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“Tri-State’s Got Talent” was held at Eastland Mall in Evansville. The event is an audition for the Arc of Evansville’s benefit.

The event accepted walk up auditions and performers had 90 seconds to complete their tryout.

Denise Seibert says, “Big shows and events like this are really important to the Arc of Evansville. We serve children and adults here in our community so days like today and events like these not only help us raise awareness about that but also help us raise funding for our services for the Arc of Evansville.

“The Really Big Show” is February 11TH at the Old National Events Plaza.

The event benefits the Evansville Rescue Mission’s Thanksgiving Gobbler Gathering happening in less than two weeks.

The Gobbler Gathering distributes boxed Thanksgiving meals to more than 2,000 tri-state families.

President and CEO says, “Today is our fourth annual Drumstick Dash and a great morning for this. This is a benefit for our Gobbler Gathering which is coming up, where we will distribute 2,201 food boxes and these are 70 LBS of food boxes to the people in our community that really need some assistance this time of year. We’re excited to be out here raising some money and raising some awareness of the Evansville Rescue Mission.”

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Donald Trump won the presidency campaigning on a promise of a far-reaching immigration crackdown, and early indications are that he intends to execute it.

The immigration section of Trump’s presidential transition website reaffirms his plans to “cancel unconstitutional executive orders”—which his advisers have said includes President Barack Obama’s 2012 program that has protected from deportation 750,000 young people brought to the U.S. illegally.

Once he takes office in January, Trump can end that program without any approval from Congress. He can also end Obama’s 2014 executive action, currently blocked by the courts, to extend that deportation reprieve to some 4 million undocumented immigrants who haven’t committed crimes.

The website reemphasized other Trump proposals for which he may need congressional approval, including plans to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, suspend new visas from certain high-risk countries, end funding for sanctuary cities, and change legal immigration policies to better serve U.S. workers.

The president-elect listed immigration as one of his top three priorities on Thursday.

“We’re looking very strongly at immigration,” he told reporters in the Capitol after meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. “We’re going to look at the borders, very importantly, we’re looking very strongly at health care and we’re looking at jobs—big league jobs.”

Trump tapped Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an anti-immigration firebrand who helped draft controversial restrictionist laws in Arizona and Alabama, to his transition team.

“I’m a member of the immigration policy transition team and there’s going to be a lot to do there in part because Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama are diametric opposites when it comes to immigration policy,” Kobach told Kansas television station KWCH.

Kobach promised that there will be “a lot of changes.”

In addition, Trump has been relying on Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, another immigration restrictionist, for advice on immigration policy.

Immigration was a flashpoint in the 2016 race, with Trump ousting Republican rivals like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio by campaigning on a far more restrictive platform than they initially supported. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wanted to expand Obama’s immigration relief plans and grant a path to citizenship for people in the U.S. illegally.

“He’ll spend a lot of time controlling the border. He may not spend very much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it. But it was a great campaign device,” Newt Gingrich, a Trump surrogate and former House speaker, told National Public Radio.

A wall on the Southern border is estimated to cost possibly $25 billion.

“I’m in favor of securing the border, and I do believe that you have to have physical barriers on the border,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday on Fox News when asked if he supports a wall. “I will defer to the experts on the border as to what is the right way to secure the border.”

A spokesman for McConnell didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is advising Trump, said Thursday on CNN that “the wall is going to to take a while,” but suggested Trump could “do it by executive order by just re-programming money within the immigration service.”

Trump’s immigration policies are sure to face immense blowback from the Hispanic community. They won’t get support from congressional Democrats, said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

“I haven’t seen anybody lay out how you build a wall,” he said. “I don’t think there’ll be common ground on that topic.”