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Alan Stock 0:00
And a good morning. Great to be with us on this Thursday morning. If it’s Thursday, it’s got to be Nevada. News of you Thursday, which it is, and joining us today on behalf of Nevada news and views, is Erica Neely. She is founder of the Hispanic Latin Alliance. She is also a candidate for the ninth Assembly District. That’s my assembly district, by way of disclosure, and I can say that I am behind her 100% and I among the many reasons that I love her is because one of the first things she said to me when we got on the air on the phone, getting her ready to go on, was, do you have your coffee? You know, I mean, my coffee in the morning, whenever I do a talk radio, it’s always been important to have coffee there. I mean, I don’t know why. Some people have water. Some have, you know, I don’t know, martinis or whatever. I mean, I’d prefer coffee. It’s just always better. So thank you for asking Erica. Welcome to Vegas today. Thanks for being with us.
Erica Neely 0:55
Thank you for having me. Good morning, everyone.
Alan Stock 0:58
Tell me about the Dignity Act that is, that is being proposed, because what you write about is so important that people have various ideas. A lot of misinformation goes out. But it turns out that the hispanic or latino community really does support the idea of immigration, but on a legal basis, probably more so than almost any other given group.
Erica Neely 1:25
That’s right. So you know that I’m Hispanic, but yes, I am of Mexican descent, but I am American. So one of the things that they’re confusing this issue is that Hispanic Americans want our borders secure. We want legal immigration. We follow the rules. We want the American dream to not be confused with those that are breaking the law. We are not in favor of that. 71% was percent. There was a poll taken in Texas. 71% of Hispanics want the border closed. Want legal immigration. They want reform. And this proposal that’s going on with Maria Salazar from Florida, it’s not a representative of the community.
Alan Stock 2:10
What is she proposing? This representative? Is she a she a Democrat?
Erica Neely 2:17
I’m glad you asked So Maria Salazar a Republican from Florida, she was elected to represent and clean up the immigration and clean and be transparent, but this is what’s going on. She teamed up with a representative Democrat from Texas, Veronica Escobar, and what they’re proposing is the Dignity Act, and they’re saying that it’s not that it’s not a the it’s not amnesty, but it is. It’s amnesty. It’s what they’re saying is that they will do background checks, find people and have them pay back taxes. When Ronald Reagan did it in the 80s, he led, I think the amnesty program was close to 3 million people under Biden. We’re talking about 20 million. This will completely transform our country. You’re talking about Las Vegas, a population. And I’m just going to round off 3 million. Los Angeles, 4 million. New York, 4 million population. If this bill goes through and we allow amnesty, it will completely transform the country, allowing 20 million people to have amnesty. This is a very scary bill, especially coming from Maria Salazar, from Florida, a Republican that, in my opinion, is not a real Republican.
Alan Stock 3:40
Well, you know what, let me just say, where I’m coming from, and that is that the pitch that she’s making is to tighten border security and handing legal status to millions who entered illegally before 2021 be very clear about it, okay, and you correctly point out this is exactly what Ronald Reagan’s pitch was, too. Now I happen to regard Reagan as greatest president my lifetime. I like Trump too, a lot, but to me, Reagan was number one and, and he did a lot of great things, but it doesn’t mean that he didn’t make any mistakes, and I think that was one of the mistakes that he did make, and, and it was an unfortunate mistake we cannot afford, I think, to to duplicate that mistake in this day and age. When you’re right, it’s no longer just around 3 million people. We’re talking about upwards of nearly 20 million people. And the question is, when you come in here illegally, regardless, you could be from from Asia, you could be from Europe, you could be from South America, you could be from Antarctica. It doesn’t matter. I mean, if you come here illegally, you have broken the law to get here, and there’s no reason on God’s green earth why we should reward you for breaking the law. If somebody robs a bank, you don’t say, I’ll let you off and we won’t put you in jail. Know, and you can keep half the money, just get half back. That’s a stupid thing. We’re not going to do that. And we can’t allow this, this amnesty, which is what she’s talking about, to occur, either
Erica Neely 5:13
Absolutely. That’s exactly, and you hit the nail right on the head. We are rewarding, rewarding people for breaking the law, taking advantage of our country. And so I think that’s completely wrong, especially coming out of Florida Maria Salazar, that this is not what she was voted into.
Alan Stock 5:29
And there are people of, again, all backgrounds, and again, specifically Latinos, Hispanics, who are here, a lot of the folks, but they’re illegal, and they and people who are legal should be here. They’re here legally, let them stay. But if you’re illegal, regardless of where you come from, what you look like, anything. But if you’re here illegally, you should not be granted some kind of exception just because of the color of your skin or your religion or your sexual orientation or, I mean, or anything like that at all. I mean, you know, we’ve got to either draw the line. We have rules for a reason. We have rules for reason, and either we enforce the rules or we become a chaotic society where everyone runs around just killing each other, like, kind of like they do in New York, you know? I mean, that’s how it goes there. So we don’t want it to be brought to Las Vegas. Stay with me. I want to talk about something else you wrote about that’s so important down here. I don’t think people know about this. And you wrote about what’s going up in Carson City, the school district up there, where they are trying to, there’s an effort afoot to try to maybe get rid of recess. Yeah, kids don’t need that much time outside. Let’s just put them at the desk and keep them there for eight hours straight. You write a great article about and I want you to talk about it right after we check in with traffic and your fox five. First Alert weather update. Annie, good morning. Great to have you with us on this big Thursday morning. Erica Neely, by the way, is running for the ninth Assembly District. She’s been endorsed by Governor Joe Lombardo. And I mean, and I have, I’m behind her 100% she’s got my full endorsement. She would be a great addition to the assembly. We need more people with common sense up in the assembly. And again, by way of disclosure, I am in the ninth Assembly District, and she would be a great assembly representative for me and all of us here in 89 so we’re very happy to have her with us right now on Vegas at eight. You wrote a column recently about what’s going on up in the Carson City School District, and there are people who think that recess is not that important. Some schools across the country have eliminated recess almost entirely, which I think is short sighted and pretty much insane, but But you write about what’s going on up there, what exactly are they trying to do
Erica Neely 8:02
so currently, the school board is deciding whether they’re going to cut the recess time. So currently, right now, the rule that stands is three 15 minute breaks. So your child goes to school six to seven hours, they get a total of 45 minutes. So what they’re proposing is cutting the 45 to 30 minutes. Parents are concerned because they think that this is a this is heading in the wrong direction.
