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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Bounties for ICE Agents as Trump mulls going after Cartels where they Live
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two big stories for you. First up, the drug cartels are now putting bounties on the heads of American law enforcement. And the higher ranking you are, the more money they're willing to pay for you to be dead. So what will happen next? We'll have the details on America's response to it in just a moment. Also, the president of America, Donald Trump, not wasting any time going after the cartels, taking out more boats in international water that are filled with drugs and now talking about going after targets that are on land. But first, did you see that gold just hit an all time new high of over $4,000 an ounce. And if you hear that and you're like, are you kidding me? And oh, you're thinking, gosh, I missed my opportunity? 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Media briefings describe payouts starting at around $2,000 for doxing or surveillance and rising to as much as $50,000 for assassinations of senior officials. The Department of Homeland Security publicly condemning a surge in doxing and threats against ICE personnel and their families and says it's coordinating with federal, state and local partners to counter the threat. The Department of Homeland Security also announced the arrest in Illinois of a Latin King gang member accused of placing a hit on a senior U.S. border Patrol official. The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the case as part of an escalating threat and the environment tied to the cartel line actors in the U.S. while the case involves Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security, we now know that this is a national security risk. Chicago, by the way, has been a focal point in recent coverage, with local outlets there reporting on federal briefings that cartels are working through the local gangs and offering the local gangs cash bounties scaled to the agent's rank and the level of harm done. This coming from Fox 32 in Chicago. So how does the bounty system well work? It is a tiered system very much like what they use in Mexico, a tiered incentive system for information gathering and doxing. There's also incentives for non lethal assaults. Kidnapping attempts get you more money and lethal attacks get you paid big time. The payouts increasing as the chain gets bigger and bigger. The specifics coming from the Department of Homeland Security briefing and the Department of Homeland Security's own public statements emphasizing credible intelligence and a major spike in the threats and the doxing of our men and women in law enforcement. The tactics noted in coverage include doxing of the agents, surveilling the agents and their families, and attempts to ambush personnel, with the Department of Homeland Security warning of a hostile operating environment for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol in certain cities. Now they're also going into what is being described as a protective posture and coordination. The Department of Homeland Security says it's working with the DOJ and local partners and is urging prompt reporting of threats. It has publicly condemned the doxing targeting of agents and families and operational security steps are understandably not detailed publicly. But the bottom line is this we now know. And multiple outlets are reporting that a cartel linked tiered bounty system targeting ICE and CBP officials with the amounts reported up to $50,000 for killing of high ranking officials is already in the marketplace. The department has confirmed a credible threat environment and highlight at least one arrest tied to the solicitation to murder of a Border Patrol, not just agent but a Border Patrol leader. Expected heightened security measures and ongoing joint investigations will be part of this. Here's more about what the Department of Homeland Security said and how Fox reported it.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi says Facebook has removed the page that was being used to target ICE agents in Chicago. The move comes as the DHS reveals cartels have issued bounties for hits on officers. Griff Jenkins joins us from Washington with the latest on this story. Griff, what do you know? Well good morning Lawrence. I know the threat to ICE and federal immigration law enforcement has never been higher. DHS says there's now this tiered bounty system set up by Mexican cartels. Take a look. They're offering 2,000 for gathering intelligence or doxxing immigration agents. Five to ten grand for kidnapping of standardized officers and up to $50,000 for the assassination of a high ranking officer. This after an alleged Latin King's gang member is accused of putting a bounty on Border Patrol's commander at large Greg Bevino. 2000 on info on him. 10,000 if you can quote take him down. Now the gang members attorney denies any ties to the Latin Kings and paints the man as a quote hardworking family man. But Chief Pavino refutes that claim and says things are actually getting worse. Griff, the Latin Kings are associated with drug cartels, that is terrorist organizations. So those bounties remain and in fact have actually increased because of this quote hardworking man. It's unbelievable. Meanwhile, in the wake of anti ICE riots in places like Chicago, in Portland AG Bondi announcing Facebook has removed an ICE spotting group targeting officers. She writes on X. The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will Continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement. Now, a spokesperson for Facebook's parent company Meta says, quote, this group was removed for violating our policies against coordinated harm. All of this, Lawrence, comes. As you know, ICE continues to face a more than 1,000% increase in assaults.
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Now we've also learned more about what's happening in Chicago. For example, Harris Faulkner. I was actually in New York City with her on her show today, and this is what I learned listening Fox News alert now.
