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America’s Open Door Era: Watchlists, Walk‑Ins, and What Slipped Through · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in. As the Ben Ferguson Show, it is so
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Speaker 1: nice to have you with us. We have new numbers
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Speaker 1: now that are going to shock you. Illegal migrant population
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Speaker 1: is now almost nineteen million. I'm going to say that again,
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Speaker 1: almost nineteen million illegal immigrants are living in the United States.
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Speaker 1: That according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, since
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Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty estimates, the illegal alien population in
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Speaker 1: the United States has grown by four point one million,
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Speaker 1: or twenty eight point two percent, reflecting an unprecedented wave
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Speaker 1: of illegal immigration during the Biden administration. The group is
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Speaker 1: now reporting in these shocking numbers. The higher figures will
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Speaker 1: add to pressure on GOP leaders in President Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: as they are being pushed by business interests to roll
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Speaker 1: back the popular deportation of all illegal immigrants. But the
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Speaker 1: deportations are both popular and beneficial for Americans during the
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Speaker 1: run up to the twenty twenty six midterm elections. They say,
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Speaker 1: now GOP members are obviously looking at this data, and
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Speaker 1: many that are Rhinos or barely Republicans are now saying,
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Speaker 1: maybe we should just back off a little bit. That
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Speaker 1: is not what we should be doing at all. Quote,
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Speaker 1: we got a little hiccup with some of the Hispanic
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Speaker 1: and Latino voters, for certain, because some of the immigration
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Speaker 1: enforcement was viewed as being over zealous. That is what
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Speaker 1: how Speaker Mike Johnson said on March tenth. But here's
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Speaker 1: the good news. We're in a course correction mode right now.
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Speaker 1: The speaker went on to say Senator Mark Wayne Mullen,
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Speaker 1: the Republican from Oklahoma, who is now the incoming Homeland
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Speaker 1: Security chief, opposes any migrant amnesty but has been ambivalent
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Speaker 1: on hisfer for deportation policy. That is something that many
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Speaker 1: are taking a look at right now now. The population
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Speaker 1: of illegal migrants is in addition to the huge annual
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Speaker 1: inflow of roughly eight hundred thousand legal migrants and the
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Speaker 1: resident population of roughly two point five million temporary visa
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Speaker 1: workers for white collar, blue collar and seasonal jobs. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Fair Group explained why their estimate is higher than
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Speaker 1: the estimates provided by the group that favor migration fairs.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen point six million includes several hundred thousand who illegally
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Speaker 1: entered the country but who were given temporary documentation by
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Speaker 1: President Joe Biden's pro immigration borders are at the time. Also,
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Speaker 1: the census Bureau changed the way it counts the migrant
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Speaker 1: population during Biden's tenure. The Census Bureau's mythology changed, and
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Speaker 1: it violates the long held position that official data and
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Speaker 1: organizations relying solely on that data were dramatically undercounting the
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Speaker 1: foreign born and thus the illegal alien population. This is
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Speaker 1: because the data in the twenty twenty three American Community
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Speaker 1: Survey and the current Population Survey that demographers and other
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Speaker 1: researchers rely on were weighted based on pre revision Bureau
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Speaker 1: estimates and will undercut the foreign born to a similarly
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Speaker 1: significant degree unless corrected. Now, only one year ago estimates
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Speaker 1: of the foreign born population based on the CPS show
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Speaker 1: that after four years of mass migration into this country
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Speaker 1: mass immigration, the foreign born population listen carefully stood at a
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Speaker 1: record high over fifty million. That is coming from the
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Speaker 1: New York Times reporting it was the largest in American history,
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Speaker 1: surpassing the Ellis Island Great Wave era of the late
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Speaker 1: eighteen nineties. At least sixty percent of the foreigners who
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Speaker 1: during this wave were illegal aliens. Now thinks the Census
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Speaker 1: Bureau's revision of its foreign born population estimates, we know
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Speaker 1: that even this record high was understated by millions, and
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Speaker 1: clearly it was done on purpose, so you didn't realize
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Speaker 1: how bad the problem actually was that Democrats created on purpose. Now,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's policy of deporting all illegal immigrants is already
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Speaker 1: improving the economy by the way for ordinary Americans, especially
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Speaker 1: for millions of working class Latinos who are seeing their
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Speaker 1: wages go up in a wide variety of jobs. Federal
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Speaker 1: and market data show that wages are up and housing
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Speaker 1: costs are down. Inflation is declining, transport costs are shrinking,
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Speaker 1: crime is dropping in many areas significantly, and corporations are
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Speaker 1: beending heavily to help Americans become more productive. The resulting
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Speaker 1: prosperity will likely help raise birth rates, as husbands gain
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Speaker 1: higher wages and wives gain greater confidence in their future,
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Speaker 1: meaning they're more willing to bring children into the world. Now,
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Speaker 1: you look at all this data that I just gave you,
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Speaker 1: and the big question that so many are asking is
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Speaker 1: why is the president not getting more credit for what
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Speaker 1: we're witnessing. Well, part of it is because Democrats are
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Speaker 1: playing the game differently. In fact, Chuck Schumer has made
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Speaker 1: it very clear he doesn't stand with the American people.
