SBA Granted Loans to Children plus It's Time to Self Deport

Summary

The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson: "SBA Granted Loans to Children plus It's Time to Self Deport"

Release Date: March 12, 2025

In this compelling episode of The 47 Morning Update, host Ben Ferguson delves into three significant and controversial topics shaping the political and social landscape of America. From fraud within federal loan programs to immigration policy shifts under the Trump administration, Ferguson provides insightful commentary and exclusive details that are essential for staying informed.

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1. SBA Issues $312 Million in Loans to Children During COVID-19

Ben Ferguson opens the discussion with a startling revelation about the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Ferguson, Doge—a watchdog organization led by Elon Musk—uncovered that the SBA granted approximately 5,600 loans totaling $312 million to individuals listed as children aged 11 and under between 2020 and 2021.

Ben Ferguson [02:20]: "Of the most shocking stories of waste, fraud, and abuse coming from Doge... thousands of loans worth $312 million were granted to children."

Further investigation by Doge revealed that these loans often included invalid Social Security numbers and incorrect names, casting doubt on their legitimacy. In one egregious case, a 157-year-old individual was recorded receiving a $36,000 loan—highlighting severe flaws in the SBA's verification processes.

Ben Ferguson [04:30]: "In one case, just so you know how egregious this is, there was a 157-year-old individual that received $36,000 in loans."

The SBA has pledged to collaborate with Doge to address and rectify these fraudulent activities. Ferguson emphasizes the potential for accountability, suggesting that individuals falsely claiming such loans will likely face prosecution.

Ben Ferguson [05:00]: "Should these people be prosecuted? There's a very good chance that if you took this money and you claimed you were 157 years old, you're going to find out the hard way."

This revelation raises critical questions about the oversight and management of federal loan programs, especially during emergency responses like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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2. Democrats Defend Arrest of Syrian Protester at NYU

Transitioning to immigration and national security, Ferguson discusses the controversial arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian national who led protests at New York University against Israel's actions post-October 7th counterattacks by Hamas. Despite Khalil's activities, Democrats and their media allies have rallied in his defense, characterizing his arrest as unjust.

Ben Ferguson [05:53]: "Democrats are now protesting the arrest of a Syrian radical in New York. You can't make it up."

In response, the White House, through Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, firmly stands by the administration's decision to revoke Khalil's visa, citing his alignment with terrorist organizations.

Caroline Levitt [07:01]: "We have a zero tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period."

Ferguson highlights the legal grounds supporting the administration's actions, noting that Khalil holds a green card, which still permits the revocation of his residency if he engages in activities against national security interests.

Ben Ferguson [08:39]: "Donald Trump and his deputies are on solid legal ground... if you're a radical protester in this country on a green card and if you're causing problems, there's a very good chance you're going back to your home country."

Despite Democratic opposition, including claims of governmental overreach and characterizations of Khalil as an abduction target, Ferguson asserts that the administration's stance is legally justified and serves national security interests.

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3. Trump Administration Launches "CBP Home" for Self-Deportation

The final segment addresses immigration policy, focusing on the Trump administration's repurposing of the CBP1 app—originally instituted by the Biden administration to facilitate migrant entry—into a tool for encouraging self-deportation.

Ben Ferguson [09:47]: "The Trump administration is now repurposing the controversial CBP1 app to encourage self-deportations."

Journalist Bill Malugan provides an exclusive overview of the newly launched CBP Home app, which allows migrants to voluntarily deport by submitting personal and biographical information. The app aims to offer illegal immigrants a pathway to legal re-entry in the future, contrasting sharply with the Biden era's facilitation of migration.

Bill Malugan [10:30]: "The app is now called CBP Home. It allows illegal aliens in the US to register to self deport... it also allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity."

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem emphasizes the administration's intent to restore integrity to the immigration system, warning that failure to self-deport will result in arrest, detention, and a permanent ban from re-entering the United States.

Kristi Noem [11:00]: "If they don't self deport, we will fine them deport them and they will never return."

Ferguson underscores the administration's stringent stance, framing the CBP Home app as a strategic move to reverse previous policies that facilitated migrant entry.

Ben Ferguson [12:40]: "Self deport or risk never being allowed back into this country. The Department of Homeland Security said it best when they said you will maybe be able to return legally in the future if you self deport now..."

