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Banning Gain of Function Research plus Trump's $1000 Self-Deportation Plan · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: On our trade policies with Biden, we're losing five billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars a day. How many how many groups could lose
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  Speaker 1: five billion a day? If you lose five billion one day,
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  Speaker 1: We're doing really well, really well.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome, it is the forty seven Morning Update, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 4: you do not miss a single episode of the forty
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  Speaker 4: seven Morning Update. Now, we've got three big stories for you,
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  Speaker 4: and the first one deals with your safety, as Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump has issued a major executive order restricting the funding
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  Speaker 4: for gain of function research. I'll have all the details
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  Speaker 4: on this amazing moment in the Trump presidency on that
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  Speaker 4: in just a second.
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  Speaker 3: Up.
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  Speaker 4: Now, pro immigration advocates losing their mind. Is Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 4: Department of Homeland Security is now offering one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 4: and a free fight for illegal immigrants who self deport
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  Speaker 4: So why are they so against it? We'll have that
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  Speaker 4: for you in just a moment as well. And finally,
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump has a big week at the White House,
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  Speaker 4: meeting with Canada as well as talking with China on
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  Speaker 4: trade negotiations. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it
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  Speaker 4: starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one. Common sense is back in the White House.
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  Speaker 4: We all know that, but now we have a president
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  Speaker 4: that's making sure that certain things that changed our world
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  Speaker 4: forever may never happen again. President Donald Trump issuing a
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  Speaker 4: very important executive order restricting federal funding for research that
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  Speaker 4: involves a controversial field of scientific study known as gain
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  Speaker 4: of function research. Now, the research, which is also known
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  Speaker 4: as quote dual use research, involves experimenting with viruses and
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  Speaker 4: other pathogens that have the potential to trigger a pandemic.
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  Speaker 4: Those studies could discover how infectious agents might become more
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  Speaker 4: transmissible or make people even sicker. This field has long
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  Speaker 4: been controversial because of fears that scientists could make a
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  Speaker 4: more dangerous pathogen in their lap that could get out
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  Speaker 4: and cause eight pandemic. Well, those concerns became a reality
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  Speaker 4: with COVID nineteen, and those concerns have led to many
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  Speaker 4: efforts over the years to more tightly monitor and control
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  Speaker 4: this type of gain of function research. Now, many didn't
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  Speaker 4: even know about gain of function research and what it
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  Speaker 4: actually meant until COVID nineteen pandemic hit. One theory for
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  Speaker 4: how the pandemic started says that these stars COVID two
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  Speaker 4: virus which causes COVID nineteen, spilled out of that Chinese
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  Speaker 4: Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 4: Our government at the time said no, no, no, that
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  Speaker 4: didn't happen, and doctor Fauci was one of those involved.
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  Speaker 3: You may also remember.
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  Speaker 4: That doctor Fauci said that he wasn't funding gain of
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  Speaker 4: function research technology, when in fact he absolutely was. And
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  Speaker 4: when I say he was funding it, it means your
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  Speaker 4: tax dollars were going exactly to that quote. Many people
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  Speaker 4: believe that gain of function research was one of the
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  Speaker 4: key causes of the COVID pandemic that struck us in
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  Speaker 4: the last decade. That's the White House Secretary Will Scarf
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  Speaker 4: set That is exactly what this executive order does. First
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  Speaker 4: of all, it provides powerful new tools to enforce the
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  Speaker 4: ban on federal funding of gain of function research abroad.
