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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator. My, oh, my, do we have a lot to talk about, especially on the issue of illegal immigrants. And really, it's three different problems that we're now having this country, all because of Biden's policies.
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Well, that's exactly right. Tragically, we've had yet another woman murdered by yet another illegal immigrant released by Joe Biden. In this instance, Rachel Moran, a mother of five in Maryland, raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant that Joe Biden released into this country. This is a pattern. Week after week after week, Americans are dying. Secondly, in the face of this, the Biden administration is announcing not that they plan to secure the border, not that they want to protect American citizens, not that they want to keep your family safe. No, they're announcing that they want to give amnesty to over a million illegal immigrants to illegally issue an executive order giving amnesty and encouraging even more illegal immigrants to come to this country. And finally, we now know the real reason why, which is that welfare offices and other agencies in 49 states across this country are providing voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of citizenship. And in the House, the Democrats are fighting viciously against requiring proof of citizenship before voters register. This is all about votes. This is all about power for Democrats. And that explains why they're willing to turn. Turn their head and ignore all of the people being killed.
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This is just a horrific case. You know the name of Lake and Riley?
A
Yeah.
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You need, you need to know the name of Rachel Marin. Rachel Marin was 37 years old, as you said. She was a mom with five kids. And she went out jogging just like Lake and Riley. She was out jogging. She was running on the Ma and PA Trail, which is a pedestrian trail in Bel Air, which, which is in Maryland. It's, it's a described as a quiet and typically safe town about 28 miles northeast of Baltimore. So she was running August of last year, August 5, and her body was found on the trail the following day. And she had been brutally raped and murdered. And so police had sketches of who the offender was. They had sketches and then they ended up getting a lead from DNA evidence. And there was DNA evidence that was linked to this suspect who we now know the person they have arrested is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador named Victor Martinez Hernandez. And this weekend there was a press conference and Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Goller, here's what he said about, about this defendant. He said, quote, five hours after meeting with Marin's family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, assisted by our federal partners, located and arrested Rachel's murderer, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez. He was charged with first degree murder and first degree rape. The 23 year old migrant illegally crossed in the United States in February of 2023. The police announced, and here's how, with the sheriff continued, this is again a quote, we all suspected that Rachel was not his first victim. It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally after committing the brutal murder of a Young woman in El Salvador a month earlier, in January of 2023. And the sheriff said their first DNA match for Martinez Hernandez was from a Los Angeles attack in March of 2023. So understand this. This person murders someone in El Salvador in January of 2023. He comes to America illegally in February of 2023. And then in March of 2023, a month later, he commits a violent attack in Los Angeles. And the violent attack in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department collected a hard hat left behind at the scene of a March 2023 home invasion that turned violent, leaving multiple people, including minor children, injured. And the. And the suspect allegedly broke into the home in the middle of the night and assaulted the family inside before he was chased out. Surveillance footage captured the man leaving shirtless through the front door. And so that DNA connected this murderer, who had murdered before to the murderer to the murder of Rachel Marin. And you have to ask the question, how many is enough? How many Americans have to be murdered by illegal immigrants that Joe Biden, the Democrats, release over and over and over again for people to say, no more, Protect our people.
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Senator, you and I have talked about this a lot. It's no longer these types of heinous crimes happening in states that border the southern border. This happened 1800 miles away from the southern border. This is everywhere now in every city in America. It doesn't matter how far away you are from the southern border. And that's the reason why I think, so many Americans now are turning on Joe Biden, realizing every city is a border city.