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Federal agents under siege. Immigration and Custom Enforcement teams are facing a new threat dished out by the drug cartels. First, it was violent protesters rioting and attacking ICE agents on the streets. Now Homeland Security Department has announced Mexican cartels have put out bounties on agents in Chicago. DHS says those cartels are working with gangs and extremist groups to deploy armed spotters to rooftops to track agents movements. I'm Harris Faulkner. You are in the Faulkner Focus. DHS also revealed a tiered bounty system that cartels are using to incentivize violence. Now, all of this according to the DHS. Here's the price. Cartels are putting out $2,000 to get information on ICE agents or to dox them, five to $10,000 to kidnap or hurt the agents, up to $50,000 to assassinate senior officials. Meanwhile, the rioting heating up again. ICE and Border Patrol were forced to use tear gas to protect themselves from a large group of rioters in Chicago yesterday. Chicago Police Department confirming those rioters were throwing objects at the ICE agents, a serious federal crime. Still, Illinois Democrats are going after the ICE agents, maybe even fueling some of this violence. We're seeing. One Democrat state senator posted ISIS behavior was unacceptable and that people in that neighborhood, quote, don't tolerate this kind of bs, end of quote.
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So there you have it. Democrats continuing to advocate for the assault, the doxxing, the attacking of ICE agents. Now they're literally aligned with the cartels in Mexico. Now, story number two, Donald Trump after the doxing of ICE agents is obviously not going to sit around and allow the cartels to put bounties on our men and women in uniform, our men and women protecting our border, our law enforcement officers, and think they can just get away with it as they're now going to war with us. What is President Trump doing now? Well, he's next looking, quote, at land in Latin America after the US Military has conducted at least five, five fatal strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean since September alone. Quote, we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control, trump told reporters on Wednesday. We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found and I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing. Trump said he wasn't interested in having the Coast Guard simply stop the alleged drug boats because, quote, we've been doing that for 30 years and it has been totally ineffective. They, referring to the cartels, have faster boats. Some of these boats are seriously, I mean, they're world class speedboats, trump said. But they're not faster than missiles. But we've been trying to do that for years. The White House has not responded to requests for comment about what this means and details of the nature of a land operation that Trump is considering. Additionally, Trump confirmed that he has also, and this is big news, authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela after the New York Times reported on Wednesday that he had approved the order. According to Trump, he did so because Venezuela has released prisoners into the US and that drugs were coming into the US From Venezuela via maritime channels. Trump declined to answer, though, when asked if the CIA had the authority to, quote, unquote, take out the Venezuelan President Maduro. He's nothing more than a drug kingpin in that country. The Trump administration has said it does not recognize Maduro as a legitimate head of state but a leader of a drug cartel. Quote, I don't want to answer a question like that, trump said. That's a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not really a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat now. The Trump administration has adopted a hard line approach to address the flow of drugs into the US and designated drug cartel groups like the Trend, Aragua, Sinaloa and other cartels as foreign terrorist organizations doing this back in February. Additionally, the White House sent lawmakers a Memo as well September 30th dated, informing them that the US is now participating in a non international armed conflict with drug smugglers. Lawmakers on both sides the aisle have also voiced, quote, concerns over the legality of the strikes. Senator Adam Schiffed, a Democrat who's never met a drug dealer he didn't like, and Tim Kaine, the Democrat from Virginia, have filed a war powers resolution to bar U.S. forces from engaging in hostilities against certain non state organizations, again defending the drug cartels that are killing Americans. The resolution failed in the Senate by a 5148 margin Oct. 8. Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted alongside their Democratic counterparts in the resolution. When asked about lawmakers concerns about the legality of the strikes, Donald Trump dismissed them and said that lawmakers were informed the vessels carried drugs, quote, but they are given information that they were loaded up with drugs. And that's the thing that matters. The president said when they're loaded up with drugs, they're fair game. And every one of those ships were. And they're not ships, they're boats that were loaded up with drugs. So the president, United States of America, making it very clear he's not going to sit around and wait for more Americans to be killed by accidental overdoses from fentanyl. He's not going to wait around while cartels are putting bounties on our American law enforcement heads. He's going to war with these cartels because he has designated them as terrorist organizations. And this is exactly what so many conservatives voted for in the last presidential election. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. And for more in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson Podcast and we will see you back here tomorrow. This is an iHeart podcast.