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  Speaker 4: It also strengthens other oversight mechanisms related to that issue
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  Speaker 4: and creates an overarching strategy to ensure that biomedical research
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  Speaker 4: in general is being conducted safely. Many scientists have said, well,
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  Speaker 4: hold on a second, we need to weigh the evidence
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  Speaker 4: and understand that pandemics can happen, and that we can
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  Speaker 4: learn from them when they do happen. When the reality
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  Speaker 4: is as well, we know where this started, and it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't in China in the wet market. It was in
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  Speaker 4: the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they were doing gain
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  Speaker 4: of function research. Now, according to the White House, the
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  Speaker 4: executive order would block any US funding of gain of
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  Speaker 4: function research and countries of concern such as China and Iran,
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  Speaker 4: as well as other foreign nations deemed to have insufficient
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  Speaker 4: research oversight. The order also prohibits US tax dollars from
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  Speaker 4: contributing to foreign research likely to cause another pandemic, and
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  Speaker 4: also US dollars in general. The order also quote empowers
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  Speaker 4: American research agencies to identify an in federal funding of
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  Speaker 4: other biological research that could pose a threat to American
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  Speaker 4: public health, public safety, or national security that according to
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  Speaker 4: the White House's own fact sheet on this issue in
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  Speaker 4: executive order, the order will quote increase the safety security
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  Speaker 4: of biological research without impending US innovation. The White House
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  Speaker 4: also issued statements from several top Trump administration officials who
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  Speaker 4: argued the funding restriction is quote necessary. The Health and
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  Speaker 4: Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior put it this way, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 4: I commend President Trump for his courage and his vision.
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  Speaker 4: This is a historic day, is what doctor J. Bodicari,
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  Speaker 4: the director of the National Institute of Health, said. The
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  Speaker 4: conduct of this research does not protect us against pandemics,
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  Speaker 4: as some people might say. It doesn't protect us against
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  Speaker 4: other nations. There's always a danger in doing this research.
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  Speaker 4: It might leak out just by accident even and cause
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  Speaker 4: a pandemic. It is crazy to think the entire nightmare
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  Speaker 4: was probably the result of some scientists messing with Mother
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  Speaker 4: Nature and a laboratory with technology, is what the Food
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  Speaker 4: and Drug Administration Commissioner doctor Marty Mcarrey said about Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump's executive order. At the end of the day, what
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  Speaker 4: you need to know is this, the President knew there
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  Speaker 4: was a problem. He knew the Gang of Function research
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  Speaker 4: was out of control. He knew that your tax dollars
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  Speaker 4: should not be going to adversaries like China and Iran,
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  Speaker 4: and he's stopping it once and for all.
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  Speaker 3: Next story number two.
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  Speaker 4: Media going crazy because they're actually having to cover a
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  Speaker 4: brilliant idea from the Trump administration, the ideas to save
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  Speaker 4: American taxpayer's money while also getting deportations underway in a
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  Speaker 4: very serious way. With a large number of people self deporting.
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  Speaker 4: How does it work? We're going to pay them to
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  Speaker 4: do it. The Trump administration has now come out saying
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  Speaker 4: they are willing to pay one thousand dollars to an
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  Speaker 4: undocumented immigrant who self deports. The Department of Homeland Security
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  Speaker 4: announcement will provide travel assistance and a thousand dollars stipend
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  Speaker 4: to those who use the CBP home app to actually
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  Speaker 4: leave the United States of America. The Department of Home
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  Speaker 4: When Security says, we are intensifying our efforts to persuade
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  Speaker 4: unauthorize immigrants to self deport by offering them the thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars stipend in the travel assistance. This will save Americans money. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the best part about this story is the fact that
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  Speaker 4: the media is actually having to cover it and they
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  Speaker 4: don't know how to criticize it, but they don't like it.
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  Speaker 4: CBS News putting a big story out there, and here's
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  Speaker 4: how they explained it to their audience.
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  Speaker 3: So, Willie, how would this actually work?
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  Speaker 5: It is, Juliet, good to be with you on this
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  Speaker 5: Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Trump.
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  Speaker 5: Administration is looking to deport migrants this way in large
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  Speaker 5: part because it would save the government money. That's part
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  Speaker 5: of the thinking here.
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  Speaker 3: A Department of.
