NYC Black Market Hit by ICE; Lawsuit Targets AI Defamation
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A group of alleged counterfeiters was just grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York City. It was a group that’s believed to have been around for years, operating out of Chinatown.
Meanwhile, a new lawsuit is targeting what’s being described as AI defamation targeting conservatives—and it’s being brought by filmmaker Robby Starbuck against Google.
We’ll discuss these topics and others, in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | New York City's black market has been hit by ice. |
| 0:03.0 | I've been going to what's happening and also how it's surprisingly tied in with the Chinese |
| 0:06.7 | Communist Party's military. |
| 0:08.7 | Meanwhile, Senator John Federman announced he's going to break with Democrats and vote to |
| 0:13.7 | reopen the government. |
| 0:15.5 | And also in other news, Texas found thousands of illegal aliens who were actually registered on state voting roles. |
| 0:23.5 | I'll be going to these topics a lot more today. |
| 0:26.3 | On the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome to Crossroads. A group of alleged counterfeiters was just grabbed off the streets by ICE |
| 0:44.2 | in New York City. And it was a group that's been around for years operating around Chinatown. |
| 0:49.4 | Anybody who's walked around this area has seen them, it's, I've seen them literally for like two decades. |
| 0:55.8 | But X said this on Homeland Security. |
| 0:57.9 | They say New York's Canal Street safer. |
| 1:01.1 | Canal Street is safer. |
| 1:03.1 | Which, those of you wondering, Canal Street is like one of the main streets in Chinatown |
| 1:06.9 | in Manhattan. |
| 1:08.2 | They say nine illegal aliens arrested have violent rap sheets, including robbery, |
| 1:14.4 | burglary, domestic violence, assaulting law enforcement, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, |
| 1:20.0 | drug possession, and forgery. Now, it's just nine of the many that were arrested, but that's pretty serious if they |
| 1:28.4 | have those types of rap sheets. |
| 1:30.4 | DHS, Department of Homeland Security, they posted photos and rap sheets of many of these individuals. |
| 1:36.1 | Looks like these guys are mostly from parts of Africa, they're repeat criminals. |
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