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Yeah, look, this is a suburb of Baltimore and a small residential suburb of Baltimore. And this illegal immigrant was there raping and murdering American women. And this is happening week after week after week. There's hardly a week that goes by when somebody isn't raped, somebody isn't murdered, a child isn't molested by an illegal immigrant that Joe Biden, the Democrats have let in. And, Ben, let me ask you something. Listen, I serve with these Democrats. I genuinely do not understand how they don't give a shit. Like this. Just. It pisses me off. And they just blithely, vote after vote after vote, they will vote against securing the border, and they don't care. And you bring these cases up and they don't respond, they don't engage. Like, at some point, is there any part of you that, like, has a moment of conscience? Like, how would you look in the eyes to. To this mother's children and know that you're responsible for letting go the monster that did this. And you know what? Someone else is going to be murdered next week. And you're responsible for that as well at some point. How do these reporters that just provide cover and lie for the White House? How does Kareem John Behr, how does Joe Biden, how does Kamala Harris, how does Alejandro Mayorkas, how does Merrick Garland, how do these people live with themselves? Listen, they have kids, they have grandkids.
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Yeah. And this is the second time in two years that an innocent Hartford county woman lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally. In both cases, the suspects were from El Salvador direct, with direct ties to the criminal gang. So remember when Donald Trump took hell and people said it was racist when he said that?
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A lot.
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They're sending their worst over here. A lot of them are the worst. A lot of them are gang members, A lot of them are rapists, a lot of murderers. He's not wrong when he said it and it was described this way. Quote, victor Hernandez did not come to this country to make a better life for him or his family. And this is what Democrats assume, that everybody that comes across the border illegally is here to better their life and for themselves or their family. He came here to escape the crimes he committed in El Salvador. He came here to murder Rachel. I mean, this is the facts of the scenario. We have a lot of people that leave the country that they're in because they've committed heinous crimes. You mentioned him murdering someone there. And they're fleeing that crime and they come to America because they know we have a wide open border and it's worked for 20 million others.
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Here's what the sheriff said. Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his anonymity, he brutally attacked a nine year old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles. And as everyone I believe is aware, this was our first DNA match linking Rachel's case to the one in Los Angeles. And he turned his attention, he said, to the White House, to members of Congress, and he said, quote, we are 1800 miles from the southern border and American citizens are not safe because of their failed immigration policies. This is the second time in two years that an innocent Harford county woman has lost her life to a criminal in our country illegally. In both cases, they are suspects from El Salvador with ties to criminal gangs. This should not be happening.
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And yet it is.
B
And yet it is. And it will again tomorrow. That's also what's infuriating is not only do you have these Children that suddenly don't have their mother. Tomorrow there will be somebody else and this will keep going and going and going. And Joe Biden and the Democrats, they do not care because if they care, they would change their actions and they're unwilling to change their actions.
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This is also a two part problem now. And I think we should connect these two dots. It is this administration and the Democratic Party is clearly. And you asked this question earlier for everyone listening. I think it's a great point. We go back to do they not care how they look in the face of the next victim? How they look in the face of these.
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Well, part of it is they don't. They're not willing to talk to the victims.
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Agree, they don't and they don't. But this is a deliberate decision by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to fundamentally change this country and to bring in future voters and to offer amnesty. We're gonna talk about that in a second. But they don't care now if it's ISIS K coming across the border or Al Qaeda coming across the border or people like this individual that are killing mothers of five because they say it's worth it. Basically, we're gonna take the bad. We're fine with that because we're getting to flood this country with millions of illegals. They're deliberately doing it, knowing the carnage that they're creating.
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Well, that is exactly right. And it is fairly stunning that as this news is breaking that we also get a Friday news dump. So on Friday, the administration sent out multiple people to talk to reporters and tell them that that. Well, this is how CBS put it. The Biden administration is making plans to announce one of the largest immigration release programs in recent history, developing a policy that would offer legal status to hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the country without proper documents. Four people familiar with the plans told CBS News a program being developed by White House officials would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to US citizens as long as they have lived in the US for at least 10 years, the sources said, requesting anonymity to talk about internal govern government plans. The proposal, known as parole in place would also open up a pathway to permanent legal status and U.S. citizenship, in other words, voting for some beneficiaries. By removing an obstacle in U.S. law that prevents those who entered the U.S. illegally from obtaining green cards without leaving the country, literally. In response to more and more dead bodies killed by illegal immigrants, Joe Biden and the Democrats said, you know what we need to do? Grand amnesty to over a million Illegal immigrants.