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  Speaker 5: Homeland Security official will explain that it costs about seventeen
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  Speaker 5: thousand dollars to find and apprehend in a migrant who
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  Speaker 5: is undocumented here in the United States and to port them,
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  Speaker 5: so this could potentially save the government one thousands of
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  Speaker 5: dollars per person. And the President spoke about this earlier today.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, but what we thought we'd do is a self
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  Speaker 6: deport where we're going to pay each one a certain
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  Speaker 6: amount of money, and we're going to get them a
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  Speaker 6: beautiful flight back to where they came from, and they
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  Speaker 6: have a period of time and if they make it,
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  Speaker 6: we're going to work with them so that maybe someday,
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  Speaker 6: with little work, they can come back in if they're
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  Speaker 6: good people, if they're the kind of people that we
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  Speaker 6: want in our company, industrious people that could love our country,
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  Speaker 6: and if they're not, they won't.
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  Speaker 5: Now, the way that migrants can sign up for this
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  Speaker 5: program is by using the CBP home app.
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  Speaker 3: That is the.
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  Speaker 5: App that was used under the Biden administration for migrants
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  Speaker 5: to register themselves here who they could be, the government
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  Speaker 5: could have information about them and their status here in
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  Speaker 5: the United States. But the Trump administration is using this
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  Speaker 5: as a way for migrants to not only register themselves,
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  Speaker 5: but to self deport as well. So the government looking
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  Speaker 5: to save some money here, you're looking to collect some
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  Speaker 5: information from those undocumented migrants.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll add that.
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  Speaker 5: The effort to deport migrants has really been slowed by
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  Speaker 5: the courts. We've seen the Trump ministration try to deport
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  Speaker 5: migrants in different ways, using the Alien Enemies Act, for instance,
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  Speaker 5: But this way in particular, quite a novel idea that
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  Speaker 5: the Trump administration is using, but one that they believe
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  Speaker 5: could save the government thousands of dollars per individual.
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  Speaker 4: Julia, by the way, not thousands, tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 4: dollars per immigrant illegal. Let's just call them what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Legal Now, the left is just losing their mind. Pro
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  Speaker 4: immigration advocates are slamming the Department of Home and Security,
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration offering this money. They are denouncing it,
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  Speaker 4: and they're quote urging illegal migrants to reject President Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump's offer of one thousand dollars in the free airline
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  Speaker 4: ticket to leave the country. Quote this opinion might be
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  Speaker 4: worse for people who take advantage of it, claimed Aaron Kreshelan,
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  Speaker 4: a pro immigration advocate for the Immigration Council Advocacy group.
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  Speaker 4: Quote for people illegal immigrants in immigration court, it would
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  Speaker 4: likely mean a deportation order. For others not detained for deportation,
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  Speaker 4: it would abandon clear options for staying. So they're saying,
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  Speaker 4: dig in, don't take de bait, don't leave America. Steven
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  Speaker 4: Miller putting out a tweet putting it this way, The
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  Speaker 4: savings are as much as one million per illegal alien family,
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  Speaker 4: given the long term costs of free welfare and public support.
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  Speaker 4: And that is exactly why the Trump administration is now saying,
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  Speaker 4: we are willing to begin paying for the commercial flights
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  Speaker 4: of illegal aliens who self deport from the US. We
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  Speaker 4: will pay these aliens in additional thousand dollars once they
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  Speaker 4: are confirmed have left the country, the Department of Oland
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  Speaker 4: Security telling Fox News it will save American taxpayers seventy
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  Speaker 4: percent as it currently costs DHS on average over seventeen
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  Speaker 4: thousand to arrest, detain, and to port someone from the
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  Speaker 4: US while paying for self removal flights, and the stipend
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  Speaker 4: has protected to cost just four thy five hundred and
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  Speaker 4: also will be safer for ice and preserve their resources.
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  Speaker 4: Illegal aliens here's the rules. Must register on the CBP
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  Speaker 4: home app and file their notice to leave the US
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  Speaker 4: in order to receive the financial assistance, and the stipend
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  Speaker 4: will only be paid once the alien is confirmed to
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  Speaker 4: have left the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And here is story number three.