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Speaker 1: He is officially now taking a stand for quote tens
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Speaker 1: of billions of illegal aliens ICE could remove from voter roles.
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Speaker 1: It all goes back to power. Now, before we get
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Speaker 1: to that, I want to talk to you about the
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Speaker 1: incredible work that's being done right now by Compassion or
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Speaker 1: National and how you can help. I want you to
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Speaker 1: pause what you're doing for just one minute, and I
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Speaker 1: want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a
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Speaker 1: remote community with very few resources and little to no healthcare.
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Speaker 1: So when Alejandra gets sick, her parents have no real options,
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Speaker 1: no doctors in their community, and no money for real
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Speaker 1: medical care. By the third day, her body was shutting down.
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Speaker 1: She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom,
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Speaker 1: I can't take the pain anymore. I can't keep going.
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Speaker 1: Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who tried everything,
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Speaker 1: but she needed a private hospital and that was impossible
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Speaker 1: for her family to afford. And that is when Compassion
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Speaker 1: International stepped in. Now, through Compassion, Alejandra was treated and
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Speaker 1: against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just
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Speaker 1: like you took action right now. Unfortunately, there are children
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Speaker 1: just like Alejandra who won't survive unless someone like U
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Speaker 1: steps in. Compassion International partners with local churches, providing children
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Speaker 1: with the support that they need, critical medical care, plus food,
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Speaker 1: education and the hope of the gospel, all in Jesus' name.
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Speaker 1: So help a child just like Alejandra today you can
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Speaker 1: visit Compassion dot com. That's Compassion dot com. Which brings
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Speaker 1: us to another aspect of how many illegal immigrants have
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Speaker 1: come into this country. There's a number that should make
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Speaker 1: every American stop and think. And it's something the media
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Speaker 1: spent years barely talking about, and even now as we
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Speaker 1: have real concerns about sleeper sales in the US, they're
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Speaker 1: still not covering it. It's the number that every American
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Speaker 1: should be thinking about now. The number of people on
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Speaker 1: the Terraces watch lists who were encountered trying to cross
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Speaker 1: into the United States to the southern border. That's a
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Speaker 1: number that's really important. Now. Remember these are out random migrants.
