Thread: Transcripts. Glenn Beck with US Attorney North California

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GLENN BECK, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, immigration outrage. San Francisco is using taxpayer money to fund a shuttle service for illegal immigrant drug dealers. This story will make blood shoot right out of your eyes.

Plus, Obama is talking about religion. McCain is talking about crime. Can either one of these clowns talk about gas prices?

And the fight against autism. This story will blow you away. One woman`s groundbreaking program to help autistic children live normal lives.

All this and more tonight.

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BECK: Well, hello, America. If you`re sick and tired of, you know, only talking about how politicians are screwing us in gas prices, then I have good news for you.

Tonight, we`re going to talk about how they`re screwing us on illegal immigration, too. Yes, a gift from me to you.

Latest example comes from -- where else -- the sanctuary city of San Francisco. Despite a massive $338-million budget deficit, officials there have decided, in their pea-sized brain, to help juvenile drug-dealing illegal aliens avoid federal prosecution by flying them home on the taxpayer dime. Here`s "The Point," tonight.

San Francisco, you shouldn`t receive another dime of federal taxpayer money until you stop breaking federal laws. No money for mortgage bailouts. No money for your crumbling highways or school systems. Nothing, nada, if I may, and here`s how I got there.

Americans seem to have a problem with personal responsibility. I don`t know if you`ve noticed that. We all want the benefits, none of the sacrifices or the hard work, but the benefits. We want peace but not war. Plasma TVs but no credit card bills. Huge McMansions but no mortgage. Cheap gas, not a single oil rig in my view.

If you`re in San Francisco, well, they apparently want to be a part of America, but they don`t have to follow all of them those pesky laws. Some of them are tough.

Foreign drug gangs, mainly from Honduras, now actually strategize about how to take advantage of San Francisco`s lollipops and sunshine sanctuary policy. Who would have seen this one coming? Everybody. And here`s how it works.

Step one, you go to San Francisco, and you start dealing crack. Step two, when the police arrest you, you tell them that you`re a juvenile from Honduras who`s in the country illegally, and conveniently, I don`t have any identification.

Step three, the police turn you over to the juvenile court, which then buys you a plane ticket home. I`m not kidding you. No word on if it`s first-class or coach. I hope we`re checking them (ph) to coach.

And finally, step four, you fly back to San Francisco a few weeks later, you have some Rice-a-Roni, and you know, you go back to dealing crack, which apparently is the new San Francisco treat.

It`s just that easy, and it`s happening. In fact, this -- this week alone, eight crack-dealing illegals were put into a group home run by the city, and then days later, somehow or another, magically escaped. I don`t know what happened. Where did I put those drug king pins? I just don`t know.

I don`t know how you solve San Francisco`s illegal immigration crack dealer problem when it seems like all of their politicians must be smoking crack.

So America, here`s what you need to know tonight. We are -- we`re headed towards a political civil war. I think we`re headed towards a real civil war, quite honestly.

San Francisco is putting personal politics above the law and above common sense. And it`s time to say enough is enough. You want to harbor illegal immigrant drug dealers or ban the ROTC from your campuses? Fine, whatever.

You know, there`s really an easy way to do all of that. And I kind of dig it, quite frankly. Along with all the other crazy, anti-American ideas that pop into your pea-sized brains, here it is: you secede. You`ll have plenty of hippies, a great socialist government, and all the crack you could ever want. San Francisco, I`m willing to cut a deal right now.

Joe Russoniello is the U.S. attorney for Northern California.

Joe, your job is to stop this stuff. What the hell is going on?

JOE RUSSONIELLO, U.S. ATTORNEY: Well, there`s never a dull moment here. And that`s for sure. But this really, when you look at the amount of money that we spend on drug enforcement. I mean, and the full play -- crop substitution, interdiction, treatment programs and all the rest. It`s anything that`s open loop, really causes us some heart burn.