This policy shift represents a significant change in immigration enforcement, reflecting the administration's broader objectives to control and reduce illegal immigration.

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Conclusion

In this episode, Ben Ferguson effectively navigates through complex issues involving federal loan fraud, contentious immigration enforcement, and political polarization surrounding national security. By providing detailed accounts, exclusive reports, and direct quotes from key figures, Ferguson ensures that listeners are well-informed about the critical developments influencing America's current socio-political climate.

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Notable Quotes:

• Donald Trump [01:02]: "What I have to do is I have to get the workers back. I have to get the factories open... Presidents before me gave it away. And we're taking it back."

• Caroline Levitt [07:01]: "We have a zero tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period."

• Bill Malugan [10:30]: "The app is now called CBP Home... migrants who had that CBP1 app on their phone will see it automatically update to this new self deportation app starting today."

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Transcript

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[Donald Trump]

What I have to do is I have to get the workers back. I have to get the factories open. We have 90,000 factories and plants are closed from what you had just prior to nafta. And we gave it away. Presidents before me gave it away. And I could name every one of them, but they gave it away. And we're taking it back.

[Ben Ferguson]

You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

Good Wednesday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to have you on the 47 Morning Update, and here are the three big stories we've got for you today. First up, you may be shocked to find out that during COVID we were sending hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to children. You want to talk about fraud? Doge found it and I'll give you the details. Plus, you may remember just a couple days ago, the Hamas protester on a college campus that got a visit from ice? Well, now Democrats are defending that individual. You can't make it up. I'll give you what they're saying about him in just a moment. And finally, you remember that app that the Biden Harris administration used to allow even more illegal immigrants into the interior of the U.S. well, call it a reverse uno card because there's a new app under Trump, but it's for self deportation. It's the 47 Morning Update and it starts right now.

Story number one, this may be one.

Of the most Shocking stories of waste, fraud and abuse coming from Doge. So far they're now Saying Children aged 11 and under were granted $312 million of your tax dollars in loans during the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of loans worth 312 million granted to children. Doge, which is headed by Elon Musk, said it discovered that the Small Business Administration, you may know them as SBA, had granted about 5,600 loans worth 312 million to, quote, borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time the loan was granted. These loans, by the way, were granted over a two year period in 2020 and 2021, quote. While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans as they all also used a Social Security number with an incorrect name. That is what the agency posted on X when they exposed all of this. DOGE did not say what the loans were used for, although the agency said it would work with the SBA to solve this problem, quote this week. Here's something else that will also make you angry. Doge making this announcement along with another post, the agency also revealed that the Small Business association also issued more than 3,000 loans for 333 million in 2020 and 2021 to borrowers that were actually over the age of 115. That's right. In 2020 and 2021 the Small Business association issued the 3,095 loans, including the PPP money and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program for a total of 333 million to borrowers that were all over the age of 115 who are still marked as alive in the Social Security database. In one case, just so you know how egregious this is, There was a 157 year old individual that received 36,000 in loans. The Agency has confirmed the discoveries come as DOGE continues its mission of rooting out fraud and wasteful spending in the federal government. We also know from Fox News reporting that this may be the tip of the iceberg of other corrupt loans that may have been given to people that aren't even alive or have fake names or Social Security numbers that don't match other names that were being used. Now we all heard during COVID that there was a lot of abuse and that they were giving out money left and right. The question now is will there be accountability for this? And that is where the good news actually comes in. Not only is Doge saying they're going to uncover this, but hopefully they're going to find out who actually got the money because more than likely it wasn't a 157 year old individual that was receiving the $36,000. Should these people be prosecuted? There's a very good chance that if you took this money and you claimed you were 157 years old, you're going to find out the hard way.

Next story number two.

Donald Trump made it very clear that if you are in this country as a guest, going to a university in this country and you become radical and incite violence or advocate for violence or organize violence, or you're one of those is attacking Jewish students or any other student for that matter, of any religion, well, then you're not welcome in America. So what happens when one of those students gets caught doing many of these things and Democrats rally together? You think they're on the side of getting rid of the student? No, no, no, no. Democrats are now protesting the arrest of a Syrian radical in New York. That's right. Democrats and their media allies are defending an arrest of the Syrian man who led New York University protests against Israel's post October 7th counter attack on Hamas's JIH. Now, the White House fought back today, making it clear with the White House press Secretary Caroline Levitt saying this about the individual and what Donald Trump is going to do with other students that may be thinking about doing the same thing.