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Speaker 1: These are literally individuals flagged in the Terraft screening data set,
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Speaker 1: the federal government's database of people with known or suspected
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Speaker 1: ties directly to terrorism, and the number of skyrocket over
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Speaker 1: the past several years. According to US Customs and Border Protection,
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Speaker 1: between the Fiscal years of twenty twenty one and the
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Speaker 1: fiscal year twenty twenty four, border agents encountered more than
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Speaker 1: three one hundred and eighty individuals they were on the
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Speaker 1: terrorist watch list attempting to cross into the United States
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Speaker 1: at ports of entry or between them. Now, to put
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Speaker 1: that in perspective, during the four years before that, when
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was president from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: the total number of encounters with individuals on the watch
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Speaker 1: list was only eleven. When the Democrats opened our southern border,
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Speaker 1: that number exploded to three hundred and eighty individuals caught
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Speaker 1: that were on the terrast watch list attempting to come
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Speaker 1: into the country. Let that sink in for a second,
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Speaker 1: eleven over four years, compared with hundreds in just a
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Speaker 1: few years afterwards. What changed only one thing. Democrats knew
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Speaker 1: with their open border policy they could change America. They
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Speaker 1: also knew they were going to let terras in as
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Speaker 1: well as cartel members and rapists and murderers. And the
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Speaker 1: numbers surged dramatically as the border crisis worsen and word
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Speaker 1: got out. And the fiscal year twenty twenty one, for example,
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Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was in office, fifteen people on the
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Speaker 1: terrorists watch lists were encountered at the border. Now we
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Speaker 1: don't know how many got across it did not actually
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Speaker 1: get caught by border agents or ice. That number then
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Speaker 1: skyrocketed in twenty twenty two to ninety eight encounters. Again,
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Speaker 1: we don't know how many came into the country that
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Speaker 1: we didn't catch during twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: the number skyrocketed again to one hundred in sixty nine
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Speaker 1: encounters with people on the terrorists watch lists. And again
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Speaker 1: we have no idea how many godaways in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three terrorists got into America that we didn't catch. And
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Speaker 1: then in twenty twenty four the number went up even
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Speaker 1: more to one hundred and seventy two encounters with people
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Speaker 1: that had ties to terrorism or were terrorists. I'll say
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Speaker 1: it again, we don't know how many got across the
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Speaker 1: border that we didn't catch. In the millions of people
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Speaker 1: that the Biden's let in, that means the highest numbers
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Speaker 1: ever recorded happened during the last several years. And here's
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Speaker 1: another number that should concern everyone as well. While border
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Speaker 1: patrol can report the people they actually catch, officials also
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Speaker 1: estimate that more than one point seven million. Godaways, it's
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Speaker 1: one point seven million people, and any one of them
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Speaker 1: could be a terrorist across the border during the same period,
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Speaker 1: people who were never apprehended and whose identities remain unknown.
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Speaker 1: So the obvious anstey question now becomes this, if hundreds
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Speaker 1: of individuals on the terrorists watch lists were caught, how
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Speaker 1: many may have slipped through the cracks undetected. That's the
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Speaker 1: concern that many national security experts and lawmakers are now
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Speaker 1: raising that question over and over again this week, because
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Speaker 1: the reality is this, the southern border isn't just an
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Speaker 1: immigration issue. It is truly a national security issue. And
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Speaker 1: when individuals flagged in terrorism databases are being encountered at
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Speaker 1: the border in record numbers and millions of migrants are
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Speaker 1: crossing illegally, the risk isn't theoretical anymore, It's real. And
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Speaker 1: that's why border security has become one of the most
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Speaker 1: urgent national security debates in Washington, DC this week, because
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Speaker 1: protecting the border ultimately means protecting the American people. Now,
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Speaker 1: I go back to the basic stats, three hunter and
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Speaker 1: eighty plus individuals on the terrorists watch lists were encountered
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Speaker 1: at the border. When Joe Biden was present, only eleven
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Speaker 1: were encountered when Donald Trump was present the first time.
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Speaker 1: This is what the election in the midterms is all about.
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Speaker 1: And as we are seeing warnings of more sleeper cells
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Speaker 1: that may have been activated and more small attacks so
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Speaker 1: far that have already happened this country, you have to
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Speaker 1: wonder why are Democrats not doing more to stand with
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Speaker 1: President Trump and to fight these terrorists and find all
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Speaker 1: of those on the terrorists watch lists that may have
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Speaker 1: gone into this country's interior without anyone actually knowing they
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Speaker 1: got across our southern border. This is exactly why it's
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Speaker 1: time for so many Americans to wake up to this
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Speaker 1: real issue and the media should do their job and
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Speaker 1: cover it exactly like I did right now. When Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump ran for office again, he made a very clear
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Speaker 1: promise to the American people, secure the border and remove
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Speaker 1: the most dangerous criminals who entered this country illegally. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's be clear, this is a story right now that
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Speaker 1: matters when it comes to national security. We all know
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Speaker 1: about the real concerns over sleeper cells terrasts that came
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Speaker 1: in across our southern border that had been activated because
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Speaker 1: of what we are doing in Iran and in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East in general. That is the reason why this
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Speaker 1: story of immigration is now coming back to be a
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Speaker 1: much bigger story than just people running across the border
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Speaker 1: from Latin American countries. There are many people that came
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Speaker 1: across our southern border that was wide open under the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration who were in fact on the terrorists watch list.
