← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Bill Clinton Admits the Obvious: Kamala's Open Borders Killed Laken Riley, plus a New Illegal Immigrants Caravan Heads North
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Ted Cruz
Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And I cannot believe I'm starting this podcast center by saying this. Bill Clinton told the truth, and now liberals are mad at him for telling the truth. Admitting that a Democrat policy is not making us safer.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, you're absolutely right. This is another sentence that I don't say often. Bill Clinton is 100% correct. He admitted the disastrous consequences of Kamala Harris Harris's open borders. We're gonna break down what he said and. And exactly how true it is. There's also yet another migrant caravan heading north through Mexico. They're trying to get here before Donald Trump becomes president. We're gonna break down the facts on that as well. And what is the Department of Justice doing right now? Are they trying to stop human traffickers? No. Are they trying to stop sex traffickers? No. Are they trying to stop drug traffickers? No. They are suing the state of Virginia.
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Unknown
Why?
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Ben Ferguson
Because Virginia is removing illegal immigrants from their voter rolls. We're going to walk through that as well.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, it's very interesting, especially on that case and what it means for the rest of the country. So a lot of voters are going to care about that. And as you mentioned, we're going to give you those details. I want to tell you real quick about Patriot Mobile. If you've got a cell phone, and 99% of you do, you may not realize that when you pay your bill every month to Big Mobile, you're actually supporting hardcore leftist causes that are fighting against your traditional family values. That's where Patriot Mobile comes in. They are the only conservative Christian wireless provider in the country. And back in the day, you had to worry about coverage, Right? Switching from one company to another. Am I going to have the same coverage? Am I going to get decent coverage? All that has disappeared in 2024. They all use the same towers. They all use the same networks now. And the best part is when you switch to Patriot Mobile, they take about 5% of your bill every month and they give it back to conservative causes that put America first. Yeah. Every time you make a phone call, every time you send a text, and every time you pay that bill, you know you're standing up for what you believe in. Big Mobile, they give those big donations to the left, including organizations that pay for abortions. They're helping support liberal candidates running right now. So make the switch and stand with your values with a company that stands with you. Patriot mobile.com verdict is the website patriotmobile.com verdict. How easy is switching? You do it over the phone and they have a coverage guarantee. Plus you keep your same number you have now keep your same phone or upgrade to a new one and you'll get a free month of service as well when you use the offer code verdict patriot mobile.com verdict or 972patriot for your free month of service today. That's promo code Verdict. So, Senator, this happened, and this was obviously not something with Bill Clinton that the Democrats were hoping he would say or wanting him to say. Uh, this was clearly an oops moment where he told the truth and that's why people are mad at him, that if illegal immigrants had been vetted properly, then people wouldn't be dying. Specifically Lake and Riley, which we've talked about extensively on this show. I actually think it's a pretty brave moment for Bill Clinton to buck his party.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, it is, but let's play the clip and then we're going to break down exactly what he said and why he said it.
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Unknown
You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn't you? They made an ad about. About a young woman who'd been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they'd all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened. But if they all properly vetted and that doesn't happen and America is not having enough babies to keep our populations up. So we need immigrants that had been vetted to do work, there wouldn't be a problem. And he couldn't keep people all torn up and upset.
