So we got the State of the Union happening tonight. You can hear it 8 p.m. right here on KCMO Talk Radio. And in the wake of what happened in Mexico over the weekend, that's where I believe the President of the United States should start the conversation today. It has been the most controversial issue of his second term, and that's ICE. And obviously you've got high schoolers protesting all across Johnson County, Kansas and across Kansas City for that matter. But it's been most prevalent, it seems, in Johnson County, Kansas. You've got, you know, the president obviously getting hit on this issue from all different corners. And while a lot of people will say, hey, it's the economy, stupid, focus there. That would be my number two issue. The first thing the president should open with tonight is getting right to this topic, right to the border, right to the Mexican drug cartels, right to the fact that we've lost 100,000 people a year the last few years to drug overdoses and drug poisonings and explain to the American people why this happened. how China is working through the Mexican drug cartels to get these drugs into our country, how it was imperative that we close the border. We didn't need an act of Congress, despite what the last guy had to say. We just needed the right person to get elected. And now a lot of these ICE deportations and ICE arrests are happening because we need to get the worst of the worst off the streets. that's where the president should start the speech tonight stop all the fanfare stop all the you know we got to thank 17 different people just get right to it do not waste the viewers times and that's the problem with these speeches they're getting worse and worse and worse regardless of political party they're getting longer they're wasting more time there's too much pomp and circumstance and people don't have time and frankly they don't care i believe the president has about 10 minutes probably to make the best case he can make to the country tonight because as this speech drags on let's be honest people are going to tune out heck after 30 minutes i might be like come on let's go keep it moving here everybody but you know you got these presidents who love to use their bully pulpit as a chance to kind of say whatever's on their mind you have then the seals who will have to you know be clapping and whoever claps the hardest gets a big prize after the event tonight so you've got that going on here too and that obviously delays the entire thing and extends the entire thing but people are not going to sit here for an hour and a half start to finish the diehard trump fans will there's no doubt about it most people are not going to do it So what's the biggest message you want to get across if you're this administration, if you're the president of the United States right now? It is the security of the nation the security of the border and the fact that we also have according to various statistics violent crime numbers that are at close to 100 lows And I believe and I think the president would lay this out and would be smart to lay this out a direct correlation between the policies that they have taken on the border and with ICE that connects all these dots and is making our cities and communities safer. That's it. That's where he starts. Because like yesterday, there was a great moment at the White House that most people probably didn't see. a little bit of this got covered on Fox, but not a lot. And you had the mother of Lakin Riley at the White House yesterday. And she was talking, she's the young lady who got killed. She was on the University of Georgia campus visiting a friend. She went out for a run one morning, a couple of years back, and she lost her life. She was killed on a running trail by an illegal alien. and you know for all the talk around what's going on in this country right now as it relates to ice no one talks about the fact that we're trying to do the thing that would have saved Lincoln Riley's Lakin Riley's life in hindsight that's the goal of the administration Lakin Riley's mother Allison Phillips was at the White House yesterday and here's what she had to say about the job the president of the United States is doing. You are doing a thankless job that most people just wouldn't do. And I just can't thank you enough. There are just not enough words to say. Because if you live the nightmare that we have lived, you understand the importance of the job that he's doing and securing our nation and fighting for our families, because this could be any family this happened to my family this could be any one of your families nothing about what allison phillips just said there the mother of the late lake and riley is about you being a democrat you being a republican it's about you being a mother you being a father you being a parent and her rightfully pointing out what happened to lake and riley could have happened to any college-age kid anywhere in the country. Her story happened to happen at the University of Georgia. Could have happened down the road at KU, K-State, Mizzou. Doesn't matter. It could have happened at any of those places. It just happened to happen at the University of Georgia. And she's right to note that the president's doing a thankless job. it's arguably the thing that is hurting his popularity and hurting his approval rating more than anything else it is the issue the media has latched onto not that the administration hasn't made a couple of mistakes along the way in how they've rolled out some of their deportation efforts i believe they have i've noted that i've been fairly critical of people like christy noem on and off the last few weeks in particular because i don't think they played their