Episode #2215- Hammer and Nigel Full Show

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Hammer and Nigel. Do you believe these characters are weirdos?

**Jason Hammer** (0:07)
I don't give a damn what anybody says.
This weather right now, it's better than minus 10 in January, having to get up an extra 30 minutes earlier to scrape off your car, warm up your car, put on like eight hoodies to walk outside to walk the dog. That stinks. I will gladly accept a sweaty taint before I have to freeze my nae-naes off. Now that we've got that out of the way, my name is Jason Hammer. Big Nige, he's down in Florida. Jerry Lopez, Indy Spanglish, one half of the popular podcast, Those Ash Holes, joins us.
You're a somewhat man of color, warm weather kind of your thing, Jerry, or is that like a total racist thing to say?

**Jerry Lopez** (0:55)
Listen, skip that. I'm what you would call an island boy.
My fame's from Cuba. Listen, I think you're trying to be generous. It is super hot out right now. I am the guy at your local pool at 8, 9, 10, 15, which is, it's adult swim. I'm just laying on the cement like a lizard. It is super hot right now. I'm uncomfortable. We've had a costume change today. That's how hot it is, Jason.

**Jason Hammer** (1:21)
Given your options though, I hate the winner.

**Jerry Lopez** (1:24)
I hate though.

**Jason Hammer** (1:25)
That's all I'm asking.

**Jerry Lopez** (1:26)
This is how the North won the Civil War. People are marching from Nashville and they get to Indy and it is minus 10 Feels like minus 30
Free everybody. We're good. We're going back home. Yeah.

**Jason Hammer** (1:38)
Freddy on the YouTube chat already. Better than the bleep winter.
We'll have more on that a little bit later on. For right now, though, let's take a look at some headlines around the state of Indiana. A state immigration enforcement law that's supposed to go into effect today involving ICE detainers not being enforced in Monroe County. Now, Monroe County, one of the very progressive, woke areas in the state of Indiana, usually when you've got a major college university, you're going to find that there.
This is kind of the latest development in this ongoing legal battle between the sheriff and then Todd Rokita and the attorney general's office. And it's about SEA 76, Senate Enrolled Act 76, which is supposed to start today. It's also known as the Fairness Act, okay? So what the Fairness Act does, and we'll go down the bullet points here, local law enforcement agencies must comply with ICE detainer requests. Local governments and schools cannot restrict federal immigration enforcement, and the attorney general can go after businesses that employ undocumented immigrants, and the attorney general may impose civil penalties on groups suspected of hindering ICE. Okay, so this brings us to Monroe County, and their special judge, special circuit judge, Luke Ritzel, granted a preliminary injunction barring a provision of the law from going into effect. The order affects only Monroe County and the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. That's fancy talk for they're not going to cooperate with ICE, Jerry.

**Jerry Lopez** (3:34)
Yeah, I just want to know if my American friends could let us know what laws on any given day are not going to be enforced. That's a big deal.
My family is from Cuba, first generation American, I'm a veteran. It's super offensive to say like we're not going to enforce our federal laws. What did I fight for then? I don't care who you voted for.
Whether you voted for Kamala or whether you want one of the quote unquote 81 million that voted for Sleepy Joe. We have laws on the books. Can we at least enforce those and figure out where we're going to go?

**Jason Hammer** (4:10)
The Monroe County Sheriff, again, Ruben Marte, raised concerns that ICE detainer provisions are unconstitutional as it requires his office to comply with federal immigration detainer requests without a warrant.
He believes it represents a violation of the Fourth Amendment and would expose his office to civil liability, which I think is a big load of crap. This is his way of saying, orange man bad, ICE bad, I wish we had open borders.

**Jerry Lopez** (4:41)
I will tell you this straight up. This is how we got into the whole mess. America, if you're listening right now, my abuela, my cousin, whoever, my fans from Cuba, I'm one of 12 moms, the only one that's here, so everybody I'm talking about is my family.
When Jerry's accused or somebody's accused of breaking some law, domestic violence, DUI, whatever, a murder, and that retainer comes to the courthouse, Samaritan County, or for this second conversation, Los Angeles County has a retainer. Jerry's an illegal immigrant. He should not be in his country. He needs to be deported.