mainly through Alice Island 73 00:04:40,460 --> 00:04:46,220 and when they did they went through very rigorous inspections of themselves 74 00:04:46,220 --> 00:04:49,580 the property, their health, everything 75 00:04:49,580 --> 00:04:51,180 they didn't allow sick people in 76 00:04:51,180 --> 00:04:53,260 you were sick, you were turned away 77 00:04:53,260 --> 00:04:56,860 they did not allow people in who are just going to live on the dole 78 00:04:56,860 --> 00:04:58,940 because there was no dole 79 00:04:58,940 --> 00:05:02,940 there was no government assistance during that time 80 00:05:02,940 --> 00:05:05,820 their stories of the immigrant stories of that time 81 00:05:05,820 --> 00:05:11,740 were stales of resiliency and determination to build a better life for them and their children 82 00:05:11,740 --> 00:05:13,980 they also were quite heartbreaking 83 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:19,180 as many of them were turned away due to very strict quotas 84 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:22,700 and health inspections that were done by the United States government 85 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:25,660 now I want to pause here for a second 86 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:30,700 you want to sit here and tell me that that's the same immigration policy of now 87 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:34,860 when we have people pouring over the border 88 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:39,820 with who are diseased, illiterate in their own languages and whatnot 89 00:05:39,820 --> 00:05:44,780 and again back in the 1920s these were Europeans who came here who were turned away 90 00:05:44,780 --> 00:05:47,580 and yet today we want to call people racists 91 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:52,940 for not allowing all the illegal aliens who are mostly Hispanic to come in here 92 00:05:52,940 --> 00:05:55,260 they might want to read a history book because 93 00:05:55,260 --> 00:05:57,900 they didn't just allow all the Europeans to come in here 94 00:05:57,900 --> 00:05:59,820 but a lot of them were turned away 95 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:03,260 so why would it be racist to turn away people who are Hispanic 96 00:06:03,260 --> 00:06:09,340 when it was done by the so-called evil white cracker back in the day 97 00:06:09,340 --> 00:06:12,940 fast let's turn the clock forward to now 98 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:15,980 in the 2020s of modern day 99 00:06:15,980 --> 00:06:21,500 the world is interconnected like we've never seen in human history 100 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:26,460 with the internet, with the ability to fly 101 00:06:26,460 --> 00:06:31,100 we are very interally connected in a lot of different ways 102 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:35,740 so the modern immigrant usually arrives by plane obviously 103 00:06:35,740 --> 00:06:39,100 and of course the motivations are about the same as those 104 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:41,100 of their counterparts a hundred years ago 105 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:43,420 a better life for them and their children 106 00:06:43,420 --> 00:06:47,260 they want to come here and live with a better life 107 00:06:47,260 --> 00:06:49,660 with little more than their hopes and their dreams 108 00:06:49,660 --> 00:06:53,660 usually being smuggled in by the cartel and risking very high danger 109 00:06:53,660 --> 00:06:58,220 of course we get that but I want to add another advocate here 110 00:06:58,220 --> 00:07:00,700 the landscape is different 111 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:04,460 the 21st century has seen a rise in technology 112 00:07:04,460 --> 00:07:07,260 when it comes to immigration processes 113 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:11,660 but here's the problem they claim that there's stricter border controls 114 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:14,860 than we've ever seen but yet for some reason 115 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:18,540 they're crawling out they're crawling over the border 116 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:23,740 they're just entering in like we've never seen in our lifetime 117 00:07:23,740 --> 00:07:27,740 and yet for some reason I'm supposed to look the other way 118 00:07:27,740 --> 00:07:31,900 and again this has nothing to do with them being Hispanic 119 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:35,580 or black or Asian or anything else 120 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:40,220 and it has everything to do with the fact that they're breaking the law 121 00:07:40,220 --> 00:07:43,980 if this was 1920 and I was doing this show 122 00:07:43,980 --> 00:07:47,820 I would be saying the same thing my message would not change 123 00:07:47,820 --> 00:07:50,380 it has nothing to do with whether they're Europeans or not 124 00:07:50,380 --> 00:07:53,180 and everything to do with the fact that they're escaping their country and 125 00:07:53,180 --> 00:07:56,540 coming here and breaking the law 126 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:01,180 throughout history we've heard many stories of immigrants 