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Yeah, look, this is all about power. We've had over 11 million illegal immigrants come into this country under Joe Biden. The Democrats plan is to make every one of them U.S. citizens because they believe most of them will vote Democrat. And listen, I asked in frustration a few minutes ago why the Democrats don't care why they turn, turn the other way, why they ignore the people being raped and murdered and abused. It's because they value power more than they do the responsibility to protect people from violence and harm. And so if you look at this proposal, the one I talked about is not the only amnesty proposal. So there's another plan being prepared for the Biden administration that would streamline the process for so called dreamers to request waivers that would make it easier for them to obtain temporary visas such as H1B visas for high skilled workers. Both of these measures could be announced as early as Tuesday as or as early as tomorrow. But they say the plan has not been finalized by the administration, although of course they've got four people calling CBS News to tell them about it. And the White House is preparing to host an event on Tuesday celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA, which, which, which shields roughly 530,000 illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children. And by the way, when Barack Obama announced daca, he had said repeatedly, I think it was something like 27, 28 times that he did not have the authority to grant amnesty by executive order. He was getting pushed by the left. He was president. They were saying, do it by executive order. Do it by executive order. He said, I can't, I can't. I don't have the authority. Nancy Pelosi said the president doesn't have the authority. Barack Obama said, this is a quote, I am not an emperor. That's what he told the left. And then apparently he decided, wait a second, I want to buy some votes. I am an emperor. And so he announced daca, which is lawless. It was lawless at the time in which he said that illegal immigrants who came to the country as children, that they would no longer effectively be subject to the immigration laws. The president doesn't have the authority to do that. But do you know what it did when he announced daca?
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What?
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The number of unaccompanied minors skyrocketed. It had been on the order of 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 a year. The instant Obama announced DACA, you know what it went up to?
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What was it?
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93,000.
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Good grief.
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When you create an incentive, when you tell people, if you come to this country as a child, we'll let you stay, you know what happens? A whole lot of children get sent over. And you know what happens when children get sent over? They get handed over to human traffickers. And those human traffickers violently and sexually assault those kids. They. They assault the little girls, and they assault the little boys. And I. And I gotta tell you, Ben, I've looked in the eyes of too many of these children who've been brutalized. And. And when the White House says, well, let's grant amnesty some more, let's grant amnesty some more, every time they do it, more and more people come here illegally.
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It's also, I think, frustrating. And I had a caller that called into my show and made the great point. He said, so let me get this straight. The longer you've been a criminal, we're rewarding you for that? Like, if you came into this country and you've been here for a long period of time, breaking our laws, we're gonna say, okay, we're just gonna give you amnesty because you've been here longer than somebody else, and so therefore, we reward you. In what world does that. Do we live in where that is the new norm?
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Yeah, and listen, we're talking about a lot of people. According to CBS News, they say the policy would benefit a subset of the estimated 1.1 million unauthorized immigrants with American citizen spouses as long as they meet the residency requirement and other rules. And CBS goes on to say the move would further underscore an increased willingness by President Biden to take executive actions on immigration ahead of the presidential election in November. Just last week, Mr. Biden invokes his executive authority to enact a partial ban on asylum claims at the southern border, a move that's already been challenged in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union. This is. It's not hiding what they want. They want people here illegally to vote for Democrats. And so it does make the stakes of the presidential election, it makes the stakes of every election in November very clear. If you want massive illegal immigration, if you want open borders, if you want violent criminals coming here and raping and murdering Americans. And if you want them given amnesty, well, there's a party that's offering that and that's Joe Biden and the Democrats.