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Ted Cruz
Senator, I knew someone had to take Joe Biden's place with the microphone. Next is the Democrat. That's kind of just goes off script. I didn't know it was going to be Bill Clinton so quickly, but here we are. He's got his Harris Waltz hat on and he's telling truths like he's helping them and it's actually hurting them.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, let me say a couple of things. One, Bill Clinton's absolutely right that if the immigrants at the border had been properly vetted, in other words, if they'd come in legally and we knew who they were and we could do criminal background checks that we could not let in murderers, we could not let in rapists, and we could not let in child molesters, we could not let in gang members, and we could not let in terrorists, if the immigrants coming in had been properly vetted, Lake and Riley would still be alive. And by the way, let me elaborate. Rachel Marin would still be alive. Jocelyn Nungaree would still be alive if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Congressional Democrats had not opened up our border to now nearly 12 million illegal immigrants to an invasion where they have no idea who's coming in. They've opened it up for every criminal who wants to come to America to come in. And by the way, in particular, we are seeing countries like Venezuela, Maduro, very deliberately emptying the jail, sending murderers here, getting rid of every bad guy he can find in his country, saying, go to America. Go kill Americans. So what Bill Clinton said was absolutely correct. But there's the old line that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally speaks the truth. Everyone knows what Bill Clinton said is right. Even Kamala Harris knows what he said is right. She just can't admit it because she's claiming, okay. Alternately, at times she says the border is secure. At other times she says it's not secure. But I'm going to make it secure by doing the same thing that I've been doing for the last four years as borders are, that caused this crisis. But, but let me say a second point about Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton would not be welcomed in the Democrat Party of today. Listen, Bill Clinton, I wasn't a huge fan. I wasn't a huge fan of his when he was president, but he was, comparatively speaking, a moderate Democrat. And understand the time period. You know, people ask me sometimes, they say, okay, Ted, how do we change this world we're in where the Democrats are so radical, so extreme, they're embracing things like open borders. They're embracing things like defund the police. They're embracing things like they don't know what a woman is, and boys and girls, sports, and all sorts of things that even a few years ago would have been viewed as nutty. And I think the only answer is that they gotta have a thumpin'I. Don't know if you remember that phrase, thumpin'that. Actually is a quote from George W. Bush. After 2006, after the Republicans got clobbered and Bush did a press conference and said, we had a thumpin'and. Actually Rahm Emanuel wrote a book called Thumpin'because it was a bad thumpin'look. If you look back at the Democrats in the'eighties and'nineties in the eighties and nineties, we elected Ronald Reagan, then Ronald Reagan, then George Herbert Walker Bush. Republicans won the presidency for 12 consecutive years. And the Democrats in that period, they nominated Jimmy Carter, Then they nominated Walter Mondale, who was even more liberal. Then they nominated Michael Dukakis, who was even more Liberal. And after 12 years of getting a thumping, getting clobbered at the Polls, not just losing, but losing badly in 1984. All right, Ben, you know this, but many of our listeners might not. How many states did Reagan win in 1984?
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Ted Cruz
Oh, gosh, it was a ton. It was. I mean, it was impressive.
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Ben Ferguson
49. 49. He won every state but Minnesota. And he almost won Minnesota, which was Mondale's home state. He won Massachusetts, he won New York. He won California. Like every blue state in the country voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. So after the Democrats got clobbered in 80 and got clobbered in 84 and got clobbered in 88, they did, did a rethinking. They said, okay, nominating hardcore lefties is not working and we're getting killed. And so what did they do? They picked this, this moderate Democrat governor from Arkansas. And Bill Clinton was head of the dlc, the Democrat Leadership Coalition, which was explicitly formed as a centrist organization, as a group of Democrats rejecting the crazy left and the views of Bill Clinton. He would be driven out. There is not a single senator in the U.S. senate, certainly not after next year, after Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema leave. There's not a single Democrat senator whose views are even remotely close to Bill Clinton. He would be unrecognizable in today's Democrat Party. So when he's looking at, you know. But when Bill Clinton was president, he didn't open the borders and just allow murderers and rapists to flood in. And so he said something publicly that any rational person knows. But in today's hyper politicized left wing Democrat Party, it's considered verboten to say it out loud.
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Ted Cruz
There's also something else that I think is very interesting, and that is when you hear him say this, you could actually hear people in the crowd agreeing with him. And I think that also everyone, a.
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Ben Ferguson
Lot of people, everyone knows this. Everyone knows this. That's part of the weird vacation from history we're in. Even the zealots know this is true. They just don't care. But of course, the crowd agreed. Everyone knows. Should we have let in psychopathic murderers who rape and murder women? No. But Kamala Harris is not willing to change. The Congressional Democrats are not willing to change.