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  Speaker 4: President Donald Trump is fresh office, hundred days in office,
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  Speaker 4: and now we are getting worried that his administration has
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  Speaker 4: no plan to slow down in the coming weeks, months,
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  Speaker 4: or even years. This week, we're celebrating the most successful
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  Speaker 4: first one hundred days of any presidential administration in the
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  Speaker 4: history of our country. Is what Trump had to say
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  Speaker 4: as he was addressing the University of Alabama on Thursday
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  Speaker 4: at his commencement speech.
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  Speaker 3: Fast forward to week sixteen.
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  Speaker 4: Back in the Oval Office, and we now know what's
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  Speaker 4: happening when it comes to the issue of trade with
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  Speaker 4: The President is meeting with Canada's new leader and having
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  Speaker 4: ongoing talks as well between Russia and Ukraine, and trade
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  Speaker 4: negotiations with foreign nations are also expected to continue heating
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  Speaker 4: up at the White House today. Now the Canadian Prime
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  Speaker 4: Minister to visit the White House and a major point
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  Speaker 4: that they will be speaking about will be how they
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  Speaker 4: can work on their trade deal.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Carney's Liberal party emerged victorious in the nation's federal elections
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  Speaker 4: last week, and now they will discuss the twenty five
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  Speaker 4: percent tariff imposed on goods from the nation sent to
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  Speaker 4: the US and Trump's repeated urging that the US northern
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  Speaker 4: neighbor become the fifty first state.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's still kind of a joke.
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  Speaker 4: We are meeting as heads of our government, Carney said
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  Speaker 4: Friday of the upcoming meeting. And I'm not pretending that
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  Speaker 4: those discussions will be easy, he said.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Trump added during his cabinet meeting with members on Thursday
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  Speaker 4: that he said it was important that America get a
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  Speaker 4: fair trade deal with Carne after Canada's elections, and predicted
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  Speaker 4: they would have a quote great working relationship, saying he's
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  Speaker 4: going to come to the White House very shortly, within
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  Speaker 4: the next week or less, and everything will be on
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  Speaker 4: the table. We also are finding out there's some movement
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  Speaker 4: with China, as Beijing is evaluating trade negotiation offer as well.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, China's Commerce Ministry is now said publicly that
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  Speaker 4: they are in negotiations with the US and that officials
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  Speaker 4: are quote evaluating an offer from the Trump administration to
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  Speaker 4: hold trade talks on the one hundred and forty five
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  Speaker 4: percent US tariffs on Chinese goods. This is signaling it
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  Speaker 4: could be a very busy week of discussions if China
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  Speaker 4: accepts the offer.
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  Speaker 3: Quote.
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  Speaker 4: The US has recently taken the initiative on many occasions
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  Speaker 4: to convey information in China through relevant parties, saying it
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  Speaker 4: hopes to talk with China. That coming from a new
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  Speaker 4: report from Reuters. So what is the President doing, Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's the art of the deal. He's attempting to use
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  Speaker 4: the talks to get a better deal for American taxpayers
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  Speaker 4: and also so that the world can go back to
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  Speaker 4: more of a normal trading capacity. Back and forth, Trump
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  Speaker 4: and the administration made it clear we're not going to
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  Speaker 4: be taken advantage of, and neither will American workers. But
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  Speaker 4: we're willing to hold trade negotiation with China, including the
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  Speaker 4: President saying on April the eighth that we are waiting
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  Speaker 4: for their call.
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  Speaker 3: It will happen now.
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  Speaker 4: The President said on NBC News Is Meet the Press
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  Speaker 4: on Sunday that he will not drop the tariffs to
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  Speaker 4: bring China to the negotiating table. He said that is
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  Speaker 4: a non starter, so the present still holding firm, but
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  Speaker 4: saying we're more than ready to have a real talk
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  Speaker 4: about changing the way that America has been taken advantage of.
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