[Caroline Levitt]

Well, in fact, Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khalil. And I'm glad you brought this up. Under the Immigration and Nationality act, the Secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who serve or are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America. And Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation's finest universities and colleges. And he took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege by siding with terrorists, Hamas terrorists who have killed innocent men, women and children. This is an individual who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro Hamas propaganda flyers with the logo of Hamas. That is what the behavior and activity that this individual engaged in. And I have those flyers on my desk. They were provided to me by the Department of Homeland Security. I thought about bringing them into this briefing room to share with all of you, but I didn't think it was worth the dignity of this room to bring that pro Hamas propaganda. But that's what this individual distributed on the campus of Columbia University. And this administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro terrorist organizations that have killed Americans. We have a zero tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period.

[Ben Ferguson]

One thing that seems to be very clear is that Donald Trump and his deputies are on solid legal ground. At least that is according to immigration lawyers who say that this individual, number one, is not a citizen, but has a green card that allows him to live in the United States pending an expected request for citizenship. But the green cards provide little additional legal protection than it's granted to tourists. Democrats can complain and send letters like they did this week saying that this individual should stay. And they even claimed he was, quote, abducted by the US Government. I'm not joking. In fact, the liberal co signers of this letter included Rashid Tlaib, Representative Alon Omar. So when these Democrats tell you who they are, that they are going to always stand with radical extremists, believe them, because they are, in fact, radical extremists. As for Donald Trump and his administration, it's very clear that it's game on. If you're a radical protester in this country on a green card and if you're causing problems, there's a very good chance you're going back to your home country.

And finally, story number three, two simple words.

Leave now. The Trump administration is now repurposing the controversial CBP1 app to encourage self deportations. Bill Malugan putting it out on Twitter saying the Trump administration has essentially hijacked the Biden administration program, a key pillar of his immigration policy, and has repurposed it for the opposite effect. That's right. Self deportation. That is what the Trump administration is saying we expect. And Biden's app, which expedited the invasion of this country by illegal immigrants, has now been repurposed. And here is part of what Bill Malugian had to say about this breaking news on fox.

[Bill Malugan]

Dana, good morning to you. So this is pretty remarkable. The Trump administration has taken that controversial CBP1 cell phone app for migrants that the Biden administration was using, and they've repurposed it into a self deportation app that is officially launching today. And we're getting an exclusive first look at it. Take a look. The app is now called CBP Home. It allows illegal aliens in the US to register to self deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to their alien registration numbers, their contact information, and it allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity. All of it is then submitted to CBP and they leave the country. Now you might be asking yourself, well, why would an illegal immigrant want to self deport? Well, DHS says if they leave now, they will have the opportunity to return to the US Legally in the future and chase the American dream. But if they don't leave, they will be found, arrested, detained and deported with a permanent ban on entry into the United States. In a statement to Fox News, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in part, the Biden administration exploited the CBP1 app to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system. If they don't self deport, we will fine them deport them and they will never return. The Biden administration's use of the CBP1 app allowed more than 40,000 migrants to come into the US at a port of entry every single month. That totaled nearly 1 million migrants by the end of his presidency. President Trump terminated that app immediately upon taking office, leading to scenes like this showing migrants dismayed at the border on the day of his inauguration as they learned their CBP1 appointments were canceled and were never coming back. And DHS tells me that any migrants who had that CBP1 app on their phone will see it automatically update to this new self deportation app starting today. And DHS can also use the data from the prior CBP1 registrations to track migrants for removal. So in a nutshell, Dana Trump just took Biden's program, which was bringing migrants in, and has now totally repurposed it to get them out.

[Ben Ferguson]

So there's one thing here that's pretty clear. Self deport or risk never being allowed back into this country. The Department of Homeland Security said it best when they said you will maybe be able to return legally in the future if you self deport now, but if you do not, then you will be arrested and deported and permanently banned. It goes back to Donald Trump's new mantra, fa fo.

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