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Ted Cruz
No, they're not. And that's one of the things I wonder about this election, this border issue. And I'm talking specifically about the threats to people. I actually think this is becoming a bigger issue in the last 25 days than anyone thought 30 or 40 or 50 days ago. I think a lot of people in the Media thought, and a lot of Democrats thought this isn't going to be that big of an issue. It is. And I think voters care about it coast to coast more than they realize. I think the Democrats underestimated the damage they had done to the American people by allowing 10, 15, 20 million illegal immigrants in. And especially the reporting that we've talked about here that they knowingly let in convicted child molesters, child rapists, rapists, sexual abusers, and convicted murderers, and that doesn't even count all the other people that were convicted of other crimes that aren't on those two horrific lists that I just mentioned. I think this may be something that cost them real elections across the country.
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Ben Ferguson
13,000. That's a number every person should know. 13,000 is the number of convicted murderers, people with homicide convictions who are illegal aliens who are currently free and wandering around America. And Kamala Harris refuses to arrest and deport. That number should be zero. By the way, There are another 2,000 who are illegal immigrants who are facing current homicide charges. In other words, they're currently being prosecuted for murder. And understand the fact that they haven't been convicted yet of murder with an illegal immigrant. They have no entitlement to be free at all. In other words, the federal government could go arrest them and detain them right now, this instant. And under federal law, give me any rational reason why any of those 2,000 illegal immigrants who are currently being prosecuted for murder should be allowed to go free. How many more people are they killing while they're free? And I have yet to see a single reporter ask Kamala Harris, why don't you arrest the 13,000 murderers right now? Why don't you arrest the 2,000 alleged murderers, charged murderers right now? By the way, 15,000. Here's another station. That's the number of convicted rapists who are illegal immigrants who are free and wandering around. And Kamala Harris will not arrest. Those are issues where, look, I don't care if you're right or left. Maybe you're middle of the road. Maybe you're apolitical. I don't know a rational and reasonable American who says, gosh, what do you think of the federal government allowing murderers and rapists who are illegal immigrants to wander into your neighborhood and potentially live next door to you? Everyone says, hell no. Which is why when Bill Clinton says the obvious, you get gasps from elected Democrats, from the Kamala Harris campaign, from, from, from the media. Because the media, they don't report on facts anymore. Instead, they're the propagandists for the Democrat Party. And so saying what Bill Clinton said, the thing to understand. Look, there's a joke I tell on the campaign trail. You've. You've heard me tell this. I say, listen, the Democrats who are saying this nonsense, they all know they're lying, 100% of them. And, and, and what I. What I say at a campaign rally is, all right, I can prove to you right now that Joe Biden knows what a woman is. And people kind of pause and they sort of raise an eyebrow, and they're like, all right, what's he gonna say? And I say, look, Joe Biden only sniffs the hair of girls. I've been in the Senate 12 years. I have never once seen Joe Biden come up to Chuck Schumer and sniff his hair. He knows. And you know what, Ben? I'm even more certain Bill Clinton knows what a woman is. If there's one thing Bill Clinton knows, it's that. And this point. It's true on the bizarre. Yes, it's true on the bizarre. We don't know what a woman is. We don't know what a mother is. But it's also true on this open border insanity that they get that releasing thousands upon thousands of murderers and rapists into this country is really bad. But they all just make the decision, we want votes more than we care about keeping people alive. And you know what? I don't like saying that. When I say that, to my ears, that sounds really harsh and partisan. But let me ask you, Ben, seriously, give me another justification. If it's not, we want votes to stay in power, Give me any other plausible justification for why Kamala Harris wouldn't arrest the 13,000 convicted murderers right now.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah. You know, it's 100% a game that they're playing, and they understand the long game, which is amnesty is everything, and they can fundamentally change America if they can just do it. And they're just trying to lie to the American people in the last couple of weeks before election day, hoping that they can convince them, oh, no, no, we're getting tough on the border now, even though we're the ones that open it up. Uh, and it was the first thing we did when you elected us to be in charge of this country when Donald Trump was out of here. This is what we did. Let me tell you real quick about the best cup of coffee you can have every morning if you switch to blackout coffee. Blackout coffee gets rid of the low coffee beans that you're probably brew every morning, and you get an America first cup of coffee without the woke agenda to the left. Now, in the coffee space, there are a lot of liberal woke companies in coffee. And that's exactly why blackout coffee was