We`re used to having criminal defense lawyers or others, apologists in the society talking about legalization of drugs and all of the rest of this. It`s rare that officialdom actually intervenes and interferes with our ability to carry out the law. And that`s exactly what happened here.

BECK: This is beyond...

RUSSONIELLO: ... got us so upset.

BECK: This is beyond, you know, just saying, "Hey, we`re not going to ask or tell if you`re an illegal alien." With the group home thing, this is aiding and abetting.

RUSSONIELLO: Well, I mean, we`re actually trying to help San Francisco with its drug problem. This is not a situation in which we`re asking them to help us with the immigration problem.

And what they`re doing with these -- these gangsters are doing is basically they`re gaming the system. Because they figured out a way. They`ve been doing this for quite a long time. The cops have seen these same people three or four times on the street after they`ve arrested them. And so they know exactly what to do here.

And no one is verifying any of the claims that these guys are making about them being juveniles or about being subjected to harsh treatment when they got here and that their families are being intimidated; if they don`t deal drugs, harm will come to them and so on.

Of course, we`re not -- we`re not given the benefit of any of that information, because the city is not cooperating with federal authorities and asked -- even asking us to identify who these people are.

BECK: Look, here`s the thing. This is what, the chief of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department actually said. He said buying a plane ticket for these people is actually appropriate, because deporting them would doom them from ever becoming U.S. citizens, thus denying them from ever taking another course.

RUSSONIELLO: Yes, well, you know, you`ve got to wake up and smell the coffee around here sometimes. None of the amnesty programs, none of the immigration reform programs that have been discussed are ever intended to provide any -- any sort of comfort for people who are drug traffickers. There isn`t going to be a line for those people. And so the idea that somehow or another...

BECK: I don`t know.

RUSSONIELLO: ... San Francisco is protecting them from, you know, an eventual application that they may make for citizenship is just -- it`s fatuous. It`s really absurd. It`s not going to happen.

BECK: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I want to point out: dealing crack cocaine, job this American won`t do. Maybe they`ve got a point.

RUSSONIELLO: Well, the fact of the matter is that nobody seriously thinks that anybody who is a twice criminal -- that is in the country illegally and then dealt drugs -- is going to be given any preference in terms of green card citizenship or whatever. So suggesting that they need to protect them so they`ll have that opportunity is really absurd.

BECK: We have amnesty. If you`ve got a problem, you go through the right way.

Joe, let me ask you this. You, you`re a law enforcement. I mean, your -- your guys were out on the street. The cops in San Francisco, good Lord, how do they do it every day and stay sober? What are the cops feeling like? They go out and bust their butt...

RUSSONIELLO: They`re frustrated.

BECK: You bet.

RUSSONIELLO: They`re very frustrated, and all up and down the line of law enforcement, they`re frustrated. Because there is no -- these people have never been in the process. They`ve never been fingerprinted. So nobody even knows what prior record they have.

BECK: Oh, jeez.

RUSSONIELLO: And the so-called privacy that usually envelopes juveniles, they`re using for people that may well be adults. And it`s just really silly.

Look, if these people really are victimized, we have human trafficking task forces here. We have asylum for people who -- who, you know, can make a good case that, if they go back home, they`re going to be subjected to persecution.

But if they don`t bring these people to us, if they`re not in the federal system, we don`t know that there`s any way that we can help them. And the fact that they`re spending $7,000 to send them to San Bernardino to some group home. The money could much better be spent getting them a lawyer who might be able to help them with an asylum application. It would be a lot cheaper and of a lot more benefit, if it was legitimate. All the claims are illegitimate.

BECK: Of course they are. Joe, you do us a favor. You stay in touch with us. We`ll stay in touch with you. Anything we can do to help, you let us know.

Unbelievable. While US Citizens are locked up for years for smoking a joint.

WHY DO THEY JUST BELIEVE ANYTHING THESE PEOPLE TELL THEM. ?