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This is a two part plan and this is very much connected. Not only is he now advocating for amnesty, which is in essence buying votes, but there was also new details that came out about how non citizens are getting voter registration forms from across the U.S. republicans are trying to stop this. Democrats are saying no. And just to break this down so people understand, United States welfare offices as well as other government agencies under the Biden Administration in 49 different states in this country are now providing voter registration forms to illegal immigrants without requiring proof of citizenship. And Democrats, this isn't a loophole, they're exploiting it.
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Yeah, that's exactly right. And I'll say the New York Post had an important article on this this past weekend entitled how noncitizens are getting Voter Registration forms across the United States and how Republicans are trying to stop it. And, and, and it describes how every state but Arizona and Arizona recently passed a law barring the practice on state but not federal forms. Every other state gives applicants for either welfare benefits, driver's licenses, or in some cases mail in ballots, gives them voter registration forms without demanding proof of citizenship. And there's no requirement on federal forms to provide proof of US Citizenship, although it is illegal to falsely claim one as a citizen or for a non citizen to cast a ballot. But of course, if you're not asking for proof of citizenship, I guess it's just sort of wink, wink, trust me. And, and, and we, we just will take it on an honor system that you're not going to do it.
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It's also, if you think about this, if you know you're voting illegally but you're voting for the people that claim they're gonna give you amnesty and you already broke into the United States of America. It's not a far stretch center to think of course they're gonna sign up to vote because they're gonna vote for the party that's about to hand them amnesty.
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Well, of course, and that's the entire point. The reason the Democrats are allowing and actively facilitating this invasion is they want voters and they recognize that illegal immigrants are very likely to vote Democrat, that if you' to break the law, if you're coming here illegally, that you're going to go with the party that is inviting you to break the law and is coming showering you with benefits and looking the other way. And look A lot of the problem stems back from a law that was passed in 1993 called the National Voter Registration act, and it was signed into law by Bill Clinton. It was also called the Motor Voter Law. And what it did is ordered states to register voters at the Department of Motor Vehicles and also at agencies where Americans apply for public benefits. And those offices, in turn, are required by federal law to hand the registration forms along with the application papers over to the federal government. And if an applicant simply attests, if they say, yep, I'm a US Citizen, that is considered valid on its face, and that person is then registered to vote. And so the challenge right now is that millions of illegal immigrants with humanitarian parole or with refugee or asylum status are eligible right now for benefits. That brings them to the offices where voter registration is taking place. So that's happening right now. Millions of these illegal immigrants are going to the offices where the offices are handing them voter registration forms. And I want to pause for a second and reflect on how the motor voter law passed, because it had, in 1992, it had passed Congress, and George Herbert Walker Bush had vetoed it. But then in 1993, look, elections have consequences. And when Bill Clinton got elected, it passed again. But I'll tell you in the Senate the reason it passed in the Senate. So every Democrat voted yes. So the Democrats get exactly what they're doing. All of the Democrats voted yes. Not a single Democrat voted no. But here's the problem. Six Republicans voted yes as well. So the vote in The Senate was 62 to 36. In other words, if the Republicans had voted no, they could have killed it. But, but just going through this, and I'm just looking down the list of the Republicans. Domenici from New Mexico voted yes. Durin Burger from Minnesota voted yes. Hatfield from Oregon voted yes. Packwood from Oregon voted yes. Spector from Pennsylvania voted yes. And Jeffords from Vermont voted yes. Now, that's six Republicans. If just three of them had voted no, this bill wouldn't pass. And it's. It's frustrating because the Democrats all get in line. They get what they're doing. They get that they are engaged in an effort to stay in power. And it's not lost on them. Look, when the bill passed, it's not an accident that they put voter registration in welfare offices. Hey, if you want welfare, register to vote for the people giving you welfare. But. But why are Republicans idiots? And they go along with that. And the bill doesn't require proof of citizenship. Why is that? Because Republican senators were idiots. Enough to vote for it. Now, to be clear, none of those senators are still in the Senate. This was a long time ago. This was 1993. Look, I was a year out of college. I was a first year law student at the time. So those senators are gone. But it's a pattern that has happened over and over again and it's frustrating.