created. The founders said, we're tired of giving our money to companies that fight against us. And not only that, they were sick and tired of getting an average cup of coffee. They said, what if we could do something amazing? What if we could get rid of the woke coffee and give a premium cup of coffee to people every day? Well, that's why I drink blackout coffee. It's 100% America, 0% woke. Blackout coffee is committed to conservative values. From the sourcing of the beans to the roasting process, customer support and shipping. They embody true American values and they accept no compromise on taste or quality. Look, Senator and I do this show late at night, and, yeah, I get up early in the morning, do a show at 7am I gotta have a great cup of coffee. And blackout coffee is what I brew every morning. Now try it, because once you do, you're not switching back to what you're doing right now. Go to blackoutcoffee.com verdict blackoutcoffee.com verdict and use the coupon code verdict. Why? Because it's going to get you 20% off your first order. Use the coupon code verdict for 20% off your first order. Blackoutcoffee.com verdict Be awake, not woke. That's Blackout Coffee.com verdict promo code verdict Center. We were talking about this bait and switch that has taken place and, and we've seen this from the VP candidate, we've seen this from Harris. They're like, well, the numbers are down and, and things are moving in the right direction at the border. And then we told the story. We know that the Biden administration made a deal with Mexico and they started moving people away from the border temporarily. They started, you know, trying to make the numbers come down in August and September to say, look, it's all good news. But we also are getting reporting of new migrant caravans, plural, that are headed north, trying to, quote, beat the possible arrival of a Trump administration. And they are growing in numbers rapidly.
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Ben Ferguson
Well, the human traffickers are looking at the same polling numbers that the Kamala Harris campaign is looking at. They are recognizing that the swing states are all moving towards Trump. They're all getting redder, that the chances of Trump winning are rising every single day. And they're starting to panic because they realize if Donald Trump is reelected president, if we have a Republican Senate, if we have a Republican House, we will secure the border and we will do it in January and February of next year. It will be secure. So they're panicking. So here's a brand new story from Breitbart that says, quote, a new migrant caravan of approximately 1,000 migrants departed from Mexico's southern border this weekend to make its way to Mexico City. From there, the group is expected to disperse and find various ways to reach the US Border. The caravan is the second to start in Mexico since October 1, when the country's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took office. The caravan began early Sunday morning in Tapachula, Chiapas, and has been officially named, quote, God is guiding us. The caravan comprises approximately 1,000 migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti, Panama and Costa Rica, as well as some migrants from Afghanistan and Nepal. The group plans to make its way to Mexico City with the ultimate goal being the US Border. The migrants who make up the caravan have received legal status in Mexico. And we're in the process of waiting in Chiapas for an appointment for the Biden Harris administration's CBP1 application. However, the group's organizers got tired of the long wait times. By the way, the wait times are designed to be just long enough to get after election Day. That's me cynically observing exactly what they're doing. Let me go back to the article. According to Jonathan Rojas, the group fears the rhetoric former US President Donald J. Trump voiced that he would close the current immigration pathway. Rojas claimed that he was traveling due to economic reasons, due to the lack of opportunities in his native Colombia. There is real concern that if he, Trump, gets elected, they will close the border, Rojas said. We can't keep waiting for them to give us an appointment. Conditions here in Chiapas are not healthy. There are too many of us and not enough supplies and space. They, the Mexican government need to help us. According to Venezuela's La Verdad, the migrants in the caravan claimed that there were food shortages in Chiapas and a lack of medical care. The publication also noted the driving factor behind the migrants desire to reach the United States was economic need. Now let me point out economic need is not a basis for asylum under U.S. law. If. But they are coming and they are coming because they know.
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Ted Cruz
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's say that again because this is something that I think many Americans don't understand about those are seeking asylum and explain that more the law, what it says, because this is part of the abuse by the left, is they make you think that if anyone in the world is in essence not Happy with the conditions of where they are in their life or what they're living, where they're living or who's in charge of a country. That, that therefore means they should immediately go to the front of the line and come straight into America and we should take care of them. And you just said something that's really important. You don't just allow people to come in into this country because they don't like their, quote, economic conditions.
