Canadian ARRESTED by ICE for attacking Trump supporter
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Summary
A Canadian woman has been arrested by immigration officers in New Jersey after she allegedly assaulted a teenage Trump supporter. The New York Post is reporting the accused is 33-year-old Caitlin E. Tracy. She allegedly recorded herself confronting a group of four girls on the Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk over the July 4th weekend. According to court documents, she became violent, slapping a teenager dressed in President Trump-branded clothes.
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A Canadian woman has been arrested by immigration officers in New Jersey after she allegedly
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The New York Post is reporting the accused is 33-year-old Caitlin E. Tracy.
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She allegedly recorded herself confronting a group of four girls on the Point Pleasant
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Beach Boardwalk over the July 4th weekend. According to courtroom documents, she became
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violent, slapping a teenager dressed in President Trump-branded clothes. According to the Post,
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Tracy took issue with two of the beachgoers who were minors wearing patriotic-colored sweatpants
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with the words Trump and ICE before she struck one of them across the face and body, police
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allege. Here is Tracy's American husband, Matthew Geroni, appealing to the public for help in
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freeing his wife, even if it means she has to return to Canada. My wife is being detained by
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ICE. She's in Ocean County Jail right now and I can't get a hold of her. She keeps trying to call
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me, but they won't let me put money on her card. The kiosk in the Tom's River Jail is broken and
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all the numbers and stuff they gave me wasn't right or wouldn't allow me to put money on her
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card and uh ice is coming there to pick her up i need an immigration lawyer i need help i don't
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know what to do i don't have any money i'm so broke but i'll i gotta figure something out i
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gotta save her i love i need help i need i need you to figure out i don't know i don't know this
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just happened. Tracy was arrested Monday, charged with endangering the welfare of a child,
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simple assault, harassment, and obstruction. The New York Post also has a story of Matthew
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Gironi posting a video of himself praying that Trump and his family get cancer. Our guest today
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is political commentator and host of The Jasmine Lane Show. Jasmine Lane, welcome to the show,
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Jasmine. Thank you so much for having me. Okay, well, we've got a Canadian woman, a 33-year-old
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who's in hot water with the folks at ICE. This is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement people
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in New Jersey. She's in custody because she allegedly assaulted two people, two Trump
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supporters. This happened over the July 4th weekend. I believe it happened on July the 3rd.
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That would almost be worse than prison for them.
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they know how volatile the political situation is. I realize there are many Canadians who are
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rabidly anti-Trump, but you take those views to the United States and, you know, you could end up
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in trouble depending on what you do. And in this case, it's not just her political views,
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it's the fact that she may have resulted, she may have assaulted these two girls.
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Yeah, I think, you know, some key details there are the fact that the victims allegedly are
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minors. So that's a big deal. But I think for Canadians tuning into this story, there's a
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really big difference between governments who say that they're going to do things and a country of
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which actually does those things. And in Canada, we seem to have such a bizarre relationship when
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it comes to law enforcement and much of it not really being applied. And people can kind of get
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away with everything here in America, it's a very different story, especially depending on where it
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is that you are. And, you know, ultimately there's so many individuals who feel so, so big on social
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media and her husband, as an example, the one making this plea, he has more followers than I
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do on some social media channels. And his content is very frequently anti-mega, anti-Republican.
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This is obviously something that they agree with and freedom of speech is protected in America.
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but when you take it a little too far, you might find yourself detained by ice and welcome to
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consequences. In fact, society works very nicely when you have consequences that are actively
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applied on all individuals who break the rules. Yeah, it's interesting. The folks at Juno News,
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one of our reporters, has reached out to Global Affairs Canada for reaction. As of this moment,
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they have not said anything. I suspect that they're at least aware of the situation. All you
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have to do is keep an eye on what's going on online and to see it's just blowing up on on x
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and other social media sites and so what do you think that they should be doing here i mean
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what can this woman uh ms tracy count on as far as the canadian government and actions that they
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might take if anything i i have a hard time believing that the canadian government will
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be involved in any way shape or form um you know one other point that i wanted to highlight too
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and it's the typical framing that really ignites the base,
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when it comes to the fact that all of the details
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You know, she is due in court August 4th under criminal charges, including what was one of them?
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Let me just make sure I get this right. Endangering the welfare of a child.