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Speaker 1: How do we know that because our own government, including
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Speaker 1: during the time that Joe Biden was present, said it
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Speaker 1: was actually happening more than any of us could have imagined,
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Speaker 1: that men and women were coming across the southern border
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Speaker 1: and many of them were on the terrorists watch lists. Now,
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Speaker 1: when Trump ran for office, he said, I promise to
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Speaker 1: the American people, I will secure that border. And not
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Speaker 1: only has he done it, but he's done it in
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Speaker 1: the way that many Americans say was a very humane
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Speaker 1: way of doing it. Now, he didn't just talk about
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Speaker 1: securing the border as many others have done the past.
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Speaker 1: He literally did it. And now that promise is being
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Speaker 1: backed up with hard numbers. According to the Immigration and
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Speaker 1: Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, Enforcement operations
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Speaker 1: surged almost immediately after President Trump took office again in
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Speaker 1: the first fifty days alone, we now know that federal
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Speaker 1: agents arrested more than thirty two thousand illegal immigrants in
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Speaker 1: nationwide enforcement operations. Let me repeat that, thirty two thousand
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Speaker 1: arrests in just the first fifty days. And here's the
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Speaker 1: part that the media won't talk about at all. Nearly
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Speaker 1: seventy percent of those arrests already had criminal convictions or
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Speaker 1: were facing criminal charges. These weren't random people being picked up.
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Speaker 1: These were criminals, many of them violent, and some of
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Speaker 1: them on the terrorists watch list. Now, out of those arrests,
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Speaker 1: we also have learned now that more than fourteen thousand
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Speaker 1: of them were illegal immigrants already convicted of crimes not
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Speaker 1: in other countries, but crimes in the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: Another ten thousand we're facing pending criminal charges, not in
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Speaker 1: other countries, but in the United States of America. And
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Speaker 1: then when you dig deeper into these numbers that we
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Speaker 1: now are seeing, it gets even more shocking. Federal agents
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Speaker 1: were now being told arrested one thousand, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty five suspected gang members in the first fifty days,
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Speaker 1: forty four foreign fugitives wanted in other countries, twenty nine
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Speaker 1: individuals flagged as suspected terrists. Yes, I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: you that number again. In the first fifty days that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was back in office, twenty nine individuals were
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Speaker 1: flat as suspected terrorists. That is what the Democrats led
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Speaker 1: into this country with open borders, and they knew it.
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Speaker 1: Now the story gets even more disturbing when you look
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Speaker 1: specifically at crimes against children, because one of the top
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Speaker 1: priorities of these operations under Trump's leadership have been tracking
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Speaker 1: down illegal immigrants who are accused or convicted of sexual
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Speaker 1: crimes involving minors. For example, in just the Houston, Texas
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Speaker 1: region alone, ICE report arresting two hundred and fourteen illegal
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Speaker 1: immigrants charged with or convicted of child sex crimes in
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Speaker 1: the first six months of the Trump administration. That is
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen child predators in one single region,
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Speaker 1: and officials say the number has already surpassed the total
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Speaker 1: arrests of those crimes during the entire previous year when
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden was in charge. Charged Now, these cases included
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Speaker 1: crimes like sexual assault of a child, child molestation, sexual
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Speaker 1: exportation of minors, possession of child pornography, and now we've
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Speaker 1: gotten the newest numbers to add to that base. We
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Speaker 1: now know from ICE that four hundred and fourteen illegal
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Speaker 1: alien child sex offenders were arrested in the Houston area
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Speaker 1: alone during President Trump's first year in office. Why is
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Speaker 1: the media not telling you this story. This isn't nationwide,
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Speaker 1: This is in one city. The headline from the local
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Speaker 1: paper reads this way, more than four hundred criminal legal
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Speaker 1: aliens have been charged with or convicted of child sex
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Speaker 1: crimes have been arrested in Houston, Texas, and official stated