127 00:08:01,180 --> 00:08:08,620 who have come across both from Europe from Africa from Asia South America 128 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:12,780 let's look at a let's look at some of these stories from 129 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:16,220 there is there are many stories from Italian immigrants 130 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:21,500 back in the day to modern like Syrian Ukrainian 131 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:26,380 you refugees that we would see in the modern day both of them are fleeing 132 00:08:26,380 --> 00:08:29,820 their country whether it be for war poverty 133 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:34,460 for coming to America with for dreams prosperity and opportunity 134 00:08:34,460 --> 00:08:38,300 I have a sympathy for that the problem is there's one 135 00:08:38,300 --> 00:08:45,820 big determining factor that is not being discussed back in the day in 1920 136 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:49,260 most of the immigrants that came here worked their fingers to the bone and 137 00:08:49,260 --> 00:08:53,500 dropped dead at 50 working the coal mines working in the 138 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:58,940 factories working the fields versus now a lot of 139 00:08:58,940 --> 00:09:01,340 the immigrants come in here to work the system 140 00:09:01,340 --> 00:09:06,620 they have an anchor baby they get the public assistance through their baby and 141 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:10,460 then they live on the government toll now of course there are people who work 142 00:09:10,460 --> 00:09:15,660 really hard who come here and those people I have sympathy for 143 00:09:15,660 --> 00:09:20,780 they're actually coming here to work not just work the system and be a leech 144 00:09:20,780 --> 00:09:25,260 if you think I'm making this up there is a there are many statistics out there 145 00:09:25,260 --> 00:09:29,340 that point to the fact that more immigrants than ever before 146 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:35,660 are coming here to work less and collect more money from the 147 00:09:35,660 --> 00:09:40,780 public safety nets I'm not making this up 148 00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:45,340 they use a lot of them through their child number one 149 00:09:45,340 --> 00:09:49,420 or because they're trying to get visas or because 150 00:09:49,420 --> 00:09:53,820 they go get free medical care because of our socialized medicine 151 00:09:53,820 --> 00:09:57,180 hospitals can't really turn people away and said what they'll do is they'll 152 00:09:57,180 --> 00:10:00,460 raise the prices for the actual people who 153 00:10:00,460 --> 00:10:03,100 can pay for it which is not the illegal alien who has 154 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:05,500 nothing 155 00:10:06,780 --> 00:10:10,380 people want to bring in emotions to this conversation all too often and that's 156 00:10:10,380 --> 00:10:15,660 what really gets my goat my friends because you can't bring an emotional 157 00:10:15,660 --> 00:10:20,460 argument into a very logical physical discussion it just doesn't 158 00:10:20,460 --> 00:10:24,620 work when you look at how many different 159 00:10:24,620 --> 00:10:28,540 attitudes policies and experiences there are 160 00:10:28,540 --> 00:10:32,860 that have evolved over the last century you cannot overlook the fact that 161 00:10:32,860 --> 00:10:37,420 there's big money involved here there's big money and when there's 162 00:10:37,420 --> 00:10:41,740 money to be made there are people who will try to do 163 00:10:41,740 --> 00:10:47,020 everything they can to collect it and that is why from exploitation in the 164 00:10:47,020 --> 00:10:51,260 factories the coal mines in the fields a hundred years ago now 165 00:10:51,260 --> 00:10:55,260 there's exploitation on the welfare state 166 00:10:55,420 --> 00:10:58,940 try to get a green card and oh lest i forget 167 00:10:58,940 --> 00:11:03,180 the voter id laws by the politicians oh yeah 168 00:11:03,180 --> 00:11:06,940 oh yeah you didn't know that most states don't have voter id 169 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:13,340 and if they do it's very very loose so you want to sit here and tell me that 170 00:11:13,340 --> 00:11:18,460 the influx of illegal aliens and the growth of the democrat party 171 00:11:18,460 --> 00:11:22,060 let's look at california millions of democrat voters 172 00:11:22,060 --> 00:11:27,500 are registering in democrat california which just so happens to coincide with 173 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:30,540 the millions of illegal aliens that are coming in the country 174 00:11:30,540 --> 00:11:36,540 and there's not a lot of republicans that are being registered in california 175 00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:42,380 oh my it's um very peculiar isn't it 176 00:11:42,380 --> 00:11:46,220 my friends you can call me whatever you want 177 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:51,500 i like to call myself a realist again this has nothing to do with them 178 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:55,020 being hispanic if you're going to try to use that to say 179 00:11:55,020 --> 00:11:57,980 that i'm a racist get off my show i don't want you to leave and listen 180 00:11:57,980 --> 00:12:03,340 to my show because you're going to lower the iq of everybody listening 181 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:07,260 but what is the future hold for these immigrants we face a lot of global 182 00:12:07,260 --> 00:12:10,540 challenges i mean people want to talk about climate 183 00:12:10,540 --> 00:12:14,780 change you know how much money is made from the green mafia both the united 184 00:12:14,780 --> 00:12:18,300 nations and on other places when it comes to 185 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:23,420 climate change you have no idea we could literally go completely climate 186 00:12:23,420 --> 00:12:27,500 neutral in the united states but it wouldn't make a 187 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:32,060 dent in actually helping the climate because of china and russia 188 00:12:32,060 --> 00:12:38,140 but god go ahead keep keep pushing forward all this climate garbage 189 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:41,500 because it really hurts the environment because it makes people not care about 190 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:44,940 the real animals that are suffering the real habitats 191 00:12:44,940 --> 00:12:48,540 that are being destroyed i have sympathy for that that's where my 192 00:12:48,540 --> 00:12:51,180 money would go 193 00:12:51,740 --> 00:12:55,180 other challenges we face would be like political unrest 194 00:12:55,180 --> 00:13:01,740 and economic discrepancies disparities uh mass migrations of people due to 195 00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:07,820 atrocities in certain areas of the world this is true but here's the problem 196 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:11,340 america is becoming more and more like the titanic 197 00:13:11,340 --> 00:13:14,700 and we're sinking there's only so many lifeboats 198 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:19,260 and the problem is everybody wants a lifeboat and i don't blame them for that 199 00:13:19,260 --> 00:13:23,020 but i don't think you realize just how much money 200 00:13:23,020 --> 00:13:26,940 and how much power there is to be gained by importing 201 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:33,420 a group of people who are not very literate number one and who are 202 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:37,420 very influential when it comes to being told 203 00:13:37,420 --> 00:13:41,740 basically said we'll give you money if you give us power 204 00:13:41,740 --> 00:13:46,460 making a indirect transaction using public money 205 00:13:46,460 --> 00:13:52,700 to fuel the welfare state to buy votes and on the count on the back end 206 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:57,740 importing people who don't know the history barely know the language 207 00:13:57,740 --> 00:14:01,020 and are told that vote for the people who care about you 208 00:14:01,020 --> 00:14:05,100 who are the people in the democrat party 209 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:09,900 my friends the republicans are not they're not as clean in the driven snow 210 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:12,140 when it comes to this because they're making a lot of money 211 00:14:12,140 --> 00:14:15,740 all of housing them if you think it's just the democrats you're mistaken 212 00:14:15,740 --> 00:14:20,620 but it is the democrat party in particular who is using them for their 213 00:14:20,620 --> 00:14:24,460 own gain in the political arena while the republicans make it more in the 214 00:14:24,460 --> 00:14:29,580 physical the physical the money arena but my friends what do you have to say 215 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:34,460 about immigration are you an immigrant first second generation do you see the 216 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:39,260 discrepancies between the 1920s and the 2020s that i wanted to highlight today 217 00:14:39,260 --> 00:14:43,500 please let me know what you think in the comments let me know what you think 218 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:47,260 if you want to hit me up on x at cheap kids shared you can let me know what you 219 00:14:47,260 --> 00:14:50,860 think over there by hitting me up in the dms or replying to one of my various 220 00:14:50,860 --> 00:14:55,900 tweets i pump out every day but my friends these are tough conversations 221 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:59,660 and i will continue to have them in the days months and years to come 222 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:03,900 because they must be had and i have the courage to do it my friends 223 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:08,940 my friends merry christmas god bless you god bless your families god bless 224 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:13,660 america let's enjoy this time of year let's not get bogged down by all the 225 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:17,420 garbage by the politics then whatnot let's really enjoy our 226 00:15:17,420 --> 00:15:20,780 fellow man and attempt to do so in every avenue 227 00:15:20,780 --> 00:15:34,780 peace