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Ben Ferguson
That's exactly right. What US Law is, is, is we have asylum, we offer people asylum. But to qualify for asylum, you have to demonstrate a, quote, credible fear, a political persecution. If you're in, say, a communist country and you can demonstrate the government, if they capture you, they're going to torture you, they're going to kill you. That's typically the kind of, kind of showing you've got to demonstrate to qualify for asylum. It's explicitly political persecution. And one of the reason is, look, there are 7 to 8 billion people on planet Earth. There are billions of people living in poverty. Our Nation has about 330 million Americans. We don't have the capacity, we don't have the ability to provide for billions of people flooding in who are simply in poverty and would like to live better. Particularly when you combine it with the Democrats welfare state. Because understand, Kamala Harris doesn't just provide open borders. She says, you get here and we'll give you welfare, we'll give you free healthcare, we will give you money. And so frankly, look, I understand why the people come to this country. If you're living in poverty and you get to come to America and these idiots in the government are going to give you free everything, why wouldn't you come? But that is not U.S. law. Economic need, poverty does not qualify for asylum. And the Democrats don't care. They're not even pretending this meets US Law. So what they do, here's the game. You show up. And by the way, just about every one of these, these illegal immigrants is trained by the traffickers to say, I'm claiming asylum. Now, the Biden administration knows that when their claim is adjudicated that fewer than 10% will meet the standards for asylum, that almost none of them have any credible fear. They're simply poor and they want a better life and they want handouts. But what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are doing is they say, okay, we'll take you for asylum. We'll set you a court date 3, 4, 5, 10 years in the future. And in the meantime, we'll let you go. Welcome to America. And by the way, a bunch of them are never seen again. That policy is called catch and release. That when people are apprehended, they let him go. By the way, how did the murderer who killed Lake and Riley get to Georgia? Because of Catch and Release. Because Joe Biden, Kamala Harris apprehended him and let him go. How did the murderer who killed Rachel Marin get to suburban Maryland? Because of Catch and Release, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris apprehended him and let him go. How did the two murderers and rapists who raped and murdered Jocelyn Nungary get to Houston, Texas? Because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did catch and release. They caught him. They caught both of them. They had them in custody and they released them. There is no credible argument with these criminals, the standards of asylum. But Kamala Harris doesn't care.
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Ted Cruz
You know, I think there's even something else that's just a personal example that we've talked about in the past on the show. It is the beginning of your last book. Your dad was a poster child for someone that would deserve and need asylum in the US because of political persecution, the genuine fear of death when he fled Cuba. Let's just take a moment and let people understand how far that pendulum has swung since your dad was a political refugee, basically in the US I think I'm describing that correctly.
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Ben Ferguson
My father was a political refugee. Actually, he came initially on a student visa. So he was admitted to the University of Texas. He came in 1957. And so he studied at UT. He got a degree in UT, graduated in 61 with a degree in math. And at that point, Castro had taken over and had begun persecuting dissidents. My aunt, my theasonia. I was with both my father and my theasonia this evening. My theasona fought in the counter revolution against Castro. My theasona was in prison. She was tortured by Castro. And so my family, my father was granted asylum status because why, if he came back to Cuba, they'd murder him. My theasona got out of Cuba and she was granted asylum status because again, the government, they had a credible fear. They met the legal standard we see from communist countries that persecute dictators. That's what the asylum laws were made for, is if you can demonstrate. If I go back to my country, the government will imprison me, torture me, kill me. That's why we have asylum laws. The claim was not just, I'm in poverty and I would like to live in America. And the reason our laws don't grant a special status to that is there are literally billions of people that fall into that category. And we do not have the capacity. And I want to make a point here, Ben, because, you know, sometimes people on the left say, oh, gosh, we're just so compassionate when it comes to immigration. Understand there is no country on planet earth that is more compassionate, that is more generous when it comes to immigration than the United States of America. Every year, we let in more than 1 million legal immigrants. There's no other country that's doing that. You can't do that in France, you can't do that in Britain, you can't do that in Australia, you can't do that in Japan. Name your country. None of them do what America does. So we welcome immigrants, but there's a right way to come. You come legally, you follow the rules, you wait in line. That's the way the system is meant to go. And it goes back to our first story, Bill Clinton, if they'd been properly vetted, you know what, if you're trying to come in legally, if you're a member of Venezuelan gang, if you're a murderer, if you're a rapist, if you're a child molester, you're not going to get in legally when you're vetted. Which is why these open borders are causing such devastations and they are making American families much, much less safe.