cards right but the broader story here is that you have a president who walked in to the job when the guy before him led upwards of 20 million people illegally into the country and yes he let them in trump literally did a couple of things and the borders totally shut down so you can oh he didn really let him and he didn know what was no he let them in Trump literally did a couple of things and the borders totally shut down So you can say oh he didn really let them in He didn know what was going on No he let them in Okay He let them in. So this guy comes in. He's got to clean up a lot of this. It's a thankless task. It's the issue that's hurting him the most politically right now. But he's doing it because he knows it's the right thing to do. I mean, heck, if you're Trump tonight, you could throw it to that clip of Alison Phillips. from yesterday at the White House in your State of the Union because most people probably didn't see that clip. Most people may have seen it on social media, but let's be honest, unless your algorithm is feeding you that clip, you're probably not going to get it. And the people that need to see that clip are the ones who did not get that clip fed to them in their algorithm on X or Facebook or wherever so they probably didn't see it but that right there really summarizes a lot of what the president has tried to do because this was tied to an event yesterday with a president named February 23rd National Angel Family Day remembering and honoring the thousands of American lives stolen from us by criminal illegal aliens and the deadly drugs they bring across our borders the president putting in a statement here we stand with the angel family many of whom continue to be left without justice and we recommit to carrying out the largest mass deportation effort in our nation's history getting the worst of the worst out of our country and putting a stop to the violent targeting the brave men and women of law enforcement that that's where you start tonight that issue that topic is where you begin tonight the economy is number two but you've got to try to with 75 million whatever the number ends up being it could be maybe as low as 50 or 60 it could be higher than 75 i think it'll probably sit somewhere between 60 and 75 million if i was ballparking uh you've got to try to set the narrative right on this specific issue because it is the issue that has hurt the administration the first year more than anything else and there's no reason for it to be hurting them not that they've handled it perfectly but there's no reason for it to be hurting them now one of the things i've been talking about the last couple of weeks with this issue in particular is how the administration's doing a really i think bad job of telling local media who they are detaining like what happened in alathe a couple of weekends ago like what happened in lawrence last week right where you had whatever it was five six people detained in lawrence and you get these vigilante cameramen and women out there saying oh my gosh this person's being arrested from this mexican restaurant and then they get to go on local news and tell their side of the story and be like this is horrible these are great people well dhs never tells us who they're detaining and why they're detaining them and i think it would be a good idea for dhs to get ahead of this so that way you're not only getting one side of the story. It seems like a very obvious thing to do. So I put up a post about this last week on social media, on X and Facebook I talked about it I shared the podcast last week and all that got to christy gnome is what i was told by somebody who passed it on to christy gnome and they sent me back and and i'm fine with them doing this but they sent me back a link where you can look up the number of people who have been arrested with violent criminal records who are here illegally in every single state and I think that's great but as I told these individuals high up in the government I said you know I appreciate that I'm looking through the website it's a dhs.gov website but as I dug into the website more there's no way to match it with the specific detainments and arrests that are actually taking place there's no dates there's no times there's no nothing it's just a picture of some scary looking guy and being like well he was detained and arrested by ICE for committing crime x y or z and he's from honduras and he's accused with drug trafficking and molestation and sexual assault and all these different things but it doesn't have any information where you can match up oh that person was detained last monday in lawrence at at you know el potro or something like that and that's the information that we really need because then you can stop the crazy narratives that are getting put up in local media outlets when the lady with the cell phone camera says this is the worst day ever i can't believe what i just saw if suddenly it's like hey yeah this guy was arrested for voluntary manslaughter domestic violence and drug trafficking well you know what that was the best thing i saw that day your narrative goes completely out the window but if we don't have the information then there's no way to combat it so I gave them that feedback and then I got crickets so I don't know if they really liked my critique after the fact but I'm just trying to help them help themselves here because if they don't get ahead of this they're going to continue to get smoked in local media and I know that they don't live in that world but for those of us that do it's a big problem for them and it's one of the reasons they're losing the narrative on this specific topic. 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