WHEN THEY ARREST THESE CRACK DEALERS....AND THEY SAY THEY ARE JUVENILES.....THEY SHOULD SEND TO THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN A REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH. THEIR FINGERPRINTS WILL BE THERE AND THEIR AGE.

ANYONE WHO CANT BE IDENTIFIED SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AS AN ADULT. OTHERWISE THEY ARE SENT TO JUVENILE FACILITIES. AND THEY ARE PROBABLY ADULTS. SO WE ARE EXPOSING OUR CHILDREN IN THESE FACILITIES TO ADULT OFFENDERS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. NO....NO, NO, NO. PROSECUTE THEM AS ADULTS UNLESS IT CAN BE PROVEN THAT THEY ARE JUVENILES.

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Videos of Violent Police Training Appear as Mexico Awaits U.S. Aid

MEXICO CITY, July 1 -- Videos showing Mexican police learning torture methods appeared on the Internet this week as the country, soon to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. anti-drug aid, is seeking to improve its human rights record.

The videos show officers in the city of Leon, about 150 miles northwest of Mexico City, forcing one of their colleagues to crawl through vomit and injecting carbonated water into the nose of another. An instructor, whose face can be seen in one video, barks out commands in English. Leon Police Chief Carlos Tornero told the Associated Press that the instructor is from a private U.S. security firm, but he declined to say which one.

"These are no more than training exercises for certain situations, but I want to stress that we are not showing people how to use these methods," Tornero said.

The videos -- first uncovered by a local newspaper, El Heraldo de León -- ran repeatedly Tuesday on television stations here and prompted huge headlines in daily newspapers. La Jornada, a left-leaning Mexico City newspaper, declared, "Law enforcement in León teaches police to torture."

Mexican and international human rights organizations expressed concern over the videos.


"This is troubling," said Sergio Aguayo, founder of the nonprofit Mexican Academy for Human Rights. "In the past, torture was usually hidden. Now they don't even bother."

The videos show officers from Leon's Special Tactics Group, known here by its Spanish-language initials, GET. In one video, a man who appears to be in extreme pain is shown kneeling in the dirt. An instructor -- a bearded man of medium build in a black T-shirt, jeans and sunglasses -- gives orders in English.

"Now get him to roll back into the puke," the instructor tells one of the trainees.

The man, dressed in camouflage, can be seen rolling toward the vomit. But he does not touch it.

"He missed it. Roll back," the instructor says.

"This punishment works," a trainee, whose face is not shown, can be heard saying in English.

In another video, an officer -- presumably playing the role of a witness -- can be heard panting and gasping in pain as other officers squirt carbonated water into his nose. The man is being held in a dark room, and his arms are bound as he lies in a hole in the floor. Officers curse at him and talk of torturing him with rats and fecal matter.

Residents in several states have accused Mexican soldiers of committing hundreds of human rights violations, including rape and unjustified shootings, during a crackdown on drug cartels. Activists say Mexicans frequently do not make human rights complaints against local police for fear of retribution.

In recent months, human rights concerns shaped negotiations between U.S. and Mexican lawmakers over a $400 million U.S. aid package designed to help Mexico fight drug cartels.

Mexican officials persuaded the U.S. Congress to remove some human rights conditions, but a provision prohibiting Mexico from using testimony derived from tortured witnesses remained in the final bill.

"The only thing that I thought when I saw those videos was 'Thank God the U.S. Congress attached some human rights conditions,' " said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director for New York-based Human Rights Watch.

The Guanajuato state human rights commission has launched an investigation into the police training methods in Leon, and state prosecutors have also said they will review the videos.

But local officials have defended the training methods.

Leon Mayor Vicente Guerrero told reporters that police need aggressive training methods to confront the threat of drug cartels suspected by law enforcement officials in more than 1,800 killings this year.


"Perhaps it looks inhuman to us," Guerrero told El Heraldo de León. "But it is part of a preparation method that is used all over the world."

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