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Yeah. And no one, I think, even back then could have imagined what level of illegal immigration, open borders that we're dealing, where we're dealing with now. And I want to talk about how many millions of these illegal immigrants may be getting handed this information. Before I do that, let me tell you about blackout coffee. So many of you now send me messages on social media about trying blackout coffee. You're like, ben, you're right. It really is the best cup of coffee I've ever had. I'm not joking. I drink blackout coffee every morning. I'm on the radio at 7am and I can tell you when I wake up in the morning, I need a great cup of coffee. Not average, not just mundane. I want a premium cup of coffee. I also don't want a woke cup of coffee. And you probably thought of a couple brands right? When I said that, you know, the woke coffee comes out there. And that is why you should try blackout coffee. Blackout Coffee is 100% committed to Conservative values. In fact, the guys that started blackout coffee, that was their whole mission. They were tired of giving their money to liberal coffee brands and they said, all right, we're just gonna do it ourselves. From the sourcing of the beans, the roasting process, customer support and shipping, blackout coffee embodies true American values and accepts no compromise on quality or taste. So if you want the best cup of coffee your life, go to blackout coffee.com verdict and I'm going to save you 20% off your first order. Blackout coffee.com verdict. Use the coupon code verdict at checkout. That's blackout coffee.com verdict. As they say, be awake, not woke. Try it now. Get 20% off your first order. Blackout coffee.com verdict. Use a promo code verdict for 20% off your first order. So let's break this down because I think this is an important point for people to end on. It is a fact. And Democrats are really good Senator it counting. They know how many millions of illegal immigrants are in this country on humanitarian parole as refugees, asylum status. They know how many of them can go in and get different forms of government aid. And they understand that then once you're in the federal system, whether it's to get welfare benefits, a driver's license. There's a instant pathway to go, hey, here's your register to vote paperwork. And these millions of migrants that are walking in and out of government offices are now open to that. That's the reason why this is so dangerous. This isn't just a one off for a couple people. Or as Democrats, I describe it within the, you know, when you're counting votes, this could be catastrophic to canceling out American voters with illegal immigrants who were literally saying, fill this out, turn it in and you can vote. Even though we know we're handing them to illegal immigrants.
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Yeah, look, that's exactly right. And the Democrats are the party of government. They've always been the party of government, the party of big government. They're party of high taxes, they're the party of job killing regulations. And they want, they want to make people dependent on government. They're the party of dependency. They trap people. They trap people, tragically in generations of dependency. And the price that they extract, it's a little bit like a drug dealer going and preying on kids in a junior high. They're like, hey, just try this a little. Just try it a little. Just get a free sample. Just try a little. And the price, if they want to keep getting their fix of what the, that the drug dealing Democrats are providing their prices. Just make sure you vote for Democrats. That's your ticket to admission. Now look in the House. The House is taking up a bill called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility act, the SAVE act, which the House Administration Committee last month passed. And this bill requires states to receive proof of citizenship whenever anyone registers to vote by mail or at a DMV office or at a welfare agency office. And here's what Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, said following the approval of the bill. He said, quote, as President, Biden has welcomed millions of illegal immigrants through our borders, including sophisticated criminal syndicates and foreign adversaries. It is incumbent upon Congress to implement greater enforcement measures that secure the voter registration process and ensure only American citizens decide the outcome of American elections. And yet, astonishingly, the Democrats are fighting this. So, for example, there's a left leaning operation called the Campaign Legal center that has said that the SAVE act is, quote, a shameful measure that will undermine trust in the electoral process. And they dismiss concerns about noncitizen voting by saying it hasn't taken place at any meaningful level. Quote, it is a fabrication being peddled for personal and political gain by leaders who should know better. Shameful bills like the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility act often result in eligible US Citizens being incorrectly prevented from voting or being forced to jump through additional hoops to exercise their freedom to vote. Campaign Legal center opposes this bill. But and you know what? The Democrats are very happy to salute and follow. Follow the line. Right now at least 19 states plus Washington D.C. allow non citizens to obtain driver's licenses. So so in nearly half the states you don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license. And, and that is something that Biden supported during his presidential campaign. By the way, Biden was one of the Democrats who voted for Motor Voter, so he is just implementing the plan now from the executive side instead of the legislative side. And tragically, this pattern of amnesty and voting answers the question that I asked at the beginning of this pod. Why are Democrats willing to look the other way? Why don't they care about the people being killed? Why don't they care about the women being raped? Why don't they care about the children being assaulted? And it's because they've made a very cynical decision that staying in power is worth it. And, and if innocent people have to die, I, I guess that's a price they're willing to pay.