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Speaker 1: parents can sleep a little bit better knowing those individuals
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Speaker 1: are no longer a threat to their family. Now, these
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Speaker 1: are the same people the Democrats want you to feel
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Speaker 1: sorry for. ICE announced on Monday that the enforcement and
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Speaker 1: removal operations in Houston not only netted one hundred no weight,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry the four hundred and fourteen illegals during President
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Speaker 1: Trump's first year back in office, but officials said the
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Speaker 1: number almost doubled that of predators arrested during the final
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Speaker 1: year of Joe Biden's administration. As a group, the arrested
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Speaker 1: criminal legal aliens accounted for seven hundred and sixty one
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Speaker 1: child sex offenses and five hundred and twenty five other
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Speaker 1: criminal offenses, ranging from homicide to robbery. The announcement states
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Speaker 1: ICE then listed some of the arrestees who came from
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Speaker 1: countries such as Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, Columbia, and the
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Speaker 1: United Kingdom. Now these are the crimes that have been committed,
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Speaker 1: and some of them are absolutely heinous. Illegal aliens have
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Speaker 1: been accused of or convicted of committing crimes against children
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Speaker 1: in the United States of America at extremely young ages.
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Speaker 1: One report in January was that an illegal alien was
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Speaker 1: accused of raping a fourteen year old girl with autism
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Speaker 1: in the sanctuary state of California, for example. The following month,
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Speaker 1: an illegal alien fugitive was charged with possession of child
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Speaker 1: sexual abuse material commonly known as child pornography. In another case,
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Speaker 1: Texas Highway Patrolled troopers on horseback tracked and arrested an
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Speaker 1: illegal alien on a remote border ranch in Maverick County
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Speaker 1: on New Year's Day. The troopers closed it on their
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Speaker 1: target just outside of Eagle Pass, Texas, shortly before noon.
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Speaker 1: Troopers identified the man as a previously deported illegal alien,
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Speaker 1: a convicted sex offender with multiple convictions for child related
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Speaker 1: sexual crimes. ICE is also arrested one thousand, five hundred
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Speaker 1: and five illegal aliens in November, including gang members, child rapists,
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Speaker 1: and foreign fugitives. The outlet also reported, and there's also
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Speaker 1: yes more on the terrace watch lists now regarding the
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Speaker 1: four hundred and fourteen illegal aliens convicted of or charged
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Speaker 1: with child sex crimes who were caught in Houston alone,
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Speaker 1: ICE Enforcement Removal Operations acting field directors said this while
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Speaker 1: elected officials and media pundits across the country were zealously
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Speaker 1: trying to manipulate the American public with fake news stories
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Speaker 1: about ICE public safety missions, the brave men and women
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Speaker 1: of ICE were quietly going about their business to arrest
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Speaker 1: and remove more than four hundred dangerous child predators from
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Speaker 1: our local community in Houston. Thanks to their tireless efforts,
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Speaker 1: parents across Southeast Texas can sleep a little bit better
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Speaker 1: tonight knowing that these pedophiles and child rapists are no
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Speaker 1: longer a threat to their children. Which brings us back
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Speaker 1: to the big part of the conversation, why is the
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Speaker 1: media not covering this? And why is it that the media,
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Speaker 1: which is now obsessed with sleeper cells in in the country.
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Speaker 1: Even new warnings of possible attacks in California, for example,
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Speaker 1: by these sleeper cells. Why are they not telling you
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Speaker 1: about how many people on the terrorists watch lists have
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Speaker 1: been caught, how many of them came across the border
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Speaker 1: that we know are in this country illegally, and that
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Speaker 1: the Biden administration knew for a fact that the open
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Speaker 1: border policy was allowing for terrorists to come into America.
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Speaker 1: Many of them may be in the sleeper cells that
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Speaker 1: so many are now concerned about. This is exactly why
21:31
Speaker 1: I wanted to spend the time talking to you about
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Speaker 1: it right now. Not only is the border a national
21:36
Speaker 1: security issue, but it's also a national security issue not
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Speaker 1: just from a terrorism perspective, but from a child's safety perspective.