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That's a big deal. So I think the public framing here is such a misrepresentation of what happened.
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And ultimately for Canada, I mean, what can you do? You have a woman if she's found guilty of of attacking a child, somebody under the age of 18 in another country.
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I highly doubt it, given the rhetoric coming out of her husband thus far and their social
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So I think she's going to have a very tough time getting out of this one.
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Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine a dumber thing to do.
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I mean, assuming that she did what police claim she did, which is to assault two beachgoers.
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There were a group of four girls, essentially, and they were wearing patriotic colored sweatpants with the words Trump and ice on it.
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She struck one of them across the face, allegedly, and body.
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And so, you know, you're attacking a minor and you're a foreigner.
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OK, so she may be married to an American, but she wasn't an American citizen herself.
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but she won't be allowed back it'll be very
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hard for her to get back in the country if she's
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this infraction. I mean, you know, I know being in America when I am, you know, I'm very sensitive
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about being on my best behavior. I don't want to get in trouble with the authorities. I mean,
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I don't want to get in trouble with authorities in Canada. But, you know, as a citizen, you know,
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I have certain rights and certain expectations. You know, in Canada, I'm going to expect I'll
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be treated a certain way. If you're in another country and you do something like this, again,
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assuming that she did, I mean, I can't imagine what prompted her to do this, except to suggest
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that these people are just now so unbelievably unhinged that they don't even have control
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over what they do in public. What do you think? I would completely agree with that. And I'll say
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something that presumably most people already suspect. This notion of tolerance is very
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conditional. And the one condition is compliance, right? So I think the facts speak for themselves
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in this case about the state of the minds of many people. And I think it is really such a shame. And
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I put a lot of pressure daily on my own show when it comes to governments, lobbyists, activists,
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you name it who seem to encourage this type of behavior it's it's so caveman era it's just not
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that this is not civilized society or how people behave but it goes to show you how emboldened
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they can become especially through social media feeds social media echo chambers and in just how
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much they truly believe that they're right and they can cause harm to anybody that they think
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isn't right, because I'm willing to bet that seeing a group of young girls, she probably would
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have had some of the very classic rhetoric going through her mind of, oh, that person is an ist
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or a phobe. They're a bad person. They're a threat to society. And I always reflect back. There was
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an interview from an Antifa protest a number of years ago where one of these guys, and he's like
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an Antifa whistleblower now, was interviewed during this. And he had said, they don't call
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you a fascist so that they can end your life like they they you they don't say that just to be mean
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right into how they say it to have an excuse like you have to be something in order for them to
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cause you harm it doesn't matter if it's accurate or not you have to be whatever that label is they
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have to strip all the nuance the context the humanity behind it so that they can then feel
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as though they have the right to cause you harm to insult you whatever it may be and it's it is
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such a big problem. And I fully recognize this stories in America and in much in many ways,
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I'd say there's a lot of a lot more political violence and things of that nature that take
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place in America per capita than they do in Canada. But this is a problem that is affecting
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so many Western nations. And it's the exact same playbook time and time again. And when you really
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break it all apart and break it down and you think to yourself, like people voted in President
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Trump. He won the election, right? Even in Canada here, there's how many elections have we had and
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people have voted the way that they did. And, you know, you can be upset about that. But being
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upset to the point where you're going to do something terrible to a stranger, that is the
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most anti-civilizational thing in the world to do. And I certainly do hope that in situations like
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this, no matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, I think that consequences
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should be upheld every single time. And you cannot let people feel so emboldened to just
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approach somebody on a sidewalk like this. Imagine if it was flipped. Imagine if this
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happened in the other direction. And while there are rare instances of similar things
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happening and taking place, the data coming out for how frequently it really is the left
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who is celebrating all of these things and glorifying these terrible actions. It's very
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heavy leaning one way over the other and it's not right and people need to call it out and they need
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to be punished and face consequences because it's not it's not human nature to behave like this and
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it makes me really sad when i think about how much um civilization in many regards has declined and
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it truly is for no other reason than political gain for the parties and the establishment that
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wants to keep on winning because there's nothing wrong actually with wanting lower taxes or wanting
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to protect your borders or wanting to have safe streets those were all common sense things that
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Thank you so much for coming on the show, Jasmine.