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Ted Cruz
Final question on this, and it's an important one. I think the American people are really understanding the game here and they're understanding that these migrant caravans are coming and they're running here in case Trump gets elected. They even understand this election is either about a wide open border that continues and mass amnesty, or law and order in a secure border with Donald Trump. If the illegal immigrants that are rushing to get in here before Donald Trump would take office, that's, that's clearly they're right. They're saying this right. They're the ones that are telling us this. Then, then, then shouldn't every American take a look at that and realize just the difference of the perspective from an illegal immigrant Senator, if this is what they're doing right now, ahead of time, to understand, like there's two policies here. They're two very different. And no matter what Harris says, no matter what Wall says, the illegal immigrants know that they are good for business, that's good for human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking. The list goes on and on. And Donald Trump is going to shut it down. The party's over. I think that's an Incredibly important point that needs to be made. These illegal immigrants get it.
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Ben Ferguson
They do. And you know, another number that everyone should know is 2,600%. Do you know what 2,600% is?
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Ted Cruz
I'm going to guess the amount of illegal immigration that's gone up since they got into office.
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Ben Ferguson
No, no, it's actually a different stat than that. So in 2018, the Mexican drug cartels were earning roughly $500 million in revenue from human trafficking. Now, look, $500 million is a lot of money. Do you know how much they made last year?
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Ted Cruz
A hell of a lot more than that.
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Ben Ferguson
$13 billion. And those stats are from the New York Times. That is a 2,600% increase. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been incredibly good. In fact, I've joked, you know, the standard test for any presidential election is are you better off now than you were four years ago? And I've joked, unless you're a Mexican drug lord. And by the way, if you are a Mexican drug lord, you should definitely vote for Kamala Harris because she's made you billions and billions of dollars. You would be an idiot if you're a Mexican drug lord not to vote for Kamala Harris. But if you're not for just about everyone else, life has gotten a lot worse. That number is staggering. And one of the consequences of it is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have devastated the nation of Mexico. Mexico is a wonderful nation in Texas. It is our immediate southern neighbor. Texas and Mexican culture, there's enormous overlap. I'll tell you, 20, 30 years ago, you go to South Texas, people would cross the border back and forth. If you were in Laredo, you'd go down in Nueva Laredo, you'd have dinner at a Mexican restaurant. You come back and forth. I mean, there was this, this, this cross border culture that was wonderful. Nobody does that anymore. Like, because the violence, the cartels, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have made the drug cartels the most powerful economic force in Mexico. And they are vicious, utterly amoral criminals. There are. I met with, with the mayor of a border town in Mexico who told me in his town alone there had been more than 3,000 disappearances. Just people who disappear. Who the cartels kidnap, they murder, and they're found just in pits of dead bodies. That's what Biden and Harris have done to Mexico, is they have undermined public safety to a level. They have turned these cartels into superpowers. And it is tragic what's happening to Mexico, but it's also tragic what's happening to America?
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Ted Cruz
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Ben Ferguson
Well, it is unfortunately where Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Department of Justice, is. We are three weeks out from Election Day. And what DOJ is terrified about is that states like Virginia, like Texas, are implementing election security measures, including removing illegal immigrants from the state's voter rolls. And the Department of Justice has gone to court, has sued Virginia saying you cannot remove illegal immigrants from your voter rolls. And it is. Look, we've talked at great length. This Department of Justice under Biden and Harris is the most partisan. It's the most political Department of Justice in our nation's history. And their focus. In an, in a sane world, the Department of Justice would be trying to stop illegal immigrants from voting. It is against the law for illegal immigrants to vote. But this Department of Justice is worried, particularly because Virginia is potentially a swing state. It's not one of the seven most critical swing states. But I'll tell you, Glenn Youngkin won there. And Trump's numbers have been surprisingly strong in Virginia. And it really shows the political priorities of this Department of Justice that when they go into court, they're not fighting for you. They're fighting to allow illegal immigrants to vote.
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Ted Cruz
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