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Speaker 1: There are so many people that came across our border,
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Speaker 1: and the former administration and the Democratic Party knew that
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Speaker 1: there were really bad people that were coming across, and
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Speaker 1: they deliberately chose to allow those people across us while
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Speaker 1: flooding this country with tens of millions of illegal immigrants.
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Speaker 1: Why did they do it? Because they want to fundamentally
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Speaker 1: change this country. They want to change the fabric of
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Speaker 1: this country, the values of this country, just like we
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Speaker 1: are witnessing right now in Europe and other nations around
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Speaker 1: the world. That is the plan of the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: Now the president of the United States of America has
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Speaker 1: one thing that is really working to his advantage. There
22:26
Speaker 1: is new CNN polling that is out right now that says,
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Speaker 1: today the Dems are pulling worse on immigration than they
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Speaker 1: did during Trump's first term in office. Which party do
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Speaker 1: you trust more on immigration? Take a listen to this
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Speaker 1: from CNN's own reporting.
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Speaker 2: I think it's so important to note, after all the
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Speaker 2: events in Los Angeles, after all the events in Minneapolis,
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Speaker 2: after all the events of the last year on immigration,
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Speaker 2: can Democrats actually take advantage on this issue? And a
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Speaker 2: look at the polling suggests actually not, They're in a
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Speaker 2: worse position, in a worse position than they were at
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Speaker 2: this point during Donald Trump's first term. Take a look here,
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Speaker 2: trust which party more in immigration? In twenty eighteen, Democrats
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Speaker 2: had an edge of about six points. You come over
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Speaker 2: to this side of the screen, now look at that
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Speaker 2: Republicans are the ones who have actually have an edge
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Speaker 2: on immigration. So this whole idea that Democrats are going
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Speaker 2: to be able to take advantage of the immigration group
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Speaker 2: of the immigration issue actually doesn't bear itself out in
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Speaker 2: the polling despite everything that's been going on. In fact,
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Speaker 2: Democrats are a worse position than they were during Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump's first term. Yeah, maybe they don't like what Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump the president is doing, but they don't think Democrats
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Speaker 2: will do a better job. Correct, They think Democrats will
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Speaker 2: do a worse job on immigration them Republican? All right,
23:41
Speaker 2: what about border security in general? Okay, border security in general?
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Speaker 2: So this is immigration at large? What about border security?
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Speaker 2: Look at this? Look at these numbers. Hello, party trusted
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Speaker 2: more on border security again at this point Trump's terms.
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Speaker 3: Look at this.
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Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, Republicans at a thirteen point advantage. If anything,
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Speaker 2: the advantage is a little bit larger now, Republicans up
23:59
Speaker 2: by fifteen points. So when you put it all together,
24:02
Speaker 2: you put immigration with border security and the idea that
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Speaker 2: Democrats will be able to take the ball and run
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Speaker 2: away on it, the polling data suggests no, no, no,
24:10
Speaker 2: this is actually an issue that Republicans should be more
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Speaker 2: comfortable running on than Democrats. Democrats run on immigration may
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Speaker 2: actually be to the Republicans advantage.
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Speaker 1: What so you listen to CNNs on reporting now and
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Speaker 1: now you realize that the Dems are pulling worse on
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Speaker 1: immigration than they did during Trump's first term. Why is
24:29
Speaker 1: that because of this? Nationwide immigration officials say roughly seventy
24:35
Speaker 1: percent of all ICE arrests now involve illegal immigrants who
24:39
Speaker 1: have already committed crimes in the United States of America.
24:43
Speaker 1: That means the focus of these operations is very clear.
24:47
Speaker 1: They are literally removing the most dangerous offenders first. And
24:51
Speaker 1: when you look at the broader enforcement picture under President Trump,
24:54
Speaker 1: the scale of the crackdown becomes even clear. Federal authorities
24:58
Speaker 1: say immigration enforcement teams are now targeting violent offenders, gang members, terrorists,
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Speaker 1: repeat border crossers, human traffickers, sex traffickers, and child predators,
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Speaker 1: all part of what the DHS calls a strategy to
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Speaker 1: remove the worst of the worst. So even as Democrats
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Speaker 1: claim that the Republicans and Trump and law enforcement just
25:20
Speaker 1: rounding up random sweet people, that is a lie. More
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Speaker 1: than seventy percent of ICE arrests now involve illegal immigrants
25:29
Speaker 1: who have already committed crimes in the United States of America.