Alan Stock 8:31
So if you get a kid sitting down for an hour, even a little over an hour, I mean, they they start to get restless. You know, adults can learn how to be able to manage our time more. And again, adults and most businesses can get up and walk around a little bit. But with kids, I mean, they’re supposed to be very strict, sit at their seats and and pay attention to the teacher, which is correct. I think it’s all right, but we’ve got to be able to understand that they just can’t sit there forever.
Erica Neely 9:03
No, absolutely I agree with you. There is a level of respect when you’re in the classroom, but this is not the case. We’re talking about reducing playtime. So yes, you’re right. Kids get restless, distracted, and when they don’t move around and have the creativity to to run around and release some of that energy, they become less able to learn. And on top of that, let me just say it adds more stress to the teacher, because now we’re not giving the teachers a break to refocus and reset and restructure.
Alan Stock 9:32
Now what they say they’re doing is they’re not really taking recess away. What they want to do is give more flexibility to the principal to decide whether or not to take that recess away. I mean, so, I mean, the end result is that the kids could still wind up with a reduction in how much recess they have, but it may come from one source instead of another. So, I mean, they’re playing games. With, with, you know, with, with, with words here, and who would be doing it. But meanwhile, I mean, this is, and some people think it’s too rigid to allow kids to have, you know, three recesses a day. But, I mean, I remember when I was a kid we, we needed that time to go out and let it out and just, you know, get rid of everything. It was very important.
Erica Neely 10:27
It’s just common sense. Playtime creates creativity. Creativity creates critical thinking, free thinkers and independence. So this is heading in the wrong direction, and the reason we need to be paying attention what Carson City School Board is doing, because there was a bill that was proposed in Carson City, AB53, that never went to the floor. So this is, if we see this happening in Carson City, it’s going to come down to Clark County. It’s very important that we pay attention and let our kids have free time, creativity, critical thinking, so that they could be independent.
Alan Stock 11:03
And you know, you quote the CDC here, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about recess isn’t just free time. It’s a time when where kids learn and they learn how to behave, and getting out there and doing some activity actually helps improve memory attention and help the kids focus more when they get back in the classroom. And it does something else too. It really allows kids to interact with each other, the socialization we know. I mean, you and I know, and most of us, by this time, I think most of the world knows what happened under covid was unacceptable, and the kids being out of school for a year and a half or there abouts really, really retarded the growth of a lot of kids growing up, I mean, so they were restrained, and we’re still feeling, we’re still feeling the results of that today, and I don’t know how long it’s going to take to eventually get over that maybe a whole generation. But you cannot have kids isolated. The socialization of kids is as important as the matriculation,
Erica Neely 12:09
Absolutely. And let’s not forget, obesity is also a problem here in Nevada with our children. So everything that you’re saying, Those are 100% of what I wrote here in the article, and obesity is something else that is not talked about, but this is heading in the wrong direction. Our kids need free play time, socialization and the opportunity for them to just let everything become less restless so that they have an opportunity to learn,
Alan Stock 12:42
you know. And I remember one other thing from when I was at recess in elementary school, going back a lot of years, but I remember it also challenged your physical coordination, whether it was climbing on the monkey bars or whether it was playing tetherball. I mean your hand eye coordination, all of that. I mean it definitely enhanced your physical attributes, and so I mean that it was so important, and we didn’t understand that at the time. We were just doing it as kids. But looking back, I see the importance of all of that, and that’s something that adults today have got to remember. Kids have got to get out there and let loose. They need what you call a brain break, just to get out there and just let loose
Erica Neely 13:29
Absolutely. And I love that you brought that up, because as a parent, we want to create happy, loving memories, especially when it comes to education, and you bringing up that memory, I think it just gives so much joy to moms of what the possibility of positive growth is and learning at the same time.
Alan Stock 13:49
Yeah, absolutely the case. Erica Neely, founder of the Hispanic Latin Alliance, also joining us today on behalf of Nevada news and views. You want to find out more about Nevada news and views, go to Nevada news and views.com great source for local, state and national news and commentary. Great, great source that Chuck de Muth has founded Nevada news and views.com and again, Erica Neely running for the assembly in the ninth assembly district. I hope she is your candidate and she is mine, she you can hear her common sense just comes through on the air when we talk to her every time. And we need more people with common sense. That’s for sure, up in Carson City, believe me, we do. We watch it all the time. Erica, thanks so much for being with us. I appreciate it, and the very best of luck to you, and we’ll talk more in the days ahead.
Erica Neely 14:42
Absolutely talk to you soon. Thank you so much.
Alan Stock 14:44
Take good care.
