Sep 27, 2026 · 41 min · 14 segments
Coming up on this week's episode, the week was busy with the main event featuring the Benton County Quorum Court decision on an immigration enforcement program and potential to expand its jail that…
The feature attraction in the 479 this week would take place September 24th as the Benton County Quorum Court would establish a fund to account for the money used in the 287G program, a partnership with the federal government in enforcing immigration law.
The vote was unanimous following two hours of public hearing where, for practically the first time, supporters of law enforcement in general and immigration enforcement in particular made their voices heard after several meetings where the mob of opponents, several from Fayetteville and Washington County, rehashed the arguments that the county was going on an immigrant roundup to collect bounties from the feds and that the quorum court was governing solely for the benefit of white men.
Justice of the Peace and soon-to-be Arkansas State Representative Brian Armis responded.
My dad was a first generation.
Well, sorry, my dad immigrated here at the age of 16.
He sought asylum.
He did survive.
He only got asylum because his brother was killed and he got his spot.
So I'll dedicate it to him because for every single person who comes here legally, no matter what country they come from, they jumped the line.
There was a lot of people here that waited in line very patiently.
And everyone was okay with waiting in line and not okay with people getting in front of them
in line.
When they go home tonight, they'll lock their front doors.
They have borders of their own.
They'll respect those borders and they ask for those borders to be respected.
And if you don't respect those borders, those doors, you'll get arrested.
And if you have children, you'll be separated from those children for breaking the law.
No one cries about that.
It's not okay.
It's not okay that we have nations all over that are so poor and impoverished that they have to try to find somewhere to go.
I can sympathize with that.
I hate that.
But the more we let our borders just be open without any consequence, the harder it will be on all of us.
The feature attraction in the 479 this week would take place September 24th as the Benton County Quorum Court would establish a fund to account for the money used in the 287G program, a partnership with the federal government in enforcing immigration law.
The vote was unanimous following two hours of public hearing where, for practically the first time, supporters of law enforcement in general and immigration enforcement in particular made their voices heard after several meetings where the mob of opponents, several from Fayetteville and Washington County, rehashed the arguments that the county was going on an immigrant roundup to collect bounties from the feds and that the quorum court was governing solely for the benefit of white men.
Justice of the Peace and soon-to-be Arkansas State Representative Brian Armis responded.
My dad was a first generation.
Well, sorry, my dad immigrated here at the age of 16.
He sought asylum.
He did survive.
He only got asylum because his brother was killed and he got his spot.
So I'll dedicate it to him because for every single person who comes here legally, no matter what country they come from, they jumped the line.
There was a lot of people here that waited in line very patiently.
And everyone was okay with waiting in line and not okay with people getting in front of them
in line.
When they go home tonight, they'll lock their front doors.
They have borders of their own.
They'll respect those borders and they ask for those borders to be respected.
And if you don't respect those borders, those doors, you'll get arrested.
And if you have children, you'll be separated from those children for breaking the law.
No one cries about that.
It's not okay.
It's not okay that we have nations all over that are so poor and impoverished that they have to try to find somewhere to go.
I can sympathize with that.
I hate that.
But the more we let our borders just be open without any consequence, the harder it will be on all of us.
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