25:34
Speaker 1: President Trump campaigned on restoring law and order at the border,
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Speaker 1: and according to federal law enforcement statistics, tens of thousands
25:42
Speaker 1: of arrests later, including hundreds of predators targeting children and
25:47
Speaker 1: people on the terrorists watch lists. The Trump administration says
25:51
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Speaker 1: Democrats, we are now learning are looking not only to
27:23
Speaker 1: dismantle ICE, but also the entire Department of Homeland Security.
27:29
Speaker 1: Remarks now coming from Representative lam Omar signal that the
27:34
Speaker 1: National Democrats as a party are pursuing sweeping changes that
27:40
Speaker 1: extend far beyond their calls to quote abolish ICE. During
27:45
Speaker 1: a town hall, Omar said, Democrats are not only discussing
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Speaker 1: eliminating immigration and customs enforcement, but are also engaged in
27:53
Speaker 1: conversations about dismantling the Department of Homeland Security altogether. Quote.
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Speaker 1: What I will say is that there is an easier
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Speaker 1: conversation happening today than six seven years ago when I
28:06
Speaker 1: got to Congress about what we need to do with ICE,
28:10
Speaker 1: which is to abolish it, Omar told attendees in Golden Valley, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: She added, there's a lot of conversation about what the
28:19
Speaker 1: dismantlement of the Department of Homeland Security should look like now.
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Speaker 1: Omar's remarks come as Democrats continue to protests federal immigration
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Speaker 1: enforcement operations directed under President Donald Trump. ICE, which was
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Speaker 1: established in two thousand and three under the DHS, has
28:37
Speaker 1: carried out immigration enforcement actions for more than two decades. Now,
28:42
Speaker 1: Thursday mark the sixth day of a federal shutdown forced
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Speaker 1: by Congressional Democrats over their new demands to get rid
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Speaker 1: of ICE, or, at the bare minimum, as they describe it,
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Speaker 1: reform it, which actually means shut it down.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: Democrats are pushing for, they say, a series of major
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Speaker 1: new restrictions on ICE operations.
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Speaker 3: What does that include?
29:06
Speaker 1: Banning agents from wearing face masks and requiring judicial warrants
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Speaker 1: before making any arrests at all. They are also calling
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Speaker 1: for a mandate that ICE agents wear body cameras, something
29:21
Speaker 1: the Trump administration is already moving towards, but of course
29:24
Speaker 1: they want to seem like there's fake outrage. In fact,
29:28
Speaker 1: ICE agents have been requesting the body cameras to prove
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Speaker 1: their innocence in many of the accusations that are coming
29:35
Speaker 1: from the radical left now. In addition, Democrats are seeking
29:39
Speaker 1: to prohibit immigration enforcement actions at what they describe as
29:44
Speaker 1: sensitive locations, meaning they'll become safe havens for actual criminals.
29:50
Speaker 1: What are these places? Hospitals, schools, and polling sites? Just
29:56
Speaker 1: so you know, with American individuals that have broken law
30:00
Speaker 1: use as an American citizen, you can be arrested right
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Speaker 1: now at a hospital, or a school, or at a
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Speaker 1: polling site. So why would we give special care to
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants? Is the question every American should be asking now.
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Speaker 1: One on the side point about the insanity of them
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Speaker 1: saying that you can't arrest illegal immigrants at polling sites. Republicans,
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Speaker 1: they're laughing at that, noting that non citizens, by the way,
30:24
Speaker 1: are literally prohibited from voting in US elections under federal law.
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Speaker 1: So why are Democrats so angry and wanting to demand
30:32
Speaker 1: that our laws would make it impossible for law enforcement too,
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Speaker 1: You guessed it, arrest illegal immigrants at polling sites. Is
30:43
Speaker 1: it because they want them to vote? Or know that
30:46
Speaker 1: some of them already are voting right now now. In
30:49
Speaker 1: recent weeks, several Democratic leaders have strongly condemned ICE operations,
30:54
Speaker 1: including Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, a Democratic lost to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four election to Trump. And Vice President Jady Vance.