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Summary of "ANOTHER Illegal Immigrant Rapes & Murders an Innocent Woman, and Biden Prepares to Give Amnesty & Register them to Vote!"
Release Date: June 17, 2024
Podcast: The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Hosts: Senator Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson
The episode opens with a disturbing account of violence attributed to illegal immigration policies under President Biden. Senator Ted Cruz (00:01) introduces the grim news:
"Tragically, we've had yet another woman murdered by yet another illegal immigrant released by Joe Biden... Americans are dying week after week after week." (00:17)
Ben Ferguson further details the case of Rachel Marin, a 37-year-old mother of five from Maryland, who was brutally raped and murdered by Victor Martinez Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador (03:49). The discussion emphasizes the recurring pattern of violent crimes committed by individuals released into the country, highlighting a perceived failure of Biden's immigration policies to protect American citizens.
The conversation shifts to the Biden administration's recent announcement aimed at providing amnesty to over a million illegal immigrants (00:17). Cruz criticizes the executive orders proposed by Biden, arguing they undermine border security and prioritize political gain over national safety:
"It's all about votes. This is all about power for Democrats." (01:36)
The hosts discuss the administration's strategy to offer legal status and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, potentially leading to permanent residency and citizenship. This move is portrayed as an attempt to secure future Democratic voters by granting benefits to immigrants, thereby increasing Democratic power through electoral influence.
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to the issue of voter registration among non-citizens. Cruz and Ferguson express strong concerns that welfare offices and other government agencies in 49 states are distributing voter registration forms to migrants without verifying citizenship (22:08). They argue this practice is designed to increase Democratic voter bases:
"It's all about power... They want illegal immigrants to vote for Democrats." (17:15)
The discussion references the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, commonly known as the Motor Voter Law, which mandated voter registration at agencies like the DMV and welfare offices without requiring proof of citizenship. This legislation is criticized as a deliberate tactic to include non-citizens in the voter registration process.
In response to these concerns, the House Administration Committee has passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act), which mandates proof of citizenship for all voter registrations (28:08). Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is quoted:
"It is incumbent upon Congress to implement greater enforcement measures that secure the voter registration process and ensure only American citizens decide the outcome of American elections." (28:08)
However, Democrats and organizations like the Campaign Legal Center oppose the SAVE Act, arguing it could suppress eligible voters and unfairly target non-citizens.
The hosts draw parallels to past immigration policies, notably President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), highlighting how executive actions have previously led to increased illegal immigration and associated social issues. They assert that current policies continue this trend, leading to more illegal entries and potential voter manipulation.
Cruz emphasizes the long-term consequences of these policies on American democracy and security, warning that unchecked illegal immigration and voter registration without citizenship verification could undermine the integrity of future elections.
"They've made a very cynical decision that staying in power is worth it. If innocent people have to die, that's a price they're willing to pay." (31:10)
The episode concludes with a strong condemnation of the Biden administration and Democratic Party's immigration and voting policies, framing them as deliberate strategies to consolidate political power at the expense of American citizens' safety and the integrity of the electoral system. Cruz and Ferguson call for immediate action to secure borders, enforce voter eligibility laws, and prioritize the protection of American lives over political ambitions.
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