(Breitbart)—On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez stated that there is “an incredible disconnect” between officials like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and people who live in communities with high immigrant populations.
People in those communities want to see illegal immigrants who are dangerous criminals deported because “They endanger the undocumented, they endanger the citizen, they endanger our own people, who we should be concerned about.”
Lopez stated, “There’s an incredible disconnect from what I hear from our governor, from our mayor, and from individuals who live in the communities like the ones that I represent that have high immigrant populations. We understand there is a difference. We know there’s a difference between those individuals, the anchors that the governor referred to, and those that choose to engage in dangerous criminal activity. They endanger the undocumented, they endanger the citizen, they endanger our own people, who we should be concerned about. And I know, after having met with Tom Homan, that that is exactly the type of individual that he and the Trump administration are zeroing in on, those that choose to engage in criminal activity.”
He added, “It’s very ignorant for people to blanketly call all undocumented the same and treat them the same, when you know that there are individuals who do not care about this country, do not care about their neighborhoods, and are committing some of the most heinous, dangerous acts in our city. They need to be dealt with very specifically and swiftly, and the Trump administration is doing [that] in the first week in office.”
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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