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Speaker 1: He now warned that federal enforcement efforts could expand nationwide,
31:06
Speaker 1: therefore we must defund them. He also had this warning
31:10
Speaker 1: to America, quote to Americans who are watching this, if
31:15
Speaker 1: you're in Portland, or you're in la or you're in Chicago,
31:19
Speaker 1: or you're wherever they're coming next. Now, to be clear
31:24
Speaker 1: for me, that's a good thing if we're sending law
31:27
Speaker 1: enforcement to clean up cities that are filled with tons
31:31
Speaker 1: of criminals. Yet again the Democrats showing whose side they're
31:35
Speaker 1: actually on now. Republicans have urged that ICE enforcement actions
31:40
Speaker 1: are not only lawful operations carried out by federal authorities,
31:44
Speaker 1: but they are needed to protect American citizens, and the
31:47
Speaker 1: crime statistics have shown where ICE agents have been out
31:51
Speaker 1: in major enforcement actions, we've seen the crimes drastically drop
31:56
Speaker 1: in those areas. Of course, critics of Democratic propose will
32:00
Speaker 1: say dismantling ICE, or DHS more broadly, would significantly not
32:04
Speaker 1: only reshape national security of the home land, but it
32:07
Speaker 1: would allow for criminals to run a mock DHS. By
32:11
Speaker 1: the way, overseas, twenty two agencies focusing on national security
32:16
Speaker 1: and public safety. Major components include Customs and Border Protection
32:21
Speaker 1: known as CBP. If you get rid of Homeland Security,
32:25
Speaker 1: you would get rid of that. You'd also get rid
32:27
Speaker 1: of obviously, immigration Customers Enforcement, ICE agents, and the TSA.
32:32
Speaker 1: So yes, Democrats want to shut down the same people
32:35
Speaker 1: that keep you safe when flying on airplanes. They also
32:38
Speaker 1: want to get rid of FEMA. That is also yet
32:41
Speaker 1: again under the Department of Homeland Security. So the next
32:44
Speaker 1: time there's a national disaster, guess what, Yeah, no one
32:48
Speaker 1: from the federal government would be there to help you
32:49
Speaker 1: if the Democrats get their way. Oh and if you're
32:52
Speaker 1: at c or you're a drug dealer, or maybe some
32:55
Speaker 1: other country that's looking to do harm, don't worry. Democrats
32:59
Speaker 1: also say yeah, that includes the US Coast Guard.
33:02
Speaker 3: So if you're.
33:02
Speaker 1: Sinking on a boat, tough luck for you. Democrats say
33:06
Speaker 1: no more. And if you are caring about our president
33:10
Speaker 1: and others around him and other cabinet members, well you
33:13
Speaker 1: would like the Secret Service protection. If Democrats get their
33:17
Speaker 1: way shutting down the Department of Homeland Security, that would
33:20
Speaker 1: include the Secret Service. And finally, maybe this is what
33:23
Speaker 1: it's really all about for them, US Citizenship and Immigration
33:28
Speaker 1: Services under the USCIS.
33:30
Speaker 3: Yes, you've probably dealt with them.
33:32
Speaker 1: If you've ever had to get a passport or other
33:35
Speaker 1: things like that, well, Democrats also apparently say yeah, let's
33:39
Speaker 1: get rid of that as well. So to be clear,
33:42
Speaker 1: in the midterm elections, Democrats are saying exactly what they believe.
33:47
Speaker 1: They hate this country. They hate secure borders, they hate
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Speaker 1: law and order, they hate FEMA, they hate the Coast Guard,
33:53
Speaker 1: they hate the Secret Service, and they hate the people
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Speaker 1: to help US citizens and immigration services as well, and
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Speaker 1: they want to abolish all of it just because they
34:03
Speaker 1: don't like ice actions. This is what the midterms are
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Speaker 1: going to be about. And thank goodness, Donald Trump has
34:09
Speaker 1: made it clear as he had a campaign rally for
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